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What Matters Most On Monday, July 17, 2023

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, arrives to chair a cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, July 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, Pool)

Netanyahu rails at anti-overhaul reservists, in first appearance since hospital stay

Displaying no signs of ill health, PM says he’s feeling ‘excellent,’ decries growing threats by reserve troops to stop volunteering as ‘insubordination’

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (left) meets with IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, at military headquarters in Tel Aviv on January 16, 2023. (Ariel Hermoni/ Defense Ministry)

IDF brass said to warn Gallant of threat to readiness due to reservists’ protests

By Emanuel Fabian

People attend a protest against the government's judicial overhaul plans in Tel Aviv, on July 15, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Warning of ‘clear and immediate danger,’ ex-Shin Bet agents urge overhaul be shelved

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)

Live updates (closed)

Three more suspects held in administrative detention over settler riots last month

Right-wing legal rights group says Shin Bet detained men early morning, they have not been brought before a court; arrests bring to 8 number of settlers detained for rampages

6:10 pm

Israel confirms it has recognized Moroccan rule over Western Sahara
5:58 pm

Three more suspects held in administrative detention over settler riots last month
5:40 pm

Seven months later, Biden invites Netanyahu to meet him in US

Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee chairman MK Simcha Rothman (left) leads a committee meeting on a bill to severely limit the courts' use of the reasonableness standard, July 16, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opposition submits ‘unprecedented’ 27,000 reservations to delay reasonableness bill

By Jeremy Sharon

Opposition MKs say massive number of reservations, designed to delay passage of controversial bill limiting judicial oversight, is part of their ‘struggle against the regime coup’

Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee chairman MK Simcha Rothman leads a committee meeting on a bill to severely limit the courts' use of the reasonableness standard, July 16, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rothman plows ahead with ‘reasonableness’ bill despite criticism over rapid process

By Jeremy Sharon

Supreme Court Chief Justice Ester Hayut at a Supreme Court hearing, June 27, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Chief Justice Hayut pans Levin over failure to convene Judicial Selection Committee

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Border police officers scuffle with demonstrators during a protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, at Ben Gurion Airport, July 11, 2023 (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

AG warns against ‘quotas’ for arrests, prosecution of anti-overhaul protesters

Baharav-Miara’s deputy files document with cabinet secretary following demand by ministers for plan on tougher law enforcement policy against demonstrators

Yesh Atid MKs wear black t-shirts adorned with Israeli flags during plenum deliberations on the 'reasonableness' bill, at the Knesset, July 10, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Activists to protest at train stations as coalition fast tracks ‘reasonableness’ bill

Tel Aviv's newly named Democracy Square, July 17, 2023. (Courtesy)

X marks the spotTel Aviv names Kaplan protest intersection ‘Democracy Square’

Analysis

Shalom Yerushalmi

As Herzog flies to the US, he faces a national challenge – and personal opportunity

Though he will be welcomed as a close friend in Washington, the president will have a hard time convincing the administration to temper its alarm over the Netanyahu government

President Isaac Herzog (left) and US President Joe Biden at the White House on October 26, 2022. (GPO)

US President Joe Biden and President Isaac Herzog, during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, Oct. 26, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Herzog heads to DC, hoping to bridge the Biden-Netanyahu divide

By Lazar Berman

Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Herzog speaks during Israel's Independence Day reception, hosted by the Israeli embassy to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel, at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC, June 6, 2023. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Netanyahu said to bash Israeli ambassador to US over lack of White House invite

Explainer

Questions swirl about PM’s health after discharge from hospital with heart monitor

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Cardiologist offers explanation for why Netanyahu’s physicians would want to check his heart activity long-term if tests came back ‘completely normal’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks from Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, where he is hospitalized, and says he feels 'very good,' July 15. 2023. (Screenshot: Channel 12)

Binary options

Simona Weinglass

In unique testimony, binary options kingpin slams ‘stupid’ US law enforcement

‘It was a terrific business,’ Pini Peter says of binary options firm SpotOption, ordered to pay back over $200 million by judge after it mounted no defense against US allegations

SpotOption's Pini Peter at a Chabad event in Cyprus (Facebook)

Tami Lehman-Wilzig

Children of protest

My kids learned it at the dinner table: Public protest brings about change. Now I want to bring that message to kids everywhere

Above all, this is an assault on liberalism

It’s not a fight with the left, it’s a blow to the centrist belief that government should not have too much power

Analysis

Swedish Jewish group sees silver lining behind scripture-burning story

Muslims and Jews showed each other solidarity as an Iraqi immigrant to Sweden burned the Quran, followed by a reprisal threat to burn the Bible

A Muslim activist outside the Israeli embassy in Sweden where he had been granted permission to burn a Torah. (Screen capture/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Illustrative image: A Hebrew Bible at a synagogue in Jerusalem, July 14, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jul 17: What Sweden’s Jews have to say about the aborted Bible burning

File: Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef at the International Convention Center, on February 1, 2022. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Chief Sephardic rabbi: Ben Gvir’s Temple Mount visits are a ‘sin’

By Canaan Lidor

Rebuke is an escalation in the rhetoric around ultranationalist minister’s pilgrimages to the site in defiance of rulings by some rabbis

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks during a press conference at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on July 5, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Government punts bill to give Ben Gvir power to hold suspects without charge

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Illustrative: Students study at a yeshiva in Jerusalem, September 2, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Coalition said working to budget another NIS 100 million for Haredi yeshiva students

Volunteers make bricks from molds as part of the conservation work at Tel Gezer on July 6, 2023. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Archaeology'Most people don't know what lies right near their homes'

Amateur archaeologists can help conserve the crumbling Tel Gezer, one brick at a time

By Melanie Lidman

Enthusiasts and those curious about archaeology are able to aid the Israel Antiquities Authority’s conservation work Thursdays in July using a 3,500-year-old brick-making technique

A group of Jewish settlers moving into the newly acquired Freedom House in the Old City of Hebron, July 28, 2022. (Twitter. used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF stands by as settlers inhabit Hebron home designated ‘closed military zone’

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Settler group claims to have bought ‘Freedom House’ last year, but is not allowed to move in, pending a petition by Palestinians claiming to be legitimate owners

Police open hate crime probe after cars torched in Arab town near Jerusalem

World Bank: Over half of Palestinians in West Bank and Gaza suffer from depression

By Gianluca Pacchiani

After Haifa court order, Israel returns boat it took from Gazan fisherman

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A phone showing the Twitter icon, July 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Study shows Israel accused of human rights abuses on Twitter 38 times more than Iran

Analysis of 100 million tweets over 2.5 years suggests antisemitic tweets peaked at times of great unrest in the US, including around Jan. 6 insurrection and death of George Floyd

Participants march during the 28th Budapest Pride parade in Budapest, Hungary, July 15, 2023. (Tamas Kovacs/MTI via AP)

Israel refuses to sign joint statement slating Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ laws – report

By ToI Staff and AP

Ari Goldman speaks at Yeshiva Stories in New York City, July 11, 2023. (Phylisa Wisdom via JTA)

'When you hear their stories, you realize this is real'

At NYC event inspired by The Moth, yeshiva grads roast their religious upbringings

By Gabe Friedman

Speakers at Yeshiva Stories decry the lack of secular education in religious institutions and tell some harrowing and humorous tales of life in the ultra-Orthodox world

More Headlines

Col. Sharon Itach, head of the Home Front Command's Haifa district in an undated official photo. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel appoints first military attaché to Morocco

By Emanuel Fabian

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen attends an event at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, May 17, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

In Nairobi, FM said to meet with leader of African country with no ties to Israel

A screen grab from footage aired by Iraq's Alrabiaa TV that is said to show abducted Israeli-Russian researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov in a Baghdad cafe before her disappearance. (Screenshot from Twitter/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli abducted in Iraq said to have initiated contact with her kidnappers

By Gianluca Pacchiani

AccYouRate's washable smart T-shirt. (Courtesy)

Italian smart T-shirt developer to open data analysis center in Tel Aviv

By Sharon Wrobel

Itzik Zarka (center) with two Likud supporters outside the Likud primaries polling station in Jerusalem, August 10, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Wife of Likud activist denies he was booted from party, claims PM spoke with them

View of the Israeli Leviathan natural gas field gas processing rig as seen from Dor Habonim Beach Nature Reserve, on January 1, 2020. (Flash90/File)

4 groups submit bids for new natural gas exploration tender offshore Israel

By Sharon Wrobel

Illustrative: Israeli travelers in a train traveling from the north of Israel to Tel Aviv on February 10. 2007. (Hilla Gutrayman /Flash90)

Electrical faults halt trains along coastal lines, stranding early commuters

Israel competes against France in the final of the U-20 European Championship in Heraklion, Greece, July 16, 2023. (FIBA)

Israeli U-20 basketball team falls to France in European final

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