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What Matters Most On Sunday, September 18, 2022

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Preliminary IAA inspection of the 3,300-year-old cave at Palmachim National Park, September 13, 2022. (Emil Eljam/IAA)

Archaeology'It's not every day that you walk onto an Indiana Jones set'

Frozen in time: 3,300-year-old burial cave from Ramses II era found at popular beach

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

During construction work at Palmachim National Park near Tel Aviv, a fallen rock reveals an ancient treasure trove from the era of the biblically notorious pharoah

Marvel vows ‘new approach’ to Sabra character amid torrent of anti-Israel criticism

Marvel Studios said it will take "a new approach" to its controversial character Sabra, to be played by Israeli actress Shira Haas, after Palestinian groups criticized the decision to bring the Israeli comic book character to the big screen. "While our characters and stories are inspired by the comics,... Continue Reading

Marvel's Sabra (via Twitter)

Op-ed

Some of Netanyahu’s most bitter adversaries have smoothed a path for his return

There are still more than six weeks to go until election day, and the Likud opposition is wisely refraining from premature kvelling, but Thursday's eleventh-hour split in the mainly Arab Joint List has boosted the prospects for a return to power after November 1 by Benjamin Netanyahu. His right-religious bloc of loyalists -- Likud, Religious Zionism, Shas and United Torah... Continue Reading

Members of Balad register their party for the upcoming elections, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on September 15, 2022. Third from left is party leader Sami Abou Shahadeh. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Members of the Hadash and Ta'al factions in the Joint List register their party for the upcoming elections at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem, on September 15, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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Members of the Balad party register their list for the upcoming elections at the Knesset on September 15, 2022. Party leader Sami Abou Shahadeh is at second from right. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Yisrael Beytenu petitions to disqualify Balad party chief from running in election

Sami Abou Shehadeh’s party dismisses ‘attempt to silence’ him; Netanyahu-led bloc seen as unlikely to back move, preferring Balad have a chance to fall below electoral threshold

President Isaac Herzog at the President's House in Jerusalem, June 21, 2022 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Herzog tells MKs he’ll work to establish unity government after elections – report

An anti-Netanyahu protester after he was assaulted in Hod Hasharon on September 17, 2022. (Courtesy)

Anti-Netanyahu protesters assaulted at two roadside demonstrations

Prime Minister Yair Lapid (left) meets with Jordanian King Abdullah II at the Royal Palace in Amman, July 27, 2022. (Haim Zach/GPO)

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Lapid seeking meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah on sidelines of UN

Prime minister looking to sit down in New York with Jordanian monarch as police say they will boost presence around Jerusalem’s Old City amid concerns over clashes, terror attack

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How close is Netanyahu to the magic 61?

Finally, after three months of wrangling, the election campaign is truly underway. On Thursday, the parties submitted their official candidate lists for the elections, meaning there can be no more mergers or breakups. Under the guidance of Benjamin Netanyahu, Religious Zionism and Otzma Yehudit agreed to run as a single slate, as did two different strands... Continue Reading

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu delivers an election campaign speech from inside a modified delivery truck with a side wall replaced with bulletproof glass, in the Kiryat Yovel neighborhood of Jerusalem, September 11, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

At unique camp, Bedouin and Jewish girls discover they like each other

A first-ever sports summer camp empowered the teens to live together, play together, and dream together — and even got them to put down their phones

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Queen Elizabeth mattered. Civil religion explains why.

It’s possible to think of the late monarch as a sort of intermediary between profane humans and divine aspirations, as a symbol of order and justice

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Facebook directly linked to decline in mental health, new study says

While previous research established correlation between social media platform and increased anxiety and depression, study in American Economic Review finds direct causation

A Facebook post by the page of Beautiful Blue Eyes, September 11, 2022. (Screenshot: Facebook)

Facebook bans, reverses decision on Holocaust movie ads that ‘violated’ race policy

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Chile reschedules ceremony to accredit Israeli ambassador after diplomatic snub

Envoy will present credentials on September 30, Santiago says, explaining that last-minute cancellation was due to killing of Palestinian teen on ceremony’s original date

Composite image shows Prime Minister Yair Lapid, left, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool; AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Lapid, Turkey’s Erdogan to hold 1st meeting on sidelines of UN General Assembly

Repairs on the Ayalon highway after a large sinkhole opened in Tel Aviv, September 18, 2022 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Ayalon reopens after sinkhole sealed, HaShalom exit to remain closed until Tuesday

Trains resume operations; ongoing construction of Tel Aviv’s second-tallest tower believed to be what caused sinkhole

Prime Minister Yair Lapid attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, on September 18, 2022. (Ronaldo Schemidt/Pool Photo via AP)

PM announces road safety plan, recalling sister killed in car accident

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

‘Victim blaming’: University of Vermont assailed for denying antisemitism charges

Over 20 Jewish groups, including the ADL, Hillel and Jewish Federations, decry college for calling allegations of discrimination ‘patently false’

Protesters chant in the Iranian city of Saqez, following the burial of Mahsa Amini (right), who died following her arrest by the so-called morality police, September 17, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter; courtesy)

‘Death to dictator’: Protests after funeral of Iran woman held by ‘morality police’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Angry protests seen in Kurdistan Province city following burial of Mahsa Amini, 22, arrested in Tehran last week for alleged fault with hijab; forces open fire, tear gas crowds

IDF chief Aviv Kohavi meets several chiefs of staff on the sidelines of a conference at the Israeli military headquarters in Tel Aviv, September 15, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief Kohavi heads to France and Poland to discuss Iranian threat, Hezbollah

By Emanuel Fabian

Relatives cheer upon the arrival of crew members of the Venezuelan Boeing 747-300 from Emtrasur Cargo airline at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, La Guaira State, Venezuela, on September 16, 2022. (Federico PARRA / AFP)

Iran-linked plane crew returns to Venezuela 3 months after grounding in Argentina

By AFP and ToI Staff

Film director Woody Allen attends a press conference at La Scala opera house, in Milan, Italy, on July 2, 2019. (Luca Bruno/AP)

Woody Allen, 86, announces retirement from filmmaking to focus on writing

Four-time Academy Award-winning actor and director quits the movies, will write novel; has been plagued by accusations of sexual abuse by adopted daughter

Nora Tausz Ronai poses for a photo in Rio de Janeiro, 2020. (Courtesy of Julia Ronai/via JTA)

This Holocaust survivor and Brazilian swimming champion is still competing at 98

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President Joe Biden speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House, February 9, 2022, in Washington; Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, February 11, 2022. ( (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky; Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

‘Don’t. Don’t’: Biden warns Putin against using nuclear weapons in Ukraine

By AFP

US president says such a step by Putin, who’s losing ground in Ukraine, ‘would change the face of war unlike anything since World War II’; they’d become even ‘more of a pariah’

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to the media after the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. (Sergei Bobylev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Military, diplomatic pressures mount for Putin as Ukraine counter-offensive advances

By Jon Gambrell

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, walk to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. (Sergei Bobylev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin, Xi look to challenge world order at regional summit but are quickly hobbled

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Israeli soldiers block the entrence to the Jalamah checkpoint near the West Bank city of Jenin, September 14, 2022. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Israel to reopen northern West Bank checkpoints, days after deadly gun battle

By Emanuel Fabian

This file combination (combo) of photos taken on September 6, 1972 shows three terrorists captured by German police at the Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base, after the failed action of German police forces to free members of Israel's Olympic team who were taken hostage by militants of the Black September group during the Olympic Games in Munich: (L-R) Ibrahim Mosoud Badran, Samer Mohamed Abdulah and Abed Kair al Dnawly. (EPU / AFP)

Report: West German police knew Black September member lived in Berlin after release

By AFP

People stage a protest as right-wing party Brothers of Italy's leader Giorgia Meloni addresses a rally in Ancona, Italy, Aug. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

‘God, homeland, family’: Prospect of far-right female premier divides Italian women

By Frances D'Emilio

Left to right: Zara Tindall, Lady Louise, Princess Beatrice, Prince William, the prince of Wales, Prince Harry, Princess Eugenie, Viscount James Severn and Peter Phillips attend the vigil of the Queen's grandchildren around the coffin, as it lies in state on the catafalque in Westminster Hall, at the Palace of Westminster, London, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022, ahead of her funeral on Monday. (Aaron Chown/Pool Photo via AP)

All eight of queen’s grandchildren hold silent vigil beside her coffin

By Jill Lawless, DANICA KIRKA and Mike Corder

Illustrative: An ambulance outside the Soroka hospital in the southern Israeli town of Beersheba, December 23, 2013. (Flash90)

3-year-old girl dies after being forgotten in car in southern town

Queen Elizabeth II 's grandchildren (clockwise from front centre) Britain's Prince William, Prince of Wales, Peter Phillips, James, Viscount Severn, Britain's Princess Eugenie of York, Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Britain's Princess Beatrice of York, Britain's Lady Louise Windsor and Zara Tindall hold a vigil around the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, draped in the Royal Standard with the Imperial State Crown and the Sovereign's orb and sceptre, lying in state on the catafalque in Westminster Hall, at the Palace of Westminster in London on September 16, 2022. (Aaron Chown/Pool/AFP)

Princes William, Harry lead Queen Elizabeth II’s eight grandchildren in coffin vigil

By Jill Lawless, DANICA KIRKA and Mike Corder

A Tunisian student participates in fig picking in the Tunisian town of Djebba, southwest of the capital Tunis, on August 19, 2022. (FETHI BELAID / AFP)

Tunisia’s ancient hanging gardens face challenges of climate change

By Habib Haj Salem

Illustrative image: A lab in an IVF clinic. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Hospital stops accepting new IVF applicants after embryo mixup

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