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What Matters Most On Friday, September 23, 2022

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Israel's Prime Minister Yair Lapid addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022, at UN headquarters. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

Tehran 'conducting orchestra of hate' against Israel

At UN, Lapid calls for two-state solution, says world choosing ‘easy option’ on Iran

By Lazar Berman

Addressing General Assembly, prime minister says agreement with Palestinians the ‘right thing’ for Israel’s security; blasts silence at world body when Israel is slandered

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu criticizes Prime Minister Yair Lapid for endorsing the two-state solution at the UN General Assembly, in a video statement released on September 22, 2022. (Twitter screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

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

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and Jacob Magid

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu at a Likud election event in Jerusalem's Kiryat Yovel neighborhood, September 11, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

TV poll predicts narrow majority for Netanyahu’s bloc

Interview

US envoy to query Poland over its demand for reparations for Jews killed by Poles

Lipstadt tells ToI she’s ‘disappointed’ with Warsaw’s stance. Also voices support for Iran protesters, says she monitors US antisemitism, not sure if Trump rally salutes echo Nazis

Deborah Lipstadt, nominated to be the US special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, with the rank of ambassador, speaks during her Senate Foreign Relations nomination hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

The Interparliamentary Task Force to Combat Online Antisemitism holds a hearing in Washington on September 16, 2022. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Interparliamentary panel members fume at big tech over handling of antisemitism

Timothy Hale-Cusanelli. (Department of Justice)

Nazi sympathizer who stormed Capitol handed 4-year prison term

By Andrew Lapin

Illustrative: In this photo from November 20, 2014, an Iranian Jewish man prays at the Molla Agha Baba Synagogue, in the city of Yazd 420 miles (676 kilometers) south of capital Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Some of the widespread protests have neared synagogues

In unprecedented move, Tehran Jewish community calls to avoid synagogues amid unrest

Apparently for the first time, Iran’s leading Jewish body says synagogues must close daily at 5 p.m., citing need to protect life as protests rage over woman’s death

Iran state TV indicates at least 26 killed in unrest over death of detained woman

Nuclear talks ‘hit a wall’ because of Iran’s ‘unreasonable’ stance — US official

As woman’s slaying turns up heat, Iran president asks what about US police killings

JBS Brings Meaningful Programming & Services to Jews Around the World

The cultural Jewish channel offers live Reform and pre-recorded Orthodox Shabbat and Holiday services in closed captioning. Click for the High Holiday Services airing on JBS.

Inside story

East Jerusalem school strike reignites long-running protest over Israeli curriculum

Palestinians are sharing photos and videos of textbooks Israel wants East Jerusalemites to use, but which they say erase their identity, the latest in a long line of disagreements

A picture posted on Facebook by the Jabel Mukaber parent teacher association contrasts what it says students will learn with an Israeli curriculum, as opposed to a Palestinian one. On the left, an Orthodox man showing a construction model of the Temple to his child, on the right an aerial shot of Al-Aqsa; On the left, Zionist leaders from Theodore Herzl to Bejamin Netanyahu, on the right Arab ones, from Salah ad-Din to Yasser Arafat (Facebook)

Op-ed

Lapid gives UN his centrist vision, hopes more at home will be moved to vote for him

PM champions his country, underlines its power, and offers peace to the Palestinians, knowing Israel has gradually shifted to the right but, perhaps, not as far as Netanyahu has

Israel's Prime Minister Yair Lapid arrives to address the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Thursday, September 22, 2022, at UN headquarters. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

US President Joe Biden speaks about Hurricane Fiona during a visit to the Federal Emergency Management Agency Region 2 office in New York, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Biden lauds ‘courageous’ Lapid call for two-states as US groups push for peace talks

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Prime Minister Yair Lapid arrives to speak at 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)

Full text of Lapid’s 2022 speech to the UN General Assembly

Musician Lenka Lichtenberg. (Bo Huang)

Times Will Tell Podcast

Podcast: Secret Holocaust poems set to haunting music by survivor’s granddaughter

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Czech-born musician Lenka Lichtenberg speaks about her new album, ‘Thieves of Dreams,’ based on poetry written in Theresienstadt and hidden in Prague. NEW: Full transcript included

Samaria Regional Council chairman Yossi Dagan (R) at the scene of a shooting near the northern West Bank town of Huwara on September 8, 2022. (Samaria Regional Council)

Shin Bet nabs Gaza-directed Hamas cell allegedly behind West Bank shooting attacks

By Emanuel Fabian

Security agency says ‘military squad’ fired at vehicles under direction of terror operatives in enclave; Palestinian teen held for separate shooting attack at Israeli settlement

The scene of a stabbing attack near the Shilat Juntion near Modiin on September 22, 2022. (Israel Police)

Eight lightly hurt in suspected terror stabbing near Modiin; assailant shot dead

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative -- Israeli security forces in the West Bank on March 10, 2021 (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

IDF on alert across West Bank; shots fired at settlement near Nablus for 2nd night

By Emanuel Fabian

When Queen Elizabeth helped us hunt Nazis

The late monarch used her royal powers for justice, against strong opposition, by making it possible to prosecute war criminals who escaped to the UK

Not everyone of advanced age is ‘elderly’

If 80 really is the new 60, then the ’retirement age’ of 65 is in error, which is why my ministry encourages elder employment – for their good and ours

The day in Spain when I lost (and found) my faith in humanity

It was supposed to be an uneventful stopover, but we ended up lost, broke, friendless, and nearly stuck in Madrid. Until a local Chabadnik came to our rescue

Melanie Goldberg

At Edinburgh, an antisemitic Anne Frank quip was par for the course

Years of working at the renowned Fringe arts festival made clear that the no-racism policy didn’t extend to Jews

Rabbi Jill Jacobs, CEO of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights (Courtesty via JTA)

Jewish think tank to counter conservative ideas, provide forum for Israel critics

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Progressive leaders’ new Emor Institute for Bold Jewish Thought aims to influence discourse and US policy on racism, immigration and LGBTQ rights, boost scholars critical of Israel

People in Jerusalem wear face masks on January 21, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

After more than 2 years of COVID, we still can’t recognize the face behind the mask

By Nathan Jeffay

‘Zero improvement’ in human ability to identify masked faces, researchers from Israel and Canada say in peer-reviewed study

Illustrative: Students at the Ramon School in Modi'in, on October 12, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Half of Israeli 7th-11th graders say studies suffered due to COVID

A man receives the fifth Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from medical staff at Clalit Health services in Tel Aviv, Israel, September 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israel begins rollout of COVID vaccines tailored to Omicron

By AP

Interview

Carrie Keller-Lynn

Back in fold, Likud’s Danon says mulling Netanyahu ouster ‘legit’ if 5th vote fails

Returning to politics after years at UN in NY, ex-contender for Likud’s throne finds he and opposition head ‘have learned to appreciate’ each other, decries Lapid’s ‘inexperience’

Danny Danon, at a celebration of Israel's 70th Independence Day in Tel Aviv, April 19, 2018. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Older and newer buildings seen in Netanya in 2020. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Part 1 in a series of 3

It’s not Boardwalk or Park Place, but NIS 300,000 puts you in Israel’s property game

By Danielle Nagler

Part 1 of a Times of Israel series examining what a down payment of about $90,000 can get homebuyers looking to climb the nation’s steep real estate ladder

A woman stands on the dry Po rice paddy riverbed next to the Becca Bridge in Linarolo, near Pavia, Italy, June 27, 2022 during Italy's worst drought in 70 years. (AP/Luca Bruno)

Government must incentivize climate tech companies to stay in Israel, say investors

Venture capital executives say climate tech will have more local opportunities than other tech sectors to market products to oil and gas operations, utilities, manufacturing

Investigating a pile of industrial waste mixed with charcoal on Slaves’ Hill, Timna Valley. (Courtesy of Erez Ben-Yosef and the Central Timna Valley Project)

Archaeology

Wood cut to fuel King Solomon’s ancient mines caused environmental collapse – study

Tel Aviv University research finds Iron Age use of so many trees and shrubs in southern Israel for charcoal caused irreversible eco-damage, made industry too costly to maintain

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

Yeshiva University Pride group pauses battle for campus recognition

YU Pride Alliance makes ‘painful decision’ to shelve back-and-forth fight for legitimacy after university suspends all student clubs to avoid recognizing the LGBTQ group

Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich sits in his box before their English Premier League soccer match against Sunderland at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, on December 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

Abramovich played ‘key part’ in release of Britons held by Russian-backed troops

By AFP

One of the five men freed in a prisoner swap says Russian-Israeli oligarch identified himself after they boarded their flight to Saudi Arabia: ‘He’s well respected by Ukrainians’

FILE - A military vehicle drives along a street with a billboard that reads: "With Russia forever, September 27", prior to a referendum in Luhansk, Luhansk People's Republic controlled by Russia-backed separatists, eastern Ukraine, September 22, 2022. (AP Photo/File)

‘Sham’ vote on Russian annexation begins in occupied parts of Ukraine

By AP

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Adam Sandler gave us the Zohan, an IDF soldier with superhuman strength, in 2008's "You Don't Mess with the Zohan." (Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images/Getty Images via JTA)

Birthright for seniors

The Zohan’s never been to Israel? Sandler says it’s top of his bucket list

By Gabe Friedman

In interview with AARP upon entering group’s membership demographic, Hollywood star says he’d also like to learn to speak Hebrew fluently and improve his guitar skills

More Headlines

A motorcycle sits parked in front of Israel's embassy that was defaced by demonstrators demanding the extradition of the former director of Mexico’s Criminal Investigation Agency, Tomas Zeron, who is accused of torture, forced disappearances and judicial misconduct in the case of the 43 missing students of Ayotzinapa, in Mexico City, Wednesday, September 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

‘Death to Israel’ daubed on Mexico City embassy during protest; Israel summons envoy

Former vice president of the Supreme Court of Israel Elyakim Rubinstein attends a ceremony in Jerusalem on October 26, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ex-justice to temporarily lead vetting panel, clearing way to approve new IDF chief

This image provided by NASA on September 21, 2022, shows the Neptune system captured by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, revealing the planet’s rings, which have not been seen with this clarity in more than three decades. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI via AP)

Images show rings of Neptune, solar system’s outermost planet, with dazzling clarity

Police at the scene where the body of a Mousa Sarsour, suspected of killing an 84-year-old woman in Holon, was found in central Tel Aviv on September 21, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Holon killer had permit to enter Israel despite violent psychotic episode — report

Elena Granberg (Courtesy/Instagram)

Man charged with murdering woman who refused his romantic advances

The Iron Dome anti-missile system fires interceptor missile towards rockets launched by terror groups from the Gaza Strip into Israel, over the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, during Operation Guardian of the Walls, May 16, 2021. (Avi Roccah/Flash90)

Meta says it failed to adequately remove hate, incitement during May 2021 conflict

By Jeremy Sharon

Ben Cosgrove attends a special screening of "Black Christmas" in Los Angeles, Dec. 5, 2019. (Rachel Luna/Getty Images via JTA)

New indie production company to specialize in making Jewish stories for film and TV

By Andrew Lapin

Israeli Navy vessels sail alongside US naval drones in the Gulf of Aqaba, in an image published by the military on September 22, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel, US wrap up four-day drill in Red Sea with naval drones

By Emanuel Fabian

This combination of pictures created on September 22, 2022 shows Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Christiane Amanpour. (Ludovic Marin and Frederick M. Brown/various sources/AFP)

CNN’s Amanpour says Raisi scrapped interview after she refused to wear headscarf

By ToI Staff and Agencies

People hold posters of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, near the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul, October 2, 2020, marking the two-year anniversary of his death (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel, File)

Khashoggi wife readying to sue Israel’s NSO for alleged phone hacking

Vintage Clothing Stores Aderet/ Argaman on Bograshov in Tel Aviv, August 2022 (Danielle Nagler)

The future of clothes shopping is going back in time

By Danielle Nagler

Illustrative: Two police officers help themselves to free coffee after standing guard outside the inauguration of Iceland's president Guðni Th. Jóhannesson in Reykjavik, Iceland Saturday August 1, 2020. (AP/Árni Torfason)

Iceland police arrest four in ‘first-ever’ suspected terror plot

By AFP

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