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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 25, 2023

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Demonstrators block the traffic on a highway crossing the city during a protest against plans by Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, July 24, 2023. (AP/Oded Balilty)

Riot police deploy in Tel Aviv, skunk water fired in Jerusalem

Chaos as protesters block roads, face riot police, water cannons as judicial law passes

By Naomi Lanzkron, Carrie Keller-Lynn, Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Dozens held in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, elsewhere as protesters shut Begin, Ayalon freeways, defying cops for hours; multiple complaints of police brutality; 20 reported hospitalized

Protesters demonstrate outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem after the coalition passes its reasonableness limitation law, July 24, 2023. (Jeremy Sharon/ Times of Israel)

Defiant in defeat: Protesters vow to fight on against government’s judicial overhaul

By Jeremy Sharon

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, December 25, 2018. (Adam Shuldman/Flash90/File)

Israeli shares, shekel slide as passage of overhaul law crushes compromise hopes

By Sharon Wrobel

A partial view of the Dimona nuclear power plant in the southern Israeli Negev desert, on September 8, 2002. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

Live updates (closed)

Several top nuclear scientists said weighing resigning to protest overhaul

TV report says a number of the dozens of experts ‘responsible for the development of Israel’s nuclear capability’ could quit atomic commission

8:47 pm

Pro-Israel Democrat laments damage PM's 'far-right' gov't doing to 2-state solution alongside judicial overhaul
6:55 pm

MKs pass controversial ‘admissions committees’ law, allowing towns of up to 700 homes to cherry-pick residents
6:19 pm

State Department stresses US administration won't cut aid to Israel after overhaul law passed

Security forces remove a protester near an entrance to the Knesset, on July 24, 2023 (HAZEM BADER / AFP)

Op-ed

How do we safeguard Israel, when the government is at war with much of the people?

By David Horovitz

The coalition’s brutal bid to neuter the courts and legislate Israel away from a democratic, liberal Jewish ethos may yet prove its downfall. Meantime, nonviolent protests are key

UTJ presents bill to shield Haredi draft exemptions, prompting Likud disavowal

By Stuart Winer, Canaan Lidor and Jeremy Sharon

Legislation seeks to equate Torah study and military service, leading opposition to rage against proposal and Netanyahu’s party to deny it will be advancing to a vote

Illustrative: An ultra-Orthodox man walks outside the army recruitment office in Jerusalem, July 2, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Coalition MKs during a vote on the reasonableness law at the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem on July 24, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Coalition split between defiance and reconciliation after passing first overhaul bill

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Justice Minister Yariv Levin in the Knesset plenum during a vote on the coalition's 'reasonableness' bill, July 24, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Op-ed

Shalom Yerushalmi

Netanyahu’s hospital sedation may be over, but Levin remains the real prime minister

Since the formation of the current government, the justice minister has amassed an army of ministers and MKs that neither the PM nor the defense minister could withstand on Monday

The fully black front pages of several Hebrew-language newspapers, an ad purchased by anti-judicial overhaul protesters, seen in a shop in Jerusalem, July 25, 2023, a day after the reasonableness law passed in the Knesset. (Chaim Goldbeg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jul 25: Day after society-rending vote, new contentious bill presented

Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut at a hearing in Jerusalem on June 27, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court justices rush back from abroad to hear petitions against ‘reasonableness’

Supreme Court President Esther Hayut was in Germany leading delegation of judges, who are now returning early to Israel ‘given the latest developments’

Doctors demonstrate against the judicial overhaul in Tel Aviv on July 18, 2023. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Medical Association announces 24-hour general strike Tuesday in healthcare system

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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A tale of two Israels

Despite the deep divides in Israeli society, I believed we were still one people. Then I saw the exultant selfie from the Knesset floor

Crushed by denial: Zion in the Book of Lamentations

When everything you believe comes crumbling down, and you still can’t get past your beliefs, that is when you are susceptible to destruction

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a statement to the nation after passing the first major law of the judicial overhaul, July 24, 2023. (video screenshot)

Netanyahu offers talks on next overhaul laws; Lapid: An empty show, he’s not real PM

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

PM promises High Court won’t come under coalition control; Lapid: He’s lying, to appease the US and calm the protests; Gantz: We’ll erase these laws from the statute book

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) speaks with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant during a vote on the so-called reasonableness bill at the Knesset, July 24, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gallant explains vote for contentious overhaul bill: ‘Best that I stay at the wheel’

By Emanuel Fabian

White House laments unilateral passage of overhaul bill, as Democrats echo alarm

Press secretary stresses Biden’s call for consensus, backs Herzog’s compromise efforts; progressive US lawmakers blast Knesset for curbing judiciary; Germany voices ‘great concern’

Left: US President Joe Biden speaks about Russia in the East Room of the White House, April 15, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik); Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a memorial ceremony for fallen soldiers at the Yad LeBanim House on the eve of Memorial Day, in Jerusalem, April 13, 2021. (Debbie Hill/Pool Photo via AP)

The CEO of the American Jewish Committee, Ted Deutch, left, interviews Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid on June 11, 2023, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Courtesy of AJC)

‘First step to destroying democracy’: Diaspora groups alarmed as overhaul law passes

By Canaan Lidor

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah greets his supporters through a screen via a video link from a secret place, during a rally to mark Jerusalem day, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, April 14, 2023. (AP Photo/ Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah chief gloats: Israel had its ‘worst day,’ is on ‘path to disappearance’

In speech, Hassan Nasrallah says Jewish state was once seen as a regional power, but its ‘trust, awareness and self-confidence have deteriorated’ due to judicial overhaul crisis

Israeli soldiers stand by a car used by three Palestinian gunmen after they were killed near the West Bank city of Nablus, July 25, 2023 (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

3 Palestinian gunmen killed by IDF when attacking Samaritan community near Nablus

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says suspects arrived by car at small town in northern West Bank, opened fire at forces outside; Hamas claims responsibility

An Israeli bus is seen damaged following a shooting attack in the West Bank town of Huwara, July 24, 2023. (Courtesy)

Israeli bus comes under fire in Huwara; none hurt

By Emanuel Fabian

Dark comedy ‘Anne Frank Gift Shop’ repackages Holocaust icon for Gen Z

By Matt Lebovic

In new short satiric film premiering July 25, Anne Frank House museum reps hire a marketing firm to remake diarist’s image in era of ’empathy fatigue’ among young people

Iranians prepare to set an Israeli flag on fire next to a picture of late Iranian general Qassem Soleimani during a rally marking al-Quds Day in Tehran, Iran, on April 29, 2022. (AFP)

Iran claims it dismantled Mossad-led spy network planning to blow up Soleimani’s tomb

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Tehran alleges that a group controlled by Israeli spy agency’s cells in Europe was also planning attacks against civilian gatherings

Archaeology

Half-shekel coin from revolt against Romans 2 millennia ago uncovered in desert cave

By Melanie Lidman

Hebrew coin minted by rebels as part of underground Jewish economy and used to pay tax at Temple in Jerusalem is discovered during six-year survey mapping area of Dead Sea Scrolls

The 2,000-year-old coin as it was discovered in a cave near Ein Gedi, with three pomegranates and the words "Holy Jerusalem" in ancient script. (Emil Aladjem/IAA)

Illustrative. Cybersecurity protection. (Thinkhubstudio via iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli-founded Imperva is snapped up by France’s Thales in $3.6b cybersecurity deal

By Sharon Wrobel

Co-founded by tech entrepreneur Shlomo Kramer in 2002, Imperva is a data and application cybersecurity firm that operates an R&D center in Israel with 500 employees

More Headlines

An undated image of Tamer Ibriq, a 37-year-old Israeli Arab killed in a criminal shooting in Kafr Yassif on July 24, 2023. (used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Man shot dead near Kafr Yasif, marking 130th killing in Arab community this year

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Illustrative: Palestinian and left-wing Jewish groups stage a rally walking from Times Square to the United Nations Building in New York, September 15, 2011, calling to end all US aid to Israel and support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. (AP Photo/David Karp/File)

US anthropological association votes to boycott Israeli academia over ‘apartheid’

By Andrew Lapin

The scene were a burned body was found in the Jordan Valley, July 12, 2023. (Israel Police)

Police reveal murder suspect burned victim’s body, then dumped it; found 2 weeks ago

Radical Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary speaks to a group of demonstrators outside the US embassy in central London, September 14, 2012. (AFP PHOTO / LEON NEAL/ File)

UK remands Islamist preacher in custody on terror charges

By AFP

View of the Bolivian Legislative Assembly building in La Paz, Bolivia Thursday, May 4, 2023. (AP/Juan Karita)

Bolivia facing questions over shadowy defense pact with Iran

By DANIEL POLITI and Carlos Valdez

Anti Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt speaks at a press conference announcing the Jewish Security Alliance at the ADL's investigative research lab. Behind him is Scott Richman, the regional director of ADL’s New York-New Jersey Office, CSS CEO Evan Bernstein and CSI Executive Director Mitch Silber. (Jacob Henry via JTA)

ADL sets up a 7-country international task force on antisemitism

An undated campaign photo of Joel Rubin and his family. (via JTA)

Joel Rubin, who helped found J Street, to run for Maryland congressional seat

Singer Shira Zloof adds her two cents to global Barbie craze with new 'Barbie' Hebrew single (Courtesy Daffy Chagi)

Pretty in pinkSinger says she’s more like Ken than Barbie in Hebrew pop song

By Jessica Steinberg

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