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What Matters Most On Saturday, April 29, 2023

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Thousands of Israelis protest against the planned judicial overhaul in Tel Aviv, on April 29, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Protesters to gather at 150 locations around country

Starting 17th week of protests, leaders slam pro-overhaul rally’s ‘severe incitement’

Statement blasts legislation’s supporters who trampled on images of top legal figures; ex-Supreme Court Justice Yoram Danziger, Nobel winner Aaron Ciechanover to speak in Tel Aviv

National Unity party leader Benny Gantz speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset, April 19, 2023. (Yonatan SIndel/ Flash90)

Gantz on Levin’s speech at pro-overhaul rally: Calls into question compromise talks

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Pro-overhaul protest showed the right’s strengths — and the government’s weakness

Thursday’s protest in support of the government’s judicial overhaul was big enough. Whether it was around 100,000, as opponents claimed, or 600,000, as organizers said, is less significant. (Most estimates put the figure at some 200,000.) It was big enough. Enough to send a message that there was a real and mobilized base of support for... Continue Reading

Right-wing Israelis attend a rally in support of plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, outside the Knesset, Israel's parliament in Jerusalem, Thursday, April 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

People gather for a monument unveiling ceremony in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, May 25, 2015 (AP Photo/Alexander Vershinin)

Reporter's notebook

The dictator and I: A visit to Turkmenistan reveals the limits of Israeli diplomacy

By Tal Schneider

Deserted but pristine streets show the power of a repressive authoritarian regime, whose vaunted neutrality may prove an obstacle to Israeli security aims

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

Netanyahu to reportedly face ultimatum from coalition if overhaul negotiations fail

Coalition source tells Israeli TV that premier’s bloc will threaten to abandon him if he doesn’t advance some form of judicial shakeup in absence of compromise agreement

Left: US President Joe Biden speaks about Russia in the East Room of the White House, April 15, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik); Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a memorial ceremony for fallen soldiers at the Yad LeBanim House on the eve of Memorial Day, in Jerusalem, April 13, 2021. (Debbie Hill/Pool Photo via AP)

Hanegbi: Judicial overhaul is reason Biden hasn’t invited Netanyahu to White House

Interview

JFNA Chairwoman Julie Platt ‘inspired’ by protesters despite Israel confab disruption

It was Julie Platt’s first major event in Israel as the head of the Jewish Federations of North America -- and it did not go according to plan. Platt, a banker who last year replaced businessman Mark Wilf at the helm of the umbrella body representing hundreds of Jewish communities, was in charge of moving the organization’s General Assembly, which... Continue Reading

Julie Platt speaks to participants in the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Tel Aviv on April 25, 2023. (Courtesy of JFNA)

Protesters against the government's judicial overhaul greet participants of the Jewish Federations of North America’s General Assembly in Tel Aviv, April 23, 2023. (Carrie Keller-Lynn/Times of Israel)

Israel at 75How Israel’s political crisis took center stage at a major US Jewish conference

An undated image shows the outdoor pool of the Pines resort in South Fallsburg, New York. (Courtesy/Steingart associates via the Borscht Belt Historical Marker Project)

New projects aim to keep Borscht Belt memory alive with historical markers, museum

This summer in the Catskills, programs will place plaques in town centers, open pop-up exhibits, hold a festival and comedy show to commemorate and celebrate Jewish heyday

DeSantis dines with Miriam Adelson, other GOP megadonors in Jerusalem

Florida Governor and presumptive presidential nominee Ron DeSantis was spotted dining in Jerusalem this week with Israeli-American billionaire Miriam Adelson. She was among several major Republican donors at the dinner hosted Wednesday by Larry Mizel, an American businessman who helped found the Museum of Tolerance where the meal was being held. Mizel was... Continue Reading

Miriam Adelson at the Israeli American Council National Summit in Hollywood, Florida on December 7, 2019; Florida Governor Ron DeSantis arrives at the Foreign Office in London on April 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky and Alberto Pezzali)

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis attends the Jerusalem Post Conference, held at the Museum of Tolerance, Jerusalem, April 27, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

DeSantis’ trip to Israel overshadowed by growing pushback over fight with Disney

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON

Former US ambassador to the United Nations and Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley addresses a town hall event at an American Legion center in Laconia, New Hampshire on April 28, 2023. (Michael Mathes / AFP)

Nikki Haley, other potential Republican candidates struggle to dent Trump’s 2024 lead

By Michael Mathes

Illustrative: Nazi troops in front of Amsterdam's Bijenkorf square in 1941. (Public domain)

'It’s time for us to face this dark part of the war'

Dutch archives on 300,000 accused Nazi collaborators to open to the public in 2025

By Jackie Hajdenberg

In a country notoriously slow to accept responsibility for mistakes and distance itself from its occupiers, a discussion on collaboration might soon take place in the open

Barbara Engelking, a prominent Polish historian. (Yad Vashem via AP)

Scholars come to defense of Polish Holocaust researcher under fire from government

By AP and ToI Staff

The icon for the instant messaging Telegram app is seen on a smartphone, Feb. 28, 2023, in Marple Township, Pennsylvania (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

Brazil suspends Telegram after app refuses to give data for antisemitic group probe

By AFP

A fire is seen burning in footage purportedly from the Syrian city of Homs, following an alleged Israeli airstrike, April 29, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Israeli airstrikes hit targets near Homs, Syrian state media says

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Latest alleged attack sparks fires, leaves 3 injured; comes hours after Iran’s foreign minister visits Lebanon’s border with Israel, and days after reported artillery strikes

Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, attends a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi, in Tehran, Iran, May 8, 2022. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP/ File)

Iranian president planning to visit Syria ‘in near future’

By AFP

Illustrative: A US A-10 Warthog maneuvers next to mountains during live fire exercises, as part of the annual US-Philippines joint military exercise at Crow Valley, in Capas town, Tarlac province, north of Manila on April 10, 2019. (TED ALJIBE / AFP)

US sends warplanes with bunker-busting bombs to Mideast in message to Iran — report

Wall Street Journal says aging A-10 Warthogs upgraded to be equipped with 113-kilogram precision-guided GBU-39/B munitions, following recent attacks on US forces in Syria, Iraq

Analysis

Abroad with Mordechai Gebirtig

The songs of a Yiddish poet and songwriter from Poland killed long ago resonate with me so deeply that I must thank him publicly

Smoke and flames rise from a burning fuel tank in Sevastopol, Crimea, on April 29, 2023. (Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev telegram channel via AP)

Russia says Ukrainian drones strike oil depot in annexed Crimea, sparking huge fire

Authorities in Moscow-controlled region say four oil tanks in Sevastopol burned down, two other drones downed; no injuries reported

Firefighters work to extinguish a fire after a Russian attack at a residential building in Uman, central Ukraine, April 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

21 killed in Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s Uman

By AP and ToI Staff

Mahdi Hariri (Courtesy)

19-year-old relative of crime family head shot dead amid spike in violence

Mahdi Hariri killed, another wounded in attack said to be part of internal dispute between factions; 2 injured by gunfire in Jerusalem; 8 killed across country in less than a week

Relatives welcome Palestinian evacuees from Sudan upon their arrival at the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, April 28, 2023. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Palestinian students reach Gaza after fleeing outbreak of violence in Sudan

By AFP

Gazan authorities say 172 residents arrived at border crossing with Egypt after escaping conflict that has left hundreds dead

This image grab taken from AFPTV video footage on April 28, 2023, shows an aerial view of black smoke rising over Khartoum. (AFPTV/AFP)

Khartoum airstrikes, artillery fire as Sudan fighting enters 3rd week despite truce

By AFP

Rabbi Harold Kushner gives an interview aired November 26, 2004. (PBS screen grab used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Obituary

Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of ‘When Bad Things Happen to Good People,’ dies at 88

By Ben Harris and PHILISSA CRAMER

Influential congregational leader wrote bestselling theological guide after his son was diagnosed with fatal premature aging condition progeria

More Headlines

The scene of a fatal car crash on Route 40 at the Negev Junction, April 26, 2023. (MDA)

Driver in crash that killed baby arrested for suspected manslaughter, DUI

In this photo provided by NASA, astronaut Steve Bowen and United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi route power cables to prepare for future power system upgrades outside the International Space Station, on April 28, 2023. (NASA via AP)

UAE’s ‘Sultan of Space’ becomes 1st Arab astronaut to carry out spacewalk

By AFP

Illustrative: View of an empty school at in Tel Aviv following a strike of the Teachers Union, on June 19, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

High school teachers call Sunday strike to protest for higher wages

Adam Brody arrives at the premiere of 'Billy & Billie' at The Lot on February 25, 2015, in West Hollywood, California. (Rob Latour/Invision/AP)

New shtickAdam Brody to star as ‘charming rabbi’ in upcoming Netflix comedy

By Gabe Friedman

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban, left, looks on as Pope Francis walks away after a welcoming ceremony at Sandor Palace in Budapest on April 28, 2023. (Vincenzo Pinto/AFP)

Pope urges ‘openness toward others’ at event in Hungary with nationalist PM Orban

By AFP

Children from British Jewish schools sing a new version of 'Adon Olam' in honor of the coronation of King Charles III. (Screenshot/YouTube via JTA, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

A royal welcomeUK Jewish children present new ‘Adon Olam’ for king’s coronation

By PHILISSA CRAMER

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