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What Matters Most On Monday, December 30, 2024

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Screen grab of a video released by the military apparently shows terror operatives fleeing during an ambush in Jabalia on December 30, 2024 (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says ‘many dozens’ of terror operatives killed in overnight north Gaza ambushes

By Emanuel Fabian, AFP and ToI Staff

WHO demands Israel release detained director of Beit Lahiya hospital, who IDF says is suspected of ties to Hamas, after 240 operatives arrested in raid on medical center

Suspected Palestinian terror operatives are detained by troops near northern Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, in a handout photo issued by the military on December 29, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF: 19 terrorists, no known civilians, killed in Gaza hospital raid; Hamas said 50 dead

By Emanuel Fabian

Alaa Hamami prepares a meal while her 10-year-old daughter, Basant, sits inside their tent at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Nov. 7, 2024. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Packed into squalid tent camps, Gazan women struggle to live without privacy

By WAFAA SHURAFA and Julia Frankel

Procedure 'went as planned,' doctors say

Netanyahu recovering after successful prostate removal surgery

By ToI Staff, Jeremy Sharon and Lazar Berman

PM awake and ‘in good condition,’ moved to underground, fortified recovery ward at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem; urology department head says no suspicion of malignancy or cancer

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)

ExplainerNetanyahu is undergoing surgery. Who takes over if something goes wrong?

Obituary

Jimmy Carter: Peace broker, settlements critic, advocate for Soviet Jews, rights activist

The one-term US president who brokered the historic Israel-Egypt peace deal but earned pariah status in some corners of the Jewish community for his criticisms of Israel, has died at 100

Former US president Jimmy Carter holds a copy of his book, 'Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid,' at a book signing in Tempe, Arizona, December 12, 2006. (AP Photo/Paul Connors)

US President Jimmy Carter, center, is flanked by Prime Minister Menachem Begin (right) and Egypt's President Anwar Sadat as they faced newsmen at the conclusion of their discussions toward Middle East Peace moves at Carter's Camp David retreat in Maryland in September 1978. (AP Photo)

PM on Carter’s death: Israel-Egypt peace treaty ‘offers hope for future generations’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin, right, US President Jimmy Carter, center, and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, left, clasp hands on the North Lawn of the White House as they completed signing of the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel in Washington, March 26, 1979. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty)

ObituaryJimmy Carter, 39th US president, who brokered Israel-Egypt peace, dies at 100

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Staff Sgt. Yuval Shoham, killed in the northern Gaza Strip on December 29, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Soldier killed in northern Gaza as five rockets fired into Israel

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Fighter jets hit rocket launchers amid resurgent fire from Strip; fourth baby dies of hypothermia in Gaza tent city; IDF says it killed six Oct. 7 perpetrators last month

A view of surveillance camera footage from Gaza border communities obtained by Hamas years before its October 7, 2023, massacre, according to a Channel 12 report on December 29, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Hamas gathered intel, footage from Gaza border towns for 7 years before Oct. 7 slaughter

Channel 12 airs surveillance recordings, lists of southern communities with attack plans for each, gathered by terror group since 2016

Gal Gadot attends the Academy Women's Luncheon on December 10, 2024, at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Gal Gadot reveals she had emergency brain surgery while 8 months pregnant

In Instagram post 10 months later, Israeli actress says she underwent operation after an MRI found a ‘massive blood clot’ in her brain; 4th daughter Ori delivered before surgery

A truck transporting humanitarian aid drives in Deir el-Balah, Gaza, on December 29, 2024 (Eyad BABA / AFP)

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Dec. 30: Two said killed as Gaza aid convoy looted, Hamas claims UN agency is to blame

French FM, defense minister visit Lebanon a month after Israel-Hezbollah truce took effect * Houthi missile downed by air defenses, setting off sirens across central Israel

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Pedestrian hit, lightly hurt by car while running for shelter during Houthi missile attack
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No major damage as Yemen missile debris crashes in Beit Shemesh
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IDF says ballistic missile from Yemen was successfully downed by air defenses

Hanukkah miracles do not happen on their own

My cousin Carmel Gat was not saved but it is within our reach to bring the 100 of our people trapped in Gaza’s darkness out into the light

How President Jimmy Carter made me a movie star

I was the Consul General in Atlanta when a guy with a home video camera caught my response to Carter’s ’Peace Not Apartheid’ book

Shani Bachar, of Netiv Hashayara, murdered on January 9, 2024. (Courtesy/Israel Observatory on Femicide)

Monitor group launches awareness campaign for 22 femicide victims killed in 2024

By Diana Bletter

Syria's new leader and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) chief Ahmed al-Sharaa (R) receives Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha (Andriy Sybiga) in Damascus on December 30, 2024. (Bakr Alkasem / AFP)

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Daily Briefing Dec. 30: Day 451 – Democracy in Syria? De facto leader says not so fast

By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Gianluca Pacchiani and Sue Surkes

Arab affairs reporter Gianluca Pacchiani sheds light on who the Houthis are; reporter Sue Surkes on Israeli international aid orgs’ funding crisis and how Israel can achieve net-zero

A publication showing ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad, seen on a desk at the Baath party headquarters, as former army soldiers, background, wait to register their names with Syrian rebels as part of an "identification and reconciliation" process in Damascus, Syria, December 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla,File)

Syria’s long-ruling Baath party on way out after collapse of Assad regime

By BASSEM MROUE

Screen capture from unconfirmed video purporting to show the aftermath of an alleged Israeli strike on a weapons warehouse in the city of Adra, on the eastern outskirts Damascus, Syria, December 29, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Several reportedly killed in alleged Israeli strike near Damascus

This image released by police on December 30, 2024, shows a car allegedly set on fire by Alexander Granovsky, a civilian recruited by 'foreign elements.' The graffiti on the car reads 'Children of Ruhollah.' (Israel Police)

Israeli who allegedly spied for Iran accused of stalking Gantz’s home, torching cars

By Emanuel Fabian

Petah Tikva resident Alexander Granovsky accused of spray-painting messages supporting founder of Islamic Republic, in latest in over a dozen such plots foiled in recent months

Babak Itzhaki, the Israel correspondent for Iran International, appears in a television interview for Channel 14, December 22, 2024. (Screen capture via YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Tehran sought to lure Iranian-Israeli journalist to Turkey, kidnap him – report

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, center-right, meets with officers in southern Lebanon, December 29, 2024. (IDF)

IDF chief: Israel beat Hezbollah militarily, but ‘true victory’ means reviving north

Meeting with Northern Command top brass in south Lebanon, Halevi calls on state to ‘step in’ to help region’s burden as some 70,000 residents set to remain displaced until March

In Beirut's southern suburbs, the remains of exploded pagers used by Hezbollah on display at an undisclosed location, on September 18, 2024, in a stealth attack blamed on Israel. (AFP)

NYT account reveals why Israel feared Hezbollah pager operation was compromised

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara listens as she attends a cabinet meeting at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem on June 5, 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool via AP)

‘Send her home’: At cabinet meeting, ministers double down on calls to fire AG

Ben Gvir accuses Baharav-Miara of ‘selective enforcement’ in face of ‘threats against the prime minister’; Karhi claims there is ‘absolute majority’ in cabinet for impeachment

Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on July 31, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

As most Israelis tighten belts, cabinet treats top bureaucrats to massive bonuses

Police clash with demonstrators during a protest calling for the release of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip, in Jerusalem, December 28, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Court rejects police request for access to phones of arrested anti-government activists

By Jeremy Sharon

In this undated photo, Yoki Gil, founder and chairman of Shoresh (Source), poses with some of his company's iconic sandals. (Liron Cohen Aviv)

Interview'Wake up. There’s a revolution!'

Green business pioneer gets to the source of the problem at his Shoresh sandal factory

Echoing Elon Musk, Yoki Gil, the head of Israel’s first net-zero factory in Tirat Carmel, says the world will soon run on renewables and those who transition now will benefit most

Energy Ministry: Geological formations could store 10 million tons of CO₂ annually

‘Miracle’ hoard of Hasmonean coins discovered during Hanukkah in Jordan Valley dig

By Gavriel Fiske

Haifa University team finds cache of 160 extremely rare coins – dated to 80/79 BCE, during the reign of Judah Maccabee’s grand-nephew – near Alexandrion Fortress, north of Jericho

Some of a cache of newly discovered Maccabi-era coins, in an image released on December 29, 2024. (Dr. Shai Bar/ Zinman Institute of Archaeology at the University of Haifa)

El Al planes, parked at the Ben Gurion Airport in Lod, Israel, on March 16, 2018. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

El Al halts Moscow route until April 1 after Russia apparently downs Azeri plane

By Sharon Wrobel

Flagship carrier suspends its 5 weekly flights; says passengers stuck in Moscow can fly home to Israel from any destination in Europe at no additional cost, if they can get there

Passengers arriving at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on April 17, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Visitors to Israel face a new headache from Jan. 1: Applying for a travel permit

By Sharon Wrobel

An El Al flight takes off at Ben Gurion Airport, outside of Tel Aviv, August 25, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

El Al extends price caps to four international hubs through February 2025

Charles Shyer attends 'The Noel Diary' screening at The Bay Theater on November 10, 2022 in Pacific Palisades, California. (Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Netflix/AFP)

Obituary

Charles Shyer, filmmaker behind ‘Father of the Bride’ and ‘Baby Boom,’ dies at 83

By Lindsey Bahr

Writer and director best known for a string of comedies in the ’80s and ’90s with his then-wife, Nancy Meyers, including ‘Private Benjamin’ and ‘The Parent Trap’

Linda Lavin speaks at the 33rd annual Producers Guild Awards, March 19, 2022, at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. (AP/Chris Pizzello, File)

ObituaryActress Linda Lavin, who starred in long-running sitcom ‘Alice,’ dies at 87

By Mark Kennedy

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Firefighters and rescue personnel work near the scene where a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 series aircraft crashed and burst into flames at Muan International Airport in South Jeolla Province, some 288 kilometers southwest of Seoul, on December 29, 2024. (Photo by YONHAP / AFP)

179 killed as plane crashes in South Korea, in country’s worst airline disaster

By KANG Jin-kyu and Hieun Shin

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar attend a plenum session on the state budget at the Knesset in Jerusalem, December 16, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Sa’ar said set to rejoin Likud in coming days, bolstering Netanyahu

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Lina Glushko of Israel plays during the WTA 125 Polish Open 2024 tennis tournament in Warsaw, Poland, July 25, 2024. (Foto Olimpik/NurPhoto via Reuters)

Anti-Israel protesters disrupt Israeli player’s tennis match in New Zealand

By ToI Staff and AP

Elon Musk listens as US President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with House Republicans at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Washington DC, November 13, 2024. (Allison Robbert/POOL/AFP)

Germany says Musk trying to influence election after he backs far-right party

Illustrative photo of a daycare center in Israel, April 20, 2018. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Jerusalem daycare worker indicted for 12 counts of abuse of toddlers

Indian builders work on a construction site in Tel Aviv on December 23, 2024. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Indian workers slowly replacing Palestinians in Israeli construction industry

Illustrative: Rescuers wait on the beach of Marsa Alam, Egypt, November 25, 2024. (AP Photo)

Italian tourist killed, another injured in Egypt Red Sea shark attack

By AFP

Screen capture from video of Abdul Rahman al-Qaradawi, son of late spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, as he walks in the Umayyad mosque, Damascus, Syria, December 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Lebanon arrests late Muslim Brotherhood leader’s son wanted by Egypt: source

By AFP

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