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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 18, 2023

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As day of protests ends, medical official warns union could launch open-ended strike

Tomorrow’s 2-hour work stoppage ‘is a moment of truth,’ the senior figure tells Channel 12; ‘I suggest not to dismiss us’

9:48 pm

Syrian media reports Israeli airstrikes near Damascus
9:37 pm

Herzog meets Blinken, with Iran and regional peace on the agenda
8:57 pm

Tel Aviv's Ayalon Highway reopened after two hours

PM tells Biden he'll seek more support for rest of overhaul

Biden agrees to meet Netanyahu in US, stresses need for consensus on judicial reform

White House readout of their first call since March does not mention an invite, but US spokesman confirms planned meeting; neither side says where or exactly when it will occur

FILE: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to US President Joe Biden on February 17, 2021. (Prime Minister's Office)

Head of the Yesh Atid party MK Yair Lapid speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on July 17, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Lapid: US is pulling away, national tragedy coming; Gantz to PM: It’s not too late

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Analysis

Herzog heads to Washington on high-stakes mission to keep US-Israel fissure in check

Israel’s domestic fight intensifies as the Biden White House continues to blast Netanyahu’s coalition, but there are signs that the president is visiting DC at just the right time

President Isaac Herzog at Ben-Gurion airport before taking off for Washington on July 18, 2023. (Haim Zach/GPO)

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)

Foreign Ministry said looking to buy $12.5 million home for ambassadors to US

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As overhaul and settlements advance, Biden agreeing to meet Netanyahu raises eyebrows

Administration was worried attention had turned to alleged snub rather than irresponsible Israeli policies, US official says, noting that no date for sit-down has actually been set

US President Joe Biden gives a thumbs up as he walks with first lady Jill Biden to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, July 14, 2023, as they head to Camp David for the weekend. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to plant a tree during an event on the Jewish holiday of Tu BiShvat, in the Jewish settlement of Mevo'ot Yericho, in the West Bank near the Palestinian city of Jericho, February 10, 2020. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

PM: Remote settlements will become enclaves in sub-sovereign Palestinian entity

Protesters against the judicial overhaul block an entrance to the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, July 18, 2023 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

1st judicial overhaul bill scheduled to become law next week

Blocking roads, protesters against judicial overhaul hold fresh ‘Day of Resistance’

Demonstrators rally at Histadrut head’s home, block defense HQ; block and enter stock exchange; 19 protesters arrested, along with man suspected of assaulting protester in Tel Aviv

A protester is seen hitting Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter with a flag on March 23, 2023 (Screencapture/Twitter)

Woman indicted for hitting Dichter with flag at anti-overhaul protest in March

Israelis block the entrance to IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv as they protest the government's judicial overhaul, July 18, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jul 18: As protests rage, nepotism may soon be considered ‘reasonable’

The Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee deliberates a bill to severely limit the courts' use of the reasonableness judicial standard, July 17, 2023. (Danny Shem Tov/Knesset Spokesperson's Department)

Marathon committee session on ‘reasonableness’ bill enters second day

By Jeremy Sharon

Knesset Constitution Committee expected to begin voting on reservations to the controversial legislation Tuesday afternoon, approve it on Wednesday for final Knesset readings

Supreme Court Justice Noam Sohlberg at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, March 27, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Judge who ‘inspired’ reasonableness bill says he didn’t intend legislative changes

By Jeremy Sharon

Aryeh Eisenberg

Sorry protesters, this ain’t gonna work

Does disrupting traffic and causing thousands of citizens to lose time, money, and patience actually solve anything?

American Jews’ priorities are clear, so why don’t we see them?

Few US Jews prioritize Israel over issues like hunger and climate, but you wouldn’t know that by reading Jewish media

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi attends a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 18, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF chief: Reservists’ refusal to serve harms military, national security

By Emanuel Fabian

Halevi says goal is to maintain high level of competence and cohesion within army, amid national tensions over judicial overhaul; Gallant pleads with reservists not to refuse duty

Owners of the largest Israeli companies arrive for a meeting regarding the government's judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv on July 16, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Business leaders urge halt overhaul legislation, but refrain from calling strike

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)

Doctors plan strike this week in protest of judicial overhaul

By Gianluca Pacchiani

A Moroccan army vehicle drives past car wreckage in Guerguerat, in Western Sahara, on November 24, 2020, after an intervention of the royal Moroccan armed forces in the area. (Fadel Senna/AFP/File)

Israel tells Morocco it recognizes its sovereignty over disputed Western Sahara

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Netanyahu sends letter to King Mohammed VI announcing move, says Jerusalem is examining opening a consulate in region’s capital Dakhla

AG: Office facing pressure in criminal cases, and over certain legal positions

By Jeremy Sharon

Baharav-Miara vows to ‘continue to operate as always’; last month, ministers slammed her for alleged soft approach to protesters

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

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, center, speaks to National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir after a Knesset vote in Jerusalem, February 15, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gallant said to bash Ben Gvir over bid to expand administrative detention powers

Shas MK Michael Malchieli reacts during a meeting of the Arrangements Committee at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on June 9, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Bill seeks to strengthen rabbinical courts’ jurisdiction over child support

By Canaan Lidor

Opposition lawmakers say draft amendment compromises women’s position and is part of a slide toward theocracy

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi presents his reform to the media market to journalists, in Jerusalem, July 17, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Telecom minister presents bill to shutter media watchdog, ease need for news license

By Michael Horovitz

Students at Tel Aviv University on the first day of the academic year, October 10, 2021. (Flash90, via JTA)

Universities bristle at demand to use only masculine form in official documents

Elizabeth Tsurkov on the banks of the Euphrates river in Raqqa, Syria, during a research trip she conducted to northern Iraq, north-eastern Syria and Turkey in July 2019 (Facebook/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Gaza group demands release of Palestinian prisoners in swap for Israeli held in Iraq

By Gianluca Pacchiani

‘Our people in Iraq hold the most important key to the liberation of our prisoners,’ prisoner committee chief says of Elizabeth Tsurkov

An undated image of members of the Jenin Battalion, a terror group comprising members of different Palestinian armed factions, most prominently Palestinian Islamic Jihad. (Telegram/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Continuing crackdown, PA arrests five members of Islamic Jihad near Jenin

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Ben Platt and Molly Gordon in 'Theater Camp.' (Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures via JTA)

'It was ripped directly from my Jewish camp experience'

Jewish camp alums cheer ‘Theater Camp,’ Ben Platt movie shot at former Kutz Camp

By Shira Li Bartov

Now playing, the mockumentary centers on a fictional upstate secular musical arts camp, but was filmed at the historic Reform summer camp and is peppered with Jewish references

More Headlines

A hate group flies a swastika flag outside an LGBTQ event in downtown Toledo, Ohio, before heading to a nearby Jewish community complex, July 15, 2023. (JTA Screenshot via WTOL11)

Anti-LGBTQ protesters in Ohio target local Jewish community offices

By Canaan Lidor

Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., right, next to Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, speaks about the threat of default during a news conference, Wednesday, May 24, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/ Jacquelyn Martin)

US House’s top progressive walks back claim Israel is a ‘racist state’ amid uproar

By JTA and Jacob Magid

File - People walk outside the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2023. (AP/Gene J. Puskar)

Survivors describe void left by synagogue massacre as jury considers death penalty

By AP

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pauses as he delivers his speech, during a protest against the COVID-19 vaccination green pass in Milan, Italy, Nov. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

House Republicans refuse request to pull RFK testimony after antisemitic COVID claim

TLV Partners is managed by (left to right): Rona Segev, Eitan Bek, Adi Yarel-Toledano, and Shahar Tzafrir. (Eyal Tueg)

TLV Partners pulls in $250 million for early-stage startup investment fund

By Sharon Wrobel

Oranges being washed, prepared, and packed at the Mehadrin factory in southern Israel, November 28, 2013. (Yaakov Naumi/FLASH90)

Tshuva’s Delek to buy controlling stake in Mehadrin for NIS 249 million

By Sharon Wrobel

Israeli startup Wing Cloud creates a single programming language model designed for cloud applications. (Courtesy)

Israeli startup Wing Cloud emerges from stealth with $20 million in funding

By Sharon Wrobel

Illustrative: A kindergarten teacher seen at the 'Kobi kindergarten' in Moshav Yashresh, on February 8, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

High Court orders government to justify shortening special education school day

From the 2022 Hutzot Hayotzer crafts fair, celebrating its 47th year, August 7-19, 2023 (Courtesy PR)

Crafts and concertsJerusalem’s Hutzot Hayotzer arts fair marks 47th year

By Jessica Steinberg

Michael Neuman, a Jewish competitor on “American Ninja Warrior,” whose participation in the show went unaired. (YouTube screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

After Orthodox ‘Ninja Warrior’ cut from show, NBC releases unaired footage

By jacob gurvis

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