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What Matters Most On Monday, March 6, 2023

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

'There is behind-the-scenes agreement on most things'

Herzog says Israel ‘closer than ever’ to compromise agreement on judicial overhaul

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

President says current reform ‘endangers’ democracy, but closed-door meetings have made progress; doesn’t urge halt to legislation, but opposition responds that this is a must

Then-culture minister Chili Tropper, in Tel Aviv, April 6, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni‎‏/Flash90/File)

Opposition lawmaker: Likud asking us to join government to save it from far-right

FILE: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the graduation ceremony of new Israeli Air Force pilots at the Hatzerim Air Force base, December 31, 2015 (Photo by Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 6: Will Netanyahu be swayed by pushback from reservists?

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks with Amir Eshel, the Commander in Chief of the Israel Air Force, at Tel Nof Airofrce base, on August 17, 2016. (Flash90)

10 ex-IAF chiefs pen letter to PM amid reservist protest: ‘Stop, find a solution’

By Emanuel Fabian

The reserve major generals say they are ‘deeply concerned’ over refusal to serve due to planned judicial shakeup; 300 Artillery Corps reservists also join calls against overhaul

IDF chief warns Netanyahu that reservist protest refusals could spread in military

Lapid, Liberman oppose reservists refusing to serve, but say their fears justified

Gantz urges IDF reservists to show up ‘no matter what,’ opposes any refusal to serve

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi seen after a meeting with Shas head Aryeh Deri outside his home in Jerusalem on January 18, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Minister to IDF reservists weighing refusal: ‘Go to hell, we’ll manage without you’

By Joshua Davidovich

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi uses Purim holiday greeting to blast overhaul protesters, says radical changes will move forward

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IDF to open probe after troops seen dancing with settlers instead of securing Huwara
8:13 pm

Clashes break out between settlers and Palestinians in Huwara
8:13 pm

'You can go to hell,' Likud minister tells IDF reservists protesting judicial overhaul

From Matan

Parshat Ki Tisa: Sinning as a Nation

In this conversation with R. Dr. Shlomo Brody, we discuss the epic mistake of the Golden Calf and Moshe’s handling of the situation.

From the blogs

Yuval Noah Harari

They’ve forgotten what it means to be Jewish

For millennia, Jews schooled the world on the rights of minorities. Israel’s government has failed to learn the lesson

Author interviewAdults' intimate letters, photos complement Frank's account

Holocaust-era Dutch ‘diary keepers’ depict horrors outside of Anne Frank’s hideaway

By Matt Lebovic

For her sprawling book, journalist Nina Siegal read through hundreds of wartime diaries to portray difficult day-to-day lives of Dutch during Nazi Germany’s five-year occupation

Nitzan Caspi Shilony

My plea to Israeli women this Agunah Day

Removing oversight from the rabbinic courts will make it nearly impossible to protect women from legal abuses during Jewish divorce

Agunot are not the only vulnerable ones in the Jewish state

We’re all threatened when basic rights are weak and hailed as secondary to a Higher Authority

Kally Rubin Kislowicz

More Madonna, less fungus

We Israelis can’t discuss judicial reform civilly, but we’re good on our love of our soldiers, techina, and the Material Girl

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Why the Israeli Rabbinate leaves most agunot uncounted

How rabbinic court stats exclude the vast majority of those in dead marriages awaiting a bill of divorce

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a visit at the Great Synagogue in Sydney, Australia, on February 22, 2017. (Haim Zach/GPO via Flash90)

With ‘unconditional love,’ Australian Jewish groups voice fear over judicial shakeup

By Michael Horovitz

Major organizations express ‘serious concern’ over proposals without broad consensus, potential changes to ‘grandchild clause’ in Law of Return that may impact Diaspora ties

Former mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg (L), seen with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as Bloomberg arrives in Israel on July 23, 2014. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Michael Bloomberg warns Israel ‘courting disaster’ with judicial overhaul

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L)) and his wife, Sara, ahead of a flight from Tel Aviv to Paris on February 2, 2023. (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

After apparent boycott, El Al says pilots found to staff Netanyahu’s flight to Rome

By Michael Horovitz

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (left) and police chief Kobi Shabtai hold a press conference at the National Security Ministry in Jerusalem, on January 24, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir: Intel says protesters planning to kill me, PM; Lapid calls him lying clown

Senior officer denies there is information that demonstrators are planning assassinations; opposition leaders call on Netanyahu to fire far-right minister before it’s too late

A police officer, 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)

Elderly ex-pilot questioned for posting pic of cop who threw stun grenade into crowd

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, second left, and his wife Sara, second right, tour in Tel Gezer and Magshimim Forest together with their sons Yair, right, and Avner, left, during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, October 21, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Sara Netanyahu and sons to get Shin Bet protection after hair salon ‘siege’

Reporter's notebook

Week after settler rampage in Huwara, locals reopen stores but remain afraid

HUWARA, West Bank -- A week after hundreds of extremist settlers wreaked havoc in the northern West Bank town of Huwara in response to a deadly terror attack there, and the army subsequently ordered storefronts to be shut, local Palestinians are beginning to get back on their feet, but tensions remain high. On a visit to Huwara on Sunday afternoon,... Continue Reading

Israeli soldiers stand guard in the West Bank town of Huwara, March 5, 2023. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

The Israeli Jalameh checkpoint in the northern West Bank, on April 8, 2022. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP/File)

West Bank, Gaza Palestinians to be banned from entering Israel during Purim

By Emanuel Fabian

An Israeli soldier maps out the home of an alleged Palestinian terrorist who carried out a deadly shooting attack, in the Aqabat Jabr refugee camp in the West Bank, early March 6, 2023. Inset: Elan Ganeles, who was killed in the attack on February 27, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces; Courtesy of the family)

IDF prepares to demolish home of gunman who killed Israeli-American Elan Ganeles

By Emanuel Fabian

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)

Inside story

Amir Bar Shalom

Huwara rampage, more than judicial overhaul, prompted pilots’ insubordination threat

Military brass see last week’s incident as a severe moral failure indicative of deeper trends in Israel, prompting fears of widespread refusal to show up for duty among reservists

Former Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard speaks to the Kan public broadcaster at a memorial service for two brothers killed in a terrorist attack, Jerusalem, March 5, 2023. (Kan screenshot: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Ex-spy Jonathan Pollard says ‘Huwara must be destroyed,’ but without killing people

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

Bill allowing lawmakers to accept gifts to pay legal fees advances on Knesset floor

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Law widely seen as way for Netanyahu to raise new funds for defense in graft case after court orders him to return $270,000 gift; AG cautions amendment opens door for ‘corruption’

UTJ leader MK Moshe Gafni at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on January 2, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ahead of Passover, coalition advances bill that lets hospitals ban hametz

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Palestinians and Arab Israelis protest against the 2003 Citizenship and Entry Law into Israel, on Tuesday, June 29, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset extends law banning Palestinian family unification for another year

By ToI Staff and Carrie Keller-Lynn

Justice Minister Yariv Levin attends the Knesset debate on the coalition's first judicial reform bill, February 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Coalition delays appointments to judicial selection panel, amid bid to control it

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

As it seeks to take over process of nominating judges, government changes Knesset bylaws, extending deadline to form Judicial Selection Committee to June 15

An architectural rendering of the new National Library of Israel building, set to open in 2023. The building was designed by the Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron. (Herzog & de Meuron 2022)

Treasury said to block bill to assert government control over National Library

Otzma Yehudit MK Almog Cohen reacts during a discussion in the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on February 22, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset ethics panel reprimands far-right MK who likened Arab party MKs to sheep

Illustration showing Jews burning during the Inquisition (public domain)

Purim recipes insidePurim was very meaningful to the Mallorcan Jewish community

Inspired by Purim heroine Esther, Inquisition-era crypto-Jews feasted in her honor

By Ronit Treatman

Church records tell of a Jewish woman’s 1688 confession to admiring Queen Esther, who also hid her Jewish identity. Her community prepared special foods for ‘St. Esther’s Feast’

Connecticut College students are protesting against their school's president, Katherine Bergeron, who had been scheduled to speak at a venue with an antisemitic and racist history. (Courtesy of Hannah Foley/The College Voice via JTA)

'We’re really coming together like we never have before'

Students revolt after US college president plans talk at club with antisemitic past

By Andrew Lapin

Calling it ‘the straw that broke the camel’s back,’ pupils at Connecticut College are occupying a campus building and demanding more funding for ethnic studies and bias training

David and Mishy Harman

Israel Story

My Dad, David

David Harman z’l believed in people, in social justice and in our ability to overcome almost anything. He was an eternal optimist, a patient peacemaker and a living history book.

Jesus (Jay Ellis) and Judas (Nick Kroll) in a scene from the 'Curb Your Judaism' sketch in 'History of the World Part II.' (Courtesy of Hulu via JTA)

Caution: Spoilers!'It wasn't a matter of timing. It was, how do we honor Mel?'

In Mel Brooks’ ‘History of the World Part II,’ Jewish jokes reign

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Out March 6, the eve of Purim, the long-awaited sequel to the classic 1981 film co-produced by comedian Nick Kroll revolves around Jewish history — and skewers it

Former US president Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, March 4, 2023. (Alex Brandon/AP)

Israeli tech sleuths uncover pro-Trump bot network swarming presidential rivals

By David Klepper

Cyabra researchers identify 3 networks of potentially hundreds of thousands of fake accounts criticizing DeSantis and Haley, in manipulation of mainstream US Republican sentiment

Samsung Director of Open Innovation Lior Yekoutieli (left) with the Israel research team. (Courtesy)

Samsung kicks off Israeli tech startup program for its mobile devices products

By Sharon Wrobel

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Rabbi Zvi Tau in 2018. (Screenshot)

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Iran’s Khamenei says culprits should face death over suspected schoolgirl poisonings

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Saudi Arabia deposits $5 billion in Turkish central bank to shore up ailing economy

By Jon Gambrell

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Supreme Court rules no genetic tests to find origin of wrongly implanted embryo

Solar panels on the roof of the Knesset, March 29, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Red tape slashed to ease rooftop solar panel installation

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Afghan universities open solely for men amid ‘heartbreaking’ ban on women

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