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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 28, 2023

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Former MK Yair Golan attends a protest against the government organized by the Movement for Quality Government, in Tel Aviv on December 17, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)

Task force set up by Ben Gvir includes police, Shin Bet reps

Incitement task force to probe Barak, Golan after calls for anti-overhaul uprising

Former prime minister and ex-Knesset member remain defiant in face of possible indictment, vowing to keep fighting against the government’s planned judicial overhaul

Former MK Yair Golan attends a protest against the government organized by the Movement for Quality Government, in Tel Aviv on December 17, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)

Former MK calls on anti-government protesters to use nonviolent ‘illegal acts’

Protesters against the government's planned judicial overhaul, outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's home in Jerusalem, on May 25, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Citing noise, minister asks police to move protesters away from residential areas

By Stuart Winer

Palestinians inspect the damage to a Palestinian house after it was set on fire by extremist Jewish settlers in the West Bank town of Turmus Ayya on June 21, 2023 (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Live updates (closed)

Security officials said to warn settlers further rampages could spark an intifada

Warning sent to community leaders, urging them to restrain volatile elements lest their actions provoke a new Palestinian uprising

6:21 pm

In shock, Israel U-21 soccer team qualifies for European Championship quarter-finals
6:02 pm

Police chief to end term in January amid tensions with Ben Gvir
5:41 pm

Security officials said to warn settlers that further rampages could spark an intifada

Police chief Roni Alsheich and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pictured at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, December 3, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ex-police chief says he thought Netanyahu would resign following criminal indictment

Comments by Roni Alsheich, who oversaw investigation of PM, spark backlash from ministers; then-AG Mandelblit: ‘His words don’t reflect decision-making process’

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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)

In fiery security meeting, Ben Gvir said to defend violent settlers as ‘sweet kids’

National security minister refuses to issue condemnation of recent rampages in Palestinian villages, as Gallant accuses him of paying ‘lip service’ to law and order

Mourners attend the funeral of Nachman Mordoff, 17, who was among four Israelis killed by two Palestinian attackers in the West Bank Israeli settlement of Shilo, Wednesday, June 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Security Council calls for accountability over spiraling West Bank violence

Reporter's notebook

Illegal Evyatar outpost resettled with tacit government approval

Several families have been living at the West Bank site since last week, along with some 30 young men studying at a makeshift yeshiva, under the protection of the IDF

Youths at the illegal West Bank outpost of Evyatar bring in a water tanker, June 22, 2023. (Flash90)

Illustrative: Three pilots stand in front of an F-16 fighter jet as it takes off from the Israeli Air Force's 117th Squadron, which was closed on September 30, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

Over 100 Air Force reservists say they will refuse to serve if overhaul advances

By Emanuel Fabian

Latest letter comes as coalition seeks to pass bill to block judges from exercising judicial review over ‘reasonableness’ of government decisions

Travelers on their way to Ben Gurion Airport, where flights were delayed due to protesters blocking the road to the airport, March 9, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Protest leaders vow to ramp up anti-government demonstrations, blockade airport

Screen capture from video of a man pulling out a pistol during a confrontation with an anti-government protester in Petah Tikva, JUne 26, 2023. (Twitter. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Police arrest man who drew pistol on anti-judicial overhaul protester

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In first, Israel seizes crypto accounts linked to Iran’s Quds Force, Hezbollah

By Emanuel Fabian

Defense minister says operation to confiscate digital wallets with millions of dollars came thanks to new tools developed by Israeli security agencies

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)

IDF says it has identified Palestinian behind West Bank rocket launches

By Emanuel Fabian

Rabbi Israel Goldwasser stands on the tracks leading to the main gate of Auschwitz-Birkenau. (Courtesy of Triumph of the Spirit)

'We are not tourists, we are mourners'

Haredi filmmakers bring Israelis to Auschwitz in virtual reality tour

By Charlie Summers

Designed to promote Holocaust education among the Israeli ultra-Orthodox community, ‘Triumph of the Spirit’ is a 360° guide through the extermination camp

France searches for remains of German soldiers said executed by resistance in WWII

By Thomas SAINT-CRICQ

Antisemitism levels remain high in Germany amid fears of right-wing surge

By Canaan Lidor

Protesters against the government's judicial overhaul, outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem, on May 25, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US, Biden more popular in Israel than almost anywhere else, poll shows

Pew survey finds 87% of Israelis happy with their most important ally, though Biden not yet winning over as many Israelis as Trump and Obama did

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) is greeted by Foreign Minister Eli Cohen at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, January 30, 2023. (Sivan Shahor/GPO)

Blinken says US extremely concerned about settler violence against Palestinians

By Lazar Berman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen at the District Court in Jerusalem to as he arrives to listen to the testimony of businessman Arnon Milchan on June 27, 2023 (Photo by Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 28: Lacking White House invite, PM wangles China trip

Illustrative: A Magen David Adom ambulance. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Father and son killed in Shfaram, taking Arab community death toll to 5 within a day

Fatal shooting of men aged 26 and 61 brings tally of Arab community members killed since the start of the year to 111; gunmen open fire at teen sons of Tuba-Zangariyye mayor

Police and rescuers at the scene of a shooting in Shfaram on June 27, 2023. (Courtesy Magen David Adom)

Three killed, several injured as Arab community rocked by string of shootings

Church of 'Our Lord in the Attic' (Rebeka Mell/Our Lord in the Attic)

History3 Dutch sites have received honor, including Westerbork camp

Why a church in Amsterdam’s Red Light District was hidden even as Jewry flourished

By Matt Lebovic

Catholic church Our Lord in the Attic was forced underground during Golden Age in which Dutch Jews built large synagogues in public. Now it’s nominated for Europe’s Heritage Label

Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron arrives at a cabinet meeting on the state budget at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, February 23, 2023. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool)

Coalition pauses interest rate bill, backing down to central bank pressure

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and Sharon Wrobel

Government to reevaluate after banks next week propose own plans for better consumer terms; Bank of Israel governor had called bill a ‘serious blow’ to central bank independence

Knesset members vote on candidates for the Judicial Selection Committee on June 14, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

After vote torpedoed, Knesset to fill second MK spot on judicial panel on July 12

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Opponents of the government's judicial overhaul plans protest outside Justice Minister Yariv Levin's home in Modiin, June 27, 2023. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)

US envoy predicts Netanyahu won’t advance entire overhaul due to ‘dramatic’ reaction

Screen capture from video of National Unity MK Sharren Haskel, left, wearing her baby daughter in a sling, and Deputy Knesset Speaker of Shas, Uriel Buso, in the Knesset, June 27, 2023. (Twitter. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Lawmaker prevented from addressing Knesset while holding her baby daughter

By Stuart Winer

Deputy speaker consults legal authorities, tells National Unity’s Sharren Haskel only MKs are permitted to stand at podium; she pans decision as ‘terrible, humiliating’

In this courtroom sketch, Erich Smith testifies June 13, 2023, in Pittsburgh, in the federal trial of Robert Bowers, accused of shooting to death 11 worshippers in a synagogue in 2018. (AP Photo/David Klug)

Doctors in court split over brain damage claim for Pittsburgh synagogue shooter

Experts shown scans of convicted killer’s brain say it looks normal, but physicians testifying for defense in death penalty case claim Robert Bowers suffered from mental illness

Illustrative: Marchers hold transgender pride fans as they help carry a large rainbow flag at the annual Seattle Pride Parade, in Seattle, Washington, June 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Online hate in US spikes against LGBTQ community, Black people, Muslims — ADL poll

Antisemites hang a banner over a Los Angeles freeway declaring 'Kanye is right about the Jews' next to another advertising the Goyim Defense League's Goyim TV website. (Oren Segal, via Twitter/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Reported hate crimes in California rise 20% in 2022, says state data

By STEFANIE DAZIO

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Two people embrace as they march during the 21st annual Jerusalem Pride Parade in Jerusalem on June 1, 2023. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Homophobic conference held in Jerusalem after two locales refuse to host

Female soldiers operate a tank in the Negev desert in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)

High Court orders IDF to explain why not all elite units are open to female soldiers

Lazio's Toma Basic seen with the number '88' on his shirt during a Serie A soccer match between Lazio and Sasusolo at Rome's Olympic Stadium, in Rome, Italy, May 3, 2023. (Gregorio Borgia/AP)

Italy bans number 88 from soccer shirts in drive against antisemitism

Illustrative: Russian police guard outside the Israeli embassy in Moscow, on September 18, 2018. (AFP/Vasily Maximov)

Russia summons Israeli envoy for rebuke over comments by ambassador to Ukraine

By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

Sisters Nicole Meyer (L), Elly Sapper (C) and Dassi Erlich (R) leave the County Court in Melbourne on April 3, 2023, after the trial of former school principal Malka Leifer. (William WEST / AFP)

At sentencing hearing, sisters say Malka Leifer’s sex abuse scarred them ‘forever’

New York City Mayor Eric Adams attends a a news conference, October 11, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

New York mayor forms first-ever Jewish advisory council

Screen capture from video of Jewish Conservative party London mayoral candidate Daniel Korski, June 2023. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Daniel Korski, rising star in UK Conservative Party, accused of groping woman

By JTA and ToI Staff

File: A sign marks the entrance of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, October 20, 2010. (Josh Reynolds/AP)

Orthodox Brandeis students slam ad calling university ‘anything but Orthodox’

By Jackie Hajdenberg

David Corenswet, left, on Aug. 16, 2022, at the Tudum Theater in Los Angeles, and Rachel Brosnahan right, on June 12, 2023, at the 16th annual Chanel Tribeca Artists Dinner at Balthazar in New York. (Chris Pizzello, left, Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, right)

Super castingThe Jewish roots of DC’s newest ‘Superman’

By ToI Staff and AP

Award-winning actress Shira Haas joins cast of 'Night Therapy,' new Yes Studio drama, in production June 2023 (Courtesy Eyal Nevo)

Script treatmentShira Haas, Yousef Sweid star in new drama ‘Night Therapy’

By Jessica Steinberg

Members of heavy metal band Disturbed from Chicago, arriving at Ben Gurion International Airport, and will perform June 28, 2023 at Expo Tel Aviv (Courtesy PR)

Not so silentChicago heavy metal band Disturbed arrives in Israel for sold-out show

By Jessica Steinberg

James Crown attends The Aspen Institute's 33rd Annual Awards Dinner at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, Nov. 3, 2016. (Jared Siskin/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images/JTA)

ObituaryLeading Chicago Jewish philanthropist James Crown dies in racetrack crash

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

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