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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 28, 2023

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The High Court of Justice hears petitions against the government's prime minister recusal law, September 28, 2023 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

At hearing, Knesset lawyer admits PM recusal law is personal, argues that’s irrelevant

By Jeremy Sharon and Michael Bachner

Yitzhak Bart tells High Court that law’s greater purpose – fixing problem in existing law – transcends MKs’ motive in passing it; judges suggest motive colors the purpose

Likud's Yariv Levin (L) and far-right Religious Zionism party leader Bezalel Smotrich at a conference outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on October 30, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ministers pan court review of recusal law: ‘A discussion on nixing election results’

President of the Supreme Court Esther Hayut and Supreme Court Justices at a court hearing on petitions against the government's 'Recusal Law' at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, September 28, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sep 28: Why the PM sees the recusal law as a referendum on his coalition

A Magen David Adom ambulance on the site of a quintuple killing in the Bedouin village of Basmat Tab'un in northern Israel on September 27, 2023 (Magen David Adom)

5 Bedouin family members shot dead in northern home; Arab community toll rises to 188

By Gianluca Pacchiani and Michael Horovitz

Police checking for possible link between killing of Atef Abu Kalib in Haifa on Wednesday morning and those shot dead in nearby Basmat Tab’un a few hours later

Israel Police Chief Kobi Shabtai, second right, arrives at the scene where five family members were shot to death in the northern Israeli Bedouin town of Basmat Tab’un, September 27, 2023. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

AG approves use of Pegasus phone spyware in probe of shooting that killed 5

Illustrative: A woman walks past the artwork 'Golem' by Joshua Abarbanel during a press presentation for the 'Golem' exhibition at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, September 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

InterviewMy golem is 'this embodiment of Jewish history and trauma'

A 21st-century golem tackles US white nationalism in modern retelling of Jewish myth

In darkly comic novel ‘The Golem of Brooklyn,’ author Adam Mansbach sets a nine-foot clay creature hurtling toward a neo-Nazi rally in Kentucky with an unlikely duo in tow

Berkeley Moshav

Open to Families: A New Jewish Cohousing Community

Berkeley Moshav reimagines the Jewish communal future by re-creating the village models of the past.

Screen capture from video of MK Itamar Ben Gvir, with a pistol in his right hand, during an altercation with Arab security guards at the Expo Tel Aviv conference center, December 21, 2021. (Twitter)

Live updates (closed)

AG closes probe into Ben Gvir for pulling pistol on Arab security guards

Baharav-Miara says the ultranationalist minister ‘did not act as expected of any citizen, definitely not an elected official,’ during 2021 incident at Tel Aviv parking lot

8:10 pm

White House formally sends Jack Lew's ambassadorial nomination to Senate for confirmation
6:10 pm

At Washington event, US and Israeli officials cheer Israel's entry to visa waiver program
5:52 pm

AG closes probe into Ben Gvir for pulling pistol on Arab security guards

Inside story

Gianluca Pacchiani

Netanyahu government nixed effective programs to fight Arab crime, experts say

Amid unrelenting wave of violence, stakeholders call for smarter approach to organized crime, dialogue with local leaders, community-wide cooperation, and putting politics aside

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

Shlomit Ravitsky Tur-Paz

Tel Aviv’s Yom Kippur struggle could have been avoided

Instead, it highlighted the harm this government is wreaking, not just on Israel’s democracy, but on its Jewish character

Yes to a Saudi deal, no to Netanyahu

The Opposition can support normalization from outside the government – joining the Coalition to rescue the PM would be folly

Being in the majority changes you

When motorcycles whizzed by on Yom Kippur, I wanted to force them to stop – until I realized I’d never felt that way in the Diaspora

Golda Meir’s filtration system

Her selective hearing – and not just hers – had calamitous consequences for Israel: There’s a lesson in that for today

Op-ed

We all know who to blame for the Jewish intolerance of Yom Kippur 5784

And we all find it abhorrent and inexplicable that the other side acted in the way it did. But mutual accusation is not going to heal our destructive national divide

Secular and Orthodox Israelis at a contested public prayer service in Dizengoff Square, Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur, September 24, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir visits south Tel Aviv on September 3, 2023, a day after Eritrean migrants rioted in the area. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Facing wave of pressure, Ben Gvir cancels planned Tel Aviv prayer rally

President Isaac Herzog speaks at a memorial marking 50 years since the Yom Kippur War, at Latrun, September 27, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Herzog: 50 years after Yom Kippur War, Israel facing ‘state of emergency’

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (R) and his German counterpart Boris Pistorius inspect an honor guard before signing a declaration of Intent on the Arrow 3 missile defense system, at the German defense ministry in Berlin on September 28, 2023. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP)

Germany signs nearly €4 billion deal for Israel’s Arrow 3 missile defense system

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Biggest-ever Israeli defense sale expected to be finalized next month, but signing Thursday kicks off manufacturing of batteries set to form top layer of European Sky Shield plan

File: Palestinian workers enter Israel after crossing from Gaza, on the Israeli side of Erez crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip, March 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israel reopens Gaza border crossing, despite ongoing riots

Erez Crossing again allows thousands of Gazans into Israel for work after being closed 2 weeks ago due to violent protests

Shin Bet busts Iranian terror cell planning attacks on Ben Gvir and ex-MK Glick

By Michael Horovitz

Security agency says 2 West Bank residents tasked with smuggling arms, organizing terror attacks including torching cars; 2 Israelis also enlisted, directed by agent in Jordan

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir attends a cabinet meeting held at the Western Wall Tunnels in Jerusalem's Old City on May 21, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

This frame grab from video aired by Iranian state television on September 27, 2023, shows what Iran's Communication Minister Isa Zarepour said is a Noor-3 satellite being launched from an undisclosed location in Iran. (IRIB via AP)

Iran claims to launch imaging satellite into orbit; IRGC chief: It will gather intel

By AP

US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides attends a conference at Reichman University in Herzliya, September 11, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Interview

Ex-envoy Nides: Visa waiver success proves Israel can make concessions when it wants

Jerusalem agreed to reforms regarding Palestinian travelers that it initially thought were ‘nuts,’ former ambassador tells ToI, offering lesson as Saudi normalization moves forward

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Uncover Israel’s secret treasures with this insider’s guide around the country, composed by ToI staff

Analysis

With diplomatic gains in the US, Netanyahu briefly soared above the overhaul fight

Though protesters hounded his every move, the prime minister managed to temporarily recast his role. Back on home ground, he was in the thick of the partisan melee once again

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

Eilat's Red Sea Hotel, where an alleged gang rape took place in mid-August 2020. (Channel 12 screenshot)

4 convicted of 2020 gang rape of teenage girl in Eilat hotel; 7 others aided assault

Judges note that none of the group tried to help their 16-year-old victim, say individuals who commit crimes as a group are still personally responsible for their actions

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during an event with the Ukrainian-Canadian community and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (out of frame) in Toronto, Canada, on September 22, 2023. (Geoff Robins / AFP)

Canada PM offers ‘unreserved’ apology for applause of ex-Nazi, ‘pain’ it caused Jews

By Marion THIBAUT

Trudeau admits ‘terrible mistake’ in recognizing Ukrainian WWII veteran Yaroslav Hunka, who served in unit that fought alongside Nazis

Navi Pillay, chair of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, presents a report on the opening day of the 50th session of the UN Human Rights Council, in Geneva on June 13, 2022. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)

Leading US Jewish groups decry top legal award for anti-Israel UN official

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and then-housing minister Yitzhak Goldknopf, right, arrive for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 27, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Haredi minister presses government to keep its word on army draft exemptions

This handout photograph released by CERN shows the insertion of the ALPHA-g apparatus at CERN in Geneva on October 15, 2018. (Handout/CERN/AFP)

Mysterious antimatter observed falling down due to gravity for the first time

By Daniel Lawler

Computer monitors and a laptop display the X, formerly known as Twitter, sign-in page, in Belgrade, Serbia, July 24, 2023. (Darko Vojinovic/AP)

Over 120 Jewish activists call on advertisers and app stores to drop Twitter/X

A US Food and Drug Administration building is seen behind FDA logos at a bus stop on the agency's campus in Silver Spring, Maryland, on August 2, 2018. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

FDA advisers vote against Israeli experimental ALS treatment pushed by patients

By MATTHEW PERRONE

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis looks on as former Governor from South Carolina and UN ambassador Nikki Haley shakes hands with North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum following the second Republican presidential primary debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, on September 27, 2023. (Photo by Robyn BECK / AFP)

Trump skips latest GOP presidential debate; rivals take him on directly

By Will Weissert, Steve Peoples and JONATHAN J. COOPER

Education Minister Yoav Kisch at the ministry ahead of the opening of the school year, August 31, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Top Education Ministry official quits, cites ‘organizational climate’

The Bab al-Rahmeh Muslim cemetery outside the eastern walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, July 7, 2015 (Moataz Egbaria, Wikicommons - used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Video of Jewish men treading on Muslim gravestones in Jerusalem sparks condemnation

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Police at the site where a bus carrying school children rolled off the road near Beit Shemesh on September 27, 2023. (Israel Police)

Dozens hurt as school bus overturns near Beit Shemesh

Pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim arrives for a ceremony to award him honorary citizenship of the German capital in Berlin, Germany, April 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

The right noteGerman maestro to take baton from Barenboim at Berlin opera

By Deborah Cole

Shoppers at a Spar supermarket in Johannesburg, South Africa, March 24, 2020 (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

Shufersal backs out of deal to open local stores for Dutch SPAR supermarket chain

By Sharon Wrobel

Juan Bradman, center, with his brother Saloman and their father Julio, at their family’s shoe store in Matanzas, Cuba, 1949. (Courtesy Miriam Bradman Abrahams via JTA)

Juan Bradman, Cuban-Jewish exile whose life inspired a novel, dies at 90

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Mark Margolis was part of a long tradition of Jewish actors playing memorable villains. (AMC/IMDb via JTA)

Acting outThe best onscreen villains played by Jewish actors

By Eric Schulmiller

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