Gantz issues Iran bomb warning * No more masks on planes * Hezbollah loses majority, grows as a threat * Police attacked at E J’lem funeral * Where Herod got his bathtubs

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Tuesday, May 17, 2022 Presented by [Access MBA]( [Gantz: Iran ‘weeks from enough fissile material for bomb,’ adding 1,000 centrifuges]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [Defense minister warns cost of dealing with Iran will be higher in a year; warns Tehran against transfer of advanced weapons to proxies; says Israel’s position on Ukraine ‘ethical’]( [Iranian academic and author Said Madani arrested on national security charges]( By [Agencies]( [Hope evaporates for families of Syria missing as video exposes prisoner massacre]( By [LUJAIN JO]( [Israel to end mandatory masking aboard international flights on May 23]( By [Alexander Fulbright]( [‘We aren’t keeping unnecessary restrictions in place,’ health minister declares, while testing requirements for flying will end Saturday]( [Starting Saturday, air travel to Israel won’t require any COVID tests]( By [TOI staff]( Analysis [Lazar Berman]( [Despite Lebanon election setbacks, Hezbollah remains a growing threat to Israel]( [Shiite group and its allies lost their parliamentary majority, but Israel’s northern neighbor remains a dysfunctional state in which Nasrallah’s terror faction does what it pleases]( [Hezbollah-led bloc loses parliamentary majority, full Lebanese election results show]( By [Agencies and TOI staff]( [IDF says it downed Hezbollah drone that entered Israeli airspace amid major drill]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( FROM OUR SPONSOR [Meet your dream universities at the Access MBA Tel Aviv Event]( [Join business professionals and attend free panels, workshops, and presentations at Carlton Hotel Tel Aviv on May 23rd. Meet UC Berkeley, Duke, Bentley University, and many more.]( [Violent clashes at Jerusalem funeral of Palestinian mortally wounded on Temple Mount]( By [Emanuel Fabian and TOI staff]( [6 cops lightly injured, at least 15 Palestinians arrested; Red Crescent says 71 wounded as a funeral procession deteriorates into violence for second time in a week]( [Deceased patient’s relatives attack Jerusalem hospital staff, wreck ICU unit]( By [TOI staff]( Archaeology [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [Alabaster for Herod the Great’s lavish bathtubs traced to quarry in Israel]( [Daughter-father scientific study rules out Egyptian quarries and shows ancient Holy Land industry was potentially much more developed than previously thought]( Live updates [LIVE: Police chief slams MKs who clashed with police: ‘We’re not part of a political game’]( By [Amy Spiro]( [Commissioner Kobi Shabtai criticizes Ofer Cassif, Ahmad Tibi – without naming them – for ‘forcefully harming police officers who are doing their job’]( ToI podcast [Daily Briefing May 17: Violence at Temple Mount as bereaved brother hopes for peace]( By [TOI staff]( [Palestinian affairs correspondent Aaron Boxerman breaks down 3 recent Palestinian deaths and their aftershocks; environment reporter Sue Surkes updates us on a Jerusalem cable car]( [Video shows cops storming hospital before reporter’s funeral, hitting people inside]( By [TOI staff]( [After weeks of closure, Israel envoy to Ukraine raises flag in front of Kyiv embassy]( By [Lazar Berman]( [Ambassador Michael Brodsky in Ukrainian capital for 1st time since Russia invaded; meets with local officials to discuss Israel’s role in country’s reconstruction]( [Court rules Israel must grant work permits to Ukrainian refugees]( By [TOI staff]( [Sweden joins Finland in seeking NATO membership, ending neutrality]( By [Karl Ritter]( ToI@10 event [Tickets here! J’lem, May 24: Matti Friedman on Leonard Cohen’s Yom Kippur War tour]( By [TOI staff]( [Join us for the first evening in our ToI@10 series: Author Matti Friedman in conversation with ToI’s David Horovitz at Jerusalem’s First Station — plus a Leonard Cohen cover band!]( [Palestinian tries to stab soldier in northern West Bank, is shot by troops, IDF says]( By [TOI staff]( [Assailant ‘neutralized’ near HQ of regional military brigade; no soldiers hurt, no word on attacker’s condition; video shows man approaching 2 soldiers, apparently with knife drawn]( [IDF mulling use of attack helicopters, drones to protect troops in West Bank raids]( By [TOI staff]( Top Ops [Shmuly Yanklowitz]( [Counting the Omer: On free speech and moral speech]( [Permitting a wide range of expression is crucial to freedom, but we can’t forget that Judaism gives us careful instructions for how to speak justly]( [Sarah Tuttle-Singer]( [An Israeli mom, a Palestinian mom, and the village that could be]( [Outside the hospital, tensions were high, but inside that nursing room, there was only compassion, gentleness and peace]( [In shift, Bennett’s Yamina moves to strip rebel MK Silman of her committee posts]( By [Carrie Keller-Lynn and TOI staff]( [Coalition said to tell Knesset it will remove Silman from panels after she wouldn’t back Kahana’s reappointment as religious services minister; Pinto to replace her on health panel]( [Cabinet advances reappointment of Yamina’s Kahana as minister]( By [TOI staff]( [‘Aren’t you embarrassed?’: Bennett kicks Silman out of faction meeting]( By [TOI staff]( [In first, Russian military said to fire S-300 missiles at Israeli jets over Syria]( By [TOI staff]( [TV says incident came last week as IAF fighters departed area after alleged strike and they were not in danger; move could signal a significant shift in Moscow’s ties with Israel]( [After Syria strike, Gantz vows to stem Iranian transfer of ‘advanced capabilities’]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( Analysis [Carrie Keller-Lynn]( [Updated Nation-State Law that includes ‘equal rights’ clause unlikely to advance]( [Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked and Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar slam proposals to refine or revoke contentious law that enshrines Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people]( [Netanyahu accuses Bennett of ‘gambling with lives’ as PM defends Ra’am partnership]( By [Tobias Siegal]( [Liberman urges boycott of PA’s Abbas, in apparent swipe at Gantz]( By [TOI staff]( [Scalpers offer fake Meron festival tickets, subverting new safety measures – report]( By [TOI staff]( [Ticket sellers say they can provide passes for Lag B’Omer event even if site is full; claim to also have tickets circumventing time limits imposed in wake of 2021’s deadly crush]( [Women entrepreneurs are leading the charge to make Israel a femtech powerhouse]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [Fed up with gender discrimination, founders are offering solutions to improve women’s lives, and investors are taking an interest]( [EU innovation program grants $1.35b to over 1,600 Israel projects since 2014]( By [Ricky Ben-David]( [CRM]( [Victims outraged as Tel Aviv serial sex offender gets early release from jail]( By [TOI staff]( [As parole board decides to free Alon Kastiel months before end of a term already seen by many as insufficient for his crimes, women he assaulted fear he’s still a danger]( More Headlines [Prosecutors seek jail term for Capitol rioter who wore ‘Camp Auschwitz’ sweatshirt]( By [Michael Kunzelman]( [Police: Buffalo gunman aimed to continue to second supermarket if he got away]( By [CAROLYN THOMPSON and MICHAEL BALSAMO]( [National Council of Jewish Women creates outlet for Jews to donate to abortion funds]( By [Jackie Hajdenberg]( [2 members of Lev Tahor cult extradited to US from Guatemala for prosecution]( By [Luke Tress]( [Ukraine says more than 260 fighters evacuated from Mariupol mill as defense ends]( By [OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and CIARAN McQUILLAN]( [MKs push to release report of Health Ministry’s action in Yemenite children affair]( By [TOI staff]( [Ex-Nazi guard, 101, could face 5 years in German prison]( By [AP]( [Pay it forward / NY man thanks Hasidic family for returning lost wallet]( By [Jacob Henry]( [WZO says cooperation with group that violently protested Women of the Wall was error]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Zemmour acquitted of Holocaust denial for saying French Nazi collaborator saved Jews]( By [Cnaan Liphshiz]( [Musk: Twitter deal can’t go ahead without proof under 5% of accounts are bots]( By [AP]( [Sandstorm blankets Tehran, closing schools and government offices]( By [AP]( [The daily edition]() [facebook]( [twitter]( [instagram]( [View in browser]( [Contact support](mailto:support@timesofisrael.com) [Advertise with us](mailto:advertise@timesofisrael.com) Were you forwarded this email? 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