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What Matters Most On Saturday, July 29, 2023

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Israelis protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, July 27, 2023. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

30th week of protests after 1st overhaul law passes, amid uncertainty, relocation talk

Rallies Saturday night in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, beyond; local firm reports ‘extreme demand’ from Israelis for advice on leaving; poll finds most start-ups working to pull out money

Ziv Shilon in an interview broadcast July 29, 2023. (Channel 12 used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

'This demonic dance needs to stop. It's destroying Israel'

Seriously injured soldier on overhaul chaos: ‘Better to have died than to see this?’

Ziv Shilon, who lost part of his arm in 2012 Gaza border bombing, calls for country’s leaders to stop nation tearing itself apart: ‘Take responsibility, put your egos aside’

PM: Governments always respect court rulings — and courts never nixed a Basic Law

After contentious CNN interview, ‘clarification’ still not explicit on what he’d do if court intervenes on overhaul; Likud minister: We’ll respect ruling ‘under any circumstances’

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)

Coalition lawmakers crowd around Justice Minister Yariv Levin to take a celebratory selfie in the Knesset plenum, as they pass the first of the coalition's judicial overhaul laws, the so-called "reasonableness law", on July 24, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud MK’s bill would give coalition power to ban political parties

Composite photo, left to right: MK Eli Dellal at the Knesset in April2023; MK Yuli Edelstein at the Knesset in July 2023; MK David Bitan at the Knesset in July 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Several Likud MKs indicate they may not back more overhaul laws without consensus

Eli Dellal say he won’t support further overhaul legislation without broad public backing; Yuli Edelstein says cases of hardline lawmakers vetoing compromises are ‘over’

An image from the 'Prisoner X' film about the life of Ben Zygier. (Arik Weiss/Medalia Productions)

Film review'Ben Zygier was not a traitor'

What happened to Prisoner X? New film seeks to shed light on disgraced Mossad agent

Premiering at Jerusalem Film Festival, Israeli-Australian production revisits tale a decade after it was exposed — but reveals frustratingly little

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (left) and Justice Minister Yariv Levin (right) argue across Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset on July 24, 2023, ahead of the vote on the reasonableness law. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM to DM on heart incident: ‘If you don’t get to the hospital in minutes, you die’

TV network’s lip readers interpret Netanyahu discussing health issues with Gallant while Knesset debated ‘reasonableness’, and decode defense minister’s bid for compromise on law

US President Joe Biden speaks at Auburn Manufacturing Inc., in Auburn, Maine, Friday, July 28, 2023, before he signs an executive order to encourage companies to manufacture new inventions in the United States. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Biden hints at possible progress in potential Israel-Saudi normalization deal

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

President tells 2024 campaign contributors there’s a ‘rapprochement maybe under way’ after top White House officials dispatched to kingdom for talks

Jews pray at the entrance to the flashpoint Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem's Old City, during Tisha B'Av, on July 27, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Bahrain postpones plans to host Israeli FM, hours after Ben Gvir tours Temple Mount

The Holocaust survivor who screamed before kings

On the passing of David Leitner, known as Dugo, a magnetic individual who refused to be defined by what happened to him

Redemption not destruction: What the elders in my village taught me

This is not the destruction of the Third Temple. It’s the construction of another floor inside the Third Temple.

Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah speaks via a video link during activities marking the Shiite Muslim holy day of Ashura in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, July 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Hezbollah chief: ‘Israel occupying Lebanese lands, we will respond to any stupid act’

Iran-backed terror group ‘ready for any option,’ Nasrallah says, amid spiking tensions on border with Israel

Protests following the death of in Tehran, Iran on September 21, 2022. (AP photo)

Iranian newspaper editor suspended over coverage of protests

By AFP

Uriel Sadeh was a biotech engineer before moving to the idyllic Thai island of Ko Pha Ngan. (Ruth Mason)

'I found a home for my spirit here'

HOLD HOLD HOLD Tired of Israel’s ‘pressure cooker,’ 100s of families lay new roots in Thailand

The relaxed atmosphere, friendly locals and affordable prices make Ko Pha Ngan a top destination for sabras seeking to escape their daily grind for a piece of paradise

Louise Levy was born in 1910 and grew up in Cleveland and New York City; Levy often ascribed her longevity to a daily glass of red wine and a low-cholesterol diet. (Photos courtesy Levy family, via Fox Funeral Home, via JTA)

Obituary

Louise Levy, ‘supercentenarian’ subject of Jewish longevity study, dies at 112

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Levy was the oldest living resident of New York State and one of hundreds of Jews 95 and older recruited in 1998 for a genetic study of long-living Ashkenazi Jews

People walk in the excavation site of the ancient Roman emperor Nero's theater, 1st century AD, backdropped by the church of Santo Spirito in Sassia, during a press preview, in Rome, Wednesday, July 26, 2023 (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Rome ablaze

Ruins of ancient Nero’s Theater discovered near Vatican

By Nicole Winfield

Officials say findings under site of future hotel provide a rare look at Roman history over the centuries

Prosecutors cite Pittsburgh synagogue shooter’s good behavior in plea for death row

In another strange twist in trial for 2018 murder of 11 Jewish worshipers, lawyers say defendant is a model prisoner unlikely to serve time in maximum-security Supermax prison

A guard tower looms over a federal prison complex which houses a Supermax facility outside Florence, in southern Colorado, October 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley,File)

A makeshift memorial stands outside the Tree of Life Synagogue in the aftermath of a deadly shooting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 29, 2018. (Matt Rourke/AP)

Defense presses case that mental illness spurred Pittsburgh synagogue shooter

By AP

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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador delivers a speech during a rally to commemorate the fifth anniversary of his 2018 presidential election victory at the Zocalo (main square) in Mexico City on July 1, 2023. (Claudio Cruz/AFP)

Mexican president says Netanyahu willing to help in case of 43 missing students

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff pictured at Cedar Lake Camp in 1978. (Courtesy of NJY Camps via JTA)

S'more newsUS Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff to visit his Jewish summer camp

By Jackie Hajdenberg

A local pulls a tree branch as a wildfire burns in Gennadi village, on the Aegean Sea island of Rhodes, southeastern Greece, on July 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greece wildfires mostly under control after over 2 weeks, officials say

By AFP

Republican US presidential hopeful former president Donald Trump speaks at the Republican Party of Iowa's 2023 Lincoln Dinner in Des Moines, Iowa, July 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Trump says will continue his 2024 White House bid even if convicted and sentenced

Serhiy Petrovytch Doumenko, Metropolitan Epifaniy of Kyiv, Head of Ukraine church, leads an Orthodox Christmas service at Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery in Kyiv on January 7, 2023. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP)

'Tis the seasonUkraine moves Christmas Day in snub to Russia

By AFP

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