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What Matters Most On Friday, July 21, 2023

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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)

IDF to study implications of protest by 'best of our people'

1,142 Air Force reservists to end volunteer duty in protest of judicial overhaul

By Emanuel Fabian

In unprecedented letter, hundreds of pilots, drone operators, air traffic control officers and others urge coalition to ‘reach broad agreements’ or they will suspend their service

Israeli Air Force chief Tomer Bar speaks at an event in honor of the 75th anniversary of the IAF's first-ever strike mission 75 years ago, at the Ad Halom Park near Ashdod, May 29, 2023. (Flash90)

IAF chief: Slander of pilots, others has caused harm that will take years to fix

By Emanuel Fabian

Marchers along Route 424 on Thursday evening, July 20 2023, on the way to Kibbutz Nahshon where they spent their third night during the march to Jerusalem. (Gitai Palti)

Participants invoke Jewish tradition, Moses-led desert trek

As tensions boil, thousands of protesters march in self-styled pilgrimage to Jerusalem

By Charlie Summers

Activists now on 4th day of their trek from Tel Aviv to the Knesset, an event at once combative and festive, as coalition prepares next week to pass first judicial overhaul bill

Israelis block the Ayalon Highway during a protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, July 20, 2023. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

At least 15 arrested as protests turn fiery after PM doubles down on overhaul

By ToI Staff and Charlie Summers

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives an address from the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, July 20, 2023. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu: ‘Reasonableness’ law will boost democracy; still seeking wide agreement

In televised address, premier claims efforts being made for consensus on ‘reasonableness bill’ even as his government fast-tracked it and is set to pass it into law next week

File: Heads of opposition parties Labor MK Merav Michaeli, Yesh Atid head MK Yair Lapid, National Unity head MK Benny Gantz, Israel Beteinu head MK Avigdor Liberman and leader of the United Arab List MK Mansour Abbas hold a joint press conference in Tel Aviv, on March 16, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Opposition figures castigate Netanyahu for speech ‘full of lies and incitement’

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ClimateTech from Israel to the World

Global climate change has taken center stage internationally – Start-Up Nation Central is the non-profit giving Israeli ClimateTech a leading role.

Former AG: Coalition’s bill is a ‘coup,’ would ‘crush’ judiciary and cause ‘tyranny’

Ex-Mossad chief Tamir Pardo says government plan heralds ‘end of democracy,’ says he believes Netanyahu should be ‘brought to justice’ for his efforts to ‘carry out a coup’

Former Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit speaks at an emergency conference on the government's planned judicial overhaul, at the Tel Aviv Art Museum, July 20, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

United Torah Judaism leader Yitzchak Goldknopf at a conference in Tel Aviv, December 7, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Key Haredi newspaper questions wisdom of continued backing of judicial overhaul

By Canaan Lidor

Film review

In ‘Oppenheimer,’ Judaism lends a stable nucleus to moral conflict of atomic genius

By Matt Goldberg

Now in theaters, Christopher Nolan’s movie about the man behind the A-bomb shows a struggle between pragmatism, humanism and ambition – and the solace of a Jewish friendship

The Jewish story behind Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer,’ explained

By Shira Li Bartov

Dr. Itamar Harel of the Silberman Institute of Life Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Courtesy of Itamar Harel)

Israeli scientists believe experiments reversing aging in fish could benefit humans

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Hebrew University researchers genetically manipulate energy regulation in male African killifish, making them live longer and develop resistance to age-related conditions

Moses’ last speech: Words to live by

This last book of the Torah is part rebuke for past sins, part instruction to behave, and part reminder of God’s love (Devarim)

Is God our enemy? A midrash for the Three Weeks

How should God react to the suffering of His people? Should He rage? Comfort? Primo Levi says He should spit. Surely He should help

Analysis

Herzog flew to the US to heal the Biden-Netanyahu rift. Instead he exposed its depth

After he failed to forge compromise back home, president’s visit to DC to get ties back on track winds up with American leader highlighting opposition to judicial overhaul

President Isaac Herzog is greeted by as he arrives to speak to a joint meeting of US Congress, July 19, 2023, at the Capitol in Washington (Chris Kleponis)

Left: US President Joe Biden at Raleigh-Durham International Airport in Morrisville, North Carolina, March 28, 2023. (AP/Carolyn Kaster); Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on March 19, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool photo via AP)

NYT’s Friedman says he believes Biden warned Netanyahu over judicial shakeup in call

International relations expert Dr. Yonatan Freeman lectures at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. (Jenny Pepperman)

ToI podcastA dictatorship is a nation of rulers and not of laws

What Matters Now to Dr. Yonatan Freeman: The dictatorship tipping point

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

International relations & media lecturer at the Hebrew University explains why Israel’s democracy is stronger than ever – despite inflamed rhetoric capturing headlines on all sides

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (Ronen Zvulun and Ozan Kose/AFP)

Netanyahu to meet Erdogan in Turkey next week, a first for an Israeli PM in 15 years

By AFP

The visit will take place days after a trip by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas

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)

Algeria denounces Israeli recognition of Western Sahara

By AFP

A bird sits on a monument of composer Ludwig van Beethoven in Bonn, Germany, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Musical fragments

Jewish businessman returns Beethoven skull pieces to Vienna

By AFP

Paul Kaufmann inherited composer’s 10 skull parts, brought by his family to the US upon fleeing the Nazis

Members of the Women of the Wall, Conservative and Reform Movements hold Rosh Hodesh prayers at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City, March 4, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court bans Torah bag searches at Western Wall, in limited win for Women of the Wall

By Canaan Lidor

Ruling nonetheless reaffirms that attendants at holy site may enforce rules preventing women from using scripture in ‘unauthorized ways’ once they enter complex

Health and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri seen outside his home in Jerusalem on January 19, 2023 following the High Court of Justice ruling barring him from ministerial office. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Court temporarily blocks law benefitting Deri ally in Tiberias municipal race

Tony Bennett reacts after performing the song "I left My Heart in San Francisco" during his 80th birthday celebration at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles, on Nov. 9, 2006. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, File)

Obituary

Tony Bennett, master of American musical standards, dies at 96

By CHARLES J. GANS

Crooner, known for his classic hit’s like ‘I Left My Heart In San Francisco,’ released more than 70 albums, including a No. 1 at aged 88, a duets project with Lady Gaga

Singer Tony Bennett waiting for the opening of the 116th Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 3, 2019. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)

San Francisco heartCrooner Tony Bennett feted for WWII service as Congress opens

By Eric Cortellessa

Singer Antonia Bennett, daughter of crooner Tony Bennett, converted to Judaism before marrying her Israeli-born husband. (courtesy)

Tony Bennett’s daughter says Judaism keeps her from flying to the moon

An oil lamp uncovered in Jerusalem's Old City, June 27, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel / Flash90 )

Trump to return ancient lamps to Israel after antiquities authority said to protest

By JTA and ToI Staff

Former president’s spokesperson says artifacts being expedited back to Israel, after report they were sent for a short display at White House and ended up at Mar-a-Lago

Illustrative: Feet on a scale (Tero Vesalainen; iStock by Getty Images)

Tel Aviv University study argues third of normal-weight Israelis are secretly obese

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Researchers urge doctors to use overall body fat composition, rather than body mass index, to more accurately determine patients’ health risks

Alexander Popivker protests outside the Cleveland Justice Center before sentencing on July 19, 2023 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Courtesy Alexander Popivker)

Cleveland rabbi punished for stealing university group’s Palestinian banner

By Andrew Lapin

Alexander Popivker handed suspended jail term and 18 months of probation; is also required to attend anger management classes and is barred from campus

More Headlines

The scene of a stabbing in the Gilo neighborhood in East Jerusalem, July 20, 2023. (Israel Police)

Man stabbed, seriously hurt in suspected terror incident in Jerusalem’s Gilo

Eliyahu “Eli” Weinstein (Longview News-Journal screenshot)

A Trump-pardoned criminal and an Israeli among 5 charged in $35m. wire fraud scheme

By AP

Illustrative: A police car at the scene of a crime. (Israel Police)

Two men shot dead in northern Arab town; man stabbed to death in Ashdod

By Michael Horovitz

View of Assuta Hospital, Ramat Hahayal, Tel Aviv, May 20, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/ FLASH90)

After series of errors, Tel Aviv hospital barred from accepting new IVF patients

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., testifies before a House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

At House censorship hearing, Robert Kennedy Jr. denies antisemitism accusations

By LISA MASCARO and ALI SWENSON

Malka Leifer, right, is brought to a courtroom in Jerusalem, on February 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

Malka Leifer, charged with sexual abuse, to be sentenced in Australia next month

Author Roald Dahl in 1982, around the time his commentaries against Jews and Israel began to increase. (Public domain)

UK Roald Dahl Museum acknowledges author’s ‘undeniable’ antisemitism

By AFP

Israel Prison Service Commissioner Katy Perry arrives for her testimony at the government committee probing the escape of the security prisoners from the Gilboa prison, in Modi'in, March 7, 2022. (Flash90)

Prison Service chief says she’ll resign at end of year following spat with Ben Gvir

Justice Minister Yariv Levin at a cabinet in Jerusalem on May 28, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Levin to set up commission of inquiry into alleged illicit police use of spyware

Iraqis raise copies of the Quran, Muslims' holy book, during a protest in Tahrir Square, Thursday، July 20, 2023 in Baghdad, Iraq. The protest was in response to the burning of Quran in Sweden. (AP Photo/Adil AL-Khazali)

Muslim nations outraged following latest Quran desecration in Sweden

By Jon Gambrell, ABBY SEWELL, Nasser Karimi and Munir Ahmed

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