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What Matters Most On Tuesday, September 5, 2023

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Isaac Herzog (left) and Yariv Levin at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 2, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM under fire from far-right flank of his own coalition

Herzog urges overhaul compromise as Levin rejects ‘impossible’ proposal

Justice minister says Netanyahu has not changed his position on plan to weaken legal system; president calls on sides to ‘look reality in the eye’ and come to an agreement

Protesters wave flags and placards during a demonstration against the Israeli government's judicial overhaul plan in Tel Aviv, on August 26, 2023. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Coalition, opposition come together to reject reported bargain on judicial overhaul

President Isaac Herzog speaks during a ceremony at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange on July 17, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

Herzog says indirect overhaul talks have been renewed, as reports fly about new deal

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issues a video plea to MK Benny Gantz to meet and negotiate over the judicial overhaul on September 9, 2023. (Screencapture)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu calls for face-to-face talks on overhaul compromise; Gantz dismisses ‘spin’

Call comes after reports of agreements reached between coalition and government and after PM meets with Justice Minister Levin who opposes compromise

6:31 pm

Likud, National Unity spar over overhaul talks
6:23 pm

US denies Blinken calls to Abbas, Netanyahu related to Saudi normalization breakthrough
6:20 pm

Former Mossad chief Shabtai Shavit dies at 84

US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew speaks during the US-Israel Joint Economic Development Group (JEDG) meeting at the David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem on June 18, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jack Lew, US ex-treasury secretary and Obama chief of staff, tapped as Israel envoy

A top US official says willingness to face confirmation process, which GOP will use as pre-election referendum on Biden’s Israel policies, shows how important issue is to president

First lady Jill Biden greets people as she and President Joe Biden survey damage caused by Hurricane Idalia, Saturday, Sept. 2, 2023, in Live Oak, Fla. (AP/Julio Cortez)

Jill Biden diagnosed with COVID, US president negative

By AP

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Israeli AgTech: Driving innovation to feed the world sustainably

Hundreds of startups are revolutionizing the future of farming, leading the drive for new technology that will feed a hungry future.

File: An Eritrean asylum seeker being detained by police amid clashes between protesters against the regime in Asmara and pro-regime activists in south Tel Aviv, September 2, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

53 suspects in Tel Aviv migrant clashes placed in administrative detention

By Michael Horovitz

Police minister said to push authorities to advance process, as state reportedly uninterested in pressing charges that may prevent suspects from leaving Israel

Interior Minister Moshe Arbel seen during a meeting of his Shas party faction meeting, at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on July 10, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Interior minister admits asylum requests held up due to ‘tremendous’ lack of staff

Eritrean migrants who oppose and support that country's regime clash in south Tel Aviv, September 2, 2023 (Omer Fichman/Flash90)

UN rights chief ‘alarmed’ by injury toll during south Tel Aviv unrest

By AFP

American defense pact at forefront of Saudi talks, says senior Israeli official

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Official claims Israeli concessions to Palestinians not a central concern for Saudis and that Netanyahu’s hardline government will ultimately fall in line to approve a deal

File: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, greets US President Joe Biden, with a fist bump after his arrival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, July 15, 2022. (Saudi Press Agency (SPA) via AP)

File - Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (2nd-L) meets IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi (R), Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar (2nd-R) and Mossad head David Barnea at his office in Tel Aviv on May 9, 2023. (Ariel Hermoni/ Defense Ministry/File)

Gallant, defense brass met to examine consequences of Saudi normalization – report

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Rosh Hashanah survival guide

Do you really need to say every word of every prayer? 5 tips for getting through the holiday that never ends

Gabriel Strenger

Israel’s adolescence crisis

The political turmoil is a proxy for the big unresolved questions of Israeli identity – it’s now time to face the real issues

Tell es-Sultan in Jericho on September 29, 2011 (Diego Delso via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA)

UNESCO to vote on Ancient Jericho joining World Heritage list as site in Palestine

UN body, which Israel quit in 2019, to hold vote at Saudi Arabia conference; Likud MK accuses cultural organization of obscuring site’s biblical significance

Courtney O'Donnell. (White House)

Top aide to first gentleman Emhoff set to lead US back into UNESCO

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a conference of the Israeli chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) in Tel Aviv, July 5, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

AG: Levin ‘obligated’ to convene judicial selection panel, fill open judgeships

By Jeremy Sharon

Baharav-Miara again opposes government on contentious issue involving the judiciary, says letting justice minister not convene committee gives him veto over judicial appointments

National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi speaks at the Herzliya Conference at Reichman University, on May 23, 2023. (Gilad Kavalerchik)

PM ally Hanegbi admits mass protests halted original judicial overhaul package

Police and anti-overhaul protesters clash outside a Likud party gathering in Ra'anana on September 4, 2023. (Screenshot used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Anti-overhaul protesters clash with police outside Likud gathering in Ra’anana

Hitler and Francisco Franco give the Nazi salute as they walk by German soldiers at the train station at Hendaye, France, October 23, 1940. (Public domain)

Interview'Franco's benevolence was a self-congratulatory myth'

How dictator Franco built his regime vilifying the Jews, then tried to hide it

By JP O’ Malley

In his new book ‘Architects of Terror,’ Sir Paul Preston shows how Spain’s ties to Nazi Germany and use of antisemitic propaganda belied its claims of sympathy for Jewish refugees

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, meets with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank town of Ramallah, January 31, 2023. (Ronaldo Schemidt/Pool via AP)

Abbas blames US for Israel’s ‘return to policy of incursions’ in West Bank

By Gianluca Pacchiani and Jacob Magid

PA leader calls for immediate American intervention to stop IDF raids also urges US to back recognition of Palestine at the UN, reopen Jerusalem consulate and resume aid to PA

A Palestinian gunman and others inspect a damaged building in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the West Bank city of Tulkarem, after Israeli troops destroyed a cache of explosive devices, on September 5, 2023, (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Palestinian gunman killed during clashes as IDF raids West Bank refugee camp

By Emanuel Fabian

Police are seen at the scene of an attempted stabbing attack in Jerusalem's Old City, September 4, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Palestinian woman attempts to stab police officer in Jerusalem’s Old City

By Emanuel Fabian

Four Claymore-style mines seized by Israeli security forces on the border with Jordan, August 3, 2023. (Israel Police)

2 Arab Israelis charged for trying to smuggle bombs into West Bank for Islamic Jihad

By Emanuel Fabian

Security forces on Jordanian border nabbed pair, who resided in Tulkarem area, with 4 Claymore-style mines, 4 handguns

Explosives caught by Israeli authorities at Kerem Shalom Crossing, September 4, 2023. (Defense Ministry)

Israel says it foiled attempt to smuggle explosives from Gaza to West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

Left to right: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at Nicosia’s Presidential Palace, Cyprus, September 4, 2023 (PMO)

PM: Decision on route for exporting natural gas to Europe expected in ‘3-6 months’

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Netanyahu meets with Cypriot and Greek counterparts in Nicosia, whose government wants Israel to pump gas to a terminal in Cyprus where it would be liquified for shipment onward

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at joint statement with Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides on September 3, 2023 in Cyprus (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sept. 5: PM talks pipelines in Cyprus; no deal on judicial overhaul

Curator Roni Cohen-Binyamini (left), Ramat Gan Mayor Carmel Shama-Hacohen (middle) and Ramat Gan deputy mayor Roy Barzilai at the opening of 'In the Land of My Love' on September 3 at the Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

'Collection has seen a lot of storage but not a lot of light'

New exhibit opens at Ramat Gan museum, spanning century of Israeli art

By Jessica Steinberg

‘In the Land of My Love’ brings 240 works from massive Phoenix Holdings collection, aims to patch up rift between mayor and artists that shut the museum in January 2022

A Pluri employee at one of the company's bioreactors. (Courtesy)

Israel’s Pluri wins NIH contract for drug that could save lives in nuclear event

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Company aims for FDA approval so that its novel cell therapy for radiation sickness can be eligible for US Strategic National Stockpile

Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem, on April 11, 2022. (Flash90/File)

Bank of Israel keeps interest rates unchanged, says cycle of jumps may not be over

By Sharon Wrobel

As forecast, central bank leaves borrowing costs at 4.75%, but cautions about impact of shekel depreciation on inflation and the possibility of further rate hikes

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends the first meeting of the committee for decentralization and increasing competition in the food and toiletry markets, September 3, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Smotrich says economy ‘strong and stable’ but admits inflation worse than forecast

Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif Al Zayani (right) and Ron Klein, deputy director of International Affairs at the Israel Securities Authority, sign a fintech cooperation agreement, Sept. 4, 2023. (Courtesy)

Israel and Bahrain regulators ink fintech cooperation deal

By Sharon Wrobel

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Illustrative: Officers stand by a police van after entering the grounds of the courthouse complex in the southwest coastal city of Paphos, Cyprus, Dec. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Woman says Israelis gang-raped her after forcibly taking her from Cyprus pool party

Elisha Yered, who was arrested on suspicion of being involved in the death of 19-year-old Palestinian Qusai Jamal Maatan in the West Bank village of Burqa, seen after his release to house arrest at the District Court in Jerusalem, on August 9, 2023. Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

IDF to issue administrative order against settler suspect in killing of Palestinian

Police at the scene of a quadruple homicide in the northern town of Abu Snan, August 22, 2023. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

Man shot dead near Iksal as Arab communities strike over ongoing violence

A car which crashed into a pub in Givatayim, September 5, 2023. (screen capture: X)

Three hurt as car smashes into Givatayim pub

The security barrier that has cut Kafr Aqab off from the rest of Jerusalem on February 20, 2019. (Adam Rasgon/Times of Israel)

East Jerusalem school teaching Israeli curriculum is set on fire

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Germany's Alexander Zverev (R) and Italy's Jannik Sinner (L) hug at the net after Zverev won the US Open tennis tournament men's singles round of 16 match at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City, September 5, 2023. (COREY SIPKIN/AFP)

US Open fan ejected after German player complains of ‘Hitler phrase’ from stands

By AFP

Protesters against the government's judicial overhaul rally at Tel Aviv's Hashalom train station, July 18, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israel Railways says it will no longer bar passengers wearing protest symbols

By Michael Horovitz

A soldier-reporter for Israel's Army Radio, on November 11, 2019. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Gallant reportedly to keep Army Radio running, won’t privatize station

High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell on August 31, 2023. (PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU/AFP)

EU foreign policy chief working ‘relentlessly’ to free Swedish diplomat held by Iran

By AFP

Former Barcelona stars Rivaldo and Javier Saviola pose for photo with Maccabi Tel Aviv's Avi Nimni and Tal Ben-Haim, ahead of a friendly match in Tel Aviv, September 4, 2023. (Charlie Summers)

'We don't like to lose'FC Barcelona legends arrive to play Maccabi Tel Aviv, Haifa veterans

By Charlie Summers

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