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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 21, 2025

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Mourners attend the memorial held one week after a deadly terror shooting targeting a Jewish event at Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 21, 2025. (DAVID GRAY / AFP)

10,000-strong crowd gathers on Bondi Beach to mark week since Hanukkah terror attack

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Jewish leader reads message of support from Ahmed al Ahmed, who disarmed gunman; state premier says authorities failed, Jewish community can’t fight antisemitism alone

A note is pictured next to floral tributes laid at Bondi Pavilion in memory of the victims of a terror massacre targeting a Hanukkah event days earlier, at Bondi Beach, in Sydney, Australia, on December 20, 2025. (DAVID GRAY / AFP)

‘Light over darkness’: Australia marks Day of Reflection for Bondi Hanukkah attack victims

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Gefen Bitton (Courtesy)

Israeli Gefen Bitton in critical condition after confronting Bondi Beach terrorist

By Stav Levaton

A general view of destroyed houses in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip on December 19, 2025. (Eyad Baba / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 21: Trump admin denies it will spend $60B to rebuild Gaza as luxury destination

Israel to host trilateral summit with Greece and Cyprus in Jerusalem tomorrow * Sa’ar says ‘time has come’ for Jews around the world to move to Israel

9:11 pm

Presumed '28 candidate Rahm Emanuel: Netanyahu leading Jews 'back into the ghetto'
8:42 pm

Trump admin denies it will spend $60B to rebuild Gaza as luxury destination
8:29 pm

Sa'ar says the 'time has come' for Jews around the world to move to Israel

Netanyahu to present Trump with new Iran attack plans during US visit — report

Jerusalem concerned Tehran could rebuild nuclear program, but primarily worried about potential surge in ballistic missile production to some 3,000 a year, according to NBC

US President Donald Trump (L) holds hands and speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on October 13, 2025. (SAUL LOEB / POOL / AFP)

US President Donald Trump, right, speaks with Syria's President Ahmad al-Sharaa, at the White House in Washington on November 10, 2025. (Syrian Presidency Press Office via AP)

Trump rebuffed Israeli request to keep some sanctions on Syria — report

By ToI Staff and AP

Promoted Content

Why Antizionism is the new Antisemitism: A PhD’s urgent call to educators

Stop Antizionism co-founder, Dr. Naya Lekht, explains why antizionism is not “just politics” but the newest form of Jew hatred

Illustrative: Israeli security forces near the site of a car ramming attack, near the West Bank city of Hebron, December 1, 2025. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

IDF says 2 West Bank Palestinians killed while attacking troops; video raises questions

By Emanuel Fabian

No soldiers hurt in separate incidents near Jenin; footage of 16-year-old shot after supposedly hurling brick at soldiers appears to contradict army’s claim

An Israeli woman who was extracted from the West Bank city of Jericho is seen next to an officer from the Civil Administration, December 19, 2025. (Courtesy)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 21: Day 807 – Rescue of Israeli from Jericho highlights PA-IDF coordination

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

Turkish spy chief meets top Hamas official on ceasefire

Gaza mediators urge sides to keep truce, after Miami meeting sees little headway on Trump plan

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Source says officials from US, Qatar, Egypt and Turkey discussed ways to push Israel, Hamas toward compromise on phase 2, which includes Board of Peace, International Stabilization Force

US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, right, and White House adviser Jared Kushner arrive before US President Donald Trump holds a news conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the State Dining Room of the White House, September 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Police arrest three Gazans who had been residing in the southern city of Rahat, announcing the arrest on December 20, 2025. (Israel Police)

Police nab 3 Gazans, say they invaded Israel on Oct. 7; security sources say they didn’t

By Emanuel Fabian and Charlie Summers

Palestinians walk along street market where fruits and vegetables are displayed for sale in Gaza City, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Army says it killed two terror operatives who crossed Gaza’s Yellow Line

By Emanuel Fabian

Turning Point and the crisis of knowing: Shapiro, Carlson, Kelly

A Christianity-informed diagnosis of leading Conservative influencers finds divergent types of rhetoric, and warns that algorithmic standards are not the same as truth

When Santa Claus crashed the Hanukkah party

Deep down, some American Jews yearn for an elf like Shmelf to sprinkle just enough thinly veiled Christmas magic to render us acceptable

Paramedics arrive at the scene of a shooting that killed two men in Nazareth on December 20, 2025. (Magen David Adom)

Father and son murdered in Nazareth amid surging Arab community violence

By Charlie Summers

Police hunt suspects as separate central Israel shooting leaves man moderately wounded; watchdog says record 247 Arabs killed in violent crimes so far this year

Police at the scene of a suspected murder-suicide in Bat Yam, December 21, 2025. (Israel Police)

Two dead in suspected murder-suicide in Bat Yam

Lebanese PM says country close to completing Hezbollah disarmament south of Litani River

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Nawaf Salam claims first phase of ceasefire-mandated plan is nearly done, with next stage planned north of river, amid Israeli skepticism

Lebanese army soldiers look at the Israeli military post of Hanita, left, and the Labbouneh post, one of five hills held by Israeli forces since last year, right, from a Lebanese military position in the village of Alma al-Shaab in south Lebanon, November 28, 2025. (AP/Bilal Hussein)

IDF troops operate in southern Syria, in a photo cleared for publication on August 29, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says it nabbed suspected ISIS jihadist in southern Syria operation

By Emanuel Fabian

Raid this week took place in village of al-Rafid, located in UN-patrolled buffer zone, and suspect was brought to Israel for interrogation

A US Army AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopter prepares to support Operation Hawkeye Strike against Islamic State targets in Syria, in the US Central Command area of responsibility, December 19, 2025. (US AIR FORCE / AFP)

Jordan says it took part in US-led strikes on ISIS in Syria that killed at least 5

Thumbnails of Hanukkah videos by (clockwise from top left) The Maccabeats, Y-Studs, Matisyahu and Six13. (YouTube)

Light entertainment

‘KPop Demon Hunters,’ AI lead this year’s Hanukkah video crop

YouTube is filled with AI-generated music videos that blur the lines between reality and art, including from a Jewish mother from the West Bank who only began composing in June

A Hanukkah celebration in downtown Reykjavik, Iceland, December 14, 2025. (Courtesy Mushky Feldman via JTA)

'It never helped Jewish people to hide their identity'

In Reykjavik, a Hanukkah lighting illuminates a tiny community in times of darkness

By Jenna Gottlieb

With daylight in short supply and in the aftermath of the devastating terror attack in Bondi Beach, Iceland’s Jews celebrate the holiday amid heightened security rare in the pastoral country

Maccabi Tel Aviv's fans cheer their team as it arrives to inspect the pitch prior to the UEFA Europa League football match between VfB Stuttgart and Maccabi Tel Aviv in Stuttgart, southern Germany, on December 11, 2025. (Thomas Kienzle/AFP)

Maccabi Tel Aviv fined $23,000 over fans’ ‘racist’ behavior in Stuttgart

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

UEFA also imposes suspended one-game ban on soccer club selling tickets for away match after incident in which supporters chanted defamatory slogans; German police probing disturbances

A Hapoel Tel Aviv fan holds up a controversial t-shirt reading "Against the scum," with the logos of the Israel Police, the banned Kach party, and Maccabi Tel Aviv, at the Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv, December 20, 2025. (Danny Maron/Flash90)

High Court freezes police ban on soccer fans wearing shirts calling cops ‘scum’

This photo illustration taken in Washington, DC, on December 19, 2025, shows photographs, including of former US president Bill Clinton, Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson and Ghislaine Maxwell, after the US Justice Department began releasing the long-awaited records from the investigation into the politically explosive case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. (Mandel NGAN / AFP)

US Epstein files full of famous names, but Trump’s is conspicuously missing

By Sarah N. Lynch, Andy Sullivan, James Oliphant and Brad Heath

Former US president Bill Clinton, top celebrities seen in among thousands of images but 16 photos said abruptly pulled from DOJ webpage after release, including one of Trump

This undated photo released by the US Department of Justice shows Jeffrey Epstein. (US Department of Justice via AP)

16 Epstein files removed from US Justice Department site, including photo of Trump

By Michael R. Sisak and David B. Caruso

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson addresses the Israeli Consulate in Chicago's Hanukkah gathering on December 18, 2025. (Israeli Consulate in Chicago)

Progressive Chicago mayor joins Israeli consulate Hanukkah party with solidarity message

Brandon Johnson, who has called Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza ‘genocidal,’ says he’s grateful for relationship with Jewish state, sends condolences over Bondi Beach attack

More Headlines

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz attends a commemorative ceremony at St. John's Church (Johanniskirche) one year after a deadly SUV rampage in which six people were killed and more than 300 wounded at the Christmas market in Magdeburg, eastern Germany, on December 20, 2025. (Ronny HARTMANN / AFP)

German chancellor urges ‘peaceful coexistence,’ a year after deadly market attack

By AFP

Screen capture from a video of a riot control police officer hitting ultra-Orthodox men with a baton during rioting in Jerusalem, December 18, 2025. (Screen capture: X)

State Attorney’s Office probing video of riot officer beating ultra-Orthodox men

By Sam Sokol and Charlie Summers

"Free Palestine" written on a Bloomingdale's sales tag, found by a customer within a delivery of Hanukkah-themed pajamas, December 2025. (Arielle Harris/TikTok)

Bloomingdale’s said to fire employee for ‘Free Palestine’ note in Hanukkah pajamas

By Michael Horovitz

Members of the Popular Mobilization Forces attend the funeral of commander Haider al-Moussawi from Kataeb Sayyed Al-Shuhada, in Baghdad, Iraq. He was killed with Hussein Khalil, a former aide to late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, in an Israeli airstrike inside Iran, June 22, 2025. (AP/Hadi Mizban)

Iraq’s top judge says pro-Iran militias will coordinate with state on gun control

By AFP

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