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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 9, 2023

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Elisha Yered (right), suspected of involvement in the killing of 19-year-old Palestinian Qusai Jamal Matan in the West Bank village of Burqa, pictured on his release to house arrest outside Jerusalem District Court, on August 9, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

1 suspect in fatal shooting of Palestinian released to house arrest; 2nd still held

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Court frees Elisha Yered, a far-right MK’s former spokesman, but suspected shooter Yehiel Indore ordered to remain in custody after police appeal

View of the West Bank settlement of Eli, January 17, 2021. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

2023 sets record for settlement construction and outpost legalization – watchdog

By Tani Goldstein

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich speaks during a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem on August 9, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

As Smotrich defends freeze, PM vows to transfer funds to Arab towns ‘with oversight’

Netanyahu says that money frozen by finance minister must be monitored so that it ‘reaches its appropriate destination — Arab Israeli citizens of Israel and nowhere else’

6:21 pm

Turkish drones kill 2 PKK members in Iraq, say Kurdish officials
5:50 pm

Iran summons UK envoy over social media post calling to release detained journalists
5:26 pm

In response to Smotrich freezing funds, US says it is 'committed to welfare of all Israelis'

FM: Saudi deal with US defense pact would make Gulf nuclear ambitions ‘unnecessary’

Foreign minister Eli Cohen says security treaty would reassure Washington’s regional allies that they are protected from Iranian aggression, and negate the need for atomic weapons

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen seen during an interview at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, June 12, 2023. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Opposition leader and former prime minister Yair Lapid (R) meets with UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in Italy, August 8, 2023. (Courtesy: Yair Lapid's office)

Lapid meets UAE foreign minister in Italy, amid hiatus in high-level visits

By Lazar Berman

(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)

AnalysisRocky US-Saudi ties get boost from push for normalization deal with Israel

By Robbie COREY-BOULET

Explainer

September showdown: Israel’s branches of government to face off in three key cases

Petitions against two coalition Basic Law amendments, and justice minister’s refusal to convene crucial panel, give retiring court chief chance to leave final far-reaching mark

Supreme Court President Esther Hayut and other justices during a court hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on August 3, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

View of the Stella Maris Monastery in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, August 1, 2023. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Aug 9: Why are ultra-Orthodox Jews suddenly praying at a Haifa church?

Political correspondent Tal Schneider on Opposition Leader Yair Lapid’s strange UAE meeting, PM Netanyahu’s latest promise; religion reporter Canaan Lidor on far-left antisemitism

Screen grab from a video in which Israel Defense Forces soldiers are abused by a Haredi family on a train, broadcast by Channel 12 news on August 8, 2023 (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

‘Are dogs allowed here?’ Haredi family abuses IDF soldiers on a train

Kinneret Kim Dubowitz

The Barbie movie: Turning the plastic icon into a real woman

Whoever thought Birkenstocks would be a statement of empowerment?

There’s an atom of Oppenheimer in all of us

As it was with the A-bomb, today’s tech geniuses tout their latest AI advancement, even as they warn it might destroy us

File: An Israeli Air Force pilot walks to his F-16 fighter jet during the "Blue Flag" multinational air defense exercise at the Ovda air force base, on October 24, 2021. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Hagari: Far-right coalition MKs' comments 'hurting the IDF'

IDF admits protesting reservists have caused some harm to its readiness

Army spokesman says adverse impact, with thousands of reservists’ vowing to stop showing up for volunteer duty in protest of judicial overhaul, particularly marked in IAF

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

Police allow protesters into Golan community where Netanyahu is vacationing

Cabinet peers assail far-right Smotrich for holding back funds for Arab community

Ministers tell finance minister cash is needed to close gaps, warn that freezing money will cost state coffers more in the long run

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich at a press conference in Jerusalem, July 30, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a Knesset faction meeting of his far-right Religious Zionism party, July 10, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Fiscal deficit swells to 1% as tax income drops and government expenditure grows

By Sharon Wrobel

A heart model grown from stem cells (screenshot courtesy of Tissue Dynamics)

Created from stem cells, Israeli researchers grow tiny, beating model of human heart

By Renee Ghert-Zand

The size of a third of a grain of rice, organoid connected to sensors reveals previously unknown aspects of cardiac physiology

Christian pilgrims hold candles as they gather during the ceremony of the Holy Fire at Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried and rose from the dead, in the Old City of Jerusalem, on April 23, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Archaeology

Round-the-clock excavations at Church of Holy Sepulchre yield historical treasures

By Melanie Lidman

Continued work on a two-year, $11 million cooperative restoration project reveals fascinating details from centuries of patchwork building at one of Christianity’s holiest sites

Two Israelis cleared of spying for Iran; third convicted of contact with enemy

Court finds all three were manipulated by alleged Iranian agent, none had intention of harming state security, though one woman should have balked at request to provide information

Illustrative: A prisoner being held in an Iranian prison. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Iran hangs five men convicted of gang rape in northwest

By AFP

Protesters chant slogans during a protest over the death of a woman who was detained by the morality police, in downtown Tehran, Iran, September 21, 2022. (AP Photo, File)

Over 90 Iranian reporters said arrested or interrogated since protests started

By AFP

Police at the scene of a terror stabbing in the Gilo neighborhood of Jerusalem on July 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Palestinians to be charged for seriously injuring man in Jerusalem terror stabbing

By Emanuel Fabian

Three teenagers from Bethlehem allegedly purchased butcher knives, set out for Gilo neighborhood ‘with the aim of murdering a Jew’

Passengers wade into the waters of the Dead Sea from Noam Bedein's boat on a recent excursion. (Noam Bedein via JTA)

'The salt rock formations are otherworldly'

Boat trip aimed at saving Dead Sea also explores marvels revealed by its evaporation

By Deborah Danan

Noam Bedein’s latest excursions have led him to discover sights he’s never seen as he seeks to save the natural wonder being depleted by water scarcity, industry and climate change

The scene of a deadly drive-by shooting on Route 40 on August 8, 2023. (Israel Police)

2 Rahat men killed in drive-by shooting, as 2023 Arab crime death toll jumps to 144

Both victims in their 20s; police believe incident a result of gang family feud, find torched vehicle nearby and are checking to see whether it was used by at-large suspects

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

Adam Weiner wraps tefillin on tour. (Jacob Blickenstaff via JTA)

Rocker Adam Weiner chronicles his Jewish evolution on new single ‘King of the Jews’

By Gabe Friedman

More Headlines

Small drones seized by Israeli security guards at the Erez crossing with the Gaza Strip, August 9, 2023. (Defense Ministry)

Israel foils smuggling of small reconnaissance drones to Gaza Strip

By Emanuel Fabian

People visit blooming lupine flowers on Mitzpetel, in Jerusalem, March 1, 2022. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

State freezes plan to build police station on beloved Jerusalem hill

Ofra Strauss speaks during a press conference at Strauss Group's main offices in Petah Tikva, April 28, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Amid right-wing boycott calls, chair of Strauss Group said to get death threats

In this handout photo, a police officer investigates at an apartment in Haifa where a decomposing body was found in the wall, August 9, 2023. (Israel Police)

‘I thought it was a doll’: Handyman finds decaying body inside Haifa apartment wall

Team at Tel Aviv-based venture capital fund Symbol. (Courtesy)

Israeli venture capital fund Symbol closes $50 million debut fund

By Sharon Wrobel

This picture taken on July 30, 2023, shows the Mont Blanc at sunset above Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, France. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

Israeli climber dies on Mont Blanc, French police say

By AFP and ToI Staff

The Knesset cut a ribbon for new solar panels on March 29, 2015. But the Jerusalem Municipality gets poor marks for solar provision on existing facilities according to an index of local authorities launched on August 8, 2023. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Some wealthy towns lag behind poorer ones in using solar energy potential – index

Mamu Noam of Israel, Jakub Dudycha of the Czech Republic and Davide De Rosa of Italy celebrate after the men's 800 meter event during the 2022 European Athletics U18 Championships at Givat-Ram Stadium in Jerusalem, July 7, 2022. (Jurij Kodrun/Getty Images for European Athletics via JTA)

Israel flexes as an up-and-coming U20 sport host with Euro tourney in Jerusalem

By jacob gurvis

Kanye West, now known as Ye, in black, and Travis Scott, white, in concert in Rome on August 7, 2023. (Screenshot/used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Kanye West returns to stage for 1st time since antisemitic onslaught

Noa Kirel poses for photographers at the European MTV Awards 2022 in Dusseldorf, Germany, November 13, 2022. (AP Photo/ Martin Meissner)

Unicorn landing in NYCNoa Kirel to make US concert debut at Madison Square Garden in 2024

By julia GERGELY

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