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What Matters Most On Friday, September 16, 2022

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Hadash leader Ayman Odeh points during a press conference with lawmakers from the allied Hadash-Ta'al faction as they register their party list on September 15, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

40 parties submit their lists for November 1 elections

Arab-led Joint List splits into 2 factions, shuffling political deck at last minute

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Drama over rotation deal splinters party into Hadash-Ta’al and Balad, in move that could help Netanyahu back to power; Labor and Meretz finalize independent runs, rebuffing Lapid

Members of the Hadash and Ta'al factions register list of candidates with the Central Elections Committee at the Knesset, on September 15, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Depleted Arab alliance embraces potential kingmaker role after breakup of Joint List

Deputy Foreign Minister Idan Roll attends a ceremony at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on December 1, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Deputy FM: Israel won’t get US backing if Ben Gvir, Smotrich manage the country

Analysis

Joint List breakup deepens Lapid’s nightmare of anti-Netanyahu votes going to waste

While ex-PM united key factions of his bloc to minimize risk of wasted votes, caretaker PM failed to do likewise for those opposed to Netanyahu. Then came a Joint List hammer blow

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (left) with opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu at a Knesset session in memory of Israel's first prime minister David Ben-Gurion, on November 8, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Hadar Muchtar arrives to register her Fiery Youth party for the upcoming elections at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on September 15, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Upstart Fiery Youth files election slate, vows to ‘make life difficult’ for rivals

Prime Minister Yair Lapid speaks during a campaign event for his Yesh Atid party in Tel Aviv, September 13, 2022. (Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

Yesh Atid takes flack for Russian site calling Likud a ‘sectoral Sephardic party’

UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan visits the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and museum in Jerusalem, September 15, 2022. (Yad Vashem/Miri Shimonovich)

Yad Vashem head hails a 'momentous occasion'

UAE foreign minister tours Yad Vashem; meets Lapid, Herzog on 1st Jerusalem visit

‘A privilege and an honor’: Emirati FM Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan marks 2 years to Abraham Accords by laying wreath at Holocaust memorial and speaking to Israeli leaders

President Isaac Herzog and Emirati Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan shake hands during a reception hosted by the UAE to mark the second anniversary of the Abraham Accords, September 15, 2022. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Herzog says planning to soon visit Bahrain, hopes normalization with Sudan advances

By Michael Horovitz

Chile's President Gabriel Boric speaks during a ceremony introducing new cabinet members in Santiago, Chile, September 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)

Envoy said at president's residence when ceremony canceled

In grave breach of protocol, Chile’s president refuses credentials of Israeli envoy

Gabriel Boric reportedly spurns new ambassador over Israel ‘killing children in Gaza,’ threatening profound harm to relations between the countries

Ambassador Gil Artzyeli speaks to reporters outside Chile's foreign ministry in Santiago, after his credentials were refused by Chilean President Gabriel Boric, September 16, 2022. (Twitter screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli envoy says Chile apologized after its president refused his credentials

Illustrative image of a human brain (onimate via iStock by Getty Images)

Fixing weak electric current in part of brain may treat Parkinson’s — Israeli lab

By Nathan Jeffay

University of Haifa scientist says her peer-reviewed study could open up a new approach to fighting the disease, enable detection when people are young

Illustrative image: A single sperm is injected directly into an egg as part of IVF (Lars Neumann; iStock by Getty Images)

Hospital embroiled in fertility debacle previously lost another embryo — report

By Michael Horovitz

Times of Israel Podcast

Podcast: 2 years post-Abraham Accords signing, who’s got Israel’s back against Iran?

In a special Daily Briefing, editor David Horovitz and diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman assess the accords’ successes and failures, and how the region’s alliances have shifted

US President Donald Trump, center, with from left, Bahrain Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump, and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, during the Abraham Accords signing ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, September 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

US President Donald Trump, center, with, from left, Bahrain Foreign Minister Abdullatif al-Zayani, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, during the Abraham Accords signing ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, September 15, 2020, in Washington. (Alex Brandon/AP)

Analysis

Two years after Abraham Accords, worrying trends emerge amid achievements

While trade and diplomatic ties continue to expand, polls show public support in nations that normalized ties has plummeted — and it is unclear whether others will sign on

Why we must root for Ukraine

With the violent elimination of opposition and a gratuitous destruction of the ongoing war, Putin has brought the evil of a cartoon villain back into style

Matty Lichtenstein

How New York City’s Hasidic yeshivas gained legitimacy

The Hasidim avoiding state educational requirements argue that yeshiva students are doing just fine, but the maneuvers they need to make the case suggests otherwise

Two forensic technicians dig near a cross in a forest on the outskirts of Izyum, eastern Ukraine on September 16, 2022, after Ukrainian forces recaptured the eastern city from the Russians. (Juan Barreto/AFP)

Ukraine: Mass burial sites, ‘torture centers’ found in areas retaken from Russia

By Emmanuel Parisse

Officials say 450 graves counted at single site near strategic city of Izyum, following lightning Ukrainian counteroffensive in east

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men traveling to Uman in Ukraine for the Jewish new year holiday of Rosh Hashanah, seen at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on September 5, 2018. (Avi Dishi/Flash90)

Russia says it can’t protect Uman pilgrims, denies claim it plans to attack them

By ToI Staff and AFP

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, right, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen smile during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, September 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Zelensky rails at Israel, other countries for failure to deliver defensive weapons

From the blogs

When Abraham lost Israel: The saga of a missing child

The incredible story of a Jewish family’s journey from Europe to South Africa, a mother who never gave up on her child, and the 7-year-olds who are his descendants

The Imperial State Crown is seen on the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, adorned with a Royal Standard and the Imperial State Crown and pulled by a Gun Carriage of The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery, during a procession from Buckingham Palace to the Palace of Westminster, in London on September 14, 2022. (PETER NICHOLLS / POOL / AFP)

Chips from British crown jewels set in Israeli engagement ring — report

By Michael Horovitz

Journalist says fragments from Cullinan diamond passed down by her ancestor, who was commissioned by King Edward VII to polish huge African gemstone

Israel set to connect offshore rig threatened by Hezbollah to gas grid

By AFP

Energy Ministry says tests planned at Karish platform in ‘the upcoming days’ to include transfer of gas from field claimed by Lebanon to national network

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

A cloud of smoke rises after an alleged airstrike near the Syrian city of Masyaf, on August 25, 2022. (Social media)

Senior officer: Iranian-backed forces withdrawing from Syria due to IDF strikes

By Emanuel Fabian

A shattered window at a yeshiva in the southern West Bank settlement of Carmel following a shooting attack, September 15, 2022. (Courtesy)

Rabbi says yeshiva student was in a study session when hit in shooting at settlement

Natan Ofner of Carmel’s Yeshiva Reuta recalls not initially understanding loud bangs were gunshots until 18-year-old ‘noticed he was soaked in blood’; manhunt continues for gunman

Security forces are seen in the southern West Bank settlement of Carmel, following a shooting attack, September 15, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Israeli injured in suspected terror shooting at settlement of Carmel

By Emanuel Fabian

Video footage shows two masked settlers approaching a Palestinian man near the settlement of Ma’on in the South Hebron Hills area of the West Bank, before a violent confrontation ensues. (Twitter)

Video suggests recent West Bank clash was sparked by settlers, not Palestinians

By Tobias Siegal

US Capitol rioter who wore ‘Camp Auschwitz’ sweatshirt gets 75-day prison term

By Michael Kunzelman

Robert Packer also wore a Nazi SS shirt underneath his death camp hoodie, prosecutor says; defendant offended by white supremacist label, wants to sue Pelosi

Robert Keith Packer seen during the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2020 (L) and in custody in Virginia, January 13, 2013. (Screen capture: Twitter/Western Tidewater Regional Jail)

US President Joe Biden speaks during the United We Stand Summit in the East Room of the White House in Washington, September 15, 2022. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Biden says ‘no place in America’ for hate-fueled violence

By Colleen Long and DARLENE SUPERVILLE

This undated photo shows Baquer Namazi, left, and his son Siamak, in an unidentified location. (Babak Namazi via AP)

Congressional group urges Biden to prioritize release of US citizens jailed in Iran

By Michael Horovitz

Counting Crows lead singer Adam Duritz at the band's September 14 show in Ra'anana, Israel (Courtesy Shlomi Pinto)

Times Will Tell

Podcast: Counting Crows frontman says Israel ‘tugs at me a lot’

Adam Duritz returns after 40 years to perform, recounts time as teen in Israel, working on a kibbutz and in Jerusalem; NEW: Transcript included

Jewish partisans during the Second World War as shown in the documentary 'Four Winters,' written and directed by Julia Mintz. (New Moon Films via JTA)

Jewish partisans recount struggle against Nazis in new documentary ‘Four Winters’

By Andrew Lapin

Film features archival images and interviews from eight fighters who fled from persecution to battle German occupiers, countering narrative that Jews did not resist regime

More Headlines

Illustrative: Children cross a street after leaving school in Beit El on May 1, 2019. (Gili Yaari /Flash90)

Defying ministry, rabbis tell school to put transgender boy in female-only class

A protester holds up a sign reading 'Abortion Access is a Jewish Value' at a rally in front of the US Capitol Building organized by the National Council for Jewish Women, May 17, 2022. (Julia Gergely)

Poll shows concerns over abortion, democracy driving US Jewish turnout for Democrats

Israeli shekels, Jerusalem. (Orel Cohen/ Flash90)

Inflation pressures cool in August but housing prices soar further

A truck with an aerial boom is seen near a field near Moshav Herut in central Israel after two workers were fatally electrocuted, September 16, 2022. (Twitter screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

2 workers die from electrocution in central Israel

Israelis enjoy the last days of the summer holiday on an extremely hot day at Duga Beach, on the eastern shores of the Sea of Galilee on August 30, 2022. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Sea of Galilee thriving, at near maximum capacity

The campus of the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont, March 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

University of Vermont vehemently rejects federal probe into antisemitism complaints

By AP, JTA and Luke Tress

Yamina MK Nir Orbach leads a House Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 21, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

2022 electionsYamina MK Nir Orbach quits politics, urges Israeli right to ‘wake up’

Lebanese security forces are deployed as people gather outside the Blom Bank branch in the capital Beirut's Tariq al-Jdideh neighborhood on September 16, 2022, to express their support to a depositor, who stormed the bank demanding to withdraw his frozen savings. (Ibrahim AMRO/AFP)

Lebanon sees wave of bank heists as desperate citizens try to claim frozen savings

By AFP

A screengrab from video purportedly showing Fernando Andre Sabag Montiel pointing a gun at Argentine Vice President Cristina Kirchner on Thursday, September 1, 2022. (Screengrab)

Man with Nazi tattoo, girlfriend charged for attempted assassination of Argentine VP

By AFP

Construction materials at a Netanya supply site, August 2022 (Danielle Nagler)

Israel belatedly looks to green construction for concrete fix to polluting buildings

By Danielle Nagler

An illustrative photo showing the 2022 Digital Quality of Life Index on a mobile phone, September 2022. (Surfshark, CC BY NC SA, 3.0)

Israel climbs to 1st spot worldwide in digital quality of life survey

By Ricky Ben-David

Muhammad Mahameed Kiwan, 17, who died of gunshot wounds in Umm Al-Fahm, May, 2021. (Courtesy)

Probe closed into policeman who shot and killed Arab teen in car during riots

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