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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 25, 2023

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, January 25, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu tells ministers: ‘Punch back’ at protester lies like we hit out at terror

PM compares demonstrators to those who protested his 2015 natural gas deal, seemingly equates their ‘lies’ to Palestinian terrorism; his office says he was speaking figuratively

Israelis dressed as characters from 'The Handmaid's Tale' protest the government's planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, February 25, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

A show of ‘power and unity’: Tens of thousands expected at anti-government protests

Demonstrators respond as Netanyahu says he wants to ‘punch back’ against those opposed to judicial overhaul; Tel Aviv again to be the focus of 8th week of mass protests

Protesters rally against the government's judicial overhaul plans outside the Knesset, on February 20, 2023. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Mossad workers reportedly permitted to take part in anti-overhaul protests

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky leaves a hall after his press conference on the occasion of the Russia Ukraine war one year anniversary in Kyiv, Ukraine on February 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Zelensky: I don’t want Israel to mediate. I want it to pick a side, Ukraine’s side

At press conference marking year since invasion, Ukrainian leader says he recognizes Israel’s ‘complex’ situation vis-a-vis Russia, cites improvement in Kyiv’s ties with Jerusalem

Iran releases a video of the new Paveh cruise missile, with a reported range of 1,650 km on Friday February 24, 2023 (IRNA Screencapture/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iran unveils new ‘Paveh’ cruise missile that can reach Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Top general says Tehran still wants to kill former US president Trump, Secretary Pompeo to avenge the assassination of Qassem Soleimani

This photo released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry on Sunday, June 9, 2019, shows the Khordad 15, a new surface-to-air missile battery at an undisclosed location in Iran. The system uses locally made missiles that resemble the HAWK missiles that the US once sold to the shah and later delivered to the Islamic Republic in the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal. (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP)

Iran says it’s likely to send Syria air defenses, after latest alleged Israeli strike

By ToI Staff and AFP

A screenshot from unverified social media video allegedly showing Iranian security forces beating a protester in Iran's southeastern city of Zahedan, February 24, 2022. (Twitter video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Fresh protests held in Iran’s restive southeast; activists say internet blocked

By AFP

The cast of the Hallmark film 'Made for Each Other.' (Steve Ackerman/Hallmark)

Film review

From dust to human: A new Hallmark rom-com puts a twist on the Jewish golem legend

‘Made for Each Other,’ written by Israeli-American screenwriter Adi Blotman, centers around a mystical 16th-century folktale, with a 21st-century twist

National Day of Hate: How should we respond?

For every act of hatred and violence, we should add dozens of acts of kindness and charity

Tania Shalom Michaelian

Breaking the walls of tradition in Motza

Nearly two centuries ago, Sephardic Ashkenazi families united to build a life for Jews outside the Old City walls

The cabinet votes to approve the 2023-2024 budget, in Jerusalem on February 24, 2023. (Courtesy)

Cabinet approves 2-year budget, including $2.4 billion boost for Ben Gvir’s ministry

Tourism minister boycotts vote over plan to end VAT tax exemption for tourists; PM’s plan for free education for kids under 3 not included, but ministers commit to advancing it

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich at a conference in Jerusalem, February 21, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich threatens to withhold defense funding to further his demands — report

Author David Grossman speaks during a protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, January 21, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Top authors, poets petition against effort to curb National Library independence

Artists warn that if the government passes bill to interfere in library leadership, they will refuse to donate archives or books to institution

MK Yoav Kisch, then-chairman of the Interior Affairs Committee at the Knesset, on July 12, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Over AG’s objection, cabinet backs bill curbing National Library’s independence

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

Poll: Coalition slumps 9 seats, losing majority amid unrest over judicial overhaul

Survey finds Yesh Atid would become largest party in Knesset if another election was held, indicating broad discontent with government’s agenda, but no new vote is in the offing

US defense chief urges Gallant to de-escalate tensions in West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Lloyd Austin calls Israeli counterpart days after an IDF raid on Nablus killed 11, including several civilians

Left: Defense Minister Yoav Gallant during a ceremony at the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, January 1, 2023; Right: US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, November 16, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90; AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Palestinians burn tires during a protest on the border with Israel, east of Gaza City, February 23, 2023. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)

Palestinian said critically hurt in Gaza border clashes with IDF

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: IDF soldiers carry out raids in the West Bank on August 18, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Palestinian gunmen fire at IDF post near Nablus; no injuries

By Emanuel Fabian

Eli Hopstein, left, gazes over his neighborhood in Mykolaiv, Ukraine; Alexey Shkurat, right, smiles upon arrival in Israel, a year after the rest of his family left Odessa. Both men have been aided by Jewish nonprofits. (Deborah Danan)

Ukrainian Jews recount stories of survival, endurance, escape after year of war

By Deborah Danan

Thousands of Jewish refugees have fled to Israel, while others have remained behind, subject to Russian bombing and a lack of electricity, water and food

Tom and Darlynn Fellman volunteered in Krakow in October. (Courtesy of Tom Fellman via JTA)

Jewish volunteers reflect on a year of helping Ukrainians at war

By Steve Lipman

Samuel Boikaner, an Israeli doctor who was killed by an elephant while volunteering in Nepal, on February 24, 2023 (Courtesy)

Israeli medical student killed by wild elephant while volunteering in Nepal

Foreign Ministry working with family to return body of Samuel Boikaner, who had been volunteering at a local hospital

A memorial dedicated to the Jewish boatmen lost at sea during World War II in North Tel Aviv. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

Hundreds of Jewish fighters were lost at sea in WWII. Here’s how Israel honors them

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

560 warriors from Mandate Palestine who fought with the British against Axis powers are still missing. While a nonprofit searches for them, Israelis dedicate a day to their memory

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Roger Waters performs at the United Center in Chicago, July 26, 2022. (Rob Grabowski/Invision/AP, File)

German city cancels Roger Waters performance due to his antisemitism

Frankfurt calls former Pink Floyd frontman one of world’s ‘best-known antisemites,’ nixes scheduled performance at venue that imprisoned Jews after Kristallnacht

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IAF chief Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar meets with his Morrocan counterpart, Gen. El Abed Alaoui Bouhamid in Morocco, February 22, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

IAF chief wraps up first official trip to Morocco, in sign of growing defense ties

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: Hezbollah operatives stand in formation at a rally to mark Jerusalem Day, or Al-Quds Day, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on May 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Key Hezbollah financier, ‘global terrorist’ arrested in Bucharest

By AP

Illustrative: Hilltop youth in the central West Bank Inbalim outpost on July 28, 2009. (Matanya Tausig/FLASH90)

Shin Bet chief said to blame tiny minority for settler attacks on Palestinians

In this March 13, 2018 photo, a tractor works at a landfill near the UBQ factory in Kibbutz Tzeelim in southern Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Environment minister succeeds in keeping waste management fund in her office

A screenshot from video shared by the UAE's deputy prime minister on February 17, 2023, shows the Moses Ben Maimon Synagogue, at the newly opened Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi. (Twitter video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Love and peaceEx-Trump aide marries in 1st-ever wedding at UAE’s Abrahamic house

Members of the Hebrew Israelites Community of the southern city of Dimona protest against deportation orders given to some of their members, Habima Square, Tel Aviv, June 1, 2021. Th banner says, 'We are an integral part of the People of Israel.' (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Court tells government to reconsider deportation of Hebrew Israelites

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