* Palestinians clash with Israeli police at Temple Mount in Jerusalem: Israeli police fired rubber bullets and stun grenades toward rock-hurling Palestinian youth at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque on Friday, the latest outbreak of violence at a site revered by Muslims and Jews alike. At least 12 Palestinians were injured in the early morning clashes at Islam's third-holiest site, the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The Israeli police arrested at least two suspects for throwing rocks. (Yediot Aharonot, Haaretz)
* Panic as American Tourists Bring Unexploded Shell to Israeli Airport: An American family set off a bomb scare at Israel's main airport on Thursday when they showed security inspectors an unexploded shell which they found while visiting the Golan Heights and had packed for their return trip, authorities said. Video circulated on social media showed panicked passengers scattering at Ben-Gurion Airport's departure hall. The Israel Airports Authority said a man was hospitalized with injuries sustained as he tried to flee over a baggage carousel. (Yediot Aharonot, Haaretz)
* Herzog urges Israelis 'to work together' during Holocaust memorial day closing ceremony: President Isaac Herzog said Thursday during the closing Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony that the Israeli society must learn how to work together in the wake of its past. The annual ceremony at the Ghetto Fighters' House was the last in a host of events honoring the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust. The ceremony has been taking place each year since 1949, with the exception of two years of COVID-19 pandemic. (Yediot Aharonot, Haaretz)
* Holocaust survivors demand government to allow them to 'live with dignity': Nineteen Holocaust survivors fired off a scathing letter to government ministries earlier this week — ahead of Israel's national Holocaust Remembrance Day — demanding the country's leaders take action to improve their quality of life. Israel is currently home to roughly 161,000 survivors, about a quarter of whom struggle to make ends meet while some even live in outright squalor despite promises from successive governments to amend the situation. (Yediot Aharonot, Haaretz)
* Gasoline prices to rise back above NIS 7 per liter: The maximum price of government price-controlled 95 octane gasoline at self-service pumps in Israel will rise on Saturday night at midnight May 1, 2022 by NIS 0.12 to NIS 7.06 per liter, the Ministry of National Infrastructures, Energy and Water Resources has announced. (Globes)
