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What Matters Most On Sunday, May 28, 2023

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Noam's sole lawmaker, Avi Maoz, speaks at the outset of his Knesset faction meeting, December 5, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

Hod Hasharon mayor pans 'political persecution of educators'

Cabinet to give anti-LGBTQ MK Maoz power to monitor content in individual schools

Mayors say they won’t work with far-right deputy minister; principals’ forum: ‘Shame’ on Israel that ‘homophobe, misogynist, chauvinist, Kahanist’ Maoz has influence on education

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir visits the Tel Aviv Police Forward Command Center with Police Commissioner Koi Shabtai, March 1, 2023. (Courtesy: National Security Ministry)

Jerusalem Pride Parade organizers say Ben Gvir must be kept away from event security

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at a rally in support of the government's planned judicial overhaul, outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, on April 27, 2023. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Netanyahu, Ben Gvir rip into AG over ‘Zionist values’ resolution as vote postponed

By Jeremy Sharon

Baharav-Miara is opposed to measure that may allow for preferential treatment for Jews in housing planning and construction in the Negev and Galilee

Members of the left-wing NGO Breaking the Silence hold images allegedly showing abuses by the Israeli military, during a tour in the West Bank city of Hebron, November 2, 2022. (Flash90)

Likud bill targeting NGOs’ foreign funding shelved amid international uproar

By ToI Staff, Jacob Magid, Jeremy Sharon and Carrie Keller-Lynn

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on May 28, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Amid rising prices and criticism, Netanyahu announces panel to tackle cost of living

Then-prime minister Yair Lapid, center, then-Defense Minister Benny Gantz, right, and then-Energy Minister Karine Elharrar hold a press conference on the maritime border deal with Lebanon at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, October 12, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Overhaul talks return to fore as opposition sets ultimatum on judge selection panel

Yesh Atid threatens to walk away from negotiations if its MK isn’t chosen as committee member and if key panel doesn’t convene by end of June

A large banner depicts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde during anti-judicial overhaul protests in Tel Aviv, May 27, 2023. (Video screenshot)

Tens of thousands protest overhaul for 21st weekend, but turnout remains lower

MK Ofir Katz leads a meeting in the Knesset in Jerusalem, on February 14, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Coalition seeking to amend Arnona Fund to benefit Likud strongholds – report

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Election officials count ballots at a polling station in Istanbul on May 28, 2023, after polls closed in Turkey's presidential elections. (Umit Turhan Coskun/AFP)

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Erdogan declares victory after toughest challenge yet to his two-decade rule

With nearly all votes counted, Turkish leader holds seemingly insurmountable lead over rival in unofficial results; Hamas, Qatari emir congratulate Erdogan

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‘Egypt, Syria are coordinating’: IDF estimates on eve of Yom Kippur War declassified

The Defense Ministry on Sunday launched a website hosting dozens of newly declassified documents, images, videos and other files from the 1973 Yom Kippur War, in honor of the conflict’s 50th anniversary later this year. Among the documents being published for the first time were Military Intelligence assessments from the month prior to the conflict,... Continue Reading

A IDF Sho't Kal (Centurion) tank is seen driving in the northern Golan Heights on October 11, 1973, during a counterattack by the 7th Brigade or 179th Brigade during the Yom Kippur War. (Avraham Vered/Defense Ministry Archives)

MK Simcha Rothman being escorted by police into a panel at Tel Aviv University, May 28, 2023 (Screenshot from Twitter used in accordance with section 27A of the Copyright Law 2007).

MK Rothman evacuated by police from Tel Aviv University event amid protest

Religious Zionism lawmaker shouts back at protesters who obstructed panel he was set to partake in, blaming them for the overhaul-linked economic fallout

Three Jews in Yerevan

When a Jewish community that can’t make a minyan for prayers is flooded with refugees, its members are glad they’re there to welcome the newcomers

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US bureau chief Jacob Magid on White House’s 60-page plan, Israeli NGOs’ foreign government funding; environment reporter Sue Surkes on sea urchin die-off, return of Gaza wetlands

Author Aaron Hamburger's grandmother in Key West in 1922, on the local rabbi's balcony. (Courtesy)

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No ‘Fiddler’: Fun-loving bubbie goes from shtetl to Cuba to NYC in grandson’s novel

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Aaron Hamburger paints an unconventional but true-to-life picture of Old Country Jewish immigrants discovering a new world in his new historical novel, ‘Hotel Cuba’

Israel's team celebrates winning 2-1 against Japan at the end of a FIFA U-20 World Cup Group C soccer match at the Malvinas Argentinas stadium in Mendoza, Argentina, May 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

First-ever victory for Israel in any FIFA World Cup

Israel scores stunning late comeback to beat Japan, reach Under-20 World Cup last 16

By Michael Bachner

Playing one team member down, squad nets 2 late goals to win what coach Ofir Haim calls ‘the greatest match in the history of Israeli soccer’

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers stand by as Israeli settlers throw stones at Palestinians during clashes in the town of Huwara in the West Bank on October 13, 2022. (Oren Ziv/AFP)

US laments ‘rising trend’ of settler violence after 4 Palestinians hurt by gunfire

State Department highlights ‘attacks against Palestinians in homes and farms in which they have lived for decades,’ while also calling out attempted stabbing by a Palestinian

Justine Triet, winner of the Palme d'Or for 'Anatomy of a Fall,' poses for photographers during a photo call following the awards ceremony at the 76th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, May 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

‘Anatomy of a Fall’ wins top prize at Cannes as chilling Auschwitz film is runner-up

By AFP and ToI Staff

With tense courtroom drama, Justine Triet becomes just 3rd woman to be victorious at festival; Jonathan Glazer’s ‘The Zone of Interest’ takes second prize

British director Jonathan Glazer poses during a photocall for the film "The Zone Of Interest" at the 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 20, 2023. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP)

ProfileJonathan Glazer, Cannes-winning British Jewish movie director

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A screenshot from Twitter showing the scene of a Tel Aviv cafe on May 27, 2023, where a woman's screams, following a cockroach sighting, sparked widespread panic as patrons rushed to flee, fearing a terror attack. (Twitter/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Chaos in Tel Aviv cafe as woman’s screams at cockroach spark fears of terror attack

Patrons overturn chairs and tables in rush to flee restaurant on city’s central Dizengoff Street; two said lightly injured during frenzy

President Isaac Herzog departs Israel for the COP27 UN Climate Change Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, November 7, 2022. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Herzog to meet Azerbaijan’s President Aliyev in Baku as ties expand

By Lazar Berman

President and health and interior minister set to visit Baku on Tuesday, as Israel continues to build partnership with Iran’s northern neighbor

US First lady Jill Biden waits with President Joe Biden to greet South Korea's first lady Kim Keon Hee and South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol on the North Portico of the White House in Washington ahead of a State Dinner, April 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Jill Biden to promote women, youth on trip to Mideast, North Africa, Europe

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Leaks show US aid money pushed Israel to buy flawed American periscopes for new subs

By Uri Blau and Daniel Dolev and Shomrim

Leaked documents indicate that the Israeli Navy was forced to purchase substandard periscopes for its new submarines from a US company due to the Israeli desire to make use of American military aid money, when more suitable products were available from a German competitor. The submarines procured by... Continue Reading

Benjamin Netanyahu, then prime minister, seen at a welcoming ceremony for a new submarine, Rahav, at the Israeli Navy base in Haifa, on January 12, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Illustrative: Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF) soldiers at Entebbe airport, March 8, 2007. (AFP/Peter Busomoke)

Leak hints at corruption in arms deal between Israeli company and Ugandan Air Force

By Daniel Dolev and Uri Blau and Shomrim

Polls open in Turkey as Erdogan seeks third decade of rule in presidential runoff

By Fulya Ozerkan and Burcin Gercek

ISTANBUL (AFP) -- Turkey voted Sunday in a historic runoff that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan enters as the firm favorite to extend two decades of his Islamic-rooted rule to 2028. The NATO member's longest-serving leader defied critics and doubters by emerging with a comfortable lead against his secular... Continue Reading

An election representative holds a ballot with presidential candidates at a polling station in Istanbul, Turkey, May 28, 2023 (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Illustrative: Participants dressed as witches ride paddleboards during the Medford Lakes Lions Witches Paddle Halloween event on October 22, 2022, in Medford Lakes, New Jersey. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

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400 years later, US state of Connecticut exonerates 12 ‘witches’

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Lawmakers declares victims — 11 of whom were hanged — as innocent and decries their 17th-Century verdicts as ‘miscarriage of justice’

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Iranian and Taliban forces engage in shootout on border over water dispute

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Illustrative: Israel Police investigate the scene of a crime on June 2, 2021. (Israel Police)

Boy, 12, allegedly stabbed by twin during fight at Jaffa home

The first serial produced ‘Eitan’ APCs during a recent drill in northern Israel, in a handout photo published May 28, 2023. (Defense Ministry and Israel Defense Forces)

Defense Ministry delivers first new advanced ‘Eitan’ APCs to IDF’s Nahal Brigade

By Emanuel Fabian

FILE - Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, arrives during a funeral ceremony at the Troyekurovskoye cemetery in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, April 8, 2023. (AP Photo, file)

Inside StoryThe warlord berating the Russian military while leading a militia against Ukraine

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Lights illuminate the US Capitol after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced that he and US President Joe Biden had reached an 'agreement in principle' to resolve the looming debt crisis on May 27, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden, GOP reach tentative deal to raise debt ceiling, avoid calamitous US default

By LISA MASCARO, MARY CLARE JALONICK, Zeke Miller and KEVIN FREKING

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

1 killed as Iranian-made drones swarm Ukrainian capital ahead of Kyiv Day

By susie blann and Elise Morton

An Egyptian archeologist points at a colored painting showing a sacrifice offering at a recently uncovered tomb that was said to belong to a top official of the fifth Dynasty named 'Ne Hesut Ba' (2,400 BCE), at the site of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, Egypt, May 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Egypt unveils recently discovered ancient workshops, tombs in Saqqara necropolis

By AP

Illustrative: Israelis crowd a beach near Eilat, southern Israel, on April 7, 2023. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90

Diver drowns in Eilat, another hurt in a separate accident

By Michael Horovitz

Rescue workers at the scene of a deadly car crash along Route 90 in the West Bank, May 27, 2023. (Fire and Rescue Services)

Two killed in car crash along West Bank’s Route 90

By Michael Horovitz

Kamal Mahamid (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Suspect accused of murdering man whose son sold him a faulty gun

A crowd of people gather at the courtyard of the Sursock Museum during an opening event for the iconic venue in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, May 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

From ashes and debris, iconic Beirut museum reopens 3 years after port blast

By Kareem Chehayeb

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

US, Saudi Arabia make joint effort to extend ceasefire in Sudan

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