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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 23, 2023

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Police use a water cannon to disperse demonstrators blocking the freeway during a protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system in Tel Aviv, Israel, March 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Bereaved families protest; key protest leader briefly held

Mounted police, water cannons disperse protesters in Tel Aviv, Haifa; dozens arrested

‘Day of Paralysis’ rallies rage nationwide against judicial overhaul; Ayalon Highway blocked for hours; in lead-up to controversial Bnei Brak rally, president urges restraint

Students protest against the judicial overhaul, in Jerusalem, March 23, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Day of paralysis’: Anti-overhaul activists block roads, bring protest to ministers

Protest leader Shikma Bressler is arrested by police during protests on Route 4, March 23, 2023. (Screenshot)

Opposition decries ‘political arrests’ as several central protest leaders detained

By Jeremy Sharon

Shikma Bressler, Kalanit Sharon, Rotem Perelman-Farhi arrested during nationwide rallies; cops say at least two of the arrests were due to ‘disturbance of public order’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) speaks with Education Minister Yoav Kisch in the Knesset, March 22, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman to petition Court: 'Won't allow Netanyahu monarchy'

Knesset passes law shielding Netanyahu from court-ordered recusal 61-47

By ToI Staff and Carrie Keller-Lynn

Final readings of Likud-sponsored bill, seen as tailored to save PM from potential legal trouble, approved after long night of heated debate; Lapid blasts ‘obscene, corrupt law’

A convoy of motorcycles with Israeli flags as part of a protest against the planned judicial overhaul, in Herzliya, on March 23, 2023. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar 23: Recusal law passes just before ‘day of paralysis’ dawns

The Knesset's Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee headed by Religious Zionism MK Simcha Rothman meets to vote on more than 5,000 reservations to the judicial appointments bill, on March 22, 2023. (Committee spokesperson's office)

Knesset panel to resume vote on reservations to judicial appointments bill on Sunday

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff

Pinchas Goldschmidt. (Flash90)

'Unrestricted' podcast

Rabbi Pinchas Goldshmidt on Moscow’s Jewish community

Join Steve and the exiled Chief Rabbi of Moscow – Rabbi Pinchas Goldshmidt – as they discuss the challenges of rebuilding this Jewish community.

Op-ed

This Passover, Israel will recall ancient freedom under the threat of modern tyranny

This Editor’s Note was sent out earlier Wednesday in ToI’s weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel Community. To receive these Editor’s Notes as they’re released, join the ToI Community here. Two weeks from now, the people of Israel will sit down for the Passover Seder, recounting and reliving the story of our... Continue Reading

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

Analysis‘Gun is on the table’: Both sides of overhaul clash say constitutional crisis coming

Police use horses to disperse Israelis protesting against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, March 23, 2023to . (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Live updates (closed)

PM says he’ll intervene to balance overhaul, judge selection bill moving forward

In address, Netanyahu says he is attentive to concerns of opponents and will work to safeguard civil rights, but key component of plan to proceed next week without change

9:52 pm

Dozens of protesters rally outside Gallant's home, demand he give canceled address
9:42 pm

Police escort Rothman out of Tel Aviv area residence after protesters block door
9:21 pm

Police arrest 76 anti-government protesters in 'day of paralysis,' release 73

Rabbi Shlomo Dov Rosen of the Yakar Jerusalem Center attends a prayer for unity near Knesset in Jerusalem on March 22, 2023. (Canaan Lidor)

Between the court and the Knesset, overhaul critics and advocates pray for unity

By Canaan Lidor

Songs replace speeches at an unusual rally focused on healing the deepening political and societal rift

IDF reservists block Route 1 to protest the government's planned judicial overhaul, March 1, 2023 (Courtesy/Brothers in Arms)

IDF chief said to warn PM of deepening military crisis if judicial overhaul approved

Halevi, Netanyahu meet in Jerusalem for routine security briefing, during which military leader reportedly conveys worries over deepening upheaval

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)

As more reservists refuse to serve, IDF said seeing drop in troops reporting for duty

AnalysisJudicial overhaul can’t trump civil war, Jewish Agency and its US backers tell PM

By Canaan Lidor

Analysis

PM’s failure to secure calm on home front hastens inevitable breakdown in US ties

Despite the vast political differences between the United States and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new hardline government, the Biden administration made clear from the get-go in December that it was still interested in and committed to strengthening ties with Israel. Joe Biden leads a Democratic party whose sympathies are gradually moving away from Israel, but... Continue Reading

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

Khaldoon Al Mubarak at a soccer match in England, April 10, 2018. (Anthony Devlin/AFP)

Senior UAE official dispatched to warn Netanyahu over potential crisis in ties

Jordan's parliament displays a map of modern day Jordan, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza painted with the Jordanian and Palestinian flags, in Amman, March 23, 2022. (Video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Amman’s parliament displays Israel with Palestine-Jordan flag, calls to expel envoy

Liberals can’t seduce Haredim with modernity. Haredim can’t seduce liberals with the Talmud. It’s time to stop pretending

Michael Brenner

Herzl to Heritage Minister Eliyahu: Have you actually read my books?

A missive from the father of modern Zionism to the politician who quoted him: I like to keep religion and state separate

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

As judicial overhaul advances and fight heats up, Netanyahu heading for London

By Lazar Berman

PM to meet British counterpart Rishi Sunak to talk Iran during weekend trip, with protesters preparing rallies against his domestic policies

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen (left) and Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau in Warsaw on March 22, 2023 (Foreign Ministry)

‘Crisis over’: Israeli, Polish FMs sign deal to mend ties, return envoy to Tel Aviv

By Lazar Berman

Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks from the podium, right, and opposition members shout at him from the side, in the Knesset, on March 22, 2023. (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset)

Likud MKs reportedly frustrated with minister's whims

MKs confront Ben Gvir with cries of ‘shame’ as bill to monitor abusers voted down

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff

Chaos erupts in Knesset, with opposition members standing near podium yelling at minister, waving electronic bracelets that measure would have forced on domestic abuse offenders

File: Christian Zionists at a 2013 Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem. (Times of Israel/Lazar Berman)

'I just do what the Lord asked me to do here in Israel'

Despite PM’s assurances, Christian Zionists bedeviled by anti-missionary bill

By Lazar Berman

UTJ-sponsored bill, submitted at start of every Knesset, is not meant to become law, says spokesman — but millions of Christian supporters of Israel globally have taken notice

Before Codex Sassoon, the oldest and the most complete ancient Bible, is sold at auction in New York, Tel Aviv's Anu Museum will have it on display March 23-29, 2023 (Courtesy Anu)

Oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible manuscript on display in Israel for 1st time

By Jessica Steinberg

The Codex Sassoon, valued at $30-$50 million, can be viewed for free at Tel Aviv’s Anu Museum ahead of its Sotheby’s New York sale

Illustrative: Police and community safety vehicles at a Jewish event in Brooklyn, New York City, May 19, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Record 3,700 antisemitic incidents reported in US in 2022, says ADL

Large increases recorded in attacks on Orthodox Jews, bomb threats, white supremacist propaganda and racism in schools, group’s annual audit finds

A tweet sent by the Michigan Republican Party comparing gun-control measures to the Holocaust, March 22, 2023. (Screenshot via JTA)

Michigan GOP tweet compares gun control to the Holocaust

By Andrew Lapin

Illustrative: Pro-Palestinian demonstrators in New York City, March 30, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

NYC public college under fire for funding, organizing anti-Israel activities

Behind the headlines

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

Send in your questions and on March 26, ToI Community members will have exclusive access to ToI editor David Horovitz and senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur’s sometimes divergent takes

An assault rifle and other military gear seized by Israeli forces from a wanted Palestinian gunman who was killed, March 23, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Wanted Palestinian gunman killed by Israeli forces in West Bank raid

By Emanuel Fabian

Police say Amir Khadijah behind series of shootings near Tulkarem; Israeli motorists, army post targeted in separate shooting attacks

Supporters of the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah attend a televised speech by the group's leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut's southern suburbs, on February 16, 2023. (Anwar Amro/ AFP)

Hezbollah chief says Megiddo bombing ‘confused’ Israel, won’t comment further

By Emanuel Fabian

A general view of a United Nations security council meeting at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on March 20, 2023. (Ed Jones/AFP)

UN Security Council meeting calls for letup in flaring Israeli-Palestinian violence

By AFP

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Illustrative. In vitro fertilization (IVF) of an egg cell. (iStock by Getty Images/ man_at_mouse)

Panel finds Assuta Rishon Lezion IVF mix-up due to embryologists’ too-heavy workload

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Illustrative: green beans. (Courtesy)

Health Ministry recalls Telefrost green beans after bacteria spotted

Tel Aviv's financial business district skyline, June 2022. (Elijah Lovkoff via iStock by Getty Images)

Tel Aviv startup ecosystem ranks 2nd in Europe, Mideast and Africa, behind London

By Sharon Wrobel

A man is attacked as he walked home from a Birmingham mosque, March 20, 2023. (Screenshot/YouTube; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

UK man charged with attempting to murder two people outside mosques

By AFP

A makeshift memorial stands outside the Tree of Life Synagogue in the aftermath of a deadly shooting in Pittsburgh, October 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Lawyers for Pittsburgh synagogue shooter say he has schizophrenia, brain impairments

By MARK SCOLFORO

Illustrative: Israeli students at a high school in the southern city of Ashdod, November 29, 2020. (Flash90)

Education Ministry won’t fire teachers who ran racist chat mocking black students

A courtroom sketch depicts former Melbourne school principal Malka Leifer at the County Court of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, February 8, 2023. (Mollie McPherson/AAP Image via AP)

Jury deliberation begins in Australian sex abuse trial for Israeli principal Leifer

By AP and Jacob Magid

Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman and the head of the United Russia party Dmitry Medvedev arrives to attend the talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping at The Grand Kremlin Palace, in Moscow, Russia, March 21, 2023. (Alexey Maishev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russia’s security chief blasts West, dangles nuclear threats

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

Avi Miller, right, ran Israel Baseball's Twitter account during the 2023 World Baseball Classic. (Left: Screenshot from Twitter, Right: Courtesy/via JTA)

Israel struck out at World Baseball Classic, but team’s Twitter account was a hit

By jacob gurvis

A worker cleans an area in the historical Sunehri mosque, ahead of the upcoming Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, in Peshawar, Pakistan, March 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Ramadan mubarak: Holy month of fasting begins for Muslims across the world

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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