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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 25, 2022

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MK Orit Strock attends a Knesset Arrangements Committee meeting in Jerusalem on June 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

2nd far-right lawmaker: Hotels can refuse service to LGBTs

Far-right MK says doctors could deny treatment on religious grounds, sparking uproar

By Jeremy Sharon

Netanyahu condemns comments by Religious Zionism MK Orit Strock, who is set to be a minister in his government, vows that Likud will not allow discrimination against LGBT community

Likud MK David Bitan seen during a vote in a Knesset plenum session in Jerusalem, December 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud’s Bitan says won’t vote to end ban on racist MKs, pans concessions to allies

By Michael Horovitz

Left: Then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, March 8, 2021 (Miriam Alster/Pool via AP); Right: Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends a virtual G-20 summit held over video conferencing, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 22, 2020. (Bandar Aljaloud/Saudi Royal Palace via AP)

Far-right MKs said to agree not to impede Netanyahu efforts to normalize with Saudis

Op-ed

Hanukkah 2022, when Netanyahu began turning out the lights on Israeli democracy

Abusing its power, as Menachem Begin once warned against, the new coalition is planning for racist MKs, legalized discrimination, annexation without Palestinian rights, and a toothless top court

Incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lights Hanukkah candles with his wife Sara and incoming national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir, December 21, 2022 (Youtube screenshot)

Screen capture from video of a demonstration in Haifa against the emerging government, December 24, 2022. (Twitter. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

1,000 protest in Haifa, warn emerging government carrying out ‘coup’

Likud party chairman Benjamin Netanyahu seen during a morning walk, November 2, 2022, the morning after the Knesset elections. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

A weight off her mindExercising Netanyahu asks gym goer to ‘wait’ on judging his government

By Michael Horovitz

Left to right: Avshalom Pollak as 'Y' in Nadav Lapid's film 'Ahed's Knee' (Kino Lorber/ via JTA); Natasha Lyonne in 'Russian Doll' (Courtesy of Netflix © 2022); Michael Banks in James Gray’s ‘Armageddon Time' (Courtesy of Anne Joyce/Focus Features)

Times of Israel Podcast

ToI culture critic’s top 10 moments of Jewish entertainment for 2022

By Jordan Hoffman

It’s been a banner year for films, shows, and theatrical productions by Jews or about the Jewish experience. Here are the best from Jordan Hoffman

Daily Briefing Dec. 25: What to watch on Christmas from our critic’s top 10

A kitchen before Tenufa Bakehila worked on it. (Credit: Tenufa Bakehila)

Promoted Content

NGO confronts Israel’s hidden housing crisis

Their homes are dark and in deep disrepair. Elderly shower in cold water in the winter, Holocaust survivors drag buckets of water to broken toilet so they can flush.

Labor MK and Reform Rabbi Gilad Kariv holds up a Torah scroll in the women's section of the Western Wall on December 25, 2022. (Hila Shiloni/Women of the Wall)

Reform rabbi MK brings Torah scroll to women’s section of Western Wall, drawing ire

By Judah Ari Gross

Labor lawmaker Kariv defends his move, which comes as ultra-Orthodox parties seek to outlaw female-led services at the Jerusalem holy site

Illustrative: Eyal Karim, chief military rabbi, speaks during the funeral of Zachary Baumel, a soldier who went missing at the Battle of Sultan Yacub in 1982, at the Mount Herzl Military cemetery in Jerusalem, on April 4, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Incoming coalition reportedly to give Chief Rabbinate control over IDF’s chief rabbi

By Emanuel Fabian

Should we still support Israel?

I have long advocated that Arabs need to learn from Israel and behave more like Israelis – now I am disappointed to see that the reverse is happening

Falling in love with Judaism

Often our first reaction is to attack their sincerity, but a Shabbat spent with Jews in Cameroon showed us something joyous and genuine

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu seen at the Knesset on December 19, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu backs repeal of ban on racists in Knesset, vows to replace legislation

Incoming prime minister claims that current legislation has not proven effective, says new bill required to ensure ‘effective enforcement for both Jews and Arabs’

7:32 pm

Senior religious Zionist Rabbi Chaim Druckman dies at age 90
7:19 pm

Ben Gvir raps Netanyahu for saying he would relegislate ban on racist MKs
7:06 pm

Justice who previously approved Deri's return as minister says he wouldn't do so today

Screen capture from video of Kafr Qasim Mayor Adel Badir speaking to reporter about an alleged terror attack in his city, December 23, 2022. (Walla. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Kafr Qasim mayor defends attendance at funeral of suspected terrorist

Facing criticism, Adel Badir insists his aim was to keep the proceedings peaceful at burial of assailant who wounded three officers, and had coordinated with police

The funeral of alleged terrorist Naim Badir in Kafr Qasim on December 25, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Assailant in Kafr Qasim attack buried, with dozens on hand, including mayor

Alon Leichman pitching for Team Israel in an undated photo. (Courtesy IAB)

Sports'I wasn't special, everyone on the kibbutz played'

Wild pitch: How an Israeli kibbutznik became a Cincinnati Reds pitching coach

By Elli Wohlgelernter

Alon Leichman is the first athlete born in Israel to make it to the major leagues, but even after years working his way up in the US, he hasn’t forgotten where he comes from

People gather in Manger Square, adjacent to the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, December 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Christmas reborn in Bethlehem with tourists back after pandemic, lifting spirits

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Crowds at biblical city, revered as Jesus’s birthplace, still not at pre-COVID levels, but Palestinian Authority tourism minister says celebrations ‘very different’ from last year

'You could not tell a Jew on a street. You could find me'

Whoopi Goldberg renews incendiary assertion that Holocaust wasn’t about race

By ToI Staff and Agencies

In interview, ‘The View’ host labels Holocaust ‘white on white violence,’ echoing remarks made in January that led to her two-week suspension from US talk show

This image released by ABC shows co-host Whoopi Goldberg on the set of the daytime talk series "The View." (Jenny Anderson/ABC via AP)

Pharoah Ramses II as shown in a reconstruction process documented by Face Lab at Liverpool John Moores University (Youtube screenshot from video by Face Lab LJMU)

Scientists reconstruct face of ‘handsome’ Ramses II, possible pharaoh of Exodus

Using CT software that allows accurate facial reconstruction, scientists say they are able to reveal the ancient Egyptian ruler’s face at the age of 45 and 90

‘Bomb cyclone’ storm hits US with Arctic winds, leaving Christmas travelers stranded

By Maggy DONALDSON

At least 18 storm-related deaths confirmed across eight states; cancellations leave people stuck at multiple airports

Russian Sukhoi Su-25 assault aircrafts release smoke in the colours of the Russian flag while flying over Red Square during a military parade, which marks the 75th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Moscow on June 24, 2020. (Alexander Nemenov/AFP)

Report: Russia to supply Iran with dozens of Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets

Intelligence cited by Channel 12 indicates Iranian pilots are already training with Russian-made jets

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (C), flanked by Tula's Region Governor Alexei Dyumin (L), listens to explanations from Shcheglovsky Val Director General Alexei Visloguzov (R) as he visits the Shcheglovsky Val machine building plant, a subsidiary of KBP Instrument Design Bureau, in Tula, Russia, on December 23, 2022.

Putin says West aiming to ‘tear apart’ historical Russia

A man stands in front of a cordoned-off area, where COVID-19 patients lie on hospital beds, in the lobby of the Chongqing No. 5 People's Hospital in China's southwestern city of Chongqing on December 23, 2022. (Noel Celis/AFP)

Report: 250 million Chinese infected with COVID in first 20 days of December

By ToI Staff and AFP

Leaked information from top health body suggest enormous gap between internal estimates and official data, as Beijing struggles with outbreak

Then-Pennsylvania attorney general Josh Shapiro, center, attends a Commemoration Ceremony in Schenley Park, in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood, on October 27, 2021, three years after a gunman killed 11 worshipers at the Tree of Life Synagogue. (Gene J. Puskar/AP)

Shapiro’s big win in Pennsylvania is a high note amid antisemitism surge

Democrat, who defeated Christian nationalist rival to win governorship, was open about his Jewish religious heritage

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

UTJ head used Haredi educational network to enrich family with public funds – report

Taliban security personnel stand guard along a road in Kabul on December 21, 2022. (Wakil KOHSAR / AFP)

Taliban orders all NGOs to stop employing women over alleged hijab violations

By Jay Deshmukh and Abdullah Hasrat

An F-35B jet crashes at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Fort Worth, Texas, December 15, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Israel grounds 11 F-35 jets after US fighter crashes during test

By Emanuel Fabian

US and Israeli researchers announce the formation of the Sheba Pandemic Research Institute (SPRI), December 22, 2022 (Courtesy Sheba Medical Center)

Israel’s Sheba Medical Center teams up with US health agency for pandemic research

This photograph taken on December 24, 2022, shows tribute candles and pictures of three victims of a shooting on December 23, 2022, Mir Perwer (L), Emine Kara and Abdurrahman Kizil, in front of the "Centre democratique du Kurdistan" (Kurdistan democratic center) in Paris (Julie SEBADELHA / AFP)

Paris Kurdish center shooting suspect admits to ‘pathological’ hatred of foreigners

By AFP

Michael Ben-Ari (Greenfield) convicted of running a $150 million Ponzi scheme that defrauded several hundred US and Israeli investors (Courtesy EGFE)

‘Israeli Madoff’ Michael Ben-Ari extradited from Bosnia over $150m Ponzi scheme

Hundreds of newly trained al-Shabaab fighters perform military exercises in the Lafofe area some 18 kilometers south of Mogadishu, Somalia. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

14 fishermen return to Iran years after kidnapping by Somalia’s Al-Shabaab

By AFP

Illustrative: Two Magen David Adom ambulances at the scene of a car crash along Route 90, near Agamon Hula lake in northern Israel, December 24, 2022. (Magen David Adom spokesperson)

Woman killed in collision on Route 90 in northern Israel

By Michael Horovitz

Leah Koppel and her three children in Israel in November 2021. (Social Media)

Israeli-American who claimed domestic abuse led her to ‘abduct’ kids is released

A JetBlue plane is evacuated at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport after a laptop started emitting smoke, December 24, 2022 (Screen grab via CBS used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Smoking laptop causes plane evacuation via emergency slide at New York’s JFK Airport

By AP

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