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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 8, 2023

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File - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) speaks with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich during a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 18, 2023. (Amit Shabi/Pool)

Gantz: Smotrich's decision 'reeks of racism'

Amid rising accusations of racism, Smotrich adamant funds for Arab towns will be cut

Far-right finance minister says he has Netanyahu’s backing to halt East Jerusalem funding, alleges money earmarked for Arab authorities goes to organized crime

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich takes part in a march to the illegal West Bank outpost of Evyatar, near the West Bank city of Nablus, during the Passover holiday, April 10, 2023. (Sraya Diamant/ Flash90/ File)

Smotrich said refusing to approve economic measures to assist Palestinian Authority

Finance Minister and Religious Zionism party chief Bezalel Smotrich leads his party's faction meeting at Jerusalem's Knesset, May 8, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/ Flash90)

In latest cut to Arab funds, Smotrich freezes money for integration in academia

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Israelis protest against the visit of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, in Moshav Neve Ativ, August 7, 2023. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Police let protesters into Golan community where PM vacationing after court petition

Hundreds march toward hotel where Netanyahu staying, as they are allowed to approach within a few hundred meters

6:33 pm

Supreme Court to review police appeal of decision to release settler suspect
6:09 pm

Israeli climber dies on Mont Blanc, French police say
5:21 pm

Gantz: Smotrich's move to withhold Arab funds has whiff of racism

Analysis

Gianluca Pacchiani

Protests against Hamas reemerge in the streets of Gaza, but will they persist?

Demonstrations have again broken out against the terror group that rules over impoverished enclave, though such movements have been short-lived in the past

Palestinian demonstrators chant slogans during a protest against the territory's chronic power outages and difficult living conditions along the streets of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, July 30, 2023. (AP Photo)

Lynn Hastings, of Canada, United Nations Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator for the West Bank and Gaza, speaks during a news conference on May 23, 2021, in Gaza City. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

UN official pans Hamas death sentences for Gazan ‘collaborators’

EU Ambassador to the Palestinians Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff paraglides over Gaza on July 17, 2023. (EU Mission to the Palestinians)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 8: EU envoy paraglides over Gaza, with parting comments

Promoted Podcast

Yara Amayra: Co-Director of Land for All

Yara Amayra, a Palestinian activist from Hebron in the West Bank, has worked with Women Wage Peace, New Story Leadership, and now as the Palestinian Co- Director of Land for All.

Riot police try to clear demonstrators with a water canon during a protest after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government passes the first law to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, July 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Poll finds majority of Israelis believe country is in a state of emergency

IDI survey shows most don’t believe reservists should be dismissed for not volunteering; about half think their personal financial situation will be negatively affected by overhaul

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference on the planned construction of a new railway line from the northern city of Kiryat Shmona to Eilat, in Jerusalem, July 30, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

PM doesn’t have the votes to remake judicial selection panel, Likud said to believe

Doctors demonstrate against the judicial overhaul in Tel Aviv on July 18, 2023. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Doctors warn they won’t show up for work if government scorns a High Court ruling

File: Anti-judicial overhaul demonstrators protest the appearance of Economy Minister Nir Barkat, at a conference in the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange on July 10, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Bloomberg: Netanyahu’s talk of shelving parts of overhaul fails to win over investors

Experts say investors keeping an eye on developments do not believe PM’s talk of compromise will placate opposition or protesters, as shekel, foreign bonds fail to grow

A composite image, from left, of Justice Minister Yariv Levin at a government conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 15, 2023; Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut at a hearing in Jerusalem on December 1, 2022; and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 29, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

140 jurists lambaste coalition for claiming High Court can’t review Basic Laws

By Michael Bachner

Vice Adm. David Sa'ar Salama, head of the Israeli Navy, speaks at a ceremony at Atlit Naval Base, July 10, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Report: Two senior Navy officers end volunteer reserve duty in protest of overhaul

By Emanuel Fabian

Workers and police prepare for the arrival of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhu and his wife Sara in Moshav Neve Ativ, August 7, 2023. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Activists urge High Court to okay protest in moshav where Netanyahus are vacationing

By Michael Horovitz

Protesters say police keeping additional demonstrators away from encampment set up outside northern community; police action ‘reserved for dark, dictatorial regimes,’ lawyer says

Israelis protest against the visit of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara in Moshav Neve Ativ, Golan Heights, August 7, 2023. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Police close off northern community to block protests against vacationing Netanyahus

Minister May Golan, left, argues with a protester at Ben-Gurion airport on August 7, 2023. (screen capture: Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

After minister alleges attack by protester, video appears to show her as aggressor

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong speaks in Jakarta, Indonesia, July 13, 2023. (Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana/Pool Photo via AP)

Australia pledges to reinstate use of term ‘Occupied Palestinian Territories’

Foreign minister says Canberra will also formally harden its position on West Bank settlements, calling them a ‘significant obstacle to peace’

Haviva Ner-David

‘Do not stand on your neighbor’s blood’: Why I joined the March of the Dead

Most chilling was watching Arab youths carrying the caskets, each with a line stating what the victim was doing when they were killed

Muhammed Khalaily

The abandonment of Arab Israelis

Ditching the 5-year plan for the Arab sector is in synch with a government dedicated to fortifying Jewish supremacy

A photo of the Sylt concentration camp on the island of Alderney after the Nazi surrender, May 1945. (Courtesy of the Trustees of the Royal Air Force Museum/ via Antiquity Publications)

'Numbers matter because the truth matters'

UK launches inquiry into deaths at sole Nazi concentration camps on British soil

By Robert Philpot

Death toll on the occupied island of Alderney, or ‘Little Auschwitz,’ is hotly debated, as a possibly faulty postwar report has experts saying thousands more may have been killed

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

By Lazar Berman

Hakeem Jeffries, in Israel as part of an AIPAC-led trip, argues that both countries share similar challenges to democracy

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

A Palestinian police officer shuts the main gate to Beit Hanun at the Erez crossing between Israel and the northern Gaza Strip, on August 4, 2022. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

Inside storyIsrael says it will ease travel curbs for Gazan Americans following outcry

Khaled Abu Alhaija, left, and Aalam Qaabi, held by Israel on suspicion of terror activity (Shin Bet)

Shin Bet says it foiled West Bank terror cell’s plans for shooting attacks

By Emanuel Fabian

Security agency says PFLP operative in Lebanon recruited Palestinians, including relatives, to carry out attacks against Israelis

The Israeli military demolishes the home of Abdel Fattah Hussein Kharousha, who killed two Israeli brothers in Huwara in Feburary, in the Askar refugee camp near Nablus, August 8, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF razes West Bank home of terrorist who killed Israeli brothers in Huwara

By Emanuel Fabian

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 (left) and Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, at a pre-Passover toast on April 4, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu expresses support for Shin Bet head amid onslaught by his coalition

By Emanuel Fabian

But a Likud lawmaker continues attacks on top security officials, claiming ‘leftist ideas’ are infiltrating the ranks

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (right) and head of the IDF Northern Command, Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin, look toward Lebanon from the Mount Dov area, August 8, 2023. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Gallant warns Hezbollah against escalation: ‘We’ll return Lebanon to the Stone Age’

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi (center) speaks with new conscripts at the Tel Hashomer military induction center in Ramat Gan, August 8, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief: Example set by army is ‘greatest opportunity’ to resolve national dispute

By Emanuel Fabian

Women carrying baskets of excavated earth to the dump pile at Tell en-Naṣbeh in 1935 while others pick pottery sherds out of the dirt mound. (Courtesy of the Badè Museum/Pacific School of Religion)

Archaeology'Pay issues are not typically part of the conversation'

Exhibit uncovers forgotten laborers behind British Mandate’s archaeological exploits

By Melanie Lidman

Part of a reckoning over the history of archaeology, the Badè Museum launches an exploration into the diggers, haulers, and local staff who worked a dig near Ramallah in the 1920s

Analysis

German man accused of posing as a Jew and peddling fake, antisemitic Holocaust story

Retired teacher Frank Borner purports to operate under the auspices of the ‘Meet a Jew’ program, but a Jewish journalist has found major inconsistencies in his account

Illustrative: A man walks by a billboard showing a yellow Star of David that reads 'Jude,' Jew in German. (AP Photo/ Oded Balilty)

Podemos party leader Pablo Iglesias arrives at the Spanish Parliament in Madrid, Spain, January 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Europe’s far-left is normalizing antisemitism, report co-authored by ADL warns

By Canaan Lidor

Demonstrators hold flags during a demonstration called by fundamentalist Catholic organization Civitas on May 8, 2016 in Paris. (FRANCOIS GUILLOT / AFP)

France moves to ban far-right Catholic party Civitas for antisemitism

By AFP

Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz attends the world premiere of 'Barbie' at the Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on July 9, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images via AFP)

Not playing around

Meet the Israeli-American Mattel CEO who made ‘Barbie’ a movie star

Ynon Kreiz, who got his start in LA working for Haim Saban, says he was tickled by Will Ferrell’s portrayal of him in the movie: ‘We don’t take ourselves too seriously’

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FILE - People walk along a trail as the sun sets, July 16, 2023, in Death Valley National Park, California (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Scientists confirm July was Earth’s hottest month on record by a wide margin

By Seth Borenstein

Looking down from the parapet into York's Clifford's Tower, where reconstruction work is currently under way, October 2019. (ToI staff)

York gets first rabbi since community decimated by infamous 1190 pogrom

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Cash seized for a suspect's home during a police investigation into the suspected extortion of a businessman, August 7, 2023. (Israel Police)

Crime boss, 7 others nabbed on suspicion of extorting millions from businessman

Ethiopians protest in Gondar against continued intense fighting between the military and militia fighters, August 7, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Several Israelis said rescued, larger operation mulled, as Ethiopia clashes heat up

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (second left) with Justice Minister Anna Koukkides-Procopiou (second right) and Cypriot officials in Limasol, Cyprus, August 8, 2023. (National Security Ministry)

Ben Gvir has 1st meeting with EU country minister as Israel helps Cyprus fight fires

By Michael Horovitz and AP

File: View of Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center in Bnei Brak, April 13, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Bnei Brak hospital hit by cyberattack, bringing down computers

By Michael Horovitz

US President Bill Clinton (C) lights the eternal flame at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 22 April 1993 with help from Memorial Council Chairman Harvey Meyerhoff (L) and Founding Chairman Elie Wiesel (R) (RENAUD GIROUX / AFP)

ObituaryHarvey Meyerhoff, chair of US Holocaust Memorial Museum at its founding, dies at 96

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Ghislaine Maxwell attends a press conference on the Issue of Oceans in Sustainable Development Goals at United Nations headquarters, June 25, 2013. (United Nations Photo/Rick Bajornas via AP, File)

Ghislaine Maxwell said receiving prison benefits by touting Jewish heritage

By PHILISSA CRAMER

UK-based fintech Paysend partners with Israeli-Swiss fintech firm Okoora to serve local market. (Courtesy)

UK’s Paysend partners with Israeli fintech Okoora to expand in local market

By Sharon Wrobel

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara arrives to attend the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, July 9, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool Photo via AP)

Attorney general said likely to oppose ministers’ firing of Israel Postal Co. chair

Director William Friedkin poses for portraits after interviews for his film, 'Killer Joe' in Venice, Italy, September 8, 2011. (AP Photo/ Joel Ryan, File)

William Friedkin, award-winning director of ‘Exorcist,’ dead at 87

By AFP

Sylvan Adams at the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships in Scotland, August 4, 2023. (SWpix via JTA)

Israeli billionaire Sylvan Adams wins cycling world championship in Scotland

By jacob gurvis

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