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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 26, 2023

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Hadash-Ta'al leader MK Ayman Odeh speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset on July 17, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Death threats: Security for Arab party leader Odeh after he denounced crime families

Knesset Guard informs Hadash chief of danger to his life as his party accuses government of giving criminals ‘a green light… to run wild and murder’ amid surging deadly violence

Lapid: 'Ben Gvir a despicable racist, a complete failure'

‘A minister who hates Arabs will protect Arab children?’: 100k at Tel Aviv protests

With latest rallies focusing on Arab community killings, mayor whose municipal official was slain says: ‘Whoever appoints Ben Gvir to keep us safe, doesn’t want to keep us safe’

Anti-government protesters in Tel Aviv on August 26, 2023 (Gitai Palti)

Renewable energy wind turbines as seen next to the snowy peaks of Mount Hermon on January 3, 2021, in the northern Golan Heights. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Work on Golan wind turbines that sparked unrest expected to resume next week

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, greets National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at the Knesset on May 23, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

After Ben Gvir storm, PM says Palestinians get ‘maximum freedom of movement’

Following denunciations of comments on W. Bank rights, Netanyahu says far-right leader was referring to security measures to prevent attacks when arguing Jewish safety comes first

Illustrative: A view of the French Hill intersection in Jerusalem. (Google Street View)

Ben Gvir’s car said to run red light on way to interview, hit family’s vehicle

Adolf 'Dolu' Finkelstein with Lusia Finkelstein in Lwow, in the mid-1930s. (Finkelstein Family Collection)

Interview'History's terrible wave crashed down on two happy families'

Caught between Hitler and Stalin, one family’s miraculous tale of survival

By Robert Philpot

In ‘Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad,’ journalist and politician Daniel Finkelstein tells of his forebears’ separate grim escapes from gulags and Nazi camps before settling in the UK

Jonathan Weinkle

Am I worthy of God’s kindness?

Even when I have not been my best self, have not deserved it, there has been one hand there to extract me from the waves

Bishara A. Bahbah

The price of Saudi-Israeli peace includes a Palestinian state

Even the minimal requirements for normalization entail founding an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital

Palestinian gunmen take up positions during a confrontation with the Israeli army in the West Bank city of Jenin on July 3, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Palestinian gunman dies of wounds weeks after clashing with Israeli troops in Jenin

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade vows to avenge Ezzedin Kanan, who was wounded during major counterterror operation in early July; IDF says troops targeted overnight in separate incidents

Americans living in Israel march to the American Embassy in Tel Aviv with signs in Hebrew reading 'Americans for Equal Rights,' August 28, 1963. (AP Photo)

'This is about standing up for all people'

How Jews are joining the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington on Shabbat

About a dozen Jewish speakers will be among those addressing an estimated 75,000 people continuing the efforts that began six decades ago, and this time they include Jews of color

Planes at the Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, March 19, 2020. (Hassan Ammar/AP)

Lebanon claims to arrest 2 Israeli spies trying to flee country

Official says pair caught at Beirut airport confessed to ‘carrying out certain operations inside Lebanon’

Jared Armstrong, right, playing professional basketball in Israel. (Courtesy of Armstrong via JTA)

'It’s only right that we come closer together'

Basketball player who fought for Israeli citizenship promotes Black-Jewish ties

By jacob gurvis

Among his efforts, Jared Armstrong will run a free basketball clinic for middle schoolers in Philadelphia on Sunday that has Black and Jewish kids coming from as far as Connecticut

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) hosts Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, August 17, 2023. (Secretary of State Blinken, via Twitter)

US warns Israel not to ‘misread situation’ on potential for Saudi deal — report

Blinken reportedly tells minister real concessions to Palestinians will be necessary; Riyadh said weighing Chinese bid for nuclear plant in effort to pressure Washington

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, greet each other as Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi stands at right, during their meeting in Tehran, Iran, July 19, 2022. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Russia vows more military cooperation with Iran as US pushes to stop drone supply

Profile

Dmitry Utkin, the Nazi-tattooed commander who gave Wagner its name

Right-hand man of boss Yevgeny Prigozhin served in Russian military during Chechen wars, led mercenary group’s military operations since about 2014

A portrait of Dmitry Utkin, a shadowy figure who managed Wagner's operations and allegedly served in Russian military intelligence, is seen at the makeshift memorial in Moscow, on August 24, 2023.(Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP)

In this Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017 file photo, People gather in memory of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, portrait in center, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Once deputy prime minister under Boris Yeltsin, Nemtsov was a popular politician and harsh critic of Putin. On a cold February night in 2015, he was gunned down by assailants on a bridge adjacent to the Kremlin as he walked with his girlfriend in a death that sent shockwaves across the country. (AP/Dmitri Lovetsky, file)

Inside StoryNerve agents, poison and window falls: How Kremlin foes have been attacked or killed

By Dasha Litvinova

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

Students ask questions of 'Dimensions in Testimony' eyewitness holograms, part of a partnership between USC Shoah Foundation and the nonprofit Common Circles, White Plains Middle School, New York, June 1, 2023 (Matt Lebovic/Times of Israel)

Some students who doubted the Holocaust changed their views

Back to school: Exhibits custom-tailored for US pupils make Holocaust a local issue

By Matt Lebovic

Launched last winter, nonprofit ‘Common Circles’ fights antisemitism by designing ‘museum-like experiences’ with high-tech Holocaust education, art, and storytelling

Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in a scene from. the film 'Golda.' (Bleecker Street via AP)

‘Golda’ biopic aims to counter notion that PM was chiefly to blame for Yom Kippur War

By Shira Li Bartov

US President Joe Biden leaves after attending a pilates class in South Tahoe, California, on August 25, 2023. (Mandel NGAN / AFP)

As scientists track fresh COVID waves, Biden wants funding to develop new vaccine

By Seung Min Kim

US president says he will request money from Congress for updated jab; coronavirus hospital admissions rates rise but are still a far cry from past peaks

An image from 'The Light in the Darkness,' a video game designed by Luc Bernard to teach players about the Holocaust. Bernard released the game in 2023 after 15 years of development. (Voices of the Forgotten via YouTube/via JTA)

'Organizations are like, what the f--k is he doing?'

A Holocaust museum is launching in Fortnite. Can video games fight antisemitism?

By Andrew Lapin

Game designer Luc Bernard seeks to educate people on a platform with 3 billion players and so rife with bigotry it’s almost the norm, but groups like the ADL express skepticism

Christian orthodox women hold candles and flowers as they walk in a procession to bring an icon of the Virgin Mary to the tomb where it is believed she is buried, along the streets of the Old City of Jerusalem, early Friday, Aug. 25, 2023. Every year before the Feast of the Assumption, the icon is brought from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to the tomb of the Virgin Mary to honor her Assumption. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Photo essay

Orthodox Christians commemorate Mary in Jerusalem religious ceremony

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Procession of clergy and pilgrims walk along narrow streets of Old City holding candles and flowers from Church of the Holy Sepulchre to tomb to mark Feast of the Assumption

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Activists handcuff themselves to handrails on Friday's last light rail ahead of Shabbat, in Tel Aviv, August 25, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Activists again cuff themselves to Tel Aviv light rail to protest Shabbat stoppage

Marc Lamont Hill at an event in New York City, December 7, 2016. (Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for BET Networks/AFP)

NY college system draws fire for hiring commentator CNN axed for anti-Israel remarks

Gold medalists of Team Israel stand on the podium during the medal ceremony of the group all-around event of the Olympic qualifier 40th FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in Valencia on August 25, 2023. (JOSE JORDAN / AFP)

In first, Israeli team wins gold at 2023 World Championship for rhythmic gymnastics

Members of a Latvian militia unit assemble a group of Jewish women for murder on a beach near Liepāja, December 15, 1941. (Bundesarchiv bild)

With new technology, researchers find mass grave of Jews murdered by Nazis in Latvia

By Jackie Hajdenberg

National Unity party leader Benny Gantz at a conference in Tel Aviv, August 20, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Top Dutch court confirms Gantz can’t be sued for civilian deaths in 2014 Gaza strike

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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

Elizabeth and Gabriel Rutan-Ram (Courtesy American United)

Jewish couple in Tennessee cleared to sue adoption agency for alleged religious bias

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Illustrative: Empty desks at a junior high school in California, October 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Jewish groups praise California mandate barring ‘bigotry’ in ethnic studies classes

By jacob gurvis

Maccabi's goalkeeper Daniel Peretz reacts end of the Europa Conference League play-off, second leg soccer match between Nice and Maccabi Tel Aviv at the Allianz Riviera stadium in Nice, France, August 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole, File)

Israeli goalie Daniel Peretz signs with German soccer powerhouse Bayern Munich

File: Professor Amnon Ben-Tor photographed at his home in Jerusalem, on April 15, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Leading archaeologist who dug with Yigael Yadin at Masada and Hazor dies at 88

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