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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 28, 2025

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

UN Security Council to convene emergency meeting on Israel’s Somaliland recognition

By Jacob Magid, Agencies and Lazar Berman

EU joins chorus of condemnations of move; 21 mostly Muslim nations say decision will have ‘serious repercussions’ for peace and security

Hundreds of newly trained al-Shabaab fighters perform military exercises in the Lafofe area some 18 kilometers south of Mogadishu, Somalia. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Somalia’s Al-Shabaab vows to fight any Israeli use of Somaliland after recognition

By AFP and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump (right) poses for a photo with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before he boards Air Force One at Ben Gurion International Airport, October 13, 2025, near Tel Aviv, as President Isaac Herzog (left) watches. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Netanyahu departs for US to meet Trump on Gaza plan, Hezbollah tensions

By Lazar Berman

PM scheduled to meet Rubio followed by US president on Monday, will meet Evangelical leaders at hotel on Wednesday, lawmakers and Jewish leaders at Miami synagogue

Supreme Court President Isaac Amit presides over a hearing on petitions against the government’s dismissal of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, December 1, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 28: High Court freezes planned closure of Army Radio

Comms minister calls to defy ruling * Major highway cleared after Haredi protesters scuffle with cops, 3 arrested * Syrian authorities said to release Jewish man after weeks in detention

9:53 pm

Houthis say IDF presence in Somaliland would be 'military target'
9:44 pm

Petah Tikva declared measles hotspot during ongoing outbreak
9:38 pm

Police investigating suspected attack on right-wing provocateur Hadar Muchtar

Tzachi Braverman, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief of staff, at the Tel Aviv District Court ahead of the premier's testimony on December 18, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Iranian hacking group claims to seize damning info from phone of PM’s chief of staff

By Lazar Berman

Same group alleged to have hacked Bennett’s phone now threatens to release information linking Tzachi Braverman to Qatargate affair; PM’s office denies breach

People attend a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, December 27, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Former police chief slams Netanyahu at rainy anti-government protest in Tel Aviv

By ToI Staff and Noam Lehmann

Illustrative: Supreme Court President Isaac Amit (center), together with Deputy President Noam Sohlberg (left) and Justice David Mintz, preside over a hearing on petitions against the appointment of David Zini as head of the Shin Bet, November 18, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court rejects petitions against Shin Bet chief’s appointment

By Jeremy Sharon

Supreme Court President Amit dissents, saying advisory committee failed to properly evaluate ‘ethical’ concerns over Netanyahu’s role in appointing David Zini

Police legal adviser Elazar Kahana at an Independence Day ceremony at police headquarters in Jerusalem May 9, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Police’s top legal adviser to retire, a year after police chief sought his dismissal

By Charlie Summers

Israel’s recognition of Somaliland is a monumental move

Alongside a slew of risks, ties with the fledgling country offer rich trade opportunities and a base of operation against the Houthis

Gina Friedlander

Please stop talking about the Holocaust

If you memorialize Jewish destruction but won’t support Israel, I call fake sympathy; I’m tired of people masking their failure to help today’s living, breathing Jews

Hamas's Khalil al-Hayya during an interview in Istanbul, April 24, 2024. (AP/ Khalil Hamra, File)

Hamas said set to soon elect new leader, with pro-Iran candidate Hayya likely to win

By Noam Lehmann

Report says second candidate is terror group’s former head Mashaal, who is said to favor diplomacy on Gaza whereas frontrunner backs ‘armed conflict’

IDF troops seen operating in the West Bank town of Qabatiya, in a handout photo released for publication on December 27, 2025. (IDF)

Brothers of terrorist who killed 2 in ramming attacks found illegally inside Israel

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Police and Border Police officers conduct searches for a driver who rammed into a police officer, lightly injuring him, in northern Jerusalem on December 28, 2025. (Israel Police)

East Jerusalem man arrested after police officer lightly injured in hit-and-run

By Charlie Summers

from the blogs

Who won the war?

Israel retrieved hostages and the IDF controls a buffer zone; Hamas is still armed and ruling nearly half of Gaza. Define victory

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian takes questions from the media at a press briefing in New York, September 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)

Iran’s president says country in midst of ‘total war’ with US, Israel and Europe

By AFP and ToI Staff

In interview, Masoud Pezeshkian claims Islamic Republic’s army now stronger than before June conflict, outlines 20-point economic plan to improve ailing economy

A vehicle is trapped amid a flood in southern Israel on December 28, 2025. (Screenshot via Kan on X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Parents and child rescued from van caught up in flood in south, as rains lash Israel

Several highways closed or restricted; Fire and Rescue Service warns of life-threatening floods as storm batters country; Mount Hermon ski resort closed

A winter day in Acre, December 27, 2025. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Israel braces for floods as downpour forecast for Monday

Israel's Leviathan gas field processing rig as seen from Dor Habonim Beach Nature Reserve, on January 1, 2020. (Flash90)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Dec. 28: Day 814 – Will $35 billion gas deal with Egypt hike electricity costs?

By Jessica Steinberg, Sharon Wrobel and Rossella Tercatin

Tech editor Sharon Wrobel reports on natural gas agreement; archaeology reporter Rossella Tercatin discusses ancient Holy Land trinkets and Israel’s Kingdom of David

New York Governor Kathy Hochul participates in a ribbon cutting ceremony at the new JPMorgan Chase offices in New York, October 21, 2025. (AP/Seth Wenig)

NY governor steps in to prevent demolition of century-old Brooklyn synagogue

Kingsbrook Synagogue, set up at hospital to serve Jews escaping antisemitism, had been slated for destruction in development project

Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong speaks at the US State Department, December 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)

After Hanukkah attack, Australian FM says she’s ‘desperately sorry’ about antisemitism

Culture and Sports Minister Miki Zohar attends a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, in Jerusalem, November 26, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Nominees reverse decision to boycott culture minister’s alternate film awards

By Jessica Steinberg

8 film professionals had refused to participate in new ceremony until producer Moshe Edery promised to work with Culture Minister Zohar to maintain funding for industry

French actress Brigitte Bardot poses with a huge sombrero she brought back from Mexico, as she arrives at Orly Airport in Paris on May 27, 1965. (AP/File)

Obituary

Brigitte Bardot, sultry ’60s sex symbol-turned-militant animal rights activist, dies at 91

By Thomas Adamson and Elaine Ganley

Iconic French actress abandoned the screen to campaign for animals, including controversial calls to ban Jewish and Muslim ritual slaughter; was convicted 5 times of inciting racial hatred

Jeffrey R. Holland, member of the quorum of the twelve apostles, speaks during a news conference at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City, January 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, file )

Senior Mormon official Jeffrey Holland, who fostered ties with Jews, dies at 85

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM

Carole King performs in New York's Central Park on May 26, 1973. (AP Photo/Ray Stubblebine, File)

Interview'There's something so natural and authentic about her'

How ‘Natural Woman’ Carole King defied societal expectations to achieve pop stardom

By Rich Tenorio

Former Forward editor Jane Eisner’s new biography tracks the Jewish artist from her native NYC to California, where she recorded hit album ‘Tapestry,’ through multiple marriages in Idaho

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The underpass of Tel Aviv's Shalom Meir Tower, the temporary home of "HaMivne," a pop-up exhibit on display through December 29, 2025. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Concrete artExhibit brings visitors back to Tel Aviv’s Shalom Meir Tower

By Jessica Steinberg

Construction works on new housing in the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Gat, July 29, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Over 20 civil society, green, health bodies call for changes to key budget bill

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