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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 7, 2023

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, converses with Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana during a Likud faction meeting on February 6, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hayut will hear reasonableness petitions, judge rules

Netanyahu shares Knesset speaker’s message of defiance toward High Court

PM signals support for Amir Ohana’s remark that coalition won’t accept voiding of Basic Laws; anti-overhaul protesters: PM ‘declared war on rule of law,’ aims to ‘crush the court’

Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana holds a press conference at the Knesset, September 6, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset speaker signals coalition won’t accept High Court voiding of Basic Laws

Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana holds a press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem, September 6, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sept. 7: As Ohana foments revolt against court, who is his audience?

Masses expected at Jerusalem pro-overhaul rally ahead of constitutional face-off

‘Liberty Demonstration’ to be held near Supreme Court, days before justices mull voiding reasonableness law; organizers: Court lacks authority to ‘nullify the people’s choice’

Right-wing Israelis attend a rally in support of the government's planned judicial overhaul, outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, on April 27, 2023. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

A composite image, from left, of Justice Minister Yariv Levin at a government conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 15, 2023; Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut at a hearing in Jerusalem on December 1, 2022; and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 29, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Top rabbis imply government wouldn’t have to obey potential court rulings against it

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen at the Jerusalem District Court for the testimony of businessman Arnon Milchan in the premier's corruption trial, July 6, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Netanyahu demanded exclusion of recusal law from potential overhaul freeze – report

View of the illegal West Bank outpost of Asahel, in the South Hebron Mountains region, 2012. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israel legalizes three West Bank outposts

By Jeremy Sharon

Head of IDF Central Command approves new municipal boundaries for the West Bank settlements of Avigayil, Asahel, and Beit Hoglah

An IDF soldier looks at a Skyhawk warplane in the Golan Heights during the Yom Kippur War, October 1973. (State Archives)

'I think they aren't about to attack, we have no proof'

‘We had wrong assessments’: Almost all remaining Yom Kippur War files declassified

By Michael Bachner

Ahead of 50th anniversary, State Archives reveals thousands of documents and records of the intelligence failure that preceded the war, debates on a preemptive strike, and more

An ultra-Orthodox man holds a poster bearing a portrait of former prime minister and Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu, during a Likud party campaign rally on October 20, 2022, at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem ahead of the November general elections. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Unnamed coalition MK: 'The right doesn't back draft-dodging'

Likud members said to object to Haredi draft law, potentially imperiling government

By Michael Bachner

Amid warnings by ultra-Orthodox parties that coalition will collapse without greater military exemptions for their community, reports signal growing pushback against divisive plan

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi speaks at a ceremony, September 6, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief urges youth to enlist, as students call to refuse service due to overhaul

By Emanuel Fabian

The boundaries of repentance: Sex offenders in the sanctuary

How far should forgiveness extend? What should congregations do when a sex felon wants to attend services?

The college move-in ritual

The shopping was easy. So was shipping across country. Unpacking, a breeze. But leaving our daughter in her dorm? We’re… coping

An illustration of early humans hunting an elephant using spears. (Courtesy Tel Aviv University)

Archaeology

Ancient humans in Israel once ate elephants. When tusks went bust, weapons improved

By Melanie Lidman

A new paper from researchers at Tel Aviv University proposes a link between the disappearance of large prey and advancements in hunting and technology

Right-wing Israelis attend a rally in support of the government's planned judicial overhaul outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on September 7, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

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At protest, Smotrich warns Hayut: ‘Don’t you dare’ strike down the judicial overhaul

Some 10,000 pro-government protesters rally outside Supreme Court ahead of crucial hearing; lower turnout than previous demonstrations; PM tries to reassure Moody’s

8:05 pm

Pro-overhaul protest in Jerusalem wraps up, roads reopen
7:22 pm

Likud's Golan tells protest she'll fight court attempts to strike down legislation
6:18 pm

Israeli woman killed in bicycle accident in Cyprus

US antisemitism envoy and EU denounce Mahmoud Abbas’s speech: Distorts the Holocaust

By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

Europeans blast ‘grossly misleading’ claims by Palestinian Authority leader that Hitler killed Jews because they were moneylenders, and Ashkenazi Jews are descendants of Khazars

PA President Mahmoud Abbas delivers a speech at the European Union Parliament in Brussels on June 23, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / JOHN THYS)

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses a Nakba Day event at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, May 15, 2023 (Ed Jones/AFP)

Abbas: Ashkenazi Jews ‘are not Semites,’ Hitler killed them for their ‘social role’

Likud says Pardo 'slandering' Israel with 'shameful' remark

Former Mossad chief Pardo says Israel enforcing ‘apartheid’ system in West Bank

By AP and ToI Staff

Ex-spymaster, now an outspoken critic of his former boss PM Netanyahu, warns Israel faces existential danger if it doesn’t decide borders with Palestinians

Tamir Pardo, former head of the Mossad intelligence agency, poses for a photograph in Herzliya on September 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Illustrative: An Arab Israeli woman walks past female IDF soldiers (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit/File)

Report of IDF strip-searching Palestinian women causes uproar, draws UN criticism

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Oriane Ben Khalifa arrives for a hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on June 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

State appeals former border cop’s acquittal for obstruction of justice

Op-ed

A prime minister who takes the public for fools

Opposition politicians who could conceivably help extricate Israel from the potentially existential crisis into which Netanyahu has plunged us know that he simply cannot be trusted

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on August 27, 2023. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Illustrative: View of the Phoenix Investment House in Tel Aviv on June 30, 2023. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Treasury: Foreign investments in Israel plunged 60% in 1st quarter this year

By Sharon Wrobel

Illustrative: The Ramle police station in an undated photo published by Israel Police on July 3, 2022. (Israel Police)

2 shot dead in separate incidents, bringing 2023 toll among Arab Israelis to 171

By Michael Horovitz

18-year-old killed in northern town, 29-year-old gunned down in Ramle, after double homicide earlier in the day

Screen capture from video of a rocket-propelled grenade launch in the northern Bedouin town of Tuba-Zangariyye, September 2023. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Video shows rocket-propelled grenade fired in feud between crime organizations

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

3 arrested for wounding mayoral candidate, his relatives in Nazareth shooting

Archaeologists carefully remove the swords from the entrance of the cave where they were discovered in the Judean desert. (Emil Aladjem/IAA)

Archaeology'We are now playing offense, not defense with looters'

Crack unit of rock-climbing archaeologists claims success in curbing antiquities theft

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Six years into wide-scale Judean Desert cave survey operation, few Dead Sea Scrolls fragments are found. But the Land of Israel’s historical picture is ever more in focus, says IAA

An image of a First Temple period inscription painted on a stalactite in a cave near Ein Gedi. (Boaz Langford)

ArchaeologyRedeciphered First Temple inscription may shed light on biblical ‘Valley of Salt’

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Cookbook author Adeena Sussman in the Carmel Market, ahead of her second recipe collection, 'Shabbat,' launched September 5, 2023 (Courtesy Lisa Rich)

Recipe inside'Shabbat is essentially a national holiday in Israel'

Cookbook author Adeena Sussman brings her kind of Shabbat to the table

By Jessica Steinberg

The ‘Sababa’ author launches second solo cookbook, serving up recipes and rituals of the Friday night dinner party

This food stylist sets the table according to her clients’ personalities

By Jessica Steinberg

Russian Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova and Israeli Ambassador to Russia Alexander Ben Zvi signed a cinema cooperation deal in Moscow, Russia, September 2023. (Russian Ministry of Culture)

After Israel-Russia film deal, Ukraine accuses Jerusalem of boosting war propaganda

By Lazar Berman

Kyiv’s frustration grows as Israel and the Kremlin sign agreement promoting joint ventures between artists

Russian Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova and Israeli Ambassador to Russia Alexander Ben Zvi signed a cinema cooperation deal in Moscow, Russia, September 2023. (Russian Ministry of Culture)

Israel signs cinema cooperation deal with Russia

A Ukrainian serviceman shouts to paramedics in front of bodies killed after a Russian rocket attack on the food market in the city centrer of Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, September 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

17 killed, dozens wounded in Russian missile strike on Ukraine market

By SAMYA KULLAB

Orthodox Union's Rabbi Menachem Genack, left, visits Israeli startup SuperMeat as part of the company's kosher certification process. (Courtesy/SuperMeat)

In first, leading kosher authority Orthodox Union certifies lab-grown meat

Israeli startup SuperMeat’s chicken products sidestep restrictions on using parts of living animals by growing meat from egg stem cells

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Judges of the Jerusalem District Court take a seat for a hearing in the criminal trial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, June 25, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Pool)

Case burden on courts ‘unparalleled’ worldwide, says Courts Administration director

By Jeremy Sharon

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, right, looks on during a meeting between US President Donald Trump, left, and leaders at the Gulf Cooperation Council Summit in Riyadh, May 21, 2017. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Jared Kushner, Lindsey Graham push Trump to back Biden-brokered Saudi-Israel deal

Former Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum speaks after being named presidential candidate of the ruling Morena party for next year's presidential election in Mexico City on September 6, 2023. (CLAUDIO CRUZ / AFP)

Mexico City’s Jewish ex-mayor wins ruling party’s nomination for presidential race

By Agencies and ToI Staff

George Harrison during a press conference at Schiphol Airport, shortly after his arrival with the Beatles in the Netherlands in 1964 (photo credit: Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Nederlands/Wikipedia Commons)

Beatles memorabilia, with George Harrison ‘Hitler’ greeting card, up for auction

By Stuart Winer

The Israeli under-17 flag football team poses for photo after winning first place in European championship on Sunday, September 3, 2023. (Courtesy)

After forfeiting Shabbat match, Israel goes on to win flag football championship

By Charlie Summers

Israeli troops operate in the West Bank, early September 7, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Islamic Jihad commander among 18 Palestinians nabbed in overnight raids

By Emanuel Fabian

President of the Moroccan House of Councillors, Enaam Mayara, speaking in Johannesburg, South Africa, in May 2023 (Screenshot from Twitter used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Moroccan senate head cancels Israel visit after hospitalization in Jordan

Screen capture from video of Michal Weizman, left, and Roy Oz, riding a horse along the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv, September 6, 2023. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Cops say 'neigh'Children’s TV stars horse around on Tel Aviv highway

By Stuart Winer

File: Malaysia Airlines planes taxi at a terminal while taking passengers at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia, on April 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Flight with 12 Israelis forced to land in Malaysia, departs safely 5 hours later

By Lazar Berman

Illustrative: Parked airplanes belonging to Israir and El Al at Ben Gurion International Airport, August 8, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)

Passengers aboard Tel Aviv-Athens flight detained for smoking on plane

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