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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 22, 2022

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Head of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party Itamar Ben Gvir (C) with Bentzi Gopstein (R) and Baruch Marzel (L) at the launch of the party's election campaign in Jerusalem on February 15, 2020. (Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir, Netanyahu agree to legislate to end ban on MKs who incite to racism

Otzma Yehudit says Likud has agreed to enact major change to Basic Law as part of coalition deal; move appears to be a bid to allow Ben Gvir’s barred far-right colleagues to run

Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu informs President Isaac Herzog that he has managed to form a government, in a phone call shortly before a midnight deadline, December 21, 2022 (Likud spokesperson)

‘I’ve done it’: Netanyahu announces his 6th government, Israel’s most hardline ever

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Likud Head MK Benjamin Netanyahu surrounded by MKs after a vote for the new Knesset speaker at the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on December 13, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hanukkah miracle or government of darkness: Lawmakers react to coalition declaration

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu, left, Religious Zionism party head Bezalel Smotrich and other party leaders in a group photo after the swearing-in of the 25th Knesset, November 15, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Religious Zionism says it agreed with Likud to advance Basic Law on Torah study

Far-right party announces that agreements have also been reached on judicial reform, amending Law of Return’s ‘grandchild clause’; Ben Gvir reportedly to get veto over some bills

Likud leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu (left) speaks with Religious Zionism party head MK Bezalel Smotrich during a vote in the Knesset, December 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Legal aide: Defense minister can overrule Religious Zionism on West Bank policy

View of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange on November 29, 2020. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90/ File)

Another 110 business execs join appeal warning Netanyahu about harm to democracy

By Sharon Wrobel

US President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, at the White House in Washington, December 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Meeting Zelensky, Biden likens Ukraine’s fight against Russia to Hanukkah story

At White House press conference, US president says message of Jewish holiday is ‘that light will always prevail over darkness’

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 22: Zelensky’s US visit sparks Biden to invoke Hanukkah heroism

Hosting Zelensky in Washington, Biden declares ‘it’s an honor to be by your side’

By Zeke Miller, LISA MASCARO and E. EDUARDO CASTILLO

Zelensky tells Congress US aid is ‘not charity,’ vows Ukraine ‘will never surrender’

By Zeke Miller, LISA MASCARO and E. EDUARDO CASTILLO

The leading international journal of ideas and culture is back.

Featuring essays by Nir Baram and Arik Glasner, Issue 250 of The Jewish Quarterly explores efforts made by generations of Israeli writers to grapple with their nation’s difficult political questions.

Prime Minister Yair Lapid holds a press conference in Tel Aviv on December 22, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

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‘This will end badly,’ Lapid warns as power shifts to far-right, religious coalition

By Joshua Davidovich

Outgoing PM says weak Netanyahu and his ‘dangerous, extremist’ partners will damage army, economy, US and Diaspora ties; vows to fight from opposition; ‘Go home,’ retorts Netanyahu

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Coalition agreement includes death penalty for terrorists
7:44 pm

Half of UTJ balks at deal with Likud, demands reopening of talks
7:27 pm

Citing security, Israel scrambles to line up 'no' votes on Hague probe at UN

UTJ MK Yitzchak Goldknopf seen during a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, December 5, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

UTJ head said set to join security cabinet as he pushes for Haredi army exemptions

Yitzchak Goldknopf, a freshman MK, will reportedly hold seat on key sensitive panel; Yesh Atid MK says he’s asked AG to probe reports of alleged property impropriety

Screen capture from video of Jordan Peterson interviewing prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu on December 5, 2022. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

‘The public paid for them’: Netanyahu says Haredim in past created economic burden

United Torah Judaism chairman MK Rabbi Yitzchak Goldknopf in the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on December 13, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Incoming housing minister reportedly split Jerusalem apartment into 5 without permit

Likud leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu (left) speaks with Religious Zionism party head MK Bezalel Smotrich during a vote in the Knesset, December 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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The incoming PM’s inability to quickly bend his allies to his will, at least in those areas where he doesn’t truly share their agenda, is a portent of friction and troubles ahead

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on July 11, 2018. (AFP/Pool/Yuri Kadobnov)

7 weeks after election win, Putin finally calls to congratulate Netanyahu

By Lazar Berman

Incoming prime minister expresses hope that war in Ukraine will end soon, and determination to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons

US President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hold a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Dec. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

After Biden-Zelensky meeting, Kremlin says US waging ‘indirect war’ with Russia

By AFP

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the launch ceremony of the Kovykta gas field and part of the Power of Siberia gas pipeline from Kovykta to Chayanda via video link at the Kremlin in Moscow, on December 21, 2022. (Mikhail Kireyev / Sputnik / AFP)

Putin says Russia will continue improving combat readiness of its nuclear forces

By AFP

Igor Yarmonov and Galina Gurina in their room in a communal flat in Ashdod, December 18, 2022. (Inna Lazareva/Times of Israel)

Interview'Chess saved his life'

Disabled world chess champion from Mariupol faces eviction from his Ashdod lodgings

By Inna Lazareva

Igor Yarmonov and his wife fled to Israel with the help of chess enthusiasts around the world. Now, with only a week to find new housing, their future is far from certain

Then-Immigration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata, center, in blue coat, welcomes new immigrants from Ukraine at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel, in an undated photo distributed by the Immigration and Absorption Ministry on July 6, 2022. (Courtesy: Naga Malasa)

Immigration to Israel hits 23-year high, driven by Russian invasion of Ukraine

By Judah Ari Gross

Some 70,000 people made ‘aliyah’ over the past year, mostly from formerly Soviet countries, over double 2021’s total, according to Jewish Agency figures

Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for his trial at the District Court in Jerusalem, May 10, 2022 (Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL)

Likud denies it has back-up plan to name Deri alternate PM

Right-wing MKs: Claims by Netanyahu trial witnesses against cops show reform needed

Smotrich, Likud MK say harassment allegations against investigators bolster their argument for limiting authority of law enforcement

Otzma Yehudit party chief Itamar Ben Gvir (L) speaks with his chief of staff Chanamel Dorfman, during a Knesset special committee to discuss his proposed Police Ordinance changes, December 18, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Ben Gvir to get position with potential legislative veto, in agreement with Likud

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Dr. Tamar Hostovsky Brandes of the Ono Academic College Faculty of Law at a ToI Live event in Jerusalem’s Israel Democracy Institute, December 15, 2022. (Oded Antman/IDI)

Times of Israel PodcastDr. Tamar Hostovsky Brandes: Courts don’t turn a democracy into an autocracy

Reservist soldiers take part in an IDF drill on March 21, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF accidentally messages thousands of reservists on automated call-up system

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says calls and texts, which carried an error message, occurred during ‘planned maintenance operation,’ no soldiers were actually summoned for duty

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers escort hundreds of Jewish worshippers to the Joseph's Tomb holy site in Nablus in the northern West Bank on December 10, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Hamas ‘fighter’ killed during armed clash with IDF in Nablus

By Emanuel Fabian

File: Israeli troops hold a drill in northern Israel, January 28, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF cadets kill ‘aggressive’ dog sicced on them during exercise in north

By Emanuel Fabian

Jonathan A. Greenblatt

In fighting antisemitism, Jews can be our own worst enemies

We should recognize that self-defense starts with self-love and self-knowledge – and Jewish literacy is essential to our long-term survival

Did the Maccabees deserve their brutal end?

The Hanukkah story’s heroes tried to use political force to impose ’spiritual’ Jewish standards. That was doomed to fail then just as it is today

Illustrative: Smoke billows following an alleged Israeli airstrike south of Damascus, Syria, on July 20, 2020. (AFP)

Report: Israel targeted secret Hezbollah drone site in Syria strike this week

By Emanuel Fabian

Citing unnamed sources, al-Arabiya says Israeli jets hit research and development building at al-Qusayr air base late Sunday, in a previously unreported strike

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) leaders' summit in Samarkand on September 15, 2022. (Alexandr Demyanchuk / SPUTNIK / AFP)

UK says Russia set to give Iran military tech that will destabilize Middle East

By ToI Staff and AP

Iranians protest the death of Mahsa Amini in Tehran, October 27, 2022. (This photo was taken by an individual not employed by The Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran)

Iran claims it nabbed 4 Mossad-linked ‘terror cells’

A Palestinian walks on a newly-made section of a road that was financed by the European Union, on the outskirts of the West Bank village of Taqoa, near Bethlehem, January. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Dozens of MKs accuse EU of blood libel, hatred after West Bank plan leaked

By Lazar Berman

Coalition and opposition lawmakers say internal European document on Area C with plans to boost Palestinians represents ‘same flames of primitive hatred’

Chile's President Gabriel Boric attends a welcome ceremony at the National Palace in Mexico City, November 23, 2022. (Marco Ugarte/AP)

Chile president says he’s planning to open embassy ‘in Palestine’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Mekrit Malachi with her parents (left) and Dr. Nevo Margali of Shaare Zedek Medical Center (courtesy of Shaare Zedek Medical Center)

Israeli doctors remove brain tissue from toddler’s nose to avert ‘catastrophe’

By Nathan Jeffay

Parents were told mark on two-year-old’s nose was nothing to worry about; mom investigated anyway and discovered it was brain tissue and that skull needed sealing

Planting tree saplings at Aman, a rehabilitation center for women experiencing mental crises following sexual violenceת December 2020. (Courtesy, Venatata)

Non-profit aims to bind society to natural world by planting 100,000 city trees

Illustrative: A Hanukkah menorah. (iStock by Getty Images)

'We appreciate the effort and expense to which you went'

Bright idea lets Jewish studies conference in Boston light menorah despite fire code

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Faced with the prospect of not being able to celebrate Hanukkah for the first time due to hotel’s policy, academics put their heads together to find a creative compromise

2 Lego menorahs, candle lighting under war: Hanukkah celebrated around the world

By Jackie Hajdenberg

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The scene where a man was shot dead at a restaurant in Haifa, December 22, 2022 (Israel Police)

Man shot dead in Haifa in suspected revenge for killing of father and 2-year-old son

Adi Mizrahi, suspected of stabbing Yuri Volkov to death in Holon, in an undated social media picture. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Man charged over Holon road rage murder; told friend he was ‘dying to stab someone’

Illustration: A CMOS silicon photonics chip. (Courtesy: IBM Research/AP)

Israel’s new tech focus areas: Silicon photonics, metamaterials, black soldier flies

By Sharon Wrobel

The cast of 'Cinema Sabaya,' the big winner in Israel's Ophir Awards on September 18, 2022. (Courtesy: Cinema Sabaya)

Israeli entry for best international film fails to make Oscars shortlist

By ToI Staff and AP

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, is escorted from the Magistrate Court in Nassau, Bahamas, December 21, 2022, after agreeing to be extradited to the US. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Associates of FTX founder Bankman-Fried cop to charges as he’s extradited to US

By Ken Sweet and Rebecca Blackwell

Members and descendants of Israel's Irish-Jewish community viewing items from the genealogical history of the Jewish communities of Ireland at a ceremony in Jerusalem, December 19, 2022. (Yoni Kelberman via JTA)

National Library accepts set of Irish-Jewish genealogical archives dating to 1700s

By David I. Klein

Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron speaks at a conference in Tel Aviv, on November 29, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Bank of Israel chief has AI-powered chatbot write speech, aiming to encourage use

By Sharon Wrobel

Screen capture from video of The Jaffa hotel in Tel Aviv-Yafo, December 2021. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Jaffa jauntIsraeli hotel makes prestigious Condé Nast Traveler’s ‘Gold List’

Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in court at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles, California, October 4 2022. (Etienne Laurent/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Only one woman’s story of rape convinced all Weinstein trial jurors of his guilt

By ANDREW DALTON

Illustrative -- Morris Griffin holds up a sign during a meeting by the Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans in Oakland, California, December 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Reconstructionist Judaism issues ‘moral position’ on African American reparations

By Dave Schechter

Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani (back) wraps an abaya around Argentina's forward #10 Lionel Messi on stage next to the FIFA World Cup Trophy after Argentina won the Qatar 2022 World Cup final football match between Argentina and France at Lusail Stadium in Lusail, north of Doha on December 18, 2022. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)

Analysts: Qatar managed to fend off World Cup criticism to score diplomatic victory

By Raphaelle PELTIER

File: Then-Ghana head coach Israeli Avram Grant walks away after his team was defeated in the African Cup of Nations semifinal soccer match between Cameroon and Ghana at the Stade de Renovation, in Franceville, Gabon, Feb. 2, 2017. (Sunday Alamba/AP)

Grant scoresIsraeli soccer coach Avram Grant signs on to Zambian national team

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