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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 29, 2022

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Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces in the West Bank city of Jenin on September 28, 2022. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

US sounds alarm over West Bank violence at White House, UN, State Department

State Dept. spokesman highlights over 100 Palestinians killed in West Bank, 30 in Gaza, since start of 2022, in addition to 20 Israelis civilians killed in terror attacks

IDF chief Aviv Kohavi meets with senior military officials at the Central Command headquarters in Jerusalem, September 28, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Kohavi holds meeting on West Bank violence, says ‘concrete threat’ foiled in Jenin

By Emanuel Fabian

File: Israeli troops search for the suspect in a shooting attack on the southern West Bank settlement of Carmel, September 16, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Shots fired at Israeli vehicle in southern West Bank; IDF launches manhunt

By Emanuel Fabian

7-year-old Rayan Suleiman in an undated photo. (Courtesy)

Palestinian boy, 7, dies in disputed circumstances amid IDF activity near Bethlehem

By Emanuel Fabian

Military denies connection between its activity and Rayan Suleiman’s death; family says he had a ‘heart attack’ after officer came to their home in Tuqu’ to question relatives

Illustrative: Israel troops operate near Kfar Qaddum in the West Bank city on September 23, 2022. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

US calls for probe into death of Palestinian boy, 7, during IDF operations

By Joshua Davidovich

‘We are heartbroken by the death of an innocent child,’ says State Department deputy spokesman after Rayan Suleiman dies during Israeli search for stone throwers in West Bank town

6:49 pm

US calls for investigation into death of Palestinian boy
6:39 pm

Putin claims pipeline leaks linked to 'international terrorism'
6:21 pm

Suspect killed in shootout with police in Nazareth

Thirty-Six podcast

Chana Mason on seeking life’s larger purpose

The author and life coach explains how an armed home invasion as a child led her to Israel and to her remarkable work

Voters exit booths after voting in a referendum at a polling station in Donetsk, the capital of Donetsk People's Republic controlled by Russia-backed separatists, eastern Ukraine, September 27, 2022. (AP Photo)

Defying West, Russia says it will annex four occupied Ukraine regions Friday

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Putin to lead ceremony in Kremlin that will formally incorporate Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia areas into Russian territory, spokesperson says

A border guard officer controls the vehicles entering Finland at the border checkpoint crossing in Vaalimaa, Finland, on the border with the Russian Federation on September 29, 2022. (Alessandro RAMPAZZO / AFP)

Russians rush to flee country amid draft, fearing borders will soon ‘close forever’

By Viken KANTARCI and Elias Huuhtanen

People, most of them Russians, walk after they crossed the border between Georgia and Russia at Verkhny Lars, in Georgia, September 28, 2022. (Shakh Aivazov/AP)

Moscow reportedly sets up draft offices at border to intercept fleeing Russian men

By AP

A 14-kiloton atomic explosion, from a 1951 US nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site (illustrative photo: US/Nevada Site Office Photo Library)

Explainer

Nina Srinivasan Rathbun

What are tactical nuclear weapons and what would happen if Putin used them?

The Russian president has threatened to use battlefield nukes in Ukraine, but such a move would achieve little and could set in motion unstoppable full-scale nuclear war with West

Footage released by the Danish military shows a gas leak on the underwater section of the Nord Stream, September 29, 2022. (Twitter)

NATO vows determined response to ‘deliberate, reckless’ sabotage of Nord Stream

By AFP

Inside story

Antisemitism seen seeping into Russian media landscape as Ukraine invasion slows

Recent incidents include talk show host listing the names of Jews faulted for lacking patriotism, veteran columnist compiling list of known Jews, branding them ‘foreign agents’

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Volgograd Region Governor Andrei Bocharov during their meeting in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Reporter's notebook

Carrie Keller-Lynn

Netanyahu connects with supporters, one protective glass cage appearance at a time

The Likud leader is touring the country to pump up voter turnout ahead of the November election; last week, he spent 7 minutes before one excited group in Ramat Gan

Likud party head Benjamin Netanyahu at a Tel Aviv election event in his "Bibi Ba" campaign bus, September 7, 2022 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

MK Amichai Chikli at the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 7, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rebel ex-MK Chikli barred from running with Likud, which vows Supreme Court appeal

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Head of the Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu attends a conference in Jerusalem, September 12, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu’s bloc drops to minority in TV poll predicting another election deadlock

Michael Feldstein

The culture of fear in the Orthodox community

When people are too worried about what those to their right think, they lose the capacity for respectful disagreement and discussion

Buying a beard trimmer at a gas station from a Palestinian

I could afford to overpay for the Geemy 6077 equipped with ’import security cutting head’ – especially since I was purchasing it from my friend

A police motorcycle burns during a protest in downtown Tehran over the death of Mahsa Amini, September 19, 2022. (AP Photo)

Op-ed

In Iran, the sparks of dissent are multiplying

Initially uncertain as to whether placating the public or opening fire was the wiser response, the regime seems to have decided on the latter

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi holds a press conference in New York on September 22, 2022. (Photo by Ed JONES / AFP)

Iran’s Raisi pans ‘chaos’ of women-led ‘riots,’ calls for quashing them ‘decisively’

By Stuart Williams

Smoke billows in the village of Zrgoiz, near Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, where the bases of several Iranian opposition groups are located, September 28, 2022. (AP PhotoAla Hoshyar, Metrography)

Iraq summons Iranian ambassador following deadly drone bombing campaign

By AP

Illustrative: The beach in the coastal town of Bat Yam, near Tel Aviv, on April 14, 2018. (Dario Sanchez/Flash90)

Palestinian, 21, arrested on suspicion of raping Israeli teen on beach

19-year-old says suspect dragged her to concealed spot on Bat Yam shore and assaulted her; suspect, from Hebron area, had permit to be in Israel

Chaco landscape in South America. (Valerio Pillar, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons)

Planting trees in drylands unlikely to curb global warming, Israeli study shows

Researchers find that while forests planted on arid lands reduce heat by absorbing carbon, those gains are often lost to heat radiation caused by the so-called albedo effects

Excavations of ancient copper mines as part of Tel Aviv University’s Central Timna Valley Project. (E. Ben-Yosef and the Central Timna Valley Project)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sept 29: Solomon’s mines ruin environment and the fate of a rebel MK

Kyiv Chief Rabbi Jonathan Markovich, left, hands a Rosh Hashanah package to a member of the local Jewish community. (Courtesy)

Kyiv’s Jewish community celebrates Rosh Hashanah in shadow of Russian invasion

Candle lighting and prayer times moved up to enable worshipers to celebrate Jewish New Year before mandatory curfew; Ukrainian PM lauds community for contribution to war effort

A teacher soothes a student during a theater show at the Gesher School in London, March 7, 2022. (Cnaan Liphshiz/ JTA)

'We needed a middle option that just didn’t exist'

London’s Haredi and secular Jews find rare meeting point in special needs school

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Filling a gap in the city’s otherwise robust array of Jewish education options, Gesher provides a nurturing environment for students – and a place where diverse parents can engage

Lev Tahor girls walking in Chatham, Ontario, in December 2013. (Screen Capture/YouTube)

Children in Lev Tahor face ‘daily suffering,’ former cult member says after raid

‘The children are abused daily, starved and married at a very young age,’ Yoel Levy recalls; top cop says children also forced to have kids immediately after marriage

Rabbi David Wolpe speaks to congregants at Sinai Temple on September 23, 2022, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

FL shul members must sign pledge to respect others' views

US rabbis and reverends strive to reconcile politically divided congregations

Despite some leaving over his refusal to condemn Trump from pulpit, others bolting due to COVID policies, David Wolpe and others still committed to leaving politics out of sermons

Student absences for Yom Kippur could cost Michigan schools state funding

By JTA

Arnold Schwarzenegger, left, hugs Holocaust survivor Lydia Maksimovicz, right, in Oswiecim, Poland, September 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)

Arnold Schwarzenegger delivers message against hatred in first visit to Auschwitz

By Vanessa Gera and Rafal Niedzielski

The former California governor and ‘Terminator’ actor meets with Holocaust survivors, vows to ‘fight prejudice together’ and return to the notorious death camp in the future

The Wassily Kandinsky painting 'View of Murnau with Church,' which was returned in September 2022 to the descendants of a Jewish art collector who was murdered in the Holocaust. (Public domain)

Reversing earlier stance, Netherlands to return looted Kandinsky to Jewish family

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Eli Rosenbaum, director of the Human Rights Enforcement Strategy and Policy and counselor for War Crimes Accountability at the US Department of Justice, testifies about the war in Ukraine during a Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, September 28, 2022. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

US laws hamper efforts to prosecute war criminals, warns top Nazi hunter

By AFP

Preside Isaac Herzog addresses a Selichot event at his official residence in Jerusalem on September 28, 2022 (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Herzog seeks to reduce ‘extremism’ and ‘violence’ in charged pre-election climate

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Amid activist altercations, political recriminations and polarized atmosphere, president says he is ‘disturbed and worried,’ calls for moderation

Yitzhak Rabin adresses a news conference at Labor Party headquarters on Wednesday, June 24, 1992 in Tel Aviv, a day after he was elected prime minister. (AP Photo)

Labor party to hold Rabin rally in Jerusalem three days before election

Meretz MK: Boost security for elections panel head after right-wing fury over ruling

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An uprooted tree, toppled by strong winds from the outer bands of Hurricane Ian, rests in a parking lot of a shopping center, in Cooper City, Florida, September 28, 2022. (Wilfredo Lee/AP)

Hurricane Ian swamps Florida, trapping people in homes, cutting out electricity

By Curt Anderson

Prime Minister Yair Lapid unveils an initiative to lower the cost of food on September 28, 2022. (Courtesy)

Government adopts European food standards in bid to tackle cost of living

National Security Council chairman Eyal Hulata and US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan lead the first meeting of the US-Israel strategic dialogue on technological cooperation at the White House on September 28, 2022. (Israeli Embassy in Washington)

Senior Israeli officials kick off meetings to expand US-Israel tech collaboration

By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

Portrait of former Supreme Court Deputy President Justice Elyakim Rubinstein at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, September 14, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Former justice Rubinstein selected to lead vetting panel for new IDF chief

By Jeremy Sharon

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (R) and Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer review an honor guard in front of the Federal Chancellery during Orban's official visit to Austria in Vienna, July 28, 2022. (Alex Halada/AFP)

Israeli firm to sell social media-tracking software to Orban’s Hungary

By Tani Goldstein

Doreen Alhadeff (center) poses with Mayor of Torremolinos Jose Ortiz (left) and David Obadia, president of the Jewish Community of Torremolinos and Spanish flags after signing her Spanish citizenship papers on February 2, 2016 in Torremolinos, Spain. (courtesy)

Jewish woman to be knighted for helping Sephardic Jews gain Spanish citizenship

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Illustrative image: A single sperm is injected directly into an egg as part of IVF (Lars Neumann; iStock by Getty Images)

Couple who was implanted with wrong embryo: ‘They can’t take it away’

Ilya Smirin (top right) with co-commentator Fiona Steil-Antoni in a live stream of the Women's Grand Prix chess tournament, September 27, 2022. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Rook-ie mistakeIsraeli chess grandmaster sacked for sexist comments

Dr. Hend Al-Muftah, Qatar's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Qatari UN envoy deletes Twitter account after antisemitic, homophobic tweets exposed

View of the oil refineries and the industrial area of Haifa Bay, October 28, 2008. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Bazan Group indicted for pollution for 5th time in seven years

President Joe Biden speaks during the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, at the Ronald Reagan Building, September 28, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

‘Where’s Jackie?’ Biden asks for recently deceased congresswoman at event

By AFP

A team of three Christian Arab Brazilians, seated in front, won first place at the inaugural Abrahamic Hummus Championship in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sept. 21, 2022. (Courtesy of Hebraica Sao Paulo via JTA)

Abrahummus AccordsBrazilian Jews, Arabs hold hummus tourney to spread coexistence

By Marcus M. Gilban

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