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What Matters Most On Friday, January 20, 2023

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Security forces move in to evacuate an illegal settlement outpost established in the West Bank on January 20, 2023. (Courtesy)

Smotrich: Move is completely against coalition agreements

Illegal West Bank outpost evacuated on Gallant’s orders, in defiance of Smotrich

Demolition of site set up to commemorate national religious rabbi Druckman seen as first test of shaky coalition deal that divides authority of Defense Ministry in West Bank

Otzma Yedudit MK Limor Son Har-Melech (3R) poses with activists who set up an illegal outpost in the West Bank on January 20, 2023 (Courtesy)

In test for coalition, illegal West Bank outpost set up in name of Rabbi Druckman

By Michael Horovitz

Netanyahu must likely fire Deri by Sunday or be in contempt of court

By Jeremy Sharon

PM has ‘reasonable amount of time’ to dismiss Deri after Wednesday’s High Court ruling, but experts say his presence at Sunday cabinet meeting as a minister would be problematic

Health and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri seen outside his home in Jerusalem on January 19, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Aryeh Deri attends a special session of the Knesset in Jerusalem on Dec. 29, 2022. (Amir Cohen/Pool Photo via AP)

Deri said pushing for alternate PM role in talks with Netanyahu after court ruling

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) meets with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan in Jerusalem on January 19, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Sullivan meets Abbas, who urges tougher US stance on Israel

Top Biden adviser raises planned judicial overhaul in meeting with Netanyahu

US official confirms topic came up but declines to elaborate further, though administration has previously indicated it doesn’t plan to actually pressure Israel on the matter

Supreme Court President Esther Hayut at a book launch event at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, on January 19, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Supreme Court chief Hayut denies she’ll quit if Knesset okays full judicial overhaul

Illustrative: The High Court of Justice convenes in Jerusalem to discuss the potential evacuation of the West Bank outpost of Homesh, January 2, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

17 top law firms warn judicial overhaul will harm Israel’s democracy, image, economy

Explainer

What is the legal doctrine ‘estoppel’ and how did its imperatives thwart Aryeh Deri?

Along with ruling Deri’s ministerial return ‘extremely unreasonable’ given his recidivism, the High Court invoked a 2nd legal device because he’d indicated he was quitting politics

Shas leader Aryeh Deri seen outside his home in Jerusalem, January 19, 2023, a day after the High Court ruled he cannot hold ministerial office. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police officers prevent protesters from blocking a highway during a rally against the government's plans to overhaul the country's legal system, in Tel Aviv, January 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Police to deploy 1,000 officers, block roads at Tel Aviv anti-government protest

Cops brace for clashes with counter-protesters, larger crowds than last week due to clear weather forecast, anger over coalition reaction to top court’s ruling on Shas head Deri

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

Bill would curb protests, give police more tools to end them; Ben Gvir: Won’t happen

By Michael Bachner

Minister Aryeh Deri attends a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 15, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rabin's Oslo coalition was the first to be hobbled

How 3 decades of Deri’s legal troubles now see Israeli judicial independence at risk

By Haviv Rettig Gur

It was the Shas leader’s corruption imbroglio in 1993 that helped launch the right’s war on judicial activism, a war that now stands to cripple the courts

A person lies on a railing at a Tel Aviv promenade in the northern part of the city, January 11, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel sees driest winter season in about 60 years

Authorities say Sea of Galilee water levels up just 2 cm over the December-January months, with 40%-50% less rainfall in this period than in recent years

Ilana Fodiman-Silverman

Taught by royalty: Rabbi Moshe Kahn z”l

He dedicated his life to women’s education, with humility, integrity, patience, and scrupulous demand for clear understanding. He was our model of divine service

It’s all fun and games until somebody gets hurt

The plagues were so terrible that they (eventually) convinced Pharaoh to give up his slaves, so what are we doing singing songs and making memes about them? (Vaera)

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan attends a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 17, 2023. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)

Saudi FM rules out normalization with Israel without a two-state solution

By AFP

Prince Faisal bin Farhan says peace will only come by ‘giving the Palestinians a state,’ amid Jerusalem’s hopes to add kingdom to growing list of friendly Arab nations

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Collage/AP)

Israeli, British PMs hold first call since Netanyahu’s return as premier

Charlotte Salomon and her grandparents before 1940. (Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

‘Largest single work of art by a Jew during the Holocaust’

New film brings to life a young Auschwitz victim’s extraordinary mixed media display

While hiding from the Nazis, Charlotte Salomon made ‘Life? Or theatre?’, a series of paintings set to music and words

File: An illustrative image of the human brain. ALS, a degenerative disease, is caused by by motor neuron death in the brain and spinal cord. (Ozgu Arslan via stock by Getty Images)

New ALS drug headed to Israel, in first distribution deal outside North America

By Nathan Jeffay

Medicine is believed to extend patients’ lives by almost a year on average; FDA has approved it based on Phase II trial

Archaeology

Israel’s Technion, U of Haifa announce game-changing microarchaeology collaboration

With excavators in need of cutting-edge science and advanced lab equipment to study finds on a molecular level, academics say the partnership will benefit both institutions

Prof. Israel Finkelstein speaks at a seminar launching the collaboration between the University of Haifa School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures and the Technion at the Technion in Haifa on January 18, 2023. (Rami Slush/Technion).

An Israeli soldier and UNIFIL troops inspect an IDF excavator working on the border with Lebanon, January 19, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

UN peacekeepers halt IDF engineering work after claim excavator crossed into Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian

Military excavator’s bucket apparently crosses Blue Line border demarcation; armed Lebanese troops camp out overnight to prevent Israel from renewing activity

Brooklyn Orthodox influencer Adina Miles-Sash, aka 'Flatbush Girl,' held a livestream event one Instagram on January 14, 2023, where a man flashed her and thousands of other participants. Some commenters blamed her for the incident, but many also supported her. (Courtesy via JTA)

'I’m assembling so much evidence you have no idea'

Orthodox influencer Flatbush Girl hunting man who flashed online session of 3,000

Adina Miles-Sash is looking to press charges against the possible serial flasher, and wants answers on why men in her religious circle aren’t condemning his behavior

FM Cohen to visit Ukraine, most senior Israeli official to do so since war began

By Lazar Berman

Israel’s top diplomat accepts invitation during call with Ukrainian counterpart, urges Kyiv to join fight against Iranian Guards; Egypt sends message about Temple Mount

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen (L) and Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90; Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)

From left to right: Composite photo showing CIA Director William Burns speaking at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia, July 8, 2022. (AP/Susan Walsh); Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attending a news conference with European Council President Charles Michel after their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, January 19, 2023. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)

CIA chief Burns meets Ukraine’s Zelensky in Kyiv as Washington ups support

By NOMAAN MERCHANT

In this photo released by the Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, right, talk during their meeting in Moscow, Russia, Friday, February 5, 2021. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP)

EU slams Lavrov for claiming West seeking Nazi-style ‘final solution’ against Russia

By AFP

Photos from the permanent collection of the Holocaust Victims Memorial on display on the exhibition's opening day, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, January 19, 2023. (AP/Bruna Prado)

Rio’s new Holocaust memorial takes visitors on victims’ journey of survival

By Eléonore HUGHES

Memorial also commemorates non-Jewish victims of Nazis; main exhibition includes mementos of those persecuted in Holocaust, database of survivors who built new life in Brazil

New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet in a screenshot from a video he recorded for the Australian Jewish community apologizing for wearing a Nazi uniform at his 21st birthday party. (Screenshot used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

'It’s obviously something that I am ashamed of'

New South Wales premier on Nazi costume: ‘You needed to hear the truth from me’

By Gareth Narunsky

Head of Australian state that includes city of Sydney tells Australian Jewish News the indiscretion at his 21st birthday party has ‘been a personal anguish to me for some time’

Ariel Leizgold of the Bellboy Group pours a cocktail (Courtesy PR)

Times Will Tell

Podcast: Tel Aviv’s cocktail master talks hospitality and mixes a boulevardier

By Jessica Steinberg

Ariel Leizgold, a founder of the Bellboy bar group, credits his Russian-born parents for teaching him how to pour vodka and make people feel at home

More Headlines

Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch's executive director, speaks during a news conference in Seoul, South Korea, on November 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Harvard reinstates offer to ex-Human Rights Watch chief after Israel controversy

Illustrative: A single-engine Beechcraft Bonanzi aircraft. (Wesley Moolman, public domain)

2 Jewish men killed in New York private plane crash

A one-year-old baby inside a metal cage, found by police during a drug search operation at an apartment building in Haifa, January 15, 2023. (Israel Police)

Haifa court releases mother of baby found locked in cage

An AI-generated Joseph Goebbels responds in the Historical Figures Chat app. (Twitter photo screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Chatbot denounced for generating remorseful responses from top Nazi figures

By Michael Horovitz

The Jerusalem neighborhood of Talbieh, viewed from the Old City of Jerusalem. (Pinybal, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons). The Inbal Hotel can be seen in the foreground.

US developer pays over $200 million for slice of central Jerusalem

By Danielle Nagler

Illustrative: Nurses strike at Jerusalem's Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in protest of violence against medical personnel, July 4, 2018. (Courtesy: Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital)

Public health system to strike next week over violence against medical staff

Illustrative image of the American and Israeli flags. (3dmitry; iStock by Getty Images)

US-Israel fund to invest $8.4 million in nine new joint tech projects

By Sharon Wrobel

(From L-R) Police commissioner Kobi Shabtai, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar. (Collage/Flash90)

Security chiefs form task force to determine Shin Bet assistance in fighting crime

A construction site in the central city of Hod Hasharon, January 19, 2023. (Hod Hasharon Municipality)

Three buildings evacuated after cave-in at Hod Hasharon worksite

Workers help set up the Google booth at the Las Vegas Convention Center before the start of the CES tech show, January 2, 2023, in Las Vegas. (AP/John Locher)

Google announces 12,000 job cuts as tech industry layoffs spread

By AFP

In this file photo taken on June 22, 2021 US actor Alec Baldwin attends DreamWorks Animation's 'The Boss Baby: Family Business' premiere at SVA Theatre in New York City. (Angela Weiss/AFP)

Alec Baldwin and ‘Rust’ armorer to face manslaughter charge over shooting

By Huw Griffith

File: David Crosby of the band Crosby, Stills and Nash, performs at Glastonbury Festival in England, on June 27, 2009. His death was reported Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023, at age 81. (AP/Joel Ryan)

David Crosby, folk-rock co-founder of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, dies at 81

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