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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 13, 2023

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen at the Jerusalem District Court arriving to listen to testimony by businessman Arnon Milchan, as part of Netanyahu's corruption trial, June 28, 2023. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Coalition party heads 'shocked by decision to hear petition'

High Court to hear petition seeking Netanyahu’s removal over conflict of interest

Petitioners argue PM is violating the agreement he signed amid his ongoing corruption trial, as his government barrels forward with legislation to curb the courts

Actress Helen Mirren and co-star Lior Ashkenazi attend a press conference for the upcoming film 'Golda,' about prime minister Golda Meir, in Jerusalem, July 13, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

'She had utter dedication to her country'

In Jerusalem, Helen Mirren says Golda Meir ‘one of the greatest’ roles she’s played

Ahead of ‘Golda’ premiere at Jerusalem Film Festival, UK actress says she is ‘moved and excited’ to see mass pro-democracy rallies in Israel, recalls her time on a kibbutz in 1967

Writer/director/executive producer Greta Gerwig poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film "Barbie," in London, United Kingdom, July 12, 2023. (Scott Garfitt/Invision/AP)

Plastic fantastic‘Barbie’ director wants viewers to ‘feel like I did at Shabbat dinner’

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Life-saving kidney swap with 3 recipients took place Monday

Right-wing journalist causes stir by announcing his kidney would go only to a Jew

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Though such stipulations are not officially possible, individuals can bypass this through organizations that pair a donor with a recipient that matches their criteria

Arnon Segal donated a kidney on July 10, 2023, on the condition it would go only to a Jew. (Courtesy of Beilinson Hospital and Soroka Medical Center)

File: Mor Ganashvili, who was seriously injured during a lynching in Acre last year, arrives for a court hearing of one of his attackers at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, May 17, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Arab Israeli convicted of attempted murder with terror motive in 2021 Acre mob assault

Herzl and Helena Rosenblum (courtesy of the Rosenblum family archive)

Israel Story

Signed, Sealed, Delivered? Herzl Rosenblum

Our series continues with a Revisionist and prize-winning journalist who stood at the helm of the Yedioth Ahronoth daily for 38 years

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks during a meeting with his Greek counterpart Nikos Panagiotopoulos, in Athens, May 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Live updates (closed)

Defense minister: Israel has foiled more than 50 Iranian attacks around world

In Azerbaijan, Gallant says attacks prevented ‘thanks to our defense establishment, and close cooperation with many countries’

7:07 pm

Israeli security forces block ambulance from reaching Palestinian hamlet attacked by settlers -- rights group
6:59 pm

Democratic Rep. Bowman 'probably boycotting' Herzog's Congress speech along with Omar
6:31 pm

At Vatican, foreign minister condemns attacks on Christians in Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Minister of Justice Yariv Levin during a Knesset plenum hearing, July 10, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Reasonableness’ bill hardened, further shielding coalition from judicial oversight

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Bill that bars judicial review of any cabinet and ministerial decisions now also says courts can’t use reasonableness to force justice minister to convene judge-selection panel

File: A doctor holds a sign saying 'The doctors are fighting for the life of democracy,' at a rally against the government's judicial overhaul bills in Tel Aviv on February 25, 2023. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Public health staff plan strike if overhaul not halted – report

By Michael Horovitz

Foreign workers in the fields near the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh, November 13, 2016. (Yaakov Lederman/FLASH90)

Court strikes down financial penalty that encourages foreign workers not to overstay

By Jeremy Sharon

Op-ed

You can’t keep the big brushstrokes of Israel’s politics out of its people’s army

The defense minister briefly lost his job for speaking out in March in a bid to heal the dangerous rift over neutering the judiciary. He’s disinclined to do so again. But he must

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant attend an event for outstanding soldiers as part of Israel's 75th Independence Day celebrations, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on April 26, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

A horse tramples a man at a protest against the judicial overhaul in Tel Aviv, July 11, 2023 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Amid claims of brutality, police probe mounted cop for trampling protester – report

By Michael Horovitz

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (left) talks with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev in Baku, Azerbaijan, July 13, 2023. (Ariel Hermoni/IMoD)

Gallant discusses expanding ties with Azerbaijan’s president in visit to Baku

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses a media conference at a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 12, 2023. (Pavel Golovkin/AP)

Zelensky: I invited Netanyahu to visit Ukraine, but he didn’t come

Ukrainian president says he also asked previous PMs Bennett and Lapid to visit and neither showed up; much-wanted Israeli air defense system has not arrived either

A high-rise residential building damaged by remains of a shot-down Russian drone in Kyiv, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, July 13, 2023. (Genya SAVILOV / AFP)

One killed, four injured in Kyiv as Russia fires missile and drone salvo at Ukraine

By AFP

Anat Thon-Ashkenazy

No professionalism, no expertise – and no women

The Authority for the Advancement of Women’s Status and agencies like it are being gutted along with protections for women

Arnold E. Resnicoff

‘Open when I die’: My in-progress ethical will

I started a final letter to my daughter with life lessons and a last word of love after the Beirut barracks bombing in 1983

US Rep. Ilhan Omar speaks during a news conference by the Congressional Progressive Caucus on the threat of default, May 24, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

‘No way in hell’: Likely starting trend, Ilhan Omar to skip Herzog speech to Congress

Progressive Democrat says president of country that banned 1st female Muslim US lawmakers and has ‘violations of human rights,’ shouldn’t have been invited to address joint session

Former US president Donald Trump visits with campaign volunteers at the Grimes Community Complex Park, June 1, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. (Charlie Neibergall/AP)

Trump pokes at Netanyahu, says Biden ‘doesn’t like you’ in speech to pro-Israel group

Then-US vice president Joe Biden, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, talk before a dinner at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner, Pool)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 13: Who’s afraid of a US-Israel relationship reassessment?

Children ride their bicycles past by a poster of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah at the Lebanese border village of Marwaheen, Wednesday, July 12, 2023. (AP/Mohammed Zaatari)

‘Won’t stay quiet’: Hezbollah chief threatens Israel over tent row on tense border

By ToI Staff and AP

Hassan Nasrallah urges Lebanon to recapture once-divided town of Ghajar and disputed Shebaa Farms, denies terror group trying to demarcate border along ceasefire line

Hezbollah members are seen approaching the border between Israel and Lebanon, before the IDF sets off a blast scaring them away, July 12, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF foils attempt by Hezbollah activists to damage Lebanon border fence

By Emanuel Fabian

Fawzan Mosa Khan, an Afghan arrested in Azerbaijan on suspicion of planning an attack on Israel's embassy. (Screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Iran behind failed attack on Israeli embassy in Azerbaijan, foreign minister says

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on July 11, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lapid says women’s rights minister politicizing office and its powers with new bill

Coalition advances legislation to place office tasked with advancing women under greater political control

Illustrative: Icons for male and female cut into a wooden block (Devenorr; iStock by Getty Images)

Civil service bars gender inclusive spelling in official documents — report

Illustrative. An ambulance belonging to the Magen David Adom ambulance service. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Man shot dead in Tira in the 5th killing in the Arab community in just over a day

Samar Nasser, 25, was reportedly not the intended target of the hit; MK Touma-Sliman: Far-right police minister Ben Gvir ‘doesn’t know how to do his job and has bad intentions’

Illustrative: Police investigate a murder in Shfaram on June 28, 2023. (Flash90)

4 killings in Arab community in a day, as deadly crimewave shows no sign of slowing

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)

Soldier, civilian charged with terror offenses over West Bank rioting

Yedidya Siani, 22, accused of assault on Palestinian home containing mother, four children; David Oved, 30, indicted over vandalism at mosque where he allegedly defaced Quran books

Ben Abeles, photographed in 2008 in front of the Kindertransport memorial at the Liverpool Street station in London, where the children arrived after boarding the train in Harwich. (Courtesy of Helen Abeles)

'He aided the most groundbreaking missions ever launched'

Tech developed by refugee who fled Nazis to UK used today by NASA on Mars

By Robert Philpot

Family of Jewish physicist Benjamin Abeles, who was on a Kindertransport as a teen and became an activist to help refugees in his 80s, donates archive to University of Southampton

Query from right to left

Google launches Hebrew version of AI chatbot Bard

Update also allows image insertion in prompts and exporting code created by the service

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Screen capture from video of Ethiopian-Israeli Francis Adbabayi who was kidnapped for ransom in Ethiopia, July 2023. (Kan. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Family of Israeli held for ransom in Ethiopia pleads for help in getting him freed

Illustrative: Participants at JOFA's inaugural London meeting brainstorm issues of concern. (Courtesy of JOFA)

Orthodox feminist group addressed allegations against sex-guru founder, says report

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Illustrative image: cancer cells against a backdrop of DNA (Mohammed Haneefa Nizamudeen via iStock by Getty Images)

Israel earmarks NIS 113 million to build R&D center for chip-based biodevices

By Sharon Wrobel

The signage on the dormant landmark Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood is framed in spring foliage on April 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Jury starts debating death penalty for Pittsburgh gunman, with mental health at fore

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 13, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP senators threaten to block Biden nominees over ‘antisemitic’ settlement policy

Screen grab from a video of Israel's national team holding the Israeli flag and singing the Israeli national anthem 'Hatikva' at the general rehearsal of the opening ceremony of the 2023 FIFAe World Cup in Riyadh, July 10, 2023 (twitter.com/Kann_news)

Israeli anthem plays in Saudi at FIFA video game cup rehearsal, but not at ceremony

By Gianluca Pacchiani

A man looks at a swollen Beas River following heavy rains in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, India, July 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Aqil Khan, File)

Foreign Ministry says nearly 300 Israelis in India remain unreachable due to floods

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Milk and other dairy products are on display at a Rami Levy supermarket in Jerusalem on July 17, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel scraps 40% customs tax on imported milk for three months

By Sharon Wrobel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a memorial event for his brother Yoni, in front of Yoni's grave (foreground) at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, June 25, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Man indicted for leaving threatening letter to Netanyahu on grave of PM’s brother

Undated photo of Margarita Levy (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

After 20 years, police say they solved Eilat murder and rape cold case

Jake Gelof, left, and Zach Levenson, right, headline the group of Jewish players drafted into Major League Baseball in 2023. (Getty Images via JTA)

These 6 Jewish baseball players were selected in this year’s MLB draft

By jacob gurvis

Undated photo of Augusta the chimpanzee. (Courtesy: Ramat Gan Safari)

A final climbRamat Gan Safari puts down elderly chimpanzee

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