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What Matters Most On Sunday, January 1, 2023

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Far-right MK Itamar Ben Gvir at the Western Wall before entering the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem's Old City on March 31, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ FLASH90)

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New police minister Ben Gvir seeking to visit Temple Mount this week – report

Far-right lawmaker confirms intention to visit flashpoint Jerusalem site, but doesn’t say when; police said set to debate request

7:29 pm

Netanyahu reportedly set to visit UAE, possibly as early as next week
7:13 pm

Lula takes office for third term as Brazil's president
7:09 pm

Housing minister Goldknopf vows policies to help military vets, yeshiva students

Left to right: Deputy Health Minister Moshe Arbel, outgoing health minister Nitzan Horowitz, Health Minister Aryeh Deri, and outgoing health ministry director-general Nachman Ash at a handover ceremony at the ministry, January 1, 2023. (GPO)

Snubs, warnings against discrimination in healthcare, as ministers hand over duties

Former health minister Horowitz warns successor Deri that politics must stay out of health system; Justice Minister Levin, Transportation Minister Regev skip traditional events

New Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, left, shakes hands with outgoing minister Avigdor Liberman at a handover ceremony at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, January 1, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

At treasury handover, Smotrich vows to stick to Liberman’s free-market policy

By Sharon Wrobel

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen after a group picture of the new government at the president's residence in Jerusalem, December 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu pans ‘despicable’ UN vote, says Jews cannot be occupiers in their own land

PM charges world body with ‘distorting historical facts,’ says Jewish state will not be bound by resolution to refer conflict to international court

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) speaks to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, during a signing ceremony following their talks in Kyiv, Ukraine, August 19, 2019. (AP Photo/ Efrem Lukatsky)

Netanyahu, Zelensky spoke before Ukraine skipped UN vote on anti-Israel resolution

A man reacts next to the body of his wife, killed during a Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Dec. 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Roman Hrytsyna)

Ukraine air force claims 45 Iranian attack drones shot down over New Year

By AFP

Top rabbi calls gay Knesset speaker Ohana ‘infected,’ blames him for Meron disaster

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Rabbi Meir Mazuz, an influential Haredi rabbi with close ties to several senior members of the new government, said Saturday that newly appointed Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, the first openly LGBTQ person to hold the role, was "infected with a disease," and insinuated that the deadly 2021... Continue Reading

Rabbi Meir Mazuz speaks at a press conference the Yachad political party in Bnei Brak, March 27, 2019. (Yehuda Haim/Flash90)

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara speaks at Tel Aviv Univerisity. September 28, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)

Netanyahu meets AG for tense talks, reportedly on plan to split her role into two

By Jeremy Sharon

‘Introductory’ meeting said to include discussion on dividing responsibilities; new coalition hostile to Baharav-Miara following her opposition to its proposed legislation

MK Ahmad Tibi speaks in the Knesset plenum during a memorial ceremony marking 27 years since the assassination of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, November 6, 2022. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Report: Far-right opposes Tibi as deputy speaker; Likud inclined to support him

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi (right) on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 27, 2018. (Avi Ohayon / PMO)

Sissi calls to congratulate Netanyahu, cautions against inflammatory measures

By Lazar Berman

Phone call between Egyptian and Israeli leaders, in which they also affirm desire to expand ties, comes days after Jordan’s king issued ‘red line’ warning to Israel

Is the dictionary antisemitic?

Did Hebrews inhabit ancient Palestine? A deep dive into Dictionary.com’s definitions for ’Jew,’ ’Israel,’ ’Hebrew,’ ’Zionism,’ and, of course, ’Jeroboam’

Joshua Hammerman

Everyone’s a little bit Jew-ish, except George Santos

’Ish’ is a useful suffix, because so many of us are blends of many things, including Jewish heritage, but falsely claiming your family fled the Nazis is a new low

Pope Benedict XVI stands with then-president Shimon Peres, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after arriving at an official welcoming ceremony at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, May 11, 2009. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer, file)

Netanyahu offers condolences for death of ex-pope Benedict, recounts Israel visit

PM had greeted the pontiff ahead of his five-day visit in 2009: ‘We will remember him as a true friend of the State of Israel and the Jewish people’

FILE - In this May 12, 2009 file photo, Pope Benedict XVI places a note in the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem's Old City. (AP Photo/David Silverman, Pool)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan 1: Benedict XVI’s legacy for Jews & PM Netanyahu’s new government

Pope Francis, left, embraces Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, at the Vatican, June 28, 2017. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP)

Pope Francis to lead ‘solemn but simple’ funeral for ex-pontiff Benedict

Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, chief of the Conference of European Rabbis, at a news conference in Berlin, Germany, July 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer, file)

Exiled Moscow chief rabbi: Jews should leave Russia before they are scapegoated

Amid rising antisemitism, Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt warns that historical precedent indicates Jewish community will be blamed for country’s problems

A serviceman stands at the bottom of a hotel, partially destroyed by a Russian strike, in the center of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv on December 31, 2022 (Sergei Supinsky/AFP)

Russia strikes Ukraine hours before New Year; Putin: Moral rightness on our side

By Robbie COREY-BOULET

This handout picture taken and released by Ukrainian Presidential Office on December 31, 2022 shows the President Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife Olena during their New Year's address to Ukrainian people. (Photo by AFP)

Zelensky says Ukraine to fight until victory, as Russia continues bombings into 2023

By Robbie COREY-BOULET

A worker from the Israel Electric Corporation carrying out a repair, August 29, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)

New year brings rash of price hikes in electricity, gasoline, water and property tax

Newly installed government reportedly looking at ways to soften blow; increases could lead to rising consumer prices as businesses seek to cover their own higher bills

An explosive-laden drone slams into a mock Israeli Navy base during a drill in Iran, December 31, 2022. (IRNA)

Iran launches explosive drone at mock Israeli Navy base during drill

By Emanuel Fabian

Target seen hit in Iranian video resembles Eilat Naval Base on Red Sea coast; mock Israeli corvette also on display

File: In this photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, Iranians protests the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was detained by the morality police while in custody, in Tehran, October 27, 2022. (Middle East Images/AP)

1 dead as Iran forces fire on crowd at slain protesters’ memorial, says rights group

By AFP

Israelis celebrate on New Year's Eve at a pub in Tel Aviv, December 31, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israel ushers in 2023, with festivities free of COVID curbs for 1st time in 3 years

By Michael Bachner

‘It’s just like it was before’: Israelis, Palestinians revel at bars and other public places; newly reinstated PM Netanyahu hails ‘a new year, a new government, a new direction’

New Year's Eve fireworks light up the sky over the Sydney Opera House (front) and Harbour Bridge during the fireworks display in Sydney on January 1, 2023. (David Gray/AFP)

World rings in 2023 after turbulent year of war in Europe, with pandemic forgotten

By Andrew BEATTY

'Armageddon Time,' 'Russian Doll,' 'The Rehearsal' and 'Tár' were some of the cultural works of 2022 to deal with Jewish themes. (Photo illustration: Mollie Suss/70 Faces Media via JTA)

Year in review

2022 was a big year for US Jews in the arts. Here’s what happened on screen, stage

By Andrew Lapin

Amid debates over who should be telling (and cast in) Jewish stories, came distinctive Jewish releases: acclaimed movies, popular TV shows, theater, books and viral TikToks

An aerial picture shows Palestinians attending a rally marking the 58th anniversary of the Fatah movement foundation, in Gaza City, on December 31, 2022. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Huge crowds of Palestinians mark Fatah’s 58th anniversary in Hamas-run Gaza

Despite bitter relations between factions, terror group enables hundreds of thousands to gather at central Gaza City park to commemorate founding of PA-ruling party

Naomi Zelwer, November 2022. (Courtesy: Dani Sarusi)

Clean slate: Jerusalem’s ‘home therapist’ tidies rooms into a well-ordered life

By Danielle Nagler

Psychotherapist Naomi Zelwer finds having people focus on the things they really love while minimizing excess baggage can re-energize clients and their homes

High school students participate in the March of the Living at Auschwitz in Poland, April 16, 2015. (Yossi Zeliger/ Flash90/ File)

Poland dispute over Holocaust school trips’ content resolved, says outgoing minister

Shasha-Biton tells successor Kisch that security issues will be fixed within days, students to resume annual memorial trips; both trade barbs over matriculation exam changes

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Rabbi Ezra Sheinberg (left) leaves the Ma'asiyahu prison near Lod after serving seven-and-a-half years in prison for sexual offences. (Ynet/screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Safed rabbi jailed for slew of sex offenses released from prison amid protests

Umm al-Fahm on October 29, 2022. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Police rescue Palestinian kidnapped and held for ransom in Israel; suspects arrested

Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California, listens as the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol continues to reveal its findings of a year-long investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, June 13, 2022. (Susan Walsh/AP)

US lawmakers demand info from DEA, FBI on use of Israeli spyware

Supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro hold a demonstration against the presidential election results that elected Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as the new president at an improvised campsite in front of the Army headquarters in Brasilia, on December 29, 2022. (EVARISTO SA / AFP)

Bolsonaro flees Brazil as Lula da Silva to be inaugurated for 3rd presidential term

By MARCELO SILVA de SOUSA

Gunmen are seen opening fire at a police checkpoint in the Egyptian city of Ismailia, purportedly in an attack on December 30, 2022, in a video circulated on social media. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Islamic State claims deadly attack in Ismailia, first in mainland Egypt in 3 years

By AFP

A ceremony takes place at Bedford Ohio's Kol Israel Holocaust Memorial after it received federal recognition as a national memorial, December 30, 2022. (Screen grab from YouTube used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Ohio Holocaust monument designated as national memorial by US government

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, attends a ceremony of donating 600mm super-large multiple launch rocket system at a garden of the Workers’ Party of Korea headquarters in Pyongyang, North Korea, December 31, 2022. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

North Korea’s Kim orders ‘exponential’ increase of nuclear arsenal, as tensions soar

By Sunghee Hwang

Octogenarian dancer Rina Schenfeld dances the seasons in 'In My Room,' premiering January 6 and 7, 2023. (Courtesy PR)

There is a seasonOctogenarian Rina Schenfeld dances like a child in 2 new pieces

By Jessica Steinberg

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