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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 31, 2022

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Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, left, and US president Ronald Reagan during a meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland, Oct. 11, 1986. (AP Photo/Scott Stewart, File)

Sharansky: Gorbachev wouldn’t have released Soviet Jews if not for global pressure

By Jeremy Sharon

Former prisoner of Zion praises late Soviet leader for freeing Jewish prisoners but says his policy was driven by the cost to the Soviet Union, not sympathy

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev addresses a group of 150 business executives in San Francisco, Monday, June 5, 1990. (AP Photo/David Longstreath, File)

Jewish groups mourn Gorbachev as man who freed Soviet Jewry

By Judah Ari Gross

A peace dove sits on the head of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev on Monday, June 15, 1992 as he sets another bird free during a leisure trip on the Sea of Gallilee, Israel. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Israeli leaders eulogize ‘brave’ and ‘visionary’ Gorbachev

By Ash Obel and Agencies

IDF soldier Eitan Fichman, 19. who was killed in a training accident on August 30, 2022 (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF suspends training after soldier dies in ‘rare’ tank accident in Golan Heights

By Emanuel Fabian

Sgt. Eitan Fichman found unconscious in unsafe area of tank that crew is prohibited from entering while systems are on; declared dead by medics who came to take him for treatment

From left to right: Teachers' Union Secretary-General Yaffa Ben David, Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Bitton and Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman hold a press conference following the new salary agreement with teachers on August 31, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Treasury, teachers union reach wage deal to avert strike at start of school year

By Michael Horovitz

New teachers to receive NIS 9,000 a month under agreement, principals to start at NIS 19,000; vacation schedule to be changed

Illustrative: A pair of glasses rests on a worksheet used to teach Arabic to Israeli students. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Jerusalem schools begin teaching spoken Arabic to reduce east-west divide

The Nisui School in Jerusalem, ahead of the opening of the school year, on August 31, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 31: Schools avoid strike; where to put Israel’s homeless?

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Innovation can help ease looming food shortages worldwide, says OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved

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Narcan inventor developing new overdose treatment to combat fentanyl scourge

The inventor of the Narcan opioid overdose treatment is developing a new drug antidote to combat fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is driving record US overdose deaths. Fentanyl is far more powerful than the prescription pills and heroin that set off the overdose crisis. Narcan was developed to reverse the effects of those drugs, but... Continue Reading

A worker from the Baltimore City Health Department displays a sample of Narcan in Baltimore, Maryland, January 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev, center, is escorted to the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, June 18, 1992. Gorbachev was concluding a five-day private visit to Israel. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Analysis

Gorbachev first seemed regressive, but ultimately opened the gates for Jews to leave

The numbers allowed to exit actually fell at the start of his rule. But he wound up approving the exodus of millions, freeing refuseniks, ending restrictions on religious worship

Mikhail Gorbachev, eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union, closes his resignation speech on the table after delivering it on Soviet television in the Kremlin, Moscow, Wednesday, December 25, 1991. (AP Photo/Liu Heung Shing, File)

ObituaryMikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, dies at 91

In this Sept. 9, 1990 file photo US President George H. W. Bush shakes hands with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev at the conclusion of their joint news conference ending the one day summit in Helsinki, Finland (AP Photo/Liu Heung Shin, file)

‘Man of peace’: World leaders hail ‘one-of-a-kind’ Gorbachev

By AFP

'New insights into a significant historical crime'

DNA analysis suggests bodies found in UK well are victims of 1190 antisemitic attack

A new research study suggests that remains found in a mass grave discovered in a medieval well in Norwich, England, were the victims of an infamous antisemitic attack in 1190 CE. The study, published on Tuesday in the Current Biology scientific journal, is based on DNA testing of... Continue Reading

The reconstructed faces of a male and a child discovered in the well in Norwich, UK, believed to date back to 1190 CE. (Professor Caroline Wilkinson/Natural History Museum)

Khalil Awawdeh, a Palestinian who has been on a hunger strike for several months protesting being jailed without charge or trial under what Israel refers to as administrative detention, lies in bed at Asaf Harofeh Hospital in Be'er Ya'akov, Israel, Wednesday, August 24, 2022. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)

Live updates (closed)

Palestinian hunger striker to end fast after Israel agrees to set him free — report

Family of Khalil Awawdeh tell Palestinian media that Israel agrees to release him on October 2, will end 6-month strike

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Syria accuses Israel of 2nd attack, this time in Damascus
5:55 pm

Israeli strikes said to hit Aleppo airport in northern Syria
5:52 pm

Poll indicates Labor, Meretz union to bring fewer seats than separate runs

New immigrant children from Ukraine take part in a special camp in the Tel Aviv suburb of Bat Yam to teach them Hebrew and prepare them for the coming school year in the summer of 2022. (International Fellowship of Christians and Jews)

First shell-shocked, now culture shocked

Israeli schools ready for influx of Ukrainian, Russian immigrants as opening nears

By Judah Ari Gross

With limited Hebrew and traumas from war, over 2,600 refugee children prepare to face their next challenge: the Israeli education system

Ahead of school year, most new Ukrainian and Russian immigrant kids not enrolled

By Judah Ari Gross

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) and Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian shake hands during a joint news conference in Moscow on August 31, 2022. (MAXIM SHEMETOV/POOL/AFP)

Iran demands ‘stronger US guarantees’ in nuclear deal

In Moscow, FM Hossein Amir-Abdollahian calls for end to IAEA’s ‘politically motivated probes,’ highlighting key sticking point in ongoing negotiations

ExplainerHow is this Iran deal different from the last one, and what’s holding it up?

This photo released by the US Navy shows the Iranian Revolutionary Guard ship Shahid Bazair, left, towing a US Navy Saildrone Explorer in the Persian Gulf on August 30, 2022. (US Navy via AP)

US says Iran seized and then released American sea drone in Persian Gulf

By Jon Gambrell

Kally Rubin Kislowicz

The other cheek

Shopping for bookshelves and bar mitzvah attire in Israel reminds me how wonderful it is to be among my people (unlike my kids’ road-trip Israeli playlist!)

David Breakstone

‘Not my Jewish state’

I’m sure Herzl would be disappointed with our version of his dream – and also sure he wouldn’t give up on the ideal society he thought we’d need to survive

Victims of the April 30, 2021, Mount Meron disaster: Top row (L-R): Chen Doron, Haim Rock, Ariel Tzadik, Yossi Kohn, Yisrael Anakvah, Yishai Mualem, Yosef Mastorov, Elkana Shiloh and Moshe Levy; 2nd row (L-R): Shlomo Zalman Leibowitz, Shmuel Zvi Klagsbald, Mordechai Fakata, Dubi Steinmetz, Abraham Daniel Ambon, Eliezer Gafner, Yosef Greenbaum, Yehuda Leib Rubin and Yaakov Elchanan Starkovsky; 3rd row (L-R): Haim Seler, Yehoshua Englard, Moshe Natan Neta Englard, Yedidia Hayut, Moshe Ben Shalom, David Krauss, Eliezer Tzvi Joseph, Yosef Yehuda Levy and Yosef Amram Tauber; 4th row (L-R): Menachem Knoblowitz, Elazar Yitzchok Koltai, Yosef David Elhadad, Shraga Gestetner, Yonatan Hebroni, Shimon Matalon, Elazar Mordechai Goldberg, Moshe Bergman and Daniel Morris; 5th row (L-R): Ariel Achdut, Moshe Mordechai Elhadad, Hanoch Slod, Yedidya Fogel, Menahem Zakbah, Simcha Diskind, Moshe Tzarfati, Nahman Kirshbaum and Eliyahu Cohen.

Families say Meron probe findings send ‘clear message’ but don’t address their needs

Attorney representing some of the victims’ relatives the ‘writing was on the wall,’ after probe finds senior officials, including Netanyahu, likely responsible for disaster

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the scene of the disaster on Mount Meron, in northern Israel on April 30, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Meron inquest finds Netanyahu, top cop Shabtai likely responsible for disaster

NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell gave a press conference in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Aug. 29, 2022, to discuss increasing the local police presence and announce arrests in antisemitic hate crime incidents. (WMSGB via JTA)

NYPD to up patrols around Williamsburg synagogues amid rise in antisemitic attacks

‘It is believed these victims were targeted because they’re Jewish,’ police commissioner says, in press conference at site where suspect allegedly slapped Haredi man days earlier

Security shootage shows a Jewish man being blasted with a fire extinguisher in New York City on August 21, 2022. (Screenshot)

New York police announce hate crimes arrests for series of attacks on Jews

An aerial view of the University of California, Davis campus. (Wikipedia/Arlen/CC BY)

Campus police probing antisemitic banners at UC Davis as ‘hate incident’

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Medical Illustration of lung cancer, with a cancerous area in lungs (peterschreiber.media via iStock by Getty Images)

Lung fluid may provide basis for cancer-treating vaccines: Israeli research

By Nathan Jeffay

Scientists say specific proteins found in lung fluid could theoretically be used to develop new methods for diagnosing and possibly treating cancer

A bride is detained by police in her wedding dress in the town of Arraba in the Lower Galilee on August 28. 2022 (screenshot)

Police suspect bride fled with groom to West Bank after raid on wedding

Woman believed to violate house arrest after her betrothed, suspected of illegal possession of weapons, ran away from authorities at ceremony

The IDF arrested nine suspects it says were involved in terror related activities, August 31, 2022 (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF arrests 3 Palestinians for shooting attacks near West Bank town

Khalil Awawdeh, a Palestinian who has been on a hunger strike for several months protesting being jailed without charge or trial under what Israel refers to as administrative detention, lies in bed at Asaf Harofeh Hospital in Be'er Ya'akov on August 24, 2022. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)

High Court rejects Palestinian detainee’s appeal, urges him to end hunger strike

Nationalist Israel Jews wave Israeli flags as they march outside the Damascus Gate to Jerusalem's Old City, on June 15, 2021. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Jews now a 47% minority in Israel and the territories, demographer says

Arnon Soffer says proportion of Jews between Mediterranean Sea and Jordan River lower than widely believed when non-citizens are taken into account

Archaeologists, paleontologists and conservators surround the tusk of a straight-tusked elephant, discovered at Kibbutz Revadim, southern Israel, in August 2022. (Yoli Schwartz/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Giant prehistoric elephant tusk uncovered in southern Israel

By Michael Horovitz

Academics seek to study rare find to learn about significance of such remains in early human culture; Antiquities Authority says fossil will go on display after preservation

Alberto Hotel by Isrotel in central Tel Aviv (courtesy Lior Grundman)

Tapping into boutique hotel trend, Isrotel trades beach-bumming for urban energy

By Danielle Nagler

More Headlines

Defending men's champion Serbia's Novak Djokovic practices at the Rod Laver Arena ahead of the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, January 12, 2022. (Mark Baker/AP)

Novak Djokovic to headline Tel Aviv tournament after US Open withdrawal

By Ash Obel and AP

In this file photo taken on May 22, 2022 South African model and actress Charlbi Dean poses during a photocall for the film "Triangle of Sadness" at the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. (Valery HACHE / AFP)

‘Triangle of Sadness’ actor, model Charlbi Dean dies at 32

Convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard endorses Zionist Spirit leader Ayelet Shaked for the upcoming elections, August 29, 2022. (Twitter)

Jonathan Pollard endorses Shaked, then retracts support hours later

By Tobias Siegal and Amy Spiro

Then-Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (right) meets with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Jerusalem, March 2, 2022. (GPO)

Lapid set for official state visit to Germany next month

Leonid Gozman, a liberal politician, walks escorted by a police officer in Moscow, Russia, on July 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Alec Sander)

Russian Jewish politician jailed for comparing Stalin to Hitler

By AP and ToI Staff

MK Eli Avidar speaks during a press conference at the Knesset on August 15, 2022. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Former MK’s offer of joint Knesset run rebuffed by social media activist party head

By Michael Horovitz

Illustrative: Palestinians hold a rally in front of the United Nations headquarters in Ramallah, August 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

UN rights chief accuses Israel of ‘trying to hide’ by blocking monitors’ access

By AFP and ToI Staff

A member of an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspection team walks in front of the Hyatt hotel in Kyiv on August 31, 2022, before departing to the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine. (SERGEI CHUZAVKOV/AFP)

IAEA inspectors head to Russian-held Ukrainian nuclear plant

By Dmytro Gorshkov

Illustrative: A poster advertises an LGBTQ event at Yeshiva University, December 15, 2020. (Courtesy of Yeshiva University student organizers)

Yeshiva University petitions Supreme Court to block recognition of campus LGBTQ club

Eyal Haddad, a Tunisian-Israeli Jewish man who was killed by his neighbor in France in August 2022. (Courtesy)

Tunisian chief rabbi demands justice after apparent antisemitic axe murder in France

By Judah Ari Gross

In this March 7, 2020, file photo, a man walks past a banner showing Saudi King Salman, right, and his Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, outside a mall in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

2nd Saudi woman jailed for decades for social media posts — rights group

By Haitham el-Tabei

Relatives attend a funeral of a man killed during clashes with security forces in Baghdad, Najaf, Iraq, August 30, 2022. (AP/Anmar Khalil)

Shiite cleric’s supporters heed call to leave streets after deadly Iraq unrest

By SAMYA KULLAB and Qassim Abdul-Zahra

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