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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 2, 2023

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Israel Police officer Meir Suissa, right, prepares a stun grenade moments before he hurled it into a crowd of demonstrators during a mass protest in Tel Aviv, March 1, 2023. (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Probe opened into officer who hurled stun grenade at anti-government Tel Aviv rally

Internal investigations department said gathering footage of incident to assess cop’s actions; National Security Minister Ben Gvir says he backs officer for dispersing ‘anarchists’

Mounted police are deployed as Israelis block a main road to protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, Israel, March 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 2: A watershed moment for anti- & pro-judicial overhaul camps?

Security personnel face off with protesters opposed to the government's judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, March 1, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Officers said to accuse top cop Shabtai of using force to impress Ben Gvir

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a statement to the nation after a day of violence on March 1, 2023. (Screencapture/ Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Lapid: Huwara was terrorist pogrom; protesters are patriots

Netanyahu compares Tel Aviv protesters to settlers who set fire to Huwara

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff

Opposition denounces ‘terrible statement’; PM also says without evidence that ‘foreign elements’ behind some demos; falsely claims 2005 Gaza Disengagement protests were non-violent

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset on March 1, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu backpedals on comparison of Huwara rampage to Tel Aviv protests

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)

Far-right MK claims most fires in Huwara rampage were caused by Palestinians

Police officers stand guard while people demonstrate against the prime minister's wife Sara Netanyahu, outside a hair salon in Tel Aviv on March 1, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Sara Netanyahu accosted by protesters at Tel Aviv hair salon, extricated by police

PM’s wife holes up in central Tel Aviv after hundreds of demonstrators surround storefront; protests also resume in Jerusalem, north

Police officers and protesters surround an army truck that allegedly accelated toward a protest at the Beit Kama Junction in southern Israel, March 1, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Soldier detained for allegedly threatening anti-government protesters with weapon

By Emanuel Fabian

The Jews of Ukraine: Baal Shem Tov to Zelensky

Ukraine has been the site of some of the darkest moments in Jewish history, yet its Jews were central to the foundation of the Hasidic and Zionist movements. Click here for the current issue

National Unity party leader Benny Gantz speaks to the media at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, March 1, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gantz to PM: Talk now before we face civil war; Herzog: Israel may fall into abyss

National Unity leader calls on Netanyahu to enter into negotiations on overhaul immediately; the premier ostensibly agrees, but sides continue to be divided on terms

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara, US ambassador to Israel David Friedman and his wife Tammy at an American Independence Day celebration in Jerusalem, July 2, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Breaking with Netanyahu, ex-US envoy Friedman pushes back against judicial overhaul

Chairman of the Religious Zionism party MK Bezalel Smotrich and party members visit Netiv Haavot neighborhood in Gush Etzion, West Bank, on October 26, 2022. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

US prods PM to condemn Smotrich’s ‘repugnant, disgusting’ call to wipe out Huwara

State Department says ‘abhorrent’ remarks will incite violence, opening fresh rift weeks before finance minister is slated to fly to Washington for Israel Bonds meeting

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

Liberal American Jews urge US to revoke Smotrich’s visa over Huwara remarks

By Judah Ari Gross and Jacob Magid

UN Ambassadors Vanessa Frazier of Malta, Lana Nusseibeh of the UAE and Permanent Palestinian Observer Riyad Manour during a press stakeout outside the UN Security Council in New York on February 28, 2023. (Screen capture/UN TV)

UN Security Council to continue engaging on Israeli-Palestinian conflict, envoys say

Op-ed

As Israel implodes, does nobody in Netanyahu’s Likud have the guts to defy him?

This Editor’s Note was sent out earlier Wednesday in ToI’s weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel Community. To receive these Editor’s Notes as they’re released, join the ToI Community here. The surprise is not the unraveling of practical and moral leadership by the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The surprise is the rapidity with which... Continue Reading

Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with other Likud MKs including Nir Barkat (back to camera) and Avi Dichter (right) in the Knesset plenum on December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

The wedding of Maayan Rockland and Ariel Lewis, Ma'ale HaHamisha, February 28, 2023 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)

'I prayed that there would be no more bereaved families'

Bride’s joy turns to sorrow after Elan Ganeles killed driving to her wedding

By Lazar Berman

Maayan Rockland’s childhood friend flew to Israel to be part of her happiest day; family shielded her from tragic news during celebration

People line the street outside of the funeral of Elan Ganeles, 27, a dual US-Israeli citizen from West Hartford, Connecticut, in Raanana, March 1, 2023. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)

At US-born terror victim’s funeral, bittersweet memories eclipse calls for revenge

By Orly Halpern

Could the government cancel elections? Yes it could.

If passed, this judicial legislation would jeopardise the fundamental rights of all Israelis, not just minorities

Sarah Bernstein

Nightmares and pipe dreams: A visit to Huwara

The families told us of their dilemma: stay in their smoke-filled houses or flee and face the hordes rampaging outside

Will Bibi’s legacy be a new constitution for Israel or civil war?

We need to incentivize the prime minister to ensure changes to the Basic Laws require a super-majority – for the sake of the country

Bradley Shavit Artson

Not about assimilation: A response to Art Green

Changes in our Conservative Jewish rabbinical curriculum have nothing to do with Hebrew College’s policy on intermarriage

120 Israeli academics express support for government’s judicial overhaul plan

By Jeremy Sharon

A group of 120 academics associated with the right-wing Professors for a Strong Israel organization have expressed support for the government’s judicial overhaul program, the first large-scale statement of support for the controversial proposals from the academic community. In a declaration, the professors asserted that the far-reaching legal reforms were needed owing to... Continue Reading

Demonstrators block a road and clash with police as they protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, March 1, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Illustrative: An aerial view of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and the surrounding area, April 20, 2022. (Matanya Tausig/Flash90)

Fitch affirms Israel’s A+ rating, but warns of impact of planned judicial overhaul

By Sharon Wrobel

Ratings agency cites risks to Israel’s system of checks, investor sentiment; cautions about importance of central bank independence for credibility of policy-making

Israelis block a road and clash with police as they protest against the Israeli government's planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, March 1, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Economists post new warning: Judicial overhaul meltdown could be fast and furious

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

Shekel is world’s 3rd-worst performer in February as judicial jitters weigh on market

By Sharon Wrobel

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich presents the state budget at his Jerusalem ministry, February 28, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

UN calls Smotrich’s comments on Huwara ‘irresponsible’ and ‘unacceptable’

Finance minister still expected to attend Israel Bonds conference in DC following inflammatory remarks, but is not expected to meet with any US officials during trip

8:29 pm

UN calls Smotrich's comments on Huwara 'irresponsible' and 'unacceptable'
8:22 pm

Ex-MK pushes back on Sara Netanyahu's claim that he called for her murder
8:04 pm

PA health ministry: Teenager shot dead by Israeli gunfire near Qalqilya

Left: Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara at her welcome ceremony in Jerusalem on February 8, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on January 11, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Netanyahu tells High Court he has no conflict of interest dealing with overhaul

By Jeremy Sharon

PM says AG overreaching in preventing him from even discussing judicial reform, suggests it would be enough to bar him from process of appointing judges

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen during a discussion and a vote in the Knesset plenum, March 1, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bill to protect Netanyahu from forced suspension passes preliminary Knesset reading

By Jeremy Sharon

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks during a Knesset plenum session on March 1, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bill on death penalty for Palestinian terrorists passes preliminary Knesset vote

Legislation receives support from Yisrael Beytenu opposition party, advancing in 55-9 vote, despite longstanding pushback from legal and security establishments

File: Palestinian security forces in Hebron, November 14, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

PA’s Abbas said to tell forces to resist IDF troops, settlers who enter ‘our lands’

Kosher, now maybe halal: Aleph Farms gears up for rollout of cultivated steak

By Sharon Wrobel

Aleph Farms is seeking to become the first halal-certified cultivated meat producer, as the Rehovot-based startup is gearing up to open two new facilities, in Israel and Singapore, to ramp up production ahead of the commercial launch of its thin-cut steaks. The maker of cultivated meat -- meat that comes from non-modified cattle... Continue Reading

Aleph Farms' cultivated thin-cut steak. (Courtesy)

Isabel and Nicki Hoffman are the two newest American Girl dolls in the historical collection. (Jackie Hajdenberg/ JTA)

'Jewish and interfaith kids can now feel represented'

Meet the real-life sister act behind the two new ’90s Jewish American Girl dolls

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Julia DeVillers and Jennifer Roy are the inspiration for a set of throwback characters with a nuanced interfaith Jewish background for fans of the popular line

A Micrelaps snake. (David David/Tel Aviv University)

Snakes on a plain

In rare scientific advance, new snake family identified in Israel

Family Micrelapidae has only three species, one in region of Israel and two in East Africa; reptiles believed to have slithered off the snake evolutionary tree 50 million years ago

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The state Capitol in Lansing, Michigan, January 25, 2023. (Al Goldis/AP)

FBI arrests Michigan man who plotted to kill Jewish elected officials in state

By Andrew Lapin

A Palestinian man after he was briefly taken by masked men in the northern Druze city of Yarka, November 24, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

5 Druze charged with kidnapping Palestinians in revenge for teen’s body-snatching

By Emanuel Fabian

Screen capture from video of Red Crescent ambulances transferring three children who were critically injured in a traffic accident in East Jerusalem to Magen David Adom ambulances at a checkpoint, March 2, 2023. (Twitter. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Three young siblings killed by passing car in East Jerusalem refugee camp

Students at Tel Aviv University on the first day of the academic year, October 10, 2021. (Flash90)

MKs advance bill that would cover undergrad tuition for combat veterans

Elbit Systems' ATMOS 2000 self-propelled howitzer, which will serve as the basis for the IDF's next artillery cannon, as seen on May 19, 2008. (Rowielip/Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 3.0)

Elbit inks $252 million deal to supply unnamed NATO country with rocket systems

By Emanuel Fabian and AFP

Illustrative photo of a memorial to the Holocaust at the Jewish cemetery in Thessaloniki, Greece (photo credit: Arie Darzi/Wikimedia Commons/File)

80 years on, Greek film festival will pay tribute to deported Jews

By Elise Morton

Lidar Yaffe Swisa in an undated photo. (Courtesy; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Man charged with murdering neighbor for making noise

Members of staff hold the painting 'Murnau with Church II' by Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky in 1910 is on display during a media preview of Sotheby's auction, in London, February 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Kandinsky work recovered by heirs of Jewish Holocaust victim sells for record $45m

By AFP

Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich and and Arnon Ben-David, chairman of the Histadrut labor union hold a joint press conference in Tel Aviv on March 2, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Public sector wage deal signed, giving workers 11% raise over 4 years, 40-hour week

A woman shops for matzah at a supermarket in Jerusalem on March 31, 2020. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90/File)

Softened bill banning Passover ‘hametz’ from hospitals cleared for first reading

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau, third from bottom right, meets with Jeffrey Schwartz, third from left, at the Jeffrey D. Schwartz Jewish Community Center in Taipei, in February 2023. (Courtesy of the Jeffrey D. Schwartz and Na Tang Jewish Taiwan Cultural Association)

Israeli chief rabbi visits Taiwan in milestone for country’s Jewish community

By Jordyn Haime

Rabbi Stephen Weiss in a 2020 video. (Screen capture: Youtube, Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Cleveland-area rabbi sentenced to prison for soliciting underage sex

By Andrew Lapin

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