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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 29, 2023

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on July 9, 2023. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / POOL / AFP)

Seeking distance from Libya debacle, Netanyahu says he must approve any secret talks

By Lazar Berman

Rebuking foreign minister amid domestic and international fallout, premier also orders that any revealing of covert diplomatic discussions be okayed by his office

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen seen during an interview at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, June 12, 2023. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

US said furious with Israel for revealing meeting with Libyan foreign minister

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

A composite image of Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen (left), and Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush (right). (Iakovos Hatzistavrou/AFP; Adem Altan/AFP)

Cohen blames political opponents for firestorm over meet he publicized with Libya FM

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Inside story

Gianluca Pacchiani

Recalling ‘cruelty’ of former homeland, some Libyan Jews cast wary eye on contacts

Several exiles say little to gain from Israel ties, others want access to community’s forsaken heritage sites, and one man reveals his own role in years of high-level interaction

Libyan-Italian psychologist David Gerbi (left) during a visit to Tripoli, Libya, in 2011 (Courtesy)

Israeli passengers who were on flight home from the Seychelles that made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia, seen after their arrival on a replacement plane at Ben Gurion International Airport, August 29, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

'They were uber-nice to us'

Emergency precedent: Israelis in 1st passenger flight from Saudi after forced landing

Netanyahu hails ‘good neighborliness’ of Saudi Arabians for hosting 128 Israeli passengers who spent night in Jeddah after Air Seychelles flight experienced electrical problems

A handout picture provided by the Saudi Ministry of Media on July 25, 2020, shows masked traveler walking at the Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah's King Abdulaziz International Airport. (Saudi Ministry of Media / AFP)

Flight to Tel Aviv full of Israelis lands in Saudi Arabia because of technical issue

By Michael Horovitz

Illustrative: An El Al flight takes off at Ben Gurion Airport outside Tel Aviv, October 25, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

El Al flight to New York delayed by birds in the cargo bay

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.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accompanied by Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, left, and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyanin, right, appear at a joint news conference at the State Department in Washington, October 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Lapid headed to Washington, while Netanyahu still awaits date for Biden meeting

By Lazar Berman

Opposition leader slated to fly to the US next week as he, like many others, takes aim at current government’s diplomatic efforts

A general view of Tel Aviv on August 8, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Liveblog (closed)Israel costliest place to buy a home in new comparison with European countries

Analysis

Libya’s anti-Israel protests fueled by rage at unelected leaders clinging to power

Though Israel certainly isn’t popular, citizens have more to worry about than normalization, which is seen as a ruse by the elites to win Western support while avoiding elections

Libyans burn tires as they protest in Tripoli on August 28, 2023, after news broke of a recent meeting between the country's foreign minister and her Israeli counterpart. (Mahmud Turkia/AFP)

Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush (right) and Italy's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, pictured February 6, 2023 at the Vittoria Naval Shipyard in Adria, northeastern Italy, at a ceremony to hand over to the Libyan authorities a newly-built TS-LCG 300 class patrol boat. Tajani is said to have helped arrange Mangoush's August 2023 meeting with Israel's Foreign Minister Eli Cohen in Rome. (MARCO SABADIN / AFP)

FM Mangoush seen as scapegoat for an Israel meet all Libya’s rival leaders knew about

By AFP

Inside story

Arab diplomats: Israeli publication of Libya talks harms bid to reconvene Negev Forum

Diplomats tell ToI sides were in discussions to hold gathering in October, but FM’s revelation of sit-down with Libyan counterpart further damages trust in Netanyahu government

Bahrain’s Undersecretary for International Affairs Sheikh Abdullah bin Ahmed Al Khalifa (Center) leads a meeting of the Negev Forum Steering Committee in Manama, Bahrain, June 27, 2022 (Bahrain Foreign Ministry)

The scene of a shooting in Nazareth, August 28, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Anti-crime mayoral candidate, two others shot in Nazareth

Musab Dukhan, his brother and his cousin lightly injured in attack, according to reports, in latest incident of local Arab politicians being targeted, likely by underworld gangs

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

Man killed in Lod as death toll from violent crime wave in Arab community nears 160

Members of the Arab community holding hundreds of fake coffins as they protest against the violence in their community, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv on August 6, 2023 (Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 29: Why Arab officials are under threat; women talk in Bnei Brak

Minister for Jerusalem Affairs and Jewish Heritage Meir Porush arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 14, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Minister under fire for trying to help sex offender rabbi enter Ukraine

Group supporting victims of sexual assault in ultra-Orthodox community demands Meir Porush apologize for aiding Eliezer Berland

Saudi Arabia and the allure of instant gratification

There’s no point in rushing in if all the US gets from the Saudis and Israelis is vagaries on the Palestinian conflict

David Bernstein

American academics take a page out of the Soviet anti-Zionist playbook

Coming to a campus near you: a brazen effort to create and legitimize a new field called ’Critical Zionist Studies’

King Hassan II of Morocco answers questions during a news conference in Washington, DC, October 23, 1982. (Charles Tasnadi/AP)

Israeli-Belgian woman claims to be the daughter of late Moroccan king

Jane Benzaquen says her mother had an affair with the-then crown prince in 1950s; now she wants to be recognized as part of the royal family

Illustrative image: A 3D illustration of a fetus in the womb. (magicmine via iStock by Getty Images)

In utero exposure to plastic chemicals tied to developmental problems in toddlers

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Israeli researchers find that higher levels of ubiquitous phthalates in the urine of pregnant mothers correlate with emotional and social difficulties in boys — but not girls

A preterm neonate with a nasogastric tube in an incubator. (Courtesy of Elgan Pharma)

Israeli company nears final hurdle to okay insulin-based preemie therapy

By Renee Ghert-Zand

A pedestrian walks on a bridge above vehicle traffic in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019, as the city is enveloped under thick smog. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

Worse than smoking: Air pollution is greatest global threat to human health

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (left) meets with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, at the UN headquarters in New York, August 29, 2023. (United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres)

Gallant warns UN chief: Potential for violence growing amid Hezbollah provocations

By Emanuel Fabian

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in a speech broadcast on August 14, 2023, to mark the anniversary of the 2006 Second Lebanon War between his terror group and Israel. (Screenshot: Twitter/X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Nasrallah vows ‘severe reaction’ to any Israeli assassination on Lebanese soil

Anti-overhaul activists protest outside UN Headquarters as Defense Minister Yoav Gallant meets with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, in New York City, August 28, 2023. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Anti-overhaul protesters rally outside UN as Gallant meets with secretary-general

Bucharest official: It's like Romania's envoy meeting Hamas

Israeli envoy meets head of Romanian party accused of antisemitism, drawing rebuke

By Michael Bachner and Lazar Berman

Foreign Ministry lifts ban on AUR party, which issues statement partly walking back glorification of fascists and objection to Holocaust studies; Yad Vashem: We weren’t consulted

Left to right: Israeli Ambassador to Romania Reuven Azar, AUR party leader George Simion and Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan meet at the Romanian parliament in Bucharest, August 28, 2023. (Courtesy: AUR)

Bavaria's State Premier Markus Soeder of the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) arrives to address a press conference on August 29, 2023 in Munich, southern Germany (Christof Stache / AFP)

German state premier demands answers on antisemitic flyer allegedly made by deputy

By AFP

A man with a Polish flag places flowers after a wreath-laying ceremony to commemorate the Nazi-German invasion of Poland and the beginning of WWII, 75-years ago, at the memorial to Polish soldiers in Berlin, September 1, 2014. (Markus Schreiber/AP)

Germany presents plans for joint house to commemorate Polish victims of World War II

By Kirsten Grieshaber

'We Need to Talk About Antisemitism' responds to an era of rising concerns about hatred directed at Jews. (JTA illustration; Getty Images)

Interview

An American rabbi answers her congregants’ question: Why do they hate us?

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

In her 10 years as a rabbi, Diana Fersko’s constituents have turned to her about the concurrent uptick in US antisemitism. Her new book gives thoughtful answers to their concerns

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Head of the Otzma Yehudit party National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, June 12, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Ben Gvir bars cops from ‘radical left’ Wexner Foundation leadership program

By Canaan Lidor

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi greets media representatives after a press conference in Tehran on August 29, 2023. (AFP)

Raisi: Western ‘enemy’ has failed to isolate Iran

By AFP

Visitors stand outside the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, July 30, 2009. (AP/Eric J. Shelton)

US judge rules New York congregation can evict tenants of historic Touro Synagogue

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

A police officer who was stabbed during a protest in August 2023. (Police spokesperson)

Suspect arrested over stabbing of police officer at protest sparked by hit-and-run

People on the Hilton Beach in Tel Aviv, on November 15, 2014. (Danielle Shitrit/FLASH90)

Polluted water shuts beaches in Tel Aviv, Bat Yam

A portrait of the owner of private military company Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin is set at an informal street memorial for Wagner Group's military group members killed in a plane crash on Wednesday, near the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Putin not planning to attend Wagner chief Prigozhin’s burial

By AP

This undated photo published August 27 shows an Oron spy aircraft at an airbase in Israel. (Defense Ministry)

Two years on, IAF’s advanced spy plane nearly ready for operational takeoff

By Emanuel Fabian

Liba (C) and Sara Goldschmidt, who are suspected of being kidnapped by their mother during a trip in Israel, with their father Ofer. (Courtesy)

Police locate two girls feared abducted by their mother while visiting from US

By Michael Horovitz

File: Middle East Airlines jet grounded at the Rafik Hariri International Airport, in Beirut, Lebanon, November 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon detains 2 Russian citizens for allegedly spying for Israel

AJR band members eating Anita ice cream in Tel Aviv's Neve Tzedek neighborhood ahead of their August 29, 2023 warmup show for Imagine Dragons in Yarkon Park (Courtesy PR)

Imagine Dragons warmup band AJR tours Israel ahead of Tuesday show

By Jessica Steinberg

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