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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 7, 2024

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IDF soldiers near the Israeli border with Syria, December 7, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 7: Foreign minister: Israel watching Syria with concern, no plans to step in

IDF soldier killed fighting in south Gaza * Soldier seriously wounded in West Bank car-ramming attack * Visiting border with Syria, IDF chief says Israel ‘closely following’ situation

9:36 pm

8 anti-government protesters said arrested in Tel Aviv
9:11 pm

Dozens of Hezbollah fighters flee Homs as rebels close in, says Syrian army officer
8:48 pm

Melbourne Jewish community to hold solidarity rally following synagogue arson

Protesters in Jerusalem's Paris Square rally on behalf of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, urging the government to finalize a deal for their release, November 16, 2024. (Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

‘Act swiftly and decisively’: Hostage families rallying as talks seem set to restart

Qatari PM confirms return to mediator role due to incoming White House’s ‘encouragement’; Tel Aviv ‘Democracy March’ to reach Kaplan Street despite no police approval

Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani arrives for a meeting with Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani at 10 Downing Street in central London, on December 4, 2024 (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

Qatar’s PM confirms resumption of Gaza mediation role, cites fresh momentum for deal

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Al Thani says there’s been ‘a lot of encouragement from the incoming administration to achieve a deal,’ even before Trump’s term starts

US billionaire Elon Musk meets with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and representatives of families of hostages held in Gaza during his visit to Israel, November 27, 2023. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Herzog speaks with Musk, aiming to recruit Trump confidant to hostage deal cause

ExclusiveOfficials: Latest temporary ceasefire offer unlikely to fly

Trump aides asked Qatar to recall ousted Hamas chiefs in bid to revive hostage talks

Sources tell ToI that after Biden requested terror leaders’ expulsion, president-elect’s team urged reversal of move, deeming Doha’s mediation critical to get a deal before Jan. 20

US President Donald Trump meets with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, July 9, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Analysis

AP and ToI Staff

Alone, broke, under attack: Is Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime collapsing?

With insurgents reinvigorated, allies weakened by their own wars, and no money to pay troops, the Syrian strongman has little to plug a steady stream of defections to rebel forces

This aerial picture shows a bullet-riddled portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad adorning Hama's municipality building after it was defaced following the capture of the city by anti-government fighters, on December 6, 2024. (Omar Haj Kadour/AFP)

Iran said to evacuate officials from Syria as Assad’s forces lose ground

By ToI Staff and Agencies

ExplainerSyria’s rebel leader Golani: From radical jihadist to ostensible pragmatist

By Sammy Ketz and Layal Abou Rahal

IDF bolsters forces on Syria border as rebels appear set to capture Homs

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

In this image made from April 17, 2021, video released by the Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting, IRIB, state-run TV, various centrifuge machines line the hall damaged on April 11, 2021, at the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility, some 200 miles (322 km) south of the capital Tehran. (IRIB via AP)

IAEA chief: Iran poised to ‘dramatically’ increase stockpile of near weapons-grade uranium

‘If they really make them turn — all of them — it’s going to be a huge jump,’ says Grossi as Tehran begins feeding new centrifuges and enriching uranium to 60%

Two Jewish men stand outside the Adass Israel Synagogue in Ripponlea, Melbourne, December 7, 2024, a day after it was gutted in an arson attack. (AAP Image/Rachael Ward/Reuters)

2 suspects at large; Albanese slams 'un-Australian' attack

Australia rebuffs Netanyahu’s claim synagogue arson due to ‘anti-Israel’ government

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Minister touts Canberra’s action against hate speech, funding for Jewish groups; ex-pols urge PM Albanese to declare arson that gutted Melbourne’s Adass Israel a terrorist act

Israel supporters observe a moment of silence as they attend a vigil outside McGill University in Montreal, Canada, on October, 7, 2024, to commemorate the victims of the October 7 massacre by Hamas on Israel. (Graham Hughes / AFP)

'I’ve never seen or felt such antisemitism in my lifetime'

264-year-old Montreal Jewish community fears antisemitism becoming the new normal

By Robert Sarner

Latest incidents further fuel heightened anxiety over crisis in Canada’s second largest city as Jews face troubling questions about their community’s future

Rachelli Prawer

Melbourne 2024: Jews, wake up and smell the smoke!

Our enemies know the power of fire and the national memories it evokes, but we are no longer exiled and defenseless – we have a refuge

Catherine Perez-Shakdam

When the music stops: The haunting legacy of anti-Zionism

When history’s sober gaze falls upon this era, it will draw upon a digital archive of those who chose the easy path of fashionable outrage

Participants hold up signs at the March for Israel rally organized by the Jewish Federations of North America on November 14, 2023, on the National Mall in Washington. (Daryl Perry)

Toi investigatesNearly 40% of US Jewish organizations saw new donors

Huge post-October 7 giving boom from overseas brings hope to battered frontlines

With no shortage of organizations trying to help, big philanthropic bodies say they’re working in coordination, each filling a different role, while letting local communities lead

Troops of the 401st Armored Brigade operate in northern Gaza's Jabalia, in a handout photo published by the military on December 4, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says it killed Hamas officers involved in Oct. 7 glider infiltration, massacres

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Military denies reports it struck, stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital, after 29 said killed and dozens injured at one of north Gaza’s last functioning hospitals

Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal talks to The Associated Press in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, 2018 file photo)

Saudi royal says Israel ‘genocidal,’ hopes Netanyahu will be brought before ICC

By Agencies and ToI Staff

'Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston,' at The Jewish Museum, features works by Philip Guston, left, and Trenton Doyle Hancock, right. (JTA)

Reporter's notebook

Jewish, black artists tackle KKK with satire in new Jewish Museum exhibit

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

In ‘Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston,’ artists confront symbols of racism, white supremacy, antisemitism

Photo Essay

OHAD ZWIGENBERG

After 15 months of abandonment, hostage homes are empty memorials

The forsaken homes, many scarred by battle and covered with posters, stand as a testament to growing grief among families who still don’t have their loved ones home

The home of David Cunio, hostage who were pulled into Gaza by Hamas terrorists in their Oct. 7, 2023 attack, stands empty after nearly 15 months of war in kibbutz Nir Oz, southern Israel, Thursday Dec. 5, 2024 (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Ruth Patir's works on exhibit at the 60th Venice Biennale, part of her '(M)otherland' artworks. (Courtesy of the artist and Braverman Gallery Tel Aviv)

Museum buys artist’s work after she shut Venice Biennale exhibit in call for hostage deal

By Jessica Steinberg

New York’s Jewish Museum purchases Israeli artist Ruth Patir’s five-part video installation ‘(M)otherland,’ which will premiere at Tel Aviv Museum of Art in March

People walk on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, February 2, 2024. (AP/Seth Wenig)

'Maybe the course, not the criticism, should be scrutinized'

Cornell president’s leaked criticism of Gaza class prompts new row over academic freedom

By Andrew Lapin

In a private email, Michael Kotlikoff criticized a new course called ‘Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance,’ raising concerns for some as Trump vows to crack down on campus protests

More Headlines

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, converses with Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana during a Likud faction meeting on February 6, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset speaker slams court for failing to coordinate Netanyahu’s testimony with him

The Supreme Court in Washington, June 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

US Supreme Court to decide if PA, PLO can be sued in US over Mideast terror attacks

By Mark Sherman

This photograph taken on December 6, 2024, shows a pages from original manuscript of General de Gaulle's 1940 "Appeal of June 18," displayed ahead of an auction of General de Gaulle's personal memorabilia and writings (the manuscript displayed in the photograph is not up for sale, however), at Artcurial auction house in Paris. (Grégoire CAMPIONE / AFP)

Famed De Gaulle WWII speech against Nazis on show for first time

By AFP

Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, attends a prayer service for the return of the hostages held by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, March 21, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Police recommend recognizing Sara Netanyahu as ‘crime victim’ after flares fired at home

People wave Romanian and European Union flags during a pro-European rally in Bucharest, Romania, December 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Romania’s top court voids first-round presidential vote won by far-right candidate

By STEPHEN McGRATH

South Korean National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik bangs the gavel to announce that "the voting cannot take place" because the quorum was not reached during a plenary session for the impeachment vote of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024. (Jeon Heon-kyun/Pool Photo via AP)

South Korea’s president avoids impeachment attempt over his failed martial law gambit

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and Hyung-Jin Kim

A TikTok sign is displayed on top of their building in Culver City, California, on December 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

US federal appeals court upholds law requiring sale or ban of TikTok

By Haleluya Hadero

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