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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 16, 2023

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at a UN event commemorating the Palestinian 'Nakba,' in New York, May 15, 2023. (Screenshot: UN; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli envoy: Abbas speaks in 'inciting, despicable manner'

Abbas calls on UN to oust Israel at world body’s first ‘Nakba Day’ commemoration

PA head claims Israel ‘lies like Goebbels,’ says he wants right to live in Safed; Foreign Ministry says it convinced dozens of nations to stay away; US boycotts ‘anti-Israel’ event

Joint List leader Ayman Odeh (Hadash) at a Knesset faction meeting on March 7, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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Leading Arab Israeli politician MK Ayman Odeh to quit politics

Reports say Odeh, who currently heads the Hadash-Ta’al alliance has grown disillusioned with Israeli politics and feels there is a need for new leadership in the Arab parties

6:25 pm

Foreign Ministry: Musk sparking flood of antisemitic conspiracy theories on Twitter
6:04 pm

IDF commander signs order to demolish home of gunman accused of killing soldier
5:49 pm

US second gentleman meets Jewish White House staffers

The Brothers in Arms group holds a protest outside the home of Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf in Jerusalem, May 16, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ramat Gan mayor: 'Do you think we are sheep?'

Mayors warn they won’t transfer local taxes to coalition’s contentious planned fund

Municipal leaders of Givatayim and Ramat Gan say they’ll take matter to court; strike continues, but children return to school; protesters rally outside housing minister’s home

View of an empty classroom at a school in Tel Aviv, during a general strike of some municipalities and local authorities, on May 15, 2023. (Flash90)

Municipal strike in protest of tax redistribution to continue, but schools to reopen

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a Religious Zionism faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 15, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Municipal tax plan advanced for Knesset OK; opposition brands it state-backed ‘theft’

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

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An illustrative photo of a classroom in Modiin on January 30, 2022. (Flash90)

‘We’ve gone back 20 years’: Reading proficiency in Israel down markedly after COVID

Fourth-graders suffer one of the worst drops in performance among OECD states in new international assessment of literacy levels

Filmmaker Gary Hochman at the Sobibor excavations in Poland (courtesy)

Interview'First-person testimony of victims from beyond the grave'

At Sobibor, a filmmaker unearths Nazi Germany’s attempts to cover up its crimes

By Matt Lebovic

Producer Gary Hochman’s ‘Deadly Deception at Sobibor’ depicts how gas chamber ruins and 70,000 artifacts were found at the death camp where approximately 250,000 Jews were murdered

Far-right leader and politician Itamar Ben Gvir during the Flags March on Jerusalem Day at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, June 15, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Netanyahu vows contentious Jerusalem Flag March will again go through Muslim Quarter

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

2,000 police officers to secure Thursday’s event, which annually stirs Jewish-Arab tension; several ministers – including far-right Itamar Ben Gvir – expected to attend

A convoy of IDF vehicles on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Jenin, May 16, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Three Palestinians hurt in clash with IDF soldiers during Jenin arrest raid

By Emanuel Fabian

Elan Ganeles, who was killed in a terror shooting in the West Bank, February 27, 2023. (Courtesy of Consulate General of Israel in New York)

Charges filed against Palestinians accused of killing Israeli-American Elan Ganeles

By Emanuel Fabian

United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni chairs a Knesset Finance Committee on May 15, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Coalition budget funds allocate millions for commemorating rabbis, ‘family purity’

Promised NIS 13.7 billion includes NIS 19 million for heritage center dedicated to minister accused of rape, money to encourage Jews to live in ethnically mixed cities

Opposition leader Yair Lapid holds a press conference on the upcoming state budget, in Tel Aviv, May 16, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Lapid: Use NIS 13.7b in discretionary budget funds to lower VAT, offer job training

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Illustrative: A member of the medical staff at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem in Jerusalem on August 25, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

Knesset Health Committee approves reform of private health insurance market

By Renee Ghert-Zand

The Arnona Fund: A calculated assault on Israeli democracy

This anti-democratic strategy ripped straight from Orban’s playbook will undermine local autonomy and consolidate control

To all the apartments I’ve seen before

Seeking a rental flat in Jerusalem? Adjust expectations and whatever you do, don’t ask the landlord why there are no doors

Rothman: Some overhaul bills will be passed soon if talks with opposition fail

The coalition will advance some of the bills in its highly contentious judicial overhaul plan during the current Knesset term even if no agreements have been reached with the opposition, a key architect of the legislative push said Monday. Speaking with Channel 12 news, Religious Zionism MK Simcha Rothman, the chairman of the... Continue Reading

MK Simcha Rotman, chair of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee seen during a meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on May 1, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) is greeted by Foreign Minister Eli Cohen at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, January 30, 2023. (Sivan Shahor/GPO)

After US request, Jerusalem may change name of Negev Forum to make it less Israeli

By Lazar Berman

Washington passes along Arab wish; Foreign Ministry weighing new titles in possible attempt to bring Jordan into the fold

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, left, meets his Swedish counterpart Tobias Billström in Stockholm, May 15, 2023. (MAG/ Israel Embassy in Sweden)

FM Cohen visits Stockholm, hails ‘new page’ in Israel-Sweden ties

By AP

Illustrative: People on the beach take photos of the 'Tungsten Explored' drilling ship, in the southern coastal city of Larnaca, Cyprus, on November 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)

Israel and Cyprus working on deal to build natural gas pipeline, processing plant

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS

This photograph taken on May 8, 2023 shows jewelry by Bulgari in display cases during a press preview of the 'World of Heidi Horten' sales by Christie's auction house in Geneva. (Fabrice CoffriniI/AFP)

Jewelry marred by links to Nazis fetches over $200 million at Christie’s auction

By AFP

Auction house finishes round of sales from so-called Horten collection after rebuffing calls by Jewish groups to suspend it

Illustrative: A commuter train of the Austrian Federal Railways (OeBB) stands on the railway tracks of Praterstern station on January 18, 2023 in Vienna, Austria. (Alex Halada/AFP)

Austrian railway probes broadcast of apparent Hitler salutes, speeches on train

By AFP

Leaders and members of the Jewish Community of Porto posing at the Portuguese city's Boeira Hotel on May 16, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)

European Jewish leaders gather in Portugal’s Porto to observe community’s revival

By Canaan Lidor

The number of Jews living in the northern Portuguese city has tripled in recent years thanks to new citizenship law and the arrival of hundreds of French-Jewish medical students

25% of tech firms plan layoffs after demand for workers halved in 2022 — report

By Sharon Wrobel

As the global market downturn and a slowdown in the economy disrupted Israel's tech ecosystem, demand for workers almost halved in 2022, according to the Israel High-Tech Human Capital report by Start-Up Nation Policy Institute (SNPI) and the Israel Innovation Authority. The negative trend in the Israeli high-tech... Continue Reading

For illustration: Workers in a startup (Vadim_Key; iStock by Getty Images)

Illustration photo: A person uses a smart phone in Chicago for online shopping, including travel shopping, which has shifted from desktop to mostly mobile devices. (AP Photo)

South Korea’s booking app Yanolja to buy Israeli travel tech outfit Go Global Travel

By Sharon Wrobel

A shopping cart at the Rami Levy supermarket in Modiin on July 21, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Israel consumer price index surprises with higher-than-expected April figure up 0.8%

By Sharon Wrobel

Iranian drone Shahed-129 is displayed at a rally in Tehran, Iran, on February 11, 2016. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

US says Russia looking to buy more Iranian attack drones as stockpile dwindles

By AAMER MADHANI, Colleen Long and Zeke Miller

White House accuses Iran of ‘directly enabling Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine’ by supplying more than 400 UAVs since last year, warns cooperation could flow both ways

Ukrainian soldiers fire a cannon near Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, May 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos, file)

Taking a side, Republican Jewish Coalition urges continued Ukraine assistance

Illustrative: A prisoner being held in an Iranian prison. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Iran executes five people for ‘armed drug smuggling’

By AFP

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Model for new pavilion at Jerusalem's Botanical Gardens, May 2023. (courtesy, Shlomo Aronson Architects)

Jerusalem’s Botanical Gardens to get major upgrade

By Danielle Nagler

Yoel Lhanghal (Courtesy)

Man accused of murdering Indian immigrant released to house arrest

Thousands take part in the annual Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem, on June 2, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

Police arrest man over threats to organizers of Jerusalem Pride Parade

New York City Mayor Eric Adams attends a a news conference, October 11, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

NYC mayor praises yeshivas, pushes back on criticism of secular education standards

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset on May 15, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Man detained for inciting against Netanyahu online: ‘He’ll end under the guillotine’

US President Joe Biden departs after having lunch with family at Vietnam Cafe in Philadelphia, on May 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Biden to mark Jewish American Heritage Month at White House with Broadway stars

By AP

Illustrative. A man's hands in handcuffs. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Jewish teacher in Wisconsin arrested for threatening students who drew swastikas

By AP

20 children's book authors were in Israel for the PJ Library 2023 Author Israel Adventure. (courtesy, Danielle Mehler)

Reading the landPJ Library authors discuss storytelling with Etgar Keret on Israel trip

By Jessica Steinberg

An Elbit mortar munition system anchored on a military vehicle. (Elbit)

Elbit inks 20 million euro defense contract with Montenegro

By Iddo Schejter

Family and friends attend the funeral of Inga Avramyan, 82, in Kibbutz Givat Brenner in southern Israel, May 15, 2023. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)

‘You were everything’: Grandmother slain by Gaza rocket laid to rest

Rep. Paul Gosar, Republican-Arizona, leaves the House chamber at the Capitol in Washington, January 5, 2023. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Report: Key aide to Republican Arizona congressman is white nationalist activist

Israeli singer Ishay Ribo performing at the Sultan's Pool in Jerusalem, on September 21, 2022. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

A different tuneIshay Ribo to be 1st Israeli to headline Madison Square Garden

By Jackie Hajdenberg

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