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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 14, 2025

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Worst attack on Jews abroad since Hamas Oct. 7, 2023 assault

At least 15 killed as gunmen open fire on Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Dozens more wounded in terror attack on Chabad event, one of deadliest attacks on Jews outside Israel in decades; Australian authorities accused of failing to combat antisemitism; Chabad emissary among victims

Arsen Ostrovsky, who was with his family at Bondi Beach in Sydney, during the deadly December 14, 2025, terror shooting, describes the attack in an Australian TV interview. (Sky News Australia screenshot)

‘It was a bloodbath. I saw children falling’: Eyewitnesses describe Sydney terror attack

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump talks to reporters as he departs from the South Lawn of the White House, December 13, 2025, in Washington, DC. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 14: Trump condemns Sydney shooting as ‘a purely antisemitic attack’

Death toll rises to 15 * Victims, ages 10-87, include Holocaust survivor, French national, Chabad rabbi, 10-year-old girl * Trump condemns shooting as ‘purely antisemitic attack’

9:53 pm

Australia to mourn Sydney Hanukkah shooting with flags at half-mast, says PM
9:35 pm

At least 7 people still in critical condition following Sydney Hanukkah shooting
9:23 pm

Reuven Morrison and Rabbi Yaakov Levitan named as victims of Sydney massacre

A woman holds her child after a deadly terror shooting at a Hanukkah event at Sydney's Bondi Beach on December 14, 2025. (DAVID GRAY / AFP)

‘Horrified, not shocked’: Australian Jews blame Bondi attack on ongoing ‘incitement’

Community leaders say government has failed to respond to burgeoning antisemitism since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, leaving Jewish people fearful

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From the blogs

We just went to the beach to celebrate Hanukkah

This can’t be happening. I shove my body over my baby. Where are the police? I must protect my baby. This can’t be my last day. How is this happening?

Bondi Beach shooting'The writing was on the wall'

After Sydney attack, Netanyahu says he warned Canberra was ‘pouring fuel on antisemitic fire’

By Sam Sokol, Zev Stub, Lazar Berman and Nava Freiberg

Israeli politicians liken terror attack to Oct. 7, accuse Australia of ignoring anti-Jewish incidents in lead-up; some officials say victims’ blood is on government’s hands

(L) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press conference in Jerusalem on August 10, 2025 (ABIR SULTAN / POOL / AFP) and (R) Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks during a press conference in Canberra on August 11, 2025. (Hilary Wardhaugh / AFP)

Anti-government protesters demand a state commission of inquiry at a rally in Tel Aviv on November 8, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

800 days since Oct. 7 Hamas invasion, massacre, abductions

Former hostages, bereaved families demand Netanyahu open October 7 state probe

22 survivors of captivity and dozens of hostages’ relatives sign letter urging commission of inquiry to ‘investigate all aspects’ of security debacle and subsequent decision-making

People attend a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government at Habima Square in Tel Aviv on December 13, 2025. One man hoists a photo of Ran Gvili, the last hostage whose body is held by terror groups in Gaza, which purport not to know where it is. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

‘No pardon for Oct. 7’: Protesters in Tel Aviv blast PM, call for return of Ran Gvili

By Noam Lehmann

IMAGE: Palestinians inspect a car belonging to Hamas commander Raed Saad after it was hit in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, December 13, 2025. (Fathi Ibrahim/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 14: Day 800 – Ceasefire tensions escalate after top Hamas commander is killed

By Jessica Steinberg, Lazar Berman and Sue Surkes

Israel said to hope killing of Raed Saad doesn’t delay return of last hostage’s body

Jerusalem pushing US to press Hamas to hand over remains of Ran Gvili after assassination of terror group’s Gaza No. 2, who reportedly rarely emerged aboveground

Palestinians look at a destroyed car following an Israeli strike in Gaza City, December 13, 2025, that killed Hamas commander Raed Saad. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi)

Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a car in Gaza City that killed top Hamas official Raed Saad, December 13, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Hamas rejects disarmament, confirms senior commander Saad killed in Israeli strike

By Noam Lehmann

Top Hamas commander Raed Saad is seen an undated photo (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF kills top Hamas commander Raed Saad, a key planner of Oct. 7, in Gaza City strike

By Emanuel Fabian

This Hanukkah, my synagogue is telling our Jewish immigrant stories

In a climate that is hostile to newly-arrived Americans, houses of worship should be places to remember that we all come from somewhere

Why should we care what Mark Ruffalo thinks about Marwan Barghouti?

It’s not just that celebrities calling for the release of a convicted terrorist are wrong; it’s that they risk drowning out real expertise, real voices and real victims

High Court annuls firing of attorney general; cabinet ministers urge defiance of ruling

By Jeremy Sharon

In unanimous decision, justices says government failed to justify politicizing the process for firing an AG in effort to dismiss Baharav-Miara

Supreme Court President Isaac Amit presides over a hearing, November 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Interview

Food security improving since Gaza truce, but challenges abound — top UN aid official

Humanitarian group deputy chief says IDF restrictions on dual-use items causing lack of winter shelter, urges Israel to increase entry of commercial goods to revive Gaza’s private sector

A Palestinian woman carries a box of food from the World Food Program after collecting it in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, November 2, 2025. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi)

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

US State Department said to ask 70 countries to contribute to Gaza stabilization force

By Lazar Berman

Gadi Eisenkot attends a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on December 9, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Eisenkot takes heat for implying Zionist opposition bloc may partner with Arab parties

Gantz scolds former party member, says chance of such an alliance ‘unrealistic after Oct. 7’; Likud slams opposition for relying on ‘elements’ who ‘undermine the State of Israel’

Arab residents of Jaffa protest against an attack on a pregnant community member, in an incident allegedly motivated by racism, December 13, 2025. (Screenshot from X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Hundreds protest in Jaffa after Arab woman allegedly pepper-sprayed by Jews

By Noam Lehmann

Demonstrators denounce ‘racist’ violence, say they’re ‘not afraid of conflict’ with security services; former Knesset member blames police, government

Henry H. Sapoznik, author of 'The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City.' (Audrey Martinovitch)

Interview'The past is not dead; it is not even past'

From Black cantors to kosher health nuts, new book reveals lost histories of Yiddish NYC

By Zack Rothbart

Great for Hanukkah, ‘The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City’ by Henry H. Sapoznik is not your usual guidebook. In fact, many of the sites listed in it haven’t existed for decades

A view of destroyed buildings along the border with Lebanon, seen from northern Israel, December 13, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

IDF says it killed 3 Hezbollah operatives in south Lebanon strikes

By Emanuel Fabian

Members of terror group killed in 3 separate drone strikes targeting vehicles in villages of Yater, Safad al-Battikh and Jouaiya

Destroyed homes in southern Lebanon, as seen from Israel, on December 13, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

IDF postpones planned strike on alleged Hezbollah site as Lebanese army searches it

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Israeli security forces stand guard in the West Bank city of Hebron, December 13, 2025. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

IDF says troops killed Palestinian who threw bomb at them in West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

In separate incident, military says two Palestinians arrested outside settlement found with knives and axe in their vehicle

2 killed, several critically hurt in Brown University shooting; person of interest detained

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI, JENNIFER McDERMOTT and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER

Law enforcement official says shooter used a handgun in attack at Ivy League school in Rhode Island; person of interest is in his 30s, police say

Police gather on Waterman Street in Providence, Rhode Island, on December 13, 2025, during the investigation of a mass shooting. (AP/Mark Stockwell)

Edward Kachura, accused of murdering 17-year-old Lital Yael Melnik, arrives for a court hearing at the Haifa District Court on September 28, 2025. (Flash90)

Man who buried 17-year-old girl alive, causing her death, sentenced to 7 years

By Jeremy Sharon

Edward Kachura, held since 2021, will serve three more years in prison; attorneys for family of victim Lital Yael Melnik to appeal ruling that cleared him of murder

More Headlines

Illustrative: Visitors walk at the Christmas market in Dortmund, western Germany, on December 5, 2025. (Ina Fassbender/AFP)

Germany foils suspected Islamist car ramming plot targeting Christmas market

By AFP

Officials representing Israel, the United States, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, and Australia at the Pax Silica conference in Washington, DC, December 13, 2025. (Prime Minister's Office)

Israel joins US-led ‘Pax Silica’ initiative to cooperate on securing AI supply chains

By Lazar Berman and Agencies

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