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What Matters Most On Monday, August 7, 2023

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IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari speaks to media near the Gaza border, May 10, 2023. (Emanuel Fabian/ Times of Israel/ File)

IDF spokesman says settler violence fueling Palestinian terrorism

By Emanuel Fabian

Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari says Jewish ‘nationalist terror’ in West Bank is spurring previously uninvolved Palestinian civilians to engage in attacks

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)

Ex-police commanders: Ben Gvir seeking to ‘taint’ probe into shooting of Palestinian

Palestinians carry the body of 19-year-old Palestinian Qusai Jamal Maatan, who was killed during clashes with Israeli settlers, in the West Bank village of Burqa, August 5, 2023. (Flash90)

Five Palestinians arrested over clash during which settler killed Palestinian

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview with Bloomberg from Jerusalem on August 6, 2023. (Screenshot)

Yesh Atid blasts 'yet another display of weakness and lies'

Netanyahu: Coalition will probably remake judicial selection panel, then halt overhaul

In Bloomberg interview, PM recommits to the main overhaul bill, says ‘we should not legislate’ other elements; has not yet decided on renewing Bank of Israel governor’s term

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

London hedge funds wary of overhaul impact on Israel’s risk premium, credit ratings

By Sharon Wrobel

Chief of the Israeli Air Force Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar speaks at the Tel Nof air base on August 6, 2023 (Israel Air Force)

Air force head laments criticism of military: ‘Painful gap between words and reality’

Analysis

Hezbollah has reasons for its current pugnacity, beyond internal Israeli fighting

Nasrallah sees opportunities for small gains while Jerusalem is distracted, but there are larger forces pushing the group’s aggressive behavior on the border

Fighters from the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah carry out a training exercise in Aaramta village in the Jezzine District, southern Lebanon, May 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Still from a video purportedly showing an explosion over Damascus, Syria, on August 7, 2023. (screen capture: Twitter)

Syria says four soldiers killed in alleged Israeli airstrike on Damascus

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Promoted Content

Israeli Food Tech Startups are Cooking Up Solutions for Sustainable Foods

Hundreds of Israeli startups are tackling food sustainability with solutions to reduce waste, streamline operations, and even enhance customer satisfaction while reducing environmental impact.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with House of Representatives Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in Jerusalem on August 7, 2023. (Haim Zach / GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Top Democrat says judicial overhaul should not affect US military aid to Israel

Visiting Jerusalem, House of Representatives Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says his party continues to stand behind ironclad commitment to provide for Israel’s security

6:24 pm

Russia sentences writer Glukhovsky to 8-year jail term in absentia
6:17 pm

William Friedkin, Oscar-winning director of 'The French Connection' dead at 87
5:41 pm

Police station water cannon outside Golan moshav where Netanyahu is vacationing

Shin Bet said to warn of ramped-up threats against top justice, attorney general

Law enforcement official quoted drawing direct connection between ‘extreme, dangerous’ rhetoric from coalition lawmakers and threats against Esther Hayut and Gali Baharav-Miara

Right-wing Israelis attend a rally in support of the government's planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv on March 30, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

(L) MK David Amsalem in Tel Aviv, December 8, 2022; and (R) Michal Rosenbaum. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90; Finance Ministry)

Amsalem accused of illegitimate demands as he moves to fire government firms’ head

Incoming Israel Securities Authority chairman Yosef (Seffy) Zinger. (Courtesy)

Seffy Zinger approved as new head of Israel Securities Authority

By Sharon Wrobel

(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)

PM indicates he would make concessions to Palestinians to achieve Saudi deal

By Lazar Berman

Netanyahu hints that ‘political questions’ won’t block normalization with Riyadh, following foreign minister’s similar comments on Sunday

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen visits people injured in a terror attack in Tel Aviv at Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv. April 8, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90/File)

FM Cohen to Arabic outlet: Israel will make gestures to Palestinians for Saudi deal

By Lazar Berman

Storage tanks are seen at the North Jiddah bulk plant, an Aramco oil facility, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on March 21, 2021 (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Saudi oil giant Aramco reports $30b in Q2 profits, down nearly 40% from last year

By AP

What my mother didn’t tell me about Budapest

While my grandmother and aunt sought shelter and food, gangs of armed teenagers roamed the city hunting for Jews in hiding

The largest ‘pro-Israel’ lobby in the US is hurting Israeli democracy

On the consequences of AIPAC’s systematic stifling of any and all criticism of Israel in the US Congress

J Street is crossing a bright red line

American Jews should do all we can to oppose the judicial overhaul – jeopardizing Israel’s safety is outside the pale

Pamela Laufer-Ukeles

Can Israel have its Marbury v. Madison moment?

Israel’s Supreme Court should borrow from John Marshall to create balance and avoid a ’constitutional’ crisis

Main donor last week said he's stopped funding Kohelet

Senior figures at right-wing think tank behind overhaul said to urge halt

Kohelet Policy Forum reportedly divided on issue, with some members telling coalition MKs cost of societal rift is not worth benefits of continuing

Left to right: Netanyahu trial Judges Moshe Bar-Am, Rebecca Friedman-Feldman and Oded Shaham. (Justice Ministry)

Netanyahu trial judges defend assertion that bribery charge will be hard to prove

By Jeremy Sharon

Passengers at Ben Gurion International Airport, June 6, 2022. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug 7: Some anguished Israelis uproot; why constitution is no quick fix

Bearing 140 coffins, protesters accuse cops of not tackling murders in Arab towns

Some 5,000 participants rally in Tel Aviv while carrying ‘caskets’ representing those killed since beginning of the year, accusing officials of ignoring Arab-on-Arab crime

Activists march with symbolic coffins denouncing the violent crimes against Arab communities on August 6, 2023, in Tel Aviv. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Vered Assayag Amir and other mourners attend the funeral of her husband Chen Amir, a municipal patrolman who was shot dead in a terror attack in Tel Aviv a day earlier, at Kibbutz Reim, August 6, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

‘A national hero’: Funeral held for patrolman killed in Tel Aviv terror attack

‘I want you to give me strength to raise our daughters,’ cries Vered Assayag Amir, widow of slain security officer Chen Amir as he is laid to rest in Kibbutz Reim

This photograph released by the Gaza Strip Interior Ministry purports to show a gallows prepared for the execution of Hani Abu Aliyan, a 28-year-old convicted of killing two people, in the Gaza Strip, Wednesday, October 2, 2013. (AP/Gaza Interior Ministry)

Hamas sentences 7 Gazans to death by hanging for ‘collaboration’ with Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Troops kill 3 Palestinian gunmen en route to carry out attack near Jenin – IDF

By Emanuel Fabian

Defense officials say ambush intercepted terror cell that was headed from refugee camp in northern West Bank toward nearby settlement

Israeli troops open fire at a vehicle carrying Palestinian gunmen who were allegedly en route to carry out an attack, near Jenin in the West Bank, August 6, 2023. (Screenshot: Telegram)

Illustrative: Palestinians clash with Israeli forces during a raid in the West Bank town of Silwad, north of Ramallah, on August 31, 2022.(Flash90)

Palestinian teen who hurled firebomb dies days after being shot by IDF troops

By Emanuel Fabian

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,, center, leads a cabinet meeting, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 30, 2023. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Security cabinet said set to advance measures to prop up PA, but delay announcement

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men study in the Lithuanian Slabodka yeshiva in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, July 8, 2013. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Rising interest rates, inflation drive employment among Haredi men to all-time high

By Canaan Lidor

Record 55.8% participation in workforce is still significantly lower than the national rate, and that of Haredi women

Pickleball has exploded in popularity at Jewish summer camps. (Courtesy of Camp Avoda; design by Mollie Suss/ JTA)

Barrel of fun

Pickleball is a hit at US Jewish camps and sports tournaments

By jacob gurvis

Widely considered the fastest-growing sport in America, the tennis and ping-pong hybrid has attracted millions of new fanatics since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic

Pop star Christian Aguilera will arrive August 9 in Israel for her August 10, 2023, performance in Rishon Lezion Live Park (Courtesy Live Nation Israel)

What a girl wants

Christina Aguilera plans four days in Israel, requests Starbucks

By Jessica Steinberg

The five-time Grammy winner will dine in a Tel Aviv restaurant and tour Jerusalem and the Dead Sea; will perform August 10

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Israel's Inbar Lanir (blue) celebrates her victory over France's Madeleine Malonga after the final of the women's -78kg category of the Judo Masters 2023 in Budapest on August 6, 2023. (ATTILA KISBENEDEK / AFP)

Israeli judokas win gold, silver at major international contest

Former US president Donald Trump arrives to board his plane at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Arlington, Virginia, August 3, 2023. (Alex Brandon/AP)

Trump slams ‘woke’ US women’s soccer team after World Cup exit

By AFP

An illustrative file photo of an ambulance on August 23, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Worker, 78, killed by tractor in central region

Illustrative -- In this July 6, 2017 photo, water tumbles 1,246 feet (380 meters) at Takakkaw Falls in Yoho National Park in Canada's stretch of the Rocky Mountains, straddling the border of British Columbia and Alberta (AP Photo/Adam Kealoha Causey)

Israeli, 18, killed in ATV accident in Canada

From the Ophir-nominated feature film '7 Blessings,' up for Best Feature at the September 10, 2023 Ophir Award ceremony (Courtesy PR)

Israeli Oscars‘7 Blessings’ toasted with 12 Ophir Award nominations, including Best Picture

By Jessica Steinberg

Denis Weil, director of the Israel Museum, marks one year since taking on the job in March 2022 (Courtesy Elie Posner)

Israel Museum director steps down after just a year and a half in the job

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