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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 2, 2023

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FILE: Likud MK Avichay Buaron speaks at a press conference near the Knesset in Jerusalem, calling for the coalition's planned judicial overhaul to be passed, June 12, 2023. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

IDF, Gallant slam Likud MK who said army general prefers Palestinians over Israelis

Military chief Herzi Halevi ‘forcefully condemns’ Avichay Buaron, who refuses to retract comments and says it’s his right to criticize the Central Command head

File: MK Limor Son Har-Melech attends a joint session of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee and the National Security Committee, in Jerusalem, on July 12, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Coalition MK echoes claim IDF general favors Palestinians, calls for Gallant’s ouster

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant at the Knesset, July 30, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gallant chides MKs, telling them Air Force needs US planes, Israeli pilots — report

Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu attends a ceremony at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on June 19, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Far-right minister says Green Line ‘fictitious,’ urges annexation of West Bank

Amichai Eliyahu says two-state concept ‘a mistake’; settler group calls on Netanyahu to refrain from using territorial concessions as bargaining chip for deal with Saudis

Yair Hanuna arrives for questioning at the Justice Ministry's Police Internal Investigations Department (PIID) in Tel Aviv on August 2, 2023 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Head of special police unit questioned over alleged violence toward protesters

Fellow officers cheer arrival of Yair Hanuna, 4 others; Ben Gvir: 18-year-old protester was violent before arrest; teen’s dad: Minister is ‘liar, criminal’

Anti-overhaul activists block the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv and clash with police, during a protest against the judicial overhaul, on July 24, 2023 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

54 volunteer cops freezing service over judicial overhaul; 1,000 said facing ouster

Amitai Aboudi outside the police station in Jaffa, August 1, 2023, after his release from a third round of questioning. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Anti-overhaul protester, allegedly beaten up by cops, freed after 3rd police grilling

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Leading anti-occupation activist, Orthodox Israeli Jew

In this episode, we sit down with Mikhael Manekin to learn how the religious community fits into the struggle for peace, equality, justice, and democracy.

Police at the scene of a terror attack in the settlement of Ma’ale Adumim, outside of Jerusalem, August 1, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Seriously hurt victim stable after Ma’ale Adumim attack; 4 others still in hospital

Survivor of 2016 attack unwittingly transported Palestinian terrorist home, where he armed up; gunman’s father reportedly begged community center where he worked to hire son too

Police inspect the site of a terrorist shooting attack in the West Bank Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, August 1, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

6 Israelis wounded, one seriously, in terror shooting in Ma’ale Adumim

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli soldiers near the scene of a terror shooting in the Jordan Valley on August 2, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Woman traveling with family lightly hurt in Jordan Valley terror shooting

Tech workers march in Tel Aviv to protest against the government's planned overhaul of the judicial system, January 31, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Private funding for Israeli tech startups slumps to 5-year low, data report shows

By Sharon Wrobel

67% decline in first half of 2023 from the $11.9 billion raised during the same period last year, while in the US trends are stabilizing, according to Start-Up Nation Central

Students and teachers protest against government's planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, on February 5, 2023. The sign reads: "Without democracy there is no academia" (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Academics and scientists warn damage from overhaul may be ‘irreversible’

Screen capture from video of brain specialist Zion Zibly. (Kan. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Top brain specialist says he left Israel because ‘it is becoming undemocratic’

Head of the European Union's mission to the West Bank and Gaza Strip Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff (C), accompanied by the general director of the Islamic Waqf (Endowment) Azzam al-Khatib (to his right), visits the Al-Aqsa mosque compound atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, on January 18, 2023. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Interview'Fatah, Hamas putting partisan interest over public good'

Departing EU envoy: I won’t accuse Israel of apartheid, but it’s worthy of discussion

In farewell interview, ambassador to Palestinians laments Abbas’s failure to hold elections, suggests mail-in ballot as solution to Israeli opposition to voting in East Jerusalem

IDF: Palestinian shot dead after attempting to stab soldiers in southern West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

Education Ministry bars Israeli-Palestinian bereavement group from schools

By Michael Horovitz

If the Saudis invested vast sums of money in Palestinian infrastructure, there’d be a real chance of peace and security

The ethics of information-sharing in Jewish relationships

True love demands that we give of ourselves and treat the other party just as we ourselves would want to be treated (Tu B’Av)

Illustrative: A US nuclear bomb test at the Marshall Islands, 1954. (Wikicommons/US Department of Energy)

Saudi Arabia could convert civilian nuclear to military, Israeli expert warns

By Tal Schneider

Former deputy head of Atomic Energy Commission fears that Riyadh’s demand to enrich uranium as part of Israel normalization deal may open ‘Pandora’s box,’ launch Mideast arms race

A facility outfitted with SolarEdge's technology. Illustrative. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Israel-based SolarEdge inks joint renewable energy venture with Saudi conglomerate

By Sharon Wrobel

Illustrative: Men carry humanitarian aid provided by a Kuwaiti charitable organization during a distribution to displaced Yemenis on the outskirts of the northeastern city of Marib on April 6, 2023. (Photo by STR / AFP)

Saudi Arabia to make $1.2 billion donation to war-struck Yemen

By AFP

Settlement activists, one of whom is wearing a prayer shawl and tefillin, at a construction site of the illegal West Bank outpost of Homesh, May 29, 2023. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

High Court rules against petition to evacuate illegal Homesh outpost in West Bank

Court says recent shift of yeshiva from private Palestinian land to public land is enough; rights groups denounce decision as example of the ‘apartheid rule’ in the West Bank

11:31 am

Police chief chides cops for show of force as commander was investigated for violence
9:51 pm

Bahrain-backed group launches King Hamad Peaceful Coexistence Award in LA
6:29 pm

Leading US Orthodox group slams American lawmakers for weighing in on judicial overhaul

Left: Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara at her welcome ceremony in Jerusalem on February 8, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on January 11, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

AG said to oppose ordering Netanyahu’s recusal for breaking conflict of interest deal

Gali Baharav-Miara reportedly says she will not require PM to recuse himself from office for his involvement in judicial overhaul, despite concerns it will benefit him at trial

Shock trauma specialist Prof. Avi Rivkind (center right) with members of a delegation from the Thurgood Marshall College Fund and Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, July 13, 2023. (Renee Ghert-Zand/Times of Israel)

'We're thrilled at the possibility of hosting these students'

Impressed by Israeli science, Black universities plan student and faculty exchanges

By Renee Ghert-Zand

‘If you send one or two students to start, you are changing their lives,’ says president of South Carolina State University, who joined recent trip of historically Black colleges

A Muslim couple poses for a picture at the Duty Free at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel on April 30, 2016. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

‘I felt at home’: Palestinian-Americans see improved treatment at Ben Gurion Airport

US citizens say getting into country much simpler since Israel eased curbs in order to enter Visa Waiver Program; but they fear experience could regress once Israel’s accepted

Palestinian Authority Civil Affairs Minister Hussein al-Sheikh. (WAFA)

Report: 2012 sexual harassment probe into top PA minister closed after ‘hush payment’

Palestinian Authority security forces confront local armed groups in the Jenin refugee camp on the night of August 1, 2023 (screenshot/ via Shehab News)

Armed clashes erupt overnight between PA forces and terror group fighters in Jenin

By Gianluca Pacchiani

In this November 23, 1963, file photo, surrounded by detectives, Lee Harvey Oswald talks to the media as he is led down a corridor of the Dallas police station for another round of questioning in connection with the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy. (AP)

New JFK documents reveal assassin’s CIA monitor was Jewish spy Reuben Efron

Jewish immigrant from Lithuania, who later lived in Jerusalem, screened the mail of US president’s killer before the assassination, newly released files show

After Texan who posed as Hasid charged with sex crimes, son charged with abuse too

One of Hayim Cohen’s 9 adopted sons, Avshalom, charged with sexual assault of his brother, and human smuggling, amid fallout from high-profile scandal in Houston

Avshalom Cohen, son of Hayim Nissim Cohen, in a video posted to social media in February 2023. (Screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Nobuki Sugihara and family at a ceremony honoring his late father Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania in 1940 who issued transit visas that saved thousands of Jews (Times of Israel)

'After the war, people needed a new hero'

Researchers say Japan exaggerated the story of ‘Japanese Schindler’ Chiune Sugihara

By Jordyn Haime

In recent years, the Lithuania-based diplomat who issued thousands of visas to Jews became a household name – but is his lionization part of a familiar post-Holocaust phenomenon?

Former US president Donald Trump gestures before speaking at the Republican Party of Iowa's 2023 Lincoln Dinner in Des Moines, Iowa, July 28, 2023. (AP/Charlie Neibergall)

Trump indicted by US Justice Department for his efforts to overturn 2020 election

Former president charged with 4 felonies accusing him of illegally trying to reverse his loss at the polls, in the 3rd criminal case he faces as he seeks reelection

Republican presidential candidate and former US president Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, July 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

US Jewish groups blast Trump campaign for comparing indictment to Nazi persecution

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An undated photo of visitors bathe in one of the pools of the Einot Tsukim oasis in the Judean Desert. (Courtesy of the Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

Environment minister announces sex-segregated hours at parks, prompting legal review

By Canaan Lidor

An Israel Police rescue team at the Yitav Stream, Jordan Valley, on August 1, 2023 (Courtesy: Police spokesperson)

Man found dead after family becomes separated during West Bank hike

Memphis police officers at the scene of an officer-involved shooting, July 31, 2023, in Memphis, Tennessee. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz)

Suspect in shooting at Memphis Jewish school was haunted by police killing of father

Lawyer Ari Shamai says Yigal Amir, assassin of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, should be released from prison, on a Channel 14 panel on July 30, 2023. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

2 more firms cut ads on Channel 14 after panelist called to release Rabin’s assassin

A Star of David hangs from a fence outside the dormant landmark Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood, April 19, 2023. (Gene J. Puskar/AP)

Jury in Pittsburgh antisemitic massacre asks to see gunman’s weapons

View of the border fence between Israel and Jordan in the Jordan Valley in the West Bank, on February 13, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jordanian army arrests man allegedly attempting to infiltrate from Israel

By Gianluca Pacchiani

An Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessel watches an American warship in the Strait of Hormuz, May 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard runs drill on disputed Persian Gulf islands

By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell

Militants fire into the air during the funeral of two Fatah commanders at the Rashidieh Palestinian refugee camp in the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre on July 31, 2023. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

Residents fearful as deadly clashes continue in Palestinian camp in Lebanon

By AFP and ToI Staff

Borussia Dortmund player Mats Hummels participates in a Holocaust education program at the San Diego Jewish Academy, July 28, 2023. (Courtesy of Borussia Dortmund via JTA)

German soccer team joins US Jewish school to honor children murdered in Holocaust

By jacob gurvis

Writer Alex Epstein with one of his handmade miniature novels (Courtesy Alex Epstein)

In small packagesAuthor Alex Epstein crafts tiny books to fit his micro stories

By Jessica Steinberg

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