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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 16, 2023

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Protesters block roads in day of ‘escalating resistance’ as PM nixes Herzog proposal

5 arrested for painting red line on street leading to Supreme Court in Jerusalem; reservists protest in Haifa and Bnei Brak; ‘disruptions’ planned in 150 locations

An anti-government protester sticks a poster with the slogan 'Don't Come Back' during a demonstration outside Ben Gurion Airport against the controversial judicial reform bill as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads to Germany on an official visit on March 15, 2023. (AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP)

‘Don’t come back’: Protesters again block airport access, as Netanyahu flight delayed

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Composite photo: Otzma Yehudit chairman Itamar Ben Gvir, left, during a faction meeting at the Knesset on November 21, 2022; Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara speaks at Tel Aviv University on September 28, 2022. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Ben Gvir calls to sack attorney general, urges fellow coalition chiefs to back move

Far-right leader claims Gali Baharav-Miara acting as ‘de facto opposition leader’ for opposing various government measures, urges her to be fired despite legal difficulties

8:57 pm

Anti-overhaul protesters block off Ayalon Highway once again
8:38 pm

Tel Aviv demonstrators march along Kaplan Street in the direction of Ayalon Highway
7:18 pm

'Will Bibi break Israel?' Economist asks on cover of latest edition

President Isaac Herzog at a ceremony in Tel Aviv, March 13, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Herzog urges nation to study his proposal 'in depth'

After coalition rejects his proposal, Herzog insists it’s a starting point for talks

President says he accepts constructive criticism of his ‘People’s Framework’ for judicial overhaul ‘with love and great respect’

President Isaac Herzog presents his proposed alternative framework on the judicial overhaul, on March 15, 2023 (Video screenshot)

Warning of civil war, Herzog unveils framework for judicial reform; PM rejects it

Op-ed

When Herzog’s bid to save democracy crashed into Netanyahu’s dash for absolute power

Barely a week ago, President Isaac Herzog told Israelis that in marathon behind-the-scenes discussions under his aegis, a compromise agreement on the revolutionary judicial overhaul being pushed by the coalition was "closer than ever." On Wednesday afternoon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delayed leaving the country for a trip to Germany and instead remained in the Knesset in order, reportedly, to... Continue Reading

President Isaac Herzog (right) tasks Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu with forming a new Israeli government, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on November 13, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Ex-justice minister: Rejection a 'failure of leadership'

‘Unacceptable, insulting’: PM, coalition dismiss Herzog’s judicial reform framework

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition partners on Wednesday night quickly rejected President Isaac Herzog's long-percolating proposal for a broadly agreed-upon judicial overhaul. Opposition leaders expressed cautious approval for the framework as a basis for talks, while lashing the government for so readily dismissing what Herzog... Continue Reading

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the media ahead of his departure to Germany on March 15, 2023 (Haim Zach/GPO)

From the blogs

Natan Sharansky

President Herzog’s initiative is not perfect, but I support it

For Israelis to simply say ‘no’ with the sort of ferocity that was appropriate when I faced the KGB is a tragic mistake when we face one another

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (center) speaks with IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi (left), chief of the Northern Command Ori Gordin (right), and commander of the 91st territorial division Shai Klapper (back to camera), at the Har Adir lookout point on the Lebanon border, March 16, 2023. (Elad Malka/Defense Ministry)

UN peacekeepers say no one crossed border in recent days

After suspected Hezbollah bombing, Gallant warns those responsible ‘will regret it’

By Emanuel Fabian

Defense minister briefed on Monday morning blast carried out by man who infiltrated Israel from Lebanon; says Israel will retaliate

The scene of a bombing at Megiddo Junction in northern Israel, March 13, 2023. (Courtesy: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF suspects Hezbollah behind bombing attack on northern highway; terrorist killed

By Emanuel Fabian

Screen capture from video of a stink bomb, bottom right, exploding next to Hezbollah operatives aiming a laser across the border from Lebanon into Israel. (Channl 12. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Hezbollah harassing northern residents with lasers; IDF responds with stink bombs

Public Diplomacy Minister Galit Distel Atbaryan at a Federation of Local Authorities conference in Tel Aviv, December 8, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

‘It’s your families that burned’ in the Holocaust, Likud minister tells critics

By Canaan Lidor

Galit Distel Atbaryan stands by Knesset speech, but says she regrets using language suggesting Sephardim should care less about victims of the Nazi genocide

Holocaust survivor Naki Bega at her daughter's home in Athens, Greece, on March 14, 2023. (Louisa GOULIAMAKI/AFP)

Long ignored, Greek Holocaust survivors finally tell their story

By Yannick Pasquet

Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates, at the presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, on November 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, File)

UAE to donate $3 million to rehabilitate Palestinian town ravaged by settlers

Emirati President bin Zayed pledges cash to repair buildings and property damaged in riot in Huwara last month, after 2 Israeli brothers killed in terror attack there

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a Religious Zionism faction meeting in the Givat Harel settlement in the West Bank, February 14, 2023. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 16: What Smotrich said and saw in the US; inflation on the rise

Daniel Livingston

I worked in the Republican Party. Israel’s government is adopting a vision found on its most extreme fringe.

The judicial overhaul is antithetical to constitutionalism, personal liberty, and the values on which Israel was founded

Jacques Berlinerblau

Commemorating Philip Roth means confronting his limitations head on

The author who had racial, religious and sexual hang-ups was also a bearer of unique and meaningful insights

Analysis

Carrie Keller-Lynn

Likud MKs are afraid of social division, but not enough to take a stand on overhaul

As protests, counter-protests, and recriminations hit unprecedented levels, lawmakers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party are increasingly squeamish about the way their coalition's push to redraw power lines between the judiciary and politicians is dividing the nation, yet have been relatively muted in their criticism. Although a handful of senior coalition lawmakers have signed... Continue Reading

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

Tackling an existential danger — Israel’s neglected education system

Since no country can – or wants – to produce everything it needs by itself, all developed countries have to compete with one another in the global marketplace. This competition will only increase in the future, and the graph below reflects how each of the developed countries is preparing its children for that modern labor market. Even excluding Haredi children – most of whom do not study the required material and do not take the international exams – the achievements of Israeli children in the core subjects are below those... Continue Reading

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (second from left) in the Traffic Police's National Control Center with Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai (left) on March 9, amid nationwide protests against the government's judicial overhaul program. (Courtesy National Security Ministry)

Ben Gvir’s conduct in police matters may have ‘crossed the line,’ says AG

Gali Baharav-Miara responds to far-right minister’s High Court petition requesting he be allowed private counsel, says recent events ‘raise real concerns’ about his actions

Josep Borrell, the high representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, speaks with members of the European parliament March 14, 2023, in Strasbourg, France. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

Israel signals EU foreign policy chief unwelcome in Israel

By Lazar Berman

Two Palestinian students take a final exam on the last day of the school year, at the UNRWA Hebron Boys School in the West Bank city of Hebron, May 26, 2019. (AP/Nasser Nasser)

Report finds incitement, antisemitism still prevalent in UNRWA classrooms

A delegation from the Jewish Federations of North America meets with President Isaac Herzog at his official Jerusalem residence on March, 15, 2023. (Courtesy)

US Jewish federations delegation lobbies in Israel against judiciary overhaul

By JTA and Jacob Magid

Jewish leaders focus on proposal to allow Knesset to override Supreme Court decisions, seek to explain how government effort is impacting Israel’s ties with Diaspora

Keren Hayesod building in Jerusalem, August 3, 2007. (Wikipedia/by Neta - own work)

Swiss Keren Hayesod alarmed by Israel’s direction, terrorist death penalty bill

By Ash Obel and Canaan Lidor

Comedian Judy Gold hosted A Wider Bridge's annual gala on March 13, 2023, which celebrated Israel at 75 and addressed growing anti-LGBTQ sentiment with the new government coalition elected in January. (Jackie Hajdenberg/ JTA)

With Israel’s right-wing government, US Zionist LGBTQ group faces urgent crisis

By Jackie Hajdenberg

'Being part of this is part of my heritage'

How Israel built its most talented roster ever for the 2023 World Baseball Classic

By jacob gurvis

Though it’s faced some of its toughest challengers to date, Team Israel brought an unprecedented number of top MLB athletes – and here’s how it happened

Stu Moss, left, and David Bogatz at Team Israel's game against Puerto Rico, Monday, March 13, 2022, at the World Baseball Classic in Miami. (Jacob Gurvis/ JTA)

US Jews — and allies — turn out to support Israel at the World Baseball Classic

By jacob gurvis

This image provided by NASA shows the star Wolf-Rayet 124, center, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope in June 2022. A surrounding nebula is made of material cast off from the aging star in random ejections, and from dust produced in the ensuing turbulence. The telescope captured the rare and fleeting phase of the star on the cusp of death. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team via AP)

Dust to dust

Webb telescope captures star going supernova on cusp of death

WR-124, star 30 times as massive as our sun, photographed shedding dust and gas into space in its final throes before expected explosion

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Screen capture from video of barrels containing uranium yellowcake stored at a site near Sabha, Librya, 2012. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Libyan military says it recovered 2.5 tons of uranium that IAEA reported missing

By Jon Gambrell

Screen capture from video of the scene where a man was shot dead in the northern Bedouin town of Tuba-Zangariyye, March 16, 2023. (Twitter. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Man shot dead in northern Bedouin town in suspected gangland slaying

Actor Rob Lowe in his latest show, the Netflix series 'Unstable" (Courtesy Netflix)

Return of a teen idolBrat Packer Rob Lowe spotted on ‘guys’ trip to Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

Rahat in the southern Negev desert on October 7, 2022. (Hazem Bader/AFP)

Toddler killed by car in southern city of Rahat

Michael Ben-Ari (Greenfield) convicted of running a $150 million Ponzi scheme that defrauded several hundred US and Israeli investors (Courtesy EGFE)

‘Israeli Madoff’ convicted over $150 million Ponzi scheme

(L) Head of the Mossad Yossi Cohen speaks at a Cyber conference at Tel Aviv University, on June 24, 2019; (R) James Packer at a news conference of the Studio City project in Macau, on October 27, 2015. (Flash90; AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

AG ends probe into ex-Mossad chief over $20,000 gift from Australian billionaire

Assuta Medical Center in Rishon Lezion. (Screen capture: Google Maps)

Parents given wrong embryo set to sue hospital for NIS 100 million

Illustrative: People shop at the Jerusalem Mahane Yehuda market, during the Jewish holiday of Passover, April 19, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli inflation higher than forecast in February, boosting odds of more rate hikes

By Sharon Wrobel

Construction workers in a tunnel being bored for a new highway into Jerusalem on March 25, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Treasury reverses bid to oust Environment Ministry advisers from planning boards

Special receptacles for old or damaged lithium-ion batteries to be distributed around Israel. (Courtesy, Israel Electronics Recycling Corporation)

Israeli company to start collecting lithium-ion batteries for recycling

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