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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 19, 2023

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An undated photo shows Shay Silas Nigreker, 60 (right) and his 28-year-old son Aviad Nir, who were killed in a terror attack in the West Bank town of Huwara, August 19, 2023. (Courtesy)

Hamas, Islamic Jihad laud 'heroic' attack

Israeli father and son gunned down and killed in terror shooting at Huwara carwash

By Emanuel Fabian

Medics declare Shay Silas Nigreker, 60, and Aviad Nir, 28, dead at the scene in northern West Bank town; IDF launches manhunt, prepares for potential settler revenge attacks

Women speakers to highlight discrimination, at 33rd week of judicial overhaul protests

Ahead of main rallies in the evening, activists demonstrate near transportation minister’s home to decry new Tel Aviv light rail’s lack of service during Shabbat

Anti-governments activists demonstrate near Transportation Minister Miri Regev's home in Rosh Ha'ayin on August 19, 2023, to protest the Tel Aviv light rail's lack of service during Shabbat. (Twitter screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

File: Israeli Air Force pilots walk to their plane during the 'Blue Flag' international exercise at the Ovda airbase in southern Israel on October 24, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Air Force suspends several senior reservists as overhaul protests roil military

Smotrich reportedly advancing plan to legalize 155 wildcat outposts in West Bank

Far-right minister starting with legalization of 15 illegal communities; official laments that government helpless to stop it because Smotrich controls both relevant offices

FILE: (From L-R) Amona leader Avichay Buaron, Binyamin Regional Council chairman Yisrael Gantz, Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich and Samaria Regional Council chairman Yossi Dagan stand in front of a new caravan that was installed on the hilltop where the illegal Amona outpost once stood on December 14, 2018. (Campaign to save Amona)

A photo released by police on August 19, 2023, shows cut marks on a Palestinian detainee's face that the force alleges was caused by an officers boot. A lawyer for the suspect alleges police branded him with a Star of David. (Israel Police)

Police deny officers branded Star of David on Palestinian detainee’s face

Force rejects allegations of brutality and racial animus during arrest of suspect in East Jerusalem, indicate cut marks on suspect’s face were caused by cop’s boot

A Palestinian allegedly branded by Israel Police officers on August 18, 2023. (Courtesy)

Cops accused of beating Palestinian detainee, branding him with Star of David

Colonial secretary Winston Churchill with Sir Herbert Samuel during a visit to Jerusalem in March 1921. (Public domain)

Inside story'He failed to see the mufti's readiness to use brutality'

Herbert Samuel’s secret 1937 testimony on the infamous mufti of Jerusalem revealed

By Oren Kessler

Newly revealed files show how Palestine’s first high commissioner – a Jew and a Zionist – defended tapping Amin al-Husseini, lamented that ‘Jews can be extremely irritating people’

Elchanan Poupko

Religious Jews owe Ben Gurion a visit

Secular Israelis are rightfully wondering if they have a future in Israel

Kenneth Jacobson

The black, gay civil rights leader who defended Israel

He was a behind-the-scenes organizer of the 1963 March on Washington and an advocate for Israel in the Black community

Activists, some handcuffed to handrails, protest inside a carriage of the new Tel Aviv area light rail against the line not operating on the Sabbath, at the Elifelet Station in Tel Aviv on Friday afternoon, August 18, 2023, the first day of the train's operation. (Courtesy: Koah Kaplan)

Hundreds protest at Tel Aviv light rail stations because train won’t run on Shabbat

Demanding ‘freedom of movement, even on the Sabbath,’ some demonstrators handcuff themselves inside final train of new line’s first day of operation, in failed bid to keep it open

An Israeli soldier is seen shooting a seemingly unarmed Palestinian man close to the West Bank security barrier, near Qalqiliya, August 18, 2023. (Screenshot: X)

Military Police probe clip showing soldier shooting unarmed Palestinian

By Emanuel Fabian

Footage shows man standing near security barrier in Qalqilya area before serviceman opens fire; gunman wounded in Balata clash on Wednesday dies

Border Police face Palestinian rioters in East Jerusalem, September 26, 2022. (Israel Police)

2 shot in East Jerusalem while trying to attack officers, police say

A multimedia production in Zedekiah's Cave in Jerusalem, August 2023. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

Go ‘back to the future’ of ancient Jerusalem with these high-tech history exhibits

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

This summer, enjoy a wide array of cutting-edge interactive and multimedia displays highlighting the capital’s current beauty and colorful past

This handout picture provided by the Saudi foreign ministry shows Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, left, meeting with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, in Jeddah on August 18, 2023. (Saudi Foreign Ministry/AFP)

Iranian foreign minister meets Saudi ruler, pushing restored ties forward

By AFP

Iran’s top diplomat extends trip to Saudi Arabia for talks with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as Tehran and Riyadh reconnect after cutting ties in 2016

Analysis

Protest groups turn up heat on ‘messianic’ settlers accused of driving overhaul

Activists demonstrate in settlements and highlight anti-Palestinian violence, making common cause with established leftist groups but risking alienating supporters on the right

Activists protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul, outside the ultraconservative Har Hamor Yeshiva in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa, July 5, 2023. The sign, featuring leading members of the government, states 'You are the messianics of the destruction.' (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Naor Blankleder is fighting for his life following the metastasis of osteosarcoma in his knee to his lung. (Courtesy)

Israeli cancer patient in final push to raise money for specialized treatment in NY

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Naor Blankleder, 29, thought he had beat bone cancer but now it has spread to his lungs and his best chance to survive lies with doctors and researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering

American author Bernard Malamud, author of 'The Fixer,' in August 1980. (Nancy R. Schiff/Getty Images via JTA)

‘Persecution of Jews is educationally significant’

How a US school district put a contested Bernard Malamud classic back on the shelves

By Andrew Lapin

On an oft-unseen battlefield of the culture war over books in states and school districts around the country, there are panels of judges that may feel more like a book club

Former US president Donald Trump looks on during Round 3 at the LIV Golf-Bedminster 2023 at the Trump National in Bedminster, New Jersey, on August 13, 2023. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP)

Trump’s lawyers want his interference trial pushed to 2026, long after next election

By AFP

Request comes as lead prosecutor calls for January 2, 2024 opening in the case, one of four that former president faces in middle of White House reelection campaign

Republican presidential candidate and former US president Donald Trump speaks as he visits the Iowa State Fair, Saturday, August 12, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Slamming ‘frivolous’ appeal by Trump, judge says he won’t delay defamation suit

By Larry Neumeister

Sheva Elliot turned to her own community for support when times were tough, and found that they were there for her. (Georgia VanNewkirk)

Interview'I let it all out onstage, and people appreciate that'

Singer-songwriter Sheva Elliot lays bare her vulnerabilities in blues-infused debut

By Cathryn J. Prince

The LA-based musician combines her childhood musical influences on ‘Pay the Priestess,’ and even recorded the album on the same equipment used by Gladys Knight and Marvin Gaye

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Rami Asli, the victim of a shooting in the northern town of Kafr Qara on August 18, 2023. (Social media: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

2 killed, 1 seriously hurt in separate shootings in north

Illustrative: Iraqis raise copies of the Quran during a protest after reports of Quran burnings in Europe, in Baghdad, Iraq, July 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Far-right activist rips up Quran during protest in the Netherlands

By AFP

Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Cops probe death of mentally disabled women after signs of violence found on her body

A counter-demonstrator extinguishes a Quran on fire outside the Iranian embassy, in Stockholm, Friday, August 18, 2023. A woman with a fire extinguisher on Friday raced toward the man who set fire to a Quran outside the Iranian Embassy in Stockholm but was stopped by plain clothes officers. (Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency via AP)

Woman interrupts Sweden Quran-burning, sprays activist with fire extinguisher

By AP

This image released by Syrian television on Telegram shows people gathering at the site of an explosion in the town of Sayeda Zeinab on the outskirts of Damascus on July 27, 2023. (Syrian TV/AFP)

Hezbollah announces death of Syrian accused of Shiite shrine bombing

By AFP

Shiite cleric Yasser Auda during an interview with The Associated Press, at his house in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, August 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Outspoken Lebanese Shiite cleric blasts Hezbollah, and attempts to silence him

By BASSEM MROUE and Qassim Abdul-Zahra

Illustrative: This undated photograph released by the Ukrainian military's Strategic Communications Directorate shows the wreckage of what Kyiv has described as an Iranian Shahed drone downed near Kupiansk, Ukraine. (Ukrainian military's Strategic Communications Directorate via AP, File)

Ukraine says 15 Iranian-made drones launched by Russia shot down overnight

By AFP

Israeli UFC fighter Natan Levy during his fight with an online troll in Las Vegas in August 2023. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Israeli UFC fighter pummels online troll who supports Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes

By jacob gurvis

Illustrative: In this August 3, 2014, photo, an armed Israeli drone circles over Gaza City. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Hungary to produce combat drones in cooperation with Israel and Germany

By BELA SZANDELSZKY

Elon Musk waves on February 10, 2022, near Brownsville, Texas. (Miguel Roberts/The Brownsville Herald via AP)

Auschwitz museum bashes Elon Musk for severely curbing ‘block’ feature on X

Leonard Fournette visits Camp Simcha in Glen Sprey, New York, August 13, 2023. (Courtesy of Camp Simcha)

Super Bowl champ Leonard Fournette visits Jewish summer camp for children with cancer

By jacob gurvis

This undated handout issued by Cheshire Constabulary shows nurse Lucy Letby. (Cheshire Constabulary via AP)

Nurse at UK hospital convicted of killing 7 newborn babies, trying to kill 6 more

By SYLVIA HUI and brian melley

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