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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 5, 2023

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Smoke rises during an Israeli military raid of the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, July 4, 2023.; Inset: Sgt. First Class David Yehuda Yitzhak, killed during the operation. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed; Israel Defense Forces)

IDF probing if soldier killed by so-called 'friendly fire'

Soldier killed as major Jenin operation winds down, all troops leave West Bank city

By Emanuel Fabian

Sgt. First Class David Yehuda Yitzhak shot as troops begin pulling out, declared dead at hospital in Israel; forces strike gunmen waiting on outskirts

An Israeli armored vehicle is stationed at the end of a blocked-off street during an ongoing military operation in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank on July 4, 2023. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Military begins withdrawing forces from Jenin after 44 hours of fighting

By Emanuel Fabian

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits at an army base near the West Bank city of Jenin, July 4, 2023. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 5: Netanyahu ‘mows the lawn’ in two-day Jenin operation

Five rockets fired from Gaza at south, intercepted by Iron Dome — IDF

By Emanuel Fabian

No injuries in attack at tail end of military raid in Jenin, but home hit by interceptor shrapnel; fire first since May 14 truce ending 5-day flareup with Islamic Jihad

Illustrative: Shrapnel rains down over southern Israel, near the city of Sderot, after five rockets launched from the Gaza Strip are intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system, July 5, 2023. (Courtesy)

Smoke and flames rise above buildings after Israeli air airstrikes in Gaza City, on July 5, 2023. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Israel strikes Gaza after rocket attack as fighting shifts following Jenin offensive

By Emanuel Fabian

A rocket fragment that hit a home in Sdeort, July 5, 2023. (Sderot Municipality. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Fragment from Gaza rocket interception crashes into kids’ paddling pool in Sderot

Palestinians walk on a damaged road in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, July 5, 2023, after the Israeli army withdrew its forces from the terror stronghold. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinians grapple with large-scale damage in Jenin following Israeli withdrawal

By ToI Staff and Agencies

As counter-terror operation ends, thousands of refugee camp residents start returning and others emerge from their homes to find roads torn up, vehicles and buildings destroyed

People flee the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank during an ongoing Israeli military operation on July 4, 2023. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Jenin residents describe fleeing their homes during IDF’s operation

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Damage is seen caused to a store in the Samaritan community of Mount Gerizim, close to Nablus in the northern West Bank, following a drive-by shooting attack, July 5, 2023. (Courtesy)

Palestinian gunmen fire at police vehicle, store in Samaritan community near Nablus

By Emanuel Fabian

New Olim in the Nefesh B'Nefesh office (Credit: Yonit Schiller)

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Analysis

IDF set clear goals for Jenin op, though any substantial impact remains to be seen

Military aimed to restore deterrence in northern West Bank city for future, smaller operations; Palestinian gunmen showed little resistance when facing large number of forces

Right: Palestinian gunmen fire at Israeli forces in Jenin on July 3, 2023. Left: IDF troops are seen operating in the West Bank city, July 4, 2023. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP; Israel Defense Forces)

Demonstrators protest against an Israeli counter-terror operation in Jenin, in Haifa, July 4, 2023. (Israel Police)

7 arrested as protesters against Jenin operation clash with police in Haifa

United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk answers AFP journalists' questions during an interview at his office, in Geneva, on January 4, 2023. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)

Violence in Israel, West Bank ‘must stop,’ UN rights chief says

By AFP and ToI Staff

MK Simcha Rothman leads a Knesset Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee discussion, June 25, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset panel advances bill to end ‘reasonableness’ test for politicians’ decisions

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Opposition MKs call committee chair Rothman a ‘dictator’ as he pushes through hardline version of judiciary-weakening bill after 5 discussions in 9 days, ignores expert criticism

MK Aryeh Deri seen during a vote on the judge-picking panel at the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, June 14, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset passes law nixing time-out for appointed mayors, boosting Deri associate

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff

Mounted Israeli police officers try to disperse anti-government protesters on the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv on July 5, 2023. (OREN ZIV / AFP)

Live updates (closed)Demonstrations at dozens of locations nationwide

15 arrests as protesters block Ayalon after TLV police chief removed; 10 held elsewhere

Thousands descend on highway as Ben Gvir blasts departing Amichai Eshed, who says he’s paid the price for choosing ‘to prevent civil war’; man arrested for driving into protesters

9:45 pm

Most protesters removed from Ayalon; 2 women hurt in Jerusalem; 25 arrests nationwide
9:16 pm

Fifteen arrests in Tel Aviv, four in Jerusalem
8:15 pm

3 arrests on Ayalon as protest swells; mounted police deployed in Jerusalem

The season of purple thorns

Nature is strong and exposed in Israel: Spring bombards us with its fleeting wonders, even as we shift to summer

Elizabeth Brenner Danziger

The breached walls of history – and healing

Had nothing in my life gone wrong when it did, I’d be a different person. Likewise, without exile and Diaspora, who would we Jews have become?

Two women still sedated and in serious condition after Tel Aviv terror attack

Mother of one of the women: ‘I had a bad feeling. She didn’t answer the telephone, and the bad feelings got worse’; 4 others still hospitalized

Police and rescue services at the scene of a car-ramming terror attack in north Tel Aviv on June 4, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir chairs a faction meeting of his far-right Otzma Yehudit party at the Knesset on June 26, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir says Tel Aviv attack response justifies his push for more guns for civilians

Newly elected head of the Israel Bar Association Amit Becher, center, with members of the IBA's election committee during a press conference in Tel Aviv, June 21, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Knesset passes preliminary reading of bill to sap Bar Association of key powers

By Michael Bachner

Weeks after government opponent elected as IBA head, legislation would hand its seats on politically fraught judge-selecting panel to a new body controlled by the government

Justice Minister Yariv Levin addresses the Knesset, July 5, 2023 (Screenshot: YouTube)

Levin calls current system for picking judges ‘distorted’ and ‘absurd’

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Anti-overhaul protesters target ultraconservative, influential Jerusalem yeshiva

Demonstrators say Har Hamor, headed by Rabbi Zvi Tau, ‘symbolizes the messianic stream that is leading the regime coup’; one protester arrested in attempt to disrupt traffic

Refugees from Ukraine arrive in Budapest, Hungary on in March 2022. The photo is part of the 'Am I My Brother's Keeper' exhibition curated by Yitzhak Mais. (courtesy)

'An emergence from helplessness'

New exhibition lifts Jewish rescue efforts in Ukraine out of the war’s shadow

By Canaan Lidor

The exhibit is the first attempt at an overview of a rare moment of empowerment amid a tragedy

Zelensky says Russia planning ‘dangerous provocations’ at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

By AFP

Switzerland, Austria to join European air defense project using Israel’s Arrow 3

By AP

An Israeli attempts to break onto a flight in Istanbul, July 4, 2023. (Screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

3 Israelis arrested in Turkey for trying to break onto missed flight

Father, 2 sons forcefully open bridge leading from gate to plane, jump down to runway in attempt to halt takeoff

Israel plans to build a subsea electricity cable that can be connected to power grids in Europe and Gulf states. (Courtesy)

Israel plans to build undersea electricity cable linking to grids in Europe and Gulf

By Sharon Wrobel

The proposed 150km subsea electricity cable will run along Israel’s Mediterranean coast from Ashkelon in the south to Haifa in the north

A woman takes pictures by a fountain at a public garden in Lisbon, as the sun sets, Monday, July 3, 2023. (AP/Armando Franca)

Monday was world’s hottest day ever recorded, US data shows

By AFP

Global temperature breaks 17 Celsius (62.6 F) threshold for first time since measurements began; record expected to be broken soon as summer heats up in northern hemisphere

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Leonid Krasnov, a Jewish Uranian soldier killed on the frontlines of the Ukraine-Russia war in early July 2023, in an undated photo. (Picture from Facebook used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Ukraine Jewish soldier decorated for bravery by Zelensky, killed in Donetsk explosion

Signing of financial closure of purple light rail project from right to left: Shapir Group CEO Israel Shapira, CAF CEO of Integrated Solutions Systems Urtzi Montalvo, NTA - Metropolitan Mass Transit System CEO Haim Glick, and HSBC Israel CEO Michael Israel, July 4, 2023. (NTA)

HSBC and Leumi to provide $1.1 billion in financing for Tel Aviv purple light rail

By Sharon Wrobel

Illustrative: A police car at the scene of a crime. (Israel Police)

Two men shot to death in northern towns amid unrelenting crime wave

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands inside a glass cage before a hearing on his appeal against his extended detention, at the Moscow City Court, in Moscow on June 22, 2023. (Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP)

Russia hints at possible prisoner swap for jailed Jewish journalist Evan Gershkovich

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Sarit Ahmad, 18, whose brothers arranged for her murder due to her sexual orientation. She was shot to death in northern Israel on June 9, 2023. (Social media: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

5 suspects arrested over murder of LGBTQ teenage girl last month

Liberian President George Weah meets Foreign Minister Eli Cohen in Jerusalem, July 4, 2023. (Miri Shimonovich/GPO)

Visiting Jerusalem, Liberian president vows to open embassy in Israel

Rabbi Reuven Yaacobov speaks about the weekly Torah portion in this screenshot from a video posted on June 8, 2023. (YouTube screenshot)

Rabbinical court delays ruling on Berlin rabbi accused of sexual misconduct

By Toby Axelrod

Former Times of Israel correspondent Judah Ari Gross, second right, receives a certificate of merit from B'nai B'rith World Center for his reporting on Diaspora Jewry, in Jerusalem,July 4, 2023. (Bruno Charbit)

Reporters recognized in annual awards ceremony for Diaspora journalism

By Charlie Summers

An outside view of Christ Church Cathedral, Anglican Gothic cathedral in Montreal, Canada, June 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Anglican Church of Canada finalizes removal of prayer wishing for conversion of Jews

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Surfers carry their board during the sunset at Kuta beach in Bali, Indonesia on June 24, 2023. (Firdia Lisnawati/AP)

Indonesia won’t host beach games, months after losing soccer event over Israel ban

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Beauticians put makeup on customers at Ms. Sadat's Beauty Salon in Kabul, Afghanistan, April 25, 2021. (Rahmat Gul/AP)

Taliban outlaw women’s beauty salons in Afghanistan

Illustrative: The White House in Washington, DC, July 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Suspicious powder found at White House said to be cocaine

By Colleen Long and MICHAEL BALSAMO

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