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

The constitutional equivalent to 'a revolution with tanks'

Ex-chief justice Barak: Government’s judicial reform plan ‘will strangle democracy’

Other ex-justices, legal figures warn Levin’s proposals a foundational threat to Israel; says one: ‘Nothing in the literature to enable such a country to be considered a democracy’

A nine-judge panel of the High Court of Justice headed by then-Supreme Court President Asher Grunis during a hearing of a petition by human rights groups against the an amendment to the Prevention of Infiltration Law, April 1, 2014. (Flash90)

US not planning to pressure Israel to call off legal overhaul

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid speaks during a Yesh Atid faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 2, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lapid panned for vacationing as protests against government legal overhaul begin

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses a rare meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Central Council, on February 6, 2021. (WAFA)

'The PA is the enemy,' says Israel's ambassador to the UN

Israel to withhold PA tax revenue, impose other sanctions after Abbas’s UN success

Funds will be withheld to compensate terror victims and offset payments to terrorists, West Bank construction to be frozen, after PA pushed UN to have ICJ weigh in on occupation

Gilad Erdan, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, speaks during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, January 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

‘Poison, lies’: Israeli, Palestinian envoys spar at fiery UN session on Temple Mount

Illustrative: Israeli troops operate in the West Bank, early January 3, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Settlement guard, military post targeted in shooting attacks near Nablus — IDF

By Emanuel Fabian

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) talks with then-coalition chairman MK David Amsalem during a Likud party faction meeting at the Knesset on November 19, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Demoted Likud MK Amsalem accuses Netanyahu of racism, ‘humiliating’ Sephardic voters

Most senior party lawmaker not to receive a portfolio accuses PM of deliberate snub: ‘No one will humiliate us Mizrahi Jews, not even a prime minister from Likud’

Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset on January 2, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lapid predicts internal squabbling, popular dissent will see government fall by 2024

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset on November 8, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Netanyahu said looking to axe public servants appointed by previous government

Start-Up Nation Central

Innovation Diplomacy: Bringing Israel’s Start-Up Nation Story to the World

Yariv Becher, VP of Innovation Diplomacy at Startup-Nation Central, explains how innovation and business collaboration are the key to greater prosperity in the Middle East.

Basic Law: The Military says only defense minister in charge

Kohavi said to tell Netanyahu IDF won’t answer in any way to Smotrich and Ben Gvir

Outgoing military chief of staff Aviv Kohavi has reportedly told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and other senior coalition politicians that the Israel Defense Forces will not be answerable in any way to ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, even though the two far-right... Continue Reading

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi during an event honoring outstanding IDF reservists, at the President's residence in Jerusalem on July 1, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, the head of naval operations, and the incoming IDF spokesman, is seen in an official undated potrait (Israel Defense Forces)

Senior Navy officer Daniel Hagari tapped as IDF spokesperson

By Emanuel Fabian

Likud leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with Otzma Yehudit party chief MK Itamar Ben Gvir at the Knesset on December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

Analysis

Israel’s nervous allies signal they want Netanyahu – not Ben Gvir – calling shots

Far-right minister’s Temple Mount visit throws PM’s ambitious diplomatic agenda off track; if peace with Saudis is to be an option, he needs to show that he sets policy

(L) Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Yael Lempert, (C) Israel’s Foreign Ministry Director-General Alon Ushpiz and (R) Bahrain’s Undersecretary for International Affairs Sheikh Abdullah bin Ahmed Al Khalifa at the Negev Summit follow-up in Bahrain, June 27, 2022 (Foreign Ministry)

Negev Forum steering committee to meet in UAE to prepare next summit

By Lazar Berman

Interview'The twist is there's more than one monster in this story'

Did father Robert Maxwell’s early abuse taint Ghislaine long before she met Epstein?

By JP O’ Malley

In his new book ‘Hunting Ghislaine,’ UK journalist John Sweeney claims a horrific childhood made the magnate’s daughter into a sociopath and set the stage for her sex crimes

George Noll, head of the US Office of Palestinian Affairs, returns a looted "ceramic spoon" to Palestinian Authority Tourism and Antiquities Minister Rula Maayah, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, January 5, 2022. (US Office of Palestinian Affairs)

US gives Palestinians looted antiquity owned by Steinhardt, in 1st such repatriation

American diplomat hails return of ‘cosmetic spoon’ from Assyrian period as ‘a historic moment’; object was seized from the Jewish American billionaire as part of criminal probe

Explainer

Carrie Keller-Lynn

With no formally designated acting PM, potential chaos were Netanyahu incapacitated

Maintaining his long-held policy, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declined to designate an acting prime minister when Israel's 37th government was sworn in last week. The decision could potentially create political chaos if 73-year-old Netanyahu were to suddenly vacate his seat or be incapacitated. Likud party sources confirmed that Netanyahu has not named and does not plan... Continue Reading

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Minister of the Interior and Health Aryeh Deri during the swearing in ceremony of the new government at the Knesset, on December 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on January 3, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu undergoes routine colonoscopy, said in good health; Deri fills in

The blessing of not knowing

The end of Jacob’s story shows how bad it can be to live with uncertainty, but if terrible things were in your future, would you really want to know? (Vayechi)

A house of prayer for all humanity

Islam once accepted Solomon’s declaration that the Temple’s sanctity was for everyone, and I dare hope that this place of dispute will again become a place of peace

Expert says don’t panic but be vigilant

Israel on alert for strep A, which has killed 151 in the UK since September

By Nathan Jeffay

Israel’s Health Ministry has raised concerns about the spread of strep A, a bacteria that has recently caused 29 child deaths in the UK. Streptococcus, widely known as strep, commonly causes a sore throat and flu-like symptoms. But in rare cases the bacteria becomes invasive, growing in blood or... Continue Reading

Illustrative: A child gets examined by a doctor for strep (macniak via iStock by Getty Images)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Collage/AP)

Zelensky adviser: Netanyahu could be an ‘effective mediator’ between Kyiv, Moscow

Mykhailo Podolyak tells Israeli TV that returning PM ‘understands precisely what modern wars are,’ as well as the ‘essence of mediation’

Local residents carry the body of a 20-year-old man killed in Russian shelling in Kherson, Ukraine, Thursday, January 5, 2023. (AP Photo/LIBKOS)

Putin orders 36-hour ceasefire in Ukraine for Orthodox Christmas

By ANDREW MELDRUM

Times Will Tell

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Podcast: ‘Antisemitism is now a form of entertainment – and that’s new’

This week on Times Will Tell we’re speaking with Prof. Alvin Rosenfeld, the director of Indiana University’s Center for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism. Rosenfeld founded the Jewish Studies program at Indiana University some 50 years ago and served as its director for 30 years. But retirement has eluded him: In 2009, after observing the... Continue Reading

Indiana University Prof. Alvin Rosenfeld, December 2022. (Gale Nichols)

The icon for TikTok phone app, taken in New York, February 25, 2020. (AP Photo)

Jan. 6 commission: Average TikToker sees Nazi content after 75 minutes

Analysis

Despite some missteps, Benedict XVI was a committed friend to the Jews

The 2019 film "The Two Popes" presents Francis as a warm, avuncular man of the people. His predecessor Benedict XVI, the pope emeritus who was laid to rest in the Vatican on Thursday, couldn't be more different, at least in the movie's telling. He is portrayed as a cold, harsh pontiff, out of step with the pastoral needs of the... Continue Reading

File: In this May 28, 2006 photo, then-pope Benedict XVI walks through the gate of the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher, File)

Faithful attend the funeral mass for late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, January 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Photo essayMosaic of mourners bids farewell to Benedict XVI

By AP

Hosam Naoum, a Palestinian Anglican bishop, pauses where vandals desecrated more than 30 graves at a historic Protestant Cemetery on Jerusalem's Mount Zion in Jerusalem, January 4, 2023. (AP Photo/ Mahmoud Illean)

US condemns ‘despicable’ vandalism of Christian cemetery in Jerusalem

US Office of Palestinian Affairs, Biden’s antisemitism envoy condemn damage to roughly 30 graves at Protestant burial site by pair of suspects who remain at large

Damaged tombstones at the Protestant Mount Zion Cemetery, in Jerusalem, January 3, 2023. (Israel Police)

Police arrest two teens for vandalizing Christian cemetery in Jerusalem

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Mourners gather around the coffins of four out of eight Palestinian migrants who died off the Tunisian coast, during their funeral at a mosque in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, December 18, 2022. (AP/Fatima Shbair)

As young Gazans die at sea, anger rises over Hamas leaders’ extended sojourns abroad

By AP and ToI Staff

In recent months, high-profile officials have quietly decamped to upscale hotels in Beirut, Doha and Istanbul, stirring resentment among residents of the impoverished Strip

File: Coca Cola beverages on sale in Israel (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Backlash from top international obesity experts after Israel scraps soft drink tax

By Nathan Jeffay

Specialists say ‘science is clear’ on sweetened drinks, urge rethink; Israeli scholar claims canceling tax is ‘an act of public health malpractice and an outrage’

Incoming minister of Education Yoav Kisch (right) at replacement ceremony for outgoing minister Yifat Shasha-Biton (not seen), at the Ministry of Education in Jerusalem on January 1, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussil/Flash90)

New education minister scraps predecessor’s matriculation reforms

Incoming Benjamin Netanyahu with fellow Likud MKs in the Knesset, December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Likud plans to expand ‘Norwegian Law’ to increase number of politicians in office

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Britain's Prince William, left, and Prince Harry walk beside each other after viewing the floral tributes for the late Queen Elizabeth II outside Windsor Castle, in Windsor, England, September 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

In memoir, Prince Harry said to claim infamous Nazi costume was William’s idea

By ToI Staff and AP

Report says that Harry being widely chastised while his brother suffered no consequences marked a turning point in the young royal’s relationship with his family

A copy of the "En la sombra" (In the shadow) Spanish version of Britain's Prince Harry's autobiography "Spare" is pictured at a reader's home in Madrid on January 5, 2023, despite the publication date set at January 10 with stringent measures in place. (Oscar Del Pozo/AFP)

Leaked Spanish version of Prince Harry’s book details sex, drugs, fights and killing

By Helen Rowe and Phil HAZLEWOOD

More Headlines

From Left: David Duchovny as Arnold, Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Shelley, Jonah Hill (writer-producer) as Ezra, Lauren London as Amira, Eddie Murphy as Akbar, and Nia Long as Fatima in 'You People.' (Parrish Lewis/Netflix via JTA)

MachatonimIn new film, Jonah Hill finds love with Farrakhan follower’s daughter

By Andrew Lapin

Israeli troops arrest a wanted Palestinian in the West Bank, early December 8, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Two Palestinians, Arab Israeli teen arrested over alleged terror bombing plot

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative. Israel Police in Bat Yam. on February 27, 2017. (Moti Karelitz/ Flash90/ File)

Rishon Lezion teen killed in stabbing, suspect arrested

Iranian chef Navab Ebrahimi films a cooking video in December, 2022. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Iran jails celebrity chef who posted cutlets video on Soleimani killing anniversary

By AFP

The scene of a shooting in Rishon Lezion on January 5, 2022. (Magen David Adom)

Contractor shot dead at point-blank range in Rishon Lezion; suspect at large

View of the Western Wall plaza and the Dome of the Rock in the background, in Jerusalem's Old City, December 23, 2021. (Lee Aloni/Flash90)

2 men attack Western Wall worker who stopped them bringing women to male section

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: Police at the scene of an apparent criminal shooting at the Re'im Parking Lot, near the border with the Gaza Strip, December 24, 2022. (Israel Police)

One man killed, another seriously wounded in shooting in northern town of I’billin

An Israeli food tech startup makes cow-free milk for commercial use by manufacturers in traditionally dairy-based products including cheeses, yogurt, and ice cream. (Remilk)

Israel seeks to create R&D fermentation hub to maintain food tech edge

By Sharon Wrobel

The scene of a shooting in Zarzir, January 5, 2022. (Magen David Adom)

Five wounded in shooting in north, one critically

A construction site in Israel, May 2022. (Roman Mykhalchuk via iStock by Getty Images)

Israel’s housing market is headed for rough terrain in 2023, experts say

By Danielle Nagler

In this Wednesday, January 18, 2012 file photo, a blackout landing page is displayed on a laptop computer screen inside the 'Anti-Sopa War Room' at the offices of the Wikipedia Foundation in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Wikimedia disputes activist claims of Saudi ‘infiltration’

By AFP

Yoel Lhanghal (Courtesy)

Three police officers charged with obstructing investigation of teen’s murder

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