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Thousands of demonstrators blocked roads in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and around Israel in protest last night, after the Parliament passed a law limiting the Supreme Court’s ability to overturn decisions made by government ministers. Some demonstrators yelled, “For shame,” as the police fired water cannons at them.
Thousands of demonstrators blocked roads in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and around Israel in protest last night, after the Parliament passed a law limiting the Supreme Court’s ability to overturn decisions made by government ministers. Some demonstrators yelled, “For shame,” as the police fired water cannons at them.
In a televised address last night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to quell the intensifying unrest, suggesting that he would table until late November a broader judicial overhaul plan being undertaken by his government.
In a televised address last night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to quell the intensifying unrest, suggesting that he would table until late November a broader judicial overhaul plan being undertaken by his government.
The country’s nationalist right celebrated the passage of the law, which has become a stand-in for deeper rifts in Israel between those who want a more secular and pluralist state and those with a more religious and nationalist vision. “With God’s help, this will just be the beginning,” an ultranationalist minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, told reporters.
The country’s nationalist right celebrated the passage of the law, which has become a stand-in for deeper rifts in Israel between those who want a more secular and pluralist state and those with a more religious and nationalist vision. “With God’s help, this will just be the beginning,” an ultranationalist minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, told reporters.
Response: Yair Lapid, the centrist leader of the opposition, said Netanyahu was in the clutches of the hard-line members of his coalition. “This extremist and messianic government cannot tear our democracy to shreds at noon, and in the evening send Netanyahu to say that he offers negotiations,” he said. “We won’t give up. The struggle has just begun.”
Response: Yair Lapid, the centrist leader of the opposition, said Netanyahu was in the clutches of the hard-line members of his coalition. “This extremist and messianic government cannot tear our democracy to shreds at noon, and in the evening send Netanyahu to say that he offers negotiations,” he said. “We won’t give up. The struggle has just begun.”
Analysis: Before his indictment in 2019, Netanyahu was known as a staunch defender of an independent Supreme Court, Isabel Kershner, a Times correspondent in Jerusalem, said. “Even if he did want this law to go through, it is not clear he wanted it to go through like this, in its most extreme form. And when he says he will only proceed with the rest of the overhaul plan within a broad consensus, his many opponents simply do not believe him anymore.”
Analysis: Before his indictment in 2019, Netanyahu was known as a staunch defender of an independent Supreme Court, Isabel Kershner, a Times correspondent in Jerusalem, said. “Even if he did want this law to go through, it is not clear he wanted it to go through like this, in its most extreme form. And when he says he will only proceed with the rest of the overhaul plan within a broad consensus, his many opponents simply do not believe him anymore.”
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The new law limits the Israeli Supreme Court’s use of the legal concept of “reasonableness” to countermand decisions by ministers. Opposition leaders said they would ask the Supreme Court to rule on the legality of the new law, setting up a potential crisis among the country’s branches of government.
The new law limits the Israeli Supreme Court’s use of the legal concept of “reasonableness” to countermand decisions by ministers. Opposition leaders said they would ask the Supreme Court to rule on the legality of the new law, setting up a potential crisis among the country’s branches of government.
Lawmakers passed the measure, 64-0, yesterday morning, after opposition members walked out of the chamber in protest of the vote.
Lawmakers passed the measure, 64-0, yesterday morning, after opposition members walked out of the chamber in protest of the vote.
An alliance of 150 major businesses, including the country’s biggest malls, shuttered their doors before the vote began. More than 10,000 military reservists are threatening to resign from duty, and health care workers will strike today.
An alliance of 150 major businesses, including the country’s biggest malls, shuttered their doors before the vote began. More than 10,000 military reservists are threatening to resign from duty, and health care workers will strike today.
Russian drones hit Reni, a Ukrainian port town on the Danube River, local authorities said yesterday, destroying a grain hangar in an apparent escalation of efforts to cripple Ukraine’s ability to export agricultural products. Global wheat prices, which rose last week after Russia pulled out of the Black Sea deal, rose about 6.2 percent yesterday afternoon.
The explosions, just across the river from Romania, a NATO member, are the closest Russia has come to hitting the military alliance’s territory and risking a more direct confrontation with the U.S. and European allies. Russia has spent the past week bombarding Ukrainian ports near the city of Odesa.
The “recent escalation poses serious risks to the security in the Black Sea,” President Klaus Iohannis of Romania said on Twitter. Romania’s Defense Ministry said it was maintaining a posture of “enhanced vigilance” with its allies along NATO’s eastern flank.
Other news: Ukrainian families are waiting to bury soldiers killed in the war until the country builds a cemetery to honor them.
Recent extreme heat across the Northern Hemisphere would have been “virtually impossible” without the influence of human-caused climate change, according to new research published today.
In a climate changed by fossil fuel emissions, heat waves of this magnitude “are not rare events,” said Friederike Otto, the co-founder of World Weather Attribution, a group of scientists who measure how much climate change influences extreme weather events.
If the composition of the atmosphere remained at today’s levels, there would be a 1 in 10 chance every year of a heat event similar to the one recently experienced in Southern Europe. But because humans continue to put extra greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the odds will continue to tip in extreme heat’s favor: Even if we stop, temperatures will not cool again, they will just stop rising, Dr. Otto said.
Response: Many local and national governments, especially in Europe, have created heat action plans, which include resources like public cooling centers and advance warning and coordination between social services and hospitals. Last summer, approximately 61,000 people died across Europe because of heat waves, according to another recent study.
Dismal results for Spain’s far-right Vox party in the country’s elections are a relief for Europe’s liberal and moderate establishment.
President Emmanuel Macron of France called for “order, order, order” after turmoil resulting from a raised retirement age and the police killing of a teenager.
Residents and tourists have fled wildfires in the Greek islands of Corfu and Evia.
The roof of a school gym collapsed in China on Sunday, killing at least 10 members and a coach of a girls’ volleyball team.
Bye-bye, blue bird: Elon Musk replaced Twitter’s logo with an X, part of his goal to create an “everything app.”
UBS will pay $387 million in fines to clean up lingering messes at Credit Suisse, the wounded Swiss banking rival it acquired this year.
The first Republican presidential debate is scheduled is a month away. Donald Trump, the front-runner, may not show up.
Beijing has a new plan to instill confidence in the private sector, but entrepreneurs are skeptical, Li Yuan writes in the New New World column.
A Harvard astrophysicist says that material recovered from the Pacific seafloor could be from an extraterrestrial spacecraft. His peers have doubts.
Figures across the U.S. political spectrum have their own, all-too-predictable takes on “Barbie.”
The climate activist Greta Thunberg was fined on charges of disobeying police orders during a protest in Sweden.
Some Iranian mothers have risked danger to escape the country and spare their daughters a lifetime under a male supremacist regime.
One woman, who was shot in the arm in antigovernment protests, postponed treatment to flee to Iraqi Kurdistan with her daughter and husband. But the longer the delay, the greater the risk that she will need an amputation. She says the exile is worth it: “I would lose this arm rather than abandon my daughter to my government’s nightmare.”
The ‘perfect’ race: Max Verstappen provides another reminder of Formula 1 greatness.
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From The Times: Lise Klaveness leads Norway’s national soccer federation. In pointing out her sport’s failures, she has made powerful enemies. (Read more women’s soccer stories in our Women’s World Cup briefing.)
Nu metal is back. (Teenage angst never went away.)
A growing group of younger fans is listening to bands like Korn and Deftones for the first time, thanks in part to TikTok and the Y2K revival. In the subgenre, they find an accessible mix of metal, hip-hop, funk and alternative rock; a flamboyant sense of style; and a gloomy but relatable subject matter.
“You feel like you can do anything,” Asher Nevélle, a 25-year-old musician, said of listening to the music. “It’s this ‘I don’t care’ attitude. Like, you can look at me, you can stare at me, you can judge me, but I’m going to keep doing what I’m doing.”
This BBQ chicken is glossy and rich.
The ghostwriter Lara Love Hardin’s memoir recounts a fabulous and sometimes felonious back story.
The supposed benefit to training — and not just racing — in so-called super shoes.
Here’s today’s Mini Crossword, and a clue: Apologized for one’s sins (five letters).
And here are today’s Wordle and the Spelling Bee.
You can find all our puzzles here.
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