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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 12, 2023

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Protesters play the drums during a rally against the government's judicial overhaul plans in Tel Aviv on August 12, 2023. (JACK GUEZ/AFP)

‘We will defend Israel’: Mass anti-judicial overhaul protests enter 32nd week

Main rally in Tel Aviv, as IDF warns its operational readiness is suffering amid refusal by reservists to show up to voluntary duty while government vows to push ahead with shakeup

A heckler interrupts the performance of Exit the King at the Cameri Theatre in Tel Aviv on August 11, 2023. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Hecklers interrupt absurdist drama in Tel Aviv over supposed Netanyahu critique

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 warns damage to military readiness worsening amid overhaul split

By Emanuel Fabian

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara vacation in the Golan Heights on August 11, 2023. (Benjamin Netanyahu/Twitter)

Residents of Golan town worry Netanyahu visit will spoil mango harvest

Ramot natives say fence erected around moshav cuts them off from crop ahead of harvest, setting stage for fresh showdown surrounding prime minister’s holiday plans

A group of anti-government demonstrators play-act the national guard forces proposed by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir ahead of a protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, on April 1, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Police volunteers ordered to zip criticism after post panning Ben Gvir — report

Photos of Ted and Joan Hall in 'A Compassionate Spy.' (Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures)

Interview'It's not just an espionage story, it's a love story'

The spy who loved her: How wife shielded US nuclear scientist after intel leak to USSR

By Rich Tenorio

New documentary ‘A Compassionate Spy’ reveals the crisis of conscience that led Manhattan Project physicist Ted Hall to spy for the Soviets, and how his spouse Joan kept his secret

If just five Likud members stood up now and said they’ll leave the party unless Bibi resigns, he would lose his majority

A date tree named Methuselah

These were likely the trees King David was looking at when he described how the righteous person will blossom

US sanctions Russian-Israeli billionaire Mikhail Fridman, 3 others

By AP and ToI Staff

‘Wealthy Russian elites should disabuse themselves of notion they can operate business as usual,’ deputy treasury secretary says

File: Russian businessman, co-founder of Alfa-Group Mikhail Fridman attends a conference of the Israel Keren Hayesod foundation in Moscow, Russia, September 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, Pool, File)

The Rev. Andrei Kordochkin conducts a religion service at the Russian Cathedral of Saint Mary Magdalene in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, July 15, 2023. In February, Moscow's Patriarch Kirill suspended Kordochkin, a priest at an Orthodox church in Madrid, after he condemned the Kremlin's decision to send troops to Ukraine. (AP Photo/Paul White)

Russian Orthodox priests persecuted by state and church for backing peace in Ukraine

By KOSTYA MANENKOV

Police and emergency vehicles parked at the side of the wreckage of the drone fell near the Karamyshevskaya embankment to the after a reported drone attack in Moscow, Russia, on Friday, August 11, 2023. (AP Photo)

Russia says it downed 20 drones over Crimea following a spate of attacks on Moscow

Jewish groups launch relief effort for Maui after Hawaii wildfires kill over 60

Island’s Jews are among the evacuated; Governor Josh Green: ‘Likely the largest natural disaster in Hawaii state history’

A man walks through wildfire wreckage on August 11, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

A woman walks through wildfire wreckage Friday, August 11, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Death toll rises to 80 in Maui wildfires as survivors begin returning

By CLAIRE RUSH, TY O'NEIL and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER

Illustrative: A sunset behind the mountains as seen from Mevo Horon, December 15, 2021. (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)

Israel hit by new heat wave: Country to swelter for several days

By ToI Staff and AP

Temperatures and humidity will rise and stay high until Monday at least; officials urge public to take extra care outside

Steve Gray, a member of Kibbutz Hanaton, stands in an ancient mikveh moved to the kibbutz. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

Immerse yourself in the Holy Land’s history by visiting these ancient ritual baths

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Essential to Jewish religious life, mikvehs can be found throughout Israel — and some tell captivating tales of life millennia ago

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, right, greets Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, center, and King Abdullah II of Jordan, during a conference at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

PA’s Abbas to hold three-way summit with Egyptian, Jordanian rulers

Palestinian Authority president to travel to the coastal city of El Alamein on Sunday for meeting expected to focus on growing instability in West Bank, Gaza

File: Jordan's King Abdullah II poses for photos before a reception and lunch at the Royal Palace in Madrid, Spain, on June 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Paul White, Pool)

Jordan’s king approves bill to criminalize online speech that ‘harms unity’

By AP

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, visits an exhibition of Iran's nuclear achievements, at his office compound in Tehran, Iran, June 11, 2023. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader, Via AP)

Iran reportedly slowing some nuclear enrichment, diluting high-grade stockpile

Wall Street Journal says Tehran has watered down some material enriched to 60%

Iranian students burn a US flag during a demonstration denouncing the burning in Sweden of the Quran, Islam's holy book, in front of Swedish embassy in Tehran on July 21, 2023. (AFP)

ExplainerWhat’s behind the tentative US-Iran agreement involving prisoners and frozen funds

By Jon Gambrell and Matthew Lee

Campers at Ramah Ukraine greet each other after returning to camp for the first session in the country during wartime. (Courtesy Midreshet Schechter via JTA)

'The kids need to know that there's still joy in life'

Camp Ramah returns to Ukraine after a war-induced exile — now with a bomb shelter

By Shira Li Bartov

After the Russian invasion forced it to move to Romania, the 31-year-old camp returns to its home in the Chernivtsi region where over 120 kids see a summer respite from the war

Giora Romm, Director of the National Road Safety Authority attends meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on March 20, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Obituary

Giora Romm, Israeli Air Force’s first ‘ace,’ dies at 78

Pilot also spent three months as a prisoner of war in Egypt after being shot down; later served as military attaché to the US and in a series of senior public sector roles

In California, a summer camp serves as a haven for Jews of color

By Jacquelyn Martin

Be’chol Lashon becomes an extended family for campers who back home are treated more as a curiosity than a full-fledged member of Jewish or Black communities

A worker at the Ein Netafim wastewater treatment plant walks past a primary treatment water clarifier basin in Eilat on July 13, 2023. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Israeli desalination, wastewater treatment becomes global model for water scarcity

By Jonah Mandel

Chief engineer of Eilat’s water and sewage utility says all of the city’s wastewater is treated, and ‘transferred, to the last drop, to farmers,’ who use it to water crops

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Rick Rubin, left, with Russell Simmons in 1997. (Jim Steinfeldt/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images/ via JTA)

'We were around because of our place on the US totem pole'

From Rick Rubin to Doja Cat, Jews have helped shape the first 50 years of hip-hop

By Andrew Esensten

As the genre that influenced music the world over celebrates its 50th birthday, a look at Jewish contributions on stage and behind the scenes

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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried arrives at Manhattan federal court, Friday, August 11, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Judge sends crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried to jail, says he tampered with witnesses

By Larry Neumeister

The Mark hotel in New York City (Video screenshot)

Would-be underage drinker sued after accusing 5-star hotel of Holocaust denial

By Andrew Lapin

File: Hunter Biden, the son of US President Joe Biden, on the South Lawn of the White House, April 18, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

US attorney general appoints a special counsel in Hunter Biden probe

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST

This file frame grab from video posted online March 18, 2019, by the Aamaq News Agency, a media arm of the Islamic State group, shows an IS fighter firing his weapon during clashes with the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters, in Baghouz, Syria. (Aamaq News Agency via AP)

IS claims responsibility for an attack that killed 20 Syrian soldiers

By AP

A view of Lublin, Poland. (YouTube screenshot)

Thousands evacuated after builder uncovers a WWII bomb in a Polish town

By AP

A satellite image of the FSO Safer tanker moored off Ras Issa port, in Yemen, June 17, 2020. (Maxar Technologies via AP)

UN says oil safely moved off decaying Red Sea tanker, averting disaster

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