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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 27, 2023

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Anti-overhaul activists protest in Tel Aviv, July 27, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

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Fresh overhaul protests held in Tel Aviv amid fears of escalation with police

March sets out from Rothschild Boulevard toward Kaplan Street, with cops seen potentially going for more aggressive enforcement

8:52 pm

Roads reopen at Tel Aviv protest site as crowds quietly disperse
8:51 pm

UAE condemns Ben Gvir Temple Mount visit
8:34 pm

Dozens of Palestinians protest at Gaza border against Ben Gvir Temple Mount visit

Government said looking to buy 6 more water cannons

Anti-judicial overhaul protesters gear up to head back to the streets Thursday night

Activists plan to begin march only after end of Tisha B’Av fast day; ‘You don’t negotiate with the dictatorial government. You fight a dictatorial government,’ says protest group

Riot police try to clear demonstrators with a water canon during a protest after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government passes the first law to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, July 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk answers AFP journalists' questions during an interview at his office, in Geneva, on January 4, 2023. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)

UN human rights chief tells Israel to ‘heed the calls’ of anti-overhaul protesters

Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli is driven out of a Tisha B'Av event by anti-government protesters in Jerusalem on July 26, 2023. (Screenshot/Twitter, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Anti-judicial overhaul protesters drive diaspora minister out of Tisha B’Av event

Anti-overhaul protesters outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on July 18, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

As reasonableness law takes effect, High Court sets September showdown for petitions

Court declines to issue injunction freezing law, but will hear arguments against legislation from seven petitioners, as well as demands for Levin to convene judge appointment panel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a vote on the reasonableness bill at the Knesset on July 24, 2023 after being fitted with a pacemaker. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 27: PM’s heart keeps pace as US expresses disappointment

Israeli troops guard the border with Lebanon, July 12, 2023. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Key Knesset defense panel to meet on IDF readiness fears as reservist protest mounts

Analysis

Carrie Keller-Lynn

What the ‘reasonableness’ law does — and doesn’t — mean for judicial overhaul

Reasonableness is the ‘first step’ in the coalition’s campaign to constrain judicial power, and perhaps its mildest; markets, international allies express discomfort

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with Justice Minister Yariv Levin as the Knesset votes to enact the 'reasonableness' law, July 24, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In this handout photo, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) holds a autographed copy of Chinese leader Xi Jinping's book that was given to him by China's Ambassador to Israel Cai Run, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, July 26, 2023 (Courtesy)

With Israeli-US ties troubled, China says Xi ‘looking forward’ to Netanyahu visit

President Isaac Herzog hosts delegations from Likud, Yesh Atid and National Unity for judicial overhaul negotiations at his residence in Jerusalem, March 28, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Herzog: Those in power are chiefly responsible for mending rift caused by overhaul

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir tours the Temple Mount on Tisha B'Av, July 27, 2023. (Temple Mount Administration)

Ben Gvir visits Temple Mount on Tisha B’Av, drawing rebuke from US, Jordan, Saudis

By Michael Horovitz

Minister, other lawmakers ascend to flashpoint site without incident; 16 Jewish visitors, 2 Arabs arrested over disturbances; record numbers said to tour site on fast day

PA President Mahmoud Abbas (left), Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (center) and Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh meeting in Ankara, July 26, 2023. (Turkish Presidency)

Erdogan hosts PA’s Abbas, Hamas head Haniyeh to prepare for détente talks

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

How she sits alone: For these I weep

I shed tears of pain for all that should never have befallen our daughters, Jewish marriage, Jewish leadership, or the Torah itself

Noah E Abramowitz

Waiting for the donkey

Instead of claiming the messiah is coming, I vote we ready a saddle and do the most we can as individuals to keep building

A new song at the gates of Auschwitz

A Torah scroll from Wengrow, Poland survived our darkest history, unlike most of the town’s residents. Its repair and rededication honors their memory

After thousands of years of practice, we could not prevent the same passions that felled the Second Temple from undermining our Third

Moody’s ‘wake-up call’: Tel Aviv Stock Exchange head warns of looming financial crisis

By Sharon Wrobel

In direct appeal, TASE CEO Ittai Ben-Zeev urges prime minister and finance minister not to dismiss credit-rating agency’s warnings and seek to regain trust to avert a downgrade

Stock quotes seen outside the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange on August 26, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israeli tech CEOs and founders ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange wearing 'Save our democracy' t-shirts, July 26, 2023. (i24news screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli tech entrepreneurs don ‘Save our democracy’ T-shirts at NYSE opening bell

By Michael Horovitz

Likud MK David Bitan leads a hearing at the Knesset Economic Committee in Jerusalem, on July 16, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud MK says party’s actions should no longer be determined by ‘one person’

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara speaks during a conference in Haifa on January 12, 2023. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

Likud MK says he will withdraw controversial bill to split attorney general position

By Jeremy Sharon

Eli Dallal says he’s pulling the legislation ‘out of sincere desire for compromise with opposition,’ though all 10 cosponsors would have to retract their names too

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara arrives to attend the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, July 9, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool Photo via AP)

AG slams ‘flawed’ law benefiting Deri ally in Tiberias mayoral race

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Welfare Minister Ya'akov Margi at a Federation of Local Authorities conference in Tel Aviv, December 8, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Shas’s welfare minister to court: Same-sex adoption against child’s best interests

AG favors legislation that would broaden the interpretation of the current adoption law to includes same-sex couples

A view of Moshav Givat Ye'arim from the Aircraft Trail. (Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am)

Expansion of ‘admissions committees’ law allows more towns to cherry-pick residents

By Charlie Summers

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

Doctors, scientists and tech leaders take stock after passage of ‘reasonableness’ law

By Renee Ghert-Zand

American physicians and German research institutes offer moral support as Israeli healthcare workers weigh whether to stay and fight for scientific freedom or relocate

Top Health Ministry official beseeches doctors considering leaving Israel to remain

By Michael Horovitz

People gather for a protest at the Stella Maris Monastery in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, June 18, 2023. (Flash90)

'Why can’t we have this one place to ourselves?'

At a Haifa church, Jewish pilgrims test coexistence strained by painful history

By Canaan Lidor

Haredi visitors outside Stella Maris say they want to pray near the presumed burial site of Prophet Elisha; churchgoers say it’s just another attempt to intimidate Christians

Worshipers leave the Stella Maris church in Haifa, Israel after a service on July 20, 2023. (Canaan Lidor)

Jewish pilgrims clash with Christian worshipers outside iconic Haifa church

By Canaan Lidor

The Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem, by David Roberts, 1850. (Wikipedia/ Creative Commons)

Judicial overhaul opponents see parallel to Tisha B’Av, saddest day in Hebrew year

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Image reading ‘Shisha B’Av’ circulates online to mark Hebrew date Knesset passed overhaul bill, drawing link to destruction of Temples

Ex-Mossad chief: Netanyahu allies worse than KKK, overhaul is his ‘master plan’

Regev slammed for transport plan that forces those in wealthier cities to pay more

An oil tanker docked at the Europe-Asia Pipeline Company's port in Eilat from May 28 to 30, 2023. (Courtesy, Zalul)

Green groups gear up for fight as oil pipeline looks to pump up Eilat operations

Secretive state company said to be pressuring ministries, Prime Minister’s Office to more than double quota of crude that can be transferred via Red Sea terminal

A screenshot from a video published on July 27, 2023, shows a rocket that a Palestinian group calling itself the Al-Ayyash Batallion claimed to have fired from Jenin at the northern Israel town of Ram-On. (Telegram: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Palestinian group claims to fire rocket from Jenin area at northern Israel town

By Emanuel Fabian

Footage shows projectile fired from northern West Bank; IDF says remains found near Palestinian town

Israeli troops operate in the West Bank, early July 27, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

14-year-old Palestinian killed during Israeli military operation in West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Prof. Avi Loeb, center, on a scientific expedition off of the coast of Papua New Guinea in June 2023 to identify parts of a possible interstellar meteor that crashed in 2014. (Courtesy of Loeb)

'Finding alien life would change humanity's entire future'

Avi Loeb’s claims of finding possible alien technology are polarizing scientists

By Rich Tenorio

Funded by a crypto mogul, the Israel-born Harvard professor says a meteor that exploded off the coast of Papua New Guinea may be the first interstellar object found by humanity

Whistleblower tells Congress US is hiding program that retrieves UFOs

By NOMAAN MERCHANT

More Headlines

Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at an event with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach in New York on July 25, 2023. (Jackie Hajdenberg/ JTA)

RFK Jr. on people to blame for COVID: ‘We know who they were and they weren’t Jewish’

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Illustrative: Iran's alleged atomic warehouse in Turquzabad, Tehran. (YouTube screenshot)

Iran says ‘detailed answers’ handed to IAEA over man-made uranium found at 2 sites

By Jon Gambrell

Hillel International's office after it was bombed by a Russian missile in Odesa, Ukraine, July 23, 2023. (Facebook video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Hillel branch in Odesa ‘significantly damaged’ in Russian missile strike

By Andrew Lapin

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

Judge rejects defense request to exhume Pittsburgh synagogue shooter’s father

By AP

Adham Ziud, 38, who was shot dead in Umm al-Fahm on July 27, 2023. (Social media screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Man shot dead in Umm al-Fahm amid spiraling crimewave in Arab community

By Michael Horovitz

A police car drives down the street in Lyon, eastern France, on July 16, 2023. (OLIVIER CHASSIGNOLE / AFP)

Two targeted in suspected antisemitic assaults in France, US

By Michael Horovitz

For illustration: Ray-Ban sunglasses made by French-Italian eyewear group EssilorLuxottica. (Courtesy)

Maker of Oakley and Ray-Ban sunglasses buys Israeli hearing tech startup Nuance

By Sharon Wrobel

The former metro building on Calle Castelló in Madrid, Spain is the intended seat of the Hispano-Jewish Museum, the first of its caliber on the Iberian Peninsula. (Google Maps)

Hispanic Jewish group signs lease for $40 million museum

By Canaan Lidor

88-year-old Holocaust survivor David 'Dugo' Leitner, left, and President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem for a falafel lunch, January 17, 2019. (Mark Neiman/GPO)

ObituaryDavid Leitner, who made eating falafel a symbol of Holocaust resilience, dies at 94

By Canaan Lidor

Private First Class Richard Barancik joined the 'Monuments Men' in 1945; after the war, he became a prolific architect in Chicago. (Monuments Men and Women Foundation; Dignity Memorial via JTA)

ObituaryRichard Barancik, last of ‘Monuments Men’ who recovered Nazi loot, dies at 98

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

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