Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 15-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world, from Sunday through Thursday.

Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur and religions reporter Canaan Lidor join host Amanda Borschel-Dan on today's episode. 

President Isaac Herzog, fresh from his trip to the United States, spent yesterday evening visiting each of the major party leaders, trying to find some common ground. We hear how Rettig Gur sees the events of yesterday playing out.

Yesterday began with a prayer for unity at the Western Wall. Lidor tells us what one of the organizers, Malka Puterkovsky, an influential Talmud teacher who lives in the settlement of Tekoa, explained about the motivations for the event.

On Thursday of last week, an editorial in Yated Ne’eman -- an influential newspaper aligned with the United Torah Judaism political party -- seemed to push for compromise on some elements of the judicial overhaul, including the reasonableness bill. Is this a change of heart?

Rettig Gur finishes the program by explaining who may be to blame for the deep-seated lack of trust felt in Israel today. 

Discussed articles include:

‘Time of emergency’: Dueling overhaul rallies as Herzog makes final bid for compromise

Activists on both sides of overhaul debate hold mass Western Wall prayer for unity

Key Haredi newspaper questions wisdom of continued backing of judicial overhaul

As judiciary fight reaches a climax, both sides set to lose

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IMAGE: Anti-overhaul activists block a road during a protest against the government's judicial overhaul, near the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on July 24, 2023. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

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