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What Matters Most On Friday, September 30, 2022

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, listens during a joint statement with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on May 25, 2021, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)

Exclusive'It's the US, not Israel, that doesn't want peace'

‘You little boy’: Abbas says he scolded Blinken for not pressuring Israel

In recording of meeting with Palestinian Americans on UN sidelines, PA leader urges group to push for statehood, claims he met with ‘Zionist lobby’ despite Obama warning against it

Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the PLO Hussein al-Sheikh at his office in Ramallah, June 13, 2022. (AP Photo/ Nasser Nasser)

Top Abbas aide to meet with senior Biden officials in Washington next week

From left, Moscow-appointed head of Kherson Region Vladimir Saldo, Moscow-appointed head of Zaporizhzhia region Yevgeny Balitsky, Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, Denis Pushilin, the leader of the Donetsk People's Republic and Leonid Pasechnik, leader of self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic wave during a ceremony to sign the treaties for four regions of Ukraine to join Russia, at the Kremlin, Moscow, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin annexes Ukrainian regions, vows to use ‘all means’ to protect territories

By Jon Gambrell and HANNA ARHIROVA

Russian leader signs treaties, ratcheting up conflict and deriding West, says residents of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia are Russian citizens ‘forever’

Police officers check the bags of killed civilians after a Russian rocket attack in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Viacheslav Tverdokhlib)

Russian strike on humanitarian convoy in Ukraine kills 23, governor says

By AP

US urges ‘immediate’ probe into death of 7-year-old Palestinian during IDF operation

State Department spokesman says US ‘heartbroken’ over incident, notes investigation already being carried out by IDF, which says troops didn’t use violence or enter boy’s home

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

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

Amid rising West Bank violence, Lapid orders forces to remain on high alert

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli soldiers secure Jewish pilgrims at Joseph's Tomb near the West Bank city of Nablus, July 29, 2019 (IDF)

Israel halts visits to Jewish shrine in Nablus indefinitely amid security escalation

Better living through smart laundry

Break the pattern and reduce pollution by better maintaining your clothes

Sapir and Gili Zeelon get married over Zoom through a wedding officiant in Utah in January 2021. (Courtesy: Sapir Zeelon)

In step toward civil marriage, Jerusalem court accepts ‘Zoom weddings’ from Utah

By Judah Ari Gross

In early 2020, Utah began issuing marriage licenses for ceremonies performed online, offering an easy alternative for Israelis who can’t or won’t marry through the rabbinate

View of the Jerusalem District Court on January 28, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Court: Orthodox conversions done outside state rabbinate acceptable for citizenship

By Judah Ari Gross

Likud party and opposition leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu attends Kikar HaShabbat conference at the Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem Hotel, September 12, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Elections 2022Plan being drafted behind Netanyahu's back; Barkat opposed

Top Likud politicians plotting to shunt Netanyahu aside if he doesn’t win majority

By Shalom Yerushalmi

Plan would try to placate former prime minster by letting him maintain almost full control of party but keep him out of government, enabling a coalition with Gantz’s National Unity

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

Netanyahu vows to make renegade MK a minister after election disqualification

By Ash Obel and ToI Staff

Balad party head Sami Abu Shehadeh speaks at an Central Elections Committee meeting against disqualifying Balad from running in the upcoming elections, September 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Elections panel blocks Balad party’s run for Knesset, against AG’s advice

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and Tobias Siegal

Donya Rad (R) was arrested after posting this picture of her eating breakfast in Iran without an hijab, her family said on September 30 2022 (Twitter)

Iran arrests woman shown in viral photo eating breakfast in public without hijab

By AFP

Sister says Donya Rad transferred to notorious wing of Tehran’s Evin prison run by intelligence ministry amid ongoing protests of death of a woman in custody of morality police

Iranian Americans rally in support of the Iranian resistance movement and to denounce the death of Mahsa Amini, on Capitol Hill September 28, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images via AFP)

Iranian celebrities warned against publicly promoting Mahsa Amini protests

By AFP

A woman walks with other shoppers at the Grand Bazaar in Iran's capital Tehran on September 28, 2022. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran’s protesters chant from buildings amid crackdown on street demonstrations

By AP

Interview

Ukraine ‘frustrated’ by Israel, Lapid, says new envoy to Middle East

Maksym Subkh, Kyiv’s new special representative, says Lapid became more cautious once he took over as PM, but lauds humanitarian aid, hints at expanded cooperation against Tehran

Maksym Subkh, Ukraine’s Special Representative for the Middle East and Africa (courtesy)

Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (left to right) Yuval Harris, Dr. Hagit Sason-Bauer and Prof. Yosi Shamay (courtesy of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology)

Peer-reviewed research by Technion team

Israeli nanotech may be able to reduce side-effects of chemotherapy, scientists say

By Nathan Jeffay

Precision dosing invention gets drugs just to affected cells and not whole body; already tested on mice with inhibitor drugs; inventors also aiming at chemo and other treatments

Leonid Berenshtein speaks to director Roman Shumunov in his eponymous film. (Courtesy)

Interview'The things he did changed the whole outcome of the war'

Film lauds WWII partisan chief who found Hitler’s V2s, died in Israel in obscurity

By Rich Tenorio

Director Roman Shumunov tells the story of Leonid Berenshtein, who climbed the ranks in the underground, eventually discovering the factory producing Hitler’s dreaded V2 rockets

Holocaust survivor who escaped Tree of Life synagogue massacre dies at 84

By AP

Anti-war novel banned by Nazis gets Netflix revival told through German eyes

By Céline LE PRIOUX

1,000 days of trying

I put my ego aside, I showed up as a novice, and I worked hard. And I’ve discovered that I’m worth the effort and struggle to attempt something new

Eliyahu Berkovits

Giving up on the core curriculum? Just wait for the Big Bang!

The ultra-Orthodox birth rate means Haredi parties will soon get enough votes to run separately and pass the threshold. Then watch how secular subjects take hold

An IDF mobile camera unit which will be provided to unauthorized West Bank settlements, along with other security equipment, following a decision by the defense ministry and IDF Central Command. (Courtesy IDF)

Illegal outposts to begin receiving security assistance from IDF, Defense Ministry

By Jeremy Sharon

In a significant policy change, unauthorized West Bank settlements will now be eligible to receive security equipment, including mobile information collection and warning systems

European Union foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell announces the resumption of the Association Council with Israel, July 18, 2022. (screenshot)

First meeting of EU-Israel Association Council since 2012 set for next week

By Lazar Berman

In this photo taken by a drone, damaged mobile homes lie scattered after the passage of Hurricane Ian, on San Carlos Island, in Fort Myers Beach, Fla., Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

‘Biblically destructive’ Hurricane Ian devastating for some Florida Jews on New Year

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Sanibel Island Jews perform tashlich in waters that force their evacuation; Orthodox Fort Myers residents unable to evacuate after not receiving alert during Rosh Hashanah

Damaged homes and businesses are seen after Hurricane Ian, in Fort Myers Beach, Florida, September 29, 2022, (Douglas R. Clifford/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Lapid sends ‘thoughts and prayers’ to Florida as hurricane aims at Carolinas

By AP and ToI Staff

A stoplight pole at Livingston Street, blown down by Hurricane Ian winds, rests on Orange Avenue in Downtown Orlando, Florida, September 29, 2022. (Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel via AP)

Hurricane Ian leaves millions without power, many trapped in storm-struck Florida

By Curt Anderson

An undated photo of Yafit Furian, who was found dead in her home in Rehovot on September 27, 2022. (Courtesy)

Relatives demand justice as they bury latest domestic violence victim, a mother of 4

‘I apologize on behalf of all of us,’ friend says at Yafit Furian funeral; woman’s husband, lead suspect in case, remains hospitalized but will face questioning once awake

Assault rifles seized by police officers following a shooting in Nazareth, September 29, 2022. (Israel Police)

Suspect killed, another seriously hurt in shootout with police in Nazareth

Members of the extreme ultra-Orthodox Lev Tahor sect assisting a woman as they escape from a detention shelter in Huixtla, Chiapas state, Mexico, on September 29, 2022. (Benjamin Alfaro/AFP)

Lev Tahor members break out of Mexican shelter, escape in waiting vehicle

By AP and ToI Staff

Group of around 20 extremist cult members overpower private guards and flee government migrant facility; reportedly enter waiting truck and head toward Guatemalan border

A view of the Ir Yamim neighborhood of Netanya, July 9, 2021. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

The 15-minute city could save you from needing a car, but will Israel run with it?

By Danielle Nagler

Planners envision urban spaces with everything you need a short walk or bike ride away, cutting emissions and stress; in parts of Israel, there are signs of the concept taking hold

Explainer

Pre-Yom Kippur, psychologist of religion asks what Judaism says about forgiveness

Most Jews believe some offenses too severe to forgive, that asking someone who’s not the victim for forgiveness is illogical and that forgiveness isn’t offered unconditionally

Illustrative: Jews pray during Yom Kippur, also known as the Day of Atonement, at the Magen Abraham Synagogue in Ahmedabad, India on September 28, 2020. (Sam Panthaky/AFP)

US President Joe Biden speaks during the United We Stand Summit in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Inside story

White House summit tackles extremism with security, hugs and Christian forgiveness

Some Jewish participants jarred by emphasis on forgiving hate crime perpetrators at confab just before Days of Awe, whose major theme is personal and communal accountability

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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men clash with police as they protest against the arrest of a Haredi Jewish man who failed to comply with the mandatory military draft, in Jerusalem, September 29, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

Haredi anti-draft protesters block central Jerusalem junctions, clash with police

By AP and ToI Staff

Palestinian security prisoner Mahmoud Atallah is accused of sexually assaulting and raping female IDF soldiers and guards at Gilboa Prison, in a scandal that alleges the women were 'pimped' out to Palestinian inmates. (Courtesy)

Palestinian inmate suspected of assaulting guards unlikely to face rape charge

Representative David N. Cicilline, a Rhode Island Democrat, speaks during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC, June 2, 2022. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images via JTA)

Progressive congressman beats moderate to head US House Middle East subcommittee

Illustrative: Palestinian women at a checkpoint in the West Bank city of Bethlehem June 10, 2016. (Wisam hashlamoun/FLASH90/File)

Shin Bet officer promoted after reprimand for ordering genital search of Palestinian

Israeli spyware said used to hack senior Indonesian officials last year

Illustrative: The Kadoorie Mekor Haim Synagogue in Porto, Portugal, on September 2, 2016. (AFP Photo/ Miguel Riopa)

Restrictions lifted from Porto rabbi as Portuguese citizenship fraud case continues

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Iranian oil tanker Sabiti travels through the Red Sea on October 11, 2019. (SHANA via AP)

US sanctions companies it says trade Iranian oil, in bid to speed up nuclear talks

By FATIMA HUSSEIN

Illustrative: Taliban fighters stand guard at the explosion site, near a mosque, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Suicide bomber kills 19, wounds 27, in attack on Afghan education center

By AFP

Natan Levi, who died while travelling in India (Courtesy)

Israeli tourist found dead in hotel room in India, no foul play suspected

The Nobel diploma and medal in physiology or medicine presented to Charles M. Rice is displayed, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020, during a ceremony in New York. (Angela Weiss/Pool Photo via AP, File)

‘Not a lot of peace’: Nobel season arrives amid Ukraine war, fears of nuke disaster

By Vanessa Gera

Ambulances outside the Rambam Hospital in Haifa, on March 30, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Toddler in serious condition after being forgotten in vehicle in northern Israel

Two new coins bearing the official coinage portrait of King Charles III, on the left is the new 50 pence coin, and right is the new 5 pound commemorative coin, which will be among the first coins to bear the new king's head, during a press preview in London, September 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Monied monarchFirst coins depicting King Charles III unveiled by UK Royal Mint

By AP

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