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What Matters Most On Friday, December 30, 2022

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President Isaac Herzog speaks at a memorial event for former IDF chief of staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, December 30, 2022 (Video screenshot)

'No one has the right to reach for their passport'

As hard right takes power, president urges worried Israelis: Don’t say nation doomed

At public event, Herzog appears to criticize fiercest opponents of new Netanyahu government, while again beseeching the coalition to work on behalf of all citizens

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)

Ministers take customary photo with president; Netanyahu the sole survivor from ’96

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu on November 2, 2022 (left); Outgoing prime minister Yair Lapid in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov; Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

No ceremony; no photo: Netanyahu, Lapid hold PM-handover meeting

Illustrative: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York on September 23, 2022. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Palestinians urge world to ‘reject any dealings’ with new Netanyahu government

By Michael Horovitz

PA statement calls for international community to protect Palestinians from Israeli actions, saying the agenda of the newly sworn-in government poses an ‘existential threat’

File: US President Joe Biden meets then-opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu (right) at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, July 14, 2022. At left is Secretary of State Antony Blinken; 2nd-left is US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides. (GPO)

Blinken: Ties based on shared ideals of democracy and peace

Biden says he’ll seek to work with Netanyahu to advance regional, Palestinian peace

By Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman

While joining Putin and Modi in congratulating Likud leader on his return to office, US president stresses opposition to policies that endanger a two-state solution

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

Dermer’s portfolio said to include ties with White House, advancing deal with Saudis

US President Joe Biden shakes hands with Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz, as he is shown aerial defense systems, Wednesday, July 13, 2022, in Tel Aviv, as then Prime Minister Yair Lapid, right of Biden, looks on. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Biden signs $1.7 trillion spending bill, including $3.8 billion for Israel, into law

By Jacob Magid and AP

Pro-LGBTQ demonstrators block a major highway in Tel Aviv as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds his first cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, December 29, 2002 (Kan TV screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Poll finds 77% of Israelis support full LGBTQ equality

As Netanyahu holds first cabinet meeting, hundreds rally in support of LGBTQ rights

Protesters block major Tel Aviv highway, scuffle with police as new PM convenes his ministers in Jerusalem; head of LGBTQ group says ‘darkness has descended on the State of Israel’

Victoria’s Secret names transgender actor Bell Agam as Israel brand envoy

By Michael Horovitz

Demonstrators protest against the new right-wing, religious government sworn in on December 29, 2022 (Jeremy Sharon/Times of Israel)

Hundreds protest incoming coalition outside Knesset as government sworn in

By Jeremy Sharon

Far-right MK Itamar Ben Gvir seen after visiting the Temple Mount, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on March 31, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir says he’ll ‘obviously’ continue to visit Temple Mount now he’s a minister

Otzma Yehudit chief slams ‘racism’ at holy site where Jewish prayer barred; aide quoted saying he doesn’t yet plan to take control of Border Police despite clause in coalition deal

A Border Police officer serves Eilisha Yered, the spokesman of an Otzma Yehudit MK, with an eviction order from his home at the illegal West Bank outpost Ramat Migron, hours after the new government is sworn in, December 29, 2022 (Screenshot via Twitter; used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Otzma Yehudit MK’s spokesman returns from Knesset to hear outpost home closed by IDF

Iranian author Mehdi Bahman seen in an interview with Israel's Channel 13 TV in April 2022. (Screenshot Channel 13 -- used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iranian author said sentenced to death after urging peace in Israel TV interview

By ToI Staff and AFP

Opposition-affiliated media says Mehdi Bahman convicted of ‘espionage’ after speaking to Channel 13 earlier in the year, denouncing regime, calling for normalization with Israel

Illustrative: Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian listens to a journalist's question during a news conference in Moscow, Russia, August 31, 2022. (Maxim Shemetov/Pool Photo via AP)

Iranian FM: Window for nuclear talks ‘won’t always be open’

By AFP

Illustrative: A boat of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy operates in close proximity to patrol coastal ship USS Sirocco and expeditionary fast transport USNS Choctaw County in the Strait of Hormuz, June 20, 2022. (US Navy via AP)

Iran’s military begins drill near Strait of Hormuz amid mounting tensions with West

By AFP

New Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana (top) and new Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulate each other as the new government is sworn in, in Jerusalem, December 29, 2022. (Amir Cohen/Pool/AFP)

Several ultra-Orthodox MKs look away as he makes 1st speech

Likud’s Amir Ohana becomes Israel’s first openly gay Knesset speaker

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff

Netanyahu loyalist vows parliament won’t infringe on LGBTQ rights as all coalition members in attendance, including those who have expressed homophobic positions, vote him in

Netanyahu set to meet with her on Sunday

New government fails to invite AG to first cabinet meeting, amid threats to fire her

By Jeremy Sharon

Snub underlines strong tensions between the incoming government and Baharav-Miara, who opposes its plans to overhaul the judicial system

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara speaks during a conference at the University of Haifa, December 15, 2022. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

Knesset member Yael German at a committee meeting in the Knesset on January 1, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Accusing new government of violating democracy, Israel’s envoy to France resigns

By Lazar Berman

2022: This year’s indispensable voices on Israel and the Jewish people

With so much excellent content out there, I limited my list to those whose insights in the years’ stories gave me a burst of inspiration or a jolt of uncertainty

Jews do count: Stop anti-Jewish hatred

I look to political leadership and grassroots activists, to pulpit rabbis and the general public to make so-called antisemitism utterly and always unacceptable

Artists Sarah Benninga (left) and Rachel Rotenberg at the December 28, 2022 Museum on the Seam reopening of 'Kravot,' their exhibit that includes nude imagery and was previously shuttered. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Jerusalem exhibit shuttered by city due to nude imagery, reopens in Museum on Seam

By Jessica Steinberg

City-run Beita gallery ordered to close down new exhibit, prompting move to private space, but mayor’s office says he didn’t know about it

Cravings and cultural identity on display in Jerusalem end-of-year dance fest

By Jessica Steinberg

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Collage/AP)

Putin, Zelensky congratulate Netanyahu, express eagerness to boost cooperation

Likud leader returns to office after promising to weigh arming Ukraine, while also stressing importance of continued freedom of action for IDF in Russian-controlled sky over Syria

Analysis

Why Netanyahu’s new government could alienate Israel’s conservative American allies

Experts say traditional right-wingers, who have counted on Likud chief’s moderation, may be put off by his extremist partners, such as ‘proud homophobe’ Bezalel Smotrich

Religious Zionism leader Bezalel Smotrich speaks with Likud MK Amir Ohana during the Knesset session at which Ohana, the first openly gay MK to win the role, is elected Knesset speaker. Smotrich, who once described himself as a 'proud homophobe,' voted for the appointment. (Yonatan Sindel / Flash90)

Turkish Mevlevi Dervish Osman Sariaj, left, seen during a Sama ceremony commemorating the 749th death anniversary of Islamic Sufi mystic Rumi, at the Irfa Culture Center in Konya, Turkey, December 17, 2022. (Tobias Siegal/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'Come, come, whoever you are'

In Turkey, Islamic mystic Rumi’s whirling connects even Iranians and Israeli Jews

By Tobias Siegal

During a 10-day annual commemoration ceremony known as the Şeb-i Arus or ‘the night of the union,’ Konya is Turkey’s most buzzing pilgrimage center. This year, ToI was there, too

Incoming Religious Services Minister Michael Malkieli signs an order delaying the implementation of a kashrut reform as Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, right, watches, in Malkieli's office in the Knesset on December 29, 2022. (Courtesy: Michael Malkieli's office)

New religious services minister delays kashrut reform as coalition looks to nix it

By Judah Ari Gross

Shas’s Malkieli signs order putting off privatization of kosher supervision by six months, giving incoming government time to roll back predecessors’ initiative

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan addresses the Security Council on October 19, 2021. (Courtesy)

Netanyahu extends term of UN envoy Erdan in one of first acts as PM

Director General of the Prime Minister's Office Yossi Shelley, and Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs. (Twitter screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law; Courtesy)

Netanyahu taps Yossi Shelley as PMO director, Yossi Fuchs as cabinet secretary

Eslam Froukh, the alleged terrorist behind the November 2022 bombing attacks in Jerusalem, arrives for a court hearing at the Magistrate's Court in Jerusalem, December 27, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

East Jerusalem man with Islamic State ties charged over deadly twin bombings in city

By Michael Horovitz

Prosecutors say Eslam Froukh decided in September to carry out attack, detail intricate preparations he made to carry out bombings and attempt to escape

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers operate in the West Bank, August 24, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Druze IDF troops charged with hurling explosive at West Bank home in revenge attack

By Emanuel Fabian

Ahmed Masri (left), a member of the Nablus-based Lion's Den, is seen with Wadee al-Houh (right) the former leader of the terror group. Masri was detained by Israeli forces in Nablus on December 30, 2022, and al-Houh was killed in an Israeli raid in the West Bank city on October 25, 2022. (Social media)

Member of Lion’s Den terror group nabbed by troops in daytime Nablus raid

By Emanuel Fabian

The EROS C-3 satellite, developed by Israel Aerospace Industries, blasts off into space on board a Space X Falcon 9 rocket, Vandenberg Space Force Base, December 30, 2022. (Israel Aerospace Industries)

Israeli private satellite with state-of-the-art camera launched into orbit

By Michael Horovitz

Israel Aerospace Industries-built EROS C-3 satellite sent into space by SpaceX rocket, to be operated by private intel firm for ‘governmental and business applications’

Ukrainian immigrants to Israel who fled fighting in Ukraine arrive on a rescue flight at Ben Gurion Airport, on March 17, 2022. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Israel’s population approaches 9.7 million as 2022 comes to an end

73.6% of residents Jewish, 21.1% Arab; population grows by 2.2% amid surge of immigrants from Russia and Ukraine

More Headlines

The flags of Israel and Azerbaijan in Baku's presidential Zagulba Palace, right before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Azeri President Ilham Aliyev, December 13, 2016. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Azerbaijan announces appointment of first-ever ambassador to Israel

Masked travelers use their smartphones to fill in their health declaration after checking in at the international flight check in counter at the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, Dec. 29, 2022. (AP/Andy Wong)

Israel joins nations requiring travelers from China to submit negative COVID tests

By ToI Staff and AP

Illustrative: An Israeli soldier stands guard on the Israel's side of the Quneitra crossing on the Syrian border, in the Golan Heights, March 23, 2019. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

IDF briefly detains two men in the Golan Heights who crossed border from Syria

By Emanuel Fabian and Michael Horovitz

IDF soldier Eitan Fichman, 19. who was killed in a training accident on August 30, 2022 (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF unable to determine how soldier entered unsafe area of tank in fatal incident

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: A man walks by school bus with Yiddish signage in Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York City, January 1, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

New York yeshivas exploit special education funding, latest NYT report claims

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Shufersal CEO Ori Watermann and Israeli businessman Amit Zeev seek to open local stores of Dutch-owned international supermarket SPAR. (Courtesy)

Shufersal inks early deal to open local stores for Dutch SPAR chain

By Sharon Wrobel

A video of former President Donald Trump is shown on a screen, as the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol holds its final meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, December 19, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

January 6 panel drops Trump subpoena as probe wraps up, Congress set to dissolve

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and Eric Tucker

Israeli elderly women take part in a morning workout in a former hotel turned into a social housing building for elderly Israelis from the former Soviet Union, in Jerusalem on September 4, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Israel to build 3,000 new sheltered housing units for elderly population

By Danielle Nagler

Houston Astros third baseman Alex Bregman leads Congregation Beth Yeshurun in the Hanukkah blessing on December 21, 2022. (Daniel Bissonnet/Houston Jewish Herald-Voice)

Houston Astros star Alex Bregman celebrates Hanukkah at local synagogue

By Matt Samuels

Brazilian soccer legend Pelé waves prior to the African Cup of Nations final soccer match between Ivory Coast and Zambia at Stade de L'Amitie in Libreville, Gabon, February 12, 2012. (AP/Francois Mori)

ObituaryPelé, Brazil’s mighty king of ‘beautiful game,’ dies at 82 after battle with cancer

By TALES AZZONI and Mauricio SAVARESE

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