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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 28, 2024

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Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh claps during the swearing-in ceremony of newly-elected Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, not in picture, in Tehran, Iran, July 30, 2024. On the left is top Hezbollah official, Sheikh Naim Qassem. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 28: Qatari PM meets with Hamas delegation in Doha for talks on Gaza ceasefire

PM to undergo surgery to remove prostate Sunday * Hostage families urge Trump to pressure Netanyahu into committing to deal * IDF completes raid on north Gaza hospital

9:39 pm

Report: Assassination of Haniyeh in Tehran almost went awry due to broken AC unit in room he was staying in
8:48 pm

PMO denies claim that Israel, Hamas working on 'limited' hostage deal as gesture for Trump
8:01 pm

Sara Netanyahu's lawyer warns AG, state prosecutor not to open 'illegal' probe into PM's wife

The Kamal Adwan hospital stands in Beit Lahya in the northern Gaza Strip on October 31, 2024. (AFP)

Israel denies Hamas claims that troops set fire to north Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Military says ‘small fire in an empty building’ was unrelated to its activity; Arab states rush to condemn operations; post appears to deny Hamas claim that hospital chief detained

Rubbish and debris are scattered near damaged buildings in the vicinity of the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip on October 31, 2024. (AFP)

IDF launches new raid on north Gaza hospital, saying Hamas operatives returned

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Inside an IDF forward operating base in the Netzarim Corridor in the central Gaza Strip, December 26, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

ToI in GazaIDF-held central zone now covers 13% of total Gaza territory

In Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor, IDF establishes temporary bases for an indefinite stay

By Emanuel Fabian

The army has vastly expanded zone it controls bisecting the Strip, from where it launches raids against Hamas; everything can be taken down quickly, but there’s no sign that will happen

Pro-settlement activists at an event calling for the establishment of settlements in the Gaza Strip in Sderot, December 26, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Event calling for Gaza settlements held in closed military zone with IDF permission

Cops provide escort to far-right Nachala activists, prevent counter-protesters from blocking convoy headed to border; IDF approved event on condition that no mobile homes be used

Defense Minister Israel Katz (center) meets with the head of the Military Intelligence Directorate, Maj. Gen. Shlomi Binder (right) and other officers at his office for a presentation on two IDF probes into the October 7 onslaught, on December 27, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

IDF presents Katz with 2 probes of Oct. 7 after defense minister’s ultimatum

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli rally for the release of hostages held by Hamas, at Tel Aviv's Hostage Square, December 21 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

‘They’re all humanitarian’: Weekly rallies to demand comprehensive hostage deal

In Hanukkah-themed protest, hostage families urge ‘action, not miracles,’ amid declining optimism for deal; rally against judicial overhaul returns to Kaplan for 4th week in a row

IDF downs missile from Yemen as sirens blare in Jerusalem, Dead Sea area

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Latest Houthi attack sends large numbers of Israelis running for shelter in the middle of night again; IDF says missile intercepted before entering Israeli airspace

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)

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

In first, US THAAD system deployed in Israel assists in Houthi missile interception

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Workers walk past broken glass in Sanaa International Airport following Israeli airstrikes on Yemen the previous day, December 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

WHO chief says he didn’t know if he’d survive Israeli airstrike on Sanaa airport

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Interview

Jessica Steinberg

‘Tehran’ director talks about keeping savvy Israelis convinced spy thriller is realistic

As the long-awaited third season airs in Israel, Daniel Syrkin says his local audience’s familiarity with Iran and the Mossad makes believability as important as compelling action

'Tehran' director Daniel Syrkin on set for the season three of 'Tehran,' released in Israel on Kan in December 2024 (Courtesy)

Italian journalist Cecilia Sala in undated footage from the Tg3 news program on Italy's state broacaster RAI. (Screen capture: X/Tg3, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Italian journalist said detained in Iran for more than a week, no reason given

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The blessing and burden of bearing first witness to Jewish history

A longtime JTA journalist who showed up to report on some of our darkest moments ponders the impulse to turn away from Jewish tragedy

How the Houthis turned their weaknesses into strengths

Despite domestic unpopularity, the organization has leveraged Yemen’s misery and its strategic location to wield outsized power

A woman is rescued from her flooded vehicle in Hadera amid heavy winter rains, December 28, 2024. (Fire and Rescue Service)

Rescue services urge caution as heavy rainfall causes floods in northern Israel

Woman freed from deluged car in Hadera, apparently homeless man found unconscious in Tel Aviv thought to have suffered hypothermia; Hermon sees first major snow of season

The wreckage of Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 lays on the ground near the airport of Aktau, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Azamat Sarsenbayev)

Putin apologizes to Azerbaijani leader after plane crash, implying responsibility

Russian air defenses are believed to have shot down flight on Wednesday, killing 38

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to remove fluoride from US water, as Israel did a decade ago under the stewardship of Yael German. (RFK Jr. by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images; German via Flash 90 via JTA)

'We can use fluoride toothpaste but we can't avoid tap water'

As RFK Jr. pushes to stop fluoridation of water, US might want to look to Israel

By Deborah Danan

Israel stopped adding fluoride to tap water in 2013, and while many studies say the move worsened children’s dental health, others say it had neurological benefits

This handout picture provided by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) on November 11, 2023, shows Syria's then-President Bashar al-Assad attending an emergency meeting of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Saudi Press Agency/AFP)

Mossad chief was set to meet Assad in 2019 in bid to cut Syria-Iran ties — report

Strongman backed out at the last moment from Kremlin sit-down with Yossi Cohen, according to report, which quotes IDF intelligence unit’s years-long WhatsApp messages to Damascus

Bullet holes deface a mural depicting the toppled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in Adra town on the northeastern outskirts of Damascus, Syria, December 25, 2024. (Sameer Al-Doumy / AFP)

Two of Assad’s relatives arrested as they tried to fly out of Lebanon, officials say

Analysis

Shalom Yerushalmi

As coalition falls into line, law maintaining Haredi exemption from IDF service will pass

Defense Minister Katz is working tirelessly to ensure majority support for a law to keep most ultra-Orthodox males out of the army, and keep the ultra-Orthodox parties in government

Illustrative: An IDF soldier walks among Haredi men during a protest in Jerusalem against a potential new draft law that they fear could end their exemptions from military service, October 31, 2024. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, September 14, 2021. (Luke Tress/Flash90)

Nearly half of ultra-Orthodox Jews in US know victims of post-Oct. 7 antisemitism — poll

Poll comparing Haredi Jews to former members of community finds that both experience discrimination, although rate is slightly lower among members of the latter group

Posters of Hezbollah's slain leaders Hassan Nasrallah (L) and Hashem Safieddine are placed amid destruction caused by Israeli strikes against the terror group in the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh on December 4, 2024. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

Hezbollah mouthpiece says ‘resistance’ should resume hostilities with Israel

Al-Akhbar editor-in-chief accuses Israel of violating ceasefire, says West and Lebanese ‘sovereignists’ turning a blind eye: ‘Resistance represents the only redress’

Archaeologist Saar Ganor stands by a pillar that held up the second story of a house in the Mirsham Farmhouse archaeological site. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

Come see the archaeological treasures of the Mirsham Farmhouse, buried for 2,600 years

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

A little to the north of Beersheba lies a First Temple-era site whose artifacts have only recently begun to be excavated

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