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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 20, 2023

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File: Shin Bet security service head Nadav Argaman at the 8th International UVID Conference at the Avenue Convention Center in Airport City, on November 7, 2019. (Flash90)

'I didn't volunteer to serve a dictatorship'

Ex-Shin Bet chief justifies army reservists’ refusal to serve: ‘Overhaul is a coup’

Nadav Argaman says in radio interview that IDF chief and current Shin Bet head should tell Netanyahu: ‘Enough’; right-wing politicians assail ‘brainwashed’ former top official

Israel Bar Association head Amit Becher speaks during a protest against the planned judicial overhaul in Tel Aviv, on June 24, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Protests erupt as Bar Association holds emergency meet to fight judicial overhaul

Israeli military reservists sign a declaration of refusal to report for duty to protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, Israel, July 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Protesting overhaul, hundreds join growing list of reservists ending volunteer duty

By Emanuel Fabian

Screenshot from a video shared July 20, 2023, on coalition members' social media. (Courtesy; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF pans viral staged clip of pilot refusing to aid pro-overhaul ground troops

By Emanuel Fabian

Military spokesman says video shared by ministers creates ‘internal incitement,’ aims to pit soldiers against one another; Miki Zohar deletes post, while Itamar Ben Gvir refuses

Op-ed

On the eve of Tisha B’Av, Israel risks an unforgivable process of self-destruction

Addressing Congress, Herzog hailed our ‘beautiful democracy,’ commitment to equality and independent judiciary. Back home, Netanyahu is dragging Israel in the opposite direction

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a memorial ceremony for Zionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky at Mount Herzl, in Jerusalem on July 18, 2023. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

From The Hartman Institute

From Liberal Jewish Thought to Liberal Jewish Action

How values translate into political action, for Jews in Israel and in North America. Elana Stein Hain with Orly Erez-Likhovski and Rabbi Rick Jacobs.

Protesters on the Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv, July 20, 2023. (Tali Melamed)

Live updates (closed)

Police clear out protesters, ending night of demonstrations energized by PM’s speech

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

8 arrested in Ra’anana, 7 detained in Tel Aviv as police clash with activists blocking roads, after lead protest organizers slam PM’s comments as ‘full of lies and incitement’

9:44 pm

Ayalon reopens as police clear out protesters, but leave water cannon in place
8:56 pm

Police arrest 7 protesters blocking Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv
8:48 pm

8 protesters arrested in clashes with police in Ra'anana

The Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee votes on the coalition's bill to drastically reduce the courts' use of the reasonableness standard, July 19, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

First overhaul bill on course to become law within days

‘Reasonableness’ bill okayed for final Knesset votes next week, as opposition fumes

By Jeremy Sharon

Constitution Committee chairman Rothman denounced by opposition MKs for ‘trampling’ protocol to expedite voting process, Knesset legal adviser sides with coalition

National Unity party leader Benny Gantz speaks during a press conference at the Knesset on June July 19, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Gantz offers to resume overhaul compromise talks, but Likud spurns conditions

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and Alexander Fulbright

A parliamentary adviser shouts at Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee Chairman MK Simcha Rothman during a hearing to approve the coalition's bill to drastically reduce the courts' use of the reasonableness standard, July 19, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Labor parliamentary aides to be barred from Knesset over outburst at committee vote

By ToI Staff and Jeremy Sharon

President Isaac Herzog addresses a Joint Session of Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, July 19, 2023. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

In speech to Congress, Herzog lauds strong judiciary, says democracy in Israel’s DNA

By Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman

President says he’s working to whip up consensus for judicial reform, wins applause for declaring Israel and America mutually ‘irreplaceable’ for one another

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 20: Pres. Herzog to US Congress: ‘Let’s elevate our partnership’

Herzog’s ‘important’ speech to Congress wins plaudits from across political spectrum

By ToI Staff, Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

President's speech‘Israel has democracy in its DNA’: Full text of Isaac Herzog’s address to Congress

Michael Rainsbury

Rewriting Hatikva: The significance of President Herzog’s speech

In asserting the hope that we can strive to ’heal our fractured world,’ Herzog put forward a new conception of Zionism

My day of disruption

If I had heard such loud voices in the US, I would have taken cover and expected to hear gunshots. Not so in Israel.

The Holocaust survivor’s wife

The story of survival is something holy, to be passed on without alteration or sanitization or a ’happily ever after’ ending

No Hasidic child left behind. That’s my dream.

The immoral, illegal refusal to provide a decent education harmed my family. Now, a NYC report offers hope for change

Channel 14 workers and supporters protest against Yair Lapid, the then-prime minister, in Tel Aviv on October 11, 2022. The poster reads: "Especially now: 14" (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Inside story

As divisions sharpen, an incendiary right-wing news channel finally finds an audience

Channel 14 now draws as many viewers as legacy networks, giving voice to conservatives tired of mainstream news, despite repeated scandals and charges of pro-Netanyahu propaganda

US President Joe Biden meets with Israeli President Isaac Herzog in the Oval Office at the White House on July 18, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/AFP)

Biden’s NYT remarks meant to refute Netanyahu’s portrayal of conversation — report

Administration said to be displeased over PMO readout of call with president this week; Biden again cautions against judicial overhaul without broad consensus

US to decide on Israel's entry into VWP by September 30th

Israel launches pilot for US visa waiver, easing travel for Palestinian-Americans

US citizens in West Bank can apply for permits to travel to and through Israel for 90-day visits; US to monitor implementation, ensure passengers not mistreated

Passengers in the arrival hall of Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on July 11, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Palestinians at the Erez crossing with Israel near Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, August 27, 2018. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

ExclusiveDespite US pledge of equal treatment, Gazan Americans left out of Visa Waiver Program

Moroccan King Mohammed VI greets the crowd as he stands in a limousine during a ceremony of allegiance, at the King's palace in Tetouan, on July 31, 2018, to mark the 18th anniversary of Mohammed VI's accession to the throne. (AFP)

Moroccan king invites Netanyahu for official visit after Western Sahara recognition

Invitation may pave way for premier’s first trip to an Abraham Accords country, comes weeks after Rabat canceled summit due to violence against Palestinians

Brahim Ghali, head of the Polisario Front and the self-declared Sahrawi Democratic Arab Republic, gives a speech to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Polisario Front in the Aoussered camp, Algeria, Saturday, May 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Guidoum Fateh)

Western Sahara rebels say Israel’s recognition of Morocco rule over area meaningless

By AFP

Smotrich said pushing for demolishing Palestinian construction in W. Bank areas A, B

Finance minister says Netanyahu backs move, which marks a sharp shift in Israeli policy and a violation of Oslo Accords

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a discussion about the state budget, during a Finance Committee meeting at the Knesset, July 3, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

A screenshot of explosions in Nablus as Palestinians clash with IDF troops as they accompany Jewish worshippers to Joseph's Tomb, July 20, 2023. (Screenshot/Twitter, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Palestinian teen killed in clashes with IDF during pilgrimage to Joseph’s Tomb

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Israelis stage a protest at Tel Aviv University against a far-right bill to ban waving Palestinian flags on Israeli campuses, May 28, 2023. (Credit: Standing Together)

Knesset advances bill banning Palestinian flags on university campuses

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Supreme Court President Esther Hayut (center), Justice Uzi Vogelman (left) and Justice Isaac Amit (right) at a hearing of the High Court of Justice on petitions against the appointment of Shas party leader Aryeh Deri as a minister due to his recent conviction for tax offenses, January 5, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court sets September date to hear petition demanding Netanyahu ouster

September 12 hearing on alleged conflict of interest breach to be presided over by Supreme Court President Esther Hayut, Justice Uzi Vogelman and Justice Isaac Amit

Yinon Magal arrives at the Jerusalem District Court for a hearing in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's graft trial, July 19, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ex-Walla editor denies Netanyahu stories were killed at higher rate than others

A photo showing the areas of the ancient hand axes that were removed for chemical analysis. (courtesy Tel Aviv University)

Archaeology'People don't always appreciate how sophisticated they were'

Chip off the ol’ block: AI pinpoints source of rocks for 750,000-year-old tools

By Melanie Lidman

New tech allows archaeologists to match unique chemical composition between axes and the geographic area where they were created, proving Homo Erectus organized complex expeditions

Fran Drescher, president of SAG-AFTRA, is interviewed at a Writers Guild of America rally outside Paramount Pictures studio, May 8, 2023, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

'Historically, when we see injustice, we stand up to it'

SAG strike puts its brash Jewish president, Fran Drescher, squarely in the spotlight

By Jackie Hajdenberg

The ‘Nanny’ writer and actress continues in the tradition of Jewish women labor activists – and her portrayals in television and film show that she has long admired them

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A handout photo of Lidar Peretz, who died after she was crushed by a container on July 20, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF officer crushed to death by falling container at base in south

By Emanuel Fabian

US Vice President Kamala Harris shakes hands with President Isaac Herzog as they speak to the media prior to a meeting at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, July 19, 2023. (SAUL LOEB / AFP/File)

Herzog, VP Harris announce $70 million agriculture tech fund for Mideast, Africa

By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

Composite photo: A makeshift memorial stands outside the Tree of Life Synagogue in the aftermath of a deadly shooting in Pittsburgh, October 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File); Inset: An undated Pennsylvania Department of Transportation photo shows Robert Bowers, convicted of shooting and killing 11 worshipers at the synagogue. (Pennsylvania Department of Transportation via AP, File)

ExplainerJury weighs death penalty for Pittsburgh synagogue killer after finding him eligible

By AP

Ashalim solar power station in the Negev desert. August 21, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

4th solar energy field at Negev’s Ashalim starts operating, setting new low price

By Sharon Wrobel

Protesters scale a wall at the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad, July 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Ali Jabar)

Iraq expels Swedish ambassador following Quran desecration in Stockholm

By ali jabar and ABBY SEWELL

Police at the scene of a suspected gangland killing in Haifa on July 20, 2023 (Police Spokesperson)

Man shot and killed in Haifa months after daughter gunned down

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, looks from a military vehicle leaving an area of the HQ of the Southern Military District in a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on June 24, 2023. (AP Photo, File)

Wagner chief Prigozhin seen on video for first time since attempted coup

By AP

Rabbi Reuven Yaacobov speaks about the weekly Torah portion in this screenshot from a video posted on June 8, 2023. (YouTube screenshot)

Rabbinical court bans Berlin rabbi accused of sexual misconduct from authority roles

By JTA

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at an event where he announced his run for president, at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel, in Boston, April 19, 2023. (Josh Reynolds/AP)

Jewish, Asian Democrats call to nix RFK Jr. from testifying to Congress

Noah Schnapp presents the award for collaborative video of the year at the CMT Music Awards at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas, on April 2, 2023. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

No strangerJewish ‘Stranger Things’ star Noah Schnapp visits Israel

By Lior Zaltzman

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