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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 31, 2024

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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)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 31: 1,000 families directly impacted by Oct. 7 sign letter urging state commission of inquiry

Hamas said to offer 7-day pause during which it would be able to produce list of hostages * World Central Kitchen complies with Israeli security checks of its employees

8:34 pm

UNRWA chief claims at least 745 Palestinians been killed in its Gaza shelters
8:22 pm

World Central Kitchen complies with Israeli security checks of its employees
8:00 pm

Ministers to discuss last-ditch bill granting government control over election of Supreme Court president

Part of an intercepted missile launched from Yemen is seen on a street in Beit Shemesh, December 30, 2024. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)

IDF downs ballistic missile from Yemen as sirens heard across central Israel

By Emanuel Fabian, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Large debris fragment crashes into residential neighborhood in Beit Shemesh; Houthis claim responsibility for seventh nighttime attack in under two weeks

Danny Danon, Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, talks during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, December 18, 2024. (AP Photo/ Seth Wenig)

At UN, Israel warns Houthis could share fate of Hamas, Hezbollah and Assad

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Sgt. Uriel Peretz (Israel Defense Forces)

Soldier killed in north Gaza; IDF airs clip of Hamas planting bombs near hospital

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Death of Sgt. Uriel Peretz from anti-tank missile brings ground op toll to 395; 8 injured, 3 seriously, in the same incident in Beit Hanoun; 3 rockets fired from Strip at Israel

A woman prepares bedding inside a shelter at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on December 29, 2024. (Bashar Taleb/AFP)

Gaza newborn freezes to death, twin fights for his life after rain floods tent

By Reuters and ToI Staff

A wounded Palestinian receives medical attention at the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, after patients were transported from the Kamal Adwan Hospital, on December 28, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Hamas terror group. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

UN warns Gaza healthcare system on verge of collapse due to Israeli strikes

By AFP and ToI Staff

Jewish refugees from Hebron in Jerusalem, 1929 (Courtesy of The Hebron Archives)

Promoted podcastJPPI Podcast

Hebron 1929 Massacre

Award-winning journalist Yardena Schwartz discusses her book ‘Ghosts of a Holy War,’ which explores the massacre that continues to influence even today’s Israel-Hamas war.

Coalition factions threaten to vote against key budget bill over cuts, Haredi draft

Ben Gvir, Israel Police slam Finance Ministry over budget cuts. Smotrich brands fellow minister a populist endangering the ability of the government to pay for the war

(L) Housing Minister Yitzchak Goldknopf attends a press conference in Tel Aviv on February 4, 2024 (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90) and (R) National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir arrives for a court hearing at the District Court in Jerusalem, November 10, 2024 (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

United Torah Judaism MK Yitzhak Pindrus leads a special committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on December 3, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Haredi MK says he opposes IDF service because Orthodox soldiers ‘leave religion’ in the army

The parents of Staff Sgt. Yuval Shoham, who was killed in the Gaza Strip, attend his funeral at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, December 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Fallen IDF soldier Yuval Shoham laid to rest as father pleads for hostage deal

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Thousands attend funeral for 22-year-old, who searched for his childhood friend, hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, as he fought in Gaza in the early days of the war

Hamas said willing to free only 22 of 34 living hostages demanded by Israel in deal

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Issue of who would be released in proposed first phase continues to stall agreement; PM said to alarm negotiators with comments on determination to resume war after any deal completed

Demonstrators calling for the release of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip outside Hakirya Base in Tel Aviv, December 28, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Supporters cheer for Hitler in Germany on October 10, 1931. (AP Photo)

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In ‘Hitler’s People,’ a UK historian reveals rare bios of Nazis ‘disturbingly like us’

By Robert Philpot

While humanizing the perpetrators of the Holocaust has long been considered taboo, the 20 portraits in Richard Evans’s new book are a stark reminder of humanity’s capacity for evil

Biblical grammar enters the culture wars

Could a new book’s deep dive into biblical grammar challenge modern ideas about when the Torah was written?

Steven Brett Shaklan

Degrees of rage: The Ivy League and vigilantism

The same type of simplistic narrative that led to the murder of an insurance CEO has been driving the rebirth of antisemitism in the US

Some of the prominent Jews who passed away in 2024. (Getty Images; Collage by Grace Yagel via JTA)

In memoriam: 18 prominent Jews who died in 2024

This year, the world said goodbye to famous Holocaust survivors, politicians, athletes, and members of the entertainment industry

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)

Netanyahu stays in the hospital Monday night after prostate surgery

By ToI Staff and Sam Sokol

Sara Netanyahu reportedly did not return from Miami for husband’s surgery because she has COVID; PM calls ultra-Orthodox leader from hospital promising to advance Haredi draft bill

Head of the Judea and Samaria Police District investigations and intelligence department Commander Avishai Muallem (center) arrives for a hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, December 5, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Senior cop suspected of ignoring Jewish attacks in West Bank to win Ben Gvir’s favor

By Jeremy Sharon

Internal police investigations unit says it suspects Commander Avishai Muallem ‘deviated from the line’ in bid for promotion

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) at a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, November 1, 2024. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO); Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara at a farewell ceremony for retiring acting Supreme Court president Uzi Vogelman, at the Supreme Court, in Jerusalem, October 1, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/ POOL/ File)

AG: Netanyahu’s nomination of acting civil service chief ‘unreasonable in the extreme’

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

In latest rebuke of government moves, Baharav-Miara’s office says Roi Kahlon doesn’t have qualifications for high-powered role, creating legal impediment to making the appointment

The 9 p.m. fireworks during New Year's Eve celebrations in Sydney, Australia, Dec. 31, 2024. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP Image via AP)

Australia, New Zealand welcome 2025 as New Year’s celebrations kick off around globe

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY

Festivities scaled back in South Korea after deadly plane crash, while stormy weather mutes some UK events and Germany’s leader calls for unity in ‘difficult times’

US Jewish groups mourn Carter despite ‘profound disagreements’ with his Israel views

By JTA and ToI Staff

While mentioning his fierce criticism of the Jewish state in his later years, most organizations highlight late president’s brokering of Israel-Egypt peace deal

US President Jimmy Carter, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat gather with their aides during discussions on Middle East problems at Camp David, Md., in September 1978. (AP Photo, File)

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)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 31: Day 452 – How Israel remembers US president Jimmy Carter

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz

A portrait of former US president Jimmy Carter adorns wall of the US ambassador's former office in the building that had housed the embassy of the United States in Tehran, Iran, now dubbed the "Den of Spies" museum, on October 25, 2023. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)

‘He will rot in hell’: Iranians remember Jimmy Carter as ‘architect of sanctions’

By Majid Sourati

US pro-Israel student leaders visit a home destroyed by Hamas-led terrorists in their October 7, 2023, attack in Kibbutz Beeri, on December 25, 2024 (Courtesy)

'I never planned to be an activist'

From posters to protests, pro-Israel US campus leaders take varying paths to shared goal

American Jewish college students, in Jerusalem to learn about reality on the ground and gain tools, speak out about navigating school while trying to defend Israel

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Illustrative photo of newborn babies in an Israeli hospital nursery. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Handle with careMohammad, Avigail most popular baby names for 2024

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (second from left), Tel Aviv Stock Exchange CEO Ittai Ben-Zeev (right), Israel Securities Authority chairman Seffy Zinger (left), and Finance Ministry director-general Shlomi Heizler (second from right) at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, on December 30, 2024. (Liel Simon)

Tel Aviv Stock Exchange to shift to Monday-Friday trading week starting 2026

By Sharon Wrobel

Lightning illuminates the sky near Rehovot, December 30, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Police shut flooded roads as winter storm blows into central and southern Israel

By Joshua Davidovich

British actor and comedian Stephen Fry poses for photographers at the photo call for the film 'Treasure' during the International Film Festival, Berlinale, in Berlin, Feb. 17, 2024. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

Crowning achievementsStephen Fry knighted, other British Jews honored by king

By ToI Staff and Agencies

L to R: Roman Abramovich (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis), Andrey Melnichenko (AP Photo/Thomas Hartwell), Vagit Alekperov (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Roman Abramovich among chemical tycoons fueling Ukraine war, exposé finds

By Stephen Grey, John Shiffman and Grant Smith

Lawmakers and ministers listen to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he addresses the first plenum session of the Knesset’s winter 2024 legislative session, October 28, 2024. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)

In rare cross-aisle cooperation, MKs back bill to penalize ministers who snub oversight

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham's military chief Murhaf Abu Qasra, known by his nom de guerre Abu Hassan al-Hamawi, gives an interview in the Syrian western port city of Latakia, on December 17, 2024. (OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

Islamist rebel commander tapped as acting Syrian defense chief

This Monday, Dec. 8, 2008, courtroom drawing by artist Janet Hamlin shows Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (center) and co-defendant Walid Bin Attash (left) attending a pre-trial session at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (AP/Janet Hamlin, Pool, File)

US court rejects Pentagon chief’s bid to throw out plea deal for 9/11 mastermind

By Ellen Knickmeyer

Police keep watch as supporters of impeached South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol gather near the presidential residence in Seoul on December 31, 2024. (JUNG YEON-JE / AFP)

South Korea issues arrest warrant for impeached president over martial law gambit

By AFP

A sign for The New York Times hangs above the entrance to its building, on May 6, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

A 'Hannukah' shandaNYT game misspells Hanukkah in Festival of Lights-themed puzzle

By PHILISSA CRAMER

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