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What Matters Most On Monday, August 21, 2023

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Members of Israeli security forces and emergency services stand at the scene of a deadly shooting attack near Hebron in the southern West Bank, August 21, 2023. Inset: Batsheva Nigri, who was killed in the attack. (HAZEM BADER / AFP; courtesy)

Her 12-year-old daughter, also in the car, was unharmed

Israeli woman killed, man seriously wounded in terror shooting near Hebron

By Emanuel Fabian

Military launches manhunt for shooters after attack near Beit Hagai junction in southern West Bank; victim named as Batsheva Nigri, a kindergarten teacher and mother of three

The graves of Shay Silas Nigreker and his son Aviad Nir, following their funeral in Ashdod on August 20, 2023. (Flash90)

‘In life and death they didn’t part’: Father, son slain in terror attack laid to rest

A car belonging to an Israeli who mistakenly entered the Palestinian West Bank town of Turmus Ayya goes up in flames on August 20, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli man lightly hurt, car torched, after he mistakenly enters Palestinian town

By Emanuel Fabian

Likud source: Ben Gvir, Strock 'extremists acting like kids'

Far-right ministers blame Gallant for deadly terror wave; one MK urges ‘revenge’

By Michael Bachner

Netanyahu calls security cabinet meeting for next week following West Bank attack; President Herzog warns against vigilante reprisals

Composite image shows Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, left, and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, right. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

A neighborhood in the West Bank settlement of Eli overlooking a nearby Palestinian village, January 17, 2021. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

After attacks, Smotrich said rushing through plan to expand West Bank settlements

Report says finance minister sends letter to fellow ministers informing of intention to bring plan to cabinet on Monday and urging them to submit their own additions

8:23 pm

Syrian media says Israel carrying out airstrikes near Damascus
6:16 pm

No autopsies for victims of Huwara attack, as national forensic center is closed
5:54 pm

Funeral procession starts for attack victim Batsheva Nigri

Matti Friedman, Yossi Klein-Halevi, Daniel Gordis: 'This is a moment for alarm'

From the Blogs

Matti Friedman, Yossi Klein Halevi and Daniel Gordis

Diaspora Jews: Time to take a stand

Why world Jewry should support Israel, but not its current government, and ways to do so – beginning with a live webinar with us on September 4, 2023

My daughter’s closest friend was a Holocaust survivor 78 years her senior. None of us thought my daughter would die first

Israel’s forgotten children

Israel should airlift the thousands of Beta Israel descendants in harm’s way to join their family members already in the country

Teenage girls on a bus from Ashdod to Safed who say they were asked by the driver to go to the back of the bus, cover up their summer outfits and put on blankets so as not to offend Haredi passengers on August 13, 2023. (Used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Bus companies face 3 lawsuits over series of discriminatory incidents against women

Egged, Electra-Afikim and Nateev Express are each being sued after drivers allegedly harassed or discriminated against female passengers

An undated photo of a bus running in Tel Aviv on the Sabbath. (Tel Aviv Municipality)

Ramat Gan to launch Shabbat shuttle service along Tel Aviv light route

A view of apartment buildings in the Kiryat HaYovel neighborhood of Jerusalem, on February 19, 2017. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)

In blow to secular activists, court okays Haredi school in Jerusalem’s Kiryat HaYovel

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

No breakthrough in coalition heads’ meeting on Haredi draft bill, as tensions remain

Sides reportedly agree to lower public profile of talks, but continue anonymous mudslinging in press, as Likud edgy about passing such unpopular legislation during overhaul

Fenet Gossa and Kalkidan Eshteu work on their EZ Registration project at the Foka STEMpower center in Bishoftu, Ethiopia, July 2023. (courtesy)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 21: The ultra-Orthodox aren’t bringing down the coalition – yet

Scuffles as Arab mayors, MKs protest outside Netanyahu’s office against budget cuts

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Community leaders organize a strike and demonstration that ends with minor brawl with police; one mayor detained

MK Ayman Odeh is pushed by police during a protest against Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's decision to freeze funds earmarked for Arab municipalities, outside the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, on August 13, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Illustrative: An empty classroom in the Beit Hakerem neighborhood of Jerusalem on February 10, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court rejects Education Ministry move to shorten special education school day

Prof. Ido Didi Fabian performing surgery on a retinoblastoma patient. (Courtesy of Sheba Medical Center)

Via modern medical ‘Silk Road,’ Israeli doctors are saving the lives of Afghan kids

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Ocular oncologists from Sheba Medical Center work with colleagues in Kabul and Lahore to get children with deadly eye cancer out of Afghanistan for critical treatment in Pakistan

An illustrative photo of an abdominal ultrasound during early pregnancy. (AlexRaths via iStock by Getty Images)

New technology enables researchers to better understand early placental development

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Advanced tool gives US-Israeli team a clear picture of the arteries, cells, and proteins involved in the maternal-fetal interface; findings may help prevent pregnancy complications

Close-up of US dollars, Jerusalem. (Orel Cohen/FLASH90)

Shekel drops to 3.8 against the dollar, its lowest since 2017

Currency has plunged 5% since beginning of the month; analysts expect Bank of Israel will raise interest rates in response

'It’s the Garden of Eden in many ways'

The only Jew in remote Greenland sometimes feels like ‘the last person on Earth’

Paul Cohen has lived for 22 years in the isolated town of Narsaq, where he works remotely as a translator. And, he says, the rare Jewish tourists always manage to seek him out

PMO downplays remark, but source repeats Dermer's sentiment

Minister says Israel may be open to Saudi uranium enrichment under normalization deal

By Canaan Lidor

Close Netanyahu confidant Ron Dermer says Jerusalem would ‘have to look at what ultimately is agreed upon’; Lapid argues allowing such a move would endanger Israel’s security

Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer arrives at an event at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on December 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ethiopian migrants chew Qat where they take shelter on a street in Marib, Yemen, July 30, 2019. (Nariman El-Mofty/AP)

Rights group says Saudi border guards killed hundreds of Ethiopian migrants

By Jon Gambrell and EVELYNE MUSAMBI

With Meretz wiped out of Knesset, party’s local candidates struggle to raise funds

By Tal Schneider

Left-wing party was a force in municipal elections for decades, but with it now in debt and barred from subsidizing campaigns, some contenders have reluctantly dropped the brand

A Meretz campaign poster ahead of the general elections, in Tel Aviv, on March 14, 2021. "We must not lose Meretz," it reads. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Illustrative: A policeman holds handcuffs. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Terror charges filed against Palestinian who stabbed coworker in Petah Tikva garage

By Michael Bachner

Initially suspected to be a brawl, August 10 incident was a planned nationalistic attack by West Bank resident Muhammad Bassiouni, prosecutors say

Police and other emergency personnel at the scene of a suspected terror attack in Tel Aviv on August 5, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

Man charged for driving Palestinian who carried out deadly terror attack in Tel Aviv

By Emanuel Fabian

Guatemala elects progressive Arévalo, who studied in Israel, as president

By AP and ToI Staff

Son of former president wins 58% of the vote, dispatching rival Sandra Torres, but efforts afoot to keep him from taking office

Presidential candidate Bernardo Arevalo and running mate Karin Herrera wave at supporters from a balcony after preliminary results showed him the victor in a presidential run-off election, in Guatemala City, August 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Andrew Martinez, owner of Bo's Bagels, boils bagel dough balls in his store on July 12, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Yuki IWAMURA / AFP)

How bagels have schmeared across NYC history

With 500 specialty shops across the city, the ring-shaped bread has evolved and been reinvented since Polish Jewish immigrants brought it over more than a century ago

Making dough: Unlikely Harlem joint makes quick rise to the NYC bagel big leagues

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Jewish Ukrainians who fled war zones in the Ukraine, arriving on a rescue flight at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, March 17, 2022. (Photo by Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Israel dismisses Ukrainian threat to shut its border to Uman pilgrims — report

Nehorai Tamsit waves a Chabad flag, July 2023. (Facebook; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Egypt releases Israeli arrested in Sinai after brawling with locals

A small drone flies over the Gaza Strip, August 21, 2023. (Screenshot: X)

Iron Dome fires at unidentified aircraft over Gaza, for second day in row

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: A warning sign of a mine field near the Israeli-Syrian border in the Golan Heights, August 20, 2021. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Man lightly hurt in blast during landmine clearing operation on Jordan border

By Emanuel Fabian

US President Donald Trump speaks during the final presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, on October 22, 2020. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Trump confirms he’ll skip Republican presidential debates

By AFP

Radiated tortoises, originally a native species of southern Madagascar, are on display during an annual flora and fauna expo in Jakarta, Indonesia, July 29, 2010. (Dita Alangkara/AP)

Madagascar sentences Israeli caught smuggling tortoises to two years

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