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What Matters Most On Monday, December 19, 2022

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US Rep. Jamie Raskin speaks during the final US House Select Committee hearing to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the US Capitol, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on December 19, 2022. (Mandel NGAN / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

US House panel recommends criminal charges against Trump for Jan. 6 Capitol attack

The committee ‘has developed significant evidence that president Trump intended to disrupt peaceful transition of power under our Constitution,’ committee says

7:34 pm

Gantz: Now is the time to pressure Iran to reach improved nuclear deal
7:24 pm

House panel recommends criminal charges against Trump for Jan. 6 Capitol attack
7:05 pm

UN chief believes Ukraine-Russia war 'will go on'

Israeli fans in Ramat Gan watch the 2022 World Cup final match between Argentina and France in Qatar, on December 18, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Photo Essay'Messi is our Judah the Maccabee'

Israeli soccer fans rejoice over long-awaited World Cup win for Messi, Argentina

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Fans wave flags, blue-and-white Argentine shirts to celebrate stunning victory over France in unforgettable finale game

Argentina's Lionel Messi celebrates with the trophy in front of the fans after winning the World Cup final soccer match between Argentina and France at the Lusail Stadium in Lusail, Qatar, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. Argentina won 4-2 in a penalty shootout after the match ended tied 3-3. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Messi leads Argentina to win over France on penalties in stunning World Cup final

A woman walks in downtown Doha, Qatar, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Israeli diplomats at Qatar World Cup handled just 1 brief arrest, 9 minor incidents

By Lazar Berman

Abbas thanks Qatar for using World Cup to push Palestinian cause

Palestinian Authority president praises Doha for ‘unprecedented’ show of support at close of soccer tournament that saw Palestinian flag featured prominently on world stage

Morocco's Jawad El Yamiq celebrates with a Palestinian flag after the World Cup group F soccer match between Canada and Morocco at the Al Thumama Stadium in Doha , Qatar, December 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Argentina's Lionel Messi, draped in an Arab cloak, holds the trophy as he celebrates with his team at the end of the World Cup final soccer match between Argentina and France at the Lusail Stadium in Lusail, Qatar, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. Argentina won 4-2 in a penalty shootout after the match ended tied 3-3. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Messi’s black Qatari robe at World Cup trophy lift draws mixed reactions from fans

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A migrant worker sleeps on a bench before his early morning shift, in front of Khalifa International Stadium, which will host matches during FIFA World Cup 2022, in Doha, Qatar, Oct. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

Qatar’s migrant workers wary of rights after World Cup soccer tournament ends

By AFP

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Otzma Yehudit party chief Itamar Ben Gvir attends a Knesset special committee to discuss his proposed police regulations changes, December 18, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Deputy AG: Despite amendments, Ben Gvir’s policing bill grants unbalanced powers

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

New draft of legislation to advance to Knesset vote, but still makes police force subordinate to government, and police commissioner subordinate to national security minister

Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Supreme Court president Esther Hayut at a ceremony at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on June 17, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Netanyahu seeking to discuss legal reforms with Supreme Court chief Hayut – report

Otzma Yehudit party chief Itamar Ben Gvir attends a Knesset special committee to discuss his proposed Police Ordinance changes, December 18, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Legislative blitz set to ramp up as jammed bills keep Netanyahu government at bay

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Members of the Jewish community stand by a giant menorah as they attend a ceremony for the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, during blackout, on December 18, 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Oleksandr GIMANOV / AFP)

'Light defeated darkness. It will be the same this time'

Ukraine Jews mark Festival of Lights as Kyiv’s skies darkened by Russian strikes

By AP

Dozens gather at square in capital for Hanukkah, where local Jewish leaders light what is said to be Europe’s tallest menorah, in defiant message 10 months into punishing war

People use a flashlight as they enter an underground passage during a blackout following Russian strikes on the power infrastructure in Kyiv on December 17, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Sergei CHUZAVKOV / AFP)

Iranian-made drones target Kyiv in early morning attack, say Ukrainian authorities

By AP

We’ll have to define our own Jewish and Zionist identity

Right-wing Jewish supremacists must not be allowed to distort Torah teachings and crush foundations for long-term prosperity in this Land we hold dear

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Pprime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu looks on after a speech at the Knesset during a session to elect the new speaker, in Jerusalem on December 13, 2022. (Gil COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Netanyahu accuses NY Times of ‘demonizing Israel for decades’

Likud chief brushes off editorial warning of threats to Israeli democracy, says publication is ‘shamefully’ calling to undermine presumed incoming far-right, religious coalition

Muhannad (L) and Mohammad Muteir. (Courtesy)

US backs probe into ‘accident’ after Palestinian brothers killed by Israeli driver

By Jacob Magid and Emanuel Fabian

Tel Aviv's financial business district skyline, June 2022. (Elijah Lovkoff via iStock by Getty Images)

Mellanox founder says investors are raising questions about incoming government

By Sharon Wrobel

Eyal Waldman is one of the signatories on a letter warning Netanyahu that his coalition bloc’s legislative actions are set to harm economy, tech industry

President Isaac Herzog lights the first candle of Hanukkah alongside his wife, Michal, at the President's Residence on December 18, 2022. (Haim Zach/GPO)

In Hanukkah message to world Jewry, Herzog welcomes ‘tough questions’ about election

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The iconic photo of a Hanukkah menorah with Nazi flags waving across the road, taken by Rachel Posner, wife of then-Kiel Rabbi Akiva Posner, in Kiel, Germany, 1931. (Courtesy)

Menorah from iconic photo with Nazi flag to be lit at Berlin Hanukkah ceremony

By Michael Horovitz

Candle-lighting event will be held with photographer’s grandchildren and German president on second night of holiday, 90 years after family fled looming genocide

A rabbi and a member of the Jewish community light a candle for a menorah during a ceremony for the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah at the Kharkiv Choral Synagogue in Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, on December 18, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Sergey BOBOK / AFP)

Turkey’s Erdogan, India’s Modi and Ukraine’s Zelensky send Hanukkah greetings

The scene in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood where a 40-year-old woman was hit by a dumpster that was pushed by ultra-Orthodox rioters, December 16, 2022. (Flash90)

Clip shows moment burning dumpster pushed by ultra-Orthodox rioters hits J’lem woman

40-year-old mother of 10 still hospitalized in serious condition; police issue gag order on investigation into incident; nephew blames ‘anarchists’ dressed as Haredim

Grade four students Alon Cohen, Liam Atias, and Rotem Levnat with an ancient oil lamp they discovered in Kibbutz Parod, December 2022. (Israel Antiquities Authority)

Archaeology

Children out for a stroll in north discover 2,000-year-old lamp in the ground

Palestinians carry the bodies of four Palestinian migrants who died off the Tunisian coast, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, December 18, 2022. (AP/ Fatima Shbair)

At mass funeral, furious Gazans blame Hamas for drowning of migrants

By WAFAA SHURAFA and Fares Akram

Mother of Palestinian who died at sea trying to reach Europe slams terror group’s leaders for living luxuriously while youth make risky journey to flee hardship in Strip

Costumes from productions that originated at Joseph Papp’s Public Theater on display at the Museum of Broadway. (New York Jewish Week via JTA)

Here, the Jewishness of Broadway is taken as a given

7 Jewish highlights from the new Museum of Broadway

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

In a three-story tribute to the Theater District located in its heart, the majority of featured musicals and plays bear the mark of the Tribe, from Tony Kushner to Stephen Sondheim

Israeli security forces seen at the scene of a shooting and stabbing attack near Damascus Gate, Jerusalem, February 3, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Palestinian man gets life plus 32 years in prison for role in deadly 2016 attack

By Emanuel Fabian

Bilal Abu Zeid convicted of supplying weapon and driving West Bank terrorists who killed Border Police officer Hadar Cohen at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem

Damage to an Israeli bus is seen following a shooting attack near the settlement of Mevo Dotan, December 18, 2022. (Samaria Regional Council)

Shots fired at bus of settlers in northern West Bank; no injuries

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli troops map out the home of Muhammed Kamel al-Jabari in the West Bank city of Hebron ahead of a potential demolition, early October 30, 2022. Al-Jabari killed an Israeli man and wounded four others in an attack hours earlier. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF issues demolition order for home of terrorist who killed Israeli man near Hebron

By Emanuel Fabian

Elon Musk waves on February 10, 2022, near Brownsville, Texas. (Miguel Roberts/The Brownsville Herald via AP)

Twitter users vote to oust Musk as CEO; he’d promised to ‘abide by results’

By Matt O'Brien

17.5 million users respond to poll on social media platform, with more than 57% saying the controversial billionaire should step down

Illustrative: Icons of social media applications LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, as displayed on a smartphone on May 28, 2020. (Olivier DOULIERY/AFP)

Twitter announces ban on users promoting rival social media platforms

By AFP

Elon Musk looks down, as he speaks during a press conference at SpaceX's Starbase facility near Boca Chica Village in South Texas, on February 10, 2022. (Jim Watson/ AFP)

Elon Musk polls Twitter users about whether he should step down

By Matt O'Brien

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By AP

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Illustrative photo of a natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Egypt says it found large natural gas deposit in eastern Mediterranean

Pope Francis and Rabbi Abraham Skorka leave the Western Wall compound, after the pope prayed at the Wall in Jerusalem, Israel, May 26, 2014. (Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images via JTA)

Churches urged to act against antisemitism, including by scrutinizing own practices

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

In this photo provided by the Revolutionary Guard's Ground Force October 17, 2022, troops stand while attending a maneuver in northwestern Iran. (Iranian Revolutionary Guard's Ground Force via AP, File)

4 Revolutionary Guard troops killed in restive southeast, Iranian state media says

By AFP

This satellite image from Maxar Technologies shows a rocket preparing to be erected at a launch pad at Imam Khomeini Space Center southeast of Semnan, Iran, on Tuesday, June 14, 2022. (Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies via AP)

Iran says it will launch two satellites into space in coming months

By AFP

Tunisia's President Kais Saied votes in the legislative elections in Tunis, December 17, 2022. (AP/Slim Abid)

Tunisia’s opposition urges strongman president to quit after election snub

By Kaouther Larbi and Francoise Kadri

A screen grab 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)

Winning BiglyTrump’s $99 NFTs of himself in different guises sell out

By AFP and ToI Staff

UNIFIL peacekeepers attend a repatriation ceremony for Irish soldier Sean Rooney who was killed on a UN patrol, at Beirut, Lebanon's international airport, on December 18, 2022. (Anwar Amro/AFP)

Body of Irish UNIFIL soldier killed by gunfire in south Lebanon returned home

By AFP and ToI Staff

Amar'e Stoudemire watches during the second half of an NBA basketball game between the Miami Heat and Sacramento Kings, Jan. 20, 2020, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Amar’e Stoudemire charged with punching his daughter at Miami home

By AP and ToI Staff

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