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What Matters Most On Friday, February 10, 2023

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Medics and police officers at the scene of a deadly car-ramming terror attack near the Ramot junction, in Jerusalem on February 10, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Inset: 20-year-old victim Alter Shlomo Lederman (Courtesy)

Palestinian terror groups praise, but don't claim, attack

Two killed in Jerusalem terror ramming, including 6-year-old boy; driver shot dead

By Emanuel Fabian

2nd victim a recently married yeshiva student; 8-year-old brother of slain child in critical state; 4 others hurt; attacker identified as mentally ill Israeli from East Jerusalem

The scene of what the military said was an attempted stabbing attack near the al-Fawar refugee camp, near Hebron in the southern West Bank, February 9, 2023. (Social media: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF says Palestinian tries to stab soldier in West Bank, is shot dead

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF and local rescuers pull a 10-year-old boy out from under the rubble, 100 hours after an earthquake struck in Turkey, on February 10, 2023 (Screencapture/ Israel Defense Forces video)

Israel sending aid and water purification system

IDF teams rescue 10-year-old boy trapped under rubble for 100 hours in Turkey

By Emanuel Fabian

Employing tech usually used for special ops, intel unit mapping out damaged sites; Home Front Command search and rescue experts save 18 civilians so far; field hospital begins work

Rescue workers pull out a young woman from a collapsed building in Adiyaman, southern Turkey, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. (AP/Emrah Gurel)

Turkey-Syria quake death toll tops 21,000 as rescue teams race to find survivors

By AFP and Emanuel Fabian

(L) Former Attorney General Avicahi Mandelblit speaks to Channel 12's 'Uvda' in a program aired February 9, 2023. (R) MK Simcha Rothman, head of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, leads a committee meeting at the Knesset on February 8, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90; Screen capture/Channel 12)

MK Rothman calls to jail former AG Mandelblit for ‘incitement’ over interview

Rothman, an architect of the controversial judicial overhaul, slams ex-AG’s warning that bitter friction over the move will end in bloodshed; calls Mandelblit ‘a disgrace’

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

Judicial overhaul plan is ‘regime change,’ will destroy legal system, says former AG

By Jeremy Sharon

Michal Cotler-Wunsh

Another open letter to Israel’s friends in North America

Daniel Gordis, Yossi Klein Halevi, and Matti Friedman wrote strongly against judicial reform, but they didn’t consider all the reasons to favor it

Joanne Greenaway

The ultimate experience of inclusion: Who’s in?

It took standing together at Sinai for the people to become holy – an early reminder that representation matters (Yitro)

Joshua Hammerman

My annual Super Bowl prediction, using Jewish sources

Both eagles and chiefs appear in this week’s Torah portion, but which will prevail on Sunday? (I’m not endorsing gambling, but I’m nearly always right)

I’ll take my schadenfreude where I can get it

With the world going to hell in a very worrying handbasket, I can still find pleasure in the misfortune of a select few

Writer-comedians Benji Lovitt (left) and Joel Chasnoff, authors of 'Israel 201,' a primer about Israeli life, launched in February 2023. (Courtesy: 'Israel 201')

An ode to 'the wonderful but chaotic life here'

US-born Israeli comics explain local life (and cats) in fun, wise book ‘Israel 201’

By Jessica Steinberg

Joel Chasnoff and Benji Lovitt launch their ‘Next-Level Guide to the Magic, Mystery, and Chaos of Life in the Holy Land’

Reporter's Notebook

Judah Ari Gross

Israeli rescuer who helped in ’99 earthquakes returns to Turkey to save lives

Lt. Col. Golan Landsberg’s teams have pulled several people from the rubble since arriving early Tuesday morning, including a 2-year-old boy and a married couple, he says

Lt. Col. Golan Landsberg, left, stands with other members of his search-and-rescue unit outside a collapsed building in Marash, Turkey, on February 8, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Rescue teams search through the wreckage of collapsed buildings after a devastating earthquake rocked Syria and Turkey, in Aleppo, Syria, February 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki, File)

Earthquake stuns Syria’s Aleppo, even after destruction of civil war

By Kareem Chehayeb and Bassam Mroue

View of neighborhoods in the city of Tiberias on December 17, 2017. (David Cohen/Flash90)

National Security Council said preparing $14 billion earthquake readiness plan

Ben Gvir: Police chief needs help, will get 'advisers'

Ben Gvir slams police for not using force against protesters; top cop backs officers

Minister says police lost ‘control of city to anarchists’ after anti-government demonstration, summons J’lem commander for inquiry; Commissioner Shabtai ‘regrets’ public rebuke

Religious Zionism MK Itamar Ben Gvir (L) and Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai. (Composite/Flash90)

Steffen Seibert, German Ambassador to Israel and former spokesman for the German government, speaks during a handover ceremony in Berlin. December 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Steffi Loos)

Berlin protests Likud minister’s claim that German, Iranian money funding protests

Composite image - Left, Barcelona mayor Ada Colau (Wikipedia/Laura Guerrero; CC BY-SA 4.0). Right, Madrid Mayor Jose Luis Martinez-Almeida (Wikipedia/Thomas Holbach; CC BY-SA 4.0)

Madrid offers to take up twinning deal with Tel Aviv after Barcelona suspends ties

By ToI Staff and AFP

Israeli reserve soldiers, veterans and activists rally outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, protesting against the government's planned judicial overhaul, on February 10, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF vets end 3-day anti-overhaul march with rally, urge PM to ‘stop this madness’

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Gathering at Supreme Court in a sea of Israeli flags, reservists declare a ‘Tzav 8’ emergency call-up in ‘war to save Israeli democracy,’ stress ‘no rifts between left and right’

The Supreme Court convenes for a hearing on the Central Election Committee decision to disqualify Likud party member Amichai Chikli from running in the upcoming Knesset election, October 6, 2022.

Economic leaders urge PM to enter talks on judicial overhaul, offer counter proposal

ToI podcast

Amanda Borschel-Dan

What Matters Now… to MK Simcha Rothman: ‘The people should appoint the judges’

In this second episode of What Matters Now, we speak with the legislator who has written the bills for the proposed judicial overhaul and hear why he thinks they’re not so radical

Chairman of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee MK Simcha Rothman leads a committee hearing, February 6, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Op-ed

Demolition of Israeli democracy starts next week; Netanyahu must heed Herzog’s plea

MKs are about to okay the 1st reading of parts of the judicial overhaul package; it’s really one man’s power grab, and only that man can pull Israel back from the autocratic brink

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with then-Minister of the Interior and Health Aryeh Deri (left) and Justice Minister Yariv Levin (right) during the swearing in ceremony of the new government, at the Knesset, on December 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on February 5, 2023 (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL)

Court gives Netanyahu 1 month to respond to petition to declare him unfit for office

Religious Zionism party chief Bezalel Smotrich (center) and party members at the settlement of Efrat in the Gush Etzion region of the West Bank, October 26, 2022. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

US views looming transfer of West Bank powers to Smotrich as step toward annexation

As Netanyahu set to decide how to implement coalition deal stripping critical powers away from defense minister, visiting Biden aide warns against move

Illustrative: A hair stylist combs through hair after using a treatment for long-term straightening. (Andrii Borodai via iStock by Getty Images)

Some hair-straightening products can cause kidney failure – pioneering Israeli study

By Nathan Jeffay

Israel 1st country to ban treatments with glyoxylic acid which gets absorbed in skin, causing pain, vomiting, and harm to kidneys; researchers anticipate global awareness

Illustrative: Workers unload aid from a plane sent by Iran, at the airport in Syria's northern city of Aleppo, early on February 8, 2023, following a deadly earthquake. (AFP)

Report: Israel warns Iran against sending arms to Syria under guise of quake aid

By Emanuel Fabian

Saudi news site quotes unnamed Israeli military official saying any move by Tehran to ‘take advantage of tragic situation’ will be met with military response ‘without hesitation’

Residents wait behind a police cordon to return to their homes after a rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, February 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Russia unleashes barrage of missiles and drones, hitting targets across Ukraine

Moldovan Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita announces her resignation during a news conference in Chisinau, Moldova, February 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Aurel Obreja)

Pro-Western Moldovan prime minister resigns, government collapses

By CRISTIAN JARDAN and STEPHEN McGRATH

Interview'It’s a golden moment for me. I have age on my side'

Late-blooming character actor Anabel Graetz talks about finding Hollywood fame at 77

By Cathryn J. Prince

Until she appeared opposite a screaming Ryan Reynolds in 2019’s ‘Free Guy,’ the Jewish entertainer says her talents could seldom pay the bills: ‘It’s nice to peak late in life’

Hugh Laurie joins ‘Tehran’ cast for season 3 of Israeli TV series

By Jessica Steinberg

Obituary

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Burt Bacharach, sophisticated Jewish hitmaker of the ’60s and ’70s, dies at 94

Acclaimed composer turned out a string of hits like ‘Walk on By’ and ‘I Say a Little Prayer’ with longtime lyricist partner Hal David, a fellow Jewish New Yorker

Composer Burt Bacharach, left, and lyricist Hal David hold Oscars they won for 'Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head' from 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,' at the Academy Awards, April 7, 1970. (Bettmann/Getty Images via JTA)

Composer Burt Bacharach performs in Milan, Italy on July 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

‘A titan of beautiful song’: Tributes pour in for legendary composer Burt Bacharach

By Huw Griffith and Susan Stumme

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Jewish leaders from across Missouri came to Jefferson City to testify and lobby against various bills that would restrict the rights of trans people. (Courtesy of Daniel Bogard via JTA)

Missouri Jewish leaders advocate for trans rights at state legislature

By Jackie Hajdenberg

More Headlines

US Second Gentleman Douglass Emhoff speaks at the UN in New York, February 9, 2023. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

‘We cannot normalize this’: Emhoff at UN calls to widen fight against antisemitism

File: IDF soldiers conduct training in a field in southern Israel, July 22, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Soldier seriously hurt in training by ricocheting bullet

By Emanuel Fabian

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)

Man charged with making threats against French Jewish school, site of 2012 shooting

By JTA

In this file photo taken on April 12, 2022 former US Vice President Mike Pence speaks at a campus lecture hosted by Young Americans for Freedom at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Ryan M. Kelly / AFP)

Former VP Mike Pence subpoenaed in Trump probe into 2021 US Capitol attack

By AFP

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi (second from L) at a regoinal security conference in Bahrain on February 6, 2023. (Akhbar Al Khaleej)

IDF chief spotted on unannounced visit to Bahrain

A home in Savyon for sale for NIS 34 million ($10.5 million). (Courtesy lior@savyon- de-botton.co.il)

A playground for the 1%, Savyon’s multimillion shekel homes suddenly seem reasonable

By Danielle Nagler

Team at Earth & Beyond Ventures launches fund to invest in Israel space tech firms. (Courtesy)

Earth & Beyond launches new $125 million fund to invest in Israeli space tech

By Sharon Wrobel

An aerial view of Rishon LeZion, February 2018. (Vicu9 via iStock by Getty Images)

Housing snapshot: Home sales and rentals across Israel

By Danielle Nagler

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