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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 23, 2023

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Simcha Rothman, head of the Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, leads a committee meeting at the Knesset on February 22, 2023. At right is the committee's legal adviser Gur Bligh (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Judicial overhaul will leave the right to vote unprotected, admits MK leading effort

By Jeremy Sharon

Simcha Rothman tells Knesset legal adviser that curbing judges’ overreach takes priority over safeguarding rights

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

Knesset advances bill that would preemptively shield laws from judicial oversight

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

A discussion and a vote in the Knesset plenum on February 22, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

MKs push ahead with bill giving politicians control of probes into cops, prosecutors

This image made from video shows Oman's new sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said, taking part in a cannon-fire salute outside the Royal Family Council in Muscat, Oman, January 11, 2020. (Oman TV via AP)

Following Saudis, Oman finally opens airspace to all countries, including Israel

By Lazar Berman

Gulf sultanate, traditionally a mediator between Iran and the West, makes move that will cut hours off travel to Far East, but does not indicate impending treaty with Jerusalem

Then-Settlement Affairs Minister Tzachi Hanegbi in Gush Etzion in the West Bank, December 24, 2020. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

With Negev Summit planning on hold, Hanegbi said to be headed to UAE

By Lazar Berman

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses a joint press conference with France's President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the Elysee presidential Palace in Paris on February 8, 2023. (SARAH MEYSSONNIER / POOL / AFP)

Zelensky seeking Netanyahu visit to Kyiv, Israeli official says

By Lazar Berman

Smoke rises above buildings in Gaza City as Israel launched air strikes on the Palestinian enclave early February 23, 2023. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

Israel bombs Hamas sites in Gaza, hours after rockets shot toward Ashkelon, Sderot

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Military says it hit weapons workshop and naval arms cache, in apparent response to Palestinian reprisal launches after deadly IDF raid in Nablus Wednesday

Rockets are seen launched from the Gaza Strip toward Ashkelon in southern Israel, early February 22, 2023. (Dadi Fold/Courtesy)

Six rockets fired from Gaza toward southern Israel in apparent reprisal

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Palestinians carry away a wounded man during an Israeli raid in the West Bank city of Nablus, on February 22, 2023. (Photo by Zain Jaafar / AFP)

US ‘deeply concerned’ by large number of civilian injuries, deaths in Nablus raid

Former Bank of Israel chief Jacob Frenkel, left, during a Channel 12 interview of February 22, 2023. (Screenshot: Channel 12; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

'Every day the situation worsens, but it's not too late yet'

Ex-Bank of Israel chief warns government’s moves harming economy, weakening shekel

By Michael Bachner

‘Wake up before the country goes downhill’: Jacob Frenkel escalates rhetoric against ‘irresponsible’ advance of legal overhaul, threat to central bank’s independence

Israelis protest against government plans to overhaul the judicial system outside the Knesset, with the Bank of Israel headquarters seen in the background, February 20, 2023. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Central bank chief said to call urgent meeting as financial system wobbles

Prof. Moshe Koppel at a Times of Israel Live event at Jerusalem's Israel Democracy Institute, December 15, 2022. (Oded Antman/IDI)

Head of think tank that helped shape legal overhaul calls override clause ‘stupid’

Note to Rothman: Israel is not New Zealand

Replacing judicial review with non-binding ’declarations of inconsistency’ is a terrible idea – here’s why

The unhealthy law against chametz in hospitals

There’s one thing such a law most likely won’t do, and that’s keeping chametz from being brought into hospitals

Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron speaks during a press conference at the Bank of Israel in Jerusalem on January 2, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Bank of Israel chief said to warn economic crisis ‘could break out within a moment’

Economy minister, a member of Netanyahu’s Likud party, reportedly suggests judicial overhaul compromise during meeting on next state budget, citing warnings from tech figures

7:17 pm

Ben Gvir says he met with Pompeo, discussed Israel-US ties
6:54 pm

Bus driver lightly hurt in stone-throwing attack near West Bank outpost
6:39 pm

NYPD to up security at religious sites after white supremacists declare antisemitic ‘Day of hate’

Reches Lavan, or White Ridge, east of Jerusalem. (Dov Greenblat, Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel)

Court halts major Jerusalem Hills urban plan, orders environmental assessment

By ToI Staff and Sue Surkes

Society for Protection of Nature in Israel welcomes ruling, urges government to cancel Reches Lavan project and preserve area as a national asset

A still from Marcel Ophuls's 1969 Holocaust documentary 'The Sorrow and the Pity.' (Courtesy of Kino Lorber)

Film reviewOverlooked by many, it is undoubtedly a seminal Shoah film

French Holocaust documentary ‘The Sorrow and the Pity’ is still chillingly relevant

By Jordan Hoffman

Re-released in the US on Feb. 24, Marcel Ophuls’ 4-hour 1969 film presents a riveting depiction of everyday life in Nazi-occupied France and is ultimately about human nature

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, depart for a trip to Paris on February 2, 2023. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Knesset panel okays state funding for Netanyahus’ 2 homes, more money for clothes

Balfour residence is being renovated; state to also cover travel expenses for PM’s wife, hospitality costs; opposition MKs: Government ‘living in parallel universe’ as prices rise

Images of six candidate massive galaxies, seen 500-800 million years after the Big Bang. One of the sources (bottom left) could contain as many stars as our present-day Milky Way, but is 30 times more compact. (NASA via AP)

'We were mind-blown,' says team as 'universe breakers' found

In paradigm shift, Webb telescope spots ‘monster’ galaxies formed in early universe

Scientists thought it was an error when they saw super bright dots, indicating fully mature galaxies just 600 million years after Big Bang, suggesting previously unknown fast track

This handout photo from police shows a knife a Palestinian woman attempted to stab security guards with near Ma'ale Adumim in the West Bank, February 22, 2023. (Israel Police)

Palestinian woman shot after attempting to stab guards near Ma’ale Adumim — police

By Emanuel Fabian

Law enforcement say suspect brandishing knife approached security officers at entrance to West Bank settlement

Police at the scene of a stabbing attack at a checkpoint near the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem. February 13, 2023.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

13-year-old Palestinian indicted for killing Border Police officer in East Jerusalem

By Emanuel Fabian

Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces during a raid in the West Bank city of Nablus, February 22, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Police raise alert following deadly IDF raid in Nablus, anticipating revenge attacks

By Emanuel Fabian

Former Palestinian Authority prime minister Ahmed Qurei at his office in the West Bank town of Abu Dis, November 23, 2020. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Obituary

Ahmed Qurei, Oslo Accords architect and former Palestinian PM, dies at 85

By Agencies and ToI Staff

PA President Abbas announces death of Abu Alaa, one of the chief negotiators of the 1990s deals with Israel that created the Palestinian Authority

Illustrative: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on February 18, 2023. (Amanuel Sileshi/AFP)

UN secretary-general warns against Jerusalem ‘provocations,’ settlement expansion

A Palestinian gestures to Israeli military vehicles during clashes in the West Bank city of Nablus, February 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 23: After bloody IDF op in Nablus, revenge rockets from Gaza

Netanyahu, treasury and defense officials agree on multi-year defense budget

By Emanuel Fabian

Reported NIS 68 billion to be included in upcoming national budget, which finance minister has reportedly threatened to veto if not handed West Bank powers

Front L-R: Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and IDF chief Herzi Halevi following a meeting on the defense budget at the Prime Minister's Office, February 22, 2023. (Courtesy)

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

Israeli strike on Damascus targeted Iranian and Syrian drone experts — report

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

In a letter to Jewish Federations, the opposition leader says he supports President Herzog’s calls for negotiations, insists legislative advance stop

Information Minister Galit Distel Atbaryan in the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on February 6, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Information minister pans AG for nixing a judicial overhaul explainer

Campers at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires, Wingdale, New York. (Uriel Heilman/JTA)

Interview

Did American Jews create historic summer camps – or was it vice versa?

By PHILISSA CRAMER

In her new book ‘The Jews of Summer,’ Sandra Fox explores the changing values and dynamics of US Jewry based on an institution that for many is synonymous with coming of age

A Turkish man, walks on the debris of the heritage houses that destroyed during the devastated earthquake, in the old city of Antakya, southern Turkey, Monday, February 13, 2023. (AP/Hussein Malla)

Ruins of Turkish city of Antakya tell story of a rich past

By Sarah El Deeb

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Temple Israel in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (Facebook)

Vandals target New Hampshire synagogue and other minority-affiliated buildings

Illustrative: A man shops for bread in a supermarket in Jerusalem. (Orel Cohen/Flash90)

Bills advance to ban hametz from hospitals on Passover, boost rabbinic court powers

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Local authorities strike kicks off, shuttering schools around country

Illustrative: Medics at the scene of a suspected murder in Lod, February 23, 2023. (Magen David Adom)

Man found dead in abandoned building in Lod, city’s 6th suspected murder this year

Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana delivers a speech at the Knesset on December 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Knesset shoots down opposition bill to enable adoption for same sex couples

A before and after photo depicting how a painting of Jesus at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York, had been obscured by a curtain. (Before: U.S. Coast Guard; After: U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.)

Painting of Jesus at Merchant Marine Academy moved to chapel amid Jewish complaints

Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in Guy Nattiv's film 'Golda.' (Jasper Wolf)

Golda Meir biopic skirts politics as current government faces growing scrutiny

By Gabe Friedman

A television cameraman works near a tribute to the victims of a mass shooting at a gay nightclub painted on the side of a downtown commercial building Nov. 23, 2022, in Colorado Springs, Colo. (AP/David Zalubowski)

Colorado LGBTQ club shooting suspect ran neo-Nazi website, officer tells court

By COLLEEN SLEVIN

Neo-Nazis rally outside Broadway preview of ‘Parade,’ show about antisemitic murder

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Ana Miranda speaks at a rally in Coruña, Spain, July 10, 2020. (Cristina Andina/Getty Images)

Israel bars EU parliament member from entering the country

Yael Rashlin (R) a transgender woman, poses for a photo with her partner Hadar and and their children Yarden and Hillel, at their home in the town of Tzur Hadassah in central Israel, on December 1, 2022. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Israel’s transgender Jews struggle in Orthodox circles

By Delphine Matthieussent

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky at his home in the city of Bnei Brak, on July 15, 2021. (Yaakov Nahumi/Flash90)

Holy, holy, holeyTorn pants of late Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky up for auction

By Jackie Hajdenberg

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