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What Matters Most On Monday, September 19, 2022

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TV series review

The uncomfortable truths in new documentary by Ken Burns, ‘The US and the Holocaust’

The three-part miniseries airing this week recognizes a part of WWII history many Americans are unfamiliar with – or would prefer not to know about

German Jewish refugees aboard the MS St. Louis, June 29, 1939. (Public domain)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with the National Jewish Welfare Board (left to right) Walter Rothschild, Chaplain Aryeh Lev, Barnett Brickner and Louis Kraft, at the White House on Nov. 8, 1943 (AP photo)

InterviewPBS Holocaust documentary perpetuates well-worn myths to glorify FDR, says historian

By Matt Lebovic

Becca Balint campaigning this year to represent Vermont in Congress in an undated photo. (Becca Balint for US Congress/via JTA)

In Vermont, Becca Balint’s Congress run is inspired by her Holocaust survivor father

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi during an interview with CBS at the presidential compound in Tehran on September 13, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli envoy urges UN to boot Raisi from General Assembly

‘Some signs’: Iran’s president casts doubt on Holocaust, calls Israel ‘false regime’

By Michael Bachner

In 1st interview with Western media outlet, Ebrahim Raisi tells CBS he can’t trust Americans, brands US sanctions ‘tyrannical,’ as he heads to New York for United Nations gathering

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi waves to media and officials as he boards his plane while leaving Tehran's Mehrabad airport to New York to attend annual UN General Assembly meeting, September 19, 2022. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Departing for UN General Assembly, Iran’s president says no plan to meet Biden

By AP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Yair Lapid (left) and Jordan's King Abdullah II (right). (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90; Hannibal Hanschke/Pool via AP/ File)

Lapid said hoping to meet with Jordan’s Abdullah on UN sidelines on Tuesday

The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II is carried into Westminster Abbey, followed by King Charles III and other relatives, Sept. 19, 2022. (Dominic Lipinski/Pool via AP)

LIVE: Queen Elizabeth II mourned at funeral by Britain and world

By DANICA KIRKA, Mike Corder and Jill Lawless

Ceremony attended by kings, queens, princes, presidents and other leaders from across the globe at Westminster Hall, ahead of final interment at Windsor Castle

President Isaac Herzog views the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, lying in state on the catafalque in Westminster Hall, at the Palace of Westminster, London, September 18, 2022. (Joe Giddens/Pool Photo via AP)

Herzog pays respects to Queen Elizabeth as she lies in state in London

Members of the public are seen outside Windsor Castle by floral tributes for the late Queen Elizabeth II in Windsor, England, September 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Jon Super)

With grand funeral, Britain and the world say farewell Monday to Queen Elizabeth II

By Phil HAZLEWOOD

Better living through smart laundry

Break the pattern and reduce pollution by better maintaining your clothes

Travelers at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, on September 7, 2022. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Ahead of High Holidays, Israelis are warned that Iran, IS seek to attack them abroad

National Security Council urges citizens to check advisories before travel; Mossad foiled several potential attacks against Israelis in Turkey earlier this year

Members of a Hamas cell arrested by Israeli security forces in the West Bank in September 2022. (Shin Bet)

Shin Bet nabs 7 members of Hamas cell said planning bombing and shooting attacks

By Emanuel Fabian

Police patrol in Jerusalem on September 18, 2022. (Israel Police)

Police to boost Jerusalem presence amid terror alerts ahead of holidays

From the blogs

Alla Borisova-Linetskaya

In St. Petersburg, where all that’s left to trust is the rain

A visit to the ‘Paris of Russian provinces’ finds a somber city seemingly averse to the poison of Putin’s propaganda

US Envoy for Energy Affairs Amos Hochstein with Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bouhabib, left, in Beirut, Lebanon, June 14, 2022. (AP/Bilal Hussein)

Lapid: Israel will extract gas from Karish with or without deal with Lebanon

Lebanese president: Negotiations with Israel on maritime deal in ‘final stages’ and ‘guarantee Lebanon’s rights to explore for gas and oil

View of the border fence with Syria from the Israeli side in the Golan Heights, on July 23, 2018. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Syrian man shot by IDF after allegedly placing explosives at Golan border

By Emanuel Fabian

French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna speaks at a press conference at the French Mission, Sept. 19, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

Live updates (closed)

French FM says Iran will not get a ‘better deal’ than the one on the table

On sidelines of UN in New York, Catherine Colonna tells reporters that it appears ‘the window of opportunity seems ready to close again’ on reaching a nuclear agreement

6:18 pm

Nir Barkat calls to constrain the role of attorney general
5:56 pm

The Hague 'people's tribunal' urges justice for slain journalists in Mexico, Sri Lanka, Syria
5:15 pm

Lapid departing for New York to speak at UN General Assembly

Jews visit the Temple Mount, August 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

50,000 visits a year: Jews increasingly flock to Temple Mount amid escalation fears

By Judah Ari Gross

Ahead of Rosh Hashanah, group says visits nearly doubled in past year; police gear up for tense holiday season

Police commando Sgt. Maj. Noam Raz, 47, who was killed in an operation in Jenin on May 13, 2022. (Police)

Police commando killed in Jenin operation in May to receive posthumous citation

By Emanuel Fabian

A bullet hole is seen on an Israeli car after it came under fire in the West Bank town of Huwara, September 19. 2022 (Rescuers Without Borders)

Shots fired at Israeli vehicle driving through Palestinian town, no injuries

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF launches manhunt for gunmen in second attack in area in weeks, amid uptick in violence in the West Bank

A Carlo makeshift submachine gun seized from Palestinian suspects on the West Bank security barrier near Baqa al-Gharbiyye, September 18, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Three Palestinians arrested with submachine gun at West Bank security barrier

By Emanuel Fabian

Mahsa Amini, 22, who died after being arrested by Iranian modesty police. (Social media.Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law )

Tehran police chief denies mistreatment caused death of young woman in custody

By ToI Staff and AP

Police say Mahsa Amini, 22, died of heart attack after arrest last week for alleged fault with hijab; activists claim she was killed by blow to head

The front pages of Iranian newspapers featuring articles and photographs of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died three days after being arrested by the Islamic republic's 'morality police,' seen on September 18, 2022. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iranian woman’s death in custody galvanizes critics of ‘morality police’

By Ahmad Parhizi

Illustrative photo of alcohol bottles (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Alcohol-free Saudi Arabia reportedly to offer booze at new megacity’s resort

Rafael Medoff and Monty Penkower

Ken Burns’ Holocaust documentary may be hard on America, but not hard enough

If the film is right and the US cared about the Jews’ plight during the war, then why did it oppose bombing the tracks and bridges that would have saved Jews?

Refugees, asylum-seekers, and us

Wars, oppressive regimes, and deteriorating conditions around the world bring a small trickle of refugees to Israel’s shores – and they need our help

A sign outside the entrance of a Jewish Agency for Israel office in Moscow, Russia, July 27, 2022. (AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Jewish Agency trial in Moscow postponed again, leaving group’s fate unclear

By Judah Ari Gross

After month-long delay, hearing in the Russian justice ministry’s case against the Israel immigration group ends with another postponement

A woman strikes a Jewish man in Brooklyn in a video released on September 18, 2022. (Screenshot)

New York mayor condemns ‘outrageous attacks’ on Jews as near-daily assaults continue

Mayor Eric Adams says antisemitism ‘won’t be tolerated’ after woman strikes Haredi man on sidewalk, as community members call for stiffer punishments against assailants

Attendees of a Morningstar investment conference walk beneath banners at the McCormick Center in Chicago, on June 24, 2010. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

South Carolina warns financial firm Morningstar over ostensible anti-Israel bias

Justice Minister Gideon Saar at the launch of the National Unity party campaign for the upcoming elections in Tel Aviv, September 6, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Sa’ar rules out narrow center-left coalition relying on Arab party Hadash-Ta’al

Justice minister says that even after splitting from the more hardline Balad, party heads Odeh and Tibi have ‘extremist’ views; says only option is Gantz-led broad unity government

Likud MK Amir Ohana votes at a Likud polling station during his parties primaries in Jerusalem on August 10, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gay Likud MK defends Netanyahu’s push for inclusion of anti-LGBT Noam party in bloc

Phone apps for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, among other social networks on a smartphone in Chennai, India, on March 22, 2018. (Arun Sankar/AFP/File)

Slew of fake social media accounts posing as Israeli diplomats found around globe

By Tal Schneider

Former MK Elyakim Haetzni in his home in Kiryat Arba, near Hebron in the West Bank on September 11, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Obituary

Former MK and father of settlement movement Elyakim Haetzni dies aged 96

By Michael Horovitz

German-born lawyer arrived in Israel in 1938 after Kristallnacht, settled in Kiryat Arba in 1972, helped found settlement umbrella group and served in Knesset for nationalist party

Political commentator Amit Segal, left, raises a copy of Maimonides' 'Hilchot Talmud Torah' during an interview with United Torah Judaism leader Moshe Gafni, right, as his co-host Ben Caspit smiles, on Channel 12's 'Meet the Press' on September 17, 2022. (Screen capture)

Ancient news

Haredi MK finds himself debating Maimonides in TV interview

By Judah Ari Gross

A Channel 12 host asks Moshe Gafni to answer criticism by supposed political rival of Haredi men eschewing work, only to reveal the source as medieval Torah scholar Rambam

Weekly Deep Dive, September 18, 2022 (screenshot)

ToI's Deep Dive

Week’s best: Analyzing 2 years post-Abraham Accords in articles and a bonus podcast

PLUS: Op-ed – Why we’ll all miss the queen * Poland seeks reparations for Jews killed by Poles * Elections 2022’s disjointed list * TV’s ‘Bnot Brak’ * Podcast: Musician Adam Duritz

An illustration showing the evolution of the main coronavirus variants that infected Israel. (CIPhotos via iStock by Getty Images)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sept. 19: Tailor-made COVID vaccines; Haredi TV stars on ‘Bnot Brak’

More Headlines

The cast of 'Cinema Sabaya,' the big winner in Israel's Ophir Awards on September 18, 2022. (Courtesy: Cinema Sabaya)

Film about female Arab and Jewish city workers’ interaction is Israel’s Oscar entry

By Jessica Steinberg

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

A general view of a session of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, on October 1, 2018. (Bas ZERWINSKI/ANP/AFP)

Iran to take on US at International Court of Justice in bid to free frozen funds

A Russian missile explodes near the Pivdennoukrainsk plant, also known as the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant, September 19, 2022. (Twitter screenchot/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Ukraine accuses Russia of ‘nuclear terrorism’ after missile lands near power plant

Hadar Muchtar speaks at the Knesset upon registering her Fiery Youth party's list of candidates with the Central Elections Committee, on September 15, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Fiery Youth party head, decrying inability to buy apartment, found to own home

Screen capture from video showing a protest by activists campaigning for the return of the remains of Israeli soldiers held in the Gaza Strip, who blocked the entry into Israel of Gazans, September 18, 2022. (Twitter. used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Relatives of soldier whose body is held in Gaza Strip impede Gazans entering Israel

JJ Harel shows off his AAU medals. (Lucy Harel/via JTA)

Defying gravity14-year-old eyes 2028 Olympic high jump team, but under which flag?

A sea turtle entangled in a polypropylene sack. (Shai Feldman)

Plastic waste responsible for 1 in 3 turtles brought to treatment center

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Russian pop singer Alla Pugacheva pose for a photo during an awards ceremony in Moscow's Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, December 22, 2014. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Iconic Russian singer asks to be labeled ‘foreign agent’ after husband’s designation

By AP

US President Joe Biden steps off Air Force One upon arrival at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on September 14, 2022. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP)

Biden says he’s undecided on 2024 reelection bid, cautions Russia and China

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