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What Matters Most On Sunday, July 30, 2023

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Head of the Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset's assembly hall for a special session in memory of Israel's first prime minister, David Ben Gurion, on November 8, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Liberman: PM can medically no longer handle the pressure

Lapid: We had deal with Netanyahu on overhaul last week; he caved to Levin, Ben Gvir

Opposition head says that following failure of compromise efforts to block reasonableness law, he’ll only enter talks if coalition legally commits to an 18-month legislative pause

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert at a protest against the judicial overhaul, outside the Knesset in Jerusalem. February 13, 2023. (Arie Leib Abrams/FLASH90)

State closes sedition probe into ex-PM Olmert’s calls for civil disobedience

Former Bank of Israel chief Jacob Frenkel speaks to Channel 12 on July 28, 2023. (Channel 12 screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Ex-Bank of Israel head warns investors lining up to pull funds amid overhaul turmoil

Levin not present at start of weekly cabinet meeting

Gallant: ‘We’ll act according to law’ if court strikes down reasonableness bill

Defense minister’s comment come after Netanyahu last week wouldn’t say if he’d abide by potential ruling; PM doesn’t mention overhaul in cabinet speech

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)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Justice Minister Yariv Levin (R) at the Knesset on June 7, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Likud denies any ‘rebellion’ in its ranks over judicial overhaul

Activists protest against the government's judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, on July 29, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 30: Some Likud MKs murmur dissent; Lapid: Compromise was imminent

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a briefing on the government's north-to-south fast-rail plan, July 30, 2023. (Haim Zach / GPO)

PM unveils planned Kiryat Shmona-Eilat fast rail, says could link to Saudi Arabia too

By Sue Surkes and ToI Staff

Netanyahu says ‘revolutionary’ project, vital to economy and security, will cost NIS 100b, does not specify where funding will come from; numerous similar ideas floated in past

Illustrative: Yeshiva students study at the Mir Brachfeld yeshiva in Modi'in Ilit on August 26, 2018. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

Cabinet to discuss siphoning NIS 164 million from ministries to fund yeshiva students

By Michael Bachner

An anti-overhaul protest in Tel Aviv on July 29, 2023. (Amir Goldstein)

Growing talk of relocation, more money moving out of Israel

‘Damage is enormous’: Over 200,000 at first weekend rallies since overhaul law passed

Protest leader Bressler: ‘Masks have finally come off’ with 1st law’s enactment; ex-central bank chief Frenkel: ‘Government must come to its senses’; car rams protester in Tel Aviv

Signs identifying individual police officers in a photo issued by police on July 29, 2023. (Israel Police)

Police probe protesters over posters with officers’ faces, claiming incitement

Potential Saudi deal would require ‘significant concessions’ to Palestinians – report

New York Times reports Riyadh’s demands for action on the ground unlikely to be approved by Israel’s hardline coalition, PM may need to seek centrist government with opposition

(L) Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, May 19, 2023. (Saudi Press Agency via AP); (C) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem (Alex Kolomoisky/ Pool/ Flash90); (R) US President Joe Biden on November 2, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Michael A. McCoy / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / via AFP)

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman greets Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, right, during the Arab summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, May 19, 2023. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

Saudi Arabia seeks to host multilateral Ukraine peace talks; Russia to steer clear

By AFP

Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid speaks during a press conference next to Benny Gantz, seated, on June 14, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Opposition heads reject linking up with Netanyahu to push Saudi deal over finish line

By Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

Lapid and Gantz say they could back the government from the outside, but report indicates that they won’t rubber stamp potential normalization if security interests involved

7:17 pm

Acting Tiberias mayor rejects justice's suggestion he bow out of race
6:46 pm

Palestinians suggest panel to push reconciliation, but not accepted
6:25 pm

Israel says it snagged 'irregular' weapons being smuggled from Jordan

The Knesset’s Pyrrhic victory

The desire to subjugate the other side threatens the Jewish homeland; now, everyone must set aside being right in favor of peace

Tania Pons Allon

Quenching a thirst… for progress

How the University of Arizona, JNF-USA, and local alumni from an Arava agricultural school are bringing water to Kenya

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

Netanyahu to huddle with security chiefs over Hezbollah tensions

Senior IDF officers expected to tell PM the Lebanese terror group is uninterested in open conflict with Israel and is only making minor provocations

The International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, on March 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Court petition claims reasonableness law will expose IDF officers to int’l probes

Zev Vilmos Klein sits on the sofa while his daughter shows a family photo in the film 'Endphase.' (Courtesy Sixpack Film)

'Not many people want to cope, know, or speak about it'

With ‘Endphase,’ local filmmaker brings to light 1945 massacre in quiet Austrian town

By Rich Tenorio

Hans Hochstöger grew up in idyllic Hofamt Priel never knowing that the SS gunned down over 200 Hungarian Jews there. Now he seeks to raise awareness of the village’s tragic history

Settlers from Yitzhar walk away from a fire started on fields belonging to the Palestinian village of Burin on July 29, 2023. (Screen capture/Yesh Din)

Settlers from flashpoint West Bank settlement said to torch Palestinian field

COGAT changes enforcement policy against illegally dug Palestinians wells, after Israel panned over video showing one serving hamlets not connected to grid being filled with cement

PA announces move to boost independence of its judiciary, drawing praise from US

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Abbas’s step comes days after Washington panned Israeli judicial overhaul law; PA president has been trying to subjugate judiciary for years, and local critic says move is cosmetic

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the Arab League's "Summit for Jerusalem" in Cairo, on February 12, 2023. (Ahmad Hassan/AFP)

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas leads a meeting of reconciliation talks between Fatah and Hamas in Egypt on July 30, 2023. (WAFA)

At Egypt summit with Fatah, Hamas chief calls to exploit Israeli ‘internal divisions’

By Gianluca Pacchiani and AP

In this May 5, 2017, photo, a general view of the concrete wall surrounding the Ein el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

5 killed, 6 wounded in clashes at Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon

By AP

Kanye West, known as Ye, watches the first half of an NBA basketball game between the Washington Wizards and the Los Angeles Lakers in Los Angeles, March 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)

Twitter, now rebranded as X, restores Kanye West’s account after ban for antisemitism

By AFP and ToI Staff

Move comes 8 months after Elon Musk’s social media platform banned US rapper for posting swastika interlaced with Star of David; ADL chief calls latest move ‘absolutely sickening’

Thomas Poretsky shown in front of his Bandolero car. (Lonny Goldsmith/TC Jewfolk via JTA)

'There's not a lot of Native-Jewish mixes, it's just me'

Meet Thomas Poretsky, 10-year-old Native American-Jewish racer

By Lonny Goldsmith and jacob gurvis

Proudly displaying Israeli and Quechan Nation flags on his scaled-down stock car, the young but disciplined driver is proving that slow and steady can indeed win the race

Screen capture from video of the launch of Israeli-made satellite DS-SAR, constructed for Singapore and launched from India, July 30, 2023. (YouTube/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli-built satellite blasts into space for Singaporean customers

DS-SAR reconnaissance platform launched from Indian space center; reportedly to provide imagery for government agencies

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An Iranian morality policewoman walks between morality police vehicles, preparing to start a crackdown to enforce Islamic dress code in Tehran, July 23, 2007. (Behrouz Mehri/AFP)

Iranian official promoting Islamic values suspended over alleged gay sex tape

Illustrative. An ambulance belonging to the Magen David Adom ambulance service. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Foreign worker crushed to death at construction site

A woman passes a basket of cold water bottles to spectators amid searing heat as Shiite Muslims reenact the Battle of Karbala marking the peak of Ashura, a 10-day period commemorating the seventh century killing of Prophet Mohammed's grandson Imam Hussein, in Sadr City in eastern Baghdad on July 29, 2023. (Photo by Ahmad AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

Power station fire, explosions cut off power in much of Iraq amid scorching heatwave

By ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD

Illustrative: A Magen David Adom ambulance in central Israel, March 29, 2012. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Woman dies in car crash near northern town; suspect surrenders after Lod hit-and-run

By Michael Horovitz

Police officers block off an area around a damaged office block of the Moscow International Business Center (Moskva City) following a reported drone attack in Moscow on July 30, 2023. (Alexander NEMENOV / AFP)

Three Ukrainian drones downed over Moscow, shutting airport, damaging buildings

View of a Cellcom store in Tel Aviv, on September 24, 2019. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Down and outGlitch leaves Netvision customers sans email for 3 days

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