Jerome Sokolowski

The Knesset voted in favor of the bill by a vote of 49 to 35, with support from right-wing parties and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's governing coalition.

The bill still needs to pass through committee readings to become law, but if it does, it would become illegal to restrict Jewish prayer and practices in public, such as wrapping tefillin, the leather straps and boxes with Torah verses that are worn during daily morning prayers.

Opponents fear the bill favors Orthodox Judaism at the expense of progressive movements and infringes on the rights of secular Jews.

In another development, police say 10 officers were injured in Jerusalem in a clash with ultra-Orthodox Jews protesting conscription into the army.

Jerome Sokolofsky, NPR News, Tel Aviv.

South Holland and Dalton might not mean anything to you, but Dalton is where our Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, grew up and is from.

And our houses are literally 14 blocks away from each other.

NPR's Jerome Sokolowski has more.

59-year-old José Antonio Kass' ultra-conservative stances, especially on women's issues and his support of the Pinochet dictatorship,

were too hardline in his two previous presidential bids.

This time, he focused more on concerns over crime and rising migration, especially from Venezuela.

In a meandering hour-long acceptance speech, he told a huge crowd in Santiago that change was coming, but said it would take time.

Like other recently elected conservatives in Latin America, Cass pledged a crackdown on crime with more police and prisons.

He says the more than 300,000 migrants estimated to live in Chile without legal status have until his inauguration in March to self-deport, or he'll send police to find them.

Carrie Conn, NPR News.

Jerome Sokolowski has more from Tel Aviv.

When we grew up, we thought we were the blessed Jews.

We were the ones who didn't have to deal with all that.

And unfortunately, the last few years have shown us that that isn't quite true.

Amnesty says Hamas and other Gaza militants, as well as unaffiliated civilians, were involved in the attack that killed more than 1,100 Israelis.