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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 9, 2025

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Israeli tanks patrol close to the border fence separating northern Israel from southern Lebanon on November 24, 2025. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 9: Poll finds majority of Israelis expect a war in the coming year

Netanyahu says his government’s alternate probe into Oct. 7 is only way to ‘reach the truth’ * Syrian state media says shells of unknown origin landed around Mezzeh airbase in Damascus

8:32 pm

Herzog denies, denounces report intimating a deal prepared years ago between him and Netanyahu on a pardon
7:55 pm

NYC's Lander reportedly set to challenge US Rep. Dan Goldman for congressional seat
7:07 pm

Hitting back at his former Shin Bet chief, Netanyahu says his alternate Oct. 7 probe is only way to 'reach the truth'

ToI in Gaza

Scouring massive labyrinth under Rafah, IDF just missed finding Hadar Goldin’s body

Elite officers describe months of searches through sprawling tunnel network, including perilous work removing supports to reveal hidden passages, though effort came up short

IDF soldiers stand near the entrance to a tunnel in the Rafah area of the southern Gaza Strip, where the body of Lt. Hadar Goldin was held, December 8, 2025. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

L-R: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a 40 signatures debate, at the plenum hall of the Knesset, December 8, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); Opposition Leader and head of the Yesh Atid party MK Yair Lapid leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on December 1, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Netanyahu backs ‘historic’ Haredi draft bill in fiery Knesset debate on wartime conduct

By Nava Freiberg and Ariela Karmel

PM denies Israel’s global standing has collapsed, blames criticism on antisemitism, touts ties with Trump and Putin, defends pardon request; Lapid urges him to admit he’s guilty and go home

Shas chief MK Aryeh Deri, seated right at head of the table, is seen during a a meeting of the faction at the Knesset in Jerusalem, December 8, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Deri: Shas won’t support 2026 budget until Haredi kids get food-stamp funds

By Ariela Karmel

Ultra-Orthodox men block Route 4 during a protest against the jailing of yeshiva students who failed to comply with an IDF draft order, Bnei Brak, December 8, 2025. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Haredi anti-draft protesters block highway; driver arrested for hitting teen

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Handsome grandfather spending time with his granddaughter in park on autumn day
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The coffin of Thai national Sudthisak Rinthalak, seen at a farewell ceremony at Ben Gurion Airport, December 9, 2025, after his body was returned to Israel from Gaza. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

‘One of ours’: Officials bid farewell to Sudthisak Rinthalak as his body flown home

By Jessica Steinberg

Israeli and Thai ambassadors pay tribute to agricultural worker who was killed on Oct. 7 and whose body was taken to Gaza, as his remains are finally returned home to Thailand

Likud MK threatens deputy attorney general in heated Knesset panel meeting

By Ariela Karmel

Moshe Saada warns Gil Limon he could face same fate as former military advocate general caught in scandal, tells him to ‘shut up,’ drawing outrage from opposition

L-R: Deputy Attorney General Gil Limon at a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset, December 9, 2025; Likud MK Moshe Saada, seen yelling at Limon at the meeting. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

MK Galit Distel Atbaryan leads the Special Committee for the Communications Law at the Knesset, December 8, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Panel chair assails press as special Knesset committee takes up media oversight bill

By Ariela Karmel

Israeli police and officials hang an Israeli flag on the UNRWA compound in East Jerusalem, December 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Authorities raid UNRWA offices in East Jerusalem, raise Israeli flag over compound

By Charlie Summers, AFP and ToI Staff

Officials working with police say they seized assets over debts related to unpaid municipal taxes, but refugee agency says it’s exempt from local levies under UN convention ratified by Israel

New housing is built on the site of slain resident Pessi Cohen's home at Kibbutz Be'eri, which was shelled by IDF tanks on October 7, 2023, as the army battled Hamas terrorists who had taken 15 hostages and barricaded themselves inside. (Kibbutz Be'eri spokesperson's office)

Kibbutz Be’eri votes to demolish all homes damaged in Oct. 7 Hamas assault, bar one

After months of debate, community decides to preserve a single house for testimony; community director, says, ‘We rebuild, remember, commemorate — and continue to live’

Exclusive'You're supposed to not be working for Israel'

Cal State investigating professor seen coaching class to oppose antisemitism bill

Video shows Melina Abdullah, a prominent activist instructor at the LA university, telling students Israeli interests have subverted Congress, discussing violent revolution in US

Professor Melina Abdullah (R) speaks to a class at California State University, Los Angeles, September 18, 2025. (Screenshot/ YouTube)

Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove speaks at an American Zionist Movement event in New York City, December 8, 2025. (Luke Tress/ Times of Israel)

Prominent NY rabbi: Mamdani understood Jewish community fissures better than we did

Illustrative: A Star of David gold necklace (iStock by Getty Images)

‘Because they have money’: Algerian nanny on trial for poisoning Jewish family in Paris

The suspect, an illegal migrant to France, allegedly added toxic materials to the food while caring for family’s three kids

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a press conference announcing his plans to approve more than 3,000 housing units in the E1 settlement project between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim on August 14, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Eight new settlements, including former illegal outposts, get final authorization

By Jeremy Sharon

‘We’re advancing de facto sovereignty,’ says Smotrich; government has approved for construction or legalized unprecedented 49 new settlements and outposts, Peace Now says

Chairman of the Knesset Aliyah, Absorption, and Diaspora Committee MK Gilad Kariv holds a hearing, December 2, 2025. (Noam Moskowitz, Knesset Spokesperson's Office)

Lawmaker raises alarm over deportations of US Jews who help West Bank harvest

By Jeremy Sharon

Maj. Gen. (res.) Nitzan Alon attends a ceremony held at the IDF Central Command headquarters in Jerusalem, on July 8, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Former hostage point man says Hamas faces ‘objective’ hurdles in search for last body

Nitzan Alon reveals soldier Tamir Nimrodi was first captive to be accidentally killed by IDF inside Gaza, says influence of hostage rallies less ‘dramatic’ than people thought

Joshua Loitu Mollel. (Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

Family of Tanzanian slain on Oct. 7 said to sue Israel for posting video of murder

Talik Gvili (left) and her husband Itzik stand in front of a poster of their hostage son Ran during a rally for his return in his hometown of Meitar in southern Israel on December 6, 2025. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Mother of last hostage: ‘Without Rani, our country can’t heal’

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Judy Mars Kupchan

How goodly were these tents

As the physical signs of the war disappear, so too have the gatherings that showed us how to maintain hope and be our best selves

Ignoring Lior Raz

Watching the Fauda star not look at me only confirms he has seen me – this is high alert

Steven J. Frank

It ain’t easy being Qatar

We spend years and fortunes cultivating critical relationships – buy a distressed Manhattan hotel here, give a half-billion-dollar flying palace there…

South Korea is arming the Mideast. Will it mitigate risks for Israel?

With countries from Egypt to Iraq and Saudi Arabia buying its weapons, Seoul needs clear safeguards to ensure it does not put its allies at risk

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) at the plenum hall of the Knesset, December 8, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa (right) arrives at the General Plenary of Leaders at the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belem, Para State, Brazil, on November 6, 2025. (Mauro PIMENTEL / AFP)

Netanyahu denies report he refused to ink deal with Syria on sidelines of UN in September

By ToI Staff and Nava Freiberg

PM’s office dismisses ‘fake news’ claim that new security arrangement was ready for signing during General Assembly after months-long US mediation efforts

Illustrative: Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of al-Mjadel on December 4, 2025. (KAWANT HAJU / AFP)

IDF says it hit Hezbollah targets, including training site for elite Radwan Force

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa delivers a speech, as Syrians celebrate the first anniversary of the fall of the Assad regime, in Damascus on December 8, 2025. (OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

Sharaa vows ‘peaceful coexistence’ as Syria marks anniversary of Assad’s fall

By Maher Al-Mounes

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

Trump to host Netanyahu on December 29 for talks on advancing Gaza plan

By Lazar Berman, Agencies and ToI Staff

PM’s fifth US meeting with president this year to reportedly take place in Florida; his US trip may extend over week; US’s UN envoy Waltz discusses need for ‘stability’ in West Bank with Jordan’s king

Tents sheltering displaced Palestinians stand amid the destruction left in Gaza City by the war between Israel and Hamas, December 5, 2025. (Abdel Kareem Hana/AP)

ExplainerTrump’s Gaza peace plan faces pitfalls in attempt to shift to its second phase

By AP and ToI Staff

A military helicopter evacuates the injured from the Ziv Medical center in Tzfat wounded by a missile fired by the terrorist organization Hezbollah, February 14, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 9: Day 795 – 22,000 IDF soldiers were wounded since Oct. 7 – in body and soul

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir attends a committee meeting on legislation mandating the death penalty for terrorists at the Knesset on December 8, 2025. He wears a pin shaped like a noose in his lapel.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Far-right MKs sport noose-shaped pins at hearing on controversial death penalty bill

By Charlie Summers

Ben Gvir draws condemnation after display at Knesset meeting; MKs pushing bill mandating capital punishment are told its language may not be constitutional

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar leaves after a meeting with Argentine Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno (not in picture), outside the San Martin Palace in Buenos Aires on November 25, 2025. (JUAN MABROMATA / AFP)

Israel announces it will renew ties with Bolivia, two years after Gaza war rupture

By Nava Freiberg

Sa’ar expected to meet with Bolivia’s foreign, finance ministers in DC to sign agreement negotiated after Latin American country elected first right-wing president in two decades

Argentina's (L-R) Frente de Izquierda deputies Romina del Pla, Miryam Bregman and Nicolas Del Cano sit at their desks with banners against a US invasion of Venezuela and the labor reform during the oath ceremony at the Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Congress in Buenos Aires on December 3, 2025. (Juan Mabromata / AFP)

Left-wing Argentine lawmakers pledge allegiance to ‘free Palestine’ in oaths of office

By Juan Melamed

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The Mobileye office campus located at the Har Hotzvim tech park in Jerusalem, March 26, 2024. (Courtesy)

Struggling Mobileye to lay off hundreds of workers, mostly in Israel

By Sharon Wrobel

Illustrative: Lightning illuminates the sky over the Upper Galilee during a rain storm on November 13, 2025. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Storm Byron bears down on Israel as torrent expected to hit in force Wednesday

File - Tufts University student from Turkey, Rumeysa Ozturk, who was arrested by US immigration agents while walking along a street in a Boston suburb, talks to reporters on arriving back in Boston, May 10, 2025, a day after she was released from a Louisiana immigration detention center on the orders of a federal judge. (AP Photo/Rodrique Ngowi, File)

US judge orders Trump administration to remove limits on anti-Israel Tufts student

By Nate Raymond

Iranian players pose for a photo ahead of a friendly soccer match between Russia and Iran at Volgograd Arena in Volgograd, Russia, October 10, 2025. (AP)

Iran objects to ‘Pride Match’ branding of World Cup soccer game against Egypt

By AFP

US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin (not in picture) at the Kremlin in Moscow, on December 2, 2025. (Kristina Kormilitsyna / Pool via Sputnik / AFP)

Paramount challenges Netflix bid to buy Warner Bros., with help from Jared Kushner

A general view shows the Iranian capital Tehran with the snow-covered Alborz mountain range in the background on December 8, 2025. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Second flight carrying deportees back to Iran leaves US, Tehran says

By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell

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