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What Matters Most On Friday, September 8, 2023

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Right-wing demonstrators carry a banner showing Supreme Court justices in Roman togas and bananas on the scales of justice at a rally in support of the government's judicial overhaul, outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on September 7, 2023. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Lapid: 'Reasonableness' law is not really a Basic Law

Government tells High Court nullifying ‘reasonableness’ law will result in ‘anarchy’

Ahead of September 12 hearing on petitions, coalition submits response to court saying that it lacks statutory authority to strike down such quasi-constitutional legislation

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

At pro-government protest, Smotrich warns High Court not to strike down overhaul law

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) speaks with Justice Minister Yariv Levin, during the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, May 28, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Report: Levin, Smotrich to boycott state ceremony over court’s refusal to invite PM

Paris strips Abbas of top medal: ‘You justified the extermination of Europe’s Jews’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Mayor Anne Hidalgo joins other European and US leaders to denounce PA president for antisemitic Holocaust speech, in which, she says, he denied ‘the historical truth of the Shoah’

Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas (L) poses next Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo after receiving the Grand Vermeil medal during a ceremony marking the International Day of Peace on September 21, 2015 at City Hall, Paris, France (DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP)

Malware can install itself without users clicking a link

Apple releases major security update to counter Israeli firm NSO’s Pegasus spyware

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Researchers say newly discovered system flaw is being ‘actively exploited’ to deliver malware onto iPhones and iPads; recommend all users immediately update devices

iPhone 14s on display at an Apple Store at The Grove in Los Angeles, Sept. 16, 2022 (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Your top kosher wines for Rosh Hashana

Order kosher wine for Rosh Hashana online now. It’s a one-stop shop for all your needs — pick up in store or delivery. *Available in the USA only*

Analysis

Renee Ghert-Zand

As COVID variant Pirola gathers pace, Health Ministry mum on plans to fend off threat

With cases mounting in Israel and abroad, some are raising alarms and making moves to combat the fresh coronavirus threat, amid concerns over a new vaccine aimed at other mutations

A child receives a dose of COVID-19 vaccine in Jerusalem on December 30, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

An illustrative photo of a baby in a diaper. (Ignacio Campo on Unsplash)

Supreme Court orders genetic testing to go ahead for baby born in IVF mix-up

By Renee Ghert-Zand

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, December 25, 2018. (Adam Shuldman/Flash90/File)

Fears of constitutional crisis drive shekel to three-year low

By Sharon Wrobel

Local currency weakens to 3.85 against US dollar as hopes for a judicial compromise fade, increasing odds for FX intervention, and as Moody’s meets with PM in Israel

A sign for credit agency Moody's, on August 13, 2010, in New York. (AP/ Mark Lennihan)

Netanyahu said to tell Moody’s further overhaul laws will only pass with consensus

Meat, climate and kashrut: Is beef the new pork?

What if ecological viability was originally the Torah’s paramount reason for establishing a dietary prohibition?

Arnold M. Eisen

All of us together: The call and the warning

If we continue down this road, Jews living hundreds of years from now will shake their heads at the tragedy of a promise abandoned

Top Biden aide: There’s still work to do on Israel-Saudi Arabia normalization deal

Jake Sullivan says sides have come to ‘broad understanding of many of the key elements’ of an agreement, but that there’s no framework in place or terms ready to be signed

File: Saudi Arabia's Deputy Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman (L) and US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan meet at the White House on May 18, 2022. (Khalid bin Salman/Twitter)

Illustrative: Etihad Rail trains chug across the United Arab Emirates. (Etihad Rail/Abu Dhabi Media Office)

US, Saudi Arabia, UAE and India said aiming to ink joint railway deal at G20

By AP and Jacob Magid

Then-US vice president Joe Biden, left, shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Residence, in Jerusalem, March 9, 2010. (Ariel Schalit/AP/File)

Israeli official: Netanyahu to meet Biden in New York, not in White House

By Tal Schneider and ToI Staff

Prime minister likely to spend the weekend in the US and fly back to Israel just before the start of Yom Kippur

A view of the southern West Bank outpost of Avigayil. (Miriam Alster/Flash90, file)

US slams legalization of 3 West Bank outposts ‘previously illegal under Israeli law’

Where’s the beef? Israeli robot chef serves up 3-D printed burgers to US students

By Sharon Wrobel

Israeli startup SavorEat, in partnership with food services conglomerate Sodexo, starts sale of plant-based patties at the University of Denver as part of US commercial debut

SavorEat’s 3D-printing robots for plant-based meat alternatives deployed on the campus of the University of Denver. (Courtesy)

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaking at the funeral of former Mossad chief Shabtai Shavit in Ramat Hasharon, Sept. 8, 2023. (Bruno Sharvit/GPO)

At ex-Mossad chief’s funeral, Gallant lambastes ‘irresponsible political entities’

During eulogy for Shabtai Shavit, defense minister criticizes those who use name of security forces ‘in vain;’ warns that without unity, Israel’s national resilience ‘will crumble’

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant holds an assessment with top military and defense officials at his office in Tel Aviv, September 7, 2023. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Gallant warns terror groups of ‘crushing’ response to attacks over Jewish holidays

By Emanuel Fabian

Mossad chief David Barnea (R) speaks with Dani Zamir, the son of Mossad director Zvi Zamir at a ceremony to mark 50 years since the Yom Kippur War at the Mossad headquarters, September 9, 2023. (Courtesy/PMO)

Amid political turmoil, Mossad chief stresses need for ‘unity in order to survive’

The Mossad's Egyptian agent Ashraf Marwan, known as 'the Angel' with his handler in an undated photo released by the Mossad on September 7, 2023. (State Archives)

Mossad reveals photo of ‘the Angel,’ Egyptian agent who warned of Yom Kippur war

Spy organization also releases transcript of Ashraf Marwan warning then-Mossad chief Zvi Zamir of a ’99 percent’ chance of war breaking out in 1973

Activists protest against the government's judicial overhaul outside the president's residence in Jerusalem on July 29, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to authors Yossi Klein Halevi, Daniel Gordis and Matti Friedman

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

This week we present a playback of Monday’s webinar – ‘Diaspora Jews: Time to take a stand’ – in which the trio answer readers’ questions about what to do while Israel is in crisis

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) shakes hands with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a joint press conference in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, on August 19, 2019. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP)

Netanyahu, Zelensky discuss Uman pilgrimage, as Ukraine deliberates policy

By Lazar Berman

Days before tens of thousands of Israelis descend on Ukrainian holy site, Israel urges Kyiv to ensure worshipers have access amid spike in tensions

Elon Musk at the Vivatech technology startups and innovation fair at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, on June 16, 2023. (Alain Jocard/AFP)

Musk says he stopped Ukraine attack on Russian navy by withholding Starlink internet

By AFP

Jonathan Greenblatt, head of the Anti-Defamation League, speaks at the 60th Anniversary of the March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, August 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

ADL chief: Musk a great innovator, but he engages with users espousing antisemitism

Sondos Alhoot, a Yesh Atid member and a candidate for Jerusalem city council in the 'Kol Toshaveha' slate in the 2023 municipal elections, March 9, 2023, in Jerusalem. (Courtesy)

Interview'I want to show Arab Israelis that they have power'

The woman who teaches Jewish Israelis how to protest in Arabic

By Gianluca Pacchiani

‘I want to be a bridge between communities,’ says Sondos Alhoot, an Arabic and Hebrew teacher and social activist who dreams of one day being elected to the Knesset

Illustrative: The scene of a suspected murder in Haifa, May 8, 2023 (Ynet screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Three people shot overnight in two separate incidents in Haifa, Tel Aviv

Man shot behind counter at mini-market, shortly before nightclub bouncers shot after refusing entry to purported revelers, as violent crime soars

Activists march with placards denouncing the violent crimes in Arab communities on August 6, 2023, in Tel Aviv. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Government said weighing postponing elections in 12 Arab localities due to crime

An undated file photo of Pope Pius XII. (AP Photo)

New research shows Catholic convents sheltered 3,200 Jews in Rome during WWII

By Nicole Winfield

Report from Yad Vashem, the Vatican, Italian Jewish community says at least that number were protected by church; sheds no new light on Pope Pius XII’s role during Nazi occupation

This portrait of Benjamin Melendez was included in the 2010 exhibition 'Only in New York.' (Julian Voloj/JTA)

Interview'He liked the Beatles but was directly connected to hip-hop'

How a Puerto Rican-Jewish gang leader helped create hip-hop in the Bronx

By Andrew Esensten

New 5-part podcast ‘Can You Dig It’ explores the story of ‘Yellow Benjy’ Melendez, who brokered peace and whose influence allowed an emerging musical genre to take root and grow

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Kanye West, known as Ye, watches the first half of an NBA basketball game between the Washington Wizards and the Los Angeles Lakers in Los Angeles, March 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)

A bad rapKanye West to be featured on new song called ‘Israel’

A new 'ner tamid,' or eternal flame, was constructed from the damaged stained glass that survived an act of arson in 2021. (Courtesy of Congregation Beth Israel and Lori Adelman. Design by Jackie Hajdenberg via JTA)

Stained glass from Texas synagogue targeted by arson rebuilt into 3D eternal flame

By Jackie Hajdenberg

A young Jewish boy eats at the Yad Ezra V'Shulamit center in Jerusalem, which serves hot lunch every day to more than 1,200 children under the poverty line. September 27, 2011. (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

High Court issues temporary injunction against Shas food stamp program

Albert Faleski interviews Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on his podcast on September 5, 2023. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Vivek Ramaswamy goes on podcast of YouTuber who said Jews ‘own almost everything’

Screen capture from video of the water aqueduct leading to Acre, August, 2023. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Local officials say Acre historical aqueduct is crumbling, but government won’t fix

The musicians participating in this year's Piano Festival October 24-30, 2023, including Ivri Lider, Ilai Botner, Miri Mesika, Shlomi Shaban, Danny Sanderson, Mosh Ben Ari, Shaanan Streett and others (Courtesy David Granot)

Sound of musicTA’s Piano Festival celebrates 25 years with week of performances

By Jessica Steinberg

Daniel Abed Khalife (Metropolitan Police mugshot, September 6, 2023)

London police hunt for ex-soldier, accused of working for Iran, who escaped prison

By AP

Smoke billows during clashes in the Ain el-Helweh camp for Palestinian refugees, in Lebanon's southern coastal city of Sidon on September 8, 2023. (Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)

At least 20 wounded as clashes renew in Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon

By AFP

Former chairman of the Israel Postal Company Mishael Vaknin at a hearing in the High Court of Justice for petitions against his dismissal, September 7, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court skeptical of government’s firing of postal company chairman

By Jeremy Sharon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's son Yair arrives for a court hearing in Tel Aviv, on November 29, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

In latest lawsuit, Yair Netanyahu sued for misquoting journalist’s remarks

US journalist Evan Gershkovich, arrested on espionage charges, stands inside a defendants' cage before a hearing to consider an appeal on his extended detention at The Moscow City Court in Moscow on June 22, 2023. (Photo by Natalia KOLESNIKOVA / AFP)

Rosh Hashanah letter-writing campaign launched for US journalist detained in Russia

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Tipp City Board of Education member Anne Zakkour delivers a Nazi salute and utters "Sieg Heil" at board then-president Simon Patry during a public meeting, Sept. 5, 2023. (Screenshot via Tipp City Board of Education via JTA)

Ohio school board member apologizes for Nazi salute at public meeting

By Marshall Weiss

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