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What Matters Most On Friday, July 28, 2023

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) speaks to CNN's Wolf Blitzer in an interview aired Thursday, July 27, 2023, days after his government passed the controversial reasonableness law. (Screenshot/CNN, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Gantz: Failure to obey court decision amounts to a 'coup'

PM won’t pledge to honor High Court ruling if it strikes down reasonableness law

In US interviews, Netanyahu dodges question, says Israel would be in ‘uncharted territory’; says he plans to use fresh law to reappoint Deri as minister; misrepresents petition

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to ABC News, July 27, 2023. (Video screenshot)

Netanyahu tells US media new judicial law is ‘minor,’ democracy fears are ‘silly’

By Luke Tress and ToI Staff

A protester stands in front of a police water cannon being used to disperse demonstrators blocking a road during a protest against moves by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, in Jerusalem, July 24, 2023. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Foreign Ministry tells diplomats to explain protests as an example of democracy

Air force chief: Enemies may test us 'at a time like this'

Military Intelligence warned PM 4 times overhaul rift harming deterrence – report

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Officials said to believe Israel’s enemies — particularly Hezbollah and Iran — sense historic weakness, see opportunity to shift balance of power in region in their favor

File: IDF soldiers guard the northern border with Lebanon, during a demonstration on the Lebanese side of the border marking the 17th anniversary of the Second Lebanon War, July 12, 2023. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

AnalysisGovernment ignores stark warnings, as IDF faces unprecedented threat to readiness

By Emanuel Fabian

File: Then-Education Ministry director-general Asaf Tzalel attends an Education, Culture, and Sports Committee meeting at the Knesset, on March 22, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Education Ministry director-general quits, citing societal ‘rift’

By Michael Horovitz

The headquarters of US financial company Standard and Poor's (S&P) in lower Manhattan, New York, May 2014. (mixmotive via iStock by Getty Images)

Credit rating agency S&P warns lack of overhaul consensus imperils Israeli economy

By Sharon Wrobel

Report says ‘domestic political polarization’ to remain high amid uncertainty over the advancement of other parts of the government’s ‘controversial’ package

Supreme Court Justice Menny Mazuz arrives for a hearing at the court in Jerusalem on March 22, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Retired justice: High Court should strike down ‘anti-democratic’ reasonableness law

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) with Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi at the plenum hall of the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on May 1, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bill floats government-controlled media watchdog that could levy heavy fines

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Anti-overhaul protesters in Tel Aviv, July 27, 2023. (Naomi Lanzkron/Times of Israel)

Thousands protest in Tel Aviv against overhaul; police out in force; no major trouble

By Naomi Lanzkron, ToI Staff and Luke Tress

Heavy police presence but no violence as demonstrators rally against coalition; in first, police park trucks across Kaplan Street to prevent cars from coming close to protesters

Avi Berg helps a customer in his Cafe Dodo in Berlin. (Courtesy of Berg)

Israeli expat boots Israeli ambassador from his Berlin cafe

By Toby Axelrod

Opposition leader Yair Lapid (left) and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant attend a vote on the 'reasonableness' bill at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, July 24, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gallant said to eye unity government with Lapid, Gantz to counter overhaul strife

By Michael Horovitz

Senior Likud member reportedly wants opposition chiefs to replace Ben Gvir and Smotrich, willing to step aside as defense minister if need be; Dichter slams ‘thugs’ on both sides

American Jewry faces a quandary, but does it know it?

Young US Jews don’t prioritize Israel the way their parents did, nor do young Israelis like US democracy as a model. With the gap is growing, now what?

The tragedy of being right

One school of Jewish law favored tradition, another innovation, but it was only when they tried to fix one over the other that things really went wrong

Healing means hearing the other side’s pain

Consider how fast the coalition revoked the ’reasonableness’ clause and see a history of discrimination and humiliation writ large

Peta Jones Pellach

That’s not what I meant by ‘peace’

We’ve lost sight of the values of justice and freedom that the prophets upheld. To get it back, we must dream of our own potential

Demonstrators wave large Israeli flags during a protest against the Netanyahu government's overhaul of the judicial system, outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, on Monday, July 24, 2023, as parliament passed the 'reasonableness' law. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Essay

The wounded Jewish psyche and the divided Israeli soul

By Yossi Klein Halevi

Understanding Israel’s moment of truth – from the war on Start-up Nation, to the moral crisis in Orthodox Jewry, to the author’s personal failure of empathy for political opponents

Sinéad O’Connor to Ben Gvir in 1997: ‘You bring terror to the children of the world’

Irish singer who died Wednesday wrote to the far-right activist, who was 21 at the time, after he took credit for canceling her concert in Jerusalem

Singer Sinead O'Connor (L) poses for a photo in New York, June 5, 2000. (AP Photo/Jim Cooper, File). Itamar Ben Gvir (R) attending a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem Thursday, December 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, Pool)

In about-face, Swedish woman burns paper instead of Torah outside Israeli embassy

Woman is 2nd in recent weeks to threaten to burn the holy book only to walk it back; Israel warned Stockholm that allowing demonstration would harm bilateral relations

A woman burns a piece of paper in front of the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm on July 28, 2023. (Screen capture/Hedlund Media TV, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, left, meets his Swedish counterpart Tobias Billström in Stockholm, May 15, 2023. (MAG/ Israel Embassy in Sweden)

FM Cohen urges Swedish counterpart to prevent Torah burning outside embassy

US wants Riyadh to significantly scale back ties with China

Top Biden aides dispatched to Saudi Arabia to discuss normalization deal – report

NYT says Israel would likely be expected to commit to never annex West Bank, cease building new settlements and legalizing outposts, and transfer parts of Area C to Palestinians

File: Saudi Arabia's Deputy Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman (L) and US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan meet at the White House on May 18, 2022. (Khalid bin Salman/Twitter)

Illustrative: Screenshot from a video of settlers firing at the West Bank village of Umm Safa on June 24, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

US pans settler violence, noting it has led Palestinians to flee their villages

Illustrative: American and Israeli sailors walk through the Israeli Navy's base in Eilat during a US-led naval exercise, IMX, in February 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Americans who see Israel as top ally highlight defense ties, shared values

File: Undated image of Palestinian Authority security forces with the Fatah flag. (Hamas-affiliated al-Aqsa TV channel)

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Senior PA security official: Hamas, PIJ recruiting youth ‘with nothing to live for’

Brigadier general says Palestinians being paid to target settlers and IDF; says he urged CIA to push Israel to combat settler violence, approve more permits, in order to flip trend

File: This photo shows an exterior view of the Peace Palace, which houses the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands on February 18, 2019. (AP/Peter Dejong)

Israel tells ICJ it lacks authority to debate conflict, says talks are only solution

Authors Mark Sachs and Evan Nierman say cancel culture runs counter to Jewish values. (iStock/ PeopleImages)

Interview'To be perfectly blunt: It can happen to you'

A pair of crisis managers show how cancel culture targets all – without fear or favor

By Cathryn J. Prince

In new book, ‘The Cancel Culture Curse,’ Evan Nierman and Mark Sachs describe how the form of bullying has brought the United States to madness – and how to pull back from it

Illustrative. Charging an electric car. (Scharfsinn86 via iStock by Getty Images)

Conservative rabbis endorse use of electric cars on Shabbat, still divided on driving

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Just 10 members of the movement’s 25-rabbi Committee on Jewish Law and Standards were in favor and 6 voted against, 5 rabbis abstained, 4 did not attend

Philosopher and public intellectual Dr. Micah Goodman. (Yonit Schiller)

ToI podcastIn our third try at sovereignty, will we outsmart ourselves?

What Matters Now to thinker Micah Goodman: An incipient internal ‘intifada’

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Public intellectual weighs in on Netanyahu’s ‘bad decision,’ unintended consequences of reservists’ refusals and how to understand the judicial conflict in three prisms

Turkish firefighters work to extinguish a forest wildfire in Beykoz, on the outskirts Istanbul, Turkey, July 26, 2023. (AP/Francisco Seco)

‘The era of global boiling’: July to be hottest month in recorded history

By Kelly MacNamara

Wildfires rage in Mediterranean; residents of New York, Beijing warned of dangerous heat and Florida seas get hotter than a bathtub as UN warns ‘terrifying’ new epoch has arrived

Apartment buildings in the Gonen neighborhood of Jerusalem, one of the most popular locations for Israeli investment properties, January 2020. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

'Prices in Jerusalem are outrageous, shockingly high'

Real property pain underpins Israel’s sobering housing statistics

By Danielle Nagler

With price highs and transaction lows, securing a property deal seems harder than ever

Housing snapshot: Home sales and rentals across Israel

By Danielle Nagler

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By Eric Tucker, Zeke Miller and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER

The exterior of the Lev Smadar movie theater in Jerusalem's German Colony, which is threatening to close after 95 years of operation (Courtesy Jerusalem Film Fund)

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