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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 13, 2022

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Presumed incoming prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset on December 13, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

'There will not be a halachic state here,' he promises

Netanyahu: There will be electricity on Shabbat, religious status quo will continue

After bombshell claims of coalition demands by ultra-Orthodox party, presumptive incoming PM also nixes more separate beaches; Lapid pans incoming ‘radical’ government

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)

Report shows UTJ, Likud negotiating vast expansion of religious rule, rousing anger

Otzma Yehudit party leader Itamar Ben Gvir speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, December 12, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir threatens to hinder government in push for veto over bill-vetting panel

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Archaeology

Amanda Borschel-Dan

2,200-year-old coin hoard gives hard proof of Book of Maccabees, say archaeologists

Trove of silver coins – two months’ average salary – documents bloody persecution preceding the famous Hanukkah revolt when Jews fled to the desert, as written in I Maccabees 2:29

2,200-year-old silver coins that were discovered in a wooden box inside a cave in Wadi Muraba‘at near the Dead Sea. (Shai Halevy, Israel Antiquities Authority)

A silver half shekel coin of the third year of the Great Revolt against Rome, minted in Jerusalem in 69 CE. (Israel Antiquities Authority/Tal Rogovski)

Rare silver half-shekel, minted by rebels against Rome in 69 CE, found in Jerusalem

Jessica Lewinsky (left), a conservator, and Ravit Ninner-Soriano, a curator with the Tower of David, pack up the arrowheads to get ready for installation into their permanent display case on December 13, 2022 in Jerusalem. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

ArchaeologySurprise Maccabean-era arrowheads discovered while cleaning house at Tower of David

By Melanie Lidman

Newly appointed speaker of the Knesset Yariv Levin (R) with outgoing speaker Mickey Levy at the Knesset December 13, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Yariv Levin elected ‘temporary’ Knesset speaker, will facilitate crucial bills

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Senior Likud member replaces Yesh Atid’s Mickey Levy, kicking off Likud-bloc legislative efforts to alter key powers and enable appointments before forming a government

Sitting from left to right: Outgoing Defense Minister Benny Gantz, outgoing Prime Minister Yair Lapid, outgoing Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar, and outgoing Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli, at the swearing-in ceremony of the 25th Knesset, in Jerusalem, November 15, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Gantz, Michaeli appear to balk at lining up behind Lapid in opposition

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff

Stream the best Israeli TV shows on ChaiFlicks

Stream the best Israeli TV shows with English subtitles on ChaiFlicks — now only $36 for a year with special holiday discount code ‘HANUKKAH36’.

Jana Majdi Assam Zakarna, 16, who was killed during a gun battle between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank city of Jenin, December 11, 2022. (Social media)

US calls for accountability after Palestinian teen likely killed by errant IDF fire

Asked to comment on Jana Zakarna’s death during raid in Jenin, State Department spokesman notes Israeli military’s probe into matter and Lapid’s offer of condolences

United Nation's special representative for children and armed conflict, Virginia Gamba, speaks during a press conference, in Yangon, Myanmar, May 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw/File)

Israel said set to show UN envoy proof most slain Palestinian minors had terror ties

Jana Majdi Assam Zakarna, 16, who was killed during a gun battle between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank city of Jenin, December 11, 2022. (Social media)

Ramallah asks visiting UN official to blacklist Israel after teen girl’s killing

By ToI Staff and AFP

Benny Gantz at the Knesset on December 6, 2022 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

40 MKs demand release of 2 detained Jewish suspects; Gantz: It’s a boost to terror

Defense minister says classified intel shows pair, suspected of anti-Arab crimes, poses ‘high level of danger’ to public safety; notes 1,000 Palestinians held under similar orders

MK Moshe Gafni, right, speaks at a meeting of the United Torah Judaism faction at the Knesset on December 5, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 13: IDF examines Jenin death; Haredim push religion in the state

The Golda hens when they were chicks. (Ori Peretz)

In first, Israeli scientists program hens to lay eggs that carry only female chicks

Gene editing technology developed by Volcani Center scientists, who say it has potential to stop ‘devastating’ destruction of 7 billion unwanted male chicks globally each year

Iran’s power-by-execution strategy will fail

It’s time for the West to look at the Islamic Republic with clear eyes and find new policies to end its menace to humanity, once and for all

Binyamin Krauss

My last kaddish

There’s no ritual to mark the close of this chapter of mourning my father, Rabbi Simcha Krauss, but the abrupt stop signifies my unbearable loss

A Rehovot school where a 16-year-old was stabbed on December 13, 2022 (Israel Police)

16-year-old seriously injured in stabbing at Rehovot school

Police arrest 4 suspects, 3 of them minors, who reportedly broke into school before fleeing; father of one student says some teens are in rival gangs, come from criminal families

Ibrahim Alturi (Courtesy)

Kafr Qassim man once imprisoned on terror charges shot dead in city

Police officers at the scene of a car chase with kidnappers in the south on December 12, 2022. (Israel Police)

Police rescue kidnapping victim after car chase through south

A hand-drawn swastika is seen on the front of Union Station near the Capitol in Washington, January 28, 2022. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

ADL: Full numbers likely would show record-high antisemitism

Jewish orgs decry ‘botched’ FBI hate crimes report understating antisemitic attacks

Approximately 4,000 agencies do not participate in study, with 35 major US cities — including New York, Los Angeles and Miami — not submitting any data

New York Governor Kathy Hochul speaks at the Lincoln Square Synagogue in New York City, December 12, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

New York launches bias prevention unit as leaders vow to tackle antisemitism

US President Joe Biden speaks during a Toys for Tots event at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia on December 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

White House announces new inter-agency group to counter antisemitism

Interview

Practicing ‘fringe diplomacy,’ Israeli negotiator secured release of Brittney Griner

Mickey Bergman of the Richardson Center, which specializes in freeing American political prisoners, tells Times of Israel about the talks leading to the basketball player’s release

Mickey Bergman, vice president and executive director of the Richardson Center, speaking at an event for families of imprisoned Venezuelans, in an undated photo. (Courtesy: Mickey Bergman)

The Knesset plenum on Tuesday, December 13, 2022 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Knesset advances 4 bills crucial to incoming coalition in nighttime voting drive

Likud-led bloc fast-tracks legislation to expand and change ministerial authorities, allow convicted Shas leader to serve as minister and prevent MK rebellions

8:14 pm

Gantz slams bill tasking Religious Zionism with running W. Bank policy, as incoming coalition advances it
7:38 pm

Bill to expand police minister's authority passes preliminary reading
7:20 pm

World Cup semifinal match between Argentina and Croatia has started

Philip Morris targeting Haredi society to grow next generation of smokers – study

Tobacco behemoth spent 87%, nearly NIS 3 million, of its local advertising budget on ultra-Orthodox, despite community having the lowest smoking rates in the country

18-year-old Jewish Orthodox students take a break in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. May 18, 2011. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Employees on an assembly line in SodaStream's Rahat factory on May 27, 2019. (courtesy SodaStream)

Carbonated water maker SodaStream to lay off 120 workers at southern Israel plant

By Sharon Wrobel

Israeli home seltzer machine maker slashing its global workforce by about 5% in response to lower demand and volatile global markets

Image of a single RepAir Carbon Capture cell. Atmospheric air enters the cell at the top. Inside the cell, the air is filtered through a separator, with electricity applied to isolate the CO2. Clean air flows back to the atmosphere (represented by green and blue particles at the bottom of the image), while pure CO2 flows out for utilization or storage, represented by red particles. (Courtesy, RepAir Carbon Capture)

Company extracting CO2 out of air scoops $10 million investment

As antisemitism spends months in the pop culture spotlight, Jewish comedians tackle the hate onstage and on social media. (Various screenshots via YouTube; Photos courtesy; Design by Jackie Hajdenberg/ JTA)

'The world of Jew-'ish' comedy just isn't producing as much'

Deeply Jewish comedy is having a moment, even as antisemitism rocks pop culture

By Jackie Hajdenberg

As a growing number of US performers go beyond bagel and anxiety jokes to discuss religion, traditions and even antisemitism, ironically, Jew-hatred is more mainstream than ever

Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, alleged to have made the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, with the loss of 270 lives in 1988, in custody at the Alexandria Adult Detention Center, December 12, 2022, in Alexandria, Virginia. (Alexandria Sheriff's Office via AP)

Lockerbie bombing suspect to face charges in US federal court

Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, a longtime explosives expert for Libya’s intelligence service, admitted in 2012 to building the bomb that took down Pan Am Flight 103

Revelers gather to attend a ceremony to light the Christmas tree near the Jaffa Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem on December 11, 2022. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Santa scenes

Christmas tree lighting brings holiday cheer to Jerusalem’s Old City

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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In this file photo taken on February 09, 2022, Samuel Bankman-Fried, founder and CEO of FTX, testifies during a Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry hearing about 'Examining Digital Assets: Risks, Regulation, and Innovation,' on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried charged with defrauding crypto investors

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak departs 10 Downing Street in London, Dec. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

British PM Sunak says he’ll visit Israel next year for its ‘landmark 75th birthday’

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)

EU parliament sacks VP indicted in Qatari bribery probe

By Daniel Aronssohn

Illustrative: A man suspected of sexual abuse at a court hearing in Jerusalem. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Two hospital workers arrested for pedophilia, sexually abusing young patients

Rabbi Ben Gorelick. (Twitter screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Mile high rabbiDenver drops charges against ‘mushroom rabbi’ preaching psychedelics

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Lord David Young holds his insignia of member of the Order of the Companions of Honour after it was presented to him by the Prince of Wales at the Investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace on May 15, 2015 in London, England. (John Stillwell - WPA Pool/Getty Images via JTA)

ObituaryBritish-Jewish politician who advised Margaret Thatcher dies at 90

By David I. Klein

Jesse Epstein (center), a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College, is the new owner of Shmaltz Brewing Company. (Courtesy of Jesse Epstein via JTA)

The Chosen BeerIn US, He’Brew-maker Shmaltz Brewing reboots with rabbi-to-be at helm

By Andrew Lapin

FILE - A sign at Twitter headquarters is shown in San Francisco, November 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Musk’s Twitter disbands advisory panel on hate speech, other problematic content

By Matt O'Brien and Barbara Ortutay

This undated photograph released by the Ukrainian military's Strategic Communications Directorate shows the wreckage of what Kyiv has described as an Iranian Shahed drone downed near Kupiansk, Ukraine. (Ukrainian military's Strategic Communications Directorate via AP)

Western European countries said scaling back diplomatic ties with Iran over Ukraine

By ToI Staff and AP

Illustrative - A standard IDF tear gas hand grenade (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Daboos Hassan/Wikipedia)

Crime reporter targeted with grenade for second time in a week

Violent protesters, loyal to US President Donald Trump, storm the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP/ John Minchillo)

Sedition trial set for four more Oath Keepers over US Capitol insurrection

By Michael Kunzelman and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER

Stephan Balliet (C), who shot dead two people after an attempt to storm a synagogue in Halle an der Saale, eastern Germany, wears a face mask as he arrives for the start of the 26th day of the trial on December 21, 2020 at the district court in Magdeburg, eastern Germany (Ronny Hartmann / AFP)

Halle synagogue attacker briefly takes prison officers hostage at German jail

By AFP

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