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What Matters Most On Saturday, March 18, 2023

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A smoke grenade is thrown toward protesters demonstrating against National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir in Kfar Uriah, March 18, 2023. (Screen grab; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

1 arrested for lobbing rocks at protesters; 2 detained

Clashes between protesters, police, residents in town where Ben Gvir spending Shabbat

Smoke grenades, rocks thrown at demonstrators, who chant against far-right police minister over woman’s killing: ‘Where were you when Darya was murdered?’; cop appears to use baton

Supreme Court President Esther Hayut and other justices at a hearing of the High Court of Justice on petitions against the appointment of Shas party leader Aryeh Deri as a minister due to his recent conviction for tax offenses, January 5, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Public split on whether to follow High Court or gov’t in constitutional crisis: poll

Demonstrators block a highway during a protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, Israel, March 16, 2023. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Thursday's day of action set to have a 'different character'

‘Step up the pressure’: Demonstrators prepare for 11th week of escalating protests

Tel Aviv anti-overhaul rally to kick off with national anthem sung by teen girl whose performance was nixed over ultra-Orthodox man in audience; ex-Bank of Israel chief to speak

Justice Minister Yariv Levin in the Knesset plenum on March 6, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Report: Coalition may rush to take over judge selection, slow some other bills

TV network says aim would be to pass core part of radical reform, while trying to sap energy from protests by delaying certain other elements

Protesters attempt to kayak, swim to Netanyahu’s private coastal home

By Luke Tress and ToI Staff

Protesters opposed to the government’s judicial overhaul on Friday attempted to reach Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private home in the coastal town of Caesarea by sea. The demonstrators, led by veterans of the navy and a group of IDF reservists known as “Brothers in Arms,” arrived at the... Continue Reading

Illustrative: Israelis protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul, off the coast of Haifa, March 9, 2023. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi seen after a meeting with Shas head Aryeh Deri outside his home in Jerusalem on January 18, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud minister said to get boosted security amid protests against government

Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch gives a sermon at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York, March 17, 2023. (Screenshot)

Leading NY rabbi: Israeli government speeding ‘headlong toward abyss’ with overhaul

Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch of Stephen Wise Free Synagogue says in his ‘most painful’ sermon: ‘Israeli government is tearing society apart, bringing world Jewry along for dangerous ride’

Israel's Consul General in New York Asaf Zamir speaks at a JNF-USA event on October 28, 2021. (Shahar Azran/File)

Israeli envoy in NY ‘deeply concerned’ by country’s direction as overhaul advances

Photographer Ardon Bar-Hama's digitizing camera setup. (Courtesy)

'He's the only person in the world to do what he does'

Photographer who digitized Dead Sea Scrolls completes new Kirk Douglas archive

By Rich Tenorio

Ardon Bar-Hama regularly works with rare documents such as the Aleppo Codex, so when the Douglas Foundation tapped him for a 10,000-item collection, he was ready. Now it is, too

The pro-parity UJA and its senior execs who don’t count women

As I see it, you can champion women’s rights, or relegate them to the balcony. You can’t do both.

Kenneth Brander

In a divided Jewish world, accepting gay and lesbian Jews is critical

Those bearing an identity not of their choosing must be able to find a place in the Orthodox Jewish community, without fear

Palestinians in Jenin refugee camp during an Israeli army raid, March 7, 2023. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh / AFP)

Israel, PA set for Sunday summit in Egypt as terror alerts rise before Ramadan

Army chiefs said worried by confluence of agitating elements, frustrated at Itamar Ben Gvir’s actions on the ground that could exacerbate unrest

This handout photo from the military shows a knife a Palestinian tried to stab soldiers with near the West Bank city of Ramallah, March 17, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Palestinian shot dead after attempting to stab troops near Ramallah, IDF says

By Emanuel Fabian

An employee of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, right, hands out an aid package to a Jewish woman in Kharkiv, Ukraine during the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020. (Courtesy of JDC)

Inside story'To call the JDC a left-wing organization is a joke'

Jewish communal world baffled after Ben Gvir targets mainstream US aid group JDC

By PHILISSA CRAMER

National security minister has vowed to shut down Joint Distribution Committee program tackling crime in Arab communities, branding the century-old, apolitical group ‘leftist’

International Criminal Court issues arrest warrant for Putin on suspected war crimes

By Mike Corder and Raf Casert

THE HAGUE (AP) — The International Criminal Court said Friday it has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes because of his alleged involvement in abductions of children from Ukraine. The court said in a statement that Putin “is allegedly responsible for the... Continue Reading

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting on the social and economic development of Crimea and Sevastopol via a videoconference at the Moscow's Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 17, 2023. (Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

People inspect damage in the aftermath of an alleged Israeli air strike that hit the medieval Citadel of Damascus on February 19, 2023 (Louai Beshara/AFP)

Foreign Ministry said worried by worsening Russian tone over Israel actions in Syria

Former US President Donald Trump raises his fist as he arrives on stage to speak about education policy at the Adler Theatre in Davenport, Iowa on March 13, 2023. (Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP)

Trump claims he’ll be arrested on Tuesday, urges protests to ‘take our nation back’

Ex-president cites ‘leak’ from Manhattan DA’s office over probe into alleged hush money paid to women; plea to supporters reminiscent of language before storming of US Capitol

Former US president Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event at the South Carolina Statehouse, January 28, 2023, in Columbia, South Carolina. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

NY law enforcement officials prepping security plans in case of Trump indictment

By Colleen Long and Jennifer Peltz

In this Thursday, June 18, 2020 file photo, President Donald Trump looks at his phone during a roundtable with governors on the reopening of America's small businesses, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. (AP/Alex Brandon)

‘I’M BACK’: Trump returns to Facebook, YouTube after two-year ban over Jan. 6 riot

By AFP

Photojournalist Debbie Hill (top) and artist Yael Robin, partners in life (Courtesy Debbie Hill)

Artist-teacher reflects on life and work from seat of wheelchair

By Jessica Steinberg

Known for collages and installations that juxtapose her subjects with unexpected backgrounds, Yael Robin, who has Parkinson’s disease, is exhibiting works at the Israel Museum

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Illustrative: Banners welcome Nazi Germany's foreign minister for a meeting with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, in Rome, Italy, September 20, 1940. (AP)

Italy’s far-right government approves new Holocaust museum in Rome

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Illustrative: Khat leaves (YouTube screenshot)

Israeli TikTok star, 3 others arrested in France for trying to smuggle khat leaves

Antisemitic flyers distributed in South Florida, January 24, 2022. (Via Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Florida bill banning ‘ethnic intimidation’ flyers aims to rein in neo-Nazis

By Andrew Lapin

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, right, meets with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu at Tahrir Palace in Cairo, Egypt, March 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Turkey’s top diplomat visits Cairo in effort to mend ties after years of tensions

UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, January 23, 2020. (Raphael Ahren/TOI)

From our partnerUK chief rabbi: ‘The enormity of this task requires exceptional seriousness’

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