Daily Briefing Feb. 26: Why economic implications of judicial overhaul are felt now

Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman on a year to Ukraine war, what’s popping in Papua New Guinea and today’s Jordan summit; Tech Israel editor Sharon Wrobel on a weakening shekel

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.

Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman and Tech Israel editor Sharon Wrobel join host Amanda Borschel-Dan in today’s episode.

We start with an update from last night’s rallies where, for the eighth week in a row, Israelis took to the streets throughout the country to protest the judicial overhaul being advanced by the government. According to organizers, some 300,000 people took part in rallies around the country, making the latest demonstrations the largest ones yet.

In the past several weeks Wrobel has extensively covered the financial implications of the overhaul package, from high-tech leaders threatening to pull their companies out of the Startup Nation, to the tanking shekel. We start with the shekel and move on to warnings from Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron.

We marked a year to the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Friday. Berman reflects on his several trips there for on-the-ground reporting and how things have shifted over the past year.

Today Jordan is hosting a “political-security” meeting between Israel and the Palestinians to try and restore calm to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. What does Berman expect to come out of this meeting?

Berman fills us in with a bit of news for us regarding Papua New Guinea’s soon-to-open embassy.

And finally, we hear about a clip-on device for smart shopping carts developed by an Israeli startup that has customers buying their groceries online — while in the supermarket.