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What Matters Most On Sunday, March 12, 2023

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Demonstrators attend a protest in Tel Aviv against the government's controversial judicial overhaul legislation, March 11, 2023. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Former IDF chief Mofaz: 'Dictatorship has already begun'

Anti-overhaul protesters call to turn up heat as over 300,000 estimated at rallies

Organizers claim half a million attend weekly protests, plan ‘day of escalating resistance’ on Thursday; coalition scheduled to drive contentious bills through Knesset committee

Former attorney general Avichai Mandelblit attends a conference organized by the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), in Tel Aviv, on December 28, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Former AG Mandelblit bashes overhaul: ‘Collision is preferable to a bad compromise’

Netanyahu swipes at AG: In a democracy, government is responsible for police, army

In comments apparently aimed at Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday warned against interference in running the nation's security bodies. "In a functioning democracy, the elected government is responsible for the army, the police, and the other security agencies. That's how it must be,... Continue Reading

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on March 12, 2023. (Haim Zach / GPO)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich arrive at a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on February 23, 2023. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool)

Smotrich lands in DC, where hundreds plan to protest speech at Israel Bonds confab

Finance minister to meet with leaders in Jewish, global business communities; but US officials, liberal Jewish groups are boycotting him after ‘wipe out’ Huwara remark

Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv, on March 11, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Police chief admits he was wrong to oust Tel Aviv’s top cop, says he’s not resigning

After intense public criticism of Amichai Eshed’s removal at Ben Gvir’s prodding, Kobi Shabtai says he’s done ‘soul-searching’ in past 48 hours but will not walk away from task

Journalist Uri Misgav speaks at a conference of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, held in Tel Aviv on March 28, 2019. (Flash90)

Police question journalist outside his home over anti-Netanyahu tweet

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on March 10, 2023 in Rome. (Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP)

Source close to Netanyahu accuses US of funding rallies against judicial overhaul

By Shalom Yerushalmi

PM’s son shares Breitbart’s claim that State Department funded protest group; senior official says AG ‘irredeemably audacious’ for freezing transfer of Tel Aviv police chief

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

Likud minister slams ‘hysterical’ Herzog speech calling for overhaul to be abandoned

Head of the Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset's assembly hall for a special session in memory of Israel's first prime minister, David Ben Gurion, on November 8, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar 12: How lack of trust is stymieing judicial overhaul negotiations

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

Former Treasury officials: Overhaul will ‘severely, irreversibly’ damage economy

Ex-staffers in Budgets Department call for immediate halt to legislative blitz; warn capital will flee and shekel devalue, leading to drop in state revenues and spending cuts

In this Novenber 7, 2017, file photo, former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke attends a ceremony awarding them both with the Paul H. Douglas Award for Ethics in Government, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Ex-Federal Reserve head Bernanke: Israeli legal shakeup to cause ‘tremendous damage’

Arnon Bar-David, chairman of the Histadrut labor federation speaks at a conference in Tel Aviv, December 7, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Labor union chief hints at possible future strike over judicial overhaul deadlock

Histadrut leader Arnon Bar-David meets with Herzog, says he fully backs president’s compromise efforts, but warns that if deal isn’t reached, ‘we will not sit idly by’

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Israel pulls off 3-1 win over Nicaragua in its first game at World Baseball Classic
7:01 pm

Israel denies report UAE plans suspend some defense deals due to government actions
6:48 pm

IDF chief apologizes for saying 'secure dictatorship better than unprotected anarchy'

Smotrich’s US visit is a defining moment for Israel supporters

The minister’s views threaten the foundations of modern Israel – he should not be given a platform in Washington

What would the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps commander say?

Who needs to destroy the Zionists when they’re doing the job themselves? An imagined memo from Gen. Hossein Salami

Security forces’ immunity bill paused after AG warns of potential prosecution abroad

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

A sweeping proposal to grant Israeli security forces immunity from prosecution for their actions during operations was paused Sunday, after the attorney general warned that the bill would expose troops to foreign prosecution and pose grave dangers for the relationship between the Israeli public and law enforcement. The... Continue Reading

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara speaks during a conference in Haifa on January 12, 2023. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

File: Israelis protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul outside the home of Economy Minister Nir Barkat in Jerusalem, on March 6, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

DC think tank lists Israel as only free Mideast nation, but warns of legal shakeup

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, in the center of Tel Aviv, December 25, 2018. (Adam Shuldman/Flash90)

Tel Aviv shares drop as SVB failure triggers cash-flow concern for Israeli startups

By Sharon Wrobel

LeumiTech says it helped Israeli startups transfer $1 billion out of SVB accounts; government pledges to help tech firms

Police officers leave Silicon Valley Bank's headquarters in Santa Clara, California on March 10, 2023. (Noah Berger/AFP)

After US tech bank’s collapse, Netanyahu pledges to help Israeli firms ‘if needed’

By ToI Staff and AP

PART 2 OF 5

Government priorities pivoted in the 1970s. Israelis today are paying the price

Traffic jams and packed hospitals are just two results of decades of placing sectoral interests above national ones

Firearms and magazines seized from Palestinian assailants who opened fire at Israeli troops on March 12, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF troops come under fire in West Bank, shoot and kill 3 gunmen

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Another Palestinian assailant turns himself in and is taken for questioning following incident near Jit, west of Nablus

Four F-35I fighter jets escort a B707 refueler in preparation for Red Flag-Nellis 23-2 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, March 8, 2023. (US Air Force photo/Senior Airman Megan Estrada)

IAF fighter jets, refuelers hold air drill with US forces, thought to focus on Iran

By Emanuel Fabian

Smoke is seen rising from a site targeted by an alleged Israeli air strike in Masyaf, Syria, March 12, 2023. (SANA)

Syria accuses Israel of rare daytime strike, says 3 soldiers wounded

By Emanuel Fabian

An Iranian military speedboat patrols the waters as a tanker prepares to dock at the oil facility on Khark Island, Iran, on March 12, 2017. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iran reports highest oil exports yet since US applied sanctions over nuclear deal

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Chana Raskin and her Raza circle who recorded 'Kapalya', an album of sacred Lubavitch tunes, sung by women, released February 22, 2023 (Courtesy Chana Raskin)

Barrier-busting women-only album of Hasidic tunes gives new voice to aging nigunim

By Jessica Steinberg

‘Kapelya’ marks the debut album for Chana Raskin, whose Chabad upbringing led her into exploring sacred music with other women, breaking into a club once reserved solely for men

Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, at right, shakes hands with Saudi national security adviser Musaad bin Mohammed al-Aiban, at left, as Wang Yi, China's most senior diplomat, looks on, at center, for a photo during a closed meeting held in Beijing, March 11, 2023. (Luo Xiaoguang/Xinhua via AP)

Analysis

Robbie COREY-BOULET

Reestablishment of Saudi-Iran ties adds twist to Israel’s Arab outreach

One analyst calls China-brokered deal ‘a clear diplomatic victory for Iran’ and ‘a blow’ to Netanyahu, but others argue it may not be such terrible news for Jerusalem

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Illustrative: IDF search and rescue teams work to find survivors after an earthquake in Turkey on February 10, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel begins drill simulating receipt of international earthquake aid

By Emanuel Fabian

File: A research assistant prepares a PCR reaction for polio at a lab at Queens College on August 25, 2022, in New York City. (Angela Weiss/AFP)

New York urges residents to get vaccinated against polio before travel to Israel

Schoolgirls wave Iranian flags during a ceremony celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, at the Azadi, or Freedom, Square, in Tehran, Iran, February 11, 2019. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Iran says more than 100 arrested over poisonings that hurt thousands of schoolgirls

By AFP

A noose as protesters gather on the West side of the US Capitol in Washington DC on January 6, 2021 (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)

Pence: Trump ‘endangered my family’ on January 6, history will hold him accountable

By Zeke Miller and CHRIS MEGERIAN

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

Rahat Mayor Ata Abu Madighem speaks at a conference at Reichman University in Herzliya on January 5, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

3 arrested in Rahat, including mayor’s sons, for illegal possession of firearms

The scene of a deadly fire at a residential building in Tel Aviv, March 12, 2023. (Fire and Rescue Services)

Man killed, several hurt in Tel Aviv apartment fire

Illustrative: An ambulance at the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem, on November 5, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Elderly woman killed in multi-car collision in central Israel

Undated photo of Prof. Aryeh Levine. (Hebrew University)

Prof. Aryeh Levin, linguist and father of justice minister, dies at 85

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