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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 10, 2024

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands in a Tel Aviv court before testifying for the first time in his long-running trial for alleged corruption, in Tel Aviv, Dec. 10, 2024. (Menahem Kahana/Pool Photo via AP)

'I work around the clock. By the way, I loathe champagne'

Netanyahu, 1st PM to testify as criminal defendant, ridicules charges, denies illicit media ties

By Jeremy Sharon

PM insists his interactions with the press were designed to reform Israel’s ‘monolithic’ media market, denies any special agreement with key figure in corruption charges

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, arrives to begin his testimony at the district court in his long-running corruption trial, in Tel Aviv, December 10, 2024. (Menahem Kahana / POOL / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 10: Day 431 – Decrying ‘witch hunt,’ PM begins to testify in trial

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the Tel Aviv District Court to testify in his long-running trial for alleged corruption, in Tel Aviv, December 10, 2024. (Menahem Kahana/Pool Photo via AP)

Coalition MKs, ministers line up at court to back Netanyahu as trial testimony kicks off

By Jeremy Sharon, ToI Staff and Agencies

View of the Philadelphi Corridor, the Egypt-Gaza border area in southern Gaza's Rafah, October 20, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 10: Mediators said pressing Israel to withdraw from Gaza-Egypt border in potential deal

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

IDF says it hit most arms stockpiles in Syria * Katz: Israel destroyed Syrian fleet, rebels must not take Assad’s path * 1 lightly hurt in alleged terror ramming in Bnei Brak

9:34 pm

Sullivan meets relatives of American-Israeli hostages at White House
9:14 pm

Syrians are 'exhausted from war' and won't get into another one, rebel leader says
9:05 pm

San Francisco Hillel vandalized with allegedly antisemitic slogan

Analysis

With genocide comments, Nativity visit, pope sows doubts about commitment to Jews

Francis, who sees himself as a friend of the community, has had an increasingly patchy record on statements relating to Jews and Israel, and may be causing irreversible damage to ties

Pope Francis in central Rome on the day of the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, December 8, 2024. (Tiziana Fabi/AFP)

Pope Francis (L) speaks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the end of a private audience at the Vatican, on December 3, 2018. (Andrew Medichini / POOL / AFP)

Pope Francis to meet Mahmoud Abbas in Vatican on Thursday

By Reuters and ToI Staff

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People pick up metal and unexploded ammunition from the site of the previous evening's Israeli airstrike that targeted shipments of weapons that belonged to Syrian government forces in Qamishli, in mainly Kurdish northeastern Syria, on December 10, 2024. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)

Israel pounds Syrian military sites; regional sources claim ‘nothing left’ of army assets

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

IDF denies ground forces in Golan have advanced beyond buffer zone toward Damascus; at the same time, Israeli Navy operates to destroy toppled Assad regime’s fleet

This picture shows a burned Syrian army helicopter after Israeli strikes said to target weapons depots near the Mezzeh military airbase, outside Damascus, on December 9, 2024. (Bakr Alkasem/AFP)

Some 250 Israeli strikes hit Syrian military targets after fall of Assad — reports

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Israeli soldiers on the border fence with Syria, near the northern Israeli town of Majdal Shams. December 9, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

UN slams ‘violation’ of 1974 Syria disengagement deal as Israel acts in buffer zone

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu clashes with members of the press during a press conference from the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, December 9, 2024 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Union slams 'incitement'; Gantz: He's crushing our society

On eve of court testimony, Netanyahu pans legal system, media in heated press conference

By Lazar Berman, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

‘I’ve waited 8 years to present the truth,’ says PM, denying effort to evade justice; says ‘everything goes in the effort to bring down Bibi’; berates reporters for ‘spreading lies’

AnalysisThe State of Israel vs. Benjamin Netanyahu: PM finally takes the witness stand

By Jeremy Sharon

Will pan-Arabists cancel Nazareth’s Christmas?

Israel’s Christian communities need support from the state to ensure their traditions thrive without external interference

HaDassah Sabo Milner

My son’s tears: An update

After I wrote about Aryeh’s struggle with PTSD, the people of Israel have shown just how grateful they are for his sacrifices

Graphic showing the entrance to the ritual area found in the Manot Cave. 1, 2 and 3 indicate rows of stalagmites separating area from the rest of the cave. (courtesy/PNAS open access/CC- BY)

Archaeology

Earliest worship: Evidence of 35,000-year-old prehistoric rites found in northern Israel

By Gavriel Fiske

Researchers hail discovery of ritual complex at Manot Cave as ‘a global breakthrough,’ marking the oldest such findings in the Levant

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference from the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, December 9, 2024 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

'The derided goal of total victory is today becoming reality'

After fall of Assad, PM says Israel is ‘transforming the face of the Middle East’

By Lazar Berman

In first press conference in 99 days, Netanyahu says ousted leader was key to Iranian axis, which Israel is ‘taking apart step by step,’ touts his resistance to pressure to end war

Illustrative: In this July 17, 2017, file photo, a fighter of the Christian Syriac militia that battles the Islamic State group under the banner of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, burns an IS flag on the front line on the western side of Raqqa, northeast Syria. (Hussein Malla/AP)

US warns Islamic State will attempt to re-establish capabilities in Syria

An anti-government fighter waves an Islamic flag from atop a tank in Damascus on December 9, 2024. (OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

AnalysisAssad’s collapse fractures Iranian axis, but ensuing chaos could batter rest of region

By Samia Nakhoul and Andrew Mills

File: Then-Syrian president Bashar al-Assad (2-L) receiving the leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Ziad al-Nakhala (R) Hamas chief of Arab relations, Khalil al-Hayya (2-R) and secretary general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, Talal Naji (L), in the capital Damascus, on October 19, 2022. (STRINGER / Syrian Presidency Facebook page / AFP)

PIJ chiefs said to have fled Damascus ahead of Assad's fall

Hamas fetes fall of Assad regime; group of Syrian rebels vow march on Jerusalem

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Gaza terror groups hope Syrians will continue to back Palestinians after regime change; in footage from Damascus, rebels call for people of Gaza to be ‘patient’ for their aid

A man shows two ropes tied in the shape of nooses, found in the infamous Saydnaya military prison, just north of Damascus, Syria, December 9, 2024. (Hussein Malla/ AP)

Syria rebel leader vows to pursue former regime officials for torture, war crimes

By AFP

People in Damascus celebrate on December 9, 2024, after Islamist-led rebels declared that they had taken the Syrian capital in a lightning offensive, sending former president Bashar al-Assad fleeing and ending five decades of Baath rule in Syria. (Bakr ALKASEM / AFP)

Syrian rebels grant amnesty to Assad conscripts as leaders discuss transfer of power

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A live-fire exercise dubbed operation 'Strong Pillar' outside Al-Mawasi, a town on the southern coast of the Gaza Strip, on September 12, 2023. (Hamas via AP)

Report: Hamas mobilized 2,000 men in May 2023 to drill attack, noted lack of IDF response

Channel 12 reports that months before Oct 7, terror group conducted mass exercise that flew under Israel’s radar, giving group confidence in ability to strike Jewish state

IDF troops operate in northern Gaza's Jabalia, in a handout photo issued on December 9, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says strike kills 10 Hamas men involved in slaying of 3 soldiers Monday

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

From left: Staff Sgt. Ido Zano, Sgt. Omri Cohen and Staff Sgt. Barak Daniel Halpern (Israel Defense Forces)

3 soldiers killed, 12 injured in Gaza as Hamas fires on troops prepping to leave Strip

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Israeli wave energy project draws interest from Qatar, Saudi Arabia and even Iran

Eco Wave Power officially launches grid-connected demonstration model in Jaffa, plans two more for Los Angeles and Taiwan, commercial scale roll-out in Portugal

Eco Wave Power's grid-connected demonstration unit in Jaffa, central Israel. (Ilan Spira)

A protest against the expansion of activity at the EAPC oil port in Eilat, southern Israel, on February 10, 2021. The sign reads, 'Stop the oil agreement now.' (Egor Iggy Petrenko/Coast Patrol)

Siding with controversial company, government scraps policy restricting Eilat oil imports

Eli Feldstein, an aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu charged with national security violations in a case involving leaked classified IDF intel, is released to house arrest after 45 days in detention, December 9, 2024 (Ynet screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Netanyahu aide accused in documents scandal released to house arrest after 1.5 months

By Jeremy Sharon

Supreme Court rejects state appeal against Eli Feldstein’s conditional release, saying little danger posed by it, but keeps NCO who played central role in affair in detention

Smotrich: Saudi normalization deal won’t happen if it requires Palestinian state

By Jacob Magid and Sam Sokol

‘If that’s a deal breaker, the deal will sink,’ far-right minister tells Bloomberg; also tells reporters fall of Assad gives Israel opportunity to occupy and resettle Gaza

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a Religious Zionism faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on December 9, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Thousands of people turn out for an ultra-nationalist march and rally in the Gaza-border town of Sderot to call for the rebuilding of Jewish settlements in Gaza, May 14, 2024. (Courtesy Nachala Settlement Movement)

Countering Israel’s far right, several US Jewish groups say they oppose resettling Gaza

By Andrew Lapin

A home in a Yavne apartment building that was hit by a drone fired from Yemen on December 9, 2024 (Fire and Rescue Service)

IDF says Yemen drone that hit Yavne building wasn’t flagged as clear threat

Air Force probe finds drone was noted as suspect but wasn’t shot down amid concerns it was a civilian aircraft; in future, it says, sirens should sound even when threat unconfirmed

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (L) visiting the torched Adass Israel Synagogue with Rabbi Shlomo Kohn in Melbourne on December 10, 2024. (DEPARTMENT OF PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET / AFP)

Australian PM heckled during visit to Melbourne synagogue gutted in arson attack

By Stuart Winer and Agencies

Anthony Albanese meets Jewish leaders outside torched building, urges unity after ‘evil’ blaze, as crowd members accuse him of ‘letting this happen’ and being slow to show up

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel students and demonstrators shout slogans at the campus of SOAS University of London as students occupy parts of university campus in London, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Antisemitic attacks at British universities soar to record levels, report finds

Nicholas Lemann, dean emeritus of the Columbia Journalism School, speaks at the Limmud New York LearningFest in Manhattan, November 17, 2024. (Art M. Altman/Limmud NY)

Interview'Academic freedom and free speech are not the same thing'

Columbia’s Task Force on Antisemitism co-chair expounds on complexity of anti-Israel protests

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Emeritus journalism dean Nicholas Lemann talks challenges of determining when antisemitism, anti-Zionism intersect, why critics of Ivies are oversimplifying issue

Columbia’s anti-Israel student alliance booted from Instagram

By Luke Tress and New York Jewish Week via JTA

Home, car of Jewish U of Michigan official vandalized with Hamas symbol

By jacob gurvis

More Headlines

Yoav Ende teaching a class to Mechina students. (Hannaton Mechina Program)

Not just Orthodox or secular: New program offers lone soldiers a pluralistic home

Acting Supreme Court President Justice Isaac Amit at a hearing for a petition filed by families of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, October 28, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Supreme Court chief: Levin refusing to meet, directly harming operation of legal system

By Jeremy Sharon

Dutch right-wing leader Geert Wilders is honored as he visits the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, on December 9, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In Israel, hard-right pro-Israel Dutch lawmaker Wilders meets, lauds Netanyahu

Lebanese MP Gebran Bassil attends the 12th parliamentary session to elect a new president in the capital Beirut's downtown district on June 14, 2023 amid bitter divisions between the powerful Iran-backed Hezbollah and its opponents. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

Senior Maronite politician: Hezbollah must focus on Lebanon, not wider region

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Israel Defense Ministry director-general Eyal Zamir speaks at a defense tech summit at Tel Aviv University on December 10, 2024. (Dror Sithakol/Lense Productions)

AI a ‘game-changer’ for future of warfare, says Defense Ministry director-general

By Sharon Wrobel

Passengers stand in line at Ben Gurion Airport during a nationwide strike demanding the government reach a hostage release deal, September 2, 2024. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Knesset panel delays vote on compensation policy changes to bring back foreign airlines

By Sharon Wrobel

Germany arrests three Islamic extremists over suspected attack plot

By AFP

Illustrative: A Magen David Adom ambulance is seen in Jerusalem, March 28, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Two stabbed and wounded at Karmiel police station; motive unclear

Vice President Kamala Harris, right, holds a ceremonial swearing-in for Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., left, joined by his wife Eve M. Schiff, center, at the Capitol in Washington, December 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Historic textAdam Schiff sworn into Senate on 1490 edition of Maimonides’ legal code

Abbi Jacobson, left, and Ilana Glazer star in "Broad City." (Jason Nocito; "Seinfeld" photo: George Lange/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images; Woody Allen photo: Screenshot from "Annie Hall"; collage by Emily Burack/70 Faces Media)

'It got really scary'‘Broad City’ star says no regrets over previous decision not to film in Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

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