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What Matters Most On Sunday, July 23, 2023

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MK Orit Farkash Hacohen speaks during the Knesset debate on the reasonableness bill, July 23, 2022 (Knesset channel screenshot)

‘You’re destroying Israel’: Opposition implores coalition to stop reasonableness bill

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

With National Unity MK making a tearful address to parliament and protesters amassed in Jerusalem, Knesset plows ahead with debate preceding final votes; faint hope of compromise

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a plenum session in the Knesset in Jerusalem on July 10, 2023, as lawmakers deliberate a bill to constrict the judiciary’s review powers over the 'reasonableness' of government decisions. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset begins final votes on reasonableness law, curbing court review of decisions

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

File: Histadrut chief Arnon Bar-David declares a general strike in protest of the judicial overhaul, at a press conference in Tel Aviv on March 27, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Top labor union holds 5-hour emergency meeting on overhaul, sets compromise deadline

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in a video from Sheba Medical Center on July 23, 2023, after having a pacemaker installed. (Screen capture)

Without monitor's alert, PM could've suffered cardiac arrest

As PM gets pacemaker, doctors reveal he had ‘transient heart block,’ monitor saved him

Specialists also admit Netanyahu fainted last week, had heart conduction problem for years; hasn’t released medical report since 2016; criticism that public denied full picture

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)

Netanyahu has pacemaker fitted, on eve of final votes on coalition’s overhaul bill

By Michael Bachner

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on July 9, 2023. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

Netanyahu’s trips to Turkey and Cyprus postponed after he has pacemaker implanted

IDF chief: Overhaul debate splitting military; Israel’s existence could be imperiled

By Emanuel Fabian

Halevi says army ‘cohesion harmed’ amid political turmoil; urges reservists to return to service; says Israel cannot ‘continue to exist as a state’ without strong, unified military

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)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs a cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem, July 17, 2023. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Facing intense opposition, coalition indicates determination to pass overhaul bill

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Then-prime minister Yair Lapid and President Isaac Herzog (left) at a memorial service marking 27 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem on November 6, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

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Business forum declares strike amid some optimism last-minute compromise possible

Biden says ‘don’t rush’; Herzog meets PM, Lapid, makes offer that Lapid backs in principle; Gantz and protesters said to oppose outline, which would see rest of bills frozen

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Biden: 'Don't rush' to legislate judicial overhaul. 'Current proposal becoming more divisive, not less'
8:55 pm

Likud minister prays for 'father of the nation' Netanyahu during pro-overhaul rally
8:41 pm

Talk grows of potential compromise, as Lapid backs Herzog proposal in principle

Members of the 'Brothers in Arms' reservists protest group hold a press conference in Herzliya, July 22, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

More IAF reservists sign letter protesting overhaul

‘This is where we draw the line’: 10,000 more reservists to stop volunteering

By Emanuel Fabian

In separate letter, some 500 active reservists in military intel announce end to volunteer duty, call on government to ‘immediately stop dictatorial moves’

From left: Former Shin Bet security service head Nadav Argaman in 2019; former prime minister Ehud Barak in 2023; former IDF chief Dan Halutz in 2023 (Flash90; Tomer Neuberg/Flash90, Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Dozens of ex-security chiefs: Netanyahu ‘directly responsible for harm to security’

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Renee Ghert-Zand

Netanyahu underwent surgery to have pacemaker fitted. Here’s why, and what it will do

Premier has small battery-powered cardiac pacing device implanted to prevent heart from beating too slowly; PM’s trips to Turkey, Cyprus are postponed

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

While the government demands male-only language in official documents, a new non-gendered Hebrew may be the solution

Donating stem cells: A master class in peoplehood

A microscopic piece of blood-matter is the ultimate reminder that we are connected at a cellular level. The rest is just noise

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

As judiciary fight reaches a climax, both sides set to lose

Without the support of a skeptical political center, no result in the vote on a law curbing the courts will offer any side the sustained victory it seeks

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)

Former Supreme Court president Aharon Barak in Jerusalem, December 8, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ex-top judge refutes PM’s use of his name: Reasonableness bill undermines rule of law

Yossi Cohen, then the national security adviser, is seen in a committee meeting at the Knesset on December 8, 2015, sitting behind Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ex-Mossad chief Cohen: Stop the overhaul for the sake of Israel’s national security

Tens of thousands of demonstrators march into Jerusalem on July 22, 2023, completing a multi-day march that started in Tel Aviv to protest the government's judicial overhaul legislation (Amir Terkel)

Demonstrators set up tent city near parliament

Anti-overhaul march reaches Knesset as multitudes protest looming vote to limit courts

National conflict comes to a head as hundreds of thousands demonstrate throughout country against ‘reasonableness’ bill; coalition officials vow to pass it within days regardless

Right-wing Israelis attend a rally in support of the government's planned judicial overhaul, outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, on April 27, 2023. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Overhaul supporters to rally in Tel Aviv as Knesset debates key bill ahead of vote

View of tents set up by opponents of the judicial overhaul at Gan Sacher in Jerusalem on July 23, 2023 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Protests expected in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv as coalition set to pass reasonableness law

Pro- and anti-overhaul demonstrators hold prayers at the Western Wall, in Jerusalem, July 23, 2023. (Charlie Summers/The Times of Israel)

Activists on both sides of overhaul debate hold mass Western Wall prayer for unity

By Canaan Lidor and Charlie Summers

Ahead of Tisha B’Av, organizers of gathering and subsequent march in Jerusalem plead with sparring parties to think of the destruction brought on by discord

Anti-overhaul activists attend a special prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, on July 23, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 23: After prayers at Western Wall, protesters march to Knesset

Israel's former chief Ashkenazi rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau shakes hands with Holocaust survivor Felix Goldschmied at the Launceston Synagogue in Launceston, Australia, July 12, 2023. (Mishka Gora via JTA)

'It’s an interesting place at the edge of the world'

In remote Tasmania, Jews welcome a rare visit from a former Israeli chief rabbi

By Nomi Kaltmann

The first such visit in 72 years is a boost for the small but growing community established by Jewish convicts in 1804 and considered far-flung even by Australian standards

Flames rise during a forest fire on the island of Rhodes, Greece, Saturday, July 22, 2023. (Argyris Mantikos/Eurokinissi via AP)

Wildfires rage in Greece as high winds hamper firefighting services

By AFP and ToI Staff

Blazes in Rhodes have sparked biggest-ever fire evacuation in Greece; Israel sent air team to assist

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Worshippers struggle with Hamas policeman at the Al Awda mosque, a PIJ stronghold, in Rafah, Gaza, July 18, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Hamas raids Islamic Jihad mosque in Gaza, arrests prominent cleric

By Michael Horovitz

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)

Ben Gvir refuses to send senior cop to Gallant’s discussion on ‘settler violence’

Screen capture from video of the Israeli team during the silver medal-winning routine at the 2023 FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup series, July 22, 2023. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israel wins silver at rhythmic gymnastics world cup circuit meet

By Stuart Winer

Church personnel inspect damage inside the Odesa Transfiguration Cathedral following Russian missile attacks in Odesa, Ukraine, July 23, 2023. (Jae C. Hong/AP)

2 killed in Russian barrage on Odesa; UNESCO-recognized cathedral badly damaged

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