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What Matters Most On Friday, December 12, 2025

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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)

Unprecedentedly lengthy insight into what hostages endured

Harrowing footage shows 6 hostages lighting Hanukkah candles 8 months before execution

By Jessica Steinberg

Families of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Almog Sarusi, Ori Danino, and Alex Lobanov approve release of videos filmed by Hamas terrorists in Gaza tunnel, intended for propaganda, recovered by IDF

Mourners carry the body of Palestinian journalist Hassan Eslaiah, who was killed in an Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital, with the Israeli military saying he was targeted for being a Hamas terrorist involved in the October 7, 2023, onslaught in southern Israel that sparked the war, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, May 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Majority of journalists killed in Gaza linked to terror organizations, study says

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Jacob Magid (courtesy) / Then-US Secretary of State Antony Blinken waves as he arrives at Ben Gurion Airport, June 10, 2024. (Jack Guez/Pool via AP)

ToI podcastLazar Focus: Jacob Magid on the day that never came – Blinken’s vision for postwar Gaza

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jacob Magid

Interview

‘I want to fix the IDF’: Noam Tibon on the impact of Oct. 7 and what he plans to do in Knesset

Retired general who rescued his family from Hamas details plans for assertive defense policy, calls to expand the army’s ground forces and end what he sees as its politicization

Maj. Gen. (Res.) Noam Tibon speaks during a rally for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, July 24, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Then-Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Chaim Herzog addresses the UN General Assembly on November 10, 1975, at the vote to label Zionism as 'racism,' at the United Nations, New York. (UN Photo/Michos Tzovaras)

Deep dive'It became the Rosetta Stone of the anti-Zionist movement'

How a UN vote 50 years ago equating Zionism with racism forever altered discourse on Israel

In November 1975, the USSR championed a resolution aimed at easing criticism of its own antisemitism at Israel’s expense. It was repealed in 1991, but experts say its effect lives on

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Live updates (closed)

Dec. 12: Israeli official accuses Qatar of trying to destroy relationship between Israel and Trump administration

After declining invite to Tehran, top Lebanese diplomat says Iran ‘source of instability’ in Mideast * ISF will not fight Hamas, say US officials, who still seek to deploy force next month

9:14 pm

Joint Saudi-Emirate delegation in Yemen for talks after separatist group takeover
8:13 pm

US will host Doha conference Dec. 16 on Gaza stabilization force plans
8:09 pm

Iran said to seize foreign tanker carrying 6 million liters of 'smuggled diesel' in Gulf of Oman

Paramedics in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah after finding a man lifeless there, with signs of hypothermia, during winter Storm Byron on December 12, 2025. (Magen David Adom)

More than 100 rescued across southern Israel

One dead in East Jerusalem, teen missing in Tel Aviv area as storm expected to abate

By ToI Staff and Noam Lehmann

Rescuers stretched thin during intense flooding from Storm Byron; 11 Gazans killed in storm since Thursday, says official PA outlet, as tent cities flood

A Palestinian boy walks through water in a temporary tent camp after heavy rainfall in Deir el-Balah, in the centra Gaza Strip, December 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

UN: Gaza-bound shelter materials refused entry, leaving displaced masses exposed

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Gazan parents hold the body of their 8-month-old daughter, Rahaf Abu Jazar, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, December 11, 2025. (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

‘The cold killed her’: 8-month-old dies as Storm Byron soaks Gaza displacement camps

By Noam Lehmann and Reuters

Interview

Pressured by Trump and threatened by Iran, Ukraine looks to revamp ties with Israel

Deputy PM Taras Kachka, the most senior Ukrainian official to visit Israel since 2022 Russian invasion, says bilateral relationship looking up, but strains over Russia persist

Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Taras Kachka speaks to The Times of Israel in Jerusalem, December 4, 2025. (Ukrainian Embassy in Israel)

Men gather for Friday evening prayers at Bukhara's oldest synagogue, one of just two still functioning, in the old city of Bukhara, Uzbekistan, October 17, 2025. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'All my friends are Muslims from here, Afghanistan, Iran'

In an ancient oasis in Bukhara, a tiny Jewish community relies on its Muslim neighbors

Once an influential Jewish hub on Central Asia’s Silk Road, urban center in Uzbekistan is now home to just several hundred Jews, unthreatened by antisemitism, struggling to keep tradition alive

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)

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Netanyahu planning Cairo trip to sign multibillion-dollar gas deal with Egypt

By Shalom Yerushalmi

Senior US source confirms to ToI that Israeli officials are working with American diplomats on preparations for trip, which would be PM’s first official state visit to Egypt in 15 years

Rachelli Prawer

‘Wicked’ness and goodness in an inverted world

Discerning one’s true character these days is no small task, but judging superficially is not the Jewish way

When the miracle fades: A grown-up’s guide to Hanukkah

How a holiday celebrating the miracle of a small jug of oil from over 2,000 years ago can actually be meaningful right now

In first for Israel, Kibbutz Gezer’s Alon Leichman named pitching coach for MLB team

By ToI Staff and JTA

Leichman, who has worn the number of his kibbutz laundry tag and highlighted his Israeli identity, has been appointed by the Colorado Rockies

Alon Leichman, then with the Miami Marlins, gestures signs toward catcher Agustín Ramírez during the eighth inning of a US baseball game on September 20, 2025, in Arlington, Texas. (AP/Julio Cortez)

Smoke billows in southern Lebanon following an Israeli airstrike, December 12, 2025. (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF says it struck Hezbollah training facility, other sites in south Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian

Lebanese state media says about a dozen sites targeted, including some north of the Litani River; no casualties reported

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks during a joint press conference with Turkey's foreign minister (not pictured), in Tehran on November 30, 2025. (Atta Kenare / AFP)

Iranian FM says he’ll visit Lebanon, calls counterpart’s refusal to head to Tehran ‘bemusing’

By Reuters and Noam Lehmann

'The Recordings: Voices from the Shoah Tapes,' on view at the New York Historical, features listening stations where visitors can hear the testimony of Holocaust survivors, perpetrators and resisters, including Hillel Kook (Peter Bergson), seen in the video talking about his efforts to influence US government officials to save Europe's Jews. (JTA photo)

'It's a very unusual exhibition, almost exclusively audio'

A timely New York exhibition immerses listeners in voices from the Holocaust

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Rare, unheard recordings collected by Claude Lanzmann for his monumental film ‘Shoah’ feature testimonies that still demand to be heard – and now can be, at the New York Historical

US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, right, and US special envoy Steve Witkoff attend a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin (not in picture) at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, December 2, 2025. (Kristina Kormilitsyna / POOL via Sputnik / AFP)

Jared Kushner’s unofficial role in Trump administration sparks ethical questions

By AFP and ToI Staff

US president’s son-in-law, who has played a key role in Gaza and Ukraine peace talks, is part of investor group trying to win bidding war for Warner Bros., which owns CNN

Tyler Robinson, who is accused of fatally shooting Charlie Kirk, appears during a hearing in Fourth District Court in Provo, Utah, December 11, 2025. (Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, Pool)

Utah man charged with murdering Charlie Kirk makes first court appearance

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM

Irish Secretary of State for European Affairs Thomas Byrne, center, speaks with his Swedish counterpart Hans Dahlgren, left, and German counterpart Anna Luehrmann ahead of the General Affairs Council (GAC) meeting at the EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on September 20, 2022. (John THYS / AFP)

Irish minister defends plans for ‘extremely limited’ curbs to trade with settlements

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Thomas Byrne, who is a minister of state, says law would ‘prohibit imports of goods from illegally occupied territories’; lawmaker behind legislation also wants ban on services

An exterior view of the International Criminal Court, ICC on December 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

ICC officials confront curbs to travel, finances in face of sweeping US sanctions

By AP and ToI Staff

Screen capture from video of National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at the grave of Muslim extremist Ezzedine al-Qassam, December 10, 2025. (X)

Ben Gvir steps up threat to remove Haifa-area grave of ‘father of terrorism’ Qassam

By AFP and ToI Staff

Far-right minister oversees removal of unauthorized pavilion at grave of Ezzedine al-Qassam, namesake of Hamas military wing; terror group calls it ‘unprecedented’ transgression

Israeli settlers attempt to reach the site of the former Nisanit settlement in the northern Gaza Strip, July 26 2007. (Edi Israel/Flash 90)

Group of ministers seeks OK for Hanukkah flag-raising ceremony at former Gaza settlement

By AFP and ToI Staff

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich gestures toward a map of the West Bank during a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, September 3, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Poll: Plurality of Israelis oppose $841 million Smotrich plan to expand settlements

Nemo of Switzerland, celebrates after winning the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, on May 12, 2024. (Martin Meissner/AP)

Eurovision champion Nemo returns winner’s trophy to protest Israel’s inclusion

By AP and ToI Staff

Swiss performer, who won in 2024, cites conduct of war against Hamas, claims Israeli behavior contradicts event’s theme of unity, inclusion and dignity for all people

A lab-grown cultivated chicken breast made by Israeli-founded startup Believer Meats. (Courtesy)

Israeli-founded lab-grown meat startup Believer shuts down as funds dry up

By Sharon Wrobel

Believer Meats, a maker of meat created directly from animal cells, faces a lawsuit over $34 million in unpaid bills; startup has operations in Israel and the US

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Mountain gazelles seen near blossoming almond trees. (Nimrod Lahav, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

Wildlife smuggling, poison, rabies rise in 2025, alongside uptick in nature visits

Screen capture from video of sports podcasters Shannon Sharpe, left and Chad Ochocinco, as they discussed how 'Jews own everything,' December 1, 2025. (X)

Jews ‘own everything,’ assert popular US sports podcast hosts

By Andrew Lapin

A woman wearing a hijab walks through the water spray in front of the Praterstern train station in Vienna on August 21, 2023. (Alex HALADA / AFP)

Austria bans headscarves in schools for girls under 14

By AFP

Supporters of presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast, of the Republican Party, attend a rally ahead of the presidential runoff election in Temuco, Chile, December 11, 2025. (AP/Esteban Felix)

Chileans polarized ahead of presidential election as far-right candidate poised to prevail

By Isabel Debre

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