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What Matters Most On Friday, December 16, 2022

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Ultra-Orthodox rioters clash with police in Jerusalem, December 15, 2022. (Israel Police)

UTJ chief blasts 'handful of protesters' for riots

Condemnation pours in after woman seriously hurt by Jerusalem ultra-Orthodox rioters

Outgoing PM Lapid, PM-designate Netanyahu, urge authorities to harshly punish perpetrators, as passerby, a mother of 10, hit by burning trash bin and hospitalized

Ultra-Orthodox Israeli Jews riot in Jerusalem, December 15, 2022. (Twitter video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Ultra-Orthodox rioters in Jerusalem throw trash bin, seriously injuring passerby

Reducing stress can be life-changer for women with high cancer risk — Israeli study

By Nathan Jeffay

BRCA mutations, common to Ashkenazi Jews, pose a danger that often casts shadow on mental health; coping techniques can help people when facing potentially life-saving surgery

Illustrative image: a woman undergoes a mammogram (gorodenkoff via iStock by Getty Images)

An elderly Israeli man receives a fourth coronavirus vaccine dose in Ashkelon on January 3, 2022. (Flash90)

Israelis produced some 15% of world’s top COVID vaccine studies, analysis shows

By Nathan Jeffay

Says Israel acted against Iran without US as 'it might leak'

Netanyahu floats peace with Saudis as key to resolving conflict with Palestinians

In Al Arabiya interview, PM-designate urges Biden to reaffirm ‘traditional alliance’ with Riyadh and other Mideast states, says normalization would be ‘quantum leap’ for peace

A screenshot of presumed incoming prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking in an interview with Saudi broadcaster Al Arabiya that was aired on December 15, 2022. (Twitter screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset on December 13, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu insists he’ll be fully in charge of West Bank decisions, then backpedals

Analysis

Backing Palestinians at World Cup, Qatar takes aim at pro-normalization neighbors

Allowing Palestinian flags and showing off the limits of the Abraham Accords, Doha has positioned itself as the anti-UAE, though it may leave its anti-Israel stance on the pitch

Supporters of Tunisia hold a flag that reads 'Free Palestine' during the World Cup group D soccer match between Tunisia and Australia at the Al Janoub Stadium in Al Wakrah, Qatar, November 26, 2022. (AP/Petr David Josek)

Reporter's notebookTwo flags, one goal: Morocco’s historic World Cup run feeds amity with Palestinians

Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu attends a vote during a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset in Jerusalem, on December 15, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Bill to let Deri take ministry, grant Smotrich defense post passes 1st reading

Likud-led bloc pushes through legislation crucial to its coalition agreements ahead of next week’s deadline; outgoing justice minister holds up bill with 3-hour speech

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

Gantz warns new post of West Bank minister will upend crucial command system

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Itamar Ben Gvir, left, and Police chief Kobi Shabtai attend a meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on December 14, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir claims police chief wanted 4 ‘firefighting’ helicopters for personal use

By Michael Horovitz

Attorney General Gali Baharav Miara speaks during a conference at the University of Haifa, December 15, 2022. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

AG: Netanyahu bloc’s legislative push could render Israel a ‘democracy in name only’

By Jeremy Sharon

Gali Baharav-Miara warns bills expedited by the likely incoming government stress majority rule without protecting minority rights; Ben Gvir: She ‘thinks she’s the real PM’

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)

Report: Controversial judicial reforms left vague in draft Netanyahu coalition deal

From left: Dr. Tamar Hostovsky Brandes, Prof. Yaniv Roznai, Adv. Yonatan Green, Prof. Moshe Koppel and Times of Israel editor David Horovitz at a ToI Live event in Jerusalem's Israel Democracy Institute, December 15, 2022. (Oded Antman/IDI)

Toi Live

At Times of Israel event, legal scholars debate impact of override law on democracy

By Jeremy Sharon

Experts opposed to a High Court override say existing power to strike down legislation is crucial to safeguarding democracy, scholars in favor decry court’s unchecked authority

‘I’ll make a man out of you’

Female IDF combat soldiers don’t need to hide like Disney’s Mulan did to show they’re as good as the men, but they’ll do better yet when the army reshapes itself for women

Only Tamar can save Twitter (or whatever’s next)

The very technologies we use to mask our imperfections and deflect outward can also enable us to dig deeper and connect more (Vayeshev)

File - UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese addresses the UN, October 2022. (Screenshot/ YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

UN Palestinian rights investigator denies ‘Jewish lobby’ comments are antisemitic

Francesca Albanese dismisses criticism of her antisemitism as ‘politically motivated’; Palestinian foreign ministry rejects condemnations as ‘character assassination’

Tel Aviv's LGBTQ Center is hosting Winter Pride during Hanukkah 2022, featuring major performers and queer culture on central Tel Aviv stages (Courtesy Tel Aviv LGBTQ Center)

Light up Hanukkah with wintry pride, a record-breaking LEGO menorah and more

By Jessica Steinberg

There will be more than enough performances, exhibits, screenings and concerts to last 8 days, from the EclectiQueer festival to urban park appreciation, museum tours and beyond

Former US president Donald Trump takes the stage at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, November 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Trump to address conference of Orthodox Jews in wake of West-Fuentes controversy

Former US president to speak to Haredi education group at a club he owns in Florida, after hosting antisemites and refusing to apologize

Illustrative: The University of California campus in Berkeley, California, on March 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu,File)

US government opens antisemitism probe after ‘Jew-free zones’ alleged at UC Berkeley

By Andrew Lapin

A clip from a promotional video for new Donald Trump NFTs, December 15, 2022. (Screen capture: Twitter, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

SupertrumpTrump’s ‘major announcement’ turns out to be $99 NFTs of himself

By AFP and ToI Staff

Novelist Saul Bellow laughs as his wife, Alexandra adjusts his tie during a ball at Stockholm's City Hall, in honor of Nobel Prize winners on Friday evening, Dec. 10, 1976. Bellow won the Nobel prize for literature. (AP)

He didn't want to be considered a Jewish writer, but he was

As landmark Saul Bellow documentary premieres, a look back at his life

By Gabe Friedman

PBS debuts ‘The Adventures of Saul Bellow,’ first wide-release documentary on the Jewish Nobelist, filmed by Israeli director Asaf Galay and featuring Philip Roth’s final interview

Damage is seen to an Israeli car following a shooting attack near the Havat Gilad outpost in the northern West Bank, December 16, 2022. (Rescuers WIthout Borders)

Israeli car comes under fire near Nablus, driver escapes unharmed

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF dispatches troops to scene close to Havat Gilad outpost and launch manhunt for suspects; vehicle’s windows shattered, one of bullets hits driver’s headrest

Illustrative: An Israeli shops at the Ben & Jerry's ice cream factory in the Be'er Tuvia Industrial area on July 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File)

Ben & Jerry’s settles its lawsuit against parent company over settlement boycott

Unilever says suit filed by Vermont-based company ‘resolved,’ without providing details; US ice cream maker’s independent Israel branch says it will continue its operations

Polish police chief in hospital after gift he got from Ukraine official explodes

Jaroslaw Szymczyk suffers minor injuries as present he received during a visit with heads of Ukraine’s police and state emergency services blows up; Warsaw demands explanation

Polish police chief Jaroslaw Szymczyk (Courtesy/Policja)

People take cover in the subway station being used as a bomb shelter during a rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, December 16, 2022. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)

Explosions rock Ukraine as Russia launches another massive missile barrage

By HANNA ARHIROVA and Jamey Keaten

Then-US president Donald Trump meets with rapper Kanye West in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, October 11, 2018. (SEBASTIAN SMITH/AFP)

Democrats more likely than Republicans to see antisemitism as serious issue — poll

Just over half of survey respondents say antisemitism ‘represents a growing threat to Jewish Americans,’ weeks after Kanye West went on tirade against Jews, then dined with Trump

Democratic Representative Elaine Luria of Virginia speaks as the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol holds a hearing at the Capitol in Washington on July 21, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Departing US Congress, Elaine Luria accuses colleagues of peddling antisemitic trope

Twitter bars prominent journalists who reported on owner Elon Musk

By Matt O'Brien

Heinrich Himmler, chief of Hitler's police, gives the Nazi salute at the Madrid Railway Station on arrival for his visit with Count Mayalde, Chief of Spanish Department of Security, Oct. 20, 1940. (AP)

Spain’s new memory law dredges up painful chapter of often-forgotten ties to Nazis

By Sara J. Brenneis

Legislation will create census, national DNA bank to help identify thousands of Spaniards killed during World War II

Austrian city to rename Porsche street over founder’s ‘problematic’ Nazi past

By AFP

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Illustrative: In this Sept. 5, 2019 file photo, security forces block a road as teachers protest in Amman, Jordan. AP Photo/Omar Akour, File)

Senior Jordanian police officer shot and killed in clashes over fuel prices

By AP

This file photo taken on October 24, 1962 shows US President John F. Kennedy signing the order of naval blockade of Cuba at the White House in Washington, DC, during the Cuban missiles crisis. (AFP)

Newly released Kennedy assassination files outline shooter’s moves before killing

By Chris Lefkow

Anne Frank in her school in Amsterdam. (Public domain)

UK caterer apologizes for ‘Anne Frankfurter’ hot dog dish

Construction work for new housing in the settlement of Modi'in Illit. January 11, 2021. (Flash90)

Israel’s inflation accelerated to 5.3% in November, led by surge in housing costs

By Sharon Wrobel

Hadas Klein arrives to a court hearing in the trial against former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the District Court in Jerusalem on September 12, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Key witness in Netanyahu corruption trial files defamation suit against journalist

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

Haifa nurse indicted for pedophilia, photographing naked patients

Illustrative: A Metronit bus in Haifa (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/Nirvadel)

18-year-old girl killed in apparent hit-and-run by bus in Haifa

By Michael Horovitz

A firefighter stands in front of debris after a huge aquarium burst at the Sea Life Aquarium in central Berlin, Germany, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. (Christoph Soeder/dpa via AP)

Massive Berlin aquarium bursts, spilling flood of 1,500 tropical fish

By AP

IDF Home Front Command soldiers escort mock victims into the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem, during a drill, December 15, 2022. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

IDF drills at Jerusalem hospital for potential war, heavy rocket attacks on capital

By Emanuel Fabian

Shmuel Peleg, grandfather of Eitan Biran who survived a cable car crash in Italy that killed his immediate family, arrives at court in Tel Aviv, November 11, 2021. (Ariel Schalit/AP)

Grandfather of Eitan Biran gets suspended jail sentence in plea deal over kidnapping

Satmar Rebbe Zalman Teitelbaum visits the northern Israeli city of Safed on November 21, 2019. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Satmar head visits convicted sexual abuser Nechemya Weberman in NY prison

Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad gestures as she speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, September 23, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

US woman admits to unknowingly funding Iranian plot to kidnap leading dissident

By AP

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