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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 10, 2023

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Mourners carry the body of 19-year-old Palestinian Qusai Jamal Matan, during his funeral in the town of Burqa in the West Bank on August 5, 2023. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Top court dismisses appeal for rearrest of Jewish suspect

Military court frees Palestinians arrested over deadly West Bank clash with settlers

Judge says there’s ‘no reasonable suspicion’ against suspects from Burqa, who were detained following incident in which settlers killed a young Palestinian man

Elisha Yered, left, seen at the Jerusalem District Court after being released to house arrest on August 9, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Judge assails police in hearing on release of suspects in Palestinian’s death

MK Ahmad Tibi speaks in the Knesset plenum on November 6, 2022. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Arab MK accuses Ben Gvir of discrimination over ban on visiting Palestinian detainees

(L to R) John Rothman as Mortimer Sackler, Matthew Broderick as Richard Sackler, Sam Anderson as Raymond Sackler in episode 3 of 'Painkiller.' (Keri Anderson/Netflix © 2023)

Sacklers made $10 billion in profits from OxyContin alone

Netflix’s ‘Painkiller’ is mesmerizing drama about Sackler role in ongoing opioid crisis

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Premiering August 10 with a cast led by Matthew Broderick, the six-part series zeroes in on the death and destruction wrought by OxyContin on a community in western Virginia

Op-ed

Netanyahu’s extremists target Israel’s vital last sphere of consensus – the military

Plumbing new depths of irresponsibility, the coalition’s dominant far-right lawmakers, indulged by the PM, are dragging the security establishment deep into the political maelstrom

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (R) visit a military post near Jenin, July 4, 2023. At left is IDF General Yehuda Fox. (Haim Zach/GPO)

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi (center) and other officers meet with representatives of youth movements in Israel, August 8, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief, senior officers meet youth group officials amid overhaul tensions

By Emanuel Fabian

Israel Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai (L), President Isaac Herzog (C), and Latin Patriach Pierbattista Pizzaballa at the Stella Maris Monastery in Haifa, August 9, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/ GPO)

Herzog, police chief meet Christian leaders to condemn attacks on community

By Lazar Berman

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A Crisis that Unites Us

Dr. Tareq Abu Hamed is a Palestinian environmental scientist from East Jerusalem who works on an Israeli Kibbutz. He sees science as a unique way to make connections in the fight against the climate crisis.

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Some Democrats ‘dumbfounded’ by Biden’s willingness to hand major gifts to Netanyahu

Two lawmakers say timing not right to add Israel to Visa Waiver Program or to broker a Saudi normalization deal, actions that will bolster PM’s far-right government

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara meet with US Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on March 9, 2016 (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

In this photo provided by Saudi Press Agency, SPA, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman chairs the Arab summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Friday, May 19, 2023. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

Saudis said wary of full normalization with Israel, or a deal with current government

Left: US President Joe Biden at Raleigh-Durham International Airport in Morrisville, North Carolina, March 28, 2023. (AP/Carolyn Kaster); Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on March 19, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool photo via AP)

US pushes back on White House invite claim as PM seen trying to raise visit’s profile

Israelis swim at Gan HaShlosha National Park (also known as Sachne) in northern Israel, September 9, 2017. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

'Why oppress us when we're still a minority?'

Fear and frustration run deep around sex-segregated swimming plan at natural springs

By Canaan Lidor

An attempt to accommodate summertime Haredi visits to nature reserves is adding heat to the raging fight over Israel’s character

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)

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

Netanyahu says the funding must be monitored so that it ‘reaches its appropriate destination,’ as far-right minister claims money could fuel organized crime, ‘encourage terror’

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

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 10: What the face-off between Netanyahu and Smotrich really shows

Anti-overhaul activists protest against the judicial overhaul outside the home of Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer in Jerusalem on August 10, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Anti-overhaul protesters shut Tel Aviv highway, demonstrate outside ministers’ homes

‘Operation conflict of interest’: Activists renew demonstrations against government’s judicial reforms with protests at sites across the country

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White supremacist arrested for threatening jury, witnesses at Pittsburgh synagogue trial
6:13 pm

Bnei Brak hospital bracing for release of sensitive patient information after hack
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Virgin Galactic flies its first tourists to the edge of space

Gaza border solar fields: A basis for security and hope

The solution to Gaza’s dire lack of electricity and water can and should be built in a restricted area just inside the border

We kidney donors must make this difficult commitment on our own terms

Turning down willing donors for limiting who can get their organs means more patients die, a terrible price for ideological purity

More than a third of young Israeli doctors say they plan to leave country soon

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Tired of difficult work conditions and fed up with political and economic woes, 38% of medical residents indicate a lot would have to change to prevent them from relocating

Medical residents demonstrate for better work conditions in Habima square in Tel Aviv, on August 30, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90/ File)

Assuta Medical Center in Tel Aviv's Ramat HaHayal neighborhood, May 20, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Couple sues Assuta Hospital for $9.2 million over IVF paternity mix-up

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Scuffles between relatives of a murder victim and security guards at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, August 9, 2023 (Screen grab used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

2 said arrested after hospital brawl between guards and family of man shot dead

President Isaac Herzog speaks with anti-overhaul protesters, August 9, 2023 (Twitter screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

‘You must take action’: Group of anti-overhaul protesters square off with Herzog

President approaches demonstrators to ask them to support dialogue; they demand he work to ‘protect the judicial system’

A stock market ticker screen in the empty lobby of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, on March 15, 2020. (Flash90/File)

Negative sentiment over judicial impact drives market underperformance, TASE warns

By Sharon Wrobel

A protester holds a Palestinian flag in Tel Aviv at a demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government, January 7, 2023. (AP Photo/ Tsafrir Abayov)

Liberal US Jews urge greater focus on Palestinians in Israeli anti-overhaul protests

Supreme Court President Esther Hayut (center) alongside Justices Uzi Vogelman (left) and Isaac Amit (right) during a hearing on petitions against the coalition's recusal law, August 3, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court issues procedural injunction against government’s reasonableness law

By Jeremy Sharon

While such moves commonly indicate a shift in the burden of explanation from petitioner to respondent, court insists its decision is for ‘purposes of efficiency alone’

Supreme Court Justice Noam Sohlberg attends a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on May 8, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Conservative on Supreme Court named to key panel that selects judges

By Jeremy Sharon

Israelis protest against the visit of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, in Moshav Neve Ativ, northern Israel, August 8, 2023. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

High Court: Police should not have barred protesters from reaching Netanyahu’s hotel

Illustrative: A woman in a wheelchair basks in the sun on Via Portico d'Ottavia in Rome's Old Ghetto, one of the world's longest continuing Jewish communities, October 31, 1997. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

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By Rich Tenorio

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas looking on as he receives Palestinian athletes in Ramallah in the West Bank on August 4, 2023. (Wissam Khalifa/PPO/AFP)

In surprise move, Palestinian leader Abbas ousts 12 West Bank, Gaza governors

By ToI Staff and AFP

PA president gives no explanation for move; committee will reportedly be formed to search for viable replacements

Amir Khalifa, 27, a Palestinian gunman killed by Israeli forces near Nablus in the northern West Bank, August 10, 2023. (Social media)

Palestinian gunman killed by Israeli forces near Nablus

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli police inspect the site of a deadly terrorist shooting attack in Tel Aviv, August 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Terrorist who killed Tel Aviv patrolman thought to have snuck in via West Bank fence

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National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks during a press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on July 5, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High school student arrested for suspected death threats against Ben Gvir

BARBIE Score from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Graphic: Business Wire via AP)

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Police at the scene where a man shot his adopted son in Maccabim, on July 14, 2023. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)

Man indicted for murder of autistic adopted son

Illustrative: A Tus Airways flight comes in to land at Larnaca Airport, southern Cyprus, August 17, 2018. (Matthieu CLAVEL / AFP)

Israelis pulled off flight from Cyprus to Tel Aviv for unruly behavior

Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks during an interview in Damascus, Syria, August 9, 2023. (Syrian Presidency Telegram page via AP)

Syria’s Assad claims Israeli airstrikes target Syrian forces, using Iran as ‘excuse’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

The Israeli Navy INS Nahson landing craft is seen at the Pascagoula Shipyard, Mississippi, August 8, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli Navy takes possession of its first new US-built landing craft

By Emanuel Fabian

An Iranian cruise missile is launched during a naval exercise in the Gulf of Oman, June 18, 2020. (Iranian Army via AP)

Iran claims to have developed technology for supersonic cruise missile

An illustrative photo of a hacking concept. (Sergey Shulgin on iStock via Getty Images)

Israel-based Laminar gets snapped up by Microsoft-backed cybersecurity firm Rubrik

By Sharon Wrobel

Nechama Tec (left)who wrote the 1993 book “Defiance: The Bielski Partisans” was adapted for a 2008 film directed by Edward Zwick starring Daniel Craig (right). (Jewish Women's Archive via JTA)

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By Andrew Silow-Carroll and Ben Harris

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