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What Matters Most On Saturday, July 22, 2023

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Thousands of Israelis march along a highway towards Jerusalem in protest of plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, near Abu Gosh, Israel, July 22, 2023 (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

From a handful of marchers on Tuesday to a 'historic moment'

Tens of thousands march to Knesset in last-ditch effort to stop 1st overhaul bill

Protesters arrive in Jerusalem as coalition to pass law curtailing judicial oversight in coming days; protests to be held in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, 150 other locations for 29th week

Demonstrators march with Israeli flags during a 'Day of Resistance' to protest the government's judicial overhaul plans, near the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on July 18, 2023. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP)

Protesters to rally for 29th week in final stand against passing of 1st overhaul law

Anti-overhaul activists, who are marching to Jerusalem, gather at Shoresh outside the capital on Friday evening, July 21, 2023. (Aviv Hasidov)

Anti-overhaul pilgrimage regroups outside Jerusalem ahead of final march to Knesset

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a video message,explaining that he is going into the hospital to have a pacemaker fitted, early on July 23, 2023. (Screenshot)

Live updates (closed)

Week after hospitalization, Netanyahu undergoes surgery to implant cardiac pacemaker

PM set for release Sunday in time for final votes on overhaul bill; hundreds of thousands rally nationwide, protesters set up ‘tent city’ in park near Knesset after multi-day march

11:35 pm

Netanyahu reportedly at hospital, undergoing pacemaker implant
11:14 pm

Cabinet meeting, key security meeting with IDF chief delayed due to PM's hospitalization
10:47 pm

Justice Minister Levin to be acting PM during Netanyahu's surgery

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant attend an event for outstanding soldiers as part of Israel's 75th Independence Day celebrations, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on April 26, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

'Reasonableness' bill set to become law early next week

Gallant said trying to delay judicial overhaul vote amid unprecedented pilots’ protest

Defense minister confirms ‘taking measures’ to achieve consensus; Deri also said working to stop ‘march into abyss’ as 1,142 IAF reservists warn they’ll refuse to show up for duty

Illustrative photo of a graduation ceremony for pilots who have completed the IAF Flight Course, at the Hatzerim Air Base in the Negev desert, December 26, 2018. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

‘We won’t surrender’: Coalition far-right heads reject IAF protest as akin to coup bid

Wake up, Israel! Civil war is on its way!

What do you do when the politician who demonizes you is your neighbor? Some of us made a video. Someone else pulled a gun

The House of David

A monumental ’bragging rock’ from the king of Aram is not a surprise. But what was written on it was a game-changer.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a meeting with President Isaac Herzog at the Watergate Hotel, July 18, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Blinken on overhaul: Biden committed to Israel; close partners share their concerns

US secretary of state says president offering same message in public and private conversations with Israel’s leaders; Israeli democracy ‘telling a remarkable story right now’

Unit of Poland's underground resistance to German occupation, the Home Army. (Public domain)

Access to archival records has become increasingly difficult

‘Jews in the Garden’ uproots Poland’s homegrown Holocaust perpetrators

By Matt Lebovic

In her new book, investigative journalist Judy Rakowsky unearths the well-concealed fate of relatives murdered by their countrymen while in hiding from the Nazis

Bullet holes are seen on a Palestinian-owned car in the West Bank village of Sebastia, following an alleged attempted car-ramming attack, July 21, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Palestinian killed by IDF troops in alleged attempted car-ramming in West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says soldiers operating in village near Nablus opened fire at vehicle speeding toward them, killing 18-year-old driver and wounding and arresting passenger

Israeli soldiers stand guard while Palestinians and left-wing activists protest in the village of Beit Dajan, in the West Bank, on July 21, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Palestinian teen killed, 3 Israeli troops hurt in separate West Bank clashes

By Emanuel Fabian

Police at the scene of a terror stabbing in the Gilo neighborhood of Jerusalem on July 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shin Bet says stabbing in Jerusalem’s Gilo was terror, 3 Palestinians arrested

3 suspects aged 17-19 from Bethlehem detained by security agency, IDF; Or Sayer’s uncle says he was taken to hospital with knife embedded in his back, says he’s not out of danger

Jim Caviezel stars in 'Sound of Freedom.' (Screenshot/YouTube, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Surprise blockbuster ‘Sound of Freedom’ echoes antisemitic QAnon conspiracies

By Shira Li Bartov

Thriller’s ideology draws on blood libel canard, expert says, and star Jim Caviezel has floated anti-Jewish conspiracy theories while promoting the film

Two years after deportation orders, 130 African Hebrew Israelites linger in limbo

By Ilan Ben Zion

Dozens of community members have no formal status in Israel and were ordered to leave, but Israeli authorities have yet to rule on their appeals

Members of three families from the Hebrew Israelite community facing deportation, pose for a portrait in the Village of Peace in Dimona, Israel, Monday, July 17, 2023. For two years, Toveet Israel, bottom left, and dozens of other residents of the Village of Peace have lived in fear. Her eight children, including two of her daughters Yahlital, standing left, and Ahmeeteeyah standing right, were born here and know no other country. With them are Ben Israel, center, his granddaughters, and Estella Rivers, right. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Ivie Szalai speaks against students reading 'The Fixer' at a Beaufort County school board meeting at the Hilton Head Island School for the Creative Arts in South Carolina, June 27, 2023. (YouTube screenshot/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

'They want to put God back into schools. But whose God?'

US school district removes classic novel ‘The Fixer,’ about a 1911 blood libel

By Andrew Lapin and PHILISSA CRAMER

Jewish author Bernard Malamud’s book on antisemitism has been challenged before and led to a Supreme Court decision on book bans. Now, a South Carolina mom wants it gone again

Archaeology

Sword overboard: Crusader blade discovered by diver was likely lost in battle

By Melanie Lidman

Cutting edge X-rays pierce through tough marine crust to reveal 800-year-old weapon was slightly bent, probably during a fierce maritime skirmish

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Protesters gather in Baghdad's Tahrir Square, carrying Iraqi flags and images of influential Iraqi Shiite cleric and political leader Muqtada al-Sadr, July 22, 2023, following reports of the burning of a Quran carried out by a ultranationalist group in front of the Iraqi Embassy in Copenhagen. (AP Photo/Ali Jabar)

Protesters try to storm Baghdad Green Zone over apparent burning of Quran in Denmark

By ali jabar and JARI TANNER

Crowd tries to enter heavily fortified area following reports a Danish ultranationalist group burned a copy of holy book outside the Iraqi Embassy in Copenhagen

Protesters chant slogans against Sweden in front of the embassy in Tehran, Iran, July 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Amid fury over Quran desecrations, Iran says it won’t accept new Swedish ambassador

By AFP

'Our lives began again in these camps'

Landmark exhibits shed light on post-Holocaust life in German displaced person camps

By Toby Axelrod

A collaborative exhibition between Munich’s Jewish Museum and its City Museum running through January 2024 tells the stories of tens of thousands in postwar limbo

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Rasha Amash, 20, (left) and Muhammad Amash, 19, who were shot dead in the Arab town of Jisr az Zarqa, July 21, 2023. (Courtesy)

2 shot dead in northern town, 1 in East Jerusalem as unrelenting crime wave continues

US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides, left, and Deputy Ambassador Stephanie Hallett in a photograph posted on July 21, 2023. (US Embassy in Israel)

Career diplomat Stephanie Hallett now interim US embassy chief as Nides departs

A man on a motorcycle looks at a shipyard which is on fire in Mandra west of Athens, on July 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greece faces hottest July weekend in 50 years as record US heatwave set to expand

By AFP

Republican US presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Salt Lake City, July 21, 2023. (Jeffrey D. Allred/The Deseret News via AP)

Republican 2024 hopeful DeSantis says he’s driven more by faith in God than politics

By MICHELLE PRICE and SAM METZ

This undated Pennsylvania Department of Transportation photo shows Robert Bowers. (Pennsylvania Department of Transportation via AP, File)

Defense expert: Pittsburgh gunman had traumatic childhood, couldn’t function as adult

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried leaves Manhattan federal court in New York, February 16, 2023. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Prosecutors: FTX’s Bankman-Fried is harassing a key witness at his upcoming trial

By Larry Neumeister

Fabian Wolff has claimed to be Jewish for years. (Screenshot/YouTube via JTA)

Prominent German critic of Israel who had claimed to be Jewish now says he’s not

By Toby Axelrod

A photo contained in a court filing by the Department of Justice on August 30, 2022, shows documents seized during the August 8 search by the FBI of former president Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. (Department of Justice via AP)

Judge sets May 2024 trial date for Trump classified documents case

By Gerard Martinez and Chris Lefkow

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