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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 11, 2022

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World Cup 2022'I love the little guy playing soccer against the greats'

‘Indescribable’: Ecstatic Israelis, Palestinians celebrate Morocco World Cup success

Soccer fans across Israel, West Bank and Gaza embrace Atlas Lions as their own; police accused of using excessive force to break up East Jerusalem celebrations; 1 arrest in south

World Cup 2022Morocco stuns Portugal 1-0 to advance to World Cup semis, first Arab nation to do so

By Agencies and ToI Staff

World Cup 2022Arab world, Palestinians, join Moroccans’ celebrations of advance to World Cup semis

By TARIK EL-BARAKAH and Barbara Surk

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 11: Why do Moroccan soccer fans wave the Palestinian flag?

Shas leader Aryeh Deri leaves a hotel in Jerusalem after holding coalition talks with Religious Zionist chief Bezalel Smotrich and Likud head Benjamin Netanyahu, December 5, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG said unlikely to oppose bill aimed at legitimizing Deri becoming minister

But reports say Gali Baharav-Miara expected to express reservations over proposed amendment that would allow convicted Shas chief to be appointed despite suspended jail sentence

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a conference in Tel Aviv, July 5, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Likud MK says she’s working to remove ‘unsuitable’ attorney general from position

Composite photo: Otzma Yehudit chairman Itamar Ben Gvir, left, during a faction meeting at the Knesset on November 21, 2022; Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara speaks at Tel Aviv University on September 28, 2022. (Flash90)

Ben Gvir pans AG for opposing expansion of power over cops: ‘Raises major questions’

This image provided by NASA shows the Orion spacecraft approaching Earth on December 11, 2022, as it neared the end of its three-week test flight to the moon. (NASA via AP)

Live updates (closed)

NASA’s Orion capsule and ‘Zohar’ test dummy splash down in Pacific after moonflight

Test flight carrying Israeli technology launched into space last month, and spent several weeks in orbit before hurtling back to Earth

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Herzog awards presidential medal of honor to five figures
6:32 pm

Bodies of 27 Ethiopian men found in Zambia, police say
6:12 pm

Likud confirms: Levin to become temporary Knesset speaker

The OurCrowd Summit is where business gets done, where deals are struck, where checks for millions of dollars change hands – and people also have fun. (OurCrowd)

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We meet again, and this time it’s for real

OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved previews the return of the OurCrowd Global Investor Summit to Jerusalem on Feb. 15

File: View of the Israeli settlement of Ariel in the West Bank on July 2, 2020. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

US opposes UN ‘blacklist’ of settlements, says it poses ‘genuine threat’ to firms

State Department says it has not and will not provide info to office compiling database because it ‘reinforces an anti-Israeli bias’ at UN

3 years after Jersey City shooting: This hero’s family deserves US citizenship

Miguel Rodriguez was shot dead as he helped a customer out of the Kosher market and Jews have a responsibility to take care of those he left behind

The ‘off the derech’ YouTuber

When a former Brooklyn Hasid started giving tours of her old neighborhood, she was surprised to discover that some of her biggest fans lived on the inside

Interview

The Israeli left has fallen apart. Will Jewish-Arab partnership save it?

Ex-Meretz MK Yair Golan says rallying cry should be separation from Palestinians and that Jews should lead it; Hadash-Ta’al’s Ayman Odeh counters that this formula has failed

Former Meretz MK Yair Golan and Hadash-Ta'al chairman MK Ayman Odeh speak at the J Street conference in Washington DC, on December 4, 2022. (J Street)

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu, left, Religious Zionism party head Bezalel Smotrich and other party leaders in a group photo after the swearing-in of the 25th Knesset, November 15, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Smotrich said to demand Likud lay out contentious judicial reform in coalition deal

Police and medics at the scene of a suspected car-ramming attack in Tel Aviv, December 8, 2022 (Magen David Adom)

Palestinian man suspected of terror ramming of motorcyclist in Tel Aviv last week

By Emanuel Fabian

Shin Bet believes Thursday’s incident, initially described as a traffic accident, was an intentional attack; driver, 31, entered illegally from West Bank; victim moderately hurt

Planes are grounded due to the coronavirus pandemic at the Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, March 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Report: Israel warns will bomb Beirut airport if it’s used for Iran weapon shipments

By Emanuel Fabian

Asharq Al-Awsat, citing Israeli political sources, says Jerusalem investigating report by Saudi TV claiming Tehran transferring weapons directly to Lebanon on civilian flights

Iranians protest the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was detained by the morality police, in Tehran, October 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Middle East Images)

Iran again summons UK, German envoys amid anti-regime protests

By AFP

In this photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, a police motorcycle and a trash bin are burning during a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by the nation's morality police on September 19, 2022, in downtown Tehran, Iran. (AP)

With executions imminent, watchdogs say world giving Iran ‘green light to carnage’

By Stuart Williams

Illustrative: Two Ukrainian defense forces members stand next to a sign reading 'Kherson region' in the outskirts of Kherson, southern Ukraine, November 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

'All these people who ran away are judging us'

In liberated Kherson, Jewish leaders are being accused of collaboration with Russia

By David I. Klein

After Ukraine recaptures the long-occupied city, Jews in leading positions fear prosecution for actions including allowing armed Russian soldiers to pray in the synagogue

‘Every one of them will be punished’: Kherson hunts for collaborators with Russia

By Emmanuel PEUCHOT

Russia ramping up production of ‘most powerful’ weapons, ex-president boasts

By AFP

Natalia Pinchuk (L) on behalf of her husband Nobel Peace Prize 2022 winner, jailed Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski, Memorial chairman Yan Rachinsky (C) on behalf of Russian human rights organisation Memorial, and Head of the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties (CCL) Oleksandra Matviichuk pose with their Nobel Peace Prize certificates and medals during the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway, on December 10, 2022. (Rodrigo Freitas/NTB/AFP)

Ukrainian, Russian Nobel Peace winners urge struggle against Putin’s ‘insane’ war

By Pierre-Henry DESHAYES

Belarusian dissident Ales Bialiatski, Russian organization Memorial and Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties honored in Oslo for campaign against authoritarianism

File -- Maryna, 59, stands outside the door of her neighbors' damaged flat in a multi-story residential building following Russian strike in the southern Ukrainian town of Kherson on December 7, 2022 (ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP)

2 killed in Russian shelling of Kherson residential area

By AFP

Workers repair high-voltage power lines cut by recent missile strikes near Odessa on December 7, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (OLEKSANDR GIMANOV / AFP, file)

Over 1.5 million in Ukraine’s Odesa without power after Russian drone attack

By AFP

US Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multilateral Affairs and for Global China Issues Jung H. Pak (YouTube screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

US presses Israel for more vigilance on Chinese involvement in tech sector

By Michael Horovitz

Ron Eliyahu Oved, right, and his father. Oved was killed in an accident during a tryout for the IDF Paratroopers Brigade on April 11, 2019. (Courtesy of the family)

Bus driver handed 15-month jail sentence over fatal 2019 accident during IDF tryout

By Emanuel Fabian

Ron Oved, a paratroopers recruit, was killed when bus left unattended by Ibrahim Abu Kaf rolled into tent; driver’s license revoked for 10 years

Troops of the IDF's 99th division during a drill in northern Israel, December 1, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces, file)

IDF launches snap drill with thousands of troops, simulating fighting in north

By Emanuel Fabian

A European otter. (Ezra Haddad, INPA)

Israel’s griffon vultures, European otters in ‘serious decline,’ new report finds

But Nature and Parks Authority’s first long-term assessment on state of country’s mammals, birds and reptiles shows many other species stable or expanding

Dr. Ahmad Mahajneh, at Hadassah Medical Center Ein Kerem, Jerusalem, (Courtesy)

Arab doctor falsely accused of praising terrorist still not allowed back to work

Hadassah hospital ‘continues to persecute me,’ says Ahmad Mahajneh who is fearful over threats since reports he gave terror suspect sweets; hospital has announced mediation process

Supreme Court Chief of Justice Esther Hayut and other justices at a hearing on the election committee decision to disqualify Likud party member Amichai Chikli from running in the upcoming Knesset election, October 6, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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Live event TODAY: Reform or ruin? The next coalition’s plans for the judiciary

ToI presents a live-streamed discussion delving into all sides of the looming High Court override clause. Tune in on December 15 to watch top legal experts discuss what’s at stake

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German police help a person into a police car near a shopping mall in the center of the city of Dresden, eastern Germany, on December 10, 2022, as a large-scale police operation was launched due to a suspected hostage situation. (Jens Schlueter / AFP)

German police: Suspect dead after killing mother, taking hostages in Dresden

By AP

Michael Ginor (Youtube screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

NY-based Jewish chef, foie gras maker dies during Iron Man competition in Israel

Socialist lawmaker Eva Kaili, center, chats prior the speech of Greek prime minister George Papandreou to his Socialist lawmakers members of parliament, in Athens, November 3, 2011 (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, file)

Vice president of EU parliament suspended amid suspicions Qatar bought influence

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with a payload including two lunar rovers from Japan and the United Arab Emirates, lifts off from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Dec. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

With UAE-made rover, Japan firm launches country’s 1st mission to put lander on moon

By AFP

Palestinian firefighters check their equipment at the headquarters of the civil defense unit in Gaza City, on November 23, 2022. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP)

After deadly fire, Gazans say Israel-Egypt blockade limits ability to fight blazes

By ToI Staff and Agencies

'Il Colibrì' ("The Hummingbird) directed by Francesca Archibugi, is the opening film of the Wave Festival of Italian female directors, opening December 11, 2022 (Courtesy PR)

Viva la cinemaMovies by female Italian directors are focus of Israel’s Wave Festival

By Jessica Steinberg

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan listens to Russia's President Vladimir Putin during their meeting on sidelines of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) summit, in Astana, Kazakhstan, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Erdogan hints 2023 presidential run will be his last, after 20 years in power

By Michael Horovitz

Medics, police and fire services are seen at the scene of a fire in Givatayim, near Tel Aviv, December 10, 2022. (Magen David Adom)

Man killed in Givatayim house fire, his mother lightly hurt

File: People look at a site damaged by Turkish airstrikes that hit an electricity station in the village of Taql Baql, in Hasakeh province, Syria, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022 (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad, File)

ExplainerWhat’s at stake as Turkey threatens to escalate conflict with Syrian fighters?

By Suzan Fraser and Bassam Mroue

File: Then-Labor MK Moshe Mizrahi seen arriving at the opening session of Israel's 19th parliament, Jerusalem, on February 5, 2013. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Former Labor MK, senior police official Moshe Mizrahi dies at 72

By Michael Horovitz

The Israeli Andalusian Orchestra Ashdod will headline Hayim Nahman Bialik's 150th birthday celebration concert on December 14, 2022 (Courtesy Mike Edry)

Poet for allBialik to get birthday concert at crossroads of east and west

By Jessica Steinberg

French fans celebrate their team's victory over Engand in their World Cup quarterfinal soccer match, at the Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, Qatar, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

World Cup 2022France beats England 2-1, heads to semifinals hoping to defend World Cup title

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