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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 4, 2023

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Justice Minister Yariv Levin unveils his plan for overhauling the judicial system during a press conference at the Knesset on January 4, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

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Justice minister rolls out controversial plan to overhaul judiciary, shackle court

By Joshua Davidovich

Yariv Levin unveils legislative blitz aimed at hobbling judges’ power, claiming decisions overturning government and Knesset moves are damaging democracy; opposition vows fight

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Report: Morocco delaying Tel Aviv embassy until Israel backs Western Sahara claim
7:40 pm

Iran calls in French envoy over magazine's vulgar Khamenei cartoons
7:30 pm

Gallant discusses Iran with US counterpart Austin, in first call

Activists protest to raise awareness of sexual violence against Ukrainian women and children in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, outside the Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv, on April 20, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

ToI investigates

Raped, abused, exploited: Ukrainian women seeking refuge in Israel find no haven

By Inna Lazareva

A harrowing examination reveals much abuse sliding under the authorities’ radar — or being willfully ignored — while the perpetrators remain free to commit further crimes

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Are Haredi parties standing in the way of their community’s prosperity?

All of a sudden, everyone is talking about Haredim. The formation of the new government and the dramatic concessions offered by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the Haredi parties in his coalition has brought the question of the Haredi, or ultra-Ortodox, economy to the forefront of public debate. Front-page feature articles in Israeli media over the past two weeks have laid... Continue Reading

Ultra-Orthodox Jews watch as their rabbi votes in Bnei Brak, Nov. 1, 2022 (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Jews visit the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023.(AP/Maya Alleruzzo)

UN Security Council slated to meet on widely decried Temple Mount visit by Ben Gvir

By Jacob Magid and AP

Session unlikely to lead to formal censure but will reflect anger and concerns surrounding sensitive site, with one US official accusing far-right minister of trying to sow chaos

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 3, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

After visit, Ben Gvir won’t say if he aims to enable Jewish prayer on Temple Mount

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir visits the Temple Mount, January 3, 2023. (Courtesy Minhelet Har Habayit)

Degel Hatorah coalition faction mouthpiece pans Ben Gvir for Temple Mount visit

70% of secular Jewish Israelis feel threatened by new government, survey shows

By Michael Bachner

A big majority among secular Jewish Israelis feel their lifestyles are threatened by the new hardline government, with most left-wing Israelis predicting increased emigration from the country, a survey showed Wednesday. It also found that a majority of Israelis believe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mishandled coalition negotiations by... Continue Reading

An LGBTQ rights protest against the new government, in Tel Aviv, December 29, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Rockets being fired by Islamic Jihad toward Israel from the Gaza Strip, on August 5, 2022. (Attia Muhammed/Flash90)

Rocket launched from Gaza at Israel after threats over Ben Gvir’s Temple Mount visit

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says projectile failed to cross border, landed short in Hamas-run territory; no sirens sounded

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets with the UAE's new ambassador to Israel Mohammad Mahmoud Al Khajah at his Jerusalem office on March 2, 2021. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu’s UAE visit said postponed after Abu Dhabi slams Temple Mount visit

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara (left) in Tel Aviv, July 5, 2022; Shas head Aryeh Deri in Jerusalem, September 12, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90; Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

But Baharav-Miara to defend legislation enabling appointment

AG refuses to defend government in court against petitions over Deri’s appointment

By Jeremy Sharon

Netanyahu argues to High Court that it lacks authority to review Basic Law enabling Shas head’s appointment or to interfere in PM’s discretion to make him interior, health minister

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a conference at the University of Haifa, December 15, 2022. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 4: Next on the docket, Attorney General v. the Government?

Shas party leader MK Aryeh Deri seen during a vote in the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Deri asks attorney general to revoke citizenship of 2 terror convicts set to go free

A goat rescued by police from a man who intended to slaughter it as a Biblical Passover sacrifice in the Old City of Jerusalem, April 10, 2017. (Police spokesperson)

Ben Gvir faces dilemma as activists ask to hold Passover sacrifice on Temple Mount

By Judah Ari Gross

Each year, fringe group tries to slaughter a lamb in line with its interpretation of a biblical edict, and is always denied. But now it’s asking a different kind of police minister

Christian cemetery vandalized on Mount Zion in Jerusalem

Police say many tombstones damaged at Protestant graveyard owned by Anglican church; video shows apparently Jewish men smashing the gravestones

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‘A hell of a variant’: Ultra fast-spreading strain could shake Israel’s COVID calm

COVID-19 experts around the world are watching with concern as the XBB.1.5 subvariant spreads like wildfire in the United States. There aren’t yet confirmed cases in Israel. But some 41 percent of American cases are now categorized as XBB.1.5, doubling the number of diagnoses in just a week, making the strain dominant. And so, with... Continue Reading

File: A nurse administers a COVID-19 test outside the Salt Lake County Health Department, Tuesday, December 20, 2022, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Michael Galbard, 69, who was given a new treatment for a pulmonary embolism at Hadassah Medical Center. (Courtesy: Hadassah Medical Center)

No-knife procedure to avoid some open heart surgeries is now in Israel

By Nathan Jeffay

An image from the Bar Ilan University lab of Prof. Cyrille Cohen, showing two immune cells in green fighting a cancer cell in red, in the new immunotherapy invented there (Cyrille Cohen, Tilda Barliya and Astar Shamul)

After demonstrating 57% remission rate, Israeli immunotherapy licensed by US firm

By Nathan Jeffay

Some 85% of patients improved after taking new therapy developed by Bar Ilan and Hadassah; method involves adding artificial molecule to T-cells

Interview'They're growing tourism on a scale not seen in decades'

Does an Israeli tourism expert’s Saudi Arabia trip hint at possibly warming ties?

By Tal Schneider

When Israeli dual-national Joseph Fischer learned a global hospitality summit was being held in Riyadh, he inquired about attending. He wasn’t refused

Foreign Minister Cohen speaks with Bahraini counterpart, as concerns rise over ties

By Lazar Berman

Kalush Orchestra from Ukraine stand on the stage after winning the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest at Palaolimpico arena, in Turin, Italy, May 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Eurovision organizer warns Netanyahu against threatening Israel’s public broadcaster

EBU director general asks PM to ‘safeguard the independence of Kan’ in order to remain a member; communications minister: I am ‘beholden to Israeli public and not any other body’

Incoming National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (left) meets with Israel Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai on January 1, 2023 (National Security Ministry)

Yesh Atid petitions High Court against law expanding Ben Gvir’s powers over police

MKs Mickey Levy and Yoav Segalovitz, both former police commanders, call last week’s legislation unconstitutional, claiming it aims to ‘turn police into a political entity’

A Border Police officer seen walking in the Palestinian town of al-Ram on January 3, 2023. (Screenshot used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Border Police suspends troops after officer ‘forgotten’ in Palestinian town

By Emanuel Fabian

A Border Police officer seen walking in the Palestinian town of al-Ram on January 3, 2023. (Screenshot used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Border Police launches probe after officer ‘forgotten’ in Palestinian town

By Emanuel Fabian

Ukraine's ambassador to Israel, Yevgen Korniychuk, gives a statement to the media on the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, in Tel Aviv, on March 11, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni‎‏/Flash90)

Ukraine alleges Israeli FM’s call with Lavrov proves Israel changed stance on war

By Lazar Berman

Kyiv fumes at Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, with Ukrainian Ambassador Yevgen Korniychuk saying Jerusalem is remaining silent as Moscow shells civilians

Ukrainian soldiers launch a drone at Russian positions near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, December 15, 2022. (LIBKOS/AP)

AnalysisDrone advances in Ukraine could herald battlefield dawn of autonomous killer robots

By Frank Bajak and HANNA ARHIROVA

Workers clean rubbles after Ukrainian rocket strike in Makiivka, in Russian-controlled Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, January 3, 2023. (AP Photo)

Russia, shaken by deadly Ukrainian strike, may step up use of Iranian killer drones

Members of US Haredi Jewish communities hold a protest before a Board of Regents meeting to vote on new requirements that private schools teach English, math science and history to high school students outside the New York State Education Department Building in Albany, New York, September 12, 2022. (Will Waldron/The Albany Times Union via AP)

US Orthodox group launches campaign against New York Times yeshiva coverage

Agudath Israel of America’s ‘Know Us’ initiative aims to push back against critical series of articles on Jewish schools, using billboards, white paper report, online outreach

Illustrative. High-tech office buildings in Herzliya Pituach, in central Israel, December 12, 2015. (Nati Shohat/ Flash 90/ File)

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Year of the reset: As era of cheap money ends, how will Israeli tech fare in 2023?

By Sharon Wrobel

Israeli tech firms brace for more cost savings, downsizing to get through global slowdown as the strong get stronger and the weak get weaker

Zooz Power deploys first ultra-fast power booster for electric vehicles in Israel

By Sharon Wrobel

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Supporters of Hezbollah attend a televised speech by the group's leader Hassan Nasrallah in the Lebanese capital Beirut on January 3, 2023. (Anwar Amro/AFP)

Hezbollah chief denies rumors of poor health, slams ‘crazy’ new Israeli government

Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti, center, holds flowers as she poses for a photo among her friends after being released from Evin prison in Tehran, Iran, Jan. 4, 2023. (Gisoo Faghfouri, Sharghdaily, via AP)

Iran frees prominent actress who was jailed for backing protests

By AP

German troops carrying a Nazi flag enter the Polish town of Lodz, October 9, 1939. (AP Photo/Pool/Paramount News)

Germany rejects Poland’s request for $1.4 trillion in WWII reparations, says Warsaw

By AP

Israeli modeling agent Shai Avital, who was extradited from the Netherlands and is accused of sexual harassment, arrives for a remand hearing at the Magistrate's Court in Tel Aviv, January 4, 2022. (Koko/Flash90)

Court remands modeling agent accused of sex crimes after year on the run abroad

Mastwell Mandparo's relatives hold her photo during the sentencing of her husband, convicted of her 2020 murder, at the Tel Aviv District Court, January 4, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Man gets life for murdering wife in front of their children, who tried to save her

Soldiers carry the coffin of Staff Sgt. Ido Baruch, killed in a shooting attack in the West Bank, at a military cemetery in Gedera, October 12, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Rise in suicides and in deaths overall among IDF soldiers in 2022, says military

By Emanuel Fabian

Iranian chess player Sara Khadem competes without a headscarf at a chess tournament in Almaty, Kazakhstan, December 26, 2022. (Lennart Ootes/FIDE)

Iranian chess player who shunned hijab moves to Spain after reported threats

Israeli troops operate in the West Bank, early January 4, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Palestinian attempts to snatch soldier’s gun during West Bank raid, IDF says

By Emanuel Fabian

Iranians react during a commemoration ceremony in the capital Tehran on January 3, 2023 marking the third anniversary of the US killing of top Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard officer shot to death on doorstep of Tehran home

Samuel Bankman-Fried arrives at Manhattan federal court, in New York, December 3, 2022. (Seth Wenig/AP)

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty to fraud in US crypto-currency case

By Larry Neumeister

A first edition Superman comic from 1939 is placed with copies of the US Constitution and a variety of holy books for use in the swearing-in ceremonies of new US House members, at the Capitol in Washington, January 3, 2023, the opening day of the 118th Congress. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Steeled for dutyNew US lawmaker to swear in on rare Superman comic book

A bust of Mircea Vulcanescu in Bucharest Romania, seen in 2022. (screen capture: Google Street View)

Bucharest city council rejects plan to remove bust of pro-Nazi minister

By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ

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