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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 3, 2024

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US president Donald Trump poses for photos with family members of Hamas hostage Edan Alexander, after visiting the gravesite of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson in New York, October 7, 2024. (AP Photo/ Yuki Iwamura)

Eulogizing Omer Neutra, Biden pledges further work for deal

Trump warns there will be ‘all hell to pay’ if hostages aren’t released by Jan. 20

After making threat as candidate at the RNC, president-elect doubles down, two days after Hamas releases video of American-Israeli captive begging him to secure a deal

Illustrative: Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel students protest at an encampment on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan on April 28, 2024. (JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP)

US Jewish group targets anti-Israel protesters in hopes Trump will deport them

Defense Minister Israel Katz, center, meets with officers on the northern border, December 3, 2024. (Elad Malka/Defense Ministry)

Israel warns Lebanon to ensure Hezbollah adheres to truce or face attacks itself

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Defense minister urges Lebanese to keep terror group within ceasefire terms; Hezbollah liaison with Syrian army killed in strike; US said to press Jerusalem, Beirut to uphold deal

IDF troops patrol along the Israeli-Lebanon border in northern Israel, December 2, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

IDF launches wave of strikes in Lebanon after Hezbollah mortar attack

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

A view of south Lebanon from a destroyed home in Kibbutz Manara, November 27, 2024. (Eli Katzoff)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 3: Day 424 – Hezbollah mortar fire tests Lebanon ceasefire

Op-ed: Day 424 of the war

Why you should be worried for Israeli democracy

The coalition is moving to centralize ever more authority in Netanyahu’s hands – at the expense of gatekeepers including the legal system, police, Shin Bet and free press

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 13, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Who are the rebels battering Syria’s regime, and do they pose a risk to Israel?

The two groups leading the assault, HTS and the SNA, are now focused on their common foe, Bashar Assad. Where might they turn their attention in the future?

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group's chief Abu Mohammed al-Julani checks the damage following an earthquake in the village of Besnaya in Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib province at the border with Turkey, on February 7, 2023. (Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

A Syrian official flag lies on the ground as opposition fighters stand on the tarmac of the Aleppo international airport in Aleppo, December 2. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)

Iraqi fighters head to Syria to battle rebels, but Hezbollah said staying out of fight

By Reuters and ToI Staff

IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari speaks to Sky News Arabia, on December 2, 2024 (Screencapture)

As Iran sends forces to Syria, IDF warns it not to smuggle arms to Hezbollah

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Eli Feldstein (left), a former spokesman in the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is the main suspect in an investigation, launched in late October 2024, of alleged illegal access and leaking of classified intelligence material. (Kan screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law); Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) at a plenum session at the Knesset, Jerusalem, November 12, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 3: Reports say Feldstein told Netanyahu about top-secret document before leak to Bild

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Judge orders PM’s aide to house arrest in leaks case * Premier to testify in his trial in Tel Aviv on Dec. 10 * Slain hostage Omer Neutra mourned in New York, Tel Aviv

9:00 pm

UN watchdog to conduct probe into sexual misconduct claims against ICC prosecutor
8:25 pm

June conference chaired by France and Saudis will aim to make two-state solution relevant again
7:59 pm

South Korea's president says he will reverse martial law declaration

Israel Prison Service chief Kobi Yaakobi seen after his questioning at the Police Internal Investigations Department, in Jerusalem December 2, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Prison service chief detained for questioning; Ben Gvir accuses AG of ‘attempted coup’

Kobi Yaakobi probed for hours on suspicion of breach of trust, obstructing justice, is let go under restrictive conditions; Ben Gvir, who appointed him, says AG crossed ‘red line’

IDF troops with the 252nd Division operate in the Netzarim Corridor in the central Gaza Strip, in a handout image published October 3, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Digging in, IDF builds dozens of bases in and around expanded Netzarim Corridor – NYT

Report says satellite images and video footage indicate the military has demolished around 600 buildings in last 3 months to create a buffer zone around the central Gaza corridor

Exterior of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, June 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

ICC top judge pans ‘appalling’ US threat to penalize court over Israel arrest warrants

By AP and ToI Staff

Family and friends attend the funeral service of Shirel Golan, survivor of the Supernova massacre, in Tel Mond, October 21, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

'Parents say they can't leave their kids alone for a second'

Nova’s lingering scars: PTSD and fear of suicides spark alarm

By Deborah Danan

Many of those who survived the Hamas massacre at the desert rave witnessed extreme violence by the terrorists, including rape and mutilation. Now, they are desperate for more support

Egyptian army soldiers guard their side of the Rafah crossing, closed since early May, on July 4, 2024. (Giuseppe Cacace / AFP)

Fatah, Hamas agree to form committee to run postwar Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Proposal calls for nonpartisan panel to administer Strip, and for all crossings into territory to return to pre-October 2023 operations

Debra Weiner-Solomont

Words no army parent wants to hear: ‘Get to the hospital now’

My son has a hard road ahead, but his deep friendships and our new support network have already worked wonders toward healing

Hussain Abdul-Hussain

Gulf countries talk like Iran, act like Israel

The GCC rhetoric on Israel masks its true aims to decouple Syria’s Assad and the Islamic Republic and declaw Hezbollah in Lebanon

From 'One Kafka, One Hundred Times' by illustrator Michel Kichka, for the National Library exhibit 'Kafka: Metamorphosis of an Author,' December 2024-June 2025 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Franz Kafka’s papers metamorphose into National Library exhibit

By Jessica Steinberg

Wide-ranging exhibition ‘Kafka: Metamorphosis of an Author’ features the institution’s singular archives and marks 100 years since the Czech author’s death

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 13, 2024. (Chaim Goldbergl/Flash90)

Netanyahu: High Court has no right to order state commission of inquiry into Oct. 7

Responding to petitions demanding state commission, lawyer for PM asserts the court would ‘shred the principle of separation of powers’ if it ordered the government to set it up

Israel Bar Association leader Amit Becher during a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, November 25, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)

Bill giving justice minister power over Bar Association’s fees clears first reading

The Shift 101 silent protest sit-in in front of the Knesset in Jerusalem, on November 25, 2024. (Orna Kupferman)

Reporter's notebook'It is possible to scream loudly in a small still voice'

Inspired by Gandhi, white-clad hostage mothers silently scream in protest

By Jessica Steinberg

In a new strategy, the Mishmeret 101 rallies are nonviolent and apolitical, with shifts of protesters revolving around families of those abducted by Hamas-led terrorists on Oct. 7

‘Dad won’t be able to say goodbye’: Mother of Hamas hostage Keith Siegel dies

In this April 28, 2019 file photo, a San Diego county sheriff's deputy stands in front of the Poway Chabad Synagogue in Poway, California, following a shooting that left one woman dead and wounded three others. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)

Israel prepares to honor Diaspora victims of antisemitic attacks

A new committee will examine proposals for inclusion in certain state memorials; at least 155 non-Israeli Jews have already been identified

An AfD election poster for the European elections reading 'Our country first' is fixed on a pole in Frankfurt, Germany, May 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst), File)

Far-right German AfD says it will replace radical youth wing ahead of snap elections

By AFP

Illustrative: An Iranian flag made from binary code. (Sergio Lacueva/iStock Photo by Getty Images)

Shin Bet: Iran targeted senior Israeli figures with over 200 cyberattacks

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Security service says cyber phishing attempts against defense officials, politicians, journalists and other prominent Israelis were aimed at enabling future attacks on them

A handout picture provided by the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's office on November 17, 2024, shows him (R) talking to Iran's Ambassador to Lebanon Mojtaba Amani who was injured in Beirut in Israel's September pager attacks, in Tehran on November 17, 2024. (KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)

Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon reappears after being injured in September pager attack

By ToI Staff and AP

The fragment of a colorful bowl, originating in 16th century China, found on Mt. Zion in jerusalem. (Emil Aladjem/IAA)

Ming leftovers

Mount Zion dig unearths 16th century Chinese porcelain bowl fragment

By Gavriel Fiske

Researchers say the find, with the earliest Chinese inscription discovered in Israel, is a sign of trade ties between the Ottoman Empire and the Ming Dynasty

More Headlines

Screen capture from video of a fatal road accident near the Kfar Hayarok Interchange on Route 5, December 3, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Three killed when two cars collide north of Tel Aviv, burst into flames

FILE - Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, left, and FIFA President Gianni Infantino, stand for the anthem prior to the match between Russia and Saudi Arabia which opened the 2018 soccer World Cup at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia, on June 14, 2018. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Report details Saudi Arabia’s spending and influence network to host 2034 World Cup

By Graham Dunbar

For illustration: Former NBA player and investor Omri Casspi (second from right) tours Israel's devastated south with tech billionaire Elon Musk (right) in November 2023. (Courtesy)

‘Zionism 2.0’: Former NBA player Omri Casspi raises $60m to invest in Israeli startups

By Sharon Wrobel

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger speaks while holding a new chip, called Gaudi 3, during an event in New York, on December 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Intel CEO resigns before completing struggling chipmaker’s turnaround plan

By Reuters and Sharon Wrobel

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