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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 6, 2023

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Anti-government protesters raise flags and light a fire on the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv, following the resignation of Tel Aviv police chief Ami Eshed, on July 5, 2023. (Oren Ziv/AFP)

Mounted police, water cannon in J'lem; protests at 40 locales

Thousands take to the streets, block roads after Tel Aviv police chief steps down

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff

Ayalon blocked for hours; at least 27 held nationwide; 1 injured as driver rams through protest; Eshed says he lost his job for refusing to use disproportionate force to curb demos

Protesters against the judicial overhaul block Route 4, July 6, 2023 (Screen grab from Twitter used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Protesters block key highway as anti-overhaul demonstrations show no sign of easing

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a discussion about the state budget, during a Finance Committee meeting at the Knesset, July 3, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich backs brother’s support for driver who plowed through Tel Aviv protesters

Israelis protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul outside the house of Economy Minister Nir Barkat, in Jerusalem, July 6, 2023. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

AG warns government against attempts to influence police response to protests

Justice Minister Yariv Levin hits back, claiming ‘selective enforcement’; at least 5 arrested as anti-overhaul protesters gather outside minister’s homes nationwide, blocking roads

7:34 pm

Ehud Barak: If 'reasonableness' bill becomes law, pilots and special ops should refuse to serve
6:38 pm

Fatality in Kedumim shooting named as IDF soldier Shilo Yosef Amir
6:35 pm

In rare statement, Hamas claims responsibility for string of recent deadly attacks

Explosions are seen in Lebanon following IDF artillery strikes in response to a rocket fired at northern Israel, July 6, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter)

IDF: Anti-tank missile from Lebanon explodes near border, artillery returns fire

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says projectile landed in Israeli territory, close to northern village of Ghajar; at least 15 shells fired in response

Flares of Syrian air defense rockets are seen in the sky of Damascus on April 4, 2023. (STRINGER / AFP)

Report: Israeli Air Force hit targets near Damascus overnight

By Emanuel Fabian

National Unity party head Benny Gantz speaks during a press conference in Ramat Gan, July 6, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Gantz pleads with Netanyahu to renew judicial overhaul talks, halt legislative push

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Opposition party leader says negotiations are necessary for ‘the prevention of bloodshed,’ while Likud argues his aim is solely to ‘waste more time’

Ultra-Orthodox Jews clash with police as they protest against the arrest of Haredi men who failed to comply with their army draft, in Jerusalem, December 22, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Watchdog petitions High Court to order government to enforce Haredi draft

Israelis block the Ayalon Highway during a protest against the Israeli government's planned judicial overhaul and in response to the removal of Tel Aviv District Commander Amichai Eshed in Tel Aviv, July 5, 2023. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jul 6: Trifecta of ramped-up overhaul legislation, protests and police

An undated photo of Elizabeth Tsurkov (from elizabeth-tsurkov.net)

Israeli researcher abducted in Iraq by radical Shiite militia

By Gianluca Pacchiani, Tal Schneider and Lazar Berman

Elizabeth Tsurkov entered Iraq on her Russian passport in March, Prime Minister’s Office announces; says it holds Iraq ‘responsible for her fate and safety’

From left to right: Avera Mengistu's mother Agarnesh Mengistu, his sister Tsige Engidaw, Lt. Hadar Goldin's mother Leah Goldin, First Sergeant Oron Shaul's brother Ofek Shaul, Hisham Al-Sayed's father Shaaban Al-Sayed and mother Manal Al-Sayed pose in front of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva, on July 5, 2023. - (GABRIEL MONNET / AFP)

Families of Israelis held in Gaza visit Geneva, seeking help from UN, Red Cross

By AFP and ToI Staff

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Anatomy of a power vacuum: How sewage and import rules stoke West Bank conflict

Part of the story of escalating violence is as boring as it is devastating: Bureaucratic ineptitude, driven by the lack of democracy in areas under its control

A Palestinian man looks out the window as smoke billows following an Israeli drone strike in the West Bank city of Jenin, on July 3, 2023. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Op-ed

Jenin op highlights need for West Bank strategy; instead, we’re back to the overhaul

After limited incursion, rather than focus on long-term plan to prevent anarchy and worse in West Bank, coalition again prioritizing its divisive obsession with neutering judiciary

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)

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)

Gallant: Goals of Jenin op fully achieved, most gunmen fled or hid among civilians

The remarkable, quiet lives of rich Sarah and old Serah

The Torah portion spends few words on a woman who, unlike Zelophehad’s daughters, got her due without a fuss

‘Reasonableness’ keeps government power in check

Canceling this judicial tool would lift yet another barrier to unlimited power and open the door for rampant corruption

‘A man with a heart of gold’: Soldier killed in Jenin operation laid to rest

Thousands attend Mount Herzl funeral, where David Yitzhak eulogized as modest comrade who ‘saw everyone’s trouble as if it was his own’

Israelis attend the funeral of IDF soldier David Yehuda Yitzchak who was killed in Jenin, at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on July 5, 2023. (Beit El Municipality)

BBC apologizes for inappropriate language in its questioning

BBC anchor to ex-Israeli PM on Jenin op: ‘Israeli forces are happy to kill children?’

Naftali Bennett says all the Palestinians killed in West Bank incursion were combatants. ‘Terrorists — but children,’ responds interviewer Anjana Gadgil

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett (right) in a BBC interview during which anchor Anjana Gadgil put it to him him that the Israel Defense Forces 'are happy to kill children' in the Jenin operation, July 4, 2023. (Youtube screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Dr. Ohad Einav and Ziv Asa with 12-year-old Suleiman Hassan at Hadassah Medical Center following his recovery after surgery to reattach his head to his neck after he suffered internal decapitation in an accident. (Courtesy of Hadassah Medical Center)

Father: I'll thank you all my life for saving my dear only son

Hadassah surgeons reattach boy’s head to his neck after internal decapitation

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Suleiman, 12, who was hit by a car while riding his bicycle, undergoes extremely rare operation after his ligaments were broken, base of skull severed from spine’s top vertebra

A woman uses a long-sleeve shirt to shield from the sun as she walks at an outdoor shopping mall on a sweltering day in Beijing, July 6, 2023. (Andy Wong/AP)

For third day in row, Earth’s average temperature hits record high

By Seth Borenstein and MELINA WALLING

Temperature average 17.18 Celsius (62.9 degrees Fahrenheit), watchdog says, with records broken in Quebec and Peru, heat advisories issued in many US regions

View of the port in the northern city of Haifa, July 31, 2022. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

Using electric algae, ancient proteins and more, start-ups seek to green the sea

US Embassy in Jerusalem, October 27, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Tired of long waits and hefty fees, Israelis hope US will lift visa requirements

By Deborah Danan

Acceptance into the Visa Waiver Program would add US to list of 126 countries that Israelis can enter without a visa

The parents of Iyad Halak, an autistic Palestinian man who was fatally shot by Israeli police, Khiri, right, and mother Rana, talk during an interview in Jerusalem, June 3, 2020. (Mahmoud Illean/AP)

Jerusalem border cop cleared of wrongdoing for killing autistic Palestinian in 2020

Officer acquitted of manslaughter for shooting Iyad Halak after mistaking phone for gun; court says its ‘heart is with deceased’s family,’ but believes policeman perceived threat

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Deputy Speaker Likud MK Nissim Vaturi at the plenum hall of the Knesset, on June 26, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Deputy speaker rebuffs Knesset legal adviser who chided him for not being evenhanded

Businessman Arnon Milchan seen on a screen before his testimony in Netanyahu's Case 1000 corruption trial, in Brighton, on July 3, 2023. (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL/Flash90)

Judges in Netanyahu trial to review Milchan’s account to police amid testimony gaps

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Israeli delegation consisting of members of the Israeli Chambers of Commerce, Manufacturers Association and Export Institute on a visit to Dubai, November 2020 (Manufacturers Association of Israel)

Israel and UAE sign agreement to expand industrial cooperation and investment

By Sharon Wrobel

In this courtroom sketch, Robert Bowers, the suspect in the 2018 synagogue massacre, is on trial in federal court in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on May 30, 2023. (David Klug via AP)

Mental illness played no role in Pittsburgh synagogue massacre — prosecution expert

By AP

Supporters of Shiite Muslim leader Moqtada Sadr burn a rainbow flag outside the Swedish embassy in Baghdad, after they breached the building over the burning of the Quran by an Iraqi living in Sweden, on June 29, 2023. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)

After Quran, request filed with Swedish police to burn Torah outside Israeli embassy

Undated photo of Walid Subahi Natur. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Two men shot dead within hours as wave of homicides continues

ProteVin, a vegan, yeast-based non-GMO fermented protein powder. (Courtesy)

Israeli vegan protein startup inks manufacturing deal in India

By Sharon Wrobel

Illustrative: A picture taken on July 21, 2015, in Malta shows the Azure Window, a limestone arch on Gozo island (Amélie BOTTOLIER-DEPOIS / AFP)

Israeli tourist dies in diving accident in Malta

Illustrative: View of a construction site in the city of Gedera, February 3, 2022. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Construction worker killed in fall in southern Israel

England's Anthony Gordon, center, fights for the ball with Israel's Stav Lemkin, left, and Israel's Karm Jaber during the Euro 2023 U-21 Championship semifinal soccer match at the Batumi Arena stadium in Batumi, Georgia, Wednesday, July 5, 2023.(AP/Tamuna Kulumbegashvili)

England dashes Israel’s hopes of reaching Under-21 Euro finals with 3-0 win

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