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What Matters Most On Wednesday, February 1, 2023

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to CNN in an interview aired January 31, 2023. (Screenshot/CNN, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israel acting 'against certain weapons development' by Iran

Netanyahu says he wants to hear ‘counter offers’ to proposed judicial overhaul

In wide-ranging CNN interview, PM insists radical changes will ‘correct’ Israeli democracy, vows to thwart Iran, says he’s ‘looking into’ giving Ukraine ‘other kinds of aid’

Former Attorney General Raz Nizri attends a hearing of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, January 31, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Former deputy AG denounces legal system, but says government plan too ‘extreme’

By Jeremy Sharon

Settler in the Gaza Strip settlement of Netzarim argues with soldiers who have come to evacuate him from his home, accusing them of betraying Jewish values, during the disengagement from Gaza, August 22, 2005. (Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 1: When High Court intervention helped settlers, religious women

Smotrich: 'We are brothers, hope you come back'

Unicorn CEO says he’ll leave Israel, stop paying taxes to protest legal overhaul

The founder of one of Israel's most successful tech unicorns declared on Tuesday that he was leaving the country and ceasing to pay taxes in protest over the new hardline government's planned judicial overhaul. Verbit CEO Tom Livne, whose hybrid AI-based and human transcription and captioning software company... Continue Reading

Verbit co-founder and CEO Tom Livne speaks to Channel 12 on January 31, 2023. (Screen capture/Channel 12)

Israeli tech company employees stage protest in Tel Aviv against judicial overhaul, January 21, 2023 (Courtesy)

Hundreds of tech workers rally against judicial shakeup plans for 2nd week in a row

By Sharon Wrobel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at an event at Haifa Port on January 31, 2023 (Shir Torem/Flash90)

Netanyahu says opponents trying to harm economy with criticism of judicial overhaul

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Why Netanyahu’s government treats every issue like a war

In 2017, an Israeli right-wing activist published a book that became an overnight mainstay of the conservative Israeli bookshelf. It was a fierce and effective polemic with a title as blunt as its argument: “Why do you vote right and get left?” Since the late 1970s, explained author Erez Tadmor, voters have usually sent right-wing majorities to the Knesset, yet... Continue Reading

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, and members of his new government look on as the government is sworn in at the Knesset, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022, in Jerusalem. (Amir Cohen/Pool via AP)

Screen capture from video of Dana Cassidy, left, and Yair Netanyahu, right, in the Kfar Saba Magistrate's Court, February 1, 2023. (Walla. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Yair Netanyahu back in court for libel over tweet suggesting woman was Gantz’s lover

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Palestinian Authority President Mahoud Abbas (L) welcomes US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to the West Bank city of Ramallah on January 31, 2023. (Majdi Mohammed/Pool/AFP)

In meeting with Abbas, Blinken laments deaths of ‘innocent Palestinian civilians’

By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

Back in J’lem, secretary implies Israel imperiling 2-state solution, lists Israeli actions US will oppose, praises ‘vibrant’ civil society amid veiled criticism of judicial shakeup

Social workers protets outside the Prime Minister's Office on July 12, 2020.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Far-right MK submits bill to restrict striking rights of labor unions

Legislation would strip protections from workers who walk out in solidarity with other unions, preventing Histadrut from joining protests against judicial overhaul

Shas leader MK Aryeh Deri, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen during a Shas party meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on January 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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Likud MKs said threatening to torpedo law to get Deri back into government

Report says rising discontent in ruling party that Netanyahu putting in so much effort to help Shas leader, while senior Likud officials still missing out on top posts

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Senior lawyer sparks outcry with warning of armed uprising against government
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Likud MKs said threatening to torpedo law to get Deri back into government

MK Rothman upbraids chief justice over ‘demand’ to freeze judicial overhaul efforts

By Jeremy Sharon

MK Simcha Rothman, chairman of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, sharply criticized Supreme Court Justice Esther Hayut on Wednesday over her reported demand that efforts to legislate the government’s judicial overhaul be halted and that a mediation process over the proposed reforms be started instead. “Committee debate is the lifeblood of... Continue Reading

Composite image shows Supreme Court chief Esther Hayut, left, and MK Simcha Rothman, right. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

A composite image, from left, of Justice Minister Yariv Levin at a government conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 15, 2023; Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut at a hearing in Jerusalem on December 1, 2022; and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 29, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Report: Hayut asks to freeze judicial overhaul push to talk compromise, PM says no

Israel Bar Association chief Avi Himi, in Tel Aviv, February 21, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Alleged misconduct by Israel Bar chief to be probed; he resigns, denies wrongdoing

Police announce inquiry as Avi Himi steps down a day after TV report alleged he masturbated during Zoom call with young female lawyer

Susannah Schild

PHOTO ESSAY: February flower peeping

7 hikes and sites all over Israel where you can find wildflowers – but the season is fleeting, so get out soon to see the jeweled tones of nature in bloom

Hilary Faverman

ChatGPT isn’t taking my job, but it’s already changed how I work

The AI tool will save my clients time and money, but as long as they want innovative, creative work with a sense of humor, they (thankfully) still need me

Noam party leader MK Avi Maoz seen during a vote in the Knesset, on December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

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Far-right Maoz seeks to end Diaspora donations to pluralistic school education

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

If he succeeds, Noam party’s deputy minister could cause new type of rift between Israel and US Jews, whose organizations donate billions of dollars to development of the country

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

2 soldiers hurt in alleged West Bank ramming; driver turns self in, claims accident

By Emanuel Fabian

Army says Palestinian driver accelerated toward troops at Tapuah Junction before fleeing scene; he reportedly claims accident due to poor visibility, fled fearing he’d be shot

Screen capture from video of a public prayer service for the recovery of an IDF paratrooper seriously injured in a terror attack, held at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, January 31, 2023. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Condition of IDF officer wounded in Jerusalem attack said to worsen

A burning vehicle in the West Bank village of Turmus Ayya, January 31, 2023. (Courtesy)

Settler to be charged with hate crime for torching Palestinian car

By Emanuel Fabian

Letty Cottin Progrebin at her desk at home in New York (Mike Lovett)

Author interview

Shaped by ‘shanda’: Letty Cottin Pogrebin’s memoir on a life of shame and secrets

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Now in her 80s, the second-wave feminist leader, writer, and Israel activist looks back on how her family’s drive to avoid stigma molded her view of self and others

Analysis

Battle over municipal funding for Haredi schools foreshadows local election showdown

In a strongly worded letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Education Minister Yoav Kisch, and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich earlier this month, a group of 170 mayors protested a clause in the new government’s coalition deals compelling municipalities to dedicate “hundreds of millions of shekels” to Haredi educational institutions. They called on the government to respect local governments' authority regarding... Continue Reading

Ultra-Orthodox students in Jerusalem's Neve Yaakov neighborhood on August 9, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Father suspected of ordering ex-wife’s killing gets custody of their daughter

A father suspected of ordering the fatal shooting of his ex-wife, who was executed in front of their three children, will get custody of their youngest, a court ruled Tuesday. Rabab Abu Siyam was shot dead with her daughter in her lap in Lod in July 2022. The... Continue Reading

Rabab Abu Siyam. (Courtesy)

US Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, right, speaks with 101-year-old Margot Friedländer, center, during a meeting with Holocaust survivors in Berlin, January 31, 2023. (US Embassy Berlin)

Doug Emhoff’s trip to Poland and Germany brings him back to Jewish ancestral roots

By Toby Axelrod

US second gentleman describes meeting Holocaust survivors who recently fled war in Ukraine as ’emotional and intense,’ recalls his own grandparents’ flight to safety in America

Ancestry.com donates 2,500 DNA kits to help Holocaust survivors find relatives

By Yaakov Schwartz

Doug Emhoff meets Ukraine refugees at synagogue, visits Holocaust memorial in Berlin

By AP

Adolf Eichmann’s audio confessions to the orchestration of the Final Solution can be heard for the first time in Israeli docuseries 'The Devil’s Confession.'(Courtesy of Amazon Prime Video via JTA)

Israeli series with never-before-heard Eichmann confessions comes to Amazon video

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Three-part documentary show ‘The Devil’s Confession,’ first aired on Israel’s Kan public broadcaster, now on Prime Video

Retired Church of England vicar, Rev Stephen Sizer leaves a disciplinary tribunal at St Andrew's Courtroom, in central London, May 23, 2022. (Dominic Lipinski/PA Images via Getty Images)

Anglican priest who pushed antisemitic 9/11 conspiracy barred from church until 2030

By David I. Klein

This file photo taken on March 19, 2012, in Toulouse, France, shows policemen marking the area in front of the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school where jihadist Mohammed Merah killed three children and a teacher. (AFP/Eric Cabanis)

France’s updated plan to counter antisemitism will take students to sites of attacks

By David I. Klein

The United Nations General Assembly Fourth Committee votes on measures addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, at the United Nations in New York, November 11, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Bill calling to end UN probe into Israel reintroduced to US Congress

Republicans push measure to eliminate Commission of Inquiry, ‘combat systemic anti-Israel bias’ at world body; US opposes investigation but maintains funding as part of UN budget

Newly appointed Defense Ministry Director-General Eyal Zamir (left) with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in Tel Aviv, on February 1, 2023. (Ariel Hermoni/ Defense Ministry)

Former deputy IDF chief Eyal Zamir takes up post as Defense Ministry director

By Emanuel Fabian

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Illustrative: Screen capture from video of the Ukrainian city of Huliaipole, May 2022. (YouTube; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

113-year-old Ukrainian synagogue damaged by Russian shelling — local reports

By Judah Ari Gross

A worker at a restaurant in Tel Aviv, March 3, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Tourism Ministry greenlights entry of Michelin Guide to Israel

Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, right, shakes hands with head of Vichy France Philippe Petain, in occupied France, October 24, 1940. (AP)

New York community leaders call to remove Nazi collaborators from ‘Canyon of heroes’

In this photo released by the state-run Saudi Press Agency, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, left, speaks to his father, King Salman, right, at a meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 9, 2018. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

Rights groups say Saudi executions up sharply under MBS, King Salman

By AFP

A Jews For Asians event that took place in March 2021 in New York City. (Courtesy/via JTA)

Jewish initiative aims to support Asian New Yorkers following Monterey Park shooting

Republican Rep. George Santos of New York leaves a House GOP conference meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, January 25, 2023. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Santos bows out of House panels amid fury over lies about his past

By KEVIN FREKING

Screen capture from video of Astiyazh Haghighi and her fiance Amir Mohammad Ahmadi dancing in public
in Tehran, Iran. They were sentenced to ten years in prison for the video. (Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iran hands 10-year sentence to couple for dancing in public without hijab

By AFP

This handout photo shows drugs seized by Israeli security forces on the border with Syria, January 31, 2023. (Israel Police)

IDF arrests 2 Syrians for attempting to smuggle 21 kilos of hash

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli startup UpStay develops fully automated platform for personalized upgrades of hotel rooms. (Courtesy)

Canadian traveltech firm buys Israeli hotel upgrade startup UpStay, opens R&D center

By Sharon Wrobel

Likud party members David Amsalem (right) and David Bitan arrive for a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Likud MK Bitan says Netanyahu will ‘pay a price’ if Amsalem left without role

Veteran film professional Jay 'Shish' Koller created a new set of film and television prizes being awarded on February 3, 2023. (Courtesy: PR)

Best boyVeteran filmmaker rolls out prize to fete those behind the scenes

By Jessica Steinberg

Ira "Bob" Born, the former president of Just Born Quality Confections. (YouTube screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

ObituaryBob Born, Jewish maker of Peeps marshmallow candies, dies at 98

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

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