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What Matters Most On Tuesday, March 14, 2023

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset on March 13, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman: 'This insane government will break Israel in two'

MKs approve 1st reading of override clause, in major step toward judicial overhaul

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

All key elements of legislation to bring judiciary under near-complete political control now close to becoming law; as protests escalate, Herzog seeks ‘formula of balance and hope’

Head of the Yesh Atid party MK Yair Lapid speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on March 13, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Opposition heads vow to boycott final votes on overhaul; PM attacks ‘leftist’ media

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Likud MK Yuli Edelstein leads a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, on February 12, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hours before Knesset votes, Edelstein questions coalition’s judicial overhaul push

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

MKs advance bill to prevent High Court ordering a PM recused for conflict of interest

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Legislation barring premier from being required to leave office, except in cases of mental or physical incapacitation, slammed as ‘tailored exactly to Netanyahu’s measurements’

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

Report: PM halts statistics bureau hires after failed bid to name loyalist as chief

Israel's President Isaac Herzog attends a Honorary Citizenship Ceremony in Tel Aviv, March 13, 2023 (Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 14: As judicial overhaul is voted on, how will Herzog respond?

Youths sits on a water tank painted orange, the color symbolizing the movement opposing the disengagement, at the West Bank settlement of Homesh, 12 June 2007 (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Disengagement repeal law for northern West Bank approved in first reading

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Reversing sections of the 2005 disengagement law is critical for the government’s goal of legalizing the illegal settlement outpost of Homesh

Police chief Kobi Shabtai, left, and Itamar Ben Gvir at a Hanukkah ceremony in Jerusalem on December 19, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police chief said to order senior cops to avoid direct contact with Itamar Ben Gvir

Otzma Yehudit MK Zvika Fogel leads the Knesset's National Security Committee meeting, in Jerusalem, February 27, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Far-right MK probed by police for terror incitement after calling for ‘burnt Huwara’

From Matan

Parshat Vayakel-Pekudei

In this conversation with Joanne Greenaway, we discuss the communal function of the Mishkan’s construction and its significance as Shemot’s concluding section.

A demonstrator waves the Israeli flag seated on a highway while flanked by border police during a protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, Israel, March 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Anatomy of a self-sabotaging reform

The judicial reformers claim to want democracy, which requires compromise, which requires trust. Why, then, did they start with such an extreme version of their reform?

Israeli manufacturers, industrialists, and tech firms urge government and opposition to start dialogue for compromise deal on proposed judicial changes. (Courtesy)

‘Stop this madness’: Tech, manufacturing groups back Herzog in judicial deal push

By Sharon Wrobel

Israelis protest outside a Jerusalem hotel where an AIPAC delegation met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as contentious judicial overhaul legislation was speeding through Knesset on March 13, 2023. (Nadav Galon)

Protesters demand AIPAC oppose judicial push, as delegation set to meet Netanyahu

By Tal Schneider and ToI Staff

Iran-Saudi Arabia deal a dangerous sign of Western retreat

The China-brokered rapprochement bolsters a growing global authoritarian nexus that opposes democracy and human rights

Amichai Eliyahu

Herzl’s vision goes deeper than a safe haven

As Israel’s Minister of Heritage, my sacred duty is to connect those detached from our people to our forefather, Abraham

Government of the people means government of ALL the people

This battle is not left vs. right, it’s between those who embrace democracy and those seeking to institute majority rule

Steven Greenberg

Simcha Rothman: Making liberal dreams come true?

The MK and his allies should bear in mind that the checks and balances they aim to erase protect their core values, too

Dr. Edo Kon working on the world's first mRNA vaccine for bacteria at Tel Aviv University. (Courtesy of Tel Aviv University)

Peer-reviewed research published in Science Advances

Israeli scientists produce world’s first mRNA vaccine for bacteria

By Renee Ghert-Zand

By focusing on key differences between viruses and bacteria, researchers elicit strong immune responses in mice against Plague pathogen that killed millions in Middle Ages

A file photo from 2013 shows a worker holding a polio vaccine at a medical center in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Some 175,000 Israeli kids not immunized against polio virus — Health Ministry

Analysis

As Saudis sidle up to Iran, some see US apathy, Israeli political chaos to blame

In July of last year, days before US President Joe Biden touched down in Israel before flying to Saudi Arabia, then-opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu stepped up to the cameras in the Knesset to make the case for his return to power. Among other things, his argument rested on the idea that only he could follow... Continue Reading

US President Joe Biden is welcomed at the King Abdulaziz International Airport in the Saudi coastal city of Jeddah, upon his arrival from Israel, on July 15, 2022. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

A man in Tehran holds a local newspaper reporting on its front page the China-brokered deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia to restore ties, signed in Beijing the previous day, on March, 11 2023. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Analysis‘Early days’: Middle East officials, analysts cautious on Iran-Saudi deal

By Robbie COREY-BOULET

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, center, speaks to National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir after a Knesset vote in Jerusalem, February 15, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

50 ministers, coalition MKs urge Gallant to free 4 Jewish administrative detainees

By Michael Bachner

Defense minister responds that the settler extremists are highly dangerous, 2 of them took part in Huwara riot, planned more violence; says releasing them would be ‘backing terror’

7:41 pm

Kohelet, think tank that shaped overhaul, announces compromise version for 'agreed reform'
7:09 pm

Netanyahu said to bar ministers from meeting US officials until Biden invites him
6:51 pm

US summons Russian ambassador over drone crash

Settlement yeshiva head: 'Legal reform isn't worth the rift'

At rallies against government, a right-wing anti-overhaul movement takes shape

By Canaan Lidor

Some 12,000 people have attended three demonstrations so far by conservatives keen on compromise, organizers say

Anti-overhaul activists tie themselves together, block road near ministries; 10 held

Col. Joab Rosenberg, left, Brigadier General Roy Riftin, center, and Col. Ophir Bear at the B'nai Jeshurun synagogue in New York City, March 12, 2023. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

On trip to the US, high-level IDF veterans issue warning against judicial overhaul

Military officers warn Congress members, Jewish community that government policies undermine IDF’s standing as a moral army, open fissures in society, threaten national security

Demonstrators hold Israeli and French flags and placards reading 'French and All United Against Terrorism' during a gathering in front of the Israeli Embassy in Paris, France, Thursday, July 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Francois Mori )

Diplomat in Paris warns that French pro-Israel voices are increasingly critical

By Lazar Berman

An Air Force helicopter hired to fly Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the airport waits at the launchpad at Jerusalem's Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital, March 9, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Military pilots said angry at Netanyahu for using them as pawns in deception tactic

Undercover cops infiltrating anti-overhaul protests in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem – report

Undercover police officers are posing as protesters at rallies against the government overhaul in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to collect information on those attending the demonstrations, the Haaretz daily reported Tuesday. Mass protests against the government’s controversial plans to remake the judicial system, weakening its powers to act... Continue Reading

Mounted police are deployed as Israelis block a main road to protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, Israel, March 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Jews gather at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on October 12, 2022, for the annual priestly blessing, during the holiday of Sukkot. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Young woman told to remove anti-overhaul protest sweatshirt to visit Western Wall

Eliyana Hayut. (Youtube screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Teen girl’s song nixed from municipal show over ultra-Orthodox man in audience

Merom HaGalil Regional Council education chief apologizes for snap decision to drop 13-year-old from event, says he was only trying to protect her from offense if people walked out

Yoav Kisch, chairman of the Interior Affairs Committee, leads a meeting regarding the deportation of African asylum seekers at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, January 29, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

With deal reached, education minister ends bid to control National Library board

Yoav Kisch to appoint one member of board of directors and one of audit committee, hails ‘new era for National Library’; reports say government caved to pressure from major donors

Ellen Germain, US special envoy on Holocaust issues, listens during a panel before a screening of 'The US and the Holocaust' at the United Nations in New York, February 9, 2023. (John Lamparski/Getty Images via JTA)

'You can’t just erase what they did during the war'

As Europe celebrates its past, US Holocaust envoy reminds states of their darker side

Ellen Germain is keeping tabs as certain countries quietly attempt to revise their histories, working to ensure that a fair and nuanced vision of the past is maintained

Israel's Colton Gordon delivers a pitch during the first inning of a World Baseball Classic game against Puerto Rico in Miami, Florida, March 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Israel loses 10-0 to Puerto Rico in World Baseball Classic’s 1st-ever perfect game

By jacob gurvis

No Israeli batters make it on base in dispiriting loss; team faces vaunted Dominican Republic and Venezuela in the coming days

More Headlines

Author Jodi Picoult attends the world premiere of 'My Sister's Keeper' on June 24, 2009 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)

Jodi Picoult’s Holocaust novel removed as Florida school district purges libraries

By Andrew Lapin

Noam party head Avi Maoz speaks during his faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 30, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Far-right MK Avi Maoz threatens to quit coalition if he doesn’t get promised powers

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff

Illustrative: An Israeli soldier stands near an Iron Dome air defense system battery, deployed in southern Israel on August 6, 2022. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Air defense officer sentenced to 4 years, 9 months for sex crimes against subordinates

By Emanuel Fabian

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

Israel shares drop, led by SVB fallout fears; analysts see less risk to local banks

By Sharon Wrobel

A construction site in Israel, May 2022. (Roman Mykhalchuk via iStock by Getty Images)

Forecast of short supply of building materials until 2040 further imperils housing

By Danielle Nagler

People at the Adelaide Writers Week in Australia listen to Palestinian author Sarah Abulhawa, March 7, 2023. (Josh Feldman)

Australian literary fest hosts Palestinian writers who peddle antisemitic tropes

File: Weapons displayed on the ship Karine A, seized by Israel in the Red Sea in January 2002. (IDF Spokesman)

Israel releases octogenarian behind Karine A arms smuggling ship

2nd shuttered US bank was co-founded by major Jewish donor Scott Shay

Bassem Awadallah, then-director of the Office of King Abdullah II of Jordan, attends a celebration to mark Independence Day, in Amman, Jordan, on May 25, 2008. (Nader Daoud/AP)

Ex-aide jailed over Jordan royal coup hospitalized following hunger strike

By Josef Federman

Palestinian fishermen slaughter a manta ray on the beach of Gaza City, March 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Unprotected raysGaza fishermen celebrate catching dozens of endangered manta rays

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: The Ashkelon power plant, January 2009. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Rescuers search for 2 after crane topples into water near Ashkelon

A man is arrested at an unspecified location as part of an undercover operation into illegal weapons, March 14, 2023 (Israel Police)

25 arrested on suspicion of weapons trafficking after 8-month undercover police op

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