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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 31, 2023

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Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich holds a press conference in Jerusalem, December 26, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

Smotrich touts revival of Gaza settlements after war, wants Gazans encouraged to leave

Finance minister advocates for ‘voluntary emigration’ of enclave’s residents, opposes fuel going into Strip; stands by 2015 comment calling PA a ‘burden’ and Hamas an ‘asset’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2nd right) chairs a cabinet meeting at the the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, Dec. 31, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

PM rejects South Africa’s claims of genocide, as Cyprus-Gaza sea corridor set to open

Iron Dome intercepts rockets from Gaza above Tel Aviv just after midnight as 2023 gives way to 2024. (Times of Israel)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 31: As Israelis usher in 2024, Hamas fires barrage of rockets at center, south

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

IDF: Fighting in Gaza to go on all year * US said set to pull USS Ford from Mideast * 2 hurt in West Bank stabbing * Ex-minister sorry for creating ‘weakness’ that led to Oct. 7

10:04 pm

Hamas fires barrage of rockets just as Israel ushers in the new year
10:01 pm

Israelis ring in 2024, hoping to leave hardships of past year behind
9:38 pm

Gas prices to rise by 4% at midnight -- Energy Ministry

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press conference, December 30, 2023 (GPO screenshot)

Ruling out resigning, PM says he’s made Israel stronger; is cautious on hostage deal

Netanyahu: War against Hamas will last ‘many more months’, Gaza-Egypt border must be ‘in our hands’ to ensure demilitarization; warns Hezbollah and Iran against escalating in north

Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Dec. 30, 2023. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Protesters in Tel Aviv take aim at Netanyahu government after 12 weeks of war

By Jeremy Sharon

IDF soldiers operating in the Gaza Strip in an undated photo released December, 31, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Egyptian envoys said to visit Israel to discuss ceasefire, as IDF pushes on in Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

In ‘complicated’ talks, Egypt reportedly seeks end to war, and hostages-for-prisoners exchange; right-hand man of infamous Hamas bomb-maker reported killed; airstrikes pound Strip

Screen capture from video of Egyptian lawmaker Mustafa Bakri, 2018. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Egyptian lawmaker pans Netanyahu’s postwar Gaza ideas as violation of peace treaty

This picture taken from southern Israel shows Israeli armored vehicles along the border with the Gaza Strip on December 31, 2023 (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Op-ed

Amir Bar Shalom

Evasive on postwar Gaza, Netanyahu risks saddling Israel with full responsibility

PM’s cancelation of war cabinet debate on the ‘day after’ showed him prioritizing politics over vital wartime strategy. It spells deep trouble with US, long-term disaster for Israel

Illustrative: View of Gilboa Prison, near the Jordan Valley, December 5, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Knesset extends Israel’s ‘incarceration emergency’ as prisons near capacity

While war rages in Gaza, Israel’s universities finally begin delayed academic year

By Gavriel Fiske

Due to late start, universities will operate with shortened semesters; campuses showcase tributes to reserve soldiers, the fallen and the hostages

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

We must determine what went wrong, so we can make it right

If Israel doesn’t ask the hard questions now, how will the people in power whose errors led to October 7th avoid them?

The Crater (part 2)

Abadai leaned over Gidi’s shoulder. ’We’re here to rescue you. Either unbolt the door or we shoot it open.’

Smoke billows after an Israeli strike on Lebanon's southern town of Kfar Kila near the border with Israel on December 30, 2023. (AFP)

IDF ramps up strikes in Lebanon, and reportedly in Syria, amid ongoing attacks on north

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Hezbollah deputy chief warns fighting won’t stop till Israel ends Gaza Strip campaign; Netanyahu says activity aimed at restoring security to north

Smoke billows after Israeli bombardment over Lebanon's southern town of Kafr Kila near the border with Israel on December 30, 2023, amid ongoing cross-border skirmishes between Israeli forces and Hezbollah as the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza continues. (AFP)

IDF strikes Lebanon after Hezbollah rocket fire, reportedly targets Syria’s Aleppo

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Footage purportedly showing the aftermath of airstrikes by unidentified jets in the Syrian town of Boukamal, near the Iraqi border, December 30, 2023. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

4 Hezbollah members killed in strikes near Syria-Iraq border

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Families and supporters of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza hold their photos and shout slogans during a rally calling for their release, in Tel Aviv, Israel, December 30, 2023. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Tel Aviv rally looks to keep attention on hostages amid hopes for fresh talks

By Jessica Steinberg

US diplomat Dennis Ross says military pressure pushing Hamas back to table, as released captive and families of those still held recount ongoing horrors at weekly gathering

Hamas supporters take part in a demonstration in Hebron, West Bank, December 15, 2023. (Wisam Haslmaoun/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 31: Day 86 – A ‘guided tour’ of the 7 fronts Israel is facing

Released Israeli hostage Aviva Siegel marches with teenagers from Kibbutz Kfar Aza during a five-day march from Tel Aviv to the Jerusalem Knesset on December 28, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 30: Day 85 – Is a new hostage release deal ready to be thawed out?

Analysis

Gianluca Pacchiani

As postwar formula for Gaza sought, does Netanyahu’s Hamas = PA equation add up?

Since the start of Israel’s war against Hamas, which aims to topple the terror group's regime in Gaza after its murderous rampage across southern Israel on October 7, the international community led by the United States has repeatedly called for bringing back the Palestinian Authority to govern the Palestinian coastal enclave. The PA, run by the Fatah party, was ousted... Continue Reading

FILE - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, and then-Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas in Gaza City, March 18, 2007. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

A Maersk container ship near Sir Abu Nuair island off Dubai on June 4, 2022. (Karim Sahib/AFP)

US sinks 3 Houthi attack boats as gunmen try to board container ship in Red Sea

Two vessels answer call for aid from ship struck in transit; CENTCOM marks 23rd Houthi attack on shipping since Oct. 19; naval commander expects attacks to continue

(iStock photos/ HUNG CHIN LIU)

2023 in review

Before and after Oct. 7: ToI writers share their stories that mattered most in 2023

With the war against Hamas looming large, we are also reminded of a prescient January interview and how the judicial overhaul crisis continues to reverberate

(L) MK David Amsalem in Tel Aviv, December 8, 2022; and (R) Michal Rosenbaum. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90; Finance Ministry)

Top government official quits, says minister seeks to use office to ‘accumulate power’

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

In resignation letter to PM, head of Government Companies Authority Michal Rosenbaum accuses David Amsalem of using role for personal gain, lashes Netanyahu for failing to back her

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen (L) and Energy Minister Israel Katz. (Collage/AP)

Cabinet okays Israel Katz replacing Eli Cohen as foreign minister, in planned move

Illustrative: A man casts his ballot at a voting station in Israel's municipal elections, October 30, 2018, in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Municipal elections delayed again due to war, to be held February 27

Picking persimmons in Rishpon in December 2023 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Volunteers’ efforts bear fruit, but war-hit farmers would prefer professionals

By Jessica Steinberg

With thousands of foreign field hands having fled, it’s taking too long to pick the season’s lemons, oranges, persimmons, avocados and strawberries, and some owners are despairing

Paula Abdul arrives at the 57th Annual CMA Awards at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee, on November 8, 2023. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Paula Abdul files sexual assault lawsuit against former ‘American Idol’ producer

By AP

Celebrity also accuses Nigel Lythgoe of assaulting her when she was a judge on another of his shows, ‘So You Think You Can Dance’; he denies claims as ‘appalling smear’

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