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What Matters Most On Sunday, February 5, 2023

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Zeev Raz speaks during a protest rally in central Tel Aviv, on November 28, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Netanyahu: Opposition is backing 'irresponsible incitement'

Ex-air force pilot detained for questioning after implying Netanyahu deserves to die

By Ash Obel and ToI Staff

Zeev Raz suspected of incitement and threats; lawyer who said he’d fight government ‘with live fire’ also questioned

File: Ze'ev Raz speaks during a protest against a controversial agreement reached between the government and large energy companies over natural gas production, Tel Aviv, on November 28, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Ex-pilot who bombed Iraq nuke reactor walks back comment justifying PM assassination

Composite image shows Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar (left) and Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90; Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)Shin Bet warns of rising ‘inciting discourse’ against Netanyahu, other officials

This combination of file pictures created on March 6, 2022, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (L, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (C) and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Various sources/AFP)

Bennett: Putin assured me at Moscow meeting he wouldn’t kill Zelensky

Ex-PM says Russian president also agreed not to push for Kyiv’s disarmament; former premier says everything he did was in coordination with US

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett during an interview published February 4, 2023. (Screenshot: YouTube; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Breaking silence, Bennett admits mistakes, urges government not to act ‘power-drunk’

By Michael Bachner

Israel’s richest locales show 20% lower cancer death rate than middle-income areas

By Nathan Jeffay

As possible explanations for its findings, Taub Center analysis suggests ‘health inequality’ based on socioeconomic status and unequal health provision outside central Israel

Illustrative image of a person undergoing a CT scan. (peakSTOCK via iStock by Getty Images)

Institute for National Security Studies chairman Amos Yadlin, a former head of IDF Military Intelligence. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

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Amos Yadlin on leadership in the Jewish state

Join Steve and Major Gen Amos Yadlin in a discussion on being a fighter pilot in the Yom Kippur War, Iran, and the Israel/ US relationship.

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen (L) and Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90; Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)

Live updates (closed)

Ukraine said to demand Israel denounce Russia, as foreign minister due to visit Kyiv

Report says Jerusalem also asked to approve $500 million loan; Ukrainian official: Meeting between Eli Cohen, Zelensky depends on Israeli willingness to take steps in our favor

7:29 pm

IDF defends use of Iron Dome after walking back claim of drone interception
7:14 pm

Outgoing bar chief files police complaint against lawyer who accused him of sexual indecency
6:57 pm

Bus driver hurt in rock-throwing attack in West Bank, say medics

Thousands of protesters rally against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government's planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv on February 4, 2023. (Gili Yaari /Flash90)

Former top cop: 'The proposal amounts to a coup d’etat'

Tens of thousands rally against planned judicial overhaul for 5th straight week

In Haifa, Lapid says protesters taking to streets ‘because we refuse to live in an undemocratic country’; Tel Aviv mayor tells demonstration that ‘if words end, actions will begin’

Former Bank of Israel governor Jacob Frenkel speaks to Channel 12, January 22, 2023. (video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Ex-Bank of Israel chief slams PM for ignoring warnings on overhaul’s economic danger

Jacob Frenkel, who later chaired JP Morgan’s international business, says PM shouldn’t brush off concerns expressed by US banking giant: ‘There’s a danger of losing everything’

Israelis protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, Israel, February 4, 2023. (AP/Maya Alleruzzo)

CEOs, senior execs call for dialogue on government’s judicial makeover plans

By Sharon Wrobel

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Why the ‘He Gets Us.’ Jesus ads get Jews nervous

The billion-dollar Super Bowl ad blitz aims to unify all Americans under the banner of the cross – including me

A four-species barley pudding for Tu B’Shevat

Foods from Israel turn the trees’ ’birthday’ into a meaningful holiday, with notes of kabbalah and environmentalism

Khader Adnan, an Islamic Jihad spokesman, during a television interview in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)

Israeli forces said to arrest senior Islamic Jihad member in the West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

Palestinian Prisoner’s Media Office says troops detain Khader Adnan in hometown near Jenin; Israeli authorities return body of teen killed after aiming gun at police in Shuafat

Two Iron Dome interceptor missiles are seen launched over Sderot, February 4, 2023. (Dadi Fold/Courtesy)

IDF defends use of Iron Dome after walking back claim of drone interception

By Emanuel Fabian

A prison guard stands at Gilboa prison in northern Israel, on September 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

After sex abuse scandal, ministers agree soldiers will stop guarding terror convicts

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at a handover ceremony, after taking over the police ministry from outgoing minister Omer Barlev, Jerusalem, January 1, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

UN asks for details on ‘Ben Gvir law’ cementing expanded political power over police

International body issues request as part of review of Israel’s implementation of the 2005 Convention against Corruption

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

Ben Gvir vows to bolt government if unable to sway its policies

Teslas park in the Las Vegas Convention Center Loop, an underground tunnel developed by Elon Musk's The Boring Company, June 8, 2021, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

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Netanyahu aims to fill West Bank with high-speed tunnels, in vision laid out by Musk

By Shalom Yerushalmi

Premier floats plans during meeting in Paris with French businesspeople, says it could allow for territorial contiguity between settlements and for Palestinians

A screenshot from surveillance video shows a suspect before he allegedly raped a woman in front of her children after breaking into a home in the southern town of Gedera, February 2, 2023. (Twitter screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Man arrested in West Bank on suspicion of raping Gedera woman in front of her kids

Police also arrest 6 other suspects, all residents of the ‘Bedouin diaspora,’ day after incident in southern town triggered protests and anger toward force

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting in Tehran, Iran, January 9, 2023. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Acknowledging ‘tens of thousands’ detained in protests, Iran grants amnesty for some

By Jon Gambrell

Supreme leader Khamenei also orders sentence reductions; no details given as to which prisoners will benefit from clemency to mark anniversary of 1979 revolution

Mir Hossein Mousavi waves to his supporters as he arrives at a campaign gathering in downtown Tehran, Iran, June 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Amid protests, Iran opposition leader calls for referendum on new constitution

By AP

France's President Emmanuel Macron, right gestures as he welcomes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, prior to a working dinner at the Presidential Elysee Palace in Paris on February 2, 2023. (Ludovic MARIN / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 5: In France, PM sees Macron as a hawkish friend against Iran

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Israeli Ambassador to Zambia Ofra Farhi, left, presents her credentials to Zambian Foreign Miniser Stanley Kakubo, October, 2021. (Twitter. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israel’s ambassador to Zambia mugged on street in front of her bodyguards

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

PM’s office said mulling halt to work on official residence in favor of new building

A screen grab from video footage of a suspect, identified by police as 51-year-old Dmitri Mishin, at a synagogue in San Francisco on February 1, 2023 firing a gun loaded with what police believe to have been blanks. (Screenshot from ABC7 news, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Police arrest suspect in shooting at San Francisco synagogue

By AP and ToI Staff

Then-Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf listens to the national anthem before being sworn in as the country's civilian president at President House in Islamabad, Pakistan, on November 29, 2007. (B.K.Bangash/AP)

ObituaryPervez Musharraf, Pakistan martial ruler who backed US in Afghanistan, dies at 79

By Jon Gambrell and Munir Ahmed

University of Warwick. (Wikimedia Commons/Mike1024, public domain)

Students at a UK university quit national union for failing to address antisemitism

Illustrative: View of an empty school at in Tel Aviv, following a strike of the Teachers Union, on June 19, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

High school teachers union to strike Sunday as part of wage dispute

File: Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani reviews the honor guard as he arrives at the Rafik Hariri international airport in Beirut, Lebanon, January 20, 2019. (AP/Hussein Malla, File)

As most Gulf states move away from Lebanon over Hezbollah, Qatar boosts influence

A large balloon drifts above the Kingstown, North Carolina area, with an airplane and its contrail seen below it. (Brian Branch via AP)

US fighter jet shoots down China’s spy balloon off South Carolina coast

By Paul Handley

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