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What Matters Most On Sunday, March 19, 2023

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Israeli reserve soldiers, veterans and activists protest outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, against the Israeli government's planned reforms, on February 10, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

300 IAF reservists boycott training this week

Hundreds of elite IDF reservists stop showing up for duty over judicial overhaul

By Emanuel Fabian

Officers and soldiers who volunteer in Military Intelligence’s Special Operations Division and cyber warfare units begin boycott ‘until this attempted coup is over’

Technicians work at the Iranian Arak heavy water reactor, 150 miles southwest of the capital Tehran, on December 23, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

Ex-chief of atomic commission warns overhaul will undercut fight against Iran

'Without democracy, there is no high tech,' 'Even without ChatGPT, we know that you are wrong' and 'No freedom, no high-tech' -- tech workers protest judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, on January 24, 2023 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Business leaders warn Likud MKs: Judicial overhaul already harming economy

Likud activists and judicial overhaul supporters in Tel Aviv, March 18, 2023 (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

As violence against protesters escalates, opposition blames Netanyahu’s ‘incitement’

Man said to ram car into Herzliya group; motorcyclist drives into Givatayim crowd; multiple assault reports; well-known Likud activist calls women ‘Hitler’s contemptible handmaids’

Protesters gather during a rally against the government's controversial judicial overhaul bill in Tel Aviv on March 18, 2023. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

‘Destroying Zionism’: Masses protest overhaul; rise in violence against demonstrators

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, on March 17, 2023. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)

Police detain man over graffiti calling justice minister ‘enemy of the people’

Lapid: 'Stop placing the responsibility on others'

PM: IDF chief must crack down on insubordination, police on road-blocking protesters

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday railed at Israelis protesting his government's plans to upend the judicial system, as well as at the heads of the IDF, police and Shin Bet, and urged increased intervention by security forces, as reserve soldiers opposed to the measures escalated their protests and mass demonstrations showed... Continue Reading

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, on March 19, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool/AFP)

File - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's son Yair arrives for a court hearing in Tel Aviv, on November 29, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Yair Netanyahu compares anti-overhaul protesters to Nazi Brownshirts

Michael Vilensky, an intern in Religious Zionism MK Simcha Rothman's office, who has posted several offensive videos and comments on social media. (Channel 13 screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Report: Rothman intern banned several times from social media over offensive posts

By Michael Horovitz

The city of Yokohama (Courtesy)

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File - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with the architects of the proposed judicial overhaul, Justice Minister Yariv Levin and MK Simcha Rothman (standing) in the Knesset on February 15, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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As Rothman unveils new judicial selection plan, coalition heads meet to discuss moves

Reports indicate government is likely to halt most legislation until after Passover, focusing until then on passing bill that shakes up commitee which selects justices and judges

7:28 pm

Report: Foreign Ministry weighing firing Noa Tishby as antisemitism envoy due to overhaul criticism
7:06 pm

Israeli consul to New York summoned to Jerusalem after comments against overhaul
6:58 pm

Ben Gvir says High Court ruling against him is 'a coup in the full sense of the word'

Likud's Bitan calls for halt to legislative process

Coalition heads to hold talks on softening judicial overhaul; opposition: ‘A joke’

Coalition leaders were due to meet Sunday evening to consider softening their far-reaching plans for overhauling the judicial system, amid continued protests against the measures following the government's rejection of an alternative framework put forward by President Isaac Herzog. The meeting was confirmed by a spokesperson for Justice... Continue Reading

Coalition party leaders meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, January 22, 2023. (Courtesy: Likud)

Israelis protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the Israel's judicial system, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, March 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Coalition to push ahead with judicial overhaul, bills to assist Netanyahu and Deri

By Jeremy Sharon

Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks during a ceremony in Jerusalem on September 22, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

Sephardic chief rabbi calls for judicial reform dialogue to avoid civil war

Interview'Love is global today, like any other commodity'

A match made in desperation: New Israeli film unveils plight of mail-order brides

By Rich Tenorio

Playing at the Boston Israeli Film Festival, ‘Valeria is Getting Married’ touches on the murky morality of these mutualistic relationships – and their resulting emotional toll

Jamie Ben-Cnaan

The future Israelis we risk losing

Potential newcomers may be willing to sacrifice convenience and luxury – they won’t forego their democratic liberties

Israel is still a free country – but now with a warning sign

A top democracy index hasn’t yet ranked Israel with Hungary. That will change if the majority becomes all powerful

Netanyahu: Israel will 'get to the terrorists everywhere'

Palestinian Islamic Jihad claims senior engineer assassinated by Israel in Syria

By Emanuel Fabian

The Gaza Strip-based Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group on Sunday morning claimed one of its senior members, an engineer, was assassinated by Israel in Syria. In a statement, the military wing of the PIJ, the al-Quds Brigades, said Ali Ramzi al-Aswad, 31, was shot dead by "agents of... Continue Reading

Ali Ramzi al-Aswad, 31, a Palestinian Islamic Jihad engineer who was allegedly assassinated by Israel in Syria on March 19, 2023, in an image published by the terror group. (Courtesy)

Palestinian police stand next to an Israeli ride-sharing car driven by German tourists that was attacked by Palestinians in the West Bank city of Nablus, March 18, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Two German tourists attacked by Palestinians after entering Nablus with Israeli car

By Emanuel Fabian

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh (L) visits an apartment damaged by fires from torched vehicles during a rampage by settlers in the West Bank town of Huwara, March 1, 2023. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

PA premier Shtayyeh: ICC should order arrest of those who call to destroy villages

Fire and smoke rise above buildings in Gaza City as Israel launched airstrikes following rocket fire aimed at Israel from the Hamas-run Strip early on January 27, 2023. (Mahmud Hams / AFP)

Residents of south, opposition MKs slam government’s lack of response to Gaza rocket

‘They’re again forgetting us,’ says Sderot man after another attack from Hamas-ruled Strip apparently goes unanswered; ministers mum on failure to retaliate

File: Rockets being fired by Islamic Jihad toward Israel from the Gaza Strip, on August 5, 2022. (Attia Muhammed/Flash90)

IDF: Rocket launched from Gaza at south, causes no injuries

By Emanuel Fabian

Volunteers work to clear the flower mosaic at Horvat El-Bira in Shoham on March 14, 2023, on Good Deeds Day. (Emil Algam/IAA)

Rest your weary feet my friend

Ancient rest stop with flowery mosaic to host tired travelers once again

By Melanie Lidman

Israel Antiquities Authority teams up with residents from central town of Shoham during Good Deeds Day to spruce up 1,800-year-old spot for travelers to take a break

Rabbi Alberto (Baruch) Zeilicovich, seen at Eagle Beach in Aruba, recently came out of retirement to become the spiritual leader of Temple Beth Israel on the southern Caribbean island. (Dan Fellner/ JTA)

'Our community is a family, and we'll welcome you into it!'

Aruba’s new rabbi comes out of retirement to lead a congregation in ‘paradise’

After manning the pulpit in Medellin, Colombia, at the height of Pablo Escobar’s notorious reign, Baruch Zeilicovich feels ready for anything on the beautiful and serene island

Illustrative: A man sits with a laptop in a dark room (tanawit sabprasan; iStock by Getty Images)

ADL research: Conspiracy-minded Americans tend toward antisemitic views

Study finds close link between individuals’ belief in secretive plots and their agreement with negative stereotypes about Jews

A participant wearing a shirt mocking US President Joe Biden is seen before an Election Conspiracy Forum, March 11, 2023, in Franklin, Tennessee. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)

‘We are at war’: US election deniers remain force in GOP as 2024 vote nears

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY

Israeli police officers remove demonstrators blocking a highway during protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the Israel's judicial system, in Tel Aviv, Israel, March 18, 2023. (Ohad Zwigenberg/AP)

Dozens of psychiatrists warn of mental health dangers from judicial overhaul ‘trauma’

In letter to Netanyahu and Herzog, top specialists say sooner or later everyone in the country will feel ‘irreversible damage’ from impact of controversial changes

Thousands of Israeli protesters rally against Israeli Goverment's judicial overhaul bills in the coastal city of Tel Aviv on March 18, 2023. (Gili Yaari /Flash90)

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HaZamir singers at the 2013 Gala Concert. (Courtesy HaZamir via JTA)

How HaZamir youth choir serves as ‘an on-ramp to Jewish life’

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Illustrative: An ankle bracelet (Video screenshot WGN News; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Ministers to reconsider bill to monitor domestic abusers following latest murder

An Israeli police officer fires his gun into the air during clashes with Palestinians in East Jerusalem's Jabel Mukaber neighborhood, March 18, 2023. (Twitter screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Police clash with East Jerusalem residents while responding to crash

A Birthright Israel group exploring the desert. (Sarah Kornbluh)

Birthright Israel set to announce five-year ‘greening’ process

Illustrative -- Police tape hangs in Jerusalem. (Garrett Mills/Flash90)

Man found stabbed to death near entrance to southern town

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen attends a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, January 25, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

FM Cohen to visit UK ahead of Netanyahu visit, before heading to Poland

By Lazar Berman

The scene of a criminal shooting in the northern Arab town of Rameh, March 18, 2023. (Courtesy)

Man shot dead in apparent criminal dispute in northern Arab town

Former British prime minister Tony Blair speaks during an interview in central London on March 17, 2023. (Daniel Leal/AFP)

Tony Blair: Palestinians should draw lessons from Northern Ireland peace deal

By Jitendra Joshi

Illustrative: Point Zero Bridge in the center of Medellin, Columbia's second largest city. (CC BY-SA 3.0 Yimicorrea/Wikipedia)

Colombian police foil apparent kidnapping of Israeli tourist lured by Tinder date

By Michael Horovitz

Gary Lineker leaves his house in London on March 13, 2023. (Niklas Halle'n/AFP)

BBC soccer presenter back after suspension for likening government rhetoric to Nazis

By AFP

Shaima Dallali (formerly president of City Students’ Union) takes over as president of the UK National Union of Students. (Screenshot via YouTube)

Former UK student union head sues body after being ousted for alleged antisemitism

By Michael Horovitz

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