As there are year summaries, there are also predictions for the coming year.
Thus, for example, it was likely that Putin would lead Russia into military action to annex most of Ukraine.
It was in the cards.
So are predictions about a Republican victory in the midterm elections.
Some of the big happenings were "sure" predictions that went wrong.
The first section is the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The West and Israel did not foresee a catastrophic complication of the war.
The surprise in the war was two-sided.
On the Russian side, failure to carry out the military operations and sinking into a shuffling of shooting at settlements and cities to destroy infrastructure and expel the civilian population.
Englishmen dressed as Vikings set fire to the fire address of 2023, photo: AP
On the other hand - the willingness of the Ukrainians to present a fierce resistance, effective in part, and a willingness to fight to the end.
They had a leader, Volodymyr Zelensky.
The Russian intention to invade was probably encouraged by the unforeseen event of 2021, which is the colossal failure of the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan.
Fireworks in Thailand in honor of the arrival of 2023, photo: Reuters
The event that did not happen
The big event that did not happen this year, contrary to predictions, is that the USA and its partners (1+5) did not reach a new nuclear agreement with Iran. Instead, it turned out that the Iranians are not interested, and it has nothing to do with Israeli activism against the Biden administration. There was almost a complete disregard for the Israeli factor , who seems weak and lacking in presence over the past year.
Celebrating a new year: the countries that have already celebrated 2023 // Photo: Reuters
These days, the technological-scientific event that some experts and scientists think is the number one event of the year and which will have a great impact on the next year and the ones after it is taking place under the radar of the daily headlines.
This is about the appearance of the "robo-chat" that puts Google under atomic pressure, and threatens to bring about a revolution in many fields.
The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is lit up for the new civil year, photo: Reuters
The late Queen Elizabeth.
came off the stage of Britain, photo: AP
If this digital patent can spit out a research paper based on one or two questions you present to it - then the teachers, lecturers and professors are in trouble.
Maybe also the screenwriters, and of course all the information service providers on the computer and on the phone.
This is a leap forward in the development of AI, artificial intelligence.
In this context, Henry Kissinger, who releases analyzes and predictions several times a year, expressed grave concern that a world war could break out as a result of automated digital AI responses.
President of Ukraine and his wife.
A leader was discovered in Kiev, photo: AFP
Unexpected complications happened in the USA and the UK. In the UK, it was discovered that the Conservative Party, after the fall of Johnson, was unable to function, despite being a ruling party with a solid majority in Parliament. Liz Truss was recorded in the annals as having served as Prime Minister for only a month and a half. Most of the citizens of the West They have already forgotten the name of the one who entered in her place (Rishi Sunak).
End of an era in the kingdom
The British also said goodbye this year in elegance and splendor to Queen Elizabeth, who managed to stitch several distant eras into a historical sequence, which contains the fall of the empire, Churchill, the Beatles, Thatcher and a host of royal melodramas such as the death of Princess Diana.
Australia is also celebrating, photo: Reuters
The red wave, predicted in the USA, turned into a puddle, although there were those who were satisfied with the return of Republican control in the House of Representatives. They were right. But the important ongoing event in the USA is the rise of a black wave of anti-Semitic attacks.
Leo Messi lifts the trophy.
The world was looking for a hero, photo: AP
The anti-Semitic attack against American Jews was confirmed by the testimony of the head of the FBI in Congress, who stated that the Jews are the group that targets the largest number of hate crimes.
Anti-Semitism gained tremendous momentum a year and a half ago at the same time as Operation Wall Guard and has not stopped since.
It is a religious, racial and ideological cyclone bomb.
At the end of the year, two more western countries joined the right-wing conservative drift in Europe - Italy and Sweden.
They were joined by Israel, which was attacked by an anti-progressive democratic wave.
The Bennett and Lapid government collapsed earlier than expected.
At the beginning of the year, the contracts were believed to last at least for the duration of Naftali Bennett's tenure.
It ended up being a maintenance shift.
Noa Kirel.
Towards a holiday? Photo: Koko
No wonder no one mentioned the World Cup in Qatar at the beginning of the year.
Expectations from the corrupt World Cup were low.
And the result: the whole world - except for the participants in the massacre in Ukraine - turned off all other channels and watched good football that looked even better on TV.
The world needed a positive hero and found Leo Messi.
Finally, we discovered the commonality within the Israeli culture war in moments of grief over the death of A.B.
Yehoshua, Yoram Teharlev, Aminadav Dikman, Yitzhak Kleftar and Rabbi Haim Druckman.
Suddenly "liberal democracy" hugs under an umbrella with "conservative democracy" - next to the open grave.
Time will tell if the year 2023 will be a year of a small and not nice war, or the year of Noa Kirel in Eurovision.
Merry and nice holiday.
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