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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 15, 2024

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Justice Minister Yariv Levin speaks at a Knesset session, December 4, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Haredi parties oppose such bills before enlistment law

Levin threatens to revive divisive judicial overhaul: High Court ‘left us no choice’

Responding to deadline to tap Supreme Court chief, justice minister signals he’ll unfreeze bill giving coalition control over judge-selecting panel; Lapid pans ‘criminal blackmail’

Former state attorney Moshe Lador attends a conference at the Knesset on December 11, 2019 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ex-state attorney: Air Force reservists should stop flying if judicial overhaul revived

By ToI Staff, Sam Sokol and Jeremy Sharon

The leader of Syria's Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group that headed a lightning rebel offensive snatching Damascus from government control, Abu Mohammed al-Julani, address a crowd at the capital's landmark Umayyad Mosque on December 8, 2024. (Aref TAMMAWI / AFP)

'We were able to end the Iranian presence in Syria'

Syrian rebel leader: Israel has ‘no more excuses’ to strike, we don’t seek conflict

By Gianluca Pacchiani

In first comment on Jewish state since fall of Assad regime, Sharaa says Syria will seek stability after long civil war, hints at ‘diplomatic solutions’ to avert regional escalation

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivers a statement to the press after meeting with the foreign ministers of the Arab Contact Group on Syria in Jordan's southern Red Sea coastal city of Aqaba, December 14, 2024. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool via AP)

Blinken: US officials have directly communicated with Syria’s blacklisted new rulers

A convoy of IDF vehicles approach a United Nations position on the border between Israel and Syria in the Golan Heights on December 11, 2024. The Syrian Army Tel Kwdana post can be seen in the background. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 15: Day 436 – ToI reports from Syria as Israel weighs striking Iran

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

'It's forbidden to go to the army, even for one who is idle'

Former chief rabbi says ultra-Orthodox must not serve in army, provoking outrage

Widespread condemnation comes from Prime Minister’s Office, ministers, opposition MKs after Yitzhak Yosef declares that even those not engaged in Torah study should shun the IDF

Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef in Safed on September 17, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 15: US said to ask Israel to approve military aid for PA as it fights terrorists in Jenin

IDF: Al Jazeera cameraman killed in Gaza was member of Islamic Jihad * Cabinet okays plan to double the population of the Golan Heights * Security cabinet convenes in Jerusalem

9:36 pm

Syrian rebel leader meets with UN envoy in Damascus
9:35 pm

Left-wing Israelis protest against Gaza war in New York City
9:03 pm

Palestinians report 12 killed in strike on shelter in southern Gaza's Khan Younis

Screen capture from video circulating on social media apparently showing security forces searching for suspects on the Route 1 highway, December 15, 2024. (Screen capture: X; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Terror scare shuts down main Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway

Police later say terror suspicion was false alarm, after incident brings traffic to standstill; cops detain 13 unauthorized Palestinian workers in connection with suspected vehicle

Yossi Klein Halevi

Is anti-Zionism antisemitism? It doesn’t matter

It is time to shift gears and recognize that the delegitimization of Israel is the greatest threat facing the Jewish people today

Alexander Seinfeld

Notre Dame is wondrous, but is it moral?

The celebrated restoration preserves the cathedral’s core mission and meaning, the triumph of Christianity over Judaism

'We hope this new power will not normalize' ties with Israel

Hezbollah chief says supply route via Syria cut, hopes rebels won’t have ties with Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Naim Qassem expects jihadist leadership that ousted Assad will consider Israel an enemy, allow arms flow to resume

Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem gives a televised speech on December 14, 2024. (Press TV screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli soldiers close the security fence gate near the so-called Alpha Line that separates the Golan Heights from Syria, in the town of Majdal Shams, Thursday, December 12, 2024. (AP/Matias Delacroix)

Israelis and Jordanians said to meet secretly amid worries over rebel surge in Syria

Reports say Amman acting as mediator between Israel and HTS as neighbors seek to work out emerging threats from north; Iranian attempts to smuggle arms via Jordan also discussed

Anti-government protesters demanding a deal to free hostages held in Gaza in Tel Aviv, December 14, 2024. (Adar Eyal/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

At weekly rally, hostage’s mom vows to be PM’s ‘worst nightmare’ if son not returned

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

As optimism rises on possibility of Gaza deal, report says Netanyahu most determined to reach agreement since November 2023 release, but gaps remain between sides

Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, left, speaks with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a meeting with the foreign ministers of the Arab Contact Group on Syria in Jordan's southern Red Sea coastal city of Aqaba, December 14, 2024. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool via AP)

Top US, Mideast envoys hold meetings on Gaza deal efforts and Syria’s future

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Palestinians inspect the damage at the site of an Israeli strike in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City on December 15, 2024. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

IDF: Dozens of terror operatives killed in overnight raid in north Gaza’s Beit Hanoun

By Emanuel Fabian

Several more gunmen killed in adjacent town of Beit Lahiya; military says it hit Hamas command center in former clinic in Jabalia, three cells in Gaza City

Rescuers and people search building rubble for casualties following an Israeli strike on the municipality building in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on December 14, 2024. (Photo by Eyad Baba/AFP)

Mayor of Gaza’s Deir al-Balah killed in strike; IDF: He was in Hamas’s military wing

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Palestinians pray over the bodies of people killed in an Israeli army strike against Hamas in the Nuseirat refugee camp, at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, December 12, 2024. (Abdel Kareem Hana/AP)

UK think tank: Gaza death toll inflated to defame Israel for targeting civilians

Hamas figures appear to include thousands who died of natural causes, Henry Jackson Society finds, accusing international media of being too quick to accept terror group’s numbers

Syrian schoolchildren attend class at a school in the capital Damascus's Dweilaa neighborhood on December 15, 2024 (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)

A week after Assad’s fall, Syria begins to come to terms with his brutal legacy

By AFP and ToI Staff

Residents and rebel leaders aim for return to normalcy; pubs and bars reopening, reportedly with blessing of Islamist regime

An aerial photo shows military vehicles parked outside a building, reportedly used by the Russian Army, in the in the Syrian town of Al-Bassah in the Latakia province on December 12, 2024. (Aaref Watad/AFP)

After Assad’s fall, Russia pulling some, but not all, of its forces out of Syria

By Tuvan Gumrukcu, Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Guy Faulconbridge

Palestinian boys carry their national flag, as they stand on the rubble of buildings destroyed during the Syrian civil war and also demolished by the Damascus government or stripped by thieves, at the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, outside Damascus, Syria, December 14, 2024. (Hussein Malla/AP)

Palestinian refugees return to uncertain future in Yarmouk under new Syrian regime

By AP and ToI Staff

An arial view shows the infamous Sednaya prison, just north of Damascus, Syria, Monday, Dec. 9, 2024, as crowds gather to enter (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Former Syrian prisoners return to ‘death dormitory’ in Assad’s notorious jail

By Mahmoud Hasano

Freed inmates describe systematic torture at prisons; ‘one to three people would die inside every day,’ says one released man

Austin Tice. (screen capture: YouTube)

Missing US journalist Austin Tice briefly escaped Syrian jail in 2013 — sources

By Erin Banco and Jonathan Landay

Left: Conservative Rabbi Shalom Tzvi (Harry) Davidowitz (public domain); right: From right to left, Rabbi Mauricio Balter, executive director of Masorti Olami, Dr. Yizhar Hess, Rabbi Ashira Konigsberg, Rabbi Jacob Blumenthal, CEO of the Rabbinical Assembly and the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, look up at the street sign named for Shalom Tzvi (Harry) Davidowitz, Herzliya, December 11, 2024. (Herzliya Municipality)

Davidowitz was born in Lithuania in 1887 and ordained at JTS

1st street in Israel named for Masorti rabbi who influenced Declaration of Independence

In Herzliya, the Conservative Movement celebrates the commemoration of US cleric Shalom Tzvi Davidowitz, who is likely responsible for adding God into the historic 1948 statement

Iranian singer Parastoo Ahmady performs a virtual concert on December 11, 2024. (YouTube screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iran arrests female singer who performed on YouTube without hijab

By AP

Parastoo Ahmady’s lawyer says he has no information on charges, place of detention or who arrested her; two other musicians in same band also arrested

In this photo released by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran on November 6, 2019, a forklift carries a cylinder containing uranium hexafluoride gas for the purpose of injecting the gas into centrifuges in Iran's Fordo nuclear facility. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

Iran’s atomic organization claims it won’t impede IAEA access to nuclear sites

Erin Molan delivers video statement after her dismissal from Sky News Australia, December 13, 2024. (Twitter, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

After firing by Sky News Australia, pro-Israel TV host says she’s ‘not done’

Erin Molan does not share reasons for her dismissal or plans for the future but says she won’t stop defending Israel in its war against Hamas

Synergy7's R&D robotics lab in Beersheva. (Sali Petel)

Negev-based consortium helps war-hit startups reach US, Singapore and UAE markets

By Sharon Wrobel

Synergy7, backed by the Israel Innovation Authority, Elbit and Dell, sets up an innovation hub in Beersheba to give businesses access to tech space and develop the country’s south

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Isak Andic, founder of Spanish fashion brand Mango, dies in hiking accident, aged 71

First responders at the scene of a shooting in Haifa on December 15, 2024. (MDA spokesperson)

Man shot to death in Haifa in suspected gangland killing

Mikheil Kavelashvili reacts after being elected as Georgian's new president at the parliament in Tbilisi on December 14, 2024. (Vano Shlamov/AFP)

Georgia lawmakers elect hardline critic of West as new president

Iranians cross a road under a billboard bearing portraits of the late founder of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (R) and the current Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the capital Tehran on August 27, 2024. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran currency slips to new lows amid tensions with West

By Reuters and ToI Staff

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