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What Matters Most On Sunday, July 9, 2023

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Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, Sunday, July 9, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool Photo via AP)

Police chief: No officers harmed in six months of protests

Ministers castigate AG at cabinet meeting, demand protest crackdown, urge her removal

By Jeremy Sharon

Baharav-Miara berated; ministers say she’s soft on anti-overhaul demos, backs protesters; AG: Hope gov’t isn’t seeking to overrule police, set arrest quotas; Gantz: A horror show

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 9, 2023. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Live updates (closed)

Security cabinet approves steps to ‘prevent collapse’ of Palestinian Authority

Proposals said to be backed by security establishment and include economic, travel and security measures aimed at stabilizing Ramallah leadership

6:33 pm

Netanyahu's coalition still projected to fall short of majority in future elections
6:16 pm

After first readings tomorrow, bill to cancel 'reasonableness' yardstick to go to committee on Tuesday
5:34 pm

Security cabinet votes in favor of steps to 'prevent PA's collapse'

The Big shopping center in Yehud on May 4, 2021 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Mall chain threatens strike if bill to curtail judicial oversight clears first vote

By Alexander Fulbright

Lapid urges Histadrut labor federation to call general strike as overhaul opponents prepare to demonstrate Tuesday against coalition’s renewed push to weaken judiciary

A demonstrator from the 'Pink Front' group lights a flare while others in a marching band perform with drums during a protest against the Israeli government's judicial overhaul plan in Tel Aviv on July 8, 2023. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

As rallies surge, protesters warn leaders ‘will learn what happens when we’re angry’

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L-R: Incoming commander of the IDF Southern Command Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman, IDF chief Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, and outgoing head of the Southern Command Maj. Gen. Eliezer Toledano, at the unit's base in Beersheba, July 9, 2023. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

IDF chief Halevi says reservists ‘don’t have the right’ to refuse to show up for duty

By Emanuel Fabian

With renewed threats by reserve soldiers over judicial overhaul, military chief says IDF must remain ready amid heightened tensions across region

Reservists protest against the government's judicial overhaul, outside the home of Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in Moshav Amikam, on July 8, 2023 (Shir Torem/Flash90)

Reservists rally overnight at Gallant home, hoping he’ll intervene on overhaul again

Analysis

The reason for reasonableness: A doctrine at the heart of the overhaul explained

Proponents of limiting the courts’ use of the ‘reasonableness’ measure say it has hitherto enabled rule by judiciary; opponents say it’s a vital bulwark against government abuse

A vote is held in the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee on the government's bill to limit the courts' use of the reasonableness doctrine, July 4, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israelis protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul, outside the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on July 8, 2023 (Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 9: Protests heat up with overhaul bill up for first vote Monday

Tali Reiner Brodetzki

Protesting a Kohelet funder who’s a Hartman donor is not ‘dangerous overreach’

The institute promotes pluralism, open debate, and civil discourse, so why defame us for upholding those exact values?

What ancient rabbis knew about nonbinary genders

’Tumtums,’ ’androgynos’ and ’aylonot’ suggest the sages knew there were categories beyond ‘male’ and ‘female’

Far-right ministers vow to oppose measures aimed at shoring up Palestinian Authority

Smotrich rules out ‘financial concessions’ to PA amid reported concerns over its potential collapse in West Bank; Ben Gvir slams ‘delusional’ plan

Far-right leaders Itamar Ben Gvir (left) and Bezalel Smotrich at the Knesset on December 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)

European Union representative to the Palestinian territories Sven Kuehn von Burgsdorff speaks to reporters as he and a delegation of international envoys visit the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, on July 8, 2023. (Zain JAAFAR/AFP)

EU envoy tours Jenin refugee camp, says IDF operation violated international law

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The parents of Iyad Halak, an autistic Palestinian man killed in a police shooting in Jerusalem's Old City, at the protest against the judicial overhaul outside the President's Residence in Jerusalem, July 9, 2023. (Iddo Schejter/Times of Israel)

Family of autistic Palestinian killed by cop attend Jerusalem anti-overhaul rally

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Israel, July 9, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool Photo via AP)

PM: Selective law enforcement at different protests is ‘fatal wound’ to democracy

Premier makes comments ahead of cabinet meeting with top police and legal officials on policy regarding police activity at rallies against judicial overhaul

Likud MK David Amsalem (left) reacts during a discussion and a vote on the state budget at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Amsalem calls to arrest anti-overhaul protest leaders, oust AG and probe ex-PM Barak

Israel's national team at the 2023 FIFAe World Cup in an interview in Riyadh, July 8, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli national team lands in Saudi Arabia for FIFA’s video game World Cup

By Michael Horovitz

Three gamers, trainer, and deputy manager allowed into country after coordination with international soccer organization and Riyadh

Israeli soldiers guard on the border with Lebanon, May 16, 2023. (Ayal Margolin/ Flash90)

Around 30 Lebanese soldiers, Hezbollah members crossed briefly into Israeli territory

Mostly armed, uniformed troops, with handful of unarmed terror group activists, said to have spent 20 minutes over boundary last week; IDF asked UNIFIL to expel them

AnalysisWhy Hezbollah is obsessed with Mount Dov, and how Israel has shifted its approach

By Amir Bar Shalom

A Syrian national flag waves as vehicles move slowly on a bridge during rush hour, in Damascus, Syria, on February 28, 2016. (Hassan Ammar/AP)

Syria revokes BBC media accreditation for ‘misleading reports’

By AFP

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

The David's Sling system (Defense Ministry)

Air Force successfully tests ‘expanded capability’ of David’s Sling defense system

By Emanuel Fabian

Months after first real-world interceptions during flareup with Gaza, IAF says missile defense system will ‘significantly improve air defense layers’

Robots are presented during a press conference with a panel of AI-enabled humanoid social robots as part of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) 'AI for Good' global summit in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, July 07, 2023. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

Human-looking robots tell UN they could run world better, but won’t rebel

By Robin MILLARD

At Geneva confab, robots say humans should proceed with caution when embracing artificial intelligence and admit they can’t — yet — grasp human emotions

'Who was the genius who booked two opposing groups?'

How a US Jewish group and the right-wing Moms for Liberty shared a conference hotel

By Jackie Hajdenberg

When the Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs learned the conservative group supporting book bans would share their space, it was too late to change plans – but cooler heads prevailed

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A Hatzalah ambulance in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York (photo credit: Tariqabjotu/Wikimedia Commons)

Israeli student stabbed in Crown Heights in suspected hate crime

By ToI Staff and Luke Tress

Farouk Khamis, 23, who was shot to death in Nazareth, June 8, 2023. (Twitter screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Nazareth shooting brings this year’s Arab death toll to 116, matching total for 2022

Hadas Klein at the witness stand in the Jerusalem District Court for the trial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, July 12, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Man arrested for death threat to key witness in Netanyahu’s trial and her family

Ben & Jerry's ice cream on sale at a shop in Jerusalem, on July 19, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben & Jerry’s sees boycott call after July 4 appeal to return ‘stolen indigenous land’

This image provided by Eisai in January 2023 shows vials and packaging for their medication, Leqembi (Eisai via AP, File)

Novel Alzheimer’s drug gets full FDA approval, though efficacy and risk questioned

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Israelis practice shooting handguns at the Olympic Shooting Range in Hertzliya, October 18, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90/File)

Ben Gvir’s new policy will see civilians who shoot terrorists keep their gun — report

Police and rescue forces at the scene of a car ramming terror attack in north Tel Aviv on June 4, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Hospital says 2 women seriously hurt in Tel Aviv terror ramming now ‘out of danger’

This photograph taken on December 30, 2022, shows an empty cluster cartridge of MLRS BM-27 Uragan missile in a field in Kherson region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)

Aid groups warn US cluster bombs for Ukraine are ‘death sentence’ for civilians

By AFP

Magician Uri Geller poses for photographers with a bent spoon in Cologne, Germany, Sunday January 6, 2008. (AP Photo/Hermann J. Knippertz)

From the webUri Geller marks 50 years of magic, mentalism and above all — entertainment

British legendary singer Elton John performs on the Pyramid Stage on day 5 of the Glastonbury festival in the village of Pilton in Somerset, southwest England, on June 25, 2023. (Oli SCARFF / AFP)

'It's been my lifeblood'Elton John belts out final show in Sweden

By Johannes LEDEL

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