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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 10, 2025

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The renovated dairy barn in Kibbutz Kissufim, near the Gaza border, after it was damaged in the October 7 massacre, July 28, 2025. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Reporter's notebook'Young people want to be part of post-Oct. 7 rehabilitation'

Resilience in rebuilding: Gaza border kibbutz Kissufim seeks to double population

As demolition of damaged buildings continues, new construction is set to begin, with aim of resettling evacuees and absorbing dozens of new families – especially those with babies

Bereaved families from the recent war speak to the media at the Tel Aviv District Court on December 10, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Netanyahu testimony paused after guards tussle with bereaved families

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Relatives deny holding up protest signs, but demand state commission of inquiry into October 7; are ultimately allowed to remain in courtroom

Former Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar speaks at Tel Aviv University's Cyber Week 2025 conference, December 9, 2025. (Dror Sithakol)

In swipe at Netanyahu, ex-Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar calls for state probe into Oct. 7

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and President Isaac Herzog at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, as Herzog tasks Netanyahu with forming a governing coalition, November 13, 2022. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Herzog denies, denounces report intimating a years-old pardon deal with Netanyahu

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Times of Israel in Doha

Hamas source to ToI: We’ll hold talks on disarming, but we can’t be forced to give up guns

In rare engagement with Israeli media, source in terror group argues weapons are used to ‘liberate’ Palestinians from Israeli rule, and therefore can’t be ceded until statehood secured

Hamas operatives search for the bodies of Israeli hostages in the Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza City, November 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Hamas gunmen patrol as Egyptian workers, accompanied by members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), search for the remains of the last Israeli hostage, Ran Gvili, in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City on December 8, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Hamas official says Gaza truce can’t move to phase two due to Israeli ‘violations’

By AFP, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

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Op-ed: Day 796 of the war

The return of Israel’s most debilitating weakness: Hubris

Our enemies are down but not out; potential regional allies are moving away; global and notably US public and political mindsets are changing for the worse; and we are again riven inside. This is not a time for complacency

(Clockwise from top left): Hamas gunmen in Gaza City, November 3, 2025 (Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP); US President Donald Trump (left) with Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House, November 10, 2025 (SANA / AFP); Manal Radwan, a minister in the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, speaks at the Doha Forum, December 6, 2025. (YouTube); Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset, December 8, 2025 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Hamas operatives and Egyptian workers, accompanied by members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), head to the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City to search for the remains of Ran Gvili, December 8, 2025. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israel said to believe ‘someone in Islamic Jihad knows’ where Ran Gvili’s body is

By ToI Staff and Reuters

Hostage point man reportedly shares photos and other information on location of final slain captive’s remains in Gaza, rejects terror group’s claim it returned all its hostages

Israeli police stand guard near the site of a shooting attack where two soldiers were killed at the Allenby Bridge Crossing between the West Bank and Jordan, September 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 10: Israel reopens West Bank-Jordan crossing for Gaza aid, months after shooting attack

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

AG slams coalition’s Haredi draft law as discouraging enlistment, removing tools to enforce it * Several settler activists cross into Gaza before being detained by IDF troops

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Trump says Gaza Board of Peace members will be announced in early 2026, in sign process stalling
9:33 pm

Video shows Israelis who entered Gaza are settler activists
9:31 pm

Report: 2026 state budget has hundreds of millions secretly allocated to political purposes

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Was US premature in thinking Azerbaijan will join International Stabilization Force in Gaza?

US highlighted Azerbaijan and Indonesia as likely ISF contributors, though Azeri official indicates Baku has many of the same conditions preventing Arab countries from joining mission

Azerbaijani troops return home from deployment in Afghanistan on August 7, 2016. (Azerbaijan Defense Ministry)

Faraj Alexandre Rifai

A year into al-Sharaa’s regime: Is the West celebrating a mirage?

To avoid their mistakes of the past, the US and Europe must tie normalization with Syria to real and transformative measures

Hitler marriages and ‘Happy Place’

Like the show’s protagonist, I’m the granddaughter of a match that was arranged by history, survival, and grief, acting out a script that was written before I was born

Defense Minister Israel Katz, right, meets with IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, left, and members of the military's top brass ahead of the Israeli operation against Iran's nuclear program, June 13, 2025. (Defense Ministry)

Katz meets Zamir, appears to fold on demand for new IDF probes into Oct. 7

By Emanuel Fabian

Defense establishment comptroller will ‘observe’ military’s ‘supplementary investigations,’ not conduct full independent review

Israeli Druze leader Sheikh Muafak Tarif attends a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 24, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli Druze leader seeks US security guarantees for Syrian counterparts

By Olivia Le Poidevin and Suleiman Al-Khalidi

Minister of Culture and Sports Miki Zohar attends an Education, Culture, and Sports Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 7, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Spurning Ophir Awards, government announces alternate film awards ‘to tell our story’

By Jessica Steinberg

Culture Minister Miki Zohar sets state-run ceremony for December 30, in response to Israeli Academy of Film giving its top prize to a movie about a Palestinian boy, ‘The Sea’

Justice Minister Yariv Levin at the assembly hall of the Knesset in Jerusalem, December 10, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

MKs give initial nod to bill allowing justice minister to tap alternative prosecutor

By Jeremy Sharon

A car drives through heavy winds and rain at the beach in Ashdod, southern Israel, December 10, 2025. (Flash90)

IDF: Home Front Command on high alert

As Storm Byron bears down on Israel, authorities warn of unprecedented rain

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Army sends soldiers on southern bases to weekend furlough early to ensure safe travel; search underway for 4 Israelis on yacht that dropped out of contact en route to Cyprus

An Iranian woman walks across a crosswalk as the first winter rains soak the Iranian capital following one of the driest years in Tehran, December 2025. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

First autumn rain falls in Iran’s capital, but drought-ravaged nation needs far more

By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell

Activist Raheel Raza in an undated photo. (Courtesy)

Interview'The monster is radical jihadist ideology'

‘Eternal optimist’ Pakistani-Canadian Muslim woman is one of Israel’s fiercest advocates

By Sharon Aschaiek

Human rights activist Raheel Raza seeks to ‘defang’ the extremist elements of her faith that drive antisemitism – and has been to the Jewish state over a dozen times in the process

A Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II takes part in an air display on the opening day of the Farnborough International Airshow 2024, south west of London, on July 22, 2024. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

US envoy says ‘fruitful’ talks held with Turkey on F-35s, Russian air defense system

By ToI Staff and Reuters

Washington has so far barred Ankara from receiving stealth fighters over its use of S-400 defense systems, fearing information leak on its advanced aircraft

Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana (right) and US House Speaker Mike Johnson pose for a photograph following a meeting in Washington, DC, on December 9, 2025. (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset Spokesperson)

Knesset speaker, US counterpart team up to nominate Trump for next Nobel Peace Prize

James Pasch (courtesy)/People hold US and Israeli flags as they gather ahead of the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza, outside a military base near Re'im, southern Israel, October 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

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ADL’s James Pasch: Taking on the Axis of Evil through lawfare

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

VP of litigation helping 200 American-Israeli victims of Oct. 7 sue four terror-supporting nations in US courts: ‘This is the most impactful thing that ADL has ever worked on’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the 40 signatures debate in the Knesset on December 8, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 10: Day 796 – Knesset debate on Haredi draft bares PM’s closed-door efforts to pass bill

By Jessica Steinberg, Nava Freiberg and Ariela Karmel

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee presents the book “When the Stones Speak” by Doron Spielman with the author (left) introduced by media personality Eylon Levy (right) at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem on December 10, 2025. (Courtesy of Yaal Herman)

'Jesus walked that very road... and I now can walk that path'

For US Ambassador Mike Huckabee, contentious City of David is a place to meet God

By Rossella Tercatin

American envoy discusses the archaeological site and how without Jerusalem ‘there would be no America,’ as he presents the book ‘When the Stones Speak’ at National Library of Israel

Undated photo of Branham High School, San Jose, California. (Ali Ali, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)

‘Blind hate’: California high school students spark outrage with viral ‘human swastika’

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Piers Morgan, left, interviews Nick Fuentes on an episode of Morgan's YouTube show, December 8, 2025. (Screenshot via JTA)

After Tucker Carlson, Piers Morgan interviews antisemite and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes

By Andrew Lapin

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, at podium, speaks during a news conference in Mineola, New York, March 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Philip Marcelo, File)

Jewish Trump ally enters NY gubernatorial race, setting up primary against Stefanik

By Joseph Strauss

Bruce Blakeman of Long Island, who last year signed mask ban into law amid anti-Israel protests, launches campaign with video linking incumbent governor to ‘communist and antisemitic’ Mamdani

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks during a news conference on August 12, 2025, in Tampa, Florida. (AP/Chris O'Meara, File)

Following Texas, Florida governor designates CAIR, Muslim Brotherhood as terror groups

By Reuters and ToI Staff

View of the road leading to the Allenby Crossing after it was closed by Israeli authorities following last week’s stabbing and shooting attack, September 24, 2025. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Allenby Crossing to open for Gaza aid from Jordan for 1st time since September attack

By Emanuel Fabian

Defense official says Israel and Jordan made ‘security adjustments’ to the crossing, which had been closed to cargo for the Strip after a Jordanian truck driver killed 2 IDF soldiers

Displaced Palestinians, children and adults wait for food at a shelter in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, on November 23, 2025. (EYAD BABA / AFP)

UN says thousands of Gaza children still acutely malnourished after truce

By Reuters and ToI Staff

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State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman speaks at the annual Cyber Week, at Tel Aviv University, on December 9, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

State comptroller: Foreign interference could undermine next year’s election

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar (second from left) and his Bolivian counterpart Fernando Aramayo (second from right) sign an agreement renewing ties between their countries in Washington, DC, on December 9, 2025. (Shmulik Almani/Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Israel and Bolivia renew diplomatic ties after two years of rupture over Gaza war

By Agencies and Nava Freiberg

A homeless person in the streets of Jerusalem. December 18, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ FLASH90)

Over quarter of families suffer from food insecurity, as living costs jump – study

By Sharon Wrobel

This handout photograph received on December 9, 2025, courtesy of Syrian director Mohamad Abdul Aziz, shows Abdul Aziz (right) giving directions to actors during the filming of the TV series "The King's Family" in Damascus on August 28, 2025. (AFP PHOTO / HANDOUT / MOHAMAD ABDUL AZIZ)

In Syria, feared sites from the Assad era are becoming sets for primetime TV

By Maher Al-Mounes

Illustrative: Solar water boilers on top of Jerusalem apartment buildings, August 5, 2010. (Abir Sultan/Flash 90)

New plan looks to replace Israel’s solar water heaters with PV cells and heat pumps

A man recharges his electric car at a charging station in Katzrin in the Golan Heights, January 21, 2025. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Knesset committee rejects Treasury bid to hike electric vehicle purchase tax to 52%

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)

Senior cop under probe suspected of colluding with Nazareth ex-mayor, detectives say

By Charlie Summers

Supporters of the Houthi terror group gather as they celebrate independence day, marking the end of British rule in South Yemen in 1967, in Sanaa, Yemen, November 30, 2025. At front is a sign reading, "Death to America, death to Israel, curse on Jews." (AP/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Guterres condemns Houthis’ referral of some detained UN staff to tribunal

By Agencies and ToI Staff

People protest at Independence Square outside Parliament in Vilnius, Lithuania, against the inclusion of the Nemunas Dawn party and Remigijus Zemaitaitis, accused of antisemitism, into the country's ruling coalition, November 21, 2024. (AP/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Lithuanian party whose leader convicted of anti-Jewish hatred to stay in coalition

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A person uses AI on their device. (iStock/hirun)

ADL says bots can be tricked into antisemitism — if fed an elaborate prompt

By Grace Gilson

This handout photo taken on June 25, 2023, by Parco Archeologico di Pompei (Archaeological Park of Pompeii), shows workers excavating an archaeological site. (Handout / Parco Archeologico di Pompei press office / AFP)

Built to lastDiscovery at Pompeii reveals the secrets of ancient Roman concrete

Kosher cookbook author and philanthropist Helen Nash died at 89 in December 2025. (Kitchenwise by Helen Nash)

Helen Nash, kosher cookbook author and NYC philanthropist, dies at 89

By Grace Gilson

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