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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 5, 2024

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Left to right: US President-elect Donald Trump's incoming Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff at a Trump campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, New York, October 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci); Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a government meeting in Nahariya on December 3, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/GPO); Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani attends a meeting in Egypt's new administrative capital on November 27, 2024. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)

'They want a deal to be resolved now -- today even'

Qatar resumes Gaza mediation role, as Trump envoy pushes for deal by Jan. 20 — source

By Reuters, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Mideast point man in-waiting Steve Witkoff held talks with Netanyahu and Qatari PM, who then met Mossad chief, source says; Hamas to return to Doha for fresh round of negotiations

Campaigning for a second term, former US President Donald Trump speaks before prominent Jewish donors at an event titled "Fighting Antisemitism in America" at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill, Washington DC, September 19, 2024. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images via JTA)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 5: Day 426 – Trump speaks loudly and carries a big stick on Gaza

Illustrative: US President Donald Trump listens as Adam Boehler, CEO of US International Development Finance Corporation, speaks about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, April 14, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon/File)

Trump taps businessman and former Abraham Accords negotiator as hostage point-man

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Amnesty International Headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand, September 8, 2015. (chameleonseye/istock)

Almost half of Amnesty Israel board have recently resigned

‘Predetermined conclusions’: Amnesty Israel workers slam parent group’s ‘genocide’ charge

By Jeremy Sharon, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Local branch rejects report’s conclusion, but says Israeli actions ‘may amount to crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing’; US also rejects genocide conclusion

Palestinians wait for food aid outside a distribution center at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on December 4, 2024. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Amnesty report accuses Israel of seeking genocide in Gaza; Jerusalem slams ‘lies’

By AP and ToI Staff

Anti-government fighters pose for a "selfie" picture on a Syrian regime military aircraft at the Kweyris military airfield in the eastern part of Aleppo province on December 3, 2024. (Rami al Sayed/AFP)

Syrian rebels oust regime forces from key central city of Hama, on route to Damascus

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi

Assad’s troops retreat from strategic city, which had remained in government hands throughout entire civil war, less than a week after Islamist forces took Aleppo

A mourner carries a portrait of slain Hezbollah's chief Hassan Nasrallah during the funeral procession of Hezbollah fighters, killed during the war with Israel, in Beirut's southern suburbs, on December 4, 2024. (AFP)

US intel: Hezbollah looking to rebuild after losing half of its weapons stockpiles

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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US Ambassador Jack Lew speaks in an interview with Kan news on December 5, 2024. (Kan screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

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Dec. 5: US envoy says Israeli demands on Philadelphi Route distracted from Hamas intransigence

IDF says strike in Gaza humanitarian zone killed several Hamas operatives, top commander * Israel hoping renewed fighting in Syria weakens both sides, official says

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TV report: Israel preparing for possibility that the Syrian army may collapse

Syria: Better the devil we don’t know

Assad massacred half a million of his own people. It’s time to see how others try to stabilize the country – as long as they reduce interference by Iran

Call the light forward and be that light: Omer Neutra z”l

Mourning this loss, I wanted to hide under the covers, but how can I? The lives in peril for 14 months need us to get up and speak for them

Body of slain hostage Itay Svirsky recovered from Gaza by troops

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says Svirsky, 38, was murdered by Hamas terrorists in captivity nearly a year ago; few details given on the operation

Itay Svirsky (Courtesy)

IDF finds slain hostages were likely shot by captors in February amid Israeli airstrikes

By Emanuel Fabian

Probe shows Alex Dancyg, Yagev Buchshtav, Chaim Peri, Yoram Metzger, Nadav Popplewell, and Avraham Munder were apparently murdered as air force hit Khan Younis

Top (L-R): Nadav Popplewell, Yoram Metzger, Avraham Munder; bottom (L-R): Chaim Peri, Yagev Buchshtav, Alex Dancyg. Abducted to Gaza by Hamas on October 7, 2023, their bodies were retrieved by the IDF on August 20, 2024. (Courtesy)

Senior West Bank police officer Avishai Mualem arrives for a court hearing at the Magistrate's Court in Jerusalem on December 2, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Top West Bank cop said to have ignored intel on settler attacks to please Ben Gvir

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Court refuses to extend remand of Avishai Mualem, releases him to house arrest; far-right national security minister says ‘proud’ of promoting officers who carry out his policies

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara addresses the Israel Bar Association's annual conference in Eilat, May 27, 2024. (Courtesy: Israel Bar Association)

Man arrested for incitement after carrying sign calling for attorney general’s death

Police release video of Jerusalem suspect showing poster to passersby that wishes for God to kill Gali Baharav-Miara ‘and her supporters’

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting in the Knesset in Jerusalem, on November 18, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Attorney general says state commission needed urgently to probe October 7

IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari speaks to the media on December 4, 2024 (Video screenshot)

IDF spokesman draws sharp rebuke for criticizing bill that could protect intel leakers

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

Army chief reprimands Hagari, defense minister says he will face disciplinary action, some legislators demand he be fired for warning that legislation endangers national security

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

Bill to prevent prosecution of soldiers who send intel to PM passes preliminary reading

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the Jerusalem District Court for a hearing on his corruption trial, June 26, 2023. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool)

Court rejects Netanyahu request to testify only 2 days a week in corruption trial

By Jeremy Sharon

Netanyahu’s lawyers claim request for more court hours is unfairly creating difficulties for the premier; prosecutors say it’s in public interest to finish graft proceedings ASAP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the District Court in Jerusalem to listen to the testimony of businessman Arnon Milchan in the prime minister's corruption trial on June 25, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL)

High Court rejects petition demanding PM recuse himself during testimony in trial

Eli Feldstein, a 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)

State appeals Feldstein’s release; his lawyer says PM knew of plan to leak intel to media

The University of Leipzig (iStock)

German cancelation of Israeli professor’s talk highlights widening academic boycotts

A wheat field and a vineyard near Kibbutz Hulda, south central Israel, on April 13, 2024. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Ministries working to get country’s 1st food security plan ready by end of April

Agriculture Ministry budget cuts overshadow ambitious plan to grow more local produce, move Israelis to healthy Mediterranean diet

Israel to get 1st facility to recycle organic waste, produce gas and fertilizer

IDF troops operate at the Litani River in the eastern sector of southern Lebanon, in a handout image released on November 26, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

OECD cuts Israel growth forecast as costs of war expected to continue to mount

By Sharon Wrobel

The Paris-based organization says risks remain high and urges the government to take fiscal action to bring the deficit down

Donald Trump speaks before prominent Jewish donors at an event titled 'Fighting Anti-Semitism in America' at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill on September 19, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/ Getty Images/ AFP)

'It will be taken more seriously under this administration'

Trump gears up to deliver on promise to curb anti-Israel campus protests

By Andrew Lapin

The incoming president has promised to defeat the ‘radical revolution,’ throw activists who aren’t US citizens out of the country, and slash funding for campuses that allow them

This combination of pictures created on November 02, 2024, shows former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) as he arrives on stage to speak during a campaign rally at the Sports and Expo Center at Macomb Community College in Warren, Michigan, November 1, 2024, and US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (R) as she arrives for a campaign rally at the Craig Ranch Amphitheater in Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 31, 2024.(Roberto Schmidt and David Becker/AFP)

US Jews favored Harris over Trump, but Democrats’ edge smaller than in 2020 – analyses

Several surveys conducted since Election Day find that 63% to 71% of Jewish voters backed Democrats, keeping in line with historical preference for party

Tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, commander of the maiden Polaris Dawn voyage on the SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft, arrives at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, August 19, 2024. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Trump taps Jewish billionaire Jared Isaacman to head NASA

By PHILISSA CRAMER

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French Prime Minister Michel Barnier delivers a speech during the debate prior to the no-confidence votes on his administration at the National Assembly in Paris on December 4, 2024. (Alain Jocard/AFP)

French government falls in historic no-confidence vote uniting far-left and far-right

By Stuart Williams and Anna SMOLCHENKO

Police arrive after a synagogue was attacked in a failed arson attempt in Gothenburg, Sweden, on December 9, 2017. (ADAM IHSE/AFP)

Sweden jails 3 over explosives planted at Israeli defense firm

By AFP and ToI Staff

A man yanks at the sidecurls of an ultra-Orthodox passerby in Jerusalem, December 4, 2024. (Screen capture via X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

East Jerusalem man yanks Haredi passerby’s sidelocks, spits and hurls ‘racist’ insults

Illustrative: The Israel Navy launches its new 'Barak 8' missile defense system on November 26, 2015. (screen capture: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Cyprus takes delivery of air defense system from Israel, report says

By Michele Kambas

Delegates to the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, April 20, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot)

Allegations of Christian influence surface ahead of World Zionist Congress election

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 9, 2024. (Cliff Owen/AP)

Chuck Schumer reelected head of US Senate Democrats, this time as minority leader

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