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What Matters Most On Monday, July 10, 2023

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Knesset members vote on candidates for the Judicial Selection Committee on June 14, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

MKs to vote on bill barring judges from reviewing ‘reasonableness’ of gov’t decisions

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

1st of 3 Knesset floor votes due Monday evening, advancing bill to protect elected officials from judicial scrutiny; mass protests planned for Tuesday by anti-overhaul activists

Economy Minister Nir Barkat attends a conference at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange on July 10, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Likud minister urges resumed judicial reform talks after 1st vote on ‘reasonableness’

President Isaac Herzog addresses a memorial ceremony for Zionist visionary Theodor Herzl in Jerusalem on July 9, 2023. (Haim Zach / GPO)

Herzog: Deal on ‘reasonableness’ clause within reach, sides must renew talks

By Michael Horovitz

MK Simcha Rothman, head of the Knesset's Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, addresses the Knesset floor, July 10, 2023, in the debate prior to the approval of the first reading of the 'reasonableness' bill. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Opposition vows to keep up fight after judicial bill passes 1st reading

Legislation that bars courts from reviewing reasonableness of elected officials’ decisions approved 64-56; opposition MKs shout ‘Shame’; coalition wants it enacted by end of month

10:44 pm

'Just the beginning': Government celebrates passing 1st reading of judicial bill
10:20 pm

'Not over': Opposition vows to continue fighting judicial overhaul
9:56 pm

Knesset approves first reading of 'reasonableness' bill, 64 to 56; opposition chants: 'Shame'

Then-US vice president Joe Biden, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a joint press conference at the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem, March 9, 2010. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Ben Gvir: Israel no longer another star in American flag

Biden: Israeli cabinet has some of most extreme members I’ve seen; Saudi deal far off

US president says Jerusalem shares blame for recent violence due to cabinet ministers who push settlement expansion while rejecting Palestinian rights

Then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with then US Vice President Joe Biden in Jerusalem, 2010. (Avi Ohayun/GPO)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 10: What’s holding up Netanyahu’s invite to the White House?

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks during a press conference at the Knesset on July 5, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Government panel again postpones decision on bill to expand Ben Gvir’s police powers

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Promoted podcast

Re-CHARGING Reform Judaism

Rabbi Ammi Hirsch’s keynote speech from a historic grassroots gathering of some 300 Reform leaders

Op-ed

Netanyahu leads Israel into the abyss

Only a government bent on doing the unreasonable would move to ensure that the justices cannot defend against it

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at his office to chair the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, on July 9, 2023. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / POOL / AFP)

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, Sunday, July 9, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool Photo via AP)

Ministers castigate AG at cabinet meeting, demand protest crackdown, urge her removal

By Jeremy Sharon

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara arrives to attend the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, July 9, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool Photo via AP)

Herzog blasts ‘unrestrained’ attack on attorney general by ministers at cabinet meet

Analysis

Why the deepening judicial crisis could be Israel’s constitutional moment

The country’s founders chose not to create a framework document. The effects of that decision are at the heart of the fight over judicial reform

Israelis protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, March 9, 2023. (Oded Balilty/AP)

Analysis

Shalom Yerushalmi

‘We’re tearing the country apart’: Some in cabinet uneasy with renewed overhaul blitz

Far-right takes Netanyahu captive, tells him future of right-wing depends on passing ‘reasonableness’ law; anonymous minister voices misgivings about bashing of judicial officials

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 9, 2023. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara speaks during a conference at the University of Haifa, December 15, 2022. (Shir Torem/ Flash90/ File)

Likud denies report PM might sack attorney general after stormy cabinet meeting

File: An election campaign billboard for Israel's Blue and White opposition party led by Benny Gantz, right, depicting him and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of the Likud party, hangs in the city of Bnei Brak, on March 14, 2021, ahead of the March 23 general election. The writing in Hebrew reads 'Benny to the Knesset or Bibi forever.' (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Netanyahu coalition still projected to fall short of majority if new elections held

From the blogs

Why tribes?

One can almost imagine a modern shibboleth test in which we are stopped and asked, ’judicial reform’ or ’judicial coup’?

The Big shopping center in Yehud on May 4, 2021 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

In walkback, mall chain says stores can open Tuesday during planned overhaul strike

Big Shopping Centers had faced right-wing boycott threats and political pushback, with one MK vowing to use his immunity to physically prevent ‘bunch of pigs’ from closing stores

Israelis protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, July 3, 2023. (Amir Goldstein)

Police to bolster forces ahead of anti-government ‘day of disruption’ on Tuesday

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem on May 14, 2023. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Israel’s fiscal deficit widens to 0.9% in June; property tax income at 2-year-low

By Sharon Wrobel

Israeli police use a water cannon to disperse demonstrators 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 27, 2023. (AP Photo/ Oren Ziv)

Physicians urge police to suspend water cannon use after protesters badly wounded

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Injuries indicate police ignoring own guidelines that prohibit crowd-control weapon from being aimed at upper body — especially the head

This drive toward absolute power must be stopped

Striking ’reasonableness’ will enable any decision by any elected official, no matter how groundless, absurd or corrupt

Debbie Wolf Goldsmith

Pride tinged with fear: Being an IDF parent

I moved to Israel 23 years ago. I’m a Jewish educator. What more could I want than my daughter serving our country? Guaranteed safety would be nice

From left to right: A page from a 1607 edition of the Shulchan Aruch printed in Krakow; a brightly colored cover page of a religious text from Venice, 1674; and a page from a 1540 edition of the Arba'ah Turim by Jacob ben Asher. (From the 'Encyclopedia of Jewish Book Cultures'/ Courtesy of Brill Publishers)

400-year-old library houses oldest copy of Mishneh Torah

Built by conversos fleeing Spain, Amsterdam’s ancient Ets Haim library gets an update

By Martin Rosenberg

Massive Encyclopedia of Jewish Book Cultures also underway by Dutch publisher Brill, who says 31 institutions already purchased access to the compilation to be complete in 3 years

A Palestinian suspect who allegedly opened fire at Israeli troops in the West Bank, near the settlement of Neve Tzuf, is seen after being shot, July 10, 2023. (Social media: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Armed Palestinian shot dead by IDF troops in West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says suspect hurled grenade, opened fire with makeshift gun at forces on road near Neve Tzuf settlement, causing no injuries

A suspect detained by police for his alleged affiliation with Hamas is seen brandishing a handgun on the roof of his home in the Nazareth area of northern Israel, in an image published by police on July 10, 2023. (Israel Police)

Three young Arab Israelis to be charged for alleged affiliation with Hamas

By Emanuel Fabian

Police and medical forces at the scene of an attempted stabbing attack at Ammunition Hill light rail station in Jerusalem, July 9, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Palestinian woman tries to stab guard at Jerusalem light rail station, is shot

By Emanuel Fabian

Former Walla newsroom chief Baruch Shay arrives for a court hearing in the trial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the Jerusalem District Court on July 10, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu trialOnce a request came in, 'the pressure was incessant'

At hearing, former Walla editor describes ‘unease’ at Netanyahu’s sway over newsroom

Baruch Shay says copy was sent to higher-ups, ‘at first for approval, then for changes, and there were cases when stories were killed’; speaks of pressure by bosses to play ball

File: Undated image of Palestinian Authority security forces with the Fatah flag. (Hamas-affiliated al-Aqsa TV channel)

Ramallah sends ministers to Jenin, cracks down on Islamic Jihad after IDF operation

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority appears to try to reassert control over city in face of rival groups

Palestinian gunmen take up positions during a confrontation with the Israeli army in the West Bank city of Jenin on July 3, 2023. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Security cabinet votes in favor of steps to ‘prevent PA’s collapse’

The remains of a rocket fired from the West Bank, found in the northern Israeli town of Ram-On, July 9, 2023. (Courtesy)

Remains of rocket fired from West Bank found in northern Israeli town

By Emanuel Fabian

President Isaac Herzog at a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in Jaffa on December 21, 2022. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Herzog condemns growing attacks on Christians in Israel as ‘evil’ and ‘a disgrace’

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

President says he is personally working with law enforcement officials to ‘bring an end to this disturbing reality,’ also slams recent Quran burning in Sweden

Pope Francis delivers the Angelus noon prayer in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, July 9, 2023. (AP Photo/ Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Francis confers rank of cardinal on Jerusalem’s Latin patriarch

By Frances D'Emilio

Russian-speaking recent immigrants to Israel tour the Samaria Regional Council in the West Bank in 2023. (Shishi Shabbat Yisraeli)

Government ends fast-tracked immigration option for Russians, drawing criticism

By Canaan Lidor

Former Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky laments move, which Aliyah and Integration Ministry attributed to low demand for service despite massive increase in immigration

Israel’s Ambassador to Ukraine Michael Brodsky. (Israeli Embassy in Ukraine)

Ukraine’s backing of 90% of UN anti-Israel votes could hurt support – Israeli envoy

By Lazar Berman

More Headlines

Otzma Yehudit MK Limor Son Har-Melech, right, head of the Special Committee for Oversight of the Israeli Citizens' Fund, leads a committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, June 6, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Women’s rights groups angered over bill to politicize body promoting gender equality

By Stuart Winer

Elizabeth Tsurkov in an undated photo (social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Report: Tehran set up Russian-Israeli’s abduction in Iraq to secure Iranian’s release

By Lazar Berman

Otzma Yehudit MK Limor Son Har-Melech attends a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on February 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Right-wing lawmakers push bill to outlaw Arab umbrella committee

Illustrative - An American KC-135 aerial refueling aircraft refuels IAF F-16i fighter jets during an exercise over Israel, November 30, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel, US holding another joint air drill apparently focused on Iran

By Emanuel Fabian

The mother of a Russian soldier who was killed in a military action in Ukraine kneels near a tree planted in memory of her son at the Alley of Heroes in Sevastopol, Crimea, February 25, 2023. (AP Photo)

Independent analysis estimates 50,000 Russians have died in Ukraine war

By Erika Kinetz

FILE - This combination of photos shows Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) attending a meeting with a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, v, at the Kremlin in Moscow on June 23, 2023, and Yevgeny Prigozhin (R) prior to a meeting with business leaders held by Russian and Chinese presidents at the Kremlin in Moscow on July 4, 2017. (Photo by GAVRIIL GRIGOROV and Sergei ILNITSKY / SPUTNIK / AFP)

Putin met with ‘traitor’ Wagner leader days after attempted mutiny, Kremlin says

By AP

Screen capture from video of left-wing activist Gil Hammerschlag, June 2023. (Twitter. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Left-wing activist in custody over hat showing Palestinian rock thrower killed by IDF

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks during a press conference at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on July 5, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Amid legal battle with caregiver, Ben Gvir sought to cut payments to foreign workers

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