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What Matters Most On Tuesday, March 21, 2023

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

'Goal is not to take over and politicize judicial system'

‘Red line we won’t accept’: Levin warns Court not to block judicial appointments bill

Rothman gives opposition less than 12 hours to file objections with his committee before legislation readied for second and third (final) readings in the Knesset plenum

Economy Minister Nir Barkat speaks during a conference in Haifa, March 21, 2023. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

Likud’s Barkat: If High Court strikes down key overhaul law, I’ll respect its ruling

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Likud faction meeting in the Knesset, March 13, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Likud firmly backs new proposal to assert control over Judicial Selection Committee

The unauthorized West Bank settlement outpost of Homesh, November 17, 2022. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

US pans ‘provocative’ repeal of Disengagement Law, says it violates Israeli promises

By Michael Bachner

State Department spokesman ‘extremely troubled’ by vote to re-legitimize 4 West Bank settlements evacuated in 2005; slams ‘dangerous’ Smotrich claim there’s no Palestinian nation

7:25 pm

Knesset panel okays bill shielding Netanyahu from recusal for final plenum votes
7:19 pm

Opposition chiefs lambaste Smotrich call for dialogue while 'destroying democracy'
6:54 pm

US State Department blasts Smotrich remarks on Palestinians as 'dangerous'

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Knesset session on March 20, 2023 (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

5 bank heads to PM: Stop overhaul immediately, you’ll turn Israel into dictatorship

Top business leaders call on PM to halt contentious legislative process, saying it ‘undermines the foundations of democracy’ and will damage economy and society as a whole

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

Over 1,600 new immigrants join call for government to halt judicial overhaul

Cranes seen at the Hula Lake in northern Israel on January 26, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 21: ‘Major’ constitutional crisis & secret to Israel’s happiness

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant seen during a tour near the border with Lebanon, northern Israel, March 16, 2023. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Gallant reportedly says judicial overhaul may push him out as defense minister

Amid reports of growing wave of reservists’ refusal to serve, he warns in speech to officers that ‘widespread insubordination may harm the IDF’s ability to carry out its missions’

Illustrative: IDF soldiers of Palsar 401, the reconnaissance company of the Armored Corps, during training in the Golan Heights on April 11, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF top brass said to warn reservist no-shows could impact readiness within a month

Finance Ministry accountant general Yali Rothenberg speaks to manufacturers and high tech firms in Tel Aviv, March 20, 2023. (Sivan Farig/Courtesy)

Accountant general calls for ‘sustainable’ consensus on judicial overhaul

By Sharon Wrobel

Explainer

Ostensibly softened, Rothman bill gives coalition broad control over choice of judges

The Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee will begin voting on the new legislative proposal to overhaul Israel’s judicial appointments process on Tuesday, in preparation for the bill’s final readings in the Knesset plenum. The coalition intends to get the law enacted by the end of next week. (It passed its first reading in a... Continue Reading

Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee Chairman MK Simcha Rothman heads a committee hearing, March 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AnalysisChanges to judicial overhaul leave just 10 days to re-do constitutional framework

By Jeremy Sharon

Leader of the National Unity Party MK Benny Gantz speaks during a faction meeting, at the Knesset, March 20, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Gantz dismisses coalition’s offer to talk once law passes on choosing judges

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Behind the headlines

Confused and concerned? Join ToI for live in-depth analysis of the judicial overhaul

The coalition is ramping up its efforts to pass parts of the judicial overhaul package ahead of the upcoming Passover recess, even as hundreds of thousands of Israelis take to the street in protest every week. Where the legislation stands now and where it may be heading is becoming increasingly fraught and complex, with the coalition parties' rejection of President... Continue Reading

US, EU, UN and Egypt also take Smotrich to task

Jordan summons Israeli envoy over ‘racist’ Smotrich speech, ‘Greater Israel’ map

Jordan summoned the Israeli envoy in protest of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's speech at a conference in Paris over the weekend, during which he claimed the Palestinian people are an "invention" while standing behind a map of "Greater Israel" that includes modern-day Jordan. Neither side issued a statement... Continue Reading

Religious Zionism party head Bezalel Smotrich speaks on March 19, 2023, at a memorial service in Paris for prominent right-wing Likud activist and Jewish Agency board member Jacques Kupfer, who passed away after a long battle with cancer in 2021. (Screenshot via Ynet, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Knesset okays repeal of Disengagement Law for northern West Bank in 31-18 final vote

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff

The Knesset voted in the early hours of Tuesday morning to roll back legislation that ordered the evacuation of four northern West Bank settlements concurrent with Israel’s pullout from the Gaza Strip in 2005, passing the repeal in second and third (final) Knesset readings 31-18. The law, which won some support from opposition... Continue Reading

The Palestinian village of Burqa is seen as an Israeli flag is placed in the Jewish West Bank outpost of Homesh, January 17, 2022. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Aryeh Deri speaks during a Shas party faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on January 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bill aimed at returning Deri to cabinet passes first Knesset plenum reading

By ToI Staff and Jeremy Sharon

Proposal clears with 63 votes in favor to 55 against; Lapid: ‘A happy day for criminals’; Likud MK claims law ‘will strengthen the standing of the judicial branch’

Some Israelis are trying to leave the country over the political upheaval there, according to accounts from Israelis and organizations that help them emigrate. (Collage by Grace Yagel via JTA)

'Never in history has there been this level of demand'

‘My home is being undone’: Alarmed by Israel’s direction, more citizens weigh leaving

By Deborah Danan

‘Who am I to fight against what the majority has accepted?’ asks one, as coalition’s judicial overhaul advances; emigration facilitator sees 4-fold inquiry increase over last year

View of the HaEmek Medical Center in Afula, Israel on February 12, 2018. (Flash90/ File)

Bill to let hospitals ban leavened bread over Passover cleared for final readings

By Canaan Lidor

Legislation’s authors note proposal doesn’t include enforcement measures, as opposition lawmakers denounce so-called hametz law as an assault on civil liberties

The constitutional revolution wasn’t Aharon Barak’s

It was the Knesset, not the court, that made radical change. As for those early-state judges, they were never robots

Daphna Hacker and Yael Hashiloni–Dolev

Israeli liberals have been compromising for 75 years. Enough!

A racist, chauvinistic and inciting leadership has adopted terms such as equality and democracy to mobilize Israel toward an anti-democratic religious state

Shabtai: 'To put it politely, No one will frighten us'

Likud MK warns police chief, citizens could face probes, prosecution over protests

A Likud lawmaker said Monday night at the Knesset that "the day will come" when numerous individuals will be investigated and prosecuted over their part in nationwide protests against the government, warning the chief of police that he could find himself among them. Police commissioner Kobi Shabtai appeared... Continue Reading

Likud MK David Amsalem speaks in the Knesset in Jerusalem, on March 13, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

A flyer stuck to the side of a London Underground carriage on March 20, 2023 announcing demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to London (Channel 12 screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright law)

Netanyahu to be met by protests in London: ‘Don’t expect a relaxing weekend’

Author Margaret Atwood attends the Glamour Women of the Year Awards in New York on Nov. 11, 2019. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Demonstrating dystopia‘Handmaid’s Tale’ author nods at inclusion in Israel protests

By ToI Staff and AP

Interview

What’s in a name? Poignant documentary plumbs identity of complex Israeli young man

By Rich Tenorio

Screening in Boston on March 21, Tomer Heymann’s award-winning film ‘I am Not’ follows Oren, an adopted Guatemala-born Israeli, on a journey beyond his multiple diagnoses

Guns seized from two Palestinians who are accused of planning to carry out a shooting attack in Jerusalem, in a handout photo from the Shin Bet published March 21, 2023. (Shin Bet)

Shin Bet busts Gaza-directed terror cell planning shooting, bombing attacks

By Emanuel Fabian

Agency says 2 West Bank Palestinians detained days ahead of carrying out ‘significant’ shooting in Jerusalem for Popular Resistance Committees, along with 2 recruited for bombing

A Palestinian from the West Bank is seen stabbing an Israeli woman in the coastal city of Netanya, March 12, 2023. (Israel Police)

Palestinian to be charged for stabbing woman in Netanya; coat saved her from harm

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli troops are seen vandalizing a Palestinian truck in the West Bank town of Ni’lin, March 16, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Israeli army probes soldiers seen vandalizing car in Palestinian town

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says troops’ behavior ‘inconsistent with IDF values’ after clip shows them slashing tires and smashing windows of truck in Ni’lin

The scene where Palestinian-owned cars and the wall of a home was graffitied in a suspected settler hate crime in the West Bank city of Salfit, March 20, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Settler extremists suspected of vandalizing cars in Palestinian city

By Emanuel Fabian

Security forces gear up for Ramadan as tensions remain high in Jerusalem, West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli security forces are once again gearing up for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which coincides with the Jewish holiday of Passover this year, with tension already high across the West Bank and in Jerusalem. Police anticipate hundreds of thousands of visitors -- mainly Palestinians -- will come to Jerusalem during Ramadan,... Continue Reading

File: Border Police officers guard the entrance to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem's Old City on April 19, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Palestinians gather in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on the Temple Mount before the Friday noon prayer in Jerusalem on January 27, 2023. (AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP)

Israel to ease Palestinians’ entry to Jerusalem ahead of Ramadan

By Emanuel Fabian

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir signs an order to shutter the Jerusalem office of the Voice of Palestine radio station on March 20, 2023. (National Security Ministry)

Ben Gvir signs order to bar PA-backed Voice of Palestine’s operations in Israel

‘Hypocritical’: Ben & Jerry’s sued over child labor, after attempted Israel boycott

NEW YORK -- Ben & Jerry's has been hit with a class action lawsuit and charges of hypocrisy for the use of child labor in its supply chain, despite the ice cream maker's declared commitment to social justice causes, an image it holds up as a key... Continue Reading

A Ben & Jerry's shop in Burlington, Vermont, July 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

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Former US president Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, March 4, 2023. (Alex Brandon/AP)

Trump calls for protests ahead of ‘arrest,’ slams George Soros again

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi, left, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 1, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud argues fine print gives current Knesset an extra year in power

File: In this photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, Iranians protests the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was detained by the morality police while in custody, in Tehran, October 27, 2022. (Middle East Images/AP)

UN expert accuses Iran of possible ‘crimes against humanity’ since Amini death

By AFP

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen (left) and his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba speak during a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 16, 2023. (Gleb Garanich/Pool/AFP)

Kyiv says it is frustrated with pace of delivery on Israeli promises

By Lazar Berman

Former mayor of Or Akiva Yaakov Edri. (Screenshot/YouTube; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Or Akiva mayor hit with raft of charges, including for bribery, assault

The sun over forests near Jerusalem on September 2, 2021. (Nati Shohat/ Flash90)

Climate change-induced heat stress may claim 330 Israeli lives per summer by 2100

A child is given an oral vaccine for polio in Neve Yaakov, Jerusalem, on September 10 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel Pediatric Association urges immediate vaccination drive against polio

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Cranes fly in formation out of Israel and into Syria on the Golan Heights, December 14, 2022. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Number of overwintering cranes in Hula Valley drops as authorities reduce feeding

Illustrative: Lazio fans cheer during the Italian Serie A soccer match between Napoli and Lazio on March 3, 2023, at the Diego-Maradona stadium in Naples. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP)

Italian Jewish community condemns Lazio fans’ antisemitic chants, ‘Hitlerson’ jersey

By AFP

Fashion designer David Weksler's models battle it out on the runway in Tel Aviv Kornit Fashion Week, March 19, 2023 (Courtesy Haydon Perrior)

Counter-coutureTel Aviv Fashion Week sees anti-overhaul protest on the runway

By Jessica Steinberg

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