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What Matters Most On Sunday, February 12, 2023

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with Justice Minister Yariv Levin at his side, chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Feb. 12, 2023. (Amit Shabi / Pool)

Justice minister accuses AG, Supreme Court chief of leading ‘coup’ attempt

‘No different from a putsch with tanks’: Levin assails legal officials for requiring Netanyahu to respond to petition to declare him unfit because of alleged conflict of interest

Coalition party leaders meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, January 22, 2023. (Courtesy: Likud)

Coalition heads: Court hearing on PM’s fitness for office equivalent to military coup

Left: Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut at a court hearing in Jerusalem, January 2, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Right: Likud MK Tally Gotliv attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 30, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In extraordinary tirade, Netanyahu ally blames terror ramming on Supreme Court chief

File: US President Joe Biden meets then-opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu (right) at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, July 14, 2022. At left is Secretary of State Antony Blinken; 2nd-left is US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides. (GPO)

'Democracy built on checks & balances, independent judiciary'

Biden, in first direct comment on judicial overhaul, urges ‘consensus building’

As Netanyahu government forges ahead with controversial legislative package, US president echoes plea of Israel’s Herzog, who urged a pause for dialogue

Shas chief Aryeh Deri leads a Knesset faction meeting on February 6, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG pans coalition attempt to cancel legal review of minister picks, reinstate Deri

Yossi Cohen, then the national security adviser, is seen in a committee meeting at the Knesset on December 8, 2015, sitting behind Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Former Mossad chief, ex-national security aides urge compromise on judicial shakeup

A nearly empty plenum hall during a Knesset session on December 18, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Reports: Coalition will delay first reading of judicial overhaul bills to next week

Unnamed senior source tells Channel 12 the postponement is meant to allow time for talks with the opposition

9:10 pm

Reports: Coalition will delay first reading of judicial overhaul bills to next week
8:53 pm

Ministers say will legalize 9 West Bank outposts 'in response to murderous terror'
8:45 pm

Senior coalition source to Channel 12: Willing to talk based on Herzog principles

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Feb.12, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, Pool)

PM: Cabinet to order ‘broader action’ against East Jerusalem, West Bank terror

Netanyahu says government will also ‘strengthen settlements’ in response to deadly attack; rails against civil disobedience and nationwide strike in response to judicial overhaul

Then-police commissioner Moshe Karadi, March 2007. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Ex-police chief slams ‘pyromaniac’ Ben Gvir, says he’s ‘entirely unequipped’ for job

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Feb. 12, 2023. At right is Itamar Ben Gvir. (Amit Shabi / Pool)

Ministers to mull response to terror attack, as Ben Gvir repeats demand for major op

'God has plucked the most beautiful lily in the garden'

8-year-old boy critically hurt in Jerusalem attack dies, a day after younger brother

By Emanuel Fabian

Asher Menahem Paley’s death brings toll of ramming to 3; he and 3rd victim are laid to rest; Paley’s father in moderate condition, with another brother lightly hurt

Medics and police officers at the scene of a deadly car-ramming terror attack near Ramot Junction in Jerusalem on February 10, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) Insert: Yaakov Yisrael Paley, 6 (left) and Asher Menahem Paley, 8, killed in the attack.

Medics and police officers at the scene of a deadly car-ramming terror attack near Ramot Junction in Jerusalem on February 10, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 12: Terror attack in Jerusalem; IDF rescues continue in Turkey

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)

Thousands of workers gear up for mass strike Monday in protest of judicial shakeup

By Sharon Wrobel

About 300 tech companies, venture capital funds and law firms are expected to gather for protest at the Knesset, as well as doctors and mental health professionals

Protesters estimated by organizers to number 145,000 rally in central Tel Aviv, on February 11, 2023, against controversial legal reforms being touted by the country's far-right government. (Screenshot of drone footage; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Ex-justice minister Livni: This madness has a name - fascism

Tens of thousands rally against judicial overhaul; organizers claim over 200,000

Protest leaders say 145,000 rally in Tel Aviv, 83,000 in other cities; police allow demonstrators to march on Ayalon Highway

File: Then-science minister Daniel Hershkowitz (center) in a meeting in July 2012 with Israeli Nobel laureates Ada Yonath (left) and Aaron Ciechanover (Gil Yohanan/Flash90)

Israeli Nobel winners warn against judicial overhaul in letter to Netanyahu, Herzog

An IDF soldier welds a door shut, in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of A-Tur, February 12, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Police seal family home of terrorist who rammed Ramot bus stop, killing three

Authorities unable to seal rented apartment of attacker Hussein Qaraqa, instead weld shut parents’ East Jerusalem property

An Israeli policeman secures a shooting attack site near Jerusalem's Old City, on January 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Military to permanently seal home of 13-year-old shooter who wounded 2 in Jerusalem

By Emanuel Fabian

The scene of a deadly incident in the West Bank town of Qarawat Bani Hassan, February 11, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Palestinian man said shot dead by settlers in West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

Abbas tells Arab League summit PA will push for full UN membership

By Ash Obel and AP

Palestinian leader also wants global body to reaffirm commitment to two-state solution and condemn alleged inflammatory ‘unilateral actions’ taken by Netanyahu government

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, left, is accompanied by King Abdullah II of Jordan, during a conference at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Dialogue should prevent Israel’s slide into civil war

If legal experts with differing opinions could just hash everything out, we might see real, consensus-based reform

Can a Jewish fan watch the Super Bowl with a clean conscience?

Use the Talmud’s defense of those who saw gladiators battle to death, but don’t ignore the pain and violence of football

The United Hatzalah rescue delegation that was dispatched to Turkey after the country's devastating earthquakes pose for a photograph on February 12, 2023. (United Hatzalah)

Some Israeli rescuers depart Turkey over safety fears, as locals fume at government

By Judah Ari Gross

United Hatzalah says it was pressed to leave due to threats stemming from neighboring Syria and growing civil unrest; separately, IDF ends rescue efforts, focusing on medical care

IDF medical officers treat wounded Turkish civillians at a field hospital near Kahramanmaraş, February 10, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF field hospital in Turkey treats 180 injured in quake, including Syrian refugees

By Emanuel Fabian

Top national religious rabbi says deadly quake in Turkey, Syria is divine justice

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, who is close to Itamar Ben Gvir and the father of a far-right minister, says disaster ‘cleanses the world, makes it better’; some rabbis aghast at comments

Chief Rabbi of Safed Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu speaks at a 'Besheva' group conference, on February 7, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Municipal grave diggers bury the bodies of four people, three of the them not claimed by relatives, in a makeshift cemetery on the outskirts of Elbistan, Turkey, February 11, 2023, following an earthquake that devastated the area. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Final death toll from Turkey-Syria quake will top 55,000, UN relief chief predicts

By AFP

File: Rockets being fired by Islamic Jihad toward Israel from the Gaza Strip, on August 5, 2022. (Attia Muhammed/Flash90)

Iron Dome intercepts rocket launched from Gaza at southern Israel

By Emanuel Fabian

Sirens sound in Kibbutz Nahal Oz; no damage or injuries reported in 2nd rocket attack this month

People are blurred by a long exposure as they arrive at the NFL Experience on February 11, 2023, in Phoenix, Arizona. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

People of the playbook

A Jewish guide to Super Bowl Sunday

By JTA

As the Kansas City Chiefs prepare to take on the Philadelphia Eagles for the Vince Lombardi Trophy, some fans may wonder: What does this mean for the Jews?

Comedian Modi Rosenfeld performing at Caroline's on Broadway. (Courtesy of Rosenfeld via JTA)

'You don't have to pick between religious or queer identity'

Jewish comedian Modi Rosenfeld, a mainstay for Orthodox audiences, is gay. So what?

By Jackie Hajdenberg

After a recent Variety article that drew attention to his orientation, the US religious funnyman doubles down on his cultural identity – and fans are overwhelmingly supportive

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A woman strips down to a bathing suit at the Western Wall in an apparent protest on February 12, 2023. (Social media: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Woman strips down to swimsuit at Western Wall in apparent protest of modesty bill

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative photo of a member of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces removing an Islamic State flag in the town of Tabqa in Syria. (AFP Photo/Delil Souleiman)

Islamic State kills 11 in central Syria gun attack, says monitor

By AFP

Police at the scene of a suspected murder in Lod, February 12, 2023. (Police)

Woman found dead in her Lod apartment; husband arrested

Nina Nikiforovа, 80, cries next to the body of her son Oleg Kunynets, a Ukrainian military serviceman who was killed in the east of the country, during his funeral in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Russia continues Ukraine strikes amid reported struggle to launch eastern offensive

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks as he meets with US President Joe Biden at the InterContinental Presidente Mexico City hotel in Mexico City, January 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trudeau says new mystery ‘object’ over Canada shot down by US jet

By AFP

A man waves an Iranian flag as domestically built missiles are displayed in the background during the annual rally commemorating Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, in Tehran, Iran, February 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

As Iran celebrates 44 years since Islamic Revolution, Raisi claims protests defeated

By AFP

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