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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 18, 2023

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Shas leader Aryeh Deri is greeted by supporters as he emerges from his home in Jerusalem on January 18, 2023. (Video screenshot)

Live updates (closed)

Deri: ‘I’m glad court ruled as it did. Let the people see and judge’

Shas leader says: ‘When they close the door on us, we’ll get in through the window. When they close the window we’ll break through the ceiling’

7:59 pm

Israelis and Palestinians on a 'collision course,' UN envoy says
7:45 pm

Arsenal reveal 'antisemitism' incidents after Spurs clash
7:39 pm

Biden says Ukraine helicopter crash a 'heartbreaking tragedy'

Shas' Ya'akov Margi (L) with party leader Aryeh Deri in Jerusalem on January 1, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shas minister ahead of court ruling: ‘PM knows there’s no government without Deri’

Welfare Minister Margi says Netanyahu will ‘need to make decision,’ while Likud’s Karhi says ruling against party leader would be ‘shameless’

Shas MK Avraham Bezalel at the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem ahead of the opening session of the 25th Knesset, November 14, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shas MK: High Court judges ‘shooting themselves in the head’ if they disqualify Deri

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara on February 8, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, November 2, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

AG: Netanyahu still bound by conflict of interest rules set up for his graft trial

Military and onlookers stand at the site where a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten outside the capital Kyiv on January 18, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Sergei Supinsky / AFP)

Ukraine minister among at least 17 killed as helicopter crashes near kindergarten

By AP and ToI Staff

Denys Monastyrsky and other top interior ministry officials onboard aircraft that came down in Kyiv suburb; 4 children among dead; security services investigating cause

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov holds his annual press conference in Moscow on January 18, 2023. (Yuri Kadobnov/AFP)

Russia’s Lavrov says West seeking Hitler-style ‘final solution,’ sparking protests

By Lazar Berman

Ukrainian soldiers fire a Pion artillery system at Russian positions near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, December 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Libkos)

US quietly shipping ammo to Ukraine from massive stockpile in Israel — report

iCON 2023!

iCON is The iCenter’s biennial convening of the field of Israel education. It’s Where Israel & Education Meet, and your opportunity to connect, learn, create, and celebrate the field.

A man rests on the bank of the Caspian Sea in Baku, Azerbaijan, Monday, June 7, 2021. (AP/Darko Vojinovic)

Analysis

Eyeing Iran, Israel moves to shore up ties with neighboring Caucasus, Central Asia

By Lazar Berman

Energy-rich Azerbaijan, chafing at Iranian threats, set to open embassy in Tel Aviv, with Israel seeing chance to expand relations with others in region as well

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a news conference at the State Department, January 17, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Blinken says Iran deal no longer a priority, warns Tehran of ‘consequences’

Diplomatic flurry as Jordan envoy briefly delayed at Temple Mount entrance

Jordan's ambassador to Israel visited the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Tuesday after earlier leaving the holy site in protest at being held up by police at the entrance, prompting a diplomatic protest from Amman. The Jordanian foreign ministry said it summoned Israel’s envoy Eitan Surkis after Ghassan Majali... Continue Reading

Jordanian Ambassador to Israel Ghassan Majali visits the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on January 17, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

The Dome of the Rock Mosque is reflected in rainwater as worshippers gather for Friday prayers on a cold, rainy day at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem, January 6, 2023. (AP Photo/ Mahmoud Illean)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 18: What’s the status of the status quo on the Temple Mount?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, shakes hand with Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, February 14, 2010. (AP Photos/Ronen Zvulun, Pool)

Former president Rivlin: Plan reeks of 'settling of scores'

‘It’s not a reform, it’s a pogrom’: Former AG chastises planned judicial upheaval

By Jeremy Sharon

Yehuda Weinstein, who served under Netanyahu for 6 years, says he opposes all parts of plan; justice minister, Supreme Court chief meet for first time since trading public barbs

Constitution Committee chair MK Simcha Rothman leads a committee debate, January 17, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Knesset law panel chair seeks to expedite judicial upheaval, with some changes

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Religious Zionism party head MK Bezalel Smotrich (right) with Otzma Yehudit party head MK Itamar Ben Gvir in the Knesset, on December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Delegation of visiting US senators asks not to meet with Smotrich and Ben Gvir

Request by senator leading trip indicates Democrats are less comfortable with makeup of new Israeli government than White House, which has avoided announcing similar boycott

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Homeland is bigger than a country

When you share your grandfather’s song of love and longing and find a kindred spirit with deep roots in the same song

Who protects the law? The greatest danger of the judicial reform

Canceling legal advisers’ ability to prevent illegal decisions by politicians and their ministries would be a serious blow to the rule of law

An undated video published by Hamas on January 16, 2023, purportedly of Israeli captive Avera Mengistu. (Screenshot)

Mom of Gaza captive Mengistu: ‘His voice is different, I want to look into his eyes’

After terror group airs undated footage apparently showing Israeli held in Strip since 2014, Agurnesh Mengistu says son looks the same; Foreign Ministry urges pope, UN to act

An undated video published by Hamas on January 16, 2023, purportedly of Israeli captive Avera Mengistu. (Screenshot)

Netanyahu says Gaza captive Mengistu ‘is alive,’ Hamas responsible for his fate

By Emanuel Fabian

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)

MKs accept a ‘considerate’ 5.1% pay hike, having been advised against taking 12.5%

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Citing need to keep change in line with 2022 market and Israelis’ ongoing cost of living struggles, MKs accept advice to reduce their raises

Illustrative: Campaign posters prior to general elections, in Tel Aviv, on March 17, 2021. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Parties have racked up nearly a quarter of a billion shekels in election debts

By Tani Goldstein

Explainer

Could the new government endanger Israel’s status as an LGBTQ haven?

JTA — The minister holding Israel’s purse strings calls himself a “proud homophobe.” Another minister says Pride parades are “vulgar,” while a deputy minister who wants to cancel them was just given power over some aspects of what schoolchildren are taught. And then there are the lawmakers who want doctors to be able to... Continue Reading

Thousands of people participate in the Tel Aviv Pride Parade, June 10, 2022. (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images via JTA)

TLV Partners is managed by (left to right): Rona Segev, Eitan Bek, Adi Yarel-Toledano, and Shahar Tzafrir. (Eyal Tueg)

VC warns: If Israel democracy is harmed, tech firms will need to flourish elsewhere

By Sharon Wrobel

TLV Partners says makeover of justice system could force best minds to leave and local tech entrepreneurs to create startups outside of Israel

NICE Ltd. CEO Barak Eilam. (CNBC/screenshot)

CEO warns judicial overhaul plan threatens Israel’s position as a business hub

By Sharon Wrobel

A medical clown from Dream Doctors, an Israeli nonprofit that was observed in new peer-reviewed research on medical clowning (courtesy of Dream Doctors)

Science of silliness: Israeli study deconstructs medical clowning so MDs use it more

By Nathan Jeffay

The new Tel Aviv University robot, with smell capabilities that use a locust's antenna (YouTube screen grab/Tel Aviv University)

Israeli robot fitted with locust antenna gains scent superpowers

By Nathan Jeffay

Dog gone? Insect parts are so powerful they could one day replace sniffer dogs and even high-resolution cameras, Tel Aviv scientists predict

Mikhl Yashinsky, right, in a scene from 'The Sorceress,' by New York's The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene. (Courtesy)

'I have rarely seen a language teacher as good as he is'

This 30-something New Yorker doesn’t need a crystal ball to see a Yiddish revival

Performer and educator Mikhl Yashinsky is bringing the ‘always dying’ language out of the yeshiva and back into the limelight

Medics evacuate Mor Ganashvili, injured during a mob attack amid clashes between Arab and Jews in Acre, northern Israel, May 12, 2021. (Roni Ofer/Flash90)

Shin Bet says eighth suspect indicted over 2021 mob assault of Jewish man

By Emanuel Fabian

Charges filed against Asi Hourani for Acre attack on Mor Ganashvili, who suffered serious injuries

Palestinians burn tires and block streets leading to Joseph's Tomb, in the West Bank city of Nablus, January 17, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Palestinians clash with IDF during pilgrimage to Joseph’s Tomb; 7 arrested overnight

By Emanuel Fabian

File: 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. (Jamal Awad/FLASH90)

Ben Gvir orders police chief to block celebrations for terrorist’s planned release

By Emanuel Fabian

Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro waves after a ceremony to become Pennsylvania's 48th governor at the state capitol in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, January 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Analysis

Josh Shapiro’s inauguration symbolizes a new age for Jewish politicians

New governor, who defeated rival accused of antisemitism, provides a fresh archetype for Jews by unabashedly incorporating identity into his politics

Josh Shapiro takes the oath of office to become Pennsylvania's 48th governor at the state capitol in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, January 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

New Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro takes oath of office on Hebrew Bibles

By Marc Levy, BROOKE SCHULTZ and MARK SCOLFORO

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Cameras are set to broadcast Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, August 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Japanese firm defends ownership of ‘Nazi-tainted’ Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ painting

By AFP

Illustrative: A Los Angeles County sheriff's vehicle in Whittier, California, November 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Israeli charged with defrauding $47 million from Orthodox Jews in US

By Tobias Siegal

Illustrative: A helicopter flies over at the end of the African Lion military exercise, in Tantan, south of Agadir, Morocco, June 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Morocco says it will boost military ties with Israel

By AFP

Sister Andre, Lucile Randon in the registry of birth, prays in a wheelchair, on the eve of her 117th birthday, February 10, 2021. (Nicolas Tucat/AFP)

World’s oldest known person, French nun who remembered World War I, dies aged 118

By Sandra Laffont

A before and after photo depicting how a painting of Jesus at the US Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York, is now obscured by a curtain. (Before: US Coast Guard; After: US Merchant Marine Academy via JTA)

US Merchant Marine Academy covers huge Jesus painting after religious freedom outcry

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu (R) and his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian shake hands at the end of their joint press conference in Ankara on January 17, 2023. (Adem Altan/AFP)

In Ankara, Iranian FM hails budding Turkish-Syrian reconciliation

By AP

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