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Demonstrators raise placards, including one showing a large picture of Matan Zangauker, and wave flags during an anti-government protest demanding action for the release of hostages, in Tel Aviv on December 7, 2024. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Hamas video shows Gaza hostage Zangauker for first time as thousands rally for deal

By Noam Lehmann, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Netanyahu speaks to mother of captive Matan Zangauker, a leading anti-government voice, after terror group releases tape of her son urging deal; several protests held in Tel Aviv, elsewhere

Protesters in Jerusalem's Paris Square rally on behalf of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, urging the government to finalize a deal for their release, November 16, 2024. (Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

‘Act swiftly and decisively’: Hostage families rallying as talks seem set to restart

LiveUpdated 20min ago

Syrian rebels capture key city of Homs, take aim at Damascus

IDF soldier killed fighting in south Gaza * Soldier seriously wounded in West Bank car-ramming attack * Visiting border with Syria, IDF chief says Israel ‘closely following’ situation

FM Sa'ar: Israel concerned, but not intervening in conflict

IDF soldiers near the Israeli border with Syria, December 7, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Syria rebels take areas near Israel border; IDF warns them not to ‘turn in our direction’

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

IDF helps UN forces repel attack by gunmen in Syrian Golan, holds drill simulating rapid deployment, and sends more troops to its side of Golan; Netanyahu convenes security cabinet

Anti-government fighters stand in front of a defaced portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as they patrol a street in the Syrian southern city of Daraa on December 7, 2024. (Photo by Sam HARIRI / AFP)

Syria rebels say they’re encircling Damascus; West thinks Assad regime may fall in days

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Syrian opposition fighters ride along the streets of Hama, Syria, after taking over the city, December 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

IDF bolsters forces on Syria border as rebels appear set to capture Homs

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Syrian anti-government fighters cheer as they ride a military vehicle through the streets of the west-central city of Hama on December 5, 2024. (Rami al Sayed/AFP)

Reports: As Syrian rebels take Hama, Israel preparing for possible collapse of regime

Abu Mohamed al-Golani, head of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a jihadist group led by al-Qaeda's former Syria branch, poses for a selfie during a press conference in the area of Bab al-Hawa crossing northern Syria late on March 12, 2024. (OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

ExplainerSyria’s rebel leader Golani: From radical jihadist to ostensible pragmatist

By Sammy Ketz and Layal Abou Rahal

Demonstrators raise placards, including one showing a large picture of Matan Zangauker, and wave flags during an anti-government protest demanding action for the release of hostages, in Tel Aviv on December 7, 2024. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Hamas video shows Gaza hostage Zangauker for first time as thousands rally for deal

By Noam Lehmann, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Netanyahu speaks to mother of captive Matan Zangauker, a leading anti-government voice, after terror group releases tape of her son urging deal; several protests held in Tel Aviv, elsewhere

Protesters in Jerusalem's Paris Square rally on behalf of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, urging the government to finalize a deal for their release, November 16, 2024. (Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

‘Act swiftly and decisively’: Hostage families rallying as talks seem set to restart

LiveUpdated 20min ago

Syrian rebels capture key city of Homs, take aim at Damascus

IDF soldier killed fighting in south Gaza * Soldier seriously wounded in West Bank car-ramming attack * Visiting border with Syria, IDF chief says Israel ‘closely following’ situation

IDF soldiers near the Israeli border with Syria, December 7, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Syria rebels take areas near Israel border; IDF warns them not to ‘turn in our direction’

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

IDF helps UN forces repel attack by gunmen in Syrian Golan, holds drill simulating rapid deployment, and sends more troops to its side of Golan; Netanyahu convenes security cabinet

Syria rebels say they’re encircling Damascus; West thinks Assad regime may fall in days

By ToI Staff and Agencies

IDF bolsters forces on Syria border as rebels appear set to capture Homs

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Reports: As Syrian rebels take Hama, Israel preparing for possible collapse of regime

ExplainerSyria’s rebel leader Golani: From radical jihadist to ostensible pragmatist

By Sammy Ketz and Layal Abou Rahal

Cpt. Avraham Ben Pinchas. (IDF)

IDF soldier killed by Hamas anti-tank fire during fighting in southern Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

Cpt. Avraham Ben Pinchas, 24, is killed during combat in Rafah; COGAT says over 3,270 tons of flour on 218 trucks delivered to Strip in past week

IDF troops at the scene of a car-ramming attack near the West Bank's Fawwar camp, close to Hebron, December 7, 2024. (Rescuers Without Borders)

Soldier seriously hurt in West Bank ramming; attacker flees, later turns himself in

By Emanuel Fabian

Troops of the 401st Armored Brigade operate in northern Gaza's Jabalia, in a handout photo published by the military on December 4, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says it killed Hamas officers involved in Oct. 7 glider infiltration, massacres

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Smoke rises during an Israeli strike near a makeshift camp for displaced Palestinians, in the Khan Younis area in southern Gaza on December 4, 2024. (Bashar Taleb/AFP)

IDF says top commander in Hamas internal security forces killed in south Gaza airstrike

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

US President-elect Donald Trump arrives for a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron at The Elysees Presidential Palace in Paris on December 7, 2024. (Photo by JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP)

Trump says US should stay out of Syria civil war: ‘Let it play out’

By AFP

‘THIS IS NOT OUR FIGHT,’ president-elect writes, as he visits Paris for reopening of Notre Dame, meetings with Macron and Zelensky

An opposition fighter fires his AK-47 in the air in celebration in Hama, Syria, December 6, 2024.(AP Photo/Omar Albam)

Iran said to evacuate officials from Syria as Assad’s forces lose ground

By ToI Staff and Agencies

This aerial picture shows a bullet-riddled portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad adorning Hama's municipality building after it was defaced following the capture of the city by anti-government fighters, on December 6, 2024. (Omar Haj Kadour/AFP)

AnalysisAlone, broke, under attack: Is Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime collapsing?

By AP and ToI Staff

Iran's domestically built centrifuges are displayed in an exhibition of the country's nuclear achievements, in Tehran, Iran, February 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

US increasingly worried that Iran is poised to build nukes, intel report says

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Document says Tehran not currently building an atomic weapon, but uranium enrichment levels are near weapons-grade, existing stockpiles are enough for over a dozen nuclear warheads

In this image made from April 17, 2021, video released by the Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting, IRIB, state-run TV, various centrifuge machines line the hall damaged on April 11, 2021, at the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility, some 200 miles (322 km) south of the capital Tehran. (IRIB via AP)

IAEA chief: Iran poised to ‘dramatically’ increase stockpile of near weapons-grade uranium

This image released by Iran's Defense Ministry on Dec. 6, 2024, shows the launch of the Simorgh, or "Phoenix," rocket at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in rural Semnan province, Iran. (Iran Defense Ministry via AP)

Iran claims successful satellite launch said to improve Tehran’s ballistic missiles

By AP

Those we have lost

Stories of the civilians and soldiers who have fallen in the Israel-Hamas war

Those we have lost
Orel Abohatzira, 25: Maccabi Haifa fan who never missed a game

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Hanan Yablonka, 41: Devoted dad of 2 who enjoyed and celebrated life

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Staff Sgt. Adir Bogale, 20: Golani soldier was ‘one in a million’

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Shai Regev, 25: Gossip reporter who was ‘like a sunflower’

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Col. Jonathan Steinberg, 42: Commander and consummate family man

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Izabella Gandlin, 27: Was slated to marry in October

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Bar Zohar, 23: Saved others at rave and ‘left us with so much pride’

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Staff Sgt. Shalev Baranes, 20: Golani soldier who loved his motorcycle

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Dorin Atias, 23: ‘Tough on the outside, but inside she was all feeling’

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Boaz Abraham, 61: Dog-walking, nicknaming farmer with big smile

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Marcelle Taljah, 63: Murdered a day after granddaughter born

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Eliad Ohayon, 23: Volunteered with kids fighting cancer

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Sgt. Benji Needham, 19: UK-born champion kickboxer

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Keshet Casarotti-Kalfa, 21: Pirate-loving partygoer ‘a ball of light’

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Hadar Prince, 21: Curly-haired ‘angel’ who loved sunsets

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Moshe Ohayon, 52: Social activist, CEO of 929 Torah project

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Sgt. First Class Itai Bausi, 22: Fought terrorists with his bare hands

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Lt. Adir Gaory, 20: Achieved dream of joining elite IDF unit

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Dor Reder, 22: Moved to Be’eri to care for special needs child

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Arieh, Ruti & Or Akuni: 68, 67, 32: Parents, daughter slain at home

By ToI Staff

Those we are missing

The hostages and victims whose fate is still unknown

Those we are missing
Taken captive: Devoted uncle and Nir Oz resident Yair Horn

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Ohad Ben Ami, dual Israeli-German citizen

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Ziv Berman, from his home in Kfar Aza’s young generation neighborhood

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Yarden Bibas, injured on his head at abduction

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Shiri Bibas and her redheaded babies

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Tamir Nimrodi, walked by gunmen to base gate

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Avinatan Or, planning to move in with girlfriend

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Tsahi Idan, terrorists promised daughter his safe return

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Shlomo Mansour, as his wife of 60 years escaped

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Oded Lifshitz, drove Gazans to hospitals

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Agam Berger, seen being led to a car, still dressed in her pajamas

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Omer Shem-Tov’s car was driven into Gaza

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Sagui Dekel-Chen spotted first incoming terrorists

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Nimrod Cohen, twin working to bring him home

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Amazon employee Sasha Trufanov

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Segev Kalfon, last seen running across Highway 232

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Matan Zangauker, ‘is a survivor’

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Arbel Yehud, third generation on Kibbutz Nir Oz

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Surasak Lamnau, Thai worker abducted with employer

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Yosef-Haim Ohana, helped injured at Supernova rave

By ToI Staff

Tales of the Times

The quirky, improbable, infuriating and uplifting

Ballin' hard
Innovation delivers an array of instant matzah ball options

By Rachel Ringler
Extra challenges
Jerusalem’s Sam Spiegel Film Lab launches 13th year

By Jessica Steinberg
Real TV
Actor Guri Alfi returns to the US for new episodes of ‘The New Jew’

By Jessica Steinberg
Ming leftovers
Mount Zion dig unearths 16th century Chinese porcelain bowl fragment

By Gavriel Fiske
Historic move
Jerusalem ancient citadel museum to host accessibility conference

By Jessica Steinberg
Happy ending
Former Hamas hostage Mia Schem engaged to childhood friend

By ToI Staff
Tiny treasure
Girl, 12, finds 3,500-year-old Egyptian amulet on hike in central Israel

By Gavriel Fiske
Elon, watch your back?
Meta CEO Zuckerberg dines with Trump at Mar-a-Lago

By AFP
Year of discord
October 7 reverberates at Israeli music awards

By Jessica Steinberg
Sensory arts
At Nalaga’at festival, the blind lead the public to food and fun in the dark

By ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox LGBTQ+
Israel’s Nir Bergman wins director’s prize in Tallinn

By Jessica Steinberg
Fiction meets reality
3rd season of ‘Tehran,’ featuring Hugh Laurie, returns to Kan

By Jessica Steinberg
Her legacy lives on
Murdered peace activist Vivian Silver remembered with new prize

By Jessica Steinberg
'Greatest gift to Israel'
Warner Bros, Aaron Sorkin to tell story of ‘father’ of IAF

By ToI Staff
'We will dance again'
Pop stars spotlight October 7 massacre at ADL concert against hate

By ToI Staff
Counting sheep
Israelis swiftly snatch up tickets for ‘The 16th Sheep’ shows

By Jessica Steinberg
Feast of words
Book offers guide to Israel’s ethnic groups through family restaurants

By Jessica Steinberg
Fist of Jewry?
Jake Paul brings a touch of Jewish heritage to boxing

By JTA and ToI Staff
Identity crisis
Boycott calls over Israeli cast as Mary in Netflix’s Jesus mom epic

By Michael Horovitz
A royal reception
Israeli action star Lior Raz meets King Charles at London premiere

By ToI Staff

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