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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 14, 2023

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Then-prime minister Yair Lapid and President Isaac Herzog (left) at a memorial service marking 27 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem on November 6, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Lapid, Rothman meet separately with president to discuss his call for compromise

Gantz says legislation must stop before talks can be held: ‘This is regime change. It’s not happening next week, it’s happening tomorrow’

7:35 pm

Court override, bill to allow Deri as minister up for preliminary reading in Knesset
7:12 pm

Netanyahu visits family whose 2 children were killed in Friday ramming attack
6:45 pm

MK Rothman cancels Knesset panel meeting, will meet with Herzog

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

The judiciary fight is fueled by deep distrust; that makes compromise elusive

Why Justice Minister Yariv Levin is in such a rush, foreign investors are increasingly worried, and President Herzog’s call for dialogue may fail

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)

Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman speaks at the Environment 2050 conference in Tel Aviv, January 17, 2023. (Liat Mandel)

Environment minister heckled off the stage at climate confab

By Michael Horovitz

Alan Dershowitz speaks to reporters at the US Capitol in Washington, January 29, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Dershowitz: Netanyahu open to compromise on overhaul, court must remain non-partisan

Then-MK Benny Begin on a tour of the northern city of Katzrin in the Golan Heights on April 27, 2022. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Amid judicial overhaul, Benny Begin says nothing left of his father’s Likud

Son of ex-PM Menachem Begin laments party’s path; senior Likud members said concerned Netanyahu may agree to compromise over judicial reforms, vow to split from party if he does

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett speaks to Channel 12, February 13, 2023. (Channel 12 screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Ex-PM Bennett says overhaul fight marks ‘most dangerous point’ in Israeli history

National Unity MK Michal Shir protests legislation on overhauling the judiciary during a hearing of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, February 13, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Judicial overhaul bill likely to come up for first plenum vote next Monday

By Jeremy Sharon

Yeshiva University President Richard Joel (photo credit: Yeshiva University)

'Unrestricted' podcast

Richard Joel on life after YU and antisemitism on campus

The former president of Yeshiva University in discussion with Steve Savitsky

The scene of a Palestinian attack at the entrance to Shuafat Refugee Camp in East Jerusalem, February 13, 2023. (Israel Police)

Policeman dies after being stabbed by Palestinian, hit by friendly fire

By Emanuel Fabian

Palestinian teen pulls knife when forces board bus at Jerusalem checkpoint to routinely question passengers; civilian guard accidentally hits Staff Sgt. Asil Sawaed with gunfire

File: Women from the 'Women Wage Peace' movement take part at the final part of a peace journey in Jerusalem on October 8, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel said to ban entry to young Palestinian peace activists

Yesh Atid chair Yair Lapid (L) speaks during a joint press conference with fellow opposition party head at the Knesset on February 13, 2023. Justice Minister Yariv Levin holds a press conference at the Knesset on January 4, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi, Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG said to prevent PM addressing Herzog's compromise ideas

Justice minister offers talks on overhaul; opposition: Legislation must stop first

By ToI Staff and Jeremy Sharon

Justice minister, Knesset panel head overseeing bills say they are willing to start dialogue ‘without preconditions’; Lapid, Gantz say proposal disingenuous while process continues

Likud lawmaker David Amsalem speaks at the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 13, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Likud’s Amsalem, Cartier on wrist, accuses ‘elitist’ protesters of wearing Rolexes

Opposition leader Yair Lapid speaks at a protest against the judicial overhaul, February 13, 2023. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Lapid: Justice overhaul ‘tearing Israel apart’; PM: Opposition leading us to anarchy

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Israelis wave flags during a protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 13, 2023 (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Explainer

90,000 or 300,000? Why estimates of crowd size at Jerusalem protest vary so widely

Figuring out just how many people came to the capital on Monday to protest the government’s judicial overhaul is both difficult technically and fraught with political bias

Protest against the judicial overhaul, outside the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, February 13, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb 14: Raging protest, stormy Knesset panel, preconditions for talks

Wanted: Five righteous persons in Sodom

These are the MKs who can keep the coalition from turning Israel into a dictatorship

A strange sense of hope

It was a deeply heartening sight to see so many people coming together, united in a common cause

You know Herzl — what about Max Nordau, intermarried father of Zionism?

The pioneer of ’Muscular Judaism’ inspired Rabbi Kook and Menachem Begin – it’s time he got his due

Andrew Silow-Carroll

The reluctant dissenters of Diaspora Jewry

Alarm over the fate of Israeli democracy has normally restrained voices speaking out – here’s what they are saying

Lawrence Wright: Never had a source assaulted in front of me

IDF jails soldier for 10 days for assaulting Palestinian activist in Hebron

By Emanuel Fabian

Video shows serviceman choking Issa Amro, pushing him to the ground, and kicking him during tour of city that included Pulitzer Prize-winning US writer

An Israeli soldier is seen assaulting Issa Amro, a Palestinian activist in Hebron, February 13, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter)

A car belonging to a Palestinian man graffitied with a Star of David during an alleged price tag attack east of the West Bank city of Hebron, February 14, 2023. (Social media screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Settlers said to vandalize Palestinian cars in apparent West Bank hate crime

Former US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks during the first day of the Republican convention at the Mellon auditorium in Washington, DC on August 24, 2020. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP)

Nikki Haley announces presidential campaign, first major GOP challenger to Trump

Hugely popular with US pro-Israel groups and Republican Jews for her work in fighting anti-Israel bias as UN ambassador, she would be first female and Indian-descent US president

Settler activists dance in celebration at the establishment of the illegal settlement outpost of Gofna on Sunday morning, February 12, 2023, before it was evacuated and demolished by personnel from the Border Police and Civil Administration. (Courtesy)

Global condemnations of Israel pour in over planned outpost legalizations

EU, Washington, UN, Arab nations assail cabinet decision to approve nine illegally built communities, many of which are built on Palestinian land

The shattered windshield of the vehicle of an Israeli man who drove into the Qalandiya refugee camp in the West Bank after he was attacked and stoned on February 14, 2023 (Screen capture/ Twitter: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli lightly hurt as car is stoned driving into West Bank refugee camp

File: Kanye West watches an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles, January 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Assault, bullying, vandalism: US sees dozens of Kanye-linked antisemitic attacks

ADL extremism researchers report at least 30 incidents targeting Jews tied to rapper in recent months, along with widespread online campaign amplifying his message

A law enforcement vehicle is seen near the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue on January 16, 2022, in Colleyville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images/AFP)

Four in ten American Jews felt less secure in 2022 than year before — survey

Tech still in research phase; has not been peer-reviewed

Lab claims it teaches rats to detect lung cancer with 93% accuracy by sniffing urine

By Nathan Jeffay

Making practical use of the fact that cancers have odors, rat-powered testing could be available within about 14 months, says the team at Israeli startup Early

A rat at the lab of Early, where the rodents detect lung cancer (courtesy of Early)

Corn seedlings treated with Grace Breeding's NFT biofertlizer, Londrina University, Brazil, November 5, 2022. (Assaf Dotan)

Israeli company touts nature-based alternative to toxic fertilizers for crops

Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai (L) speaks with National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at the scene of a car-ramming attack near Jerusalem's Ramot, February 10, 2023. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Ben Gvir denies folding Border Police into National Guard would create private army

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

National security minister say planned move is aimed at beefing up policing, rejects critics’ assertions he is seeking to build militia answerable to his ministry

Israeli machinery demolishes a Palestinian house in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on May 10, 2022. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

‘Voices raised’: Ben Gvir said to clash with PM, cops on East Jerusalem demolitions

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (center) listens to Israel Prison Service chief Katy Perry (left) during a visit to Nafha Prison, January 6, 2023. (Israel Prison Service)

Ben Gvir said to order reduced shower time for terror inmates

Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and IDF chief Herzi Halevi, are seen with the IDF search and rescue delegation to Turkey, upon their return to Israel on February 13, 2023. (Haim Zach/GPO)

19 civilians rescued; field hospital has treated over 400

‘All of Israel is proud of you’: IDF rescue delegation returns from quake-hit Turkey

By Emanuel Fabian

Turkey’s ambassador to Israel thanks Home Front Command teams for being among the first on the ground following the devastating earthquake

A man walks over debris of collapsed buildings in Hatay, Turkey, February 11, 2023. (Hussein Malla/AP)

Knesset committee fails to update earthquake construction framework

By Danielle Nagler

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen (L) meets Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, February 14, 2023 (Presidency of the Republic of Turkiye)

Meeting Erdogan in Ankara, FM Cohen raises issue of Israelis held by Hamas in Gaza

By Lazar Berman

On solidarity trip after earthquake, foreign minister expresses Israel’s condolences, discusses Iranian nuclear program with Turkey’s president

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen (R) is greeted by Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Ankara, February 14, 2023 (Foreign Ministry)

Foreign Minister Cohen lands in Turkey to show solidarity, meet with Erdogan

By Lazar Berman

A baby girl who was born under the rubble caused by an earthquake that hit Syria and Turkey receives treatment inside an incubator at a children's hospital in the town of Afrin, Aleppo province, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Girl born under rubble in quake-hit Syria in good health a week after rescue

By Bassam Mroue

Baby, named Aya, being breastfed by wife of hospital director after the mother died; her father and four siblings were also killed in the earthquake

Rescue teams continue to search for victims and survivors in the rubble of collapsed buildings after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the border region of Turkey and Syria earlier in the week, in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, February 13, 2023. (Ozan Kose/AFP)

Search for survivors winds down as Turkey-Syria quake death toll hits 35,000

By Fulya Ozerkan, Joris FIORITI and Maher Al-Mounes

'Judaism in a Digital Age,' by Rabbi Danny Schiff. (Book cover courtesy of Palgrave Macmillan/ Portrait courtesy of Joshua Franzos)

Book review'Modernity is over. So is its Judaism'

As non-Orthodox Judaism wanes, a rabbi sees an updated mission in the digital age

By Toby Tabachnik

In his new book, Danny Schiff urges a return to the religion’s roots, shifting focus from synagogue attendance to being a moral beacon in an age of wild technological advancement

More Headlines

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, left, arrives in an official welcoming ceremony by his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing, February 14, 2023. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

On state visit to China, Iranian president is assured ‘solidarity’ from Beijing

By AFP

Police investigate the scene of a shooting at Berkey Hall on the campus of Michigan State University, in East Lansing, Michigan, February 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Al Goldis)

Suspect at large after 3 people shot to death at Michigan State University

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and KEN KUSMER

Illustrative: A US Air Force pilot taking off in an F-22 Raptor at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, February 4, 2023. (Airman 1st Class Mikaela Smith/US Air Force via AP)

US shoots down 3 more unidentified flying objects; no indication of spying

An illustrative file photo of an ambulance on August 23, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Man crushed to death by factory machine; construction worker falls to his death

Illustrative: The Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Tech worker indicted for secretly filming people in bathrooms at company, residence

By Michael Horovitz

A teenage boy arrested for trying to attack a school in Brazil while wearing a Nazi armband on February 13, 2023 (Monte Mor city)

Brazil police arrest teen in Nazi armband after thwarted school bomb attack

By AP

Fashion and home design retailer Golf & Co. Group has about 330 stores in central locations throughout Israel. (Nati Shohat/ Flash 90)

Delta Israel offers to snap up retail chain Golf in an all-cash deal

By Sharon Wrobel

Screen capture from video of Polish priest Father Michał Woźnicki, 2021. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

In first, Polish priest sentenced on charges of spreading antisemitic hate speech

By David I. Klein

Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, center, heads a cabinet meeting in Beirut, Lebanon, January 18, 2023. (Bilal Hussein/AP)

Western, regional powers urge Lebanon to elect president or face diplomatic reaction

By AFP

An undated photo of Nafha and Ramon prisons in southern Israel. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Prison guard probed for allegedly smuggling phones to terrorist behind deadly attack

By Michael Horovitz

Saif al-Adel, Al-Qaeda's likely new leader. (Combatting Terrorism Center, USMA via Wikipedia)

Iran-based trainer of 9/11 hijackers Sayf al-‘Adl believed to be new al-Qaeda chief

By Edith M. Lederer

Illustrative: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, October 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)

Women's heightsSaudi Arabia to send its 1st woman into space as kingdom seeks to revamp image

By AFP

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