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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 18, 2025

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Valentyna (L), mother of 10-year-old Matilda, who was killed in the December 14 Bondi Beach terror shooting attack, and Matilda's father (R) leave behind their daughter's coffin after the funeral service in Sydney on December 18, 2025. (DAVID GRAY / AFP)

'I'm so sorry I couldn't save you'

Youngest, oldest victims of Sydney Hanukkah attack remembered in tearful funerals

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Young champion reader Matilda, 10, Holocaust survivor Alex Kleytman, 87, great-grandfather Tibor Weitzen, 78, and modern ‘Maccabee’ Reuven Morrison, 62, laid to rest by mourning community

Sajid Akram, foreground, and Naveed Akram open fire in a terror attack on people at a Jewish event in Sydney, Australia, on December 14, 2025, in an image taken from a video posted online. (Screen capture: X)

AnalysisTerror attacks from Bondi to Boston show family ties behind deadly extremism

By AFP

Marine Major General Sean Salene attends a Ministerial of the Force Contributing Members of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 18: US CENTCOM deputy promoted to fill post tasked with boosting Israel-PA security ties

Michigan State Chabad hit with stone, swastika graffiti in separate incidents * Belgian minister reverses decision to withdraw police from Antwerp Jewish district

9:39 pm

Lebanese army agrees to document Hezbollah disarmament — French ministry
9:27 pm

UN elects former Iraqi President to lead UN refugee agency
8:47 pm

Police say they arrested 8 Haredi extremists who attacked cops during Ashkelon protest

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 vows new laws to crack down on hate after deadly Hanukkah terror attack

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Reforms will target extremist preachers, as some urge expansion of hate speech definition to include ‘Globalize the intifada’; killers said to have holed up in hotel for most of Philippines visit

A mourner lights candles as people gather around floral tributes outside Bondi Pavilion in Sydney on December 17, 2025, to honor victims of the Bondi Beach Hanukkah shooting (DAVID GRAY / AFP)

Albanese ‘abandoned’ Australia’s Jews, ignored ‘alarm bells,’ charges ex-treasurer

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Ed Halmagyi discusses closing Avner's Bakery in the Surry Hills section of Sydney, December 17, 2025. (Sky News screenshot)

Jewish-themed Sydney bakery closes, citing antisemitic threats, safety fears

By Stuart Winer

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48 doughnuts later, our 2025 Hanukkah rankings

This year, we finally went native, taking Israelis’ recommendations for sufganiyot, in our annual contest that sweetens the dark times

Illustrative: British police remove a protester from a demonstration in support of "Defend Our Juries" and their campaign against the ban on Palestine Action, outside Britain's Home Office in London on November 24, 2025. (Toby Shepheard/AFP)

UK makes first arrests for ‘Globalize the intifada’ chants, in shift spurred by Bondi attack

By Agencies and ToI Staff

London police say four suspects arrested for public order offenses, while a fifth obstructed officers from detaining two people ‘who shouted slogans involving calls for intifada’

Netanyahu to head panel determining scope of government-led October 7 probe — report

By Jeremy Sharon and Sam Sokol

Opposition lawmakers denounce move as effort to ‘whitewash’ government’s failings; bill establishing commission set to advance Sunday

Anti-government protesters demanding a state commission of inquiry into the October 7 massacre at Habima Square, Tel Aviv, November 22, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Secular and Orthodox activists clash after the religious Rosh Yehudi group sets up a gender divider made of Israeli flags in defiance of a municipality decision at a public prayer service in Dizengoff Square, Tel Aviv on Yom Kippur, September 24, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash 90)

Critics denounce coercion, discrimination aganist non-Orthodox

Knesset advances bill criminalizing interference with Orthodox religious practices in public

Coalition bill also requires civil court judges to pass test on Jewish law, though that clause expected to be nixed; MKs also vote for legislation stripping chief justice of authority to staff judicial panels

Likud MK Avichai Boaron speaks in the Knesset plenum, December 11, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)

Knesset advances bills easing way for political appointments at state companies

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Six countries have committed to joining Trump’s Board of Peace, say officials

US expects leaders of Egypt, Qatar, UAE, UK, Italy, Germany to sit on top panel overseeing Strip’s rebuild, but similar commitments to join ISF lacking amid questions about mandate

US President Donald Trump at the Gaza International Peace Summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, October 13, 2025. (Yoan Valat, Pool photo via AP)

Palestinians shop at a market in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on November 21, 2025. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Israel says famine monitor did not seek aid facilitators’ input for upcoming Gaza report

By Jeremy Sharon

View of the Israeli Leviathan natural gas field gas processing rig as seen from Dor Habonim Beach Nature Reserve, on January 1, 2020. (Flash90/File)

Largest energy deal in Israeli history

‘A historic moment’: Netanyahu announces $34.7 billion natural gas deal with Egypt

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Deal, which US reportedly pressed Israel to back, briefly stalled earlier this year after energy minister cited a lack of assurances that Israeli market would receive ‘fair prices’

A view of the platform of the Leviathan natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea is pictured from the Israeli northern coastal beach of Nasholim, on August 29, 2022. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 18: Day 804 – Israel and Egypt clinch massive gas deal. What’s behind it?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jacob Magid

German soldiers play in a military brass band in front of the Arrow 3 shield system during an event of the German Air Force to declare the Initial Operating Capability for the Arrow Weapon System for Germany at the Annaburger Heide Air Base in Schoenewalde/Holzdorf, eastern Germany, December 3, 2025 (Ralf Hirschberger/AFP)

German parliament approves $3.5 billion expansion of Arrow 3 deal with Israel

By Emanuel Fabian

Follow-up contract to include interceptors for Israeli-made system, which was recently delivered to Germany as part of earlier $4.6 billion sale

Illustrative photo of a pregnant woman undergoing an ultrasound test. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Israeli study: Untreated chronic thyroid condition in pregnancy ups autism risk in children

By Diana Bletter

In peer-reviewed research of 51,000 pregnant women, Ben-Gurion University scientists find that if hormone imbalance is ‘adequately treated,’ kids don’t exhibit higher occurrence of ASD

US President Donald Trump speaks during a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on December 16, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

Congress 'is becoming antisemitic'

At White House Hanukkah party, Trump laments ‘Jewish lobby’ no longer most powerful

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

US president says many in Congress now ‘hate Israel,’ falsely claims twice he got all hostages out of Gaza; Miriam Adelson pledges $250m for unconstitutional third Trump term

Professor Alan Dershowitz (right) listens to US President Donald Trump speak during a Hanukkah Reception in the East Room of the White House, December 11, 2019. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images North America/AFP)

Dershowitz says he told Trump US Constitution not clear on whether he could serve 3rd term

By Reuters and ToI Staff

New York police at the lighting of the world's largest menorah, hosted by Chabad, in New York City, December 14, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

NYPD investigating alleged antisemitic stabbing, 2nd assault in under 24 hours

New York police say assailant who knifed man in chest made ‘anti-Jewish statements,’ just hours after attack on two Jewish men on subway

Ben Shapiro speaks at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, December 17, 2025. (YouTube screenshot)

Ben Shapiro blasts Tucker Carlson at think tank that drew fire for defending him

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

US President Donald Trump, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrive for a news conference in the East Room of the White House, February 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Report: Netanyahu, Trump planned Iran strike far in advance, ran deception campaign

By Lazar Berman

Washington Post says two leaders began plotting attack in February, leaked false stories to US and Israeli media painting daylight between countries’ policies toward Tehran

US President Donald Trump salutes as a carry team moves the transfer case with the remains of civilian interpreter Ayad Mansoor Sakat, who was killed in an attack in Syria, during a casualty return, December 17, 2025, at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump pays respects as bodies of troops killed in ISIS ambush in Syria returned to US

By Michelle L. Price and DARLENE SUPERVILLE

Illustrative: People standing in line to go through passport control at Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Brain drain: 12% of Israelis with PhDs lived abroad last year, state report finds

6% of those with degrees, 25% with math doctorates have left country, says Central Bureau of Statistics; exodus of educated professionals a threat to Israel, warn academic leaders

Illustrative: A family celebrates Hanukkah. (Drazen Zigic/iStock Images)

Study shows 76% of Americans raised as Jews continue to be Jewish as adults

Visualization of Nvidia's new R&D campus in Kiryat Tivon in Israel's north. (Courtesy of Nvidia)

Nvidia picks Kiryat Tivon for large R&D campus, bringing tech jobs north

By Sharon Wrobel

US chipmaker’s planned 160,000-square-meter hub set to create an estimated 10,000 jobs in region near Haifa, more than doubling chip behemoth’s presence in Israel

Cyera cybersecurity startup founders Yotam Segev (left) and Tamar Bar-Ilan. (Menash Cohen)

Israeli-founded cyber unicorn Cyera said to raise $400m, soaring to $9 billion valuation

By Sharon Wrobel

A 2,700-year-old tomb featuring a trove of ornate artifacts was uncovered at the Horvat Tevet site in the Jezreel Valley (northern Israel), as announced in a study published in the journal Tel Aviv in October 2025. (Rachel Lundeman - Courtesy of Omer Sergi and Karen Covello-Paran/Horvat Tevet Expedition)

'Unique items which have no parallels'

Unearthed in last-ditch dig, one-of-a-kind tomb offers glimpse of Assyrian rule over Israel

By Rossella Tercatin

Newly published findings from salvage dig near Afula detail discovery of burial pits where high official’s remains may have been interred along with dozens of opulent and rare artifacts

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Jared Isaacman (L), NASA administrator nominee, testifies during a Senate Commerce Committee nomination hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on December 3, 2025. (Jim WATSON / AFP)

Jewish billionaire Jared Isaacman confirmed to lead NASA race to the Moon

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett speaks during the Israel Information Technology Conference in Ness Ziona, May 5, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Bennett admits Iranian hackers accessed his Telegram account, says phone not breached

By ToI Staff and Ariela Karmel

Israeli singer Eyal Golan performs at Hayarkon Park in Tel Aviv, October 25, 2025. (Aloni Mor/Flash90)

New sexual assault complaint filed against pop star Eyal Golan

Relatives of Haymanut Kasau take part in a search for the missing girl, who disappeared at the age of 9 in February 2024, in the northern town of Safed, November 23, 2025. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Breakthrough after nearly 2 years as police arrest suspect in Haymanut Kasau case

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Smoke rises from the site of a series of Israeli airstrikes that targeted the outskirts of the southern Lebanese village of al-Qatrani on December 18, 2025. (Rabih Daher/AFP)

Widescale IDF strikes target Hezbollah training camp, terror sites across Lebanon

By Stav Levaton, Emanuel Fabian and AFP

A live shipment of animals bound for fattening and slaughter in Israel arrives at the port of Eilat on the Red Sea coast on June 19, 2023. (Omri Omessi)

Israeli NGO among 36 organizations calling for global reform of live animal shipping

Illustrative: A noose with mock flowers next to portrait placards of people executed by the government of Iran, displayed during a demonstration against the capital punishment in Iran, in central Paris on October 11, 2025.(Martin LELIEVRE / AFP)

Athlete on Iranian death row at ‘imminent’ risk of execution, rights groups warn

By AFP

A Liturgical Festival concert in Nazareth organized by the city's Polyphony conservatory in December 2022 (Courtesy)

Holiday spiritNazareth’s classical Christmas concerts return home

By Jessica Steinberg

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