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What Matters Most On Friday, December 27, 2024

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The scene of a deadly terror stabbing in Herzliya on December 27, 2024. (Magen David Adom); inset: Ludmila Lipovsky, 83, who was murdered in the attack. (Courtesy)

83-year-old woman killed in Herzliya terror stabbing; attacker is ex-Shin Bet informant

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Ludmila Lipovsky stabbed outside her assisted living facility; security services say assailant from West Bank helped bust terror networks, was moved to Israel after cover was blown

'There exists a people who want coexistence. They want peace'

Damascus governor says new Syrian regime wants peace: ‘Our problem is not with Israel’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Apparently speaking on behalf of al-Sharaa, official says they ‘don’t want to meddle in anything that will threaten Israel’s security,’ and Jerusalem’s concern over new regime is ‘natural’

Governor of Damascus Maher Marwan speaks to AFPTV about the challenges facing Syria's transitional government, December 15, 2024. (BAKR ALKASEM / AFPTV / AFP)

Children on the top of an ousted Syrian government forces tank that was left on a street in an Alawite neighborhood, in Homs, Syria, December 26, 2024. (AP Photo/ Leo Correa)

Syria’s Homs settles into uneasy calm after brief eruption of sectarian violence

Sara Netanyahu, center, and her husband Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attend a state ceremony marking the first Hebrew calendar anniversary of the October 7, 2023, Hamas onslaught, at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, October 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg FLASH90)

Knesset speaker: Lazy AG is selectively blind, deaf, mute

AG orders probe of Sara Netanyahu for allegedly harassing key witness in PM’s trial

Statement cites damning TV report that indicated premier’s wife initiated intimidation of Hadas Klein; PM’s allies slam ‘selective enforcement,’ repeat call for AG’s ouster

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara vacation in the Golan Heights on August 11, 2023. (Benjamin Netanyahu/Twitter)

Netanyahu accuses media of ‘blood libel’ with its reports on wife Sara’s alleged misdeeds

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu speaks during the funeral of terror victim Matan Elmaliach at the Maale Adumim cemetery, February 22, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Far-right minister says firing AG more important than freeing hostages, Iran nukes

WHO says UN crew member seriously hurt in IDF Yemen strike

Houthis fire another overnight ballistic missile at central Israel, triggering sirens

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Missile intercepted outside Israeli airspace; US THAAD system activated for 1st time; alerts sound for fear of falling debris; airport arrivals halt for 30 mins; 18 lightly hurt rushing to shelter

The interception of a Houthi missile as seen from Israel, early on December 27, 2024. (Screen capture/X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Smoke rises from the area around Sanaa International Airport following an Israeli airstrike, as seen from Sanaa, Yemen, Dec. 26, 2024. (AP/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Israeli jets hit Sanaa airport and Houthi sites along Yemen coast after missile attacks

By Emanuel Fabian, Reuters and ToI Staff

Interview

Gianluca Pacchiani

‘Houthis are simply insane’: In Tel Aviv, Yemeni activist explains current conflict

Luai Ahmed fled Yemen for Sweden after rebels rose to power, becoming an activist against Islamic fundamentalism; after Oct. 7, he joined the social media fray against antisemitism

Yemeni-Swedish activist and journalist Luai Ahmed in Tel Aviv, December 25, 2024. (Gianluca Pacchiani/Times of Israel)

Specialists work at the crash site of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet near the western Kazakh city of Aktau on December 25, 2024. (Handout / Kazakhstan's emergency situations ministry via AFP)

El Al pausing flights to Moscow for week after Azeri passenger jet said downed by Russia

By Sharon Wrobel, ToI Staff and Agencies

Airline suspends 5-times-a-week route; officials say Russian air defenses shot down Azerbaijan Airlines plane that diverted from an area frequently targeted by Ukrainian drones

Emergency specialists work at the crash site of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet near the western Kazakh city of Aktau on December 25, 2024. (Photo by Issa Tazhenbayev / AFP)

Azerbaijan plane was likely downed by Russian air defenses, sources say

By Reuters and AP

Inside story

Lev Tahor crumbling with leaders in jail, opponents say, as raid deals cult new blow

Amid Guatemalan crackdown, Jewish activists opposed to extremist group say dozens have left in the last year, crediting the prosecution of top members for kidnapping and abuse

Members of the Lev Tahor Jewish cult outside the Alida Espana de Arana special education school in Guatemala City on December 22, 2024. (Johan ORDÓÑEZ / AFP)

2 soldiers killed in Gaza; IDF defends strike on Palestinians ‘posing as journalists’

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Israel says five men killed in overnight attack were Islamic Jihad propagandists, not reporters; German ambassador decries deaths of infants as temperatures in Strip fall

Cpt. (res.) Amit Levi, left, and Maj. Hod Shriebman. (IDF)

Family, friends and activists hold posters of Israeli brothers Gili and Ziv Berman, who are held hostage by the Hamas terror group in Gaza, during a protest march for their release in Tel Aviv, December 26, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Report: Israeli, US officials say low odds of a hostage deal before Trump’s return

By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

A picture taken from Rafah shows smoke billowing over Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip during Israeli strikes on December 30, 2023, as the war between the Palestinian Hamas terror group and Israel continues. (AFP)

IDF loosened rules of engagement after Oct. 7, allowing more civilian deaths – NY Times

A US THAAD missile defense system in Israel is deployed amid a Houthi attack early on December 27, 2024. (Screen capture/X)

Live updates (closed)

Dec 27: In first, US THAAD system joined last night’s Houthi missile interception

Poll: Plurality of Israelis think reason for no hostage deal is PM’s fear coalition will collapse * White House: No update on hostage talks, but Hamas remains the obstacle

7:25 pm

Head of state prosecution's cyber division said tapped to accompany probe into Sara Netanyahu
7:00 pm

Fresh airstrike hits Yemen's capital, with Houthis blaming US and UK
6:23 pm

Poll: Plurality of Israelis think reason for no hostage deal is PM's fear coalition will collapse

Ireland's Prime Minister Simon Harris awaits the arrival of Lebanon's Prime Minister Najib Mikati at Government Buildings, Tithe an Rialtais, in Dublin, on October 25, 2024. (Paul Faith / AFP)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Dec. 27: Day 448 – Irish stew over Israeli embassy closure. What’s next?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman dives deep into the roots of apparent Irish animus against the Jewish state and harkens to the mandate period when ideologies were more aligned

President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Judge Nawaf Salam delivers the court order on the request by Nicaragua to instruct Germany to cease arms sales to Israel against the background of the conflict in Gaza at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the seat of the ICJ, April 30, 2024. (Courtesy International Court of Justice / File)

ICJ takes up UN request for advisory opinion on Israel’s UNRWA ban

By Jeremy Sharon

Reclaiming Hanukkah

Step away from the commercialization of the holiday, and fight for Jewish survival, against assimilation, and to own the Jewish story of resistance

Hilary Faverman

Stepping into the light

In this post-October 7 world, I find myself changed, seeking different goals, and settled in a new work home with Orthodox Zionist rabble-rousers

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to comedian Yochay Sponder: Post-Oct. 7 truth — with laughs

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Considering it his ‘reserve duty,’ the veteran Israeli comedian uses his heavily Hebrew-inflected English to point out global hypocrisy and remind the world that Israelis want peace

Isaac R. Ohrenstein on one of several international internship experiences, on Seven Mile Beach in the Cayman Islands at the Ritz Carlton Hotel. (Courtesy)

Interview'I keep thinking about what is the next opportunity'

A Harvard student interviewed dozens of Jewish change-makers. Here’s his takeaway

By Cathryn J. Prince

For ‘Voices of Impact,’ podcast host Isaac Ohrenstein speaks with the Jewish world’s most impactful personalities. With mic turned on him for a change, he shares his experiences

From left: Ofer Doron, Gal Doron, Amir Sadeh and Itay Yaffe at a court hearing at the Haifa District Court on December 2, 2024. (Flash90)

Judge sends men who fired flares at PM’s home to house arrest, doubts ‘terror’ charge

By Jeremy Sharon

Haifa court judge says ‘no apparent evidence’ for terrorism accusations, warns of ‘dark results’ if such claims wielded too freely

Police detain a protester demonstrating in favor of a hostage deal with Hamas outside the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, September 7, 2024. (Gili Yaari /FLASH90)

Ex-top cop says officers now given arrest quotas for protests; police: ‘Delusional claim’

MK Tally Gotliv arrives at the courtroom at the District court in Tel Aviv, before the start of the testimony of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his corruption trial, December 10, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

MK Tally Gotliv defies police summons over outing Shin Bet agent, says she’s immune

Debbie Cohen, head nurse of Nursery Department A, and Amira Morad, staff nurse, check on newborn babies at Galilee Medical Center on December 22, 2024. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook1,578 civilians, 3,391 troops treated in north pre-truce

Northern hospitals move out of underground bunkers after months of war

By Diana Bletter

While hospital staff and patients welcome the return to routine and regular wards after crowded, dark conditions, management is still prepared ‘to go underground again’ if needed

This image made available by NASA shows an artist's rendering of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. (Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA)

Coming in hot

NASA probe makes closest ever pass by sun, sustaining 1,700ºF heat

By AFP

Parker Solar Probe, launched in 2018, makes history, in first of three record-breaking fly-bys in effort to tackle scientific mysteries about earth’s closest star

"Oy, Santa" is among the Hanukkah children's books that also deal with Christmas that have come out in 2024. (Collage by Joseph Strauss / JTA)

Hanukkah-Christmas convergence inspires flood of intercultural books for kids

By Penny Schwartz

From a ‘Parent Trap’-esque switcheroo to a exploration of traditions around the world, publishers are ringing in the winter holidays with stories for Jewish and interfaith families

The Tel Aviv skyline at night. (Shai Pal on Unsplash)

Housing snapshot: Home sales and rentals across Israel in December 2024

More Headlines

Illustrative: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (third right) lights Hanukkah candles with rabbis in Kyiv on December 25, 2024. (UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE)

'Fighting the darkness'Zelensky lights candles with rabbis to mark third wartime Hanukkah

By PHILISSA CRAMER

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier delivers a speech on his decision to dissolve the parliament at Bellevue Palace in Berlin on December 27, 2024. (John MacDougall / AFP)

Germany’s president dissolves parliament, national election set for February 23

By David McHugh

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting of his Religious Zionist party at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, December 23, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Smotrich pushes to withdraw funding from Tel Aviv Cinemateque over ‘extremist’ films

By Sam Sokol and Jessica Steinberg

Flights take off at Ben Gurion Airport. April 17, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

New Israeli airline hopes to launch Tel Aviv-New York route on January 21

By Sharon Wrobel

Illustrative: Hasidic Jews in a synagogue in Bnei Brak, March 24, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Report: Ben Gvir tried to prevent demolition of illegally constructed Haredi synagogues

Lawmakers of the ruling People Power Party protest to South Korea's National Assembly Speaker Woo Won Shik, top center, during a plenary session for the impeachment motion against South Korean acting President Han Duck-soo at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, December 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

South Korea’s parliament votes to impeach acting president as crisis continues

By Hyung-Jin Kim

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