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What Matters Most On Monday, December 12, 2022

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Israeli spy Eli Cohen in Syria in the 1960s. (PMO)

57 years later, Cohen 'an inspiration' for all in the Mossad

Mossad head reveals how Syria found Eli Cohen, discloses spy’s final message

By Tobias Siegal

Inaugurating museum named for legendary secret agent, Barnea says Cohen was caught because his cables were ‘intercepted and triangulated,’ not because he transmitted too frequently

Mickey Levy embraces Yariv Levin in the Knesset on June 13, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)

Key vote on Knesset speaker pushed to Tuesday after Lapid camp threatens filibuster

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff

Installing Likud ally needed to pave way for new government’s formation with deadline nearing; outgoing PM wants to bar 4 lawmakers from voting on bill okaying Deri as minister

New Hope chairman Gideon Sa'ar (left) and Housing Minister Ze'ev Elkin speak during a faction meeting at the Knesset on June 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Incoming opposition prepares to fight Likud’s legislative blitz ‘with every tool’

IDF says sniper likely mistakenly killed Palestinian girl during Jenin raid

By Emanuel Fabian

Citing initial investigation, military says Jana Zakarna, 16, apparently was near gunmen who were shooting at troops from rooftops

Palestinians carry the body of Jana Zakarna, 16, during her funeral in the West Bank city of Jenin, December 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Fictitious Facebook and Instagram accounts that the Shin Bet says was created by terror operatives in the Gaza Strip to ‘catfish’ Israelis, revealed on December 12, 2022. (Shin Bet)

Shin Bet: Gaza operatives try to ‘catfish’ Israelis with fake social media accounts

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli troops operate in the West Bank, in the early morning of December 11, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Teen Palestinian girl killed during battle between troops, gunmen in Jenin — PA

By Emanuel Fabian

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Likud party chairman Benjamin Netanyahu, right, shakes hands with United Torah Judaism party leader Yitzhak Goldknopf in the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem on November 21, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Report: Netanyahu agrees to far-reaching Haredi demands boosting clout of Jewish law

By Michael Bachner

Unconfirmed details of Likud-UTJ deal include barring energy production on Shabbat, new state bodies to answer halacha questions; Likud denies report, says it rejects many demands

7:39 pm

Likud MK prepares bill that would revoke ex-PM benefits for Bennett, Lapid
7:34 pm

Israel said set to show UN official proof most slain Palestinian minors have terror links
7:00 pm

Likud denies agreeing to bar energy generation on Shabbat or expand segregated beaches

Analysis

Three years after Corbyn’s defeat, UK’s Labour fights to purge lurking antisemitism

Party leader Keir Starmer is serious about eradicating bigotry – but after the previous head’s tenure, the well of public opinion about Jews may have already been poisoned

Keir Starmer, the leader of Britain's Labour Party, delivers a speech at the party's annual conference in Liverpool, England, September 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Jon Super)

Former president Reuven Rivlin speaks at an Israel Democracy Institute conference on December 12, 2022 (Youtube screenshot)

Ex-president Rivlin decries incoming coalition’s bid ‘to destroy’ Israel’s top court

Proposals for reform deserve serious consideration, he says, but ‘a line has been crossed, from respectful criticism of the Supreme Court to denial of its very legitimacy’

Undated photo of Majidreza Rahnavard, who was executed by Iran on December 12, 2022. (Twitter. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iran executes second person over protests, hanging him from a crane

By Jon Gambrell

Tehran says Majidreza Rahnavard killed two members of security forces; activists warn many more may be put to death by regime as it cracks down on months-long uprising

Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock arrives for the first day of the meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs in Bucharest, Romania, November 29, 2022. (Andreea Alexandru/AP)

Germany slams Iran executions as blatant attempt to intimidate protesters

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with members of the Basij paramilitary force in Tehran, Iran, Nov. 26, 2022. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP, File)

Iran sanctions British, German defense chiefs and political figures

By AFP

In this Nov. 14, 1991, file photo, then-Assistant Attorney General Robert Mueller points to a photo of the reconstructed wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie Scotland in 1988, killing 270 people. (AP/Barry Thumma)

Lockerbie bomb suspect announcement puts spotlight back on decades-old investigation

US authorities have long pursued those behind 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103, though only sought Abu Agila Mas’ud after he admitted to building explosive following 2017 arrest in Libya

FILE - Unidentified crash investigators inspect the nose section of the crashed Pan Am flight 103, a Boeing 747 airliner in a field near Lockerbie, Scotland, December 23, 1988. The plane crashed two days before, killing more than 270 people. (AP Photo/Dave Caulkin, File)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 12: Justice for victims of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing at last?

Unidentified crash investigators inspect the nose section of the crashed Pan Am flight 103, a Boeing 747 airliner in a field near Lockerbie, Scotland, December 23, 1988. (Dave Caulkin/AP)

After 34 years, US says Libyan who built deadly Lockerbie plane bomb in custody

By AP and ToI Staff

The other two-state solution: Might the two Israels divorce?

Few have come up with an operative partition plan for liberal Israel and illiberal Judea – here’s mine. A certain transfer of populations is to be expected.

Why the (expected) new government is Israel’s greatest existential crisis

Without interference, changing laws and restructuring ministries to suit the druthers of a far-right coalition mark the shift from democracy to authoritarian rule

ExhibitArab kingdom of Himyar converted to Judaism in 4th cent. CE

In ancient Yemen, a booming economy sparked cultures rivaling the Greeks and Romans

By Rich Tenorio

A newly-opened Smithsonian exhibit holds 2,000-year-old artifacts revealing a civilization in its golden age, with an incense trade that spanned the known world from Rome to India

Amr Alkirnawi, 39, charged with carrying out a ramming attack in Beersheba, on November 24, 2022, and his car. (Screenshot: Tiktok; Magen David Adom)

Terror charges filed against Bedouin man for ramming student in Beersheba

By Emanuel Fabian

Amr Alkirnawi, 39, of Rahat, accused of committing attack last month after being irritated by altercation with a Jewish man two days earlier

From left to right: Pastor Carlos Luna Lam, Rabbi Elie Abadie, Ambassador Danny Danon and Imam Mohammad Tawhidi at the First Annual Abraham Accords Global Leadership Summit in Rome, December 8, 2022. (Courtesy)

At Abraham Accords confab, Likud MK claims Saudi peace likely within a year

By Lazar Berman

Danny Danon, former envoy to the UN, says Netanyahu’s priority upon taking office is to expand agreements

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan Al Saud speaks during a press conference after the end of Security and Development Summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, July 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Saudi FM says ‘all bets are off’ if Iran makes a nuclear weapon

Presumed incoming prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (second from right) and Israel's ambassador to the UN (right) meet with visiting UN envoys on December 11, 2022. (Shlomi Amsalem/ GPO)

Netanyahu meets with delegation of visiting UN ambassadors, touts Abraham Accords

Israeli startup Autotalks develops chipsets that allow vehicles to communicate or “talk” with one another, and connect to road infrastructure. (Courtesy)

Israeli startup to deploy hazard-alerting chipsets on Germany’s autobahn

By Sharon Wrobel

Autotalks chipsets, which allow vehicles to ‘talk’ with one another, will be installed at traffic signals along the German federal highway in bid to prevent accidents

Sderot-based TopGum develops gummy candies and nutritional supplements based on dietary fibers and natural ingredients. (Courtesy)

TopGum inks 5-year deal to develop gummy supplements for major international firm

By Sharon Wrobel

Times of Israel Event

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

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)

The Iron Fist active defense system mounted on an Eitan APC launches a projectile to intercept an incoming antitank missile, in an image published by the Defense Ministry, December 12, 2022. (Defense Ministry)

Defense Ministry tests new defense system on advanced Eitan APC

By Emanuel Fabian

Iron Fist, developed by Elbit, tracks and intercepts incoming missiles; will eventually be deployed on military’s armored bulldozers too

A flyer dropped by the Israeli military on the Syrian side of the border in the Golan Heights, on December 11, 2022. (Twitter)

IDF said to strike site in Syrian Golan, drop threatening flyers

By Emanuel Fabian

The scene where scaffolding collapsed at a building site in Givat Ze'ev, killing two people, December 12, 2022. (Fire and Rescue Services/Avi Galan)

Two workers fall to their death as scaffolding collapses in Givat Ze’ev

Third man moderately injured; supporting structure of 12-story building under construction gave way on ninth floor with builders standing on it; foreman of site arrested

Illustrative. A mushroom growing in a forest in Israel, January 17, 2022. (Mila Aviv/Flash90)

Foreign worker in serious condition due to mushroom poisoning, 2 others hospitalized

Yair Netanyahu, son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives for a court hearing in a lawsuit filed by former MK Stav Shafir in Tel Aviv, on November 29, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Yair Netanyahu says state should cover NIS 420,000 he needs to pay in libel suit

Former PM’s son argues failure of Prime Minister’s Residence staff to deliver court papers denied him right to defend himself; prosecutor’s office says letter properly delivered

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Rabbi Chaim Druckman attends the campaign launch of the right-wing Yamina party, ahead of the Israeli general elections, February 12, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Leading rabbi Chaim Druckman seriously ill after catching COVID, family says

'Bustan Sephardi' cast seen on stage in Rabat, Morocco, November 2022. (Channel 12)

Israeli musical plays in Morocco in Hebrew — a first for any Arab country

By Tobias Siegal

The Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission splashes down in the Pacific Ocean after a 25.5 day mission to the moon, December 11, 2022. (NASA via AP)

NASA’s Orion returns from lunar flyby, 50 years to the day since last moon landing

By AP and ToI Staff

A Palestinian excavation team works in a newly discovered Roman-era cemetery in the Gaza Strip, December 11, 2022. (AP Photo/ Fatima Shbair)

Gaza officials: Over 60 tombs discovered in Roman era burial site

Yeshiva student Moshe Klinerman, 16, who was last seen on March 25 at the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai on Mount Meron. (Courtesy)

Police renew search for missing Haredi teen Moshe Klinerman, scan new area

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

Illustrative: Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shake hands during their meeting on sidelines of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) summit, in Astana, Kazakhstan, October 13, 2022. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

In phone call, Erdogan tells Putin to clear Kurdish forces from northern Syria

Illustrative: Members of the Baha'i faith protest outside a state security court during a hearing in the case of a fellow Baha'i man suspected of contacts with Israel and charged with seeking to establish a base for the community in Yemen, in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, April 3, 2016. (AP/Hani Mohammed)

Iran throws leading Bahai activists back in jail for 10 years each

By AFP

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