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What Matters Most On Sunday, April 9, 2023

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Screenshot from video showing Israel Police beating Palestinians inside Jerusalem's al-Aqsa Mosque overnight April 4-5. A police official said police forces came under fire in the mosque. (Twitter screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Live updates (closed)

Top cop admits footage of police beating Palestinians in al-Aqsa doesn’t look good

Senior official reportedly says police had no choice but to enter mosque after Muslims stockpiled weapons inside but that officers overreacted and footage sparked PR nightmare

7:29 pm

IDF to deploy company to Tel Aviv to reinforce cops
6:23 pm

Top cop admits not thrilled with footage of officers beating Muslims in al-Aqsa
6:13 pm

Poll: Less than half Likud voters satisfied with Netanyahu's conduct, want gov't to remain in place

Jordan: Violations will lead to 'catastrophic consequences'

Hundreds of Jews tour tense Temple Mt.; Jordan warns against violations of status quo

Jewish visitors were allowed to visit the flashpoint Temple Mount site on Sunday morning, hours after a number of Palestinians barricaded themselves inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque overnight, stoking initial fears of clashes. Israel Police decided not to enter the building in the early hours of the morning, apparently... Continue Reading

Security forces guard Jewish visitors at the Temple Mount during Passover, in Jerusalem's Old City, April 9, 2023. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during his party's group meeting at the Turkish Grand National Assembly in Ankara, on March 29, 2023. (Adem ALTAN / AFP)

Turkey’s Erdogan phones Herzog to discuss Temple Mount tensions, terror attacks

Edna and Yitzhak Hananyah after attending Birkat Kohanim in Jerusalem, Israel, on April 9, 2023. (Canaan Lidor)

'I know good things are about to happen to me and to Israel'

Wary amid terror fears, thousands of Jews receive priestly blessing at Western Wall

By Canaan Lidor

In a monotheistic trifecta, a stream of Jews, Muslims and Christians celebrate their different holidays in an ultra-tense Old City

Palestinian Muslims perform the 'Tarawih' evening prayer outside the Dome of the Rock shrine in Jerusalem's al-Aqsa Mosque compound atop the Temple Mount during the holy month of Ramadan, on April 8, 2023. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

IDF to assist police forces as Israel on edge; cops brace for fresh unrest al Al-Aqsa

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Israeli troops operate in the West Bank, early April 7, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Palestinian shot dead after allegedly hurling explosive at IDF troops in West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

Terror chiefs Nasrallah, Haniyeh meet in Beirut, vow ‘intensified’ anti-Israel action

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah met with a delegation led by Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Beirut on Sunday to discuss cooperation, amid spiking violence in Israel from rocket barrages and terror attacks. In addition to two deadly terror attacks on Friday, rockets were fired last week from southern... Continue Reading

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah (back right) meets with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (back left) and a delegation from the terror group in Beirut, Lebanon, April 9, 2023. (Twitter photo screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Illustrative: In this photo released by the Iranian Army on August 25, 2022, a drone is launched in a military drone drill in Iran. (Iranian Army via AP)

Iran plans to attack Israeli-owned vessels to avenge advisers killed in Syria — NYT

Maia (left) and Rina Dee, sisters who were killed in a terrorist shooting attack in the West Bank on April 7, 2023. (Courtesy of the family)

Sisters gunned down in Friday terror attack named as Maia and Rina Dee

By Emanuel Fabian

Mother, 48-year-old Lucy, still fighting for her life at hospital after West Bank shooting; the three are British nationals; funerals to take place Sunday afternoon

A Jewish worshipper attends the priestly blessing prayer near the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, April 9, 2023. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Apr 9 – Timeline of terror: 3 deaths, dozens of rockets from 3 fronts

Daphne Lazar Price

Passover in a bomb shelter

Jews must be able to live free of fear, including in Israel, where rockets from Lebanon are antisemitic violence, plain and simple

A Zionist message from Tokyo

In my 40 years of wandering between Israel and Japan, I’ve found our community spirit still inspires abroad. But what about here in Israel?

Israeli soldiers patrol the border fence with Syria, in southern Golan Heights, on January 29, 2023. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

IDF: 6 rockets fired from Syria at Golan Heights; military retaliates with strikes

By Emanuel Fabian

Three projectiles cross into Israeli territory in 2 separate barrages, causing no casualties or damage; residents told to open bomb shelters, stay near safe zones

A composite photo showing unlaunched rockets found by the Lebanese army in the Qlaileh area, southern Lebanon, April 8, 2023. (Lebanese army)

Lebanese army finds more rockets aimed at Israel, 2 days after worst barrage in years

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

A picture taken on July 20, 2018, in the Golan Heights shows an Israeli Merkava tank taking position on the border between Israel and Syria. (AFP Photo/Jalaa Marey)

Live updates (closed)Israel strikes southern Syria after 6 rockets launched at Golan Heights within hours

Israelis protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, April 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Ex-minister: Plan is a clear and present danger to democracy

‘Democracy will win’: Amid terror threat, hundreds of thousands protest overhaul

Rallies begin with minute of silence for Friday’s terror victims; former defense minister Ya’alon calls on opposition not to compromise with Netanyahu on judicial legislation

Protesters rally against the government's judicial overhaul plans, at the Azrieli junction in Tel Aviv, on April 8, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

US intel says Mossad heads stirred anti-overhaul protests; PMO: ‘Completely false’

By Michael Horovitz

Right-wing West Bank march Monday will strain stretched security forces – officials

Security officials warned Sunday that a West Bank march planned by right-wing groups and set to take place on Monday will put more pressure on security forces already "spread thin" by skyrocketing tensions between Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank, as well as on multiple other... Continue Reading

IDF soldiers guard a bus station at the Tapuah Junction next to the West Bank city of Nablus, June 30, 2020. (AP/Oded Balilty)

Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu arrives at a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 29, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Minister accuses security chiefs of acting in ‘rebellion’ against current government

File: Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Kremlin in Moscow on January 30, 2020. (Maxim Shemtov/Pool/AFP)

Ex-Netanyahu chief of staff: ‘He wants to be like Putin, is seeking unlimited power’

Yoav Horowitz, who appeared at anti-overhaul protest last week, says PM must ‘win at all costs,’ has become filled with ‘vengefulness against the justice system’

Analysis

Amir Bar Shalom

Iran is constructing a new Middle East

In a rare move on Saturday, the US Navy announced it was dispatching a nuclear-powered guided-missile submarine to the Persian Gulf, passing Egypt's Suez Canal on its way to an American base in Bahrain. An announcement like this, including the exact path and precise location of the vessel, was a calculated move: The United States... Continue Reading

Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, right, shakes hands with Saudi national security adviser Musaad bin Mohammed al-Aiban, at left, as Wang Yi, China's most senior diplomat, looks on, during a photo op at a closed meeting in Beijing, China, March 11, 2023. (Luo Xiaoguang/Xinhua via AP)

Illustrative: Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, right, meets with his Saudi Arabian counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan in Beijing, on April 6, 2023. (Iranian Foreign Ministry via AP)

Saudi envoys land in Iran for talks on reopening missions shuttered for 7 years

By AFP

In this file photo taken on February 7, 2018, Iranian women wearing hijab walk down a street in the capital Tehran. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iranian police install cameras to identify women violating strict dress code

Blood units are unpacked after they arrive by drone at the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, March 28, 2023. (Roni Albert/Galilee Medical Center)

Israel tests drone delivery for blood and other critical medical supplies

By Renee Ghert-Zand

In times of war and natural disaster, drones could be the fastest and most efficient way to get blood products and medicines to hospitals in the periphery and to IDF in the field

Italian tourist Alessandro Parini, 35, from Rome, was killed in a Tel Aviv car-ramming on April 7, 2023. (Photo via Italian media)

Autopsy confirms Italian killed in Tel Aviv car-ramming wasn’t shot

Finding rules out reports tourist Alessandro Parini was run over, then shot; alleged attacker’s body undergoes autopsy, reportedly to check for drugs, alcohol or heart attack

Benjamin Ferencz, Romanian-born American lawyer and chief prosecutor of the Nuremberg war crimes trials, speaks during an opening ceremony for the exhibition commemorating the Nuremberg war crimes trials in Nuremberg, Germany, November 21, 2010. (Armin Weigel/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Obituary

Ben Ferencz, last living prosecutor of Nazis in Nuremberg trials, dies aged 103

By Mike Schneider

One of the 1st witnesses to document the atrocities of the Holocaust, US war crimes investigator led to the conviction of 22 Nazi commanders in 1947, helped return looted property

Mohammed El-Khatib, a docent at the Museum of the Palestinian People, leads a group of Jewish Agency emissaries through the museum in Washington, D.C., March 22, 2023. (Ron Kampeas/ via JTA)

Inside Story'It opens our mind... We can both be right'

Israeli emissaries tour a Palestinian museum in DC, come away with questions

One-room Museum of Palestinian People hosts first-ever tour for group of young Israelis, brought by Jewish Agency, many of whom have had few direct encounters with Arabs in Israel

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The Conservative Movement's 2023 Passover guide recommends browsing for certified gluten-free, oat-free products ahead of Passover when making their holiday purchases this year. (Getty via JTA)

'It’s not a significant change in how we understand halacha'

Amended Conservative Jewish Passover policy taps into booming gluten-free market

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Rabbis make a pandemic-era emergency measure permanent, allowing certain FDA-certified products to be purchased ahead of the holiday even without a kosher for Passover label

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A fight, apparently between rival criminal gangs, in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo, April 8, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Five people wounded in Jerusalem shooting, in likely criminal incident

Harlan Crow attends a book release reception by The George W. Bush Institute for 'The 4 Percent Solution: Unleashing the Economic Growth America Needs,' on July 17, 2012, in Dallas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

US Supreme Court judge’s megadonor friend said to own pieces of Nazi memorabilia

By Ash Obel and AP

Pope Francis waves from the loggia of St. Peter's basilica overlooking St. Peter's square, after delivering the Easter Urbi et Orbi blessing on April 9, 2023 in The Vatican. (Andreas Solaro/AFP)

In Easter speech, Pope expresses ‘deep concern’ over Israeli-Palestinian violence

Russian pastor Roman Vinogradov (L) plays a board game with some of the 12 Ukrainian children he and his wife are fostering outside the Siberian city of Novosibirsk on March 10, 2023. (Alexander Nemenov/AFP)

31 Ukrainian children brought back from Russia, rescue organization says

By AP

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