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What Matters Most On Monday, December 4, 2023

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Yael Adar, mother of hostage Tamir Adar held in the Gaza Strip, at a press conference in Tel Aviv on December 4, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

‘Humiliated’ hostage families demand to meet Netanyahu, say ‘any price’ for release

Relatives claim they are being ignored, threaten to stage sit-in outside Defense Ministry until allowed to see war cabinet; PM’s office says meeting already arranged, may be advanced

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant meets with family members of hostages held in Gaza, December 3, 2023 (Ariel Harmoni/Defense Ministry)

Gaza war puts pressure on Hamas to free more hostages, Gallant tells families

A military drone flies over the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Dec. 3, 2023. (AP/Leo Correa)

UK to start Gaza surveillance flights to help find hostages from Israel held by Hamas

By AFP and ToI Staff

An antisemitic sign at a pro-Palestinian protest of NYU students and others in Manhattan's Washington Square Park on October 25, 2023. (Screen capture/X)

Israel issues severe travel warnings to dozens of countries amid rising antisemitism

National Security Council urges citizens to reconsider nonessential travel, upgrading threat warnings in UK, Germany, France, Australia, among other countries

Danish soldiers patrol the area of the port of Aarhus, Denmark where military vehicles of the US army are parked, on January 16, 2023. (Sergei Gapon/AFP)

Denmark deploying troops to protect Jewish sites, as antisemitism rises

A police officer stands guard at the scene of a stabbing in Paris on December 2, 2023. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP)

Man who killed tourist near Eiffel Tower in Paris had sworn allegiance to ISIS

By Stuart Williams

From left: Sgt. First Class (res.) Ben Zussman, 22, Sgt. Maj. (res.) Neriya Shaer, 36, and Sgt. Binyamin Yehoshua Needham, 19, who were killed in fighting in the Gaza Strip on December 3, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

3 soldiers killed fighting Hamas in Gaza; man missing since Oct. 7 declared dead

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Sgt. Major (res.) Neriya Shaer, Sgt. First Class (res.) Ben Zussman, Sgt. Binyamin Yehoshua Needham die in battles; Yonatan Samarno shot fleeing Re’im festival, body held by Hamas

Israeli military vehicles drive near the border with the Gaza Strip on December 3, 2023. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Confirming ground push into southern Gaza, IDF chief vows ‘no less powerful’ campaign

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli military vehicles drive near the border with the Gaza Strip on December 3, 2023. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 4: Amid ‘fierce battles’ in Gaza, IDF chief of staff holds assessment inside Strip

By ToI Staff and Ricky Ben-David

‘Humiliated’ hostage families demand to meet cabinet, free captives at ‘any price’ * Hamas fires rockets at Tel Aviv, Beersheba * 3 IDF soldiers killed, bringing ground op toll to 75

9:47 pm

US says Iran is responsible for Houthi attacks on ships in Red Sea
9:31 pm

IDF officials: 15,000 likely killed in Gaza since start of war, 5,000 of them are Hamas
9:03 pm

As IDF troops head to south Gaza, displaced Palestinians wonder where to flee next

Op-ed: Day 59 of the war

Hamas aims to make us not want to live in Israel. ‘Victory’ is when that threat is defeated

Battling in Gaza, the IDF is beginning the long process of restoring public faith in its ability to protect us from savage, amoral enemies; not so our political leaders

Yael Adar (right) and other relatives of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza since the October 7 massacre, at a press conference in Tel Aviv on December 4, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Palestinians look at destruction after an Israeli strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, December 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec 4: Day 59 – Now in south Gaza, IDF pressured to limit civilian deaths

Military Police arrests reservist who shot hero civilian dead at terror attack scene

By Emanuel Fabian

Staff Sgt. (res.) Aviad Frija questioned under caution and held for further interrogation for killing Yuval Castleman, who shot the perpetrators of Jerusalem attack

Yuval Castleman (courtesy)

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir in southern Tel Aviv, September 3, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Head of national gun licensing unit resigns amid furor over Ben Gvir’s policies

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Graphic report details new evidence of rape, sexual violence during October 7 rampage

Witnesses, volunteers tell UK’s Sunday Times of seeing gang-rape, remains found mutilated, days after UN says it will look into allegations following weeks of international silence

The area of the Supernova festival where hundreds of Israelis were killed and kidnapped by Hamas terrorists in the October 7 terror onslaught, October 12, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Rachel Bernstein

Talking for the sake of heaven

I can’t sit give you a bullet list of the perfect peace plan, but by talking things through, you learn, debate, connect, and maybe succeed one day

Avigdor Liberman

Innocents in Gaza? Don’t be naive

Some will say Gazans are too afraid of Hamas to voice condemnation, but it’s clear there is massive support for the terror group

Raphael Benaroya

Information warfare: A strategic imperative for Israel

Israel needs an information agency that will create long-term strategy to beat Hamas’s PR, shape global opinion, and win the world’s hearts and minds

David-Seth Kirshner

Books worth burning

Eradicating Hamas is not enough. We must stop allowing Palestinian children to be raised to hate Jews and to think Israel is their enemy

Interview

Pediatrician treating freed hostages: Reports of their good condition are misleading

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Dr. Yael Mozer-Glassberg provides new details about physical and psychological states of 19 children and seven women brought to Schneider Children’s Medical Center

Dr. Yael Mozer-Glassberg, Director of the Pediatric Liver Transplantation Service at Schneider Children's Medical Center. (Courtesy)

96-year-old Aviva Sela talks about her escape from Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7 (Screenshot: Channel 12, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

96-year-old woman escaped October 7 massacre at Be’eri; grandson held in Gaza

Fiona Wax, left, twin sister to Aviva Siegel (second from right), with Wax's daughter Tal (second from left) and Siegel's youngest daughter Shir (far right) on December 2, 2023 at a Tel Aviv rally to free the hostages (Courtesy)

Freed from ‘hell,’ Kfar Aza’s Aviva Siegel shifts focus to still-captive husband

By Jessica Steinberg

Abducted to Gaza with spouse Keith in their own car, 62-year-old weakened and not ready to detail what she went through after release last week, twin sister says

Ofir Engel (middle), pictured a few days after his release from Hamas captivity on November 29, 2023; his girlfriend, Yuval Sharabi, is at left. (Courtesy)

Released hostage Ofir Engel, 18, ‘physically okay,’ says dad; emotionally, ‘we’ll see’

By Jessica Steinberg

US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, on November 30, 2023. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)

White House says Israel ‘making effort’ to better protect Gaza civilians

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

National Security Council spokesman Kirby credits IDF for publishing online map to help Gazans avoid fighting; ‘There’s not a whole lot of modern militaries that would do that’

Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim Khan visits a Gaza border town attacked by Hamas, on December 3, 2023. (Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum)

Visiting Israel and Ramallah, ICC chief vows to intensify probe against Hamas, IDF

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Analysis

Gianluca Pacchiani

Are prisoner releases pushing West Bank Palestinians into Hamas’s arms?

A Palestinian and an Israeli expert address the impact of the war on the status of the terror group outside Gaza, the future of the PA, and the risks for Israel

File: A Palestinian security prisoner gestures among supporters and relatives after being released from Israeli jail in exchange for Israeli hostages released by Hamas from the Gaza Strip, in Ramallah in the West Bank on November 26, 2023. (Photo by Fadel SENNA / AFP)

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, December 25, 2018. (Adam Shuldman/Flash90/File)

Hamas may have profited from Oct. 7 assault with informed trading — study

Shin Bet head Ronen Bar (L) and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi are seen at the Shin Bet special operations command room, October 27, 2023. (Shin Bet)

In recording, Shin Bet chief vows to kill Hamas chiefs ‘in Lebanon, Turkey, Qatar’

Ronen Bar says October 7 assault is, for security establishment, ‘our Munich,’ referencing years-long, globe-spanning Israeli effort to kill terrorists behind 1972 Olympic attacks

Illustrative: Prof. Amichai Cohen at a ToI Live event in Jerusalem's Israel Democracy Institute, December 15, 2022. (Oded Antman/IDI)

Behind the Headlines

Join ToI for: ‘Is the IDF acting legally and ethically in Gaza?’ with Prof. Amichai Cohen

On December 6, we speak with the Israel Democracy Institute’s Cohen, an expert in International Law of Armed Conflict and National Security Law. Exclusively for the ToI Community

Israeli soldiers near the scene where a missile launched from Lebanon hit a group of Israeli soldier and civilians in Moshav Beit Hillel, near the Israeli border with Lebanon, December 3, 2023. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Anti-tank missile attack injures 12 in north, sparking strikes on Hezbollah

By Emanuel Fabian

Border area continues to heat up after hiatus for truce, with rockets fired from Lebanon and Syria drawing Israeli shelling

This Nov. 12, 2018 photo shows The USS Carney in the Mediterranean Sea. (Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Ryan U. Kledzik/US Navy via AP)

US destroyer shoots down drones as Houthi attacks from Yemen hit Red Sea shipping

Iraqi soldiers from the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization) forces carry the coffins of fighters killed in a US strike earlier in the day, during a funeral in Baghdad on November 22, 2023. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye / AFP)

Iraqi source: Five pro-Iran fighters killed in suspected US strike

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a Likud party meeting at the Knesset, December 3, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud MKs attack allies, defense officials and left, drawing rebuke from Netanyahu

In stormy faction meeting, politicians accuse Gallant of ‘kissing’ Gantz, army spokesman of ‘serving narratives that aren’t right wing’; PM: This is not the time for politics

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich speaks during a Knesset plenum session, Jerusalem, December 3, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich to bring wartime budget update for vote, unfreezing political earmarks

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

'Since the war, we are really hiding ourselves'

Despite unrest in Indonesia, a Jewish community finds peace among other faith groups

By Jordyn Haime

The Israel-Hamas war brings near-daily protests in a Muslim-majority country where few distinguish between Israel and Jews, but cooperation with local Christians provides stability

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A firefighter at the scene of a blaze at Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, December 3, 2023. (Fire and Rescue services)

Patient dies in fire at Kaplan hospital in Rehovot

By Michael Horovitz

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a Likud party meeting at the Knesset, December 3, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu graft trial resumes in Jerusalem after suspension on October 7

By ToI Staff and AFP

Philanthropist Sylvan Adams announcing a $100 million donation to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, at an event in Toronto, Canada, on December 3, 2023. (Liora Kogan/Courtesy)

Ben-Gurion University gets $100m donation to ‘rebuild and strengthen the south’

By Gavriel Fiske

Wadea Al Fayoume's father, Oday Al Fayoume, looks at a photo of his son during a vigil at Prairie Activity and Recreation center in Plainfield, Illinois, October 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Father of Palestinian American boy slain near Chicago files wrongful death suit

SolarEdge developed an inverter solution for harvesting and managing power in solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Israel-based smart energy firm SolarEdge to be ousted from S&P 500

By Sharon Wrobel

Flowers where a German tourist was stabbed to death by an Islamist, near the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, December 3, 2023. (Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)

France admits ‘failure’ in psychiatric care of radical Islamist who killed tourist

By Stuart Williams

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