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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 22, 2023

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An assault rifle seized by Israeli forces in Hebron early August 22, suspected to have been used in a deadly shooting attack a day earlier. (Israel Police)

Relatives' entry permits to Israel revoked

Israeli forces nab 2 Palestinian suspects in deadly terror attack near Hebron

By Emanuel Fabian

Counterterror officers arrest suspects — relatives — in West Bank city of Hebron, seize weapon, following shooting that killed Batsheva Nigri and seriously wounded another man

Gush Eztion Regional Council head Shlomo Ne'eman (center) speaks during a press conference with Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan (right) and Binyamin Regional Council head Yisrael Gantz, outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, August 22, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Settler leaders protest outside PM’s office, demand West Bank op to fight terror

Family and friends attend the funeral of Batsheva Nigri, who was killed in a terror shooting attack near Hebron, on August 21, 2023. The funeral was held at the Gush Etzion Regional Cemetery in Kfar Etzion. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

‘You were full of light’: Funeral held for woman killed in Hebron area terror shooting

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, second right, listens to Chief of Aviation Industries of Armed Forces Gen. Afshin Khajehfard, as Defense Minister Gen. Mohammad Reza Gharaei Ashtiani, right, listens, during a ceremony unveiling a drone called the Mohajer-10, August 22, 2023. (Iranian Presidency Office, via AP)

‘Prepare your shelters’: Iran unveils armed drone, claims it could reach Israel

By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell

Tehran says Mohajer-10 drone, which appears to be modeled after US MQ-9 Reaper, can stay aloft for 24 hours

Illustrative: Missiles in the sky near the international airport, in Damascus, Syria, on January 21, 2019. (SANA, Syria's official news agency, via AP/ FIle)

Syria says soldier wounded in Israeli airstrikes on Damascus

By Emanuel Fabian

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President of the Supreme Court Esther Hayut (center) together with Justice Uzi Vogelman (left) and Justice Isaac Amit at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, August 3, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court rejects government request to delay hearing on ‘reasonableness’ law

Court cites time constraints as reason for refusing to postpone; opposition says request was designed to push court president Hayut out of case

Commander of the Coastal District of the Israel Police Yoram Sofer at a ceremony for incoming National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, in Jerusalem on January 1, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Police chief candidate clarifies he will obey court in case of constitutional crisis

Israelis protest against the judicial overhaul, outside Economy Minister Nir Barkat's home in Jerusalem, July 6, 2023. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Fitch sees ‘watered down’ judicial overhaul not having doomsday effect on economy

By Sharon Wrobel

Jerusalem mayoral candiate Waleed Abu Tayeh during an interview with The Times of Israel at the Saint George Hotel, Jerusalem, August 17, 2023. (Gianluca Pacchiani / Times of Israel)

Interview

Fighting community’s boycott of politics, lawyer runs to be Jerusalem’s 1st Arab mayor

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Waleed Abu Tayeh, 69, believes engagement and representation are crucial to improving residents’ conditions in East Jerusalem — and the long odds do not deter him

Health Minister Moshe Arbel seen during a meeting of his Shas faction at the Knesset, Jerusalem, on July 10, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Shas minister: Not all ultra-Orthodox men should be exempt from IDF service

Health Minister Moshe Arbel’s comments come as ultra-Orthodox parties remain adamant about legislating blanket draft exemptions for Haredi men

Women's rights activists protest outside a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on April 2, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)

Police approve plan for women’s rights protest in Haredi city

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir holds a meeting with police officers from the Yasam unit, in Tel Aviv, August 2, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

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Security chiefs slam ministers for using cabinet meeting on terror wave to bicker

Source tells Channel 12 that discussion wasn’t substantive and that real decisions will be made by smaller forum, since Netanyahu doesn’t trust far-right ministers he appointed

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PM to huddle with Ben Gvir, other ministers following Abu Snan quadruple homicide
6:26 pm

Gantz: Arab society is collapsing. Responsibility for it cannot be left to Ben Gvir
6:19 pm

Police Internal Investigations Department looking into shooting of unarmed Palestinian in Beita

Director-general of Arab municipality killed, drawing call for Shin Bet intervention

Abed Rahman Kashua from Tira shot dead, bringing Arab community toll to 152 for the year and prompting interior minister to demand security service investigation

Illustrative: Police at the scene of a shooting in the central Arab city of Tira, August 21, 2023. (Israel Police)

Police at the scene of a shooting where a man in his 30s was moderately wounded, in Jerusalem, August 22, 2023. (Israel Police)

Man moderately hurt in apparent underworld shooting in Jerusalem

By Michael Horovitz

Abu Kabir Institute of Forensic Medicine near Tel Aviv, June 13, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Collapsing under load, national forensic center closes for a day

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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Washing his uniform

Defending this precious land is a grimy, sweaty business – and a privilege

Jonathan Zausmer

The painful lesson of an army reservist in Qalqilya

Who wanders into dangerous unknown territory, where you’ll stick out like a sore thumb among those who see you as the enemy?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (right) are briefed near the scene of a terror shooting near the West Bank city of Hebron, August 21, 2023. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

29 killed in Israel and the West Bank this year

At scene of deadly West Bank attack, Netanyahu and Gallant blame Iran for terror spike

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF West Bank commander: We are in the midst of a major wave of attacks; seemingly unarmed man shot by troops in Beita; Palestinians also riot on Gaza border

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

Smotrich said rushing plan to expand West Bank settlements after terror attacks

‘Drive, you stinking leftist’: Taxi passenger assaults driver as own daughter watches

70-year-old files police complaint after passenger with a toddler breaks his nose, lacerates his forehead in Tel Aviv

Taxi driver Shlomo Yitzhaki speaks to Channel 12 on August 21, 2023. (Screen capture/Channel 12)

Two people embrace as they march during the 21st annual Jerusalem Pride Parade in Jerusalem on June 1, 2023. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

‘You’re not a family,’ gay couple and kids told while using family pass at park

Anti-government protesters chain themselves to a train car during the opening of the light rail in Tel Aviv, August 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 22: Tel Aviv light rail sparks liberal awakening

Israeli soldiers and Border Police officers operate in the West Bank town of Beita, August 21, 2023. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Israeli forces shoot unarmed Palestinian in back of head, footage appears to show

By Emanuel Fabian

PA health ministry says Ameed al-Jaghoub critically hurt by gunfire during clashes in West Bank’s Beita; ‘Circumstances under investigation,’ says Border Police spokesman

Sgt. First Class David Yehuda Yitzhak. (Courtesy of Menachem Geisinsky/IDF Smiling Soldiers)

IDF probe finds Egoz soldier killed during Jenin operation was shot by friendly fire

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli troops operate in the West Bank, early August 22, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Palestinian teen killed in clashes with IDF near Jenin; 32 nabbed in overnight raids

By Emanuel Fabian

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (L) meets with Natan Sharansky in Jerusalem on August 21, 2023. (Carrie Keller-Lynn/Times of Israel)

NYC’s Mayor Adams in Jerusalem: It’s time to put faith into action to combat hate

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Eric Adams begins 3-day trip to Israel by discussing antisemitism and tolerance with interfaith leaders; set to meet Netanyahu Tuesday, as well as anti-overhaul protest leaders

Illustrative. Cigarettes in an ashtray, October 17, 2016. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Health Ministry launches new plan to stub out worrisome rise in Israeli smoking

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Worshipers hold morning services outside the locked doors of the Kazinczy Street Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary, July 21, 2023. (David Kelsey/JTA)

In Hungary, Orthodox Jews fight over a Chabad bailout some see as a ‘Trojan horse’

By Canaan Lidor

Some members of the cash-strapped MAOIH Orthodox community view the assistance by a Chabad-affiliated competitor as a takeover, while others say it’s their congregation’s lifeline

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Then-Joint List Knesset member Ofer Cassif appears to hit a police officer in the West Bank on May 13, 2022. (Screenshot)

AG to charge MK Cassif for striking police officer in May 2022

Members of the Ethiopian community and overs block the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv, on August 21, 2023, during a protest demand justice for 4-year-old Rafael Adana, who was run over and killed in a car accident in Netanya, in May. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Tel Aviv protesters block Ayalon Highway, demanding driver who killed boy be charged

Twitter CEO Elon Musk speaks at the Twitter 2.0: From Conversations to Partnerships marketing conference in Miami Beach, Florida, on April 18, 2023. (Chandan Khanna/AFP)

X briefly allows anti-Leo Frank ‘community note’ as antisemitic content spikes

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Eliad Shraga, founder of the Movement for Quality Government in Israel, attends a High Court hearing, August 3, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Prominent legal ethics advocate under fire for exorbitant client fees

An Israeli flag flies outside a Teva Pharmaceutical Industries building on Dec. 14, 2017, in Neot Hovav, Israel. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov, File)

Teva to pay $225 million to settle cholesterol drug price-fixing charges

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A man points his finger at a screen showing the chosen plan for the architectural redesign of Adolf Hitler's birth house, during a press conference at the Interior ministry in Vienna, Austria on June 2, 2020. (Joe Klamar/AFP)

Redesign of Hitler’s birth house in Austria to start in October

By AFP

People watch as an army soldier slings down from a helicopter during a rescue mission to recover students stuck in a chairlift in Pashto village of mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, on August 22, 2023. (AFP)

Pakistan tries to rescue 8 trapped in broken cable car hundreds of feet up

Yaakov Nimrodi (L) with his son Ofer at the President's Conference held in Jerusalem on May 13, 2008. (FLASH90)

ObituaryYaakov Nimrodi, Israel’s first military envoy to Iran, dies at 97

By Michael Horovitz

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