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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 28, 2022

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Incoming prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset on December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Coalition deals include discrimination bill, judicial override, immigration reform

New Netanyahu gov’t stresses exclusive Jewish rights to Land of Israel, backs annexation in principle; presents its guidelines, signed deals with partners before swearing-in Thurs.

MK's Simcha Rotman and Orit Strock in the opening of the Knesset summer session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on May 9, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Won’t back down’: Discrimination law stays in coalition deal — Religious Zionism MK

By Jeremy Sharon and Carrie Keller-Lynn

Likud leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu with fellow Likud MKs in the Knesset, on December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Combative Likud meeting sees irate MKs let fly after not receiving government posts

Illustrative: Border Police officers in Ben Shemen Forest, May 5, 2022. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Likud okays severing Border Police from larger force, giving Ben Gvir direct control

Coalition deal stipulates move will be made within 90 days, making the force ‘an independent service and subjecting it to the authority of the minister’

9:06 pm

AG asks top court to reject petition against Ben Gvir's appointment as minister
8:32 pm

Netanyahu hands out additional ministries to Likud MKs; Miri Regev back at transportation
7:17 pm

Likud okays severing Border Police from larger force, giving Ben Gvir direct control

Incoming prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset on December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Full textJewish people have 'exclusive right to all Land of Israel'

Judicial reform, boosting Jewish identity: The new coalition’s policy guidelines

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and Michael Bachner

A day ahead of planned swearing-in, Netanyahu publishes list of goals shared by the parties of Israel’s 37th government

Supreme Court justices arrive for a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, October 6, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

78 retired judges warn against incoming government’s judicial reforms

Chairman of the Israeli Bar Association, attorney Avi Himi, at a court hearing in Rishon Lezion on April 20, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Bar Association boss to step down in protest against incoming government

The Women’s Balcony. (ChaiFlicks)

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Head of the Otzma Yehudit party MK Itamar Ben Gvir seen during a vote expanding his powers as incoming minister of national security, in the assembly hall of the Knesset, on December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Barlev warns law fails to set boundaries on his successor

Knesset passes ‘Ben Gvir law,’ cementing minister’s expanded powers over police

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

‘We made history,’ says exultant incoming minister; several explosive sections toned down or dropped from controversial legislation, voted in by MKs after an all-night filibuster

The coalition dealsUTJ inks coalition deal with Likud, ending internal squabbling ahead of swearing in

By Michael Bachner

Illustrative: A tech development center in Herzliya, Oct 30, 2020. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

In pushback at discrimination law, prominent Israeli firms vow to boycott bigots

By Sharon Wrobel and Stuart Winer

Far-right party’s list of ‘leftist’ Justice Ministry staff panned as ‘witch hunt’

Newly unveiled 2019 Noam document targets liberal organizations over educational programs for personnel, including top prosecutors; former deputy AG decries it as ‘sad, dangerous’

Noam's sole lawmaker, Avi Maoz, speaks at the outset of his Knesset faction meeting, December 5, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90/File)

Noam party leader Avi Maoz speaks during a function meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on December 5, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

LGBTQ group asks attorney general to probe Noam over ‘blacklists’ of gay journalists

Outgoing defense minister and National Unity party chief Benny Gantz speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on December 19, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Gantz rejects far-right push to extend political ‘cool off’ for retiring IDF chiefs

Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben Gvir (R) and Religious Zionism chief Bezalel Smotrich at a campaign event in the southern city of Sderot, October 26, 2022. (Flash90)

US Jewish leaders sound alarm on next government in meet with top Israeli diplomat

Executives from mainstream groups warn proposals by Netanyahu’s partners targeting LGBTQ people, women, non-Orthodox Jews will lead to Jewish-led protests outside Israeli embassy

‘March 1968’ is a Polish movie. It’s also my story.

When it became impossible to keep living there, my family left. The one parting gift from Poland was making us give up our citizenship

Elizabeth Karpen

Nice try, Peloton, but no cigar

The feel-good ’Hanukkah’ class didn’t mention Jews, Judaism, or antisemitism, missing the unique Jewishness of both the holiday and the hatred

Tzachi Hanegbi attends a Conference of the 'Besheva' group in Kedem, in the West Bank, on September 5, 2019. (Hillel Maeir/Flash90)

Netanyahu taps veteran Iran hawk Tzachi Hanegbi to lead National Security Council

By Lazar Berman

Longtime ally and former minister recently said incoming PM would strike Islamic Republic if US failed to stop Tehran’s nuclear program

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)

Netanyahu begins meeting with Likud MKs to dole out remaining ministries

Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian activists burn an Israeli flag in New York City, May 15, 2021. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel/File)

Author interview

Did US Jews wake up on the wrong side of ‘woke’ progressive politics?

In new book, Jewish community leader David Bernstein argues far-left outlook fuels antisemitism, links Israel to racism and stifles debate, even as many Jewish organizations buy in

Young boys from Taiwan play in the water of the Siloam Pool after walking through Hezekiah's Tunnel during their visit to the City of David National Park, on July 28, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israel, right-wing group to fully excavate biblical Siloam Pool in East Jerusalem

2,700-year-old water reservoir thought built by King Hezekiah to be opened to public; critics say move is part of plan to expand Jewish presence in Palestinian neighborhood

Pioneering plan inaugurated to top up Sea of Galilee with desalinated water

By ToI Staff and Sue Surkes

In world first, water produced from the sea will be pumped into Israel’s largest freshwater lake to maintain levels even in parched years

Screen capture from video of desalinated water being released from production plants to flow into the Sea of Galilee, December 28, 2022. (Twitter. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Haredi journalist Yisrael Frey appears on Democrat TV in 2020. (Screenshot used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Far-left journalist arrested over tweets praising Palestinian attackers

Yisrael Frey, who said man who planned Tel Aviv terror attack is a ‘hero,’ questioned under caution after ignoring summonses, police say; critics decry ‘political arrest’

A Chabad man lights a menorah in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on the first night of Hanukkah, December 18, 2022 (courtesy Kharkiv Choral Synagogue)

'They're just so thirsty for some kind of way to celebrate'

Hanukkah brings light to darkened Kharkiv amid winter at war

By Lazar Berman

Rabbi Moshe and Miriam Moskowitz take festivities underground and into military hospitals, where they find a wounded Israeli and city residents looking for a reason to smile

Ukrainian minister says ‘next stage’ is to develop air-to-air combat drones

By HANNA ARHIROVA

Moscow says Ukraine must ‘denazify, demilitarize’ or onslaught will go on

By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO

Asphalt on UK roads melted during scorching temperatures in July 2021. (Youtube screenshot)

Avoiding meltdown: Highway planners prepare for hotter Israel by 2100, with 4°C rise

While no roads have melted, as they did during last year’s heatwave in the UK, National Roads Company is seeking more climate-resistant materials, a green road-building standard

In this handout photo released by Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service on April 20, 2022, a Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile is launched from Plesetsk in Russia's northwest. (Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service via AP, File)

Growing climate, nuclear risks spark doomsday fears

By Shaun Tandon

Google briefly lists top definition of ‘Jew’ as to bargain in ‘miserly or petty way’

Tech giant fixes search results, apologizes after giving definition of word rooted in stereotypes ‘associating Jewish people with trading and moneylending’

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)

‘He deceived us’: GOP Jewish group pans congressman-elect who lied about being a Jew

Republican Jewish Coalition dissociates from George Santos after he acknowledged ’embellishments’ in bio but insisted he never said he was Jewish, as new evidence shows otherwise

Abortion-rights protesters fill Indiana Statehouse corridors as lawmakers voted to concur on a near-total abortion ban, in Indianapolis August 5, 2022. (Arleigh Rodgers/AP)

Indiana pro-choice campaigners wield Jewish ethics in lawsuit against abortion ban

By Arleigh Rodgers

5 Jewish, Muslim, and spiritual women, along with Jews for Choice lobby group, argue that a fetus becomes living person at birth, prioritizing the mother’s life and health

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Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the PLO Hussein al-Sheikh at his office in Ramallah, June 13, 2022. (AP Photo/ Nasser Nasser)

Top Abbas aide heard bashing Palestinian leader for mismanaging succession

Judicial officers stand in the empty court room of the Langericht Itzehoe court prior to the trial of a 96-year-old former secretary of the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp in Itzehoe, Germany, September 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, Pool). Inset shows Irmgard Furchner.

Former Nazi camp secretary, 97, appeals her conviction

By AFP

Illustrative - people look at a cargo ship that arrived at Ashdod port and was swept away to the shore following stormy weather in Ashdod, December 26, 2019. (Flash90)

Freebie divingCrowds rush to loot goods from beached shipping containers

Illustrative: Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, December 23, 2013. (Flash90)

Patient found dead after fire breaks out at Beersheba hospital

A neo-Nazi with an iron cross tattoo attends a rally in Newnan, Georgia, April 21, 2018. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Attacks on US power stations spark fears of neo-Nazi campaign to ignite conflict

By AFP

Whoopi Goldberg attends the world premiere of "Nobody's Fool" in New York on October 28, 2018. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

Whoopi Goldberg insists she didn’t double down on claim Holocaust wasn’t about race

Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu attends a vote during a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset in Jerusalem, on December 15, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

High Court nixes Netanyahu request for new hearing on order to return $270,000 gift

File: Morocco's Mohammed V, wearing white robes, walking with the country's Grand Vizier Si Mohammed El Mokri after he placed a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior at the Arc De Triomphe during a visit to Paris, France around July 4, 1930. (AP Photo)

Herzog hails Moroccan king for country’s treatment of Jews during Holocaust

By AFP

Iranian chess player Sara Khadem competes without a headscarf at a chess tournament in Almaty, Kazakhstan, December 26, 2022. (Lennart Ootes/FIDE)

Iranian woman competes in international chess tournament without hijab

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

Police arrest 2nd suspect over dumpster that injured woman during Jerusalem riot

Then-Brazil Central Bank Governor Ilan Goldfajn speaks at a forum in Washington, April 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Leading Brazilian economist derides Jewish colleague with antisemitic tropes

By Marcus M. Gilban

Voices of 2022 (from top left): Rachel Sharansky Danziger, Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, Mark Shinar, Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler, Karen Feuer, Guy Lieberman, Alla Borisova-Linetskaya, Ori Golan, Daniel Landes, Shira Pasternak Be'eri, Grant Arthur Gochin, Ruth Efroni

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