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Urgent updates : Volunteer reservists stay away; protesters attacked * PM orders crackdown on dissenters; his son makes Nazi comparisons * Rabbi in paradise * Plight of mail-order-brides

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Sunday, March 19, 2023

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Hundreds of elite IDF reservists stop showing up for duty over judicial overhaul

By Emanuel Fabian

Officers and soldiers who volunteer in Military Intelligence’s Special Operations Division and cyber warfare units begin boycott ‘until this attempted coup is over’

Ex-chief of atomic commission warns overhaul will undercut fight against Iran

By ToI Staff

Business leaders warn Likud MKs: Judicial overhaul already harming economy

By ToI Staff

As violence against protesters escalates, opposition blames Netanyahu’s ‘incitement’

By ToI Staff

Man said to ram car into Herzliya group; motorcyclist drives into Givatayim crowd; multiple assault reports; well-known Likud activist calls women ‘Hitler’s contemptible handmaids’

‘Destroying Zionism’: Masses protest overhaul; rise in violence against demonstrators

By ToI Staff

Police detain man over graffiti calling justice minister ‘enemy of the people’

By ToI Staff

PM: IDF chief must crack down on insubordination, police on road-blocking protesters

By ToI Staff

Netanyahu denounces ‘violence from any side’ but doesn’t mention attacks on protesters; implicitly links anti-government rallies to Iranian nuclear program and Palestinian terror

Yair Netanyahu compares anti-overhaul protesters to Nazi Brownshirts

By ToI Staff

Report: Rothman intern banned several times from social media over offensive posts

By Michael Horovitz

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LIVE: High Court rules that Ben Gvir cannot issue operational orders to police forces

By Amy Spiro

In response to petition decrying minister’s intervention in demonstrations, Supreme Court Justice Isaac Amit rules he must ‘refrain from’ instructing cops ‘directly or indirectly’

Coalition heads to hold talks on softening judicial overhaul; opposition: ‘A joke’

By ToI Staff

Justice Minister Levin to take part in meeting, during which participants will reportedly mull unilateral moderation of bill to give ruling majority control over selecting judges

Coalition to push ahead with judicial overhaul, bills to assist Netanyahu and Deri

By Jeremy Sharon

Sephardic chief rabbi calls for judicial reform dialogue to avoid civil war

By ToI Staff

Did Herzog drop the ball with his ‘People’s Framework’?

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A match made in desperation: New Israeli film unveils plight of mail-order-brides

By Rich Tenorio

Playing at the Boston Jewish Film Festival, ‘Valeria is Getting Married’ touches on the murky morality of these mutualistic relationships – and their resulting emotional toll

Top Ops

Jamie Ben-Cnaan

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Potential newcomers may be willing to sacrifice convenience and luxury – they won’t forego their democratic liberties

Assaf Shapira

Israel is still a free country – but now with a warning sign

A top democracy index hasn’t yet ranked Israel with Hungary. That will change if the majority becomes all powerful

Palestinian Islamic Jihad claims senior engineer assassinated by Israel in Syria

By Emanuel Fabian

Gaza-based terror group describes killing of Ali Ramzi al-Aswad as ‘bearing fingerprints of Zionist enemy’; IDF doesn’t respond to rocket attack from Strip ahead of Aqaba summit

Two German tourists attacked by Palestinians after entering Nablus with Israeli car

By Emanuel Fabian

PA premier Shtayyeh: ICC should order arrest of those who call to destroy villages

By ToI Staff

Residents of south, opposition MKs slam government’s lack of response to Gaza rocket

By ToI Staff

‘They’re again forgetting us,’ says Sderot man after another attack from Hamas-ruled Strip apparently goes unanswered; ministers mum on failure to retaliate

IDF: Rocket launched from Gaza at south, causes no injuries

By Emanuel Fabian

Ancient rest stop with flowery mosaic to host tired travelers once again

By Melanie Lidman

Israel Antiquities Authority teams up with residents from central town of Shoham during Good Deeds Day to spruce up 1,800-year-old spot for travelers to take a break

Aruba’s new rabbi comes out of retirement to lead a congregation in ‘paradise’

By dan fellner

After manning the pulpit in Medellin, Colombia, at the height of Pablo Escobar’s notorious reign, Baruch Zeilicovich feels ready for anything on the beautiful and serene island

ADL research: Conspiracy-minded Americans tend toward antisemitic views

By ToI Staff

Study finds close link between individuals’ belief in secretive plots and their agreement with negative stereotypes about Jews

‘We are at war’: US election deniers remain force in GOP as 2024 vote nears

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY

Dozens of psychiatrists warn of mental health dangers from judicial overhaul ‘trauma’

By ToI Staff

In letter to Netanyahu and Herzog, top specialists say sooner or later everyone in the country will feel ‘irreversible damage’ from impact of controversial changes