Ben Gvir set for Temple Mt. visit before Flag March * Founder of Japan terror group behind 1972 airport massacre freed * Saudi hosts top Israeli * How Uvalde kid survived

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Saturday, May 28, 2022 [Police set to let far-right MK Ben Gvir visit Temple Mt. before Sunday’s Flag March]( By [TOI staff]( [Final decision to be made Sunday morning; in contrast, potential visit by Arab lawmakers to Damascus Gate will reportedly be seen as ‘provocation,’ MKs may be removed by force]( [Founder of Japan terror group behind 1972’s Lod airport massacre set free]( By [Agencies and TOI staff]( [Fusako Shigenobu, draped in keffiyah, apologizes for hurting innocents; 3 Japanese Red Army members recruited by Palestinian terrorists killed 8 Israelis, 16 tourists]( [Senior Israeli official said to visit Saudi Arabia amid growing talk of warming ties]( By [TOI staff]( [Talks in Riyadh focused on regional security issues, threats posed by Iran, report says; meeting comes ahead of Biden visit to the region, as US pushes for cooperation]( [Foreign Ministry slams Iraqi law banning ties with Israel: ‘Wrong side of history’]( By [TOI staff]( [Suicide drones launched from inside Iran said to have hit Parchin military site]( By [TOI staff]( [New York Times reports that Tehran views deadly incident as an attack, noting it fits pattern of alleged past Israeli strikes in Iran and Lebanon]( [Iran airs footage of underground drone base, days after strike at Parchin facility]( By [TOI staff]( [Senior Israeli official reportedly told US it was a mistake to pull out of Iran deal]( By [TOI staff]( [In call with Blinken, Lapid protests ‘biased’ CNN, PA probes into Abu Akleh’s death]( By [TOI staff]( [FM reiterates Israel will share results of its investigation into American-Palestinian reporter’s death with US, blasts ‘so-called investigation’ by American network]( [Al Jazeera says it’ll go to ICC over reporter’s killing, bombing of Gaza office]( By [AP and TOI staff]( [IDF shoots, kills Palestinian teen near Bethlehem after pursuing firebombers]( By [Aaron Boxerman]( [Prosecutor now suspects antisemitism behind murder of elderly French Jewish man]( By [AFP]( [Citing suspect’s social media post, prosecutor asks judges to include antisemitic motive charge in killing of René Hadjaj, who was thrown from 17th floor to his death by neighbor]( [Police, left-wing activists clash ahead of planned protest at illegal outpost Homesh]( By [TOI staff]( [3 detained as Peace Now members gather with bulldozers; security officials say illegal demonstration can’t go ahead, despite military securing earlier march by right-wing activists]( [Hundreds of settlers clash with Palestinians around illegal West Bank outpost]( By [TOI staff]( [Uvalde student, 11, smeared herself in friend’s blood, played dead to survive]( By [AP]( [Children frantically called 911 from dead teacher’s phone while nearly 20 officers stood outside the classroom for 45 minutes waiting for someone to unlock the door]( [The names and faces of the 19 children, 2 teachers killed in Uvalde school massacre]( By [AP]( [‘Send police now,’ kid begged to 911 operator as cops stood outside Uvalde classroom]( By [JIM VERTUNO and Elliot Spagat]( [Top Texas security official: Police were ‘wrong’ to delay storming Uvalde classroom]( By [Agencies]( [State public safety director says cops should have immediately breached room where shooter holed up with dead and wounded children, amid growing outrage over police inaction]( [Trump calls gun control ‘grotesque’ at Texas NRA convention after school massacre]( By [AFP]( [‘You can’t blame the gun’: NRA supporters react to Uvalde slaughter]( By [Michael Mathes]( Top Ops [Lyn Julius]( [Iraqi anti-normalisation law could prove toothless]( [It’s just one more in a long line of anti-Jewish laws that will have little practical result other than proving one cleric’s fealty to Iran]( [Patricia Levinson]( [Memories of the Six Day War]( [From our roof, we could see and hear the flashes from the fighting at Latrun, and it was obvious that a fight for the approaches to Jerusalem was underway]( [Neo-Nazi who worked for US Navy convicted of storming Capitol in Jan. 6 riot]( By [AP]( [Prosecutors say antisemitism motivated white supremacist’s attack on Congress; told coworker he wanted to ‘kill all the Jews’]( [Gantz denies talks with Likud: ‘Those who approached me got a thump on the nose’]( By [TOI staff]( [Blue and White head claims leaks of alleged talks with Netanyahu could be coming from Likud or even from within coalition, so he’s pegged as one responsible for bringing down gov’t]( [Netanyahu-led opposition bloc gains ground with voters, nearing majority, poll finds]( By [TOI staff]( [This private, on-demand ‘hot rabbi’ may soon be the star of her own reality TV show]( By [julia GERGELY]( [Rabbi Becky Eisenstadt started b’nai mitzvah tutoring in her hometown in Bethesda, Maryland. 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