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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 14, 2023

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Supreme Court President Esther Hayut and Justice Minister Yariv Levin attend the opening of a new courthouse in Katzrin on June 1, 2023. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Court issues injunction against Levin for refusing to convene judge selection panel

By Jeremy Sharon

Order switches burden of proof onto justice minister, who tells court it doesn’t have right to force him to have committee meet, as he seeks to expand coalition control of judiciary

Justice Minister Yariv Levin attends a conference at the Begin Heritage Center, in Jerusalem, September 5, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Levin tells court: ‘Only I have authority to convene Judicial Selection Committee’

By Jeremy Sharon

Israeli Justice Minister Yariv Levin attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, March 5, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool via AP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sept 14: Yariv Levin’s mic drop before next week’s High Court showdown

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) speaks to Mossad chief David Barnea at Mossad headquarters during a New Year toast on September 14, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu tells security chiefs he’s looking to reach broad agreements

In meet with heads of IDF, Mossad and Shin Bet, PM addresses the protests over the overhaul that have roiled the security services, along with the rest of the country

6:28 pm

US authorities seize 3 Egon Schiele artworks allegedly stolen by Nazis
6:12 pm

Netanyahu to meet Biden on sidelines of UN General Assembly
5:52 pm

Warring Palestinian factions in Lebanon refugee camp agree to new truce

Reform caused 'huge trauma,' fears of a 'new type of regime'

Deri: Coalition shouldn’t force overhaul through Knesset, ignoring intense opposition

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Shas chief insists he doesn’t plan cabinet return; admits powerful protest movement has hindered judicial shakeup, was spawned by government’s hardline nature and rhetoric

Shas chair Aryeh Deri arrives at the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on June 14, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Israeli president Isaac Herzog speaks at the President residence in Jerusalem, September 6, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Herzog urges leaders to ‘end crisis,’ claims wide support for overhaul compromise

Haredi men block a police vehicle at the entrance to Jerusalem in protest of the arrest of an ultra-Orthodox military draft dodger, September 13, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Haredi extremists block roads in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv to protest draft dodger’s arrest

People smoking in the smoking area in Terminal 3 at Ben Gurion Airport, July 3, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

‘Have we not learned anything?’: Ben Gurion Airport reinstates smoking room

By Renee Ghert-Zand and ToI Staff

Health Ministry and health organizations denounce decision to give smokers a room in Terminal 3, with Israel Cancer Association warning it will ‘take Israel back to the 1950s’

An Israeli Border Police officer stands at her post near the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, under heightened security for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)

A gun in every synagogue: Jerusalem cops gear up for holiday tensions

Both Jews and Muslims will be able to visit Temple Mount during tense High Holiday period, as cops step up security measures amid reported uptick in threats

Israeli security forces at the scene of terror attack, at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, on May 8, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Terrorist who stabbed Border Police officer in neck gets 20 years in prison

Palestinian rioters clash with Israeli soldiers on the Gaza border fence, east of Gaza City, September 13, 2023. (Atia Mohammed/ Flash90)

6 killed in Gaza border blast during rioting, apparently while planting bomb

By Emanuel Fabian and Gianluca Pacchiani

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)

Officials: Saudis assured Palestinians they won’t be abandoned in normalization talks

PA delegation has several demands, but Riyadh is still studying the issue and will take months to decide which of them to put on the table in talks with the US on peace with Israel

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (front) walks, during a joint press conference with the Saudi foreign minister (not pictured) after a ministerial meeting of the Global Coalition to Defeat the Islamic State in Riyadh on June 8, 2023. (Ahmed Yosri/Pool/AFP)

Saudis want steps toward two-state solution as part of normalization, Blinken says

Israeli soldiers and settlers stare at the Palestinian village of Beita before evacuating the newly-established wildcat outpost of Evyatar near the northern Palestinian city of Nablus in the West Bank, on July 2, 2021 (Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)

UAE envoy: De facto West Bank annexation unfolding, but our ability to stop it wanes

Why I’m optimistic about Israel’s future

What began as a protest movement could become a movement to forge an exciting new vision for the Jewish people

A Rosh Hashanah kiddush amidst the skies of duty

We’re refueling our Sikorsky helicopter when a military rabbi suddenly rushes out to us bringing a glass of wine

Ohana says coalition could set up ‘constitutional court’ to bypass judicial oversight

Knesset speaker says new body would ‘deliberate values… from the world of ideology’; is accused of trying to cow justices as they mull striking down law curbing judiciary powers

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

Inside Story

Carrie Keller-Lynn

‘Jewish and democratic’ were never in question for state’s founders, scholar says

Government attorney’s critical claims in High Court about Declaration of Independence are partially inaccurate and ‘totally explosive,’ argues author of recent book on early Israel

Attorney Ilan Bombach, hired by the government as independent legal counsel to represent its position in the High Court of Justice over petitions against the government-backed reasonableness limitation law, at a High Court hearing for those petitions, July 30, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at an Israel Police event in Jerusalem on August 17, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir suspends support for coalition amid dispute over Palestinian prisoners

Far-right minister tells Netanyahu his party will boycott government until demands are met, though move will have little impact until Knesset returns for winter session

Amiram Ben Uliel, convicted of the Duma arson murder in July 2015, in which three members of the Dawabsha family were killed, attends a hearing on his appeal, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on March 7, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud MKs lead call to ease conditions for extremist who killed Palestinian family

A general view of the city of Derna is seen on Sept. 12., 2023. Mediterranean storm Daniel caused devastating floods in Libya that broke dams and swept away entire neighborhoods in multiple coastal towns, the destruction appeared greatest in Derna city. (AP Photo/Jamal Alkomaty)

‘Bodies everywhere’: Libya toll passes 5,100 as authorities struggle to get aid in

By Samy Magdy and YOUSEF MURAD

At least 9,000 remain missing after catastrophic floods, though that number could drop as communications are restored

A man sits amidst the wreckage that was caused by earthquake, in the town of Imi N'tala, outside Marrakech, Morocco, September 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Displaced by earthquake, Moroccan families brace for nights with no shelter

By SAM METZ and MOHAMED BOUKDIRE

ToI Presents

Webinar: Diaspora Jews & Israel’s judicial overhaul: Differing stances

REGISTER NOW: Join former United States ambassador to Israel David Friedman, former MK Michal Cotler-Wunsh and Prof. Gil Troy on Sept. 20 at 7 p.m. Israel / 12 p.m. ET. Hosted by ToI’s Amanda Borschel-Dan.

European powers, US warn Iran over unexplained nuclear materials

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Washington, London, Paris and Berlin tell IAEA that if Iranians don’t provide explanations needed, UN atomic agency will need to take further action to hold Tehran accountable

A man walks through the former US Embassy, which has been turned into an anti-American museum in Tehran, Iran, on August 19, 2023. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

AnalysisIran-US prisoner swap for billions reveals familiar limits of diplomacy between foes

By Jon Gambrell

In this September, 2018 selfie image provided by Emma Tsurkov, right, she and Elizabeth Tsurkov are shown in Santa Clara Valley, California. (AP Photo/Eric Tucker)

US should help win the freedom of Israeli scholar missing in Iraq, her sister says

Inside story

In West Bank Area C village, Bedouin locals fear settler violence will push them out

By Charlie Summers

Residents of Ein Rashash say that their hamlet, like many others in Jordan Valley, is on its last legs due to harassment from a nearby outpost, soon to be legalized

A young settler from the Malakhei HaShalom (Angels of Peace) outpost brings his flock onto land near the Bedouin village of Ein Rashash. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)

FILE - Paul Simon performs at Global Citizen Live in Central Park, New York, September 25, 2021. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Old Friends

Paul Simon takes a bow with a new career-spanning documentary

Jewish musician premieres expansive film about his life by renowned director Alex Gibney, says hearing loss makes recording difficult

Then-US President Bill Clinton looks on as the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat shake hands during the signing of the Oslo Accords, September 13, 1993. (GPO)

AnalysisFour key takeaways from negotiator with a ringside seat

Why the Oslo peace process failed – and what it means for future negotiators

By Aaron David Miller

30 years ago, the Israelis and Palestinians signed an agreement many thought was set in stone. Now, as it lies battered and seemingly done for, here are the lessons we can draw

30 years after Oslo, FM Cohen rejects international dictates on Palestinian issue

By Julia Frankel

PA’s Fatah blasts academics for ‘dangerous’ letter decrying Abbas’s antisemitism

By AP and Gianluca Pacchiani

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A man points his finger at a screen showing the chosen plan for the architectural redesign of Adolf Hitler's birth house, during a press conference at the Interior ministry in Vienna, Austria on June 2, 2020. (Joe Klamar/AFP)

Austrian group asks to place Holocaust exhibit at Hitler birth site

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara speak to the press from the tarmac at Ben Gurion International Airport on September 3, 2023. (Carrie-Keller-Lynn/Times of Israel)

In reversal, PM’s office to allow reporters onto Netanyahu’s return flight from US

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

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)

Court okays state food voucher program said to prioritize ultra-Orthodox

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (Ronen Zvulun and Ozan Kose/AFP)

PM to meet Turkey’s Erdogan on sidelines of UN General Assembly

By Lazar Berman

Illustrative: People walk along a street market at Eminonu commercial area in Istanbul, Turkey, August 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Turkey frees Israeli held over ornamental bell it claimed was artifact

Jewish men in the street near the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman, on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, September 25, 2022. (Flash90)

Over 20,000 pilgrims arrive in Uman to mark Jewish New Year under boosted security

By AFP

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi attends the closing session of the New Global Financial Pact Summit, in Paris, June 23, 2023. (Lewis Joly/AP)

US withholds $85 million in military aid to Egypt over rights abuses — senator

By ToI Staff and Agencies

This image circulating online purports to show smoke rising from a site in the Tartus area following an alleged Israeli strike in Syria, September 13, 2023. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Alleged Israeli strikes hit Syria for 2nd time, hours after attack on air defenses

By Emanuel Fabian

Bread for sale, some of which is subsidized by the government, at a Rami Levy supermarket in Jerusalem on July 17, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli HMO finds celiac sufferers up 600% in less than 20 years

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Ashalim solar power station in the Negev desert. August 21, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel issues tender for fifth solar energy plant in the Negev desert

By Sharon Wrobel

Illustrative: US Vice President Kamala Harris, left and her husband, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, attend Israel's Independence Day Reception, hosted by the Embassy of Israel to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel, at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC, June 6, 2023. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

At Rosh Hashanah reception, Emhoff and Harris talk combating antisemitism

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom in Moscow, Russia, on April 18, 2023. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP)

Father of Russia-held journalist Gershkovich asks world leaders to help free him

By Edith M. Lederer

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