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What Matters Most On Sunday, March 26, 2023

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Defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks in a televised address on March 25, 2023, urging a pause to the government's judicial overhaul legislation. (Courtesy)

Move could imperil coalition majority for key upcoming votes

Gallant calls to pause judicial overhaul, citing ‘tangible danger’ to state security

By Emanuel Fabian and Alexander Fulbright

Breaking with PM, defense minister warns ‘the source of our strength is eroding’; 2 Likud members back his call for dialogue, others slam his ‘surrender,’ Ben Gvir wants him fired

Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Yuli Edelstein arrives for a committee hearing, March 16, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Edelstein: ‘Didn’t miss earlier overhaul votes by chance, hope common sense prevails’

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem on March 22, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Two Likud MKs back Gallant’s call to pause overhaul; others urge PM to fire him

By Ash Obel and Michael Bachner

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chair MK Avi Dichter, left, at an FADC meeting in the Knesset, November 19, 2018. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Dichter, possibly in line for defense chief seat, says he will back overhaul

Declaration of ex-Shin Bet chief’s full support for court-curbing legislation follows reports that he’d joined calls for talks; Likud MK Dallal also won’t break with party

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant arrives for a weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 29, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM said to mull firing dissenting defense chief Gallant, tapping Dichter instead

File: Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, left, speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a vote in the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, February 15, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar 26: Netanyahu vs his defense minister on judicial overhaul pause

Israelis opposed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial overhaul plan set up bonfires and block a highway during a protest moments after the Israeli leader fired his defense minister, in Tel Aviv, Israel, March 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Oren Ziv)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu said to now back overhaul freeze; anti-riot police clear out Tel Aviv rally

By Luke Tress and ToI Staff

Cops use water cannon, mounted officers to forcefully remove demonstrators from Ayalon Highway; prime minister and Deri said in favor of halting legislation after mammoth protests

1:29 am

Workers begin to clear debris from Tel Aviv highway after mass protest
1:13 am

Leading protest group calls for 2 p.m. demonstration at the Knesset
1:00 am

National student group declares strike, joining universities

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

Israelis block the Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv during a protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul, on March 25, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Organizers claim 630,000 rally as Gallant urges laws be paused

Hundreds of thousands join nationwide protests, with key overhaul law about to pass

200,000 rally in Tel Aviv ahead of planned ‘week of paralysis,’ with coalition set to pass law to take control of judicial appointments; 44 held, water cannon used to clear highway

Israeli police use a water cannon to disperse Israelis blocking a highway during a protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system in Tel Aviv, Israel, March 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Live updates (closed)Police detain 44 as all protesters are removed from Tel Aviv’s Ayalon Highway

A Holocaust survivor shows his prisoner number tattooed on his arm. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

50 Holocaust survivors urge stop to judicial overhaul: ‘Shattering Jewish democracy’

Op-ed

With dire public warning, Gallant tries to compel Netanyahu to put state before self

As the vast crowds made their way along Tel Aviv's Kaplan Street on Saturday night, for their twelfth successive week of escalating protests against the bid by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition to take over the judiciary, many carried the national flag -- the most potent possible symbol of their demand for the democratic, tolerant Jewish Israel promised in... Continue Reading

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and then-immigrant absorption minister Yoav Gallant hold a press conference at the Knesset, January 9, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/ Flash90/ File)

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks in a televised address on March 25, 2023, urging a pause to the government's judicial overhaul legislation. (Courtesy)

Full text of Gallant’s call to pause judicial overhaul over danger to state security

Illustrative: Three pilots stand in front of an F-16 fighter jet as it takes off from the Israeli Air Force's 117th Squadron, which was closed on September 30, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

1,000 retired pilots announce support for reservists halting training over overhaul

Israeli soldiers are deployed at the scene where a Palestinian gunman opened fire at soldiers in the West Bank town of Huwara, March 25, 2023. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

IDF: Two soldiers wounded in shooting in West Bank town of Huwara

By Emanuel Fabian

Assailant flees scene after carrying out drive-by attack in flashpoint town on Route 60 highway, the third shooting there in recent weeks

An Israeli soldier stands guard in the West Bank town of Huwara, early March 26, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Troops fire at Israeli man who allegedly ran West Bank checkpoint after Huwara attack

By Emanuel Fabian

MK Simcha Rothman, head of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, right, during a committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on March 26, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Panel head churns through judicial appointment objections; opposition: ‘Dictator’

By Jeremy Sharon

Far-right committee chair Rothman aims to get through thousands of reservations to planned judicial overhaul, amid heated protests; Knesset legal adviser called in to restore order

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

Knesset to see decisive week for Supreme Court, as cracks appear in coalition

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Prof. Moshe Koppel receiving a prize in Jerusalem on June 4, 2019. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Head of think tank behind judicial push sees dead end for ‘idiotic’ override clause

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

From the blogs

We rejected our fanatics. What are you doing about yours?

I find myself asking why every action Arabs take to foster peace with Israel is met with a rising tide of Israeli extremism

MK Moshe Gafni, right, and MK Yitzhak Goldknopf speak during a meeting of the United Torah Judaism party at the Knesset in Jerusalem on December 5, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Hametz law set to pass, in time for hospitals to ban non-kosher food on Passover

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Softened version of ultra-Orthodox-led bill lets hospitals forbid leavened products, but does not explicitly permit enforcement

Judges shouldn’t participate in appointing their successors

In the US, judges are left out of the process entirely – and history shows why there’s good reason for that policy

Jonathan A. Greenblatt

Only compromises last

This no time to fall prey to the demons of divisiveness and polarization that have devoured so many other democracies

Reporter's notebook

Bookended by protests, Netanyahu’s London trip overshadowed by overhaul dissent

The chants likely sounded familiar. Cries of "de-mo-cra-cy" and "shame" in Hebrew rang out through most of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's weekend trip to London. If the Israeli leader thought he could escape his domestic troubles in the British capital, he was sorely mistaken. From the moment he arrived at 10 Downing Street Friday morning to... Continue Reading

A sign reading 'Democracy' adorned with Israel's Declaration of Independence at a protest outside the Savoy Hotel in London where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was staying on March 24, 2023. (Amy Spiro/Times of Israel)

In a screenshot of social media video, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara are seen dining at Gordon Ramsey’s River Restaurant in London, March 24, 2023. (Twitter screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Netanyahu dines at non-kosher restaurant in London over Shabbat

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during a discussion and a vote in the Knesset, Jerusalem, on March 22, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu rejects contempt of court petition against him as ‘attempted coup’

By ToI Staff and AP

Lawyer for PM denies High Court justices have authority to hear claim premier allegedly breached conflict of interest agreement

Naot shoemaker on spiritual journey joins paths with singer for healing event in NY

Co-owner of Israeli shoe brand-turned-spiritual counselor Susan Lax teams up with the artist known simply as Shira on Mar. 26 for a performance that is sure to strike a chord

Omar Sawaed, shot dead in Kafr Yasif on March 26, 2023. (Courtesy; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Man dies after being shot in gunfight with police, then thrown from escape car

Police say officer encountered drive-by shooting in Kafr Yasif, engaged suspects who opened fire on him; suspect Omar Sawaed injured in exchange, pushed from vehicle by comrades

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Fidaa Kiwan. (Courtesy)

After Herzog plea, UAE frees Israeli woman serving life sentence for drug smuggling

Fidaa Kiwan, originally sentenced to death after being caught with cocaine, has said she was set up; Emirati ruler grants pardon as gesture to Israeli president; she returns home

More Headlines

File: a US AH-64 Apache attack helicopter flies above US soldiers patrolling along the frontlines between areas held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Turkish-backed fighters near the village of Dardara in the countryside of Tal Tamr in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province, December 26, 2021. (Delil souleiman/AFP)

Tehran blasts US for retaliatory strikes on Iranian-backed forces in Syria

By AFP

Kanye West watches the first half of an NBA basketball game between the Washington Wizards and the Los Angeles Lakers in Los Angeles, on March 11, 2022. (AP/Ashley Landis)

Kanye West says he likes Jews again after watching movie with Jonah Hill

Fighters loyal to Yemen's Saudi-backed government take part in a parade during a graduation ceremony of officers and the completion of specialized military courses, in the country's northeastern province of Marib, on March 17, 2023. (Photo by - / AFP)

‘Stuck in a swamp’: With Iran detente, Saudi Arabia seeks exit from Yemen war

By Hashem Osseiran

Former US President Donald Trump stands while a song, 'Justice for All,' is played during a campaign rally at Waco Regional Airport, as footage from the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol is displayed in the background, March 25, 2023, in Waco, Texas. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump holds first 2024 campaign rally, dismissing potential looming indictment

By Jill Colvin and Michelle L. Price

A Ukrainian soldier of the 28th brigade fires a grenade launcher on the frontline during a battle with Russian troops near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, March 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos)

UK says Russia ‘largely stalled’ in Bakhmut, shifting focus

By AP

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