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What Matters Most On Friday, December 22, 2023

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The empty Security Council chamber is pictured at UN headquarters in New York City on December 20, 2023. (Charly Triballeau/AFP)

US official quoted saying Israel 'can live with' the new text

UN Security Council set for Gaza resolution vote; US signals support for latest draft

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Rather than immediate ceasefire, text said to urge ‘creating conditions for sustainable cessation of hostilities,’ unhindered humanitarian access, immediate release of all hostages

This image from video shows a tunnel network under Gaza City's Palestine Square being demolished, December 21, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

More than 2,000 Hamas gunmen killed since end of truce — IDF

IDF demolishes major Gaza City tunnel network hidden underneath ‘Palestine Square’

By Emanuel Fabian

Military asserts that senior Hamas officials Yahya Sinwar and Muhammad Deif hid in underground passages just below bustling commercial square during October 7 assault on Israel

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid enter the Gaza Strip at the Kerem Shalom crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, December 21, 2023. (Mohammed ABED / AFP)

Hamas claims head of Gaza border crossing killed in Israeli airstrike

Troops of the IDF's 99th Division operate in the Gaza Strip, in a handout image published December 21, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF takes control of Gaza City’s Shejaiya as large rocket salvo targets Tel Aviv area

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Netanyahu: Hamas has 'very simple choice: surrender or die'

Hamas says no hostage negotiations unless fighting in Gaza stops; Israel: No chance

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israel on Thursday firmly rejected a Hamas demand to permanently halt fighting before releasing any more hostages being held by terrorists in Gaza, as talks in Cairo for a truce deal appeared to make little progress. A Hamas official told AFP that "a total ceasefire and a retreat... Continue Reading

In this picture released by the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Dec. 20, 2023, Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, left, welcomes Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian for their meeting in Doha, Qatar. (Iranian Foreign Ministry via AP)

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, left, meets US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, October 16, 2023. (Ariel Hermoni/ Defense Ministry)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 22: Blinken, Gallant discuss ‘active efforts’ to free hostages, deliver more aid to Gaza

By Ricky Ben-David and ToI Staff

IDF spokesman says army close to securing ‘full operational control’ in northern Gaza Strip * Soldier killed by Hezbollah rocket, Israel strikes in Lebanon * Ground op toll at 139

9:20 pm

Spain says still deliberating whether to join US-led naval mission in Red Sea
8:53 pm

US says Blinken and Gallant discussed 'active efforts' to free hostages, deliver more aid to Gaza
8:43 pm

White House: Iran 'deeply involved' in planning Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping

Molly Livingstone

Does the Z in Gen Z stand for ‘zombies’?

The cruelty of the 18-24 demographic against Jews, and Gazans too, is the ultimate failure of free thought and it will destroy society

Our children are quietly mourning

When tech class means a 3rd-grader completes his first Word task with the (typed) fact that his cousin was slaughtered by Hamas

I once believed more Gazans want to live in peace

How upsetting to still not be sure that my Gazan friend’s texts on October 7th were to find out how I was and not where I was

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Battling the siege state of mind

What I do to ensure that I can snap out of my spiraling emotions when the losses and dread get to be too much for me (10 Tevet)

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Wartime polls and unexpected conclusions

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now. The past several weeks have seen the publication of a slew of high-profile opinion surveys on the war with Hamas. They include deep looks into the psyche of the Palestinian people... Continue Reading

ToI senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur (Courtesy)

People walk by photographs of civilians held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, posted in Tel Aviv, December 21, 2023. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 22: Day 77 – How does IDF determine hostages’ deaths without bodies?

Israelis putting up signs of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza are attacked on the streets of London, in cellphone footage published by Channel 12, December 22, 2023. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israelis attacked in London while putting up posters of hostages held by Hamas

In video footage published by Channel 12, youths can be seen hitting, kicking Israeli woman, throwing phone multiple times; police reportedly looking into 2 violent incidents

Illustrative: An Egyptian Red Crescent truck carrying humanitarian aid moves at the Israeli side of the Kerem Shalom border crossing with the southern Gaza Strip on December 19, 2023. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Herzog: Three times more aid could be entering Gaza if not for UN’s ‘utter failure’

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

As UN claims half a million people in Gaza at risk of starvation, Israel repeats assertion that it is checking and approving more humanitarian aid trucks than are entering Strip

Demonstrators calling upon the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to take action for the release of hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7 and currently held in the Gaza Strip, outside the ICRC offices in Tel Aviv on November 9, 2023. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Israeli group accuses Red Cross of ‘biased and apathetic’ response to Gaza hostages

By AFP and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump (L) and Democratic Presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden on September 29, 2020. (Jim Watson and Saul Loeb / AFP)

In major shift, survey finds Israelis prefer Biden to Trump as next US president

Poll finds Jewish public opinion has sharply swung in incumbent’s direction following support for Israel in wake of Oct. 7, after overwhelming 2020 support for Republican rival

Iris Haim (R) whose son Yotam Haim was mistakenly killed by Israeli troops, meets with a soldier from the battalion involved in the shooting, December 22, 2023 (Screen grab used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Soldier from battalion that mistakenly shot hostages meets mom of one of those killed

Call on Yotam Haim’s family comes after message of support; brother of killed hostage Alon Shamriz says he told Gallant ‘I’ll haunt him’; troops shown pics of hostages to help ID them

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner tour Kibbutz Kfar Aza on December 21, 2023. (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset)

Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner tour ravaged Kibbutz Kfar Aza, meet survivors of Oct. 7

Former US secretary of state Hilary Clinton meets with families of Israelis held hostage by Hamas, December 21, 2023. (Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

Hillary Clinton meets hostages’ families, urges deal before Christmas, pans Netanyahu

An undated photo of Judi Weinstein and Gadi Haggai (Courtesy)

Kibbutz Nir Oz says Gadi Haggai killed on Oct. 7; body held in Gaza

By ToI Staff and Agencies

‘A man full of humor’ and musician at heart, says forum; Biden ‘heartbroken’ over death of dual US citizen; Haggai’s wife, Judi Weinstein, remains hostage, believed to be wounded

Sahar Calderon (Courtesy)

‘I was scared to death’: Freed teen hostage recounts being dragged to Gaza on scooter

Eli Bibas holds a Torah scroll that survived the Holocaust during a ceremony marking the donation of it to Kibbutz Nir Oz, Dec. 20, 2023. (AP/Leo Correa)

Torah scroll that survived Holocaust dedicated to relatives of Bibas family in Nir Oz

By AP and ToI Staff

Lilaq Logan, an IDF commander with Jewish and Hebrew Israelite heritage, has been posting videos about the war on Instagram, where she has more than 25,000 followers. (Courtesy via JTA)

'Rockets don't discriminate, and neither does Hamas'

Israelis of color push back against race-based, anti-Israel narratives spread abroad

By Andrew Esensten

With backgrounds as varied as their online personas, a growing number of Israeli social media influencers work to dispel lies disseminated by pro-Palestinian activists since Oct. 7

An antisemitic cartoon published in Qatar on November 20, 2023, titled 'The Lie of Zionist Media.' (The Anti-Defamation League)

Antisemitic cartoons proliferate in Mideast amid Israel-Hamas war, ADL report finds

Illustrations published by Arabic-language press since October 7 tap into conspiracy theories and blood libel to criticize the war in Gaza

Interfaith leaders issued joint declaration against Islamophobia and antisemitism at summit held by 'Shoulder to Shoulder' in Washington, DC, December 20, 2023. (Courtesy)

Islamophobia and antisemitism condemned by dozens of US interfaith leaders in DC

By Matt Lebovic

Interfaith leaders convene at National Press Club to sign declaration against antisemitism and Islamophobia; prominent Rev. blames ‘Christian nationalism’ for surge of racism

Illustrative: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on November 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, Pool, File)

Hanegbi’s words ‘misunderstood,’ PA can’t rule post-war Gaza — senior Israeli official

By Jeremy Sharon

National security adviser caught flak from far-right over Arabic op-ed; official says there are currently no active talks for new hostage deal, but Israel interested in agreement

US President Joe Biden is greeted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after arriving at Ben Gurion International Airport, October 18, 2023, in Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Report: Netanyahu sought US pressure on Egypt to absorb Gaza refugees, was rebuffed

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a State Control committee meeting in the Israeli parliament during a discussion about the Operation Protective Edge report, on April 19, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

‘Frogmen, hang gliders, kidnapped Israelis’: Netanyahu described Hamas’s plans in 2017

Clockwise from right: 'Fascism in America,' edited by Gavriel Rosenfeld and Janet Ward; American Nazi supporters salute at an event in White Plains, New York, in the 1930s (AP photo); Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol building in Washington, DC, January 6, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Interview'We can never get too comfortable. We need to be vigilant'

Is American democracy safe? These historians say the US may be slipping toward fascism

By Cathryn J. Prince

The editors of ‘Fascism in America: Past and Present’ posit that though most Americans see the idea as ‘unrealistic in the extreme,’ there’s nothing fictional about it

The Times of Israel newsroom. (Times of Israel)

For second consecutive month, Times of Israel is world’s fastest-growing news site

Site saw 429% year-on-year surge in visits in November, reaching 56.3 million, SimilarWeb data shows; editor expresses ‘admiration and appreciation for our dedicated team’

'How do you identify antisemitism that isn't in your face?'

What is antisemitism? At a US conference, scholars use archives as a guide and warning

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

The 55th Association for Jewish Studies conference was to focus on history — but the challenges facing Diaspora Jewry due to the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza couldn’t be ignored

More Headlines

Smoke billows after Israeli strikes over Lebanon's southern town of Kfar Kila near the border with Israel on December 21, 2023. (AFP)

Soldier killed, another seriously wounded in Hezbollah rocket barrage on north

By Emanuel Fabian

In a video released by the Shin Bet on December 21, 2023, screenshots of what the intelligence agency says are Iranian operatives trying to recruit Israelis can be seen. (Screenshot, Shin Bet, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Shin Bet says it thwarted Iranian attempt to recruit Israeli spies via social media

By Emanuel Fabian

Hamas gunmen surrender to IDF troops at northern Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, in a handout image published December 14, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Health Ministry issues directives for medical treatment of detained Gazan terrorists

By Renee Ghert-Zand and ToI Staff

'Free Gaza' graffitied on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on December 21, 2023. (Screen capture/Fox News)

Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC vandalized with ‘Free Gaza’ graffiti

By jacob gurvis

A photo of the late Jewish Canadian-American author Saul Bellow used for the first-edition back cover of 'Herzog' in 1964.
(Photo by Jeff Lowenthal, Published by Viking Press, Public Domain, Wikimedia)

Florida district pulls many Jewish and Holocaust books from classroom libraries

By Andrew Lapin

Ambulances and police cars are seen near the Charles University in central Prague, on December 21, 2023, amid a mass shooting. (Michal CIizek/AFP)

At least 14 people killed in mass shooting at university in downtown Prague

Participants in the Nativ pre-college gap year program, affiliated with the Conservative movement, divide their time between study in Jerusalem and volunteering elsewhere in Israel. (Courtesy of Nativ)

Conservative movement suspends its Israel gap-year program, citing budget woes

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Polluted water coming from the ICL Rotem (formerly Rotem Amfert Negev Ltd) phosphate mining complex, December 21, 2023. (Eastern Negev Unit for Environmental Quality)

Toxic liquids flow yet again from phosphate mining company in Negev

Israelis shop at an IKEA store in Rishon Lezion, central Israel, October 10, 2014. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Amid Red Sea attacks, Ikea warns of delay on some products, possible supply shortage

By Sharon Wrobel

Olly Alexander poses for photographers at the Royal Albert Hall, in London, December 1, 2023. (Millie Turner/Invision/AP)

BBC criticized for selecting Eurovision contestant who accused Israel of ‘genocide’

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