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What Matters Most On Wednesday, February 8, 2023

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People try to reach survivors trapped under the debris of a collapsed building in Malatya, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. (AP/Emrah Gurel)

'It's like we woke up to hell'

Fears grow for untold numbers buried by Turkey-Syria earthquake, as toll tops 11,000

By AP and ToI Staff

Rescuers battle time, freezing temperatures in race to save survivors trapped in rubble after devastating 7.8-magnitude quake; over 30 countries, including Israel, send aid

Rescuers search for victims and survivors in the rubble of collapsed buildings in Gaziantep, close to the quake's epicenter, a day after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country's southeast, on February 7, 2023. (Zein Al Rifai/AFP)

‘Waiting for our dead’: Turkey’s slow quake response leaves victims out in the cold

By Burcin Gercek

Rescue teams search through the wreckage of collapsed buildings in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. (AP/Omar Sanadiki)

Aid to quake-hit Syria slowed by sanctions, war divisions

By ABBY SEWELL and Kareem Chehayeb

Israeli rescue teams work to retrieve survivors from the rubble of collapsed buildings in Kahramanmaras, on February 8, 2023, following a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck southeast Turkey. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Live updates (closed)

Minor earthquake felt in northern Israel in 3rd local tremor within 24 hours

3.9 magnitude quake strikes Lebanon, shaking parts of Israel, as authorities warn that country is woefully unprepared to deal with a major earthquake

7:23 pm

Minor earthquake felt in northern Israel and Lebanon
7:12 pm

Labor MK says judicial overhaul plan is 'a gift to the BDS movement'
6:58 pm

Police: Man deliberately crashes bus into daycare center in Canada, killing 2 children

IDF search and rescue teams begin operating in a bid to find survivors after an earthquake in Turkey on February 7, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF teams rescue 4 during operations in quake-hit south Turkey

By Emanuel Fabian

Footage shows young woman and boy pulled from rubble alive; preliminary military team lands to establish field hospital

Israel's ambassador in Turkey, Irit Lillian (Foreign Ministry)

InterviewWeeks after filling long-empty post, Israeli envoy oversees quake aid to Turkey

By Lazar Berman

IDF Home Front Command search and rescue teams and Turkish medics rescue a young woman trapped under rubble in southeastern Turkey, after an earthquake on February 7, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF to set up field hospital in Turkey; Israel’s search and rescue team starts work

By Emanuel Fabian

Berkeley Moshav

Open to Families: A New Jewish Cohousing Community

Berkeley Moshav reimagines the Jewish communal future by re-creating the village models of the past.

Constitution Committee head MK Simcha Rothman, left, leads its discussion in the Knesset, February 8, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rothman rules out major changes on first overhaul bill, delays vote to Monday

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Constitution Committee chair dismisses substantive changes proposed by the panel’s legal adviser; bill focuses on judge appointments and curbs on court’s power

Hundreds of IDF reservists and veterans begin a march from Latrun to Jerusalem to protest the government's judicial overhaul plans, February 7, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF vets start 3-day march to Jerusalem to protest judicial overhaul plans

By Emanuel Fabian

Workers from the high-tech sector protest against the proposed changes to the legal system, in Tel Aviv, on February 7, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Protest leaders call for worker strikes nationwide Monday against judicial overhaul

Illustrative: A view of the Israeli settlement of Ariel, in the West Bank on July 2, 2020. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

Minor earthquake hits Israel, West Bank

By ToI Staff and Agencies

IDF’s Home Front Command says 3.5-magnitude tremor centered in area between settlement city of Ariel and Jerusalem

Israeli army and rescue forces seen near the city of Kahramanmaras, Turkey, to assist in rescue efforts after the earthquake on February 8, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 8: Report from Turkey; how the court is to the right of the PM

Lidar Yaffe Swisa in an undated photo. (Courtesy; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Woman found dead outside her home in Lod; neighbor arrested on suspicion of murder

Relatives say Lidar Swisa Yaffe complained suspect was harassing her, police did nothing; victim is first woman to be killed in 2023, amid worsening domestic violence epidemic

A construction site for new housing in the city of Gedera, February 3, 2022. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

4 suspected of planning to attack Arabs in revenge over rape in Gedera

By Michael Horovitz

Illustrative: An IDF lieutenant colonel accused of sexual offenses arrives for a court hearing at a military court in Tel Aviv, December 7, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash9)

Senior IDF officer charged with indecent acts against two female subordinates

By Emanuel Fabian

UK Labour Friends of Israel chairman Steve McCabe (L) gives a book signed by party leader Keir Starmer to President Isaac Herzog, February 6, 2023. (Labour Friends of Israel)

Interview'There will be more people expelled in the coming years'

UK Labour Party is pro-Israel again, says chair of its visiting friendship group

By Lazar Berman

After antisemitism drove Jews away in Corbyn era, MP Steve McCabe says opposition party has returned to traditional Israel-backing stance, but is concerned about the new coalition

Illustrative: Students study at a yeshiva in Jerusalem, September 2, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Haredi men three times as likely to be nearsighted, probably due to Talmud study

By Nathan Jeffay

Experts at Hadassah Academic College find that ultra-Orthodox men tend to position themselves closer to text than others, which scholars believe explains huge prevalence of myopia

Jennifer Rosner

Redemption and rupture: Hidden children of the Holocaust

Reclaiming the youngsters was an act of kindness to their murdered parents and to the Jewish people, but what about the children themselves?

What’s a nice Orthodox gay single dad doing in a place like this?

My values contradict each other, but I’m not a hypocrite or a liar. We all function in a complex, conflicting world

Members of the Christian Front pose with rifles in the 1940s (public domain)

Eight episodes on extremists ran during Oath Keepers' trial

‘Ultra’ podcast depicts little-known Nazi-funded plot to topple US government

By Matt Lebovic

Rachel Maddow’s eerily timed series depicts how ultra-right nationalists prepared to bomb Jewish sites while ‘bought’ members of Congress disseminated Nazi talking points

Archaeology'I started to wash the rubble and saw something shiny'

Rare 1,600-year-old gold bead found by teenager in Jerusalem’s City of David

By Michael Bachner

Piece of jewelry, which required unique expertise to make, discovered in earth sifted from magnificent Roman structure in Pilgrimage Road, near Old City

A site confirmed by archaeologists to be the remains of a 14th-century synagogue in Utrera, Spain, February 7, 2023. (YouTube screenshot: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Archaeologists uncover rare remains of 14th-century Spanish synagogue

By AP

Construction work for new housing in the West Bank settlement of Modi'in Illit, on January 11, 2021. (Flash90)

Coalition party vows settlement building will continue, despite US request for pause

By Jacob Magid and Carrie Keller-Lynn

Religious Zionism says it won’t allow temporary halt to series of measures beyond Green Line, as proposed by Blinken in exchange for PA ceasing steps at UN to help restore calm

View of the Bedouin village Khan al-Ahmar, in the West Bank on January 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court rebukes government for seeking to again put off Khan al-Ahmar demolition

By Jeremy Sharon

A man fires a pistol at an indoor shooting range during a qualification course in Katzrin in the Golan Heights on January 31, 2023. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Gun permits said to spike since terror attack, Ben Gvir’s order to expedite process

Roger Waters performs at the United Center in Chicago, July 26, 2022. (Rob Grabowski/Invision/AP, File)

Ex-Pink Floyd partner brands Roger Waters antisemitic, lip-synching Putin apologist

David Gilmour endorses tweet by his wife excoriating former bandmate for recent interview in which he defended Russia and reiterated comparison of Israel to Nazi Germany

Joe Rogan is seen during a weigh-in before UFC 211 on May 12, 2017, in Dallas before UFC 211. ( AP Photo/Gregory Payan, File)

Joe Rogan: ‘The idea that Jewish people are not into money is ridiculous’

Rabbi Alexander D. Goode and a view of the Dorchester, which was requisitioned by the US Army during World War II. The ship was sunk by a German torpedo on February 3, 1943. (Courtesy Mark Auerbach via JTA)

'He just gave his lifejacket to the next man in line'

Honoring a US rabbi who went down with his torpedoed warship 80 years ago this month

Mark Auerbach works to preserve the memory of his relative Alexander Goode, an army chaplain who gave away his lifejacket and calmed panicked soldiers after a German U-boat attack

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, December 25, 2018. (Adam Shuldman/Flash90/File)

Tech firm Skai said set to pull funds from Israel due to judicial overhaul plans

Company worth reported $1b joins others in move to withdraw from market amid proposed legal shake-up; Finance Ministry officials warn uncertainty threatens state revenue

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

In petition, leading academics warn judicial shakeup will harm Israel’s security

Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California arrives as the House Judiciary Committee holds its first meeting under the Republican majority to set its operating rules, at the Capitol in Washington, February 1, 2023. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Top Democrat Adam Schiff fears judicial shakeup will ‘make Israel less democratic’

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US President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, in Washington, as Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif., applaud. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

America’s democracy is ‘unbowed and unbroken,’ says Biden in State of Union address

By Zeke Miller and Seung Min Kim

MK David Amsalem reacts during a plenum session of the Knesset on December 19, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Supreme Court critic Amsalem to join Justice Ministry as 2nd minister

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, left, welcomes Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky at Downing Street in London, February 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Zelensky warmly welcomed in Britain on his 2nd trip abroad since Russia’s invasion

By Jill Lawless

Sara Netanyahu arrives to testify in a lawsuit filed by Attorney David Shimron against attorney David Artzi, at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court, January 23, 2023. (Moti Milrod)

Man gets suspended sentence for threat to sexually assault Sara Netanyahu

Rescue and medical teams at the scene at a fatal construction accident in Ashdod, February 8, 2023. (Flash90)

Two construction workers killed by collapsing wall in Ashdod

Sally Ibrahim Azar, the first female pastor in the Holy Land of the Lutheran Church, poses for a picture at the Lutheran Church in the Jerusalem's Old City, on January 25, 2023. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

First female Palestinian pastor hopes to inspire women to break more ground

By Rosie SCAMMELL

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on February 6, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Watchdog group cries foul as Likud proposes law to ease donations to lawmakers

Illustrative: The exterior of the Hebraica Club in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (YouTube screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

14-year-old boy killed by falling goalpost at Sao Paulo Jewish center

By Marcus M. Gilban

Dr. Charles Silverstein, therapist and LGBTQ rights activist, died on January 30 at the age of 87. (YouTube screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the copyright law)

ObituaryCharles Silverstein, who helped delist homosexuality as mental illness, dies at 87

By Yaakov Schwartz

University of Torontyo's Daniel Drucker, who was awarded the 2023 Wolf Prize in Medicine. (YouTube screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the copyright law)

Israel’s Wolf Prize awarded to Canadian endocrinologist

By AP

John Cleese as Basil Fawlty in a scene from 'The Germans' episode of the TV comedy series 'Fawlty Towers' (screen capture, YouTube: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Do mention the rebootJohn Cleese to return for reboot of iconic sitcom ‘Fawlty Towers’

By AFP

File: Barbra Streisand presents the award for best musical at the Tony Awards in New York on June 12, 2016. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Happy days are here againLong-awaited Streisand memoir ‘My Name is Barbra’ coming this year

By Hillel Italie

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