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What Matters Most On Friday, January 13, 2023

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President of the Supreme Court Esther Hayut speaks at a conference in Haifa on January 12, 2023. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

In fiery speech, Hayut says judicial shakeup plan ‘fatal blow to Israeli democracy’

By Jeremy Sharon

In unprecedented address, Supreme Court president denounces planned government legal reform, says it will undermine judicial independence, hand legislative ‘blank check’ to Knesset

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)

Levin accuses top judge of incitement following her speech blasting judicial remake

From left: Supreme Court President Esther Hayut, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-President Reuven Rivlin during a memorial service marking 23 years since the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, October 21, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Ex-president Rivlin decries ‘takeover’ of judiciary, says still time for compromise

Analysis

Constitutional crisis looms, as Supreme Court president shows she won’t go quietly

As of Thursday evening, the only two potent branches of Israeli governance -- the executive and the judiciary -- are openly at war. Two weeks into its time in office, the hard-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is already busily working on plans to largely neuter the High Court of Justice, the sole hierarchy capable of putting a brake... Continue Reading

President of the Supreme Court Esther Hayut speaks at a conference in Haifa on January 12, 2023. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

Lawyers take part in a demonstration against the government's controversial plans to overhaul the judicial system, outside the Tel Aviv District Court on January 12, 2023. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Lawyers rally outside Tel Aviv court against ‘dangerous’ judicial overhaul

By AFP

Outoging IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi speaks to Channel 12, in one of a series of farewell interviews, on January 13, 2022. (Channel 12 screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Smotrich calls Kohavi a 'populist' trying to enter politics

Army chief spurns Smotrich’s W. Bank powers: IDF reports only to defense minister

In farewell interviews, Kohavi warns against move to split control of military between ministers; says more aggressive open-fire rules will bring less security — not more

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, left, speaks alongside Hayashi Yoshimasa, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, during a Security Council meeting, January 12, 2023, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

UN secretary-general says settlements drive conflict, slams ‘unilateral initiatives’

Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces during an army operation in the West Bank city of Nablus, January 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Two Palestinians shot dead amid clashes with Israeli forces near Jenin

By Emanuel Fabian

Israelis protest against the government, in Tel Aviv, on January 7, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Police say intel points to potential unrest at anti-government rallies this weekend

Cops provide no details on ‘fear of riots’ during protests, but say no tolerance for ‘disturbance of the peace’ or Nazi symbols; organizers: Police are lying’; Gantz to attend

Op-ed

Shalom Yerushalmi

To succeed, anti-government protests need to draw religious moderates

National Unity MK Gadi Eisenkot, a former IDF chief of staff, will join anti-government protests on Saturday night, following his call for a million Israelis to take to the streets to demonstrate against the government and its planned radical remake of the judiciary. However, fellow party MK Matan Kahana will not attend the protests at... Continue Reading

Israelis protest against the government, in Tel Aviv, on January 7, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

A girl jumps from Caesarea's old aqueduct in the Mediterranean Sea near the port of Caesarea, Israel, Monday, Dec. 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

ArchaeologyStudy could revolutionize modern polluting concrete industry

Still standing: Researchers crack the secret of ancient Rome’s self-healing concrete

By Melanie Lidman

Scientists have long wondered what made the material so durable. Now a new MIT study utilizing microarchaeology and infrared cameras gives insight into Herod’s enduring monuments

An image of US Airways Flight 1549 after it crashed into the Hudson River in New York City on January 15 2009, sent to passengers onboard a Tel Aviv flight to Istanbul on January 13, 2023. (Israel Airports Authority)

Israeli flight to Turkey delayed after plane crash photos sent to passengers’ phones

By Michael Horovitz

10 passengers taken in for questioning by police; plane only takes off after luggage checked; similar incidents occurred on flights in May and November

Jessica Lauren Walton

Stigma in the security field

That time I trusted a mentor with a personal secret, and immediately rued the day

Mothers

The love of a mother can mean taking in a child in crisis, and it can mean allowing your children to leave you behind for their own better lives (Shemot)

Israeli Ambassador to Azerbaijan George Deek speaks to Azeri media in a residential neighborhood of the city of Ganja after it was hit by Armenian missiles, October 2020. (Courtesy of Israeli Embassy in Baku)

InterviewCountry faces fierce criticism for human rights violations

For Israel’s ambassador to Azerbaijan, Iranian death threats are all in a day’s work

By Robert Sarner

When he began in 2019, George Deek was the first Christian Arab to represent the Jewish state. Now his host country will be the first Shi’ite state to open an embassy in Israel

From left to right: Daniel Porat, Ariel Stern, and Uri Maloul, who were killed in a car crash in northern Israel on January 13, 2023. (Courtesy)

Three teens killed, two people seriously wounded, in deadly crash in northern Israel

Two declared dead at the scene of late-night collision between vehicles; third victim dies of wounds after being airlifted by IDF to a hospital

In this December 22, 2022, photo, Lawrence Schwartz, left, Shane Woodward, center, and Jeff Cohen, right, smile as they pose for a photo inside Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

'We're healing. We're not healed'

On first anniversary of Texas synagogue standoff, survivors cope, carry on

By BOBBY ROSS Jr.

Rabbi and three worshippers held hostage at Colleyville synagogue last year say their trauma has not disappeared, despite the FBI’s killing of their captor

Investigation finds ‘shocking’ antisemitism in UK’s student union

An independent investigation has found that the UK's National Union of Students failed to protect Jewish members from "numerous instances" of antisemitism over the past decade. The investigation published on Thursday reported that Jewish students were bullied and ostracized in the union because of their religion and views... Continue Reading

Pro-Palestinian activists and supporters burn an Israeli flag as they demonstrate in support of the Palestinian cause outside the Israeli Embassy in central London on May 22, 2021. (Justin Tallis/AFP)

The vandalized Holocaust memorial at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, December 27, 2022. (Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece via JTA)

Thessaloniki Holocaust memorial vandalized for second time in weeks

By AFP

Dr. Mattan Arazi, ophthalmology resident at Sheba medical Center, consulting with a child in Nigeria as part of a humanitarian mission on January 10, 2023. (Courtesy: Sheba Medical Center)

Battling kids’ eye cancer in Nigeria, Israeli doctors introduce pinpointed chemo

By Nathan Jeffay

Week-long mission from Sheba Medical Center aims to teach local doctors to perform the complex procedure that spares patients the side effects of full body radiation

Times Will Tell

Jessica Steinberg

Podcast: Use it all, says slow food, fermenting chef at Jaffa’s award-winning OCD

This week on Times Will Tell we're speaking with Shalom Simcha Elbert, head of research and development at OCD, recently named Israel’s best restaurant at the 2022 Israeli Kitchen Awards, sponsored by American Express. The name (an acronym for obsessive compulsive disorder) refers to the meticulous care that the culinary team, led by chef Raz... Continue Reading

Israel's award-winning OCD restaurant's head of development Simcha Shalom Elbert in front of OCD in Jaffa (Courtesy)

An illustration showing four modular enzyme fragments (highlighted) that Weizmann Institute’s CADENZ method can combine to generate active enzymes at unprecedented scale. (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Israeli researchers able to build enzymes ‘like Lego,’ in potential boon for drugs

By Nathan Jeffay

Bold new technique at Weizmann Institute generates new enzymes with unprecedented scale, in possible boost to both chemical industry and development of medical treatments

Franz Kafka in 1906. (Public domain)

A new translation of Franz Kafka’s diaries restores much of his Jewish musings

By Andrew Lapin

Lord Tariq Ahmad, the UK minister for the Middle East region, left, stands in front of the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on January 12, 2022. (Twitter/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Police accused of delaying visit by UK minister to Al-Aqsa mosque

Lord Tariq Ahmad downplays hold-up at Jerusalem holy site after showing officers a picture of himself with Israeli FM to prove his identity

A Maronite Christian center in Ma'alot-Tarshiha was vandalized during the festive period, January 11, 2022. (Michel El Khouri)

Vandalism discovered at Maronite Christian community center in north

Sen. Jacky Rosen, a Nevada Democrat, speaks during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing, September 21, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)

Bipartisan group of US senators visiting all 4 Abraham Accords countries

Lawmakers take off for Israel, UAE, Bahrain and Morocco for talks with local officials aimed at strengthening agreements, bringing in more signatories

Composite image: On left, European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell arrives for the EU-ASEAN summit in Brussel, December 14, 2022; On right, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen at a ceremony at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, January 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys; Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

In phone call, EU’s Borrell invites new Israeli FM Cohen to visit Brussels

By Lazar Berman and AFP

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Medics treat a man who was critically wounded in an apparent lightning strike in central Israel on January 12, 2023. (Magen David Adom)

Kibbutz member killed by suspected lightning strike while out walking dog

Ukrainian army Grad multiple rocket launcher fires rockets at Russian positions in the frontline near Soledar, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, January 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos, File)

Russia claims to have taken town of Soledar after bloody fight in east Ukraine

By ANDREW MELDRUM

US Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice, January 12, 2023, in Washington, as John Lausch, the US Attorney in Chicago, looks on. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Merrick Garland appoints special counsel to investigate Biden’s classified docs

By Zeke Miller and Eric Tucker

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian speaks to journalists during a joint press conference with his Lebanese counterpart Abdallah Bouhabib in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, January 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Iran’s FM says talks with Saudis could restore relations

By AP

Neturei Karta members visit the Palestinian city of Jenin in the West Bank on January 9, 2022. (Courtesy)

Police arrest member of anti-Zionist sect for meeting terror operatives in Jenin

By Emanuel Fabian

Beitar Jerusalem owner Barak Abramov holds a press conference in Jerusalem, on August 22, 2022. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Three arrested for alleged armed robbery of Beitar Jerusalem owner

By Michael Horovitz

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen after coalition talks at a hotel in Jerusalem on November 16, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Drivers fired by PM’s office reinstated, but won’t ferry Netanyahu

A flare is thrown at the volleyball court by Maccabi Tel Aviv fans during the quarter-final Challenger Cup match against Nicosia's Omonia V.C. in Tel Aviv, January 12, 2022. (Channel 5 screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Maccabi Tel Aviv fans booted from volleyball game for throwing flares on to field

By Michael Horovitz

Illustrative: The image from video provided by the US Department of Defense, from 2015, shows an unexplained object as it is tracked while soaring high among the clouds, traveling against the wind. (Department of Defense via AP)

US government examining hundreds of unexplained ‘UFO’ reports

By AFP

A detained Beoduin man points to an IDF storage bunker at the Sde Teiman base in southern Israel, after he and several others allegedly broke in and stole 30,000 bullets, during a crime reenactment, in an image published by police on December 20, 2022. (Israel Police)

IDF to punish several officers for negligence after mass theft of ammo from base

By Emanuel Fabian

Alt-metal band Dream Theater will perform at Tel Aviv's Hangar 11 on January 14, 2023 (Courtesy Rayon Richards)

The best of timesProgressive metal band Dream Theater to play in Tel Aviv

By David Sedley

Lisa Marie Presley arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of "Mad Max: Fury Road" at the TCL Chinese Theatre on May 7, 2015. Presley, singer and only child of Elvis, died Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, after a hospitalization, according to her mother, Priscilla Presley. She was 54. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

ObituaryLisa Marie Presley, singer and daughter of Elvis, dies at 54

By KRISTIN M. HALL and Hillel Italie

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