Education system ’cannibalized, politicized’ in new coalition deals: officials * IDF chief said set to battle Smotrich * Mothers’ bonding with babies ’unharmed’ by COVID

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Tuesday, December 6, 2022 Presented by [Keshet DAF]( [Alarmed education officials warn ministry will be ‘dismantled’ under new government]( By [TOI staff]( [As departments divvied up among parties, PM leads emergency Knesset meeting on ‘stopping education system’s liquidation’; Likud MK likens left to Hanukkah story’s reviled Antiochus]( [Ultra-Orthodox Shas said set to take control of nation’s community centers]( By [TOI staff]( [‘They want to turn us into Hungary’: Israeli bar chief slams plan to limit top court]( By [TOI staff]( [IDF chief said vowing to stop Smotrich interference in appointing army generals]( By [TOI staff]( [‘There is no possibility of this happening,’ Kohavi reportedly tells confidants after far-right leader wins right to name candidates for 2 key West Bank positions]( [Gantz to likely successor: You’ll be 2nd-class minister, tasked with dismantling IDF]( By [TOI staff]( [Mothers’ bonding with their babies unharmed by pandemic, Israeli study indicates]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Moms were just as emotionally available during COVID outbreak as in normal times, research finds, surprising psychologists]( [Parents given wrong embryo said planning to sue hospital for $3 million]( By [TOI staff]( from our sponsor [Keshet DAF. 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