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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 24, 2022

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MK Itamar Ben Gvir attends a protest in support of police officers in Tel Aviv, August 16, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Polls indicate far-right split could harm Netanyahu’s chances of forming next gov’t

Channel 12 survey shows Bezalel Smotrich failing to pass electoral threshold; no bump for National Unity alliance with addition of former IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot

6:19 pm

Polls indicate far-right split could harm Netanyahu chances of forming next gov't
5:30 pm

Report: 50 charter flights booked to take Israeli pilgrims to Uman in Ukraine
5:17 pm

Renewed fighting in Ethiopia not expected to affect emigration efforts to Israel

Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks during a National Unity faction meeting at the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem on August 23, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gantz heads to US, vowing Israel will do ‘everything it can’ to sway Iran deal

By Emanuel Fabian

Defense minister to meet CENTCOM chief, US national security adviser before flying to Japan; ex-PM Bennett issues last-minute appeal to Biden not to sign new nuclear agreement

Technicians work at the Arak heavy water reactor's secondary circuit, as officials and media visit the site, near Arak, 150 miles (250 kilometers) southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran, Monday, Dec. 23, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

AnalysisCreeping toward nuke deal, US and Iran face gauntlet of critics, sticking points

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Fighter jets from the IAF's second F-35 squadron, the Lions of the South, fly over southern Israel. (Israel Defense Forces)

Report: Israeli F-35s penetrated Iranian airspace repeatedly during war drills

London-based Saudi news outlet says drones and mid-air refueling aircraft took part in exercises, managed to avoid Russian and Iranian sensors

Two U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors fly above Syria on Feb. 2, 2018. (Staff Sgt. Colton Elliott/US Air National Guard)

US airstrikes target Revolutionary Guard-backed militias in eastern Syria

By AP and ToI Staff

An illustrative photo of a US Air Force F-16, below, escorting two F-35 jets, above, September 2015. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Iran denies links to groups hit in US Syria strikes; 10 reported killed

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Jackie Young in his London apartment (Detail from photograph by Dennis Carlyle Darling. Portrait from the soon-to-be-released 'Borrowed Time: Survivors Of Nazi Terezín Remember,' published by University of Texas Press)

UK man who survived concentration camp as baby finally learns his family’s identity

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Jewish genealogist duo solves 80-year mystery, builds a family tree and locates living relatives after reading a ToI article about octogenarian Jackie Young’s search for his roots

The new Iran nuclear deal ensures a nuclear Iran – and soon

The deal is more dangerous for Israel and its neighbors than for the P5+1 – which is reason enough for a collaborative regional defense network against the threat

Israelis should support American diplomacy on Iran

The world leaders know that Iran is trouble in many arenas beyond nuclear weapons – and without the deal, it would be that much more dangerous in all of them

When is a popsicle a sign of oppression?

Spoiler: When it’s a sign of camaraderie between settlers and the Israeli army, who together managed to turn a thriving, bustling Hebron into a ghost town

Standing with Israel’s medical residents

The government must put the already approved labor reforms into practice – everyone knows doctors can’t provide the standard of care on 20 hours without sleep!

Israeli soldiers from the religious ‘Netzah Yehuda’ battalion are seen beating two Palestinian detainees in the West Bank, in a video published to TikTok on August 15, 2022. (Screenshot: TikTok)

IDF suspends soldiers filmed beating Palestinian detainees in West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

Combat troops from religious Netzah Yehuda battalion seen repeatedly kicking two men; military chief Aviv Kohavi condemns ‘repugnant’ assault

A slogan reading 'Jews wake up. Arabs out' is grafittied on a wall in the West Bank town of Marda, August 24, 2022. (Courtesy)

Jewish extremists accused of slashing tires, graffitiing in Palestinian town

By Emanuel Fabian

Religious Zionism party leader Bezalel Smotrich, left, and Itamar Ben Gvir of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party at an election campaign tour at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on March 19, 2021(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir reaches out to Smotrich amid renewed push to unite the far-right

‘Bezalel, I love you’: Cajoled by Netanyahu, Otzma Yehudit leader softens tone in bid for merger deal a day after Religious Zionism primaries

Religious Zionism party head MK Bezalel Smotrich casts his primary vote at a polling station in Jerusalem, August 23, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Religious Zionism primary keeps sitting MKs at top of Knesset slate

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu urges the far-right Religious Zionism and Otzma Yehudit parties to reunite for the upcoming Knesset elections, in a video released on August 23, 2022. (Screen capture: Facebook)

‘Can’t take the risk’: Netanyahu issues public call for union of far-right parties

Zehava Galon seen in Tel Aviv after winning the Meretz party leadership race, August 23, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Galon wins Meretz leadership race, returning to head left-wing party after 3 years

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Stepping out of retirement to run, Zehava Galon easily defeats Yair Golan, while outgoing party chief Nitzan Horowitz slips to unrealistic spot on Knesset list

An election campaign billboard for the Likud party that shows a portrait of its leader Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid in Ramat Gan, March 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Central Elections Committee bans Likud parody of Yesh Atid campaign ad

Meretz MKs celebrate the party's primary results at an event in Tel Aviv on August 23, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 24: Speed round of political inside baseball; managing monkeypox

Gaza child dies in blast caused by weapons unsafely stored at terrorist’s home: IDF

By Emanuel Fabian

The Israel Defense Forces said a deadly explosion on Tuesday in the southern Gaza Strip was due to improperly stored weapons in the home of a terror group member. The Hamas-run interior ministry in the Gaza Strip said one Palestinian was killed and a child was wounded in... Continue Reading

Damage is seen to a home in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, following an explosion, August 23, 2022. (Social media)

Weapons seized from wanted Palestinians in the Jenin area in the northern West Bank, August 24, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF arrests 14 Palestinian suspects, seizes guns in overnight West Bank raids

By Emanuel Fabian

Weapons seized by security forces along the border with Jordan, August 24, 2022. (Israel Police)

Israeli forces foil effort to smuggle in firearms from Jordan, near Dead Sea

By Emanuel Fabian

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah (right) and Palestinian Islamic Jihad chief Ziyad Nakhaleh meet in Lebanon, August 24, 2022. (Twitter)

In Beirut, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad heads discuss ‘next stage’ of anti-Israel action

By Tobias Siegal

Nasrallah and Nakhaleh review latest Gaza-Israel conflict and ‘the expected roles of the various parties in the axis of resistance’ going forward

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, July 8, 2022. (Willy Kurniawan/Pool Photo via AP)

Lavrov condemns ‘dangerous’ Israeli strikes in Syria, as relations with Russia sour

The Iranian supertanker Grace 1 is seen off the coast of Gibraltar on August 15, 2019. (Jorge Guerrero/AFP)

Report: Russia to use Iran to bypass sanctions and sell oil if nuclear deal clinched

Daniel Cruz (left) and Kfir Tsafrir on an episode of "Hakochav Haba" on Keshet 12, August 22, 2022. (Courtesy Keshet)

Israeli immigration policy takes center stage on reality TV singing contest

Contestant on ‘Rising Star’ highlights plight of his friend, born in Israel to Filipino parents and facing deportation, and reignites longtime debate

Interview

Amir Bar Shalom

Begging royal mercy: How Israel recovered from the botched Mashaal hit, 25 years ago

Ahead of the 25th anniversary of Israel's failed attempt to assassinate Hamas's Khaled Mashaal in Jordan, The Times of Israel's Hebrew-language sister-site Zman Yisrael spoke to Efraim Halevy, the former Mossad chief who was instrumental in the effort to solve the resultant crisis with Jordan. The botched hit took place on September 25, 1997, two... Continue Reading

Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal waves during a visit to the Islamic University in Gaza City, Dec. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Left: US Rep. Jerry Nadler mingles during his election night victory party in the Democratic primary election, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022 (AP Photo/John Minchillo); Right: Attorney Dan Goldman addresses supporters on the evening of the Democratic primary election Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022, in New York (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Jerry Nadler, Daniel Goldman win New York primary battles against incumbents

By AP and ToI Staff

The ‘dean’ of the Jewish Caucus and the heir to the Levi Strauss fortune will face off with Republican candidates in November

A political campaign sign for Charlie Christ and Nikki Fried, who are both running for the Governors seat, outside of a polling station on August 23, 2022 in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Saul Martinez/Getty Images/AFP)

Jewish hopeful Fried loses bid to challenge DeSantis for Florida governorship

By AP and ToI Staff

State Rep. Dan Frankel speaks before a joint session of Pennsylvania lawmakers who came together to commemorate the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue attack that killed 11 people, Wednesday, April 10, 2019, at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP/Matt Rourke)

US Jewish lawmaker targeted by antisemitic posts on far-right platform Gab

Pennsylvania’s Dan Frankel, whose district covers Tree of Life synagogue attacked by Gab user, subjected to online abuse after criticizing opponent’s links to social media site

Illustrative: Teaching assistant James Tabron pushes a cart of books as he prepares for the first day of school at Caprock Elementary School in the Keller Independent School District in Fort Worth, Texas on August 17, 2011. (AP/LM Otero)

Texas district that banned Anne Frank adaptation backtracks amid outcry

By Andrew Lapin

Interview'He wasn't the epitome of Syrian Jewish culture'

New book explores the insane career of Syrian Jewish hustler ‘Crazy Eddie’ Antar

By Stephen Silver

In ‘Retail Gangster,’ journalist Gary Weiss opens up one of the 20th century’s most colorful fraud stories, showing that no matter how crazy the purveyor, you get what you pay for

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Ivanka Trump (right) and Jared Kushner (left) at a signing ceremony for 'phase one' of a US-China trade agreement, in the East Room of the White House, January 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Tom Brady was Trump's backup if Jared wasn't serious

In his new book, Kushner says he once broke up with Ivanka because she wasn’t Jewish

By Michael Horovitz

Memoir recalls how Murdochs, Bono and Billy Joel helped rekindle romance between couple, and that Trump pressed Jared on why his daughter had to be the one to convert

A letter from acting archivist of the United States Debra Steidel Wall to former President Donald Trump's legal team is photographed on August 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

National Archives letter reveals scope of classified documents retained by Trump

Bottles of Lunardelli Wine with labels depicting Nazi leader Adolf Hitler are displayed on a shelf in a wine shop near Venice, Sept. 12, 2003. (Giuseppe Cacace/Getty Images via JTA)

Putting a cork in it

Vine Kampf: Italian company says it’ll stop producing Hitler wines

By Orge Castellano

Heir to Vini Lunardelli winery admits he is fed up with all the controversy over its ‘historical line’ of bottles featuring figures such as German Nazi leader and Mussolini

Front pages of newspapers reporting the collapse of the government are seen in Rome, July 22, 2022. (Andrew Medichini/AP)

Anti-Israel remarks by left-wing candidates roil Italy’s election campaign

At the annual Poetry Festival, held in Metulla, this year taking place September 8-10, 2022 (Courtesy Nir Shaanani)

Poetry still matters, especially at Metulla’s annual festival

By Jessica Steinberg

Quarter-century mark for Israeli poets’ event brings new sounds, voices and topics

More Headlines

People walk around destroyed Russian military vehicles installed in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine, Aug. 24, 2022. (AP/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Kyiv residents wake up to air-raid sirens on 6-month anniversary of Ukraine invasion

By Derek Gatopoulos and Inna Varentysia

A new shelter for unhoused people in south Tel Aviv opened its doors in August 2022. (Yoav Messer Architects, Ltd.)

Tel Aviv opens $11m designer shelter for city’s unhoused population

By Danielle Nagler

Activists protest against alleged sexual assault at an Ohel facility in Brooklyn, New York, August 21, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

NY Jewish social services organization accused of papering over sexual assault suit

The Daily Tar Heel unpublished an opinion column criticizing study abroad in Israel, citing threatening messages aimed at the writer.(Getty)

US college student paper pulls anti-Israel column after author threatened

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Lt. Col. Revital Barzani is seen during a ceremony marking her entry to the role of commander of the Air Force's 66th Ram Battalion, August 23, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

In first, IDF appoints woman as commander of air defense battalion

By Emanuel Fabian

Supporters of Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, seen in poster, protest in front the Supreme Judicial Council, in Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 23, 2022. (Hadi Mizban/AP)

Iraq Shiite cleric’s supporters demand assembly be dissolved, new election called

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra

Former MK Faina Kirshenbaum arrives for her verdict at the District Court in Tel Aviv on July 14, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Supreme Court eases 10-year sentence of former MK Faina Kirshenbaum

Ret. Lt. Col. Josh Judah, a former police officer in the Louisville Metro Police Department, testifies in a 2020 hearing. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images via JTA)

Louisville Jewish community hires ex-cop connected to controversy in police killing

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin speaks with the media as she arrives for an EU summit in Brussels, June 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys, File)

Finland’s PM apologizes for photo of topless women kissing at official residence

By JAN M. OLSEN

Maccabi's team celebrates after beating Red Star at Rajko Mitic Stadium in Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. (AP/Darko Vojinovic)

SoccerMaccabi Haifa advances to Champions League group stage for first time since 2009

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) walks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (C) during an official welcoming ceremony at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, on August 23, 2022. (Adem Altan/AFP)

Erdogan welcomes Abbas to Turkey a week after fully restoring ties with Israel

Illustrative: A handcuffed Yitzhak Abergil is led off a plane from the US by police and prison service officials (Israel Prison Service)

Four years after fleeing to Morocco, Israeli fugitive arrested at Ben Gurion Airport

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