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What Matters Most On Sunday, April 30, 2023

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Illustrative: Fentanyl-laced fake oxycodone pills collected during an investigation in 2019. (US Attorneys Office for Utah via AP)

ToI investigates

Now world’s no. 1 opioid consumer per capita, Israel faces addiction epidemic

By Renee Ghert-Zand

New report traces spike in use of fentanyl and similar drugs; experts attribute abuse and addiction to overprescription, lack of understanding, and health system problems

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Justice Minister Yariv Levin (L) during a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on April 30, 2023 (Emil Salman/POOL)

Netanyahu says he ‘fully supports’ overhaul talks, believes deal can be made

Religious Zionism’s Simcha Rothman warns coalition’s survival dependent on passing plan to weaken judiciary; unnamed Likud officials attack Levin as ‘snake’ trying to replace PM

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, second from left, with Justice Minister Yariv Levin, center, and MK Simcha Rothman, right, during a vote in the Knesset, February 15, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset reopens Sunday in shadow of slow-rolled judicial overhaul

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a conference of the Israeli chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) in Tel Aviv, July 5, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Coalition set to split role of AG, make it a political appointment – report

'A Small Light' may answer why Gies risked death to aid Jews

Anne Frank’s best ‘helper’ Miep Gies is center of new National Geographic miniseries

By Matt Lebovic

Set to premiere on May 1, 8-part series centers on anti-Nazi resistance activities of Miep and Jan Gies, whose sacrifices – and heroism – extended beyond the ‘Secret Annex’

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Likud MK David Bitan, chair of the Knesset Economic Committee leads a meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on March 26, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud MK: Government not fulfilling promises on cost of living, overhaul harming us

Knesset Economic Committee chair David Bitan says PM must take lead on overhaul compromise talks and if justice minister doesn’t like it, ‘the door is open’

Right-wing Israelis attend a rally in support of the government's planned judicial overhaul, outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, on April 27, 2023. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Apr. 30: Dissent in Likud ranks after successful pro-overhaul protest

Netanyahu appears to downplay hosting DeSantis during governor’s Israel trip

By ToI Staff and AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in Jerusalem during the latter's high-profile trip to Israel this week, but his office issued no statements or photographs from the meeting, and it was not immediately reported in Israeli media. Both Ynet and the Haaretz daily speculated... Continue Reading

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, April 28, 2023. (Courtesy of the Executive Office of the Governor)

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy speaks during an event at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Monday, April 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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US House Speaker McCarthy: If Biden doesn’t invite Netanyahu soon, I will

By Michael Bachner

Visiting politician tells Israeli newspaper that White House invitation is overdue, if it doesn’t materialize soon PM will be invited to House of Representatives

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US House Speaker McCarthy: If Biden doesn't invite Netanyahu soon, I will
6:05 pm

3 polls: Gantz surging, current coalition failing to win majority if elections held

The judicial reform may hinge on divisions of class and ethnicity

The ethnic genie has left the bottle and now fuels the hate, fury, and insult of Israel’s ’have-nots’ to its ’haves’

Bradley Burston

‘A Song for Peace’: The dangerous anthem

Written 25 years earlier by a young man who had lost a leg as a soldier in the 1967 war, the song was still a revolution in seven verses

Demonstrators lift placards and use flares during a rally to protest the Israeli government's judicial overhaul bill in Tel Aviv, on April 29, 2023. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

In video message, Spanish PM offers support to protests

Masses rally against prospect of fresh overhaul push, as Knesset about to reconvene

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff

Protests held nationwide for 17th weekend, with 200,000 estimated in Tel Aviv; organizers announce day of ‘equality’ demonstrations Thursday

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speaks during a media confernce at an EU summit in Brussels, March 24, 2023. (AP/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Spanish PM offers support for anti-overhaul protesters; FM Cohen blasts message

Matchmaker Aleeza Ben Shalom speaks to potential client Cindy Seni in Jerusalem in an episode of 'Jewish Matchmaking.' (Courtesy: Netflix)

Interview'They're all God's matches, they're not mine anyway'

Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a TV show? ‘Jewish Matchmaking’ set to hit Netflix

Aleeza Ben Shalom, the show’s Israeli-American star, says she hopes viewers around the globe will see Judaism as ‘something to look at, respect and feel something positive towards’

A view of the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem on April 5, 2021. (Joshua Davidovich/Times of Israel)

Tolerance Museum axes 1973 war photo of nude soldier to avoid offending religious

Jerusalem’s Museum of Tolerance takes down image by acclaimed photojournalist Micha Bar-Am; son: ‘They care less about hurting our liberal feelings than those of religious people’

File: Israeli soldiers search a car at a checkpoint at the entrance of the city of Jericho in the West Bank, on February 28, 2023. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Military tightens restrictions on West Bank’s Jericho as terror warnings rise

By Emanuel Fabian

Hamas suspends Bitcoin fundraising, citing ‘hostile’ activity against donors

By Emanuel Fabian

A site that researchers say is the remain of a temporary Roman camp in the Arabian desert. (APAAME)

Newly identified Roman army camps indicate unknown ancient campaign in Arabia

By Stuart Winer

Google Earth imagery shows outlines of three sites in Jordan that have classic design of temporary bases built by Rome; believed tied to conquest of Nabatean kingdom

The Guardian has apologized for running a cartoon by Martin Rowson depicting outgoing BBC director Richard Sharp in what critics say used antisemitic imagery and tropes. (Screenshot/The Guardian, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

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Guardian deletes and apologizes for cartoon of outgoing BBC boss deemed antisemitic

Caricature of Richard Sharp described as having ‘antisemitic imagery’ such as ‘outsized, grotesque features’ alongside ‘money and power,’ Jewish News reports

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu (right) and Iranian Defense Minister Gen. Mohammad Reza Gharaei Ashtiani greet each other during their meeting in Moscow, Russia, April 25, 2023. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Ukraine’s battlefields could supply Iran with fresh Western tech to ape, expert says

Researcher cites Russia’s growing cooperation with Tehran and Islamic Republic’s use of stolen Western parts in drones now being used against Kyiv

An Iranian flag flutters on board the Adrian Darya oil tanker, formerly known as Grace 1, off the coast of Gibraltar on August 18, 2019. (Johnny Bugeja/AFP)

Senators urge Biden to seize Iranian oil after US-bound tanker held

By Calvin Woodward

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a ceremony marking the country's annual army day in Tehran on April 18, 2023. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran’s President Raisi to visit Syria for the first time in over a decade

By AFP and ToI Staff

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Firefighters work to put out a fire at a home in Tel Sheva, April 30, 2023. (Fire and Rescue Services)

Two young children die in fire at family home in Tel Sheva

By Michael Horovitz

The R&D center of Dropbox in the Azrieli Sarona Tower in Tel Aviv, May 15, 2018 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

US cloud storage giant Dropbox to close R&D operations, leave Israel

By Sharon Wrobel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) meets with the incoming head of the Central Bureau of Statistics Prof. Yaron Felus, April 30, 2023. (Courtesy/GPO)

Cabinet approves appointment of new Central Bureau of Statistics head

By Sharon Wrobel

The 'Briolette of India' necklace featuring a 90-carat diamond on sale as part of Heidi Horten's collection. (Christie's)

Expectation for largest-ever jewelry sale marred by owner’s enrichment via Nazi laws

Britain's King Charles III speaks to UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis as he meets with faith leaders during a reception at Buckingham Palace, London September 16, 2022. (Aaron Chown/Pool Photo via AP)

King Charles’ royal coronation to feature roles for Jewish, Muslim, Hindu leaders

By Jitendra Joshi

Former US president Barack Obama, film director Steven Spielberg, and singer Bruce Springsteen join staff at the Amar restaurant in Barcelona, Spain, April 27, 2023. (Instagram screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Hungry heartsObama, Spielberg and Springsteen dazzle Barcelona restaurant

By Michael Horovitz

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (center) holds up the hands of Turkish air force pilot Alper Gezeravci (left) and aviation systems engineer Tuva Cihangir Atasever at Teknofest military fair, in Istanbul, Turkey, April 29, 2023. (Turkish Presidency via AP)

Erdogan returns after three-day bout of gastro disturbs key election campaign

Police at the site where the body of a man in his 50s was located between the communities of Lapid and Hashmonaim, near the central city of Modiin, April 29, 2023. (Israel Police)

Police open probe after dead body found near Modiin

By Michael Horovitz

Police at the scene of a shooting where five people were killed by their neighbor in Cleveland, Texas, April 29, 2023. (KTRK via AP)

5 killed in Texas as family home shot up by neighbor

By Paul J. Weber

Illustration of an empty classroom in a school in Mevaseret Zion, August 27, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Labor court halts Sunday’s planned high school teachers’ strike

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