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What Matters Most On Friday, December 23, 2022

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Prime Minister Yair Lapid holds a press conference in Tel Aviv on December 22, 2022, at which he castigated the incoming coalition as dangerous to Israel. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

'This will end badly'

Lapid: New government not committed to democracy, dismantles foundations of society

Outgoing PM says weak Netanyahu and his ‘dangerous, extremist’ partners will damage army, economy, ties with US and Diaspora; vows to fight; incoming premier tells him to ‘go home’

Likud leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu (left) speaks with Religious Zionist party head MK Bezalel Smotrich at the swearing-in ceremony of the 25th Knesset in Jerusalem, November 15, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Coalition agreements require factions give ‘total preference’ to judicial reforms

A view of construction work in the Jewish settlement of Givat Ze'ev, between Jerusalem and Ramallah, in the West Bank on May 10, 2022. (Ahmad Gharabali/AFP)

Netanyahu, far-right ally said to agree government will advance West Bank annexation

New government's agenda

Luke Tress and ToI Staff

No ban on racist MKs, a curbed judiciary, more yeshiva funds: 12 key coalition plans

Emerging deals between Likud and partners also provide for death penalty for terrorists, advancing annexation, potential anti-LGBT discrimination, gender-segregated public events

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu is surrounded by MKs after a vote for the new Knesset speaker on December 13, 2022. At bottom right is Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben Gvir. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

United Torah Judaism leader Rabbi Yitzhak Goldknopf arrives for coalition talks with Likud chief Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on November 6, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud-UTJ deal seeks gender-segregated public events, review of Law of Return

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Border Police officers stand guard near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, on May 25, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Otzma Yehudit coalition deal provides for new Shin Bet division to tackle Arab crime

Hundreds of US rabbis vow to block far-right Israel lawmakers from their communities

Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist leaders sign letter pledging to not allow some of Netanyahu’s coalition partners from speaking in their synagogues

Otzma Yehudit party leader Itamar Ben Gvir at the Knesset in Jerusalem, December 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a news conference at the State Department in Washington Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

‘Candid conversations’ with Israel will continue: Blinken congratulates Netanyahu

MK Moshe Gafni, right, and MK Yitzhak Goldknopf speak during a meeting of the United Torah Judaism party at the Knesset in Jerusalem on December 5, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Haredi faction balks at agreement with Likud, demands reopening of talks

Jan. 6 report: Trump ‘lit fire’ of Capitol insurrection, stood by during riot

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, Eric Tucker, Farnoush Amiri, Jill Colvin, MICHAEL BALSAMO and NOMAAN MERCHANT

Panel investigating storming of Capitol says former president and his team took part in at least 200 acts aimed at overturning 2020 election, labels him ‘unfit for office’

My Peloton Hanukkah inspiration

When the instructors say they see me, it’s sappy, but it works: my holiday workout made me feel visible as a Jew, despite the baseless hate out there

Chana Tannenbaum

Parshat Miketz is read on Hanukkah – nearly every single year

For all that both Joseph and the Hasmoneans had the difficult destiny of suffering, they also remained committed to God and their inherited Jewish values

Hanukkah and the human condition

When you’re not sure you believe in God, how do you accept a miracle? Or, for that matter, the notion that people have the freedom to choose how they will live?

Hilary Faverman

Doughnuts in an inflation era: Which is really worth your shekels?

Our annual sufganiya hunt was hit by the cost of living increases, but we soldiered on, through 45 confections of sweet filling and dough, to find the very best

Recipe inside

Susie Fishbein led a kosher cooking revolution. A whole new generation has followed

23 years after ‘The Kosher Palette’ upended the kosher cookbook world, a growing slate of authors have entered the genre – though some prefer to stay out of the spotlight

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, in the center of Tel Aviv, December 25, 2018. (Adam Shuldman/Flash90)

Norway’s huge sovereign wealth fund said weighing divesting from Israel

Reports say the major global investor is reviewing its activity in the country due to Israeli banks’ involvement in West Bank settlements

The United Nations General Assembly Fourth Committee votes on measures addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, at the United Nations in New York, November 11, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Ahead of UN vote on probe, Israel says measure shows ‘contempt’ for its security

By Lazar Berman

General Assembly set to vote within days on involving International Court of Justice in conflict; official says Palestinians trying to render IDF presence in West Bank illegal

French security personnel secure the street after several shots were fired along rue d'Enghien in the 10th arrondissement, in Paris on December 23, 2022 (Thomas SAMSON / AFP)

3 dead, 3 injured in Paris shooting as gunman attacks Kurdish culture center

By Alexandre Hielard and DAPHNE ROUSSEAU

69-year-old ‘caucasian’ shooter known for two previous attempted murders in 2016 and 2021; suspicions attack could have been racially motivated

Naim Badir attempts to open fire with a makeshift submachine gun during an attack against police officers in Kafr Qasim, early December 23, 2022. (Israel Police)

Police: 3 officers hurt in shooting, ramming attack in Kafr Qasim; driver killed

By Emanuel Fabian

Law enforcement says incident is terror, planned several days in advance, with assailant calling in the cops before attacking them

Pedestrians navigate a snow-covered sidewalk as temperatures hang in the single-digits on December 22, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois (Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP)

Massive, unprecedented winter storm brings frigid temps, snow and ice to US

By Heather Hollingsworth and JILL BLEED

More than 200 million people — about 60% of the US population — are under some form of winter weather advisory

President Isaac Herzog (right) and Mossad head David Barnea light the Hanukkiah at the President's House, December 22, 2022. (Haim Tzach/GPO)

Mossad chief says Iranian actions being foiled ‘every day’ across the globe

David Barnea says Tehran ‘expanding’ supply of advanced weapons to Russia, slams ‘absurd’ Western hopes of still reaching a nuclear agreement

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

Times Will Tell

Podcast: ‘Cinema Sabaya’ director tells making-of story behind award-winning film

By Jessica Steinberg

Orit Fouks Rotem describes to a sold-out Times of Israel screening the tales of developing, casting and filming her movie about Jewish and Arab women

Israeli startup AIR’s AIR ONE prototype aircraft for the consumer market. (AIR/courtesy)

Israeli startup’s personal flying vehicle takes off for cruise flight test

By Sharon Wrobel

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Illustrative: a doctor carrying out checks for an autoimmune thyroid disease. (swpispix; iStock by Getty Images)

Israel’s medical big data deployed for autoimmune research at ambitious new center

By Nathan Jeffay

Mass of detailed patient data put Israel at forefront of COVID research. Now, Tel Aviv University aims to use it to advance treatment of autoimmune diseases like MS and Crohn’s

Target's array of Hanukkah mugs represent just a small swath of the national retailer's 2022 Hanukkah collection. (Philissa Cramer/ JTA)

'In a sea of Christmas, this feels really great'

The US Hanukkah merch market has exploded. But are Jews feeling more represented?

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Unlike years past, retail giants are now dedicating entire aisles to dreidel-shaped pet toys and latke onesies – but critics note that it’s a business strategy, not inclusiveness

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses a joint meeting of US Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, December 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Iran warns Zelensky to stop saying it gives Russia drones: ‘Patience not endless’

Tehran rails at Ukrainian leader over speech to US Congress in which he accused the Islamic Republic of becoming an ally in Moscow’s ‘genocidal policy’ against Kyiv

This file photo from July 8, 2013, shows the BND monitoring base in Bad Aibling, near Munich, Germany. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

Germany arrests intel official suspected of passing secrets to Russia

By AFP

Dr. Susan Weiss, head of the Center for Women's Justice. (Courtesy)

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A bullet riddled car is seen following a deadly shooting near Kafr Kara on December 22, 2022. (Courtesy)

Man shot dead near northern Arab town in 3rd suspected murder over past day

Then-Republican candidate George Santos for New York's 3rd Congressional District campaigns outside a Stop and Shop store, November 5, 2022, in Glen Cove, New York. (AP/Mary Altaffer)

NY congressman-elect apparently lied about having grandparents who fled Nazis

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Illustrative: A police car at the scene of a crime. (Israel Police)

Woman shot, seriously hurt in south; several wounded in two separate brawls

By Michael Horovitz

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried leaves court following his arraignment in New York City on December 22, 2022. (Photo by Ed Jones/AFP)

Fallen crypto whiz Bankman-Fried released on $250 million bail, sent to house arrest

Construction in Holon, May 2020. (100 via iStock by Getty Images)

Holon gets okay for central Israel’s largest urban renewal plan

By Danielle Nagler

Yehoshua Dadon seen following a hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, days before being indicted over a fire that destroyed a cell phone store in the Geula neighborhood in Jerusalem, December 18, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Haredi man whose arrest sparked riot indicted for arson of Jerusalem cellphone store

George Cohen talks to the media at the Royal Garden Hotel in London on January 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

English World Cup winner George Cohen dies at 83

By AP

Nepalese police escort Charles Sobhraj, in brown cap, to the immigration office, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, Dec. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

France’s ‘Serpent’ serial killer, who murdered 20 people, freed from Nepal jail

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA

Abu Dhabi International Airport in 2022. (CC BY-SA Moleoz/Wikipedia)

Israeli arrested in Abu Dhabi for unruly behavior given large fine and expelled

Amira Mansour (C) dances as Samir Damouni plays the Oud during a community Christmas dinner for elderly residents at the only majority-Christian Palestinian refugee camp, in Dbayeh, north of Beirut, Lebanon, December 21, 2022. (AP/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanon’s Christian Palestinian refugee camp balances complex identities

People celebrate the new Transgender Law on the steps of the parliament in Madrid, Spain, December 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Paul White)

Spain, Scotland pass laws promoting trans rights, lower age for gender change

By AFP

An airport employee stands in front of a Hawker 800 private plane that landed safely at Ben Gurion Airport after fears that it was missing a tire, December 23, 2022. (IAA spokesperson)

Private plane from Dubai lands safely at Ben Gurion after alarm over lost tire

By Michael Horovitz

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