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What Matters Most On Sunday, January 22, 2023

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) reads a letter to Shas chair Aryeh Deri, informing Deri that he must remove him from ministerial office, at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, January 22, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

After dismissal, Shas chief attends coalition heads' meeting

Netanyahu fires Deri ‘with a heavy heart’ after High Court nixes convicted minister

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

PM vows to find ‘legal way’ to reinstate ally in wake of ‘unfortunate’ decision that ‘ignores will of the people’; Deri to retain ‘Vice PM’ title, expects cabinet meeting invites

Aryeh Deri arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, January 22, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Deri claims he and Netanyahu always planned to obey court, vows to keep leading Shas

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, with Interior and Health Minister Aryeh Deri at a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 15, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Poll: Most Likud voters agree with High Court that Deri can’t be a minister

Crowds estimated at over 100,000 protest against the government's proposed sweeping changes to the judicial system, in Tel Aviv on January 21, 2023. (Flash90)

Lapid: We're defending the country we love

‘Night is descending on Israel’: Over 100,000 rally in Tel Aviv; largest protest yet

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff

Demonstrators come out in force to oppose overhaul of judicial system; rallies also held in Jerusalem, Haifa, Beersheba and other towns; Grossman: ‘Now is the hour of darkness’

Author David Grossman speaks during a protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, January 21, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

‘Hour of darkness’: Author Grossman slams government’s ‘anti-democratic power grab’

A view of the Azrieli towers and the surrounding buildings in central Tel Aviv. (Courtesy of Avison Young)

Azrieli Group briefly refuses to run Haaretz democracy ad on mall’s screens, relents

US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on March 27, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

InterviewNo visa waivers sans safe passage for Palestinian-Americans

US envoy: Netanyahu has big plans. They won’t happen if his ‘backyard is on fire’

PM is eyeing Saudi normalization, closer cooperation with US on Iran, but Tom Nides tells ToI those will be hard to achieve if Israel moves to shut door on two states for good

Protesters against the proposed changes to the justice system at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on January 21, 2023 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

From The Hartman Institute

Between Civil Disobedience and Civil War

This is an essential moment that has the potential to fracture the Israeli public beyond repair. Donniel Hartman, Yossi Klein Halevi, and Elana Stein Hain discuss.

'We are now a theocracy'

50 years after Roe v. Wade, fight for choice turns into battle for religious freedom

By Cathryn J. Prince

After a 2022 decision to overturn the longstanding right to abortion, religious women’s groups unite in protesting laws reflecting a Christian-centric view on when life begins

Op-ed

Tragically, Deri’s ‘great revolution’ will continue even if he can’t outflank court

Utterly without shame, bribery convict and tax offender Aryeh Deri has responded to the High Court's unsurprising determination that his return to ministerial office is "unreasonable in the extreme" by depicting the ruling as a dishonestly motivated assault on the "great revolution" his Shas party has been fostering. And by promising, via any and... Continue Reading

Shas leader Aryeh Deri, the Minister of Interior and Health, with supporters outside his home in Jerusalem on January 18, 2023, hours after the High Court said he cannot hold ministerial office. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu said to tell US nat’l security adviser judicial reform plan to be softened

According to unsourced TV report, PM reassured visiting White House national security adviser that any changes to judicial system will only pass with wide agreement among lawmakers

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Erdogan announces Turkish national election to be held May 14
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Netanyahu said to tell US nat'l security adviser judicial reform plan to be softened
6:23 pm

Israeli hi-tech companies to strike for several hours Tuesday against government

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

‘A gun to the head’: Likud MKs decry reports AG could order Netanyahu to step down

Gali Baharav-Miara said close to compelling PM to take leave of absence due to breach of conflict of interest rules; but unnamed party official says it’s an ‘idle threat’

Health and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri seen outside his home in Jerusalem on January 19, 2023 following the High Court of Justice ruling barring him from ministerial office. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 22: How a 1993 corruption case sparked today’s judicial overhaul

Abraham Foxman, national director emeritus for the Anti-Defamation League, speaks on a panel on antisemitism in the US, at the eighth annual summit of the Israeli American Council (IAC) in Austin, Texas, on January 20, 2023. (Linda Kasian)

As Israeli American Council holds its 8th annual summit

Israel’s tampering with democracy harms US Jewish support, says ex-ADL head Foxman

By Ricky Ben-David

Speaking to ToI on sidelines of IAC summit, Abe Foxman laments proposed Israeli policies, says US Jews and Israeli-Americans must work together to back Israel, fight antisemitism

Supreme Court President Esther Hayut (center), Justice Uzi Vogelman (left) and Justice Isaac Amit (right) at a hearing of the High Court of Justice on petitions against the appointment of Shas party leader Aryeh Deri as a minister due to his recent conviction for tax offenses, January 5, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

WSJ calls for checks on High Court, says Deri ruling flies in face of voters

Rodger Kamenetz

ChatGPT can write verse, but it is no more alive than the Golem of Prague

A computer can rhyme Jews with dues. So what?

Hebrew word of the year: Bol’an

If sinkholes that swallow cars are the unintended consequences of short-sighted policies and willful ignorance, what devastation can we expect from this government?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press conference with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, on January 11, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Far-right ministers set to skip Sunday cabinet meeting to protest outpost eviction

Religious Zionism party urges Netanyahu to clarify division of authority over IDF after Smotrich accuses Defense Minister Gallant of ordering evacuation in breach of coalition deal

Arab Israeli Maher Younis is welcomed by friends and relatives following his release after 40 years in an Israeli prison for kidnapping and murdering an Israeli soldier, in the northern Israeli town of 'Ara, on January 19, 2023. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

After release, Arab Israeli terrorists said rearrested, questioned for incitement

Maher Younis, freed just 2 days earlier, reportedly detained Saturday at Ben Gvir’s order alongside his cousin Karim, set free 2 weeks ago, over alleged online praise for terror

A switchblade knife found in the possession of a teenage resident of Issawiya suspected of planning a stabbing attack, January 21, 2023. (Israel Police)

Police arrest Palestinian teen with knife in Jerusalem Old City

Police investigate a scene where a shooting took place in Monterey Park, Calif., January 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Police: Gunman on the loose after killing 10 near Los Angeles

By ANDREW DALTON

10 others wounded in Monterey Park shooting; eyewitnesses describe victims on floor of dance club, gunman with automatic weapon and supply of ammunition, firing and reloading

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A syringe with which doctor Asaf Karpel allegedly tried to murder the partner of a woman he had a crush on, July 2021. (Israel Police)

Anesthesiologist gets 9.5 years for trying to murder crush’s boyfriend with sedative

White House chief of staff Ron Klain walks to the South Lawn of the White House to attend an event celebrating the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman to reach the US Supreme Court, in Washington, April 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

White House chief of staff Ron Klain, a top Biden aide, expected to step down soon

By Seung Min Kim, MICHAEL BALSAMO and Zeke Miller

Outgoing Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked seen in the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem on December 26, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

Former minister Ayelet Shaked to serve as chairman of Kardan Real Estate

By Sharon Wrobel

Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush speaks at the opening session of the meeting of Arab foreign ministers, in the capital Tripoli, on January 22, 2023. (Mahmud Turkia/AFP)

Most FMs boycott Arab League meeting in Tripoli amid dispute over Libyan government

Frank founder and CEO Charlie Javice, now being accused by JPMorgan Chase & Co. of faking millions of its clients, is seen during an interview with CBS New York in 2019. (YouTube/Screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Young entrepreneur accused of conning America’s largest bank out of $175m

By Tobias Siegal

Illustrative: People pay their respects at a makeshift memorial at the scene where a helicopter crashed into civil infrastructure on January 18, in Brovary, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, January 20, 2023. (Daniel Cole/AP)

Ukraine’s tragic week shows there’s no safe place in war

By SAMYA KULLAB and HANNA ARHIROVA

Illustrative: A German army Leopard 2 tank is seen at the Sestokai railway station some 175 kms (109 miles) west of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, February 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

AnalysisGerman caution on supplying arms to Ukraine rooted in post-WWII political culture

By Geir Moulson

A supporter of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro salutes while singing the nation's anthem outside a military base during a protest against his reelection defeat in Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

Brazil’s right-wing movement will persist without Bolsonaro, experts say

By David Biller and NATÁLIA SCARABOTTO

US President Joe Biden speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, January 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

FBI finds more classified documents in search of Biden’s home

By Zeke Miller, MICHAEL BALSAMO and Colleen Long

Incoming New Zealand prime minister Chris Hipkins (right) and his incoming deputy Carmel Sepuloni arrive for a press conference at Parliament in Wellington, January 22, 2023. (AP/Nick Perry)

Chris Hipkins tapped as New Zealand’s next PM after shock Ardern resignation

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