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What Matters Most On Monday, January 23, 2023

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Then-prime minister Yair Lapid and President Isaac Herzog (left) at a memorial service marking 27 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem on November 6, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

Lapid: President considering my idea to set up panel for ‘balanced’ judicial reform

Herzog confirms interaction ‘with all relevant actors’ in bid to avert ‘historic constitutional crisis’ over coalition’s overhaul plan; Gantz says mass protests having an impact

Former justice minister Daniel Friedmann attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on July 9, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ex-justice minister Friedmann moots compromise for reforming judiciary, Knesset

By Michael Bachner

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Shas party faction meeting at the Knesset, with Shas leader Aryeh Deri seated at his side, on January 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Deri: We'll defeat any bid for a coup using legal decisions

Coalition heads join Shas meeting in support of Deri; PM vows to ‘fix’ dismissal

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff

Netanyahu once again lashes High Court ruling against fired minister, defends judicial shake-up: ‘We haven’t come to end democracy, we’ve come to save democracy’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) speaks with one of the architects of the government's judicial overhaul Justice Minister Yariv Levin in the Knesset plenum, December 13, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Report: Full judicial overhaul plan includes Basic Law shake-up, splitting AG’s role

By Michael Bachner

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks as his image in seen on a large screen behind him at the J Street National Conference at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, December 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Blinken to visit Israel next week amid US concern over new government

Trip will be second by a senior American official in as many weeks as Washington tries to steer Israel away from volatile moves in West Bank, Jerusalem

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Netanyahu meets AJC delegation in Jerusalem
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US Secretary of State Blinken to visit Israel, PA next week
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UTJ submits bill to ban hametz from hospitals during Passover

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

Report: PM told US national security adviser judicial overhaul will be softened

Israeli TV says Netanyahu was warned sweeping reforms could jeopardize US support, responded that he seeks broad consensus, changes ‘will not pass as currently presented’

Tens of thousands of Israelis protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, January 21, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Top Bank of Israel official quits, says he can’t remain ‘while democracy in danger’

A combination of photos showing former Bank of Israel governors Karnit Flug (L) and Jacob Frenkel. (Yonatan Sindel and Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Ex-Bank of Israel chiefs warn judicial overhaul ‘could deal severe blow’ to economy

By ToI Staff and Sharon Wrobel

An alleged Hezbollah position overlooking the northern Israeli town of Shtula on the Lebanese border, January 23, 2023 (Channel 12 screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Hezbollah erects new watchtowers on Lebanon border as IDF builds defensive wall

By Emanuel Fabian

18-meter tall observation post rises as UN peacekeeping force breaks up another tense standoff between Israeli and Lebanese soldiers on border

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Former defense legal adviser warns against planned government moves in West Bank

A former legal adviser to the Israeli defense establishment warned against legislation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government intends to pass, saying it would harm Israel's security and open it up to potential international scrutiny, in an interview with The Times of Israel last week. Under coalition agreements, control over the appointment of several army... Continue Reading

Illustrative: Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces during a protest in the village of Beit Dajan, in the West Bank, on December 9, 2022. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Israel's Ambassador to Canada Ronen Hoffman in an undated photo. (Ronen Hoffman/Twitter)

Israeli envoy in Canada to step down, citing ‘different policy’ of new government

Donniel Hartman

The path forward for liberal Zionism

This government can’t be changed, but the foundations can be laid for a broad, new social coalition with a different vision for Israel

Palestinians are playing the long game on world stage – Israel could lose

The coalition’s aim to apply sovereignty in the territories and soften the Supreme Court may harm Israel’s global standing

Incoming Culture Minister Miki Zohar (R) with his predecessor Chili Tropper at a handover ceremony in Jerusalem, January 2, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Culture minister aims to nix Shabbat events set up by predecessor; PM shuts him down

Zohar targets initiative offering municipalities subsidized weekend events; Netanyahu intervenes, concluding ministry will continue funding but won’t initiate new Shabbat events

Likud MK Boaz Bismuth speaks during a Knesset committee meeting in Jerusalem, January 17, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Ex-top journalist’s 1st bill as Likud MK would ban airing recordings without consent

By Michael Bachner

Image from the Center for Peace Communications' 'Whispered in Gaza' series of animated interviews with Gazans (Courtesy)

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‘Whispered in Gaza, Part 2’: When residents of the Strip tried to challenge Hamas

By Center for Peace Communications and Times of Israel

The second installment of an extraordinary three-part series of animated video interviews in which ordinary, courageous Gazans tell their own harrowing stories

Likud MKs call on government to evacuate Bedouin village Khan al-Ahmar immediately

By Jeremy Sharon

Likud MKs Yuli Edelstein and Danny Danon, visiting the Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank on Monday, called on the government to evacuate the site as quickly as possible. Just under 200 Palestinians live in the hamlet, which is located on state land east of Jerusalem, near the settlement of... Continue Reading

Likud MK's Yuli Edelstein and Danny Danon visit the Bedouin village Khan al-Ahmar, in the West Bank on January 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

KKL workers plant trees in the sandy soil of Kibbutz Mefalsim, located in the north-west Negev desert near to the Gaza border, in August, 2022. The trees are planted to hide the kibbutz from the view of rocket launchers in the Gaza Strip close by. (KKL)

KKL-JNF to move ahead with flashpoint tree planting in Negev

Activists attempt to reestablish an illegal settlement outpost dubbed Or Chaim in the northern West Bank on January 22, 2023. (Courtesy)

Illegal West Bank outpost evacuated for second time as coalition tensions persist

By Jeremy Sharon

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell speaks with the media as he arrives for a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels on January 23, 2023. (Virginia Mayo/AP)

EU backs down from adding Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to terror listing

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A 2008 photo of Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran, where a number of foreigners and dual nationals have been detained over the years. (CC BY-SA 2.0 Ehsan Iran/Wikipedia)

Iran arrests three female journalists amid protests — reports

By AFP

A woman steps through a door that is covered by a mural depicting American hostages and detainees who are being held outside the US, in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, July 20, 2022. (Patrick Semansky/AP)

US citizen detained in Iran ends hunger strike after seven days

By AFP

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Daily Briefing Jan. 23: Some diplomacy with Kyiv; fusing insects with robots

Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman discusses Ukraine relations and a US official’s visit, as science writer Nathan Jeffay looks at robots with senses and medical clown research

Illustrative: A Leopard 2 tank during a demonstration by the German military near Hannover, Germany, September 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, file)

Poland to ask Germany for go-ahead to send tanks to Ukraine

By AP

In this handout photo taken from video released by Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, Estonian Ambassador to Russian Federation Margus Laidre leaves the Russian Foreign Ministry's building in Moscow, Russia, January 23, 2023. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP)

Russia expels Estonia ambassador amid ‘destroyed’ relations over Ukraine invasion

By AP

Ahmad Kahla is seen scuffling with troops near the West Bank settlement of Ofra, January 15, 2023. (Screen capture/Twitter; courtesy)

IDF opens probe after troops found to unnecessarily kill Palestinian at checkpoint

Brigade commander determines that altercation outside central West Bank village should not have ended in 45-year-old’s death, leading military police to launch investigation

Israeli troops operate in the West Bank, early January 23, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Troops come under gunfire in Jenin, Nablus; 14 suspects arrested — IDF

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: Hadassah Mount Scopus Medical Center workers protest following recent violence attacks on the staff, May 19, 2022. Poster reads 'Strike! Stop the violence in the health system.' (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Public health system strikes in protest of violence against medical staff

Hospitals, clinics and HMOs operate on weekend schedule with reduced services for 24 hours as union demands measures to keep health care workers safe from assault

Health Ministry Director-General Moshe Bar Siman-Tov at a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, March 11, 2020. (Flash90)

Health Ministry chief: Strike over violence against medical staff will harm patients

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, January 22, 2022. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Cabinet expands state-subsidized health benefits, okays ministry chiefs

By Tobias Siegal

First Palestinian woman ordained as pastor at Lutheran church in Jerusalem

By AP

Sally Azar, who will be one of five ordained women in the Middle East, to head English-speaking congregation at the Church of the Redeemer

Jordanian protesters wave national flags and chant slogans during a demonstration near the Israeli embassy in the capital Amman on July 28, 2017, calling for shutting the embassy, expelling the ambassador, and canceling the 1994 peace treaty with Israel. (AFP Photo/Khalil Mazraawi)

Jordanian court orders Israel to pay $500,000 to man hurt in 2017 embassy shooting

Maher Ibrahim lost his job after he was seriously hurt by Israeli embassy guard’s gunfire, in incident that killed 2 people and strained ties

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A combination of images showing Shalev Korostishevsky, 50, and police officers outside an apartment building in Petah Tikva where Korostishevsky was allegedly stabbed and then set on fire. (Israel Police)

Cops say they solved murder of Petah Tikva man stabbed 70 times

By Tobias Siegal

File: View of the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on December 15, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PMO reportedly revives plan for ‘Israeli White House,’ but at a steep cost

Ghislaine Maxwell speaks from a Florida prison to TalkTV in a clip from an interview that aired on January 22, 2023. (Screen capture/Twitter)

In prison interview, Maxwell claims photo of Prince Andrew with abuse accuser fake

By AFP

Illustration of an electric bus traveling along a stretch of Electreon smart road, recharging as it travels. (ElectReon screenshot)

Israeli startup raises NIS 40m to bid in ‘smart road’ electric tender in Sweden

By Sharon Wrobel

Republican National Committee chairman Ronna McDaniel speaks during a Get Out To Vote rally in Tampa, Florida, October 18, 2022. (Chris O'Meara/AP)

Trump’s MAGA forces threaten to upend vote for RNC chair

By Steve Peoples

Illustrative: In this file photo taken on September 7, 2022 US soldiers walk during a joint military exercise between forces of the US-led "Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve" coalition against the Islamic State (IS) group and members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the countryside of the Syrian town of al-Malikiya. (Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)

US army says its forces captured three Islamic State members in Syria raid

By AFP

A van is surrounded by SWAT personnel in Torrance Calif., Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Police: Suspect who shot 10 dead at California dance club killed self after fleeing

By ANDREW DALTON and JAE C. HONG

Four women suspected of trying to smuggle cocaine and ketamine into Israel, pictured at a hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on January 22, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Court extends custody of 4 suspects for trying to smuggle drugs worth millions

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