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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 16, 2025

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Boris (right) and Sofia Gurman tussle with terrorist Sajid Akram (left) before he carried out the Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre, December 14, 2025. (Screenshot)

Another victim identified as Edith Brutman

Jewish couple tussled with Sydney terrorist before killing spree began — and were slain

Boris and Sofia Gurman seen in dashcam footage fighting with Sajid Akram before both were shot dead; Reuven Morrison seen hurling objects at gunman before he too was killed

Candles burn in front of mourners as they gather at a tribute at the Bondi Pavilion in memory of the victims of a terror attack against Jews during a Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach, in Sydney on December 16, 2025. (SAEED KHAN / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 16: Day 802 – Heroism amid horror at Hanukkah Bondi terror attack

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz

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

Police search for evidence around the area where the Bondi Beach shooting took place in Sydney, Australia, on December 16, 2025. (DAVID GRAY / AFP)

Attackers spent most of November in Philippines

Australian officials: Bondi terror attack inspired by ISIS, bombs found in shooters’ car

PM Albanese says homemade Islamic State flags also found in vehicle, younger terrorist was probed in 2019 but not considered a threat; visits ‘true Australian hero’ who tackled shooter

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)

Bondi Hanukkah terrorist was teen preacher for Islamic group, follower of radical cleric

By Reuters and ToI Staff

This handout photo taken and received from the NSW Premier's Department on December 15, 2025, shows New South Wales Premier Chris Minns (L) talking with Ahmed Al Ahmed, the man who tackled and disarmed one of the Bondi Beach terrorists, at St. George Hospital in Sydney. (Handout/ NSW Premier's Department/AFP)

Jewish donors help raise $1.3m for the Muslim man who disarmed a Bondi Beach attacker

By Grace Gilson

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 16: Netanyahu demands Western leaders do more to tackle antisemitism after Bondi Beach terror attack

Israel blocks Canadian MPs at West Bank crossing, says delegation sponsored by ‘terror entity’ * Palestinian teen reportedly shot dead by settler

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Israel blocks Canadian lawmakers at West Bank crossing, says delegation sponsored by 'terror entity'
8:43 pm

US imposes travel ban on Palestinian Authority passport holders, five more countries
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IDF soldier killed by gunfire on military base; incident under investigation

Author Gilly Segal, left, interviews literary agent Rena Rossner, center, and rabbi and author Angela Buchdahl at the Artists Against Antisemitism 2025 Jewish Writers Mifgash, September 14, 2025. (Rebecca J. Michelson)

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Victoria Teplitsky says her father, who was shot in the leg, is ‘in good spirits, but he’s also very angry’; Israeli envoy: I was ‘very clear’ about dangers facing Jewish community

A mourner holds up a wooden Star of David with a sign reading 'Jewish Lives Matter' as people gather around floral tributes outside Bondi Pavilion in Sydney on December 16, 2025. (DAVID GRAY / AFP)

FILE: Victoria's Premier Jacinta Allan (R) listens to a speech during a Remembrance Day service at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne on November 11, 2025. (William WEST / AFP)

Victoria premier booed at Melbourne vigil amid ire at Labor party over Bondi attack

This screen grab made from UGC handout video footage courtesy of Timothy Brant-Coles shows two gunmen dressed in black firing multiple shots on a bridge at Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 14, 2025, in an attack on a Hanukkah event. (Handout / various sources / AFP)

Australian leaders dodge questions over how Bondi shooter was licensed gun carrier

By Michael Horovitz and AP

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Just as Jews everywhere have stood with us in Israel, we stand together with you, shoulder-to-shoulder, in the fight against this violent hatred

A Hanukkah menorah is projected onto the sails of the Sydney Opera House in memory of the victims of the terror massacre at a Hannukah event at Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 15, 2025. (David Gray/AFP)

Sydney Opera House lit up with giant menorah in tribute to Bondi Beach attack victims

By Grace Gilson

Memorial events held across Australia on Monday to commemorate the 15 people killed and dozens wounded by terrorists at Hanukkah event

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Day after attack, mourners gather in Bondi to light Hanukkah candles, pray for peace

Police cordon off an area at Bondi Beach after a deadly terror shooting at a Hanukkah event in Sydney, December 14, 2025. (AP/Mark Baker)

‘Please don’t let us die’: Survivors and witnesses recount terrifying Bondi shooting

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Jewish students held Havdalah while sheltering from attack

Brown U students mark Hanukkah in shadow of campus shooting, terror in Sydney

By Shira Li Bartov

Israeli student expresses disbelief after gunman attacked classroom: ‘We thought we left those tragedies at home’

Students participate in a Hanukkah candle lighting at Brown University, Rhode Island, December 14, 2025. (Shira Li Bartov/JTA)

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Emily Damari, Gali and Ziv Berman light menorah together, share video of dancing; four freed surveillance soldiers lead lighting ceremony

Former hostage Matan Angrest attends a ceremony marking the first night of Hanukkah at the National Library in Jerusalem, December 14, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Justice Minister Yariv Levin speaks from the Knesset podium, December 3, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Levin asks court to appoint his original choice for Sde Teiman leak probe supervisor

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FBI foils alleged New Year’s Eve bomb plot organized by pro-Palestinian group

By Agencies and ToI Staff

AG Bondi says ‘Turtle Island Liberation Front’ was planning ‘series of bombings’ against federal targets in Los Angeles; four arrested in CA, one in New Orleans for separate plot

Visitors walk by the Ferris wheel at the Christmas market in Warsaw's downtown, Poland, on the evening of December 3, 2025. (Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)

Poland nabs student suspected of planning Christmas market attack in support of ISIS

Security camera footage shows a car driving past while shooting at a home with Hanukkah decorations in Redlands, California, December 12, 2025. (X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

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Palestinians protest PA prisoner payment reform, in apparent sign of implementation

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Palestinians protest against the Palestinian Authority's prisoner payments reform outside the Prime Minister's Office in Ramallah on December 14, 2025. (Screen capture/ YouTube)

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)

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A general view of the exterior of the International Criminal Court is seen in The Hague, Netherlands, March 12, 2025. (Omar Havana/AP)

ICC rejects Israeli bid to halt Gaza probe; maintains warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant

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By Rossella Tercatin

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By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Syria's then-president Bashar al-Assad visits the Flying Eye Hospital of the international ORBIS Charity at Aleppo international airport, on June 25, 2008. (AFP PHOTO/HO/SANA)

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160 million-year-old Anchiornis fossils. (Tel Aviv University)

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) hosts US Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy to Syria and Lebanon Tom Barrack (third from left), in Jerusalem on December 15, 2025. (Maayan Toaf / GPO)

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By Lazar Berman and AP

Members of the Arab community protest against the violence in their community outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, November 9, 2025 (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

NIS 220 million meant for Arab community to be diverted to police, ministers decide

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US President Donald Trump speaks during a rally protesting the electoral college certification of Joe Biden as US president in Washington on January 6, 2021. (AP/Evan Vucci)

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A member of the Ethiopian community of Israel is arrested by the police during clashes in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya on July 2, 2019, during a protest against the killing of Solomon Tekah, a young man of Ethiopian origin, who was killed by an off-duty police officer. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)

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Pink (left) and Noa Tishby light candles on the first night of Hanukkah, December 14, 2025. (X screenshot/Noa Tishby)

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