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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 11, 2025

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Anti-Israel activists protest outside Columbia University, January 21, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Jewish donors described as 'laundering blood money'

Jewish students singled out, scapegoated: Columbia releases final antisemitism report

Antisemitism Task Force says university’s Middle East studies lacks faculty who are not ‘explicitly anti-Zionist,’ seeks to balance free speech with protection for Jews

IMAGE: A pro-Israel protester outside Columbia University in Manhattan, April 22, 2024. (Luke Tress)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 11: Day 797 — Final Columbia antisemitism report reveals classroom aggressions

By Jessica Steinberg and Luke Tress

Illustrative: A pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel student protest at the University of California, Berkeley's Sather Gate October 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Liedtke)

In legal settlement, UC Berkeley acknowledges discriminating against Israeli prof

Cars in a flooded street in Yavne, December 11, 2025 (National Fire and Rescue Authority)

Man found dead, 14 rescued from trapped vehicles, 2 girls hurt by tree amid winter storm

Rescue services say 53-year-old found lifeless in Netanya home likely died of hypothermia; streets and supermarkets flooded; heavy snow falls on Mount Hermon; Byron hits Gaza hard

People walk on a foggy, rainy day in Kibbutz Malkia, near the border with Lebanon, on December 10, 2025. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

IDF goes into lockdown, limits activities as Storm Byron washes over Israel

By Emanuel Fabian, Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

This footage published on December 11, 2025, after being obtained by the IDF from Gaza, shows hostages Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Ori Danino, Alex Lobanov, Carmel Gat, and Almog Sarusi in Hamas captivity in late 2023. (Courtesy)

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Dec. 11: As hostages lit Hanukkah candles in tunnel, Hersh likened their situation to Jews in Nazi Germany

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As hostages lit Hanukkah candles in tunnel, Hersh likened their situation to Jews in Nazi Germany
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US President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable discussion in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on December 10, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)

Not in time for Christmas: Trump delays Gaza peace board unveiling to early 2026

By Jacob Magid and Noam Lehmann

US officials hoped president could announce transition to 2nd phase of peace plan before end of year, but insistence on having foreign force disarm Hamas is likely deterring potential partners

US President Donald Trump is joined by US military and civilian leaders as they watch a demonstration by special operations soldiers at the Holland Drop Zone on June 10, 2025, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images via AFP)

Trump reportedly plans to tap US general to head International Stabilization Force

By Reuters and Jacob Magid

US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz, (left) meets President Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem, December 10, 2025. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

Visiting US envoy Waltz: News ‘upcoming’ on phase 2 of Gaza plan, Hamas ‘has to go’

By Nava Freiberg, Noam Lehmann and Emanuel Fabian

Syria permits Jewish group to begin work on returning seized assets, restoring holy sites

By Noam Lehmann and AFP

Son of Syrian rabbi meets with social affairs minister in Damascus, tours father’s former synagogue; two Israeli rabbis reportedly visit closed synagogues in Aleppo

Henry Hamra (right), one of the founding members of a Jewish-Syrian organization that plans to work to return properties confiscated under previous Syrian governments, reads the Torah next to his son Joseph Hamra inside the al-Franj synagogue in Damascus, Syria, on December 10, 2025. (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)

UNIFIL observers patrol with the Lebanese military in the Buwayda region of Marjayoun, near the border with Israel in southern Lebanon, December 4, 2025. (Rabih DAHER / AFP)

UNIFIL claims IDF shot at patrol in Lebanon; Israel says troops fired at suspect nearby

By Emanuel Fabian

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Jared Kushner with his wife Ivanka Trump, acknowledges applause in the Knesset, Oct. 13, 2025. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)

A building under construction is pictured in the West Bank settlement of Givat Ze'ev on October 24, 2025. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

Israel approves construction of 764 houses in three West Bank settlements

By AP and ToI Staff

Rights group has also accused Israel of genocide

In first, Amnesty accuses Hamas of crimes against humanity on Oct. 7 and during Gaza war

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Organization had accused terror group of war crimes, now stresses systematic ‘extermination’; Hamas rejects charge, while Israel says report ‘falls far short’

File: Hamas terrorists are seen near the Gama Junction in southern Israel, close to Re'im and Kissufim, amid the October 7, 2023, onslaught. (South First Responders)

A settlement activist enters the Gaza Strip in an attempt to plant trees and establish Jewish settlements, December 10, 2025. (Video screenshot/social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Several Israeli settlers enter Gaza, try to plant trees before being detained by IDF

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

A boy sits outside the entrance to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) building complex in Gaza City on September 6, 2025. (Omar al-Qattaa/AFP)

US considers hitting UNRWA with terrorism-related sanctions

By Reuters and ToI Staff

State Department official says ‘everything on the table’ but no final decision made, slams the UN agency as a ‘corrupt organization with a proven track record of aiding and abetting terrorists’

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Storm Byron is a warning

Israel must prepare for the effects of climate change; it must engage with regional partners; and no, this storm won’t help our water reserves

Khinvraj Jangid

Antisemitism in India: An unwelcome import

As global politics and conspiracy theories take hold, India must work to ensure that debates on Gaza, Palestine and Israel are grounded in facts and moral clarity

Amnesty, October 7, and human-rights NGOs gone wild

In a new report on Hamas, Amnesty International has stopped pretending to be committed to real human rights values. It’s about time

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara at a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, September 30, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/ Flash90)

AG pans ultra-Orthodox conscription law, warns it will disincentivize enlistment

By Jeremy Sharon and Sam Sokol

Baharav-Miara writes in position paper that proposal would fail to alleviate burden on reservists or meet IDF’s needs, prompting angry responses from bill’s author and Haredi parties

A poster showing Shas leader Aryeh Deri saying "We are working on a law to regulate the status of Torah students," with the text underneath reading, "Who are you fooling?" in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem on October 28, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

Bank of Israel: Haredi draft bill insufficient to ease reserve duty’s burden on economy

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, the Religious Zionism party chair, attends a faction meeting in the Knesset in Jerusalem on December 8, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Religious Zionism denies it agreed to back controversial Haredi draft exemption bill

Israeli security forces raid the Bedouin city of Rahat on May 7, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

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Cracking down on Bedouin crime, Ben Gvir accused of punishing victims to please his base

By Charlie Summers

Police operation to stem lawlessness after complaints from residents of Jewish towns in northern Negev draws fire for using harsh West Bank-style tactics against Arab citizens

'Maus' creator Art Spiegelman in the film 'Disaster is My Muse,' being screened December 12, 2025, at the Jewish Film Festival in Jerusalem (Courtesy Manifesto Production)

Event includes over 40 films from 15 countries

Movies on non-Zionist ‘Maus’ creator among diverse features in capital’s Hanukkah film fest

By Jessica Steinberg

Jerusalem Cinematheque’s annual Jewish Film Festival, running Dec. 13-18, captures Jews’ varied voices, including two docus on Art Spiegelman, who doesn’t even want to think about Israel

Workers move a coffin containing the body of Sudthisak Rinthalak, a Thai laborer who was killed and whose body was taken hostage by Hamas during the October 7, 2023, attack, as it arrives at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Samut Prakarn, Thailand, December 10, 2025. (Surakit Kaewmorakot/AP)

Remains of Sudthisak Rinthalak, last Thai hostage in Gaza, arrive home

By AFP and ToI Staff

Body of captive slain by terrorists on Oct. 7 and held for two years arrives at Bangkok airport, where family waits to perform Buddhist funeral rites in his hometown

Israeli soldiers walk past houses destroyed by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, 2023, in Kibbutz Be'eri, Oct. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Minister may preserve Be’eri homes gutted on Oct. 7 despite kibbutz vote for demolition

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By Grace Gilson

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By Diana Bletter

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Rabbi Stephanie Ruskay. (Courtesy via JTA)

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President Isaac Herzog meets with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (not pictured) at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, December 6, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Herzog said to host secret talks with bereaved families on forming Oct. 7 state probe

By Nava Freiberg

Unsourced report claims participants asked to sign confidentiality forms; Herzog’s office says President’s Residence serves as space for ‘open dialogue’ on all issues

Religious Zionism MK Simcha Rothman (second from left) leads a Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee hearing, December 9, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bill subordinating internal police investigations unit to justice minister advances

By Jeremy Sharon

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

Illustrative: Kids playing games on phones. (Kerkez/iStock by Getty Images)

Cellphones to be banned from elementary schools nationwide starting February

Education Minister Yoav Kisch says move is designed to foster ‘a healthy and safe educational climate’

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