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What Matters Most On Tuesday, June 13, 2023

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) addresses a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on June 13, 2023 (Haim Tzach/GPO)

'More than 90% of our security issues stem from Iran'

Netanyahu: Israel won’t be bound by any new nuclear deal with Iran

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Prime minister’s comments come as Washington confirms it is again talking to Iran about returning to nuclear agreement

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, visits an exhibition of Iran's nuclear achievements, at his office compound in Tehran, Iran, June 11, 2023. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader, Via AP)

US confirms talks with Iran, denies interim nuclear deal on table

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Bullet holes are seen on an Israeli military vehicle (right) and an Israeli-owned car (left) near the Reihan checkpoint, after they came under fire at a nearby junction in the northern West Bank, June 13, 2023. (Samaria Regional Council)

‘I was sure I was going to die’: Civilian, 4 soldiers hurt in West Bank shooting

By Emanuel Fabian

Meanwhile, Palestinian is killed in clash as IDF troops operate in Nablus’s Balata refugee camp to arrest wanted men

Troops map the home of Moaz al-Masri, the Hamas terrorist who killed 3 members of the Dee family in a West Bank shooting, on June 13, 2023 (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF prepares to raze West Bank home of second Dee family terrorist

By Emanuel Fabian

Cpl. Niv Lubaton. (Courtesy)

Military Police handlers get community service after informant died by suicide

By Emanuel Fabian

A general view shows houses in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba, May 10, 2023. (Wisam Hashlamounn/ Flash90)

Israel tells US it will advance plans for thousands of settlement homes in late June

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Move likely intended to mollify Netanyahu’s hardline coalition partners, a week after US pressured Jerusalem to delay controversial E1 settlement project

Fahad Nazer, spokesman for Saudi Arabia's embassy in Washington, speaks to Arab News in an interview published June 13, 2023. (Screenshot: YouTube; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Saudi embassy in US: No normalization with Israel without Palestinian state

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas gestures while speaking to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting on the sidelines of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) summit, in Astana, Kazakhstan, October 13, 2022. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Abbas arrives in China as Beijing looks to expand influence in Mideast

By AFP

Gantz on Liberman's remarks: 'I don’t know what he knows'

Liberman claims opposition will fold in judicial talks, predicts deal by Wednesday

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff

Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman said Monday that he believes fellow opposition parties will give in to certain coalition demands in the ongoing judicial overhaul talks, in exchange for securing a representative on the panel that selects judges. Liberman, who has stayed out of the negotiations that... Continue Reading

Yisrael Beytenu party chairman Avigdor Liberman at a Knesset faction meeting on June 12, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem on June 13, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jun 13: PM faces a feminist dilemma in tomorrow’s Knesset vote

President Isaac Herzog speaks at his official residence in Jerusalem, May 8, 2023. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Herzog chides army reservists who protest government by refusing to serve

President Isaac Herzog (left) and US President Joe Biden at the White House on October 26, 2022. (GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Herzog said set to meet Biden, address Congress in mid-July; sides do not confirm

By Michael Bachner

Hebrew media outlets say date will be set in coming days, may be July 19; invitation was extended during president’s trip to Washington last year; offices say nothing has been set

6:41 pm

Israel Policy Forum comes to J Street's defense after Chikli called dovish group hostile
6:33 pm

Minister: Barak's call for civil disobedience 'worse' than ex-president Katsav's rape
6:06 pm

4 MKs visit Moroccan parliament, say ties with 'moderate Arab countries' to strengthen

New immigrants from North America arrive at Ben Gurion airport on August 14, 2019. (Flash90)

Knesset votes to end passport-on-arrival policy for new immigrants

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

In less than a month, Interior Ministry to reinstate one-year residency requirement before issuing new Israeli passports to immigrants, rolling back policy to pre-2017 era

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attend a Jerusalem wedding, June 6, 2023. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Netanyahu, Haredim discuss sweeping military exemptions, with decision expected soon

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Matthias Weniger, curator of the Bavarian National Museum, lifts one of 111 silver objects, stolen by the Nazis from Jews during the Third Reich, in Munich, Germany, June 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Applying stolen silver sleuth skills, German curator returns Nazi-looted heirlooms

By Kirsten Grieshaber

Matthias Weniger has made it his mission to give back silver objects that ‘are often the only material things that remain from an existence wiped out in the Holocaust’

Opposition leader Yair Lapid arrives at the Jerusalem District Court to testify in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's graft trial on June 13, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ending his testimony in Netanyahu trial, Lapid tells judges: ‘I don’t envy you’

Opposition leader spars with premier’s defense team for 2nd day, says billionaire whose interests Netanyahu is accused of pushing ‘knows I don’t owe him anything’

Not only Arabs: Killings spike in all parts of Israeli society, investigation shows

By Tani Goldstein

Alongside the 102 Arabs killed in homicides since the beginning of 2023, there have been 29 non-Arab Israeli citizens and residents -- Jewish and non-Jewish -- killed in homicides in that timespan as well, according to an investigation by Zman Yisrael, The Times of Israel's Hebrew-language sister... Continue Reading

The scene of a suspected murder of a woman in her 50s at her apartment in the central city of Rishon Lezion, May 12, 2023. (Magen David Adom spokesperson)

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (right) of the Religious Zionism party talks to National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir of Otzma Yehudit in the Knesset plenum on December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

Far-right backs extending administrative detentions to crime in Arab communities

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, right, and Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai at the Israel Police Independence Day ceremony at the National Headquarters of the Israel Police in Jerusalem April 20, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Ben Gvir said holding meetings with top police brass to find a new commissioner

Let them eat rugalach

Our boycott of Angel Bakery was a spontaneous grassroots response to the trampling of our most cherished symbols

What remains of A.B. Yehoshua

The novels of the acclaimed writer who died a year ago manage somehow to offer sparks of hope amidst the chaotic despair

Newly elected head of UNESCO Audrey Azoulay following her election on October 13, 2017, at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. (AFP/Thomas Samson)

UNESCO head calls US decision to rejoin a vote of confidence in reforms

By Lazar Berman

Foreign Ministry refuses to comment on White House move, reportedly meant to counter Chinese influence on cultural body that Israel accuses of bias

Tatiana Kovler, a Jewish social worker, is one of tens of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians who had to flee their homes following the rupture of a dam on the Dnipro river in Ukraine on June 6, 2023. (Courtesy of Tatiana Kovler)

'Those who wanted to leave did so long before the flooding'

As Kherson floods, one evacuee plans return to aid city’s hardy Jewish holdouts

By Canaan Lidor

Tatiana Kovler, a social worker with the JDC who fled rising waters, is in constant contact with clients who have remained in the city despite intense bombings and now flooding

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speak during their meeting at the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the resort city of Sochi, Russia, June 9, 2023. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Belarus leader threatens to use Russian nukes ‘if we face an aggression’

By AP

In this photo released by Dnipro Regional Administration, emergency workers extinguish a fire after missiles hit a multi-story apartment building in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, June 13, 2023. (Dnipro Regional Administration via AP)

10 killed in Russian strike on Zelensky’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih

By AFP

MK Amichai Chikli at a Knesset House Committee meeting on the Yamina party's request to declare him a 'defector,' on April 25, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Diaspora Minister Chikli calls J Street ‘hostile’ amid tussle over photo

By JTA and ToI Staff

Likud lawmaker accuses liberal pro-Israel lobby of faking photo showing him appear to make an obscene gesture toward protesters in New York last week

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a meeting of his Religious Zionism party at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 1, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Embassy staffer in Paris accused of foiling Smotrich meetings with Jewish leaders

3,000-year-old Egyptian goddess figurine, a good luck symbol, washes up on beach

An Israeli woman walking on the Palmachim beach in southern Israel found an ancient figurine of an Egyptian goddess believed to be more than 3,000 years old, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Tuesday. Lydia Marner, 74, who was walking on the beach with her husband a few weeks... Continue Reading

A 3,000-year-old figurine of the Egyptian goddess Hathor found on the beach in Palmachim in 2023 (Yuli Shwartz/IAA)

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