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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 1, 2023

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Illustrative: Israeli soldiers stand guard near the scene of an apparent attempted car-ramming attack by the West Bank settlement of Halamish on May 29, 2020. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

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Two Palestinians, including child, said hurt as gunmen fire on IDF West Bank post

Military confirms shooting at base near Halamish; medics say 3-year-old among those hurt by gunfire in the area

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'Yalla balagan!': Robbie Williams entertains at Tel Aviv concert
6:16 pm

Two Palestinians, including child, said hurt as gunmen fire on IDF West Bank post
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Palestinian suspected of Huwara car-ramming that injured soldier turns himself in

Police and medics surround the scene of a suicide bombing inside Jerusalem's Sbarro restaurant, August 9, 2001. The insert photo shows Chana Tova Chaya Nachenberg, who died of wounds from the bombing on May 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File; Channel 12 screenshot -- used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Was there with her daughter, 3, who was physically unharmed

Mother critically injured in 2001 Sbarro Palestinian terror attack dies of her wounds

New York-born Chana Nachenberg, 52, had been in vegetative state since suicide bombing at pizzeria in Jerusalem 22 years ago; becomes 16th fatality of attack

Tal Tamari and her son at the burial of her husband Meir in the Shaked settlement on May 31, 2023. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

‘An unfathomable reality’: Father of two killed in West Bank terror shooting buried

An undated photo of Vyacheslav Golev, a security guard who was killed in a terror attack at Ariel on April 29, 2022, and his fiancée, Victoria Fligelman. (Courtesy)

Two Palestinians sentenced to life, plus 30 years, for deadly Ariel attack last year

By Emanuel Fabian

Likud MK: Some parents try to make their sons gay by giving them dolls to play with

Likud MK Nissim Vaturi caused an outcry on Tuesday by saying that some parents deliberately decide to make their children gay in order to support LGBTQ values, including by giving their sons dolls to play with. Vaturi gave an interview to the Knesset Channel in which he voiced support for the government's recent... Continue Reading

Likud MK Nissim Vaturi attends a discussion in the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 21, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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

Police on high alert ahead of Jerusalem Pride Parade threatened by violence

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

A side-by-side comparison of the 1985 edition of the JPS Tanakh and the 2023 gender-sensitive edition demonstrates slight changes in the English translation. (Design by Jackie Hajdenberg via JTA)

Backlash over ‘gender-sensitive’ Hebrew Bible translation that uses ‘God,’ not ‘He’

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Tel Aviv University

Graduate Students on the Fast Track to Tackle Global Challenges: Listen up!

Tel Aviv University Int’l Graduate School for Social Sciences prepares students to make an impact through 5 trailblazing, interdisciplinary one-year MA programs… in English

Jerusalem is precisely the place for a Gay Pride parade

Proud LGBTQ+ can remind the capital’s inhabitants that acceptance and compassion are not only allowed, they are necessary

Belgium’s shameful, dangerous deal with Iran

The release of a jailed Iranian terrorist to free an aid worker held captive in Teheran spells the return of ‘hostage diplomacy’

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

‘Trust no one, and don’t spill the soup!’

’I listened to my teachers when they told me gay people are taboo, disgusting… I believed them!’

June 1941: Bloodbath on the buses in Baghdad

More than a pogrom for Sephardic Jews, the Farhud – rooted in anti-Jewish legacies from the Nazi era – led to an irrevocable break between Iraqi Jews and Arabs

A lift truck carries a cylinder containing uranium hexafluoride gas for the purpose of injecting the gas into centrifuges in Iran's Fordo nuclear facility, November 6, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

Iran's uranium stockpile now 23 times limit set by nuke deal

UN watchdog closes two probes at Iran nuclear sites, one of them prompted by Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

International Atomic Energy Agency reportedly no longer has questions about 87.3% enriched uranium found at Fordo facility or traces of man-made uranium found at Marivan

Model Mahlagha Jaberi arrives for the screening of the film "The Old Oak" during the 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 26, 2023. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP)

Iranian model wears ‘noose’ dress at Cannes festival to protest executions at home

Illustrative: In this picture taken April 16, 2011, and released by the semi-official Mehr News Agency, a blindfolded man convicted of armed robbery, kidnapping and slaying of two policemen waits to be hanged in public. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hadi Khosravi)

With 142 deaths, Iran’s May executions highest in a month since 2015 – rights group

By AFP

Israeli high-tech entrpreneur Yossi Vardi speaks at the Israel Democracy Institute conference in Jerusalem, May 31, 2023. (Oded Karni)

Startup guru Vardi warns ‘there will be no high-tech or foreign currency’

By Sharon Wrobel

Veteran entrepreneur and investor says Israeli tech sector faces ‘terrible crisis,’ urges decisionmakers to resolve political debate around judicial overhaul

Israel Katz, national infrastructure, energy, and water minister (right) and Energean CEO Mathios Regas. (Courtesy)

Israel officially recognizes Energean’s Katlan reservoir as natural gas discovery

By Sharon Wrobel

Databricks Israel team. (Ariel Zandberg)

US data analytics giant sees ‘strategic opportunity’ in launch of new Israel office

By Sharon Wrobel

Police tape surrounds an assault rifle magazine in the aftermath of a mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, October 28, 2018. (US District Court Western District of Pennsylvania Evidence Photo via JTA)

At Pittsburgh gunman’s trial, Jewish rituals feature as prominently as deadly carnage

Descriptions of items, practices in US synagogue proving crucial for prosecution in trial of shooter, who killed 11 Jews praying at three congregations on Shabbat in October 2018

An FBI agent stands behind a police cordon and an ambulance outside the Tree of Life Synagogue (L) after a shooting there left 11 people dead in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh on October 27, 2018. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

At trial of Pittsburgh synagogue gunman, worshiper describes seeing friend die

President Isaac Herzog (R) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) attend a Jerusalem Day holiday ceremony at the capital's Ammunition Hill, May 18, 2023. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Coalition claims imminent understandings in judicial talks; opposition disagrees

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Hebrew media runs a leaked document of general principles coming out of President’s Residence negotiations; opposition denies having received it, says no agreement reached

Likud MK Hanoch Milwidsky attends a Knesset Constitution Committee meeting, March 13, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Likud said to pull draft bill proposing to neuter Israel Bar Association

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Op-ed

Echoes of the Judean People’s Front: Monty Python’s in Jerusalem, and it isn’t funny

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. There's a scene in "Life of Brian," Monty Python's peerless messianic mistaken identity satire, in which Messrs. Cleese, Palin, Idle et al,... Continue Reading

Israelis protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul, outside the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on April 1, 2023. The banner at right reads: "It's vital to safeguard the common home"; the banner at center reads: "Freedom, equality, kinship." (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Screen capture from video of anti-government protesters at a rally against Justice Minister Yariv Levin in Katzrin, the Golan Heights, June 1, 2023. (Twitter. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Protesters hound ministers as well as policy architect of judicial overhaul

A woman at the annual Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem, on June 2, 2022, holds up a sign with the biblical phrase 'Love thy neighbor as thyself.' (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 1: PM kicks coalition issues down the road; Gay Pride in capital

Buried with his secrets: Mossad man who died in Italian boat capsize laid to rest

A retired Mossad agent, who died earlier this week when a tour boat full of Israeli and Italian intelligence figures capsized, was buried Wednesday at the military cemetery in Ashkelon. Though Israeli officials have not released the man's name, Italian media reports identified him as 50-year-old Erez Shimoni. He died Sunday on Italy’s... Continue Reading

A vessel that sank on Lake Maggiore in Italy with four fatalities, May 28, 2023 (Italian fire and rescue services)

Screen capture from video of a snake found in the luggage of a woman who tried to smuggle dozens of reptiles into Israel, May 2023. (Twitter. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Snakes off a plane

Woman nabbed trying to smuggle over 70 reptiles into Israel

Among the rare creatures found wriggling in socks and bags in her suitcase was a baby anaconda, which can grow to be a dangerously large constrictor

Composite photo: Otzma Yehudit chairman Itamar Ben Gvir, left, during a faction meeting at the Knesset on November 21, 2022; Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara speaks at Tel Aviv University on September 28, 2022. (Flash90)

AG pans law expanding Ben Gvir’s authority over police but doesn’t recommend repeal

Gali Baharav-Miara says coalition legislation may lead to politicization of law enforcement and cause harm to personal liberties, but stops short of suggesting law be stricken down

Left: Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara at her welcome ceremony in Jerusalem on February 8, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90). Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on January 11, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Judges in Netanyahu trial said to have urged mediation shortly before AG nixed it

Yisrael Beytenu party chairman MK Avigdor Liberman attends a discussion and a vote in the assembly hall of the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on May 15, 2023. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Yisrael Beytenu: Shas MK racist for calling Liberman ‘ignoramus from Moldova’

Illustrative: A screenshot of video from the northern West Bank village of Burqa shows a fire, amid clashes between Palestinians and settlers, May 24, 2023. (Twitter. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Settlers, Palestinians clash near new West Bank illegal outpost

Sides present conflicting report of events near makeshift Homesh yeshiva that was illegally transferred after approval from ministers

IDF rescuers work to pull a pair of Palestinian construction workers from under collapsed rubble in the Neve Daniel settlement on May 31, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF rescuers pull 2 Palestinians from collapsed settlement construction site

Natural Coloring

Israeli research finds cleaning shrimps’ stripes key to better whitening agents

A species of shrimp immortalized in children's movie "Finding Nemo" is inspiring the search for healthier ways to keep white bread and other products white. Today, whitening agents in foods, cosmetics and paints tend to include inorganic nanoparticles such as titanium dioxide and zinc oxide, which have aroused health concerns. But Dr. Ben Palmer... Continue Reading

The Pacific Shrimp. (PilarMeca, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)

A traffic jam at the entrance to a gas station in Jerusalem, on March 11, 2022. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

OECD slaps Israel with poor marks on environmental performance in new report

Dozens of ancient bricks manufactured by the 10th Roman Legion discovered by police in the trunk of a car in Beit Hanina, Jerusalem, May 2023. (Israel Antiquities Authority)

Authorities trying to find out where tiles were looted from

Antiquities thief nabbed with ancient floor tiles used by destroyers of 2nd Temple

Bricks found in the trunk of a car in East Jerusalem apparently came from a bathhouse used by notorious Tenth Roman Legion some 2,000 years ago, possibly in Hebron area

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An activist wears a swimsuit in the women's section at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, as part of a protest against a bill proposed by the Shas party, February 12, 2023. (Oren Ziv/Flash90)

Woman who stripped down to swimsuit at Western Wall is charged with disturbing peace

Maya Benvenisti, 36, staged protest against since-shelved legislation that would have made it a criminal offense to dress or pray ‘immodestly’ at Jerusalem Old City holy site

On screen: Yotam Okon, a teacher, suspected of raping his 12-year-old student, appears virtually during a hearing at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court, October 4, 2021, alongside attorney Sassy Gez. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Tel Aviv teacher sentenced to 7 years in prison for rape of 12-year-old student

Former US President Donald Trump, Greg Norman, LIV Golf CEO, right, and Paul Myler, deputy head of mission for the Australian Embassy in Washington, left, watch the second round of the LIV Golf at Trump National Golf Club, Saturday, May 27, 2023, in Sterling, Va. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Prosecutors have tape of Trump discussing classified Iran file after leaving office

By AP and ToI Staff

2021 recording undercuts former US president’s repeated claims that he declassified documents he took with him from White House to Mar-a-Lago

Former vice president Mike Pence pauses while speaking at the Federalist Society Executive Branch Review conference, April 25, 2023, in Washington. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Mike Pence set to launch his presidential campaign in Iowa next week

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Crown Prince Hussein attends a celebration a day before his wedding to Saudi architect Rajwa Alseif, in Amman, Jordan, on May 31, 2023, (Royal Hashemite Court via AP)

Jordan’s royal wedding kicks off as Britain’s William and Kate make surprise arrival

By Isabel Debre

Ben Roberts-Smith arrives at the Federal Court in Sydney, on June 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)

Most decorated living Aussie soldier murdered unarmed Afghan civilians, judge finds

By mark baker and Rod McGuirk

Students at Hebrew University's Mount Scopus campus on the first day of the school year, October 23, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

NIS 50m per year to be invested in boosting English proficiency among undergraduates

FILE: Fake pill bottles with messages about OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma are displayed during a protest outside the courthouse where the bankruptcy of the company is taking place in White Plains, NY, on Aug. 9, 2021. (AP/Seth Wenig)

Sackler family to pay $6B in deal shielding them from civil lawsuits in opioid deaths

By JTA and AP

Illustrative. An IDF soldier from the C4I Corps types on a computer. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF cyber defense system, three other classified projects win top security prize

By Emanuel Fabian

The Backstreet Boys performing in Rishon Lezion on April 22, 2018. (Courtesy: Orit Pnini)

IncompleteBackstreet Boys can’t reschedule nixed Israel show for this year

By Jessica Steinberg

British pop star Robbie Williams, right, and Israeli singer Noga Erez in Tel Aviv, May 31, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)

Fast friendsRobbie Williams bonds with Noga Erez ahead of Tel Aviv show

By Jessica Steinberg

A group of members from Britain's House of Lords at the Knesset, May 2023. (Knesset spokesperson)

Largest-ever British House of Lords delegation visits Israel to further tighten ties

Herzl Bostanai. (Facebook. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Youth soccer trainer, 72, killed by driver of stolen car fleeing police in Holon

Yeezy shoes made by Adidas are displayed at Laced Up, a sneaker resale store, in Paramus, New Jersey, October 25, 2022. (Seth Wenig/AP)

Yeezy shoes go back on sale — months after Adidas cut ties with Kanye West

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS

From Hilla Ben-Ari's video 'Seed,' for Videonale #1 in Haifa, through June 2023 (Courtesy Mediterranean Biennale)

Framed differentlyHaifa artworks can be seen on the way to work (or school)

By Jessica Steinberg

One of humorist Dudi Shamai's illustrations; his solo exhibit 'There IS Such a Creature' opens Holon's Beit Meirov Gallery, June 2-August 31, 2023 (Courtesy Dudi Shamai)

In the pictureCreatures large and small draw caricaturist’s attention

By Jessica Steinberg

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