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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 23, 2025

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Dec. 23: Bennett calls on Shin Bet, police to probe Netanyahu in Qatargate ‘betrayal’ case

Likud slams ex-prime minister, accusing him of ‘blood libels’ against Netanyahu * US accuses Israel of ‘provoking’ Arab world after Katz’s call for Gaza settlements

8:47 pm

Ex-Syrian officer close to Assad-era commander said killed in Lebanon
8:38 pm

Driver crashes through Ben Gurion Airport security barrier before fleeing on foot, say police
8:24 pm

Libyan chief of staff killed in plane crash after departing Turkey, say officials

Eli Feldstein, a former media adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and one of the suspects in the so-called Qatargate investigation, and a defendant in the Bild leak scandal, speaks to the Kan public broadcaster in an interview aired December 22, 2025. (Screenshot: Kan)

Says PM sought to curb talk of his responsibility for Oct. 7

Indicted ex-aide to Netanyahu says PM backed plan to utilize intel later leaked to Bild

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Eli Feldstein contradicts PM’s claim that he wasn’t aware of affair, says Netanyahu’s chief of staff told him he could quash probe into leak months before it was publicized

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett speaks at the annual Cyber Week at Tel Aviv University on December 9, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Bennett: Qatargate is ‘most serious act of treason’ in Israeli history, PM must resign

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Netanyahu: Politically appointed Oct 7 inquiry must probe Oslo deal, Gaza disengagement

By Jeremy Sharon, Lazar Berman and Sam Sokol

Ministers lend government backing to a commission of inquiry whose members could be chosen by the coalition, not the Supreme Court president, as under existing law

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the plenum hall of the Knesset, December 8, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Protesters demonstrate against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government, near the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 5, 2025. The small white sign reads "A government that has forgotten what it is to be a Jew." (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ahead of election year, survey finds Israelis’ trust in democracy remains low

By Ethan Rubinson

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5 settlers arrested for allegedly attacking Palestinian shepherd, killing his sheep

By Charlie Summers, Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

Elsewhere in the West Bank, Muslim ‘outlaws’ said to torch Christmas tree; 5 hurt in clash between settlers and Palestinians; settlers filmed assailing Palestinians, left-wing Israelis

Settlers attack a Palestinian shepherd's flock in the West Bank, December 23, 2025. (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Excavators demolish a building constructed without a permit in the Wadi Qaddum area near the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem on December 22, 2025. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Authorities tear down East Jerusalem apartment complex after years-long legal battle

By Charlie Summers

Supreme Court President Isaac Amit arrives for a court hearing on petitions against the appointment of retired judge Yosef Ben-Hamo to lead the probe into the Sde Teiman abuse leak, at the High Court of Justice in Jerusalem, November 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court denies Levin’s 2nd request to let his candidate run Sde Teiman leak probe

By Jeremy Sharon

‘This is the look of a system that has lost all shame’ and is ‘desperately clinging to its power,’ justice minister fumes; court says it can choose someone if he can’t

Preemptive force is necessary – but not sufficient

There are diplomatic avenues in Syria, Lebanon, Iran and Gaza that must be pursued to ensure the country’s long-term security

You want Oslo included in the October 7 probe? Ok, let’s do it

The Netanyahu government seeks to pin the 2023 catastrophe on the 1993 interim peace agreements. That case is sure to backfire

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center), Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides (left) and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (right) hold a joint press conference after a trilateral meeting in Jerusalem on December 22, 2025. (ABIR SULTAN / POOL / AFP)

PM confirms reports that Israel tracking Iran missile drills

Netanyahu uses summit of Israel, Greece, Cyprus leaders to send warning to Turkey

By Lazar Berman and Nava Freiberg

Participants at trilateral Jerusalem summit agree to boost cooperation in eastern Mediterranean; PM says the three countries can defend against those trying to ‘recreate empire’

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee is seen during an interview in Jerusalem, August 20, 2025. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Huckabee: Iran ‘didn’t get the full message’ when US bombed its nuclear sites

By Nava Freiberg, Agencies and ToI Staff

Mourners visit the site of a memorial outside the Bondi Pavilion after the clean-up of floral tributes following seven days of mourning, a week after the Bondi Beach terror attack targeting a Hanukkah event, in Sydney on December 22, 2025. (Saeed KHAN / AFP)

After Bondi attack, Australian state to crack down on protests, terror symbols, guns

By Agencies and ToI Staff

New South Wales, site of deadly terror shooting targeting Jews, will give police the right to ban demonstrations for up to three months after a terror attack

Judea Pearl is the author of the new book, 'Coexistence and Other Fighting Words.' (Courtesy)

Interview'The minute you mention antisemitism, you lose the game'

Slain journalist Daniel Pearl’s father charts recent ‘Zionophobia’ rise in new book

By Rich Tenorio

In ‘Coexistence and Other Fighting Words,’ Judea Pearl tracks post-Oct. 7 denial of Jewish self-determination, defending Israel on multiple fronts, while coining some notable phrases

Interview

Ex-Saudi intel chief to ToI: Riyadh will consider normalization when Israel acts normally

In very rare engagement with Israeli media, Prince Turki bin Faisal says kingdom won’t forge ties with Israel without ‘resolution to Palestinian issue entailing two-state solution’

Saudi Arabia's former intelligence minister Prince Turki bin Faisal al-Saud attends the meeting of foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in the Saudi capital of Riyadh on March 30, 2017. (FAYEZ NURELDINE / AFP)

Illustrative: Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal talks to the Associated Press in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, November 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 23: Day 809 – Saudi prince tells ToI Israel needs to start being ‘normal’

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jacob Magid

The entrance to Army Radio in Jaffa, on November 12, 2025 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Cabinet votes to shutter Army Radio, overriding legal and press freedom concerns

By Stav Levaton, Sam Sokol and Jeremy Sharon

Following unanimous vote, defense minister orders IDF to wind down station operations by March 2026, amid condemnation from AG, opposition, journalists and liberal watchdog group

New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speaks during a news conference in the Queens borough of New York, November 5, 2025. (AP Photo/ Heather Khalifa)

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

New York City mayor-elect’s transition committee picks have said that ‘Zionism is racism’ and Zionists are worse than Nazis, according to report

New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani talks to reporters at a news conference in New York, November 17, 2025. (AP/Seth Wenig)

Mamdani attends Hanukkah events, but no public menorah lightings

A Lebanese soldier inspects the wreckage of a car that was targeted in an Israeli airstrike near Sidon, in southern Lebanon, on December 22, 2025. (Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)

IDF: Strike kills 3 Hezbollah operatives, including one who served in Lebanese army

By Emanuel Fabian and AFP

Italy’s defense minister meets Lebanese President Aoun, says Rome wants its soldiers to stay in Lebanon even after UNIFIL’s mandate ends in 2027

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A woman is seen blowing out Hanukkah candles in a Tel Aviv mall in an undated video from December 2025. (Screen grab/ X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Police to probe teen who blew out Hanukkah candles in Tel Aviv mall

Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli speaks at the international conference on combating antisemitism in Jerusalem, March 27, 2025 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Despite far-right lineup, government hopes antisemitism confab will avoid blowup

A local walks past cells as he guides journalists visiting the Palmyra Prison Complex formerly used by the ousted Assad government in Syria's central city of Palmyra on February 7, 2025.(OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP, file)

A year post-Assad, Syrian jails are again filling up, with widespread accounts of abuse

By MAGGIE MICHAEL

Security forces disperse ultra-Orthodox Jewish men blocking a road during a protest against conscription to the Israel Defense Forces in Bnei Brak on December 22, 2025. (Ilia YEFIMOVICH / AFP)

Haredim block traffic on Route 4 in protest of arrests of draft-dodgers

US President Donald Trump speaks at his Mar-a-Lago club, in Palm Beach, Florida, December 22, 2025. (Alex Brandon/AP)

Victims, lawmakers pan Epstein files’ slow release; Trump urges privacy for the blameless

By AFP

Wissahickon Superintendent of Schools Mwenyewe Dawan (second from left) and School Board President Amy Ginsburg (third from left) speak at a press conference on December 19, 2025. (Screenshot via JTA)

‘They control the banks’: Pennsylvania principal to be fired over antisemitic voicemail

By Grace Gilson

Children and nuns gather outside the Holy Family Catholic Church before attending a mass ahead of Christmas celebrations in Gaza City, December 21, 2025. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi)

‘Holding on’: Gaza’s tiny Christian community tries to capture the holiday spirit

Illustrative: People walk by a poster displaying a spiral tower being built in Tel Aviv on November 17, 2025. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Tech investments soar 45% as war recedes from view, reports find

By Sharon Wrobel

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