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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 18, 2023

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a state ceremony marking Jerusalem Day at Ammunition Hill in the capital, May 18, 2023. (Screenshot/GPO)

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Netanyahu says he made sure Flag March went ahead ‘because of the threats’

Speaking at state ceremony marking Jerusalem Day, prime minister says Gaza conflict sent a message to everyone in the region about Israel’s ‘impressive operational abilities’

6:23 pm

US urges Iran not to carry out executions of three protesters
6:11 pm

Herzog: Today we must remember that 'senseless hatred destroyed Jerusalem'
5:40 pm

Netanyahu: I made sure the Flag March went ahead 'because of the threats'

Young Jewish men hold Israeli flags as they dance at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, during Jerusalem Day celebrations, May 18, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Otzma Yehudit minister, Ben Gvir's wife visit Temple Mount

Tensions ahead of contentious Flag March through Jerusalem Old City’s Muslim Quarter

3,000 police deployed; Ben Gvir said excluded from security preparations; police chief warns against terror incitement; rocket fire not expected, but concerns situation may spiral

Young Israelis dance with flags at Damascus Gate of Jerusalem's Old City on May 29, 2022, during a nationalist march to mark Jerusalem Day. (Aaron Boxerman/Times of Israel)

Hamas and Gaza’s incendiary balloon unit threaten to disrupt Jerusalem Flag March

FILE: With the Dome of the Rock on the right, an Israeli man covered in a flag watches Israelis wave the national flag as they march in the Jerusalem Day parade in Jerusalem Old City, June 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 18: The Jerusalem Day Flag March — celebration or provocation?

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A Tag Meir coexistence activist gives a Muslim woman a flower during the organization's ninth annual Flower March through the Old City of Jerusalem designed to spread a message of "love, inclusion and solidarity" ahead of the nationalist Jerusalem Day Flag March, May 18, 2023. (Yossi Zamir/Tag Meir)

City funds the hard-right group organizing annual parade

‘Flower March’ spreads ‘love, inclusion’ to counter contentious Jerusalem Flag March

By Jeremy Sharon

Tag Meir group hands out flowers in Old City, urges nationalist march be kept out of Muslim Quarter; right-wing organizer insists route not problematic, condemns racist chants

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Haviv Rettig Gur

Jerusalem Day needs to get back to its human story

Jerusalem Day is a fraught day, a day that once had a specific and nearly universal meaning for Jewish Israelis but whose most visible commemorations have since shrunk to the confines of narrow ideological camps. In the immediate aftermath of the 1967 Six Day War, Jerusalem Day, first formally observed in 1968, was a holiday... Continue Reading

A group of paratroopers marvels at the Temple Mount on June 7, 1967, during the Six Day War. (Micha Bar-Am/ Defense Ministry's IDF Archive)

Jewish men pray as they exit the Temple Mount site on May 18, 2023 (Screen grab used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Cabinet minister and MKs visit flashpoint Temple Mount ahead of controversial march

Otzma Yehudit minister, lawmakers from PM’s Likud among hundreds of visitors to compound; Likud’s Bitan says Netanyahu could’ve told them not to go: ‘People have become extremists’

Degel Hatorah MK Moshe Gafni leads a Finance Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on May 8, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Prominent Haredi MK urges Netanyahu to stop Knesset members visiting Temple Mount

Shayna Goldberg

The gold of Jerusalem doesn’t have to glitter

When what is miraculous is the mundane: going to work, keeping a house and family running, and the other basics of daily life in this holy land

Peta Jones Pellach

My prayer for the peace of Jerusalem

When we come here, our tribal identities should melt away. Instead of looking sideways to see how we differ, we should look upwards

No peace, no shtreimel

When a diplomatic process was on the table, Haredi parties were kingmakers – today they have nothing to offer

Remembering Eli Cohen

The intel Israel’s ’man in Damascus’ gathered, helped enable victory on the Golan Heights. Syria executed him 58 years ago

Religious Zionism head Bezalel Smotrich (standing) with United Torah Judaism leader Yitzchak Goldknopf at the Knesset on November 21, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Haredi faction threatens to oppose state budget if NIS 600 million demand not met

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff

Agudat Yisrael, part of UTJ, says it wants more funding for full-time religious scholars and their families, in line with coalition deals; coalition official: ‘There’s a limit’

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (right) walks with Matityahu Dan, chairman of the Ateret Cohanim organization, after a meeting at Jerusalem's Western Wall, May 7, 2023. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

In fresh coalition upheaval, Otzma Yehudit boycotts Knesset votes over budget dispute

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Products at Be Pharmacy with purple stickers covering the faces of women on May 17, 2023. (Twitter account of Stav Ella used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Pharmacy chain facing boycott threat after covering up pictures of women on products

By Iddo Schejter

Op-ed

Ad-libbed at the General Assembly, Mahmoud Abbas’s full-blown rejectionism

This Editor’s Note was sent out on Wednesday in ToI’s weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel Community. To receive these Editor’s Notes as they’re released, join the ToI Community here. For years, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has delivered speeches, at the UN and elsewhere, inciting viciously against Israel -- describing... Continue Reading

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses a Nakba Day event at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, May 15, 2023 (Ed Jones/AFP)

Deborah E. Lipstadt, US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, speaks during her Senate Foreign Relations nomination hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

US antisemitism envoy slams Abbas: Goebbels speech an ‘affront to Holocaust victims’

Thousands march through Bnei Brak against Haredi ‘pillaging of the public coffers’

Anti-government demonstrators say billions in funds provided to ultra-Orthodox causes are a bribe for support on judicial overhaul

President Isaac Herzog hosts delegations from Likud, Yesh Atid and National Unity for judicial overhaul negotiations at his residence in Jerusalem, March 28, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/ GPO)

Opposition parties deny reports of progress in judicial overhaul negotiations

By Jeremy Sharon

Screen capture from video of Channel 14 reporter Atay Shalev swamped by anti-government protesters at a rally in Bnei Brak, May 18, 2023. (Twitter. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Reporter for right-wing network attacked while covering anti-government protest

MK Itamar Ben Gvir, left, and Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai at a special Knesset debate, on December 14, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police chief laments ‘breakdown of trust’ in ties with Ben Gvir

In candid interview, Kobi Shabtai says relationship with far-right minister ‘not simple’ following leak of private conversation with minister seemingly meant to embarrass him

File: Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fox tours the scene of a shooting attack in the West Bank town of Huwara, March 26, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces).

IDF chief slams settlers’ latest ‘slanderous campaign’ against Central Command head

By Emanuel Fabian

Exhibition'They amassed a powerful understanding of the Holocaust'

Now on display, UK Jews’ correspondence shows the Holocaust unfolding in real-time

By Robert Philpot

At London’s Wiener Holocaust Library through June 16, an exhibit of letters from WWII tracks the spread of information by Jews seeking to protect loved ones from the Nazis’ web

Hadassah Medical Center staff assist a head and neck cancer clinical trial patient before she undergoes proton therapy by the P-Cure, Modiin Israel, April 2023. (Courtesy of P-Cure)

Proton therapy, touted as cancer killer without side effects, set for Israel debut

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Hadassah Medical Center partners with Israeli company P-Cure in study comparing treatment with traditional X-ray radiation; Ichilov inks deal for first proton therapy center

Industry leaders, scientists, engineers, physicians, and investors from over 45 countries at Biomed Israel 2023 conference, Tel Aviv, May 16, 2023. (Alexander Elman)

At Biomed Israel conference, medical start-ups discuss challenges in reaching success

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Sotheby's auctioneer Benjamin Doller takes bids on the Codex Sassoon in New York City on May 17, 2023. - (ANGELA WEISS / AFP)

Codex Sassoon, oldest near-complete Hebrew Bible, purchased for $38.1 million

By Jackie Hajdenberg and Asaf Shalev

Rare, 1,100-year-old manuscript to be displayed at ANU Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv after former US envoy to Romania submits winning bid

Illustrative: Brooklyn College students walk between classes on campus in New York, on February 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

After NYC colleges partner with Jewish groups, campus Zionists call it a fig leaf

Pro-Israel student, faculty group say CUNY’s new Jewish advisory council is a ‘shameful disgrace’; US law school again sparks controversy with anti-Israel commencement speaker

A general view shows houses in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba, May 10, 2023. (Wisam Hashlamounn/ Flash90)

New York State lawmakers blast bill targeting charities sending money to settlements

Yulia, an endangered Mediterranean monk seal, rests on the beach in Tel Aviv, May 2023. (Yehiel Lamesh)

Monk seal Yulia seems to swim off after making splash with rare stop on Jaffa beach

By Deborah Danan

Many hoping for return of marine sensation, who seemingly slithered into the water for good Tuesday, but others admit Israel probably a poor home for the endangered creature anyway

Tunisia's President Kais Saied (L) speaks with Tunisia's Chief Rabbi Haim Bitan (R) in Tunis, May 17, 2023 (Tunisian Presidency)

Tunisian leader touts ‘coexistence’ after fatal synagogue attack, but not with Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

President Kais Saied notes ‘distinction between Judaism and Zionism,’ rejects ‘normalization’ with Israel, calls on world to ‘put an end to tragedy of the Palestinian people’

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