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What Matters Most On Monday, December 11, 2023

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IDF soldiers killed in the Gaza Strip on December 10, 2023: Top L-R Sgt. Maj. (res.) Etay Perry, Cpt. (res.) Eliya Yanovsky, Master Sgt. (res.) Ari Yehiel Zenilman; bottom: Sgt. Maj. (res.) Gideon Ilani, Maj. (res.) Eviatar Cohen, Maj. Gal Becher, and Maj. (res.) Roman Bronshtein. (Courtesy; combo image: Times of Israel)

IAF carries out first combat airdrop since 2006

7 soldiers killed, pushing Gaza ground op toll to 104; fighting rages in Khan Younis

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

45-year-old man injured in direct rocket impact in Holon in central Israel; military says Air Force hit dozens of Hamas operatives in Gaza over last day

Palestinian men surrender to troops in northern Gaza's Jabaliya, on December 10, 2023. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Netanyahu to Hamas terror operatives: ‘Don’t die for Sinwar — surrender now’

By ToI Staff, Emanuel Fabian and AFP

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid are seen near the Rafah border crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip on December 10, 2023 (Mohammed ABED / AFP)

Israel accuses UN of not doing enough to facilitate entry of aid into Gaza

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israeli security and rescue forces at the scene where a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip by Palestinian terrorists hit and caused damage in Holon, December 11, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 11: Defense minister says Hamas northern battalions near collapse, many surrendering

By ToI Staff and Ricky Ben-David

Gallant says some of those turning themselves in took part in Oct. 7 attacks, telling us interesting things * Man wounded by rocket in central Israel

9:53 pm

French parliament rejects Macron's immigration bill
9:43 pm

IDF reservist Tzvika Lavi dies, weeks after being seriously wounded in Gaza
9:07 pm

Report: No talks held on new hostage deal since truce ended

Families of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza are seen outside a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on December 11, 2023. Yifat Zailer -- cousin of hostage Shiri Bibas, whose young son, baby and husband are also all held -- is at front left. Ofri Bibas is at center. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

'Time is running out'

Family members of Hamas hostages implore government to seek second release deal

Relatives of hostages describe living nightmare of waiting for news of their loved ones, plead with MKs to secure return of those left in Gaza before it is too late

Former Hamas communications minister Yousef al-Mansi is seen being interrogated by the Shin Bet, in a video published December 10, 2023. (Shin Bet)

Ex-Hamas minister in interrogation: ‘Crazy people’ led by Sinwar ‘destroyed Gaza’

By Emanuel Fabian and Michael Horovitz

Yousef al-Mansi says Sinwar has ‘delusions of grandeur’ and the Gaza public doesn’t support him; calls the October 7 massacre ‘heresy, madness’

Yahya Sinwar, head of Hamas in Gaza, greets his supporters upon his arrival at a meeting in a hall on the sea side of Gaza City, on April 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 11: Day 66 – Has Hamas head Yahya Sinwar lost Gazans’ support?

Op-ed: Day 66 of the war

When Hamas is dismantled, a second war looms

Gaza’s terrorist rulers predictably leverage the hostages to try to deepen division inside Israel * IDF makes vital progress at mounting cost * Hanegbi spells out the Hezbollah threat

Fighters from the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah carry out a training exercise in Aaramta village in the Jezzine District, southern Lebanon, May 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on July 19, 2023, shows a ball of light in the sky during Israeli air strikes near Damascus. (SANA / AFP)

Syria says air defenses hit ‘enemy targets’ amid alleged IAF strikes near Damascus

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Palestinian men surrender to troops in northern Gaza's Jabaliya, on December 10, 2023. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Images of stripped, bound Gazans prompt concern; Israeli official: Won’t happen anymore

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and Jacob Magid

IDF says terror suspects searched to ensure they’re not wearing explosives belts, but that it hasn’t distributed pictures; national security adviser: they serve nobody’s interest

Riyad Mansour, Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations, speaks during a United Nations General Assembly meeting about the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, at UN headquarters in New York City on November 28, 2023. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP)

UN General Assembly to discuss war in Gaza after failed ceasefire resolution

Inside story

Anti-PA rhetoric has US convinced Netanyahu in ‘campaign mode’ — Biden officials

Revealing uptick in frustration with PM, US officials note that he’s the only war cabinet minister expressing an aversion to Abbas governing Gaza

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool Photo via AP)

File: Palestinian workers crossing into Israel at the Tarkumiya checkpoint near the southern city of Kiryat Gat, November 14, 2019. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)

Security cabinet skips vote on allowing return of West Bank Palestinian workers

Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a meeting with human rights leaders at the State Department, December 7, 2023, in Washington. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Israel, not US, will decide when to end war against Hamas, Blinken says

By ToI Staff, Agencies and Jacob Magid

Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as they prepare to deliver joint statements, after a meeting and a lunch in the Israeli leader's Jerusalem residence, June 25, 2012. (AP/Jim Hollander, Pool/File)

Op-ed

Ksenia Svetlova

Russia’s priorities are clear after Netanyahu-Putin call, and Israel isn’t one of them

A 50-minute conversation between the two leaders on Sunday won’t yield any change — because as Russia has long demonstrated, it has picked a side

Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov attends a meeting of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his counterparts of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states and the GCC secretary general in Moscow, Russia, Monday, July 10, 2023. (Natalia Kolesnikova/Pool Photo via AP)

Russian deputy FM demands Hamas release rest of hostages held in Gaza

Is the American Jewish success story ending?

It’s not just a passing campus trend – data shows that the US may be turning into a dangerous place for Jews

David-Seth Kirshner

Optical allusion: Naked in Gaza

The photo of surrendering Palestinian men offers a Rorschach test for our views of the conflict

Martin Fletcher

The opportunity within the catastrophe

Jews and Arabs have shown they can live together in peace, but first, there must be a reckoning with both sides’ leaders

What does unity mean? Thoughts on tomorrow’s Israel

Before the war we all had our righteous cause. And we were a mess, with hatred threatening to consume us once again

Tsili Wenkert, grandmother of Omer Wenkert who was taken captive by Hamas terrorists on October 7 from Supernova, poses next to a portrait of her grandson in the city of Gedera on October 25, 2023 (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Interview'The citizens are running the war to bring back the hostages'

Holocaust survivor grandmother of hostage Omer Wenkert appeals to Russia’s Putin

By Jessica Steinberg

Family of 22-year-old budding restaurateur from Gedera looks for any route to help bring their loved one home

Bilal Ziyadne, who was held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza for 50 days, December 10, 2023. (Channel 13 screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Freed hostage Bilal Ziyadne: Hamas kidnapped us even though they knew we’re Arab

Interview

Renee Ghert-Zand

Expert in ancient DNA and wildlife forensics helps identify Oct. 7 massacre victims

Hebrew University Prof. Gila Kahila Bar-Gal uses her knowledge of difficult DNA extraction and physical anthropology as she volunteers at Abu Kabir

A four-year-old Palestinian girl is treated by IDF reserve soldiers after getting lost and falling asleep inside an IDF encampment in the Gaza Strip in a still from a video dated December 10, 2023. (Screenshot, Zman Yisrael)

Watch: Reservists help lost Gazan child who fell asleep in IDF encampment

By Tal Schneider

Soldiers helped treat the girl, return her to Palestinian medics after finding her barefoot and injured

A woman holds a sign reading 'Well Done Israel, Hitler Would Be Proud' as people rally in Brooklyn, New York in support of Palestinians and against Israel in the wake of the October 7 Hamas terror onslaught, October 21, 2023 (KENA BETANCUR / AFP)

One in five young Americans believes the Holocaust is a myth, poll finds

Survey also shows more than a quarter in the same 18-29 age group believe that Jews have too much power in the US

Illustrative: The president of the Egyptian Jewish Community, Magda Shehata Haroun, talks during an interview with AFP at the Shaar Hashamayim Synagogue in Cairo, also known as Temple Ismailia or Adly Synagogue in downtown Cairo on October 3, 2016. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)

Fearing attacks, Jews in Egypt cancel public Hanukkah celebrations

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Or Yogev's digital print of hostage Shiri Bibas and her preschooler and baby, abducted on October 7, now a print at the 'Or Gadol' exhibit at Jaffa Port that opened on December 7, 2023 (Courtesy)

Artists’ anxieties about Gaza rise to surface in October 7 exhibit

By Jessica Steinberg

‘Or Gadol’ exhibit of 98 artworks by 75 artists at Jaffa Port includes well-known names alongside younger creatives from the south reacting to the devastating Hamas attacks

Holocaust survivors to hold virtual Hanukkah ceremony amid antisemitism fears

Claims Conference to host online menorah lighting with Billy Crystal, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jason Alexander to speak, Barry Manilow to perform

File: Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, center, inspects a giant Hanukkah menorah, set up by the Jewish Chabad Educational Center ahead of the Jewish Hanukkah holiday, in front of the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany, December 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Doug Emhoff, husband of US Vice President Kamala Harris, speaks during the National Chanukah Menorah lighting, December 7, 2023, on the ellipse of the White House complex in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Biden to host White House Hanukkah party in shadow of surging antisemitism

Argentina’s Javier Milei cites Hanukkah at inauguration, gifts menorah to Zelensky

By Juan Melamed

In inaugural address, new right-wing president displays prominent fascination with Judaism, invokes story of Maccabees as he celebrates improbable victory last month

Argentina's Javier Milei hands a Hanukkah menorah to Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky during Milei's inaugural ceremonies in Buenos Aires, Dec. 10, 2023. (Screenshot from Argentinean national TV broadcast via JTA)

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

More Headlines

Yuval Castleman (courtesy)

Autopsy finds bullet in body of hero civilian shot by reservist, proving police wrong

By Michael Horovitz

Damage to a home hit by a rocket in Ashkelon, December 5, 2023. (Edi Israel/Flash90)

Israel’s budget deficit soars in November as government pours NIS 5.8b into Gaza war

By Sharon Wrobel

Employees at Farley's East cafe and a neighboring shop in Oakland, California, who sought to block a customer from entering the store's bathroom to film anti-Israel graffiti inside on December 6, 2023. (Screen capture/X)

Oakland café staff fired after barring woman from filming anti-Israel graffiti

A dreidel spins in zero gravity in front of a makeshift menorah aboard the International Space Station in a video shared by NASA Astronaut Jasmine Moghbeli on December 8, 2023. (Twitter screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Play stationAstronaut celebrates Hanukkah with zero-gravity dreidel spin

The Israeli Premier League match between Hapoel Jerusalem and Hapoel Haifa, without a crowd in attendance at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem on December 10, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Crowds of 1,000 to be allowed at soccer matches for first time since war erupted

By Michael Horovitz

People take part in a demonstration against antisemitism at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, on December 10, 2023. (MICHELE TANTUSSI / AFP)

Thousands march in Berlin against antisemitism amid sharp rise in Jew hatred

By Agencies and ToI Staff

File: A police van drives past Fiaker horses at St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, Austria, March 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Heinz-Peter Bader)

Austria nabs teen for allegedly planning terror attack on Vienna synagogue

Ali, second right, and Kiana Rahmani, second left, attend the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2023 to their mother, imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi, shown on the screen, in Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway, December 10, 2023. (Fredrik Varfjell/NTB via AP)

Children of imprisoned Iranian activist accept Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf

By JARI TANNER and James brooks

People gather for a march against antisemitism in central Brussels, December 10, 2023. (Simon Wohlfahrt / AFP)

‘An old evil is resurfacing’: Some 4,000 march against antisemitism in Brussels

By AFP and ToI Staff

File: A cursor moves over Google's search engine page, in Portland, Oregan, on August 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

Israel-Hamas war tops Google searches in 2023, along with Barbie, doomed Titanic sub

By AP

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