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What Matters Most On Saturday, July 8, 2023

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IAF reservist injured in eye at overhaul protest says he won’t serve ‘dictatorship’

Former pilot Udi Ori dismisses ‘completely false’ claim he lost his eye after taking direct hit from water cannon on Tel Aviv highway, hopes to regain sight after further surgeries

Brothers in Arms member Udi Ori at the hospital on July 7, 2023, after suffering an eye injury when taking a direct hit from a water cannon during a protest against the judicial overhaul in Tel Aviv on July 5, 2023. (Courtesy)

A screenshot from video of a man attacking anti-government protesters near Likud MK Shalom Danino's home in the southern town of Omer, July 7, 2023. (Twitter. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

2 detained for assaulting anti-overhaul protesters near Likud MK’s home

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)

Day of action set for Tues. if reasonableness bill advances

Protests ramp up for 27th week as bill to curtail judicial oversight set for 1st vote

Demonstrations being held nationwide Saturday night as 1st piece of overhaul legislation set for initial Knesset vote on Monday; Yuval Noah Harari among speakers at Tel Aviv rally

Report: Reasonableness bill could be used to skew elections

Justice officials to attend cabinet, face down pressure to quash protests – report

In unusual move, all top Justice Ministry officials to attend meeting amid concerns of government pressure on police, legal system to suppress anti-overhaul rallies on its behalf

Israeli border police officers work to disperse demonstrators against the judicial overhaul at Ben Gurion Airport, July 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses the media during a visit to the UN office in Nairobi, Kenya, May 3, 2023. (AP/Khalil Senosi, File)

UN chief dismisses Israeli demand he retract accusation of excessive force in Jenin

Spokesperson for Antonio Guterres says he ‘stands by’ allegation against IDF, after Israeli envoy decried statement as ‘detached from reality’

Israeli security forces argue with Israeli settlers at the entrance to the West Bank village of Turmus Ayya on the day that Jewish extremists set fire to homes and vehicles in the town, June 21, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Settler leaders fume at IDF head after he says he discussed settler rioting with them

From the KKK to the rabbinate

George Caudill, now Rabbi Steinberg-Caudill, made a remarkable journey from the abhorrent teachings of the Klan

Of Pride flags and rainbow cookies

Do two Orthodox communities in New Jersey believe that being LGBTQ+ is a communicable condition?

Palestinians take part in the funeral of two gunmen who were killed in an Israeli army operation, in Nablus, in the West Bank, on July 7, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Cabinet reportedly set to discuss measures to boost teetering Palestinian Authority

Ministers will weigh economic, travel, security steps to stabilize West Bank during Sunday meeting, amid fears the government in Ramallah could collapse, reports say

Illustrative: Israeli security forces in Kfar Qaddum, near the West Bank city of Nablus, October 7, 2022. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Palestinian shot dead by Israeli troops during West Bank clashes

By Emanuel Fabian

Robert Malley, the Biden's administration special envoy for Iran, waits to testify about the Iran nuclear deal during a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations on Capitol Hill in Washington, on May 25, 2022. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/File)

US envoy to Iran under FBI investigation over handling of classified info — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Internal probe into Rob Malley turned over to federal agency, US news outlet Semafor reports, after he was put on leave amid security clearance review

Workers clean up the scene following an armed attack at the Shah Cheragh mausoleum in the Iranian city of Shiraz, in which 15 people were killed, on October 26, 2022. (ISNA NEWS AGENCY/AFP)

Iran publicly hangs 2 over deadly shooting at Shiraz shrine claimed by Islamic State

By AFP

A view of Zahedan, Iran. (CC BY-SA Guvuvguffxtx/Wikimedia Commons)

Militants attack police station in southeast Iran, kill 2, state TV says

By AP

Election posters hung by the Blue and White party show its candidate Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a Hebrew slogan reading 'Netanyahu cares only for himself,' ahead of the 2020 elections. (Miriam Alster/ FLASH90/ File)

In reversal, Netanyahu beats Gantz in head-to-head race for premiership in TV poll

For first time in months, more respondents tell Channel 12 that incumbent PM is better suited for post than National Unity party leader

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Kirsten Grieshaber

‘We’ve seen this before’: Growing fears after German county elects far-right leader

After win last month by member of ‘proven right-wing extremist’ AfD branch, Jewish head of Thuringia domestic intelligence agency says will emigrate if party joins state gov’t

A election campaign poster of far-right AfD candidate Robert Sesselmann remains at a street at the outskirts of the small city Sonneberg at the German federal state Thuringia, July 5, 2023 (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Netherland's Prime Minister Mark Rutte listens to a question during a press conference after talks with Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic and Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel at the Serbia Palace, in Belgrade, Serbia, July 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Dutch government collapses over bitter migration dispute

By Danny Kemp and Jan Hennop

A photograph taken on July 3, 2022 shows an tail section of a 300mm rocket which appear to contained cluster bombs launched from a BM-30 Smerch multiple rocket launcher embedded in the ground after shelling in Kramatorsk, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Genya Savilov/AFP)

US to send cluster bombs to Ukraine; Biden defends supplying controversial munition

By Zeke Miller, TARA COPP and Lolita C. Baldor

Washington says Kyiv vowed to use weapons carefully; US to send version with reduced ‘dud rate,’ meaning fewer smaller bomblets fail to explode, later cause unintended deaths

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in video of visit to Snake Island, released on July 8, 2023 (Screen grab)

Zelensky marks 500 days of war with video of visit to symbol of defiance Snake Island

Illustrative: a man takes a photo of a multicoloured cake in a window display of a cake shop. (AP Photo/Paul White)

'Pride symbols are antithetical to what we stand for'

NJ Jews reel after kosher baker rejects synagogue’s order for rainbow Pride treats

By Andrew Lapin

When the West Orange Bake Shop wouldn’t supply cupcakes supporting the LGBTQ community, a firestorm ensued – which the Orthodox owner says is fueling more divisiveness

A vehicle carrying pride flags is set ablaze in Hod Hasharon on July 7, 2023. (Courtesy)

Vehicle carrying pride flags torched in Tel Aviv suburb, in suspected hate crime

Hod Hasharon mayor says baseless hate that led to Second Temple’s destruction to blame, orders more flags to hang up around city

Bar Refaeli poses for photographers at a Paris fashion show, February 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Man arrested for breaking into Bar Refaeli’s family home, demanding to meet her

Suspected allegedly threatened to murder someone if not granted an audience with the model, who wasn’t in the area

STEMpower founder Mark Gelfand at a STEM center in Africa in an undated photograph. (courtesy)

Interview'Do a small project, see how it does, then do a bigger one'

How a Boston-based retired physicist is spreading the gospel of science in Africa

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

To explain why he’s founded over 100 hands-on labs in sub-Sahara Africa, Mark Gelfand points to Hebrew school classes and a natural curiosity for the workings of the world

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Yitzhak Shamir, pictured in 1992. (photo credit: Flash90)

No government ministers attend state memorial for former Likud PM Shamir

Keshet UK's 'False Flag' remake "Suspicion" starring Uma Thurman, part of the Israeli production company's international successes (Courtesy PR)

Keshet sells British media firm, will put profits into new content

By Jessica Steinberg

British actor/author Simon Callow on August 5, 2019 at the Samuel Goldwyn theatre in Beverly Hills. (Chris Delmas/AFP)

‘Four Weddings’ star Simon Callow lambasts UK theaters for trigger warnings

Illustrative photo of a US-made Reaper drone. (Dominique Faget/AFP)

IS-linked fighter in Syria killed in apparent US drone strike

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