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What Matters Most On Monday, January 9, 2023

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Justice Minister Yariv Levin holds a press conference announcing his judicial overhaul agenda in the Knesset, January 4, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Government intends to pass sweeping judicial overhaul by end of March

By Jeremy Sharon

Legislation to enact four components of coalition’s legal reforms to be submitted to government by end of January, with passage of bills sought by end of Knesset winter session

Supreme Court President Esther Hayut (L) arrives for a court hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on January 5, 2023; Justice Minister Yariv Levin holds a press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on January 4, 2023. (Flash90)

Government’s judicial overhaul will give it full control of judge selection – report

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at an Otzma Yehudit faction meeting in the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 9, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

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Ben Gvir: Police must arrest protesters who block roads at rallies

National security minister says ‘freedom of expression is not freedom of incitement,’ says he will instruct Israel Police to act the same toward left-wing and right-wing protests

7:07 pm

Netanyahu to AIPAC: It's time to 'close ranks' between Israel and the US on Iran
6:46 pm

Strong 7.6-magnitude quake hits off the coast of Indonesia
6:15 pm

US says Iran may be 'contributing' to war crimes in Ukraine

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich holds a press conference with bereaved families at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, January 8, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Finance minister touts 'justice' for terror victims

Withholding millions from PA, Smotrich says he has ‘no interest’ in its existence

$40 million in tax revenues to be transferred to relatives of terror victims as part of new government’s sanctions against Ramallah

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh greets European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in the West Bank city of Ramallah, June 14, 2022. (Flash90/File)

Israeli sanctions will lead to Palestinian Authority’s collapse, warns PM Shtayyeh

By Tobias Siegal

The Knesset's House Committee chair Likud MK Ofir Katz during a debate on fast-tracking bills that would annul the citizenship of convicted terrorists who receive stipends from the Palestinian Authority, in the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 9, 2023. (Noam Moshkovitz, Knesset spokesperson)

Knesset to fast-track bills revoking citizenship of terror convicts getting PA wages

By Tobias Siegal

Coalition legislation set to be approved by plenum within 2 weeks; Arab MK Tibi says it singles out Arabs; Likud MK retorts: ‘I prefer Jewish murderers over Arab murderers’

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A man holds a Palestinian flag near others holding Israeli flags near Jerusalem's Old City during Jerusalem Day celebrations, May 29, 2022. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Fuming over feted terrorist, Ben Gvir orders cops to tear down any Palestinian flags

Police reportedly unsure whether they have legal basis to enforce order, issued by hardline national security minister in latest reaction to celebrations for freed terror convict

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (center) and police chief Kobi Shabtai outside police headquarters in Jerusalem, January 9, 2023. (Police)

Ben Gvir visits police HQ after taking over ministry that controls the force

Arab Israeli Karim Younis is carried by friends and relatives following his release after 40 years in an Israeli prison for kidnapping and murdering an Israeli soldier, on January 5, 2023, in the northern Israeli town of 'Ara. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Ben Gvir said to summon police chief over celebrations of terror convict’s release

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

The steering committee of the Negev Forum meets in Abu Dhabi, January 9, 2023 (UAE Foreign Ministry)

Israel, most Arab partners meet in UAE to prepare for Negev Forum summit in Morocco

By Lazar Berman

Over 20 Israeli officials join delegation led by Foreign Ministry Director Alon Ushpiz for Abu Dhabi gathering of Abraham Accords countries, Egypt and US; Jordan stays away again

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

Cairo sees Israel as being led by ‘2 governments,’ Egypt official reportedly says

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi (right) on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 27, 2018. (Avi Ohayon / PMO)

Report: Sissi irate after Netanyahu fails to prevent Ben Gvir’s Temple Mount visit

Micha Odenheimer

10 precepts for a new Israeli center

The principles uniting a solid majority of citizens would need to speak fluent Jewish, reflect patriotism, and uphold the primacy of democracy and human rights

Zvika Fogel is saying the quiet part out loud

When an Otzma Yehudit MK articulates the venomous truth of the party’s goals that party head Itamar Ben Gvir has learned to cloak in civility, believe him

Law without order

Israel’s new government is working hard to equate the common good with its own goals, while it redefines governance to suit its immediate, narrow focus

Joshua Hammerman

Heschel’s audacity and Hamlin’s injury

With a young black player nearly dying in the ’blood sport’ that is NFL football, might this be an hour that ’calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity’?

Doron Almog, chair of the Jewish Agency (center, in white shirt), visits new immigrants at Ulpan Etzion, a Hebrew-language immersion center in Jerusalem on his first day on the job, August 21, 2022. (Maxim Dinstein/Jewish Agency)

Interview'Will do everything' to thwart revoking of grandchild clause

Jewish Agency chief preaches unity, but readies for battle over Law of Return

By Judah Ari Gross

Doron Almog says he hopes to connect Jews’ hearts, find compromise for conversions and act as the voice of world Jewry, even if it means speaking out to Israel’s own government

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox men clash with police and security guards during a protest against construction work for the Jerusalem Light Rail, on June 8, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Economy Ministry rebuffs Haredi minister, says rail work on Shabbat will continue

UTJ had earlier demanded maintenance work on intercity rail system be halted on Jewish day of rest; Netanyahu said to promise non-critical work will be halted

File: Ultra-Orthodox children on the first day of school in Neve Yaakov in Jerusalem, August 9, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

170 local council leaders say they will oppose funding private Haredi schools

By Ash Obel and Michael Bachner

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

Viral video shared by PM’s son of ‘leftists burning rabbi’s photo’ found to be fake

Disinformation watchdog says crudely spliced video, showing picture of Rabbi Chaim Druckman going up in flames, was likely disseminated by foreign agents seeking to sow discord

Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a court hearing in his trial at the Jerusalem District Court on May 31, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

3 motorcade drivers fired by Netanyahu are witnesses in his corruption trial

Yisrael Beytenu party chairman Avigdor Liberman speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset, December 12, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sara Netanyahu ‘active and involved’ in appointments, Liberman testifies in court

By Jeremy Sharon

An item found under a Lodz apartment building, January 3, 2022. (Facebook/Provincial Office
for the Protection of Monuments in Łódz; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Menorahs and tableware hidden from Nazis: Polish builders uncover Jewish WWII trove

By AP and ToI Staff

Glass cosmetic containers, cigarette holders and hundreds of other items found under Lodz building; local Jewish community lit a restored menorah on Hanukkah

The flags of Israel, the UAE, Bahrain and the US flying outside the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on September 15, 2020, in a tweet posted by Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi, as Israel, the UAE and Bahrain sign the Abraham Accords at the White House in Washington, DC. (Twitter)

United Arab Emirates to add Holocaust studies to its national school curriculum

By AP and ToI Staff

Brazil police retake Congress, clear out buildings overrun by pro-Bolsonaro rioters

By AFP

At least 170 arrested as cops use tear-gas, water cannons in bid to gain control over Brasilia institutions stormed by far-right protesters refusing to accept election results

Protesters, supporters of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro, storm the the National Congress building in Brasilia, Brazil, January 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Pro-Bolsonaro protesters storm Brazil’s Congress, Supreme Court, presidential palace

By AP

Supporters of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro clash with the police after they stormed the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, January 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Bolsonaro mildly condemns Congress rioters as Brazil authorities seek to punish them

By David Biller

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)

Ukraine rejects Russian claim of devastating ‘retaliatory strike’ killing 600 troops

By AFP

Moscow says shelling in Kramatorsk was revenge for New Year’s Eve missile strike that killed at least 89 Russian soldiers, but Kyiv says there was no such strike

Illustrative: Women walk past apartment buildings in Mariupol, Ukraine, damaged during heavy fighting, November 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan 9: The behind-the-scenes story of abused female Ukraine refugees

Pope Francis presides over an Epiphany mass in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, on January 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Francis breaks silence on Iran, denouncing death sentences for protesters

By Nicole Winfield

Comparing Tehran’s actions to abortion, pontiff asserts ‘both are a violation of the fundamental right to life’; calls for unity after rioters storm Brazil’s seats of power

A picture obtained from the Iranian Mizan News Agency on December 12, 2022, shows the public execution of Majidreza Rahnavard, in Iran's Mashhad city. (Mizan News/AFP)

Three more Mahsa Amini protesters sentenced to death in Iran, judiciary says

By AFP

Demonstrators burn a French flag during a protest against cartoons of the Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei published by French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, outside the French embassy in Iran's capital Tehran on January 8, 2023. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iranians protest outside French embassy over ‘insulting’ Charlie Hebdo cartoons

By AFP

A passenger, wearing a personal protective equipment, walks at the arrival area at the Capital International Airport in Beijing on January 8, 2023. (Noel CELIS / AFP)

90% of Chinese province residents, 88 million people, estimated to have gotten COVID

By AFP

Official mentions sky-high figure in country’s third-most populous province Henan, following China’s major policy change of reopening after years of ‘zero infection’ attempt

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Bernard Kalb during an appearance at Montgomery College in 2015. (screen capture: YouTube)

Bernard Kalb, longtime newsman who waded into Mideast incitement tussle, dies at 100

By AP

The scene in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood where a 40-year-old woman was hit by a dumpster that was pushed by ultra-Orthodox rioters, December 16, 2022. (Flash90)

Two Breslov Hasidim indicted for injuring mother of 11 at violent protest

Illustrative -- Medics and police officers are seen near the scene of a shooting at Jaffa's port, October 23, 2021. (Magen David Adom)

Jaffa resident shot dead in 2nd suspected murder in Arab community this year

Dr. Ahmad Mahajneh, at Hadassah Medical Center Ein Kerem, Jerusalem, (Courtesy)

Hadassah hospital in talks to reinstate doctor falsely accused of praising terrorist

Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz attends the weekly government conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, October 29, 2017. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Flash90)

Gallant taps former Likud MK Steinitz to serve as chairman of defense giant Rafael

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli troops operate in the West Bank, early January 9, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF arrests 11 wanted Palestinians, seizes guns in overnight West Bank raids

By Emanuel Fabian

Weapons seized by security forces after alleged gun-smuggling incidents over the border with Jordan on January 8 and 5, 2023. (Israel Police; Israel Defense Forces)

Security forces seize 32 pistols from smugglers on Jordanian border

By Emanuel Fabian

Alternative Classic Sliced Yellow Cheese made by Tnuva. (Supplied/Health Ministry)

Tnuva recalls vegan cheese product after metal shards found inside

Several items, among them handguns, ammunition, and a bulletproof vest, seized as part of a police crackdown on organized crime in northern Israel, January 8, 2023. (Israel Police)

Police nab dozens of suspects, seize weapons as part of major underworld crackdown

By Michael Horovitz

Illustrative: An ambulance is seen at the scene of a deadly crash in Beit Shemesh where a pedestrian was killed after a truck hit him, September 4, 2022. (Magen David Adom)

Two killed within minutes in separate traffic accidents

A small lizard that was smuggled into Israel from Hungary by a young Israeli and was seized during an operation at Ben Gurion Airport, January 2023. (Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry spokesperson)

Scales of justiceMan attempts to smuggle reptiles in socks from Hungary

Soloists, musicians, and dancers from the Israeli Opera will perform 'The Magic Flute' with 150 members of the Acre community on January 9, 2023. (courtesy, the Israeli Opera)

The everyman's ariaAcre locals join opera pros in ‘The Magic Flute’ production

By Jessica Steinberg

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