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What Matters Most On Monday, February 20, 2023

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Justice Minister Yariv Levin at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on February 20, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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Levin: ‘Nothing will dissuade me’ from going through with judicial overhaul

Justice minister, leading charge on remaking judicial system, says parts of Israeli society were ‘trampled,’ ‘disrespected’ by the Supreme Court, but ‘their voices will be heard’

11:27 pm

Netanyahu celebrates 'great day'; Lapid tells coalition: 'History will judge you'
11:01 pm

Levin says 'nothing will dissuade me' from going through with overhaul
10:57 pm

Second bill in overhaul package advances in first reading in Knesset

Outcry as protesters block Likud MK in home, prevent special needs daughter leaving

Tally Gotliv denounces demonstrators as ‘anarchists;’ PM Netanyahu, opposition leader Lapid condemn incident, but organizers vow to keep protesting at coalition lawmakers’ houses

Protesters against the government's planned judicial overhaul block the private home of Likud MK Tally Gotliv in Givat Shmuel, February 20, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Protesters block the car of MK Simcha Rothman outside his home in the West Bank on February 20, 2023 (Screencapture/Twitter Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Protesters block homes of MKs as mass protests set to descend on Jerusalem

Women protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv on February 20, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 20: Fateful day at Knesset as judicial overhaul set for 1st vote

Various centrifuge machines line a hall at the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility, Iran on April 17, 2021. (Screenshot/Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting-IRIB, via AP)

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

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Report says inspectors from UN atomic agency made discovery last week, are probing if move was intentional; Tehran previously known to have enriched to 60%

Iran's domestically built centrifuges are displayed in an exhibition of the country's nuclear achievements, in Tehran, Iran, February 8, 2023. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Iran denies ‘slanderous’ reports it enriched uranium above 60 percent

By AFP and ToI Staff

Former Blue and White MK Michal Cotler-Wunsh (Avishai Finkelstein)

'Unrestricted' podcast

Michal Cotler-Wunch

Hear why former MK Cotler-Wunch put her life on hold to join the Knesset, her battle with online antisemitism and the efficacy of Israel’s current governing system.

Chairman of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee MK Simcha Rothman (center) at a hearing, with committee legal adviser Attorney Gur Bligh (right), February 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset legal adviser: Overhaul leaves equality, freedom of expression unprotected

By Jeremy Sharon

Adviser to Knesset committee leading legislation charge says clause in government’s bill would mean fundamental civil rights have no anchor in Israeli law

(L) Attorney General Gali Baharav Miara speaks at a conference in Tel Aviv, July 5, 2022. (R) MK Simcha Rothman, chair of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee at the Knesset February 19, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni; Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG decries Rothman’s ‘silencing attempts’ as Knesset panel advances legal shakeup

Thousands of protesters wave Israeli flags as they rally against the judicial overhaul outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, on February 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Tens of thousands rally near Knesset ahead of 1st plenum vote on judicial overhaul

By Carrie Keller-Lynn, Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

As Netanyahu derides ‘gag order,’ AG says he’s allowed to urge calm on legal shakeup

AG’s office says conflict of interest agreement bars PM from directly dealing with overhaul, but he can help assuage public concerns about it; he terms the restriction ‘ridiculous’

Left: Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara at her welcome ceremony in Jerusalem on February 8, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on January 11, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem, on February 19, 2023. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Netanyahu said to ask AG to narrow conflict of interest deal on judicial legislation

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the Conference of Presidents of American Jewish Organizations, in Jerusalem on February 19, 2023. (Amit Elkayam)

Netanyahu swats away Nides’ criticism, says he expects ‘respect’ from democracies

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Speaking to American Jewish leaders about the coalition’s judicial shakeup, US ambassador stresses, ‘I didn’t say put the brakes on, I said pump the brakes… slow down’

Demonstrators rally on a highway in Tel Aviv to protest the Israeli government's planned overhaul of the judicial system, on February 18, 2023. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Conservative movement: Legal overhaul would ‘eviscerate’ Israeli checks and balances

By Judah Ari Gross

From the blogs

The reckless endangerment of Start-Up Nation

The short-sighted politics driving the government’s judicial legislation will gravely damage Israel’s economy and its citizens’ prosperity

President Isaac Herzog speaks at a Bible lesson as part of the 929 initiative at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, February 19, 2023. (Amos Ben Gershom/ GPO)

Herzog says compromise over judicial overhaul program achievable ‘within days’

By Jeremy Sharon

Smotrich accuses Lapid of ‘declaring war on Israel’ in criticizing sweeping reform; opposition leader says finance minister causing societal tensions with ‘hasty legislation’

Illustrative: Dollars and shekels. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Top venture capital fund calls on its companies to move most cash out of Israel

Illustrative: The Psagot Investment House headquarters in Tel Aviv. January 22, 2022. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Leading investment firms warn of uncertainties caused by legal overhaul

Gila Hammer, center, with mother Gabi on the left and father Shalom on the right (courtesy of Shalom Hammer)

Anguished by loss of daughter, a rabbi brings suicide prevention out of the shadows

By Nathan Jeffay

After Gila, 18, took her own life following an attack, Shalom Hammer began a push for more awareness; on Tuesday in the Knesset he will suggest steps to prevent similar tragedies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L), US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (C), and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. (Collage/AP)

PA agrees to yank UN measure, even as Israel readies to advance settlement package

Facing US pressure, Ramallah suffices with symbolic Security Council statement panning settlements, while Israel will agree to halt some, but not all, activity beyond Green Line

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men, left, pray as as Israeli police officers guard the entrance to the Al Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem's Old City on April 19, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Temple Mount to be shut to Jews at Ramadan’s end, despite Ben Gvir dissent – report

We already know the future of Israel’s courts. It’s not good.

Rabbinical courts, where appointments are based on political loyalty, offer a cautionary model of a judicial nightmare

Add more stakeholders to the mix, and Herzog’s plan might work

Better yet, first solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the rest will follow (Northern Ireland and South Africa can show the way)

Senior Boeing official in Israel to push sale of advanced F-15 jets for Iran strike

By Emanuel Fabian

Ted Colbert meets PM Netanyahu and defense minister Gallant, says trip shows firm’s commitment to supporting ‘long arm of Israel,’ with F-15IA jets and KC-46 tankers

A US AFCENT F-15 fighter jet is seen at the Nevatim Airbase, January 5, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on February 19, 2023. (Yoav Dudkevitch/ POOL/ Flash90)

Netanyahu accuses Iran of recent attack on Israeli-linked tanker

By AFP and ToI Staff

PM tells cabinet meeting Israel’s efforts on ‘Iranian front’ are unceasing because Tehran’s ‘acts of aggression are unceasing’

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani speaks in Tehran, Iran, on August 11, 2022. (Iranian Foreign Ministry via AP)

Iran ‘strongly rejects’ Netanyahu’s accusation it was behind attack on oil tanker

A large hole is seen in the Kafar Sousah neighborhood of Damascus, after an alleged Israeli airstrike on Syria, February 19, 2023. (SANA)

Russia condemns Israeli strike on Syria as ‘flagrant violation’ of international law

By Emanuel Fabian

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Monday, February 20, 2023, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, right, and US President Joe Biden speak at Mariinsky Palace during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Biden makes surprise Ukraine visit ahead of war anniversary: ‘Kyiv stands’

By EVAN VUCCI, John Leicester, AAMER MADHANI and Zeke Miller

US President promises Zelensky the US will support Ukraine ‘for as long as it takes; air raid sirens ring out as two leaders walk to lay a wreath in memory of fallen soldiers

Refugees from Ukraine are welcomed at Ben Gurion Airport on March 3, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

A year on, Ukrainian refugees in Israel getting ‘inadequate’ aid — rights group

Analysis

Collapsed buildings shake Erdogan’s chances in May elections, if they take place

Turkish president already faced political headwinds amid economic woes; the deadly earthquake scrambles the race, as he seeks to overcome accusations of corruption

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan tours the site of destroyed buildings during his visit to the city of Kahramanmaras in southeast Turkey, two days after the severe earthquake that hit the region, on February 8, 2023. (Adem ALTAN / AFP)

A rescue worker walks past partially collapsed buildings in the city of Antakya on February 19, 2023. (Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP)

Turkish rescue effort winds down as Blinken announces new aid

By Gregory WALTON and Leon Bruneau

'It exploits real names, real people, real events'

Historical fiction novel about real-life Chinese rescuer of Jews sparks controversy

By Jordyn Haime

The daughter of Ho Feng-Shan, a Vienna-based diplomat who in WWII issued thousands of illicit exit visas to Shanghai, protests the blurring of fact and fiction in ‘Night Angels’

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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)

With its envoy booted, Israel avoids African Union summit closing ceremony

By Lazar Berman

Eslam Froukh, the alleged terrorist behind the November 2022 bombing attacks in Jerusalem, arrives for a court hearing at the Magistrate's Court in Jerusalem, December 27, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF issues demolition order for Ramallah home of terrorist behind Jerusalem bombings

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli soldiers patrol the border fence with Syria, in southern Golan Heights, on January 29, 2023. Insert: Ghaith Abdullah, an alleged Hezbollah operative. (Michael Giladi/Flash90; Israel Defense Forces)

IDF: Man arrested after crossing from Syria involved in Hezbollah intel-gathering

By Emanuel Fabian

The settlement of Yitzhar, in the West Bank on October 31, 2019. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

Police arrest 5 settlers over clash with IDF soldiers, torching of Palestinian car

In this picture from left: Redefine Meat's plant-based steak, Plantish's plant-based salmon fillets, and plant-based 'egg' by Israeli startup Yo! Egg. (Credits: Redefine Meat, Plantish, Yo! Egg)

Israeli startups rank second after US in alternative protein investments in 2022

By Sharon Wrobel

A TV screen shows a file image of North Korea's missile launch during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Feb. 20, 2023. (AP/Ahn Young-joon)

North Korea launches two missiles into water, threatens US over drill

By Hyung-Jin Kim and KIM TONG-HYUNG

File: Richard Belzer at The Paley Center for Media on May 24, 2018, in New York City. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images via AFP)

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Meta testing new paid ‘verified’ accounts on Facebook, Instagram

By DEE-ANN DURBIN

People look on as medics take two men who were shot in the northern town of Jadeidi-Makr to a hospital, February 19, 2023. (Video screenshot: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Umm al-Fahm man shot dead in northern town, 19th slaying this year

Undated photo of Ilana Swissa, director of a daycare center for infants who is suspected of violently abusing children in her care. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Sderot daycare manager suspected of violently attacking infants in her care

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Welcome to the jungleGuns ‘N Roses, Morrissey reportedly to return to Israel this summer

By Jessica Steinberg

Dawn Thomas of Kankakee Ill., says a short prayer in front of a statue of former President Jimmy Carter at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023, in Atlanta. (AP/John Bazemore)

Tributes pour in for Jimmy Carter as former president enters hospice

By JEFF MARTIN and Maysoon Khanhan

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