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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 27, 2025

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Aviv Maor (top left) and Mordechai Shimshon, who were killed in a terror attack in northern Israel on December 26, 2025. (Courtesy, Israel Police)

IDF raids suspect's village, prepares his home for razing

Two killed in terror attack in northern Israel; assailant shot, injured by passerby

By Charlie Summers

Terrorist kills 68-year-old pedestrian Shimshon Mordechai in hit-and-run before fatally stabbing 19-year-old Aviv Maor at bus stop; separate ramming in south West Bank wounds 4 troops

Somaliland's President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi (left) speaks to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a photo released on December 26, 2025, by the Israel Government Press Office; Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) signs Israel's declaration to recognize the Republic of Somaliland as an independent state, December 26, 2025. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Country's leader said to have made secret Israel trip

Israel becomes first country to recognize breakaway Somaliland as independent state

By Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Agencies

President says his country wants to join Abraham Accords; move sparks anger among regional powers who say it undermines sovereignty and territorial integrity of Somalia

Crowds celebrate in Somaliland's capital, Hargeisa, as an Israeli flag is projected on the exterior of the National Museum of the breakaway East African nation following its recognition by Israel on December 26, 2025. (Screen capture via social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Somaliland celebrates Israel recognition, but Trump says he won’t follow suit for now

By ToI Staff and AFP

AnalysisAs Trump backs away amid global refusal, plan to relocate Gazans looking like pipe dream

By Shalom Yerushalmi

Residents wave Somaliland flags as they gather to celebrate Israel's recognition of Somaliland in downtown Hargeisa, December 26, 2025. (Farhan Aleli/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 27: Abraham Accords nations abstain as 21 Muslim-majority countries pan Somaliland recognition

By Ethan Rubinson and ToI Staff

Two arrested at Jerusalem protest marking 5 years since settler teen killed in police chase * Ex-police chief lambasts PM’s Qatar policies at Tel Aviv protest

8:49 pm

21 mostly Muslim countries sign statement condemning Israel's recognition of Somaliland; Abraham Accords nations abstain
7:26 pm

Man tries to storm stage at anti-government protest as speakers rail against Qatargate scandal
7:10 pm

UN Security Council members poised to blast Israeli recognition of Somaliland at emergency session

People attend a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, on December 20, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Thousands set to rally against Netanyahu and Qatargate ‘treason’ in weekly protests

Hostage relatives expected to speak in Tel Aviv and Haifa demonstrations; family of last hostage to gather in hometown Meitar to demand no progress on Gaza truce before his return

Talik Gvili, mother of deceased hostage Ran Gvili, speaks at Hostages Square on December 26, 2025. (Uriel Even Sapir/Hostages Forum)

Hundreds join Ran Gvili’s family to demand return of last hostage: ‘We don’t forget’

By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump (left) speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset, October 13, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/ Pool via AP)

Top Trump aides have run out of patience with Netanyahu over Gaza ceasefire — report

Upcoming meet at Mar-a-Lago to test if Trump feels same way about Israeli prime minister as his vexed staff, with White House hoping to announce new steps in peace plan

Palestinian youth walk along a tent camp for displaced people as the sun sets in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, December 26, 2025. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)

IDF says it killed 2 suspects who ‘posed threat’ after crossing Gaza ceasefire line

By ToI Staff and AFP

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Laris Achlaug (left) and Lama Awwad, PhD students, work in a lab at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. (Courtesy/Nitzan Zohar)

Tumors release signals that affect body’s repair response

In surprising breakthrough, scientists in Israel find cancer may help heal the failing heart

By Diana Bletter

Study by researchers at the Technion finds that injecting cancerous serum in mice decreased cardiac fibrosis — paving the way for innovative therapies

This archaeon, or single-celled organism, is Pyrococcus furiosus, whose name means 'furious fireball.' It is most at home at temperatures exceeding 100 degrees Celsius (212 degrees Farenheit). (Courtesy/Weizmann Institute of Science)

Israeli scientists say tiny organisms can revamp their own RNA to survive extreme heat

By Diana Bletter

US actor Jack Black attends the premiere of Columbia Pictures' 'Anaconda' at The United Theater on Broadway in Los Angeles, California, on December 13, 2025. (Robyn Beck / AFP)

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The Reel Schmooze: Jack Black’s mother was a rocket scientist?!

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman

Movie maven Jordan Hoffman and host Amanda Borschel-Dan on the Jewish ‘Anaconda’ actor’s accomplished mom and a review of the Schmoovie of the week, ‘The Sure Thing,’ by director Rob Reiner

Eli Feldstein, one of the suspects in the Qatargate investigation, arrives for a court hearing at the Tel Aviv District Court on July 15, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Likud downplays Netanyahu’s ties to Feldstein after ex-aide implicated PM in intel leak

Ruling party denies premier paid fealty to Qatar, accuses media of using ‘fake’ case to distract from ‘actually serious’ scandals, amid allies’ unprecedented support for probe

Britain's newly announced leader of the Green Party, Zack Polanski, reacts after being announced as the party's new leader, at a media event in central London on September 2, 2025. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

Profile'The Greens know exactly what they stand for'

UK’s Jewish answer to Zohran Mamdani is now one of PM Keir Starmer’s biggest challenges

By Robert Philpot

One of Britain’s fastest-rising politicians, Zack Polanski, is taking his Green Party further down the road of far-left, anti-Israel politics — and reaping the political dividends

Police officers inspect a pro-Palestinian charity implicated in the alleged transfer of millions of euros to Hamas, Milan, Italy, December 27, 2025. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)

Italy arrests 7 for allegedly raising millions for Hamas

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Over 71 percent of three implicated charities’ income was forwarded to associations affiliated with the terror group in Israel and the Palestinian territories, authorities charge

Security camera footage shows two masked individuals setting fire to vehicles in Giv'ot Bar, a Jewish town in the Negev, overnight on December 27, 2025. (Screenshot/X)

Police: 6 from Bedouin village held after cars torched in nearby Jewish communities

By Charlie Summers

3 suspects detained during raid in Tarabin al-Sana directly connected to arson, allegedly in revenge for law enforcement operation in village, police claim

Palestinian men drink coffee as they sit next to a statue of King David in Jerusalem's Old City, January 27, 2011. (Kobi Gideon/ Flash90/ File)

Interview'There is still much we can learn from the Bible'

Despite academic battle royal, a new book returns David’s kingdom to its place in history

By Rossella Tercatin

In ‘The Bible’s First Kings,’ scholars piece together archaeology and biblical studies to show that a United Monarchy indeed emerged in the region’s highlands 3,000 years ago

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Supporters of the Southern Transitional Council (STC), a coalition of separatist groups seeking to restore the state of South Yemen, hold South Yemen flags and a poster of their leader, Aidarous al-Zubaidi during a rally, in Aden, Yemen, December 25, 2025. (AP)

UAE-backed separatists accuse Saudis of striking forces in southern Yemen

By AP and ToI Staff

This handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Emergency Service on December 27, 2025, shows a building damaged during a Russian drone and missile attack in Kyiv. (Handout / UKRAINIAN EMERGENCY SERVICE / AFP)

Massive Russian attack on Kyiv kills one ahead of Zelensky meeting with Trump

By AFP

US President Donald Trump speaks on the phone during a North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Tracks Santa Operation call at his Mar-a-Lago club, Palm Beach, Florida, December 24, 2025. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Trump demands US Justice Department ’embarrass’ Democrats with ties to Epstein

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Odessa A'zion at A24's 'Marty Supreme' New York Premiere on December 16, 2025. (John Nacion/Variety via Getty Images)

Jewish actress Odessa A’zion says she’s not a Zionist after IDF t-shirt controversy

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