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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 4, 2022

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President Isaac Herzog (L) meets with Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa (R) at the Al-Qudaibiya Palace in Manama, Bahrain, December 4, 2022. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

In first, Bahraini king hosts Herzog, stresses Palestinians’ ‘legitimate rights’

By Lazar Berman

Meeting Israeli president, King Hamad doesn’t mention Palestinian state; sides also avoid discussing Iran; Herzog is making first visit by Israeli head of state to the Gulf kingdom

President Isaac Herzog (front L) and King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa (front R) at the Al Qudaibiya palace in Manama, December 4, 2022. (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

‘Message of peace’: Herzog lands in Bahrain for 1st state visit by Israeli president

By Lazar Berman

Prime Minister Yair Lapid (center), IDF chief Aviv Kohavi (left), and Lapid's military secretary Avi Gil, are seen at the IDF's West Bank headquarters, December 4, 2022. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

In swipe at right-wing lawmakers, Lapid says IDF requires ‘clear chain of command’

Outgoing PM visits military’s West Bank headquarters, says Israel ‘will not allow investigations by foreign parties’ of IDF soldiers or Border Police officers for doing their jobs

7:22 pm

Russia said to ask Israel not to impede it moving defense equipment from Syria to Ukraine
7:02 pm

Thousands march in Morocco in protest over high cost of living
6:29 pm

Prosecutor in Netanyahu case files police complaint over threats to her son

MK Avi Maoz, left, and Likud head Benjamin Netanyahu after signing a coalition deal on November 27, 2022. (Courtesy, Likud)

Likud on back foot as dozens of towns say won’t let anti-LGBT MK dictate education

Netanyahu said planning to tightly control Avi Maoz’s programming after public outcry; Lapid launches hotline to help schools avoid far-rightist’s ‘dark, homophobic doctrine’

MK Avi Maoz, left, and Likud head Benjamin Netanyahu after signing a coalition deal on November 27, 2022. (Courtesy, Likud)

Lapid assails deal with anti-LGBT MK; Likud sources signal Netanyahu may stall on it

Moshe Lador at the Knesset in February 2012. (Kobi Gideon / Flash90)

Ex-state attorney: Netanyahu aims to defang courts due to his ‘very bad’ legal state

An Iranian morality policewoman walks between morality police vehicles, preparing to start a crackdown to enforce Islamic dress code in Tehran, July 23, 2007. (Behrouz Mehri/AFP)

No details on whether new authority will be formed

Iran says ‘morality police’ scrapped after weeks of protest sparked by woman’s death

By AFP and ToI Staff

Country’s AG reportedly makes announcement at conference on religion, more than 2 months after Mahsa Amini died in custody; no comment from Interior Ministry, which controls force

In this file photo from September 26, 2022, women wearing head coverings walk along a street in the center of Iran's capital Tehran. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

After 2½ months of deadly protests, Iran says mandatory hijab law under review

By AFP

Iranian climber Elnaz Rekabi competes during the women's IFSC Climbing Asian Championships in Seoul, South Korea, October 16, 2022. (Rhea Khang/International Federation of Sport Climbing via AP)

Iran demolishes family home of climber who competed without a hijab

A ball of fire and a plume of smoke rise above buildings in southern Gaza as Israeli warplanes strike the Palestinian enclave on December 4, 2022. (AFP)

Hamas fires at Israeli jets as air force hits terror group following rocket attack

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Armed wing Qassam Brigades confirms shooting missiles at Israeli jets, which targeted rocket manufacturing center, tunnel in overnight sortie, possibly heating up Gaza tensions

File: Rockets being fired by Islamic Jihad toward Israel from the Gaza Strip, on August 5, 2022. (Attia Muhammed/Flash90)

Rocket fired from Gaza lands in open field in south; first launch in a month

By Emanuel Fabian

File: An Israeli armored personnel carrier in southern Israel watches over the Karni Crossing into the Gaza Strip, January 5, 2009. (Kobi Gideon / FLASH90)

Israel demolishes disused Gaza cargo terminal to improve defenses in south

By Emanuel Fabian

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu and Otzma Yehudit chief Itamar Ben Gvir arrive for the swearing-in ceremony for the new Knesset, November 15, 2022. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

Netanyahu said to rap Ben Gvir: ‘Needs to calm down, can’t talk like opposition MK’

Far-right incoming minister reportedly retorts that PM-designate ‘must understand he’s head of a fully right-wing government’; in meeting, Ben Gvir said to shout at Likud chair

File: MK Bezalel Smotrich, center, waves an Israeli flag during the annual 'Flags March' next to Damascus Gate, outside Jerusalem's Old City, June 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 4: There’s a new sheriff in the West Bank — MK Bezalel Smotrich

Antisemites hang a banner over a Los Angeles freeway declaring 'Kanye is right about the Jews' next to another advertising the Goyim Defense League's Goyim TV website. (Oren Segal, via Twitter/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

US Jews battle ‘mainstreaming’ and normalization of antisemitism

By Paul Handley

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)

Illustrative photo of an execution in Iran. (AFP/Arash Khamooshi/ISNA)

Iran says it has executed 4 alleged Mossad agents accused of spying for Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Another 3 people given prison time for allegedly being members of network accused of destroying property, kidnapping individuals for interrogation

Needed: A national plan for bringing 2 million young Jews to Israel

The erosion of Diaspora youths’ ties to the Jewish state poses a long-term strategic threat – our resources should go to a massive expansion of Israel trips

Bahrain’s warm peace with Israel: What’s next?

Direct flights were just the beginning – we anticipate a free trade agreement and ample exchange, as Israelis and Bahrainis discover new opportunities with each other

From left, Tamar Gottlieb, Yochi Rappeport, Anna Kislanski, Rakefet Ginsberg, and Orly Erez-Likhovski, pose for a photograph in court on December 4, 2022. (Courtesy/Women of the Wall)

Ultra-Orthodox news website apologizes, will pay fine for blurring faces of women

By Judah Ari Gross

Behadrei Haredim outlet reaches deal with 5 women after Reform movement’s Israel Religious Action Center sues over coverage of a meeting between Jewish leaders and President Herzog

Illustrative: Gal Sade Knigsfild and Nofar Almakias pose for a picture with face masks before their wedding in Moshav Yashresh on April 6, 2020 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Israel starts registering Utah ‘Zoom weddings,’ but fate of marriages still unclear

By Judah Ari Gross

'Teaching about Jews in dominant cultures is very important'

How a Catholic school amassed a treasure trove of Jewish artifacts from the Bronx

By julia GERGELY

Fordham University, a private Jesuit institution with a growing Jewish studies center, has for 3 years been cataloging the once-thriving Jewish community in its neighborhood

A Border Police officer seeks to apprehend a Palestinian stabbing suspect in the northern West Bank town of Huwara on December 2, 2022. (Screen capture/Twitter)

UN Mideast envoy ‘horrified’ by killing of Palestinian stabber who wounded officer

By Emanuel Fabian

Tor Wennesland sends ‘heartfelt condolences’ to family of Ammar Mifleh; Foreign Ministry: Envoy’s statement a ‘total distortion of reality’; Soldier: I stopped a significant attack

Reporter's NotebookIDF stops left-wing activists from touring Hebron as right holds rally against them

Illustrative -- Security seen checking cars at the entrance to Ben Gurion International Airport. June 11, 2013 (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Palestinian car thief crashes through Ben Gurion Airport checkpoint, is shot: police

Suspect is lightly wounded after guards open fire; passengers at terminal told to lie on the ground during the incident, the 3rd of its kind in several weeks

This screenshot of video released by police shows a first responder breaking the lock on a shelter in the central city of Lod, where two Palestinian teenagers illegally in Israel were held against their will. (Screen capture from Twitter, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Lod man suspected of kidnapping Palestinian teens, holding them for 3 days

Climate activists protest against offshore drilling, at the beach in Tel Aviv, on August 13, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

At least NIS 57.6 billion of Israelis’ pensions invested in fossil fuels — watchdog

Clean Money Forum’s quarterly ranking shows Altschuler Shaham as cleanest, Yellin Lapidot improving but Migdal increasing fossil fuel holdings, despite policy pledge to cut them

View of a new section of an 1,800-year-old Roman road in northern Israel, published December 1, 2022. (Alex Wigman, Israel Antiquities Authority)

Archaeology

‘Highway of ancient world’: Part of an 1,800-year-old Roman road found in Galilee

Antiquities Authority says it was paved during the reign of emperor Hadrian; excavation works also unearth pottery shards, metal vessels and coins

File: Russian businessman, co-founder of Alfa-Group Mikhail Fridman attends a conference of the Israel Keren Hayesod foundation in Moscow, Russia, September 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, Pool, File)

Russian-Israeli billionaire Mikhail Fridman reportedly arrested in UK

Source close to Alfa Group businessman tells state-owned news agency that oligarch is suspected of violating sanctions imposed after Russia invaded Ukraine

An oil tanker is moored at the Sheskharis complex, part of Chernomortransneft JSC, a subsidiary of Transneft PJSC, in Novorossiysk, Russia, October 11, 2022, one of the largest facilities for oil and petroleum products in southern Russia. (AP Photo, File)

Russia rejects G7 and EU capping oil at $60 per barrel, threatens to shut spigot

By Jamey Keaten

A woman receives medicine boxes from a volunteer at a heating tent at a a government-built help station, in Kherson, Ukraine, December 3, 2022. (Evgeniy Maloletka/AP)

More than 500 Ukrainian localities remain without power as temperatures plummet

By AFP

In this Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011 file photo, Belgian director Chantal Akerman poses during the photo call for the movie La folie Almayer at the 68th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy. (AP/Jonathan Short)

Film by Jewish director Chantal Akerman rated best of all time in major survey

1975 masterpiece ‘Jeanne Dielman’ takes top honors in highly respected Sight and Sound poll, supplanting Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’ and Welles’s ‘Citizen Kane’ for first time

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Orel Zavit, accused of the murder of Yuri Podovni in Holon on February 14, 2019, is seen as he arrives for a court hearing at the Tel Aviv District court on March 7, 2019. (Flash90)

Man acquitted of murder during fight over parking spot, convicted of manslaughter

Illustrative: A policeman holds handcuffs. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Schoolteacher suspected of sexually assaulting multiple students

The Zooz power booster for electric vehicles. (Screenshot/Zooz)

Israeli EV fast-charging startup Zooz Power inks deal for distribution in the US

By Sharon Wrobel

Issa Kassissieh, dressed as Santa Claus, poses for a picture as he rides a camel at Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem's Old City on December 2, 2022 (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Meet Jerusalem’s ‘only accredited’ Santa, a Palestinian former basketball captain

By Gareth Browne

Screen capture from video shwoing Ariel Eliyahuo as he holds his daughter, 2, after pulling her from the jaws of a coyote, right, that tried to drag her away from their Los Angeles home, December 2, 2022. (Twitter. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Coyote grabs Israeli toddler outside family’s home in LA; father chases it off

Visitors watch human skulls and bones of victims in Khmer Rouge regime on display at Choeung Ek memorial outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia, April 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Explainer74 years after UN convention on genocides, world struggles to stop them occurring

By Kerry Whigham

File: Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita speaks during a watch party for Jennifer-Ruth Green, the Republican candidate for Indiana's 1st Congressional District, on Nov. 8, 2022, in Schererville, Indiana (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

Indiana judge rules for Jewish, Muslim plaintiffs against abortion ban

Fans wait for the start of the World Cup group E soccer match between Costa Rica and Germany at the Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor , Qatar, December 1, 2022. (Darko Bandic/AP)

Crusader outfits and hijabs: Mixed response to fans’ wild World Cup fashion in Qatar

By Isabel Debre

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