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What Matters Most On Sunday, February 19, 2023

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US Ambassador to Israel Thomas Richard Nides during his swearing-in ceremony as new ambassador to Israel, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on December 5, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Nides pans Gulf states for not calling out settlement moves

US envoy: We’re telling Netanyahu to ‘pump the brakes’ on judicial overhaul push

Nides says US not dictating details to Israel, but wants it to build consensus before moving forward, claims warnings about proposals’ economic impact have PM’s attention

Left: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 29, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) ; Right: US Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides at Reichman University in Herzliya, September 11, 2022 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Netanyahu: ‘I’d like to calm our friends — Israel will remain a vibrant democracy’

By Alexander Fulbright

Illustrative: Demonstrators carry a massive Declaration of Independence during a rally in Tel Aviv to protest the Israeli government's planned overhaul of the judicial system, on February 18, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Estimated 100,000 in TLV; tens of thousands more elsewhere

With first Knesset readings due Monday, tens of thousands protest judicial overhaul

By Ash Obel and ToI Staff

Levin says legislative push will move forward as demonstrators gather across country for 7th straight week; at J’lem rally, right-wingers urge gov’t to adopt Herzog’s compromise

An Iranian technician works at the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the city of Isfahan, Iran, on February 3, 2007. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Live updates (closed)

Iran said on cusp of ability to make nukes, having enriched uranium to 84% purity

By Michael Bachner

Bloomberg report says inspectors from UN atomic agency made discovery last week, are probing if move was intentional; 90% purity need for bomb; Tehran known to have enriched to 60%

7:37 pm

Levin said to promise override clause bill will be brought for plenum vote this week
7:03 pm

Report: UN inspectors find Iran has enriched uranium to 84%, near weapons-grade
7:00 pm

Report: Temple Mount to be closed to Jews at end of Ramadan, despite Ben Gvir's objections

Illustrative: Workers prepare matzah, the unleavened bread eaten during the Jewish holiday of Passover, at the Aviv Matzah plant in Bnei Brak on April 14, 2019. (Flash90)

Bills to ban hametz, expand powers of rabbinic courts breeze through committee

By Judah Ari Gross

AG comes out against proposal criminalizing bringing leavened goods into hospitals during Passover; groups representing ‘chained’ women oppose letting rabbis adjudicate civil cases

Police chief warns of potential for political assassination: ‘Lower the flames’

‘The situation keeps me awake at night,’ Kobi Shabtai says of deepening divisions over overhaul, pledges cops ‘will do everything we can to prevent harm to any public figure’

Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai speaks to Channel 12 in an interview aired on February 18, 2023. (Screenshot/Channel 12; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

MK Ofir Katz leads a meeting in the Knesset in Jerusalem, on February 14, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud bill would limit ability to remove PM, as group seeks to disqualify Netanyahu

Proposal sponsored by MK Ofir Katz comes as High Court reviews petition demanding Israeli leader be required to step down for breaching conflict of interest agreement

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's private residence in Caesarea. (Video screenshot)

Report: Netanyahu to ask state to fund family’s expenses at 2 private homes

Julian Schlossberg, center, is shown with Elaine May and Alan Arkin. (Courtesy of Julian Schlossberg via JTA)

Interview'I wanted to learn every single aspect of show business'

Julian Schlossberg’s new memoir covers 6 decades working with Jewish showbiz royalty

By Stephen Silver

‘Try Not to Hold It Against Me: A Producer’s Life’ tells how the 81-year-old producer worked and partied with celebs like Barbra Streisand, Mel Brooks and close friend Elaine May

Security guards ask an Israeli observer delegation headed by Sharon Bar-Li (center) to leave the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on February 18, 2023. (Screen capture/Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

South Africa governing party hails ouster of Israeli envoy from African Union summit

By AFP

Sharon Bar-li was escorted out of regional assembly, apparently at behest of South Africa and Algeria, in move one official says was coordinated by Iran

The scene of an alleged Israeli airstrike in the Kafar Sousah neighborhood of Syria's capital, Damascus, early February 19, 2023. (Social media)

Syria says 5 killed, 15 wounded in Israeli strike on Damascus residential area

By Emanuel Fabian

Heavy damage inflicted to buildings in Kafar Sousah neighborhood, an area said to house Iranian sites; state-run news agency says victims mostly civilians

This photo provided by the North Korean government, shows what it says a test launch of a Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile at Pyongyang International Airport in Pyongyang, North Korea, February 18, 2023. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

North Korea tests ICBM, warns US and South Korea of more powerful steps

By Hyung-Jin Kim

Russian police detain an antiwar protester in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, September 24, 2022. (AP Photo, File)

Russia after a year of war: Critics purged and nationalism soaring

By Dasha Litvinova

As death toll of war in Ukraine rises, ordinary civilians are facing growing repression at home as families are ripped apart by mobilization

Women walk by a building damaged by Russian shelling in the Saltivka district of Kharkiv, Ukraine, February 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb 19: Israel mends fences with Ukraine, won’t provide David’s Sling

The Mariupol theater, damaged during fighting in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, on April 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

US accuses Russia of committing crimes against humanity in Ukraine

By Karl Ritter and Geir Moulson

Jordan sits out the Negev Forum with Washington’s tacit approval

The Biden administration appeases the Palestinians and minimizes steps toward peace by Israel and its regional partners

An apartheid state will not cure terrorism

Yes, there were errors made during Oslo, but the approach has real advantages as a long-term strategy against terrorism

Israeli security forces at the scene of a terror attack where an Israeli Border Police officer was critically hurt after being stabbed at a checkpoint in Shuafat, East Jerusalem, February 13, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Palestinian activists in East Jerusalem call for general strike, civil disobedience

Organizers in Shuafat refugee camp say increased police activity part of ‘policy of harassment’ following spate of terror attacks; Issawiya, Jabel Mukaber, Anata residents to join

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with the head of the Otzma Yehudit party Itamar Ben Gvir in the Knesset on December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Netanyahu says Ben Gvir to chair task force on Palestinian incitement to terror

Following deadly attacks in Jerusalem, PM says he and police minister have agreed to form a panel ‘to fight against those inciting acts of murder against us’

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, meets with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank town of Ramallah, January 31, 2023. (Ronaldo Schemidt/Pool via AP)

Blinken calls Abbas, Netanyahu as US works to block UN resolution on settlements

File - Yael Dayan at her home in Tel Aviv on February 2, 2019. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

False report leads to MK erroneously announcing death of Labor stalwart Yael Dayan

Party’s Gilad Kariv interjects during committee meeting to convey tidings of the passing of ‘our friend and our teacher,’ based on an incorrect news report

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Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman speaks at a conference in Jerusalem, January 8, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Environment minister said to meet with climate change skeptics

Former US president Jimmy Carter reacts, as his wife Rosalynn Carter speaks during a reception to celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary, July 10, 2021, in Plains, Georgia. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, Pool, File)

Former US president Jimmy Carter, 98, enters home hospice care

A man walks amid damaged buildings in an area heavily affected by the earthquake in Antakya on February 18, 2023. (Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP)

Earthquake sends tremors through Turkey’s already fragile economy

By AFP

A screenshot from a video shared on social media on February 17, 2023, shows an Iranian woman who threw her headscarf to the ground in a sign of protest, during an engineering in Tehran, Iran. (Twitter video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iran indicts woman for throwing headscarf to ground in protest during event

By AFP

Raz Hershko of Israel reacts during her women's final bout against Kayra Sayit of Turkey (not pictured), at the Tel Aviv Grand Slam Judo Championship in Tel Aviv on February 18, 2023. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Raz Hershko wins Israel’s second gold at judo Grand Slam in Tel Aviv

Berlinale Executive Director Mariette Rissenbeek, US actress and Berlinale Jury President Kristen Stewart, Iranian-French actress and jury member Golshifteh Farahani, and others hold placards reading "Woman Life Freedom" during a protest in solidarity with protesters in Iran, on the red carpet at the Berlinale on February 18, 2023, in Berlin. (John MacDougall/AFP)

Iranian struggle for freedom takes on starring role at Berlin film festival

By Deborah Cole

Illustrative: Fulham's Manor Solomon, left, is in action during the English Premier League soccer match between Fulham and Tottenham Hotspur at the Craven Cottage Stadium in London, January 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Clutch performanceIsraeli scores late game-winner for English soccer club Fulham

By AP

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle as depicted on 'South Park,' February 2023 (Screenshot; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Drama queens?‘South Park’ rips into Harry and Meghan in latest episode

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