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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 13, 2025

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Lebanese army soldiers inspect the site of an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese village of Tair Felsay near the Litani River, early on November 13, 2025. (MAHMOUD ZAYYAT / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 13: Israel said to tell Lebanon cooperation between its army and Hezbollah ‘unacceptable’

By Michael Horovitz, Ethan Rubinson and ToI Staff

US reportedly asked over 70 countries to support proposed Gaza stabilization force * IDF says it killed terrorist who crossed Gaza ceasefire line

9:52 pm

IDF finds knives and an axe in vehicle driven by two Palestinians on road to West Bank settlement
8:54 pm

Hundreds protest racist violence in Jaffa after Arab woman allegedly pepper-sprayed by Jews
8:41 pm

Eisenkot says Zionist opposition could form 58-seat government; Gantz: 'We've already been in this movie'

Retiring US ambassador James B. Conant bids farewell to Dr. Hans Globke, right, state secretary in the chancellery and former Nazi official, before leaving to return to the US from the Mehlem railroad station, near the US embassy, in Bonn, Germany, February 19, 1957. (AP Photos/Horst Faas)

66% of Chancellery hires though 1958 were former Nazis

‘Rehabilitated’ postwar West Germany’s government was riddled with Nazis, study reveals

By Robert Philpot

Research by German scholars lifts the lid on Third Reich officials’ lingering influence as a recovering country desperate for experienced administrators looked the other way

Hamas gunmen accompanied by members of the International Committee of the Red Cross head to Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City to search for the remains of the final hostage, December 8, 2025. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi)

ISF will not fight Hamas, say US officials, who still seek to deploy force next month

By Reuters and Jacob Magid

US military to host conference with over 25 countries in Doha next week to discuss plans for International Stabilization Force; it remains unclear how Hamas will be disarmed

Buildings destroyed in the war between Israel and Hamas lie in ruins around the Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza City, during an IDF-organized tour for journalists, November 5, 2025. (Ohad Zwigenberg/AP)

Report: Israel agrees to US demand to pay for massive Gaza rubble-clearing operation

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (back) greets US President Joe Biden upon his arrival at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport on October 18, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. Biden landed in Israel on October 18, on a solidarity visit following Hamas attacks that have led to major Israeli reprisals. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)

US briefly withheld some intel from Israel under Biden over concerns on Gaza conduct

By Erin Banco and Jonathan Landay

Sources say US also limited how Israel could use certain intelligence to pursue high-value targets in Gaza, add that Biden rejected request from officials to formally cut off access

Police officer Master Sgt. Ran Gvili.(Courtesy)

Israel said to give mediators a list of terrorists who know where Ran Gvili is buried

By Stav Levaton and Nava Freiberg

Names of Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives, maps reportedly passed to negotiators as official says last captive could potentially be returned ‘within a short time’

Itzik Gvili speaks at an event for his son Ran Gvili, the last remaining hostage in Gaza, in Tel Aviv's Hostages Square, on December 12, 2025. (Paulina Patimer/The Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

Father of last hostage Ran Gvili: ‘Hard for me to accept condolences until I see his body’

By Jessica Steinberg

Lebanon's Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji speaks during a joint press conference with his counterpart from Egypt at the Foreign Ministry headquarters in Cairo on April 22, 2025. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)

Beirut has been warned of possible Israeli offensive against Hezbollah — Lebanese FM

By Lazar Berman

Youssef Rajji says Lebanon seeking to prevent escalation and negotiate terror group’s disarmament; denounces Iran as ‘source of instability’

This view shows a destroyed section of the Great Colonnade (Decumanus Maximus) and the nearby 13th-century Mamluk-built Fakhr al-Din al-Maani Castle (Tadmur Castle) overlooking it, at the ancient ruins of Palmyra in central Syria on February 7, 2025. (Omar Haj Kadour/AFP)

2 US troops, civilian interpreter killed in attack by member of Syrian security forces

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

What Hamas can never understand and never extinguish

The ‘beautiful six’ hostages insisted on creating community and bringing light into unimaginable darkness

The eight nights of Hanukkah, dateline 5786

All I want for Hanukkah is peace in the Middle East — and for people to stop saying I look good ‘for my age’

The Rockefeller Museum. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Reporter's notebook‘This building is a jewel'

Jerusalem’s ‘cursed’ antiquity museum reopens its doors amid rumors it may become a hotel

By Rossella Tercatin

The Rockefeller Archaeological Museum stores some 60,000 artifacts spanning millennia, including unique decorations from the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher

ToI podcast

The Reel Schmooze: Two ‘mehs’ for ‘Jay Kelly,’ now on Netflix

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman

ToI’s movie maven Jordan Hoffman and host Amanda Borschel-Dan on fine performances from George Clooney and Adam Sandler that just didn’t move them, plus the lovely doc ‘Carol & Joy’

Cabinet legalizes 19 West Bank outposts, including 2 vacated in 2005 disengagement

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Move unanimously approved, US was notified ahead of time, report says; PA slams ‘annexation, apartheid and complete Judaization of Palestinian land’

A view of a home in the settler outpost of Esh Kodesh in the West Bank, on July 20, 2015. (Garrett Mills/Flash90)

Sissi not planning to meet PM without changes in conduct toward Egypt – official

Official says unresolved disputes over Gaza, Rafah Crossing and security make summit with Netanyahu unlikely despite interest from Jerusalem, Washington

A handout released by the Egyptian Presidency shows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi in New York on September 18, 2017. (HO/AFP)

Illustrative: A cargo ship loaded with containers leaves the port in Qingdao, China, on July 8, 2025. (AFP)

US commandos raided ship headed to Iran from China with military-related items — report

By AFP

Intel showed components could be destined for missile program, Wall Street Journal says; Iran reports seizing tanker transporting ‘contraband’ oil in Gulf of Oman

A man fills his car at a gas station in Tehran, Iran, December 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran raises gas prices for first time since deadly 2019 protests

By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell

This photo taken in 2021 shows Narges Mohammadi in Tehran, Iran. (Reihane Taravati via AP)

Rights groups condemn reported re-arrest of Nobel laureate Mohammadi in Iran

Danon: UNRWA workers guilty of Oct 7 crimes against humanity

UN backs ICJ declaration that UNRWA isn’t infiltrated by Hamas; Israel denounces vote

Head of Palestinian welfare agency hails ‘strong endorsement’ from General Assembly; US slams ‘unserious and biased’ resolution, condemns UNWRA as ‘a Hamas subsidiary complicit in Oct. 7’

UN vehicles escort a destroyed truck reportedly used by UNRWA workers that was fired upon by Israeli forces, as it is carried by a trailer vehicle along Gaza's main Salah al-Din road outside Deir al-Balah in central Gaza on October 23, 2024. (Eyad Baba/AFP)

Haneen al-Mabhouh, 34, who lost her leg in an Israeli strike on her home that also killed all four of her daughters, including her 5-month-old baby, sits in a wheelchair in her family home in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Gaza amputees struggle to rebuild lives as enclave faces shortages of prosthetic limbs

By AP and ToI Staff

A soldier makes final preparations before the annual Memorial Day commemoration at the American cemetery in Margraten, on May 29, 2022. (Robin van Lonkhuijsen/ANP/AFP)

Officials removed exhibit on Black soldiers in WWII over fear of Trump’s ‘ire,’ emails show

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Holocaust museums and Jewish veterans’ groups object to the move, which had not previously been explained, as distorting memory

A video shown on stage of with an image of swastikas in the centre of Stars of David superimposed over the eyes of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during a performance by British band Primal Scream in London, December 8, 2025. (Screenshot/X)

Primal Scream concert visuals combine swastikas and Stars of David, sparking outrage

CST files police complaint over graphics fusing Nazi symbols, Jewish imagery on eyes of global politicians alongside images of Gaza; venue says it condemns antisemitism; band defends ‘art’

Pro-Palestinian protesters sit on the floor with a sign reading 'Elbit corrupts justice', referring to Israeli defense firm Elbit, after spraying red paint over the exterior of the Ministry of Justice building in central London on December 12, 2025. (Henry Nicholls / AFP)

Anti-Israel activists vandalize UK justice ministry with red paint

Illustrative: Passengers consult the departures board at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport on June 25, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

US plans to order tourists, including from Israel, to disclose social media histories

Under proposal, visitors from 42 visa-waiver countries, including Israel, UK and France, would be required to submit five years of social media activity before being granted entry

Freed hostage and NVIDIA employee Avinatan Or meets CEO Jensen Huang

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Released after 738 days in Hamas captivity, Or visits chip giant’s US headquarters; girlfriend Noa Argamani says founder ‘personally accompanied the family and called repeatedly’

From left: senior vice president and head of NVIDIA's Israel research and development center Amit Krig, released hostage and NVIDIA employee Avinatan Or, released hostage Noa Argamani and NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang meeting at the company's US headquarters following Or's release from Hamas captivity, December 11, 2025. (NVIDIA via Noa Argamani on X)

New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani arrives at the National Action Network (NAN) Annual Thanksgiving Feeding event in Harlem, New York City, on November 27, 2025. (Kena Betancur / AFP)

After meeting Mamdani, leading NY rabbi says ‘deeply’ worried about next 4 years

Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch says he was ‘pleased’ to meet with mayor-elect, but remains concerned about his ‘harsh ideological anti-Zionism’

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This undated photo from the personal collection of Jeffrey Epstein provided by the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee on December 12, 2025, shows US President Donald Trump (L), flanked by Epstein (C), talking to an unknown woman. (HANDOUT/House Oversight Democrats/AFP)

Democrats release new cache of Epstein photos featuring Trump, Clinton, Gates

Gordon Jewish Community Center in Nashville (image: Google Maps)

Nashville Jewish community center sues Goyim Defense League over alleged intimidation campaign

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Inset: Joe Berman, who resigned from the Anti-Defamation League in March 2025. (Courtesy Berman); Background: A view during the ADL Never Is Now Summit on March 3, 2025, in New York City. (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Anti-Defamation League via JTA)

Top ADL civil rights lay leader quits, accusing group of being ‘useful idiot’ for Trump

International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan at the Cour d'Honneur of the Palais Royal in Paris on February 7, 2024. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP)

ICC prosecutor says UK threatened to defund court over Netanyahu arrest warrant

Rabbi Eliezer B. Diamond, who taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary for 35 years, died on December 11, 2025, at 73. (Jewish Theological Seminary)

Rabbi Eliezer Diamond, beloved Jewish seminary professor and author, dies at 73

By Grace Gilson

Illustrative: A prisoner being held in an Iranian prison. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Iran frees former child bride sentenced to death over husband’s killing

By AFP

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