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What Matters Most On Sunday, January 8, 2023

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Justice Minister Yariv Levin (L), Interior Minister Aryeh Deri (2nd L), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Tzahi Braverman (R) at a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, January 8, 2023 (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu blasts ‘baseless’ claim judicial overhaul would end Israeli democracy

PM says coalition is carrying out the will of the people, a day after former Supreme Court president attacked the planned reforms and thousands demonstrated in Tel Aviv

Israelis attend a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, on January 7, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Thousands rally in Tel Aviv against new government, judicial overhaul plans

President of the Israel Bar Association Avi Himi speaks at a conference in Tel Aviv, September 2, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

Outgoing Bar Association chief slams ‘delusional, dangerous’ judicial overhaul plans

Former Supreme Court president Aharon Barak in a January 7, 2023 TV interview (Channel 13 screenshot)

Warns Israelis: Rights to dignity, freedom, life, in danger

Ex-top judge Barak: ‘Put me before a firing squad’ if it’ll stop move to tyranny

Former Supreme Court president calls planned judicial reforms ‘poison pills’ that would mark ‘beginning of the end’ for Israel. Levin: He ‘doesn’t understand essence of democracy’

Attorney Alan Dershowitz leaves federal court, in New York, December 2, 2019. (Richard Drew/AP)

Dershowitz: Judicial overhaul will make Israel much harder to defend on global stage

By AP and ToI Staff

A protester wearing a rubber mask depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demonstrates in front of the Supreme Court in Jerusalem against the appointment of Aryeh Deri, the leader of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, as the new interior and health minister, January 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 8: ‘Talmudic’ arguments in Minister Deri’s cliffhanger hearing

Malki reportedly forced to wait in line at Allenby Crossing

Palestinian Authority foreign minister says Israel revoked his travel permit

By AP and ToI Staff

The Palestinian Authority foreign minister said Sunday that Israel revoked his travel permit, part of a series of punitive steps against the Palestinians that Israel's new hardline government announced days ago in the wake of a PA initiative at the UN against Israel's holding of the West Bank. Riyad al-Malki said in a... Continue Reading

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Malki speaks during a press conference at the International Criminal Court on May 22, 2018. (Mike Corder/AP)

Officers disperse a parents' committee meeting in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya amid 'terror summit' claims, January 7, 2023 (Israel Police)

Police disperse parents’ committee meeting dubbed ‘terror summit’ in East Jerusalem

Fatah officials Azzam al-Ahmad (left), Mahmoud Aloul (2nd from right), stand next to Karim Younis (center) in the village of 'Ara in northern Israel, January 7, 2023. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Gallant revokes entry permits of 3 PA officials who visited freed terror convict

By Emanuel Fabian

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.

Housing and Construction Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf at his handover ceremony from outgoing minister Ze'ev Elkin, at the Housing Ministry in Jerusalem, January 1, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

UTJ leader claims work breaks vague coalition promise

Haredi party demands end to Shabbat train work, in first test for coalition

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Likud-held Transportation Ministry officials refuse, warning of service delays if maintenance is pushed to weekdays

From the blogs

The judicial apocalypse is not upon us

The real democratic deficit is in decades of judicial supremacy, in which the Supreme Court may ‘override’ the Knesset and has final say on any matter it chooses

A collection of hacksilber from Tel el-Ajjul in Gaza. (Courtesy IAA)

Archaeology'This is the earliest evidence of hoarded silver' in region

Newly analyzed 3,600-year-old silver pieces are 1st currency in Levant, study shows

By Melanie Lidman

Silver pieces from Anatolia reveal robust trade routes and the use of currency 500 years earlier than previously thought, University of Haifa and Hebrew University research finds

Closing their talks at the Negev Summit, (from left) Bahrain's Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid al-Zayani, Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, Israel's Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Morocco's Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, and United Arab Emirates' Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, March 28, 2022, in Sde Boker, Israel. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

US laments Jordan’s absence from Negev Forum, aims to keep Palestinians in loop

As teams from Israel, Arab allies meet in UAE this week, senior US official says Arab states will be keeping eye on policies of new hardline Israeli government

An image of the new 50-dinar banknote unveiled in December 2022 by the Central Bank of Jordan. (Screenshot from Facebook, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Jordan unveils new 50-dinar banknote featuring Temple Mount in Jerusalem

Supporters of Brazilian former president Jair Bolsonaro vandalize objects inside the Congress building in Brasilia after breaking in, January 8, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

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After election loss, Bolsonaro supporters storm Brazil’s Congress, Supreme Court

By Michael Bachner

In scenes resembling insurrection at US Capitol, protesters, who have denied former president’s election loss, also breach presidential palace a week after rival Lula regains power

7:05 pm

After election loss, masses of Bolsonaro supporters storm Brazil's Congress, Supreme Court
6:55 pm

IDF thwart attempted smuggling of 22 handguns from Jordan to West Bank
6:52 pm

Ben Gvir said to order police to remove Palestinian flag wherever it flies

Faydra L. Shapiro

Anti-Christian hate crimes in Israel: Where are our chief rabbis?

For Jewish religious leaders to walk a moral path, they must speak out to protect Israel’s minorities and prevent Jewish radicals from turning violent

Lessons for Israelis from the turbulent Trump years

Outrage fatigue is real, unlikely partnerships are possible, and other hard-won insights from an American Jew who’s been here…and there

Miri Regev and Moshe Ben Zaken, right, at the Likud party headquarters on March 2, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Amid AG pushback, cabinet delays appointment of new Transportation Ministry chief

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Legal officials say there’s obstacle to approving appointment of Miri Regev confidant; former Levin adviser with no legal qualifications okayed as Justice Ministry director general

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

Senior Likud MK escalates criticism as Netanyahu denies ethnic discrimination

Rachel Schwartz stands in front of a piece of graffiti that plays on the commandment to wear tzitzit, written in the Hebrew feminine. (Courtesy of Rachel Schwartz/JTA)

'They just remind me of my obligations, my mitzvot'

Embracing their place on ‘the fringes,’ queer artists reimagine Jewish ritual garb

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Now with garments on sale online, the Tzitzit Project is an art initiative founded to create tzitzit and prayer shawls for a variety of bodies, genders and religious denominations

A building damaged by a Russian rocket attack in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, January 8, 2023. (Twitter photo screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Russia claims to kill 600 Ukrainian troops in ‘retaliatory strike’ in Kramatorsk

By AFP and ToI Staff

Kremlin says 1,300 soldiers stationed in 2 buildings were targeted as revenge for Kyiv’s deadly New Year’s attack on Makiiva barracks

Serhiy Petrovytch Doumenko, Metropolitan Epifaniy of Kyiv, Head of Ukraine church, leads an Orthodox Christmas service at Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery in Kyiv on January 7, 2023. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP)

Little letup in fighting as Ukraine marks Orthodox Christmas under Russian invasion

By Daria ANDRIIEVSKA and Robbie COREY-BOULET

Composite image showing Mohammad Karami (right) and Mohammad Hosseini, executed in Iran for allegedly killing a Basij paramilitary member during a demonstration in the city of Karaj in November 2022. (Twitter photo screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

US condemns in ‘strongest terms’ Iran’s latest executions of protesters

By ToI Staff and AFP

State Department spokesman says Tehran held ‘sham trials’ for Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini; EU says it’s ‘appalled’

A woman, wearing the chador, a head-to-toe garment, walks on a sidewalk in front of a mural showing the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, right, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, and Basij paramilitary force, at Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) street, in downtown Tehran, Iran, Jan. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

AnalysisIran sends conflicting messages, with clerics divided on protest response

By IAN TIMBERLAKE

Agents wearing protective suits examine substances on the premises of the fire brigade in Castrop-Rauxel, western Germany, following arrests on suspicion of preparing an 'Islamist attack' using cyanide and ricin, on January 8, 2023. (Christoph Reichwein / DPA / AFP)

Iranian arrested in Germany on suspicion of Islamist chemical attack plot

By AFP

Newly-elected Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, Republican-California, talks to reporters after a contentious battle to lead the GOP majority in the 118th Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, January 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

From slapstick comedy to political thriller: Crazy week in US House resembles movie

By Camille CAMDESSUS and Charlotte Plantive

Normally a routine formality, election of new speaker for House of Representatives sent off the rails by 2 dozen right-wing rebels before McCarthy selected on 4th day of voting

Republican Representative Richard Hudson of North Carolina, left, pulls Republican Representative Mike Rogers of Alabama, back as they talk with Republican Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida, and others during the 14th round of voting for speaker as the House meets for the fourth day to try and elect a speaker and convene the 118th Congress in Washington, January 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

AnalysisChaos in the US House after midnight: How McCarthy became speaker, at 15th attempt

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

Report: Lebanon urging Hezbollah to prevent local Hamas cell from attacking Israel

By Emanuel Fabian

Lebanese security officials are concerned over plans by the Palestinian Hamas terror group to carry out an attack against Israel from southern Lebanon, local media reported Saturday. The Beirut Observer news site published a list of Hamas members who were allegedly involved in planning attacks without the involvement... Continue Reading

Fighters with the Izz-Al Din Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, on April 18, 2021. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

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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)

Ben Gvir scrapping rule allowing any lawmaker to visit security prisoners

Bank of Israel governor Amir Yaron (third from left) hands conditional bank license to Shmuel Hauser (third from right), chairman of a new digital banking venture led by Nir Zuk, the founder of cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks. (Courtesy/Bank of Israel)

Clal to buy NIS 100 million stake in Israel’s 2nd digital bank

By Sharon Wrobel

Illustrative: The Lightyear 0, a fully solar-powered vehicle, is displayed at the Lightyear booth doing CES 2023 at the Las Vegas Convention Center on January 6, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (David Becker/Getty Images/AFP)

Green tech vies for limelight at major gadget convention in Las Vegas

By Glenn Chapman

A car damaged in an explosion that injured two men in Netanya, January 8, 2023. (Israel Police)

Two Netanya residents injured in car explosion

French Culture Minister Rima Abdul-Malak, Paris' mayor Anne Hidalgo (5th from right), French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin (4th from right) and French National Assembly president Yael Braun-Pivet (3rd from right) attend a ceremony marking the eigth anniversary of the jihadist attack of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that killed 12 people in Paris, on January 7, 2023. (Geoffroy Van der Hasselt / POOL / AFP)

France honors Charlie Hebdo attack victims as Iran rages over new cartoons

By AFP and ToI Staff

Faithful visit the tomb of late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI inside the grottos of St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, January 8, 2023. (Gregorio Borgia/AP)

Public now can see Benedict’s tomb at St. Peter’s Basilica

By AP

View of Batumi, the second largest city in Georgia, located by the Black Sea coast, May 30, 2021. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

Israeli falls to his death at Georgian Black Sea resort

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, people wearing face masks with their luggage prepare to catch their trains at the North Railway Station in Shenzhen in south China's Guangdong province, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (Liang Xu/Xinhua via AP)

Travelers rush to take advantage of China reopening

By AP

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