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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 7, 2025

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a press conference in Jerusalem, December 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, Pool)

Netanyahu says phase one of Gaza truce ‘almost’ complete, alongside Germany’s Merz

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

In joint presser with visiting chancellor, PM says he’ll discuss ‘more difficult’ second phase with Trump this month, rejects PA statehood, says he won’t quit politics for a pardon

Palestinians walk through the destruction in Gaza City, December 5, 2025. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Qatari PM says he won’t write a check to rebuild what Israel destroyed in Gaza

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Screen capture from video of Saudi Cabinet member of the Minister of Foreign Affairs's Manal Radwan, attending the opening day of the Doha Forum, an annual diplomatic conference, in Doha on December 6, 2025. (YouTube)

Saudi ex-intel chief: Israel more a 'troublemaker' than Iran

Senior Saudi diplomat: It’s Israel, not PA, that most needs reform to secure peace

Manal Radwan says Palestinian Authority is already working on reforms, but Israeli government opposes two-state solution, incites against Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims

A Palestinian man rides on a cart pulled by a donkey near a concrete block marking the Yellow Line drawn by the Israeli military in Bureij, central Gaza Strip, on November 4, 2025 (Bashar Taleb / AFP)

Turkish, Egyptian FMs say Israel breaching ceasefire daily; Ankara urges US to step in

(From L) CEO and President of the International Crisis Group Comfort Ero, Spain's Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares, Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, Norway's Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide and Saudi Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs's minister plenipotentiary Manal Radwan attend the opening day of the Doha Forum, an annual diplomatic conference, in Doha on December 6, 2025. (Mahmud HAMS / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 7: Day 793 – Trump peace plan partners pile on Israel at Doha Forum

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jacob Magid

Analysis

Saudi F-35 sale triggers Israeli concern, though military edge may remain intact

Experts say Israel’s air superiority can withstand US sending advanced fighter jets to Riyadh, but worry deal puts normalization on ice and could trigger regional arms race

US President Donald Trump (right) and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman watch F-35s and F-15s fly over during a welcome ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, November 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

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IDF troops operate in the West Bank city of Qalqiliya, early December 4, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 7: IDF says troops killed Palestinian throwing stones at motorists on West Bank highway

Netanyahu says he’s willing to give international force in Gaza a chance to disarm Hamas, but is skeptical * Mossad chief said meeting Qatari official in bid to patch ties after botched Doha strike

8:52 pm

Hamas official says the group ready to discuss 'freezing or storing' its weapons
8:19 pm

Judge orders 5 Hapoel Tel Aviv soccer fans suspected of rioting to be held until Thursday
8:02 pm

IDF says troops killed Palestinian throwing stones at motorists on West Bank highway

The Haredi draft bill will be the end of Zionist Israel

If it passes, it will fortify the camp that rejects core civic values, magnify the burden on the military and the economy, and put the country’s very survival in jeopardy

Catherine Perez-Shakdam

Iran is running out of water – and time

The sinking of Tehran – figurative and literal – could trigger migration and instability far beyond the country’s borders

His name is Mamdani. Say it.

Calling out the mayor-elect, who helped normalize protests against synagogues, empowers Jewish leaders to seek communal protection from him

Nothing new about the Netherlands Eurovision boycott

Back then, they handed Jews over to their killers, today they shun the one Jewish state fighting those who openly seek its destruction

Mother of slain hostage says Herzog mustn't pardon Netanyahu

Weekly anti-government protests take center stage after end of weekly hostage rallies

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

Protesters focus on demand for state commission of inquiry, equal military conscription laws, while others rally down south to ensure final captive, Ran Gvili, is not forgotten

Anti-government protesters march on Begin Road to Habima Square in Tel Aviv, December 6, 2025. (Lior Segev/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Syria’s Sharaa slams Israel for ‘exporting’ conflict to region to hide Gaza ‘massacres’

President who ousted Assad says Israel ‘in a fight against ghosts’ as he decries IDF operations in Syria, acknowledges ‘atrocities’ committed against minority groups in Sweida

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa speaks during the opening day of the Doha Forum, an annual diplomatic conference, in Doha on December 6, 2025. (Mahmud HAMS / AFP)

Lebanon's Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji speaks during a joint press conference with his counterpart from Egypt at the Foreign Ministry headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, on April 22, 2025. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)

Hezbollah won’t give up its weapons without a decision from Iran — Lebanese FM

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

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)

Herzog: I respect Trump’s opinion on Netanyahu pardon, but Israel is a sovereign country

President, heading to New York City, tells Politico he’s ‘extremely bothered by the statements of Mayor-elect Mamdani,’ says Israel fighting international ‘brainwashing machine’

Former Supreme Court president Esther Hayut attends a swearing-in ceremony for newly appointed judges at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on June 23, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Former Supreme Court chief justice: Elected officials are trampling on rule of law

Ra’am leader says party will cut ties with religious council, become ‘completely civic’

Mansour Abbas’s move appears geared toward boosting its legitimacy among Zionist Knesset parties; Smotrich responds by calling Arab MK a ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’

Ra'am party head MK Mansour Abbas leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on November 24, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Interview

Celebrated Israeli painter’s grandchildren get their turn at the easel in Eilat exhibit

By Jessica Steinberg

Curator Céline Avrahami’s ‘Face to Face’ brings photographs by Michal Rubin and paintings by Gidi Rubin, descendants of artist Reuven Rubin, now through February 7

Col. (res.) German Giltman (center) is seen with other members of the 'Brothers in Arms' reservist protest group, during a press conference in Tel Aviv, March 21, 2023. (REUTERS/Amir Cohen)

IDF officer whose promotion was blocked by Katz calls move ‘political,’ not ‘professional’

By Emanuel Fabian

Defense minister doubles down on freeze of senior IDF appointments, after army chief Zamir announced a new round of them last week, amid escalating feud between the two

Gadi Eisenkot speaks during the ISC conference in Tel Aviv, on November 12, 2025. (Tal Gal/Flash90)

Eisenkot accuses Netanyahu of making senior appointments as ‘reward for loyalty’

The Ketziot prison seen on September 13, 2022. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Public defender reports Palestinian inmates suffering ‘severe hunger’ in Israeli jails

By Charlie Summers

As prison population has swelled beyond capacity, Public Defender’s Office says most detainees are held in tiny, unsanitary cells; guards said to often beat security prisoners

Israeli security forces clash with settlers during the evacuation of the illegal outpost of Tzur Misgavi, in the Gush Etzion area of the West Bank, November 17, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Netanyahu said to order 14 illegal outposts evacuated; PM’s spokesperson issues flat denial

By Jeremy Sharon

Owais Hamam (X screenshot)

IDF probing reservists who allegedly beat Palestinian teen, causing ‘disturbing’ injuries

By Emanuel Fabian and Noam Lehmann

Illustrative: Israeli security forces near the site of a car ramming attack, near the West Bank city of Hebron, December 1, 2025. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

IDF: Palestinian who sped car toward troops in Hebron killed, as is passerby

By Emanuel Fabian

Paratroopers targeted while operating near a checkpoint in flashpoint West Bank city, less than a week after ramming attack in the area that lightly wounded soldier

A man dressed as Santa Claus sells balloons near Nativity Square during a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Bethlehem, in the West Bank, on December 6, 2025. (Photo by JOHN WESSELS / AFP)

A message that it's calm

Christmas festivities return to Bethlehem after 2 years of war in Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Tourism-reliant city sees crowds travel from Israel, West Bank and beyond, seeks to ‘reignite hope’ after celebrations were muted amid war, and before that during COVID

More Headlines

Fans of Hapoel Tel Aviv leave Bloomfield Stadium as they boycott a game due to supporters being barred from attending after wearing t-shirts describing the police, the outlawed extremist Kach party, and the Maccabi soccer club as "scum," on December 6, 2025. (Screenshot, X; used used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Hapoel Tel Aviv soccer fans barred from game for wearing shirts calling cops ‘scum’

FILE - Two women look at photos of the hostages held in the Gaza Strip, attached to a fence in Tel Aviv, January 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Intel on nonexistent pregnant hostage was ‘impossible to ignore,’ says IDF official

FILE: Authorities block Route90 in the Negev Desert, after it was flooded due to heavy rains, May 4, 2025. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Police close all roads in and out of Eilat as flooding intensifies

Maccabi Tel Aviv players react as a penalty is awarded to Aston Villa during the UEFA Europa League league-stage football match between Aston Villa and Maccabi Tel Aviv at Villa Park in Birmingham on November 6, 2025. (Oli SCARFF / AFP)

UK police wrongly told MPs Jewish community supported Maccabi Tel Aviv ban – report

The scene of a shooting in which three brothers were killed near the Bedouin town of Segev Shalom, September 17, 2025. (Magen David Adom)

Man stabbed to death in Bedouin town amid apparent family dispute

Illustrative. An ambulance belonging to the Magen David Adom ambulance service. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Sleeping baby dies, strangled by cord attached to pacifier

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listens during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Dec. 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Hegseth under pressure as Pentagon scandals mount

By AFP

Illustrative: Iranian police in Tehran, Iran, August 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran hangs man convicted in massive car-buying scam case

By AFP

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