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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 1, 2025

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An IDF soldier wearing patches depicting the Holy Temple, with text reading 'Soon in our days,' outside Gaza City, February 2, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

After septuagenarian’s death in Lebanon, IDF probe finds war discipline increasingly lax

By Emanuel Fabian

Team of experts says fatigue has eroded standards in combat zones, makes recommendations for reestablishing order

Brig. Gen. Yehuda Vach, the commander of 252nd Division, during a military ceremony in the central Gaza Strip, November 6, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Report: Soldiers allege division commander recklessly endangered troops in Gaza

Far-right leaders trade blame for 'dragging' PM from hospital

PM leaves hospital to cast decisive vote on a budget law, thwarting Ben Gvir revolt

Knesset lawmakers passed a critical budget-related bill into law by the thinnest of margins on Tuesday evening, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left his hospital bed post-surgery to ensure the legislation was approved. The bill cleared its third plenum reading, hours before an end-of-year deadline, despite National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir... Continue Reading

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center), Justice Minister Yariv Levin (left), and Shas pary leader Aryeh Deri seen during a Knesset vote on a budget-related law, December 31, 2024. National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who opposed the legislation, is at bottom right with back to camera. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset, on December 31, 2024. He left the hospital less than two days after prostate surgery to vote on a budget-related law. Yariv Levin is seated next to him. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 1: Day 453 – Drama in Knesset as PM leaves hospital bed for vote

By Sam Sokol and Jessica Steinberg

Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest outside an IDF Recruitment Center in Jerusalem, October 31, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Survey: Public support for conscripting ultra-Orthodox has surged throughout war

Op-ed: Day 453

When Netanyahu’s own hitmen came gunning for him

This Editor’s Note was sent out earlier Wednesday in ToI’s weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel Community. To receive these Editor’s Notes as they’re released, join the ToI Community here. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu survived an assassination attempt on Tuesday. To be clear, this was not only a political hit -- a... Continue Reading

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (right) in the Knesset on December 31, 2024 (Chaim Goldberg / Flash 90)

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

The extraordinary ordinary women of the Swords of Iron

An ode to the women who inspired me during the early months of darkness and others who have joined their ranks in the long months since

Shayna Goldberg

A national library like other national libraries – and like no other

The architecture, the design, the grounds, and the collections are world class, but the sense of connection, shared history, and home is only in Israel

Former defense minister Yoav Gallant presents letter of resignation from the Knesset to Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, January 1, 2025. (Office of the Speaker)

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Jan. 1: Gallant reportedly resigned to prevent Likud from kicking him out of the party

Druze Likud member Abed Afif set to replace Gallant in Knesset * Islamic State flag recovered from vehicle used by New Orleans attacker, FBI says * IDF says Eilat sirens set off due to ‘false identification’

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Tesla Cybertruck explodes outside Trump hotel in Las Vegas; police probing possible terror act

Emergency services attend the scene after a vehicle drove into a crowd on New Orleans' Canal and Bourbon Street, January 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Driver kills 10, injures 30 in suspected terror attack on New Year’s Day in New Orleans

Driver opened fire on officers after ramming crowds on popular Bourbon Street before being shot dead; ‘He was hell-bent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did’

Israelis celebrate on New Year's Eve, at a pub in Tel Aviv, December 31, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israel, world ring in 2025, as Hamas fires rockets at midnight for 2nd straight year

By ToI Staff and Agencies

No injuries in attack on Netivot; New Year candle display in Tel Aviv urges hostage deal; Trump: Hamas ‘better let the hostages come back soon’; thousands party in Assad-free Syria

The first baby born in 2025 in Beilinson Hospital mother Efrat Gilboa Menashe, center, Roy Gilboa Menashe, left, and midwife Mayson Issa. (Spokesperson's Office/Beilinson Hospital)

2025’s first babies born in shadow of the war, with joy accompanied by hopes for hostages

By Diana Bletter

The Stolpersteine, or Stumbling Block, placed outside Anna Donat’s Berlin home shows when she was deported to Auschwitz. (Courtesy Stolpersteine)

'It's sad, but it never belonged to them. It was stolen'

German woman who lives in home looted from Jews must give it up, judge rules

By Toby Axelrod

Capping a decade of legal wrangling, the ruling has exposed the complex stories German families tell themselves about the Holocaust, and societal ambivalence towards the victims

End-of-2024 stats show spike in Israelis leaving, as population growth slows

An unusually large number of Israelis left the country over the course of 2024, the Central Bureau of Statistics said Tuesday, fueling a sharp slowdown in population growth amid a dragged-out war and domestic political turmoil. Announcing year-end figures ahead of the new year, the central bureau said... Continue Reading

Passengers at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on December 26, 2023. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Illustrative: New Israeli shekel bills, September 24, 2023. (Hadar Youavian/Flash90)

Financial blows take effect on January 1, ushering in an expensive 2025 for Israelis

By Sharon Wrobel and ToI Staff

A picture shows closed shops in the southern city of Sderot near the Gaza border on January 8, 2024, amid continuing battles between Israel and the Hamas. (Alberto PIZZOLI/AFP)

2024 sees drop in number of small business owners, but ‘shockwave’ to come next year

By Sharon Wrobel

Analysis

As Iran’s network of proxies withers, Israel has an opening to revive its own

Israeli leaders have been boasting effusively about the country's success in degrading Iran's proxies in recent months. “We knocked down Hezbollah, which was supposed to protect Iran," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier this month. "And Iran didn’t protect Hezbollah either. And neither of them protected Assad." “We just split that whole axis right down... Continue Reading

A member of the Kurdish Internal Security Force known as Asayesh stands guard during a protest against the Turkish military offensive in northeastern Syria, in the town of Qamishli on October 23, 2019. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)

A smoke cloud billows after an airstrike on Yemen's Houthi-held capital Sanaa on December 31, 2024. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP)

US hits targets across Yemen as Israel seeks global coalition to confront Houthis

By AFP and Lazar Berman

US voters work on their ballots at a polling place at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, in Simi Valley, California, on Election Day, November 5, 2024. (AP/Chris Pizzello)

US slaps sanctions on groups in Iran, Russia for election interference

By AFP

Left to right: Demonstrators hoist signs during an anti-government protest calling for the release of hostages, outside the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, December 21, 2024. (Jack Guez / AFP); The Kiryat Shmona house of mayor Prosper Azran's mother, which had previously been destroyed by a Hezbollah anti-tank guided missile in Kiryat Shmona, on December 1, 2024. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel); Volunteers involved with the flag repair project pose at Kulna, Yeruham, southern Israel, July 29, 2024. (Sarit Uziely); Illustrative: An Israeli soldier wounded during fighting in Gaza works with a physiotherapist at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, February 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

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Resilience in action: ToI’s reporters share stories from 2024’s wartime ‘new normal’

Our writers recall their most memorable articles from a year still dominated by the horrors of Oct. 7, 2023, but in which brighter times can be seen – however faintly – on the horizon

As hostage talks stall, Trump again warns Hamas to free captives ‘soon’

US President-elect Donald Trump reiterated on Tuesday night his warning to Hamas to release the hostages it is holding in Gaza. At a New Year’s Eve gala at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, Trump was asked by a CNN reporter whether he had spoken recently to Israeli Prime... Continue Reading

Melania Trump, right, looks on as US President-elect Donald Trump speaks to reporters before a New Year's Eve party at Mar-a-Lago, December 31, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, December 31, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

1,000 people directly impacted by Oct. 7 sign letter urging state commission of inquiry

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Einav Zangauker, mother of Matan Zangauker who is being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza, sits on the street near the Begin Gate at the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, June 1, 2024. (Paulina Patimer / Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Outspoken mother of hostage barred from Knesset over ‘unacceptable behavior’

Shin Bet agents are seen speaking to a Palestinian suspect in the Gaza Strip, in an undated photo issued by the agency on December 31, 2024. (Shin Bet)

Shin Bet says it foiled 1,040 major terror attacks in West Bank, Jerusalem in 2024

By Emanuel Fabian

Security agency releases audio from rescue of hostage in Gaza as part of report summarizing its operations; also highlights involvement in killing dozens of terror commanders

A cache of Hezbollah weapons found by troops in the Wadi Saluki area of southern Lebanon, in a handout photo issued on December 31, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF: Troops discover large cache of Hezbollah weapons in south Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian and AFP

Arwah Sheikh Ali after his arrest, August 20, 2023. (Courtesy)

Four Border Police officers charged in beating of Palestinian suspect

3 of the cops also indicted for destroying evidence after allegedly deleting bodycam footage; case made headlines over accusation suspect was branded with Star of David

L-R, top row: Jake Retzlaff, Quinn Hughes and Lindsay Gottlieb. Bottom row: Sam Salz, Jessica Fox and Max Fried. (Getty Images; Design by Grace Yagel via JTA)

From Olympic medals to college ball, the top moments for Jewish athletes in 2024

By jacob gurvis

Jewish athletes distinguished themselves across events, venues and tiers of competition while also having an incredible impact off the field. Here’s a look at this year’s highlights

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An illuminated Ford company sign shines on the sidelines of a works meeting at the company's Germany site in Cologne, December 10, 2024. (Christoph Reichwein/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Ford apologizes for X post declaring ‘Israel is a terrorist state’

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Justice Minister Yariv Levin speaks at a Knesset session, December 4, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Levin to convene judicial panel, again puts off vote on new Supreme Court president

By Jeremy Sharon

Illustrative: A competitor rolls a bowl at the 2022 World Indoor Bowls Championship, which took place between January 7 and 23, 2022, in Hopton-on-Sea, Great Yarmouth, England. (Screen capture: Youtube/Guardian Sport, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

International bowls federation drops ban on Israelis at UK competition after outrage

By Reuters and ToI Staff

A container ship at Haifa port in northern Israel, November 14, 2011. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Five US-Israeli clean tech projects chosen to receive $7.5 million in grants

Israelis shop at a Rami Levy supermarket in Modiin on July 21, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Consumer body accuses Rami Levy supermarkets of violating bottle deposit law

Illustrative: A police car in Jerusalem on June 8, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Parents arrested on suspicion of murdering disabled 8-year-old son

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