US joins outcry after cops beat funeral participants * Police say mob seized casket; brother disgrees * Biden backs Jordan’s J’lem role * Herzl’s ’prophecy’ on display

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Saturday, May 14, 2022 [After international outcry, police open probe into violence at reporter’s funeral]( By [TOI staff]( [Police say officers were ‘exposed to violence’ and ‘subsequently’ used force; images of Shireen Abu Akleh’s casket almost toppling drew widespread condemnation]( [US ‘deeply disturbed’ by images of police beating funeral participants; EU appalled]( By [Jacob Magid, Aaron Boxerman and Agencies]( [Police beat participants at funeral for Al Jazeera journalist, say mob seized casket]( By [Aaron Boxerman]( [Some mourners sought to carry Shireen Abu Akleh’s casket on foot, cops intervened violently; Abu Akleh, 51, killed during Jenin clashes, was widely beloved by Palestinians]( [Police claim officers intervened in funeral after rioters seized reporter’s coffin]( By [TOI staff]( [PA: International groups can participate in probe into reporter’s death, not Israel]( By [TOI staff]( [Palestinian official says groups can ‘communicate’ with prosecutors, doesn’t detail extent of participation; says violence at Abu Akleh’s funeral underlines why Israel can’t join]( [Israel said to tell US it can’t rule on reporter’s death unless it has the bullet]( By [TOI staff]( Reporter's Notebook [David Horovitz]( [Scenes from one part of a funeral, as Shireen Abu Akleh is laid to rest in Jerusalem]( [A lurching casket, rough arrests, a bouncy castle at a Queen’s Jubilee party across the street, and T-shirts showing a type of rifle from which the fatal bullet may have been fired]( [Hosting king, Biden affirms Jordanian role overseeing Muslim sites in Jerusalem]( By [TOI staff and AP]( [White House voices support for maintaining Temple Mount status quo after Jordanian monarch visits, as tensions climb between Amman and Jerusalem]( [‘One of the best’: Officers, officials mourn death of police commando Noam Raz]( By [TOI staff]( [Veteran counterterrorism officer killed in clashes near Jenin; leaves behind a wife and six children; PM vows to continue to fight terrorism with an iron fist]( Top Ops [Zack Singerman]( [Gen Z must be at the frontlines in the fight against antisemitism]( [After the shooting at my grandmother’s synagogue, I rethought my Judaism: I cannot sit on the sidelines while Jews are being attacked for being Jewish]( [Paul Mirbach]( [Trying to make sense of Shireen Abu Akleh’s death]( [Firefights are furious, chaotic, and you can’t hear much. You peek out, let off a shot, and get back behind cover fast. Which is exactly why this needs a serious investigation]( [Crown prince, longtime de facto ruler Mohamed bin Zayed elected UAE president]( By [Agencies and TOI staff]( [Succeeds half-brother Sheikh Khalifa day after his death; MBZ led push for Gulf nation’s normalization with Israel]( [Profile / Mohamed bin Zayed, a quiet force to lead UAE as a regional player]( By [AFP]( [Matan Kahana resigns Religious Affairs Ministry to ‘help strengthen the coalition’]( By [Carrie Keller-Lynn and Shalom Yerushalmi]( [Move will see Kahana returning to Knesset as an MK, bumping out Yomtob Kalfon who it was feared might be the next Yamina member to quit teetering government]( [Shimrit Meir, top aide to Bennett, resigns after one year in position]( By [Michael Horovitz and Carrie Keller-Lynn]( [Palestinian dies of wounds sustained in recent Temple Mount clashes]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [Family says Walid a-Sharif, 21, was critically injured when he was hit by a sponge-tipped bullet on April 22; police say he fell and hit his head while throwing rocks]( [Armed Palestinian who sought to commit attack arrested near central town — police]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [Joint List MK hits officer after being stopped from reaching West Bank protest]( By [TOI staff]( [Police open inquiry after Ofer Cassif strikes officer, then accuses cop of attacking first during altercation near Hebron]( [Joint List MK tried to pay hospital visit to terrorist shot in Jenin clash – report]( By [TOI staff]( [Terrorist critically injured in Jenin clashes transferred to Israeli hospital]( By [TOI staff]( [European nations urge Israel to scrap plans for new settlement homes]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [In joint statement, 15 countries say construction of over 4,000 planned units ‘would constitute an additional obstacle to the two-state solution’]( [A rabbi who ‘speaks to Christians’ condemned them on Twitter. It cost him his job]( By [Andrew Lapin]( [Series of posts about abortion by Rabbi Michael Harvey ignite controversy; he says white nationalists posted some of them after hacking his account]( [Ukraine says Russian troops pushed out of Kharkiv as war enters ‘long-term’ phase]( By [OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and david keyton]( [Meanwhile, Russia’s offensive in Donbas appears to be turning into a village-by-village, back-and-forth fight with no major breakthroughs on either side]( [US group rushes to aid 15 Righteous Among Nations in Ukraine after Russia invasion]( By [Stewart Ain]( [Turkey breaks with rest of NATO to oppose membership for Finland, Sweden]( By [Fulya Ozerkan]( [Ukraine inflicts huge losses on Russians during failed river crossing, officials say]( By [david keyton and OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI]( [Syria says five killed, 7 hurt in Israeli airstrikes in northwest]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [State media claims a large number of missiles launched by jets over Masyaf; footage shows fire at site in area thought controlled by Iran-backed forces]( [EU claims stalled Iran talks ‘reopened’ after envoy’s Tehran visit]( By [AFP]( [Parliamentary elections seen as last chance for crisis-plagued Lebanon]( By [Agencies]( He willed it [Handwritten manuscript of Herzl’s utopian ‘Altneuland’ on display for first time]( By [Michael Horovitz]( [Each of the 396 pages is insured for $1 million; curator says father of Zionism’s vision of modern Israel, with light rail and electronic newspapers, is part ‘prophecy’]( [CRM]( Interview [$1.2 million raised for ex-rabbinical student’s nonprofit after Humans of NY story]( By [PHILISSA CRAMER]( [K.M. 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