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What Matters Most On Tuesday, September 19, 2023

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Elon Musk (not pictured) during a live discussion on the social media platform X, at the Tesla factory in Fremont, California, September 18, 2023. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Yariv Levin: 'I have no intention of canceling the reforms'

PM says original overhaul proposal ‘was bad,’ but must fix how Israel chooses judges

By Lazar Berman, Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

In conversation with Elon Musk, Netanyahu calls legislation his coalition has been advancing through the Knesset a ‘mistake’ that would ‘reject one imbalance by creating another’

In this handout photo, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) speaks with Elon Musk during a live discussion on the social media platform X, at the Tesla factory in Fremont, California, September 18, 2023. (Avi Ohayon/ GPO)

PM hopes Musk can ‘roll back’ antisemitism; X owner plans small user fee to stop bots

By Lazar Berman, AP and Jacob Magid

Minister David Amsalem at the Knesset in Jerusalem on September 19, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Arguing overhaul still ‘good,’ Likud minister likens opponents to apartheid regime

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff

As Netanyahu arrives in New York, anti-overhaul activists launch week of protests

Protesters to head to PM’s hotel in first of series of planned rallies as premier meets Biden and other world leaders at UN’s General Assembly

An anti-overhaul protest in New York City, July 27, 2023. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Deputy Knesset Speaker Likud MK Nissim Vaturi at a discussion and vote on the coalition's reasonableness bill at the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, July 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Deputy Knesset speaker: Anti-overhaul protesters in US are ‘worse’ than Iran, PLO

David Ginsborg (L) protests outside of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hotel in San Jose, September 18, 2023. (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)

‘Netanyahu tears Israel apart’: Anti-overhaul protesters hound PM as US visit begins

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 19, 2023. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu talks Saudi normalization with Erdogan after Turkish leader voices support

By Joshua Davidovich

PM also meets with Zelensky on UN sidelines, assuring him that humanitarian aid will continue but remaining mum on Ukraine’s request for missile defense support

12:54 am

Netanyahu discusses Saudi normalization effort with Erdogan after Turkish leader voices support
12:06 am

PM's son: Iran couldn't have asked for better propaganda than anti-overhaul protesters
10:28 pm

Erdan stages protest during Iran president's UNGA speech, is escorted out of chamber

ExclusivePA denies Abbas insulted anyone, slams campaign against him

‘They’re animals’: Abbas blasts EU over its stance on Palestinian elections

At private NYC event, PA leader says EU pushed him to hold elections and said it would coax Israel to allow balloting in East Jerusalem, but failed to deliver: ‘They’re all talk’

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a press conference prior to attending a EU foreign affairs council at the European Council in Brussels, January 22, 2018. (EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP)

File: Protesters opposed to the coalition's controversial judicial overhaul proposals wave Israeli and American flags during a protest in support of US President Joe Biden, outside of the US Embassy Branch Office in Tel Aviv, Israel, March 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Only about 3 in 10 Americans see Israel as an ally that shares US interests — poll

By Matthew Lee and Linley Sanders

4 in 10 describe Israel as partner with which US should cooperate; more support for Israel ties among Republicans, amid Biden-Netanyahu friction and US criticism of overhaul

A plane flies a banner protesting against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he visits Tesla's Fremont, California, factory on September 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sept 19: Anti-overhaul protesters nip at Netanyahu’s heels on US trip

A screenshot from the website https://www.netanyahu.org/, set up by anti-judicial overhaul activists to mark Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's trip to the United States. (Website screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Page hitsProtesters troll PM’s US visit with critical bio on netanyahu.org

By Michael Horovitz

Germany rebuffs Israeli anger after envoy attends High Court ‘reasonableness’ hearing

By Lazar Berman

Jerusalem says behavior unacceptable, but Berlin retorts actions in line with diplomatic role; Scholz: ‘He has clear principles. Everyone knows that, including in Israel’

Germany's Ambassador to Israel Steffen Seibert at the High Court of Justice hearing on the coalition's reasonableness law, September 12, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

This handout photo released September 19, 2023, shows a new IDF Barak tank. (Defense Ministry and Israel Defense Forces)

Advanced sensors, high-tech helmet: Israel’s 5th generation battle tank revealed

By Emanuel Fabian

First Barak tanks handed over to Armored Corps after five years of development by IDF, Defense Ministry and several Israeli arms manufacturers

Israel, PA not invited, US avoids sending its top diplomat

‘100% carrots’: Arab states, EU unveil plan to entice Israel, PA to sign peace deal

Initiative’s European architect highlights effort to show parties what will be available to them if they reach a deal; Arab participants use event to blast Israeli policies

Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, and EU foreign policy chief Joseph Borrell at an event on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly aimed at reviving the Israeli-Palestinian peace process on September 18, 2023. (Egypt Foreign Ministry/ Twitter)

Saudi Foreign Affairs minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan arrives at the Bureau International des Exposition (BIE) to discuss Riyadh's bid to host Expo 2030 World Expo in Issy-Les-Moulineaux, on June 20, 2023. (JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP)

Only way to solve conflict is independent Palestinian state, says top Saudi diplomat

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi holds a press conference in Tehran on August 29, 2023. (AFP)

Iran’s president warns against normalization with Israel

Blood money: Biden’s Iran deal endangers the Middle East

The $6 billion Tehran received will most likely be used to support its nuclear pursuits and fund acts of terrorism

The bloodstained jacket: Yom Kippur, 1973

It was the sirens that pierced the silence. We gathered in the dining room and learned that Israel had been attacked

Director Guy Nattiv, second from right, with the actors in 'Tatami,' filmed in Georgia in 2022, his latest film about an Iranian athlete forced to make an impossible decision (Courtesy Guy Nattiv)

Interview'We became this mishpocha of Iranian exiles and Israelis'

After tackling Golda, director Guy Nattiv goes to the mat for Iran’s exiled athletes

By Jessica Steinberg

The Israeli filmmaker discusses his new film, ‘Tatami,’ which grapples with anti-Israel pressure on Iranian judokas, and blames jeers for his Meir biopic on the political climate

Op-ed

Haviv Rettig Gur

Is a frustrated right starting to consider a larger constitutional process?

Chastened by failure, some champions of the Knesset’s sovereignty and power are grudgingly, haltingly looking outside the parliament for a solution to the judiciary crisis

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)

Tunisian President Kais Saied at his office in Tunis, September 18, 2023. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Tunisian leader claims ‘Zionist’ influence evident in naming of Storm Daniel

By Michael Bachner

In latest antisemitic controversy, President Kais Saied says Zionist movement ‘has penetrated to attack the mind and thinking,’ also ascribes name of Abraham Accords to same reason

This handout picture shows Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani holding a press conference in the southern province of Basra Governorate on September 2, 2023. (Iraqi Prime Minister's Press Office/AFP)

Iraqi PM said to get White House invitation from Biden

Divers look for flash flood victims in the city of Derna, Libya, September 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad)

UN warns disease outbreak in Libya’s flooded east may spark ‘2nd devastating crisis’

By YOUSEF MARUD and jack jeffery

Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Benny Gantz. (Yonatan Sindel, David Cohen/Flash90)

‘Leadership failure’: Gantz rebukes Netanyahu for planning to skip Rabin memorial

By Michael Bachner

Opposition MK says PM must ‘do the right thing’ and honor assassinated leader’s memory at Mount Herzl even if protests are likely; Labor head: ‘Ceremony more dignified without him’

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a memorial service marking 23 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, on October 21, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

In first for sitting PM, Netanyahu expected to skip Rabin memorial at Mount Herzl

By Michael Bachner

Israeli athletes celebrate gold and silver medal wins in the double men's table tennis event at the Invictus Games in Dusseldorf, Germany, September 2023. (Courtesy of ZDVO)

IDF disabled veteran athletes bring home 14 medals from their first Invictus Games

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Israeli team makes a splash in its debut at sports competition for wounded combatants from around the world, meets ‘kind and friendly’ games founder Prince Harry

Palestinian rioters clash with Israeli soldiers at the Israel-Gaza border barrier, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on September 17, 2023. (Yousef Mohammed/ Flash90)

Palestinians riot on Gaza border for third time in days, despite Israeli sanctions

By Emanuel Fabian

Pedestrian crossing to remain closed for at least another day following renewed violence on frontier; 2 said to be wounded by IDF fire

Israeli troops measure the home of a Palestinian charged with aiding Hamas terrorists in carrying out a deadly shooting attack, in the West Bank village of Urif, September 19, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF prepares to demolish homes of 3 Palestinians charged in June terror attack

By Emanuel Fabian

Police and security personnel at Mazmuria checkpoint, near East Jerusalem, where a Palestinian man attempted to stab police officers, September 18, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police urge gun owners to carry at synagogue as terror alerts spike at High Holidays

Jewish believers attend a celebration in honor of the Jewish sage Baba Sali, at his tomb complex in the southern city of Netivot, January 26, 2023. (Flash 90)

Knesset okays NIS 149 million for Rabbinate salaries, renovations of rabbis’ tombs

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Opposition MKs on Finance Committee accuse panel of approving funds for ‘needs that do not really exist’

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men study in the Lithuanian Slabodka yeshiva in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, July 8, 2013. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Mossad, Shin Bet to take in Haredim in new national service program – report

Family members embrace freed Americans Siamak Namazi, Morad Tahbaz and Emad Shargi, as well as two returnees whose names have not yet been released by the US government, who were released in a prisoner swap deal between US and Iran, as they arrive at Davison Army Airfield, Virginia, September 19, 2023. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool via AP)

‘The nightmare is over’: US prisoners embrace loved ones upon return from Iran

By Ellen Knickmeyer, Jon Gambrell and LUJAIN JO

Relatives cry ‘freedom’ as captives released in exchange for frozen oil funds land at airbase in Virginia; deal with Tehran praised by family members, denounced by GOP

US President Joe Biden walks out of the White House to board Marine One on the South Lawn in Washington, September 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden takes political risk ahead of election with Iran prisoner swap

US citizens Siamak Namazi (R), Emad Sharqi (L) and Morad Tahbaz (C) disembark from a Qatari jet upon their arrival at Doha International Airport in Qatar on September 18, 2023, following a prisoner swap between the United States and Iran. (Karim Jaafar/AFP)

Five US prisoners freed from Iran after long ordeal, in exchange for frozen funds

By Jon Gambrell, LUJAIN JO and Matthew Lee

More Headlines

Illustrative. Cybersecurity technology. (Stock Depot via iStock by Getty Images)

Shlomo Kramer’s cybersecurity unicorn snags $238m at over $3 billion valuation

By Sharon Wrobel

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a conference in Tel Aviv, July 5, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90/File)

AG to court: Delay recusal law implementation so it doesn’t apply to Netanyahu

By Jeremy Sharon

Rafael Grossi, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), speaks during an interview ahead of the 78th United Nations General Assembly in New York, on September 18, 2023. (Ed Jones/AFP)

IAEA chief warns of consequences if Iran does not reaccredit nuclear inspectors

By Maria Danilova

Israeli startup CatAI wins health tech challenge led by Start-Up Nation Central. (Vered Farkash)

Israeli startup wins healthcare tech challenge to help US hospitals cut costs

By Sharon Wrobel

Armenian Prime minister Nikol Pashinyan delivers his speech at the National Assembly of Armenia in Yerevan, Armenia, September 13, 2022. (Tigran Mehrabyan/PAN Photo via AP)

In unusual move, rabbis in Europe condemn Armenian Holocaust comparisons

By Canaan Lidor

Illustrative: The main street of Bnei Brak, August 17, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Planning panel okays Tel Aviv metro via Bnei Brak, which denies approving Shabbat work

Joseph Wolf, the new CEO of EFG International's wealth management subsidiary in Israel. (Courtesy)

Swiss private bank expands in Israel with financial services operations

By Sharon Wrobel

The Eitanim center on July 4, 2004 (Flash90)

Psychiatric hospital near Jerusalem hit by suspected cyberattack

German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser briefs the media after the cabinet meeting of the German government in Berlin, Germany, August 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Germany bans prominent neo-Nazi group: ‘Clear signal against racism and antisemitism’

By Kirsten Grieshaber

File: View of the Herod's Palace hotel in Eilat, southern Israel. October 11, 2019. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Over 200 hotels offer 20% off as high prices leave rooms empty

By Michael Horovitz

Illustrative: Crew on a flight between Tel Aviv and Eilat on August 17, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

‘Air Haifa’: New airline set to launch out of northern Israel

Drugs found in the Tel Aviv home of a doctor, September 19, 2023. (Israel Police)

Doctor arrested for importing date rape drugs from abroad

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