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What Matters Most On Friday, April 28, 2023

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An aerial photo of the pro-judicial overhaul rally in Jerusalem on April 27, 2023. (Flash90)

Levin: High Court protects rapists; Sa'ar: Grave incitement

In show of force, 200,000 urge gov’t not to abandon overhaul amid compromise talks

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Participants at right-wing rally claim coalition’s bid to weaken judiciary represents the silenced will of the people; Levin: Charge that these reforms spell dictatorship is a lie

Supporters of the government's judicial reform efforts gather in Jerusalem, April 27, 2023 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)

‘Minority can’t rule here’: In Jerusalem, pro-overhaul protesters stand by government

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

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

Police briefly arrest 2 after Barkat says he was attacked outside Tel Aviv venue

Analysis

Shalom Yerushalmi

An uncompromising right could drag Netanyahu down a more hardline path

On the morning after Thursday's major right-wing rally in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to lack a consistent approach toward his own government's judicial overhaul plan: At times he appears to be leading the charge, at others he is being led by members of his coalition, and on yet other occasions he is acquiescing to its opponents. A few... Continue Reading

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the 75th anniversary Independence Day ceremony, held at Mount Herzl, Jerusalem on April 25, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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)

Netanyahu’s lawyers have met with AG to discuss non-binding mediation in graft trial

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, center, waves as he stands with Hezbollah members and Lebanese lawmakers with the Israeli side of the border in the background, during a visit to the village of Maroun el-Rass on the Lebanon-Israel border, south Lebanon, April 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Overlooking Israel from Lebanon border, Iran’s FM says ‘Zionist collapse’ is near

On a tour of Maroun al-Ras, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says ‘resistance’ in Lebanon in better condition than ever, and ‘Zionists understand only strength’

Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, head of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) (right) and IDF chief Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, visit the Israeli Navy’s elite Shayetet 13 commando unit, April 27, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

US CENTCOM chief arrives in Israel to discuss cooperation, joint naval activity

By Emanuel Fabian

File: Syrian children run through the snow in the Syrian refugee camp of al-Hilal in the village of al-Taybeh near Baalbek in Lebanon's Bekaa valley, on January 20, 2022. (AFP)

‘I’d rather die’: Syrians in Lebanon fear prison, torture if deported home

By Aya Iskandarani and Rouba El Husseini

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File: Noam chair Avi Maoz speaks during a function at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on March 20, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Far-right MK ’embarrassed’ by gay Knesset speaker’s husband attending events

In letter to activists, Noam party chair Avi Maoz decries prominence of same-sex couple at recent state ceremonies ‘as though this were an authentic and acceptable Jewish norm’

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)

Shaked tells ToI she was able to diversify the judiciary under current system

By Tal Schneider

While the Netanyahu coalition claims the current selection committee produces an unrepresentative bench, Shaked says she used it to build ‘an entire camp’ of conservative justices

Analysis

Carrie Keller-Lynn

Mass right-wing protest highlights deepening divide between Netanyahu and Levin

Thursday night's 200,000-person show of force in support of the government's plan to substantively weaken judicial checks on political power underscored the fraying of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's strongest relationship within his Likud party -- the one with his justice minister and longtime confidant, Yariv Levin. In December, Netanyahu agreed to unfetter Levin's two-decade-long crusade to radically constrain Israel's top... Continue Reading

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) speaks with Justice Minister Yariv Levin during the weekly meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on April 2, 2023. (RONEN ZVULUN / POOL / AFP)

Chana Tannenbaum

The sinners have much more fun – at what cost?

Why the scapegoat of the Yom Kippur service is important, even many months away from the Day of Atonement (Acharei Mot/Kedoshim)

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Israel of the earth

Come meet the Israel I know, where I live and love – what I see and hear and taste and smell and feel. Maybe you’ll feel it too

Steven Greenberg

Am I an abomination? An Orthodox publisher speaks to gay teens

LGBTQ youth need much more support than Koren’s new Leviticus commentary offers, but its careful effort is a major improvement

Meeting, Hardly Meeting: The beauty of inaccessible love

When Hanan Yovel came to serenade my army unit, he held my attention through the exhaustion with words by Rachel the Poet

Mourners carry the body of Mustafa Sabah, 16, during his funeral in the West Bank village of Taqu', southeast of Bethlehem, April 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Palestinian teen shot dead by IDF troops during clashes in West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says suspects hurling stones, including 16-year-old Mustafa Amer Sabah, endangered troops near Tuqu’, south of Bethlehem

IDF to demolish homes of Lion’s Den gunmen accused of killing soldier last year

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF troops detain terror suspect in Jenin, clash with Palestinian gunmen

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF: Palestinian attempts ramming, stabbing near Ariel in West Bank, is shot dead

By Emanuel Fabian

McGill University History Prof. Gil Troy in The Times of Israel's offices, April 25, 2023. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/ToI)

ToI podcastZionism is about making dreams come true

What Matters Now to Prof. Gil Troy: ‘Identity Zionism’ to cure Diaspora’s ‘unJews’

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Historian-author expounds on the Zionist trinity of Jewish peoplehood, Land of Israel and modern state, and how young Diaspora Jews can use it as a vehicle of self-actualization

In this file photo taken on October 11, 2010 TV host Jerry Springer celebrates the taping of 'The Jerry Springer Show' 20th anniversary show at Military Island at Times Square in New York. (Michael loccisano / Getty Images North America / AFP)

Obituary

Jerry Springer, son of Jewish refugees whose talk show was known for conflict, dies at 79

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Family spokesperson says late host of eponymous, notorious TV show, which ran for 27 years, passed away after ‘brief illness’ at suburban Chicago home

US talk show host Jerry Springer speaks in New York on April 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

ObituaryJerry Springer, Ohio mayor-turned-king of US trash TV, dies at 79

Abigél Szõke and Károly Hajduk in 'Those Who Remained.' (Courtesy: Menemsha Films)

Interview'You had to survive. You had to continue your life'

In Hungarian film ‘Those Who Remained,’ how 2 Holocaust survivors adapt to new lives

By Rich Tenorio

In the 2019 film making its US debut in NYC on April 28, a man and a young girl learn to lean on each other for support as the Communist regime ushers in an era of fresh challenges

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir tours Lod, April 17, 2023. (Flash90)

Ben Gvir calls for holding suspects without charge amid spike in homicides

Despite history of objection to controversial administrative detention practice, far-right minister claims ‘there’s no choice’ but to use it after 4 people killed the night before

Police at the scene where a man was stabbed to death during a road rage incident in Holon, November 23, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Man stabbed to death in Holon, the third city resident to be killed this week

By Michael Horovitz

The entrance to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, January 30, 2011. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Woman suspected of pulling plug on elderly patient in Haifa, killing him

By Michael Horovitz

Turkey’s Erdogan cancels third day of election appearances over reported stomach bug

By AP

ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan canceled his election appearances for a third day Friday after falling ill with what officials described as an intestinal infection. Erdogan, who has ruled Turkey for two decades as prime minister and then president, is seeking a third presidential term in Turkey's May... Continue Reading

In this handout photo released by Turkish Presidency, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan inaugurates Turkey's first nuclear power plant via a video link, at the Presidential palace in Ankara, Thursday, April 27, 2023. (Turkish Presidency via AP)

Pedestrians walk past billboards showing the portrait of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and a slogan reading "For Turkey's century; the right time, the right man," on a building in Ankara ahead of the May 14 presidential and parliamentary elections, on April 20, 2023. (Adem Altan/AFP)

Turks living abroad begin voting as ailing Erdogan is forced off campaign trail

While a protester holds up signs, E. Jean Carroll arrives to federal court in New York, April 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Trump’s lawyer cross-examines accuser over rape allegation

By Michael R. Sisak and Jennifer Peltz

‘Those are the facts,’ writer E. Jean Carroll tells court after former US president’s defense attorney questions her bombshell claims

Former vice president Mike Pence pauses while speaking at the Federalist Society Executive Branch Review conference, April 25, 2023, in Washington. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Former VP Mike Pence testifies before grand jury in US Capitol insurrection probe

A picture of late German Scientist Albert Einstein is displayed inside the villa 'Savoyarde' where he lived for six months in 1933, in De Haan, Belgium, on April 20, 2023. (Kenzo Tribouillard/ AFP)

Relatively unknown: Einstein’s risky 1933 Belgian stay after Hitler came to power

By Stephanie LOB

Physicist spent six months in coastal resort of De Haan, walking the promenade, enjoying a morning coffee and playing violin with the queen, despite a Nazi price on his head

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Scientists at Israeli food tech startup Remilk present dairy products made with its cow-free milk protein. (Courtesy)

Remilk gets first regulatory permit in Israel to sell cow-free milk

By Sharon Wrobel

Gabriel Ibitoye of the Tel-Aviv Heat during the Rugby Europe Super Cup on Oct. 16, 2021 in Tbilisi, Georgia. (Levan Verdzeuli/Getty Images via JTA)

World Rugby rules South Africa’s exclusion of Israel was not discrimination

By jacob gurvis

US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides speaks in Jerusalem, April 27, 2023 (Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post/pool)

US envoy Nides: Despite occasional disagreements, support for Israel is ‘rock-solid’

By Lazar Berman

Illustrative. Jewish Ukrainian refugees at an emergency shelter sponsored by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews and Joint Distribution Committee in Chisinau, Moldova, on March 5, 2022. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israel extends visas of Ukrainian refugees until July, reportedly after US pressure

File: power station in Haifa bay (Photo credit: Shay Levy/Flash 90)

Glitch at Haifa power station causes brief blackouts nationwide

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (C) and President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany Josef Schuster (2nd-L) attend a commemoration service on the first anniversary of the antisemitic attack on the synagogue in Halle, Germany, on October 9, 2020. (Ronny Hartmann/AFP)

Germany boosts annual funding for Jewish umbrella group by 70%

By Toby Axelrod

The entrance to the ICU at Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon, May 12, 2021. (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

Toddler drowns in a family pool in southern Israel

By Michael Horovitz

Illustrative: A train at a station in Tel Aviv on December 29, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Young man killed after being hit by train at Kiryat Motzkin station

Illustrative: A Taliban security officer stands guard as Muslim devotees arrive to offer Eid al-Fitr prayers, which marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, at Omar mosque in Kandahar on April 21, 2023. (Sanaullah Seiam/AFP)

Taliban leader says ‘pressure’ won’t work after UN blasts its treatment of women

By AFP

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court, in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

US sanctions Iran and Russia for hostage-taking, wrongful detention of Americans

By AFP

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