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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 28, 2023

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Elan Ganeles, who was killed in a terror shooting in the West Bank, February 27, 2023. (Courtesy of Consulate General of Israel in New York)

Family friend: 'His love for Israel goes without saying'

US-Israel citizen killed in terror attack to be buried in country ‘he loved so much’

Elan Ganeles’s family flying from Connecticut home for funeral at Klausner cemetery, Ra’anana, at 1 p.m. on Wednesday

‘Kind, funny’ Israeli-US terror victim Elan Ganeles killed during visit for wedding

By Jackie Hajdenberg and Ben Sales

West Bank terror victim named as Israeli-American Elan Ganeles

By ToI Staff and JTA

Israeli man killed in West Bank terror shooting — IDF

By Emanuel Fabian

Cars and homes are torched by settlers in the West Bank town of Huwara on February 26, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Suspects in Huwara settler rampage out of custody; IDF vows to probe ‘lawlessness’

By Emanuel Fabian

3 detained over rioting sent to house arrest and 5 released, authorities say, with no new arrests in mob violence; Halevi says manhunt for West Bank gunmen continues

Settlers pray as cars and homes burn in the West Bank town of Huwara on February 26, 2023. (Screenshot/Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

US says it ‘expects’ Israel to prosecute settlers involved in Huwara rampage

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell speaks during a media conference in Brussels on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022 (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

EU calls for protection of civilians, de-escalation amid rising West Bank violence

By Lazar Berman

Sameh Aqtash, who was killed in the settler rampage of Huwara on February 27, 2023. (Courtesy)

Relatives of Palestinian killed during settler riot say he was shot by ‘IDF troops’

By Ash Obel and Emanuel Fabian

Cousin of 37-year-old Sameh Aqtash says IDF fired live bullets trying to break up clashes; military officials admit they were unprepared for rampage, failed to contain violence

IDF troops conduct scans in the West Bank town of Huwara for a terrorist who killed two Israelis, February 26, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Military: Settlers attempt to ram officer in West Bank, hurl stones at troops

By Emanuel Fabian

Medics and police officers at the scene of a deadly car-ramming terror attack near the Ramot junction, in Jerusalem on February 10, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Injured father of boys killed in Jerusalem terror ramming wakes up from coma

External programming unit still under Education Ministry

Far-right anti-LGBTQ Avi Maoz quits government, says his coalition deal was ignored

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Noam chief was ‘shocked to find no serious intention’ to create Jewish National Identity Office, will remain in 64-MK coalition; Yesh Atid MK: One less homophobe in the government

Noam party head Avi Maoz speaks during his faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 30, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Settlers protest for the return to the Evyatar outspot, near the West Bank city of Nablus, on February 18, 2022 (Photo by Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 28: Outpost sees return of settlers after terror attack

IDF soldiers patrol the main road in Huwara in the West Bank, on February 27, 2023. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP)

Hunt for terrorists who killed 3 continues; 8 detained in overnight West Bank raids

By Emanuel Fabian

From the blogs

Huwara could open Israel to war crimes charges

If the authorities don’t launch an investigation into Sunday night’s rampage, the International Court may do so instead

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers speak with Israeli settlers in the West Bank town of Huwara near Nablus on February 27, 2023. (RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Settler extremists sowing terror, Huwara riot was a ‘pogrom,’ top general says

By Joshua Davidovich

Yehuda Fuchs warns future clash between troops and hardline Israelis in West Bank may end in Israeli fatalities, admits IDF was unprepared for size, scale of Sunday night rampage

7:54 pm

Putin signs bill freezing last remaining nuclear arms treaty with US
7:50 pm

Rejecting Chikli criticism, envoy Nides says US won't stay out of Israel's business
7:20 pm

Mandelblit says court overhaul will upend system of governance, rejects compromise

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

‘Not our way’: President condemns settlers’ ‘cruel and violent rampage’ in Huwara

Day after settlers burned homes and cars in West Bank town where two Israelis were killed, Herzog says Israel’s foundational principles forbid ‘criminal violence against innocents’

Head of the Yesh Atid party MK Yair Lapid speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset on February 27, 2023. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

After settler rioting over Huwara attack, Lapid says government has ‘lost control’

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in the Knesset on February 27, 2023. (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset Spokesperson)

Netanyahu at Knesset: ‘We can’t accept anarchy’; no room for ‘setting homes on fire’

Settlers look on as cars and homes burn in the West Bank town of Huwara on February 26, 2023. (Courtesy)

Israelis donate over NIS 1 million for Palestinian victims of settler rampage

Labor party member who organized campaign says it offers ‘a bit of optimism’ after deadly riot in Huwara, but laments that perpetrators now have senior partners in the government

A Palestinian man walks between scorched cars in a scrapyard after a settler riot, in the town of Huwara, near the West Bank city of Nablus, February 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

As US Jewish groups condemn Huwara settler rampage, many avoid mentioning Netanyahu

Protesters rallying against the settler rampage in Huwara block a major intersection in Tel Aviv on February 27, 2023. (Courtesy Standing Together)

Police clash with Tel Aviv protesters rallying against Huwara settler rampage

Tamar Sternthal

The New York Times’ Jesus problem

Accuracy about biographical details of a historical figure central to a leading world religion shouldn’t be too hard

Eliana Mandell Braner

10 ways to help your kids handle traumatic current events

My brother, Koby Mandell, was killed by terrorists when I was a child and now I counsel children through tragic loss. I know how terrorism affects us all

Idan Fishslevich, a 22-year-old with high functioning ASD who was made a flight attendant for a day, is seen onboard an El Al plane before departing to Rome, Italy, February 20, 2023. (Tobias Siegal/Times of Israel)

'For Idan, it is always about proving he can do anything'

To promote disability inclusion, El Al makes man with autism a crew member for a day

By Tobias Siegal

Fulfilling a childhood dream, volunteer soldier Idan Fishslevich, 22, becomes a flight attendant in a joint initiative by JNF-USA and Israel’s national airline

Interview

Sharansky: No, Israel is not becoming Russia, but we need broad consensus on reforms

The former Prisoner of Zion and minister under Netanyahu does not support the sweeping judicial overhaul as is, but nor does he believe it spells the end of Israeli democracy

File: Natan Sharansky (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Illustrative: Career soldiers and soldiers in mandatory service in the IDF Military Intelligence Directorate attend a ceremony for the appointment of the new chief of intelligence at Glilot military base, near Tel Aviv, March 28, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Elite IDF intel unit veterans threaten to boycott reserve duty over legal overhaul

By Ash Obel and ToI Staff

Explainer

Who chooses judges: The evolution and planned radical overhaul of judicial selection

The coalition argues that Israel’s judges should reflect the will of the elected majority; critics counter that the courts must serve as a check on executive power, not a mirror

The Judicial Selection Committee during the 34th government of Israel convenes, with then-justice minister Ayelet Shaked together with then-Supreme Court president Miriam Naor, then-finance minister Moshe Kahlon and other members of the Israeli Judicial Selection Committee, February 22, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

The Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee convenes, chaired by Religious Zionism MK Simcha Rothman (second left), on February 27, 2023. Gilad Kariv is at right. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

First hint of compromise on judicial review legislation emerges at Knesset panel

By Jeremy Sharon

Wiz's offices in Tel Aviv. (Courtesy)

Wiz raises $300m at $10b valuation, says funds will stay in US amid judicial shakeup

By Sharon Wrobel

US-Israeli cybersecurity CEO says he is worried not only about tech capital being pulled out of Israel but that funds will no longer enter due to uncertainty regarding legislation

Ben Platt in character as Leo Frank from the Broadway musical "Parade." (Emilio Madrid/DKC/O&M via AP)

Broadway musical ‘Parade,’ Jewish star fight antisemitism both onstage and off

By Mark Kennedy

Ben Platt leads in true story of Leo Frank, a Jew who was lynched in Atlanta in 1915, as US contends with new wave of Jew-hatred, including neo-Nazi protest outside of show

Jacquelyne Vargas plays the video game "The Light in the Darkness," about a family of Polish Jews in France during the Holocaust, at Indie Game Revolution inside the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) in Seattle, Washington, on February 23, 2023. (Jason Redmond/AFP)

In new Holocaust video game, players walk in shoes of Jewish family ripped from home

By Daniel Hoffman

‘The Light in the Darkness’ creator says he hopes medium can be used to deal with subject in the same way as movies; was bothered by WWII games not clearly featuring genocide

More Headlines

The scene of an explosion thought to be caused by a gas canister in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Zeev, February 28, 2023. (Fire and Rescue Services)

Worker killed, three injured in Jerusalem gas explosion

An aerial view of a scrapyard where cars were torched overnight in the Palestinian town of Huwara near Nablus in the West Bank, February 27, 2023. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP)

UN Security Council to hold 3rd emergency meet on West Bank violence since new gov’t

Peruvian journalist Gustavo Gorriti. (Screenshot/YouTube, Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Leading Peruvian-Jewish reporter hit with antisemitic protests after probing police

By Jacob Kessler

File - UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese addresses the UN, October 2022. (Screenshot/ YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

US Congress members call on UN leadership to remove antisemitic official

A BDS supporter at an anti-Israel protest in New York City, October 14, 2022. (Luke Tress/ Times of Israel/ File)

New York opens probe into city college system for alleged anti-Jewish discrimination

The Amal, or Asi Stream flowing through Kibbutz Nir David in northern Israel, August 9, 2020. (Menachem Lederman/Flash90)

Teen arrested for allegedly posting intention to kill Jews at kibbutz

Arthur Carlos de Barros Basto (1887-1961) (public domain, via wikipedia)

Jewish community blasts state for refusing to reinstate ‘Portuguese Alfred Dreyfus’

By Michael Horovitz and JTA

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man buys disposable plastic dishes in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood, January 20, 2023. (Oded Balilty/AP)

Knesset scraps disposable plastic tax, satisfying Haredi coalition demand

Illustrative: An Iranian girl carries the Quran, Islam's holy book, in a classroom during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan in Tehran, Iran, July 26, 2012. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Iranian schoolgirl poisonings spark fear of campaign against women’s education

By Jon Gambrell

Danny Zaken broadcasts from the Kol Yisrael studios in Jerusalem, November 2016. (Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0)

Gallant taps new interim head of Army Radio, despite intention to close station

By Emanuel Fabian

Rupert Murdoch at the Herman Kahn Award Gala, Oct. 30, 2019, in New York (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Murdoch says some Fox News hosts ‘endorsed’ false stolen US election claims

By Randall Chase

British pop star Robbie Williams arrives in Ben Gurion Airport, April 30, 2015 (photo credit: public relations/Sivan Faraj)

Cutting remarksRobbie Williams considered Judaism, put off by circumcision

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