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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 9, 2023

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People gather to hear a reading of the Book of Lamentations at the egalitarian section of the Western Wall on August 6, 2022. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Amid furor, PM shelves bill that would criminalize mixed prayer at Western Wall

By Ash Obel and Michael Bachner

Nixing egalitarian prayer area, Shas proposal provided for jail terms or fines for mixed-gender prayer, immodest clothing; Netanyahu: ‘It won’t come up right now; status quo stays’

A boy reads from the Torah as part of his bar mitzvah ceremony at the Western Wall's egalitarian section in Jerusalem on November 17, 2022. (Egalitarian section/Facebook)

Coalition bill would ban mixed prayer anywhere at Western Wall, nix egalitarian plaza

By Michael Bachner

Minister within the Education Ministry Haim Biton arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 22, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)

Ultra-Orthodox minister says public should ‘be afraid’ of growing community size

Interview

Judah Ari Gross

‘She helped us, told us when to do what’: Israeli doc describes rescuing Turkish girl

Pediatrician Itai Basel is taking part in his first delegation to a disaster zone with United Hatzalah. ‘Training is one thing. Being a part of this is something else,’ he says

Dr. Itai Basel takes part in the rescue effort to extract a 15-year-old from a collapsed building in Marash, Turkey, on February 8, 2023 (United Hatzalah)

IDF search and rescue teams work to find survivors after an earthquake in Turkey on February 9, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF teams rescue 17 civilians in quake-hit south Turkey, set up field hospital

By Emanuel Fabian

Reporter's NotebookIn devastated Turkey, rescuers battle cold, concrete to save those trapped by quake

By Judah Ari Gross

Former attorney general Avicahi Mandelblit speaks to Channel 12's 'Uvda,' in a program aired February 9, 2023. (Video screenshot)

Live updates (closed)

Former AG Mandelblit: Judicial overhaul plan not a reform, it’s regime change

Man who indicted Netanyahu says under weakened judiciary, ‘there will be oppression. If there is no independent judiciary, it’s over’

8:15 pm

Former AG Mandelblit: Government's plan not a reform, it's regime change
7:08 pm

Madrid mayor offers to twin with Tel Aviv after Barcelona suspends agreement
6:43 pm

Israeli official warns Iran against sending arms to Syria under guise of quake aid

A team of IDF personnel lands in Turkey on February 8, 2023, to set up a field hospital to treat those wounded in the devastating earthquake two days earlier. (IDF)

Israeli teams have rescued five Turkish civilians

With 15 cargo planes, IDF begins setting up field hospital in quake-stricken Turkey

By Emanuel Fabian

Military ferries hundreds of tons of equipment and 230 medical experts to southeastern Turkey, as 150 Home Front Command soldiers continue to search for survivors under the rubble

Undated photo of Saul Cenudioglu, leader of the Jewish community in the southern Turkish town of Antakya. (Twitter. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli team finds bodies of Turkish Jewish community leader and wife in quake ruins

Local and Israeli rescuers search for people in destroyed buildings in Kahramanmaraş, southern Turkey, February 8, 2023. (Courtesy/Israeli Foreign Ministry)

Turkey-Syria quake toll tops 16,000 as cold compounds misery

By AFP and ToI Staff

'If the law is not supreme, the fortress will fall'

Former AG: Netanyahu seeking to use judicial reform to bring trial to improper end

By Jeremy Sharon

Avichai Mandelblit, former close confidant of Netanyahu who served as his attorney general, says PM defended the court in the past, avoided making Yariv Levin justice minister

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit at a weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on February 2, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut at a ceremony at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on June 17, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Bills to halt judicial review and re-appoint Deri as minister to be advanced Sunday

By Jeremy Sharon

Rami Ben-Yehuda arrives for a court hearing at the Magistrate's Court in Tel Aviv on December 18, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Likud activist charged with threatening family of prosecutor in Netanyahu trial

Former Canadian justice minister and human rights advocate Irwin Cotler, seen in Jerusalem in early 2023. (Jeremy Sharon/Times of Israel)

'In Israel nothing would be protected' under the planned law

Irwin Cotler: Passing judicial overhaul as is would make Israel a ‘flawed democracy’

By Jeremy Sharon

Former Canadian justice minister says current proposals would ‘eviscerate judicial review,’ insists any reforms should be enacted in a ‘considered, consultative process’

Cautious but determined, Israeli expats protest Netanyahu’s government

Incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) with incoming Justice Minister Yariv Levin in the Knesset on December 13, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

56 top int’l economists warn Netanyahu that legal overhaul will hurt economic growth

Open letter to PM, whose signatories include 11 Nobel laureates, says proposals will make Israel more like Hungary and Poland; 5 more unicorn firms said to pull funds from Israel

Parents at a school in north Tel Aviv participate in nationwide demonstrations against the proposed judicial overhaul, February 9, 2023 (Courtesy)

Parents, students protest judicial overhaul; major highway blocked

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)

Anti-government protesters said planning rallies outside senior Likud members’ homes

From the blogs

So it begins: A diary of the very near future

This is how the government’s sweeping change to Israel’s constitutional and political regime plays out

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on February 5, 2023. (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL/Flash90)

New government to appoint first woman as ministry director-general

Sharon Uziel Peled to direct Public Diplomacy Ministry headed by Galit Distel Atbaryan, the first woman publicly named to position, alongside 23 male director-generals

Shas MK Michael Malkieli arrives for coalition talks at a hotel in Jerusalem on November 17, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ministry in charge of earthquake preparedness said in ‘chaos,’ without leadership

By Michael Bachner

Explainer

What to do if an earthquake hits: IDF Home Front Command instructions to public

As tremors continue to shake country for third day after devastating quakes in Syria-Turkey, army says head outside or to fortified rooms if possible, otherwise a stairwell

Members of the Knesset Honor Guard, Home Front Command, firefighters, IDF, Israel Police and Magen David Adom Emergency Medical Services participate in an emergency drill simulating an earthquake at the Knesset, Jerusalem, June 13, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

EMSC initial image of minor earthquake felt in Israel, February 8, 2023 (European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre)

2 more minor quakes rattle Israel, bringing number of tremors felt in past day to 3

Members of the Knesset Honor Guard, Home Front Command, firefighters, IDF, Israel Police and Magen David Adom Emergency Medical Services participate in an emergency drill simulating an earthquake at the Knesset, Jerusalem, June 13, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Senior geologist says Israel needs to prepare for major quake ‘in our lifetime’

United Hatzalah call center uses cloud-based dashboard developed by Israeli-founded startup Carbyne to help rescuers treat victims in Turkey earthquake, February 9, 2023. (Courtesy)

Israel first responders in Turkey use real-time tech for remote victim care

By Sharon Wrobel

Using Israeli-founded startup Carbyne’s dashboard of high-resolution incident mapping and video, rescuers communicate with United Hatzalah Israel call center and medical experts

‘My grandmother is still under the rubble’

The tragedy across the ocean hit me hard, though I have no personal reason to be upset. It’s my friend Mohammed who does

Jason Fredric Gilbert

Our shrieking, howling, laughing uninvited guest is a destructive menace, but at least he hasn’t damaged our roof – yet

Illustrative: Judges at the International Court of Justice at a hearing in the case between Armenia and Azerbaijan, The Hague, Netherlands, January 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

UN’s International Court of Justice announces timeline for start of Israel probe

World court starts process toward producing advisory opinion on Israeli-Palestinian conflict, setting October deadline for countries to submit statements and responses

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

Military issues demolition order for East Jerusalem home of Neve Yaakov terrorist

By Emanuel Fabian

File: Palestinian Islamic Jihad gunmen attend the funeral of fellow member in the Jenin refugee camp on October 14, 2022. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Bedouin Israeli brothers charged with supplying arms to Islamic Jihad in West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

A courtroom sketch depicts former Melbourne school principal Malka Leifer at the County Court of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, February 8, 2023. (Mollie McPherson/AAP Image via AP)

Leifer held victim’s family problems over her head to discourage outcry, court told

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

In opening statement, Australian prosecutor says former Haredi school principal told student she’d ‘tell everyone’ about her issues at home if girl disclosed Leifer’s abuse

An apparent Iranian missile with the words 'Death to Israel' written in Hebrew seen at an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps display in Isfahan, Iran, on February 8, 2023. (Twitter/Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iran displays ballistic missile with ‘Death to Israel’ written in Hebrew

Revolutionary Guards showcase apparent projectile at weapons exhibition in Isfahan, days after an attack on military site in the city blamed on Israel

StarkWare co-founder and president Eli Ben-Sasson (left) with co-founder and CEO Uri Kolodny at blockchain event in Tel Aviv, Feb. 7, 2023. (Courtesy)

Israeli blockchain firm develops ‘fire prevention’ tech to thwart FTX-style fraud

By Sharon Wrobel

StarkWare, valued at $8b, gathers 700 crypto developers in Tel Aviv to explore its tech, which speeds up transactions and is meant to make it impossible for exchanges to loot funds

More Headlines

Screen capture from video of Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau, 2022. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Barcelona mayor suspends twinning with Tel Aviv, claims Israel abusing human rights

By AFP and ToI Staff

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, center, gestures as European Parliament's President Roberta Metsola, right, applauds during an EU summit at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, February 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

Zelensky cheered at EU summit, says war against Russia is fight for European freedom

By Raf Casert and Samuel Petrequin

Lias Kasidiaris, a former Golden Dawn lawmaker who was found guilty along with others of leading a criminal organization and faceed 13 years in prison, looks on during a trial, in Athens, October 21, 2020. (Petros Giannakouris/AP)

Far-right party banned from upcoming election in Greece

By Derek Gatopoulos

Lena Epstein greets guests during her campaign for Congress, May 5, 2018. (Rachel Woolf for The Washington Post via Getty Images via JTA)

Raised Jewish, Michigan GOP leadership candidate now says she’s a Messianic Jew

By Andrew Lapin

Henya Federman, co-director of Chabad St. Thomas, and her baby. (Courtesy/Chabad.org)

Chabad emissary dies 2 months after drowning incident in which her baby was killed

The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) in the 2014 shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 holds a news conference in The Hague, Netherlands, February 8, 2023. (Peter Dejong/AP)

Putin likely approved supply of missile that downed flight over Ukraine — probe

From 'Legend of Destruction,' Gidi Dar's 2021 film about the Jewish revolt against the Romans in 70 CE. (Courtesy: David Polonsky and Michael Faust)

Award-winning animated feature about Second Temple destruction now in English

By Jessica Steinberg

Firefighters evacuate residents from a building on fire in Beersheba on February 8, 2023. (Fire and Rescue Service)

Mother, toddler seriously injured in Beersheba apartment building fire

British musician Roger Waters is displayed on a screen during an address to a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine, at UN headquarters in New York on February 8, 2023. (Ed JONES / AFP)

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters slammed for UN speech blaming Ukraine for Russian invasion

By AFP

A synagogue inside the Jewish community center in Sarajevo, February 4, 2022. (Yaakov Schwartz/ Times of Israel)

Bosnia’s Jewish community putting together an archive for an eventual museum

By David I. Klein

Dallas Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving warms up prior to an NBA basketball game against the Los Angeles Clippers, in Los Angeles, February 8, 2023. (Mark J. Terrill/AP)

Kyrie Irving says he has Jewish family members, stands by deleting apology post

By jacob gurvis

The cover of Tal Shimoni's 'Traveling through Israel with Grandpa Daniel,' the first in the debut author's Saba Daniel series, about his hometown of Hod Hasharon (Courtesy Tal Shimoni)

Home's where the story isHod Hasharon dweller writes kids’ book as ode to hometown he loves

By Jessica Steinberg

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