AG continues to march to her own drum as justice minister fumes

09/04/23 • 16 min

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Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 15-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world, from Sunday through Thursday.

Political correspondent Tal Schneider and religion reporter Canaan Lidor join host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode.

Yesterday, Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara called on the High Court of Justice to strike down a government law limiting judicial review. Also yesterday, the attorney general approved a request by Justice Minister Yariv Levin that he be allowed to use independent legal counsel to represent his position in an upcoming High Court of Justice hearing over his decision not to convene the Judicial Selection Committee. Schneider weighs in on both.

Lidor spent much of yesterday in south Tel Aviv following the violent riots there on Saturday among supporters and opponents to Eritrea’s 30-year dictatorial regime. What did he see?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Cyprus and Foreign Minister Eli Cohen is set to travel to Bahrain this week. Schneider explains the significance of the trips and what they expect to accomplish.

According to a new report by Itim, a nonprofit aiming to help Jews and people converting to Judaism navigate Israel’s religious bureaucracy, of 320 public mikvehs surveyed, only 188 said they would let women immerse without supervision, despite a 2016 Supreme Court ruling affirming the right to privacy at mikvehs. What is going on behind the (shower) curtain?

Discussed articles include:

Attorney general asks court to strike down law curtailing oversight of government

AG approves Levin’s request for independent counsel in judicial selection panel case

Levin says working with AG ‘almost impossible’ but can’t fire her just yet

In Tel Aviv’s tense south, business owners guard stores damaged in Eritrean riots

Netanyahu discusses energy ties with Cypriot and Greek leaders

After 9 months without high-level visits, FM Cohen heads to Bahrain

Public mikvehs routinely violate women’s right to immerse alone, study finds

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IMAGE: Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara at her inauguration ceremony in Jerusalem on February 8, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 15-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world, from Sunday through Thursday.

Political correspondent Tal Schneider and religion reporter Canaan Lidor join host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode.

Lidor spent much of yesterday in south Tel Aviv following the violent riots there on Saturday among supporters and opponents to Eritrea’s 30-year dictatorial regime. What did he see?

Discussed articles include:

Attorney general asks court to strike down law curtailing oversight of government

AG approves Levin’s request for independent counsel in judicial selection panel case

Levin says working with AG ‘almost impossible’ but can’t fire her just yet

In Tel Aviv’s tense south, business owners guard stores damaged in Eritrean riots

Netanyahu discusses energy ties with Cypriot and Greek leaders

After 9 months without high-level visits, FM Cohen heads to Bahrain

Public mikvehs routinely violate women’s right to immerse alone, study finds

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IMAGE: Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara at her inauguration ceremony in Jerusalem on February 8, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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Why the PM dropped a 2018 deal for Eritrean asylum seekers

Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 15-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world, from Sunday through Thursday.

Editor David Horovitz and military correspondent Emanuel Fabian join host Amanda Borschel-Dan on today's episode.

Yesterday, violent clashes broke out in southern Tel Aviv between Eritrean migrants supporting and opposing the 30-year dictatorial regime. The clashes saw over 150 injured, including some 15 in serious condition. Around 30 policemen were hurt. Although the protest was scheduled, there are allegations the police were unprepared for the level of violence. Fabian weighs in.

Many in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition have released statements since the Eritrean riots. But, as Horovitz explains, in 2018 the prime minister killed a deal with the United Nations that may have prevented them.

On Friday, hundreds of Palestinians rioted in the Gaza Strip on the border with Israel, hurling explosive devices and attempting to break through the security barrier. What prompted them?

An off-duty Israeli soldier was killed and six other people were wounded on Thursday morning in a truck-ramming terror attack at a West Bank checkpoint near the central city of Modiin. Fabian describes the chilling chain of events.

The third anniversary of the Abraham Accords is coming up on September 15. Horovitz shares thoughts from his recent Editor’s Note devoted to Foreign Minister Eli Cohen's meeting with the former Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush.

Discussed articles include:

Netanyahu says government will look into deporting migrants who rioted in Tel Aviv

Officer said hospitalized with serious head injury after migrant clashes in Tel Aviv

Hundreds of Palestinians riot on Gaza border; 9 said wounded by IDF fire

Soldier killed, six injured in truck-ramming terror attack near Modiin

How Netanyahu and his rookie FM turned a breakthrough with Libya into a debacle

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IMAGE: Eritrean protesters clash with Israeli riot police in Tel Aviv, September 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

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PM talks pipelines in Cyprus as judicial overhaul heats up

Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 15-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world, from Sunday through Thursday.

Knesset correspondent Carrie Keller-Lynn and Arab affairs reporter Gianluca Pacchiani join host Jessica Steinberg for today's podcast.

Keller-Lynn offers update on latest headlines of judicial overhaul, as President Isaac Herzog urged a compromise while lawmakers from both sides were denying any chances for a compromise agreement.

Keller-Lynn also reports on trip to Cyprus, accompanying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who spent two days there for talks with his Cypriot and Greek counterparts about regional relations, pipeline plans and gas fields.

Pacchiani talks about his interviews with various Libyan Jews, following Israel's first-ever diplomatic meeting with Libyan counterpart Najla Mangoush that sparked a diplomatic scuffle and her suspension.

He interviewed Libyan Jew Raphael Luzon who lives in London and has played a significant role in some of Israel's diplomatic relations with Libya. Pacchiani also spoke with Libyan-born Israelis about their memories, experiences and thoughts about Israel broaching diplomatic ties with their homeland.

Steinberg mentions the newest exhibit at the Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art, which has finally reopened following its sudden closure in January 2022 due to the mayor's discomfort with a politically sensitive piece of art. The new exhibit offers a broad look at the history of Israeli art through selected works from the collection of the Phoenix Holdings insurance company.

Discussed articles include:

Coalition, opposition come together to reject reported bargain on judicial overhaul

Netanyahu discusses energy ties with Cypriot and Greek leaders

PM: Decision on route for exporting natural gas to Europe expected in ‘3-6 months’

Peace with Libya is doubtful, but contact, aided by local Jews, started years ago

Recalling ‘cruelty’ of former homeland, some Libyan Jews cast wary eye on contacts

New exhibit opens at Ramat Gan museum, spanning century of Israeli art

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IMAGE: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at joint statement with Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides on September 3, 2023 in Cyprus (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

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