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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 10, 2023

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Smoke rises from Israeli artillery shelling on the outskirts of Yaroun, a Lebanese border village with Israel, in south Lebanon, December 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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Dec. 10: US national security adviser to visit Israel; Syria says IAF hits sites near Damascus

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Blinken says Israel will decide timing of war’s end * Putin criticizes ‘humanitarian situation’ in Gaza in call with PM * Netanyahu: Surrender of Gazans shows loss of Hamas control

10:03 pm

US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan to visit Israel this week, officials tell ToI
10:00 pm

Rescued hostage tells Sara Netanyahu she wants to return to IDF service
9:37 pm

Freed hostage Bilal Ziyadne: Hamas said they were kidnapping us even though we're Arab

An Israeli soldier walks amid the rubble of a house hit in a strike by Lebanon's Hezbollah terror group, in Kibbutz Manara in northern Israel near the Lebanon border, on November 27, 2023. (Jalaa Marey / AFP)

National security adviser indicates war against Hezbollah likely once Hamas is defeated

Hanegbi says threat of Lebanese terror group attempting Oct. 7-style massacre of civilians cannot be tolerated; says killing Sinwar in Gaza may expedite war’s end, hostages’ return

Black smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of Yaroun, a Lebanese border village with Israel, in south Lebanon, December 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

6 IDF soldiers hurt in Hezbollah drone attack; IAF responds with widespread strikes

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Mourners march with the bodies of three members of Hezbollah killed in southwestern Syria along the Golan Heights, during the funeral in Beirut's southern suburb on December 9, 2023. (Ibrahim AMRO / AFP)

IDF Syria strike said to kill terror commander’s son; 3 troops hurt on Lebanon border

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Putin stresses 'catastrophic humanitarian situation' in Gaza

In call, Netanyahu flogs Putin over Gaza war stance and blossoming Iran ties

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with Russian leader Vladimir Putin for nearly an hour Sunday, criticizing Moscow's alliance with Iran and expressing dissatisfaction with its stance on Israel's war with Hamas. Netanyahu stepped out of his government's weekly cabinet meeting for the approximately 50-minute phone call, his office... Continue Reading

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting in Sochi, Russia, September 12, 2019. (Shamil Zhumatov/Pool Photo via AP)

Relatives and friends of hostages held in the Gaza Strip call for their release during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah in the Hostages Square at the Museum of Art, in Tel Aviv, December 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Blinken stresses to Red Cross chief that access must be granted to hostages in Gaza

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Black smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of Yaroun, a Lebanese border village with Israel, in south Lebanon, December 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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Daily Briefing Dec. 10: Day 65 – Penetrating the fog of war, two months on

Editor David Horovitz weighs in on the Gaza ground offensive, reports on signals that the IDF will turn to Hezbollah next, and describes the mood of the nation

An Israeli soldier lights candles on the second night of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah near the Israeli border with Syria, December 8, 2023. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec 9: Day 64 – Failed hostage rescue as IDF pushes into Hamas strongholds

Report: Sinwar fled from north Gaza in a humanitarian convoy

IDF chief: Hamas rule in Gaza faltering; leaked video shows apparent gunmen surrender

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Footage leaked Saturday from the northern Gaza Strip showed an apparent Hamas operative handing over an assault rifle while surrendering along with dozens of Palestinian men to Israeli troops, as IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said the military was beginning to see the collapse... Continue Reading

An apparent Hamas member with his hands up hands over an assault rifle after surrendering to troops in northern Gaza's Jabaliya, on December 9, 2023. (Social media: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

An IDF tank operating in Gaza, in a photo released by the Israeli military on October 31, 2023. (IDF Spokesperson)

US State Dept. approves sale of thousands of tank rounds to Israel

Palestinians displaced by the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip set up a tent camp in the al-Mawasi area designated by the IDF as a humanitarian zone, December 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Palestinians, aid groups say Israel-designated safe zone in Gaza offers little relief

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Protesters gather with signs showing portraits of Israeli hostages held in Gaza since Hamas's October 7 massacre during a demonstration calling for their release at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, on December 9, 2023. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Each day 'like eternity,' say freed siblings Maya and Itay

‘Intense fear, zero sleep’: Freed hostages recall captivity, in videos shown at rally

By ToI Staff and AFP

Several thousand at Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square urge return of those still in Gaza; former captive says terrorist took oxygen machine; others describe lack of food, poor conditions

Nurse Nili Margalit was taken captive by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 from Kibbutz Nir Oz and freed on November 30, 2023. (Courtesy)

Nurse who treated elderly while in captivity says hostages in ‘impossible conditions’

University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill reads her opening statement during a hearing of the House Committee on Education on Capitol Hill, Dec. 5, 2023 in Washington. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)

Jewish Federations chair Julie Platt is interim replacement

UPenn head quits after refusing to say a call for Jewish genocide violates school rules

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Board of trustees head says Liz Magill resigning, then announces he’s quitting too, seems to criticize school: Hope she’s given ‘a second chance, in a more supportive community’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on December 10, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu fetes US Jews for ‘finally’ confronting campus antisemitism

By ToI Staff and Agencies

From left, Harvard President Claudine Gay, left, University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) President Sally Kornbluth listen during a hearing of the House Committee on Education on Capitol Hill, December 5, 2023 in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Over 70 US lawmakers seek to oust college heads who dithered on Jewish genocide calls

By ToI Staff and Agencies

After weeks in Hamas tunnels, some freed child hostages still speaking in whispers

By Julia Frankel, ADAM GELLER and Tim Sullivan

AP -- After seven weeks held hostage in the tunnels of Gaza, they are finally free to laugh and chat and play. But some of the children who have come back from captivity are still reluctant to raise their voices above a whisper. In theory, they can eat what they want, sleep as... Continue Reading

Yuval Haran, whose family is celebrating the return of his mother, his sister, and four others from Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip, poses for a portrait with a picture on his phone of his family's hostage posters, in Herziliya, December 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Naama Levy, seen in a video with bloody pants shortly after she was taken hostage to Gaza on October 7, 2023. (Screen grab/X)

Mother of Naama Levy, from harrowing Gaza video: ‘Each minute is an eternity in hell’

Hilary Faverman

Showing up: Sufganiyot 2023

This year, the hardest part of our annual doughnut survey was feeling up to celebrating. But it’s how we bring the light

Each candle ushering a new light into a depraved world

With celebrations canceled or muted, we will not be intimidated – the world needs every single light

Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani addresses the opening session of the Doha Forum in the Qatari capital on December 10, 2023. (Salim Matramkot/AFP)

Qatar says talks for fresh Gaza pause ongoing, chides Israel for rejecting ceasefire

By AFP and ToI Staff

Qatari PM tells Doha Forum chances for deal growing slimmer due to Israeli strikes; UN chief complains Security Council undermined by US veto on ceasefire resolution

FILE -- A motorcyclist police officer escorts and guards a police van, Nicosia, Cyprus, June 24, 2019 (Petros Karadjias/AP)

Cyprus arrests 2 Iranian nationals over suspected plot to attack Israelis

By ToI Staff and Tal Schneider

Prime Minister’s Office says Mossad worked with Cypriots to foil attempt; target said to be Israeli businessman; detainees are reportedly political refugees with ties to IRGC

Sgt. Maor Cohen Eisenkot, 19, of the Golani Brigade’s 12th Battalion, killed in battle in the southern Gaza Strip on December 8, 2023. (Courtesy)

Ex-IDF chief Eisenkot’s nephew dies in Gaza fighting, day after Eisenkot’s son killed

By Michael Horovitz and Emanuel Fabian

Sgt. Maor Cohen Eisenkot, 19, killed by explosive inside Khan Younis mosque Friday; war cabinet minister’s son, Gal Meir, was killed Thursday; both named for grandfather Meir

A plane lands at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport amid a rocket barrage from Gaza, December 8, 2023 (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Flight from Eilat lands at Ben Gurion airport amid rocket barrage from Gaza

Passengers watch in awe — and fear — as plane touches down amid Iron Dome interceptions on Friday; no casualties in missile attack on center of country

Director Steven Spielberg expresses shock at the atrocities of Hamas terrorists against the Jewish people on October 7 in announcing a project to document its horrors (Screenshot: Fox News, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Shoah Foundation launches project to document ‘unspeakable barbarity’ of October 7

130 accounts gathered so far from survivors of Hamas massacre to add to collection of Holocaust testimony; founder Steven Spielberg laments: Antisemitism is again ‘standing proud’

The Munders from Kibbutz Nir Oz -- grandfather Avraham Munder is still held captive in Gaza, represented by the empty seat, while his grandson, Ohad and wife Ruti, were released after 49 days in captivity after the family was taken hostage on October 7, 2023 (Courtesy)

To show what's not thereKibbutz Nir Oz families document themselves before and after Oct. 7

By Jessica Steinberg

A home destroyed by Hamas terrorists on October 7 in southern Israel's Kibbutz Kfar Aza is seen on October 15, 2023. (Edi Israel/Flash90)

Turn Gaza border area into model of sustainable development, green organization urges

New York State Assemblyman George Michaels (D-Auburn) holds his head after changing his vote to 'yes' on a 1970 bill that gave New York the most liberal abortion law in the country, April 9, 1970. (Bettmann Archive/Getty Images via JTA)

'One person really can make a difference'

Film tells story of Jewish Democrat who sacrificed career to pass abortion rights law

By julia GERGELY

‘Deciding Vote’ brings new attention to decisive yet little-remembered decision by George Michaels to tip scales in favor of legislation that led to 1973 adoption of Roe v. Wade

Yemenis wave flags and chant slogans during a pro-Palestinian march in the Houthi-controlled capital Sana'a on December 8, 2023. (MOHAMMED HUWAIS / AFP)

In escalation, Houthis vow to target all Israel-bound ships in Red Sea

Iran-backed group says attacks will escalate if aid does not reach Gaza; Israeli official: If world does not deal with Houthis, Israel will act

The French Languedoc (D653), a FREMM multipurpose frigate, performs maneuvers during the "Noble Dina 23" multilateral aeronautical exercise in the Mediterranean Dea on March 27, 2023. (Jack Guez/AFP)

French naval ship in Red Sea intercepts 2 drones launched from Houthi-held Yemen port

By AFP and ToI Staff

Far-right Party for Freedom leader Geert Wilders, right, celebrates with Fleur Agema, section left, and other party members after winning the most votes in a general election, in The Hague, Netherlands, November 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Phil Nijhuis)

'Rose in polls because of all the aggression in the streets'

Far-right Dutch election victor Geert Wilders elicits sympathy and fear in Jewish voters

By Shira Li Bartov

A last-minute surge that even surprised the populist head of the Party for Freedom reflects the rapidly changing landscape following the Oct. 7 Hamas atrocities and war in Gaza

More Headlines

Illustrative photo of the Tel Aviv University campus. (Andrew Tobin/JTA)

Universities to begin academic year on December 31

By Gavriel Fiske

Children from evacuated communities in the Gaza envelope and the north of Israel make menorahs to send to IDF soldiers fighting Hamas in the Gaza Strip (IDF)

Light reliefTroops in Gaza light menorahs made by kids from evacuated towns

An Egyptian man casts his ballot during the presidential election, at a polling station in downtown Cairo on December 10, 2023 (Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Egyptians head to polls to hand Sissi fresh term as president

By AP

FILE - A woman holds a sign that reads in Spanish "Justice for Mahsa Amini" as she protests against the death of Amini, an Iranian woman who died while in police custody in Iran, in front of the Iranian embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)

Iran bans Mahsa Amini’s family from traveling to receive EU’s top human rights prize

By AP

Footage showing the violent robbery of a Jewish woman in London, December 7, 2023. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

London police probing whether beating of Jewish woman a hate crime

This pool photograph distributed by Russian state agency Sputnik shows Russia's President Vladimir Putin attending a ceremony to present Gold Star medals to Heroes of Russia on the eve of the Heroes of the Fatherland Day at the St. George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow on December 8, 2023 (Sergey GUNEYEV / POOL / AFP)

Putin says he will run for re-election in 2024

By AFP

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