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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 22, 2022

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

Hamas threatens violence over Jewish visits to Temple Mount during High Holidays

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Ahead of Rosh Hashanah, top member of Gaza-ruling terror group warns of ‘open religious war,’ as Jewish group says it aims to double this year’s record number of visitors to site

Public Security Minister Omer Barlev speaks during a ceremony in Ma'ale Adumim, September 7, 2022. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Amid high alert, police minister warns tensions over terror threats could last weeks

An Israeli officer is seen during an arrest operation in the West Bank, September 22, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Shots fired at West Bank settlement, IDF post near Nablus; no injuries

By Emanuel Fabian

Prime Minister Yair Lapid, aides and security personnel in New York on September 21 (Avi Ohayon / GPO)

Netanyahu backed 'peace based on 2 states' in 2016 UN speech

Lapid to back two-state solution in UN address; is slammed by rivals and some allies

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Prime minister slated to offer ‘hope and vision through strength’; right-wing ministers criticize intended remarks, while lawmakers from left support move and urge talks with Abbas

Illustrative: US President Joe Biden addresses to the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, at UN headquarters, September 21, 2022. (Mary Altaffer/AP)

At UN, Biden reaffirms commitment to two-state solution for Israelis, Palestinians

By Jacob Magid and AP

Prime Minister Yair Lapid, left, meets Jordan's King Abdullah II in New York, September 20, 2022. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

ToI PodcastDaily Briefing Sept. 22: Lapid at the UN; Lipstadt on antisemitism today

Prime Minister Yair Lapid addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York City on September 22, 2022. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu leads right-wing criticism of Lapid’s UN speech: ‘Endangering’ Israel

Prime minister wins support from US, left-wing partners for endorsing a two-state solution; Ambassador Nides calls him ‘courageous’

6:41 pm

PA's Abbas photographed with Biden at presidential reception on UN sidelines
6:24 pm

Boat carrying migrants from Lebanon sinks off Syria, 28 dead, over 100 missing
6:05 pm

Man lightly wounded in suspected stabbing attack near Modiin, attacker shot

An exhilarating dive into 1000 years of European Jewry in Budapest’s Ashkenazium

Intense, intellectual, immersive Jewish studies: Why the Ashkenazium is an increasingly attractive destination for an MA

Protesters chant slogans during a rally over the death of a woman who was detained by the morality police, in downtown Tehran, Iran September 21, 2022 (AP Photo)

9 dead as Iranian authorities attempt to stymie growing protests over women’s death

By AP

Internet access blocked following warnings from officials that connectivity may be halted for ‘security’ reasons; sources say ‘near total collapse’ of mobile connectivity

A picture obtained by AFP outside Iran on September 21, 2022, shows Iranian demonstrators burning a rubbish bin in the capital Tehran during a protest for Mahsa Amini, days after she died in police custody. (AFP)

Tehran women anxious after death of woman detained by modesty police over headscarf

By AFP

People participate in a protest against Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi outside of the United Nations on September 21, 2022 in New York City. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/AFP)

Biden hails ‘brave’ Iranian women in UN speech as protests continue

By Shaun Tandon and Stuart Williams

Traffic from Russia lines up trying to enter Finland at the Finnish/Russian border crossing at Vaalimaa, Finland on September 22, 2022, a day after President Vladimir Putin announced a military mobilization amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Olivier Morin/AFP)

Emergency meeting held as Israel braces for wave of immigrants after Russian call-up

By Ash Obel and Agencies

Immigration minister says readying for potential ‘mass absorption’ of Russians seeking to flee country over Putin’s declaration of major military mobilization

Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting in Veliky Novgorod, Russia, September 21, 2022. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Israel condemns Russia’s massive call-up of reservists, nuclear threats

By Lazar Berman

Police officers detain a man at a protest against military mobilization, in Moscow, on September 21, 2022. (Alexander Nemenov/AFP)

Over 1,300 arrested in Russia as military call-up ignites widespread protests

A scene on Israel's satirical "Eretz Nehederet" TV show featuring an impersonation of Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben Gvir, aired on Channel 12, September 21, 2022. (screenshot)

Ben Gvir condemns skit as antisemitic

TV satirizes extremist Itamar Ben Gvir with ‘Springtime for Hitler’ takeoff

In ‘Eretz Nehederet’ homage to song from Mel Brooks’s ‘The Producers,’ Ben Gvir fills in for Nazi dictator, espousing policies against Arabs, gays and ‘lefties’

Diplomats gather at a meeting convened by Saudi Arabia on the sidelines of the UNGA in New York to discuss the Arab Peace Initiative on September 20, 2022. (Saudi Foreign Ministry)

Saudis invite PA but not Israel to UN ministerial meeting on Arab Peace Initiative

Session marking 20th anniversary of proposal attended by officials from Arab League, EU and US, foiling Israeli effort to present initiative as an outdated formula for peace

Prime Minister Yair Lapid, right, meets with UK Prime Minister Liz Truss, left, in New York City, Septemer 21, 2022. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

British PM tells Lapid she is reviewing relocation of UK embassy to Jerusalem

By Lazar Berman

Prime Minister Yair Lapid (C) meets with leaders from the Jewish Federations of North America and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in New York on September 21, 2022. (Avi Ohayun/GPO)

After meeting Lapid, US Jewish groups ‘heartened’ by his commitment to Diaspora

Participants note premier’s more inclusive approach to North American Jewry compared to Netanyahu’s, though one executive says the difference is largely of style

US House Representative Rashida Tlaib speaks at a committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Rashida Tlaib says progressives can’t be pro-Israel, drawing fire from own party

Jewish man wearing tefillin and reading religious text. (Getty Images)

New Shabbat-friendly security system will alert US synagogues to potential danger

By Andrew Lapin

President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi holds up a photo of assassinated Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani as he addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, at UN headquarters, September 21, 2022. (Mary Altaffer/AP)

Iran’s president castigates Israel, hails Soleimani, at UN; Israeli envoy walks out

By Luke Tress and AP

Raisi claims Tehran’s nuclear program is peaceful, calls killed Quds Force leader Soleimani a freedom-seeker; exiting hall, Erdan leaves photo of Holocaust survivor grandmothers

Iranian anti-regime activists protest outside the United Nations as Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi delivers a speech to the General Assembly, September 21, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

‘Don’t shake hands with killers’: Iranian dissidents gather to protest Raisi at UN

Robert Malley, the Biden's administration special envoy for Iran, waits to testify about the Iran nuclear deal during a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations on Capitol Hill in Washington, on May 25, 2022. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/File)

US envoy to Iran says no nuclear deal if Tehran doesn’t allow UN watchdog probe

An ounce of prevention: What we can do to reverse the alarming suicide trends

In this National Suicide Prevention Month of September, learn how you can help, for your call may be what stops a loved one from lethal self-harm

Pnina Tamano-Shata

It was a year of immigration in record numbers – and it was beautiful

Tens of thousands came to Israel to escape the war in Ukraine, but the moment they arrived here, they were no longer refugees – how could they be?

Bar Falah, of blessed memory, was our Birthright companion

The officer killed last week was truly a sabra: tough and confident, full of compassion and eager to share a laugh. It is an honor to have known him

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

When ever-increasing stringencies on women’s dress and behavior in the ultra-Orthodox world make you want to cry, sometimes you just have to laugh instead

Prime Minister Yair Lapid flies over the Karish gas field on July 19, 2022. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Lapid: Netanyahu harmed Israel’s security with Karish gas field ‘campaign’ video

By Lazar Berman

Prime minister blasts opposition leader for Tuesday clip claiming government folded in the face of Hezbollah threats, says there are ‘complex, advanced negotiations’ underway

File: People hold portraits of the head of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, as they gather to welcome tankers carrying Iranian fuel, upon their arrival from Syria in the city of Baalbeck, in Lebanon's Bekaa valley, on September 16, 2021. (AFP)

Gantz accuses Iran of trying to ‘buy’ Lebanon through fuel supplies to Hezbollah

By Emanuel Fabian

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)

IMF slams Lebanon’s ‘very slow’ progress on badly needed economic reforms

By AFP

Donald Trump, left, Donald Trump Jr., center, and his daughter Ivanka Trump speak during the unveiling of the design for the Trump International Hotel in the The Old Post Office in Washington, on Sept. 10, 2013. In papers filed Monday, March 21, 2022, in a state appeals court, former President Trump's lawyers say a New York judge abused his discretion with a decision in February requiring the former president to answer questions under oath in a civil investigation into his business practices. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

‘The art of the steal’: New York sues Trumps for years of alleged ‘staggering’ fraud

By Michael R. Sisak and Larry Neumeister

Attorney General Letitia James accuses former president and his company of falsifying value of his properties to obtain advantageous loan terms, tax benefits

An Israeli soldier of the C4I Corps works at a computer, in an undated photo published by the military on September 21, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF official says military foiled ‘dozens’ of Iran cyberattacks on civilian sites

By Emanuel Fabian

Army believes Iran has focused offensive cyber efforts mainly on nonmilitary infrastructure, in attempt to instill fear in Israeli society

'I didn't need one lucky event to survive, but many'

ESPN documentary focuses on Holocaust and Munich Olympics survivor Shaul Ladany

By jacob gurvis

The latest episode of the Emmy Award-winning ‘E:60’ series tells the story of a man with tenacity that characterizes his survival as well as the sport he chose

Israel vows ‘diplomatic war’ over Booking.com safety warnings on West Bank listings

By Andrew Lapin

Tourism Minister Yoel Razvozov disputes travel site’s explanation that planned alerts are needed because area has become unsafe, says move is ‘political’

View of a newly built water pools in the Jewish settlement of Nokdim, in the West Bank, on October 20, 2021 (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Food technologist Yaron Renasia displays the Solato ice cream machine at the PLANETech World 2022 in Tel Aviv, September 21, 2022. (Shoshanna Solomon)

'We're just warming up,' says Innovation Authority head

In booths of recycled waste, Israel’s fast-growing climate tech sector holds confab

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israel’s first climate innovation event for investors and entrepreneurs hosts range of products and services for sustainable future, including instant ice cream and smart trees

Israel to promote ‘blue and white’ climate tech at its first COP27 pavilion

Passengers from the Moscow-Belgrade flight, operated by Air Serbia, pass through the airport building in Belgrade, Serbia, Sept. 21, 2022. (Darko Vojinovic/AP)

Flight prices soar as Russians rush for airports amid partial reservist call-up

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC

Economy seat for a one-way fare from Moscow to Istanbul or Dubai tops $9,000; Russian social networks teem with advice on how to avoid recruitment, leave the country

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly via video, at UN headquarters in New York, September 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

Zelensky tells UN Ukraine will win, as Russia mobilizes more troops

By Jennifer Peltz

Ukrainian soldiers released in a prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine, hold the Ukrainian flag close to Chernihiv, Ukraine, Sept. 21, 2022. (Ukrainian Security service Press Office via AP)

Russia frees 215 Mariupol defenders in swap for Putin oligarch ally and 54 others

More Headlines

Illustrative: An in vitro fertilization embryologist works on a petri dish at a fertility clinic in London, August 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

IVF lab manager: Certain percentage of women unknowingly carry others’ embryos

Ben Gurion International Airport outside Tel Aviv, April 2, 2018. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Palestinian driver smashes stolen car through Ben Gurion airport security barrier

President Isaac Herzog addresses an event in Tel Aviv marking 50 years since the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, in which 11 Israeli athletes and a West German police officer were killed by Palestinian terrorists, September 21, 2022. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Speaking at Munich Massacre memorial, Herzog draws parallel to present-day terror

By Michael Horovitz and AP

Chief of police Kobi Shabtai, right, and Public Security Minister Omer Barlev look at a display of illegal weapons during a ceremony in Ma'ale Adumim, after a large police operation against illegal gun dealers, September 7, 2022. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Police minister pans commissioner for urging social media shutdowns

Passengers at the Erez border crossing that is used by Gazans coming for medical treatment in Israel. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Israel okays 1,500 more entry permits for Gaza workers, bringing total to 17,000

By Emanuel Fabian

A woman suffering from cholera receives treatment at the Al-Kasrah hospital in Syria's eastern province of Deir Ezzor, on 17, 2022 (Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)

‘We drink it anyway’: War-torn Syria’s water woes peak with cholera outbreak

By Delil Souleiman

A child receives a COVID-19 vaccine in Jerusalem, December 16, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Half of Israeli parents who planned to vaccinate kids for COVID didn’t bother: study

By Nathan Jeffay

Head of the Blue and White party Benny Gantz speaks at the launch of the National Unity party campaign for the upcoming elections in Tel Aviv, September 6, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Gantz’s National Unity presents unlikely alternative coalition in campaign ad

By Michael Horovitz

A mural of slain of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, in Gaza City, May 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Family of Shireen Abu Akleh files complaint at International Criminal Court

Hadas Klein arrives at a court hearing in the trial against former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the District Court in Jerusalem on September 21, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Key witness in Netanyahu trial ends testimony, condemns ‘cruelty’ of her detractors

By Jeremy Sharon

European spyware investigators criticize Israel over sale of Pegasus software

By Vanessa Gera

Activists demonstrate in favor of closing the Central Bus Station in Tel Aviv on April 24, 2018. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Tel Aviv bus station declared a pollution hotspot

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