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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 17, 2023

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Vice Adm. David Sa'ar Salama, head of the Israeli Navy, speaks at a ceremony at Atlit Naval Base, July 10, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF suspends senior Navy reservist who ended volunteer duty to protest overhaul

By Emanuel Fabian

Navy chief to decide on continued reserve service of a second rear admiral in coming days; both had warned they won’t serve in ‘a dictatorship’

This handout photo from March 3, 2023, shows IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi (left), Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (second left) and other officials holding talks with visiting Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff (back to camera) and his colleagues. (Sivan Shachor/GPO)

Top US general said aiming to assess overhaul’s impact on IDF during Israel trip

Opposition leader Yair Lapid (left) and Yesh Atid MK Meirav Cohen at an emergency meeting follwing recent cases of gender inequality in public spaces, at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, August 16, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lapid says PM must fire ministers who attack IDF, touts bills on gender discrimination

By Michael Horovitz

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara Netanyahu, and other dignitaries at the opening ceremony of the Tel Aviv light rail, in Petah Tikva, August 17, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

'Will serve everyone - those who support us and oppose us'

Amid protesters’ boos and road closures, Netanyahu launches Tel Aviv light rail

PM snips ribbon during opening ceremony at Red Line terminus in Petah Tikva, as hundreds rally outside; Tel Aviv mayor boycotts event

An aerial view of the Tel Shimron excavation in northern Israel during the 2023 season. (Courtesy Eyecon)

ArchaeologyArea most recently held 'ma'abarot' for Sephardic immigrants

In northern Israel, massive 3,800-year-old monument stuns and stumps archaeologists

By Melanie Lidman

The size of an Olympic swimming pool, with vaulted ceilings that raise the topographical height of Tel Shimron by 5 meters, the delicate mud brick structure was likely barely used

National Security Itamar Ben Gvir, left, and Coastal Region Police Commander Yoram Sofer present a new proposal to eradicate crime in the Arab community, in Jerusalem on August 17, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Top candidate for police chief won’t say if he’ll obey High Court or government

Yoram Sofer declines to answer when quizzed on how he would act in a constitutional crisis should police minister reject court striking down laws

Israel Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai attends a Knesset committee meeting on February 22, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ex-senior cop says police chief once stabbed him in the leg during a meeting

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, Sunday, July 9, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool Photo via AP)

AG won’t defend reasonableness law at High Court, lets Levin enlist outside counsel

MK Ofir Katz, chairman of the Knesset House Committee, leads a hearing, March 12, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Coalition whip: We’ll pass IDF draft law next, then continue with judicial overhaul

Likud MK Ofir Katz says issue of Haredi enlistment needs to be ‘settled’ as reports emerge of ultra-Orthodox parties pushing for pause on shakeup of judiciary

Histadrut chief Arnon Bar-David declares a general strike in protest of the judicial overhaul, at a press conference in Tel Aviv on March 27, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Labor federation chief said to vow action if government defies High Court

File: High-tech development centers in Herzliya, October 30, 2020 (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Around 80% of new Israeli startups said electing to incorporate in the US

Op-ed

Ultra-Orthodox push for draft exemption law strains the coalition’s docile unanimity

Ignoring vast public outrage, all 64 coalition MKs backed the first step on Netanyahu’s march to neuter the judiciary. Will the Haredi parties’ key demand threaten that united front? Continue Reading

Police use a water cannon to disperse protests against the arrests of ultra-Orthodox men who failed to comply with their army draft orders, in Jerusalem, September 29, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

An ultra-Orthodox Jew walks outside the army recruitment office in Jerusalem, August 16, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 17: Why the Haredim may halt support for the judicial overhaul

File: View of Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center in Bnei Brak, April 13, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Hackers threaten to release stolen medical files on Netanyahu, Haredi leaders

By Canaan Lidor

How the pro-democracy movement is killing democracy

Pushing for military disobedience gives soldiers precedent for future boycotts of, say, a land deal with the Palestinians

Robbie Gringras

Signs I’d like to carry when I’m demonstrating against the judicial overhaul

6 concerns I have about Israeli democracy that don’t fit neatly on a placard with a catchy slogan

Police chief Kobi Shabtai (left) during a police operation in Lod on August 17, 2023. (Israel Police)

Live updates (closed)

LIVE: UN says militants still controlling schools in Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon

18 pistols, three M16 rifles, two airsoft guns, an improvised explosive device and around NIS 1.5 million in cash seized during widespread operation

7:55 pm

Settlers filmed setting fire to field belonging to Palestinians in northern West Bank
6:14 pm

Hamas said to test fire 250 km-range rockets toward sea
5:47 pm

Blinken, Dermer meet in Washington, says State Department

An image of Israel and the US's test launch of the Arrow 3 missile defense system on July 28, 2019. (Defense Ministry)

Germany bolsters defenses amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

In its biggest defense deal, Israel gets US okay for $3.5b sale of Arrow 3 to Germany

By Emanuel Fabian

Sale of anti-missile system will the largest in Israeli history, with Berlin expecting delivery of long-range interceptor in Q4 2025

Analysis

Eastern Mediterranean turning tropical, as warming waters force native species out

Temperatures in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf of Eilat are reaching near-record highs this year and peaking much earlier than in previous years, experts say, with the former slowly turning tropical. Both areas were already warmer than average at the end of winter in March, and with summer lasting through to September could still... Continue Reading

A fisherman fishes on a rocky reef in the Mediterranean Sea in northern Israel, December 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Javier Milei, presidential candidate of the Liberty Advances coalition, raises his arms at his campaign headquarters after polling stations closed during primary elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Argentina’s far-right presidential frontrunner wants to become Jewish

By Juan Melamed and Gabe Friedman

Javier Milei studies Jewish topics regularly with Buenos Aires rabbi but admits observing Sabbath may be obstacle to converting; he also vows to move country’s embassy to Jerusalem

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen meets with Uruguay's President Luis Lacalle Pou (R) in Montevideo, August 16, 2023. (Foreign Ministry)

Uruguay to open diplomatic office in Jerusalem, foreign minister announces

Andre Lajst leads the Brazil chapter of StandWithUs, a Zionist advocacy organization. (Courtesy of StandWithUs Brazil, via JTA)

Pro-Palestinian protest at Brazilian college campus turns violent

By Marcus M. Gilban

A worker at the poultry pilot project run by the Abayudaya Men's Club Association, near Mbale, Uganda, July 13, 2023. (Sharon Amali)

'Start with the food, then we can worry about the mezuzah'

How homegrown data-driven farming may save sub-Saharan Africa’s Jews from starvation

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Currently surviving through food aid and donors, 10 countries’ Jewish communities come together to share best practices for scientifically proven farming schemes seeded by a US Jew

From left: Dr. Matan Fisher, Prof. Gil Leibowitz, and Prof. Avivit Cohen from Hadassah Medical Center (Courtesy of Hadassah Medical Center)

Israeli doctors treat hypoglycemia in lung cancer with breast cancer drug

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Working with Technion researchers, endocrinologists and oncologists prove effectiveness of alpelisib in reversing severe hypoglycemia caused by large tumors

A doctor detects lung cancer on a scan (utah778 via iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli study may open door to preventing relapse of certain types of lung cancer

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Portrait of a pregnant woman, on May 26, 2011. (Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

In mix-up, Jerusalem hospital gives rabies shots to 5 pregnant women

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Inside story

Reporter’s United flight discrimination claim intensifies gender segregation debate

Journalist’s assertion she was asked to move seats so Haredi men wouldn’t have to sit next to her, and shouted at for refusing, comes as issues of gender equality return to fore Continue Reading

Illustrative: Secular Israelis board a gender-segregated bus where women sit in the back of the bus, and men in the front. The secular women sat among ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in the front, as part of a protest against the exclusion of women in the public sphere, January 1, 2012. (Miriam Alster / Flash90)

A Shabbat minibus drives through central Tel Aviv on November 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Orthodox Jerusalem council members savage free Shabbat minibus to Tel Aviv

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Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich during a discussion and a vote at the Knesset in Jerusalem on August 16, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich said to release NIS 200m for East Jerusalem academic program

US actor Bradley Cooper arrives for the 2022 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2022, in New York. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP)

Leonard Bernstein’s family defends Bradley Cooper amid ‘Jewface’ storm

By AFP

Mustafa al-Kastouni, reported to be a member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group, who was killed by Israeli forces in Jenin, August 17, 2023. (Social media)

Palestinian gunman killed, terror cell arrested by Israeli forces in Jenin

By Emanuel Fabian

Christian students enrolled in the master's program for Jewish studies at Yeshiva University read a piece of text from the book of Shemot, or Exodus, while on a tour of the campus guided by Jewish educators. (Courtesy Yeshiva University via JTA)

Yeshiva University launches master’s program for Christian students

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Illustrative: A Magen David Adom ambulance at the scene of a deadly shooting at a cemetery in the central town of Jaljulia, November 16, 2021. (Magen David Adom)

Man shot dead in suspected gangland hit confirmed as off-duty soldier

Rupert Murdoch at a dinner at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York, May 4, 2017. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)

Still getting out thereMurdoch said dating Roman Abramovich’s former mother-in-law

Windows at the Foundation for Memorial Sites in Lower Saxony, in the town of Celle, Germany, were found vandalized, Aug. 15, 2023. (Foundation for Memorial Sites in Lower Saxony)

Office that manages Holocaust memorial sites in Germany has windows shattered

By Toby Axelrod

Ethiopian Jews scuffle with police during a protest urging the government to bring their family members to Israel due to fighting in Ethiopia, near the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on August 13, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israel to review Ethiopia immigration policy amid increased fighting in country

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen poses for photos in Hanoi, Vietnam July 20, 2023. (Hau Dinh/AP)

Quite the tripJanet Yellen says she ate hallucinogenic mushroom dish in China

By Stuart Winer

A nature reserve where trees were planted by Green Without Borders, a non-governmental organization, on the outskirts of the southern town of Nabatiyeh, Lebanon, January 16, 2023. (Mohammed Zaatari/AP)

US sanctions Lebanese group aiding Hezbollah ‘under guise of environmental activism’

By AP and ToI Staff

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, right, and his Saudi counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan shake hands prior to their meeting in Tehran, Iran, on June 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran’s foreign minister in Saudi Arabia on first such trip in years as tensions ease

By Jon Gambrell

This image released by Netflix shows Gal Gadot in a scene from 'Heart of Stone.' (Robert Viglasky/Netflix via AP)

WonderfulGal Gadot’s ‘Heart of Stone’ tops Netflix charts in 6 Arab countries

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