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What Matters Most On Friday, September 22, 2023

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In a video clip released September 19, 2023, Otzma Yehudit MK Limor Son Har-Melech addresses a fundraising event on behalf of Amiram Ben Uliel, a Jewish extremist convicted of killing three members of the Palestinian Dawabshe family in a 2015 firebombing (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

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US blasts coalition lawmaker who called Jewish terrorist ‘holy righteous man’

Responding to far-right MK’s defense of Duma terror attack perpetrator Amiram Ben Uliel, State Department calls on Israel, PA to refrain from ‘inflammatory rhetoric and actions’

9:54 pm

After PM's criticism of protesters, Sara Netanyahu asks Reform leader to condemn attacks on her family
8:55 pm

'Arrogant, racist and full of lies': Senior PA official blasts Netanyahu's UN speech
8:15 pm

Resident of southern Bedouin town killed in hit-and-run; cops probing if intentional

US said weighing defense pacts with Israel, Saudis as part of normalization talks

But treaties are controversial, with some fearing they’d undercut Israeli claim to defend itself by itself, others warning they could curb Israel’s ability to strike Iran

(From L-R) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Joe Biden and Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman. (AP/collage)

US President Joe Biden meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York, September 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

27 experts urge Biden not to allow Saudis to enrich uranium for Israel deal

Analysis

Netanyahu looks to cap off streak of successes in America with UN address

After holding court with Elon Musk, calming Zelensky, getting a White House invite and a surprise boost from MBS, premier takes stage at arguably the high point of his term

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses world leaders at the 72nd UN General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York on September 19, 2017. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

President Isaac Herzog speaks at an event marking the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, in Latrun on September 21, 2023. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Hailing Israel-Saudi normalization effort, Herzog says success would be ‘historic’

Democratic Republic of Congo President Félix Tshisekedi, left, meets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, September 21, 2023. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

DR Congo will move its embassy to Jerusalem, leader tells Netanyahu at UN sidelines

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

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Anti-judicial overhaul protesters welcome Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to his meeting with US President Joe Biden in New York, on September 20, 2023. (Craig Barritt/Getty Images for New York Protest Movement/AFP)

Netanyahu set to face divided, pained US Jewish community leaders in Friday meeting

PM will meet people who have protested his judicial overhaul, and others who support it and are planning to rally on his behalf; some critics hope for an opportunity for dialogue

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Prominent Zionists laud Biden’s remark that no Jew anywhere is safe without Israel

Abe Foxman, Natan Sharansky and Dani Dayan say president’s unprecedented statement shows understanding of how most Jews feel, though it angers some Jews more critical of Israel

US President Joe Biden meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York, September 20, 2023. (AP/Susan Walsh)

FILE - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, September 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

No peace in Mideast without Palestinian state, Abbas tells UN amid Israel-Saudi talks

By Lazar Berman

Palestinian Authority leader accuses ‘racist’ Israeli government of apartheid, digging tunnels under Al Aqsa; calls for international conference to impose two-state solution

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, September 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Full text of Mahmoud Abbas’s UN General Assembly speech

Israeli security forces at the scene of a stabbing attack at the Giv'at Hamivtar light rail station in Jerusalem, September 21, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Security guard lightly hurt in stabbing attack at Jerusalem light rail stop

By Emanuel Fabian

Police say 19-year-old Palestinian assailant shot by another guard after attacking 26-year-old at Giv’at Hamivtar station

Illustrative: Israeli troops operate in the West Bank, early September 21, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Islamic Jihad member killed in W. Bank clash with IDF; closure set for Yom Kippur

By Emanuel Fabian

A Palestinian gunman opens fire at Israeli forces on the Gaza border, September 21, 2023. (Israel Police)

Border Police sniper shoots Palestinian gunman during latest Gaza border riots

By Emanuel Fabian

It takes a village of strangers to save a life

On Yom Kippur, I trust that God will be as kind to us as the bone-marrow donors and the car service drivers who drive them are to those in need

The Holocaust in Skede, Latvia, 1941. (Yad Vashem)

History'We wanted to restore names to the people captured on film'

Harrowing Šķēde massacre photos help reframe Holocaust in German-occupied Latvia

By Matt Lebovic

New multi-disciplinary volume probes Holocaust massacre images taken on Šķēde Beach, where 2,749 Jewish women, men, and children were murdered by German and Latvian firing squads

This picture taken from the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Israeli Golan Heights shows IDF military vehicles deployed in the village while smoke billows from a Syrian position along the front after Israeli tanks shelled the area on September 21, 2023. (JALAA MAREY / AFP)

IDF tanks shell two Syrian army structures encroaching on truce line

By Emanuel Fabian

In rare confirmation of cross-border strike, army says temporary buildings were a violation of the 1974 Agreement on Disengagement

File: Israeli soldiers walk near an Iron Dome defense system (L), a surface-to-air missile (SAM) system, the MIM-104 Patriot (C), and an anti-ballistic missile the Arrow 3 (R) during Juniper Cobra's joint exercise press briefing at Hatzor Air Base in central Israel, on February 25, 2016. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP)

Israel and US hold joint air defense drill to counter major rocket barrage

By Emanuel Fabian

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) gestures as he unveils the country's new cabinet at Cankaya Palace after he was sworn in as President in Parliament in Ankara on June 3, 2023. (Adem ALTAN / AFP)

Erdogan says hopes to soon start work with Israel on energy drilling, networks

After meeting with Netanyahu, Turkish leader says the two spoke of establishing a mechanism to boost bilateral cooperation

File - US President Joe Biden, right, meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office of the White House, September 21, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Zelensky meets Biden, briefs US lawmakers on war as some Republican support softens

By LISA MASCARO, MARY CLARE JALONICK and Ellen Knickmeyer

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What Matters Now to David Friedman, Michal Cotler-Wunsh and Gil Troy: Nuance

A playback of this week’s webinar, ‘Diaspora Jews & Israel’s judicial overhaul: Differing stances,’ explores whether global Jewry should play a role in Israel’s current crisis

Participants in the September 20, 2023 webinar (L-R) Prof. Gil Troy, former MK Michal Cotler-Wunsh and former United States ambassador to Israel David Friedman. (Times of Israel/Courtesy/Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

With color and fun, hospital helps young patients prepare for MRIs and CTs

By Renee Ghert-Zand

‘Simul Park’ at Sheba Medical Center sports bright amusement park design, guidance from educational staff, and encourages familiarity with scanning machines to help allay fears

'Simul Park' MRI and CT simulation room for children at Sheba Medical Center. (Courtesy of Place2Heal)

Illustrative: A vial of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is displayed on a counter at a pharmacy in Portland, Oregon, December 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

Health Ministry announces new Moderna COVID-19 vaccines are on way to Israel

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Knesset Legal Adviser Sagit Afik speaks during a hearing of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, July 17, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In split with AG, Knesset legal adviser tells High Court not to void recusal law

Sagit Afik says legislation fills gap in law, argues that it does not affect PM’s conflict of interest deal and therefore shouldn’t be delayed or struck down

Supreme Court President Esther Hayut (center) alongside Justices Uzi Vogelman (left) and Isaac Amit (right) during a hearing on petitions against the coalition's recusal law, August 3, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu lawyer: Court voiding recusal law would do ‘mortal harm’ to right to vote

By Jeremy Sharon

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Defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks at an awards ceremony for outstanding officers, at the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, September 3, 2023. (Shahar Yorman/ Defense Ministry

Gallant: Undermining Declaration of Independence harms Israel’s moral standing

Illustrative: A Jewish man prays with tefillin and prayer shawl at a mass prayer for in Habima Square in Tel Aviv on August 2, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Minister defends principal who told student not to lay tefillin in public space

By Canaan Lidor

Then-Puma CEO Bjorn Gulden attends the 2019 Footwear News Achievement Awards at the IAC Building on December 3, 2019, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Adidas CEO said to apologize for defending Kanye West’s antisemitic outbursts

By Anne D'Innocenzio

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (center) delivers remarks during a ceremony to return stolen artworks to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum's estate, in New York, Sepember 20, 2023. Timothy Reif, David Frankel, and Sarah Reif, left of Bragg, are pictured from left to right. (Jackie Hajdenberg via JTA)

7 looted artworks repatriated to scions of Jewish cabaret star killed in Holocaust

By Jackie Hajdenberg

File: X CEO Elon Musk leaves a US Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on September 13, 2023. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

X posts, pulls ad that included accusation of antisemitism against Musk

By Andrew Lapin

A decommissioned IDF tank that was stolen from a base in northern Israel after being found in a scrapyard on September 20, 2023 (Israel Police)

Tracked down4 nabbed for stealing decommissioned tank from IDF base

By Emanuel Fabian

The sun rises over Tel Aviv, October 2019. (ZZ3701 via iStock by Getty Images)

Fears of a bubble in Tel Aviv house market deflate, but prices still overvalued: UBS

By Sharon Wrobel

Illustrative: A police vehicle at a crime scene in Netanya, October 14, 2018. (Flash90)

Man shot dead near Umm al-Fahm, the 177th Arab homicide victim this year

By Michael Horovitz

A statue depicting Israel's first prime minister David Ben-Gurion that was set on fire on the beach in Tel Aviv, September 16, 2023 (Flash90)

Court orders release of suspect in torching of Ben Gurion statue to house arrest

A statue of a young Benjamin Franklin at the University of Pennsylvania. (Wikimedia via JTA)

Intruder vandalizes Penn Hillel, apparently goes on antisemitic tirade

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Israel’s Innovation, Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis (right) and his British counterpart George Freeman sign a collaboration agreement in the areas of science, innovation and technology, Sept. 20, 2023. (Courtesy)

Israel and the UK clinch $2.1 million deal for joint science and innovation projects

By Sharon Wrobel

Musician Ofer Mizrahi will perform with his trio at Jerusalem's Confederation House on September 28, 2023. (Courtesy Ofer Mizrahi)

Leviathan soundsOfer Mizrahi to perform his East meets West music in Jerusalem

By Jessica Steinberg

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