The Times of Israel Daily Briefing

Raging protest, stormy Knesset and preconditions for talks


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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.

Knesset correspondent Carrie Keller-Lynn and legal reporter Jeremy Sharon join host Amanda Borschel-Dan to report on what happened yesterday at the Knesset -- inside and out.

We begin with a sense of the magnitude of Monday's protest as Keller Lynn describes her commute by train from Tel Aviv and the scene that awaited her in Jerusalem.

At the same time, Sharon was inside the Knesset stormy Constitutional Committee meeting, which is headed by MK Simcha Rothman, who was the subject of this weekend's What Matters Now podcast. Sharon sets the scene inside the Knesset.

Police sources estimated that about 90,000 people attended the protest, while organizers put the number at some 130,000, and a high-tech group affiliated with the demonstrators even went as high as 300,000. Keller-Lynn compares Monday's protest with those she's covered for The Times of Israel on Saturday nights in Tel Aviv and discusses just who is organizing them.

We hear where we now stand on the legislation that was heard yesterday and that will be presented in the Knesset this week.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog took to prime-time television on Sunday night and proposed five steps toward compromise. Last night, the architects of the judicial overhaul, including Justice Minister Yariv Levin and Rothman, appeared to agree to compromise talks at the president’s residence. Are these statements sincere?

Discussed articles include:

Tens of thousands rally at Knesset against overhaul: ‘Worried for Israel’s future’

90,000 or 300,000? Why estimates of crowd size at Jerusalem protest vary so widely

Lapid: Justice overhaul ‘tearing Israel apart’; PM: Opposition leading us to anarchy

Israeli flags as far as the eye can see, as protesters plead for an overhaul rethink

First judicial overhaul legislation approved in committee amid ferocious opposition

Judicial overhaul bill likely to come up for first plenum vote next Monday

Justice minister offers talks on overhaul; Opposition: Legislation must stop first

What Matters Now… to MK Simcha Rothman? ‘The people should appoint the judges’

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IMAGE: Protest against the judicial overhaul, outside the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, February 13, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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