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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 30, 2023

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The scene of a stabbing attack near Jerusalem's Shivte Israel light rail station on August 30, 2023 (Courtesy)

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Israeli moderately wounded in Jerusalem stabbing, Palestinian attacker shot

Attacker stabs man in back at Shivte Israel light rail station before being shot by security forces, condition of stabber not immediately clear

6:17 pm

Israeli moderately wounded in Jerusalem stabbing, Palestinian attacker shot
6:13 pm

UN calls for $15.5m after clashes in Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp
5:58 pm

Outcry after illegal camel race held in IDF firing zone

‘Unacceptable, unprecedented’: Levin slams AG for not representing government in court

By Jeremy Sharon

Justice minister alleges ‘no basic working relationship between government and attorney general’; watchdog accuses Levin of trying to pave the way to firing Baharav-Miara

Justice Minister Yariv Levin addresses the Knesset plenum ahead of the final readings of the "reasonableness" bill, July 24, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

File: Shin Bet security service head Nadav Argaman at the 8th International UVID Conference at the Avenue Convention Center in Airport City, on November 7, 2019. (Flash90)

Former heads of Shin Bet, air force petition court against Pegasus spyware inquiry

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) with Pope Francis at a welcoming ceremony at Israel's Ben Gurion airport, May 25, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

No probe to be opened into missing gifts Netanyahu got from pope, other dignitaries

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

After latest sacking, only 1 of 33 ministries left with a woman as director general

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Public Diplomacy Minister Galit Distel Atbaryan plans to appoint male candidate instead of Gali Sembira, citing professional dissatisfaction; also removes her female chief of staff

Haredi extremists riot in Beit Shemesh on August 29, 2023. (Screen capture/X)

Police extract Beit Shemesh mayor from school as Haredi extremists riot outside

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(L-R) Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, US President Bill Clinton, and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, at the Oslo Accords signing ceremony on September 13, 1993. (Wikipedia)

Inside storyThen-IDF chief Barak: 'Very serious problems with security'

‘Difficult deal’: Declassified protocols show Oslo Accords okayed with marked wariness

By Michael Bachner

30 years later, key cabinet quotes reveal Rabin, Peres feared Palestinians wouldn’t forgo terror, weren’t giving enough for Israeli concessions; Rabin foreshadowed own assassination

Freedom of movement

The US slams Ben Gvir’s freedom of movement remarks. Fine, but why the silence on a similar issue over Israel’s border?

Naftali Rothenberg

The clash of minorities

The only route to recovery from today’s crisis is to lay the ground for a collective majority consciousness

Dishes from inside the 'Kugels and Collards' cookbook. (Forrest Clonts)

Recipe inside

Southern kvells: New cookbook highlights South Carolina’s Jewish history and cuisine

Out this week, ‘Kugels and Collards’ is a collection of essays and recipes by Jews of the Palmetto State exploring memories and dishes from the distant past through today

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, left, meeting with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Saudi port city of Jeddah, April 19, 2023. (Wafa)

Saudis said offering to renew aid to PA to gain its support for Israel normalization

Crown prince reportedly made offer to Abbas in April, conditioning it on PA chief securing control of West Bank, but officials say goal is to ensure legitimacy for deal with Israel

Palestinian gunmen clash with PA security forces in the West Bank city of Tulkarem, August 30, 2023. (Screenshot: X)

Palestinian killed in rare clash between gunmen and PA security forces

By Emanuel Fabian

The scene of a suspected attempted car-ramming attack near the West Bank city of Hebron, August 30, 2023. (MOSAB SHAWER / AFP)

IDF: Palestinian shot after ramming troops near Hebron; soldier lightly hurt

By Emanuel Fabian

Iranian weightlifter given lifetime ban for shaking hands with Israeli competitor

By AFP and ToI Staff

Mostafa Rajaei banished from sport after gesture on podium with Israeli Maksim Svirsky at a championship in Poland Saturday, which ‘crossed the red lines of the Islamic Republic’

Mostafa Rajaei (R) shakes hands with Israeli weightlifter Maksim Svirsky at a World Masters championship in Wieliczka, Poland on August 26, 2023 (Screencapture/X: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

A CENTCOM HC-130J refuels an IAF Sikorsky CH-53 'Yasur' helicopter over northern Israel, during the Juniper Oak 2023 drill, January 24, 2023. (CENTCOM)

Israel set to hold several major joint military drills with US in coming months

By Emanuel Fabian

Lebanese President Michel Aoun, right, meets with US Envoy for Energy Affairs Amos Hochstein, at the presidential palace, in Beirut, Lebanon, September 9, 2022. (Dalati Nohra, Lebanon's official government photographer, via AP)

Biden envoy due in Lebanon as US aims to reduce bubbling Israel-Hezbollah tensions

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with Foreign Minister Eli Cohen at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on March 13, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu knew in advance of FM’s meeting with Libyan counterpart – reports

By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

But PM apparently was not notified ahead of publication of sit-down, which sparked disapproval of ‘amateurish, irresponsible’ Cohen and led to firing of Libya’s Mangoush

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)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug 30: How Eli Cohen’s meet with Libyan FM rolls back Abraham Accords

Israelis set up tents on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv, to protest against the soaring housing prices in Israel and social inequalities, on June 19, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel ranked most expensive place to buy a home in European housing survey

By Sharon Wrobel

In the Deloitte Property Index of European residential housing markets, Tel Aviv replaced Paris as the costliest city to buy a square meter of apartment in 2022

Dr. Cezar Mizrahi uses augmented reality robotic technology in complex minimally invasive spine surgery for the first time in the world in August 2023. (Courtesy of Shaare Zedek Medical Center)

In global first, Shaare Zedek spine surgeon combines augmented reality with robotics

By Renee Ghert-Zand

25-year-old patient with severely broken back after falling from a height was on his feet and walking without assistance less than a day after the procedure

Minister of Defence Yoav Gallant during a discussion and a vote in Knesset, July 30, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gallant meets US officials in NYC after Netanyahu said to bar talks in Washington

Defense minister speaks with State Department’s Barbara Leaf, White House Middle East coordinator Brett McGurk, US envoy to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield during muted trip to US

Palestinian-American Noor Wazwaz shares her experience trying to board an El Al flight on July 18, 2023. (Screen capture/X)

US said to investigate El Al’s alleged discrimination against Palestinian-American

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Op-ed

Israeli media is also to blame for neglecting crime on Arab streets

Major TV channels are quick to go with the assumption that all victims are criminals, and Arab reporters and commentators are severely underrepresented

Police at the scene where family members were injured after a gunman opened fire in the Arab town of Kafr Kanna, northern Israel, August 26, 2023. (Flash90)

Police at the scene of a shooting in the central city of Lod, April 14, 2023. (Israel Police)

Man shot dead in Lod, as 2023 death toll in Arab community crime wave reaches 160

By Michael Horovitz

Illustrative: Police at a crime scene in Abu Snan in northern Israel, August 22, 2023. (Shir Torem/Flash90/File)

Alleged ‘money man’ for crime family killed in drive-by shooting

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (left) and Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar (Flash90/composite image)

Shin Bet chief said to fear overfull prisons due to Ben Gvir’s ban on early releases

By Michael Horovitz

Law, to go into effect Friday, annuls practice of releasing security prisoners serving light sentences a few weeks early to make room for more serious offenders

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, center, dressed in a costume combining elements of various uniforms of forces under his command, celebrates the Jewish holiday of Purim, in the West Bank city of Hebron, March 7, 2023. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Ben Gvir: ‘Apartheid’ against Jews of Kiryat Arba; they can’t enter 97% of territory

Rabbi Laura Bellows, now Dayenu's director of spiritual activism and education, waves matzah as she encourages major financial organizations to divest from fossil fuels at a rally in Washington, DC, April 20, 2022. (Bora Chung | Survival Media Agency / Courtesy of Dayenu via JTA)

US Jewish activists pass on massive climate march scheduled for Rosh Hashanah

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Archaelogy

Researchers baffled by unique, mysterious Jerusalem structure from First Temple era

By Michael Horovitz

Channels unearthed in City of David site, last in use around 9th century BCE, likely formed part of city’s economy due to location near temple and palace

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Illustrative: A test drive of the light rail in Tel Aviv on August 16, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Tel Aviv light rail services resume after hours-long halt due to signaling fault

By Michael Horovitz

Dan Reynolds, lead singer of Imagine Dragons, which performed in front of a crowd of more than 62,000 on August 29, 2023 in Tel Aviv (Courtesy Omer Keidar)

'Tel Aviv, we love you'Imagine Dragons performs to sold-out crowd at Yarkon Park

By Jessica Steinberg

Ukrainian refugees and new immigrants disembark from a plane on their arrival at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport, near Tel Aviv, on December 22, 2022. (Gil Cohen-Magen / AFP)

Cabinet approves extension of Ukrainian refugees’ humanitarian aid

Meta takes down Chinese ‘Spamouflage’ disinformation mega-campaign

By Glenn Chapman

Illustrative: Students at the University of California, Berkeley, campus, March 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Shellfish thrown at UC Berkeley’s Jewish frat house on first Shabbat of semester

Illustrative: Bomb squad police unit checking a suspicious object, April 27, 2014. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

16-year old held as suspect in Ramat Gan underworld bombing

Crime boss Kuthair Odeh at a court hearing, undated. (Walla video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Crime boss arrested for alleged blackmail, threats against prison officials

By Michael Horovitz

File: Employees unload an aircraft after it landed at the Aleppo airport, northern Syria, March 11, 2023. (AFP)

Syria says Aleppo airport to reopen, two days after alleged Israeli airstrike

By Emanuel Fabian

File: Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan leaves the Fulton County Courthouse, in Atlanta, Georgia, August 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz)

Former GOP official in Georgia says Trump has a ‘moral compass like an axe murderer’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

An Israeli Navy Sa’ar 6-class corvette guards the Energean floating production, storage and offloading vessel at the Tamar gas field, in an image published by the military on April 23, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Natural gas royalties jump 23%, top NIS 1 billion in first half of year

By Sharon Wrobel

Cassville Crossroads Historic District, Jackson Township, New Jersey, September 9, 2012. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

NJ township to pay $575,000 in suit alleging discrimination against Orthodox Jews

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Claire Golomb (right) with the winner of a scholarship given at the University of Massachusetts Lowell to environmental science majors in memory of her late husband, fellow Holocaust survivor Dan Golomb, October 27, 2015. (Environmental, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences at UMass Lowell via JTA)

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By Andrew Silow-Carroll

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