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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 15, 2023

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Likud MK Tally Gotliv peeks from behind a curtain as she casts her vote for candidates to the Judicial Selections Committee, at the Knesset on June 14, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

'It's exactly what the prime minister wanted'

Coalition members accuse Likud ‘traitors’ after opposition wins judicial panel seat

Internal rift erupts as overhaul stalwarts rage against Netanyahu, accusing him of instructing MKs to vote for Yesh Atid’s Karine Elharrar on Judicial Selection Committee

Opposition leader Yair Lapid speaks at Reichman University in Herzliya on June 15, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Lapid touts cross-camp ‘alliance’ after opposition MK wins seat on judicial panel

By Michael Bachner

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaves his Likud party meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on June 14, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Coalition in chaos as opposition wins seat on judge-picking panel while Likud left out

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Netanyahu finds he’s lost control of the populist tiger he rode to power

Everyone knew how it was supposed to end. “One of the least dramatic days I can remember in the Knesset. You can cut the tension with a Gerber spoon,” quipped the dean of Israeli political commentators, Channel 12’s Amit Segal, on Wednesday morning. A usually simple process — selecting the parliament’s two representatives on the nine-member... Continue Reading

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Knesset vote on the judicial selection panel, June 14, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Leader of the Opposition and Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid speaks during a press conference in the Knesset, June 14, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lapid, Gantz freeze overhaul negotiations over ‘PM’s capitulation to extremists’

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

A student looks at Iran's domestically built centrifuges in an exhibition of the country's nuclear achievements, in Tehran, Iran, Feb. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Details align with leaked Netanyahu remark about 'mini-deal'

US, Iran said nearing informal, limited ‘political ceasefire,’ not full nuke deal

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Citing Israeli, US and Iranian officials, New York Times reports sides closing in on unwritten understandings to curb further uranium enrichment in return for unfreezing assets

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan seen in a combination of photos. (Ronen Zvulun and Ozan Kose/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu said trying to arrange a meeting with Turkish President Erdogan

Two leaders have a long history of tensions, but PM said looking for a high-profile international summit after being spurned by Washington and Abu Dhabi

6:22 pm

UN chief says fossil fuels 'incompatible with human survival'
6:14 pm

Poll shows slight improvement for Likud, but coalition still down 10 seats
5:42 pm

Israel's US envoy says Jerusalem not completely opposed to US talks with Iran

Finding unity: The need for a centrist awakening

Growing polarization perpetuates intolerance, making it harder and harder to engage constructively and reach consensus

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Erasing a fallen Israeli Jewish female soldier

It’s time to see Haredi erasure of women for what it is: disrespect and devaluation of worthy human beings

Op-ed

Netanyahu loses a key vote. Now a torn, troubled Israel waits for the fallout

This Editor’s Note was sent out earlier Wednesday in ToI’s weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel Community. To receive these Editor’s Notes as they’re released, join the ToI Community here. At the end of a spectacularly tense day in the Knesset, and a vote count that lasted a nail-biting two hours, members of Prime Minister Benjamin... Continue Reading

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a vote on the judicial selection panel in the Knesset, June 14, 2023. Tally Gotliv MK is seated at right. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, in the center of Tel Aviv, December 25, 2018. (Adam Shuldman/Flash90)

Shekel seesaws amid Knesset’s judicial selection drama

By Sharon Wrobel

File: MK Karine Elharrar arrives for the opening session of the Knesset in Jerusalem on November 15, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jun 15: And the winners are… MK Karine Elharrar – and PM Netanyahu?

This handout image released on June 14, 2023, shows a render of the Sky Sonic anti-hypersonic missile. (Rafael)

Defense tech firm Rafael reveals first-ever hypersonic interceptor

By Emanuel Fabian

Sky Sonic system, under development for three years, to be shown off at Paris Air Show, after Iran claimed earlier this month it built a hypersonic missile

Screen capture from video of Robert Simonds, chairman of STX Entertainment, on the red carpet for the Golden Globes Awards, 2018. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Hollywood producer and gum mogul said mulling joint takeover of NSO spyware assets

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)

Germany okays $4.3 billion purchase of Israel’s Arrow 3 anti-missile system

By Peter WUETHERICH

Innovation Africa founder & CEO Sivan Yaari bringing solar panels to an African village in Karamoja, Uganda. (Courtesy)

Interview

Kernels of hope: This book picks 13 earthshaking innovators for world’s challenges

By Shoshanna Solomon

Avi Jorisch’s ‘Next’ spotlights countries and entrepreneurs playing outsized roles in tackling major challenges and finding solutions to mankind’s problems in the coming 30 years

Scientists analyzing DNA helix and editing genome within organisms, CRISPR technology (elenabs via iStock by Getty Images)

‘Next’: A glimpse at innovators and tech set to change the world as we know it

By Shoshanna Solomon

EU moves one step closer to ‘historic’ rules for reining in AI technology

By Raziye AKKOC

US seeking answers after IDF shuts probe into death of detained Palestinian-American

The US said Wednesday that it is seeking more information from Israel after the military said criminal charges would not be brought against an officer and a soldier over the 2022 death of an elderly Palestinian-American who was bound and abandoned at a construction site in the... Continue Reading

Palestinian relatives mourn during the funeral of Omar As'ad, 78, who was found dead after being detained and handcuffed during an Israeli raid, in Jiljilya village in the West Bank, on January 13, 2022. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Israeli troops demolish the apartment of Osama Taweel, a Palestinian gunman accused of killing a soldier in the West Bank, in the city of Nablus, early June 15, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Palestinian said killed in Nablus clashes as IDF razes home of gunman

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: A researcher examines human embryonic stem cells with a microscope in Michigan, October 22, 2008. (Paul Sancya/AP)

Scientists create synthetic human embryos from stem cells, without an egg or sperm

Team at UK’s University of Cambridge grow embryo to point where distinct cell lines form, though not brain or heart

Interview

Muslim-majority Kosovo wants ‘strategic partnership’ with Israel — former PM

The Kosovar leader who normalized ties with Israel and opened up Pristina's embassy in Jerusalem said on Wednesday that his country seeks a "strategic partnership" with Israel. "That would mean working extremely closely, not only in economic cooperation and diplomatic relations and things like that, but working together and sharing information, helping each other to... Continue Reading

Former Kosovar prime minister Avdullah Hoti, June 14, 2023 (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

'Most Israelis have PTSD; we come here to heal'

Israelis flock to this tiny town in Peru for vacation — and psychedelic spirituality

By Jacob Kessler

With Hebrew as common on the streets as the local language, Pisac is seeing an influx of sabras seeking a respite from the stresses of everyday life in Israel

‘Now I can die in peace’: After long waits, new pilgrims ready for COVID-free hajj

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Christina Aguilera performs at the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year gala honoring Ruben Blades in Las Vegas on November 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Back to basics

Pop icon Christina Aguilera set to perform in Israel for 1st time

Five-time Grammy winner will have a show in Rishon Lezion in August, marking 25 years since start of her career

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Police and rescue forces at the scene where a rocket fired from Gaza hit and damaged a house in Rehovot on May 11, 2023, killing resident Inga Avramyan. (Flash90)

Rehovot man dies month after wife killed by Gaza rocket: ‘He was very sad’

Stuart Eizenstat, a negotiator for the Claims Conference, negotiates with German government officials in Berlin, Germany on May 9, 2023. (Courtesy of the Claims Conference)

Germany to hike homecare funding for Holocaust survivors by $105 million next year

By Canaan Lidor

Survivors of a migrant shipwreck sit at a warehouse at the port in Kalamata town, about 240 kilometers (150 miles) southwest of Athens, Greece, June 14, 2023. (www.argolikeseidhseis.gr via AP)

At least 78 killed, dozens feared missing after migrant boat sinks in Mediterranean

By Derek Gatopoulos

A rendering of the Einstein House planned for Hebrew University's Givat Ram campus; the cornerstone was laid on June 13, 2023 (Courtesy Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Relatively impressiveEinstein archives get new home at Hebrew University

By Jessica Steinberg

Amichai Chikli, minister of Diaspora affairs and social equality, arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 14, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

European, Australian Jewish student leaders pan Israel’s ‘extremist’ diaspora affairs minister

By Canaan Lidor

A man watches a television showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on June 15, 2023. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP)

North Korea launches 2 ballistic missiles in protest of US-South Korea drills

In this courtroom sketch, shooting survivor Andrea Wedner, right, testifies, Wednesday, June 14, 2023, in Pittsburgh, in the federal trial of Robert Bowers. (David Klug via AP)

Survivor tells of last moments with slain mom as synagogue attack trial nears verdict

By AP and JTA

An Israel Police cruiser that hit an uninvolved car during a chase, causing injuries to six people, July 14, 2023. (Rescuers Without Borders. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Girl, 8, seriously injured as police car hits uninvolved vehicle during chase

Boris Johnson leaves his house in London, on March 22, 2023. (Alberto Pezzali/AP)

British MPs find Boris Johnson deliberately misled Parliament over ‘partygate’ as PM

By DANICA KIRKA and SYLVIA HUI

Rep. Adam Schiff, Democrat of California, speaks as the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol holds its final meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, December 19, 2022. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

Democrat Adam Schiff avoids House censure over his Trump-Russia collusion claims

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

People cross the border from Sudan to South Sudan at the Joda border crossing in South Sudan on May 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick, file)

UN says 2 million displaced in Sudan since beginning of conflict in April

Chicago Cubs' Matt Mervis celebrates his two-run home run off New York Mets starting pitcher Tylor Megill with third base coach Willie Harris during the second inning of a baseball game Tuesday, May 23, 2023, in Chicago. (AP/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Diamond dealingCubs slugger Mervis hawks Hebrew merch to boost baseball in Israel

By Gabe Friedman

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