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What Matters Most On Monday, December 1, 2025

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) talks with attorney Micha Fettman (L) inside the court room, as his corruption trial opens at the Jerusalem District Court, May 24, 2020. (Ronen Zvulun/ Pool Photo via AP)

Former Netanyahu lawyer says president can’t pardon PM without an admission of guilt

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Herzog says he’s awaiting legal opinion on Netanyahu’s request, denies reports he’s leaning toward proposing arrangement conditioned on PM admitting guilt, stepping down

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the courtroom of the Tel Aviv District Court in the trial against him, October 28, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu accuses prosecutor of lying, obscuring information in stormy court hearing

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and President Isaac Herzog, right, attend a wreath-laying ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, in Jerusalem, Israel, May 6, 2024. (Amir Cohen/Pool Photo via AP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 1: Day 787 – PM requests a presidential pardon. Is it in Israel’s interest?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz

Alon Ohel, top left, with his family at Hostages Square on November 19, 2025 (Hostages Forum)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 1: Ex-hostage Alon Ohel says he was chained for year and a half, starved

Car-ramming suspected near Hebron, IDF solider lightly injured * Two minors detained in France, said to plan to attack Israeli targets * IDF chief orders ‘thorough’ probe of killing of 2 terror operatives who surrendered

12:39 am

'Bibi sees ghosts everywhere': US said to fume at PM over repeated strikes in Syria
9:36 pm

Palestinian terror operative killed in Gaza drone strike, IDF says
9:27 pm

IDF solider lightly injured in car-ramming, search continues for assailant

President Isaac Herzog at a Memorial Day ceremony in the Old City of Jerusalem, May 12, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

Op-ed

Shalom Yerushalmi

In granting a pardon, Herzog would validate PM’s narrative that only he can lead the country

An unequivocal pardon would effectively back Netanyahu’s assertion that he bears no responsibility for alleged crimes, or for October 7, and tear the public apart

Protesters mock Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's request for a pardon from President Isaac Herzog at a demonstration outside the Tel Aviv District Court, where Netanyahu is being cross-examined as part of his criminal trial, on December 1, 2025. (Efrat Safran/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

ExplainerWhat to know about Netanyahu’s request for a pardon in his corruption trial

By AP

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MK Dan Illouz speaks during an Economic Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on March 26, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud rebel demands changes to ‘toothless’ ultra-Orthodox draft exemption bill

Dan Illouz pans fellow party member Bismuth’s suggestion for regulating community’s enlistment, says he can’t support legislation in its current form

Soldiers attend an IDF officers course graduation ceremony, October 30, 2025. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

IDF faces manpower crisis as fewer soldiers keen on military career, new data shows

By Emanuel Fabian

The family of Dror Or, whose body was released by Hamas, buries him at Kibbutz Be'eri on November 30, 2025 (Dana Reany/Hostages Forum)

Dror Or of Kibbutz Be’eri, beloved father and cheesemaker, buried alongside his wife

By Jessica Steinberg

Family eulogizes couple as ‘people of freedom and light, of spirit and creativity,’ assails political leadership for evading responsibility for October 7 attack

Former hostage Yosef-Chaim Ohana arrives at his home in Kiryat Malachi, November 30, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Freed hostage Yosef-Haim Ohana heads home from rehab, 6 weeks after release from Gaza

By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

Analysis

As Trump and Saudi prince heat up ties, Israel normalization left out in the cold

MBS notched important gains in Washington, rehabilitating Riyadh after it was sidelined by Israel and Qatar and likely stiffening the kingdom’s price for joining the Abraham Accords

US President Donald Trump (right) meets with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, November 18, 2025. (Evan Vucci/AP)

A million Jews expelled from Arab lands, my family included

Following my grandmother’s injunction against anger, I pray for an end to radical Islam and for consummate normalcy between Arabs and Jews

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Ireland’s Herzog Park moment

This is not anti-colonial politics, it’s a new form of ideological imperialism: imposing one’s own simplified script onto other people’s histories

Protestors gather in front of the Israeli Embassy in Dublin to protest Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, on May 14, 2024. (Stringer/Anadolu)

Dublin halts plans to rename city’s Herzog Park after accusations of antisemitism

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Council chief refers matter back to committee, after proposal called out by Irish PM, drew charges of antisemitism from Israel and local Jewish community

Olwen Fouéré attends the world premiere of "The Watchers" at AMC Lincoln Square Theater on June 02, 2024 in New York City. (Getty Images via AFP)

Actress rejects honor from Irish university in protest of Israel research pact

Protesters enter a Zara store in New York, November 30, 2025 (Screenshot Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Anti-Israel protesters storm Manhattan Zara store on Black Friday

Keffiyeh-clad activists target Spanish fashion chain due to its presence in Israel; others protest in solidarity with Palestinians across Europe

Signs are displayed outside a tent encampment at Northwestern University on April 26, 2024, in Evanston, Illinois. (AP/ Teresa Crawford/ File)

Northwestern U to pay US government $75 million to settle antisemitism complaints

A federal police agent holds two photos and the identity card found in the house in which the man believed to be Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele lived, June 7, 1985. Photo on left shows Mengele eating. Photo on right shows Mengele during a picnic with friends and in the middle is the identity card. (AP Photo)

Argentina had detailed info on Mengele during his decade there, documents show

Auschwitz’s ‘Angel of Death’ felt so comfortable in South American country that he began to use his real name in 1956, and requested his formal identification papers be reissued

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz addresses guests during a Central Council of Jews in Germany (Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland) Rosh Hashana reception, on the occasion of its 75th anniversary, on September 17, 2025, at the Jewish Museum in Berlin. (John MACDOUGALL / AFP)

Germany to return Nazi-looted artifacts to Poland at diplomatic confab

By AFP and ToI Staff

Members of the neo-Nazi group "The Base" are seen training in an undated propaganda video. (Youtube screenshot)

Spanish police arrest cell linked to neo-Nazi terrorist group The Base

The 'Iron Beam' laser-based air defense system is seen intercepting a target over southern Israel, March 2022. (Defense Ministry)

IDF to receive ‘Iron Beam’ laser interceptors at the end of the month

By Emanuel Fabian

The system, which has been in development since 2014, will ‘fundamentally change’ rules of engagement, Defense Ministry official says; next-gen versions already in the works

Illustrative: Israeli Air Force soldiers pose in front of an Arrow air defense system battery, in a photo issued by the IDF on June 26, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Global arms makers see record earnings as Gaza, Ukraine wars fuel demand — report

By AFP

School girls pose with placards as they align in a formation of the red ribbon to raise awareness on 'World AIDS Day' in Amritsar, India, on December 1, 2025. (Narinder NANU / AFP)

'This is a human virus, it can tranfer to anyone'

On World AIDS Day, Health Ministry reports 22% decrease of new HIV cases in 2024

By Diana Bletter

Israel recorded 317 diagnoses last year, though the head of the Israel AIDS Task Force says carriers of the virus often avoid testing for it due to ‘stigma’

Illustrative: Police carry out searches for the suspected perpetrator of a deadly shooting in Jaffa, November 8, 2025. (Israel Police)

Dozens arrested in early morning police raid of top crime families in Israel, West Bank

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Sweep follows year-long operation in which an undercover agent infiltrated the Abu Latif and Hariri criminal organizations to gather evidence on racketeering schemes

Commander of the Lahav 433 Unit, Manny Binyamin seen leaving the Department of Police Internal Investigations, in Jerusalem on November 30, 2025 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lahav 433 chief briefly arrested over refusal to sign off on release terms — lawyer

By Charlie Summers

Jewish settlers attack Palestinians during the olive-picking season in the village of Beita, south of Nablus in the West Bank, November 8, 2025. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Four foreign activists said wounded by settlers near Jericho, one seriously

By Noam Lehmann and AFP

Three Italians and one Canadian reportedly accosted in Ein al-Duyuk by masked gang, who beat them and steal their passports, wallets and phones

Fishermen enjoy a warm day at a dried-out Sea of Galilee beach in northern Israel, November 26, 2025. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Scientists tracking impact as desalinated water flows into Sea of Galilee for first time

Laboratory head says amounts of water entering lake still small, any effects will be identified upstream; ‘We haven’t seen anything yet that would make us say stop the flow’

Pope Leo XIV delivers his speech in front of the tomb of Saint Charbel Makhlouf at the Monastery of Saint Maroun, in the mountainous village of Annaya on December 1, 2025. (Domenico Stinellis / POOL / AFP)

Pope calls for peace at Lebanese tomb of saint revered by Christians and Muslims alike

Pontiff, traveling in a closed popemobile with troops deployed along motorcade route, is set to preside over interfaith gathering of Christian and Muslim leaders in Beirut

Pope Leo XIV arrives at Beirut's international airport in Lebanon on November 30, 2025. (AP Photo/ Domenico Stinellis)

Pope calls two states ‘only solution’ to Palestinian conflict as he opens Lebanon visit

Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan (L) and Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi hold a joint press conference in Tehran on November 30, 2025. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran and Turkey agree to build key trade rail link along ancient Silk Road

By AFP

Iranian FM says line will be strategic gateway between Asia and Europe; $1.6 billion project for 200 kilometers of track will take 3-4 years to complete

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Judge Tomoko Akane arrives prior to the announcement of the International Criminal Court (ICC) verdict that sentenced Malian Jihadist police chief Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud to 10 years in jail for war crimes and crimes against humanity, on November 20, 2024 at the ICC court in The Hague. (Eva Plevier/various sources/AFP)

ICC president vows to resist US and Russian pressure despite sanctions and threats

(L-R) US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and White House adviser Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump's son-in-law, attend a meeting with Ukrainian officials in Hallandale Beach, Florida, November 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)

US seeks to allay Ukraine’s qualms over Trump’s peace plan in Florida talks

Nasry Asfura, presidential candidate for Honduras' National Party, shows his ballots during general elections in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, November 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Trump-backed candidate leads polls in Honduras presidential election

By Henry MORALES and Noe LEIVA

Long-lost painting 'Crucifixion of Jesus Christ' by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens, which was hidden for more than four centuries, is displayed at the auction house Osenat in Versailles, west of Paris, Nov. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Long-lost Rubens painting depicting crucifixion sells for $2.7 million

By AP

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