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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 24, 2023

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Malka Leifer sentenced to 15 years for sexual abuse of two students

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Former Australian Jewish school principal to serve at least 11 years; judge says she showed no remorse for crimes that scarred sisters Dassi Erlich and Elly Sapper for life

Illustrative: Wounded people arrive at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, August 24, 2023. (Flash90)

‘Suddenly rocks fell on us’: 8-year-old boy killed, 8 hurt in rockslide near Dead Sea

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Two girls and two adults in moderate condition after earthfall; IAF’s Unit 669 dispatched to scene at Nahal David stream at Ein Gedi; police temporarily close off roads in area

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at an Israel Police event in Jerusalem on August 17, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir: There’s a bigger threat than 150 Arabs killed — it could spill over to Jews

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at a police event in Jerusalem, August 17, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir says his right to be safe in West Bank outweighs Arabs’ freedom of movement

National Security Itamar Ben Gvir, left, and Coastal Region Police Commander Yoram Sofer present a new proposal to eradicate crime in the Arab community, in Jerusalem on August 17, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 24: Even Ben Gvir’s supporters are questioning his competence

Promoted Content

Comedy for Koby’s Sukkot shows feature Modi to benefit Israel’s bereaved families

In response to SOLD OUT shows, new shows added in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem! A great night out of top-tier comedy benefitting The Koby Mandell Foundation.

Protesters march from Ramat Gan to Bnei Brak to protest against discrimination and exclusion of women, August 24, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Thousands of women’s rights activists march through Bnei Brak, some clash with locals

Rally is a reaction to multiple cases reported in recent weeks of exclusion and harassment of women who allegedly did not conform to religious requirements of modesty

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Thousands of women's rights activists march through Bnei Brak, some clash with locals
5:57 pm

Work reportedly set to resume on Golan wind turbines which outraged Druze community
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Trump supporters gather outside Georgia jail ahead of his slated surrender

Op-ed

Shalom Yerushalmi

To the far-right, ‘leftists’ Netanyahu and Gallant are responsible for terror wave

Having received the government of their dreams that has approved unprecedented West Bank building, settler leaders and their allies struggle to find a scapegoat for violence

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)

Members of the anti-overhaul protest movement 'Brothers in Arms' protest against Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, near his home in the settlement of Kdumim, August 24, 2023. (Hillel Maeir/Flash90)

‘Don’t be a racist’: Hundreds protest at West Bank home of Finance Minister Smotrich

Pic: R-L: Col. Eliav Elbaz the outgoing head of the Binyamin Regional Brigade, Brig. Gen. Avi Bluth, the head of the Judea and Samaria Division, and Col. Liran Biton, the incoming head of the Binyamin Regional Brigade, at a change ceremony in Shilo, August 23, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Head of IDF West Bank division: We won’t be silent on settler violence

By Emanuel Fabian

Shin Bet chief said to warn involving agency in crimefighting could change country

Ronen Bar cautions against inserting security service into ‘every complex issue,’ as politicians increasingly seek its expertise in tackling homicides in the Arab community

Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet security agency, speaks at the annual Cyber Week event at Tel Aviv University, on June 27, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Mourners attend the funeral of 66-year-old Salman Halbi in Yarka, northern Israel, August 23, 2023. Salman Halbi was one of the four victims of a brutal shooting in Abu Snan the previous night. (Flash90)

Netanyahu says Shin Bet will help fight Arab crime related to local elections

By ToI Staff and AFP

Illustrative: Forensic examiners investigate the crime scene where a man was shot and killed, in Haifa, July 6, 2023. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

Man shot dead in northern Israel, in killing likely tied to organized crime

Police officer stabbed, 10 arrested at Tel Aviv protest over hit-and-run case

Demonstrators from Ethiopian community block major highway to draw attention to authorities’ handling of collision that killed 4-year-old Rafael Adana

Rosh Hashanah, back then, before Uganda’s Jews split

Today some Jews no longer agree to host even members of their own family who have ‘converted’ to a different denomination

Hezbollah’s dangerous provocations

It’s time for the UN Security Council to act against a terror group that threatens the lives of Israeli and Lebanese civilians

Suspect in quadruple Abu Snan murder nabbed at airport; Shin Bet said to exit probe

Man detained as he apparently tries to flee the country; security agency reportedly determines killings not connected to local politics, leaving case to police

Mourners attend the funeral of 66-year-old Salman Khalab in Yarka, northern Israel, August 23, 2023. Khalab was one of four people killed in a shooting in Abu Snan. (Flash90)

Arab Israeli mourners attend the funeral of Abdel Rahman Kashua, the director-general of the Arab city of Tira who was gunned down this week, during his funeral on August 23, 2023 (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

‘3 innocent people from my family were killed for no reason,’ says Abu Snan resident

By Gianluca Pacchiani

In this handout photo taken from video released by Prigozhin Press Service, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, records his video addresses in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Saturday, June 24, 2023. (Prigozhin Press Service via AP, File)

Wagner Group says leader Prigozhin killed in plane crash after mutiny against Putin

By ToI Staff and AP

Militia confirms leader’s death, blames ‘actions of traitors to Russia’; all 10 people on board private jet killed, emergency officials say

A member of private mercenary group Wagner pays tribute to Yevgeny Prigozhin (L) and Dmitry Utkin, a shadowy figure who managed Wagner's operations and allegedly served in Russian military intelligence, at the makeshift memorial in front of the PMC Wagner office in Novosibirsk, on August 24, 2023. (Photo by Vladimir NIKOLAYEV / AFP)

AnalysisPrigozhin’s death leaves many unknowns and one ‘most obvious’ assumption

By Didier Lauras

Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin speaks in a video, August 21, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Mercenary boss, mutineer, ‘Putin’s chef’: The many sides of Yevgeny Prigozhin

By AP

Protesters march in Bnei Brak against the billions in funds provided to ultra-Orthodox parties in the state budget, on May 17, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Bnei Brak rabbis ask locals to ignore planned women’s rights march through city

By Canaan Lidor

The rally is meant to protest discrimination against women, as well as exemption for Haredim from military service

Illustrative: Female soldiers in the army's infantry instructors course take a water break during an exercise on November 19, 2007. (Israel Defense Forces)

Report: Female soldiers barred from singing at IDF base due to religious troops

The home of an alleged Palestinian terrorist, who killed an Israeli father and son in the West Bank town of Huwara, in the nearby town of Aqraba, August 24, 2023. (Screenshot: X)

In rare move, IDF maps home of at-large terrorist in deadly Huwara shooting

By Emanuel Fabian

Palestinian media report assailant on the lam is member of Bani Fadl family, from West Bank town of Aqraba

A picture shows a Gaza building housing the apartment (top floor) of an Islamic Jihad leader, which was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, early on May 11, 2023. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Palestinian terror chiefs in Gaza said taking precautions for fear of Israeli attack

Hamas terrorists take part in a military parade marking the anniversary of the 2014 war with Israel, in the central Gaza Strip, on July 19, 2023. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)

Explosion in Gaza kills member of Hamas military wing

By AP and ToI Staff

Businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, left, and former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, right, speak during a Republican presidential primary debate hosted by FOX News Channel in Milwaukee, August 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Haley lashes Ramaswamy at Republican presidential debate for call to cut Israel aid

Former UN ambassador berates tech entrepreneur after he called to scale down support for Jewish state, telling him ‘you have no foreign policy experience and it shows’

Booking photo provided by the Fulton County Sheriff's Office shows Rudy Giuliani on August 23, 2023, in Atlanta. (Fulton County Sheriff's Office via AP)

Giuliani turns himself in on 2020 election charges after bond set at $150,000

By Kate Brumback

US presidential candidate and former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at The Gathering in Atlanta on August 18, 2023. (Ben Gray/AP)

Trump seems inescapable, but many Republicans embrace campaign discussion without him

Film review

Not your standard biopic, ‘Golda’ is a gritty warning about the cost of victory

By Matt Goldberg

Out Friday, director Guy Nattiv’s latest film, starring Helen Mirren as Golda Meir, skips the broader history lesson and focuses on her humanity as she navigated the Yom Kippur War

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (C) tours the National Police Academy with Israeli Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai (L), August 23, 2023. (Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office)

New York City mayor says he wants to adopt Israeli drone tech for policing

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

But after meeting with Israel Police leadership, Eric Adams says he won’t utilize other surveillance measures that ‘do not conform to our rights’

A screenshot of KTLA5 footage of 3D printers taken from Ryan Scott Bradford's home one of which is clearly emblazoned with a swastika. (YouTube screenshot/ used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

A memo said, 'New Year's resolution: Bake every single Jew'

Jewish security group says it tipped off FBI about neo-Nazi arrested with arms trove

By Jackie Hajdenberg

LA-based Community Security Initiative says Ryan Scott Bradford showed worrying online behavior; when nabbed, he possessed guns, ammo, Nazi propaganda, and a homemade bomb

More Headlines

A young Jewish boy eats at the Yad Ezra V'Shulamit center in Jerusalem, which serves hot lunch every day to more than 1,200 children under the poverty line. September 27, 2011. (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Shas food stamp program under fire for leaving Holocaust survivors in the lurch

Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) with Yuli Edelstein (center) and Yariv Levin at the Likud party faction meeting at the Knesset on April 30, 2019 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Justice minister meets MK Edelstein in bid to whip votes for overhaul legislation

A Border Police officer aims a weapon during clashes with Palestinians in the West Bank town of Beita, August 21, 2023. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

US urges accountability in shooting of apparently unarmed Palestinian in West Bank

By Jacob Magid and Emanuel Fabian

From left, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, China's President Xi Jinping, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pose for a BRICS group photo during the 2023 BRICS Summit at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, August 23, 2023. (Gianluigi Guercia/Pool via AP)

Iran, Saudi Arabia, UAE all set to join BRICS bloc of emerging economies

By Gerald Imray and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME

Then-Golden Dawn lawmaker Ilias Kasidiaris speaks during a rally against the construction of a mosque in central Athens, Sept. 5, 2018. (Panayotis Tzamaros/NurPhoto/Getty Images)

Prominent Greek Neo-Nazi running for mayor of Athens from his prison cell

By Gabe Friedman

Illustrative: The Tamar gas field. (NewMed Energy/Delek Drilling)

Israel approves expansion of natural gas exports to Egypt from Tamar field

By Sharon Wrobel

Maccabi Tel Aviv goalkeeper Daniel Peretz tries to keep the ball inside during the first leg playoff Conference League soccer match between PSV and Maccabi Tel Aviv at the Philips stadium in Eindhoven, Netherlands, Feb. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Israel goalkeeper Daniel Peretz expected to sign for Germany’s Bayern Munich

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Bernard Luza. (The Netherlands Defense Ministry)

Dutch forensic investigators identify Jewish resistance hero 80 years after execution

By AFP

Israeli startup Autotalks develops chipsets that allow vehicles to communicate or “talk” with one another, and connect to road infrastructure. (Courtesy)

US regulator said to open probe into takeover of Israeli auto chipmaker by Qualcomm

By Sharon Wrobel

Gal Gadot, left, shown at an event in New York, and Damian Szifron, shown at the Cannes Film Festival. (Getty Images via JTA)

Takes two to tangoGal Gadot viral in Argentina for desire to work with local director

By Juan Melamed

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