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What Matters Most On Monday, December 15, 2025

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The victims of the December 14, 2025, Sydney Hanukkah terror shooting: top row (left to right) - Reuven Morrison, Rabbi Yaakov Levitan, Dan Elkayam, Alex Kleytman, Rabbi Eli Schlanger; middle row (left to right) - Edith Brutman, Peter Meagher, Tibor Weitzen, Marika Pogany, Matilda [last name withheld]; bottom row (left to right) - Tania Tretiak, Boris Tetleroyd, Adam Smyth, Sofia and Boris Gurman. (Composite: Times of Israel; Images: Courtesy/social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

The 15 people slain in the Dec. 14 terror attack on Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration

Chabad rabbis, Holocaust survivors, 10-year-old among those who were gunned down when two terrorists opened fire on ‘Chanukah by the Sea’ event in Sydney. These are their stories

Naveed Akram, 24 (left), and his father Sajid, 50 (right), in images taken from a video obtained by Sky News showing their deadly terror attack on a Hanukkah event at Sydney's Bondi Beach on December 14, 2025. (Screen grab/Sky News)

Over 300 cops deployed to secure Australian Jewish community

Sydney gunmen identified as father and son, reportedly possessed ISIS flag

By ToI Staff, Lazar Berman and Agencies

Terrorists named as Naveed and Sajid Akram, 24 and 50; son was probed in 2019 for ISIS ties; Australia said to examine if attack was Iranian plot; 6 in critical condition from attack that killed at least 15

IDF troops in a tank operate in eastern Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, in the Yellow Line area, in a photo released by the army on December 15, 2025. (IDF)

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Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese walks with police officers after laying flowers on December 15, 2025, at the Bondi Pavilion at the scene of a terror attack targeting a Jewish event. (Handout / AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE / AFP)

Australian PM rejects Netanyahu’s linking of Palestine recognition to Bondi attack

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Asked about accusation he ‘replaced weakness with weakness,’ Albanese calls for national unity, dismisses allegations he failed to act on antisemitism report recommendations

Op-ed: Day 801 of the war

Aim, fire, kill a Jew, reload… How to turn back the rising tide of murderous inhumanity

Along with hugely intensified efforts to thwart the next killers already poised to strike, what’s vital is a global effort to entrench from childhood the sanctity of life, and ensure serious punitive consequences for those who incite and enable murder

Gunman Naveed Akram in the course of a deadly terror attack on a Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia, December 14, 2025. (Screengrab used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

‘My son is a hero’: Family of man who tackled Sydney gunman says it was ‘matter of conscience’

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Ahmed al Ahmed, likely to need further surgery after being shot repeatedly, reportedly says ‘he’d do it again’; NSW premier: ‘More lives would have been lost if not for his selfless courage’

Ahmed al Ahmed, the bystander who tackled a gunman during the Sydney Hanukkah massacre, seen while being treated for his wounds on December 14, 2025. (Screenshot used in accordance with clause 27a of the coypright law)

Screengrab of Ahmed al Ahmed, 43-year-old fruit store owner, wrestling the weapon from one of the two gunmen who attacked a Hanukkah event at Sydney's Bondi Beach, December 14, 2025. (Footage from X, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

‘A genuine hero’: Unarmed Muslim bystander filmed disarming Sydney terrorist

Appeasement’s bitter harvest in Bondi

Israel knows what the West forgets: When evil is indulged, it grows; when confronted, it retreats – which is why Israel continues to fight it, wherever it is found

Globalize the light

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Quintessential Sydney, the beach made us smile

My survivor mother found sanctuary down under, but she knew that when hate speech is the norm, violence follows – and Australia has a problem with hate speech

Elkana Bar Eitan

Terror found my friend, Arsen Ostrovsky

In case you needed a reminder that terrorism against Jews doesn’t stop at Israel’s borders… but neither does Jewish resilience

Police clash with protesters outside the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam during a series of Hanukkah-related events inside, some of which featured the official IDF cantor, Shai Abramson, December 14, 2025. (Screenshot via X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Dutch police arrest 22 at protest of Amsterdam Hanukkah concert featuring IDF cantor

By Agencies, Luke Tress and ToI Staff

Anti-Israel activists deface concert hall and threaten venues against ‘platforming Zionists’ after private performances by Shai Abramson, whose role in main concert was canceled

The lighting of the world's largest menorah, in New York City, December 14, 2025. The event on the first night of Hanukkah took place hours after a terror attack at a Hanukkah event in Australia. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

‘More light’: NYC crowd answers Sydney attack with defiant Hanukkah celebration

Participants in lighting of world’s largest menorah maintain upbeat atmosphere despite ‘pain beyond description’ following Bondi Beach terror attack on Hanukkah party

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, 2nd right, and his wife, Elke Buedenbender, light a fire during a vigil for the victims of the terror attack at Australia's Bondi Beach, Berlin, Germany, December 14, 2025. (AP/ Markus Schreiber)

Major cities around world ramp up security for Hanukkah events after Sydney attack

By Reuters, Lazar Berman, Luke Tress and ToI Staff

Behind the headlines

Asaf Elia-Shalev

Bondi Beach attack underscores years of escalating antisemitic incidents in Australia

Deadly Hanukkah terror shooting shines light on growing fears of Jews in country that saw over 1,600 antisemitic incidents in the past year, according to Jewish group’s tally

A member of the Australian Jewish community reacts as he walks with police toward the scene of a deadly terror shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 14, 2025. (DAVID GRAY / AFP)

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to the media at the Civil-Military Coordination Center for Gaza in southern Israel, October 24, 2025. (Fadel Senna/Pool Photo via AP)

Global condemnations pour in after Jews gunned down at Bondi Beach Hanukkah event

By Lazar Berman and AFP

Rabbi Yossi Friedman, left, holds a prayer at a flower memorial for shooting victims outside the Bondi Pavilion at Sydney's Bondi Beach on December 15, 2025, a day after the deadly terror attack targeting Jews. (AP/Mark Baker)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 15: Day 801 – Anguish in Australia after bloody Hanukkah terror attack

By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Zev Stub and Rossella Tercatin

People attend the Annual National Menorah Lighting at the Ellipse of the White House in Washington, DC, on December 7, 2023. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

Targeted Hanukkah lighting spotlights decades-old Chabad mission to illuminate the world

By Rossella Tercatin

Over 50 years after the first public menorah lighting in Philadelphia, annual tradition has spread to some 15,000 locales worldwide from Australia to Uzbekistan

Investigators believe couple suffered stab wounds

Legendary director-actor Rob Reiner and wife found dead at home; homicide suspected

Jewish filmmaker, son of comedy legend Carl Reiner, directed ‘When Harry Met Sally,’ ‘The Princess Bride,’ and ‘This is Spinal Tap’; family member questioned

Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner arrive on the red carpet at the State Department for the Kennedy Center Honors gala dinner, December 2, 2023, in Washington, DC. (AP/Kevin Wolf)

Writer-director Rob Reiner poses for a portrait in New York, May 2, 2016. (Brian Ach/Invision/AP)

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By AP and ToI Staff

Likud MK lays out proposed Oct. 7 probe in place of state inquiry; opposition rejects it

Yair Lapid pledges not to cooperate with government’s ‘cover-up committee for October 7’; Bennett calls proposal ‘a knife in the back of the bereaved families’

Likud MK Ariel Kallner presents his bill for the establishment of a government commission of inquiry into the events of October 7, at a press conference in the Knesset, December 14, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal, together with family members of Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, whose body is held by Hamas in Gaza, light the first Hanukkah candle at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem on December 14, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Candle lightings nationwide honor final hostage Ran Gvili for first night of Hanukkah

By Lazar Berman, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

From left to right: Hostages Yotam Haim, Samar Talalka and Alon Lulu Shamriz, who were killed mistakenly by IDF troops in Gaza on December 15, 2023. (Courtesy)

Families of hostages mistakenly slain by IDF decry promotion of involved commander

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Two years after escaped captives shot by troops in Gaza, relatives say officer on scene failed at his job, avoided responsibility, never apologized; army calls him ‘principled, honest’

Cookbook author Adeena Sussman with her latest, 'Zariz,' in December 2025. (Courtesy)

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Nvidia Israel's head of HR and deputy general counsel Gideon Rosenberg leads a march with hostage families demanding the release of their loved ones held in the Gaza Strip, November 2023. (Uriel Even Sapir)

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Gideon Rosenberg, head of HR for 5,000 workers in Israel, talks about going above and beyond for his employee Avinatan Or, who was held in Hamas tunnels in Gaza for two years

An unidentified Haredi child found by police at the bus terminal near the Qalandiya checkpoint in Jerusalem on December 15, 2025. (Israel Police)

Lost Haredi 3-year-old found alone at West Bank bus terminal overnight

Child, who only speaks Yiddish, reunited with family on Monday morning; parents ferrying 11 kids reportedly say they mistakenly got off bus without him, suspected of child neglect

It's a wrap

Festival of archaeology? Five ways to explore Hanukkah history in Jerusalem

By Rossella Tercatin

From the arrowheads used by a Greek army to menorahs, the city offers antiquities enthusiasts many opportunities to celebrate

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