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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 31, 2023

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during a press conference in Jerusalem on January 30, 2023. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

'We hold ourselves to mutual standards we've established'

As Netanyahu talks Iran, Blinken makes US concerns over judicial shakeup clear

By Lazar Berman

US secretary of state speaks at length about democratic values, building consensus; PM pledges that Israel will remain strong democracy, but shifts focus to Tehran

Settlements and National Projects Minister Orit Strock speaks during a visit of Religious Zionism party members in Netiv Haavot neighborhood in Gush Etzion, West Bank, on October 26, 2022. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Far-right minister slams Blinken: Netanyahu doesn’t need ‘lesson in democracy’

Opposition leader and head of the Yesh Atid party MK Yair Lapid speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on January 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich says Lapid’s criticism of legal reforms amounts to support for BDS

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Analysis

Diplomatically but firmly, Blinken advises Netanyahu not to harm Israeli democracy

With the prime minister at his side, visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday issued a diplomatic, but unmistakable and highly detailed call to Benjamin Netanyahu to maintain Israel's vibrant democracy and to reconsider the radical terms of the judicial overhaul that threatens it. If some had thought that the secretary would opt... Continue Reading

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during a press conference in Jerusalem on January 30, 2023. (Debbie HIll/Pool/AFP)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, center, meets with Israeli emerging leaders at 'Feel Beit,' an Israeli-Palestinian art and culture collective in Jerusalem, January 31, 2023. (Ronaldo Schemidt/Pool via AP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan 31: In Israel, Blinken gives PM some friendly relationship advice

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

70-plus US law professors warn against ‘speed and scale’ of planned legal overhaul

CIA director William Burns meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the latter's Ramallah office on January 29, 2023. (Wafa)

Abbas assures US security ties with Israel only partially cut, can be restored

PA president tells CIA chief announced freeze aimed at pushing Netanyahu to moderate settlement expansion, said to fear condemning Jerusalem attack would be ‘political suicide’

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)

Netanyahu to meet Macron in Paris in 2nd trip abroad since returning to office

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Medics at the scene of a suspected ramming attack at the Tapuah Junction in the West Bank, January 31, 2023. (Magen David Adom)

Live updates (closed)

2 injured in suspected ramming attack at West Bank junction — IDF

Medical service say victims lightly and moderately hurt, adds vehicle involved in incident at Tapuah Junction fled the scene

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Condition said to worsen of IDF officer seriously hurt in Jerusalem terror attack
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2 injured in suspected ramming attack at West Bank junction — IDF
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Lawyer denies consenting to outgoing bar chief exposing himself on video chat

A member of the Ethiopian community celebrates upon arriving at Ben Gurion airport on March 11, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

'They orchestrated their own escape'

Shedding image as bystanders to history, Ethiopian Jews reclaim their exodus saga

By Jessica Steinberg

Activists are highlighting the roles community leaders and others played in bringing the Beta Israel to Israel, seeking to combat racist attitudes and empower Ethiopian youth

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, shakes hands with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in Jerusalem, Jan. 31, 2023. (Ronaldo Schemidt/Pool Photo via AP)

Gallant to Blinken: We speak in one voice; your visit sends a clear message to Iran

By Lazar Berman

Defense minister calls for more security coordination with regional US allies; in his meeting with top US diplomat, Lapid stresses importance of protecting democratic institutions

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)

Israel said readying for Iranian retaliatory attacks that could target civilians

Then-prime minister Naftali Bennett arrives at a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on October 23, 2022. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool)

'I'm worried because the discourse is so toxic'

Bennett vows return to politics; urges US Jews: ‘Don’t give up on Israel’

At NY event, former PM says Israel ‘going through midlife crisis’; claims new gov’t continuing his Iran policies, describes Ukraine, Russia compromises agreed in early war talks

Police block a protest against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Yekaterinburg, Russia, Jan. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Anton Basanayev, file)

Global report finds link between corruption and rising violence

By AP and ToI Staff

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man buys disposable plastic dishes in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood, January 20, 2023. (Oded Balilty/AP)

Disposable plastics trigger culture war, testing government cohesion

By Ilan Ben Zion

Shas leader MK Aryeh Deri, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a Shas faction meeting in Knesset, January 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bill said aiming to restore Deri as minister by foiling High Court power to nix him

Coalition reportedly working on Basic Law change that would, in the name of upholding democracy and voters’ will, deny courts the power to disqualify a ministerial appointment

Yoav Ben-Tzur, acting health minister (right), with Aryeh Deri at the Ministry of Social Affairs, Jerusalem, on January 1, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Week after his appointment, acting health minister hasn’t shown up for work – report

By Nathan Jeffay

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

Bill to strip Israeli citizenship from terror convicts paid by PA passes 1st reading

Bishara A. Bahbah

What to expect when the Palestinian Authority collapses

All hell could break loose, leaving the IDF to contend alone without the benefit of PA cooperation – and that’s just for starters

Thanks for the crrringe, Jonah Hill

’You People’ depicts Jews as obtuse and apologetic for enjoying white privilege. Is that the only kind of Jew acceptable in the US today?

A lesson plan shared by the creator of the neo-Nazi group Dissident Homeschool Network, in which children learn cursive by copying a Hitler quote, Nov. 22, 2022. (Screenshot via Telegram/JTA)

Taught to say ‘Sieg Heil’: Ohio-based neo-Nazi homeschooling network unmasked

By Andrew Lapin

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

‘Hate will not win’: Rabbi says firebombed New Jersey synagogue back to routine

Police and Emergency Medical Services respond to a shooting at a business park in the Edgewood area of Harford County, Maryland, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017. (Matt Button/The Baltimore Sun via AP)

‘Get him for Kanye’: Man wearing Star of David necklace beaten at DC-area grocery

Illustrative: A nurse cleaning a wound on a patient (Serhii Hryshchyshen via iStock by Getty Images)

Autism intensifies experience of pain, Israeli study finds, challenging assumptions

By Nathan Jeffay

Largest study on pain responses may affect medical treatment by making doctors and nurses aware that patients with autism may be hurting more than others, but don’t communicate it

Op-ed

With his bogus attack on the attorney general, Ben Gvir is off to a furious start

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, leader of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party, put on quite a show for the media on Saturday night. After a full day of running around in the aftermath of the terror attack in Jerusalem the previous evening, he got in front of the cameras to declare that he... Continue Reading

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks to reporters at Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on January 28, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir leads an Otzma Yehudit faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 30, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

‘To the electric chair’: Ben Gvir to push for death penalty after Jerusalem attack

Noam party head Avi Maoz speaks during his faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 30, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Despite delays, far-right Maoz pledges to take over external educational programming

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

A baby left at check-in at Ben Gurion Aiport, January 31, 2023 (Channel 12 screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Parents leave ticketless baby at airport check-in as they rush to board flight

Couple traveling from Ben Gurion to Brussels had not purchased a seat for infant; airport staff intercept them, send them back to get child

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani in Jerusalem, November 18, 2020. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

InterviewKhalifa pushes free trade deal among Abraham Accords nations

Bahrain envoy hopes Netanyahu will stick to accords, despite coalition ‘challenges’

Ambassador in DC tells ToI Manama can’t advance ties with Israel while seeming to ‘neglect’ Palestinians, insists maintaining Temple Mt status quo crucial in wake of Ben Gvir visit

File: Israel Bar Association chairman Avi Himi arrives for a court hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court, April 20, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israel Bar Association chair resigns following accusation of sexual abuse

Avi Himi heeds growing calls for him to step aside but says indecent act was consensual, accuses ‘desperate politicians’ of trying to silence anyone with a different opinion

MK Simcha Rotman, chair of the Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee, left, and committee legal adviser Gur Bligh, right, during a meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on January 30, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset law committee chair rejects his own legal adviser as ‘biased’

The entrance to the offices of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, Jerusalem. (Flash90)

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

Less than a third of Jewish Israelis trust the Rabbinate; does it care?

Annual study of public faith in national institutions finds diminishing trust in the Chief Rabbinate over the years, and that holds true regardless of respondents’ religiosity

In Edinburgh, the couple found a welcoming Jewish community, where, Jennifer Andreacchi and Han Smith (left) said, many of the younger community members are queer. (Fern Photography/ via JTA)

'We have pushed each other to be our best selves'

This young American couple had Scotland’s first-ever queer Jewish wedding

After meeting as teens in the spring of 2015, Han Smith and Jennifer Andreacchi eventually fell in love — with each other and Judaism — and converted together ahead of the huppah

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This 'Statuette of Maria Lactans' was returned to the heirs of its pre-war Jewish owner, Jakob Goldschmidt. (National Museums in Berlin, Sculpture Collection and Museum of Byzantine Art/Marion Böhl Public Domain Mark 1.0)

Germany returns 16th-century statuette sold off by Nazis to Jewish banker’s heirs

By Toby Axelrod

An altercation between soldiers is seen at the entrance of the Harsina military outpost, near the West Bank city of Hebron, January 30, 2023. (Screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Senior officer beaten during brawl with soldiers from rival company

By Emanuel Fabian

Housing and Construction Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf arrives for a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 3, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

New inter-ministerial cabinet to tackle Israel’s housing crisis

By Danielle Nagler

Three armored ambulances that have been delivered to Ukraine, January 30, 2023. (Defense Ministry)

Israel delivers 3 more armored ambulances to Ukraine amid requests for military aid

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

A view of a construction crane in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, on June 21, 2022. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Central bank urges higher residential property tax to alleviate housing crisis

By Sharon Wrobel

Police arrest a suspect from northern Israel who allegedly defrauded foreign investors from Arab countries out of millions, January 31, 2023. (Israel Police)

Police arrest 3 suspected of scamming foreign Arab investors out of millions

Ultra-Orthodox rioters clash with police in Jerusalem, December 15, 2022. (Israel Police)

Haredi suspect in serious injury of woman at protest says he’s ‘proud’ to be in jail

The 'Wing of Zion,' the Israeli version of Air Force One, is seen above Ben Gurion Airport, on its first test flight, November 3, 2019. (Yoav Weiss/Israel Aerospace Industries)

No longer mothballed, Israel’s ‘Air Force One’ completes further test flight

Damage to an ancient wine press at the Soger archaeological site in the Galilee region, January 29, 2023. (Reuven Kapol/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Nabbed antiquities robbers cause ‘heart-breaking damage’ to ancient wine press

Illustrative: The City of Books library in Mexico City, June 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Christian Palma)

Holocaust survivor story, fantasy novels win prestigious Jewish books for kids prize

By Penny Schwartz

Israeli chef Tomer Tal and his team at the George & John restaurant in Tel Aviv receive an award after ranking sixth among the 50 best dining establishments in the Middle East and North Africa, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, January 30, 2023. (YouTube/50 Best Restaurants TV)

Mediterranean flavors6 Israeli restaurants ranked among 50 best in the region

By Tobias Siegal

Thinkers Distillery, based in Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda Market, began distributing its first bourbon in January 2023, mashed in the US and aged in Haifa (Courtesy PR)

This Israeli bourbon is made from Kansas corn mashed in Ohio and aged in Haifa

By Jessica Steinberg

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