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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 29, 2024

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This image released by the IDF on January 20, 2024, shows the inside of a cell in a Hamas tunnel in southern Gaza's Khan Younis where hostages were held. (Israel Defense Forces)

Teens forced to perform sexual acts on each other: Report to UN details Hamas torture

By Michael Bachner and Diana Bletter

Government document compiles grim details of abuse of hostages, including whipping, branding with heated iron, isolation, binding, starving, maltreatment and psychological torment

Israeli rescued hostage Farhan al-Qadi (C) at a gathering of family and friends to welcome him upon returning to his village of Khirbet Karkour near the southern Bedouin city of Rahat on August 28, 2024. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Report: Hostage told rescuers he heard Hebrew in nearby tunnel, but was ignored

Protesters gather for a rally calling for action to secure the release of hostages from Gaza, in Tel Aviv on December 28, 2024. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

‘Get them out of that hell’: Israelis protest across the country, demand hostage deal

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he is heading to the hospital for surgery, in a video he issued from the Prime Minister's Office on December 29, 2024. (Screenshot)

PM to be hospitalized for days after prostate surgery on Sunday, court cancels hearings

By Jeremy Sharon

Netanyahu’s lawyers give details of scheduled procedure to Jerusalem District Court in request to put off his scheduled testimony in criminal trial; Levin to fill in during surgery

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu enters a courtroom at the Tel Aviv District Court before the start of his testimony, December 23, 2024. (Reuven Kastro/POOL)

Netanyahu to undergo prostate removal surgery on Sunday

By Lazar Berman

Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset on December 23, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 29: Netanyahu doing well after successful operation to remove prostate — PMO

Prime minister to remain under observation in fortified hospital room for several days * Former US president Jimmy Carter dead at 100 * IDF chief says war not nearing end

9:36 pm

Carter Center confirms former president has died
9:13 pm

Netanyahu awake, recovering in fortified hospital basement, his office says
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Former US president Jimmy Carter dead at 100 -- report

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Letter's title threatens legal action, but content doesn't

PM’s wife accuses AG of ‘terrorizing Israeli democracy’ with probe into her conduct

Sara Netanyahu’s lawyer pens letter to state prosecutors, claiming their decision to order police investigation into her alleged witness tampering is attempt to ‘harm a sitting PM’

Sara Netanyahu attends a prayer for the return of Israeli hostages held in Gaza by the Hamas terror group , at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, March 21, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Bakhour Chamntoub, 74, right, the head of the Jewish community in Syria and one of the people who refused to leave Syria despite opportunities abroad, speaks with a Syrian man during his visit to the destroyed Jobar Synagogue, also known as Eliyahu Hanavi, in Jobar neighborhood, in Damascus, Syria, December 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

Community believes no Jews will be in Syria in a few years

Assad’s fall enables access to ruined 2,700-year-old Damascus synagogue; only 9 Jews remain

By BASSEM MROUE

Leader of tiny Syrian community visits destroyed Eliyahu Hanavi synagogue in capital’s Jobar neighborhood, recounts years of site being off-limits during civil war

Syria's de facto leader Ahmad al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammed al-Julani, walks in the presidential palace in Damascus, December 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Syria could take four years to hold elections, de facto leader Sharaa says

By Hatem Maher and Menna Alaa

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Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

Daily Briefing Dec. 29: Day 450 – ToI reports from semi-permanent IDF bases inside Gaza

Military reporter Emanuel Fabian on the IDF operations at Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, rocket fire on Jerusalem and the massive buffer zone of the Netzarim Corridor

Ambulances transport wounded Palestinians from the Kamal Adwan Hospital to the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, on December 28, 2024. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

IDF completes raid on north Gaza hospital, says some 240 terror suspects arrested

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says facility was a ‘key stronghold’ for Hamas, detains hospital’s director, Oct. 7 terrorists; also says it evacuated hundreds of patients to other hospitals

Screenshot from a video showing rockets fired from Gaza toward the Jerusalem area, December 28, 2024. (Reuters)

IDF intercepts rare 2 long-range rockets fired from Gaza at Jerusalem area

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

No injuries in attack, the second time this weekend that the capital was targeted, following an overnight missile from Yemen

Report: Haniyeh assassination nearly went awry due to faulty AC in Tehran guesthouse

Israel delayed op until after swearing-in of new president, apparently to spare Iran further embarrassment; IRGC initially wrongly told Khamenei that IDF missile killed Hamas leader

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh leads other leaders of the terror group in prayer as footage of Hamas's October 7, 2023, terror attack is aired on TV. Khalil al-Hayya is standing behind him (second from right).(Screen capture/X)

The Ohel family whose son, Alon, featured in the poster, was taken hostage by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)

'I give them to his friends, I don't want them to forget him'

With her son held hostage in Gaza, one mother turns to pottery to publicize his plight

By Jessica Steinberg

Making mugs, bowls and teapots helps artist Idit Ohel keep an even keel amid the ongoing captivity of her son Alon Ohel, kidnapped from the Supernova music festival on Oct. 7

Hilary Faverman

10 years of Hanukkah doughnuts

My family has shared some 400 sufganiyot over a decade of pilgrimages to taste-test the best ones we can find. What do you think of this year’s winners?

Andrew Silow-Carroll

David Brooks and Bob Dylan – Jews and heresy

High-profile religious journeys between ’Christian-ish’ and ’Jew-ish’ are stirring a public debate over the limits of Jewish identity

Genie Milgrom holding a plate of Chuletas. (Courtesy of Genie Milgrom)

InterviewBecoming an Orthodox Jew didn't stop her yen for comfort food

Cookbook author proves it’s possible to make delicious — and kosher — Cuban cuisine

By Renee Ghert-Zand

New recipe compilation ‘Salsa!’ is the result of decades of trial and error to adapt beloved Cuban dishes so that they retain their layered flavor — minus the pork and shellfish

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Child finds unique decorated cross on Jerusalem field trip

By Gavriel Fiske

While on a class foraging walk, boy, 10, discovers small Christian artifact encrusted with intricate mosaic decorations that points to Jerusalem’s history as a pilgrimage center

Palestinian journalist Shatha al-Sabbagh in an undated photo. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Palestinian journalist shot dead in Jenin; family blames PA, which blames ‘outlaws’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Death of Shatha al-Sabbagh comes as PA security services clash with terror operatives in West Bank city; family says shooting happened with no fighting nearby

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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi attends a joint press briefing with his Syrian counterpart Bassam Sabbagh, in Tehran, November 19, 2024. (AP /Vahid Salemi/File)

Anticipating Trump administration, Iran says 2025 ‘important year’ for nuclear program

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Israel Police officers at Ben Gurion International Airport, on July 19, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Police arrest murder suspect at airport as he tries to leave country

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar makes a video statement on December 2, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Foreign Ministry to receive massive budget for public diplomacy abroad

By JTA and ToI Staff

Anti-Israel protesters disrupt a Hanukkah event in Little Rock, Arkansas, December 25, 2024. (Screengrab from @Lubavitch on X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Anti-Israel protesters disrupt Hanukkah event attended by Trump’s pick for ambassador

Illustrative: Iranian police in Tehran, Iran, August 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Suicide bomber kills police officer, wounds another in Iran

Arlene Agus, pictured here in 2010, was a pioneer of Orthodox feminism and a leader in the Upper West Side's Jewish community. (Flickr via JTA)

Arlene Agus, New York advocate of Orthodox feminism, dies at 75

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