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What Matters Most On Monday, August 14, 2023

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From left, Tomer Bar, Commander of the Israeli Air Force, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Isaac Herzog, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi at a graduation ceremony for soldiers who have completed the IAF Flight Course, at the Hatzerim Air Base in the Negev Desert, June 29, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Netanyahu meets Halevi, Bar on Sunday; PMO: He doesn't yell

PM said to have shouted at IDF chiefs: ‘It looks like the army is running the country’

By Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

In Friday phone conference, IDF head Halevi and IAF chief Bar reportedly rebuffed PM request to walk back public comments on harm to IDF fitness and readiness amid overhaul rifts

An anti-overhaul activist protesting in army duds in Tel Aviv, on August 12, 2023. His poster contains a slogan about bravery under fire. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu orders top brass to maintain IDF fitness as reservist revolt bites

By Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

A sign for Fitch Ratings, in New York, October 9, 2011. (Henny Ray Abrams/AP)

Fitch again affirms Israel’s A+ credit rating, warns of overhaul’s potential damage

Netanyahu and Smotrich hail move as proof that economy is ‘strong, stable and resilient,’ and say warnings about overhaul impact are alarmist ‘false panic campaigns’

Separately, driver refuses to speak to female Shoah survivor

Teen girls told to sit in back of bus, cover up because of Haredi passengers

Incident is one of several reports of bus drivers illegally discriminating against women in past week

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox men board the bus to the Lag B'omer festival in Meron, in Jerusalem, on May 8, 2023. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Protesters rally at the entrance to Moshav Ramot as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's convoy arrives for a vacation, August 14, 2023. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Live updates (closed)

Protests held outside Netanyahu’s vacation site: ‘He won’t relax at our expense’

By Michael Bachner

As PM’s convoy enters Moshav Ramot near Sea of Galilee, hundreds hold noisy rally nearby; similar protests were held last week when premier was in Neve Ativ

6:29 pm

Nasrallah says Israel will be 'returned to Stone Age' if war erupts
6:14 pm

Haredi minister said threatening elections as 'override clause' standoff escalates
5:58 pm

Israeli man detained in Turkey for over a week over ornamental bell, says family

Police clear protesters blocking Highway 1 into Jerusalem on August 13, 2023, at a right-wing demonstration calling to release a settler suspected of shooting dead a Palestinian youth during West Bank clashes last week in the village of Burqa. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Hundreds at protest call to free settler suspected of killing Palestinian; 2 arrests

In missive to Israel Prison Service, Ben Gvir asks if Yehiel Indore’s rights as detainee are being preserved; protesters mount bus, block entrance to capital

Rabbi Tzvi Kostiner (Screencapture: YouTube)

Rabbi who urged release of Palestinian family’s killer recently addressed IDF event

In rare move, security forces evacuate illegal West Bank outpost

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Settlers burn tires and scatter spikes on road to outpost; settlers, security sources say Smotrich gave green light for evacuation; no comment from far-right leader

Israeli forces demolish a building at an illegal West Bank outpost on August 14, 2023 (Screencapture/Twitter used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

An undated photo of IDF soldier Hillel Nehemiah Ofan, who died August 14, 2023, during training near the central city of Elad. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF soldier collapses, dies during training amid heat wave

By Emanuel Fabian

20-year-old Hillel Nehemiah Ofan declared dead at scene in forest near Elad; head of Ground Forces halts all exercises

A national Zionist emergency government can save Israel

Govern according to the majority of Israelis who vote right-wing on security and want liberal social policies; leave the extremists out

What can I say? He was my dog, and I loved him

They say it’s a blessing that we can put a dog down, relieve him of his misery, but I’d never had to do it before

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Aug 14: Alleged Jewish-Iranian spy & why rats may decide a mayoral race

Political correspondent Tal Schneider on Israeli ‘midterms’; military reporter Emanuel Fabian on razed settlement outpost, IDF readiness and settler in custody over West Bank death

Interview

College head assails Smotrich for defunding programs for East Jerusalem Palestinians

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Hadassah Academic College president says preparatory programs for academic integration of Arab students are ‘strategic asset for Israel’

Students at Hebrew University on the first day of the academic year on October 23, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Arab citizens protest the budget cut in the Arab sector, outside the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, on August 13, 2023. Banner reads 'Objecting to cutting budgets protesting for life.' (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Arab towns plan Jerusalem rally, strike action over Smotrich’s freeze on funds

Bomb-making materials and a makeshift submachine gun seized by Israeli forces in the West Bank town of Biddu, July 2023. (Shin Bet)

Shin Bet foils 9-man Hamas cell planning kidnapping of soldier in West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

Agency says Palestinian suspects from Biddu also sought to carry out shooting and bombing attacks against Israeli forces

Likud party chairman Benjamin Netanyahu, right, shakes hands with United Torah Judaism party leader Yitzhak Goldknopf in the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem on November 21, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox parties said to refuse Netanyahu request to compromise on draft bill

Due to military pressure, PM reportedly trying to reach agreement for a less-drastic version of conscription law

Elazar Stern of the Yesh Atid party attends a plenum session in the Knesset in Jerusalem, on July 6, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Yesh Atid MK says he’s open to party joining unity government with Netanyahu

'Historically, scientists have only studied men'

Study shows how brain cells of males and females respond differently to stress

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Researchers have long recognized variations in how men and women experience depression, anxiety and PTSD; now they are looking at them on the molecular level

Illustrative. A stressed woman before her computer. (Katarzyna Bialasiewicz; iStock by Getty Images)

The play 'Roma Army,' directed by Yael Ronen, performed in Rome, Italy (Photo: Florin Ghioca)

Author interview'Romani Europeans can point to continuous racism'

How Roma and Jews went from ‘familiar strangers’ to partners in Holocaust memory

By Matt Lebovic

In his book ‘Rain of Ash,’ historian Ari Joskowicz tracks Romani-Jewish relations since World War II, from decades of ‘mutual suspicion’ to ‘unlikely success story’

Tear gas fumes fill the air as members of the Druze community gather with their flags in a protest against an Israeli wind turbine project near the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights on June 21, 2023. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Netanyahu lets deadline for resuming work on controversial Golan wind farm slip by

By Omer Sharvit

After project sparked massive protests in Druze community, PM’s office told energy firm it could resume work by August 1, but committee has yet to present its findings

Illustrative: A worker installs air conditioners on the roof of an office building in central Jerusalem, on February 8, 2018. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Electricity use breaks new record under searing temperatures

Rotem Amfert factories in the Negev. (Screenshot)

Phosphate mining company ICL Rotem tops latest list of worst environmental offenders

Former treasury secretary Jack Lew frontrunner for next US ambassador

An Orthodox Jew, ex-Obama chief of staff has extensive ties to Israel, has been critical of Netanyahu

Former US treasury secretary Jack Lew speaks at the panel "Reforming the Euro Area: Views from inside and outside of Europe," during the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings, in Washington, April 19, 2018. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L)) and his wife, Sara, ahead of a flight from Tel Aviv to Paris on February 2, 2023. (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

Netanyahu to resume foreign travel in September after health pause

By Lazar Berman

More Headlines

Prof. Hagai Levine (center), a leader of the White Coats – Healthcare Professionals for Democracy and head of the Israeli Association of Public Health Physicians, leads the chanting at the doctor's protest rally in Jerusalem, July 23, 2023. (Renee Ghert-Zand/ Times of Israel)

Doctors file petition to High Court calling to strike down ‘reasonableness’ law

The ReWalk in action (Courtesy)

Israel’s ReWalk snaps up AlterG for $19 million in profitability push

By Sharon Wrobel

Illustrative: A detail including the badge and shield of one of the newest members of the New York City police is seen during his graduation ceremony, June 29, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/ Mary Altaffer/ File)

NY police search for man who scrawled antisemitic graffiti on Manhattan synagogue

Ethiopian Jews scuffle with police during a protest urging the government to bring their family members to Israel due to fighting in Ethiopia, near the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on August 13, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ethiopian Israelis rally in Jerusalem, seeking increased immigration quota

By Canaan Lidor

Bullet holes riddle windows at the site of a shooting attack at Iran's Shah Cheragh mausoleum in the Fars province capital Shiraz, on August 13, 2023. - (Photo by MOHAMMADREZA DEHDARI / ISNA / AFP)

Iran arrests four more after deadly attack at Shiite shrine

By AFP

Wolfsburg's Mattias Svanberg, left, fights for the ball against TUS Makkabi's Brian Petnga during the German Soccer Cup match between TuS Makkabi and VfL Wolfsburg at Mommsenstadion stadium, Berlin, Sunday Aug. 13, 2023. (Andreas Gora/dpa via AP)

Survivor-founded Makkabi Berlin soccer club makes historic German Cup debut

By Ciaran Fahey

View of the Israeli military security barrier on the border with Lebanon, close to the northern town of Metula, with the Lebanese town of Kfarkela in the background, August 2, 2023. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Hezbollah operative hurls Molotov cocktail at Israel from Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian

Ryan Turell playing for the Motor City Cruise. (Courtesy Motor City Cruise via JTA)

Former YU phenom Ryan Turell features in new Amazon documentary on the G League

By Stephen Silver

Supporters of a radical Islamist party 'Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan' burn a representation of a Swedish flag during a rally to denounce burning of Islam's holy book Quran, in Karachi, Pakistan, on July 7, 2023. (Fareed Khan/AP)

Sweden calls for vigilance abroad after threats over Quran desecrations

By AP

Tivon Pennicott, saxophonist, will perform in Israel on August 14, 15, 16 and 18, 2023 (Courtesy OGATA)

Lover of natureSaxophonist Tivon Pennicott visits Israel for week of jazz gigs

By Jessica Steinberg

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