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What Matters Most On Friday, March 24, 2023

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Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, left, welcomes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at 10 Downing Street in London, March 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Cries of 'shame' as Netanyahu approaches 10 Downing Street

Sunak stresses ‘democratic values’ to Netanyahu, as hundreds outside protest overhaul

In rare move, no public statements after PM hosted in London; large crowds call to save Israeli democracy; British premier also urges sides to de-escalate West Bank violence

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, with British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, during a meeting with leaders of the UK Jewish community, November 5, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

As Netanyahu flies to London, UK chief rabbi calls for ‘Jewish unity’ around world

By David I. Klein

Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and his wife Sara ascend a plane before taking off for London, March 24, 2023. (Amy Spiro/Times of Israel)

After delays, Netanyahu finally leaves for London, where more protesters await

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Left: Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara at her welcome ceremony in Jerusalem on February 8, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on January 11, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

PM source says he denies any violation, must handle crisis

AG says Netanyahu is breaking the law and in violation of conflict of interest deal

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Baharav-Miara: PM’s declaration that he will get involved in judicial overhaul violates court ruling; this and any further such acts ‘illegal and tainted by conflict of interest’

Protest leaders slam 'bizarre display by dictator-in-making'

PM: I’ll intervene to make overhaul ‘balanced’ — but judge selection bill will pass

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Addressing his government's judicial shakeup for the first time since he was given legal cover to do so Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his government will continue to charge ahead with the plan "responsibly," while aiming to pass a core tenet of the overhaul next week. The prime minister attempted to strike... Continue Reading

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes a statement to the nation on the judicial overhaul on March 23, 2023. (Screen capture)

Illustrative: 100 shekel banknotes, seen December 31, 2017. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Shekel slumps after Netanyahu speech vowing to push ahead with overhaul legislation

Defense Minister Yoav Galant speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a vote in the Knesset, on February 15, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Drama in Likud: Gallant nixes press event, likely would have called to stop overhaul

Yokohama transforms into a tech innovation hub of East Asia

The city aims to attract foreign talent in technology and research to become a powerhouse beyond Japan’s shores

A protester lies on the ground and acts dead during demonstrations against the judicial overhaul in Tel Aviv, March 23, 2023. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Citing ‘Islamo-Nazi ideologies,’ judge refuses to free anti-overhaul demonstrator

Tel Aviv court’s Menachem Klein claims protesters aim ‘to destroy our country,’ recalls trip to Holocaust sites in call for Jewish unity; lawyer slams ‘political statements’

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

Op-ed

Netanyahu crushes a potential mini-revolt, insists on politicizing the judiciary

A day of extraordinary drama in the bitterly divided State of Israel -- which saw escalated protests against the government's imminent judicial revolution, and the first signs of real dissent in Benjamin Netanyahu's governing Likud -- ended with the prime minister declaring that the core legislation, to give the coalition almost complete control over... Continue Reading

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (left), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi observe a joint US, Israeli military exercise at the Air Force command center, January 25, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Physicist Dr. Shikma Bressler, co-founder of the Black Flag protest movement. (Eldad Rafaeli, Photoactive)

ToI podcast'We have to look straight, move forward and win this thing'

What Matters Now to arrested activist/physicist Shikma Bressler: ‘Saving Israel’

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

The nation watched Thursday as the world-renowned scientist, a leader in the anti-judicial overhaul protest movement, was dragged to a police car. Hear why she is still optimistic

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

By Jeremy Sharon

After arrest at protest, ‘Our Boys’ director Hagai Levi calls overhaul ‘a blasphemy’

By Jessica Steinberg

Acclaimed Israeli director Hagai Levi lashed the new government and its judicial overhaul after being arrested while filming police at a protest on Thursday. Levi called the government's effort to diminish the judiciary "a huge hilul hashem," a blasphemous act that violates the prohibition in the Torah of... Continue Reading

Israeli screenwriter Hagai Levi poses for a picture during an interview with AFP on January 7, 2020 in Tel Aviv. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Hagai Levi poses for photographers at the photo call for the film 'Scenes of a Marriage' during the 78th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, September, 4, 2021. (Joel C. Ryan/Invision/AP)

Award-winning director Hagai Levi detained at anti-overhaul rally in Tel Aviv

From the blogs

Shmuel Rabinowitz

In honor of our common patriarch Abraham

A call from the rabbi of the Kotel to religious leaders of the communities of believers in Jerusalem: there is one father for all of us

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

God’s call to Moses – and us

Even if animal sacrifice was meaningful to our ancestors, how do bloody, flayed, dismembered limbs make sense today? (Vayikra)

The full-bodied experience of life needs relationships and community

Help Jewish teens avoid ’diseases of despair’ by connecting them to spiritual practices and the deep roots of their heritage

To Zev Chafets: ‘Othering’ Jews is the opposite of the Zionist dream

When you badmouth Israel’s Haredim, you display your prejudice against this segment of the population. You’re also wrong

Let’s talk about ‘foreign meddling’ in Israeli politics

Yes, Israeli left-wing causes get money from abroad. You know who else gets money from abroad – and lots of it?

Protesters march against the government's judicial overhaul plans, in Bnei Brak, on March 23, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Thousands march through Haredi enclave Bnei Brak as ‘Day of Paralysis’ ends

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff

Some residents set off fireworks against anti-overhaul demonstrators; others greet them with food, water; cops shove ex-police minister Omer Barlev at Petah Tikva protest

Israelis protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul, near the Prime Minister's official residence in Jerusalem, March 23, 2023. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Police called in as protesters hem in overhaul architect Rothman

Left: Opposition leader Yair Lapid speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on March 20, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90). Right: Transportation Minister Miri Regev attends a conference in Tel Aviv on March 22, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Lapid rebuffs Regev request for joint call against protesting on Independence Day

Muslims offer prayer on the first Friday of Ramadan outside the Dome of Rock at the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, Friday, March 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Jerusalem security forces on alert as tens of thousands at 1st Friday Ramadan prayers

Senior police officer stresses non-Muslims to be barred from Temple Mount during holiday; estimated 83,000 worship at Al-Aqsa Mosque without incident

Palestinian policemen participate in a training session at their headquarters in the West Bank city of Hebron on January 30, 2019. (Hazem Bader/AFP)

Report: Israel offered PA full security duties over city as pilot, Ramallah refused

Analysis

Would the High Court dare strike down the coalition’s judicial appointments law?

With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterating Thursday night that the coalition will next week push to enact the first part of its judicial overhaul agenda, namely the law to take control of judicial appointments, the question of whether or not the High Court of Justice will strike down such a law is becoming increasingly... Continue Reading

File: Supreme Court President Esther Hayut (left), with then-minister of Justice Ayelet Shaked and then-finance minister Moshe Kahlon at a meeting of the Judicial Selection Committee, at the Ministry of Justice in Jerusalem, on February 22, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

Patient using Prism for PTSD along with Prism’s interactive audio/visual interface. This prescribed treatment is administered under the supervision of healthcare professionals (Courtesy of GrayMatters Health)

In first, FDA okays Israel-developed brain modulation device to treat PTSD

By Renee Ghert-Zand

GrayMatters Health says world’s first non-invasive apparatus for stress disorder will teach patients how to regulate activity in the part of the brain that controls emotion

Fraidy Reiss is the founder and executive director of Unchained At Last, a non-profit that’s been battling arranged and forced marriages for the past 12 years. (Photo copyright Susan Landman via JTA)

'I was a housewife at 14 but nobody seemed to care'

A fake reality show trailer shines light on the real issue of US child marriage

Founded by a former Haredi woman, the organization Unchained at Last releases ‘Unseen Housewives’ to raise awareness that such arrangements are still legal in 43 states

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Caskets containing bones found on the grounds of the Freie Universitat, Free University are lowered into the ground for burial, at the Waldfriedhof in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, March 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Bones kept by German former eugenics institute buried in Berlin

By Geir Moulson

Musician Roger Waters performs during his 'Us + Them' tour at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA, on June 20, 2017. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images/AFP)

Munich says it can’t block Roger Waters concert, will have to ‘endure’ it

By JTA

InterviewIsraeli-American tech CEO opens first R&D center in Tel Aviv amid judicial jitters

By Sharon Wrobel

Lit-up apartment building in Petah Tikva, August 2021. (Itay Tamir via iStock by Getty Images)

Housing snapshot: Home sales and rentals across Israel

By Danielle Nagler

Illustrative: People swimming in the Dead Sea as the sun rises over the hills at Ein Bokek beach on September 6, 2022 (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Clocks in Israel jump forward overnight with start of daylight saving time

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich presents economic and budget plans for 2023-2024, February 28, 2023. (Courtesy)

New state budget will increase deficit, may aggravate inflation woes

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Illustrative: Crewmen enter Bradley fighting vehicles at a US military base at an undisclosed location in Northeastern Syria, on Nov. 11, 2019. (AP /Darko Bandic)

US says contractor killed, troops wounded in Iranian drone attack in Syria

Syrian President Bashar Assad listens to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, March 15, 2023. (Vladimir Gerdo, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Saudi Arabia, Syria discuss restoring ties amid Mideast reshuffling

Illustrative: A soldier from the IDF's Military Intelligence Directorate works at a computer. (Israel Defense Forces)

Military Intel soldier jailed for 27 months for leaking classified information

By Emanuel Fabian

At the House of Jaffa fashion show during Kornit Fashion Week in Tel Aviv, March 22, 2023 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Desert chicGenderless collection hits runway on last day of Fashion Week

By Jessica Steinberg

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