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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 21, 2023

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President Isaac Herzog speaks at the annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group in Jerusalem, on February 21, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Herzog: Feeling of ‘sorrow’ after judicial vote; onus on government to negotiate

By Michael Horovitz

President says he regrets coalition did not heed his call for compromise; says it’s not too late to hold talks before final legislation passes; justice minister: We will press on

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid, left, and National Unity party chief Benny Gantz, right, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘History will judge you’: Opposition lashes government for advancing judicial bill

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk at a news conference in Khartoum, Sudan, November 16, 2022. (Marwan Ali/AP)

UN rights chief urges ‘pause’ to Israeli judicial overhaul; PM pans ‘absurd’ remarks

By AFP and ToI Staff

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a conference of the Israeli chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) in Tel Aviv, July 5, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Levin hints attorney general could be fired; she responds: Threats won’t deter me

Justice minister says government not ‘currently’ concerned with dismissing Gali Baharav-Miara but suggests she should toe the line going forward

7:18 pm

Top jurists said to warn judicial shakeup could expose officials to charges in Hague
6:46 pm

Levin hints attorney general could be fired; she responds: Threats won't deter me
6:29 pm

Woman killed in Ashdod home, police suspect murder

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with Justice Minister Yariv Levin, as other coalition members look on, after a vote on the government's judicial overhaul plans in the Knesset early on February 21, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Op-ed

Netanyahu’s judicial ‘reform’ threatens to bulldoze the Declaration of Independence

Having easily secured initial approval for a central element of its move to neuter the High Court, the coalition is now on a collision course with Israel’s foundational principles

Charles Bronfman speaking at a Taglit-Birthright event. (Courtesy)

Major Diaspora philanthropists warn judicial overhaul threatens Israeli democracy

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Opposition MKs holding Israeli flags during the discussion and vote on the government's judicial overhaul plans in the Knesset, February 20, 2023 (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 21: Emotions high at Knesset as 1st part of overhaul bill passes

Yaakov Zada Daniel (far left), Idan Amedi, Lucy Ayoub, Lior Raz, Doron Ben-David and Rona-Lee Shim'on (far right) at a March 6, 2022 press conference about the upcoming fourth season of 'Fauda.' (Courtesy Rafi Daluya)

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Justice Minister Yariv Levin, right, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Levin urges dialogue but aims to get laws enacted in 6 weeks

Knesset passes first reading of bill to give coalition control over choosing judges

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff

After day of fiery protests and warring speeches, vote marks major step en route to gov’t authority over judicial selection; also limits the High Court’s capacity to review laws

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, in the center of Tel Aviv, December 25, 2018. (Adam Shuldman/Flash90)

Shekel heads to 3-year low, government bonds slip after vote on judiciary changes

By Sharon Wrobel

Israelis hold signs and wave the Israeli flag as they walk in the streets of Tel Aviv, protesting the government's planned judicial overhaul, February 20, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

Majority of Israelis opposes key planks of judicial overhaul plan, survey finds

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

The sudden, surprising indispensability of the Israeli presidency

As the judiciary fight escalates, only one institution has proven determined to bring the sides to the table, demand compromise and push back against narrow sectarian politics

President Isaac Herzog at the funeral of former Knesset speaker Shevach Weiss on February 5, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

A discussion on the government's judicial overhaul plans in the assembly hall of the Knesset in Jerusalem, on February 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Yesh Atid mulling plan for all opposition MKs to resign to protest judicial overhaul

Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, November 6, 2022. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Shin Bet head said to warn leaders over ‘growing potential for violence’

In series of conversations that included PM, justice minister, president and opposition leader, Ronen Bar requests: ‘Do everything to calm the climate’

Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter attends a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 8, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Over 400 ex-Shin Bet agents urge Likud minister Dichter to abandon judicial overhaul

Yair Netanyahu, son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives for a court hearing in a lawsuit filed by former MK Stav Shafir in Tel Aviv, on November 29, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Yair Netanyahu tweets a claim Shin Bet part of ‘coup’ against his father, deletes it

Stuart Weinblatt

A rabbi’s contrary view: Can we all just get along?

It’s ironic that US Jews are being urged to enter the fray to save Israel’s democracy. Our job is to help lower the flames.

The forbidden bris

I circumcised the baby of a mother who hasn’t yet converted. Now, strangely, I’m responsible for this baby’s Judaism

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during the state funeral of late Israeli president Shimon Peres, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, September 30, 2016. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu and Abbas keeping backchannel open even as Israel-PA ties unravel

Tzachi Hanegbi and Hussein al-Sheikh have met once and held several calls via line established to tamp down tensions, pass along warnings, Palestinian official says

A United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on February 20, 2023. (Yuki IWAMURA / AFP)

UN Security Council pans Israeli settlements; Israel: US should not have signed on

After members bow to American pressure, withdraw resolution urging halt to settlement activity, they issue softer joint statement saying actions imperil prospects for 2 states

Israeli settlers in the illegal settlement outpost of Evyatar in the West Bank on July 2, 2021. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

PM: Israel won’t legalize outposts — except 9 already announced — for a few months

Religious Zionist party leader Bezalel Smotrich after coalition talks with Shas's Aryeh Deri and Likud head Benjamin Netanyahu, in Jerusalem, December 5, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich refuses to attend meeting with IDF chief on transfer of West Bank powers

By Ash Obel and ToI Staff

Israeli soldiers near the Joseph's Tomb, in the West Bank city of Nablus, April 13, 2022. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Palestinians say 16-year-old shot in head by IDF two weeks ago dies of injuries

By AFP and ToI Staff

Montaser Mohammad Theeb Shawa hit by gunfire in Balata camp in West Bank city of Nablus as soldiers came under fire while securing passage of Jewish pilgrims to Joseph’s Tomb

A lathe for manufacturing illegal weapons in the West Bank village of Urif, seized by IDF troops on February 21, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF raids West Bank Palestinian gun workshops; 11 suspects detained

By Emanuel Fabian

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his annual state of the nation address at the Gostiny Dvor conference center in central Moscow, February 21, 2023. (Ramil Sitdikov/Sputnik/AFP)

Leader argues pedophilia is the 'norm' in the West

Putin freezes nuclear arms treaty with US, says West wants to ‘be done’ with Russia

By AFP

President repeats unfounded claim that his forces are fighting a ‘neo-Nazi regime’ in Ukraine, insists sanctions over invasion ‘won’t succeed,’ vows to continue war

US President Joe Biden (left) walks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at St. Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral on a surprise visit to Kyiv, Ukraine, February 20, 2023. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Inside StoryHow to sneak a US president into a warzone without anyone noticing

By EVAN VUCCI, John Leicester and Zeke Miller

Ukrainian military medics carry an injured Ukrainian serviceman evacuated from the battlefield into a hospital in Donetsk region, Ukraine, January 9, 2023. The serviceman did not survive. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

From the webThey were married. They shared a trench. Then died in it together

By Jeffrey Gettleman

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at the annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group in Jerusalem, on February 21, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Former far-right extremist claims Ben Gvir sent him to vandalize UN compound in 2001

Photojournalist Gilad Sade says national security minister would pay teenagers to spray graffiti, damage property in East Jerusalem, West Bank; aides to Ben Gvir deny accusations

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a faction meeting of his Likud party at the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu defends Bank of Israel’s independence after Likud members pan rate hikes

Finance Minister Smotrich acknowledges increases tough on households while dismissing ‘populist’ criticism by members of PM’s party, including call by foreign minister to intervene

Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron speaks during a press conference at the Bank of Israel in Jerusalem, January 2, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Battling inflation, Bank of Israel hikes interest rates to 4.25%, highest since 2008

By Sharon Wrobel

Clarinet virtuoso Michael Winograd will lead the first-ever live performance of 'Tanz,' a klezmer record that bombed on its release in 1956. Over the decades, it has come to be seen as groundbreaking. (Winograd photo by Lloyd Wolf via JTA)

'The level of this cadre of musicians is astronomical'

Too pioneering for its own good, 1955 klezmer album finally gets debut performance

Celebrated in later decades by top musicians but largely ignored in its own time, virtuoso album ‘Tanz’ was played by an all-star ensemble last week on NYC’s Upper West Side

Artist impression of the Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite, or ULTRASAT. (The Weizmann Institute of Science)

Israel to launch first space telescope in 2026, will observe stellar collisions

NASA rocket will carry Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite into space, from where $90 million vehicle will scan for transient events to research black holes and supernovas

Illustrative. Heatwave. (iStock by Getty Images)

Scientists chide environment minister for meeting with climate skeptics

Group calls on Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman to consult with climate change experts rather than people who ‘spread false information’

A man floats on the Dead Sea, on January 23, 2023. (Roni Ofer/Flash90)

Environmental groups to press for rehabilitation of Jordan River, Dead Sea

Cranes lift waste, mostly plastic and paper at the GreenNet recycling plant in Atarot industrial zone, north of Jerusalem, January 25, 2023. (Oded Balilty/AP)

Ministries of environment, interior squabble over multi-billion-shekel waste fund

More Headlines

Children, displaced as a result of the earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria earlier this month, play football outside a tent at a make shift camp in Bustan al-Basha neighborhood in the government-held northern city of Aleppo, Syria, on February 20, 2023. (LOUAI BESHARA/AFP)

Tremor felt across Israel as another quake shakes Turkey-Syria border

By Ash Obel and AFP

Israeli computer vision startup Shopic's clip-on device for smart grocery carts. (Courtesy)

Startup’s clip-on device for smart carts deployed at Shufersal

By Sharon Wrobel

Passengers at the arrival hall in the Ben Gurion International airport near Tel Aviv on February 6, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Tour operators urge Finance Ministry to keep VAT waiver for tourists

By Stuart Winer

Opposition protesters hold up placards after a march marking the 44th anniversary of Iranian Revolution, in Trafalgar Square, central London on February 11, 2023. (Susannah Ireland/AFP)

Israel said to have warned UK of threat to anti-regime journalists from Tehran

By ToI Staff and AFP

The scene of a deadly car crash at Urim Junction in southern Israel, February 20, 2023. (United Hatzalah)

Four killed, including 2 toddlers, in car crash in south

Illustrative: Police at a crime scene in the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Malachi. June 23, 2016. (Flash90)

Man arrested on suspicion of murdering his sister in Ness Ziona

File: Miami Heat's Meyers Leonard plays during an NBA basketball game against the Philadelphia 76ers, in Philadelphia, December 18, 2019. (AP/Matt Slocum)

NBA’s Meyers Leonard set for comeback, two years after antisemitism scandal

By Tim Reynolds

'Bliss' by New York's Gibney Company is one of the pieces they'll perform during their March 1-2, 2023 performances in Israel. (Courtesy PR)

Rallying the troupesNew York’s Gibney Company comes to dance in Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

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