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What Matters Most On Tuesday, March 7, 2023

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A 'Happy Purim' tweet on March 6, 2023, from Likud's Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi in which also he told IDF reservists protesting the coalition's judicial overhaul: ‘Go to hell' (Twitter)

‘Go to hell,’ Likud minister tells IDF reservists protesting judicial overhaul

In Purim message, Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi vows judicial shakeup will move forward, since ‘it was for this moment that we came to power’

Screen capture from video of Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi, center, speaking with protesters outside his home in Moshav Zimrat, March 7, 2023. (Channel 12, Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Reserves soldiers protest at home of minister who told service refusers ‘go to hell’

From left, police chief Kobi Shabtai, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana at a Purim megillah reading on a Border Police base in the West Bank on March 6, 2023. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

PM warns refusal to serve endangers Israel’s existence, as Herzog advances compromise

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men, left, pray as as Israeli police officers guard the entrance to the Al Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem's Old City on April 19, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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After raid, police go on high alert in Jerusalem, surroundings for Purim

Police commissioner orders extra vigilance and stepped up presence in capital where festival is celebrated tomorrow, but warns forces stretched thin

7:49 pm

Jordan blasts Israel for latest 'attack' on Palestinian city, warns it'll lead to further violence
7:40 pm

Biden administration backs Israel's Jenin raid to kill terrorist
7:32 pm

Moody's warns judicial overhaul could weaken Israel's institutional strength, would be 'credit negative'

IDF soldiers seen dancing with settlers in flashpoint West Bank town of Huwara

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Israeli soldiers were filmed dancing with settlers in the West Bank town of Huwara on Monday night, a week after dozens of Israeli settlers rampaged violently for hours in the town in what a top Israeli general later said was a "pogrom." The town has been on edge... Continue Reading

Settlers celebrating Purim are seen dancing with IDF troops in the West Bank town of Huwara, March 6, 2023. (Screenshot/Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

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)

Court reduces detention without charges for 2 held over assault on Huwara

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Ukrainian Jewish refugees still need your help this Passover.

Chabad of Poland will be sending out Seder Kits with Matzah, Wine, Passover traditional food, and other basic needs to over 2,000 Jewish refugees throughout Poland and Ukraine.

President Isaac Herzog presents Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu with the mandate to form the next government, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on November 13, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Herzog says leaked judicial compromise plan isn’t final; MKs on both sides slam it

After Hebrew media publishes elements of proposal, president’s office says it’s only one of many, and he hasn’t endorsed it; Bennett praises it, while left and right lawmakers fume

Former Air Force chief Eliezer Shkedi, in a Channel 12 interview on March 6, 2023 (Channel 12 screenshot)

Ex-Air Force chief disavows reservist refusals, warns of chaos without compromise

Soldiers from the IDF Combat Engineering Corps prepare for a weeklong joint military exercise with Armored and Givati forces in central Golan Heights, near Moshav Yonatan, on January 10, 2023. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Amid growing IDF reservist refusal calls, 6,000 sign petition committing to service

Author Jennifer Caplan alongside her new book, 'Funny You Don't Look Funny.' (Courtesy)

Interview'When does a joke go from being good-natured to a canard?'

Is that (still) funny? Scholar explores generational shifts in Jewish humor

In her new book, ‘Funny, You Don’t Look Funny,’ Jennifer Caplan traces attitudes toward American Jewish comedy from Philip Roth to ‘Seinfeld,’ ‘SNL’ and ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’

Purim arrives just in time this year

We need to make room for our differences to transform the current moment of fear and worry into a joyous shared future

Pauline Schwarcz

It’s Purim and we’re in stitches

My father didn’t have hamantaschen back in Kosice, but they became a family tradition – now writ large, as I make my granddaughter’s costume

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)

Anti-government protesters plan new day of disruption, aim to block PM’s Rome trip

Organizers say Thursday to be national ‘day of resistance to the dictatorship,’ promise rallies, call for traffic disturbance around Ben Gurion Airport as Netanyahu heads to Italy

IDF chief of staff Herzi Halevi assumes the military's top post at a swearing-in ceremony at IDF Headquarters in Tel Aviv, January 16, 2023 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

IDF chief to meet pilots, officers as judicial overhaul protests roil military

By Emanuel Fabian

People visit blooming lupine flowers on Mitzpetel, in Jerusalem, March 1, 2022. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 7: Reservist refusals signal shift; capital lupine hill at risk

A campus view of the Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology, in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, on February 19, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israel publicly blames Iran for cyberattack on major university last month

National Cyber Directorate says it traced assault on Technion Institute to group calling itself MuddyWater, which is affiliated with Iranian government intelligence

File: (Left to right) Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Council chairman Tzachi Hanegbi at the State Department in Washington on March 7, 2023. (Antony Blinken/Twitter)

Dermer, Hanegbi meet with senior US officials in DC amid West Bank tensions

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, second right, listens to an explanation while viewing an advanced centrifuge at an exhibition of Iran's nuclear achievements in Tehran, Iran on April 9, 2022. (Iran President's Office)

Iran expected to avoid censure for latest nuclear steps after ‘concrete’ commitments

By AFP

A screenshot from Twitter showing a fire at Aleppo airport following an alleged Israeli airstrike, March 7, 2023. (Screenshot/Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Syria says Israeli jets strike Aleppo airport, shutting it down

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

State media says Israel Air Force struck from Mediterranean Sea, inflicting damage to site; no immediate reports of injuries

This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows the damage after an alleged Israeli strike targeting the Aleppo International Airport in Aleppo, Syria, September 7, 2022. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Syria, Iran accuse Israel of ‘double crime’ after jets strike Aleppo airport

By AFP and Emanuel Fabian

Hezbollah supporters attend a televised speech by the Lebanese terror group's leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut's southern suburbs, on February 16, 2023. (Anwar Amro/AFP)

Nasrallah: Recent events in Israel show nation is nearing its end

Illustrative: Palestinians hold Hamas flags and banners, and Palestinian flags, near the Al Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem's Old City, on July 20, 2021. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Shin Bet says it busted Turkey-based Hamas ring planning attacks in Israel

By Emanuel Fabian

Agency says West Bank Palestinian student traveling abroad was recruited by terror group, instructed to enlist other relatives in suspected bombing plot

An Israeli couple marries in an online civil marriage ceremony under the auspices of Utah County in the US State of Utah. (Courtesy WedinSea)

Israel must recognize online marriages conducted via Utah, Supreme Court rules

By Jeremy Sharon

Landmark ruling upholds decision allowing Israeli couples to wed in civil ceremony without leaving country, angering religious parties

A ladybug rests on tar-covered rocks and shells after an oil spill in the Mediterranean Sea, at Tel-Dor Nature Reserve in Nahsholim, Israel; Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

ToI investigates

Two years since major coastal tar spill, marine unit still waiting for extra funds

Prime minister visited spill site, a ministerial committee made recommendations – but in terms of preparedness for a future spill, nothing has actually changed

Plan okayed for big police complex on scenic Jerusalem hill known for spring lupines

With blue flowers carpeting Mitzpe-Tel in the East Talpiot neighborhood of the capital, residents plead for their small patch of nature to be left alone

Jordan Gorfinkel edited the DC Batman franchise from 1991-99. (Courtesy of Gorfinkel via JTA)

Interview'Queen Esther is the O.G. Wonder Woman!'

A graphic novel of the Purim story, from a Batman comics editor

By Julian Voloj

Jordan Gorfinkel and illustrator Yael Nathan release ‘The Koren Tanakh Graphic Novel Esther,’ a biblical story that has it all: ‘Emotions, action, intrigue, battles and redemption’

Illustrative: Then-defense minister Benny Gantz, on a state visit to Azerbaijan, October 3, 2022. (Nicole Laskavi/MOD)

Flight data puts spotlight on decade of weapons sales from Israel to Azerbaijan

Newspaper reveals that since 2013, nearly 100 cargo flights operated by Azeri airline have landed at only Israeli airbase where explosives allowed

Illustrative: A Haredi man looks at his mobile phone in Jerusalem, Israel (svarshik/iStock by Getty Images)

Mitzva tech

Tradition meets technology with UK app for halachic questions

By Yaakov Schwartz

Those in need of advice on Jewish law can anonymously text a panel of rabbinic experts and receive an answer in hours with ShailaText, which just hit 10,000 users

An engraving depicts Ancona, Italy, where local Jews used to celebrate multiple version of Purim. (DEA/A. Dagli Orti/De Agostini via Getty Images/JTA)

Sarajevo Jews celebrate a second Purim. For centuries, they weren’t alone

By David I. Klein

For many of the 900 or so Jews in Bosnia, this week will be the first of two annual Purim celebrations; Jews in Italy, Spain, Maghreb region have similar customs

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Head of the Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation Irina Viner-Usmanova arrives for an awarding ceremony for Russia's Olympians in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, August 25, 2016. (AP/Ivan Sekretarev)

Russian coach who criticized judges after Israeli gymnast won Olympic gold suspended

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: El Al planes are parked at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on March 10, 2020. (AP Photo/ Ariel Schalit/ File)

After plane fracas, Netanyahu to fly to Rome on smaller airliner

An illustrative image of digital payments and digital currency (sefa ozel; iStock by Getty Images)

Central banks of Israel, Norway and Sweden model hub for digital currency payments

By Sharon Wrobel

Schoolgirls chant slogans at a rally in Tehran, Iran, November 4, 2019. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Iran makes first arrests in school poisonings that have affected 5,000 students

By AFP

Geraniums growing in Bioplasmar's biodegradable pots. (Zamir Eldar, Paris, February 5, 2017)

In breakthrough, Israeli firm learns how to control breakdown speed of compost items

In this undated photo distributed March 6, 2023, by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, a sphinx statue believed to be made in the likeness of a Roman emperor is uncovered from an archaeological site in Qena, Egypt. (Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities via AP)

Archaeologists in Egypt unearth Sphinx-like Roman-era statue from 2,000 years ago

By AP

A man works a caesarstone slab (YouTube video screeshot; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Australia moves to ban Israeli-made countertops linked to lung disease in workers

A man walks among the rubble of collapsed buildings in Hatay on March 6, 2023, one month after a massive earthquake struck southeastern Turkey. (OZAN KOSE/AFP)

UN estimates damage from Turkey earthquake will exceed $100 billion

By AFP

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