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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 23, 2022

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Religious Zionism party head Bezalel Smotrich, right, and MK Orit Strock in a faction meeting at the Knesset on November 1, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Religious Zionism to choose between far-right, farther-right in inaugural primary

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Candidates vie for spots behind party chief Bezalel Smotrich, who is pushing to soften faction’s hardline image and snag Yamina voters, though Otzma merger may upend list anyway

Meretz leadership contenders Zehava Galon (left) and Yair Golan (composite image: Flash90)

In Meretz’s Tuesday primary, a battle for the future face of Israel’s left

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his office in Jerusalem on a phone call with UAE leader Mohammed Bin Zayed on August 13, 2020. (Kobi Gideon/PMO)

Call me, BibiNetanyahu reveals ‘personal phone number’ to lift Telegram presence

Zehava Galon after casting her ballot in the Meretz primary race on August 23, 2022. (Courtesy)

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Zehava Galon beats out Yair Golan to retake control of Meretz party

Golan finishes in fifth spot after party primary, following Mossi Raz, Michal Rozin, Ali Salaha and Gaby Lasky, with outgoing leader Nitzan Horowitz squeezed to seventh place

7:46 pm

Zehava Galon trounces Yair Golan in Meretz leadership race
7:25 pm

Turkey says Greece harassed its jets during NATO mission
6:51 pm

Yesh Atid calls new Religious Zionism list 'homophobic and racist'

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, second right, listens to an explanation while viewing an advanced centrifuge at an exhibition of Iran's nuclear achievements in Tehran, Iran on April 9, 2022. (Iran President's Office)

US official: Iran no longer demanding IAEA stop probing undeclared nuclear materials

By Michael Horovitz

Unnamed American source tells news agency sides closer to deal after Tehran forfeits key stipulations

Iran asked for ‘adjustments’ to proposed nuclear deal, EU’s Borrell says

By AFP

As deal looms, Lapid tells Macron Israel ‘will do everything’ to avert nuclear Iran

By ToI Staff and AFP

US denies Iran claim it’s delaying talks, notes deal closer than it was 2 weeks ago

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israel's Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau visits the Neve Shmuel High School in Efrat, on October 17, 2021. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Chief rabbi held up conversions as leverage against government reform, group claims

By Judah Ari Gross

Lau only started signing documents once coalition’s reforms fell apart, according to religious rights group Itim; chief rabbi confirms faster pace but denies political motivations

Detainee receives hospital visit from Joint List MK

Palestinian hunger striker held by Israel could die at any moment, doctor warns

A Palestinian hunger striker held by Israel is in critical condition and could die at any moment from a range of maladies, a doctor who has examined him said Monday after the country’s High Court of Justice rejected an appeal to release the man. Khalil Awawdeh, 40, has... Continue Reading

Khalil Awawdeh lies in bed at Asaf Harofeh Hospital in Be'er Ya'akov on August 19, 2022. (Ahlam Haddad, via AP)

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

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

IDF soldiers carry out raids in the West Bank on August 18, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

EU top diplomat ‘deeply concerned’ by Israeli raids on Palestinian NGOs

An Arkia Airlines plane at Ben Gurion Airport. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

In first, Israeli plane flies over Saudi airspace to non-Gulf destination

By Tobias Siegal

Arkia flight IZ611 to Seychelles flies along Saudi’s Red Sea shores, reducing travel time by 20 minutes; more substantial reductions to routes will require use of Oman’s airspace

File: From left to right, Jordan's King Abdullah II, Iraqi President Barham Salih, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, prepare to meet in the presidential palace in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Sissi hosting summit of Arab leaders, against backdrop of intensifying Iran talks

Turkish FM: Palestinians back thaw with Israel, new envoy to be named within days

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Tuesday that his country would be presenting a new ambassador to Israel in the "coming days," and defended the resumption of full diplomatic ties with the Jewish state, saying Palestinians were in favor of the move. Cavusoglu, in an interview with Turkish television days after the announcement... Continue Reading

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, right, and then-foreign minister Yair Lapid shake hands after statements, in Ankara, Turkey, June 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

In this July 11, 2013, photo, Scarlett Lewis, center, mother of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim Jesse Lewis, hugs Lynn McDonnell, left, mother of victim Grace McDonnell, as Neil Heslin, right, father of Jesse Lewis watches after a public forum in Newtown, Connecticut. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

Interview'People are defending these false beliefs with violence'

Sandy Hook ‘hoax’ trial shows how false narratives are fed and spread, warns author

By Rich Tenorio

In her new book, ‘Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth,’ NYT journalist Elizabeth Williamson sounds the alarm on more pernicious conspiracy theories

Harvey Lithwick

A bold plan to solve the Jewish problem at American universities

With Jewish faculty and students increasingly harassed, shamed and silenced, Israel is positioned to offer a world-class alternative

The view from the interstate

Real people with real issues populate Christian America. In our arrogance, we do not credit them with sophistication (or sometimes intelligence)

Aerial view of the rural estate uncovered in Rahat, with the vaulted complex in the center. (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority)

'Impressive underground vaults' let residents beat the heat

Luxury digs: Sprawling 1,200-year-old mansion found in Israel’s Negev Desert

Between two mosques in Rahat, archaeologists uncover an opulent home with a finished basement that likely belonged to a wealthy landowner in the early Islamic Period

Palestinian security prisoner Mahmoud Atallah is accused of sexually assaulting and raping female IDF soldiers and guards at Gilboa Prison, in a scandal that alleges the women were 'pimped' out to Palestinian inmates. (Courtesy)

Ministers to examine soldiers’ roles in Prison Service as rape suspect named

By Emanuel Fabian

Defense and public security ministers agree to establish team to look into positions given to IDF conscripts outside army; they will not be allowed to enter terror inmates’ cells

Pedestrians walk past the Ben & Jerry's shop on Church Street, in Burlington, Vermont, March 11, 2020. (AP Photo/ Charles Krupa)

US judge rejects Ben & Jerry bid to halt settlement sales during legal battle

Ruling calls ice cream maker’s claims of imminent harm to its brand ‘too speculative,’ in a setback for the Vermont company, as it seeks to pull products from West Bank

Rambam Health Care Campus physicians Dr. Shai Menachem, left, and Dr. Ory Keynan, perform back surgery using the anterior-to-psoas method for the first time in Israel. (Courtesy of Rambam Health Care Campus)

New to Israel: Back surgery via the waist, using advanced keyhole method

By Nathan Jeffay

An 80-year-old woman becomes the first Israeli to receive a spinal fusion operation — which normally involves opening up the back — via a tiny incision in the waist instead

AnalysisIsrael using ‘vaccination nation’ chops to fight monkeypox, doctor says

By Nathan Jeffay

Dr. Anthony Fauci holds his face mask in his hands, as he attends a House Committee on Appropriations subcommittee hearing on about the budget request for the National Institutes of Health, May 11, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Fauci, medical face of American COVID response, to retire in December

By AP

Illustrative: Members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) march during the annual military parade, marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, in the capital Tehran, on September 22, 2018. (AFP/STR)

Iran Revolutionary Guard general reportedly killed in Syria

State media says Abolfazl Alijani served as military adviser; death not believed related to recent Israeli strikes at Syrian army positions where Iran-backed fighters are based

Dana Bash, a correspondent and anchor on CNN. (CNN/HBO Max/via JTA)

Interview

CNN’s Dana Bash: We must be ‘aggressive, zealous’ in educating against antisemitism

By Andrew Lapin

An in-depth special on antisemitism suggests reasons behind the world’s oldest hatred — and some cures. The veteran journalist says it’s among the most important work she’s done

GOP Arizona governor hopeful pans endorsee’s remark that Jews are ‘evil’

NYPD investigating suspected hate crimes after Jews doused with fire extinguisher

A damaged Jewish grave is seen at the Jewish cemetery in the city of Aden in southern Yemen. (Twitter/Kan News)

Yemen restores Jewish cemetery, remainder of a once booming, now long-gone community

Restoration of the 160-year-old burial ground that had been neglected for years began with civil organizations, before being picked up by government

This labeled image provided by NASA shows a false color composite image of Jupiter obtained by the James Webb Space Telescope on July 27, 2022. The planet’s rings and some of its small satellites are visible along with background galaxies. (NASA)

James Webb telescope shows Jupiter as never before, with auroras and tiny moons

Photos capture unprecedented views of planet’s northern and southern lights, and swirling polar haze

Leonard Leo, head of the Marble Freedom Trust, speaks at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC, April 23, 2019. (Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via JTA)

Secretive donor to pro-Israel causes gave $1.6 billion to US conservative nonprofit

Barre Seid made huge injection of funds to Marble Freedom Trust, an organization credited with helping get conservative majority on Supreme Court

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A court filing by lawyers for former US president Donald Trump is photographed on August 22, 2022, as lawyers ask a federal judge to prevent the FBI from continuing to review documents recovered from his Florida estate until a neutral special master can be appointed. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Trump sues US government, seeking neutral party to review Mar-a-Lago documents

A Tnuva factory in Rehovot, November 2021. (Times of Israel staff)

Snail ‘n’ beans: Tnuva apologizes for animal parts in food, suspends production

View of the Bank of Israel main offices in Jerusalem, on March 31, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bank of Israel raises interest rate to 2% as inflation continues to climb

By Ricky Ben-David

Ultra-Orthodox men react during the funeral of Rabbi Shalom Cohen in Jerusalem, August 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

‘A source of light’: Thousands pay respects to Shas luminary Rabbi Shalom Cohen

By Tobias Siegal

Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin attends a farewell ceremony of his daughter Daria Dugina, who was killed in a car bomb explosion the previous week, at the Ostankino TV center in Moscow on August 23, 2022 (Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)

Mourners remember Russian nationalist’s slain daughter

By AFP

IDF soldiers operating in the West Bank, August 23, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF, police arrest 18 Palestinians, seize weapons in overnight West Bank raids

By Emanuel Fabian

Iranian dissident Ebi, whose real name is Ebrahim Hamedi. (screenshot)

Swedish police find bomb at concert featuring Iranian dissident

Illustrative: Construction in Rishon Lezion on August 8, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Construction worker killed by falling object in Rishon Lezion

French President Emmanuel Macron attends a ceremony marking the 78th anniversary of the Allied landings in Provence during World War II, which helped liberate southern France, in Bormes-les-Mimosas, August 19, 2022. (Eric Gaillard, Pool via AP)

Macron: EU ready to support Ukraine ‘for the long term’

By AFP

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., at the Capitol in Washington, June 2, 2022. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Jerry Nadler reluctantly runs for US House seat against Democratic ally

By AP and ToI Staff

Ukrainian refugees queue for food in the welcome area after their arrival at the main train station in Berlin, Germany, March 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Germany counts almost 1 million Ukrainian refugees since Russian invasion

By AFP

Theodor Herzl, center, shown on a boat in 1898. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

It is no dreamCreator of ‘Shtisel’ working on new Herzl series

By PHILISSA CRAMER

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