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Minister of Defence Yoav Galant arrives for a government meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, January 29, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gallant rejects 50 lawmakers’ call to free Huwara riot suspects held without charge

Defense minister says rampage was ‘mark of shame’ and ‘we must not encourage terror,’ after ministers and MKs demand end to administrative detention of 4 Jewish suspects

Devorah Paley holds a picture of her sons Yaakov Yisrael and Asher Menahem, who were killed in a February 10, 2023, terror attack in Jerusalem, as she speaks to reporters while marking the traditional Jewish mourning period, February 12, 2023. (Twitter screenshot; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Mother of young brothers killed in Jerusalem terror attack gives birth to a boy

File: Defense Minister Yoav Gallant holds a security meeting with defense officials, January 28, 2023. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Gallant holds meetings with top officials over unspecified ‘security incidents’

By Emanuel Fabian

Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron speaks in an interview with CNN aired March 15, 2023. (Screenshot: CNN; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Bank of Israel chief comes out against ‘hasty’ overhaul that could harm judiciary

By Michael Bachner

Amir Yaron tells CNN plan lacks consensus, which could lead firms to move funds out of country, causing brain drain; voices confidence leaders won’t intervene in central bank

Kohelet, right-wing think tank that inspired overhaul, calls for partial compromise

By Jeremy Sharon

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in the lobby of the Citibank headquarters in New York on March 14, 2023. (Courtesy)

In New York, Smotrich predicts compromise on overhaul that ‘mainstream’ will accept

By Jacob Magid and Luke Tress

Hundreds of anti-overhaul protesters rally outside his home

Likud sanctions Edelstein for skipping votes on judicial overhaul

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

The Likud party sanctioned one of its senior lawmakers on Tuesday evening, a day after he broke ranks, missing two key votes tied to the coalition's sweeping plan to shift power from the judiciary to politicians. Likud MKs told The Times of Israel on Tuesday that there was... Continue Reading

Likud MK and Chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Yuli Edelstein speaks in the Knesset plenum in favor of his bill to repeal the sections of the 2005 Disengagement law which led to the evacuation of four settlements in the northern West Bank, February 15, 2023. (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset Spokesperson's Department)

Likud MK Yuli Edelstein visits the Bedouin village Khan al-Ahmar, in the West Bank on January 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 15: Likud gags senior MK over no-show at judicial overhaul vote

Dorit Beinisch, former chief justice of the Supreme Court, attends a book launch at Ono Academic College, in Kiryat Ono, January 17, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Former Supreme Court chief: Judicial overhaul ‘a recipe for wiping out democracy’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) reads a letter to Shas chair Aryeh Deri, informing Deri that he must remove him from ministerial office, at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, January 22, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Bill aimed at returning Deri to cabinet cleared for plenum vote as some changes made

By Michael Bachner

Legislation eliminating High Court oversight of minister picks now lets opposition force PM to explain appointment; legal aides say updated version may still be struck down

Police push back supporters of United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni during an anti-government protest outside his home in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, March 14, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Anti-overhaul protesters rally outside Gafni’s home, are attacked with eggs

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a conference of the Israeli chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) in Tel Aviv, July 5, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

42 former top legal advisers back AG against government ouster threats

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 15, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir said to nix campaign against Arab crime because it’s run by ‘leftist’ JDC

National security minister reportedly makes remarks at meeting on slashing funding for project run by American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

Fears of police politicization have already been realized, laments deputy AG

By Michael Bachner

A law passed in December that increased the government's influence over police policy has harmed the force's operative independence and increased its politicization, Deputy Attorney General Gil Limon lamented Tuesday during a Knesset committee meeting. The law -- which had been pushed by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir as a condition for... Continue Reading

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

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (L) and Israel Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai attend the inauguration of a new police station in southern Israel, March 14, 2023. (Flash90)

Top cop: ‘Without public legitimacy, we have no right to exist as police’

National Security Minister in Jerusalem for discussions with senior police officials ahead of a planned protest against the government's judicial overhaul legislation outside the Knesset, February 20, 2023. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

High Court rejects Ben Gvir’s effort to circumvent AG with private legal counsel

By Jeremy Sharon

Louis Hofmann (as Cioma Schönhaus) and Luna Wedler (as Gerda) in 'The Forger.' (Courtesy of Kino Lorber)

InterviewHis upbeat nature served as a psychological coping mechanism

How a young Jewish man with a talent for forgery hid in plain sight in WWII Berlin

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Now playing in the US, the German-language feature film ‘The Forger’ recounts true-life story of the spirited Cioma Schönhaus, who created documents that saved hundreds of lives

Anti-government protesters to clog airport access as Netanyahu leaves for Germany

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Protesters against the government’s judicial overhaul were planning to hold demonstrations in and around Ben Gurion International Airport Wednesday, in an effort to disrupt Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s flight to Germany on a state visit. Netanyahu is slated to take off at 5 p.m. for a two-day trip... Continue Reading

Travelers on their way to Ben Gurion Airport, where flights were delayed due to protesters blocking the road to the airport, March 9, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell speaks during a media conference in Brussels on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022 (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

EU foreign policy head defends parliamentary debate on Israel as tough love

By Lazar Berman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara depart for Rome on March 9, 2023 (Amos Ben Gershom / GPO)

Netanyahu critics urge Germany, Britain to cancel his visits over judicial overhaul

By AP and ToI Staff

MK Gideon Sa'ar attends a faction meeting of the National Unity party at the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Ex-justice minister: Coalition’s rejection of Herzog plan shows leadership failure

Gideon Sa’ar warns ‘full responsibility will be placed on those who miss the opportunity to prevent a severe rift in the people at this fateful hour’

10:39 pm

Israel Democracy Institute urges 'all leaders' to adopt Herzog’s framework, though it has 'problematic elements'
9:57 pm

Knesset speaker: President's plan does not solve ills of system
9:51 pm

Kohelet Forum: President's plan exacerbates current problems

From the blogs - part 3 of 5

On being fruitful and multiplying…exponentially

While the share of Haredim in Israel’s population doubles every 25 years, their leaders deprive children of the basic education necessary for global economy and modern democracy

Vials of a potential coronavirus vaccine are seen on an assembly line in a photograph released by the Israel Institute for Biological Research on October 25, 2020. (Defense Ministry)

Researchers oversold Israeli COVID shot, wasted millions on flop — comptroller

State ombudsman faults Defense Ministry institute for mishandling project and misleading officials on costs, timetable and ability to produce homegrown vaccine

Damage caused to houses in the city of Tiberias in northern Israel after earthquakes shook the area, July 9, 2018. (David Cohen/Flash90, File)

93% of at-risk buildings would collapse if major earthquake hits, ombudsman finds

Prime Minister and head of the Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud party meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 13, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Netanyahu holds meeting on Ukraine, said to look at providing military aid

Growing body of officials said in favor of enabling weapons aid in face of Russian warning

Then-US vice president Joe Biden, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, talk before a dinner at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner, Pool)

Netanyahu said to bar ministers from meeting US officials until Biden invites him

By Michael Bachner and Jacob Magid

Morocco’s school curriculum demonstrates remarkable respect for Jews

A Muslim state’s textbooks teach that Muhammad, no less, would have been glad one of his followers shared a meal with a Jew

David-Seth Kirshner

AIPAC does the difficult work for us

I want the US to oppose BDS and efforts to delegitimize Israel, no matter how distasteful I find the relevant congressmen

France 24 journalist Dina Abi-Saab reports from Geneva, Switzerland on June 10, 2019. (France 24)

France 24 TV network suspends 4 journalists for alleged anti-Israel vitriol

By Canaan Lidor

One of the employees joked about Hitler having a barbecue with Jews, others called Palestinian attackers ‘martyrs’

Police stationed outside a synagogue after threats to the Jewish community, in New York City, November 4, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

US anti-Jewish incidents jumped nearly 20% in 2021, FBI finds in updated report

A demonstrator beats a swastika-emblazoned drum at a far-right march in Kaunas, Lithuania on February 16, 2015. (Canaan Lidor)

Jewish group, German organization urge EU authorities to end pro-Nazi marches

By Canaan Lidor

FILE: Olive growers and workers harvesting the Koroneiki Olive Variety at an olive grove in Moshav Eliad in the southern Golan Heights in December 2022 (Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90)

With olives pressed and picked, local farmers hope consumers discover oil in Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

Olive growers and oil producers seek greater exposure for their product, cultivated and pressed in small batches but suffering from competition with cheaper, lower-quality imports

Cyberint CEO (second from right) with Etisalat by e&’s SVP of cybersecurity Ayman A AlShehi (right) at the GISEC Global cybersecurity conference in Dubai, March 14, 2023. (GEC Media Group/Courtesy)

Israeli firm inks first UAE deal to help telecom giant crack down on cyberthreats

By Sharon Wrobel

Cyberint’s intelligence platform provides real-time responses to cyberattack attempts coming from beyond the traditional security perimeters to fix them before they become an issue

Clashes at an anti-regime protest during an annual fire festival in Iran, March 14, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Anti-regime protests erupt during Iranian fire festival

By AP

Social media footage emerges of scattered rallies and clashes during annual celebration of Chaharshanbe Soori, a rare pre-Islamic festival that is frowned upon by authorities

Illustrative: Warships sail in the Sea of Oman during the second day of joint Iran, Russia and China naval war games on December 28, 2019. (Iranian Army via AP, File)

China, Russia and Iran hold joint naval drills in Gulf of Oman, amid tension with US

By AP

A screenshot of video released in early March 2023, showing unveiled Iranian women dancing to the song 'Calm Down' by Nigerian singer Rema. (Twitter screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Concern grows for Iranian women dancing unveiled in viral ‘Calm Down’ video

By AFP

David Strathairn (left) in a Georgetown University production of 'Remember This: Walking With Jan Karski.' (Rafael Suanes/Georgetown Univ.)

'It’s about allyship and bearing witness across difference'

David Strathairn plays historic Holocaust witness Jan Karski on TV’s ‘Remember This’

By Linda Buchwald

In a one-man-show that aired Monday, the famous character actor tells the story of a Catholic hero who snuck into the Warsaw Ghetto to report the Nazi atrocities there to the world

Nazi yellow star badges part of long history of forcing Jews to identify themselves

By Flora Cassen

More Headlines

In this combination of photos, Pope Francis, left, arrives for an audience with members of Roman Universities and Pontifical Institutions at the Vatican on February 25, 2023, and BBC sportscaster Gary Lineker attends the GQ Men of The Year Awards, at the Tate Modern, in London, on September 1, 2021. (AP Photo)

BBC sportscaster’s tweet revives debate over making ‘Nazi’ references

By Hillel Italie

Israel left fielder Spencer Horowitz is unable to catch a ball hit by Dominican Republic's Juan Soto for a double during the first inning of a World Baseball Classic game, Tuesday, March 14, 2023, in Miami. (AP/Wilfredo Lee)

Israel knocked out of World Baseball Classic with 10-0 loss to Dominican Republic

Illustrative image: Israelis walk next to Bank Leumi in Jerusalem on November 16, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Leumi posts biggest profit among Israel’s banks, fueled by steady rate hike

By Sharon Wrobel

Police and Magen David Adom paramedics at the scene where the body of a man was found on a beachin Ashdod, March 15, 2023. (Magen David Adom)

Body of man missing since crane collapse washes up on Ashdod shore

Republican Rep. George Santos of New York leaves a House GOP conference meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, January 25, 2023. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Santos campaign filing points to possible reelection bid amid outcry over lies

By AP

Then New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference at New York's Yankee Stadium, on July 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Former New York governor Cuomo, said eyeing comeback, launches pro-Israel group

A US MQ-9 drone is on display during an air show at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, January 23, 2018. (Massoud Hossaini/AP)

US: Russian fighter jet knocks American drone out of sky over Black Sea

Screen capture from video of Polish Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro with a pistol in his belt, March 13, 2023. (Twitter)

Trigger warningPoland’s pistol-packing justice minister raises eyebrows

By AP

29 November 2022, North Rhine-Westphalia, Essen: Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (FDP), antisemitism commissioner of North Rhine-Westphalia, informs herself about the situation on site after the attack on the former rabbi's house at the Old Synagogue and talks to representatives of the local Jewish Community. (Roland Weihrauch/Getty Images via JTA)

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard responsible for German synagogue shooting, officials say

By David I. Klein

Kunsthaus art museum in Zurich on August 6, 2011. (Wikipedia/by Roland zh - own work)

Major Swiss art museum reviewing collection for Nazi-looted pieces

By AFP

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