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What Matters Most On Monday, July 24, 2023

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Coalition lawmakers crowd around Justice Minister Yariv Levin to take a celebratory selfie in the Knesset plenum, as they pass the first of the coalition's judicial overhaul laws, the so-called "reasonableness law", on July 24, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Coalition passes 1st judicial overhaul law, limiting review of government decisions

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Despite 29 weeks of unprecedented protests, all 64 coalition members back ‘reasonableness’ bill in final vote after 30 hours of plenum discussion; entire opposition walks out

Anti-overhaul activists block a road during a protest against the government's judicial overhaul, near the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on July 24, 2023. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 24: Lack of trust has brought Israel to crisis. Who’s to blame?

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Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul victory spells a tragic, disastrous defeat for Israel

Passing the ‘reasonableness’ law, he chose the unity of his hardline coalition over his key responsibility as prime minister: the unity of the nation

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset as it votes to approve the Reasonableness Law on July 24, 2023. Justice Minister Yariv Levin is at bottom right. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Op-edNetanyahu, heed the warning thunder of ancient Jewish history

By David Horovitz

Demonstrators block the traffic on a highway crossing the city during a protest against plans by Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, July 24, 2023. (AP/Oded Balilty)

Live updates (closed)

Police clear Ayalon freeway as thousands rally against overhaul into night

At least 15 held as protests intensify after first law changing judiciary passes; masses remain at Kaplan junction after 1 a..m.; cops nab driver who plowed through demonstration

11:45 pm

Tel Aviv protest ends, 18 arrested
10:10 pm

Cops clear protesters off highway, masses remain at interchange
9:57 pm

Police may deploy stun grenades to clear highway -- report

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Ben Smith on how to overcome the divisions social media sows

As editor-in-chief of Buzzfeed News and the media critic for the New York Times, Ben Smith had a front row seat to (and a significant role in) the social media-zation of news media

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Reasonable guardians? How repealing ‘reasonableness’ may affect top custodians of law

Opponents of the bill to ban the High Court’s use of the reasonableness standard argue it will open the door to politicization of posts entrusted with safeguarding democracy

Attorney General Gali Baharav Miara attends a cabinet meeting held at the Western Wall tunnels in Jerusalem's Old City, May 21, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Anti-overhaul protesters are sprayed with a police water cannon as they block a road near the Knesset on July 24, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Police clash violently with anti-overhaul protesters seeking to blockade Knesset

By Stuart Winer, Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

15 arrested during hours of demonstrations as water cannons, mounted cops deployed to remove crowds from streets surrounding parliament; coalition decries rally as ‘a siege’

Several thousand doctors pack into Jerusalem's International Convention Center for a Israel Medical Association-organized rally protesting the government's judicial overhaul plans. July 23, 2023. (Renee Ghert-Zand/Times of Israel)

With Israel ‘on the edge of disaster,’ thousands of doctors protest in Jerusalem

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Efraim Podoksik

They’ve forgotten why they want judicial reform

The government is using the right’s valid criticisms of the Court as a smokescreen for reforms that hurt their own voters

Civil war is not a luxury we can afford

Given the many threats Israel faces, social fracturing could bring catastrophic loss of life and infrastructural collapse

‘Time of emergency’: Dueling overhaul rallies as Herzog makes final bid for compromise

Tens of thousands at Tel Aviv pro-coalition event where ministers slam reservist protests, vow more laws; ex-president Rivlin in Jerusalem: 24 hours to save our wonderful country

Israeli activists opposed to the judicial overhaul march across the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, July 23, 2023. (Liri Agami)

Hundreds of anti-overhaul protesters march across New York’s Brooklyn Bridge

President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Friday, June 30, 2023, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Biden: Israeli leaders should find consensus, not rush ‘divisive’ judicial overhaul

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Amid talk of possible compromise, US president says ‘it doesn’t make sense for Israeli leaders to rush this,’ given range of threats and challenges facing the Jewish state

Screen capture from video of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking from Sheba Medical Center, July 23, 2023. (Twitter. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Netanyahu released from hospital following implantation of pacemaker

Prime minister heads to Knesset for key vote on judicial overhaul bill, despite reported orders from doctors to stay home and rest

Tech workers march in Tel Aviv to protest against the government's planned overhaul of the judicial system, January 31, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Almost 70% of Israeli startups act to shift funds, relocate due to judicial shakeup

By Sharon Wrobel

Steps by startup heads and investors to withdraw cash reserves and move operations outside Israel have accelerated in past 3 months, according to a poll by Start-Up Nation Central

Doctors arrive at Jerusalem's International Convention Center for a rally protesting the government's judicial overhaul legislation. July 23, 2023. (Renee Ghert-Zand/Times of Israel)

Business forum, tech companies to strike ahead of final votes on reasonableness law

Organization representing 150 leading companies, tech sector workers, lawyers to rally Monday as coalition readies to enact key bill that will limit judicial review

Arnon Bar-David, chairman of the Histadrut labor federation, speaks at a conference in Tel Aviv, December 7, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)

Likud, protest leaders reject labor union’s compromise overhaul bill

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani speaks in Tehran, Iran, on August 11, 2022. (Iranian Foreign Ministry via AP)

Iran gloats: ‘Crisis at heart of Zionist regime deeper than crisis in its PM’s heart’

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Tehran alleges that the democratic ‘mask has fallen off’ of Israel’s face

FILE- Iranian Air Force personnel work on air defense missiles during an annual exercise, in Iran, October 21, 2021 (Iranian Army via AP)

As Iran launches air force drill, US beefs up plane fleet in Persian Gulf

By AP

An undated image of Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ziyad Nakhala (from the terror group's website jehad.ps)

As Palestinian factions seek reconciliation in Cairo, Islamic Jihad to boycott talks

By Gianluca Pacchiani

People enjoy a hot summer afternoon at the Ein Lavan Spring in Jerusalem, on July 23, 2023. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Israeli experts warn that extreme climate events suggest dawn of ‘uncharted waters’

Former head of Tel Aviv University Environmental Studies School: ‘Something strange has been happening over the past few months, and it’s scary’

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Police escort Channel 12 news reporter Gilad Shalmor during a pro-overhaul rally in Tel Aviv, July 23, 2024. (Twitter. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

After series of attacks on reporters at rallies, TV regulator demands police action

An aerial view shows smoke billowing in background of Kiotari village, on the island of Rhodes on July 24, 2023.(Spyros BAKALIS / AFP)

Thousands more evacuated in Greece as high winds and heat fuel wildfires

By Michael Varaklas and Derek Gatopoulos

Illustrative: Iranian women make their way along a sidewalk in downtown Tehran, Iran, April 26, 2016. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Iran shutters e-commerce giant over photos of female employees without headscarves

By AP

Police officers secure an area outside a damaged non-residential building on Komsomolsky Prospekt after a reported drone attack in Moscow on July 24, 2023. (Alexander NEMENOV / AFP)

Russia says two Ukrainian drones ‘suppressed and crashed’ in Moscow

By AFP

US first lady Jill Biden speaks during an event with the National Education Association in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, July 4, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Jill Biden visits Paris to mark US return to UNESCO

By AP and ToI Staff

A voter stands in a booth at a polling station for Spain's general election, in Madrid, July 23, 2023. (Paul White/AP)

Spain at risk of political gridlock following inconclusive election result

By Ciaran Giles and Joseph Wilson

Iraqis raise copies of the Quran, Muslims' holy book, during a protest in Baghdad, Iraq, July 22, 2023. (Hadi Mizban/AP)

International Islamic group suspends Sweden’s special envoy over Quran desecrations

By AP

An explosion from an improvised bomb is seen in the Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarem in the West Bank, amid an IDF raid, July 24, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter)

13 Palestinians wounded in clashes during IDF raid in West Bank refugee camp

By Emanuel Fabian

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