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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 15, 2023

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (second from right) attends a security briefing during an IDF operation in Jenin on July 3, 2023. At left, is IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, and next to him is Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet is at center. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Security officials tell TV network PM trying to shift blame onto them for harm to IDF

Netanyahu said to ignore request by IDF chief to condemn attacks on military brass by coalition allies over impact on readiness; PM said to express concern at Sunday briefing

Gallant: 'If you cannot contain yourselves, attack me'

Minister rails at reservist ‘rebels,’ slams IDF chiefs who warn readiness being hurt

Criticism by Likud’s David Amsalem forcefully opposed by Defense Minister Gallant and President Herzog; Amsalem also says anti-overhaul leaders should rot in jail for life

File - Minister David Amsalem arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 7, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's son Yair arrives for a court hearing in Tel Aviv, on November 29, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

PM’s son shares a post calling Herzi Halevi worst-ever IDF chief

By Michael Horovitz

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich takes part in a march to the illegal West Bank outpost of Evyatar, near the West Bank city of Nablus, during the Passover holiday, April 10, 2023. (Sraya Diamant/ Flash90/ File)

Live updates (closed)

Smotrich said aiming to allocate $180m to settlements, including to illegal outposts

By Michael Bachner

Report says finance minister planning government decision shaving off ministry budgets to fund move, but timing shortly before mayoral elections creates legal difficulties

6:33 pm

Attorney general refuses to defend ministers’ firing of Israel Postal Co. chair
6:17 pm

Smotrich said aiming to allocate $180m to settlements, including illegal outposts
5:46 pm

Report: PM's office tried to oust its legal adviser, seen as a Netanyahu adversary

Reporter's notebook

A Jewish journalist’s experience covering the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

Veteran JTA reporter tells of his conflicted, emotionally tolling odyssey, from day the 2018 Tree of Life massacre took 11 lives through recent conclusion of the murderer’s trial

Pittsburgh Jewish Federation CEO Jeff Finkelstein speaks to the press after a jury find the gunman who shot 11 Jewish worshipers guilty of federal crimes. The writer kneels at lower left, in Pittsburgh, June 16, 2023. (Alexandra Wimley/Pittsburgh Union Progress via Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle via JTA)

A screenshot from livestreamed Shabbat services hosted by Temple Beth Tikvah, a Reform congregation in Fullerton, on August 12, 2023. (Facebook screen grab, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law

2 US shuls evacuated during Shabbat services amid wave of bomb threats for 4th week

By Andrew Lapin

Students affiliated with AEPi attend an Israel Independence Day Celebration at University of California, San Diego in 2018. (Randy Shropshire/Getty Images for AEPi via JTA)

ADL teams up with Jewish frat to fight antisemitism on US college campuses

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Yehiel Indore, who is suspected of shooting and killing 19-year-old Palestinian Qusai Jamal Matan in the West Bank village of Burqa, arrives for a Jerusalem District Court hearing on August 14, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Court releases main suspect in killing of Palestinian in Burqa to house arrest

Judge rejects law enforcement appeal of decision to release Yehiel Indore; police arrest 2 Palestinians suspected of taking part in violent clash earlier this month

An Israeli archaeologist points at a nearly 1,800-year-old decorated floor from an early Christian prayer hall that Israeli archaeologists discovered adjacent to Megiddo prison, on November 6, 2005. (Ariel Schalit/AP)

Israel may uproot ancient Christian mosaic, send it to US Evangelical museum

By Ilan Ben Zion

Megiddo Mosaic could be loaned to Museum of the Bible in Washington; some worry it will be used in ideological, rather than archaeological, context

Archaeologists excavate the oldest gate discovered in Israel at Tel Erani near Kiryat Gat in 2023. (Yoli Schwartz/IAA)

Archaeology'It’s the first time people are living inside city walls'

Discovery of Israel’s oldest gate resets clock on local urbanization by centuries

By Melanie Lidman

Alongside 5,500-year-old entrance to fortified city at Tel Erani, near Kiryat Gat, archaeologists find evidence of social stratified city-dwelling in Israel

Left: A screenshot from a video published on August 15, 2023, shows a rocket that a Palestinian group calling itself the Al-Ayyash Battalion claimed to have fired from the Jenin area at the northern West Bank settlement of Shaked. Right: The rocket after it was found by Israeli forces (Telegram: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law; courtesy)

Palestinian group tries to fire rocket from northern West Bank at nearby settlement

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli forces discover projectile that failed to launch, following claims by Al-Ayyash Battalion

Illustrative: Israeli troops operate in the West Bank, early August 15, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Police: Undercover officers kill two Palestinian gunmen during raid near Jericho

By Emanuel Fabian

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem, July 30, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

After cases of discrimination against women on buses, PM calls to punish offenders

Netanyahu says Israel ‘a free country, in which nobody will set limits on who can use public transportation,’ following series of incidents involving drivers and Haredi passengers

FILE: Incoming Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Defense Yoav Galant at the awarding of ranks ceremony at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, January 16, 2023. (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug 15: Why the PM won’t speak up for top IDF brass but will for women

Hillel, Shammai and J Street

We must avoid the prevailing impulse to exaggerate and distort and learn to disagree without fracturing our community

Biden’s bad Iran deal is cause for dire Israeli concern

The Administration must be told that for Israel, the Iran problem is not a can to be kicked down the road until 2025

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)

Netanyahu ‘won’t relax at our expense,’ protesters vow outside Galilee vacation spot

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

Former defense minister Moshe Ya'alon speaks at a protest against the expected incoming government in Tel Aviv on December 17, 2022 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

In New York Times ad, prominent Netanyahu critics spurn unity government prospect

By Canaan Lidor

Analysis

US-Iran deal doesn’t mean full nuclear pact is next — but it shows Israel’s limits

Iran has little reason to run toward a new deal now, but prisoner agreement last week underscores that the Netanyahu government has minimal influence on Washington’s Iran policy

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and then-US vice president Joe Biden, in Jerusalem on March 9, 2010. (Emil Salman/Pool/Flash90)

An American sailor from the US 5th Fleet (foreground) and an Israeli Navy sailor (background) pose for a photo during a joint drill off the coast of Haifa, August 7, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel, US wrap up 2-week joint navy drill aimed at boosting ties, shared learning

By Emanuel Fabian

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in a speech broadcast on August 14, 2023, to mark the anniversary of the 2006 Second Lebanon War between his terror group and Israel. (Screenshot: Twitter/X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Nasrallah says Israel ‘will cease to exist’ if war erupts, as rhetoric escalates

Hamas talks local Gaza elections — in apparent push for general Palestinian ballot

By Gianluca Pacchiani

While PA leader Abbas is in Egypt attending regional summit, pressure mounts throughout Palestinian territories to end his ‘culture of decrees’ and hold elections

Hamas officials at a conference to discuss local elections in the Gaza Strip on August 14, 2023. (via Shehabnews.com)

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)

Firefighter succumbs to wounds, marking 3rd death in pit rescue attempt

Dekel Marciano, 33, suffered serious injuries during attempted rescue operation in Deir al-Asad, which also claimed another responder and Palestinian laborer who fell into hole

Illustrative: Police at the scene of a shooting incident. February 28, 2017. (Flash90)

Man killed in northern Arab town in suspected gangland hit

Co-defendants include Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows

Trump, 18 allies indicted in Georgia for racketeering over 2020 election meddling

In 4th indictment against twice-impeached ex-president, prosecutors charge Republican frontrunner for 2024 presidential nomination with 13 felony counts, including RICO accusations

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a fundraiser event for the Alabama GOP, Friday, Aug. 4, 2023, in Montgomery, Alabama. (AP/Butch Dill, File)

Konrad Kutt and Irena Aselmeier, founders of Germany's book box initiative, stand in front of the burned-out book box near the "Gleis 17" Holocaust memorial after an apparent arson attack. (Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images via JTA)

Mini library at Holocaust memorial in Berlin torched in suspected antisemitic act

By Toby Axelrod

Witnesses say they saw suspect start blaze inside the ‘Bucherboxx’ at train station in German capital; antisemitic note said found at scene

Wreaths placed at the memorial for the homosexual victims of the Nazis on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Berlin, Germany, January 27, 2023. (Markus Schreiber/AP)

Monument to gay victims of Nazis vandalized in Berlin

By AFP

More Headlines

Destroyed homes and cars are shown, Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Death toll in Hawaii fires rises to 99, and likely to increase, say officials

By CLAIRE RUSH, JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and Christopher Weber

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)

Israel not planning further evacuations from Ethiopia amid fighting, says minister

By Canaan Lidor and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Sellers attend to customers in a street market in Eminonu commercial district in Istanbul, Turkey, on June 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

Israeli man arrested in Turkey for allegedly stealing ancient artifact

FILE — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried leaves Manhattan federal court in New York, February 16, 2023. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

US prosecutors to use testimony of Sam Bankman-Fried’s ‘inner circle’ against him

By Larry Neumeister

A screenshot from a video of a large blast seen from a driving dashboard in Ramat Hasharon in the early hours of Tuesday, August 15, 2023. (Daniel Amram on Telegram, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

1 seriously injured in large blast at Ramat Hasharon industrial site

Cpl. Baruch Kabarta, who was killed by the accidental discharge of another soldier's gun at a military base near Jerusalem on January 3, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF soldier convicted of accidentally killing comrade, will be jailed for 3 years

By Emanuel Fabian

Javier Milei, presidential candidate of the Liberty Advances coalition, raises his arms at his campaign headquarters after polling stations closed during primary elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Far-right populist finishes as top vote-getter in Argentina presidential primary

By DANIEL POLITI

James Snyder at the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum in Jerusalem, Israel, July 10, 2016. (Dan Porges/Getty Images via JTA)

Former director of Israel Museum to lead Jewish Museum in New York

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

In this handout video grab taken from a footage released by Russian Emergency Ministry on August 14, 2023, rescuers put out a fire at a gas station in the city of Makhachkala. (Russian Emergency Ministry/AFP)

35 killed in blast, fire at gas station in Russia’s Dagestan region

By AFP

Staff of the new Hofim Center for youth in psychiatric crisis at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv. (Miri Gattenyo/Ichilov Hospital)

Teen mental health crisis center opens at Ichilov Medical Center

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Illustrative: People line up to vote in the presidential election at a polling station in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Record number of candidates register for Iranian parliamentary elections

By AP

Sir Ben Kingsley arrives at the premiere of "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" on August 16, 2021, at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Role reversalBen Kingsley reveals why he’s appeared in so many Holocaust films

By Gabe Friedman

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