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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 16, 2023

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Defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks to members of the Israeli Air Force at the Ramon air base, August 15, 2023. (Defense Ministry)

Pilots said to tell Gallant they won’t fly sorties if Israel not democratic

Reserves airmen reportedly explain colleagues’ refusal to serve to defense minister during visit to southern base meant to patch up ties between the government and air force

Likud MK Tally Gotliv speaks attends a Knesset State Control Committee meeting, in Jerusalem, on August 15, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud’s Gotliv doubles down on attacks on military, slams PM for ‘apologizing’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant attend an event for outstanding soldiers as part of Israel's 75th Independence Day celebrations, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on April 26, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu lends ‘full backing’ to IDF brass after attacks by son and Likud minister

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen meets with Uruguay's President Luis Lacalle Pou (R) in Montevideo, August 16, 2023. (Foreign Ministry)

Live updates (closed)

Uruguay to open diplomatic office in Jerusalem, foreign minister announces

Hours after declaring that Paraguay would reopen embassy in Jerusalem, Eli Cohen meets with Uruguayan leaders, says new mission won’t be an embassy but will advance tech ties

6:04 pm

Israel to reexamine Ethiopia immigration policy amid increased fighting
5:42 pm

Amid overhaul, some 80% of new Israeli startups choosing to incorporate in the US
5:20 pm

US sanctions Lebanese environmental NGO acting as cover for Hezbollah on border

Police chief and Ben Gvir spar over who cops should obey in constitutional crisis

By Michael Bachner

In latest clash, Kobi Shabtai says force will always follow the law; far-right police minister argues it must hew to government policy rather than High Court rulings

Israel Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai, left, and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at the scene of a terror attack in the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Adumim, outside of Jerusalem, August 1, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

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Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu, right, with UTJ MK Moshe Gafni in the Knesset on December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Netanyahu, Levin said to seek pause to overhaul after Haredi party revolt

By Canaan Lidor

Likud, UTJ deny reports on potential freeze, say they are working together to pass judicial legislative package, ultra-Orthodox draft law

File: Israeli military reservists protest against the plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, on a freeway from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, on Feb. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)

IDF said to warn MKs: Military readiness weakening, enemies recognize what’s happening

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: Dollars and shekels. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Shekel slides to lowest rate in three years against US dollar

The right to bare arms

If public bus drivers can become modesty police, women’s rights are in real danger – as is the future here for the likes of liberal me

Joseph H. Prouser

Women witnesses for Jewish divorce: A major misstep

Failure to provide a divorce of unimpeachable halachic validity spells catastrophe for Jewish unity

Book review'She wanted to be seen as a leader, not a woman leader'

How should Golda Meir be remembered? Deborah Lipstadt weighs in

50 years after end of Meir’s term as PM, longtime historian and current US envoy pens a new biography of the leader – but chooses to skim over her time leading the nation

Intel Corp.'s R&D center in Haifa. (Courtesy)

Intel backs out of $5.4 billion deal to buy Israeli firm Tower Semiconductor

By ToI Staff and Sharon Wrobel

Chip giant to pay $353 million to terminate acquisition after reportedly failing to receive okay from Chinese regulators as demanded by contract

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich speaks during a press conference at the Ministry of Finance in Jerusalem on August 9, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

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

Finance minister and his party colleague reportedly intend to bring scheme for cabinet decision; some cash to be scalped from other ministries

Israel Ambassador to Paraguay Yoed Magen, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, Paraguay President Santiago Peña and First Lady Leticia Ocampos

New Paraguay leader to reopen Jerusalem embassy within year, Israel says

Top diplomat Eli Cohen meets with Santiago Peña at inauguration, says president accepted invitation to visit Israel; Israel to reopen mission in Asunción 5 years after closing it

Bradley Cooper plays Jewish composer Leonard Bernstein in the 2023 biopic 'Maestro.' (YouTube screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Bradley Cooper under fire for ‘Jewface’ in Leonard Bernstein biopic

By Michael Horovitz and JTA

Actor uses prosthetic nose in upcoming film, which one social media user says ‘looks like Nazi propaganda’

Transportation Minister Miri Regev holds up a Rav-Kav card given to her by a member of the press, before entering Allenby Station, August 16, 2023. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)

Likud transportation minister booed during first ride on new Tel Aviv light rail

By Charlie Summers

Miri Regev is met with cries of ‘shame’ in Jaffa as she tests light rail before public opening Friday, with protesters decrying train’s closure on Shabbat in secular city

Attorney general refuses to defend ministers’ firing of Israel Postal chairperson

Baharav-Miara says Likud’s Karhi, Amsalem may obtain private counsel in petition against dismissal, a move she has said presents significant legal difficulties

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara arrives to attend the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, July 9, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool Photo via AP)

Prime Minister's Office Legal Adviser Shlomit Barnea Farago arrives for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 1, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM’s office tried to oust its legal adviser, a witness in Netanyahu’s trial – report

Yair Netanyahu arrives for a court hearing in Tel Aviv, on November 29, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90/ File)

Yair Netanyahu shares post urging Supreme Court chief to keep ‘hands off Basic Laws’

Analysis

Gianluca Pacchiani

Hamas and Islamic Jihad seen importing Gaza military tactics to the West Bank

Report shows terror groups have been replicating tactics in the Jenin-Nablus area: manufacturing weapons, building tunnels, launching rockets and, perhaps most of all, cooperating

An undated image of members of the Jenin Battalion, a terror group comprising members of different Palestinian armed factions, most prominently Palestinian Islamic Jihad. (Telegram/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

An assault rifle and other military equipment seized from a Palestinian gunman who was wounded and detained after opening fire at troops near Nablus in the northern West Bank, early August 16, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Soldiers clash with Palestinian gunmen near Nablus, destroy explosive lab

By Emanuel Fabian

Troops manage to detain one assailant who opened fire at army post in northern West Bank; 15 primed bombs found in Balata refugee camp

Friends and family carry the casket of IDF soldier Hillel Ofan at his funeral at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, August 15, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

Six comrades of soldier who died were also dehydrated during drill – report

‘We felt dehydrated even before the exercise started,’ says one soldier; father of deceased hopes for ‘comprehensive’ probe

Illustrative: A woman enters a building where stumbling stones, engraved with names of Jews killed by the Nazis, are seen in front of the entrance, in Rome's Ghetto Jewish neighborhood, January 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

'This has left the Jewish world speechless'

Italian Jewish leader says new $67 million Holocaust reparations fund ‘a mockery’

By Giovanni Vigna

To solve a diplomatic dispute with Germany over civil suits for Nazi crimes, Italy decides to pony up – but Jewish community members say the government is trying not to pay out

Neria Kraus, Channel 13 US correspondent. (YouTube screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Reporter says United crew yelled at her for refusing Haredi request to move seats

Channel 13 US correspondent Neria Kraus describes ‘humiliating incident’ on board flight to Tel Aviv from New York, but man claims son asked to switch seats to be next to friend

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The drilling ship Tungsten Explorer is seen off the coast of Dbayeh, north of Beirut, Lebanon, on May 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

After deal with Israel, offshore rig arrives in Lebanese waters to drill for gas

By AP and ToI Staff

Israeli journalist Itai Anghel reporting from Ukraine in 2022 during its war with Russia. (Courtesy: Keshet)

Israeli news doc on Ukraine war nominated for International Emmy

Police at the scene of a homicide in the Arab town of Jisr az-Zarqa, August 16, 2023. (Israel Police)

Man, 50, shot dead at entrance to his Jisr az-Zarqa home

COP28 UAE President Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber attends a joint press conference on the second day of the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin, Germany, on May 3, 2023. (John MacDougall/Pool Photo via AP, File)

PR firm says it may tap US Jews to boost image of UAE oil boss ahead of climate meet

de Jode Land of Israel 1593, one of the Golden Map Collection maps donated to the National Library of Israel. (Courtesy: National Library of Israel)

On the mapNational Library expands cartographic holdings with 400 rare maps

By Jessica Steinberg

Participants in the 'One Team' girls camp that took place between August 1-10, 2023 at Kfar Silver near Ashkelon. (Hillel Lasri)

Jewish, Bedouin girls come together in one-of-a-kind summer camp

Maccabi Haifa's Surinamese midfielder Tjaronn Chery celebrates with teammates after scoring the opener during the UEFA Champions League group H football match between Israel's Maccabi Haifa and France's Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) at the Sammy Ofer stadium in the city of Haifa on September 14, 2022. (RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP)

Maccabi Haifa soccer team advances to playoff for qualification to Champions League

By Michael Bachner

Making movies at Jerusalem's Sam Spiegel Film School, which was included in top 15 global film schools by Hollywood Reporter in August 2023. (Courtesy: Yossi Zveker)

Capital educationSam Spiegel included in Hollywood Reporter top 15 film school list

By Jessica Steinberg

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