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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 17, 2022

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Former US president Donald Trump announces he is running for president for the third time as he pauses while speaking at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Nov. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Gets loudest cheers for cutting kosher meat exec's jail term

Trump mum on West and Fuentes in first speech to Jewish group since dining with them

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Former US president lists his pro-Israel moves to friendly Orthodox crowd, repeats claim Jews should be loyal to him because other politicians are ‘almost anti-Israel’

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

House panel considers recommending Trump be charged over US Capitol riot

By Farnoush Amiri, MARY CLARE JALONICK and MICHAEL BALSAMO

Client Kimberly sits at NAAMA Studios, a tattoo removal clinic in Marylebone, London, on December 14, 2022, shows her tattoo picturing US singer Kanye West (Isabel INFANTES / AFP)

Yeezy come, Yeezy goUK studio offers removal of Kanye tattoos after antisemitic comments

By Sylvain PEUCHMAURD

Britain's King Charles III dances during a visit to the JW3 Jewish community centre in London, Friday Dec. 16, 2022, as the Jewish community prepares to celebrate Chanukah. (Ian Vogler/Pool via AP)

King Charles dances hora with Anne Frank’s step-sister at London Hanukkah party

By ToI Staff and AP

Monarch visits Jewish community center, maintaining routine after release of 2nd half of Netflix show in which Harry and Meghan make hard-hitting claims against monarchy

UK actor Pip Utton performs his one-man show "Adolf." (Screenshot/YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Parents furious after UK students do ‘Sieg Heil’ salute to Hitler during school play

Illustration from the 13th century Morgan Bible, of David bringing the Ark into Jerusalem. (Public domain)

Interview'The Torah's final editors allowed for contradictory ideas'

How priests, prophets and kings united Israel in monotheism and codified the Torah

By Rich Tenorio

In ‘The Book of Revolutions,’ Rabbi Edward Feld analyzes three of the Bible’s main precepts, written over hundreds of years and later compiled by exiled priests in Babylon

Shas leader Aryeh Deri at the Knesset on December 13, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Court unlikely to strike down bill aimed at clearing Deri’s return as minister — TV

But report says justices may block Shas chief’s ministerial return after his tax conviction; AG said likely to rule override clause unconstitutional if it requires only 61 votes

Illustrative: The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. November 29, 2020. (Miriam Alster/ FLASH90/ File)

Hundreds of high-tech workers warn Netanyahu bloc’s policies will harm the industry

Letter to prime minister-designate say his coalition’s plans to rein in judiciary, threats to civil rights will drive away crucial foreign investment

An Intel building in Jerusalem, May 18, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Intel Israel lays off dozens; thousands to reportedly be offered retirement packages

Meir Kahane slept on my couch

His ideology is alive and well and his adherents will be seated as members of Israel’s new government

The left needs to remember – Israel’s right was voted in

The deep divides of Israeli society are here to stay, so unless we want an absurd seesaw each election, we need to accept each other with genuine pluralism

Illustrative: In addition to no heat and light in Chernivtsi, lack of electricity means lack of TV and radio use, along with spotty internet service. (Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty Images via JTA)

Inside story'With God’s help we will soon have a generator'

In Ukraine, Hanukkah candles are a lifeline in the midst of power outages

By Steve Lipman

As Israeli emissaries of Conservative Judaism arrive with supplies in the western city of Chernivtsi, they find fellow Jews in the cold and dark hoping for a miracle to end the war

Case likened to plot line from spy drama 'The Americans'

Israeli charged in US for smuggling components used in nukes to Russia

By ToI Staff and AP

Kyiv-born Alexey Brayman alleged to have shipped sensitive components from his New Hampshire home, including semiconductors used in ballistic missiles; 6 others indicted

Alexey Brayman (Facebook used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

A drone flies over Kyiv during an attack on October 17, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine (Sergei Supinsky/AFP)

CIA head: Russia looking to support Iran, posing threat to US allies in Middle East

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attend a news conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, November 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

FIFA rejects Zelensky request to deliver peace message at World Cup final — report

Ukrainian president had asked to speak via video to stadium in Qatar ahead of Sunday’s game, CNN reports

Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the building which was destroyed by a Russian attack in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Dec. 16, 2022 (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Dead toddler pulled from rubble after Russian strike on central Ukraine city

By AP

Israeli MMA athlete Natan Levy training in Israel in 2022. (Aviv Tal)

Interview'I think most Israelis could do well in this sport'

UFC’s only Israeli fighter believes all Jews ‘should know how to defend themselves’

Natan Levy made headlines for telling Kanye West to ‘come find me, bro’ in post-fight press conference earlier this month, but says the message was ‘a firm warning, not a threat’

Illustrative: Israeli troops conduct searches in the West Bank, October 12, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF troops fire at settlement security guards after mistaking them for rock-throwers

Military tells public broadcaster that the soldiers immediately halted their fire after realizing mistake in incident near Ofra

A screen capture from video on social media showing protesters in Iran's southeastern city of Zahedan, December 16, 2022. (Twitter video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iranians hit the streets in restive southeast as protests enter 4th month

By AFP

Demonstrators chant ‘death to the dictator’ in Zahedan, where weekly rallies have been held since security forces killed over 90 on ‘Bloody Friday’

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

A man is seen on the ground after a blast following a drone attack in Kyiv on October 17, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP)

EU backs fresh sanctions apparently targeting Iran’s supply of drones to Russia

Illustrative: A Yeshiva University building in New York City, January 13, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

New York court says Yeshiva University must recognize LGBTQ club

Ruling upholds previous decision as university battles Pride Alliance and appears to be moving toward another appeal to the US Supreme Court

In this file photo taken on February 10, 2022 Elon Musk gestures as he speaks during a press conference at SpaceX's Starbase facility near Boca Chica Village in South Texas (JIM WATSON / AFP)

Musk’s suspension of journalists’ Twitter accounts causes alarm in media, at UN

By MAE ANDERSON and Matt O'Brien

Account of columnist who highlighted what she called dangerous Tesla manufacturing shortcomings is also blocked; others reinstated; rival Mastodon gains momentum

Pentagon receives hundreds of new UFO reports — though no evidence of aliens yet

All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office says it has seen uptick in reporting of unidentified objects in the sky; some may have been new technologies flown by Russia, China

Illustrative: The image from video provided by the US Department of Defense, from 2015, shows an unexplained object as it is tracked while soaring high among the clouds, traveling against the wind. (Department of Defense via AP)

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Jordanian bus drivers lift a banner bearing a slogan which reads "dignity" in Arabic as they continue a strike that started more than 10 days earlier to protest increasing fuel prices, on December 16, 2022 in the southern province of Maan. (Khalil Mazraawi/AFP)

Jordan blocks TikTok after cop killed in protests over fuel hikes

By AP

This photo taken November 11, 2022, by the FBI in an affidavit filed to the United State District Court of Minnesota shows River William Smith at a gun club in Prior Lake, Minnesota. (FBI via AP)

FBI: Arrested Minnesota man revered mass shooters, showed interest in neo-Nazis

By STEPHEN GROVES and Trisha Ahmed

Lebanese soldiers stand next to a damaged UN peacekeeper vehicle at the scene where a UN peacekeeper convoy came under gunfire in the al-Aqbiya village, south Lebanon, December 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

UNIFIL urges swift probe into killing of Irish peacekeeper in Lebanese village

By AFP

Polish police chief Jaroslaw Szymczyk (Courtesy/Policja)

Injured Polish police chief fired grenade launcher Ukraine gave as gift – report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

New York Yankees Harrison Bader tosses his bat after hitting a solo home run against the Houston Astros during the sixth inning of Game 4 of an American League Championship baseball series, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Ailing Yankees outfielder pulled from Team Israel’s World Baseball Classic roster

By jacob gurvis

UK Foreign Minister Liz Truss speaks after winning the Conservative Party leadership contest at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London, September 5, 2022. (Frank Augstein/AP)

Cocaine traces reportedly found at UK gov’t estate where then-FM Truss held parties

Illustrative: A Magen David Adom ambulance seen outside the Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem, on December 13, 2018. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Motorcyclist killed in collision outside Jerusalem

A horse cart driver transports wheat to a mill on a farm in the Nile Delta province of al-Sharqia, Egypt, on May 11, 2022 (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

IMF approves $3 billion support package for Egypt

By AP

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