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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 24, 2022

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Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu and Religious Zionist 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)

Netanyahu said to cede significant control over settlement construction to Smotrich

Report says sides agreed that PM’s approval will only be needed at an initial stage in planning process and not at every step of the way, as is currently the case

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) with Israel's Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer, at the president's guest house, in Washington, DC, February 14, 2017. (Avi Ohayon/ GPO/ File)

Ron Dermer meets Netanyahu, will only join gov’t if made foreign minister — report

By ToI Staff and Carrie Keller-Lynn

Party head set to oversee some school programs in new gov't

Anti-LGBTQ party drew up lists of gay media professionals, women’s activists: report

Internal Noam document from 2019 shows round-ups of people in news, entertainment, and ‘extreme left-wing women’ it says are part of ‘radical feminist’ takeover of IDF

MK Avi Maoz, left, and Likud head Benjamin Netanyahu after signing a coalition deal on November 27, 2022. (Courtesy, Likud)

Tzipi Livni attends an Israel Bar Association event in Tel Aviv, July 11, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Tzipi Livni warns incoming government advancing ‘destruction’ of Israeli democracy

File: Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion of their country are seen at the border in Palanca, Moldova, on March 14, 2022. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

'People will freeze to death this winter'

In Moldova, a tiny Jewish community struggles to stay warm as war rages next door

By Judah Ari Gross

Skyrocketing fuel costs, inflation make situation dire for already cash-strapped Chisinau, as Ukraine war also brings refugees in

Damage is seen in the Ukrainian city of Kherson following a Russian shelling, December 24, 2022. (State Emergency Service of Ukraine)

Zelensky blasts Russian ‘terror’ after at least 8 killed in Kherson shelling

By Dimitar Dilkoff

Ukrainian president calls Russian attack on recently recaptured city ‘killing for the sake of intimidation and pleasure’

Iranians in Ukraine hold placards showing Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as they protest against regimes in Moscow and Tehran, which have apparently stepped up defense ties amid Russia's war against Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, October 28, 2022. (AP/Andrew Kravchenko)

Kyiv calls for ‘liquidation’ of Iranian plants building weapons for Russia

By AFP and ToI Staff

An explosion is seen in an apartment building after Russian's army tank fires in Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

‘Everything is black, is destroyed’: Russia erases Mariupol’s Ukrainian identity

By Lori Hinnant, VASILISA STEPANENKO, Sarah El Deeb and ELIZAVETA TILNA

Steven Moskowitz

Hanukkah’s unwanted miracles

I celebrate the small army’s defeat of an empire – and then I recall how the Maccabees oppressed their less zealous fellow Jews

The eight gifts of Hanukkah

As we dispel the darkness with the flames that are defiance in the face of endless antisemitism… can we also have some presents?!

Illustrative: Police at the scene of an apparent criminal shooting at the Re'im Parking Lot, near the border with the Gaza Strip, December 24, 2022. (Israel Police)

Tel Sheva man shot dead at campsite in south, 115th Arab community killing this year

Relative of Musa Alasem also seriously hurt in apparent criminal shooting, near border with Gaza Strip

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

15-year-old seriously hurt by apparent stray bullet in Taibe

Damage caused to a home in the West Bank settlement of Shaked, following an apparent shooting attack, December 23, 2022. (Courtesy)

Palestinian Islamic Jihad gunmen fire at settlement, causing damage to home

By Emanuel Fabian

Military hunts for suspects in latest attack against Shaked, 10 kilometers west of Jenin in northern West Bank

Trump should never hold office again, says final report on Jan. 6 US Capitol attack

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Investigative committee says ex-president led failed bid to cling to power after 2020 election loss, should be barred from office ‘whether federal or state, civilian or military’

In this file image released in the final report by the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, on Thursday, December 22, 2022, former US president Donald Trump talks on the phone to former US vice president Mike Pence from the Oval Office of the White House on January 6, 2021. (House Select Committee via AP)

Ronald S. Lauder in his home in 2022. (Shahar Azran/Neue Galerie New York)

Exhibition'It’s a very eclectic and highly personal collection'

A few of his favorite things: Ronald Lauder’s lifelong art collection now on display

By Cathryn J. Prince

500 pieces that make the Jewish philanthropist say ‘Oh my God’ can be seen at a Neue Galerie NY exhibition that replicates how they’re displayed in his own home

This photo taken on January 14, 2014, through the window of an airplane, shows the Red Sea's Tiran (foreground) and the Sanafir (background) islands in the Strait of Tiran between Egypt's Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia. (Stringer/AFP)

Egypt said stalling implementation of Red Sea island transfer to Saudi Arabia

Report says deal finalized by Biden administration, which includes Saudi approval of Israeli overflights, is being held up by Cairo over bilateral issues with US

A fire brigade ambulance is see behind police tape where a shooting took place in Paris, France, December 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)

Gunman who killed three at Paris Kurdish culture center admits being ‘racist’

By Alexandre Hielard and Murielle Kasprzak

Attacker, named by French media as William M., has history of violence and weapons offenses; local Kurdish community to hold demonstration

Kurdish activist and anti-racism groups stage a protest holding Kurdistan Workers Party, PKK, flag and pictures of the recent victims of a shooting at the Kurdish culture center in Paris, December 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)

Kurdish community, anti-racism groups hold demonstration after deadly Paris shooting

By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and Angela Charlton

Members of the Kurdish community clash with French police officers at the scene of a deadly shooting in Paris, December 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)

Protesters clash with cops in Paris after deadly shooting at Kurdish cultural center

From left: Brod goreng, corn fritters and negi latkes. (Screenshot from YouTube/Beqs Kitchen/Rosita Goldstein/Jeremy Freeman via JTA)

Holiday food

4 Hanukkah recipes from across Asia that mix local cultures with Diaspora traditions

By Jordyn Haime

Some Jewish communities on the continent are said to go back millenia, while others stem from more recent arrivals – but they all have their own delicious take on Jewish cuisine

Gal Gadot in a scene from 'Fast and Furious.' (Universal Pictures)

Fast forward

Gal Gadot said returning to Fast & Furious franchise after hiatus

Israeli actress will reprise her role as Gisele Yashar, a character she played in several movies before being killed off

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US Capitol Police officers stand at the base of the steps to the House Chambers as the House votes on a $1.7 trillion spending package on December 23, 2022 in Washington. The House of Representatives voted to pass the spending bill that will fund the government through 2023. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/AFP)

US Congress greenlights $1.7 trillion spending bill with $45 billion in Ukraine aid

By KEVIN FREKING

Meta inks $725 million settlement over claim it okayed 3rd party access to user data

By AFP

Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on August 14, 2017. (Flash90)

Charges dropped against Israeli diamond tycoon suspected of money laundering

By AFP

FILE: A motorcycle of Basij, Iranian paramilitary militia, is set on fire during a protest after a 22-year-old woman Mahsa Amini's death when she was detained by the morality police, in Tehran, October 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Middle East Images)

Iran’s supreme court accepts appeal of rapper on death row

By AFP

A fire burns at a nursing home in the Russian city of Kemerovo, December 24, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter)

22 killed, 6 injured in fire at nursing home in Russia, officials say

By AFP

People attend a protest against the Iranian regime, in Berlin, Germany, October 22, 2022, following the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of the Islamic Republic's notorious "morality police." (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Germany halts guarantees for business with Iran over protest crackdown

By AP

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