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What Matters Most On Friday, March 17, 2023

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Israeli reserve soldiers and activists protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul, in Bnei Brak, March 16, 2023. (Flash90)

100 elite Air Force reservists also threaten to stop serving

Hundreds of elite IDF reservists say they will stop showing up beginning Sunday

Officers and soldiers who volunteer for reserve duty in Military Intelligence’s Special Operations Division and cyber warfare units cite Knesset vote Sunday barring a PM’s recusal

Israelis hug as they protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system while mounted policemen block their way on the main freeway in Tel Aviv, March 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Roads blocked, some protesters attacked, in mass demos against overhaul; 21 arrested

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff

Then-Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attend an awards ceremony at the Shin Bet's headquarters in Tel Aviv honoring agents who excelled in intelligence operations in 2017 and 2018, on December 4, 2018. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Ex-Shin Bet chief fears overhaul could cause agency to ‘disintegrate from within’

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (R) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu give a joint press conference following talks at the Chancellery in Berlin on March 16, 2023. (Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)

PM says proposed judicial override clause may go too far

On Berlin visit, Netanyahu denies he’s working to curtail independence of judiciary

By Lazar Berman

German chancellor says he’s watching overhaul debate ‘with great concern,’ urges weighing Herzog plan; PM insists Israel ‘will remain a liberal democracy’

From right to left: Ra'am leader Mansour Abbas, Labor leader Merav Michaeli, Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, National Unity leader MK Benny Gant and Yisrael Beyteneu leader Avigdor Liberman hold a joint press conference in Tel Aviv, on March 16, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Opposition heads back Herzog’s ‘not ideal’ proposal, pan coalition for dismissing it

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a press conference in Berlin on March 16, 2023. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP)

Netanyahu says he is ‘attentive’ to protests, vows ‘responsible’ judicial changes

By Lazar Berman

In this handout photo, graffiti denouncing Justice Minister Yariv Levin as 'the enemy of the people' is seen spray-painted on a wall at his home in the central city of Modiin, March 17, 2023. (Israel Police)

Graffiti on justice minister’s home brands him ‘enemy of the people’

Likud ministers, opposition MKs decry vandalism targeting Yariv Levin, a leading figure in the government’s judicial overhaul push

Justice Minister Yariv Levin at the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Levin reportedly says he’s refusing to pause overhaul due to fears of prosecution

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Justice Minister Yariv Levin during a debate and a vote in the Knesset plenum, March 6, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Unconfirmed reports say coalition considering moderations to judicial overhaul bills

By Jeremy Sharon

Over 50 sessions and workshops on all aspects of life in Israel were held at the Nefesh B’Nefesh Mega Event on February 26 in New York. (Shahar Azran)

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during an interview with AFP in Niamey, Niger, on March 16, 2023. (Boureima Hama/AFP)

Blinken urges consensus on Israeli judicial overhaul: ‘The best way forward’

By AFP, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Amid anti-government protests rocking Jewish state, secretary of state says US won’t take sides on legislative proposals in the ‘very vibrant democracy of Israel’

Israeli soldiers on the border between Lebanon and Israel, March 15, 2023. (David Cohen/Flash90)

US senators worried about overhaul’s security fallout, IDF vet says after DC visit

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves to the media after arriving at 10 Downing Street in London for a meeting with British counterpart Theresa May on February 6, 2017. (AFP Photo/Chris J Ratcliffe)

Netanyahu to visit London next week on official trip

Ben Gvir says attorney general must be fired, is acting as de facto opposition chief

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir on Thursday called for Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara's ouster, claiming that she has been “serving as the de facto opposition leader.” In a letter to fellow coalition party chiefs urging them to back the move, Ben Gvir claimed Baharav-Miara's approach since the... Continue Reading

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)

Israel Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai (second right) speaks to officers at a police training facility near Kfar Sirkin, in central Israel, March 17, 2023. (Israel Police)

Police chief vows force to stay ‘apolitical,’ in apparent dig at Ben Gvir

Public Diplomacy Minister Galit Distel Atbaryan at the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 6, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud minister says Channel 13 wants coalition shot; network decries ‘incitement’

Public Diplomacy Minister Distel Atbaryan says news channel is ‘counting down’ until coalition members get killed after anchor criticizes her for inflammatory Holocaust remarks

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on March 12, 2023. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

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

Protesters supporting women's rights dressed as characters from "The Handmaid's Tale" TV series attend a protest against the government's plans to overhaul the judicial system in the old port of Acre in northern Israel, March 16, 2023. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Photo EssayDystopian ‘Handmaids’ become iconic fixture at protests against judicial overhaul

By ISAAC SCHARF and Tia Goldenberg

Interview'When you read Roth, you are discomforted'

Even Portnoy wouldn’t complain about Newark gala for provocative author Philip Roth

By Jordan Hoffman

Actors John Turturro, Matthew Broderick and Tony Shalhoub, plus a slew of appropriately edgy writers, will head up a 3-day literary festival for the hometown hero March 17-19

Armed men, said to be undercover Israeli forces, are seen operating in the West Bank city of Jenin, March 16, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter)

4 Palestinians, including terror group members, killed by Israeli troops in Jenin

By Emanuel Fabian

Police say Yamam officers ‘neutralize’ two wanted men in West Bank city, identified as senior members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad

Molotov cocktails prepared by two Israelis accused of firebombing a the Sidna Ali Mosque in the central city of Herzliya on January 29, 2023. (Justice Ministry)

2 Jewish teens indicted on terror charges for January firebombing of Herzliya mosque

By Michael Horovitz

File: Lawyers Rabbi Uri Regev (far right) and Edna Meyrav with their client from Elad at a Supreme Court hearing in 2014. (Courtesy: Hiddush)

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By Amanda Borschel-Dan

The Israeli lawyer/Reform rabbi explains how the judicial overhaul package may affect religious freedom – and the lack thereof – in the Holy Land

Illustrative: Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activists in New York City, March 30, 2022. (Luke Tress/Flash90)

Poll indicates Democrats’ sympathies lie with Palestinians over Israel for 1st time

49% of Democratic respondents sympathize more with the Palestinians and 38% with Israelis; support for Israel among Republicans remains strong at 78%, Gallup survey finds

Illustrative: Students at the Yeshivat Maharat liberal Orthodox seminary for women. (Chavie Lieber/Times of Israel)

67% of young US Jews say ‘ideal rabbi’ could better connect them to Jewish identity

By Canaan Lidor

A Hasidic Jew walks past a closed synagogue in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, one of the five boroughs of New York City, on October 9, 2020. (Angela Weiss / AFP)

Americans feel more favorably than not about Jews — survey

By Michael Horovitz

From the blogs - part 5 of 5

For a glimpse of Israel’s future, look not at Poland or Hungary, but at Afghanistan

Israel has reached its demographic-democratic point of no return. At some point, the secular Netanyahu will be gone. Not so his Haredi and Jewish supremacist partners

Endoron CEO Ronit Harpaz speaks at a demonstration in Ramat Hasharon, February 25, 2023. (Courtesy)

Health tech leaders warn judicial overhaul will lead to brain drain and funding halt

By Renee Ghert-Zand

CEOs and top researchers fear potential threat to democracy will jeopardize international partnerships that Israel’s innovators rely on to bring treatments to market

Economist at think tank that helped shape overhaul quits in opposition to legislation

Jason Fredric Gilbert

A guide to protesting the judicial reform

I don’t necessarily love the Supreme Court, but I think it beats a religious court. Or a kangaroo court. But NOT a food court

Ilana Goldstein Saks

Sketchy by design: The Tabernacle

Connecting to God is creative, a skill to be practiced and honed, and can’t be dictated by someone else (Vayakhel/Pekudei)

An Israeli rescue worker holds a scroll found in Antakya, Turkey on Feb. 16, 2023. (IDF Spokesperson)

'It exploded in the media, and on social media'

How the removal of Jewish scripture from Turkey marred Israel’s rescue operation

By Canaan Lidor

ZAKA volunteers brought back and showcased 2 Scrolls of Esther said to be decades old, sparking frenzied allegations of ‘archaeological theft’ in the Turkish media

Uskudar American Academy is one of Istanbul's most prestigious private schools. (Wikipedia via JTA)

Students at Istanbul school perform Nazi salute in soccer game against Jewish school

By David I. Klein

Alice Schuman and Brock Cvijanovich. (Courtesy)

'My mom and I were intent on her not dying alone'

After kicking down a Holocaust survivor’s door, a NY landlord becomes her guardian

By Matt Lebovic

Real estate investor Brock Cvijanovich wanted to be the good guy in someone’s story, so he and his mother ‘adopted’ an elderly woman whose building he’d purchased in 2021

Thousands of runners take part in the 12th annual Jerusalem Marathon on Jaffa Street, March 17, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Tens of thousands run in 12th annual Jerusalem Marathon

Noah Kigen Kiprotich, 34, wins main race, while fellow Kenyan Margaret Njuguna finishes first among women; police reopen roads as event comes to an end

Rom Carmi, also known as Barefoot Rom, believes in running barefoot, and will take part in the March 17, 2023 Jerusalem half marathon --shown here running in Timna Park (Courtesy Omri Messi)

Hitting the pavementThis (half) marathon runner will jog Jerusalem barefoot

By Jessica Steinberg

King Boris of Bulgaria, wearing civilian dress, left, with Adolf Hitler and Joachim Von Ribbentrop, right, when he paid a visit on May 14, 1941, at Hitler's Rolling headquarters. (AP Photo)

Why Bulgarian Jews skipped an official ceremony marking their rescue from the Nazis

By David I. Klein

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A drone is seen in the sky seconds before it hit a building in Kyiv, Ukraine, on October 17, 2022. (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)

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Yeshiva University's Stern College for Women, on 34th and Lexington. The all-male campus counterpart is in Morningside Heights. (Julia Gergely/JTA)

NY lawmakers lash Yeshiva University for demanding private info of LGBTQ club members

Emergency responders at a construction site in Ramat Gan where scaffolding collapsed, killing two and injuring several others. (Israel Fire and Rescue Services)

2 killed, 6 wounded in construction site scaffolding collapse in Ramat Gan

Elliot Resnick, then editor-in-chief of The Jewish Press, seen in the crowd during the breach of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. (Screenshot from YouTube)

Ex-editor of Jewish paper arrested for assaulting cop during Jan. 6 Capitol storming

Darya Leitel, allegedly murdered by her husband on March 17, 2023 (Courtesy)

Murder probe launched after Haifa woman found dead at home; husband arrested

Baseball players from the David Posnack Jewish Day School pose with local Dominican teens at a ceremony March 14, 2023, in Miami. (Jacob Gurvis/ JTA)

Israeli, Dominican teams gather to promote friendship at World Baseball Classic

By jacob gurvis

Left: Shingo Ueno, Executive Vice President and Head of Energy Innovation Initiative, Sumitomo Corporation. Right: Talmon Marco, CEO, H2Pro. (Courtesy, Sumitomo Corporation)

Israeli startup to supply hydrogen tech to Japan’s Sumitomo Corp

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with Ehud Olmert in 2009. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Olmert calls on world leaders to shun Netanyahu for ‘destroying’ Israel’s democracy

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

Trust broken, startup heads mull move to ‘stable’ banks in wake of SVB fall — survey

By Sharon Wrobel

Cpl. Edward Chin of the US 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines Regiment, covers the face of a statue of Saddam Hussein with an American flag before toppling the statue in downtown Baghdad, Iraq, April 9, 2003. (Jerome Delay/AP)

Analysis20 years after US toppled Saddam, Shiites the big winners in Iraq

By Tony Gamal-Gabriel

A building under construction in Jerusalem on November 10, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Tel Aviv, Jerusalem housing prices fall as mortgage borrowing hits four-year low

By Danielle Nagler

An item about Abraham Zarem appears in the January 1949 issue of "Engineering and Science Monthly," a magazine for alumni of the California Institute of Technology. (Courtesy/JTA)

Abraham Zarem, one of the last surviving Manhattan Project scientists, dies at 106

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

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