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What Matters Most On Sunday, January 15, 2023

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Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, in Tel Aviv, on January 14, 2023. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Former top judge: 'Fateful moment for Israel's moral future'

‘A plan to change Israel’s DNA’: 80,000 rally in Tel Aviv against judicial overhaul

By Naomi Lanzkron, Michael Horovitz and ToI Staff

Braving rain, opponents of coalition’s radical proposals protest at Habima Square; minor scuffles with cops near Ayalon Highway; president urged to declare Netanyahu unfit to serve

Protesters clash with police after attending a demonstration against Benjamin Netanyahu's government, in Tel Aviv, on January 14, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)Police scuffle with anti-government protesters attempting to block Ayalon Highway

A banner reading 'No freedom, no high tech' displayed at an anti-government protest in Tel Aviv, January 14, 2023. (Times of Israel)

Protest leaders urge strike action to pressure government against judicial overhaul

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, leads a weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 15, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

November's elections were 'the mother of all demonstrations'

Netanyahu shrugs off protest, says millions of voters demanded judicial overhaul

PM insists coalition’s election campaign made clear its intention to rein in courts, warns against ‘inflammatory slogans about civil war and the destruction of the state’

Anti-government protesters in Tel Aviv, January 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Protesters vow to continue as coalition lawmakers dismiss massive Tel Aviv rally

Slammed for inaction, Herzog says trying to mediate on judicial overhaul, might fail

President Isaac Herzog said Sunday that he has been working for a number of days to mediate discussions between relevant political figures over the hardline government's contentious planned judicial overhaul. The announcement came following a protest outside the President’s Residence in Jerusalem on Saturday evening, and after mention... Continue Reading

File: President Isaac Herzog at the Federation of Local Authorities conference in Tel Aviv, December 6, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

More than 80,000 protest against the current Israeli government, at Tel Aviv's Habima Square on January 14, 2023 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 15: Umbrellas up at massive Tel Aviv protest; West Bank warnings

Amit Aisman speaks during a ceremony at the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem, June 28, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

Top prosecutor decries attacks on legal system: ‘The accused have become accusers’

Deputy Attorney General Sharon Afek speaking at an attorneys union conference near the Dead Sea on January 15, 2023. (Screenshot)

Live updates (closed)

Deputy AG: Harming independence of judiciary ‘will be a source of constant regret’

Speaking at conference, Sharon Afek says state attorneys ‘owe loyalty to the entire public… not a particular person, not a particular minister and not a particular party’

7:27 pm

Doctor falsely accused of praising terrorist finally to return to work at Hadassah
7:11 pm

IDF issues demolition order for home of terrorist who killed 3 near Ariel last year
6:58 pm

Police chief says current open-fire rules suitable, declines to negate Ben Gvir's proposals

Soldier killed, three wounded by accidental grenade blast at Jordan Valley base

By Emanuel Fabian

An Israeli soldier was killed and another three wounded after a grenade accidentally exploded late Saturday night at a military training base in the Jordan Valley, the Israel Defense Forces said. The incident occurred at around midnight between Saturday and Sunday in the living quarters of the Kfir... Continue Reading

Cpl. Denis Zinoviev, 18, killed in an accidental grenade explosion at a base in the Jordan Valley on January 14, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Staff Sgt. Ido Baruch, 21, killed in a shooting attack in the West Bank on October 11, 2022, in an undated photo released by the military. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF probe points to ‘several errors’ in October shooting death of soldier

By Emanuel Fabian

Pamela Laufer-Ukeles

If the judicial reform put you at risk, would you support it?

The vote to overhaul the justice system is democratic, sure, but a tyranny of the majority that jeopardizes minorities’ civil rights, now and in the future

Jonathan A. Greenblatt

The Nation’s antisemitic spin on Kenneth Roth

Yes, the magazine went there in its reporting on why the former Human Rights Watch head didn’t get a Harvard fellowship

Former Greek Patriarch Irineos I waves from the rooftop of his apartment in the Old City of Jerusalem, January 6, 2011. (AP/Dan Balilty)

Ex-Greek Orthodox patriarch, who said church imprisoned him in Jerusalem, dies at 83

Irineos I, ousted from position in 2005 over allegations he sold patriarchate land to settlers, claimed successor confined him in apartment for over a decade

Set in a Hasidic enclave in Brooklyn, 'The Offering' is the newest film in the long history of Jewish horror films. (Millennium Films via JTA)

'Jewish horror stories have been around thousands of years'

In horror movie ‘The Offering,’ a Jewish spirit haunts Hasidic Brooklyn

By Stephen Silver

Though not a Member of the Tribe himself, British filmmaker Oliver Park credits Jewish folklore with influencing the scary film genre, and in many ways his latest opus is an homage

Britain's Home Secretary Suella Braverman leaves after a Cabinet meeting in Downing Street in London, December 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

UK minister refuses to apologize to Holocaust survivor over anti-migrant rhetoric

Home Secretary Suella Braverman says she ‘won’t shy away’ after survivor says her description of immigrants as an ‘invasion’ is similar to Nazi language

A Palestinian man is seen scuffling with troops near the West Bank settlement of Ofra, January 15, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Palestinian shot dead by troops in West Bank scuffle; IDF says he tried to grab gun

By Emanuel Fabian

Footage shows man struggling with soldiers near settlement of Ofra; military says Ahmad Kahla, 45, refused to be questioned, violence ensued

A screenshot from a video shared on social media shows an Israeli settler using a club to attack Palestinians and foreign hikers, near the West Bank city of Jericho on January 13, 2022. (Screen capture: Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Settlers filmed attacking Palestinians, foreign tourists during West Bank hike

By ToI Staff and Jeremy Sharon

Israel arrests 6 men wanted by the US over alleged $148m binary options fraud

By Simona Weinglass

Israeli police last week arrested six alleged investment scammers as part of a proceeding to extradite them to the United States. Ori Maymon 36, Nissim Alfasi, 37, Afik Tori, 30, Oron Montgomery, 41, Dave Barzilay, 44 and Gilad Mazugi, 39, were arrested on Tuesday and are being held... Continue Reading

Employees inside Yukom Communications (Courtesy)

Emergency workers clear the rubble after a Russian rocket hit a multistory building leaving many people under debris in the southeastern city of Dnipro, Ukraine, Jan. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

At least 23 dead in strike on Ukraine apartment tower; UK pledges tanks for Kyiv

Dozens missing as rescuers comb through rubble after Russian barrage on Dnipro building housing some 1,700 people; sides dispute who controls small mining town near Bakhmut

UK weighing labeling IRGC a terror group may have influenced execution — ex-envoy

By AFP

Iran may have decided to execute a British Iranian dual national in protest at UK moves toward potentially labeling a special branch of its armed forces a terror group, a former diplomat said on Saturday. Iran said earlier it hanged Alireza Akbari after he was sentenced to death... Continue Reading

Iran's Revolutionary Guard troops march in a military parade marking the 36th anniversary of Iraq's 1980 invasion of Iran, in front of the shrine of late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, September 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Iran's Prosecutor General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri in 2018. (Fars Media Corporation, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons)

UK sanctions Iran prosecutor general over British-Iranian’s execution on spy charges

In this photo released on the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in Damascus, Syria, January 14, 2023. (Syrian Presidency Facebook page via AP)

Iran and Syria agree to renew strategic economic arrangement

New Interior Minister Aryeh Deri attends a handover ceremony at the Interior Ministry in Jerusalem, on January 1, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Report: Coalition aims to quickly restore Deri as minister if court disqualifies him

Government will expedite legislation to eliminate ‘reasonableness’ clause, in order to remove the basis for any court decision to reject Shas chief’s appointment, Channel 12 says

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi speaks during a conference at Reichman University in Herzliya, January 9, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Communications minister wants to cut ‘hundreds of millions’ from public broadcaster

Peter Reigert and Amy Irving in 'Crossing Delancey.' (Courtesy)

Israelites camera action

This month: A ‘Jewish Experience’ film series on TCM

By Linda Buchwald

Every Thursday night in January the channel airs movies from the ’30s through the ’90s showing how filmmakers deal with themes like the Holocaust, assimilation and religious life

US President Joe Biden speaks wtih reporters on the White House Campus in Washington, January 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

More classified documents found at Biden’s home in Delaware

White House lawyer says 6 pages uncovered in president’s private library, more than previously known, in addition to material from 2 other locations dating to Obama administration

Rep. George Santos, R-New York, departs Capitol Hill in Washington, an. 11, 2023. (Patrick Semansky/AP)

Some influential Republicans were aware of Santos’s lies in the past – reports

More Headlines

Illustrative -- Police tape in Independence Park on July 30, 2015 (Garrett Mills/Flash90)

Man tased, slashed by teen gang after trying to break up Tel Aviv brawl

By Michael Horovitz

Ibrahim Kalin, chief advisor to Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, speaks during an interview in Istanbul, October 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Erdogan aide: Turkey ‘not in a position’ to ratify Sweden’s NATO bid

By AFP

A woman wearing a face shield and mask amid the COVID-19 pandemic walks on a street in the Jing'an district in Shanghai, China, on January 9, 2023. (Hector Retamal/AFP)

China reports 60,000 COVID-related deaths in month since loosening restrictions

By AFP

In this August 5, 2020 file photo, a drone picture shows the destruction after an explosion at the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon. (AP/Hussein Malla)

Key figure in push for probe of Beirut port blast is arrested, let go after protests

By Jonathan Sawaya

Rescuers gather at the site of a plane crash in the resort town of Pokhara, Nepal, January 15, 2023. (Yunish Gurung/AFP)

At least 32 killed in plane crash at Nepal vacation town

By UPENDRA MAN SINGH and SHEIKH SAALIQ

Five young Israeli artists were declared the winners of the recent 2022 American-Israel Cultural Foundation contest (Courtesy Yoel Levy)

Musicians of note5 young artists win America-Israel cultural foundation awards

By Jessica Steinberg

Prince Harry's memoir "Spare" on sale at a Barnes & Noble retail store in Chicago on January 10, 2023. (Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP)

A royal debutPrince Harry’s ‘Spare’ sets record for single-day book sales

By AFP

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