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What Matters Most On Monday, August 22, 2022

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Energean's floating production system (FPSO) at the Karish gas field in the Mediterranean Sea. (Energean)

Gantz warns Hezbollah attack on Israeli gas field may trigger war

By AFP and ToI Staff

Defense minister says Israel prepared for any action against Karish offshore field, ‘ready to reach a deal’ with Beirut on maritime border

Energean's floating production system (FPSO) at the Karish gas field in the Mediterranean Sea. (Energean)

IDF on alert for Hezbollah provocation as Israel, Lebanon said nearing maritime deal

Palestinian residents of West Bank are seen ready to board a flight at Ramon Airport on August 22, 2022.(Flash90)

In first, Palestinians take off to Cyprus from Eilat’s Ramon Airport

Arkia Airlines initiative takes 40 residents of Hebron and Bethlehem to Larnaca, side by side with Israeli passengers

A screen capture from video showing a bull inside the offices of Bank Leumi in the central city of Lod, August 22, 2022. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Bank charges

Bull rampages through bank in central Israel

Owner and municipal veterinarian called to Leumi facility in Lod to capture and restrain bovine; bank says no injuries or damages

Interview

Carrie Keller-Lynn

Meet Dan Illouz, Likud’s Canadian candidate who wants to beef up the Knesset’s power

Thirteen years after moving from Quebec to Israel, former Jerusalem City Council member Dan Illouz is on the cusp of entering the Knesset with the Likud party come November 1. The 36-year-old Francophone, also fluent in English and Hebrew, is slotted in the 33rd spot of Likud's candidate list, after winning the primary race for Likud’s dedicated immigrant spot. The party... Continue Reading

Likud candidate Dan Illouz (Sharon Hasson)

Zionist Spirit adds religious settler Amitai Porat to slate behind Shaked, Hendel

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Ben Gvir names scion of prominent rabbinic family to his far-right slate

MK Shirly Pinto leaves Yamina for newly formed National Unity

By Alexander Fulbright

Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Shalom Cohen attends a campaign event at a synagogue in Jerusalem on September 14, 2019. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

Rabbi Shalom Cohen, spiritual leader of the Shas party, dies at 91

Ultra-Orthodox party chairman Aryeh Deri mourns loss of faction’s council head, calling Cohen ‘our father, our teacher and our leader’

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas speaks at meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, March 27, 2022, in Ramallah. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

Live updates (closed)

Shin Bet said to warn Palestinian Authority to stay out of Israel’s elections

According to television report, warning comes after PA intelligence chief meets leaders of Israeli Joint List party to urge them to reunite with Ra’am

6:39 pm

US judge shoots down injunction request from Ben & Jerry’s to prevent Israel deal
6:38 pm

US says encouraged by latest Iranian offer but 'oustanding issues' remain
6:36 pm

Russia seeking talks to buy time for a fresh attack, Kyiv says

Scott Hershovitz with his sons Rex and Hank (Courtesy of Scott Hershovitz)

New book encourages adults to nurture the little philosophers in their lives

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Writing with a good dose of humor about his own two sons, University of Michigan professor Scott Hershowitz explains why we should always take kids’ questions about life seriously

Back to school: Are we financially prepared?

Stocking up on supplies doesn’t have to be quite so expensive – and while you’re saving shekels, why not school your child on the art of thriftiness

Meet me in the middle

I find God in creativity. In community. In the journey that is forever. God isn’t only at the finish line, but in the strength and grit that urges me forward

Bad history: A Jewish perspective on presentism

A fracas among historians over how to frame the past begs the question of what happens when a straight line is drawn from the Crusades to Auschwitz

Most parties running for Knesset need more women on their lists

The key indicator of democratic vibrancy is women’s presence in government, so the first step to a more fair society is, simply, more female MKs

NSO Group’s Hulio steps down as CEO of spyware firm, 100 employees let go

By Ash Obel and AP

Producer of controversial Pegasus phone hacking software undergoes large scale reorganization amid bid to regroup after years of negative publicity, blacklists and lawsuits

A man photographs an Israeli military order on the closed door of Defense for Children-International in Palestine, after it was raided by Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Ramallah for alleged terror links, on August 18, 2022. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

Israeli rights groups condemn ‘baseless’ terror listing of Palestinian advocacy orgs

After raids on offices of several groups allegedly linked to PFLP, over 40 organizations release joint statement urging international pressure on Israel to reverse designations

A man looks out of the window of the office of al-Haq Human rights organization that is adjacent to the St. Andrew's Anglican Episcopal Church, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, August 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Head of targeted Palestinian rights group says IDF summoned him for questioning

Protesters gather with a Palestinian flag outside a hospital in Be'er Yaakov where a hunger-striking security prisoner, Khalil Awawdeh, pictured in the placards, is in deteriorating health, August 13, 2022. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)

High Court rejects appeal to fully release hunger-striking Palestinian

By Emanuel Fabian

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani holds a press conference in Tehran on July 13, 2022. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iran bemoans US ‘delay’ in response to nuclear proposal

By AFP

Tehran says sides can move to ‘next stage’ pending Washington’s answer, as Biden administration and EU look over Iran’s reply to ‘final’ draft on return to 2015 accord

Illustrative: US President Joe Biden talks on the phone with his national security team from the Treaty Room in the residence of the White House in Washington, July 22, 2022. (Adam Schultz/The White House via AP)

Biden discusses nuclear deal, ‘constraining’ Iran on call with UK, France, Germany

By ToI Staff and AFP

UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan (right) meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on December 4, 2013. (AP/WAM/File)

UAE returns ambassador to Iran as region prepares for potential nuclear deal

By AP

Screen capture from video of a former IDF soldier who alleged she was raped by a security prison when she was serving as a guard at the Gilboa Prison, seen during an interview with Channel 12, August 8, 2022. (Channel 12)

Ex-prison guard: I’m at ‘war for my name’ after revealing abuse by terror convict

‘Hila’ passes polygraph test over her account of rape by security prisoner at Gilboa Prison, accuses senior officials in prison service of spreading rumors to undermine her story

American television host, comedian and producer Conan O’Brien filmed an episode of his travel series 'Conan Without Borders' in Israel in 2017, working with local Israel producer Asaf Nawi. (Courtesy Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)

Seeking to woo TV and filmmakers, Israel offers 30% rebate to sweeten the deal

By Jessica Steinberg

Producers say long-sought effort coordinated by several government ministries will bring in big budgets from foreign production companies

Illustrative. An child receives an oral polio vaccine, August 18, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)

Polio spread in Israel, US, UK highlights extremely rare risk of oral vaccine

Unlikely phenomenon becomes more glaring as world comes closer to wiping out naturally concurring disease, but now faces more cases caused by oral immunization

Inside story

‘Time stopped’: Ukrainians who fled invasion long for home as war nears 6-month mark

By Vanessa Gera and Kirsten Grieshaber

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — On March 8, nearly two weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, Taisiia Mokrozub took her infant son, parted from her husband and joined an exodus to safety in Poland. She believed the war would end quickly and she would be home by May. But a... Continue Reading

Taisiia Mokrozub, a Ukrainian refugee from Zaporizhzhia, holds her son Hordii during an interview with The Associated Press in a flat in Pruszkow, Poland, August 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)

A woman hugs relatives as she arrives in a bus with people who fled from Mariupol and Tokmak Berdyansk to a reception center for displaced people in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on May 3, 2022. (AP/Francisco Seco)

‘9,000 heroes killed,’ top Ukrainian commander confirms in rare update

By AFP and Ash Obel

Investigators work on the site of explosion of a car driven by Daria Dugina outside Moscow, August 21, 2022. (Investigative Committee of Russia via AP)

Russia blames Ukraine for car bombing that killed daughter of ‘Putin’s brain’

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

Israel's Artem Dolgopyat celebrates gold in the men's floor exercise final event at the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Munich, Germany, on August 21, 2022. (Ina Fassbender/ AFP)

Israeli artistic gymnast Dolgopyat wins gold at European Championship

Ukraine-born athlete beats Hungarian and British competitors, despite injuring foot a month ago and only having two weeks to train for event

More Headlines

Milk for sale at a Rami Levy supermarket in Jerusalem on July 17, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Milk, cheese prices to increase 5% as economic crunch hits dairy aisle

Doron Almog, chair of the Jewish Agency (center, in white shirt), visits new immigrants at Ulpan Etzion, a Hebrew-language immersion center in Jerusalem on his first day on the job, August 21, 2022. (Maxim Dinstein/Jewish Agency)

Former general Doron Almog takes reins of Jewish Agency as it battles Kremlin

Israeli modeling agent Shai Avital (C) poses for a picture with Israeli models during an event on a rooftop in Tel Aviv, on September 17, 2017. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

Israeli modeling agent to remain in custody in the Netherlands on sex abuse charges

Head of the Shin Bet security service Ronen Bar leaves his home in Rishpon, central Israel, October 11, 2021. (Flash90)

Shin Bet chief meets Egyptian spymaster to patch up fraying ties — reports

Joint List MK Sami Abou Shahadeh speaks in the Knesset plenum during a vote on the state budget, November 2, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Balad leader denies meeting with PA intelligence chief in Ramallah

This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Russian-occupied Ukraine, August 19, 2022. (Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies via AP)

Fresh shelling near Russian-held nuclear plant in Ukraine despite US pleas

By HANNA ARHIROVA

Israeli teachers protest, demanding better pay and working conditions, outside a press conference of Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, August 17, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Treasury, teachers no closer to inking salary deal, as school start looms

African asylum seekers and human rights activists protest against deportation of asylum seekers at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on March 24, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Restaurateurs protest regulation that will bar asylum seekers from working

A screenshot from video showing an assault at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market, August 22, 2022. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Video shows pair of assaults on Arabs by Jews in Jerusalem

Rescue workers try to recover the body of Boaz Ben-Anan, who died while climbing a mountain in Indonesia. (Courtesy/ Magnus SAR)

Body of Israeli mountaineer recovered in Indonesia, 3 days after fatal fall

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