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What Matters Most On Monday, June 26, 2023

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MK Orit Strock takes part in a march to the illegal Evyatar outpost, near the West Bank city of Nablus, on April 10, 2023 (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

Opposition leaders urge Netanyahu to fire far-right minister

Minister to security heads who slammed settler terror: ‘Who are you? Wagner Group?’

Strock compares IDF, Shin Bet, police chiefs to Russian mercenaries rebelling against Moscow; PM decries criticism but calls for probe into claims of excess force against settlers

Israel Police chief Kobi Shabtai speaks during a State Control Committee meeting at the Knesset, June 6, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Police chief says he won’t seek 4th year in office ‘under these conditions’

Analysis

Can’t or won’t? IDF fails to prevent settler attacks, and that’s unlikely to change

While soldiers are legally permitted to detain Israeli suspects, for years the army has preferred it to be a matter for police, whose forces are stretched thin in West Bank

Israeli soldiers stop Israeli settlers from entering the Palestinian West Bank town of Turmus Ayya, June 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Illustrative: Screenshot from a video of settlers firing at the West Bank village of Umm Safa on June 24, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

5 suspects brought to court over settler rampage through Palestinian village

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Posters bearing the portraits of Israelis recently killed by Palestinian terrorists, with 'revenge' written underneath them in Hebrew, are plastered along the Tapuach junction bus station in the West Bank, guarded by Israeli soldiers, on June 25, 2023. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

IDF sends 2 more battalions to West Bank after series of settler attacks

By Emanuel Fabian

File - Protesters gather outside a Petah Tikva police station on June 26, 2023, where an anti-judicial overhaul activist was being questioned. (Brothers and Sisters in Arms)

Live updates (closed)

Anti-government protesters swarm police station after activist summoned, questioned

Itzik Medina released after being grilled over alleged plans for violent activities, protest group calls incident ‘window into future under dictatorship’

8:29 pm

Driver reportedly held after hitting protester in Petah Tikva
7:33 pm

Anti-overhaul protesters gather at police station where activist questioned, released
7:10 pm

US 'deeply troubled' by latest Israeli settlement approvals

Deputy AG tells Knesset blocking ‘reasonableness’ test opens a ‘black hole’

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

AG’s office opposes coalition bill to bar judicial review of ‘reasonableness’ of elected officials’ decisions; deputy Gil Limon warns of ‘serious harm to basic democratic values’

Deputy Attorney General Gil Limon attends a Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee hearing, June 25, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, with Justice Minister Yariv Levin at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 7, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

PM said ready to ‘go all the way’ with reasonableness bill to limit judicial review

Likud MK Hanoch Milwidsky speaks during a Knesset Finance Committee hearing, February 22, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Government backs bill to siphon off most of Israel Bar Association’s powers

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Oved Hugi, who was fired as an adviser to Energy Minister Israel Katz over incendiary social media posts, takes part in a Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting in Jerusalem on June 26, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

'I understand why Hitler slaughtered six million Ashkenazim'

Likud minister fires aide who praised Hitler, wished death on judicial officials

By Michael Bachner

Israel Katz says wasn’t aware of Oved Hugi’s social media posts, which said Nazis should’ve killed those behind Netanyahu trial; ousted adviser still attends Knesset panel meeting

Miri Regev and Moshe Ben Zaken, right, at the Likud party headquarters on March 2, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

After initial rejection, Regev gets OK for ex-Likud operative to be ministry chief

File: Ukraine's ambassador to Israel, Yevgen Korniychuk, gives a statement to the media in Tel Aviv, on March 11, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni‎‏/Flash90)

In blistering critique, Ukraine accuses Israel of ‘close cooperation’ with Russia

By Lazar Berman

Foreign Ministry to summon Kyiv’s envoy for reprimand after embassy says Israeli officials have ‘a blatant disregard for moral boundaries’

In this photo taken from video released on June 26, 2023, by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu is on board a military helicopter on his way to inspect a command post of Russian troops in Ukraine (Screen grab/Russian Defense Ministry Press Service)

Russian defense minister makes 1st video appearance since Wagner Group rebellion

By AP

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, right, sits inside a military vehicle posing for a selfie photo with a local civilian on a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, June 24, 2023, prior to leaving an area of the headquarters of the Southern Military District. (AP Photo)

AnalysisWith Russia revolt over, Wagner future and direction of Ukraine war uncertain

By AP

Illustrative picture of a Chabad center on Cyprus, September 2005, in the port city of Larnaca. (Marina Passos/AFP)

Iran said to target Israeli businessman, Chabad House, hotels in Cyprus terror plot

Greek intelligence services also arrest 7 Pakistan nationals said recruited by Tehran to carry out attacks in Greece; international arrest warrant issued for cell’s leader

File: A Cyprus police van carrying an Azeri national suspected of taking part in an alleged plot to attack Israelis on the Mediterranean island is pictured outside the criminal court in the capital Nicosia, on December 6, 2021. (Iakovos Hatzistavrou / AFP)

After Cyprus plot, Israel vows to thwart Iran terror ‘wherever it raises its head’

An Israeli drone that the Hezbollah terror group claims it downed over southern Lebanon, on June 26, 2023. (Central Media)

IDF says drone ‘fell’ over Lebanon; Hezbollah claims it shot it down

By Emanuel Fabian

Katharina von Schnurbein speaks at a European Jewish Congress event in Vienna, in this undated photo. (Courtesy)

Interview'I realized fostering Jewish life is the ultimate goal'

How the EU antisemitism warrior became a defender of kosher slaughter, circumcision

By Canaan Lidor

The bloc’s point person for fighting Jew-hatred, Katharina von Schnurbein, is an influential advocate for Jewish customs many consider controversial in Europe

Daphne Lazar Price

The Rebbe’s last dollars

See that picture of me with the Lubavitcher Rebbe? He’d never have allowed the erasure of women. If only more rabbis had his moral courage and will

The worst possible way to appoint local rabbis

A contemptible new bill would create a patronage system for appointing rabbinic functionaries with no religious authority

Israeli film producer Arnon Milchan makes his way to the conference hall in the Old Ship Hotel in Brighton, UK, to testify via video in the trial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, June 25, 2023 (Channel 13 screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

1st day's testimony from key witness in Case 1000 against PM

In testimony, Milchan confirms conveyor belt of cigars, champagne to Netanyahus

By Jeremy Sharon

Hollywood mogul describes how PM and wife routinely requested lavish gifts; says PM assured him the AG had specified there was ‘no limit, apart from a house’ to gifts from friends

Judges take their seats at the Jerusalem District Court judges to listen to the testimony of businessman Arnon Milchan in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial on June 25, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL)

After leak, prosecutors request all talks with Netanyahu’s judges be on record

A clip published by the so-called Al-Ayyash Battalion purports to show a rocket launched from a northern West Bank village at a nearby Israeli settlement, June 26, 2023. (Screengrab: Telegram)

Video shows Palestinians attempting to launch crude rockets in northern West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

Group that claimed similar attempt last month releases clip showing rockets being fired in Jenin area; IDF says projectiles landed short in Palestinian-controlled territory

Naama and Eitam Henkin, who were killed in a terror attack on October 1, 2015. (Courtesy)

Palestinian gets 2 life sentences, plus 30 years, for 2015 murder of Israeli couple

By Emanuel Fabian

Palestinian youths brandishing fake rifles parade during a military-style summer camp organized annually by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group during the school holiday, in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 22, 2023. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Photo Essay‘Ensuring jihad will continue’: Gaza summer camp teaches youth to fight, hate Israel

Illustrative: An Israeli policeman walks near cement cubes placed as a roadblock by Israeli security forces on a road linking the East Jerusalem Arab neighborhood of Beit Hanina with West Jerusalem on September 15, 2021 (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

US set to cease scientific, tech cooperation with Israeli entities over Green Line

Move said to be resumption of policy that was reversed under Trump administration; Foreign Minister Eli Cohen tells reporters that the decision ‘is wrong’

Religious Zionism party leader Bezalel Smotrich (right) and Otzma Yehudit party leader Itamar Ben Gvir at the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

US Embassy keeps Ben Gvir, Smotrich off July 4 party guest list

By Lazar Berman

File - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) speaks with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich during a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 18, 2023. (Amit Shabi/Pool)

Smotrich said urging Netanyahu to oppose US return to ‘history-distorting’ UNESCO

A UN peacekeeper from the UNDOF force stands guard on a watch tower at the Quneitra Crossing between Syria and Israel on the Golan Heights, March 8, 2013 (AP/Ariel Schalit)

'After pullout, we'll be willing to drink coffee with you'

Dialogue of the deaf: Memos reveal vast gaps that sank ’90s Israel-Syria peace talks

Newly declassified reports by Israeli diplomat on negotiations show Damascus demanded commitment to full Israeli withdrawal from Golan, refused to promise diplomatic ties in return

Rescue workers search for survivors after an explosion at Israeli military headquarters in the Lebanese city of Tyre in 1982. (Wikimedia Commons/IDF Archive)

Israel launches formal inquiry into 1982 blast at IDF headquarters in Lebanon war

By Emanuel Fabian

Far-right German lawmaker Robert Sesselmann, center, visits a butcher shop in Sonneberg, Germany on April 27, 2023. (Robert Sesselmann)

German far-right party wins its first county leadership post, rising in polls

By AP and ToI Staff

Victory of AfD’s candidate in rural Sonneberg area reflects rising popularity of anti-immigration party; Jewish group says party’s surge is something we ‘cannot simply accept’

Kyriakos Mitsotakis, leader of the center-right New Democracy, arrives for statements at the headquarters of the party in Athens, Greece, June 25, 2023 (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Center-right Mitsotakis wins 2nd term as Greek PM; small far-right parties surge

Paul Morgan-Bentley, author of 'The Equal Parent,' left, with son Solly and husband Robin. (Courtesy)

Pride month'You don’t need a uterus to puree a carrot'

These Jewish gay dads show how parenting benefits from a shifting division of labor

By Robert Philpot

In ‘The Equal Parent,’ UK author Paul Morgan-Bentley argues that parents are already sharing the load in rearing kids, which is great for families – now society needs to adapt, too

More Headlines

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen attends an event at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, May 17, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Foreign minister says Israel ‘very optimistic’ on normalization deal with Saudis

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal meet with Arab women who have lost loved ones to violent crime, the President's Residence in Jerusalem, June 25, 2023 (Haim Zach/GPO)

‘A terrible war’: Herzog meets with Arab women who lost loved ones to violent crime

Israelis attend a protest against military service exemptions for ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students and the government's planned judicial overhaul, outside the Kol Torah yeshiva in Jerusalem, May 4, 2023. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Cabinet shields Haredi youth from military draft, 5 days before exemption law expiry

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

European Investment Bank (EIB) Vice President Gelsomina Vigliotti (right) with Alan Tavir, CEO of IDE Technologies Group and European Union Ambassador to Israel Dimiter Tzantchev announce EIB support for Western Galilee desalination project, June 25, 2023. (Courtesy)

EU financial arm to invest €900m in Israel, including Western Galilee desalination

By Sharon Wrobel

Israel Police examine UN employees kits wrongly suspected of containing liquid cocaine, that were allegedly part of an attempt to smuggle drugs into Israel from Jordan on June 25, 2023. (Israel Police)

Police detain 3 UN employees for smuggling liquid cocaine into Israel from Jordan

Joonko founder & CEO Ilit Raz. (Courtesy)

CEO of Israeli-founded AI recruitment startup hit with fraud allegations

By Sharon Wrobel

Robbie Keane attends an LA Galaxy David Beckham statue MLS soccer ceremony at Legends Plaza in front of Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California, March 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

Ex-Ireland, Tottenham soccer star Robbie Keane joins Maccabi Tel Aviv as head coach

Pop icon Christina Aguilera sends a recorded message to Israeli fans ahead of her August 10, 2023, show in Rishon Lezion's Live Park (Courtesy PR)

You are beautifulChristina Aguilera promises ‘unforgettable night’ for 1st Israel show

By Jessica Steinberg

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