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What Matters Most On Wednesday, March 8, 2023

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File: Former Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann (R) speaks with former Supreme Court president Aharon Barak at a hearing of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, July 9, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sa'ar: It's the same proposal in a Purim costume

Government tentatively welcomes judicial overhaul compromise, opposition unimpressed

By Jeremy Sharon

Proposals made by ex-justice minister Friedmann and others moderate plans to take control over judicial appointments and to radically restrict judicial review by High Court

Members of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee vote on the government's judicial overhaul legislation, March 5, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Coalition to speed judicial overhaul bill toward final Knesset votes next week

By Jeremy Sharon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) chairs the weekly cabinet meeting, flanked by Justice Minister Yariv Levin, at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem on March 5, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool/AFP)

PM said turning up heat on Levin for judicial compromise, but Knesset blitz goes on

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

No longer willing to carry the burden: Reservist protest hints at deeper crisis

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to fly to Italy on Thursday. It won’t be the flight he dreamed of. According to numerous Hebrew media reports, Netanyahu and his wife Sara prefer to fly abroad in a more modern 777 plane, which has seats that fold out into full beds, and not in the aging... Continue Reading

Illustrative: IDF reservists patrolling along the Lebanese border near the Israeli village of Zar'it. (Roy Sharon/Flash90)

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant meets with senior reservist officers in Tel Aviv on March 7, 2023. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Reservists reportedly still frustrated after meeting defense brass over protests

File: An IAF F-15I fighter jet of the 69th squadron takes off from Hatzerim Airbase in southern Israel, during a pilots graduation ceremony, June 22, 2022. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Protesting air force pilots agree to hold talks on base, but won’t train

Alleged Huwara terrorist among six Palestinians killed as IDF raids Jenin

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

PM praises troops who ‘eliminated the despicable terrorist’ behind killing of 2 brothers last week; 3 Yamam officers hurt in exchange of fire with gunmen during operation

The turret of an Israeli Merkava tank is seen in Israel from a position along the border east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on March 8, 2023. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Explosive device detonated near IDF troops on Gaza border; tanks shell Hamas post

By Emanuel Fabian

A rocket is seen launched from the Gaza Strip at southern Israel, early March 8, 2023. (Courtesy/Dadi Fold)

Rocket launched from Gaza at southern Israel after deadly West Bank raid

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

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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.

Screen grab from NYSE video marking Riskified's IPO, August 3, 2021. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Tech unicorn taking $500 million out of Israel, offers some staff relocation packages

Riskified CEO worried gov’t may limit transfers amid financial instability; says limited number of workers can relocate to Portugal, others will have support if move independently

A sign for Moody's Corp. in New York, August 13, 2010. (AP Photo/ Mark Lennihan/ File)

Moody’s warns judicial shakeup could scorch Israel’s credit outlook

File: Michael Sarel, head of the Kohelet Economic Forum, April 10, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Economist at think tank behind overhaul now warns of cost, unlimited government power

Op-ed

Crunch time for Israeli democracy

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. It's crunch time for Israeli democracy. Simcha Rothman, the chairman of the Knesset's Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, has scheduled sessions from Sunday through Wednesday of next week... Continue Reading

Police on horseback face Israelis blocking a road as they protest against the Israeli government's judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, March 1, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Likud MK Amichai Chikli speaks at the Federation of Local Authorities conference in Tel Aviv, December 7, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Diaspora minister: Reservist protesters are ‘a gift to Hamas, Iran and Hezbollah’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi, left, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 1, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu warns Likud lawmakers against disparaging reservist protesters

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotirch holds a press conference in Jerusalem on February 28, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

US officials won’t be speaking at Israel Bonds confab alongside Smotrich

Source says organization extended invite to several in the administration before finance minister called last week to ‘wipe out’ Palestinian town of Huwara

8:36 pm

Israel unveils song Noa Kirel will be performing at the 2023 Eurovision: "Unicorn"
7:15 pm

Reserve commandos say won't be able 'to stand aloof' if judicial overhaul passes
6:48 pm

Iran urged to free reporter who covered poisonings of schoolgirls

Shanie Reichman

It’s about the women

Half of Israel’s populace has no ministerial representation and could soon lose rights historically protected by the courts

The Levin-Rothman plan 101 (yes, this will be on the test)

Some actual facts for college and university students whose teachers are under attack for teaching actual facts

The UN’s ‘unofficial man’

Raphael Lemkin, a stateless Jewish refugee who died penniless, gave mankind’s greatest crime its name

When an Israeli trained Syrians to clear landmines

A recent exchange of life-saving knowledge bypassed long-held hatreds and demonstrated the potential benefits of peace

Illustrative: Police officers operate in Jerusalem, December 20, 2022. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Police ordered on high alert in Jerusalem after deadly Jenin raid

Cops to be visibly deployed around city in large numbers, especially in flashpoint areas where both Jews and Arabs live, as capital marks Purim holiday

People inspect the wreckage of a building that was housing a group of Palestinian gunmen and was hit by rockets during an Israeli army raid in the Jenin camp for Palestinian refugees in the West Bank on March 7, 2023. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

US backs Israeli right to self-defense after deadly IDF raid in Jenin

Screen capture from video of a masked man using an axe to attack a Palestinian man in a car in the West Bank town of Huwara, March 6, 2023. (YouTube; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

UN special coordinator condemns ‘appalling’ new settler attacks in Huwara

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks out of a helicopter as he arrives in northern Israel, December 6, 2018 (Amit Shabi/Yedioth Ahronoth/POOL)

Netanyahu expected to take helicopter to airport to avoid protests

Demonstrators planning ‘national day of resistance’ on Thursday said aiming to block route to airport while prime minister scheduled to fly to Italy for official visit

Activists glue themselves to the entrance of a building housing government offices in Tel Aviv, Marc 8, 2023. (Screen grab; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Anti-overhaul activists glue themselves to floor at government offices in Tel Aviv

Mourners carry the body of a Palestinian who was shot dead by Israeli security forces during a military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin on March 7, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 8: Israel on alert after IDF Jenin raid kills brothers’ shooter

She codes holds female community events for aspiring software developers. (Inbal Marmeri/Courtesy)

International Women's Day

From seamstress to software developer: A female community helps women take the leap

By Sharon Wrobel

Ruth Polachek, founder of she codes, says if women focus and persevere they can make up 50% of software developers and triple their salary

Insurtech startup raises $42.5m in fresh funds to help elderly ‘age successfully’

By Sharon Wrobel

Dietician, author and social media influencer Ilana Muhlstein. (Courtesy)

Purim recipe inside'I had a lot working against me - but also working for me'

How weight-loss guru Ilana Muhlstein rose from ‘big’ to huge social media sensation

The dietician, best-selling author, mom and TikTok queen is a self-made success story – and now she’s teamed up with Gal Gadot

Analysis

Even 84% enrichment doesn’t make it any easier for Israel to move West on Iran

Top Israeli officials are zooming to capitals around the world to try to move the West closer to Jerusalem's hawkish stance on Iran's nuclear program. Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi met on Monday with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan in Washington to... Continue Reading

A student looks at Iran's domestically built centrifuges in an exhibition of the country's nuclear achievements, in Tehran, Iran, Feb. 8, 2023. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows a truck damaged after an explosion hit a building, in Deir el-Zour, Syria, March 8, 2023. (SANA via AP)

At least 3 said killed in drone strike in Syria targeting Iran-backed militia

By AP

Screen capture from undated video of Russian artillery firing. (YouTube screenhsot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iran said to have supplied Russia with large shipment of ammunition

Jeremy Dauber is the author of 'Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew.' (Yale University Press via JTA)

Interview'He's saying, if I have a religion, it's showbusiness'

A history of Mel Brooks as a ‘disobedient Jew’

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

In new biography, Jeremy Dauber breaks down how the comedian and director just couldn’t help being a loving iconoclast skewering the establishment

Students from the Kinneret Academic college help bring the 62-pound lioness carving from Ein Nashut to their bus on March 1, 2023, in the Golan Heights. (courtesy Mordechai Aviam)

Archaeology'We teach the land of Israel by hiking it'

Students on northern Israel field trip stumble onto 1,500-year-old lioness carving

By Melanie Lidman

Lucky group from the Kinneret Academic College led by Prof. Mordechai Aviam discovers basalt sculpture that likely adorned synagogue, and a rare 1,800-year-old coin, on same day

Rachel Jackson, soferet, or scribe, writing a Megillat Esther. (Photo courtesy of Daniel Jackson)

'It is kind of the one kosher thing women are able to do'

In Orthodox communities where women don’t read Torah, Purim offers rare opportunity

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Over the decades, women’s Megillah readings have moved from cutting-edge to squarely within the norm, marking the growth of Orthodox feminism and its expression in Jewish ritual

Members of the Masorti community in Kyiv during a Purim performance, March 6, 2023. (Marcel Gascón Barberá via JTA)

Jews in Kyiv celebrate second wartime Purim with renewed resolve and optimism

By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ

Jewish Ukrainians mark festive holiday with commitment to community and in better spirits than last year

Ukrainian refugees celebrate Purim in Berlin, but fears of war linger

By Kirsten Grieshaber

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Brothers Hallel (left) and Yagel Yaniv, who were killed in a terror attack in the West Bank town of Huwara on February 26, 2023. (Courtesy)

4 patients receive corneal transplants from brothers killed in terror attack

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 5, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

25 ex-police chiefs, commanders to PM: Ben Gvir’s policies will lead to 3rd intifada

People seen studying at the National Library in Jerusalem, on December 30, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Nobel Prize winners plead for halt to government takeover of National Library

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, center, dressed in a costume combining elements of various uniforms of forces under his command, celebrates the Jewish holiday of Purim, in the West Bank city of Hebron, March 7, 2023. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Police minister clowns around with settlers for Purim in flashpoint Hebron

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Lt. Nadav Weinberg (center), wounded in a Janurary shooting attack in Jerusalem walks at the Western Wall during a military ceremony, early March 8, 2023. (Courtesy of The Western Wall)

In first since Jerusalem terror shooting, seriously hurt IDF officer puts uniform on

By Emanuel Fabian

Judith Heumann speaking at a 504 protest. (HolLynn D'Lil)

ObituaryJudy Heumann, Jewish American disability advocate who spurred a movement, dies at 75

By PHILISSA CRAMER

A migrant carries a child as he runs to board a smuggler's boat on the beach of Gravelines, near Dunkirk, northern France on October 12, 2022, in an attempt to cross the English Channel. (Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP)

UK government hits back at comparison of refugee policy to Nazi Germany rhetoric

By Jitendra Joshi

Screenshot from a video purporting to show UNIFIL peacekeepers and Israeli troops along the northern border with Lebanon on March 7, 2023. (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Lebanese man grabs rifle magazine from soldier during border tussle, IDF says

High school students participate in the March of the Living at Auschwitz in Poland, April 16, 2015. (Yossi Zeliger/ Flash90/ File)

Israel, Poland reach agreement to resume school Holocaust trips after 3-year hiatus

Hatchet Speed, a military veteran accused of telling an undercover FBI agent about a plan to 'wipe out' the nation's Jewish population. (Alexandria Sheriff's Office via AP)

Navy vet with plans to ‘wipe out’ US Jews found guilty in capitol insurrection

By Michael Kunzelman

View of the Prime Minister's Office in the government quarter in Jerusalem, on March 6, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Netanyahu said to remove Prime Minister’s Office veteran because she served Bennett

Screen capture from video of Elad mayor Yisrael Porush handing out cigarettes to children at a Purim event, March 7, 2023. (Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Mayor of ultra-Orthodox city Elad hands out cigarettes to children at Purim party

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