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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 13, 2023

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IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi (left) and IAF chief Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar (center) speak with two officers at the Tel Nof airbase, July 19, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu said to shout at Halevi, IAF head for warnings that military fitness hurt

‘This is an army that’s taken over the country, you’re hurting deterrence,’ PM quoted as telling top commanders; his office denies he yelled but not comments themselves

6:19 pm

Protest calling for release of settler suspect in Palestinian's shooting held in Jerusalem
6:13 pm

Netanyahu said to ask Haredi allies to drop demand for override law
5:40 pm

Iran releases journalist who was jailed after interviewing Amini father

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a weekly cabinet meeting in the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 30, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool/AFP)

PM scorns US-Iran deal unfreezing Iranian assets in exchange for release of prisoners

Netanyahu says Israel opposes any deal with Iran that doesn’t include dismantlement of nuclear program, arguing that any funds Tehran receives will be funneled to militias

US President Joe Biden waves as he walks to board Air Force One at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, June 19, 2023. (Susan Walsh/AP)

Ex-IDF intel chief: Biden’s priority right now is presidential election, not Israel

The amphibious assault ship USS Bataan, front, and the landing ship USS Carter Hall, back travel through the Red Sea, August 8, 2023. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Riley Gasdia/US Navy, via AP)

US, EU warn shippers to avoid Iranian waters over seizure threats

By Jon Gambrell

Former general Amiram Levin speaks during a protest against the government's judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, on August 12, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Ex-IDF general likens military control of West Bank to Nazi Germany

Amiram Levin accuses the IDF of being a ‘partner in war crimes’ when it stands by as settler extremists attack Palestinians, says situation in West Bank is ‘absolute apartheid’

Rabbi Tzvi Kostiner, head of Mitzpe Ramon’s Midbara K’Eden Yeshiva, speaks during a demonstration on August 11, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter/X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Prominent rabbi urges release of Palestinian family’s killer, calls detention ‘evil’

Tzvi Kostiner, head of pre-military academy, says convicted murderer Amiram Ben Uliel ‘didn’t do anything, but even if say he did — come on, accept him’

Let them eat dates

When the world runs out of wheat for challah, pita, rugelach, and more, we’re going to wish we’d set up back-up crops

Avidan Freedman

The Artsakh humanitarian crisis is our responsibility

The need to forge ties with Azerbaijan does not give Israel license to ignore the suffering of ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh

Demonstrators rally against the government's judicial overhaul plans in Tel Aviv, August 12, 2023. (Gitai Palti)

Likud moderates urged to 'be brave' in 'battle of our lives'

‘The time to fight is now’: Masses nationwide rally against overhaul for 32nd week

Ex-IDF general pans PM for ‘handing country over to lawbreaking’ far-right ministers; protest heads said to warn they may shut Israel down if government defies court nixing of laws

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks to new IDF recruits at the Bakum, the military's induction base in central Israel, August 13, 2023. (Defense Ministry)

Gallant tells fresh recruits that overhaul crisis has not hurt IDF draft process

By Michael Horovitz

Demonstrators wave Israeli and Palestinian flags during a protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, July 22, 2023. The black banner (center) reads: 'There is no democracy with occupation'. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

Sidelined Arab Israelis fear overhaul will further undermine their legal recourses

By Majeda El Batsh

In the Great Synagogue of Sibiu, Romania, actors Alexandru Malaiku and Gabriel Muncuș perform in 'A Secret About Joy,' a play written and produced by Fulbright scholar Sarah Brown (courtesy)

'I didn’t want to talk about the Holocaust'

In a Romanian synagogue, a play has ghosts ‘eavesdrop’ on a town’s Jewish past

By Matt Lebovic

Channeling everyday Jewish life before the Holocaust, playwright Sarah Brown’s ‘A Secret About Joy’ has been performed for thousands of Romanians since last year’s premiere

Saudi Ambassador Nayef Al-Sudairi (L) presents his credentials to Palestinian Authority diplomatic adviser Majdi al-Khalidi at the Palestinian embassy in Jordan on August 12, 2023. (Wafa)

Saudi Arabia appoints its first ever non-resident ambassador to Palestine

While envoy’s portfolio will also include being non-resident Jerusalem consul general, that title refers to engagement with the Palestinians, not Israel

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

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug 13: Is the Saudis’ first PA envoy a herald of ties with Israel?

Explosions rock Syrian capital, with no immediate word on source or targets

By AP and ToI Staff

State media and local residents say repeated blasts heard before dawn in Damascus; war monitor says sites involved were weapons warehouses of Iran-backed militias

Illustrative: A Syrian national flag waves as vehicles move on a bridge during rush hour, in Damascus, Syria, on Feb. 28, 2016. (Hassan Ammar/AP)

A Hezbollah truck that overturned in the Lebanese town of Kahale, August 9, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter/X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Report: Crashed Hezbollah truck estimated to have carried Iranian anti-tank missiles

Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah speaks via a video link during activities marking the Shiite Muslim holy day of Ashura in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, July 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Hezbollah: Next war will be in Israel’s Galilee, IDF posts will become graveyards

Minister David Amsalem speaks during a plenum session at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on July 10, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud minister mocked for saying ‘it’s my job’ to name friends to government posts

David Amsalem says he prefers to put forward people he knows well; Labor’s Michaeli calls his attitude ‘corruption at its best’

Screen capture from video of an escaped cow running along Route 1, August 13, 2023. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Getting a moove on

Police chief chases cow down highway

By Stuart Winer

Israel’s top cop, Kobi Shabtai, joins efforts to rope in runaway bovine as it bolts down Route 1

Ajay (Varun Dhawan) and Nisha (Janhvi Kapoor) imagine themselves as Auschwitz prisoners in a scene from the Amazon-distributed 'Bawaal.' (Screenshot via JTA)

'They're trivializing Auschwitz with their marriage!'

Holocaust scholars debate Bollywood movie ‘Bawaal,’ about couple visiting Auschwitz

By Andrew Lapin

The film’s protagonists find answers to their marital woes in the Nazi death camp; despite its drawbacks, some say the film at least teaches Indians about the genocide

Members of a search-and-rescue team walk along a street, August 12, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii, following heavy damage caused by wildfire. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

With 89 fatalities, Hawaii wildfire becomes the deadliest in the US in over 100 years

By CLAIRE RUSH, Beatrice Dupuy and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER

Chilling stories of survival and death emerge from the island of Maui, as emergency workers go through the moonscape of ash that just days ago was the picturesque town of Lahaina

Illustrative: The Arizona Wildcats celebrate during the semifinal PAC-12 conference tournament game at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, March 11, 2022. (AAron Ontiveroz/ MediaNews Group/ The Denver Post via Getty Images via JTA)

'It's the opportunity of a lifetime for our players'

Abraham Accords inspire Arizona, Kansas State basketball teams to visit Israel, UAE

By jacob gurvis

Organized by Athletes for Israel, the trip runs Aug. 9-20 and will cover tourist sites in both countries, including the Western Wall, Yad Vashem and the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque

More Headlines

Police and rescue personnel at the scene where three people fell into an eight-meter-deep pit in Deir El Asad, northern Israel on August 13, 2023. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Two people die after falling into pit in north; third in critical condition

By Michael Horovitz

The Defense Ministry is seen along with other buildings in Tel Aviv, August 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

After two vets die by suicide, Defense Ministry forms new team to probe procedures

By Emanuel Fabian

Rescuers work outside a destroyed church after a Russian missile strike in Zaporizhzhia, on August 10, 2023. (Marina Moiseyenko / AFP)

Russian forces kill 7 including baby, brother and parents, says Ukraine

By AFP

Police at the scene of a crash near Eilat that killed a 6-year-old girl, seriously wounded a 9-year-old boy and moderately wounded a man, August 12, 2023. (Israel Police)

Girl, 6, killed in car crash near Eilat; 9-year-old in serious condition

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