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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 20, 2022

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Irmgard Furchner appears in court for the verdict in her trial in Itzehoe, Germany, December 20, 2022. (Christian Charisius/Pool Photo via DPA)

1st woman in decades to be tried in Germany for WWII crimes

Ex-concentration camp secretary convicted in potentially last ever Holocaust trial

By Céline LE PRIOUX

Former Stutthof concentration camp secretary Irmgard Furchner, 97, found guilty by German court of complicity in the murder of over 10,000 people; gets two-year suspended sentence

Otzma Yehudit party head Itamar Ben Gvir speaks during a Knesset session to debate his police regulations bill, December 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Herzog: Police serve us all, should be left out of politics

As contentious police bill passes 1st reading, Ben Gvir says critics ‘undemocratic’

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Expected incoming police minister assails rivals as ‘illiberal’; Yesh Atid MK says Otzma Yehudit chief should learn on the job before making changes

Rapper Tamer Nafar performs onstage during a festival in the northern Arab Israeli town of Sakhnin on October 23, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI)

Cops try to shut down performance by Palestinian rapper for songs criticizing police

By Judah Ari Gross

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu (center) and Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben Gvir talk at the swearing-in ceremony of the 25th Knesset, November 15, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

New Knesset passes its first law, meant to thwart potential internal Likud rebellion

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Illia Samoilenko, a lieutenant in Ukraine's Azov Regiment, speaks to The Times of Israel in Jerusalem, December 14, 2022 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)

Interview'Russians do two things - they lie good, and intimidate'

After 4 months in Russian solitary, Ukrainian officer visits Israel, tells his story

By Lazar Berman

Illia Samoilenko, a soldier in the controversial Azov Regiment, survived a siege and months as a POW in Moscow; says he still has much work to do, sympathizes with Israel’s stance

From Keshet DAF

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Keshet DAF’s simple, efficient, tax-advantageous model has made meaningful giving in Israel easier and more impactful than ever before.

Former police commissioner Roni Alsheich speaking at a conference at Reichman University, Feb. 13, 2022. (Adi Cohen Tzedek)

Live updates (closed)

Ex-police chief says he recommends seeking plea deal in Netanyahu corruption trial

In interview, Roni Alsheich – who led police investigation into former PM – says he would tell AG to seek plea bargain due to current state of discourse surrounding case

7:28 pm

Morocco World Cup team greeted as heroes at home
7:03 pm

IDF confirms shooting attack near Nablus, says no soldiers hurt
6:53 pm

Ex-police chief says he would recommend plea deal in Netanyahu trial

Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker and US President Joe Biden help Holocaust survivor Bronia Brandman to a menorah during a Hanukkah reception at the White House in Washington, December 19, 2022. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)

At Hanukkah event, Biden slams ‘venom’ of antisemitism, unveils White House menorah

By AP

US president says ‘silence is complicity’ in face of rising Jew hatred; candle-lighting prayer led by rabbi who helped congregants escape hostage crisis at Texas synagogue

A screenshot from surveillance video shows a man vandalizing a menorah in the Southern California city of Beverly Hills, December 18, 2022. (YouTube screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Man arrested for carving Nazi symbols into Beverly Hills menorah

By AP and ToI Staff

A family takes part in a Zoom shiva. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis/Getty Images via JTA)

After antisemitic Zoombombing of religious services, Ohio toughens laws

Footage from a surveillance camera shows a deadly bombing attack in Jerusalem, November 24, 2022. The video was published by the Moses Staff Iranian hacker group. (Screenshot: Telegram, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Report: Iran hacked Israeli cameras a year ago; defense officials knew, didn’t act

By Michael Horovitz

Iranian group controlled dozens of CCTV cameras for lengthy period, uploaded videos of weapons factory and Jerusalem terror bombing, according to exposé set to air in full Tuesday

Demonstrators burn representations of the Israeli flag during pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Tehran, Iran, May 19, 2021. (Vahid Salemi/AP/File)

Iran claims to thwart Mossad ring seeking to disrupt its defense industry

Men walk near a framed picture depicting Jordan's reigning King Abdullah II as they cross the main hall at the King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Centre near the town of Sweimeh in central-west Jordan on December 18, 2022 two days ahead of the "Baghdad Conference for Cooperation and Partnership." (Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP)

Iranian, EU officials meet in Jordan amid stalled nuclear talks

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, alongside Cabinet Secretary Tzachi Braverman, on March 17, 2019. (Amit Shabi/Pool/Courtesy)

Amid internal feuding and leaks, Netanyahu has his staff undergo polygraph tests

Freshman Likud MK calls Netanyahu aide ‘chauvinist misogynist’ after he reportedly claimed she ‘owed’ her career to others; Likud party ombudsman asks how tests were paid for

Illustrative: Israeli and American flags are visible on the table as US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin hosts a bilateral meeting with Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the Pentagon in Washington on June 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec 20: Is the US Diaspora married to Israel, or tied to it by blood?

AnalysisNetanyahu has 2 days to declare he’s got a coalition. He’s nearly certain to succeed

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Religious icons left by prior visitors are seen inside a 2,000-year-old Second Temple-Period burial cave designated the Salome Cave that was recently uncovered in the Lachish Forest in Israel, December 20, 2022. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)

ArchaeologyChristians have venerated the site since the Byzantine era

Burial cave dedicated to Jesus midwife Salome reveals treasures; will open to public

By Melanie Lidman

Dozens of intricately carved oil lamps found outside a 2,000-year-old central Israel tomb, which is being developed as part of a massive 100-kilometer Judean Kings Trail

Israel embarks on challenge to find sensor tech to map archaeological sites

By Sharon Wrobel

The light of Hanukkah in American democracy

It has been disorienting to adjust to the reality that being Jewish in the US increasingly feels dangerous

Eliyahu Berkovits

In Bnei Brak I founded the shtetl-state

In the crucial effort to increase ultra-Orthodox employment, why improve skill levels when you can simply lower the hiring standards?

A video presentation plays as the US House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol holds its final meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, December 19, 2022. (AP Photo/ Jacquelyn Martin)

1st time Congress makes criminal referral against president

January 6 committee recommends charging Trump, branding him ‘unfit for any office’

By AFP

US House panel unanimously urges Justice Department to prosecute ex-president for inciting insurrection, obstructing an official proceeding, conspiring to defraud the government

An image with information about the criminal referral of former US President Donald Trump to the Department of Justice is displayed as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol holds its final meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 19, 2022. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool Photo via AP)

Explainer‘A roadmap to justice’: The laws the January 6 panel says were broken by Trump

Rioters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

5 takeaways from US congressional report calling for criminal charges against Trump

By Frankie TAGGART

Anton Krymskiy as Mitke in 'Nakam' (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg / Leonard Caspari)

Interview

Oscar-qualifying short film strikes chord with story of heroic young WWII partisan

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Made as a film school thesis project, ‘NAKAM’ is inspired by Motele Schlein, who was killed in a Nazi ambush, but whose violin survived as symbol of resistance and is still played

Ultra-Orthodox men stand under a sign stating that the entrance of groups and of people in clothes that are not modest offend the feeling of the citizens in Meah Shearim, Jerusalem, on March 7, 2013. (Nati Shohat/Flash 90)

Politicians fume as ultra-Orthodox neighborhood grocery found setting men-only hours

By Judah Ari Gross

Though it began under their tenure, Lapid and Liberman tie Jerusalem store’s policy to incoming government’s plan to permit gender-segregation in public spaces

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

Family of woman injured in Haredi protest defends culprits: ‘They didn’t mean harm’

Yehuda Mansbach, a relative of the Posner family, reacts after lighting a candle on the menorah that the family rescued from Germany, during Hanukkah celebration at the Bellevue presidential palace in Berlin, December 19, 2022. (John MacDougall/AFP)

Iconic menorah from photo with Nazi flag lit at Hanukkah event in Berlin

By AFP

German president hosts grandchildren of woman who took 1931 photograph in Kiel, one of whom weeps openly after lighting menorah

Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, on the platform left, and Rabbi Segal Shmoel, on the platform right, inspect a giant Hanukkah Menorah, set up by the Jewish Chabad Educational Center ahead of the Jewish Hanukkah holiday, in front of the Brandenburg Gate at the Pariser Platz in central Berlin, Germany, Dec. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Holocaust survivors to celebrate Hanukkah by spreading message of hope worldwide

By Kirsten Grieshaber

Poland's President Andrzej Duda, left, and the country's chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, right, light a candle during a Hanukkah ceremony at the presidential palace in Warsaw, Poland, December 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)

At Hanukkah reception, Polish president thanks Jews for aiding Ukrainian refugees

By Vanessa Gera

US Representative-elect George Santos, a New York Republican, speaks at an annual leadership meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition, November 19, 2022, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

New York congressman-elect campaigned as a Jewish Republican. Was he lying?

A healthcare worker prepares a COVID vaccine dose at the Sheba Medical Center on January 5, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Power of 4th vaccine doses is in keeping COVID mild, Israeli study finds

By Nathan Jeffay

When it comes to avoiding ‘substantial’ disease, boost was 71% effective for Pfizer, 89% for Moderna, but 4th shots give only small edge over 3-dose regimen in preventing infection

Salah Hamouri arrives in Paris after he was deported from Israel, on December 18, 2022. (Daphné BENOIT / AFP)

‘A war crime’: UN pans Israeli expulsion of Palestinian lawyer said linked to terror

By AFP and Agencies

UN human rights office says ‘deporting a protected person from occupied territory is a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention,’ warns of move’s chilling effect

Palestinian terrorist Nasser Abu Hmeid in an undated photograph. (WAFA)

Mass-murdering terrorist Nasser Abu Hmeid dies of cancer in Israeli custody

Police at the scene of a suspected car-ramming attack in Tel Aviv, December 8, 2022 (Courtesy)

Palestinian to be charged with terror over Tel Aviv ramming of motorcyclist

By Emanuel Fabian

Argentina's national soccer team captain Lionel Messi (L) holds the FIFA World Cup Trophy alongside Argentina's coach Lionel Scaloni as they step off a plane upon arrival at Ezeiza International Airport after winning the Qatar 2022 World Cup tournament, in Ezeiza, Buenos Aires province, Argentina on December 20, 2022. (Luis ROBAYO / AFP)

Messi breaks record with most-liked post ever on Instagram

Huge crowds welcome home Messi, Argentina squad as heroes after World Cup victory

By AP and ToI Staff

Fans swamp highway as victorious players clutching cherished trophy make their way to Buenos Aires; president declares national holiday

Argentine sportscaster and Telemundo soccer broadcaster Andres Cantor smiles during an interview in New York, on May 16, 2018 (File). Argentina's players celebrate after teammate Lionel Messi scored his side's opening goal during the World Cup final soccer match between Argentina and France at the Lusail Stadium in Lusail, Qatar on December 18, 2022. (AP Photos/ Bebeto Matthews and Francisco Seco)

‘Campeon de mundo!’: Argentine Jewish announcer brought to tears by World Cup win

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Fireworks at Qatar's Lusail Stadium, as Argentina's players (center) attend the 2022 World Cup trophy ceremony after their victory over France in the final match in Lusail, north of Doha on December 18, 2022. (Odd Andersen/AFP)

Qatar to bid for Olympics on heels of World Cup tainted by poor rights record

By Raphaelle PELTIER and Tim Witcher

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Incoming IDF Spokesperson Ran Kochav speaks during a ceremony at the IDF Spokesperson's Unit's headquarters in northern Tel Aviv on June 6, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

PM, IDF chief pan settler leader who branded IDF Spokesperson’s Unit ‘extreme left’

An illustrative photo of a person typing on a keyboard as part of a cyber breach. (Techa Tungateja; iStock by Getty Images)

17-year-old locates radar systems, arms depots through breach on IDF website — TV

A suspected Hezbollah drone the IDF says it downed near border with Lebanon on December 20, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says troops downed suspected Hezbollah drone on Lebanon border

By Emanuel Fabian

View of the Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumin and the area known as E1, in the West Bank, on January 2, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)

Leaked EU report details plan to strengthen Palestinian claims in West Bank’s Area C

By Lazar Berman

Illustrative: A man eats a sufganiyah, a traditional Hanukkah doughnut, at the Alon Conditory, days before the eight-night festival, in Kiryat Shmona, northern Israel, December 14, 2022. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

2 men hospitalized, one in critical condition, after choking on Hanukkah doughnuts

By Michael Horovitz

Nimr Salman al-Amrani, who was shot dead by Israeli troops on the Egypt border on December 14, 2022. (Courtesy: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Military Police probe troops’ killing of Bedouin man during Egypt border smuggling

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: Missiles in the sky near the international airport, in Damascus, Syria, on January 21, 2019. (SANA, Syria's official news agency, via AP/ FIle)

Syria says Israeli airstrikes hit sites in Damascus area, two soldiers wounded

By Emanuel Fabian

A detained Beoduin man points to an IDF storage bunker at the Sde Teiman base in southern Israel, after he and several others allegedly broke in and stole 30,000 bullets, during a crime reenactment, in an image published by police on December 20, 2022. (Israel Police)

Eight Bedouin men arrested over theft of 30,000 bullets from IDF base in south

By Emanuel Fabian

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, center, is escorted out of Magistrate Court into a Corrections van, following a hearing in Nassau, Bahamas, December 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Shamed crypto tycoon Bankman-Fried agrees to US extradition, says lawyer

By AP

Cyprus Energy Minister Natasa Pilides gestures during an interview with The Associated Press at the Energy ministry in the capital Nicosia, Cyprus, December 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Cyprus weighing proposed pipeline to funnel natural gas from Israel

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS

File: In this photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, Iranians protests the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was detained by the morality police while in custody, in Tehran, October 27, 2022. (Middle East Images/AP)

Member of Iran’s Jewish community remains in custody over protests as 2nd released

In this file photo from October 4, 2022, Harvey Weinstein appears at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles, California. (Etienne Laurent/Pool/AFP)

Harvey Weinstein found guilty of rape, other sex crimes in LA trial

By ANDREW DALTON

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