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What Matters Most On Monday, June 19, 2023

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First Israeli airstrikes in West Bank since early 2000s

5 Palestinians dead, 8 IDF troops hurt in Jenin battle; Apache carries out airstrikes

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli military vehicle hit by roadside bomb, gunfire; helicopter gunship fires missiles at gunmen to allow evacuation of wounded troops; 91 Palestinians said hurt

An Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache attack helicopter releases flares during an Israeli army raid in Jenin in the West Bank on June 19, 2023. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Far-right minister calls for use of tanks, airpower after heavy clashes in Jenin

By ToI Staff and AP

Medics attend to an IDF soldier wounded in an alleged car-ramming attack in the northern West Bank, June 19, 2023. (Magen David Adom)

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Two soldiers hurt in car-ramming attack in northern West Bank, IDF says

Troops returned fire at Palestinian suspects who accelerated toward them

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IDF confirms soldiers were hurt in ramming attack
6:01 pm

Iran accuses Israel, 19 other countries of fomenting Amini protests
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2 soldiers wounded in suspected car-ramming incident in northern West Bank

Explainer

Government gears up to advance smaller parts of overhaul after talks suspended

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised on Sunday that his government would begin unilaterally advancing legislation to enact key aspects of its effort to overhaul the judiciary, amid a breakdown in negotiations between the coalition and the opposition that were aimed at reaching a compromise on legal reforms. Netanyahu did not specify which parts of his... Continue Reading

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with the architects of the proposed judicial overhaul, Justice Minister Yariv Levin and MK Simcha Rothman (standing) in the Knesset on February 15, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) with Justice Minister Yariv Levin at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 7, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

PM said to tell ministers current bill for coalition to control judicial panel is dead

Illustrative: The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. November 29, 2020. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Shekel weakens as Netanyahu puts judicial reform back on the agenda

By Sharon Wrobel

Pick-Goslar survived to have three children, 11 grandchildren and 33 great-grandchildren. (Eric Sultan/The Lonka Project via JTA)

Interview

In new memoir, Anne Frank’s best friend tells incredible story of Holocaust survival

By Shira Li Bartov

In ‘My Best Friend Anne Frank,’ the late Hannah Pick-Goslar talks about how she grew up with the future icon and their brief reunion at Bergen-Belsen during Frank’s last days

‘An obstacle to peace’: US lambasts Israeli moves to expand West Bank settlements

The US State Department said Sunday that it was "deeply troubled" by a pair of Israeli moves aimed at significantly advancing settlement construction in the West Bank, which Washington branded as an "obstacle to peace." The Biden administration has long criticized Israel over its policies in the West Bank, but the decision to... Continue Reading

Pro-settlement activists march to the illegal Evyatar settlement outpost in the northern West Bank during Passover to demand it be repopulated, April 10, 2023. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

Secretary general of the Executive Committee of the PLO Hussein al-Sheikh gives an interview to The Associated Press at his office Ramallah, June 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Palestinians to boycott economic summit with Israel following settlement move

Screen capture from video of Border Police officers clashing with protesting settlers near the settlement of Hermesh in the West Bank, June 18, 2023. (Twitter. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Two Border Police officers suspended after violent clash with protesting settlers

This is the way the cookie crumbles

The ousting of a highly-regarded champion for women’s equality is just one example of the meltdown of good governance

When ‘Under Your Wing’ became poetry to my ears

Arik Einstein’s mournful love song brought to life words by one of the greatest poets of modern Hebrew

Analysis

Character of the judiciary at stake in Tuesday’s Israel Bar Association elections

On Tuesday, an event that usually goes largely unnoticed will become the focus of national attention, as this time the outcome may deeply impact the future of the country. That event is the quadrennial leadership elections of the Israel Bar Association (IBA), the professional body representing tens of thousands of attorneys around the country. This year's... Continue Reading

Interim head of the Israel Bar Association Amit Becher (left) and former Israel Bar Association head Efi Nave (right). Becher and Nave are the leading candidates in the elections for IBA chairman set for June 20, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90 and Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Intel's Kiryat Gat plant on November 14, 2016 (Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 19: Tension before Israel Bar election; Intel vote of confidence

Shalom and Esti Yaniv (left and center) and their daughter Kama meet with Ron Carmeli, who received a donated cornea from Hillel and Yagel Yaniv. Beilinson Hospital, June 18, 2023. (Tamar Cohen)

'Their beautiful eyes will continue to light up our world'

Families of terror victims Yaniv brothers, Lucy Dee meet recipients of their corneas

By Renee Ghert-Zand

The eyesight of 6 Israelis has been restored thanks to donated eye tissue transplanted at Beilinson Hospital and Hadassah Medical Center; ‘It was incredibly emotional,’ says doctor

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)

High Court issues interim injunction on law expanding Ben Gvir’s power over police

Far-right minister slams court, urges passing judicial overhaul ‘in its entirety’ as justices signal they’re seriously considering striking down legislation

Coastal Region Police Commander Yoram Sofer Yoram Sofer at a ceremony in Jerusalem on January 1, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Police chief candidate backs tough approach toward ‘thuggery’ of overhaul protesters

US President Bill Clinton, center, Prime Minister Ehud Barak, left, and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat walk on the grounds of Camp David, Maryland, at the start of the Middle East summit on July 11, 2000. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)

Israel agreed to give up sovereignty in part of Jerusalem Old City in 2000 — document

Newly declassified response to Clinton proposal under PM Ehud Barak shows Jerusalem was willing to accept Palestinian sovereignty in much of Temple Mount as basis for peace talks

In this handout photo, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tours Israel Aerospace Industries headquarters, June 18, 2023. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu says Israel opposes nuclear ‘mini-agreements’ with Iran

PM’s comments at cabinet meeting come amid mounting reports of advanced negotiations between Washington and Tehran

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrives June 16, 2023 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Report: Israel to back Saudi bid to host key confab, send delegate to campaign event

File: Former Supreme Court president Aharon Barak in Jerusalem, December 8, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ex-chief justice backs partial curb on court oversight if rest of overhaul shelved

Aharon Barak says he’d support limit on ‘reasonableness’ doctrine ‘if it satisfies’ Justice Minister Levin; urges adding more judges, reforming prosecution instead of current plan

Illustrative: MK Tally Gotliv attends a conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on November 28, 2022 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Don’t assume everyone is stupid’: Likud MK blasts Netanyahu’s handling of overhaul

Religious Zionism MK Simcha Rothman leaving the Hebrew Book Week Fair amid anti-judicial overhaul protests at Sarona Market, Tel Aviv, June 18, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Protesters disrupt judicial overhaul architect’s visit to Tel Aviv book fair

By Michael Horovitz

'One of the gravest crises the community has ever faced'

India’s Bnei Menashe community in crisis as Manipur rocked by ethnic violence

By Jordyn Haime

NGO Shavei Israel says 1 Jewish victim has been killed, over 1,000 displaced, and 2 synagogues burned as houses and businesses of the minority Kuki tribe are razed

Hadash-Ta'al MK Ofer Cassif, left, argues with Likud MK Hanoch Milwidsky, right, at a Knesset Education, Culture and Sports Committee meeting in Jerusalem on June 19, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

‘Go rape another one,’ ‘worthless terror supporter’: MKs trade barbs at Knesset

Coalition lawmakers threaten to act against youth village for hosting Israeli-Palestinian group’s summer camp, with one of them verbally clashing with Hadash-Ta’al MK

Illustrative: A cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on March 12, 2023. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Otzma Yehudit brawls with Shas over Chief Rabbinate election delay

This composite image shows Likud ministers Galit Distel Atbaryan (L) and Gila Gamliel in 2023. (Tomer Neuberg and Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Likud ministers quarrel in cabinet: ‘Pathetic,’ ‘Bite me, moron, everyone hates you’

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"Falfala" Kfar Qassem BS Club players celebrate winning the beach soccer Euro Winners Cup 2023 in Nazaré, Portugal, June 18, 2023. (Screenshot: Instagram; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Arab Israeli beach soccer club wins European championship for first time

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)

Committee on Arab affairs to include 18 ministers and only one Arab official

People gather for a protest at the Stella Maris Monastery in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, June 18, 2023. (Flash90)

Hundreds protest Hasidic pilgrimages to Haifa monastery

A waste dump visited by Environment Protection Ministry inspectors, June 2023. (Environmental Protection Ministry)

Ministry finds most electronic waste treatment sites are violating environment laws

Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska, center, meets with President Isaac Herzog, right, and with Herzog's wife Michal in Tel Aviv, June 19, 2023. (Igal Slavin)

Ukraine’s first lady meets Herzogs to kick off visit promoting humanitarian issues

Illustrative image: A baby receives a vaccine (Marina Demidiuk via iStock by Getty Images)

Health Ministry rolls out plan to fight whooping cough outbreak

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Illustrative: Troops train in southern Israel, December 16, 2013. (Israel Defense Forces)

Military Police probing theft of machine gun from IDF training ground

By Emanuel Fabian

A screenshot from video of masked suspects firing into the air during a wedding procession in the southern Bedouin town of Tel Sheva, June 16, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

2 arrested over video of masked gunmen firing into air at Bedouin wedding procession

People sit alongside the Bat Yam promenade on March 4, 2017. (Issac Harari/Flash90)

Lifeguard under heavy police protection after shooting alleged criminal

A screenshot from redbuscitytours.com.

Top of the lineDouble-decker tourist buses to debut in Jerusalem

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