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What Matters Most On Friday, October 21, 2022

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

Lapid slams ‘antisemitic’ UN report accusing Israel of violating international law

PM says not all criticism of Israel is due to prejudice, but that this ‘biased’ document, part of probe into 11-day war with Hamas last year, is ‘written by antisemites’

Navi Pillay (center), chair of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, briefs reporters on the first report of the Commission, June 14, 2022. On the right is Miloon Kothari, and at left is Chris Sidoti. (UN Photo/Jean Marc Ferré)

UN report denounces Israel’s ‘unlawful occupation,’ demands prosecution of officials

By Lazar Berman and AP

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)

New rules for foreigners’ entry into West Bank take effect

Prime Minister Yair Lapid, left; and Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, right. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar; AP)

‘Whole world in danger’: Lapid warns of Russia-Iran arms ties in call with Kyiv’s FM

‘Israel stands with the Ukrainian people,’ prime minister tells Dmytro Kuleba, but makes no offer of weapons

Andriy Yermak, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, speaks at a virtual meeting with leaders of Jewish organizations and prominent Russian-speaking Israelis, October 20, 2022. (Office of the President of Ukraine)

Top Zelensky aide asks Jewish leaders to press Israel on Ukraine weapons

By Lazar Berman

Opposition Leader Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview with US TV channel MSNBC, October 19, 2022 (Screenshot/Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Netanyahu reveals Israeli arms exports have been used by Iran against IDF in Syria

Illustrative image: a group of people smiling (Andrea Migliarini via iStock by Getty Images)

Even if you’re faking it, smiling makes you feel happier, international study finds

By Nathan Jeffay

‘It’s true — when you smile it makes you happier,’ says Israeli psychologist from the 19-country research group, suggesting smile muscles trigger happy feelings

Start-Up Education Powers the Start-Up Nation

Investment in STEM education for children is the most important thing Israel can do to build a secure, prosperous, and more equitable future.

Author and journalist Emily Tamkin and her new book, 'Bad Jews.' (Joy Asico)

InterviewBook is 'an invitation to rethink some of our narratives'

‘Bad Jews’: New book explores identity, labels, divisions among American Jews

Author and journalist Emily Tamkin delves into the past century of United States Jewish history to examine issues that have polarized Jewry — from Zionism to intermarriage

For a brief moment, frayed Israel-Diaspora ties take center stage in election debate

By Judah Ari Gross

Labor’s Kariv says party will demand pluralistic policies in coalition deals; Religious Zionism’s Ohad Tal presents friendlier face to Jews abroad, but can’t back it up with plans

From left, journalist Nurit Canetti, Yisrael Beytenu's Sharon Roffe-Ofir, Labor's Gilad Kariv, Meretz's Michal Rozin, Jewish Home's Yomtob Kalfon, Yesh Atid's Idan Roll, Religious Zionism's Ohad Tal and Blue-and-White's Alon Tal, appear on stage during an election event on Israel-Diaspora ties at Tel Aviv's ANU Museum of the Jewish People on October 19, 2022. (Barak Sela/Reut Group/Courtesy)

President Isaac Herzog announces special considerations for clemency in the lead up to Israel 75th year of independence, Jerusalem, Israel, October 2, 2022. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Herzog urges party leaders to halt incitement, accept election results

By Michael Horovitz

Then-opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and then-defense minister Benny Gantz in September 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi, Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Netanyahu and Gantz trade barbs, rule out any future coalition together

Likud leader accuses defense minister of plotting Palestinian capital in Jerusalem, Gantz says he won’t sit with former PM ‘under any circumstances’; fresh polls indicate stalemate

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (left) with opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu at a Knesset session in memory of Israel's first prime minister David Ben-Gurion, on November 8, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Lapid says ‘no problem’ sitting with Likud, but not under Netanyahu’s leadership

By Ash Obel and ToI Staff

Would the world have been better without mankind?

According to God, all of His creation was ’very good.’ Not all of the angels agreed with Him, however. (Bereishit)

Mordechai Soskil

And then I told her I would rule over her

If you don’t like the classic understanding of the biblical injunction that a husband dominate his wife, have I got a new way to understand the Torah for you!

In first since 2001, Israel said set to okay helicopters for flights by PA top brass

Israeli officials reportedly recommend allowing Abbas to hold two choppers, to be stationed in Jordan, in bid to strengthen his rule

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks as he meets with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, March 27, 2022, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Israeli troops operate in the West Bank, in the early morning hours of October 21, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Islamic Jihad member killed during overnight IDF arrest raid in Jenin

By Emanuel Fabian

File: Israeli security forces at the entrance of the Salem base near the West Bank town of Jenin, following an attack by Palestinians who opened fire and were killed by Israeli security forces, May 7, 2021. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Israel shuts northern West Bank crossing after repeated shooting attacks

By Emanuel Fabian

US President Joe Biden (L) is received by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem in the West Bank on July 15, 2022. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

3 months after US package for Palestinians unveiled, most moves still facing hurdles

With measures dependent on follow through from Israel and other allies, Palestinians are still waiting on 4G, East Jerusalem hospital aid, joint economic panel and 24/7-run Allenby

Hamas's chief representative in Lebanon Osama Hamdan, left, Hamas Arab relations chief Khalil al-Hayya, center, and secretary general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Talal Naji, arrive for a press conference during a visit to Damascus, October 19, 2022. (Louai Beshara / AFP)

US denounces reconciliation between Syria, Hamas after 10-year hiatus

By AFP and ToI Staff

Report: Over 100 settler attacks against Palestinians in West Bank in past 10 days

Security source tells Haaretz large number of settlers involved in violence, not small group; unnamed officials say it’s to create sense IDF losing W. Bank control before election

A settler throws a stone to break the rear windshield of a Palestinian car while an Israeli soldier stands by during clashes in the town of Huwara in the West Bank on October 13, 2022. (Oren ZIV/AFP)

Britain's Prime Minister Liz Truss delivers a speech outside of 10 Downing Street in central London on October 20, 2022 to announce her resignation. (Photo by Daniel LEAL / AFP)

'I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected'

Gone in 45 days: UK’s Liz Truss resigns after shortest prime ministerial term ever

Disastrous stint defined by backflip on rejected economic policy; new Conservative Party leader to be chosen by October 28, but Labour’s Keir Starmer demands early elections

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson walks to a waiting car as he leaves from 10 Downing Street in central London on July 6, 2022. (Daniel Leal/AFP)

Potential Boris Johnson comeback adds drama to UK political soap opera

By AFP and ToI Staff

Liz Truss, followed by her husband Hugh O'Leary, right, walks back into 10 Downing Street after making a statement where she announced her resignation as Prime Minister, in London, October 20, 2022. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)

ExplainerSunak, Mordaunt, Johnson? Here’s who could replace Liz Truss as the UK’s next PM

Iranian student Asra Panahi, 15, who died on October 13, after plainclothes officers attacked Shahed High School in the northwestern city of Ardabil, Iran. (Twitter: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iran teachers union announces strike over ‘merciless’ lethal crackdown on children

By AFP

Activists say at least 27 children have been killed, and that students and teachers are among the thousands arrested in the crackdown; union says many educators held without charge

Iranian dissident and cleric Ali Tehrani, brother-in-law of supreme leader Ali Khamenei, died in Tehran aged 96, October 20, 2022 (Screenshot/Youtube; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iran supreme leader’s brother-in-law, a critic of the Islamic Republic, dies at 96

By AFP

A picture obtained from the Iranian Mizan News Agency on October 16, 2022 shows damage caused by a fire in the notorious Evin prison, northwest of the Iranian capital Tehran. (Koosha MAHSHID FALAHI / MIZAN / AFP)

Rights groups raise alarm over Iran protest prisoners: ‘Risk of torture and death’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Analysis

As Iran protesters brave regime forces, questions arise about US, Israel assistance

Experts disagree over how significant month-long demonstrations truly are, and whether Western countries can and should be offering moral and technological support

A demonstrator with an Iranian flag and red hands painted on her face attends a rally in support of Iranian protests, in Paris on October 9, 2022, following the death of Iranian woman Mahsa Amini in Iran (Julien de Rosa/AFP)

Reza Pahlavi, the son of the late shah of Iran, speaks at the National Press Club about the mass protests in Iran sparked by Mahsa Amini's death, in Washington DC, on October 20, 2022. (Oliver Douliery/AFP)

Shah’s son voices support for Ukraine amid reports Iran supplying Russian military

By AFP

Russian troops guard an entrance of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Station on the Dnieper River in Kherson region, south Ukraine, on May 20, 2022. (AP Photo, File)

Ukraine: Russia plans to destroy hydro dam, with potentially catastrophic results

By Emmanuel PEUCHOT

Analysis

Iran flexes military muscles abroad, while unrest seethes at home

As thousands rally over women’s rights, Tehran supplies ‘suicide drones’ to Russia amid its invasion of Ukraine and has run drills on Azerbaijan, as well as striking Kurds in Iraq

File - Iranians protest the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was detained by the morality police, in Tehran, October 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Middle East Images, File)

Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri (left) and Commander of the Army Gen. Abdolrahim Mousavi visit an underground drone base tunnel belonging to the Iranian military in the heart of the country's western Zagros Mountains, May 28, 2022. (Iranian Army via AP)

US says Iranian troops stationed in Crimea to manage Russian drone strikes

By AAMER MADHANI and Zeke Miller

A family walks past a building destroyed by Russian, Iranian-made, drones after an airstrike on Bila Tserkva, southwest of Kyiv, on October 5, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP)

Iran denies it intends to send missiles to Russia for Ukraine war

By AFP

Hubert Nassau's photo of the Hakoah swim team from the 1920s. (Wiener Holocaust Library Collections)

'Photographs like these are all too often overlooked'

In London exhibition, snapshots of Jewish life soon to be shattered by the Holocaust

By Robert Philpot

The Wiener Library’s display of Jewish refugee family photos, running through November 4, shows happy times – and dark clouds on the horizon

Meta touts AI tool, developed partly in Israel, that translates spoken-only language

By ToI Staff and AFP

Tech titan bills work as a ‘step toward a future where simultaneous translation between languages is possible’; Tel Aviv R&D center developers among global Meta AI teams in project

In this image taken from video, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong speaks during a press conference, October 18, 2022, in Canberra, Australia. (Australia Pool via AP)

Australian FM regrets timing of Jerusalem reversal, blasts ex-PM’s ‘cynical’ policy

Penny Wong says Scott Morrison recognized western city as Israeli capital due to crucial by-election, and that return to original policy accords with international view

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Republican guards stand outside the Hyper Cacher supermarket ahead of a ceremony marking the second anniversary of the deadly attack against the store in Paris on January 5, 2017. (Christophe Archambault/AFP)

Accomplice in Charlie Hebdo, kosher market attacks sentenced to life on appeal

By AFP and ToI Staff

Brothers of Italy's leader Giorgia Meloni is flanked by The League leader Matteo Salvini, right, Forza Italia president Silvio Berlusconi, Senator Licia Ronzulli and Antonio Tajani as she talks to the press at the Quirinale Presidential Palace after a meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella as part of a round of consultations with party leaders to try and form a new government, in Rome, Oct. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Meloni requests mandate to form Italy’s first far-right-led government since WWII

By Frances D'Emilio

Illustrative: Anti-Israel BDS activists in New York City, May 15, 2021. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

US rights group petitions Supreme Court to overturn law barring Israel boycott

By Luke Tress and AP

The High Court of Justice holds a hearing on petitions demanding that any maritime border deal with Lebanon come to a full vote in the Knesset and be put to a referendum on October 20, 2022.(Fitoussi/Flash90)

High Court justices skeptical over appeals against Lebanon maritime deal

By Jeremy Sharon

From left to right: Teachers' Union Secretary-General Yaffa Ben David, Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Bitton and Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman hold a press conference following the new salary agreement with teachers on August 31, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Teachers union, government sign long-awaited deal raising wages, adjusting vacation

An illustrative photo of a variety of bagels. (Photo by Vicky Ng on Unsplash, free to use under the Unsplash License)

Shmear campaignBitter battle between two bagel shops boils over in Columbus

By Andrew Lapin

The president of Iran's national Olympic committee (NOC), Mahmoud Khosravi Vafa, answers a reporter's question during an interview in Seoul, South Korea, October 20, 2022. (AP/Lee Jin-man)

No punishment for climber who competed without hijab, Iran’s Olympic chief says

By KIM TONG-HYUNG

File -- Police officers at Ben Gurion international airport near Tel Aviv , Israel, July 7, 2011 (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Landing at Ben Gurion, man arrested on suspicion of murdering his grandma in 2018

Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar (left) during a meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels, October 12, 2022, and Defense Minister Benny Gantz (right) at a conference in Rishon LeZion, October 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys; Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israeli, Turkish defense chiefs to meet for first time in a decade amid thaw

By Emanuel Fabian

Travelers are seen at the Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, on September 7, 2022. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Deputy mayor suspected of attempting to smuggle Ukrainian woman into Israel

The Katsin Ha'Ir building in Jerusalem, in use as a homeless shelter, September 2022. (Yisrael Cohen)

Iconic central Jerusalem building used as homeless shelter sold for $50m

By Danielle Nagler

US actor Kevin Spacey leaves United Sates District Court for the Southern District of New York on October 20, 2022 in New York City. A New York court on Octobwer 20, 2022 dismissed a $40 million sexual misconduct lawsuit brought against Kevin Spacey by an actor who claimed the disgraced Hollywood star targeted him when he was 14. (Yuki IWAMURA / AFP)

Actor Kevin Spacey cleared in NY sex assault case

By Ana Fernandez

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