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What Matters Most On Wednesday, February 22, 2023

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File - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right), and Economy Minister Nir Barkat in the Knesset on February 22, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lapid to Levin: Your fault when Israel starts falling apart

Knesset advances bill that would preemptively shield laws from judicial oversight

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Measure radically restricts High Court’s powers, barring it from ruling on any law that has a clause precluding it; 15 unanimous judges needed to strike down laws without clause

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) reads a letter to Shas chair Aryeh Deri, informing Deri that he must remove him from ministerial office, at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, January 22, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Coalition advances bill that would return Deri to cabinet, defying High Court ruling

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, December 25, 2018. (Adam Shuldman/Flash90/File)

Shekel reverses earlier losses after Wall Street dive and judicial overhaul jitters

By Sharon Wrobel

Palestinians clash with Israeli forces during a raid in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, on February 22, 2023. (Zain Jaafar/AFP)

Palestinians say 11 killed, 102 hurt in Nablus clashes between gunmen, Israeli forces

By Emanuel Fabian and Alexander Fulbright

Firefights erupt as military surrounds house where senior Lion’s Den member was hiding out with two other gunmen

Police at the scene of a terror shooting attack near Jerusalem's Old City, on January 28, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Palestinian teen indicted for seriously wounding 2 in Jerusalem shooting

Bassem Saadi, head of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group in the West Bank, appears for a hearing at Ofer prison, outside of Jerusalem, on August 25, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Islamic Jihad leader whose arrest sparked 2022 Gaza conflict gets 22 months in jail

By Emanuel Fabian

Reform rabbis and supporters of Women of the Wall march to the Western Wall with a sign protesting a bill that would criminalize women wearing prayer shawls at the holy site, on February 22, 2023. (Central Conference of American Rabbis)

Reform rabbis assailed as they try to bring Torah scrolls to women at Western Wall

By Judah Ari Gross

Members of the Noam party’s youth movement overrun holy site’s egalitarian section, are escorted out by police

Haredi protesters blocking a light rail train in Jerusalem on February 21, 2023. (screen capture: Twitter/Yair Levy; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Ultra-Orthodox extremists riot outside Jerusalem police HQ, block light rail

Rabbi Moshe Haliwa's tefillin after the straps were cut off by Jordanian airport security officials, February 20, 2023. (Moshe Haliwa)

Rabbi’s tefillin desecrated during inspection by Jordanian airport officials

By Stuart Winer

Naale Elite Academy students on campus (Courtesy)

Home away from Home: Naale provides the ultimate Israeli high school experience for Jewish teens from across the world

Naale students graduate with an internationally-recognized high school diploma, a deep understanding of Israeli culture, and life-long friendships that transcend borders.

ToI investigates

‘Modern slavery’: How foreign caregivers in Israel have been extorted for decades

ToI exposes a multi-million-dollar industry in which foreign workers are compelled to pay ‘placement fees’ to employment ‘brokers’ – with the government’s full knowledge

Illustrative: A carer helping an elderly Israeli to cross the street in Tel Aviv. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces during a raid in Nablus, on February 22, 2023. (Zain Jaafar / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan slam Israel after deadly IDF raid on Nablus

Riyadh calls operation a ‘serious violation of international law,’ while Doha warns of ‘explosion of tensions’ amid escalation; UAE, Bahrain and Morocco remain mum so far

7:55 pm

US 'deeply concerned' by large number of civilian injuries, deaths in Nablus raid
7:23 pm

Palestinian Islamic Jihad says it will respond to Nablus 'crime without hesitation'
7:10 pm

Smotrich said to threaten PM with budget vote in row over West Bank powers

In highly unusual move, major US Jewish group decries proposed judicial overhaul

By Judah Ari Gross

Jewish Federations, a massive umbrella group, departs from usual practice of being mum on Israeli politics, warns against ‘dramatic’ proposal to let Knesset override High Court

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) speaks with one of the architects of the government's judicial overhaul Justice Minister Yariv Levin in the Knesset plenum, December 13, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Leader of the opposition and Yesh Atid chairman MK Yair Lapid speaks at a protest against the government's judicial overhaul program outside the Knesset, February 13, 2023. (Arie Leib)

Lapid thanks US Jews for criticism of overhaul, backs talks if coalition halts bills

By Judah Ari Gross

Progressive protesters rally against the Israeli government in New York City, February 21, 2023. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

‘Sounding the alarm’: Progressive Jews decry Netanyahu government at New York rally

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a conference at Haifa University on December 15, 2022. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

Levin hints he may end up firing attorney general; she says threats not daunting her

‘Everything should be done in due time,’ justice minister says, adding that before legal overhaul passes, High Court could intervene; adds he hopes Baharav-Miara will ‘get a grip’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on February 19, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool/AFP)

Netanyahu urges talks on overhaul; Lapid fires back that legislation must stop first

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a discussion and a vote in the Knesset on February 20, 2023 (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 22: PM wants compromise, but coalition won’t let him

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the Israel Air Force base at Hatzerim, May 18, 2021. With him are Air Force chief Amikam Norkim (left) and deputy IDF chief of staff Eyal Zamir
(Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Netanyahu said to huddle repeatedly with military brass over possible attack on Iran

US Marine Corps Cpl. Jason Carreon, a field radio operator with 2nd Assault Amphibian Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, participates in a range excserise during the join Intrepid Maven drill with the IDF, February 20, 2023. (US Marine Corps photo/Lance Cpl. Emma Gray)

US Marines hold joint 10-day-long drill with Israeli military

By Emanuel Fabian

Benjamin Ish-Shalom

Our Shabbat guest: The ‘Grandchild Amendment’

Israeli society boosts immigrants’ Jewish identity by its very nature – which means we need the Law of Return as it is

Are American rabbis giving in to assimilation?

As leaders move away from traditional study and practice, how will their congregants find new Jewish standard-bearers?

File: Otzma Yehudit MK Almog Cohen at the Knesset on November 22, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

‘They’re inhuman’: Far-right MK likens Arab party MKs to sheep, refuses to apologize

Otzma Yehudit’s Almog Cohen films himself in Knesset making racist comments about Hadash-Ta’al MKs, saying people should ‘talk to them in a language they understand’

A sign found at Cafe Israela in Kfar Saba on February 21, 2023, that reads 'No buying from whoever protests in Jerusalem against the government.' (Courtesy)

Cafe owners who protested legal shakeup return to sign with Jewish terror group logo

Anti-government protesters outside Economy Minister Nir Barkat's home in Jerusalem on February 22, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Anti-overhaul demonstrators tie themselves to pole outside Likud minister’s home

Protest by Nir Barkat’s house in Jerusalem comes ahead of plenum votes on next planks in government’s controversial judicial shakeup plan, including override clause

A government handout shows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greeting sailors at a welcoming ceremony for the new Rahav submarine in Haifa, on January 12, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Hundreds of ex-submariners urge stop to overhaul ‘before we reach the abyss’

By Judah Ari Gross

The unsolved murder of Haim Arlosoroff is the central focus of 'The Red Balcony' by Jonathan Wilson. (Public domain/ Courtesy)

Interview'This murder is the most significant event of that period'

An early Zionist’s unsolved murder fuels a mystery novel ripped from the archives

By Robert Philpot

The slaying of Haim Arlosoroff 90 years ago remains controversial. What will Jonathan Wilson’s characters make of this unsolvable crime in ‘The Red Balcony,’ on shelves now?

Likud MK Yuli Edelstein (L), Ukraine President Volodymr Zelensky (C) and National Unity MK Ze'ev Elkin meet in Kyiv on February 20, 2023. (Yuli Edelstein/Twitter)

Likud, opposition MKs urge upped support for Ukraine, including missile defense

By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

Visiting Kyiv, Yuli Edelstein and Ze’ev Elkin call for government to quit sitting on fence, saying it should instead offer unequivocal support for war-torn country

Sada, second from right, gets a balloon on her birthday after she arrived from an orphanage in Odesa, Ukraine, at a hotel in Berlin, Friday, March 4, 2022. (AP/Steffi Loos)

Year after fleeing to Berlin, Jewish orphans gird for return to war-ravaged Odesa

By Deborah Danan

A photo of war-torn Ukraine by photojournalist Ziv Koren, part of an exhibit in New York's Time Square and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art during the week of February 20, 2023, marking one year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Courtesy: Zdravko Cota)

Israeli lensman’s photos of war-torn Ukraine shown on Tel Aviv museum, Times Square

By Jessica Steinberg

Ben Perry (left), Mili Avital (center) and Noga Milstein of 'Next Stop,' Milstein and Avital's play about Israelis in New York, onstage at Habima in March 2023 (Courtesy PR)

Theater review

Comedy about Israelis trying to make it in NYC finds a ‘Next Stop’ on Tel Aviv stage

By Jessica Steinberg

Playwright Noga Milstein brings her culture clash shenanigans in English to Habima theater with a storyline that will resonate with new arrivals trying to make it in Israel

Peer-reviewed work led by Ben-Gurion Univ. neuroscientists

Israeli scientists say they cured mice of Alzheimer’s using newly developed molecule

By Nathan Jeffay

Effectiveness shown via behavior tests and brain analysis, say authors of research; they stress it’s a small sample and progress to human drug, if successful, will take time

Illustrative image: A human brain with degeneration, which is denoted in green. (Naeblys via iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli director Guy Nattiv and English actor Helen Mirren (R) attend a photocall for the film "Golda," at the Berlin International Film Festival, February 20, 2023 in Berlin. (Ronny Hartmann/AFP)

‘Golda’ director defends casting Helen Mirren: ‘She’s got the Jewish chops’

By Deborah Cole

At Berlin film festival premiere, Guy Nattiv says he was ‘surprised’ by uproar over decision to pick non-Jewish actress for star role

British actress Helen Mirren arrives on the red carpet ahead of the premiere of the film 'Golda,' at the Berlin International Film Festival, February 20, 2023 in Berlin. (John MacDougall/AFP)

‘Golda’ star Helen Mirren says ex-PM would be ‘horrified’ by Israeli politics today

By Deborah Cole

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Location of a 4.5 magnitude earthquake that struck the Eastern Mediterranean region on Wednesday, February 22, 2023. (European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre)

4.5-magnitude tremor felt in Israel amid uptick in seismic activity

Illustrative: Newly graduated combat officers at the Bahad 1 IDF officers' school in southern Israel, November 10, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF ombudswoman: Bulk of soldiers’ complaints are against ‘stubborn’ junior officers

By Emanuel Fabian

The former director of the Criminal Investigation Agency, Tomas Zeron (L), arrives at the house at the end of the tunnel through which Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman could have escaped from the Altiplano prison, in Almoloya de Juarez, Mexico, on July 12, 2015. (AFP/YURI CORTEZ)

Israel unlikely to heed Mexican request to extradite former official – report

A handout photo shows emergency vehicles at the scene of a suspected murder of a woman in Ashdod, February 21, 2023. (Magen David Adom)

Woman killed in Ashdod home, police arrest her husband as suspect

A clay figure, the decorative end of a candle holder dated to the 6th-7th century, discovered south of the central city of Modiin by the Lavi family, February 18, 2023. (Courtesy of the Lavi family)

Family comes face to face with 1,400-year-old decorative clay figure

By Michael Horovitz

Light illuminates part of the Supreme Court building at dusk on Capitol Hill in Washington, November 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

US Supreme Court keeps Arkansas anti-BDS law in place, declining to intervene

By AP and ToI Staff

A brawl breaks out between Archbishop Coleman Carroll High School and Scheck Hillel Community School soccer teams during a match on February 15, 2023. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Miami school forfeits soccer semifinal after brawl with Jewish team

By Andrew Lapin

Screen capture of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's private residence on Gaza Street in Jerusalem. (iMaps)

Detailed plans of Netanyahu’s Jerusalem home were reportedly available online

Congressman George Santos (left) speaks to Piers Morgan in an interview aired February 20, 2023. (Screenshot/Twitter; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

US Congressman George Santos says false Jewish identity claim was ‘party favor joke’

Israel's Embassy to the United States in Washington, DC, file photo (CC-BY-SA Krokodyl/Wikimedia Commons)

Israeli diplomats in North America say lack of funds severely hampering their work

A general view of the Moses Ben Maimon Synagogue, at the Abrahamic Family House, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, February 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

UAE opens interfaith center as symbol of tolerance, but religious strictures remain

By Jon Gambrell

From Germany's Hanover Ballet's performance of 'The Lover,' coming to The Israeli Opera on March 2-4, 2023. (Courtesy Ralf Mohr)

Freestyle moveBallet whose director threw dog poo at critic to perform in Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

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