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What Matters Most On Saturday, March 11, 2023

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Tens of thousands of Israelis protest against the government's judicial overhaul moves, in Tel Aviv on March 4, 2023. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

10th week of mass protests nationwide, with overhaul laws potentially only days away

Rallies across Israel as coalition scheduled to drive contentious bills through committee this week, despite Herzog plea for ‘disastrous’ legislation to be abandoned immediately

Protesters block a Tel Aviv thoroughfare during protests against the judicial overhaul, March 9, 2023. (Courtesy)

Hundreds more Israeli academics express support for coalition’s judicial shakeup bid

By ToI Staff and Jeremy Sharon

A composite image of Tel Aviv District Commander Amichai Eshed, Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai, and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 and Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Eshed to Shabtai: 'You're weak, you've destroyed the police'

Tel Aviv’s ousted top cop said to tell police commissioner he’s ‘unfit’ to lead force

6 deputy commissioners call for Shabtai to resign over his handling of now-frozen removal of Eshed, linked to Ben Gvir’s criticism of restrained response to protesters

Opposition leader Yair Lapid speaks at a rally against the judicial overhaul in Herzliya, on March 4, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Says Israeli children must be educated on rights, equality

Lapid proposes constitution for Israel to extract itself from ‘terrible crisis’

Opposition chief calls to codify start of Declaration of Independence, limit judicial activism but maintain strong court, examine how many Haredi men can stay in full-time study

Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier speaks in Putrajaya, on February 17, 2023. (Arif Kartono/AFP)

Ahead of Netanyahu visit, German president voices concern about judicial overhaul

'We take solace in the fact that no calves were burned'

Large fire at hay barn belonging to Yesh Atid MK; investigators open arson probe

A large storage area for hay bales belonging to an opposition lawmaker went up in flames in the early hours of Saturday morning, with investigators examining whether the blaze was caused by arson. The fire was at Yesh Atid Ram Ben Barak's property at Moshav Nahalal in the... Continue Reading

Large fire at property belonging to Yesh Atid MK Ram Ben Barak, March 11, 2023 (Screen grab used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a joint press conference with Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni at Chigi Palace government offices in Rome, Friday, March 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Top official blames weakness of Biden, Bennett-Lapid government for Saudi-Iran deal

By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

Official falsely asserts talks began under previous coalition when US was working to re-enter nuclear deal; however, negotiations started when Netanyahu was PM; Lapid derides claim

Then-US vice president Joe Biden waves as he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walk to give statements to the press in Jerusalem, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Debbie Hill, Pool)

Israeli official: Ask Biden administration why PM hasn’t been invited to White House

In this file photo from June 9, 2019, United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan listens during a news conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File)

UAE welcomes Iran-Saudi deal as ‘important step for regional stability, prosperity’

By ToI Staff, AP and Jacob Magid

Composite photo showing (from left), Rotem Mansano, 34, Or Eshkar, 32, and Michael Osdon, 36, who were wounded in a terror shooting in Tel Aviv on March 9, 2023. (Courtesy)

Three victims in Tel Aviv terror shooting were en route to friend’s wedding

Seriously injured man’s girlfriend asks Israelis to pray for his recovery; hundreds show up for vigil at attack site; hospital notes small improvement in their conditions

Israeli security forces at the scene where a makeshift bomb was found on a bus, in the West Bank settlement of Beitar Illit, March 10, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF says troops arrest suspect behind attempted bus bombing in West Bank settlement

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: A Palestinian standing on a ladder tries to toss a Molotov cocktail over Israel's security barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah on February 7, 2020. (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)

IDF: Palestinian teen who hurled firebomb at West Bank army post shot dead

By Emanuel Fabian

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome's Palazzo Chigi, March 10, 2023. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

In Rome, Netanyahu says ties with Italy about to expand dramatically

By Lazar Berman

After meeting Italian premier Giorgia Meloni, PM doesn’t mention Iran threat, though sources say it dominated the discussion

Police maintain a cordon as demonstrators rally in support of Israel outside the Israeli Embassy in central London on May 23, 2021. (Tolga Akmen/AFP)

Ex-staffers at Israeli embassy in UK: We couldn’t serve under current government

The main headquarters in Jerusalem of the Israel Public Broadcasting Corporation, known as Kan, seen on January 31, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Inside storyCould the key to saving Kan be the Eurovision song contest?

No Kan do: How Israel’s public broadcaster ended up in the government’s firing line

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi has vowed to drastically cut funding from Kan in a bid to engender competition, but observers say his plans are misguided and dangerous

10 tons of hope

In Acre, Arab and Jewish youths came together to pack coats and blankets for the needy in post-earthquake Turkey

Germany should fast-track Nazi trials before the criminals all die off

Those now in their 90s and older who kept the death camps running don’t deserve to pass away in tranquility

Small bridges connect a bank of the Jordan River to an island as part of an upgrade being carried out by the Kinneret Drainage and Streams Authority between the Alumot Dam and Menahhemia in northern Israel. (Courtesy, Kinneret Drainage and Streams Authority)

Quietly, a stretch of the Jordan River is being cleaned up and transformed

Earthworks and landscaping are aimed at attracting visitors, tourists, with plans to make water safe for swimming; the cleanup will still leave Jordan, Palestinians high and dry

Soccer pundit Gary Lineker leaves his home in London, March 9, 2023. (James Manning/PA via AP)

Players, presenters back UK ex-soccer star who likened asylum policy to Nazi Germany

By Jill Lawless

BBC faces growing outrage after former England captain Gary Lineker, now its top TV soccer presenter, suspended for comments criticizing government

Soccer pundit Gary Lineker leaves his home in London, March 9, 2023 (James Manning/PA via AP)

Ex-soccer star barred from BBC for comparing government language on migrants to Nazis

By AP

'If you were a Jew in Medieval England, you knew the Tower'

Why the Tower of London holds a paradoxical place in Medieval England’s Jewish story

By Robert Philpot

New research by Dr. Rory MacLellan, who led a 2-year project at Historic Royal Palaces, paints iconic fortress as a place of imprisonment, and sanctuary, for 13th-century Jews

View of the David Ben-Gurion walking trail, Sde Boker, February 2023. (Courtesy/Dead Sea Preservation Government Company)

New desert promenade will take visitors on Ben-Gurion’s favorite Negev walk

By Danielle Nagler

Sde Boker, where the first prime minister lived after retiring, gets an upgrade that aims to draw tourists while keeping their footprint small

A Gulf Air Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft performs a flyover over the racetrack before the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix at the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir on March 5, 2023. (Giuseppe Cacace/AFP)

Reporter's Notebook

With F1 as showcase, Bahrain pushes image of tolerance post-Abraham Accords

By Alexander Fulbright

Hosting regional reporters for grand prix, Gulf kingdom touts itself as model of ‘modern peaceful coexistence,’ calls normalized ties with Israel key part of foreign policy vision

Custom cleats are shown Wednesday, March 1, 2023, in New York. Many players in this year's World Baseball Classic—where Alex Katz is a pitcher on Israel's team, will be wearing custom-designed cleats produced by his company Stadium Custom Kicks. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Stars of David, Mensch on a Bench feature on Team Israel’s custom cleats for WBC

Stadium Custom Cleats, a company owned by Alex Katz, a pitcher for Israel at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, is livening up the shoes worn at the World Baseball Classic

Judd Hirsch plays a Holocaust survivor in 'iMordecai.' (FeMor Productions via JTA)

'I had to tone down his character for people to believe it'

The real story behind Jewish family comedy ‘iMordecai’

By Stephen Silver

Homegrown director Marvin Samel jumps behind the camera to film Judd Hirsch in the leading role based on Samel’s colorful – and barely believable – real-life father

In this file photo taken on September 26, 2019, a Russian air force Sukhoi Su-35 fighter lands at the Russian military base of Hmeimim, located south-east of the city of Latakia in Hmeimim, in Syria's Latakia governorate. (Maxime Popov/AFP)

Iran says deal reached to buy Russian fighter jets, as defense cooperation deepens

By AFP and ToI Staff

Sanctions-hit Tehran has aging fleet, struggled to get spare parts; advanced planes will apparently be housed at underground base designed to respond to potential Israeli strikes

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General, Rafael Grossi, addresses a news conference during an IAEA Board of Governors meeting in Vienna, Austria, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency is set for another four-year term at the helm of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog as it grapples with monitoring Iran's nuclear activities and tries to shore up the safety of power plants in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Heinz-Peter Bader, file)

Amid Iran crisis, Grossi set for second term at helm of UN nuclear watchdog

By AP

More Headlines

Illustrative: Police at Los Angeles International Airport, January 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

US authorities arrest Israeli accused of defrauding $47 million from Orthodox Jews

A police car at the scene of a disturbance complaint in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot on March 10, 2023. (Israel Police)

Officer seriously wounded after being stabbed by mentally ill man in Jerusalem

A Brinks worker walks toward a truck after exiting Silicon Valley Bank in Santa Clara, Calif., Friday, March 10, 2023. The U.S rushed to seize the assets of Silicon Valley Bank on Friday after a run on the bank, the largest failure of a financial institution since Washington Mutual during the height of the financial crisis more than a decade ago. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

US closes Silicon Valley Bank in biggest collapse since 2008

By Glenn Chapman

Traute Lafrenz in 1942. (Wikipedia public domain)

ObituaryLast known survivor of WWII White Rose Nazi resistance group dies at 103

By AP

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis answers questions from reporters after his State of the State address during a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives March 7, 2023, at the Capitol in Tallahassee, Florida. (AP Photo/Phil Sears)

DeSantis makes long-anticipated first Iowa trip ahead of expected 2024 bid

By Thomas Beaumont

ObituaryRaphael Mechoulam, Israel’s ‘father of cannabis research,’ dies at 92

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

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