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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 16, 2023

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(From L-R) Hostages Yotam Haim, Samar Talalka and Alon Lulu Shamriz, who were killed mistakenly by IDF troops in Gaza on December 15, 2023. (Courtesy)

IDF troops mistakenly open fire and kill 3 hostages in northern Gaza battlefield

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

IDF spokesperson: Army responsible for ‘tragic incident’ in which Yotam Haim, Samar Talalka, Alon Shamriz shot dead Friday morning; PM: Unbearable tragedy; Gantz: Heartbroken

An IDF APC is seen in northern Gaza's Shejaiya, December 15, 2023. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

IDF didn't consider hostages could be walking around warzone

Initial IDF probe: 3 hostages were shirtless, waving white flag when troops shot them

By Emanuel Fabian

One of the 3 killed in tragic mistake shouted ‘Help’ in Hebrew; IDF says soldiers fired against protocols; on Wed., troops found ‘SOS’ and ‘Help, 3 hostages’ spray-painted nearby

Families of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza hold a press conference at "Hostages Square," outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, December 16, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 16: Chief of Staff Halevi on IDF killing of 3 hostages in Gaza: We failed

Families of hostages urge new deal for their return: ‘A military operation alone won’t save them’ * Reservist killed, 2 hurt in drone attack on northern town * Gaza op toll at 119

9:31 pm

Netanyahu says it's 'a fiction' to claim he funded Hamas; reveals he's wearing a hostages dog tag
9:03 pm

Hamas: No new hostage deal 'unless the aggression against our people stops once and for all'
8:41 pm

Advocating opposite approaches to freeing hostages, rival demonstrators face off outside Kirya

Families and supporters of hostages abducted during the Hamas-led Oct. 7 onslaught demonstrate outside the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on December 15, 2023, calling for an agreement for the return of the hostages. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Hundreds march in Tel Aviv demanding hostage deal after IDF killed 3 in tragic error

‘Their time is running out! Bring them home now!’ demonstrators chant as they rally at army HQ; Mossad chief said headed to Europe to discuss new hostage agreement with Qatari PM

Trucks with humanitarian aid wait to enter the Palestinian side of Rafah on the Egyptian border with the Gaza Strip on December 11, 2023. (Giuseppe Cacace/AFP)

In first since war, cabinet approves reopening of Israeli crossing to Gaza for aid

Samer Abu Daqqa. (Courtesy)

Al Jazeera says journalist killed in Israeli strike on Khan Younis

By AFP and ToI Staff

Inside Story

With Ireland’s Sinn Féin on the rise, support for Israel hits new low post-Oct. 7

LONDON -- While Ireland has long been described as Israel’s greatest European critic, the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas has seen relations between Jerusalem and Dublin dip to new lows. Ireland’s taoiseach, or prime minister, Leo Varadkar, has consistently condemned Hamas’s October 7 onslaught on southern Israel that saw 1,200 people killed and 240... Continue Reading

Yasser Arafat claps his hands over his head as some delegates give him a standing ovation during the United Nations General Assembly in New York, November 14, 1974. The two delegates from Ireland, sitting in front row at left, remain seated. (AP Photo)

German-Israeli Sarah Cohen-Fantl. (Courtesy)

‘Not the life I wish for us’: In Berlin, ‘afraid to be visibly Jewish or talk Hebrew’

By Sharon Wrobel

A German-Israeli and her family scrap plans for their life in the German capital and gear up to move to Israel, as Hamas war spurs hatred on the street against Jews and Israelis

A picture taken from a position in northern Israel along the border with Lebanon, shows smoke billowing following an Israeli strike close to the town of Marwahin in southern Lebanon on December 16, 2023. (Jalaa Marey/AFP); Inset: Warrant Officer (res.) Yehezkel Azaria, killed in a drone strike from Lebanon on Dec. 16. (Israel Defense Forces)

Reservist soldier killed as Hezbollah kamikaze drone strikes near northern town

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

UAV hits near Margaliot, 2nd drone intercepted; slain soldier named as Yehezkel Azaria, 53; IDF responds with shelling

A picture taken from from the southern Lebanese village of Tayr Harfa, near the border with Israel shows smoke billowing near an Israeli outpost from rockets fired by Hezbollah on December 15, 2023. (AFP)

Gantz: If world doesn’t push Hezbollah from the northern border, we will

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Ofer Nevo at his temporary residence in Kibbutz Beit Alfa. (Dafna Talmon)

Ofer NevoFrom Kibbutz Eilon. Father of 3 and grandfather of 10

'The stress was unlike anything I've experienced. We locked the door, left the key under the plant, and our story came to an end'

By Tamar Mor Sela

The Red Cross is violating its neutrality principle

Blocked from visiting hostages, the aid organization should give Hamas an ultimatum: Let us see them or we’ll leave Gaza

Who should rule Gaza after the war? Ask the Gazans

One option should be to set up an autonomous ’Gaza Authority’ that would function in parallel to the Palestinian Authority

USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier refuels from the underway replenishment oiler USNS Laramie in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, October 11, 2023. (US Navy photo via AP)

Pentagon orders aircraft carrier to remain in Mediterranean amid Israel-Hamas war

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US defense secretary extends deployment of USS Gerald R. Ford for a third time, underscoring administration’s concerns over regional volatility

Border Police beat Palestinian journalist in East Jerusalem

IDF opens probe of troops filmed shooting dead already-neutralized Palestinian suspect

IDF Military Police on Friday opened a probe after a rights group released security camera footage showing troops in the West Bank recently shooting dead two Palestinians at short range. In the video published by B'Tselem, which was filmed in the al-Faraa refugee camp in the Jordan Valley... Continue Reading

Footage of an IDF soldier shooting dead a Palestinian suspect in the al-Faraa refugee camp in the Jordan Valley of the West Bank on December 8, 2023. (Screen capture/YouTube)

IDF soldiers scuffle with settlers from the Einav settlement trying to storm the town of Deir Sharaf in the Nablus governorate of the West Bank on November 2, 2023, after an Israeli was killed when his car came under fire. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

EU, 14 countries urge Israel to halt ‘unprecedented violence’ by West Bank settlers

By AFP and ToI Staff

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators rally near Columbia University in New York on November 15, 2023. (Bryan R. Smith / AFP)

US Department of Education to scrutinize antisemitism on at least 5 more campuses

By Andrew Lapin

Rutgers University, Tulane University, Santa Monica College, among list of 12 colleges, school districts facing allegations they failed to respond adequately to antisemitism

From left: Dr. Claudine Gay, President of Harvard University, Liz Magill, President of University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Pamela Nadell, Professor of History and Jewish Studies at American University, and Dr. Sally Kornbluth, President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, testify before the House Education and Workforce Committee at the Rayburn House Office Building on December 5, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images via AFP)

US House calls on MIT, Harvard presidents to resign over campus antisemitism

Illustrative -- The 'Vilnia Maersk' container vessel is unloaded at the 'Jade Weserport' container terminal in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, November 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Top shipping company Maersk suspends Red Sea route after two more Houthi strikes

German company Hapag-Lloyd also suspends shipping through Bab al-Mandab Strait after one of its vessels was targeted by Yemeni rebels; ballistic missile slams into container ship

A Lufthansa Airbus A380 lands in Frankfurt, Germany, February 14, 2019. (AP/Michael Probst)

Lufthansa, subsidiaries to resume flights to Israel on January 8

By AFP and ToI Staff

President Isaac Herzog and Michal Herzog light Hanukkah candles with Dvora Leshem, grandmother of hostage Romi Gonen, and other hostages' family members at Hostages Square on December 13, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

'I don't want to have bodies sent home'

Grandmother of hostage Romi Gonen knocks on ministers’ doors during Hanukkah

By Jessica Steinberg

Iranian-born Dvora Leshem, 87, spoke to a different politician each night of the holiday rather than lighting candles with her family

Maj. Oliver Fladrich from the Dunwoody Police Department near Atlanta teaches employees at Jewish Family & Career Services (JF&CS) how to defend themselves in the event of a violent attack, December 2023. (Katja Ridderbusch)

Inside story'If we kept this up long-term, we'd have to fold'

Amid calls for Jews’ extermination, Atlanta synagogues bolster security after Oct. 7

By Katja Ridderbusch

With a dramatic increase in antisemitic incidents following the Hamas massacre, Jewish communities up safety measures such as drills and guards – as long as they can pay for it

File - Two suspects are led from a helicopter to a car by police officers at a helipad in Karlsruhe, Germany, December 15, 2023. (Uli Deck/dpa via AP)

Denmark widens terror probe as alleged Hamas members arrested in Germany

Danish police holding 2 in custody in terrorism investigation; Berlin says 3 arrested there suspected of planning attacks on Europe Jewish targets; no confirmed links between cases

Actor Roberto Benigni in a scene from the Miramax movie 'Life Is Beautiful' circa 1997. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Film history'Benigni was setting himself up for trouble and he knew it'

‘Life is Beautiful’ hit US theaters 25 years ago, raising issues that linger today

By Stephen Silver and Gabe Friedman

Roberto Benigni’s 1997 film rocked Hollywood and beyond by attempting to infuse humor into the setting of a concentration camp, to critical acclaim — and criticism by many Jews

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Illustrative: A prisoner being held in an Iranian prison. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Iran executes man accused of spying for Mossad

By AFP and ToI Staff

Kuwait's then-Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah arrives to attend the 20th conference of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union (AIPU) in Kuwait City on January 19, 2014. (Yasser Al-Zayyat/AFP)

Kuwait’s ruling emir, Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, dies at age 86

By AFP

Rudy Giuliani, the former personal lawyer for former US President Donald Trump, speaks with reporters outside of the E. Barrett Prettyman US District Courthouse after a verdict was reached in his defamation jury trial on December 15, 2023 in Washington, DC (Anna Moneymaker / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Jury says Giuliani to pay $148 million to Georgia election workers over 2020 vote lies

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends his annual news conference in Moscow, Russia, Dec. 14, 2023. (Aleksander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

In 1st comments on Evan Gershkovich, Putin says Russia seeks prisoner exchange

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Mayim Bialik arrives at the Los Angeles LGBT Center Gala on April 22, 2023, at the Fairmont Century Plaza. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

Out with a bangMayim Bialik says she’s out as host of TV quiz ‘Jeopardy!’

By AP

Larry David arrives at the premiere of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" on Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021, at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Pretty not good‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ to end after upcoming 12th season

By Andrew Lapin

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