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What Matters Most On Friday, August 25, 2023

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At Bnei Brak women’s rights march, angry rhetoric drowns out Haredi-secular dialogue

Thousands of liberals rally in ultra-Orthodox city, with one organizer urging the jailing of rabbis, but others find common ground amid minor scuffles, drumming and loud music

Nili Brenner, right, speaks with Dana Betzalel at the women's march in Bnei Brak, Israel on Aug. 24, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/The Times of Israel)

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks during a press conference at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on July 5, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US excoriates Ben Gvir for claiming Jews’ security trumps Arab freedom of movement

State Department brands national security minister’s remarks ‘inflammatory,’ likens them to racist rhetoric and says they’re particularly damaging, given his senior position

Composite picture shows Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir (L) in the Knesset on June 14, 2023 and US model Bella Hadid presents a creation for Givenchy during the Spring-Summer 2023 fashion show as part of the Paris Womenswear Fashion Week, in Paris, on October 2, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90;Julien De Rosa/AFP)

Unrepentant Ben Gvir spars with Bella Hadid over Jewish vs. Arab rights claim

Palestinian shepherd Mustafa Arara, 24, stands in the ruins of the West Bank Bedouin village of al-Baqa, demolished by its residents when they left in July after settlers established an outpost a stone's throw from the village in June, August 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Palestinians blame settler attacks for emptying of 3 West Bank villages

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Screenshot from a video of settlers firing at the West Bank village of Umm Safa on June 24, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Jailed Jewish extremist released for rehabilitation at pre-military program

Minor who allegedly took part in settler riots will attend the Bnei David Mechina, known for its rabbis’ controversial remarks, in unprecedented deal approved by defense minister

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Shin Bet: 4 Israelis arrested as part of Hezbollah ‘weapons smuggling ring’

By Emanuel Fabian

Residents of Kafr Qasim and Lod were recruited by Iran-backed terror group ‘for the purpose of distributing unusual illegal weapons to various parties,’ security agency says

This handout image released August 24, 2023 shows four suspects arrested for ties to Hezbollah and smuggling weapons into Israel (from top): Muhammed Issa, Nuh Assam, Jalal Khursa, and Ahmed Issa. Left: An explosive device seized during their arrests in July. (Shin Bet)

A fighter from the Christian Syriac militia that battles the Islamic State group under the banner of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, burns an ISIS flag on the front line on the western side of Raqqa, northeast Syria, July 17, 2017. (AP/Hussein Malla, File)

Israeli Arab teenager indicted for joining Islamic State, planning terror attack

Illustrative: Police and rescuers at the scene of an attack near Lions' Gate in Jerusalem's Old City in which a police officer was lightly injured and the assailant was killed, February 6, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Three policemen, several Palestinians lightly injured in clashes near Temple Mount

Police say violence broke out when a man attending Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque refused to undergo a security check; Israeli man detained with knife in Old City

Masked Palestinians in the Gaza Strip riot along the border with Israel on August 21, 2023. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

IDF: Troops nab 2 Palestinians trying to infiltrate from Gaza with hand grenades

By Emanuel Fabian

Living under fire in Tel Aviv and Kyiv

How my experience of 5 air raid sirens in Ukraine compared to the barrages of 4 Israel-Gaza wars

The mother bird

How do we act when we are given tiny moments by ourselves, with no human witness to our conduct? (Ki Teitzei)

Journalist Adam Rasgon. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

ToI podcast'Palestinians between occupation's hammer and PA's anvil'

What Matters Now to journalist Adam Rasgon: The future of the Palestinian Authority

Palestinian affairs reporter looks at the rise of potential Mahmoud Abbas successor and the decline of the PA he hopes to lead, explaining why both have lost support of the masses

Hussein al-Sheikh, secretary-general of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), attends the funeral of prime minister Ahmad Qurei in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank on February 22, 2023. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Profile

The Palestinian leader who survived the death of Palestine

By Adam Rasgon and Aaron Boxerman

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich speaks at the Knesset on August 16, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich meets head of Arab mayors committee over frozen development funds

Finance minister reiterates he will not release the NIS 200 million he froze without tighter oversight, spars with Mudar Younes over his claims the money will reach crime groups

Mourners attend the funeral of 66-year-old Salman Halabi in Yarka, northern Israel, August 23, 2023. (Flash90)

Two more suspects arrested in Abu Snan quadruple homicide

Analysis

JONATHAN J. COOPER

In Trump mug shot, an indelible mark on American history

The instantly iconic image, the first-ever of an ex-president being booked on criminal charges, drives home his indictments in a newly powerful way, including for his fundraisers

This mug shot provided by the Fulton County Sheriff's Office shows Donald Trump on Wednesday, August 24, 2023, in Atlanta, after he was briefly booked. (Fulton County Sheriff's Office)

Former US president Donald Trump steps off his plane as he arrives at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

‘Never Surrender’: Trump posts mugshot in return to site formerly known as Twitter

This mug shot provided by the Fulton County Sheriff's Office shows Donald Trump on Wednesday, August 24, 2023, in Atlanta, after he was briefly booked. (Fulton County Sheriff's Office)

Trump surrenders at Atlanta jail over 2020 election charges, is booked and released

By Eric Tucker, Kate Brumback and Jill Colvin

Idina Menzel (from left), Samantha Lorraine, Adam Sandler, Sunny Sandler and Sadie Sandler in a scene from the Netflix film 'You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah.' (Courtesy Netflix)

‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah’ draws inspiration from real celebrations

By Shira Li Bartov

Production designer and set director say they crashed 10 ‘amazing and big and outlandish and extravagant’ parties to prepare for new Adam Sandler comedy

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Security Council via a video conference at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, August 25, 2023. (Pavel Byrkin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Kremlin denies role in plane crash that killed Wagner leader Prigozhin

By AP

Preliminary US intelligence assessment says plane was downed in an intentional explosion, likely as revenge for recent rebellion against Putin

Russian servicemen inspect a part of a crashed private jet near the village of Kuzhenkino, Tver region, Russia, August 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

US believes plane carrying Prigozhin, Wagner leaders was downed by intentional blast

By Emma Burrows and AAMER MADHANI

Interview

Director of ‘Golda’: Criticism against Israel’s first female PM was misogynism

In interview, director Guy Nattiv explains how he sought to soften, deepen the memory of Golda Meir and why Helen Mirren is great for the part of Meir

Director Guy Nattiv poses for photographers at the photo call for the film 'Golda' during the International Film Festival 'Berlinale', in Berlin, Germany, on Feb. 20, 2023. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP, File)

Footage said to show Carol Fessler, 70, who ran over Rafael Adana, 4, while walking with his grandfather in Netanya on Shabbat, May 6, 2023. (Channel 12 video: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Family of boy killed in hit-and-run to be shown pic confirming driver’s identity

Authorities say evidence shows accident was unavoidable, and only 70-year-old Carol Fessler, not daughter, was present in vehicle

The scene of the suspected hit-and-run in Tirat Carmel, Aug. 25, 2023. (Israel Police Spokesperson)

40-year-old women killed in suspected hit-and-run in northern Israel

First responders at the scene in Jerusalem where a woman was hit by a police vehicle on the light rail tracks, August 24, 2023. (MDA)

Woman seriously injured after police car hits her along Jerusalem light rail track

By Michael Horovitz

A royalist tank moves into the courtyard of Tehran Radio a few minutes after pro-Shah troops occupied the area during the coup which ousted Mohammad Mosaddegh and his government on Aug. 19, 1953. (AP Photo, File)

Analysis

Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell

70 years later, a CIA-backed coup still roils Iran-US relations

The 1953 ouster of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh to cement the rule of the Shah still haunts the country and its Islamist rulers

More Headlines

The stone steps leading up to Clifford's Tower, York, site of the most notorious anti-Semitic bloodshed in medieval English history. (Times of Israel staff)

New research shows York’s Jewish community recovered after infamous pogrom of 1190

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Travelers arrive in the international terminal at O'Hare Airport on March 15, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP)

Inside storyWe’re ‘on cusp’ of entry into US Visa Waiver Program — Israeli official

Illustrative: Authorities at the scene of a shooting in Birmingham, Alabama, March 14, 2018. (AP//Brynn Anderson)

Israeli man shot to death at Alabama moving company warehouse

Jewish immigrants fleeing from war zones in the Ukraine arrive at the immigration and absorption office, at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, on March 15, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Health benefits for 14,000 Ukrainian refugees frozen due to lack of funds, gov’t says

Israeli startup MadeRight develops fungi-based alternative fossil-derived plastic packaging. (Courtesy)

Israeli startup pulls in $2 million to use fungi for eco-friendly plastic packaging

By Sharon Wrobel

An aquaculture farm in Jenin set up with the support of the Israeli Agriculture Ministry and the Civil Administration (Gov.il/Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development)

Teach a man to raise fishIsraeli-Palestinian aquaculture farm wraps up pilot program

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio addresses the Climate Action Summit in the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters, on Sept. 23, 2019. (AP/Jason DeCrow)

Sierra Leone to open embassy in Jerusalem

Israeli security forces at the scene of a terror attack where an Israeli Border Police officer was critically hurt after being stabbed at a checkpoint in Shuafat, East Jerusalem, February 13, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court rejects appeal against demolishing 13-year-old Palestinian stabber’s home

By Emanuel Fabian

Rabbi Yosef Paryzer, who was convicted of of using the alias "Jack Segal" to deceive up to 12 women into having sexual relations with him (Israel Police)

Rabbi at Haredi yeshiva near Jerusalem suspected of rape by deception

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, June 22, 2023. (AP/Dmitry Serebryakov)

Pretrial detention of WSJ reporter imprisoned in Russia extended to November

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Scores of angry protesters burn the Swedish and Netherlands flags after Friday prayers outside Mohammad al-Amin Mosque to denounce the recent desecration of Islam's holy book by activists in the European countries in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, January 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Danish bill would make it illegal to burn Quran or other religious texts

By JAN M. OLSEN

An illustrative photo of new residential towers in Beit Shemesh, April 2022. (Elijah Lovkoff via iStock by Getty Images)

Housing snapshot: Home sales and rentals across Israel

By Danielle Nagler

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