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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 2, 2025

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Members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) arrive at the site where Hamas operatives are searching for the remains of hostages in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip, December 1, 2025. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi)

IDF: 3 Palestinians killed after approaching troops

Red Cross says Hamas handed over ‘small remains, pieces’ of a body; Israeli forensic experts checking

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Hamas official said terror group was transferring hostage’s body, but no official statement made; Qatar says it hopes to push Israel and Hamas to next phase of truce ‘very soon’

The two slain hostages whose bodies were still held captive in Gaza as of November 24, 2025: Sudthisak Rinthalak (left) and Ran Gvili. (Collage by Times of Israel; Photos: Courtesy)

Officials say no handover of slain hostages Monday, after talk of possible return

By Emanuel Fabian and Noam Lehmann

Elderly people work out with wooden dumb-bells in the grounds of a temple in Tokyo on September 17, 2012, to celebrate Japan's Respect-for-the-Aged-Day. (YOSHIKAZU TSUNO / AFP)

'Aging might be more controllable than we thought'

Medical Holy Grail: Israeli researchers isolate elusive cells that may slow down aging

By Diana Bletter

In peer-reviewed study, Prof. Alon Monsonego’s lab finds that ‘T helper’ blood cells, abundant in ‘super-centenarians’ in high-life-expectancy zone in Japan, may point the way to longevity

In breakthrough, Israeli scientists develop ‘all-in-one’ DNA test for leishmaniasis infection

By Diana Bletter

Surviving hostage Alon Ohel speaks with Channel 12 in an interview aired on December 1, 2025. (Screenshot/Channel 12)

Ohel: Eli Sharabi lifted me up in captivity like a father

‘No matter what, I choose life’: Alon Ohel shares how he survived 2 years in Gaza captivity

Intentionally starved, chained and sexually harassed, former hostage says he didn’t allow himself to lose hope, knowing that people were fighting for him back home

Itzik and Talik Gvili, parents of deceased hostage Ran Gvili, on November 22, 2025, at a Hostages Forum rally. (Paulina Patimer/Hostages Forum)

Weekly hostage support rallies in Tel Aviv to end, family of slain captive says

By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

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US official quoted saying 'Bibi is seeing ghosts everywhere'

Trump speaks to Netanyahu, invites him to visit, warns Israel not to ‘interfere’ in Syria

By Agencies, Lazar Berman and Nava Freiberg

Days after deadly Israeli operation in southern Syria, US president says he hopes the neighbors can ‘have a long, prosperous relationship’; PM set for year’s fifth White House visit shortly

US President Donald Trump (left) speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset, October 13, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/ Pool via AP)

President Donald Trump talks with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 2: Day 788 – PM invited to White House for unprecedented fifth time

By Jessica Steinberg and Lazar Berman

A man waves a Hezbollah flag as protesters burn tires to block the road leading to Beirut's international airport, following the visit of US Deputy Special Envoy for the Middle East Morgan Ortagus, during which she met with the country's president, on February 7, 2025. (IBRAHIM AMRO / AFP)

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Dec. 2: Israel to present US with intel on Hezbollah rearmament, as it seeks to expand Lebanon strikes

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Lapid accuses PM of ‘running away’ after he scraps primetime address on Haredi draft bill * Qatar hopes to push Israel and Hamas to next phase of ceasefire ‘very soon’

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NY Jewish groups announce 'solidarity gathering' near synagogue targeted in protest
8:23 pm

Report: Guinness World Records no longer accepting submissions from Israel, Palestinian territories
7:17 pm

Man accused of shooting two US National Guard troops in DC pleads not guilty

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Egypt and EU stepping up preparations to dispatch Palestinian police force to Gaza

Diplomats push back at claim Hamas members to be part of new body, as Cairo trains thousands of recruits and Brussels looks to join effort, possibly influence postwar Strip

Palestinian police march during a training session with members of the European Union, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on March 16, 2014. (Abbas Momani / AFP)

Lawmakers debate the government's bill regulating ultra-Orthodox conscription in the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, December 1, 2025. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)

Coalition MKs tear into Haredi draft exemption bill, throwing it into uncertainty

Minister pledges to vote against measure ‘even if it means the prime minister will fire me’; rare expressions of open defiance extend to members of Netanyahu’s Likud

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi in the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 26, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset votes to form special panel to fast-track contentious media oversight bill

By Ariela Karmel

The scene of a stabbing attack near the West Bank settlement of Ateret, December 2, 2025 (Magen David Adom)

Three soldiers injured in West Bank stabbing, ramming attacks; assailants killed

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Suspect assaults troops with knife during security check, is shot dead; separately, forces kill driver of car that plowed into soldiers near Hebron; wounded troops in good condition

Israeli settlers walk down a hill as Israeli soldiers block access for Palestinians to an area for harvesting olives in the West Bank village of Sa'ir, near Hebron, October 23, 2025. (Leo Correa/AP)

West Bank villagers say spreading settler outposts fuel fears of more attacks

By AP and ToI Staff

President Isaac Herzog speaks during an event on Mount Hermon in northern Israel on December 1, 2025. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Minister warns of Trump 'sanctions' if request denied

Herzog vows to weigh only ‘the good of the country’ in deliberating Netanyahu pardon

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

President urges public to go to his website and tell him what they think; set to fly to New York next week, he is unlikely to meet Trump, who has pressured him to grant PM clemency

Disqualifying Ra’am would disqualify our democracy

The party helmed by Mansour Abbas represents a moderate religious and political movement committed to Muslim integration into Israeli society

In Iran, a ‘victory’ that looks like defeat

While Tehran boasts of triumph over Israel and the US, its people struggle with soaring grocery prices, censored internet, and disintegrating leadership

Police officers secure a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstration outside Villa Park in Birmingham, central England, on November 6, 2025, ahead of the UEFA Europa League league-stage football match between Aston Villa and Maccabi Tel Aviv. (HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)

UK police used fake evidence to justify ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, chief admits

In parliamentary grilling, local police commander concedes he ‘conflated’ information, met with anti-Israel MP ahead of decision; Tory MP calls for resignation after ‘shocking’ admissions

Supreme Court President Isaac Amit presides over a hearing on petitions against the government’s dismissal of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, December 1, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Court will formulate its ruling based on written submissions

High Court ends hearing on AG’s dismissal after government fails to send counsel

By Jeremy Sharon

‘No point holding oral arguments in front of an open goal,’ says court president Amit; justice minister denounces proceedings he says will ‘force’ legal adviser on the government

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a ceremony for outgoing Supreme Court Justice Yosef Elron at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, September 18, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG slams bill carving up her role as a threat to rule of law, democratic safeguards

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 to return to work, police say, following stormy interrogation

By Charlie Summers

Retired Israeli Air Force commander and former Defense Ministry director general Amir Eshel speaks at the DefenseTech Summit at Tel Aviv University, December 1, 2025. (Defense Ministry)

Former IAF chief: Israel’s next wars will be ‘orders of magnitude more challenging’

By Stav Levaton

Amir Eshel tells DefenseTech Summit that October 7 was merely a ‘tasting menu’ of what’s to come, and that modern armies don’t yet have solutions for ‘evolving threats’

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani (right), meets with the US envoy Tom Barrack, in Baghdad on November 30, 2025. (Handout / IRAQI PRIME MINISTER'S PRESS OFFICE / AFP)

US said to warn Iraq that Israel will strike militias that seek to aid Hezbollah

Passengers at Ben Gurion International Airport, August 1, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Figures shows brain drain spiked in 2023-2024 as well-educated fled overhaul, war

By Sharon Wrobel

More doctors, engineers, and high earners moved away during 20-month period, costing state some NIS 1.5 billion in lost taxes, Tel Aviv U. economists find, warning trend may be ongoing

Columbia graduate Chloe Katz holds a sign reading, 'The Jewish nation lives on,' as she prepares to embark on her move to Israel, August 2025. (Courtesy)

'I think about my great-grandmother who left Poland in 1925'

How campus antisemitism is spurring a new wave of US college graduates to move to Israel

By Simone Saidmehr

One expert says students are deepening their networks in Jewish and Israel-focused circles to ‘simply be with people who get it,’ often opening the path to immigration

Australian actor Guy Pearce apologizes for antisemitic posts, quits social media

The Dudaim dump site is the biggest landfill in Israel, near the Bedouin city of Rahat in southern Israel, August 10, 2016. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)

Drowning in garbage: Council heads warn waste sector facing ‘systematic collapse’

160 mayors appeal to Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, saying local authorities can’t cope, criminals taking over, infrastructure poor and outdated

Matthew Weiner (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Inaugural TV summit brings ‘Mad Men’ creator Matthew Weiner to Jerusalem

By Jessica Steinberg

Jerusalem Sessions aims to create collaborative efforts during three-day meetup of Israeli and international television professionals

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Pope Leo XIV holds a moment of prayer at the site of the 2020 Beirut port explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, December 2, 2025. (Domenico Stinellis/AP)

Pope Leo XIV sends message of peace to southern Lebanon as he ends 1st foreign trip

By Nicole Winfield, Kareem Chehayeb and BASSEM MROUE

FILE: Anti-Israel protesters and BDS activists hold Palestinian flags and a banner reading 'Country of apartheid ... Israel,' during a demonstration prior to the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel, Switzerland, May 17, 2025. (SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP)

Eurovision gears up for ‘watershed’ vote on Israel participation amid boycott calls

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Quarantine question mark‘Tehran’ lead Niv Sultan stars in whodunnit about COVID hotel murder

By Jessica Steinberg

Transportation Minister Miri Regev attends a ceremony for 234 new traffic police vehicles as part of a new national road-safety program, at the Israel Police headquarters in Jerusalem, November 30, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Drivers caught using cellphones to face NIS 10,000 fines, transportation minister says

By Charlie Summers

A police car outside the Louvre in Paris, October 26, 2025. (Thomas Padilla/AP)

Two minors, one a Russian, held in Paris over antisemitic plot

By AFP and ToI Staff

FILE: Oil tanker ships are anchored at the Black Sea near the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul, Turkey, December 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Tanker attacked in Black Sea, days after Ukraine hit 2 Russian ‘shadow fleet’ ships

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