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What Matters Most On Wednesday, September 28, 2022

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Smoke is seen rising from a home in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, September 28, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter)

IDF says gunmen set off bomb as troops entered home

Palestinian gunmen ‘planning significant attacks’ killed in Jenin gunbattle with IDF

By Emanuel Fabian

4 dead include Abd al-Rahman Hazem, whose brother killed 3 in Tel Aviv terror attack; Hazem and 2nd gunman carried out several recent attacks; PA man who opened fire among killed

Palestinians argue with Israeli Border Police officers at the Lions Gate, in Jerusalem's Old City, on September 26, 2022 (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Police clash with protesters in East Jerusalem for 3rd straight night

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked at a Jewish Home party campaign event in Givat Shmuel, September 20, 2022. (Flash90)

Shaked moves to expel family of terrorist who committed deadly 2017 ramming attack

By Alexander Fulbright and ToI Staff

MK Amichai Chikli at the Knesset House Committee hearing on Yamina's request to declare him a 'defector' from the party, on April 25, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Rebel ex-MK Chikli disqualified from running with Likud, which vows to appeal move

Central Elections Committee overturns terms of deal former Yamina MK made upon resigning in July; party to turn to Supreme Court, which tends to reverse such decisions

6:21 pm

Hurricane Ian causing 'catastrophic' storm surge as it slams into Florida
6:02 pm

Government approves aligning food safety standards with EU in bid to cut prices
5:41 pm

Chikli disqualified from running with Likud, which vows to appeal decision

Inside story

AMIR-HUSSEIN RADJY

Will this time be different? Iranian women are ‘seeking a revolutionary change’

Protests over hijab law seen as challenge to Islamic Republic’s entire system of religious rule: ‘People are coming to the streets to find a meter of space to shout their rage’

Iranian women demonstrate for equal rights, March 12, 1979. (Richard Tomkins/AP)

A woman holds up a sign depicting a picture of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, an Iranian woman who died while in the custody of Iranian authorities, during a solidarity demonstration in Syria's northeastern city of Hasakeh on September 25, 2022. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)

Mahsa Amini died after ‘blow to head’ in Iranian police custody, says cousin in Iraq

By Shwan Mohammed

A woman holds up a sign depicting a picture of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, an Iranian woman who died while in the custody of Iranian authorities, during a solidarity demonstration in Syria's northeastern city of Hasakeh on September 25, 2022. (Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)

Iranians hold 12th night of protests; ex-president Rafsanjani’s daughter arrested

By AFP

iCON 2023!

iCON is The iCenter’s biennial convening of the field of Israel education. It’s Where Israel & Education Meet, and your opportunity to connect, learn, create, and celebrate the field.

Russians arrive in Kazakhstan at the Syrym border crossing point on September 27, 2022. (AFP)

‘Full chaos’: Over 100,000 Russians flood neighboring countries to flee army call-up

By AFP

Kazakhstan confirms 98,000 arrivals since Putin announced military mobilization; Georgia reports 10,000 entries per day; White House says US welcomes Russian asylum seekers

A large disturbance in the sea can be observed off the coast of the Danish island of Bornholm, following a series of unusual leaks on two natural gas pipelines running from Russia under the Baltic Sea to Germany have triggered concerns about possible sabotage, Sept. 27, 2022. (Danish Defence Command via AP)

Suspecting Nord Stream sabotage, EU vows ‘robust’ response to energy network attacks

Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman and the head of the United Russia party Dmitry Medvedev chairs a meeting on saving businesses and jobs in foreign companies via video link at Gorki state residence, outside Moscow, Russia, on March 16, 2022. (Yekaterina Shtukina, Sputnik, Government Pool Photo via AP)

Medvedev asserts Russia’s ‘right’ to use nukes to defend its territory

By Michael Horovitz

People attend a rally and a concert in support of annexation referendums in Russian-held regions of Ukraine, in Saint Petersburg on September 23, 2022. (Olga MALTSEVA / AFP)

Israel rejects annexation votes in occupied Ukraine as Russian proxies claim victory

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Jerusalem says it backs Ukraine’s territorial integrity while Moscow officials assert massive support in captured lands for joining Russia; West has denounced ‘sham’ votes

People walk past a billboard displaying a soldier and a Russian flag and reading 'We believe in our army and our victory' in Luhansk, Luhansk People's Republic controlled by Russia-backed separatists, eastern Ukraine, September 27, 2022. (AP Photo)

Russia readies to annex parts of Ukraine after widely denounced referendums

By AP and ToI Staff

A woman casts her ballot for a referendum on joining the Russian Federation at a polling station in Mariupol, under the control of the pro-Russian Donetsk People's Republic on September 27, 2022. (STRINGER/AFP)

US, NATO vow support for Ukraine after ‘diabolical’ Russian annexation votes

By AFP

Springtime for Ben Gvir

What’s the real point of a subversive political TV sketch that depends on its audience catching the reference to an old satirical song to get the joke?

A full-circle journey: Bringing Ethiopian Jewry home

The first time I helped bring Ethiopian Jews to Israel, it was a secret mission in the middle of the night. But last week, they came in broad daylight, with fanfare

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

PA’s Abbas phones Herzog with Rosh Hashanah greetings, day after call with Gantz

Israel’s president pushes for two sides to work together to end violence amid repeated clashes between Palestinians and Israeli troops in the West Bank and East Jerusalem

File: Israeli troops operate in the West Bank, September 19, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli troops come under fire near northern West Bank town; no injuries

By Emanuel Fabian

Israel Atomic Energy Commission chief Moshe Edri addresses the IAEA General Assembly in Vienna, September 28, 2022 (courtesy)

Israel tells nuclear watchdog that Iran is source of Middle East instability

By Lazar Berman

At annual conference, Atomic Energy Commission chief Moshe Edri says Tehran and Damascus are deceiving IAEA

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)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sept 28: Iran stars in US-IDF drill; Israel condemns Russia referenda

Reza Pahlavi, the son of the late Shah of Iran, speaks during an interview in Washington, DC, September 27, 2022. (Olivier Douliery/AFP)

Late Iranian shah’s son hails protesters: ‘A revolution for and by women’

By Shaun Tandon

Mayor won’t remove Ben Gvir party poster calling to ‘banish enemy’ Arab faction MKs

Ramat Gan council chief says Otzma Yehudit billboard over highway can stay unless he’s ordered otherwise; deputy mayor files police complaint; MK says it’s ‘incitement to murder’

An election campaign poster of Otzma Yehudit in Ramat Gan, September 28, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Alice, an all-electric airplane designed and built by Eviation, takes off in Moses Lake, Washington, for its first flight, September 27, 2022. (Ellen M. Banner/The Seattle Times via AP)

Prototype electric airplane from Israeli-US startup takes first flight

By AP and ToI Staff

Eviation’s commuter aircraft, built for 9 passengers, soars to 3,500 feet in successful test in US

US President Joe Biden holds a joint press conference with Prime Minister Yair Lapid in Jerusalem, on July 14, 2022. (Emil Salman/ Pool)

US, Israel to launch strategic dialogue aimed at boosting tech cooperation

OMEC.AI co-founders Ori Shachar, left, and Amir Harel, right. (Elad Malka)

Israeli innovation lab backed by pharmaceutical, biotech giants mints 1st AI startup

By Ricky Ben-David

Holocaust survivor and author Eddie Jaku in an undated photo (Sydney Jewish Museum via AP); 'The Happiest Boy on Earth,' by Eddie Jaku. (Courtesy)

'It's not just about my life, but teaching kids how to live'

Holocaust survivor and bestselling author leaves children a joyful posthumous legacy

By Jessica Abelsohn

After penning ‘The Happiest Man on Earth,’ Eddie Jaku wanted his great-grandchildren to engage with his story too, so he set to work on ‘The Happiest Boy on Earth,’ on shelves now

This photo taken on September 29, 2015, shows the golden sarcophagus of King Tutankhamun in his burial chamber at the Valley of the Kings, close to Luxor, 500 kilometers south of Cairo. (AFP / Khaled DESOUKI)

Tutankhamun’s tomb may conceal fabled beauty Nefertiti, says archaeologist

Researcher says hidden hieroglyphics indicate that Egyptian boy king had buried his stepmother years earlier in adjacent chamber of tomb, behind false wall

Members of the Lev Tahor sect prepare to depart from La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City on a journey to Iraqi Kurdistan in October 2021. (Courtesy)

Kids said separated from adult Lev Tahor members in Mexico raid over fears of harm

Israeli source tells of concerns that cult members would try to prevent removal of children from compound as ex-Mossad agent who was present says group dealt ‘a very strong blow’

Artist Meydad Eliyahu in his 'Copper Wing' exhibit at CACR Ramle through October 2022, part of the city's efforts to bring more art to the mixed Arab-Jewish city. (Courtesy: CACR)

In Ramle, copper art and a canoe ride reveal a complicated past and present

By Jessica Steinberg

From market to mosque to underground melodies, a rich history mingles with the complexities of the modern mixed Jewish-Arab city

Britain's main opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer delivers his keynote address to delegates, at the annual Labour Party conference, in Liverpool, north west England, on September 27, 2022. (Oli SCARFF / AFP)

Starmer tells Labour summit he had to ‘rip antisemitism out,’ to loud applause

By ToI Staff and AP

UK’s opposition leader has sought to reshape and rehabilitate the party after bruising years of Corbyn leadership under cloud of bigotry accusations

Illustrative: Bleached coral in Guam in 2017. A study released in 2018 found that severe bleaching outbreaks are hitting coral reefs four times more often they used to a few decades earlier. (David Burdick/NOAA via AP)

Underwater heat ‘inferno’ ravages Mediterranean corals, turning them to skeletons

By Julie PACOREL and Gaspard FLAMAND

Vibrant marine forests scorched to death in just months during heatwave, stripping sea of a crucial haven for biodiversity

Illustrative: This satellite image provided by NASA on September 26, 2022, shows Hurricane Ian pictured from the International Space Station just south of Cuba gaining strength and heading toward Florida. (NASA via AP)

Nearing Florida, Hurricane Ian just shy of a Category 5

By Curt Anderson

More Headlines

Illustrative: People arrive on the Jordanian side of the Allenby Bridge crossing between the West Bank and Jordan on July 19, 2022. (Khalil Mazraawi/AFP)

US envoy says Allenby crossing from West Bank to Jordan to open 24/7

Women wear signs with writing in Italian that say "Welfare is not the same for all," left, "It's not a woman's job," second from left, "Men advance; childbirth is not their problem," and "I don't have children but to be discriminated it's enough to be a woman," right, during a demonstration in front of the Finance Ministry on International Women's Day in Rome, March 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File )

Italian women and LGBTQ advocates raise the alarm after far-right election win

By Frances D'Emilio and Trisha Thomas

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at Al Salam Palace in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, June 24, 2019. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman named prime minister

By AFP and ToI Staff

A passenger train nears Karmiel, on November 8, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Authorities free suspect in train derailment attempt, say he’s not culprit

File: Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz is shown at the defense table during jury selection in the penalty phase of his trial at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida., June 28, 2022. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool)

Parkland shooter searched online for Nazi flags, info on Hitler, detective says

By TERRY SPENCER

Jihad Michlawi, right, takes a selfie on board an overcrowded migrant boat carrying about 150 Lebanese, Syrians, and Palestinians in the Mediterranean Sea, Lebanon, September 21, 2022. (Courtesy of Jihad Michlawi via AP)

‘Don’t leave me’: Palestinian survivor recounts Lebanon boat sinking that killed 94

By Kareem Chehayeb

Insurrectionists loyal to then-US president Donald Trump try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. (Julio Cortez/AP)

Senate Republican leader backs revisions to elections law after Trump-fueled ‘chaos’

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

In this file photo from June 25, 2017, Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Jan. 6 sedition trial gets going for leader of extremist Oath Keepers

By Michael Kunzelman and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER

Israeli youth soccer players celebrate a victory over Ireland in Tel Aviv, September 27, 2022. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israel youth soccer squad defeats Ireland to win spot in European championships

Vegan cheeses produced by Vgarden and marketed in Israel under the name Mashu Mashu. (Courtesy, Vgarden)

Israeli plant-based vegan food company to build production facility in Australia

Illustrative: A police vehicle at a crime scene in Netanya, October 14, 2018. (Flash90)

Woman arrested after partner found dead in Netanya apartment

By Michael Horovitz

Dana Blankstein-Cohen (left), director of Sam Spiegel Film and Television School with Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos at the September 2022 awards ceremony of the Sam Spiegel Series Lab (Courtesy Shelly Simon)

Banking on successJerusalem film school lab project singles out 2 promising TV scripts

By Jessica Steinberg

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