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What Matters Most On Monday, January 30, 2023

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivers a statement upon arrival at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport, on January 30, 2023. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT / POOL / AFP)

Landing in Israel to begin two-day visit, Blinken warns against continued violence

By Lazar Berman

US secretary of state condemns synagogue attack, focuses on Israeli-Palestinian tensions, but Israel shows desire to shift conversation to Iran

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant points at a Palestinian village outside the IDF's West Bank headquarters, January 29, 2023. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 30: Defense minister issues threats while seeking calm

Interview

Former top security official: If Abbas’s PA won’t fight terror, why should it exist?

Israel's former national security adviser charged that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's failure to fight terrorism was a deliberate and risky gamble, but argued that Israel should not let the weekend terror attacks dictate the agenda of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit this week. “It’s a dangerous game," Meir Ben-Shabbat, Prime Minister Benjamin... Continue Reading

Meir Ben-Shabbat, then head of the National Security Council, speaks at a trilateral meeting of the Israeli, US and Russian national security advisers, in Jerusalem on June 25, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the State Department in Washington, January 4, 2023. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

Blinken kicks off regional tour in Egypt as Israeli-Palestinian violence soars

By AFP and Jacob Magid

Illustrative: View of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, November 29, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

50 ex-ministry heads, treasury chiefs join financial warnings over judicial overhaul

By Tobias Siegal

Former senior officials, many of whom worked under Netanyahu for years, say reforms could cause ‘long-term’ damage to economy

A stock market ticker screen in the lobby of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, March 9, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Shares, government bonds slide as planned judiciary shakeup dampens investor mood

By Sharon Wrobel

Students march in Tel Aviv against the government's planned judicial overhaul, January 29, 2023. (Twitter: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

‘Fighting for our future’: Tel Aviv high schoolers rally against judicial overhaul

By Tobias Siegal

A plenum session on forming the government in the Knesset on December 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Bill to strip convicted terrorists of Israeli citizenship passes first reading 89-8

If legislation becomes law, Israel will be able to revoke citizenship or residency of convicted terrorists who receive payments from the Palestinian Authority

7:55 pm

Nides concerned Foreign Ministry sending overly optimistic message on visa waiver
7:44 pm

Netanyahu to meet Macron in Paris this weekend
7:07 pm

Bill to strip terrorists of Israeli citizenship passes first reading 89-8

Illustrative: Passengers head to the departure gates at Ben Gurion International Airport, June 6, 2022. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Israel clears major hurdle in bid to qualify for US Visa Waiver Program

US says rejection rate of Israeli applicants last year fell below 3% as required, but warns government has limited time to pass needed laws, ensure reciprocity for Arab travelers

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks to reporters after an assessment at the IDF's West Bank headquarters, January 29, 2023. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Senior cop says police looking at 41 potential terror alerts

Defense minister: Every terrorist will either go to court or the cemetery

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF to deploy 2 companies to help cops in capital, West Bank barrier area; Shin Bet chief said to warn against sealing off E. Jerusalem neighborhoods, as Smotrich, Ben Gvir sought

Security and rescue forces at the scene of a deadly terror shooting attack in Neve Yaakov, Jerusalem, January 27, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Survivors: Terrorist said ‘I don’t shoot women,’ before shooting one in the head

Security forces at the scene of a terror attack near Jerusalem's Old City on January 28, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In first, cabinet okays sealing home of teen Jerusalem terrorist

Netanyahu: Truss-ed up?

The Conservative UK politician was prime minister for 50 days until the markets purged her. How long will Israel’s PM last?

What Muhammad Aliwat learned in school

Palestinian curricula continue to glorify religious martyrdom and spread hatred even as educational reform is underway elsewhere in the Arab world

Screen grab from an unverified video circulating on social media said to show explosion at a defense facility in Iran's Isfahan after an alleged drone strike, January 28, 2023. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Mossad carried out Iran defense facility strike for Israel’s own interests — report

US officials tell NYT drone attack not aimed at stopping weapons exports to Russia; ex-PM Bennett says he intensified Iran strikes after plot to kill Israelis in Turkey, Cyprus

Illustrative: In this photo released by the Iranian Army on August 25, 2022, a drone is launched in a military drone drill in Iran. (Iranian Army via AP)

Iran warns Israel not to ‘play with fire’ after drone attack on defense facility

Screen grab from an unverified video circulating on social media said to show explosion at a defense facility in Iran's Isfahan after an alleged drone strike, January 28, 2023. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Report: Israel carried out drone attack on Iranian defense facility

Illustrative: A picture taken on November 12, 2018, from al-Qaim in Iraq's border al-Anbar province shows the Syrian border city of Abu Kamal in the Deir Ezzor region. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

In 3rd attack in hours, aircraft said to strike Iranian truck on Syria-Iraq border

By Emanuel Fabian

Unverified reports claim target was loaded with weapons and ammunition, after similar attack overnight and another strike in the morning

A fire is seen burning, puportedly at the al-Qaim crossing on the Syria-Iraq border, in unverified footage posted online, January 29, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Aircraft said to strike convoy of Iranian militia trucks on Syria-Iraq border

By Emanuel Fabian

The border fence between Lebanon and Israel as seen from the Arab village of Ghajar, in northern Israel, September 7, 2022. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Israeli civilian arrested after crossing into Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian

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

WHISPERED IN GAZA, PART 3PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

Darkest tragedy, unrealized dreams: ‘Whispered in Gaza,’ the final interviews

By Center for Peace Communications and Times of Israel

The last installment of an extraordinary series of animated video interviews — already viewed millions of times worldwide — in which ordinary Gazans tell their harrowing stories

From the Blogs

In Gaza, shouts of joy drown out whispers of sorrow and frustration

With their identities concealed in our groundbreaking animated series, Palestinians in the Strip decried what they called ’the Hamas occupation’

Supreme Court Justice Meni Mazuz at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on March 22, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Ex-AG Mazuz says plans for judicial shake-up ‘most serious threat ever’ to democracy

Former Supreme Court justice warns Israel is facing ‘constitutional revolution’; ex-state attorney Lador says Netanyahu should be required to step down for conflict of interests

Chairman of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee MK Simcha Rothman of the Religious Zionism party (center) with committee legal adviser Gur Bligh (right) during a committee hearing, January 29, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Knesset legal adviser: Judicial overhaul should take effect only after next election

By Jeremy Sharon

Economics Nobel prize winner Prof. Daniel Kahneman speaks at a conference in Jerusalem on June 20, 2013. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90/ File)

Israeli Nobel laureate says judicial overhaul plan would mark ‘the end of democracy’

Surveillance footage shows a masked man hurling a Molotov cocktail at Temple Ner Tamid in New Jersey on January 29, 2023. (Bloomfield Police Department)

Masked suspect hurls firebomb at New Jersey synagogue

Police search for attacker after suspected hate crime against Temple Ner Tamid; no injuries or damage caused by late-night incident

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers clash with Palestinians in the West Bank city of Hebron, January 26, 2023. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Palestinian shot dead by troops in Hebron; IDF says he rammed car into soldier

By Emanuel Fabian

Military does not say if incident in West Bank city was deliberate attack against soldiers; Palestinian health officials say Nassim Abu Fouda was shot in the head

A screen capture from a video showing a car set alight by suspected Jewish settlers in the West Bank Palestinian village of Jaloud, January 29, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Vehicle set alight, ‘Jews wake up’ graffiti sprayed in West Bank Palestinian village

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) hosts French President Emmanuel Macron at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, January 22, 2020. (Koby Gideon/GPO/File)

In call with Netanyahu, Macron urges against moves that ‘fuel cycle of violence’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Inside story

From a rogue MK to Haredi subsidies, 8 times High Court struck down laws, decisions

The government’s proposals to radically overhaul the legal and judicial system have generated intense political tensions and a fervid opposition movement since they were announced earlier this month. Among the most controversial aspects of the proposals are amendments to the Basic Law: Judiciary that would severely limit the High Court of Justice’s power of judicial... Continue Reading

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) with Supreme Court President Justice Esther Hayut at a memorial service marking 22 years since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin held at the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, November 1, 2017. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Ahmed al-Mansoori, director of the Crossroads of Civilizations Museum, shows visitors around the Holocaust Gallery, in Dubai on January 11, 2023. (Karim Sahib/ AFP)

As UAE embraces Holocaust studies, museum displays Torah scroll saved in genocide

By ToI Staff and AFP

Dubai’s Crossroads of Civilizations Museum founder says exhibition aims to fight Holocaust denial, remind visitors of ‘good days’ between Jews and Arabs in region

An Egyptian book on the history of Zionism shows hook-nosed Jews rubbing their hands together as they appear to plot against Egypt and the world. (Social media screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Antisemitic book that spurred Israeli complaint is taken off shelves at Cairo fair

By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

Ultra-Orthodox young women in the Adva training program, which aims to teach them with tech skill (Courtesy)

Women still only about a third of tech employees in Israel

By Sharon Wrobel

New report by Power in Diversity also shows Arab and ultra-Orthodox participation rates in the tech workforce remain low

Rabbi Yoni Rosensweig speaks at the Neve Habaron synagogue in the northern town of Zichron Yaakov on January 22, 2023. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Profile

Rabbi Yoni Rosensweig looks to remove stigma of mental health, one ruling at a time

By Judah Ari Gross

What began as an attempt to answer some questions turned into a book and then a full-time job teaching the public, professionals and other rabbis about Jewish law and mental health

More Headlines

Channel 13 reporters and film crew heckled as they report from the scene of a terror attack in Jerusalem, January 28, 2023. (Twitter/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Man arrested for attacking, threatening reporters at site of Jerusalem terror attack

Israeli soldiers patrol the border fence with Syria, in southern Golan Heights, on January 29, 2023. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Armed Syrians, one of whom IDF shot dead on border, weren’t combatants — military

By Emanuel Fabian

Captagon pills found in a shipment of office refrigerators from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip, January 30, 2023. (Defense Ministry)

Security guards foil attempt to smuggle ‘Islamic State drug’ from West Bank to Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

Journalist Ilana Dayan speaks at a Tel Aviv rally against the government's intention to close the Kan public broadcaster, January 29, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Journalists back Kan against budget cuts, say public broadcasting not up for debate

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

People walk on the Metro Bridge in Istanbul on January 24, 2023. (OZAN KOSE/AFP)

US warns citizens of ‘imminent’ terror threat to synagogues, churches in Istanbul

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Detail from Pablo Picasso, “Woman Ironing,” 1904. (Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; via Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York)

Jewish heirs of owner who fled Nazis sue Guggenheim Museum for $200 million Picasso

View of the Europe Asia Pipeline Company's oil terminal in the southern city of Eilat, January 14, 2022. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Cabinet extends secrecy for state-owned oil infrastructure firms, despite objections

An undated screenshot showing some of the Valentine's Day products bearing Hitler's image that were listed and later removed from the website of Australian company Spicy Baboon. (Anti-Defamation Commission)

Sale of Nazi-themed Valentine’s Day merchandise halted in Australia after outrage

By Tobias Siegal

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)

Four suspects accused of smuggling drugs have done it before, say police

Disposable plastic tableware for sale at a supermarket in Givat Shaul, Jerusalem, October 27, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Cabinet votes to scrap disposable plastic tax, a demand of the Haredi community

Gery Shalon, suspected of being involved in several fraud schemes tied to the NYSE and a massive data breach at JPMorgan Chase & Co., seen at the Jerusalem Magistrates' Court, July 22, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli behind massive JPMorgan hack has moved to country, his father says

An exhibit about home cooking restaurants opened January 22, 2023, at Asif Culinary Institute of Israel in Tel Aviv. (Courtesy, Dor Kedmi)

Food for the soulIsraelis’ love for homemade hot lunch at center of new exhibit

By Jessica Steinberg

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