TOI staff

Tens of thousands of Israelis protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, January 21, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

January 30, 2023, 8:18 pm

70-plus US law professors warn against ‘speed and scale’ of planned legal overhaul

Legal scholars say weakening judiciary’s independence would pose ‘dire risk’ to freedom of expression, human and civil rights and efforts to reduce corruption

By TOI staff

MK Simcha Rotman, chair of the Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee, left, and committee legal adviser Gur Bligh, right, during a meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on January 30, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

January 30, 2023, 7:33 pm

Knesset law committee chair rejects his own legal adviser as ‘biased’

In stormy debate on controversial plans to overhaul judiciary, MK Simcha Rothman calls on Gur Bligh to retract opinion, sparking outcry from opposition lawmakers

By TOI staff

Shas leader MK Aryeh Deri and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a Shas faction meeting in Knesset, January 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

January 30, 2023, 5:57 pm

Bill said aiming to restore Deri as minister by foiling High Court power to nix him

Coalition reportedly working on Basic Law change that would, in the name of upholding democracy and voters’ will, deny courts the power to disqualify a ministerial appointment

By TOI staff

Illustrative: In this photo released by the Iranian Army on August 25, 2022, a drone is launched in a military drone drill in Iran. (Iranian Army via AP)

January 30, 2023, 4:15 pm

Iran warns Israel not to ‘play with fire’ after drone attack on defense facility

Official threatens revenge as ‘first indications’ suggest Jerusalem carried out attack, claims Israelis using propaganda to cover up operation’s failure

By TOI staff

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant points at a Palestinian village outside the IDF's West Bank headquarters, January 29, 2023. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

January 30, 2023, 1:30 pm

Daily Briefing Jan. 30: Defense minister issues threats while seeking calm

Military reporter Emanuel Fabian reviews army reaction to Friday night terror attack, as political correspondent Tal Schneider discusses latest developments in judicial reform

By TOI staff

An Egyptian book on the history of Zionism shows hook-nosed Jews rubbing their hands together as they appear to plot against Egypt and the world. (Social media screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

January 30, 2023, 12:57 pm

Antisemitic book that spurred Israeli complaint is taken off shelves at Cairo fair

Book on history of Zionism features caricatures of Jewish men plotting against Egypt, other antisemitic tropes; author says security forces ‘confiscated’ text on 1st day of event

By TOI staff and Lazar Berman

Ahmed al-Mansoori, director of the Crossroads of Civilizations Museum, shows visitors around the Holocaust Gallery, in Dubai on January 11, 2023. (Karim SAHIB / AFP)

January 30, 2023, 12:57 pm

As UAE embraces Holocaust studies, museum displays Torah scroll saved in genocide

Dubai’s Crossroads of Civilizations Museum founder says exhibition aims to fight Holocaust denial, remind visitors of ‘good days’ between Jews and Arabs in region

By TOI staff and AFP

People walk on the Metro Bridge in Istanbul on January 24, 2023. (OZAN KOSE/AFP)

January 30, 2023, 12:15 pm

US warns citizens of ‘imminent’ terror threat to synagogues, churches in Istanbul

State Department advisory urges caution around areas frequented by Westerners, fearing retaliation for recent Quran desecrations in Europe

By TOI staff and Agencies

Detail from Pablo Picasso, “Woman Ironing,” 1904. (Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; via Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York)

January 30, 2023, 11:39 am

Jewish heirs of owner who fled Nazis sue Guggenheim Museum for $200 million Picasso

Lawsuit claims 1904 ‘Woman Ironing,’ hanging at NY institution since 1978, was sold under duress in 1938; museum insists sale was a ‘fair transaction,’ says suit is without merit

By TOI staff

Screen grab from an unverified video circulating on social media said to show explosion at a defense facility in Iran's Isfahan after an alleged drone strike, January 28, 2023. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

January 30, 2023, 9:40 am

Mossad carried out Iran defense facility strike for Israel’s own interests — report

US officials tell NYT drone attack not aimed at stopping weapons exports to Russia; ex-PM Bennett says he intensified Iran strikes after plot to kill Israelis in Turkey, Cyprus

By TOI staff

A screen capture from a video showing a car set alight by suspected Jewish settlers in the West Bank Palestinian village of Jaloud, January 29, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

January 30, 2023, 7:58 am

Vehicle set alight, ‘Jews wake up’ graffiti sprayed in West Bank Palestinian village

‘Price tag’ incident follows terror attacks over weekend; number of incidents soar in recent days; perpetrators of anti-Palestinian vandalism rarely punished

By TOI staff

Supreme Court Justice Meni Mazuz at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on March 22, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

January 30, 2023, 5:59 am

Ex-AG Mazuz says plans for judicial shake-up ‘most serious threat ever’ to democracy

Former Supreme Court justice warns Israel is facing ‘constitutional revolution’; ex-state attorney Lador says Netanyahu should be required to step down for conflict of interests

By TOI staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) hosts French President Emmanuel Macron at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, January 22, 2020. (Koby Gideon/GPO)

January 30, 2023, 3:48 am

In call with Netanyahu, Macron urges against moves that ‘fuel cycle of violence’

French president expresses ‘complete solidarity’ with Israel in fight against terror, days after terror attack that killed 7 Israelis in Jerusalem

By AFP and TOI staff

Four women suspected of trying to smuggle cocaine and ketamine into Israel, pictured at a hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on January 22, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

January 30, 2023, 12:37 am

Four suspects accused of smuggling drugs have done it before, say police

Young women arrested at Ben Gurion Airport two weeks ago set to be indicted on multiple counts of smuggling cocaine and ketamine worth millions

By TOI staff

Economics Nobel prize winner Prof. Daniel Kahneman speaks at a conference in Jerusalem on June 20, 2013. (Miriam Alster/ FLASH90/ File)

January 29, 2023, 11:50 pm

Israeli Nobel laureate says judicial overhaul plan would mark ‘the end of democracy’

Daniel Kahneman says he is more worried today about the future of Israel than he was during the 1973 Yom Kippur War: ‘It’s almost the end of the world’

By TOI staff