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What Matters Most On Monday, December 8, 2025

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Eyeing phase two in Gaza, PM airs skepticism on whether international force can disarm Hamas

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Netanyahu says he’ll give multinational force a chance, and in the end, disarmament ‘will be done’; also claims Israel is ‘stronger than ever’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a gathering of Israeli ambassadors in Jerusalem on December 7, 2025. (Screen capture/GPO)

Bassem Naim, an official in Hamas's political wing, speaks in Istanbul, Turkey, December 5, 2024. (AP/Francisco Seco)

Hamas ready to discuss ‘freezing or storing’ its weapons, says terror group official

By AP and ToI Staff

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir (unblurred) speaks to troops in the Gaza Strip, December 7, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Touring the Strip, IDF chief Zamir says Gaza ceasefire line ‘a new border’

By Emanuel Fabian

Military chief says current division of Strip is a ‘forward defensive line for the communities and an offensive line,’ hours after PM says phase 2 of ceasefire deal is imminent

Hamburg antisemitism commissioner Stefan Hensel. (Courtesy)

Interview'I keep hitting a brick wall'

Germany’s only Jewish antisemitism czar is resigning amid rising threats, ebbing support

By Joshua Schultheis

Hamburg’s Stefan Hensel says that since Oct. 7 he has faced a ‘massive wave of hatred’ and that he feels abandoned by city officials who ‘should be my allies’

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Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani shakes hands with White House Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, as they speak with President Donald Trump before a state dinner at Lusail Palace in Doha, Qatar, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Israel, Qatar meet as US looks to mend relations, move to phase 2 in Gaza – report

Mossad chief, senior Qatari official said to attend sitdown hosted in New York by Witkoff, as part of new trilateral mechanism aimed at fixing ties broken by botched Doha strike

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi (right) on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 27, 2018. (Avi Ohayon / PMO/ File)

White House said to be pushing for summit between Netanyahu and Egypt’s Sissi

View of the IDF's Army Radio headquarters in Jaffa, November 12, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 8: Katz said to push Army Radio closure toward cabinet vote as station head slams review panel

IDF finds fallen officer Daniel Perez’s assault rifle in booby-trapped site in northern Gaza * Israel and Bolivia to restore diplomatic ties tomorrow after rupture over Gaza war, Sa’ar announces

8:46 pm

Ramla business owner seriously injured in suspected robbery attempt, police say
8:45 pm

Lapid tears into Netanyahu in Knesset clash, vows to stop 'draft-dodging law'
8:26 pm

US official dismisses 'misleading' report suggesting Blair sidelined from Board of Peace

Over half of soldiers treated in rehab centers have mental health issues, stats show

By Emanuel Fabian

Defense Ministry says 22,000 wounded soldiers treated since Oct. 7, 2023, some 58% of whom are contending with PTSD or other mental health disorders

Israeli soldiers evacuate a person who was injured by a missile fired from Lebanon, near the Israel-Lebanon border on October 22, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Eliyahu Yosian attends the annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group in Jerusalem, on February 25, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Far-right pundit gives unapproved lecture to soldiers at IDF base

By Emanuel Fabian

Elkana Bar Eitan

My old war injury: 11 years later I still soldier on

There are thousands of Israelis like me, living with wounds they don’t talk about

Iran’s AI revolution is moving faster than we think

Tehran is racing to build sovereign AI capabilities – with ambitions that span governance, cyber warfare, and future conflicts with Israel and the West

Ariel, 6, who died of the flu on December 3, 2025, and whose last name has been withheld at the request of his family. The day after his death, his small intestine was transplanted into Daniel Haim Biton. (Courtesy)

Flu comes early and hits hard, with five times more cases than last year

By Diana Bletter

Center for Disease Control records 394 new Influenza A cases in 14 hospitals in November, with children accounting for 163 of them; vaccination rates under 15%

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (not seen) in Jerusalem, December 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, Pool)

Netanyahu says he won’t quit politics in exchange for pardon in corruption trial

At joint press conference with German chancellor, premier abruptly dismisses idea of walking away from public life, also rules out plea bargain, says voters will decide his future

Archaeologists uncover a section of the Jerusalem wall built in Hasmonean times (2nd century BCE) in the complex of the Tower of David Jerusalem Museum in the Old City, in a discovery announced on December 8, 2025. (Gabriel Volkovich/ Tower of David Jerusalem Museum)

Archaeology'It was not random destruction. The question is, who did it?

2,100-year-old mystery unearthed with dismantled Hasmonean-era wall in Jerusalem

By Rossella Tercatin

A fortification in the heart of the capital was likely built shortly after the Hanukkah story took place. Now experts are asking why it was systematically taken apart, and by whom

US said to complain of Israeli surveillance at Gaza coordination hub; IDF: ‘Absurd’ claim

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Guardian report says US base chief summoned counterpart to demand end to practice of recording meetings at Kiryat Gat command center; Israel denies talks are classified

Officers and civilians from the US, Israel and around 20 other countries work at the Civil-Military Coordination Center in Kiryat Gat, Israel, November 19, 2025 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Courting women voters, Bennett vows to revolutionize female representation

At a campaign event for female activists, the former PM says 6 of his new party’s 9 co-founders are women — ‘not because they are women, but because they are excellent’

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett holds an election event for women in Tel Aviv, December 3, 2025. (Tal Schneider/Times of Israel)

Freed hostage Rom Braslavski speaks at the "Atreju" conference of the Fratelli D'Italia party in Rome, on December 7, 2025. (Screenshot via alanews on YouTube)

Former hostage retells October 7 horrors at event of Italy’s ruling party

Two months after his return from captivity, Rom Braslavski gets warm welcome at right-wing Fratelli D’Italia’s annual conference in Rome, at invitation of premier Giorgia Meloni

State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman attends a State Control Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 12, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

State Comptroller issues summons to two ex-Shin Bet officials over October 7 probe

By Jeremy Sharon

Members of Syria's White Helmets civil defense service load boxes containing the remains of people found in the basement of a building in the city of al-Sbaynah, southwest of Damascus, on January 29, 2025. (Rami al SAYED / AFP)

A year after Assad’s fall, families of missing detainees languish without answers

By Khalil Ashawi and Maya Gebeily

National commission probing fate of Syrians who vanished insists work must be careful, systematic; rights groups accuse it of slowing process by monopolizing information, resources

A boy checks out military equipment as visitors tour the 'Syrian Revolution Military Exhibition,' which opened last week ahead of the first anniversary of the ousting of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Damascus, Syria, on December 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Syria still struggles to heal from civil war, one year after Assad regime’s fall

By GHAITH ALSAYED and ABBY SEWELL

Syria's interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, greets people as he attends celebrations marking the first anniversary of the ousting of former President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, Syria, December 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 8: Day 794 – World fetes Syria’s former terrorist leader, a year in power

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz

An Israeli soldier mans a watchtower near the entrance to the Palestinian town of Azzun in the West Bank, on January 2, 2024. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Arab Israeli teen, Palestinian killed by IDF, which says they were stoning motorists

By Emanuel Fabian, Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

Ramle resident Moamen Abu Riyash said to have been living with relatives in Qalqilya in recent months; second suspect, Baraa Bilal Issa Qablan, dies of wounds in Israeli custody

Jewish settlers seen at an illegal outpost in the Binyamin area of the central West Bank, December 7, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Settler activists removed from at least 4 illegal outposts after reported order by PM

By Jeremy Sharon

The magical, black-and-white animation of 'Among Neighbors,' filmmaker Yoav Potash's documentary about a Polish town, screened in Israel for Holocaust Remembrance Day, starting April 23, 2025 (Courtesy)

Holocaust film ‘Among Neighbors’ causes uproar in Poland’s political right

By Jessica Steinberg

Yoav Potash’s award-winning documentary about murderous Poles in the post-war period stirs nationalist outrage

President Isaac Herzog speaks at Yeshiva University in New York on December 7, 2025 (Haim Zach / GPO)

Herzog, in NYC, calls Mamdani’s rhetoric about Israel ‘outrageous,’ ‘anti-American’

By ToI Staff and Luke Tress

At Yeshiva University, president says socialist mayor-elect ‘makes no effort to conceal his contempt for the Jewish, democratic State of Israel,’ sounds alarm on rising antisemitism

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Bullet holes deface a mural depicting the toppled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in Adra town on the northeastern outskirts of Damascus, Syria, December 25, 2024. (Sameer Al-Doumy / AFP)

Inside story‘It’s all over’: The moment Iran abandoned Assad, days before he was deposed

By Maher Al-Mounes

Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian, Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), arrives to the Supreme Court in Jerusalem for a hearing on the provision of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, July 21, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Man arrested for posting death threats against Druze COGAT chief

By Charlie Summers

This picture shows a residential building that was hit in an Israeli strike covered with a big Iranian flag, in Tehran on June 25, 2025. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iran says dual national arrested during June war on trial for spying for Israel

By Reuters and ToI Staff

A fire lit to burn waste in the West Bank, as seen from the northern Israeli town of Harish, October 2025. (Dolev Hilell)

Lack of funds to fight waste fires is a ‘death sentence’ for hundreds, group warns

Levi Aron, accused of abducting and dismembering 8-year-old boy Leiby Kletzky, is arraigned in Brooklyn criminal court in New York on August 4, 2011. He later pleaded guilty. (AP Photo/Jesse Ward, Pool)

2011 murderer of Hasidic boy in Brooklyn dies in prison

Pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel student protesters outside King's College London during an inter-university march for Gaza in London on October 7, 2025, the second anniversary of the deadly Hamas-led attack on Israel which launched the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

British Conservatives demand deportation of antisemitic foreign students

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