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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 21, 2023

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National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, center, visits the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, May 21, 2023. (Courtesy: Minhelet Har Habayit)

Ben Gvir visits Temple Mount, says it proves Israel ‘in charge’ at holy site

Jordan, Egypt, Turkey and others pan move by far-right police minister, who urges more funds for Jewish settlement in Negev and Galilee to show Israel is sovereign there too

View of the unauthorized outpost of Homesh, in the West Bank, on November 17, 2022. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

IDF general revokes order barring Israelis from illegal West Bank outpost of Homesh

By Emanuel Fabian

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, left, visits the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, May 21, 2023. (Courtesy: Minhelet Har Habayit)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 21: Minister Ben Gvir visits Temple Mt., with an eye on the budget

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a cabinet meeting held in the Western Wall tunnels on May 21, 2023 (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Cabinet approves NIS 60 million to upgrade Western Wall

Netanyahu vows state budget will pass, says coalition differences can be bridged

Pushing back against criticism over funding for Haredi schools that don’t teach core studies, PM claims he is leveling the playing field; Gantz: Ultra-Orthodox kids deserve better

Yisrael Beytenu leader MK Avigdor Liberman at the Knesset on May 18, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman: PM ‘should suffer in hell’ for not making Haredi schools teach core studies

Housing and Construction Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf arrives for a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 7, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Coalition tensions escalate amid Haredi demands for more funds ahead of budget vote

Illustrative: A man shops for bread in a supermarket in Jerusalem. (Orel Cohen/Flash90)

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Government-regulated bread prices to be hiked by 4.9% starting Monday morning

By Michael Bachner

Decision by Finance Ministry panel comes despite economy minister’s reported opposition and amid mounting inflation, with interest rate expected to be raised again Monday

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Pete Brown, co-writer of hits by rock group Cream, dies at 82
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Reports: Israel in 'advanced' talks for direct flights to Saudi Arabia next month
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IDF says soldier injured in Huwara attack, comrade fired toward attacking vehicle

People holding banners march to demand world leaders to take action in reversing climate change and stop the use of fossil fuels during a rally in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, Oct. 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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UN breathes life into once-polluted Gaza wetland

The Gaza Strip's only wetland is slowly coming back to life. This is good not only for the Strip's battered ecosystems, and some of the 500 million birds that migrate through Israel and the Palestinian territories twice each year. It means that a green leisure and recreation site stretching nine kilometers (5.6 miles) is... Continue Reading

A cleaned-up section of Wadi Gaza. (UNDP/PAPP image bank -- Shareef Sarhan)

Can beauty and efficiency meet?

Israel should add large-scale, prefabricated, pre-finished construction to its toolkit for addressing the housing crisis

Ariel Finkelstein

Local authorities should be setting local taxes – that’s the democratic way

Adjusting the Arnona Fund distribution to incentivize approving more building permits sounds great, but there’s a reason the OECD recommends otherwise

A general view of the Iran-Iraq border, August 4, 2009. (AP/Hadi Mizban)

Iran claims to capture infiltrators linked to Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Intelligence minister says group apprehended recently while crossing western border with Iraq

Screen capture from video of Saravan, Iran. (YouTube. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Armed group said to kill 6 Iranian border guards in clash near Pakistani border

By AP

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'The plundering government': Banners pan billions to Haredim

Rallying for 20th week, overhaul opponents also decry looming budget as ‘a robbery’

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Some 150,000 estimated at nationwide rallies; opposition head Lapid threatens to bolt compromise talks on judicial revamp; former budget chief: Government ‘destroying the economy’

President Reuven Rivlin speaks during a conference at Bar-Ilan University, January 17, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Rivlin says Israel ‘can’t agree to half a democracy,’ amid ongoing judicial talks

File: Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (left), the incoming interim prime minister, and outgoing premier Naftali Bennett (right) sit in the Knesset during voting to dissolve parliament for new elections, on June 30, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

PM residence expenses for Bennett, Lapid significantly lower than for Netanyahu

Edwin A. Walker under the custody of marshals on campus of Ole Miss in Oxford, Mississippi, October 1, 1962. (AP Photo)

Interview'They had a lot of good reasons to fight back'

How an ADL spy operation helped bring down the far-right John Birch Society

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Researching his new book ‘Birchers,’ Matthew Dallek discovers paperwork documenting a successful espionage effort to thwart an anti-Civil Rights group deemed a threat by some Jews

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gestures during a meeting with President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the G7 Summit in Hiroshima, Japan, May 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Zelensky says Bakhmut is ‘not occupied,’ denying Russia’s claim to control key city

By Zeke Miller, Elise Morton and susie blann

Earlier comments by Ukrainian president had been widely interpreted to mean he thought eastern locale had fallen, hours after a similar claim by Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin

Head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, claims the complete capture of east Ukraine's Bakhmut, in a video published to Telegram on May 20, 2023. (Screenshot)

Head of Russian mercenary group claims total capture of Ukraine’s Bakhmut

By AFP

US President Joe Biden, Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, France's President Emmanuel Macron, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pose for a family photo ahead of a working session on Ukraine during the G7 Leaders' Summit in Hiroshima on May 21, 2023. (Susan Walsh / POOL / AFP)

Zelensky seeks diplomatic, military support at G7 summit in Hiroshima

By AFP

Ultra-Orthodox men protest against an indoor play center in the northern town of Harish for operating on Shabbat, May 20, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

2 arrested for assault while protesting indoor play center open on Shabbat

Ultra-Orthodox suspects in Harish allegedly attack woman, lightly hurting her; police say they expect to make additional arrests

File: British novelist Martin Amis poses in the living room of his new home in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Aug. 17, 2012. (AP/Bebeto Matthews)

Acclaimed British novelist Martin Amis dies at 73

By AP

Amis passed away Friday at Florida home, day before film of his Holocaust novel ‘The Zone of Interest’ premiered at Cannes; editor hails ‘stylist extraordinaire, fearless writer’

File: Author Martin Amis prepares to give a speech at the Texas Book Festival at the Capitol in Austin, Texas, on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2014. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

ObituaryMartin Amis, a second-generation literary lion

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File: The Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Four-year-old dies in hospital two days after choking on a grape

An Israeli passport on January 18, 2023. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Police nab suspected passport appointment scalper

Illustrative: A Magen David Adom ambulance is seen on the coast of central Israel. (Magen David Adom)

Construction worker killed when struck by heavy object near Shoham

Assuta Medical Center in Tel Aviv's Ramat HaHayal neighborhood, May 20, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Health Ministry expected to probe hospital’s latest possible embryo mix-up

A man leaves the voting booth as he's votes at a polling station in Athens, Greece, May 21, 2023. (Thanassis Stavrakis/AP)

Greeks go to the polls, with rising cost of living on voters’ minds

By Elena Becatoros and THEODORA TONGAS

In this grab taken from a digital scan released by Atlantic/Magellan on Thursday, May 18, 2023, a view of the bow of the Titanic, in the Atlantic Ocean created using deep-sea mapping. (Atlantic/Magellan via AP)

Deep sea viewFirst full-size 3D scan of Titanic shows shipwreck in new light

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