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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 3, 2023

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In this combo image made from photos provided by the US District Court Western District of Pennsylvania are the victims of the October 27, 2018, assault on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. On the top row, from left: Joyce Fienberg, Richard Gottfried, Rose Mallinger, Jerry Rabinowitz, Cecil Rosenthal, and David Rosenthal; bottom row, from left, Bernice Simon, Sylvan Simon, Dan Stein, Melvin Wax, and Irving Younger. (United States District Court Western District of Pennsylvania via AP)

Live updates (closed)

Pittsburgh synagogue gunman Robert Bowers formally sentenced to death

‘You will never be forgiven. Never,’ says Mark Simon, son of victims Bernice and Sylvan Simon as grieving relatives of 11 victims confront killer

6:28 pm

Investigators said closing probe into cop filmed throwing stun grenade at protesters
5:56 pm

Trump leaves Bedminster club to travel to Washington for his court appearance
5:37 pm

Citibank lowers Israel forecast on judicial overhaul, policy fears

On left: Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut, right, attends a hearing in Jerusalem on December 1, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90). On right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, on January 11, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Top court holds key hearing on law shielding Netanyahu from removal from office

By Michael Bachner

Petitions argue law passed specifically to let PM violate his conflict of interest deal; High Court nixing it would be 1st annulment of Basic Law, heralding constitutional showdown

Stickers for the struggle against the judicial overhaul seen on a street sign in Jerusalem, August 1, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 3: High Court’s damned-if-they-do-damned-if-they-don’t dilemmas

Knesset Legal Adviser Sagit Afik attends a meeting of the Constitution Committee at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on February 5, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset legal adviser moves to oppose AG on law shielding Netanyahu from recusal

Op-ed

Israel implodes. The PM divides and dissembles. And MKs who could save us are silent

It’s like we’ve been taken over by a deranged, masochistic demolition squad. Except that the coalition’s Jewish supremacists, empowered by Netanyahu, know exactly what they’re doing

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)

Composite photo: A makeshift memorial stands outside the Tree of Life Synagogue in the aftermath of a deadly shooting in Pittsburgh, October 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File); Inset: An undated Pennsylvania Department of Transportation photo shows Robert Bowers, convicted of shooting and killing 11 worshipers at the synagogue. (Pennsylvania Department of Transportation via AP, File)

US jury hands death penalty to gunman for killing 11 at Pittsburgh synagogue

Robert Bowers to receive death sentence for carrying out 2018 massacre at Tree of Life, the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history

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)

Tree of Life rabbi says community can ‘begin to heal’ after shooter sentenced

By Luke Tress and JTA

Amazon to invest $7.2b in Israel as it rolls out local cloud data region

By Sharon Wrobel

US online tech giant launches AWS Israel region with cloud data centers in the country; investment is estimated to add about $13.9 billion to Israel’s GDP through 2037

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir seen during a meeting with police officers from the Yasam riot control unit, in Tel Aviv on August 2, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

New Tel Aviv police chief hosts protest leaders

Ben Gvir: Probes into alleged police brutality are attempt to ‘threaten’ cops

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

‘You are our heroes,’ minister tells under-fire Yasam cops, says he has seen no excessive use of force by officers; state attorney rejects ‘effort to besmirch’ PIID investigators

Negev and the Galilee Minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf attends a lobby to strengthen the Galilee at the Knesset, June 26, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Minister to High Court: AG must explain why road-blocking protesters are not charged

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Opponents of the government's judicial overhaul protest in Tel Aviv on August 2, 2023. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Thousands in Tel Aviv as overhaul demos show no sign of fatigue after 1st bill passed

By AFP and ToI Staff

Gantz says PM's response 'too little, too late'

Breaking silence, Netanyahu defends IDF general attacked by coalition MKs

PM calls comments against central command head ‘unacceptable and unworthy’ after member of his party accuses officer of putting Palestinians before Israelis

Head of the IDF Central Command, Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fuchs, during a TV interview on February 28, 2023. (Screenshot: Channel 12; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

The decimation of restraints on government power

As with abolishing the reasonableness doctrine, the Incapacitation Law exempts the country’s leaders from judicial oversight

When I left for work today, the sofa cushions still had stuffing

Summer vacation is a powerful reminder of the Israeli labor market’s bias against the parents of schoolchildren

Screen capture from video of US soldiers helping Jewish prisoners liberated from a Nazi death train near Farsleben, Germany April 1945. (YouTube screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

One survivor upon seeing himself: 'I couldn't breathe'

Newly found video shows moments US troops saved thousands of Jews from Nazi train

By Stuart Winer

Researcher finds archived video of liberation of Bergen-Belsen camp prisoners near Farsleben in 1945; survivors identify themselves in clip

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)

High Court shoots down petition to evacuate illegal Homesh outpost in West Bank

By Jeremy Sharon

Yesh Din organization says High Court ‘normalizing apartheid rule’ in West Bank; settler leader calls for rebuilding of other settlements in northern West Bank

A DALL-E illustration created by Shoshanna Solomon: A futuristic cyborg riding a wave in the middle of the sea with an Israeli flag in the background.

As AI rides global wave, troubled Israel risks missing the splash

By Shoshanna Solomon

If judicial overhaul turmoil prevents Israel from being part of AI revolution, ‘we will weep for generations;’ argues expert who led task force on national cybersecurity policy

Bank of Israel sees increased risk to economy due to judicial overhaul uncertainty

By Sharon Wrobel

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi tours the northern border on August 2, 2023 (Israel Defence Force)

IDF chief, president tour Lebanon border amid heightened tensions with Hezbollah

Military says Herzi Halevi was briefed about ‘latest incidents’ along frontier, as Herzog warns Iran-backed terror group against testing Israel’s resolve

Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, speaks at the government palace, in Beirut, Lebanon, March 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon warns PA’s Abbas that troops may intervene if refugee camp clashes continue

By AP

Fuchs: Bill will be Basic Law, 'immune to judicial review'

PM aide: Gov’t conscription bill to lower age of exemption for Haredim from 26 to 21

By Canaan Lidor

Plan revealed by cabinet secretary goes even further than recent government decision that said coalition would lower exemption age to 23

Students study at the Kamenitz Yeshiva in Jerusalem on July 25, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

AnalysisNew bill could create jobs for 1,070 rabbis, cost taxpayers tens of millions a year

By Canaan Lidor

Former social equality minister and current Yesh Atid MK Meirav Cohen (Noam Moskowitz / GPO)

Interview'It's only the beginning of the process'

‘It’s already happening’: Ex-gender equality minister says women’s rights under attack

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Scholars join lawmakers in slamming government policies that add up to a lowering of women’s standing

A family at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, before the start of a hearing on the Child Adoption Law, on August 2, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court hears petition on adoption by LGBTQ couples: ‘Decision cannot be avoided’

Op-ed

‘Oppenheimer’ offers a timely warning on the dangers of the climate crisis

Scientists thought the chances of an A-bomb destroying Earth were ‘near zero.’ We know now that climate change could obliterate humanity, but we continue along our destructive path

A wildfire burning through the night. (Cathy Withers-Clarke, iStock/Getty Images)

Bomba Trio performs on America's Got Talent on August 1, 2023. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Israeli circus trio shocks and awes in near-nude ‘America’s Got Talent’ tryout

Crowd laughs, grimaces and applauds as troupe performs adapted version of beach game, hitting ‘matkot’ ball to each other, juggling paddles and trying to avoid exposing themselves

More Headlines

Bar Kalaf, who set himself on fire in Netanya, August 1, 2023, and died of his wounds two days later (Courtesy)

IDF veteran dies two days after self-immolation due to rejection of PTSD recognition

By Emanuel Fabian

File: Benjamin Netanyahu (right) during a Likud party meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on December 13, 2021; Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (left) speaks during the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 14, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90; Bandar Aljaloud/Saudi Royal Palace via AP/File)

Any deal must be done before Biden leaves office, Israel reportedly tells Saudis

By Lazar Berman

Illustrative photo (iweta0077; iStock by Getty Images)

British woman claims she was raped by Israeli in Greece

A sign advertises Yeezy shoes made by Adidas at Kickclusive, a sneaker resale store, in Paramus, New Jersey, October 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

US Jews commend Adidas for donating surplus Yeezy sales to anti-hate groups

By TIFFANY STANLEY, LUIS ANDRES HENAO and MARIAM FAM

Palestinian children watch a movie at a pop-up open-air cinema at the beach in Gaza City on July 28, 2023; there are no movie theaters in the Gaza Strip. (Photo by Mohammed ABED / AFP)

Closely monitored by Hamas, open-air cinema offers Gazans a rare trip to the movies

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Screenshot from the Agriculture Ministry's new campaign against pirate puppy mills, August 2, 2023 (video screenshot)

Agriculture Ministry launches campaign to boycott puppy mills, boost dog adoption

Illustrative: A Malaysian Customs official holds an exotic tortoise smuggled from Madagascar at a news conference at Customs office in Sepang, Malaysia, on May 15, 2017. (Daniel Chan/AP)

Israeli held for weeks in Madagascar on suspicion of trying to smuggle out tortoises

Fatah terror chief Marwan Barghouti, serving five life terms for murder during the Second Intifada, is escorted by Israeli police into Jerusalem's Magistrate Court to testify as part of a US civil lawsuit against Palestinian leaders, in January 2012. (Flash90)

Marwan Barghouti’s wife launches international campaign for his release

By Gianluca Pacchiani

In this photo provided by regional Governor Oleh Kiper rescuers work on a scene of drone attack in Odesa region, Ukraine, early Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023. (Telegram Channel of Odesa Region Governor Oleh Kiper via AP)

Kyiv says Russian strike damaged 40,000 tons of grain, some of it destined for Israel

Gal Gadot in 'Wonder Woman 84.' (Courtesy, Warner Bros. Films)

Diana defiantGal Gadot says 3rd Wonder Woman film still in the cards

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