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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 30, 2023

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Released hostage Mia Schem speaks to Channel 13 about her time in captivity in Gaza, December 28, 2023. (Screenshot, Channel 13, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

'I was terrified of being raped... It was my biggest fear'

Freed hostage Mia Schem: ‘I experienced hell. There are no innocent civilians in Gaza’

By Amy Spiro and Michael Horovitz

French-Israeli says she was instructed on what to say in videos; was held by a family that played mind games, withheld food, taunted her; man who operated on her arm told her ‘You’re not going home alive’

Israelis attend a rally calling for the release of hostages held by the Gaza-ruling Hamas terror group, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, December 30, 2023. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 30: PM says movement toward hostage deal possible as families rally for their return

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Cabinet reportedly avoiding talks on post war plans due to coalition crisis worries * 2 troops killed as Gaza ground op toll hits 170 * Reservist hurt in West Bank car-ramming

9:06 pm

UK navy says it received report of incident near Yemeni port
8:35 pm

Hitting back at Netanyahu, Bennett says now 'the time for unity, not politics'
8:15 pm

At rally for return of hostages, Julia Haart says she's 'never been prouder to be a Jew'

File: This photo shows an exterior view of the Peace Palace, which houses the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands on February 18, 2019. (AP/Peter Dejong)

‘Blood libel’: Israel slams South Africa for filing ICJ genocide motion over Gaza war

By ToI Staff and Reuters

Pretoria bids for an order declaring Israel in breach of 1948 Genocide Convention; Jerusalem accuses South Africa of ‘collaborating with terror group’ that seeks Israel’s destruction

Argentina's President Javier Milei waves at a lighting of a menorah on Hanukkah in Buenos Aires on December 12, 2023. (Juan Mabromata/AFP)

Argentine President Milei expresses solidarity with Israel at Jewish sports event

By Juan Melamed

Students from North American universities listen to relatives of hostages in Gaza at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on December 27, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)

Inside Story'You feel the death stares'

US students touring Israel: Campus antisemitism is palpable, violent — and inescapable

By Canaan Lidor

Jews from top-tier American universities describe their experiences with hatred unleashed by the war with Hamas and its galvanizing effect on their communities

US Congressional candidate Sarah Idan (left), a former Miss Iraq, tours the Hamas-wrought destruction of Kfar Aza, December 28, 2023. (X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Asks Idan: Why are Gazans not helping the IDF against Hamas?

‘This was not about freeing Palestine’: Former Miss Iraq tours decimated southern towns

Running for US Congress, Sarah Idan, whose Iraqi citizenship was revoked in 2019 after she backed Israel at the UN, says she plans to be an ‘anti-squad’ Democrat

IDF says it carried out strikes in Syria after two rockets fired at Golan Heights

By AFP and ToI Staff

The Israeli army said early Saturday that it carried out strikes in Syria after two rockets fired from the country fell in the Golan Heights. It was the latest in a string of heightened activity by Israel in Syria over the past week. "Following the report regarding sirens sounding... Continue Reading

Missiles flying into the sky near international airport, in Damascus, Syria, January 21, 2019. (SANA, the Syrian official news agency, via AP, File)

Israeli rocket launchers seen deployed in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon on December 28, 2023. (jalaa marey / AFP)

IDF repeatedly strikes south Lebanon after several rounds of Hezbollah rockets

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Julie Fishman Rayman

The Jewish community’s first line of defense

US Law enforcement must rebuild trust by facing the menace of antisemitism and cultivating relationships with Jewish communities

Henry Greenspan

Sleeping with Kafka

There is nothing I can do. It doesn’t matter what sin I committed. Or didn’t. It has been decided. I have to leave.

An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires a shell from southern Israel towards the Gaza Strip, in a position near the Israel-Gaza border on Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023. (AP/Leo Correa)

US bypasses congressional review for month’s second fast-tracked arms sale to Israel

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Move suggests that growing discomfort in Washington with Israel’s prosecution of war not yet influencing its near-daily supply of weapons used by the IDF in Gaza

In this handout photo, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (2nd left) meets with IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi (right), Mossad chief David Barnea (left) and Shin Bet head Ronen Bar (2nd right) on November 29, 2023. (Ariel Hermoni/ Defense Ministry/ File)

PM said to bar Mossad and Shin Bet heads from an operational meeting with Gallant

Israeli security forces surround a car which was used by a Palestinian to ram into a group of Israelis at the entrance of al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of Hebron in the West Bank, on December 30, 2023. (Hazem Bader/AFP)

IDF soldier wounded in car-ramming at army post near Hebron; attacker ‘neutralized’

By Emanuel Fabian

Reservist seriously hurt, taken to hospital for treatment; attack takes place near site of similar assault Friday, where 5 soldiers were hurt

Israeli troops maneuver in the Gaza Strip on December 30, 2023. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Israeli forces push deeper into central and southern Gaza amid airstrikes

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Palestinian residents report heavy air, artillery fire; IDF says it killed dozens of terror operatives, raided Hamas intel HQ in Khan Younis; Ground op death toll rises to 170

This image from video shows a Hamas tunnel under an apartment near Gaza City believed to have been used as a hideout by Yahya Sinwar, in a video published by the IDF on December 29, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF: Troops raze Gaza City hideout belonging to Sinwar, large tunnel system below it

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

File: United Nations and Red Crescent workers prepare the aid for distribution to Palestinians at UNRWA warehouse in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza Strip, October 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Eslaiah)

Israel hoping to push UNRWA out of Gaza post-war — report

A man fires a pistol at an indoor shooting range during a qualification course in Katzrin in the Golan Heights on January 31, 2023. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Inside story'Mass armament must be a temporary, reversible measure'

Shocked by Oct. 7 failures, Israelis rush to buy guns, with government encouragement

In the months since the Hamas massacre, there were 6 times as many license requests for handguns as in all of 2022, causing some to worry that untrained people will soon wield them

Hamas said to ‘agree in principle’ to resume talks with Israel on hostage deal

Qatari mediators have reportedly told Israel that Hamas “agrees in principle” to resume negotiations for the release of further hostages taken by the terror group during the October 7 atrocities, in exchange for a truce of up to a month in the Gaza Strip. Israel is responding warily to the message and stressing... Continue Reading

Pictures of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip by Hamas terrorists, at Ben Gurion International airport near Tel Aviv on December 26, 2023. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Jordan's King Abdullah II (L) walks alongside Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi in Cairo on December 27, 2023. (Jordanian Royal Palace / AFP)

Senior Hamas delegation set to arrive in Cairo for Egypt-backed ceasefire talks

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Police on the scene of a deadly shooting in Lod on December 29, 2023. (Screenshot/Israel Police)

9-year-old boy and his 20-year-old uncle shot dead in Lod

Third person moderately wounded as shooting brings total number of Arab Israelis slain in violent crime so far in 2023 to 232

'IDF doesn't prepare itself for things it thinks impossible'

IDF had no plan for responding to a Hamas attack of October 7’s magnitude – NY Times

The Israel Defense Forces' lack of a plan to handle a massive Hamas assault on the country contributed to its slow and inefficient response to the October 7 attacks, The New York Times reported Saturday, in a story focused on the military's operational failures as the attack... Continue Reading

A Palestinian stands on an Israeli tank at the border fence near the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip after some 3,000 Hamas terrorists burst through the border and entered Israel, slaughtering some 1,200 people, October 7, 2023. (Yousef Mohammed/Flash90)

Guido Cohen. (Dafna Talmon)

Guido CohenImmigrated from Argentina, Evacuated from Ein Hashlosha

'I moved to Israel driven by a strong love for the country. But the state has left us to fend for ourselves'

By Tamar Mor Sela

Sen. Shenna Bellows, D-Manchester speaks at a hearing in Augusta to reverse changes to section 17 that resulted in many clients losing mental health services May 2, 2017. (Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images/via JTA)

Maine secretary of state who blocked Trump from ballot is ex-head of Holocaust center

By Andrew Lapin

Shenna Bellows has taken Trump off primary ballot – the second state, after Colorado, to rule the former president ineligible – based on 14th Amendment’s Insurrection Clause

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Exhibition'Their art goes beyond any documentary historical account'

Resurrected exhibit provides insight into Jewish artists during, after the Holocaust

By Bernard Dichek

‘Munich Displaced,’ at the Munich Jewish Museum through March 17, portrays the city when it was a hub for 200,000 displaced Jews who survived the war

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