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What Matters Most On Monday, December 22, 2025

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Eli Feldstein, one of the suspects in the so-called Qatargate investigation and accused in the Bild leak scandal, arrives for a court hearing at the Tel Aviv District Court, on July 15, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 22 — Feldstein: PM’s chief of staff told me he could ‘shut down’ probe into Bild leak

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Alluding to Turkey, Netanyahu hits out at those who ‘fantasize they can reestablish their empires’ * Premier confirms reports that he plans to raise Iran missile exercises with Trump

9:27 pm

Feldstein says Netanyahu's chief of staff warned him of probe into PMO, said he could 'shut it down'
7:12 pm

Syria says it foiled smuggling of anti-aircraft missiles, reportedly meant for Hezbollah
7:08 pm

At least 20% of Mamdani appointees tied to anti-Zionist groups, ADL says

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends the swearing-in ceremony of Justice Isaac Amit as president of the Supreme Court, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, February 13, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG slams government’s ‘political’ Oct 7. inquiry: ‘Tailor-made for coalition’s needs’

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Gali Baharav-Miara warns coalition’s plan would politicize the investigatory commission, undermine its independence and let those under scrutiny shape the probe

Activists calling for the establishment of a state commission of inquiry into Hamas's October 7, 2023, massacre protest outside the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, December 22, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

3 arrested in protest at PM’s office as backers of state Oct. 7 probe vow ‘week of rage’

Anti-government protesters lift up placards during a demonstration against the prime minister and in support of establishing a state commission of inquiry into Hamas's October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel, in Tel Aviv on November 15, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

‘Smokescreen’: Bereaved families attack government-sponsored October 7 probe

This handout photo from a court exhibit released by the NSW Courts as part of the police fact sheet on December 22, 2025, shows a screen grab taken from a video recorded in late October 2025 of Naveed Akram allegedly firing a shotgun in a countryside location, suspected to be in New South Wales. (Handout / NSW Courts / AFP)

Bondi gunmen threw bombs that didn’t go off, condemned ‘Zionists’ before attack – police

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A statement from police, released after defendant Naveed Akram appeared in court, details how he and his father trained for the terror attack and their ‘justification’ for shooting

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In this image provided December 4, 2025, by Sepahnews of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a missile is launched as a part of the guard's drill in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman. (Sepahnews via AP)

Israel warns US that Iran may use missile launch drill as cover to strike – report

Axios news site: US doesn’t believe Iranian strike imminent; Israeli source: Chances ‘less than 50%, but nobody willing to take the risk’; IDF, CENTCOM chiefs said to discuss threat

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir speaks at a handover ceremony for the Planning Directorate chief at the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, December 21, 2025. (Screenshot: Israel Defense Forces)

Army chief, hinting at potential new Iran war, says IDF will strike ‘wherever required’

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

IMAGE: Demonstrators walk on an image of the Israeli flag with blood dripping from the Star of David as one of them carries a replica of a missile during an annual rally in front of the former US Embassy in Tehran, celebrating the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the embassy, November 4, 2025. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 22: Day 808 – Eyeing Iran, Israel rattles sabers ahead of PM’s trip to US

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

A view of Esh Kodesh, an Israeli outpost in the West Bank, on December 14, 2025. (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

Government announces 19 new West Bank settlements and legalized outposts

By Jeremy Sharon

11 new settlements to be built, 8 outposts and neighborhoods recognized as settlements, including two evacuated in 2005; Smotrich says move aims to thwart Palestinian state

US Vice President JD Vance speaks during Turning Point USA's AmericaFest 2025, December 21, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP/Jon Cherry)

Vance: Almost no Americans are antisemitic, real issue is ‘backlash’ to US policy on Israel

By AP and ToI Staff

At Turning Point conference, Trump’s VP slams ‘purity tests,’ says movement must be open to all who ‘love America’ amid growing debate on the US right over platforming antisemitism

Jared Kushner speaks during a news conference following a military briefing with US Vice President JD Vance at the Civilian-Military Coordination Center in Kiryat Gat, October 21, 2025. (Nathan Howard/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)

Analysis

Matthew Lee and AAMER MADHANI

In Gaza and Ukraine, Trump again leaning on Jared Kushner for difficult diplomacy

US president’s son-in-law, key figure in 2020 Abraham Accords but absent at start of Trump’s 2nd term, now teaming up with Steve Witkoff to tackle difficult conflicts

This photo provided by the Investigative Committee of Moscow on Monday, Deccember 22, 2025, shows an investigator working at the scene where Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Operational Training Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff, was killed by an explosive device placed under his car in Moscow. (Investigative Committee of Moscow via AP)

Russian general killed in Moscow car bombing in apparent Ukrainian attack

By AP

Israel education and the dog that didn’t bark

If we want to understand the evolving relationship between world Jewry and Israel, we cannot continue to ignore how and what adults are learning about Israel

Martin Alintuck

Dear Santa: What my 6-year-old Jewish daughter asked for Christmas

I’d have liked to prepare her for the class letter-writing campaign, but I suppose a heads-up from the teacher was too much to expect

Republican US Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina speaks to the media in Tel Aviv, Israel, December 21, 2025. (AP/Maya Levin)

Interview'Put them on the clock...then unleash Israel on 'em'

Leading GOP senator: Hamas must be given deadline to disarm or face renewed war

By Lazar Berman

Lindsey Graham tells Times of Israel the US should join future attack on Hezbollah; Iran should be attacked now if it is rebuilding nuclear and missile programs

‘Won’t give up’: Hostages Square candle-lighting held to urge release of Ran Gvili

High Court gives final extension for state to explain ban on press access to Gaza

By Jeremy Sharon

FILE: Former spy for Israel Jonathan Pollard attends the funeral of his wife Esther in Jerusalem, January 31, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Former spy Jonathan Pollard: Israel sent a man to convince me to kill myself

In Army Radio interview, Pollard says Israeli agent told him: ‘Why don’t you just do the right thing and we’ll bring you home, give you a nice burial on Mount Herzl’

Minister of Culture and Sports Miki Zohar attends an Education, Culture, and Sports Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 7, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Culture minister threatens to end all state funding for film industry amid awards spat

Miki Zohar says he’ll work to cancel Film Law, hits out at ‘violent extremists’ he accuses of ‘threatening’ those taking part in his alternative ceremony to Ophir Awards

'I get so much hate online, and it's beyond vile'

Converging in the Holy Land, pro-Israel influencers brush off death threats and trolls

Despite constant stream of online hate, visiting creators say they receive more love than vitriol as they fight disinformation and bolster Jewish pride post-October 7

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

IDF says it targeted 2 Hezbollah operatives in southern Lebanon strikes

By Emanuel Fabian and AFP

Beirut says one person killed and another wounded in attacks, as Israel continues to hit terror group over what it says are breaches of ceasefire

Illustrative: Guests hold glasses of Heineken beer in the paddock ahead of the first practice session for the Las Vegas Formula One Grand Prix at the Las Vegas Strip Circuit in Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 20, 2025. (Patrick T. Fallon / AFP)

Storm in a pint glass

US rabbis warn against assuming beer is always kosher

By David I. Klein

Top US Orthodox certification groups have cautioned that some modern brews could have ingredients that complicate or even violate Jewish dietary laws

More Headlines

This photo illustration taken in Washington, DC, on December 19, 2025, shows photographs the US Justice Department released from the investigation into the politically explosive case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. (Mandel NGAN / AFP)

Top Trump official defends slow release of Epstein files as Democrats cry foul

By AAMER MADHANI

This screen grab taken from a video posted on the X account of US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem shows a US Coast Guard aircraft flying over a crude oil tanker, last docked in Venezuela, before apprehending it on December 20, 2025. (Handout / US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem's X account / AFP)

US pursuing third oil tanker near Venezuela, officials say

By Idrees Ali, Steve Holland and Helen Coster

Illustrative: People ride their motorcycles along a road near a market area in downtown Chiang Mai, Thailand, on April 7, 2023. (AFP)

Israeli man killed, son injured in Thailand motorcycle accident

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

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

Israeli rescued from Jericho abduction says she was threatened with gun, assaulted

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