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What Matters Most On Monday, August 28, 2023

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File: Najla Mangoush, Libya's Minister of Foreign Affairs, attends a signing ceremony in Doha on August 8, 2022. (Mustafa ABUMUNES / AFP)

Libya fires its FM amid furor over her unprecedented meet with Israeli counterpart

By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

2 Libyan officials say their PM was aware of talks, and Najla Mangoush flees to Turkey for safety, as storm grows after Israel’s Eli Cohen publicized their Italy sit-down

File: Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush listens to her Serbian counterpart Nikola Selakovic during a press conference after talks in Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022. (AP/Darko Vojinovic)

Libya suspends FM, announces investigation after her meeting with Israeli counterpart

Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush speaks at the opening session of the meeting of Arab foreign ministers, in the capital Tripoli, on January 22, 2023. (Mahmud Turkia/AFP)

Foreign minister met Libyan counterpart to discuss joint cooperation, Israel says

People burn photos showing Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen and his Libyan counterpart Najla Mangoush in Tripoli, Libya, on August 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad)

Some officials attack FM, others say it was just bad timing

FM Cohen blasted for dangerous amateurism after hyping meet with Libyan counterpart

By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

Opposition and coalition figures accuse top diplomat of damaging Israel’s foreign relations and endangering Najla Mangoush, who reportedly fled Libya amid domestic criticism

Interview

Gianluca Pacchiani

Peace with Libya is doubtful, but contact, aided by local Jews, started years ago

Raphael Luzon claims he initiated the first bilateral meeting that led to the top-level meeting in Rome last week, which Tripoli now disavows

Libyan Minister of Media, Culture and Antiquities Omar Al-Gawairi, (left) with Israeli Communications Minister Ayoub Kara, (center) and the Chairman of the Union of Libyan Jews, Raphael Luzon, (right) in Rhodes, Greece, on June 30, 2017. (Ayoub Kara/Facebook - used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Donation Request

78 years after the Holocaust, Jewish life still shines bright in Poland

The Jews of Warsaw, including Ukrainian refugees, are living proof that antisemites will never extinguish our light. Chabad of Poland.

Illustrative: Products on shelves at a Carrefour Israel supermarket. (Courtesy)

Israel’s cost of living the highest among OECD countries in 2022, data shows

By Sharon Wrobel

Cost of living index shows price levels in Israel last year were 38% higher on average than in member countries of the OECD

Smotrich insists no concessions to Palestinians in exchange for ties with Saudis

Far-right minister also calls Biden administration ‘hypocrites’ for criticizing Ben Gvir over controversial remarks: ‘No one can lecture us on morality or human rights’

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

In this photo provided by Saudi Press Agency, SPA, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends the Arab summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, May 19, 2023. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

Palestinian delegation to visit Saudi Arabia to raise its demands in any Israel deal

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen at the Knesset on June 12, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liveblog (closed)

Hitting back, FM Cohen claims his ministry didn’t ‘leak’ details of Libya meet

Criticized by many lawmakers and others for crisis with Arab country, top diplomat argues that ‘political rivals’ are ‘commenting without knowing the details’

8:45 pm

FM Cohen claims he's being accused of 'leak that never happened' on Libya fiasco
7:16 pm

Hezbollah terror chief threatens Israel after warning from Netanyahu
6:18 pm

3 injured in Nazareth shooting, including candidate for mayor

‘A woman’s voice is lewd’

Ordering female IDF conscripts not to sing infringes on their rights. No one would impose a similar restriction on men

This government is a joke

Our defense minister is in America, but is he having crucial meetings with his US counterparts? Funny you should ask

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

Finance minister agrees to release funds to Arab towns, under oversight mechanism

By ToI Staff and Carrie Keller-Lynn

Smotrich says system is needed to prevent money from being funneled to criminal elements amid deadly violence; Kafr Qasim mayor says he left five-hour meeting newly optimistic

Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 8, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Minister compares Palestinians to prisoners in justifying curbs on their movement

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

Cabinet discusses ‘traffic-light’ system for Arab municipal funding

By Gianluca Pacchiani

'Testifies to the glory days of the Second Temple'

300-meter stretch of aqueduct from late Second Temple period uncovered in Jerusalem

By Alexander Fulbright

Antiquities Authority says newly discovered ruins are the longest portion found so far of the Upper-Level Aqueduct, which brought water to the ancient city’s ruling elites

A handout photo sent out by the Israel Antiquities Authority on August 28, 2023, shows an aerial view of a 300 meter-long stretch of the Upper-Level Aqueduct found in Jerusalem's Givat Hamatos neighborhood. (Emil Aladjem/IAA)

File: Algerian rescue aid arrives at Aleppo International Airport on February 7, 2023, one day after a deadly earthquake hit Syria and Turkey. (AFP)

Syria says Israel struck Aleppo airport, putting it out of service

By Emanuel Fabian

State media claims Israel Air Force warplanes launched strike from Mediterranean Sea, inflicting damage on runway

The border between Israel and Jordan on the Route 90 highway in the Jordan Valley, July 6, 2017. (Hadas Parush/ Flash90/ File)

Israel says it foiled bid to smuggle Iran-made explosives over Jordan border

By Emanuel Fabian

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on August 27, 2023. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

Netanyahu warns Hamas, Iranian proxies they’ll pay ‘full price’ for any escalation

MK Simcha Rothman at a court hearing on his request for a restraining order against protesters at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, August 27, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Court rejects MK Rothman’s request for restraining orders against protesters

Judge nevertheless says activists should refrain from protesting when lawmaker’s children are around during family vacation, and must not take any photos or videos of minors

File: Young Israelis line up at an army recruitment center at Tel Hashomer, outside of Tel Aviv, on July 25, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

200 teens say they won’t enlist, protesting judicial overhaul, control over West Bank

Israelis protest outside the IDF's Camp 80 in Pardes Hanna-Karkur, after female soldiers were ordered not to sing on kitchen duty, August 27, 2023. (Anat Hermony/Flash90)

1,000 protest outside army camp where female soldiers were ordered to stop singing

Helen Mirren: Israel must exist ‘for eternity’ because of the Holocaust

Speaking to Israeli TV about her film role as PM Golda Meir, star actress declares she would join anti-government protest movement if she had the chance

Screen capture from video of actress Helen Mirren talking about playing Israeli leader Gold Meir in the film 'Golda' during an interview with Channel 12 broadcast August 28, 2023. (Channel 12. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to Ukrainian media, August 27, 2023. (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Citing Israeli example, Zelensky says Ukrainians ‘need to learn to live with conflict’

President also refers to Jewish state in detailing his desire for security backing from Washington, citing ‘the Israeli model that includes weapons, technology, training, finances’

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky is seen in a car during a visit at a military airbase in Soesterberg, Netherlands, May 4, 2023. (Yves Herman/Pool via AP)

Russian newspaper: Jewish Zelensky sending Ukrainians to die to avenge pogroms

By Canaan Lidor

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (on stage, second from right) chairs the 11th session of Fatah's Revolutionary Council on August 26, 2023 in Ramallah (Thaer Ghanayem/via WAFA)

Fatah council calls for ‘escalation of unarmed resistance’ against Israel

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Declaration by West Bank-ruling Palestinian party contrasts with ongoing violence from rival armed groups, which have been eroding its authority

Israeli troops operate in the West Bank, early August 28, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF: 4 Palestinians attack army post near Jenin, are shot by troops

By Emanuel Fabian

'Maybe you could, but should you?'

Can you roll on Shabbos? San Francisco rabbis on the robotaxis flooding city streets

New technology is taking us into uncharted territory in Jewish law – but opinions are mixed on whether added mobility will bring communities closer or drive them apart

More Headlines

Screen capture from video of yellow water lilies. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Charges filed against flower-picker who plucked endangered specimen

An undated photo of IDF soldier Hillel Nehemiah Ofan, who died August 14, 2023, during training near the central city of Elad. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF probe finds ‘serious errors’ amid heatwave led to death of soldier during drill

By Emanuel Fabian

Public Diplomacy Minister Galit Distel Atbaryan speaks at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on August 16, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Public diplomacy minister fires director-general attacked as ‘leftist’

An illustrative file photo of an ambulance on August 23, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Woman critically injured in multi-car pile-up on Route 6

A Clalit clinic in Herzliya. (Laliv g, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons)

Clalit Health Services teams with private security outfit to protect medical staff

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Police at the scene where a man was wounded in a shooting incident in central Tel Aviv, August 27, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Man shot in broad daylight on street in Tel Aviv

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