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What Matters Most On Wednesday, February 15, 2023

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Opposition leader Yair Lapid in the assembly hall of the Knesset, February 15, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

'Greatest national crisis in the history of the country'

Lapid seeks 60-day overhaul pause for talks; protesters call Knesset rally next week

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Opposition head says halt would enable president to facilitate dialogue on judicial reform; coalition delays some private bills but presses ‘full speed ahead’ with main proposals

From L-R President Isaac Herzog, MK Simcha Rothman, Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, National Unity leader Benny Gantz (Flash 90)

Herzog hosts Rothman, Lapid, Gantz separately in bid for judicial overhaul compromise

A plenum session on forming the government in the Knesset on December 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In possible shift, coalition pulls some legal overhaul bills from Knesset agenda

Otzma Yehudit MK Limor Son Har-Melech stands in front of a bulldozer on a plot of land near the settlement of Shiloh in the West Bank to stop the uprooting of trees by the Civil Administration of the Defense Ministry, February 15, 2023. (Office of Limor Son Har Melech)

Far-right ministers fume over removal of settler’s trees, demanding promised powers

By Jeremy Sharon

Netanyahu caves, orders operation to stop; Smotrich, Ben Gvir demand he give them authority over civilian control, Border Police in West Bank ‘immediately’ as per coalition deals

Otzma Yehudit MK Limor Son Har-Melech surrounded by police as she protests the removal of a West Bank settler's illegally planted orchard on February 15, 2023 (Screencapture/Twitter)

MK claims policeman sexually assaulted her during West Bank orchard confrontation

Jonathan Shenkin, 45, a British Jew who was killed in December while serving as a paramedic in Ukraine amid the Russian invasion. (Twitter screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

British Jew killed in Ukraine war had ‘lifelong passion for Israel,’ served in IDF

By Michael Horovitz

Jonathan Shenkin, 45, killed in December while serving as paramedic in Ukrainian military; was on team of ex-soldiers who rescued US woman from West Bank in 2009, brother says

(Left) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a press conference with his Guinea-Bissau counterpart following their talks in Kyiv on October 26, 2022;
(Right) MK Eli Cohen speaks at conference in Tel Aviv, December 8, 2022. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP; Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israeli FM must offer ‘substantial aid’ to get meeting with Zelensky – Kyiv official

By Lazar Berman

Young children pull a sledge as they walk up a slope through snow in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on February 7, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Yuriy Dyachyshyn/AFP)

US study flags possible war crime as Russia holds thousands of Ukrainian children

By AFP

From Matan

Parshat Mishpatim: Understanding the Concept of Covenant

We speak with Rabbi Dr. Josh Berman about covenants in ancient societies and how this knowledge sheds light on related concepts in the Torah and on one’s relationship with God.

The 'Codex Sassoon' bible is displayed at Sotheby's in New York on February 15, 2023. (Ed Jones/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Codex Sassoon, oldest near-complete Hebrew Bible, set to fetch $30-50m at auction

1,000 year-old manuscript likely to become most expensive book or historical document ever sold; Thought lost for 600 years, it has been in private hands since reemerging in 1929

7:20 pm

Shin Bet chief said to warn Ben Gvir he is inciting violence in East Jerusalem
7:05 pm

Shin Bet said tracking extremist opponents of government judicial overhaul plan
6:44 pm

Democratic Senator Murphy condemns Israel's plan to expand settlements

Chairman of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee MK Simcha Rothman (left) alongside committee legal adviser Gur Bligh during a committee hearing, February 14, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Judicial overhaul bill has no precedent in a democracy,’ says Knesset legal adviser

By Jeremy Sharon

Gur Bligh, who advises Constitution Committee, raises numerous concerns over limitations on judicial review in government’s radical legal reform package

Workers from the tech sector protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul. The signs say, 'No freedom, no high tech,' and 'Tech workers protest.' Tel Aviv, February 7, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Bankers said to warn Smotrich judicial shakeup already causing economic fallout

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)

75 Israeli Orthodox leaders call for dialogue on judicial overhaul

By Judah Ari Gross

'After you’ve created credibility, then you can manipulate'

Exposé unmasks Israel-led disinformation team that meddled in dozens of elections

By Michael Bachner

Tal Hanan, aka ‘Jorge,’ revealed to have ability to hack accounts of top officials, plus software for quickly creating networks of 30,000 social media bots; he denies wrongdoing

Tal Hanan, the leader of a team allegedly meddling in election and commercial campaigns around the world, at his office in Modiin, December 2022. (Screenshot: YouTube; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

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)

After terror attacks, all Jerusalem bus stops to be fortified, Border Police boosted

By Michael Bachner

Ben Gvir reportedly angered by Netanyahu’s decision, says reinforcing terminals isn’t enough, urges ‘offense rather than defense’; preventative arrests said made ahead of Ramadan

Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, former grand mufti of Jerusalem, who is under investigation for incitement. (AP/Joao Silva)

Former grand mufti of Jerusalem to be investigated for incitement to terror

Illustrative: A UN Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters in New York, January 12, 2023. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Palestinians readying Security Council resolution slamming Israeli settlement plans

Hoping not to have to use its veto, US reportedly urging Ramallah to instead pursue a symbolic joint statement condemning Jerusalem, which it would be willing to support

A photo sent out on February 12, 2023, shows settler activists at the illegal Gofna outpost in the West Bank. (Courtesy)

Washington, European powers issue joint condemnation of Israeli settlement plans

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

Date night at the protests

Chanting ’De-mo-crat-ya!’ with Israel’s hordes isn’t our usual fare, but it’s exactly where we belong

Benyamin Moalem

It’s time to formally divide Jerusalem

The idea of an undivided capital is precious, but terrorism is too high a price to pay

Orthodox model with muscular dystrophy makes history on NY Fashion Week runway

By julia GERGELY

Lily Brasch becomes first person with condition to walk at a show, before dashing to nearby hotel to observe Sabbath

File: James L. Cavallaro speaks during the presentation of The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights' annual report on Guatemala, in Guatemala City, March 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Biden admin withdraws appointment of activist who called Israel ‘apartheid state’

By Matt Lee and Joshua Goodman

James Cavallaro was tapped to serve as member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, but was dropped after ‘inappropriate’ tweets came to light, says US State Department

US Senator Dianne Feinstein attends a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 9, 2021. (Stefani Reynolds/The New York Times via AP)

Dianne Feinstein, longest-serving Jewish member of Senate, announces plans to retire

Brig. Gen. Eran Ortal (Courtesy)

'Our military situation is eroding'

‘Time is not on our side’: Retiring IDF general calls for urgent army overhaul

By Lazar Berman

Eran Ortal, commander of the General Staff’s Dado Center, argues in new book that Israel’s military must transform to meet threats by Hezbollah and Hamas, and points at way ahead

Israeli troops operate in the West Bank, early February 14, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Palestinian teen killed in IDF raid in northern West Bank; 23 suspects arrested

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says Mahmoud al-Aydi, 17, shot while approaching forces with explosive in hand; troops come under fire near Homesh outpost

Palestinians scuffle with Israeli soldiers outside of al-Tuwani, southeast of Yatta, in the South Hebron Hills in the West Bank, on January 1, 2021. (Screenshot)

Palestinian man dies 2 years after being shot in neck by IDF soldier

Likud MK Ofir Katz, leading a special Knesset committee to discuss a bill to revoke terrorist citizenship, February 14, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bill to revoke PA-paid terrorists’ citizenship approved for final readings Wednesday

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

A family stays in a makeshift tent surrounded of buildings that were heavily affected during the earthquake in Antakya, southeastern Turkey, February 14, 2023. (Bernat Armangue/AP)

With toll of over 35,000, earthquake worst in Turkey’s modern history – Erdogan

By Sarah El Deeb, ZEYNEP BILGINSOY, Bernat Armangue and andrew wilks

105,505 injured and 211,000 homes either destroyed or need to be demolished, president tells cabinet; nearly 3,700 killed in neighboring Syria

Trucks part of an earthquake aid convoy cross from Turkey into rebel-held north Syria through the Bab al-Salama crossing on February 14, 2023, after it reopened for UN relief. (Bakr Alkasem/AFP)

New aid route to rebel-held north Syria opens as quake toll nears 40,000

By Joris FIORITI, Greg Walton and Bakr al-Kassem

A man receives a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a Maccabi vaccination center in Modi'in, on January 6, 2022, soon after fourth shots were introduced. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Health Ministry announces cancellation of few remaining COVID restrictions

Obligatory home isolation for those with the virus to end in May, rule requiring masks in medical facilities and retirement homes discontinued this week

A doctor uses the Beyeonics One headset to assist with eye surgery. (Courtesy of Beyeonics)

From cockpit to cataract ops: Israeli flight headsets adapted, approved for surgery

By Nathan Jeffay

US forces shoot down an Iranian-made drone above Mission Support Site Conoco in northeast Syria, February 14, 2023. (Courtesy of CENTCOM)

US shoots down Iranian-made spy drone over patrol base in northeast Syria

By ToI Staff and AFP

CENTCOM says UAV conducting reconnaissance above site, which was struck last month in rocket attack attributed to pro-Iranian groups

Local residents inspect debris following a barrage of drone strikes from Russia in Stari Bezradychi village, Kyiv region, on December 19, 2022. (Sergei Chuzavkov/AFP)

US officials say Iran using Ukraine war to shop drone tech worldwide – report

Iranians gather in front of Tehran's Azadi Tower to mark the 44nd anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, on February 11, 2023. (AFP)

Defying EU boycott, Poland and Hungary send envoys to Iran Revolution anniversary

Israeli-Argentine pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim talks with The Associated Press during an interview, at La Scala theatre in Milan, Italy, February 14, 2023. (AP/Luca Bruno)

Argentine-Israeli maestro Barenboim lives day by day, balancing music with illness

By Colleen Barry

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An aerial picture shows a general view of the site of the ancient city-state of Lagash, where archaeologists recently uncovered a tavern, in Iraq's al-Shatra district of the southern Dhi Qar province on February 11, 2023. (Asaad NIAZI/AFP)

Archaeologists dig up 5,000-year-old pub in Iraq frequented by ‘regular people’

By Asaad Niazi and Tony Gamal-Gabriel

Channel 12 news reporter Yair Cherki at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on October 4, 2022. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Prominent Orthodox Israeli journalist Yair Cherki comes out as gay

The scene of a car that exploded in Lod, killing a man inside, on February 15, 2023. (Fire and Rescue Services)

Man killed in Lod car explosion; police said to identify him as crime figure

File: Sukarman walks on a flooded pathway outside his house in Timbulsloko, Central Java, Indonesia, July 30, 2022. (AP/Dita Alangkara)

Rising seas may trigger ‘mass exodus on a biblical scale,’ UN chief warns

By AFP

Google reportedly starting layoffs in Israel

By Sharon Wrobel

Sai, a 5-year-old red-collared lemur, that escaped from his enclosure at the Ramat Gan Safari in central Israel on February 14, 2023. (Ramat Gan Safari spokesperson)

Monkey businessRare lemur found after brief escape from Ramat Gan Safari

By Michael Horovitz

A police officer stands near the reception desk of the office building where Indian tax authorities raided BBC's office in New Delhi on February 14, 2023. (Uzair RIZVI / AFP)

Indian tax authorities raid BBC’s local offices after it airs critical documentary

Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman, seen in a video from Temple Emanu-El in Dallas, where he was senior rabbi from 1985 to 1996. (Screen shot from Vimeo via JTA)

Ex-Reform movement chief expelled from rabbinical group after allegations reexamined

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

The high-rise commercial building serving as the modern headquarters of Banque Misr (Bank of Egypt), in Cairo on February 9, 2023. (Amir MAKAR / AFP)

Strapped for cash, Egypt sells off state assets to eager Gulf nations

By Bassem Aboualabass

Investigators at a fire at Camp B'nai B'rith in Pontiac, Quebec on Feb. 12, 2023. (Courtesy Collines-de-l’Outaouais via JTA)

Arson suspected in fires at a B’nai B’rith camp near Ottawa

The Europe Asia Pipeline Company's oil boom in Eilat, designed to catch any potential oil spill before it leaks more broadly into the sea. (Courtesy EAPC)

Knesset committee agrees to extend secrecy for oil conglomerate for one year only

Police arrive at the scene of a suspected murder of a 23-year-old man at the entrance of the southern Bedouin town of Lakiya, February 15, 2023. (Israel Police)

Man shot dead in south, in 16th killing in Arab community this year

By Michael Horovitz

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