Plus: Oreo science | Monday, March 27, 2023
| | | | | | | Presented By TikTok | | | | Axios PM | | By Mike Allen · Mar 27, 2023 | | 👋 Good Monday afternoon. Today's PM — edited by Kate Nocera — is 570 words, a 2-min. read. Thanks to Sheryl Miller for the copy edit. | | | | | | 🇮🇱 1 big thing: Bibi hits pause "to avoid civil war" | | Protesters outside Israel's parliament in Jerusalem today. Photo: AFP via Getty Images Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will delay his coalition's judicial overhaul legislation, he said today, as a chance "to avoid civil war," Axios from Tel Aviv author Barak Ravid reports. - Since the plan to weaken the country's Supreme Court was announced in January, Israel's economy has suffered instability. The country has seen unprecedented political and social unrest.
Netanyahu warned that Israeli society is on a dangerous collision course. He said he'll immediately begin talking with the opposition to reach a consensus around a judicial overhaul plan. A general strike began this morning, bringing much of the country to a halt. Israel's international airport shut down, and hospitals started dealing only with emergency cases. - The strike was called off after Netanyahu's address.
Opposition leader Yair Lapid said they were open to talks but if Netanyahu tried any "tricks," he will find the people who protested standing against him again. - It is unlikely that this suspension is the end of the political crisis, Barak tells me. Even if negotiations start, it will be very hard to come up with a plan that will be enough for Netanyahu's far-right coalition partners.
Go deeper. |     | | | | | | 2. Catch me up | | Photo: Jonathan Mattise/AP - Above: Children from The Covenant School, a private Christian school in Nashville, hold hands today as they're taken to a reunification site after a shooting that killed six people, including three children. Police killed the shooter, identified as a 28-year-old Nashville woman. Get the latest.
- A "textbook case of mismanagement" at Silicon Valley Bank was a key factor in its failure, the Fed's top banking regulator will tell lawmakers tomorrow, Axios' Courtenay Brown reports.
- Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) is running for Houston mayor. Go deeper.
| | | | | | | | A message from TikTok | | Data security and privacy: your concern, our commitment | | |  | | | | To address concerns around data security, TikTok is building tailor-made systems overseen by U.S.-based teams specifically tasked with managing all access to U.S. user data and securing the TikTok platform. Learn more about data privacy. | | | | | | 3. 💅 Airport makeovers | | Terminal C at LaGuardia. Photo: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Several big U.S. airports have undergone major renovations recently, transforming dreary terminals into spaces travelers might enjoy spending time in, Axios What's Next co-author Alex Fitzpatrick writes. - The makeovers aren't just about aesthetics — they're also about accessibility and accommodations.
- The average U.S. airport terminal is more than 40 years old, The Washington Post reported last year, and don't account for the needs of flyers today (i.e., fast WiFi or chargers everywhere).
LaGuardia's renovated terminals are home to faster baggage screening machines and an eye-catching new water feature. The Moment Vault at Orlando International Airport. Photo: Orlando International Airport Orlando International Airport's new Terminal C now features a "Moment Vault" — a digital art display with three massive, 32-foot-tall screens where viewers can interact with sea life and watch a rocket launch. Photo: Dimensional Innovations Kansas City International Airport now has an inclusive kids' play area with a plane and air traffic control tower that's wheelchair accessible and has sensory toys. | | | | | | | | 4. 🥛 Twisting Oreos for science | | Photo: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images A team at MIT has twisted apart over 1,000 Oreos in the name of science, attempting to solve that age-old problem: Is there any way to get the cream on both sides of the wafers? - Turns out the answer is: Not really. Oreo's filling stuck to just one wafer about 80% of the time, using both a machine and hand techniques to twist.
- "There was no combination of anything that we could do ... that changed anything in our results," Crystal Owens, a Ph.D. candidate in MIT's mechanical engineering department, told The Wall Street Journal.
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