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What Matters Most On Sunday, October 23, 2022

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Religious Zionism leader Bezalel Smotrich speaks at a conference of the Federation of Israeli Chambers of Commerce in Tel Aviv, on October 23, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Smotrich: Netanyahu ‘lying through his teeth,’ was desperate to ally with Ra’am

In recording, Religious Zionism chief says former PM is ‘trouble’ and may yet be found guilty in trial; wants any benefits for Arab public to come from ‘us, the state, the Jews’

6:26 pm

Protesting students clash at a Tehran university
6:16 pm

Smotrich reacts to recordings: Attempt to divide right-wing camp is unsurprising
6:06 pm

Antisemites hang banner over LA freeway declaring 'Kanye is right about the Jews'

MK David Amsalem speaks during a plenum session at the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 7, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Sa'ar: Israel will be unrecognizable if this gang wins power

Likud MK calls for jailing ex-AG and state prosecutor over roles in Netanyahu trial

David Amsalem claims charges against Likud leader are drummed up, ‘everyone’ involved should be charged; labels Lapid and the left ‘Bolsheviks’ trying to change country by force

Prime Minister and Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid speaks during a faction meeting in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Lapid expresses concern Netanyahu will question legitimacy of election results

Likud MK David Amsalem addresses the Knesset plenum, June 1, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Likud MK says eliminating key charge against Netanyahu from criminal code a top goal

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Prime Minister Yair Lapid. (AP/collage)

Lapid congratulates new Italy PM Meloni, looks to cooperate in fighting antisemitism

Israeli premier appears to change tack on far-right leader, after previous Foreign Ministry statement on elections avoided mentioning Giorgia Meloni or her Brothers of Italy party

Illustrative: Students at the University of California, Berkeley, campus, March 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

From The Hartman Institute

Antizionism at Berkeley Law

U.C. Berkeley Law School, the Jewish media’s response, and what we can learn from these moments of Jewish vulnerability

High Court rejects petitions against Lebanon maritime deal, paving way for approval

By Jeremy Sharon

The justices’ unanimous dismissal of the arguments against the maritime border agreement means the government will be able to formally okay the deal later this week

Israeli prime minister Yair Lapid, Minister of Defense Benny Gantz and Israeli Minister of Energy Karin Elharar hold a press conference on the maritime border deal with Lebanon, at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, on October 12, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

State of the campaign

Simon Davies and Joshua Hantman

One anti-Netanyahu party below the threshold would almost certainly hand him victory

As the election race enters the final straight, Religious Zionism becomes a problem for Likud, Yesh Atid courts female voters, Gantz shifts focus, Arab parties aim to boost turnout

Former IDF chief of staff and Knesset candidate Gadi Eisenkot unveils the National Unity party's plan for improving Israel's internal security, October 18, 2022. (Elad Malka)

Eisenkot: ‘Waste of time’ to debate 2-state solution, LGBT rights a ‘personal issue’

Workers prepare ballot boxes for the upcoming elections, at the Central Elections Committee warehouse in Shoham, October 12, 2022 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel’s fifth election since 2019 to cost NIS 79 per potential voter

Incoming IDF chief of staff Maj. Gen Herzi Halevi (left) is seen with Prime Minister Yair Lapid, in an image published October 23, 2022. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Cabinet confirms Herzi Halevi as Israeli army’s 23rd chief of staff

By Emanuel Fabian

Current IDF deputy head to take up post on January 17, when outgoing top soldier Aviv Kohavi’s tenure ends

Still from a video allegedly showing Tamer Kilani, a senior member of the Lion's Den terror group, moments before an explosion that killed him in the West Bank city of Nablus on October 23, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Senior member of Palestinian terror group Lion’s Den killed in Nablus explosion

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Organization accuses Israel of ‘assassinating’ Tamer Kilani by attaching a bomb to a motorcycle, amid crackdown on daily attacks emanating from flashpoint West Bank city

Screen capture from video of a Palestinian resident of the West Bank arrested after crashing a stolen car through the entrance gate at Ben Gurion Airport, October 23, 2022. (Twitter. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Suspected Palestinian car thief smashes through Ben Gurion Airport entry gate

Illustrative: The West Bank security barrier is seen near the Palestinian city of Qalqilya. (Flash90)

Palestinian killed after car allegedly flees troops, hits soldier in West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

After cutting ties with Iran, Albanian PM arrives in Israel to talk cybersecurity

By Lazar Berman

Edi Rama blames Tehran for series of attacks in July, will meet with Israel’s cyber czar; Dutch PM also slated to land this week

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama (C) lands in Israel for a three-day visit on October 23, 2022. (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

Kenneth Jacobson

The gaping holes in the UN Commission of Inquiry report

The investigation into rights abuses in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip left out key info on Palestinian violence and Israeli peace moves

Bazy Swirsky Rubin

Please don’t tell me I shouldn’t complain

The holidays are wonderful. And an emotional roller coaster. And a lot of work. Really, a lot of work. If it’s been challenging, I can tell you, you’re not alone

Analysis

While not cutting ties, Abbas increasingly talks of Biden as if he is Trump

After the PA president, sitting alongside Putin, declared that Ramallah doesn’t trust the US, appetite in Washington to engage on Palestinian issue has shrunk even further

US President Joe Biden (left) and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speak after their statements to the media at the Muqataa Presidential Compound in the city of Bethlehem in the West Bank on July 15, 2022. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Undated photo shows famed physicist Albert Einstein. (AP Photo, File)

Cabinet set to approve construction of Albert Einstein museum in Jerusalem

Upon his death, the famous physicist bequeathed his writings and archive containing a multitude of items to the Hebrew University; these are now expected to go on display

'Our two countries have so much in common'

Armenia has had few Jews and a poor relationship with Israel. That could be changing

By Larry Luxner

Most of the Jewish community fled in the early 20th century, and Israeli-Azerbaijani relations have been a damper, but ancient ties and renewed diplomacy sow hope for the future

Former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak outside his home in London, October 22, 2022. (Beresford Hodge/PA via AP)

Sunak announces second bid to become British PM, with Johnson yet to declare

Former finance minister holds lengthy talks with ex-PM Boris Johnson ahead of repeat party leadership contest that could be decided within a week

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrives at Gatwick Airport in London, after traveling on a flight from the Caribbean, following the resignation of Liz Truss as prime minister, Saturday October 22, 2022. (Gareth Fuller/PA via AP)

Amid political turmoil, UK waits to hear from Johnson whether he’ll run again for PM

A Russian soldier guards an area at the Alley of Glory exploits of the heroes - natives of the Kherson region, who took part in the liberation of the region from the Nazi invaders, in Kherson, Kherson region, south Ukraine, on May 20, 2022. (AP Photo, File)

Anticipating Ukrainian advance, Russia withdraws officers from Kherson – think tank

By ANDREW MELDRUM

Institute for the Study of War says Moscow has deployed newly mobilized, inexperienced forces to delay counteroffensive; city has been in Russian hands since early days of invasion

Two Russian Su-30 fighter jets take off taking part in a training mission in Krasnodar Region, Russia, Jan. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Vitaliy Timkiv)

2 Russian pilots killed as warplane crashes into Siberia building during exercise

By AP

Firefighters work after a drone attack on buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, October 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Roman Hrytsyna, File)

Report: Ukraine not cooperating with Israel on proposed missile alert system

The Bushehr nuclear power plant outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran. (AP Photo/Mehr News Agency, Majid Asgaripour, File)

Iran says nuke agency email hacked in ‘foreign attack’ to draw attention to protests

By AFP

Nuclear agency acknowledges subsidiary targeted, but downplays importance of documents released

US demonstrators rally at the National Mall to protest against the Iranian regime, in Washington, DC, October 22, 2022, following the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of the Islamic Republic's notorious 'morality police' (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

‘We are one in this’: Iran protests trigger large solidarity rallies in US, Europe

By Farnoush Amiri and MICHAEL BLOOD

Iranian journalist Taghi Rahmani, whose wife activist Narges Mohammadi is held in Iranian prison, poses during a photo session in Paris, on October 19, 2022. (JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP)

Husband of jailed activist: Iran ‘torturing’ prisoners’ families by denying contact

By Stuart Williams

More Headlines

Hungary President Viktor Orban arrives at the NATO Heads of State summit in Madrid, June 30, 2022. Hungary's controversial prime minister is coming to the United States to address a gathering of conservative activists (Bertrand Guay, Pool via AP, File)

Hungary’s Orban seems to compare EU to Soviet troops who crushed 1956 revolution

By Justin Spike

The US Supreme Court building in Washington, June 27, 2022. (AP/Patrick Semansky, File)

Top US court to hear cases seeking to hold social media firms responsible for terror

By AP

Holocaust survivor Zilli Schmidt provides testimony for the European Holocaust Memorial Day for Sinti and Roma on August 1, 2020. (Screen capture/YouTube; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Auschwitz survivor, advocate for recognizing Sinti and Roma genocide, dies at 98

By AP

Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks at an event to introduce new members of the Politburo Standing Committee at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, October 23, 2022. (Ng Han Guan/AP)

Granted a third term, China’s President Xi Jinping expands powers, promotes allies

By Joe McDonald

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman adjusts his robe as leaders gather for the group at the G20 Leader's Summit at the Costa Salguero Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 30, 2018. (Ricardo Mazalan/AP)

Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed Bin Salman to skip Arab Summit in Algeria for health reasons

By Jon Gambrell

This satellite image taken at 15:30 UTC and provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Roslyn approaching the Pacific coast of Mexico, October 22, 2022. (NOAA via AP)

‘Life-threatening’ storm surge forecast as Hurricane Roslyn sweeps towards Mexico

By AP

Members of the Oath Keepers at the US Capitol, on January 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Sedition trial of Oath Keepers highlights missed warnings before US Capitol siege

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and LINDSAY WHITEHURST

Singer Carly Simon, right, is joined by her sisters and mother at a party in New York on Thursday, March 23, 1990, to celebrate the release of her new album My Romance. From left are Lucy, Andrea, Joanna and Carly Simon. (AP/Ed Bailey)

American musician Carly Simon loses both sisters to cancer in consecutive days

By AP and ToI Staff

Activists hold up signs spelling out 'Defend Democracy' during a protest to call on accountability for the January 6th attack on the US Capitol Building on the National Mall in Washington, DC, on October 20, 2022. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/AFP)

‘Election deniers’ in midterms are threatening US democracy, warn experts

By Frankie TAGGART

Yeshiva University's Ryan Turell dribbles the ball during a basketball match vs. Johns Hopkins in NCAA Division 3 action at Stockton University, Absecom, New Jersey, March 4, 2022. (Courtesy of Yeshiva University via JTA)

US Orthodox basketball star Ryan Turell selected in NBA’s minor league draft

By jacob gurvis

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