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What Matters Most On Monday, March 27, 2023

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Israelis protest outside the Knesset against the government's planned judicial overhaul, in Jerusalem, March 27, 2023. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Over 100k at Knesset as PM delays planned speech; right organizes counter-protest

By Carrie Keller-Lynn, Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Netanyahu, expected to announce halt to overhaul, urges demonstrators on both sides to avoid violence; Lapid tells protesters: ‘No government will take our rights’

Passengers look at the monitor displaying delayed flights at Ben Gurion airport, March 27, 2023 (AP Photo/Oren Ziv)

Ben Gurion departures halted as Histadrut declares ‘historic’ strike against overhaul

Union chief says labor action meant to ‘stop the madness’ after Netanyahu’s firing of defense minister; doctors, local authorities, students and universities also strike

Israelis protest against the Israeli government's planned judicial overhaul, in Haifa, March 27, 2023. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Mar. 27: Special edition — Israel on strike after PM fires Gallant

President Isaac Herzog gives a primetime speech pleading for compromise on the judicial overhaul plan, on March 9, 2023. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Live updates

Herzog speaks with Netanyahu, Lapid, Gantz, calls for immediate talks on overhaul

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

President urges each side to set up negotiation teams after PM announces delay in judicial overhaul push to avoid ‘civil war’; protesters scuffle with police in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem

12:07 am

Senators issue bipartisan statement in support of Netanyahu decision to suspend overhaul
11:56 pm

Ben Gvir applauds right-wing protesters; Labor MK decries attacks on Arabs
11:01 pm

Quarterback Tom Brady shares video opposing antisemitism

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen at the Knesset, on March 22, 2023, and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant visits soldiers hurt in a shooting attack, at Belinson Hospital, on March 26, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel; Avshalom Sasson/Flash90)

Lapid: Netanyahu is a 'danger' to Israel

Netanyahu fires Defense Minister Gallant for calling to pause judicial overhaul

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Huge crowds take to streets in protest; ‘Israel’s security remains my life’s mission,’ ousted minister says; Dichter said in line for post as gov’t barrels on with legal shakeup

British journalist Piers Morgan (left) interviews Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in London, March 25, 2023. (YouTube screenshot: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Netanyahu in weekend interview: Overhaul necessary as Supreme Court ‘too powerful’

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, in the center of Tel Aviv, December 25, 2018. (Adam Shuldman/Flash90)

Israeli shares rise and shekel gains in anticipation of pause to judicial overhaul

By Sharon Wrobel

Yokohama transforms into a tech innovation hub of East Asia

The city aims to attract foreign talent in technology and research to become a powerhouse beyond Japan’s shores

Op-ed

Firing his defense minister, Netanyahu raises public anger at his rule to new heights

It's two in the morning, and hundreds of mainly young Israelis, having spent hours chanting and marching through the streets of Jerusalem, are sitting around a bonfire with the Knesset on one side of them and the Prime Minister's Office on the other. Benjamin Netanyahu is believed to still be holed up in his office,... Continue Reading

Israelis opposed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial overhaul plan set up bonfires and block a highway during a protest moments after the Israeli leader fired his defense minister, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, March 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Leader of the National Unity Party MK Benny Gantz speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset, March 20, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Gantz says he’s committed to holding ‘good faith’ talks with coalition on overhaul

IDF chief Herzi Halevi speaks to new conscripts at an induction center at the Tel Hashomer base in central Israel, March 26, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Halevi: IDF now has dual mission of ensuring security and keeping army united

By Emanuel Fabian

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Things fall apart

The Israeli right is gripped in a deep malaise. It has its argument about the over-powerful High Court. It believes that argument. It’s been making it for decades. Now, suddenly at the helm of a wholly rightist coalition that no centrist or leftist faction can fell, it believed it had a moment of opportunity. The government... Continue Reading

Israelis opposed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial overhaul plan block a highway during a protest moments after the Israeli leader fired his defense minister, in Tel Aviv, Israel, March 26, 2023 (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israelis opposed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial overhaul plan set up bonfires and block a highway during a protest moments after he fired Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, in Tel Aviv, March 26, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Protests outside homes of Levin, Barkat, Dichter and others

‘We are not afraid’: Mass protests erupt nationwide after Netanyahu fires Gallant

Waving Israeli flags, protesters rally across nation, converge on PM’s home, Knesset, light bonfires and block Tel Aviv highway for hours; police use water cannons to disperse them

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right), and Economy Minister Nir Barkat in the Knesset on February 22, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Amid protests after Gallant fired, calls grow in coalition to halt judicial overhaul

Ousted defense minister says overhaul rift is an opportunity for Israel’s enemies

By Emanuel Fabian

Ousted Defense Minister Yoav Gallant warned on Monday morning in a closed meeting of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that Israel’s security was in danger amid the judicial overhaul legislation. “According to intelligence reports, there is a clear identification of the situation being an opportunity to attack Israel,” Gallant was... Continue Reading

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant arrives for a meeting at the Knesset on March 27, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Illustrative: Soldiers of the Combat Engineering Corps prepare for an exercise in Golan Heights, on January 10, 2023. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Senior defense official: Israel’s enemies see country ‘as weak’ given overhaul rifts

By Emanuel Fabian

Israelis opposed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial overhaul plan set up bonfires and block a highway during a protest moments after he fired Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, in Tel Aviv, March 26, 2023. (AP/Oren Ziv)

US ‘deeply concerned’ after PM fires Gallant, urges compromise on judicial revamp

White House highlights recent call with PM where Biden raised concern over legislative efforts, stresses importance for checks and balances as bilateral ties deteriorate further

Asaf Zamir outside Israel's consulate in New York City shortly after quitting his position as consul general in protest, March 26, 2023. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Israel’s NY envoy quits in protest of overhaul ‘to join fight for Israel’s future’

By Luke Tress and Jacob Magid

Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski is interviewed by Polish radio on March 27, 2023. (Twitter screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Polish deputy FM: Israel consulted with us on overhauling judiciary

Pawel Jablonski says Poland, which has seen democratic backsliding since government curbed courts’ independence, ‘shared our experiences in this regard’

Prof. Gábor Halmai, a constitutional scholar from the Robert Schuman Centre of Advanced Studies at European University Institute, speaks at a conference held by the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem, March 26, 2023. (Oded Karni)

Legal scholars from Poland, Hungary warn of judicial overhaul’s dangers to democracy

By Jeremy Sharon

From the blogs

Israel’s security bank is in perilous overdraft

The country faces a potential conflict on a scale unseen since 1973 and, with zero diplomatic capital, it might have to go it alone

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's lawyer Boaz Ben Zur at Jerusalem District Court on May 17, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu lawyer says he won’t represent him unless overhaul halted

Senior attorney Boaz Ben Zur reportedly relays warning to PM after defense minister is fired in wake of call to pause judicial legislation

Shas party chair Aryeh Deri arrives for a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his office at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on March 15, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Deputy AG blasts ‘fundamental flaws’ in bill to return Deri to cabinet

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff

Raphael Bitton (YouTube screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Levin said to back academic who helped craft overhaul as next Supreme Court chief

Report says Raphael Bitton is coalition’s favorite to succeed Esther Hayut at helm of top court, a move that will first require passage of judicial appointments bill

I worry for my family. Jews in America must speak up!

This is not a time to be polite or deferential. We Jews in the US who love Israel should be proud of our values and speak up clearly

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

The world we’ll share tomorrow

Let us say ’I see your pain,’ let us say ’tell me what bothers you,’ let us say ’what can we agree about,’ and then…let us listen, too

A woman watches anti-overhaul protesters in Or Akiva, Israel on March 26, 2023. (Canaan Lidor)

Reporter's Notebook'If I'm ever afraid to come here, I'll know Israel is lost'

In Or Akiva, social strife driving overhaul conflict rises to the surface

By Canaan Lidor

The impoverished and largely Sephardic town, eclipsed by its wealthy neighbor Caesarea, has become a flashpoint for violence by right-wing demonstrators

Authors, poets to read Book of Lamentations in protest of overhaul

By Jessica Steinberg

Tour operator says overhaul protests sparking overseas cancellations

By Michael Horovitz

Illustrative image: cancer cells against a backdrop of DNA (Mohammed Haneefa Nizamudeen via iStock by Getty Images)

Hebrew University researchers discover how pancreatic cancer spreads through body

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Study published in Nature holds out hope for patients by pointing to an existing drug that could undergo trials for use in fighting metastases

Scholars at Svara, a queer yeshiva based in Chicago, have served the Jewish LGBTQ community for two decades and are now creating the first written set of Jewish law by and for trans Jews. (Jess Benjamin/via JTA)

Queer yeshiva publishes first set of Jewish legal opinions by and for trans Jews

By Jackie Hajdenberg

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Singer Shlomo Artzi perfoms live in the southern city of Ashdod, August 4, 2021 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Shlomo Artzi to forgo Israel Prize, says time not right when Israel ‘hurt and torn’

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends breakfast with the foreign ministers of Gulf Cooperation Council nations during the 77th United Nations General Assembly in New York, September 23, 2022. (David Dee Delgado/Pool Photo via AP)

Gulf states ask US to respond to Smotrich’s comments on Palestinians

By Lazar Berman

In this handout phot, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu applauds as Foreign Minister Eli Cohen and UAE Ambassador to Israel Mohamed al-Khaja exchange signed copies of the custom agreement between the countries, March 26, 2023. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Israel-UAE free trade deal takes force as customs agreement inked in Jerusalem

By Lazar Berman

The Smathers Library at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, May 8, 2021. (Steven Martin via Creative Commons/via JTA)

Florida bill attacking critical theory in higher education has Jewish profs worried

By Andrew Lapin

Illustrative. Pizza. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Slice of the actionActivists plan Passover ‘pizza party’ to protest hospital hametz law

By Canaan Lidor

OurCrowd founder and CEO Jon Medved, center, hosts a delegation of Uruguayan government officials at the company's headquarters in Jerusalem on March 26, 2023. (courtesy)

OurCrowd inks initial accord for tech incubator to boost Latin America-Israel ties

By Sharon Wrobel

The scene of a criminal shooting in the northern Arab town of Rameh, March 18, 2023. (Courtesy)

Man shot dead in northern town, pushing 2023 toll in Arab towns to 39

By Michael Horovitz

David Saranga, Director of the Digital Diplomacy Bureau at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, delivers a message in Farsi. (Courtesy/Twitter)

The next frontier: Israel taps AI and metaverse for aid in digital diplomacy

By Ethan Freedman

Protesters march during a protest against Israel's participation in the FIFA World Cup Under-20s, Jakarta, Indonesia, March 20, 2023. (AP/Achmad Ibrahim)

Indonesia’s tensions with Israel force delay of FIFA U20 World Cup draw

By Graham Dunbar

Kiryat Motzkin Mayor Haim Tzuri. (Facebook)

Kiryat Motzkin mayor charged with multiple corruption offenses

By Michael Horovitz

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