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What Matters Most On Friday, May 19, 2023

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Israeli participants in the annual Flag March beat Palestinian residents of the Old City of Jerusalem on May 18, 2023. (Ir Amim)

Far-right MK: This represents our victory over the Arabs

At Jerusalem Flag March, chants of ‘Death to Arabs’ and assaults on Palestinians

By Carrie Keller-Lynn, Jeremy Sharon and Jacob Magid

Still, contentious event ends without major incident as thousands of religious nationalists participate; some attack Palestinians and reporters, sing ‘May your village burn’

Police officers detain an Israeli youth after his group was chanting slogans at the entrance to the Al Aqsa Mosque compound during the annual Flag March in Jerusalem's Old City, May 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Jewish, Palestinian worshipers clash in Jerusalem a day after city’s Flag March

By Michael Horovitz

Israeli police push away Palestinians from a street in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, shortly before a march through the area by Jewish nationalists, Thursday, May 18, 2023. (AP /Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israel draws fire from allies over Flag March, lawmakers’ visits to Temple Mount

Reporter's Notebook

Triumphalism and ethno-nationalism take center stage at Jerusalem Day events

Thursday's Flag March for Jerusalem Day was an event of both national celebration as well as fervid nationalistic sentiment, which was once again badly tarnished by violence and incitement in the Old City of Jerusalem. This year, as in every year, tens of thousands of young religious-Zionist men and women from schools, yeshivas and seminaries around the country descended on... Continue Reading

Young Jewish men hold Israeli flags and flags of the racist, far-right Lehava organization at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, during Jerusalem Day celebrations, May 18, 2023. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

President Isaac Herzog speaks at a state ceremony marking Jerusalem Day at Ammunition Hill in the capital, May 18, 2023. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Herzog at Jerusalem Day event warns ‘senseless hatred’ leads to destruction

Palestinian flags are fixed to Israel's security barrier during a demonstration along the border with Israel east of Gaza City on May 18, 2023 in response to an annual Israeli flag march marking Jerusalem Day (Mohammed ABED / AFP)

Hundreds of Palestinians riot on Gaza border amid controversial Jerusalem Flag March

By Emanuel Fabian

Part of the handwritten list of words attributed to Maimonides from the Cambridge University Genizah Research Unit. (courtesy Cambridge University/José Martínez Delgado)

Archaeology'It's like you are sitting with him, watching how he works'

Mysterious trilingual Cairo Geniza vocab list found to be penned by Maimonides

By Melanie Lidman

Housed at Cambridge University’s Genizah Research Unit, crib sheet with words in Hebrew, Arabic and a Romance dialect gives a glimpse into renowned philosopher’s method of thinking

Connect2Innovate Bahrain opening gala:

Left to Right: Ambassador Steve Bondy (Ambassador of the United States of America to the Kingdom of Bahrain), Ambassador Eitan Na'eh (Ambassador of Israel to the Kingdom of Bahrain), Avi Hasson, H.E. Minister Abdulla bin Adel Fakhro (Minister of Industry and Commerce), H.E. Khalid Yusuf Ahmed Al Jalahma, (Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bahrain to Israel) and H.E. Khalid Humaidan (CEO of EDB)

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Fear and loathing at Damascus Gate

When the teen bullies at the Flag March saw me filming them, they surrounded me and cursed me out, never mind that we all wore the same kippot on our heads

Sderot, the day after: No one is alone

The time the man who helps locals process the rocky emotional terrain of Sderot was schooled in emotional health by Sderot residents, under rocket attack

Inside story

A single absentee mohel is thwarting dozens of converts at very end of their journey

It takes years of studying, considerable devotion and a radical lifestyle change for someone born outside Judaism to pass a conversion test, conducted by three Orthodox rabbinical judges certified by the Chief Rabbinate to vet such processes. So when one such young man recently passed the test, he believed that he had cleared the last... Continue Reading

Illustrative: A man examines his pants with a magnifying glass (Juleta Martirosyan; iStock by Getty Images)

Amir Khoury (center) as a young Imad Mughniyeh in SHOWTIME's 'Ghosts of Beirut.' (Sifeddine Elamine/SHOWTIME)

'Nobody knew what he looked like for so many years'

Hunting for a ghost: New show depicts CIA-Mossad pursuit of most-wanted terrorist

‘Fauda’ co-creators Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff team up with Showtime on ‘Ghosts of Beirut,’ a mostly-true account of the assassination of Hezbollah terror chief Imad Mughniyeh

After Musk’s anti-Soros remarks, Diaspora minister calls Twitter chief a ‘role model’

By ToI Staff and JTA

Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli on Thursday defended Elon Musk after the Twitter chief and tech billionaire attacked Jewish megadonor George Soros, drawing fire from the Foreign Ministry and the Anti-Defamation League. Musk said on Twitter on Monday that Soros "hates humanity" and compared the philanthropist to a... Continue Reading

Twitter CEO Elon Musk speaks at the Twitter 2.0: From Conversations to Partnerships marketing conference in Miami Beach, Florida, on April 18, 2023. (Chandan Khanna/AFP)

Trains parked at a station in Vienna, Austria, March 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)

Austrian police charge 2 men after Hitler speech plays on train’s loudspeakers

By Gabe Friedman

In this photo provided by Saudi Press Agency, SPA, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, left, is greeted by Prince Badr Bin Sultan, deputy governor of Mecca, upon his arrival at Jeddah airport, Saudi Arabia, May 19, 2023, to attend the Arab summit. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

Addressing Arab leaders in Saudi Arabia, Zelensky vows Ukraine ‘will never submit’

By Bassam Mroue

Ukrainian president attends Jeddah summit as part of efforts to rally world support, swipes at Iran for supplying drones to Russia; Syria’s Assad welcomed back after 12 years

Syrian President Bashar Assad, talks to Ahmed Aboul Gheit, secretary-general of the Arab League, upon his arrival at Jeddah airport, Saudi Arabia, May 18, 2023, ahead of the Arab summit. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

Arab leaders, joined by Assad, look to resolve conflicts at summit in Saudi Arabia

By Bassam Mroue

Iranian students and Amnesty International members hold a banner reading 'Stop executions' during demonstration in front of Iranian Embassy against the arrests of political leaders during post-election protests in Tehran in June 2009 (Andreas Solaro / AFP)

Iran hangs 3 linked to Amini protests, drawing condemnations

By AFP

Likud party chairman Benjamin Netanyahu, right, shakes hands with United Torah Judaism party leader Yitzhak Goldknopf in the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem on November 21, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Dueling ministers said threatening to quit government over budget demands

Finance Minister Smotrich denies report he’s warning he’ll resign if Haredi parties’ demands for further funds are met

View of a pile of garbage in Tel Aviv on May 16, 2023 amid a municipal strike (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Strike ends, but municipalities vow legal action on plan to redistribute local taxes

Former Israeli President Reuven Rivlin speaks at a conference at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, January 17, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Ex-president Rivlin: Compromise on overhaul might still damage democracy

Arnon Milchan poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'Widows,' showing as part of the opening gala of the BFI London Film Festival in London, on October 10, 2018. (Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

Film mogul Milchan said to fear harassment from Netanyahu base if he attends trial

Newspaper says key witness, who received okay to give upcoming testimony remotely for health reasons, feels he would need ‘an army of security guards’ if he returned to testify

File: Natan Eshel attends a memorial ceremony for Yoni Netanyahu, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's brother, at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery, in Jerusalem, on June 16, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Top Netanyahu associate warns against ‘playing with the lion’s balls’

Noa Kirel (center) Israel's 2023 Eurovision contestant stands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and his wife Sara Netanyahu, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, May 18, 2023. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Bibi-visionNetanyahu jokes with Noa Kirel: ‘You don’t want to see me dance’

By Michael Horovitz

Jennifer Bullock and Cory Schneider weave on the newly-renovated loom that was donated by Deborah Lamensdorf Berman. (Congregation Neve Shalom via JTA)

'Each person puts their own identity into it'

Jewish weavers craft their own heritage at this New Jersey synagogue’s ‘Loom Room’

Over 300 Judaica items have been woven at Neve Shalom, which offers equipment and instruction so experts and novices alike can create custom religious pieces for friends and family

Chabad rabbis tour the old city of Fez, Morocco on May 18, 2023. (Avi Winner - Merkos 302)

Chabad envoys gather in Morocco, the cradle of the emissary project

By Canaan Lidor

Rabbis and their wives, from small communities in about 40 countries, celebrate 70th anniversary of ‘shluchim’ network that’s working to strengthen Jewish life across the globe

Dr. Sara Hirschhorn at Jerusalem's Nomi Studios, May 16, 2023. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

ToI podcast'What used to be fringe is now in the Knesset'

What Matters Now to historian Sara Hirschhorn: Extremism is now mainstream

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

For an American scholar of Israel’s ultranationalistic movements, a research trip that coincides with the Jerusalem flashpoint Flag March couldn’t have been better timed

Steakholder Foods says it 3D printed the world's first ready-to-cook fish fillet using animal cells cultivated and grown in a laboratory. (Courtesy)

From Fruit Roll-Ups to a fish filet, Israeli startup ready to feed its printer

By Sharon Wrobel

Steakholder Foods says it produced world’s first ready-to-cook filet that can go from printer to plate within minutes

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A rabbi at a Tel Aviv synagogue refuses entry to a father and his autistic son. (Screenshot/YouTube, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Rabbi at Tel Aviv synagogue bars autistic child from attending prayers

Illustrative: Police at the scene of a suspected homicide in Ashdod, February 21, 2023. (Flash90)

Man shot dead in northern town, in Arab community’s 80th fatality this year

Participants at the annual Pride Parade in Tel Aviv, on June 10, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

In first, Tel Aviv religious council offers funds to Orthodox LGBTQ women’s group

By Michael Horovitz

IAF CH-53 'Yasur' helicopters take part in an independence day flyby in Tel Aviv on April 26, 2023. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Air Force grounds fleet of Yasur choppers after malfunction

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative image: A single sperm is injected directly into an egg as part of IVF (Lars Neumann; iStock by Getty Images)

Testing uncovers another possible embryo mix-up at Assuta clinic

By Michael Horovitz

Mayor Stephen Wright of Odessa, Missouri (center) said the town's trash collectors are "not trying to Jew anybody" during a meeting of the Board of Aldermen, May 15, 2023. (Screenshot via JTA)

US mayor apologizes for saying trash collectors ‘not trying to Jew anybody’

By Andrew Lapin

Steve McQueen poses for photographers at the photo call for the film 'Occupied City' at the 76th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, May 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Steve McQueen’s marathon documentary on Nazi-occupied Amsterdam divides Cannes

By AFP

The scene of a gas leak at a store in Beersheba's Old City, May 18, 2023. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Man killed, 9 hurt in carbon monoxide poisoning incident at Beersheba pizzeria

Driver's license photo of Pittsburgh synagogue massacre suspect Robert Bowers (Pennsylvania DOT)

Pittsburgh synagogue shooter faces death penalty in trial set to start May 30

File: A pair of ruby slippers once worn by actress Judy Garland in the "The Wizard of Oz" sit on display at a news conference at the FBI office in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, September 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Jeff Baenen)

No place like homeMan charged with stealing famed ruby slippers of ‘Wizard of Oz’

By MARGARET STAFFORD

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