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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 1, 2022

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MK Avi Maoz arrives for the opening session of the Knesset on November 15, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Far-right homophobe Maoz given authority over outside programming in schools

Coalition deal shows Maoz’s ‘Jewish identity’ body to have 15 staff, budget of NIS 100M and growing; outgoing education minister: Pact with his fringe Noam party ‘a moral disgrace’

Noam party leader MK Avi Maoz speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset, on November 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Anti-LGBT incoming Jewish identity czar Avi Maoz vows to nix Jerusalem Pride Parade

MK Gadi Eisenkot attends a discussion at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on November 22, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Eisenkot calls for a million-strong rally if Netanyahu harms democracy

Op-ed

Conceding to extremists, Netanyahu hatches intolerant, alienating, vulnerable Israel

He is giving toxic provocateurs more power than they could have imagined and is set to take a wrecking ball to our judiciary. It’s a recipe for disunity and national weakness

Likud party chairman MK Benjamin Netanyahu at an event for the launch of his autobiography in Jerusalem on November 14, 2022, a day after he was tasked by the president with forming Israel's next government. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to reporters at Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on November 23, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Netanyahu vows to keep far-right in check: ‘Israel won’t be governed by Talmud’

Religious Zionist party head MK Bezalel Smotrich seen after coalition talks at a hotel in Jerusalem on November 30, 2022. (Courtesy Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 1: Netanyahu tries to rein in Smotrich; chess games reflect life

Ben-Gurion Day

Why bring Ben-Gurion Day to the USA?

From the blog of Doug Seserman: The time has come, therefore, where we need to reimagine a 21st-century Zionism that resonates with the next generation of American Jews

Illustrative: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York on September 23, 2022. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

UN General Assembly votes in favor of commemorating Palestinian ‘Nakba’

Pro-Palestinian resolution lamenting Israel’s birth passes 90-30, as Israeli envoy blasts move as a ‘disgrace’ and unveils display about Jewish expulsions from Mideast countries

Palestinian UN envoy Riyad Mansour addresses the General Assembly in New York, November 30, 2022. (Screenshot/UN, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Palestinian envoy tells UN ‘we’re at the end of the road’ for 2-state solution

A Palestinian woman attends a demonstration outside the outside UNRWA's Headquarters in Gaza City, August 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

UNRWA condemns subterranean opening found beneath Gaza school

Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Religious Zionism party leader Bezalel Smotrich shake hands after signing a coalition deal in Jerusalem on December 1, 2022. (Likud)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu, Smotrich sign deal handing far-right party sweeping powers over West Bank

By Michael Bachner

Religious Zionism chief to be finance minister for 2 years, with party also getting minister controlling settlements, influential position to advance controversial judicial reform

7:38 pm

Israeli Consulate in Chicago hosts event on promoting diversity in education
7:24 pm

Biden ready to speak to Putin 'if he is looking for a way to end the war'
6:50 pm

US envoy refuses to say whether he'll meet with incoming far-right minister

Bibi thinks we’re idiots (and he’s probably right)

My right-wing friends are thrilled that Netanyahu’s future coalition will finally act for the welfare of the Jews in Israel. Me, I don’t trust him

Dorothea Shefer-Vanson

Anarchists and enemies of the Open Society

Itamar Ben Gvir’s defense of IDF soldiers who attacked Israeli leftists in Hebron augurs a regime emboldened to punish its ideological opponents

Palestinian mourners carry the bodies of Naeem Jamal Zubaidi, 27, left and Mohammad Ayman Saadi, 26, covered with flags of the Islamic Jihad Movement, during their funeral in the West Bank city of Jenin, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Officials said bracing for Gaza rocket fire after top Islamic Jihad terrorist killed

Terror group says it will respond to death of PIJ operative along with al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades member, and ‘massacre’ in Jenin; Hamas also threatens action

Israeli troops operate in the West Bank, early December 1, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Two senior terror group fighters killed by IDF during raid near Jenin

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: In this undated photo, soldiers from the Netzah Yehuda battalion are seen studying in a synagogue at the Peles Military Base, in the Northern Jordan Valley. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Religious unit with reputation of rights abuses to exit West Bank for first time

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli F-35i and American F-15 jets hold an exercise over Israel, November 29, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF holds joint air drills with US, simulating strikes on Iran and proxies

By Emanuel Fabian

After army chief Kohavi’s visit to US, fighter jets and refuelers simulate long-range flights and ‘an operational scenario’; Lapid observes drill from IAF control center

File: An officer in the Border Defense Corps places a beret on a soldier's head, in an undated photo published by the military. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF forms new co-ed light infantry battalion to guard West Bank security barrier

By Emanuel Fabian

The excavation at the medieval Jewish cemetery of Erfurt, Germany. (TLDA Ronny Krause)

ArchaeologyRabbis consulted over moral implications of testing remains

Largest study of ancient DNA shows medieval Ashkenazi Jewry was surprisingly diverse

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Scientists find that some 700 years ago, the Jews of Erfurt, Germany, formed 2 groups; rabbinic consultants stipulated that they study only loose teeth from pre-excavated skeletons

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

He campaigned for Soviet immigration. Now Avi Maoz is poised to fight against it

As head of the Nativ program, the far-right nationalist could make immigration from the former Soviet Union much harder for those who aren’t Jewish according to Orthodox law

Head of the Noam party Avi Maoz at the Knesset in Jerusalem on July 19, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi speaks at Ben Gurion University, November 30, 2022. (Dani Machlis/BGU)

Gantz rejects Ben Gvir request to visit jailed soldier

IDF chief: Only commanders will decide how to handle wayward soldiers

By Emanuel Fabian

Reacting to right-wing criticism of jailing of serviceman who taunted activists, Kohavi says code of conduct ‘doesn’t change with the weather’; Netanyahu: Keep IDF out of politics

Defense Minister Benny Gantz at a press conference in Ramat Gan, November 29, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Gantz warns of ‘serious harm’ if Ben Gvir assumes control of West Bank Border Police

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Prominent Palestinian activist Issa Amro speaks after his release from Palestinian Authority detention, in the West Bank city of Hebron, on September 10, 2017. (AP/Nasser Shiyoukhi, File)

Palestinian who filmed Hebron soldier taunting activists barred from home for a week

ToI@10 event

LIVE: English screening of Israel’s Oscar pick ‘Cinema Sabaya’ + director interview

Join us on Dec. 6 in Jerusalem for an English-subtitled showing of the feel-good film and a conversation with director Orit Fouks Rotem and ToI’s Jessica Steinberg

The cast of 'Cinema Sabaya,' the big winner in Israel's Ophir Awards on September 18, 2022. (Courtesy: Cinema Sabaya)

Julia Haart in an episode of season two of 'My Unorthodox Life' on Netflix. (Netflix)

InterviewHaart says attacks on her story 'like reliving the trauma'

Messy divorce, religious battles headline season 2 of Netflix’s ‘My Unorthodox Life’

Julia Haart says she refused to turn off cameras even at her ‘lowest point’; after season 1, sister cut off contact due to pressure from community: ‘She didn’t want to be a pariah’

Popular dating show ‘Love Island’ headed to Israel

President Isaac Herzog presents Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu with the mandate to form the next government, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on November 13, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

‘Do not come’: Security for Herzog’s trip to Gulf said boosted due to online threats

Social media posts by Bahraini opposition activists urge ‘criminal’ Israeli president not to visit country; Herzog also slated to make subsequent stop in UAE

Turkey’s new envoy to Israel begins work after four years of suspended ties

By Lazar Berman

UAE invites Ben Gvir to Tel Aviv reception, despite having warned against him

By Lazar Berman

In Tel Aviv, UAE’s largest free trade zone moves to attract Israeli entrepreneurs

By Lazar Berman

Jews living in San Martin de los Andes have inaugurated the first-ever synagogue in their city. (Gustavo Castaign/ Courtesy Comunidad Hebrea San Martin de los Andes via JTA)

'People are very moved that we're here'

Patagonia’s 1st new synagogue in decades reveals growing Argentine-Jewish community

By Juan Melamed

Conservative Jews in San Martín de los Andes inaugurated their city’s first-ever synagogue, and have already doubled the number of locals and tourists coming for holiday events

Jordanian film director Darin J. Sallam (center) accepting an award for 'Farha' at the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on December 13, 2021. (AFP)

Ministers condemn ‘terrible’ Jordanian film about 1948 war slated to hit Netflix

By AFP and ToI Staff

Avigdor Liberman suggests withholding funding from Jaffa theater set to screen ‘Farha,’ which he says ‘incites against Israeli soldiers’

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy, discusses a new initiative during AWS re:Invent 2019 in Las Vegas, December 5, 2019. (Isaac Brekken/AP Images for NFL)

Amazon CEO: Antisemitic film must stay on site, to allow for ‘different viewpoints’

An ad for student debt refinancing company SoFi depicts a man stealing money from a young couple that was critizied as looking ike an antisemitic stereotype. (Screenshot via JTA)

US loan company SoFi pulls ad after criticism it features an antisemitic stereotype

By Andrew Lapin

An artist's rendering of the proposed new train station in central Jerusalem by 2030, November 2022. (Israel Railways/Pelleg Architects)

Jerusalem to build stations in city center for fast train service to & from Tel Aviv

By Danielle Nagler

Delivery of two new stops, one at intersection of Jaffa and King George and one near the First Station, set for 2030

Safed Old City, November 2022 (Danielle Nagler)

Real estate appraisals fall short of superheated prices, locking out buyers

By Danielle Nagler

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Screen capture from video of Henya Federman, co-director of Chabad St. Thomas, June 2022. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Baby drowns; mother, a Chabad emissary, critically injured in Virgin Islands

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks remotely at The New York Times' DealBook Summit, November 30, 2022. (Twitter video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Zelensky calls on Israel to stop ‘balancing’ between Ukraine and Russia

A screenshot of a tallit, or a Jewish prayer shawl, sold as "Elegant Sunscreen Scarves" on the Walmart website. (Screenshot/Walmart)

Walmart pulls $40 Jewish prayer shawls sold as ‘elegant sunscreen scarves’

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Illustrative: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz delivers a speech during a meeting of the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Dec. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

German parliament labels 1930s ‘Holodomor’ famine in Ukraine a genocide

By Geir Moulson

Waze co-founder and former CEO Noam Bardin. (Screenshot via CBInsights on YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

A ‘vessel for content’: Former Waze CEO builds Twitter alternative with a16z funding

By Sharon Wrobel

Residents ride public transport in the district of Haizhu as pandemic restrictions are eased in southern China's Guangzhou province, December 1, 2022. (AP Photo)

China eases COVID controls amid effort to head off anti-lockdown protests

By Joe McDonald

Gilboa Prison commander Freddy Ben Shitrit arrives for his testimony at the state commission of inquiry into the incident of the escape of the security prisoners from the Gilboa Prison, in Modiin, July 31, 2022. (Flash90)

Gilboa Prison chief during notorious jailbreak fired from position amid feud

Illustrative: A screenshot of video from the Iranian city of Saqez shows Kurdish high school students celebrating Iran's defeat in the World Cup to the United States, November 30, 2022. (YouTube video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iranian man said killed by security forces while celebrating World Cup loss to US

By ToI Staff and AFP

House Democratic Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries arrives for leadership elections at the Capitol in Washington, November 30, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Pro-Israel Democrat Jeffries elected first-ever Black House minority leader

By Jacob Magid and AP

Naftuli Moster, executive director of the nonprofit advocacy group Yaffed, speaks at a news conference, July 24, 2019. (Yaffed via JTA)

New York activist for yeshiva education reform to launch Haredi news organization

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Founder of Alibaba group Jack Ma arrives at the Tech for Good summit in Paris, May 15, 2019. (AP/Thibault Camus, File)

Alibaba founder said living in Japan after China tech crackdown, often visits Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

In this June 22, 2019 file photo, Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy head of the military council sits on his vehicle surrounded by soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces unit during a military-backed tribal rally, in the East Nile province, Sudan. (AP/Hussein Malla)

Report: Ex-army officer’s spy firm sent phone hacking tools to Sudanese militia

By Michael Horovitz

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