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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 22, 2023

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The scene of an Israeli drone strike on a vehicle near the West Bank city of Jenin on June 21, 2023 (Social media: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

First targeted killing in West Bank since 2006

Israeli drone strike kills 3 Palestinian gunmen in their car in northern West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF and Shin Bet say cell was responsible for recent attacks in area, and had targeted checkpoint moments before being killed

Israeli troops demolish the apartment of Abdel Kamel Jouri, a Palestinian gunman accused of killing a soldier in the West Bank, in the city of Nablus, early June 22, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF razes home of 2nd gunman accused of killing soldier in West Bank last year

By Emanuel Fabian

A screenshot of surveillance video from a mosque in the Palestinian town of Urif shows a masked suspect tearing pages from a book as settlers rampaged there, June 22, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

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CCTV footage shows settler ripping pages out of book at mosque in West Bank town

Footage from settler riot in Urif, hometown of terrorists in Tuesday’s deadly shooting, shows masked man with dog throwing away pages of what Hebrew media reports say was a Quran

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CCTV footage shows settler ripping pages from book at mosque in West Bank town

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Purple from Holy Temple objects traced to snail guts at 3,000-year-old Haifa factory

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Archaeologists uncover new evidence at a Phoenician dye factory that suggests the site was conquered by Israelites around the mid-9th century BCE

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With drone strike, IDF changes West Bank rules in response to emboldened terrorism

The military's use of airpower in the West Bank twice this week, after refraining for two decades, indicates Israel is looking to change the rules of the game when it comes to fighting Palestinian terror. This appears to have come after Palestinian armed groups changed the rules first, by ramping up terror attacks and more heavily resisting Israeli operations. The... Continue Reading

Right: Masked Palestinian gunmen gather during a funeral for those killed in an Israeli army raid in the West Bank city of Jenin, March 8, 2023. Left: The scene of an Israeli drone strike on a vehicle near Jenin on June 21, 2023 (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP; (Social media: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli soldiers and settlers at the entrance to the West Bank town of Turmus Aya, June 21, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

US pans settler rampages, says Netanyahu’s settlement announcement ‘incites tensions’

State Department spokesman calls for those behind Israeli reprisal attacks to be held fully accountable, also slams Israeli practice of holding onto bodies of Palestinian attackers

Palestinian firefighters try to extinguish a fire set by settlers in the West Bank town of Turmus Ayya, June 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Ex-IDF intel chief: Those who burn Palestinian villages destroy Israel’s legitimacy

Screen capture from video of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu making a video statement about violent rioting in the West Bank and on the Golan Heights, June 21, 2023. (GPO)

‘Obey the law’: Netanyahu condemns Druze riots in Golan, West Bank settler rampages

Illegal outpost set up near Eli settlement, while no orders come to evacuate Evyatar

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A new illegal outpost was set up in the West Bank Wednesday night, just a few kilometers from the Eli settlement outside of which four Israelis were killed in a terror attack on Tuesday. Photos provided by Peace Now showed five buildings made of prefabricated metal walls erected at the site, just outside... Continue Reading

Construction equipment and caravan houses are seen at an illegal outpost built near the West Bank settlement of Maale Levona on June 22, 2023, following a deadly terror attack at a nearby gas station two days before. (Courtesy)

Settlement leadership at Evyatar illegal West Bank outpost, June 21, 2023. From left: bereaved father Elisha Guetta, Samaria Council Municipal Chief Rabbi Elyakim Levanon, Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan and Tsofia Borovsky, after whose murdered husband Evyatar the settlement is named. (Courtesy Nachala Settlement Movement)

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Ben Gvir overrules police on freezing wind farm project, despite riots – reports

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Construction work continued on a contentious wind farm on Thursday, after National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir reportedly overruled Israel Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai, who wanted to freeze work on the project following protests and rioting from Druze residents of the Golan Heights. According to a number of... Continue Reading

Druze community members protest against the construction of a new wind farm in the Golan Heights, June 21, 2023 (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Rosella parrots found concealed in the suitcase of an Israeli man at Ben Gurion Airport, June 21, 2023. (Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

Bird in the hand

Smuggler nabbed at airport with dozens of parrots in his suitcase

Man arrives on flight from Belgium with 28 rosellas, a species prohibited for import to Israel due to ecological concerns

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters poses for photographers during a press conference to present 'The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains,' in Rome, January 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

'His behavior should be held to account, not rewarded'

Wish you weren’t here: In Toronto, a group takes a stand against a Pink Floyd exhibit

The Abraham Global Peace Initiative counters anti-Israel messaging from the rock group’s co-founder Roger Waters with its own exhibition preaching tolerance and inclusion

Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli speaks at the AJC Global Forum in Tel Aviv, on June 14, 2023 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Chikli irritated US Democrat lawmakers by telling them he’s ‘not woke’ – report

Diaspora affairs minister with history of contentious remarks made comment at meeting in US earlier this month; says he wasn’t trying to be confrontational

Travelers at the departure hall of Ben Gurion International Airport, April 4, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

65 senators urge Israel’s entry into US Visa Waiver Program by end of September

Newly elected head of the Israeli Bar Association Amit Becher at a press conference for the announcement of the election results for the Israeli Bar Association in Tel Aviv, June 21, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Winning bar contest, Becher spoils coalition hope of controlling judge picks, for now

By Jeremy Sharon

Victorious new Israel Bar Association chair says his election will go down as ‘an important chapter in the history of Israeli democracy’

Lawyers vote in the Israel Bar Association election at the Magistrate's Court in Jerusalem, June 20, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hours after losing battle for Bar Association, Likud moves to void its power

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Yesh Atid lawmaker Orna Barbivai announces her run for Tel Aviv mayor, from an event space overlooking the Tel Aviv Municipality, June 21, 2023. (Credit: Elad Gutman)

Calling for fresh blood and liberalism, MK Barbivai launches Tel Aviv mayor campaign

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Activists use images of watermelons to protest police crackdown on Palestinian flags

By Jeremy Sharon

A campaign protesting against police arresting people who wave Palestinian flags in public and confiscating the banners took to the roads of Tel Aviv on Wednesday, with images of watermelons using the colors of the Palestinian flag tacked onto the shared taxis which serve the metropolis. The project,... Continue Reading

A taxi adorned with a watermelon in the colors of the Palestinian flag to protest a police crackdown on flying the banner, in Tel Aviv on June 21, 2023 (Courtesy: Zazim - Community Action)

National soccer player Mohammad Abu Fani (left) meets with President Isaac Herzog (center) and First Lady Michal Herzog, in Jerusalem, June 20, 2023. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

‘Shame on them’: Arab soccer player denounces racist fans who called him a terrorist

By Michael Horovitz

Defense Minister Yoav Galant attends a ceremony in the Knesset, June 13, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gallant, Ukrainian counterpart discuss joint threat from Iran, missile warning system

Defense minister briefed by Oleksii Reznikov about situation amid ongoing war with Russia; the two talk about Israeli attack alert technology being developed for Ukraine

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From 'Minefield,' one of the upcoming performances at the 62nd Israel Festival, August 1-11, 2023 (Courtesy Carlos Furman)

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‘The answer to what, why, how’: Israel Festival returns this summer

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Annual Jerusalem arts and culture event is loaded with household name performers from Israel and abroad

Closing chapter, National Library holds last hurrah in Hebrew U jewel it called home

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Tzvi Maller, second from left, Jerusalem restaurateur with four of his kids, Eden (far right), Meir, Levav and Tanya who work with him at Mojo's, his new upscale pizzeria (Courtesy Mojo's)

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Illustrative: The Arazim Tunnel is decorated with special lights for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, September 24, 2007 (Michal Fattal/Flash90)

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Illustrative: Israelis take part in the annual Pride Parade in Jerusalem on August 1, 2013. (photo credit: Sarah Schuman/Flash90)

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The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office in London, UK, August 14, 2014. (Wikimedia Commons)

UK watchdog asked to look at Foreign Office over opaqueness on Palestinian aid

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Religious supervision at a fruit and vegetable company, March 20, 2016 (Yaakov Naumi/FLASH90)

High Court says Rabbinate must review exclusion of competitor’s kosher certification

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School board members in McMinn County, Tennessee, objected to Art Spiegelman's 'Maus' because of its language and images. (Philissa Cramer/JTA)

Following criticism, Missouri school board votes not to ban Holocaust book ‘Maus’

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A military police officer speaks with imprisoned Israeli soldiers at Prison Four, Israel's largest military prison, located at the Tzrifin military base on April 26, 2018. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

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Agritech firm N-Drip raises $44 million in Liechtenstein-led funding round

By Sharon Wrobel

Portraits of Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, founder of Hebrew Union College, left, and Rabbi Sally Priesand, the first American woman ordained as a rabbi, right. (Courtesy/Hebrew Union College and the National Portrait Gallery via JTA. Design by Mollie Suss)

Bigger pictureNational Portrait Gallery to display image of 1st ordained US woman rabbi

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Former Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks at a protest rally in central London on March 11, 2023. (Susannah Ireland/AFP)

Glastonbury Festival drops film claiming Corbyn was falsely accused of antisemitism

By Gabe Friedman

Harry Styles performing at the Brit Awards 2023 in London, February 11, 2023. (Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

Show stopperHarry Styles thanks Orthodox friends for walking miles to concert on Shabbat

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