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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 19, 2023

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US President Joe Biden looks at Israel's President Isaac Herzog as they meet in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, July 18, 2023. (Susan Walsh/AP)

Biden indicates ‘special relationship’ on the line in absence of consensus on overhaul

By ToI Staff, Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman

US president tells NY Times’s Tom Friedman that ‘vibrancy of Israel’s democracy’ is at heart of ties between the 2 countries, but threatened by unilateral moves to weaken judiciary

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs a cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem, July 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, Pool)

Report: Netanyahu told Biden opposition parties aren’t serious about negotiations

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., leaves a closed-door meeting of the House Republican Conference, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 18, 2023. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

US House overwhelmingly passes GOP resolution backing Israel, meant to rebuke Dems

IAF chief to officers: Keep calling on reservists to show up

161 senior Air Force reservists bow out of volunteer duty to protest overhaul

By Emanuel Fabian

In response to government advancing controversial legislation, reserve officers in key roles say they are not able to fulfill duty under ‘a dictatorship,’ effective immediately

File: Israeli Air Force pilots walk to their plane during the 'Blue Flag' international exercise at the Ovda airbase in southern Israel on October 24, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israeli military reservists, members of the Brothers in Arms protest group, block the entrance to the IDF's headquarters in Tel Aviv as they protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, July 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

‘Won’t serve dictatorship’: Reservists to suspend volunteer duty over legal shakeup

By Emanuel Fabian

Outgoing Tel Aviv police commander Amichai Eshed speaks at a handover ceremony in Tel Aviv, July 19, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

‘We don’t have any other democracy’: Demoted Tel Aviv police chief takes his leave

By Michael Bachner

Travelers at the departure hall of Ben Gurion International Airport, April 4, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

State Department says Israel launching pilot program to test visa waiver readiness

Jerusalem planning to begin initiative tomorrow testing preparedness for allowing Palestinian-Americans to more freely travel into the country, with US decision slated for Sep. 30

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VP Harris touts new $70m US-Israel initiative to back 'climate-smart' agritech
6:23 pm

FM Cohen asks French counterpart to help prevent escalation along Lebanon border
6:16 pm

Likud rejects Gantz appeal for talks, accuses him of trying to 'dictate' terms

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Demonstrators march with Israeli flags along a highway near Tel Aviv during a protest against the Israeli government's judicial overhaul on July 18, 2023. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Hoping to head off ‘reasonableness’ bill, protesters begin 4-day march to Jerusalem

Hundreds of activists, including protest leaders, spend night at Ariel Sharon Park, urge more to join as group makes way to capital in time for vote on controversial legislation

Israelis protest the government's judicial overhaul outside the Rabbinical Court of Tel Aviv, July 18, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Anti-overhaul protesters rally for women’s rights outside religious courts

Medical staff protest against the judicial overhaul in Tel Aviv, during a two-hour strike in hospitals around Israel, July 19, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Hospital staff stage 2-hour strike against overhaul bill, warn of wider action

By Michael Bachner

Police use a water cannon to disperse demonstrators protesting against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, July 18, 2023. (Ariel Schalit/AP)

Police clear Ayalon Highway after long day of nationwide protests; 45 arrested in all

Tens of thousands gathered across the country to rail against overhaul legislation; leaders of the protest movement launch march to Jerusalem along Route 1

Israelis protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system in Tel Aviv, Israel, July 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Thousands mass at anti-overhaul rallies, block highway after rail station protests

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff

Israelis protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, Israel, July 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 19: 100s march on capital to back MKs who oppose contentious bill

Regional Cooperation Minister David Amsalem speaks during a plenum session at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on July 10, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud minister calls attorney general ‘the most dangerous person’ in Israel

In Knesset speech, David Amsalem says Gali Baharav-Miara poses real threat to democracy; opposition leaders pan remarks as dangerous incitement, call for him to be fired

President Joe Biden and Israel's President Isaac Herzog listen to reporters' questions as they meet in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Sides expect Israel will soon enter Visa Waiver Program

Herzog tells Biden Israel’s democracy ‘resilient,’ as overhaul protests rage at home

By Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman

US president avoids publicly mentioning judicial reform but privately says compromise vital, and that internal crisis complicates efforts to advance regional peace

Under Levin, justice is delayed, and delayed, and delayed

The public is being held hostage by a minister who is shirking his legal duty to convene the Judicial Selection Committee

Meir Javedanfar

The world ignores Iran’s interest in Latin America to global detriment

Iran’s shady activities in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba help the regime defy sanctions and ignore the needs of its own desperate population

A team of researchers explores the "Portal to Hades" in the Teomim Caves near Beit Shemesh during a recent expedition. (courtesy Boaz Zissu)

Archaeology

New finds show cave near Beit Shemesh may have been seen as a door to the underworld

By Melanie Lidman

Oil lamps and fragments of human skull lead archaeologists to believe Teomim Cave was used for necromancy, or communication with dead, some 1,700 years ago

An aerial view of former US president Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is seen on August 10, 2022, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Lost Israeli antiquities said to reemerge in Trump’s Florida residence

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Brandon Farbstein spending time on a Washington DC hiking trail in 2019. He dedicated his professional career to advocating on behalf of others who are disabled. (Courtesy)

Interview'After thousands of years, it's hard to make it accessible'

Disability advocate tours Israel on Segway as part of outdoor-focused Birthright trip

By Charlie Summers

Author and public speaker Brandon Farbstein, who has a rare form of dwarfism, says there is ‘much room for improvement’ in Israel when it comes to accessibility for disabled people

Journalist Yinon Magal arrives for a court hearing in the trial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the Jerusalem District Court on July 18, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

At Netanyahu trial, former Walla editor describes ‘outside meddling’ in coverage

By Gianluca Pacchiani and ToI Staff

Yinon Magal says there were ‘political and economic pressures’ on the news site to remove unfavorable coverage, including of PM’s family and associates

Illustrative: Holding US and Israeli flags, a crowd of largely Evangelical Christians pray during the Christians United For Israel (CUFI) 'Night to Honor Israel' during the CUFI Summit 2023, in Arlington, Virginia, at the Crystal Gateway Marriott, July 17, 2023. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

Crowded field of GOP presidential candidates vie for Christian Zionist vote

By TIFFANY STANLEY

DeSantis, Haley and Pence all speak at annual summit of Christians United for Israel, as Republicans court white evangelical base; Trump not invited

US President Donald Trump speaks during a rally protesting the electoral college certification of Joe Biden as US president in Washington on January 6, 2021. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Trump predicts he’ll be indicted in investigation of January 6 riot

By AFP

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Abbot Nikodemus Schnabel, right, and Germany's Federal Minister of Education and Research Bettina Stark-Watzinger at the Western Wall plaza in Jerusalem, July 19, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Anger as abbot told to hide his cross on visit to Western Wall with German minister

Undated photo of Monica Nabukenya, who was allegedly murdered by her Israeli husband in Uganda, July 2023. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli man arrested in Uganda on suspicion of murdering his wife

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative: This image circulating online purports to show flames and smoke rising from a site in Damascus following an alleged Israeli airstrike in Syria, early July 19, 2023. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Syria accuses Israel of carrying out airstrikes on capital, wounding two soldiers

By Emanuel Fabian

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting of his Religious Zionism party at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, July 17, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Smotrich said to want millions from Arab economic plan to cover yeshiva stipends

Women pose for a group photo with wind catchers ("badir" in Persian) dotting the skyline behind, on a rooftop in Iran's central city of Yazd on July 3, 2023. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Shunned by Western tourists, Iran looks to attract visitors from its neighbors

By Payam DOOST MOHAMADI

Illustrative: Eastech tech campus workspace in East Jerusalem. (Courtesy)

High-tech complex opens in East Jerusalem to help create jobs for local programmers

By Sharon Wrobel

Illustrative: Israel Police investigate the scene of a crime on June 2, 2021. (Israel Police)

Son of Nazareth politician shot dead – 125th Arab killed in violence this year

Illustrative: A person types on a laptop keyboard, June 19, 2017. (AP/Elise Amendola/File)

US blacklists Israeli-controlled firms behind Predator spyware

By AFP

Viewers gather at annual Animix Festival in summer 2022 at Tel Aviv Cinematheque (Courtesy PR)

Drawing closer23rd Animix Festival in Tel Aviv celebrates Disney

By Jessica Steinberg

Aharon Ariel (Courtesy Yael Ariel-Goldschmidt)

Scholar Aharon Ariel, War of Independence vet and ‘walking encyclopedia,’ dies at 97

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

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