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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 24, 2025

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a Christmas greeting via video on December 24, 2025. (Screenshot/PMO)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 24: In Christmas greeting, PM touts Israel as only Mideast country where Christians are ‘thriving’

Knesset speaker backs civil marriage bill, enraging Haredi parties * Ex-aide to PM reportedly wouldn’t reveal official’s name out of fear for safety * 3 said detained in Xmas tree arson at Jenin church

10:02 pm

Border Police pressing Givat Ze'ev to tighten security regarding Palestinian workers — report
10:01 pm

In Xmas greeting, Netanyahu says Israel is only Mideast country where Christians are 'thriving'
9:47 pm

Sa'ar: Israel 'strongly rejects' international condemnation of settlement expansion

Activists calling for a state commission of inquiry into the October 7, 2023, attack protest outside the home of Education Minister Yoav Kisch in Hod Hasharon, December 24, 2025. (Tal Gal/Flash90)

Protesters rally at ministers’ homes ahead of first vote on government’s Oct. 7 probe

One arrested outside Knesset speaker’s home, suspected of attacking police; father of soldier slain in massacre says government ‘spitting in the faces’ of those who lost loved ones

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)

'Other than when I used the bathroom, Urich knew everything'

Netanyahu’s ex-aide says PM was ‘behind’ leak of intel to Bild and lied about it later

Feldstein says it would’ve been impossible to use classified document without PM’s OK, reveals conference call he had with Netanyahu in which they agreed to lie about how PM learned of intel

Amit Hadad arrives for a court hearing in the trial against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Tel Aviv District Court on December 7, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu’s graft trial briefly paused after his defense attorney shouts at judges

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Analysis

UN report on malnutrition ‘crisis’ in Gaza ‘doesn’t reflect reality,’ experts say

Specialists point to use of inappropriate, problematic data in latest IPC report, say methodological failures led to conclusion of malnutrition crisis not reflected on the ground

Displaced Palestinians receive food, distributed by a charity organization in Khan Younis, Gaza, December 6, 2025. (Abed Rahim Khatib / Anadolu)

A tent camp for displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, December 23, 2025. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 24: Day 810 – Why Israel charges UN’s new famine report on Gaza is skewed

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jeremy Sharon

Presiding judge Yuji Iwasawa, third right, opens the International Court of Justice hearings into a United Nations request for an advisory opinion on Israel's obligations to allow humanitarian assistance in Gaza and the West Bank, in The Hague, Netherlands, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Belgium joins South Africa’s genocide case against Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

David Zini at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on August 6, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Deputy head of Shin Bet quits amid reports of serious clashes with new chief Zini

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Key dispute between new chief and deputy was latter’s decision to inform High Court that Zini held meetings with an agency official suspected of leaking classified information

Carmen Dal Monte

Europe after the illusion of permanent peace

Europeans may be surprised that war has returned to the continent, but make no mistake: Antisemitism never left it

Janine Muller Sherr

3,000 Jewish women raise the roof in Manhattan

The crowd celebrated with Bracha Jaffe and Ishay Ribo, and then went wild for Elitzur’s ’anthem’ of these hard times: Things will get better. Here, it seems possible

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani walks toward the podium for a news conference in Queens, New York City, November 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)

Analysis

What are Mamdani’s policy proposals that could directly impact Jewish New Yorkers?

New York City’s incoming mayor has outlined plans that could affect the Jewish community on security, education, and the Israel parade

Illustrative: Druze boys hold their sect religious flags stand next to Druze gunmen, a day after clashes between members of the minority Druze sect and pro-government fighters. April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

Report: Israel began airdropping weapons to Syrian Druze days after Assad’s ouster

By Noam Lehmann

Defensive equipment shipments continue, but arms deliveries tapered off as Israel sought talks with Sharaa and grew wary of Syrian Druze infighting, sources tell Washington Post

A handout photo from Israeli television made available on July 13, 2008, shows a photograph of Ron Arad, an Israeli Air Force navigator who was captured after his fighter jet was shot down in Lebanon in 1986. (HO / AFP)

Lebanon says retired senior officer with ties to capture of Ron Arad has vanished

By AFP and Noam Lehmann

A Lebanese soldier inspects the wreckage of a car that was targeted in an Israeli air strike near the southern Lebanese village of Mazraat al Qnaitra on December 22, 2025. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

Lebanon denies soldier killed in Israeli strike had ties to Hezbollah

By Agencies and Emanuel Fabian

Defense Minister Israel Katz attends a ceremony at Jerusalem City Hall, December 15, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

US accuses Israel of ‘provoking’ Arab world

Katz vows Israel will build settlements in northern Gaza, later walks back comments

By Sam Sokol, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Defense minister’s original remarks came in defiance of positions taken by Netanyahu and Trump; Smotrich calls on PM to push West Bank annexation at meeting with US president

Brig. Gen. Omer Tischler (left) in 2021, and Vice Adm. Eyal Harel (right) in 2023. (Nevo Levin/Israeli Air Force; Israel Defense Forces)

Katz okays next heads of air force, navy after months of delay amid spat with Zamir

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli skier Attila Mihaly Kertesz competes in the men's 10km interval start free at the FIS Cross-Country World Cup in Trondheim, Norway, December 7, 2025. (Marius Gulliksrud/ action press via Reuters)

Interview'If you can dream it, you can achieve it'

Israeli skier’s journey to Winter Olympic slopes was an up- and downhill battle

Attila Mihaly Kertesz, a Hungarian native who took up cross-country skiing in 2018, says representing Israel on sport’s biggest global stage is ‘something I can give back to my nation’

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 future Bondi terrorist Sajid Akram firing a shotgun and moving in a tactical manner in a countryside location, suspected to be in New South Wales. (Handout / NSW Courts / AFP)

Bureaucratic blunder, not security concern, delayed Bondi terrorist’s gun license

By Agencies and ToI Staff

State leader says he doesn’t know how Sajid Akram received permit despite son being investigated; Bondi’s Jewish mayor was praised for fight against antisemitism ahead of shooting

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

Australian state lawmakers advance bills curbing guns, protests 10 days after Bondi attack

Illustrative: Issa Kassissieh, 47, who has dressed up as Santa Claus for 18 years, waves to the people during his annual tour of the Old City of Jerusalem, December 18, 2025. (AP/Leo Correa)

InterviewIn Poland, Christians eat 'Jewish-style fish' on Christmas

How the Yiddish-speaking Jews of Europe had themselves a merry little Nittel Nacht

By Renee Ghert-Zand

A new book explores how, contrary to popular belief, Christmas was a festive time for Jewish men, who took time off from Torah study to play cards and games

Israeli bulldozers break ground for the construction of settlements in the Sarouj area, located between the towns of Silat al-Harithiya and Yamoun, west of Jenin in the West Bank, on December 22, 2025. (Zain Jaafar/AFP)

PA accuses Israel of ‘tightening colonial control’ over West Bank with new settlements

By AFP and Jeremy Sharon

Ramallah says Smotrich’s decision to okay 19 settlements and legalized outposts across West Bank is the latest policy to undermine ‘inalienable rights of the Palestinian people’

A Civil Administration soldier and Border Police officers evacuate the illegal West Bank outpost of Or Meir, May 1, 2024. (Courtesy of settler activists)

Inside storyHow extremist settlers coordinate organized violence to expel Palestinians

Left to right: Amar Hussein, Bilel Saadaoui, and Walid Saadoui. Hussein and Bilel Saadoaui were convicted on December 23, 2025, of planning a terror attack to kill hundreds of Jews in the United Kingdom. Walid Saadoui was convicted for not alerting authorities of the plot. (Greater Manchester Police)

Attacker sought 'to kill as many Jewish people as he could'

Three convicted for plotting ‘deadliest terror attack in UK history,’ against Jews

By Sam Tobin and Andy Bruce

Manchester court finds ISIS-inspired would-be terrorists guilty of planning assault, and one more of not alerting authorities; men tried to buy weapons from undercover cop

UK police drop probe into Bob Vylan over ‘Death to the IDF’ chant

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Gazan man who prayed for death to all Jews released from UK prison

Greta Thunberg arrested at pro-Palestinian protest in London

By AFP

Palestinians walk along a street past a tent camp in Gaza City, December 17, 2025. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi)

What Matters Now podcast

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: Five likely scenarios for Gaza in 2026

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib

As the stalemate between Phase 1 and 2 of the 20-point Trump peace plan continues, the head of Realign for Palestine weighs in on what may play out in the Strip to shake off Hamas

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Illustrative: Employees work in an office in the UK. (Tom Merton/iStock)

Israeli tech firms expanded their workforces in Europe during war, study shows

By Sharon Wrobel

This undated photo from the personal collection of Jeffrey Epstein provided by the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee on December 12, 2025, shows US President Donald Trump (L), flanked by Epstein (C), talking to an unknown woman. (HANDOUT/House Oversight Democrats/AFP)

Latest batch of Epstein files contain multiple references to Trump

By AFP

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi attends the Special Committee for the Communications Law at the Knesset, December 16, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Knesset extends authorities’ power to ban broadcasts deemed harmful to security

By AFP and ToI Staff

Sgt. (res.) Dana Silberman Sitton, sister of murdered captive Shiri Bibas, lights a Hanukkah menorah that survived the attack on her parents' Kibbutz Nir Oz home, in Gaza on December 21, 2025. (Courtesy IDF)

Banishing darknessShiri Bibas’s sister lights parents’ menorah while on reserve duty in Gaza

By Jessica Steinberg

A United Nations Security Council meeting at UN headquarters on December 23, 2025, in New York City. (ANGELA WEISS / AFP)

US, Iran spar at UN Security Council over conditions for reviving nuclear talks

A depiction of the planned high-speed rail line in Egypt. (Siemens Mobility)

Workers begin laying tracks for Egypt’s high-speed rail megaproject

By Nada ABOU EL-AMAIM

This image released by A24 shows Timothée Chalamet in a scene from 'Marty Supreme.' (A24 via AP)

Timothée Chalamet wants to be great, and ‘Marty Supreme’ might get him there

A man snatches a game controller from a young child while demanding that he "free Palestine" and telling him to dance in a video from June 25, 2025, which French police confirmed on December 23, 2025, that they were probing on suspicion of having been committed on the grounds of discrimination against race, ethnicity, nationality or religion. (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

France launches probe over video of man seen harassing Jewish boy at Paris airport

By AFP

Turkish soldiers and rescue teams search for the remains of a private jet carrying Libya's military chief and four others that crashed after taking off from Ankara, killing everyone on board, in Ankara, Turkey, December 23, 2025. (AP/Efekan Akyuz)

Libya’s military chief and 7 others killed in plane crash after takeoff from Turkey

By Suzan Fraser and FAY ABUELGASIM

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich holds a press conference on raising the tax exemption on personal imports to $150 at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, December 23, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

‘It can be cheap here’: Smotrich raises VAT exemption on overseas orders to $150

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

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