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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 430

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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 27, 2023

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IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi gives a statement to the media at an army base in southern Israel, December 26, 2023. (Flash90)

IDF will answer 'difficult questions' that arose after Oct 7

IDF chief says Israel expanding ops in Gaza, warns war to last ‘many more months’

By Emanuel Fabian

Halevi says ‘no magic solutions’ to destroying Hamas, but military will reach its leaders; says troops receiving all necessary air support after political storm on the matter

A temporary tent camp set up for Palestinians who were evacuated from their homes in Khan Younis on December 11, 2023 (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 27: Day 82 – Fear of disease spreading from Gaza after soldier dies

Then-Dutch finance minister Sigrid Kaag answers journalists at the EU headquarters in Brussels on February 13, 2023. (John Thys/AFP, File)

UN taps Gaza humanitarian director after UNSC resolution calling for aid ‘at scale’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Smoke billows in the southern Lebanese village of Marwahin following an Israeli airstrike, December 27, 2023. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 27: Suspected explosive-laden drone crashes in Golan; Iraqi militia claims responsibility

Senior air force officer rejects claims of ‘indiscriminate’ bombing in Gaza, say strikes on Hamas targets are ‘precise, focused’ * Number of troops killed in ground op rises to 164

10:01 pm

Iran-backed Iraqi militias claim responsibility for launching drone that crashed in Golan
9:35 pm

Woman with stab wounds found dead in Haifa apartment; husband arrested as murder suspect
9:23 pm

Macron tells Netanyahu that 'durable ceasefire' needed in Gaza

Op-ed: Day 82 of the war

The war against Hamas may be almost half-done. The second half will be harder

This Editor’s Note was sent out earlier Wednesday in ToI’s weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel Community. To receive these Editor’s Notes as they’re released, join the ToI Community here. "This war has goals that are essential and not simple to achieve, and is taking place in a complex area. Therefore, the war will continue for many... Continue Reading

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi gives a statement to the media at an army base in southern Israel, December 26, 2023. (Flash90)

L to R: Lt. Yaron Eliezer Chitiz; Staff Sgt. Itay Buton; Staff Sgt. Efraim Jackman (IDF)

Three soldiers from same unit killed in Gaza, bringing ground op toll to 164

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

IDF announces deaths of Lt. Yaron Eliezer Chitiz, 23, Staff Sgt. Itay Buton, 20, and Staff Sgt. Efraim Jackman, 21, all of the Givati Brigade’s Shaked battalion

L-R: Master Sgt. (res.) Maor Lavi, Cpt. (res.) Shaul Greenglick, Cpt. Shay Shamriz. (Israel Defense Forces)

3 more troops killed as IDF hits Hamas in central Gaza, battles al-Bureij battalion

By Emanuel Fabian

Justin Danilewitz

Hamas fails the Solomonic test

Who cares more, when the terrorists willingly endanger the Dome of the Rock with rocket attacks, while Israel’s Iron Dome protects the Muslims’ holy site?

Elizabeth Brenner Danziger

The ax in the tree: When a child’s parent dies

Losing a parent is life-altering: 6 tips for supporting bereaved children

The world has the means to curb Hamas. Why hasn’t it?

By pursuing only Israel’s alleged crimes, the International Criminal Court gives free rein to terrorists

Betsalel Steinhart

‘Hutar le-pirsum’: A lesson in Israeli society

Everyone knows this prelude to the gut-punch of knowing a soldier killed in the line of duty, no matter how distantly; it’s a small country

File: Smoke rises during an Israeli military raid in Tulkarem, in the West Bank, December 17, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

6 Palestinians said killed in IDF drone strike near West Bank’s Tulkarem

By Agencies, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

An undated photo of the St. Mary's Greek Orthodox church in Irqit, northern Israel (Photo: Avishai Teicher, Creative Commons, File)

9 soldiers injured rescuing elderly man wounded in Hezbollah strike on church

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Terrorists fire missile at St. Mary’s church in the north; IDF slams terror group’s ‘cynical exploitation of Lebanese civilians and holy sites’

Northern residents and their supporters call for better care from the state, in a protest at Amiad junction, northern Israel, December 26, 2023. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Evacuees ask Biden to back Israeli military op if Lebanon doesn’t rein in Hezbollah

By Michael Horovitz

Inside Story

Ksenia Svetlova

Was Russia’s McDonald’s franchise sold to a straw man for supersized profits?

Foreign tourists who visit Russia today often visit one of the branches of Vkusno I Tochka -- a burger chain registered soon after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. It is modeled after McDonald's restaurants and its menu looks very similar to that of the American burger giant, which left Russia in May 2022. The... Continue Reading

Rabbi and IDF Col. (res.) Yaakov Ruzah, 79, was called for reserve duty one day after Hamas's October 7 onslaught. (Courtesy)

InterviewAt 79, he might be the oldest soldier serving in the IDF

The world’s foremost rabbinic authority on declaring death grapples with Oct. 7 horrors

Drafted back into the army following the Hamas massacre, Rabbi Yaakov Ruzah says the terrorists’ atrocities have left even Judaism’s voluminous written tradition at a loss for words

'What is happening in Gaza is more terrible than In the nakba'

Abbas says postwar period will be ‘test’ for US support of PA rule over Gaza Strip

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas vowed Tuesday that the PA will return to rule over Gaza despite Israeli opposition, and said that the period following the war will be a “test” for the US to prove that it can keep its word to Ramallah in backing a... Continue Reading

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (R) in an interview with Egyptian journalist Lamis Elhadidy, host of the "Kelma Akhira" (Last Word) news show on the ON TV channel, December 25, 2023. (Facebook used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

US President Joe Biden, right, shakes hands with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in the Oval Office of the White House, January 31, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden speaks with Qatari emir to discuss hostage release, ceasefire efforts

White House says talks center on ‘urgent effort to secure the release of all remaining hostages,’ as terminally ill mother of captive begs US president for chance to see her again

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a plenum session for Israelis held kidnapped by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at the assembly hall of the Knesset, Jerusalem, on December 25, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu said to deny security chiefs’ bids to discuss post-war plan for Gaza

Iran: Oct. 7 attack was revenge for killing of Soleimani in 2020; Hamas: No it wasn’t

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Wednesday that the Hamas terror group's devastating attack on Israel was in revenge for the 2020 assassination of IRGC Quds Force head Qassem Soleimani in a US drone strike. IRGC spokesman Ramazan Sharif tied the October 7 massacres to Soleimani in remarks... Continue Reading

Iranians lift national flags during a ceremony in the capital Tehran, on January 3, 2022, commemorating the second anniversary of the killing in Iraq of top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani (portrait) and Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in a US raid. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Head of Iran's atomic energy department Mohammad Eslami speaks during a news conference, in Tehran, Iran, December 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran dismisses IAEA report it raised production rate of near-weapons-grade uranium

By AFP

US President Joe Biden speaks in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on December 20, 2023. (Mandel NGAN / AFP)

Biden orders strikes on Iran-backed group after US troops hurt in Iraq drone attack

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Head of the IDF Central Command, Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fuchs, during a TV interview on February 28, 2023. (Screenshot: Channel 12; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Shin Bet chief said to warn of far-right threats to top general in West Bank

Document sent to PM, president, and cabinet ministers warns that Central Command head Yehuda Fox’s life could be in danger from handful of extremist settlers

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (center) listens to Israel Prison Service chief Katy Perry (left) during a visit to Nafha Prison, January 6, 2023. (Israel Prison Service)

Ben Gvir says he won’t extend term of prisons chief, sparking coalition tensions

By Jeremy Sharon

MK Nissim Vaturi arrives at a Likud party meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on December 3, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud MK: ‘Luckily for us’ October 7 attacks happened so Israel can fight Hamas

Nissim Vaturi reasons that a coordinated, multi-front attack would have been ‘even worse,’ claims fighting ‘won’t end in the coming year’

Israelis inspect a damaged residential building after it was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, Israel, October 9, 2023. (Erik Marmor/AP)

War with Hamas to cost Israel at least NIS 50 billion in 2024, says Treasury

By Sharon Wrobel

Tamir Bar (L), Liat Harlev (R), and Brett Gelman (C), in their roles as two Berkley students and their professor, on sketch comedy show "Eretz Nehederet," December 27, 2023. Screen capture: Eretz Nehederet, Channel 12. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law.

Manger things

Actor Brett Gelman joins ‘Eretz Nehederet’ to skewer US progressives

In Christmas-themed skit, star of ‘Stranger Things’ and ‘Fleabag’ plays professor who misinforms woke students about Jewish ‘colonialist power,’ insists Jesus is Palestinian

US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sits in the US House of Representatives at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, January 3, 2023. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

US Rep. Ocasio-Cortez slammed over Christmas message comparing Jesus to Gazans

Alice Walker attends the 'The Color Purple' Broadway Opening Night at The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on December 10, 2015, in New York City. (Photo by Mark Sagliocco / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Inside story

‘Color Purple’ release brings Alice Walker’s history of antisemitism back into focus

By Andrew Lapin

Despite the author’s groundbreaking work, her difficult relationship with Israel and Judaism, and outright flirtations with antisemitism, put her at odds with the Jewish community

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Two women work together at a volunteer center in Rahat, Israel, run by Jewish and Arab volunteers. (Facebook, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Poll finds high support among Arab Israelis for volunteering during war

By Gianluca Pacchiani

State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman, undated. (State Comptroller's Office)

‘No stone unturned’: Comptroller vows wide probe into government’s October 7 failures

By Jeremy Sharon

Screen capture from video of an assailant, bottom right, stabbing a pregnant woman in Lod, November 30, 2023. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

14-year-old suspected of knifing pregnant sister to death in front of her kids

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Defense Minister Yoav Galant hold a joint press conference in Jerusalem, December 26, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Gallant, Smotrich present NIS 9 billion wartime aid plan for IDF reservists

The scene of an explosion near the Israeli embassy in New Delhi, India on December 26, 2023. (Screen grab via ANI used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Blast rattles Israeli embassy in India; ‘abusive’ letter to envoy said found nearby

Turkish news anchor Meltem Günay presenting the news on December 24, 2023, accompanied by a Starbucks coffee cup many Turkish viewers found offensive, leading to the anchor's dismissal. Screen capture: TGRT. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law.

Turkish broadcaster fired for appearing with cup from purportedly pro-Israel Starbucks

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