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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 7, 2023

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This combination picture shows Jordanian MP Imad al-Adwan, arrested at the Allenby Bridge border crossing, and handguns allegedly seized from him on April 23, 2023 (Jordanian media; courtesy)

Israel hands over Jordanian MP who allegedly smuggled 200 guns into West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

Shin Bet says Imad al-Adwan smuggled contraband, including firearms, 12 times since February 2022 using his diplomatic passport in exchange for ‘large sums of money’

Avigdor Liberman: 'This will be funded by the middle class'

Cabinet okays $33 million ‘kosher electricity’ storage facility

By Canaan Lidor

The cabinet signed off on Sunday on a controversial power storage project that is meant to address the concerns of strictly devout Jews about using electricity produced by other Jews on the Sabbath. The plan for the storage facility in Bnei Brak comes with a price tag of... Continue Reading

Orot Rabin, an Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) coal-powered power plant on the Mediterranean coast in Hadera, Israel (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Britain's King Charles III, left, speaks with President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal during a reception at Buckingham Palace, in London, May 5, 2023 for overseas guests attending his coronation. (Jacob King/Pool Photo via AP)

Netanyahu extols king, hopes 'deep bond' will strengthen

At coronation reception, King Charles said to praise Herzog for overhaul mediation

President reportedly tells UK monarch Israel is a ‘vibrant democracy’ during London event honoring attending foreign heads of state; Herzog shakes hands with leaders of Qatar, Oman

Britain's King Charles III departs Westminster Abbey after his coronation ceremony in London, May 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

UK chief rabbi thanks King Charles for coronation sleepover at palace

A screenshot from a video released by the British Royal Family shows the "Coronation Quiche" for the coronation of King Charles III. (Screenshot/ YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Au contraireFrench purists claim UK ‘Coronation Quiche’ isn’t the real deal

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National Unity leader Benny Gantz speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset on April 19, 2023. (Yonatan SIndel/Flash90)

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More TV polls predict opposition winning majority, with Gantz’s party the largest

Two networks have parties that composed the previous coalition winning 63 seats — enough to form a government — and the current coalition 52

6:32 pm

More TV polls predict opposition winning majority if elections held, Gantz's party the largest
6:06 pm

Budget said to include NIS 5 billion pledged to Haredi parties in coalition deals
5:32 pm

Netanyahu said to inform ministers about prisoner swap talks with Hamas

Arab League readmits Syria 12 years after its suspension over civil war

By MOHAMED WAGDY and Kareem Chehayeb

CAIRO (AP) — Arab government representatives in Cairo voted on Sunday to return Syria to the Arab League after a 12-year suspension. The vote in the Egyptian capital came days after regional top diplomats met in Jordan to discuss a roadmap to return Syria to the Arab fold... Continue Reading

File: Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, receives a delegation representing various Arab parliaments in Damascus, February 26, 2023. (SANA via AP)

An overhead view of the building that had housed the Jab Zeeb school in Jubbet Ad Dhib near Bethlehem in the Palestinian Authority. (Regavim)

Israel razes EU-funded Palestinian school near Bethlehem

By Canaan Lidor

Demolition, which follows a court ruling from March, prompts protests from the European Union and Palestinian Authority

National Security Minsiter, head of the Otzma Yehudit political party, Itamar Ben Gvir gives a press statement during a party meeting in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, May 3, 2023. (Flash90)

Ben Gvir determined to speak at annual EU bash, despite consternation from envoys

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir attends a Border Police ceremony in Latrun on May 2, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Ben Gvir boycotts cabinet meeting as Israel returns body of Palestinian stabber

By Emanuel Fabian

At funeral, thousands hail Arab teen shot dead in road clash as a ‘martyr’

Thousands of people attended the funeral on Sunday of 19-year-old Diar Umari, an Arab Israeli teen from the northern Arab village of Sandala who was shot dead on Saturday during a roadside fight with a man from neighboring Gan Ner. Dennis Mokin, the suspect accused of shooting dead... Continue Reading

Mourners attend the funeral for Diar Umari, 19, on May 7, 2023. Umari, from the northern Arab village of Sandala, was shot dead in a road clash a day prior. (Twitter/Kan, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

The moment a suspect opened fire and killed 19-year-old Diar Umari near Gan Ner in northern Israel, May 6, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Young Arab man shot dead in apparent brawl on northern road; another killed in Acre

IMAGE: In this March 13, 2021 file photo, Jewish and Arab Israelis protest in Tel Aviv against police inaction, the surging crime and violence in Arab communities. (Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 7: With 14 dead in a week, what’s sparking the spike in violence?

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Free education for all? No, not all

Toddlers with disabilities were left out of the government’s free education program. The centers that serve them are at immediate risk of collapse

Israelis protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul in Tel Aviv, May 6, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Poll gives government dismal grades on key issues

18th weekend of rallies as protesters demand overhaul negotiations not drag on

Lapid vows to ‘leave no stone unturned’ in effort to reach consensus in ongoing talks at President’s Residence, but says won’t let coalition ‘just stall for time’

National Unity party chair MK Benny Gantz gives a press statement in the southern town of Sderot, May 3, 2023. (Flash90)

Gantz said to replace mobile device and number 7 times in recent years

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‘Wonder Rabbi’ pilgrimage brings feuds, fraud and huge potential for Hungary’s Jews

By Yaakov Schwartz

As some 150,000 Orthodox Jews flock annually to Yeshaya Steiner’s grave in Bodrogkeresztur, the village’s future is at risk even as Budapest seeks to become a top Jewish center

Illustrative: Metastatic ovarian adenocarcinoma- Pleural fluid cell block (Yale Rosen via Wikimedia Commons)

Tel Aviv researchers use RNA nanodrug tech to stop ovarian cancer cell division

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Scientists hope that by targeting specific protein, they will be able to develop treatments for patients with metastasized cancers resistant to chemotherapy and immunotherapy

Native pines are restricted to the crests of hills in the Mount Carmel National Park, to help prevent fires, April 30, 2023. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Foresters hope year-round preparations will prevent wildfires this summer

Ahead of the annual fire season, teams have been busy in the Mount Carmel National Park in the north, the site of one of Israel’s worst blazes in 2010

In run-up to Lag B’Omer, KKL-JNF warns public not to touch pine caterpillars

Illustrative: Supporters of Dutch soccer team AZ Alkmaar, some holding flares, run to meet the players' bus before the round of 16, second leg, Conference League soccer match between AZ and Lazio at the AZ stadium in Alkmaar, Netherlands, March 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Over 150 Dutch soccer fans arrested over antisemitic songs on way to game

By AFP

Local media says detainees are supporters of AZ Alkmaar who were at metro station on way to match against Jewish-associated club Ajax Amsterdam

In this photo made from the footage taken from Russian Defense Ministry official web site on Sunday, March 11, 2018, a Russia's Kinzhal hypersonic missile flies during a test in southern Russia (AP Photo/ Russian Defense Ministry Press Service)

In 1st, Ukraine says it downed Russian hypersonic missile with US Patriot system

By David Rising

Air force claims ‘historic’ event stopping incoming Kinzhal rocket; weapon touted by Putin as ‘ideal’ because so difficult to hit; 1st known use by Ukraine of the defense mechanism

A view of a spent nuclear fuel storage grounds at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine on March 29, 2023. (Photo by Andrey BORODULIN / AFP)

As Russia evacuates civilians near Ukraine nuclear plant, UN watchdog sounds alarm

By AFP

This image (left) taken from video released by the Russian Investigative Committee on May 6, 2023, shows the site of the exploded car of Russian writer and publicist Zakhar Prilepin (right) in the region of Nizhny Novgorod. (Russian Investigative Committee; AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Pro-Kremlin novelist wounded, driver killed, in Russia car blast

By Dasha Litvinova

Illustrative photo of Palestinian fishermen paddling their small boat a few hundred meters off the beach of Gaza City while casting their nets in search of small fish on August 10, 2014. (AFP/Roberto Schmidt)

Top security officials deliberating potential development of offshore gas for Gaza

National security adviser acknowledges internal discussions, which TV report says are linked to recent Israel-PA contacts, but insists no deal until Hamas returns soldiers’ bodies

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The scene of a hostage situation in the Bucharest suburb of Chiajna, May 6, 2023. (Israel Police)

Israeli police negotiation team helps Romanian law enforcement end hostage crisis

People gather across the street from a US shopping center after a shooting on May 6, 2023, in Allen, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

US gunman kills 8, including children, at Texas mall before being shot dead

By Jake Bleiberg and Rebecca Boone

Newton Minow delivers a speech at the Gannett Foundation Media Center at the Columbia School of Journalism on the 30th anniversary of the speech in which he criticized television as a vast wasteland, May 9, 1991, New York. (Susan Ragan/AP)

ObituaryNewton Minow, ex-FCC chief and tireless champion for quality television, dies at 97

By AP and ToI Staff

Smoke billows in Khartoum amid ongoing fighting between the forces of two rival generals in Sudan on May 6, 2023. (AFP)

Sudan’s capital rocked by airstrikes ahead of first direct talks

By AFP

Theater director Zhenya Berkovich sits in a cage in a courtroom prior to a hearing in a court in Moscow, Russia, Friday, May 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russian director, writer held on terror charges for play on women lured to Syria

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Codex Sassoon, the world’s oldest Hebrew Bible. (Courtesy of Sotheby's via JTA)

Buy the bookOldest near-complete Hebrew Bible manuscript to be displayed in NYC

A line of Egged electric buses seen at their charging station in Jerusalem during the launching ceremony, on September 3, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Protesting violence, Egged drivers stage 3-hour strike in Jerusalem, Haifa, Rehovot

By Canaan Lidor

Cars travel along Ben Gurion Avenue in Netanya, Israel. (Google Maps)

Woman, daughter arrested for Netanya hit-and-run that critically injured young child

Illustrative: Israelis walk next to Bank Leumi in Jerusalem, on November 16, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)

Leumi expects first-quarter profit to slide 50% due to drop in US bank stake value

By Sharon Wrobel

Screen capture from video of 100-year-old Holocaust survivor Helen Kahan, who threw out the first pitch of a Tampa Bay Rays game on May 5, 2023. (Twitter. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Having a ballHolocaust survivor aged 100 throws first pitch for Tampa Bay Rays

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