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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 31, 2022

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A UN General Assembly vote December 30, 2022, on a resolution requesting the International Court of Justice to weigh in on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (Screenshot/UN)

Israeli envoy brands move 'illegitimate' and a 'moral stain'

UN asks world court to weigh in on Israeli ‘occupation’ and ‘annexation’

UNGA resolution passes 87-26, calls for IJC’s 1st Israel probe since 2004; all Arab peace partners vote yes; investigation to cover settlements, Jerusalem, ‘discriminatory’ laws

The Palestinian envoy to the UN, Riyad Mansour, addresses the General Assembly at the UN Headquarters in New York, December 30, 2022. (Screenshot/UN)

‘Diplomatic victory’: Palestinians hail UN vote for World Court probe of occupation

By ToI Staff and Luke Tress

Clockwise from upper left: Gyulane Farkas (Yaakov Schwartz/Times of Israel); Graffiti of Zohar Argov (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90); Iranian soccer fans in Doha (AP Photo/Frank Augstein); Benjamin Netanyahu (Aleksey Nikolskyi/Sputnik Kremlin Pool Photo via AP); Mickey Bergman of the Richardson Center (Courtesy of Bergman); Israeli Golda hens as chicks (Ori Peretz); Itamar Ben Gvir blows a kiss on election day (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel). (Graphic by Yaakov Schwartz/Times of Israel)

2022 in review

From political realignment at home to war abroad: ToI writers share stories of 2022

Reporters recall their most memorable articles from a year shaped by the war in Ukraine and the Netanyahu-led religious right’s replacement of the short-lived ‘change government’

File: Former prime minister Ehud Barak speaks at a conference of the Gazit Institute in Tel Aviv, November 5, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Ehud Barak: Gov’t shows ‘signs of fascism’; mass ‘non-violent revolt’ may be needed

Referencing Netanyahu, former PM says those currently on criminal trial have joined forces with ‘racist messianics’ to ‘bring down democracy’ in Israel

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Sept. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Top Biden aide set to visit Israel amid fears over Netanyahu’s plans for West Bank

Jake Sullivan expected to meet with PM, Israeli counterpart Hanegbi and former envoy Dermer as Washington works to prevent expanding settlements, legalizing outposts

Israeli security forces escort a group of religious Jews as they visit the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City on March 31, 2022. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Qatar slams new coalition’s plans for ‘settlement expansion,’ ‘Judaizing’ Jerusalem

Nadiv Mordechay

Splitting up ministries will undermine effective governance

It’s worth asking whether these structural changes are reasonable and aimed at improving government functioning, or only at satisfying politicians’ hunger

Moving their cheese: politicians vs. bureaucrats

In a democracy, the political leadership’s role is to create change where needed, and that means elected officials must be in charge of the bureaucrats

Outgoing defense minister Benny Gantz (L) meets with his successor Yoav Gallant at the Defense Ministry offices in Tel Aviv, December 30, 2022 (Ariel Hermony/Defense Ministry)

Gallant in reported message to Smotrich: ‘Army answers to defense minister’

New defense minister, who now shares his portfolio with Religious Zionism chief, is said to stress to associates that he will be calling the shots

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers near the scene of a stabbing attack near a checkpoint between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Bethlehem, June 29, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

New ministers delay changing authority over several settlements from IDF to police

By Emanuel Fabian

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir arrives for a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on December 29, 2022. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool)

Director-general of police ministry leaves hours after Ben Gvir takes over

A illustration of humans working on the moon (screenshot from YouTube NASA video)

Israeli pens plan for belt of solar panels on moon to power oxygen production

With NASA mulling nuclear reactor to generate energy, Ben Gurion University expert says his idea would produce same amount of power with six times less mass

Obituary

Barbara Walters, trailblazing US Jewish TV journalist, ‘The View’ creator, dies at 93

Superstar interviewer, anchor and program host paved a path for women in the industry with legendary drive and on-screen presence; conducted 1st joint interview with Begin, Sadat

Barbara Walters arrives to participate in a panel discussion featuring the hosts of ABC's 'The View,' at The Paley Center for Media on April 9, 2008, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)

Clockwise from top right: Svika Pick, Peter Bogdanovich, Miriam Naor, Gerda Weissman Klein, James Caan, Bob Saget, Estelle Harris, A.B. Yehoshua. (Getty Images/Design by Grace Yage, via JTA)

From Albright to Yehoshua: 18 notable Jews who died in 2022

By CALEB GUEDES-REED and Gabe Friedman

These Jewish icons leave outsized legacies in politics, the arts, sports, and everything in between

Fireworks explode over Sky Tower in central Auckland as New Year celebrations begin in New Zealand, January 1, 2023. (Dean Purcel/NZ Herald via AP)

Revelers throng to parties as Asia-Pacific nations kick off new year celebrations

By AP

For many, it’s the 1st year’s start without restrictions since beginning of pandemic; many in Ukraine travel to be with loved ones

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, December 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

The global financial yearPain with little gain for financial investors as global markets slumped in 2022

By AP

File: In this May 28, 2006 photo, then-pope Benedict XVI walks through the gate of the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher, File)

Former pope Benedict XVI, the first pontiff to resign in 600 years, dies at 95

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Catholic leader who spectacularly stepped down in 2013, dies at Vatican; former member of Hitler Youth decried horrors of Holocaust but pushed for beatification of Pope Pius XII

Britain's King Charles III speaks to UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis as he meets with faith leaders during a reception at Buckingham Palace, London September 16, 2022. (Aaron Chown/Pool Photo via AP)

‘Enormously honored’: UK chief rabbi knighted on King Charles III’s 1st honors list

Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis receives one of Britain’s highest awards, for interfaith initiatives, Jewish community work; Board of Deputies leaders, TV presenter Rachel Riley also honored

Interview'We only work every 100 years when he turns in another book'

New doc chronicles adventures of towering US-Jewish writer-editor duo of 50 years

By Jacqueline Cutler

In ‘Turn Every Page,’ out Dec. 30, Lizzie Gottlieb captures the often tense relationship between her father, editing great Robert Gottlieb, and lauded political author Robert Caro

The vandalized Holocaust memorial at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, December 27, 2022. (Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece via JTA)

Vandals desecrate Holocaust memorial in Thessaloniki for the 4th time

Swastika, white supremacist Celtic cross daubed on monument in Greek city that was home to the largest Sephardic community in Europe before the Nazi genocide

Illustrative: US Ambassador to the Lithuania Robert S. Gilchrist, left, pauses after laying a wreath at the Holocaust memorial at Paneriai during the ceremony marking the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day in Vilnius, Lithuania, April 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Lithuania passes law allocating $38 million in restitution for Holocaust survivors

By David I. Klein

An image created by the AI site Dall-E for this article from the following prompt: 'Collage featuring Jews, robots, books and Ukraine.' (JTA Illustration)

2022 in review

Book bans, Ukraine and the end of Roe: A look at some hot topics for US Jews in 2022

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

A community reveals itself in the things it argues about most passionately – and Jewish Americans spent no small part of this year debating these polarizing issues

In this 1998 file photo made available on March 19, 2004, Osama bin Laden is seen at a news conference in Khost, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Mazhar Ali Khan, File)

UK backed ‘whacking’ bin Laden months before 9/11 attacks

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Newly released documents show London was aware of the threat posed by the al-Qaeda leader in December 2000

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A best-of-2022 Jewish moments in sports collage. (Getty Images/Design by Grace Yagel/ JTA)

Year in review

The top 8 Jewish sports moments of 2022, from Sue Bird to Sandy Koufax

By jacob gurvis

Between antisemitism scandals, Maccabiah Games, Beijing Olympics and World Cup – to name just a few – this year has been filled with extreme highs and lows for Jewish fans

More Headlines

Cristiano Ronaldo holds up a blue and yellow shirt of the Al Nassr club of Saudi Arabia, December 30, 2022 (Al Nassr)

Soccer star Ronaldo signs for Saudi Arabian team Al Nassr in $200 million deal

By AFP

A protester stands next to placards with portraits of the victims of Iran's repression, near the French National Assembly in Paris on December 6, 2022. (Julien De Rosa/AFP)

Iranian protester, on death row for allegedly setting fire to tires, granted retrial

By AFP

Dina Khalil. (Courtesy)

Israeli nursing student in Jordan dies after fall; family donates organs

Former president Donald Trump arrives to speak at Mar-a-lago on the midterms Election Day, Nov. 8, 2022, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Finally released, Trump tax returns show how he used laws to minimize his liability

By Michael R. Sisak and Jill Colvin

A neighbor comforts Natalia Vlasenko, whose husband, Pavlo Vlasenko, and grandson, Dmytro Chaplyhin, were killed by Russian forces, as she cries in her garden in Bucha, Ukraine, April 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

Inside storyKillings, kidnappings, bombings: Evidence of Russian crimes mounts as war drags on

By Michael Biesecker and Erika Kinetz

Rescuers clear debris of homes destroyed by a missile attack in the outskirts of Kyiv, on December 29, 2022, following a Russian missile strike on Ukraine. (Genya Savilov/AFP)

Ukraine says it repelled attack of Iran-made drones from Russia

By Robbie COREY-BOULET and Cecile Feuillatre

Abraham Hamadeh, a Republican candidate for Arizona attorney general, is seen prior to a debate against Democrat Kris Mayes on Sept. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Recount finalizes defeat of 4th Arizona Republican whose candidacy unsettled Jews

Bryan Kohberger, suspected in the murder of four University of Idaho students. (Monroe County (Pa.) Correctional Facility via AP)

Criminology PhD student suspected in mysterious murders of 4 Idaho college students

By Marc Levy, Rebecca Boone and Mike Balsamo

MLB's Brad Ausmus (L) and Kevin Youkilis. (Collage/AP)

Former MLB all-stars Ausmus, Youkilis to coach Team Israel in World Baseball Classic

By jacob gurvis

The scene where a 4-year-old child was hit by a vehicle in Hura, December 30, 2022. (Magen David Adom)

3-year-old killed when hit by vehicle in southern town

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