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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 3, 2025

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Andrew Ross Sorkin interviews Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remotely onstage during The New York Times DealBook Summit 2025 at Jazz at Lincoln Center on December 03, 2025 in New York City (David Dee Delgado / Getty Images via AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 3: PM says pardon doesn’t require him to admit guilt, declines to say when he’ll retire

Bat Yam mayor: Iranian agents openly trying to recruit Israelis, including teens, as spies * Egyptian official says Israel unilaterally opening Rafah crossing would violate Gaza truce

10:04 pm

Asked about his age, Netanyahu declines to put an end date on his political career
9:56 pm

Netanyahu: Corruption charges are 'bogus,' pardon doesn't require me to admit guilt
8:50 pm

IDF confirms Khan Younis airstrike targeting Hamas operative after attack on troops

The flags of Israel and Germany fly in front of the Arrow 3 missile defense system and a radar dome during an event of the German Air Force at the Holzdorf Air Base, eastern Germany, on December 3, 2025. (RALF HIRSCHBERGER / AFP)

Helping protect Germany, eight decades after the Holocaust

Israel delivers Arrow 3 to Germany, in largest defense export deal ever

By Emanuel Fabian

Completing $4.6 billion deal, missile defense system being operated by another country for 1st time; ministry chief: ‘We Israelis, descendants of Holocaust survivors, want to see Germany strong’

Op-ed

Netanyahu’s disingenuous pardon request, and how Herzog should handle it

Nobody compelled the PM to submit what amounts to a demand for an unconditional pardon, in the ‘national interest,’ for offenses he denies. The president should treat him as an offender and impose the appropriate punishment, or, better, reject the request altogether

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits at the Tel Aviv District Court ahead of his testimony in the corruption trial against him, October 15, 2025. (Reuven Kastro/POOL)

US President Donald Trump (center) walks with President Isaac Herzog (left), and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion Airport, October 13, 2025, near Tel Aviv. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Netanyahu sought more help on pardon request during call with Trump — report

By Stav Levaton

AnalysisWithout confession of guilt, Netanyahu’s pardon request a Hail Mary, experts say

By Jeremy Sharon

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A poster of Sudthisak Rinthalak, whose body is still held in Gaza, November 29, 2025 (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Father of hostage Sudthisak Rinthalak: ‘I always worry about him, I pray for him’

By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

Family says it wants to bring his body home to Thailand to be buried with traditional ceremony; brother says he feels guilty for encouraging him to move to Israel

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)

Israel says remains handed over by Hamas on Tuesday are not of the final 2 hostages

Protestors gather outside the UN headquarters in New York City on December 4, 2023, to protest the international community's perceived silence on sexual violence committed by Hamas terrorists against Israeli women during the October 7 massacre. (Carli Fogel)

Rabbis, Jewish leaders call for removal of UN official who denied October 7 rapes

By Grace Gilson

L-R: President Isaac Herzog attends a conference organized by the Defense Ministry Rehabilitation Department held at the Tel Aviv University, March 25, 2025. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90); Democrats leader Yair Golan leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on October 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Herzog cancels meeting with Yair Golan after remarks on choosing loyalty to state or PM

By ToI Staff and Ariela Karmel

Golan also mockingly referenced an infamous gaffe Herzog made during a 2015 TV debate with Netanyahu; president was reportedly insulted by his words

Deputy Foreign Minister MK Sharren Haskel attends a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, December 2, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Deputy FM says she opposes pardon for Netanyahu, in first dissent from within coalition

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Donald Trump’s Abrahamic family tree

The so-called ’divider’ and ’racist’ has both Jewish and Arab grandchildren and he’s spending his presidency stitching together the geopolitical map

Officials from Israel and Lebanon hold first direct talks in decades in Naqoura

By Lazar Berman and Agencies

Netanyahu’s office describes ‘attempt to create a basis for a relationship and economic cooperation’; Lebanese PM disputes this, insisting no economic ties on the table

UNIFIL armored vehicles patrol on the entrance of the southern Lebanese town of Naqoura near the border with Israel on June 17, 2024. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett delivers a statement denouncing a coalition-backed bill that would broadly maintain the exemption of ultra-Orthodox men from military service, December 2, 2025. (Screenshot)

Ex-PM: Law 'will eliminate any chance of drafting Haredim'

Bennett calls Haredi draft law a con, quotes Moses saying Torah students must fight in wars

PM cancels his own video address, claiming scheduling conflict, but Lapid and other rivals accuse him of hiding from public scrutiny over ‘betrayal’ of reservists

Brig. Gen. Shay Tayeb, head of the IDF Personnel Directorate's Planning and Personnel Management Division (right), speaks at a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting, December 2, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF personnel head: We can absorb any number of Haredi recruits if given advance warning

Illustrative: People hold a certificate after breaking the Guinness World Record for most nationalities in an exhibition soccer match organized by FIFA, in Rabat, Morocco, November 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Guinness World Records says it stopped taking records from Israel after October 7

‘In current climate, we are not generally processing record applications from Palestinian Territories or Israel,’ it says; Israel holds strawberry, mezuzah, pi, many other records

Egyptian trucks and heavy machinery line up on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on October 26, 2025. (AFP)

Israel: Rafah Crossing to open for exit of Gazans; Egypt: We won’t allow one-way transit

By Emanuel Fabian, Noam Lehmann and Agencies

Cairo denies coordinating with Jerusalem on opening of border; Israel previously insisted on Hamas returning all hostages before allowing passage, but bodies of 2 are still in Gaza

Displaced Palestinians carry food parcels as they raid trucks carrying humanitarian aid in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on August 9, 2025. (AFP)

Hamas coerced Gaza aid groups by designating ‘guarantors’ inside them — report

Palestinian couples participate in a mass wedding ceremony in Hamad City in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Mass wedding in Gaza celebrates new life after years of war and tragedy

By WAFAA SHURAFA and MEGAN JANETSKY

Ben Gvir: AG a 'criminal' thwarting government's will

AG to Netanyahu: Ben Gvir’s violations of police independence justify demands for dismissal

By Jeremy Sharon

Baharav-Miara tells PM the minister has turned principle of police independence into ‘dead letter,’ failure to stop him gives legal basis to court petitions calling for removal

Left to right: National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir seen after a visit at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on August 3, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on April 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

May Golan, minister for Social Equality and the Advancement of the Status of Women, in the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 26, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Social equality minister roundly panned for plan to divert Arab economic development funds

By Ariela Karmel

Jewish settlers at the illegal West Bank outpost of Ramat Migron, September 8, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Netanyahu said to back recognition of illegal farming outposts in West Bank

An Israeli soldier of the C4I Corps works at a computer, in an undated photo published by the military on September 21, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Focusing on AI and electronic warfare, IDF restructures computer service directorate

By Emanuel Fabian

New unit in C4I and Cyber Defense Directorate developing AI-based live-transcription system for all military communications; army says nearly 50% of directorate’s soldiers are women

Signals officers of the C4I and Cyber Defense Directorate are seen in an undated photo published by the army on December 2, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 3: Day 789 – IDF cyber division using radio waves to take out attack drones

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar speaks at an event for honorary consuls-general, December 2, 2025. (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

‘You cannot deceive the world’: Sa’ar, Irish ambassador spar at Foreign Ministry event

By Lazar Berman

Irish envoy takes issue with Israeli FM’s version of row over now-shelved plans to strip Herzog name from Dublin park; Sa’ar says he will keep up pressure against ‘antisemitic’ Dublin

Members of the Dublin City Council sit in the council chambers during the December 1, 2025, meeting in which the proposal to rename Herzog Park was sent back to the naming committee. (Screenshot from webcast via JTA)

Dublin city councilors accuse ‘Zionist lobby’ of quashing proposal to rename Herzog Park

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Black spray paint found Monday on the memorial plaque for Stefano Gaj Taché at the Beth Michael Synagogue, in Rome. (European Jewish Congress)

Italian Jewish groups condemn vandalism of memorial plaque for terror victim

By Zev Stub and JTA

Curator Avi Ifergan from the Bar-David Museum in Kibbutz Bar'am on October 30, 2025, in front of two paintings by Noam Edry from her exhibit 'Red Day,' (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

'You live in an amazing place but it can change in a moment'

Kibbutz Bar’am curator returns to local museum amid tense calm on northern border

By Jessica Steinberg

Avi Ifergan opens three new exhibits at the Bar-David Art and Judaica Museum, anticipating visitors to the collective community on the Lebanese border as the Hezbollah threat quiets – for now

Dr. Gilad Malach (courtesy) superimposed over a photo of ultra-Orthodox Jews from the two rival factions of the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, November 19, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

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Shlomo Filber, former director general of the Communications Ministry, at a court hearing in the trial against Benjamin Netanyahu, at the Jerusalem District Court, June 1, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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Iranian women walk in front of a billboard depicting slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah (C) and his successor Hashem Safieddine (R) as well as the late Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, in Tehran on September 28, 2025.(Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iran’s Khamenei defends hijab as more women flout strict dress code

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A man walks past a mural depicting Palestinian convict Marwan Barghouti, with a message that reads in Arabic, 'See you soon,' on Israel's security fence in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, August 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Over 200 cultural figures call for release of Palestinian terror convict Marwan Barghouti

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Illustrative: People shopping at the Azrieli mall in Tel Aviv, during the Municipal Elections, February 27, 2024. (Flash90)

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By Sharon Wrobel

Illustrative. Handcuffs, in a Jerusalem court on November 21, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

Israeli teen indicted on terror charges for allegedly planning ISIS-inspired bombing

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New York Governor Kathy Hochul speaks at a news conference, February 20, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

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Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters gather near an area where people were being taken into custody near Columbia University campus in New York, April 30, 2024. (AP/Craig Ruttle)

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Screen capture from video of Holocaust survivor Sami Steigmann giving a lecture, 2022. (YouTube)

NYC school said to decline Holocaust survivor’s talk over ‘messages on Israel, Palestine’

Ben & Jerry's ice cream shop, pictured on February 26, 2025, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Ben & Jerry’s Foundation has deficiencies in financial governance, audit finds

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Senator Cory Booker and Alexis Lewis attend the 2025 New Jersey Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony at American Dream on Nov. 21, 2025 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Bobby Bank/Getty Images via JTA)

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