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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 29, 2022

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Benjamin Netanyahu, after presenting his new government to the Knesset, December 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Cabinet to comprise 31 ministers, only 5 of them women

Netanyahu returns as PM, wins Knesset support for Israel’s most hardline government

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Incoming coalition, approved by 63-54 votes, has pledged to hobble the High Court, consider West Bank annexation, and further centralize Orthodox control over state Jewish services

Incoming prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu presents his new government to the Knesset in Jerusalem on December 29, 2022 (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Netanyahu presents new government’s agenda; Lapid: ‘Try not to destroy the country’

File: Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu (left) has a briefing on the Israel-Gaza conflict with Prime Minister Yair Lapid, August 7, 2022. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Netanyahu said set to forgo traditional transfer-of-power ceremony with Lapid

Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer arrives at an event at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on December 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Despite bad blood with Democrats, Dermer said tasked as point man on Biden WH

By Michael Bachner and Joshua Davidovich

Strategic affairs minister to also reportedly help shepherd normalization deal with Saudi Arabia; government’s first day marked by tensions with attorney general, LGBTQ protests

9:41 pm

Four minors said arrested at protest marking 2 years since settler teen's death
9:30 pm

US-based Palestinian journalist allowed back on Twitter
9:05 pm

Outpost home of spokesman for Otzma Yehudit MK declared closed military zone

Members of the new Israeli government, headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pose for a group photo at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on December 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Who’s who in the new Netanyahu-led government

A look at the 32 ministers, just 6 of them women, in Israel’s 37th government from Likud and its far-right and ultra-Orthodox partners, and some of their newly created ministries

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the United Nations General Assembly on September 27, 2018 in New York City. (John Moore/Getty Images/AFP)

Ex-diplomats, ambassadors warn new government will hurt Israel’s global standing

Ra'am party head MK Mansour Abbas at the Federation of Local Authorities conference in Tel Aviv, December 7, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Ra’am chief slams other Arab parties for helping bring down previous government

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Border Police patrol in front of the Lion's Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, as Palestinians wait to be allowed to enter the al-Aqsa mosque compound, on April 17, 2022. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

Likud agrees to split entire Border Police from police force, hand Ben Gvir control

Surprise clause in coalition deal says move to make the gendarmerie force ‘an independent service,’ subject it to authority of national security minister, to occur within 90 days

Border Police officers in riot gear clash with Palestinians in the West Bank city of Hebron, October 12, 2022. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

With rise in West Bank violence, military fears Ben Gvir’s changes to Border Police

By Emanuel Fabian

The coalition dealsOtzma Yehudit deal includes control over Border Police, major boost to police funds

By Jeremy Sharon

Likud MK Yariv Levin (left) shakes hands with incoming prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu after being picked as the next government's justice minister, December 28, 2022. (Likud)

Netanyahu taps Yariv Levin as justice minister to oversee major judicial reforms

Likud MK a longtime proponent of passing court override measure, boosting government control of judicial appointments and lowering age of retirement for Supreme Court justices

Eli Cohen (L) and Ron Dermer (composite - Wikimedia Commons/Ofir Abe - CC BY-SA 4, and AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Netanyahu names Eli Cohen as foreign minister; Dermer gets strategic affairs post

By Lazar Berman

Profile

Judah Ari Gross

Amichai Chikli, son of a Conservative rabbi, named Diaspora affairs minister

Though the Likud lawmaker doesn’t identify with the progressive denomination, he has deep ties to it; as founder of a pre-army program, he’s connected to a variety of Jewish groups

MK Amichai Chikli at a Knesset House Committee meeting on the Yamina party's request to declare him a 'defector,' on April 25, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu with Otzma Yehudit party head Itamar Ben Gvir at a vote in the assembly hall of the Knesset on December 28, 2022. (courtesy, Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 29: What looms for Law of Return, and final coalition details

King Abdullah II of Jordan listens to French President Emmanuel Macron (not pictured) during a working lunch at the Al-Husseiniya Palace in the Jordanian capital Amman on December 21, 2022. (Ludovic Marin/Pool/AFP)

Jordan’s Abdullah warns Israel not to cross ‘red lines’ on Jerusalem holy sites

Defense Minister Benny Gantz, left, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. (AP/Collage)

On last day in office, Gantz speaks to Abbas, says ‘critical’ to maintain dialogue

By Emanuel Fabian

The coalition deals

Religious Zionism deal: West Bank sovereignty, settlement growth, discrimination law

Clauses in the far-right party’s agreement with Likud provide for overriding the High Court, strengthening West Bank presence and bolstering Orthodox Judaism

Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Religious Zionism party leader Bezalel Smotrich shake hands after signing a coalition deal in Jerusalem on December 1, 2022. (Likud)

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

In WSJ op-ed, Smotrich says new government wants to make Israel more like America

The coalition deals

Carrie Keller-Lynn

Shas secures billions for welfare, healthcare, religious benefits in coalition deal

NIS 5.85 billion to revamp healthcare, NIS 1 billion in direct food aid, and NIS 220 million to build or renovate religious buildings join a multitude of other promises secured

Shas leader Aryeh Deri during a Knesset vote, December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

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

The coalition dealsCoalition deal hands far-right Noam $125m for ‘Jewish national identity’ office

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

David Bernstein

How American Jews should navigate Israel’s new political reality

3 key ways to move forward in your relationship with the Jewish state, even if you find its new leadership and their promises distasteful

For this government, security threats must outweigh politics

Israel must address the buildup of substantial terror armies at its doorstep, from Iran and its proxies to Hamas and the Palestinian Authority

President Isaac Herzog (left) meets with Otzma Yehudit party head MK Itamar Ben Gvir, December 28, 2022. (President's Office)

President asks Ben Gvir to ‘calm stormy waters,’ serve interests of whole population

In meeting with incoming police minister, Herzog notes many across Israel and Jewish world have deep concerns over new government; Ben Gvir responds, ‘I’ll serve the entire nation’

Likud leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with Otzma Yehudit party chief MK Itamar Ben Gvir at the Knesset on December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

AG asks court to reject ‘premature’ suit against Ben Gvir’s appointment as minister

Author interview

99-year-old Holocaust survivor is a final portal into vibrant life of prewar Rhodes

By Renee Ghert-Zand

In ‘One Hundred Saturdays,’ Stella Levi shares with author Michael Frank her memories of centuries-old traditions of the Aegean island’s Sephardic community destroyed by the Nazis

Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks at a pilot graduation course at the Hatzerim air base on December 28, 2022 (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Gantz tells graduating pilots they could be flying to attack Iran in 2-3 years

By Emanuel Fabian

Outgoing PM Lapid boasts of Israel’s capabilities to conduct long-range strikes; President Herzog warns that air force can attack ‘any time and by any means, including Iran’

Illustrative: In this photo released by the Iranian Army on August 25, 2022, a drone is launched in a military drone drill in Iran. (Iranian Army via AP)

US in major effort to choke Iran’s drone program, end supply to Russia — NY Times

US Representative-elect George Santos speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition Annual Leadership Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 19, 2022. (Wade Vandervort / AFP)

GOP Congressman-elect George Santos investigated for lying about his past

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN

Long Island prosecutors launch probe into falsehoods and fabrications about NY Representative-elect’s heritage, education, professional background

A Hanukkah menora that was sent to Ukraine by Midreshet Schecter, a Masorti organization, after it was lit by a Jewish Ukrainian soldier serving near Bakhmut on December 20, 2022. (Courtesy Midreshet Schecter)

Jewish groups shore up Ukrainian communities for an uncertain, freezing winter

By Judah Ari Gross

As Russia bombs infrastructure, attention turns away from emigration toward keeping those still there warm and fed, with electricity, clothing and Hanukkah necessities

Ukraine says Russia fired ‘massive’ barrage of over 120 missiles

By AFP

Italian Senate President Ignazio La Russa talks to Senators ahead of a confidence vote on the new Government, in Rome, Oct. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Italian Jewish leaders slam parliament president for honoring neo-fascist party

By David I. Klein

Ignazio La Russa, co-founder of Prime Minister Meloni’s FDI party, posts on Instagram linking his father’s far-right faction to the anniversary of Italy’s post-WWII constitution

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Tel Aviv's financial business district skyline, June 2022. (Elijah Lovkoff via iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli tech exits plunge 80% to $16.9 billion in 2022, battered by market reality

By Sharon Wrobel

Arab students working on a project at Moona, a nonprofit technology incubator in the Galilee that aims to build bridges between Israeli Jews and Arab youth through space technologies (Courtesy)

Israel earmarks NIS 21.6 million to boost Arab employment in high-tech

By Sharon Wrobel

A rendering of development plans for the Kikar Atarim area in Tel Aviv, proposed in a presentation to the Tel Aviv Municipality in January 2022. (Screenshot via the Tel Aviv Municipality website, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Tel Aviv residents bash new development plans for city’s Brutalist Atarim plaza

By Danielle Nagler

Illustrative: Young ultra-Orthodox Jewish girls seen in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City on March 21, 2012. (Serge Attal/Flash90)

From the webHow a windfall of special education funding benefited Hasidic schools in New York

Illustrative -- Astronomers prepare their telescopes, Aug. 10, 1999 near Truro, England (AP Photo/Dave Caulkin, File)

Planet paradeAll planets in solar system visible in night sky simultaneously

File: Passengers wearing masks walk through Beijing Capital Airport terminal, in China, December 13, 2022. (AP/Ng Han Guan)

US, others to require travelers from China to submit negative COVID tests

By Carla K. Johnson

Turkish actor Selahattin Paşali plays the protagonist in the upcoming series titled 'Ömer,' an adaptation of Israeli hit 'Shitsel' (Screenshot from Dizali on Twitter, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Muslim makeoverIn Turkey, Orthodox drama ‘Shtisel’ adapted for Muslim audience

By David I. Klein

Rep. Jamie Raskin at the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 21, 2022 (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Leading Democrat Jamie Raskin announces he has ‘serious but curable’ cancer

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