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What Matters Most On Monday, December 29, 2025

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In the US, Netanyahu aims to convince Trump that only threat of war can bring peace

Leaders agree Gaza must be demilitarized and Iran kept from rebuilding, but with Hamas digging in its heels and Hezbollah rearming, PM wants enemies to fear more attacks

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks, as US President Donald Trump looks on during a dinner in the Blue Room of the White House in Washington, July 7, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/ Getty Images/ AFP)

Illustrative: President Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago estate, July 26, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 29: Day 815 – As Trump and Netanyahu meet today, what’s on the table?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jacob Magid

US President Donald Trump (center R) meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center L) during a bilateral meeting at Trumps Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, on December 29, 2025. Pictured alongside Trump are, L/R, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, White House Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 29: PM says Trump set conditions Palestinian Authority must meet before it can return to Gaza

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Speaking alongside PM at Mar-a-Lago, Trump says he’d back Israeli attack on Iran if it continues with nuclear, missile programs * Trump acknowledges differences on West Bank, claims Netanyahu ‘respects’ Erdogan and agrees Turkish leader paved way to Assad’s fall in Syria

10:23 pm

Trump says US 'very seriously' considering sale of F-35s to Turkey: 'They'll never use them against Israel'
10:13 pm

Katz, Zamir honor 20 organizations, municipalities for exceptional support to reservists
10:05 pm

Trump: Saudis 'getting along great with Israel,' will sometime join Abraham Accords

New immigrants arrive in Israel after a Nefesh B'Nefesh charter flight, August 20, 2025. (Zev Stub/Times of Israel)

2025 saw sharp drop in immigration to Israel even as arrivals from Western nations surged

Total aliyah fell by a third as Russian immigration halved; French immigration rose 45% while immigration from North America jumped 12% amid skyrocketing antisemitism

Left: Candace Owens appears on her podcast, December 20, 2025. (Screenshot via Candace Owens/YouTube); Right: Tucker Carlson appears on his podcast, December 22, 2025. (Screenshot via Tucker Carlson/YouTube)

Study shows 2025 spike in anti-Israel, antisemitic rhetoric from Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens

This handout photo taken and received from the NSW Premier's Department on December 15, 2025, shows Ahmed Al Ahmed, the man who tackled and disarmed one of the Bondi Beach terrorists, at St George Hospital in Sydney. (Handout/ NSW Premier's Department/AFP)

Bondi Beach hero Ahmed al Ahmed: I just wanted to protect ‘innocent people’

Shop owner says he told assailant to drop gun, stop shooting; Australian Jews demand federal commission of inquiry into antisemitism, terror attack, but PM says it would slow things down

The IDF’s first operational Iron Beam high-power laser air defense system, displayed during a handover ceremony at a Rafael Advanced Defense Systems facility, December 28, 2025. (Defense Minister's Office)

Defense Ministry hands IDF first combat-ready Iron Beam laser interception system

By Stav Levaton and Emanuel Fabian

High-power aerial defense system has successfully intercepted rockets, mortars and drones in testing, is set to be absorbed by the Israeli Air Force

In this screen grab from a live broadcast run by the Russian space agency Roscosmos on December 28, 2025, a Soyuz-2.1b rocket booster with a number of satellites, including from Iran, blasts off from the Vostochny cosmodrom, in the far eastern region of Amur. (Handout / Russian Space Agency Roscosmos / AFP)

Three Iranian satellites launched into orbit on Russian rocket, state media says

An activist holds up a poster of slain police Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, the last hostage held in Gaza, during a gathering at the Black Arrow Memorial near the Israel–Gaza border, December 26, 2025. (Tsafrir Abayov/ FLASH90)

IDF said to detain Islamic Jihad operative in Gaza amid hunt for final hostage’s body

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

Palestinian sources tell Asharq al-Awsat Israeli forces nabbed terror group member in Hamas-held area of the Strip; army denies report it shifted Yellow Line

Freed hostage Elkana Bohbot arrives at his home near Jerusalem on October 19, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Freed hostage Elkana Bohbot: Hamas made me film mock suicide video

Former hostages Matan Zangauker and Ilana Gritzewsky are engaged, December 28, 2025. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Former hostages Matan Zangauker and Ilana Gritzewsky become engaged

A code of ethics for AI in education

With technology advancing rapidly, we must jump in to guide its path with these 7 ethical principles, before the machines outpace our values .

Fresh hack attacks are part of Iran’s long-range cyberthreat

Breaking into the phones of two top Israelis, Tehran shows it aims to keep up covert influence efforts against its enemies abroad and at home

Illegal burning of electronic waste near Azzoun, northern West Bank, November 24, 2025. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'Nobody's telling me what to do!' says polluted town's mayor

Pirate waste fires choke Israelis and Palestinians as ministers play game of hot potato

Ahead of upcoming elections, lawmakers wake up to citizens’ protests as Environmental and Defense Ministries battle over turf, and as Treasury promises — but doesn’t deliver — funds

Left to right: Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter, July 22, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90); Energy Minister Eli Cohen attends the conference for Sovereignty in Judea and Samaria at the Knesset, July 21, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Coalition calls for Qatargate consequences mount; poll finds 50% say allegations are treason

Energy Minister Cohen slams alleged boosting of Qatar by PM’s staff, says suspects, if guilty, must be ‘brought to justice’; Channel 12 poll finds scandal won’t change many votes

Electoral official arrange ballots in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba during Israeli elections, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Most Israelis feel no political party fully represents their views, poll finds

Former police investigator Tzachi Havkin arrives for a court hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court, September 10, 2025, in a photo cleared for publication on December 28, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Cop who investigated Netanyahu suspected of passing tips to mafia for kickbacks

By Charlie Summers

A member of the Houthi security forces stands guard in front of a giant screen broadcasting leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi in Sanaa on September 19, 2025. (Mohammed HUWAIS / AFP)

Houthi leader threatens to ‘target’ any Israeli presence in Somaliland

By AFP and ToI Staff

Rebel chief warns recognition of breakaway represents a ‘hostile stance’ toward Yemen, after move by Jerusalem widely seen as granting IDF better access to strike Iran-backed group

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud speaks during the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 25, 2025. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP)

Somali president: Israel’s recognition of Somaliland a ‘threat’ to regional stability

By AFP and ToI Staff

Screenshot of Hezbollah secretary Naim Qassem delivering a televised address on Lebanese TV, aired December 28, 2025. (X)

Hezbollah leader says Lebanese efforts to disarm group ‘not in country’s interest’

By AFP and ToI Staff

British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El Fattah (center) embraces his mother, writer Laila Soueif (left), and his sister Sanaa Seif (right), at home after his release in Cairo, Egypt, on September 23, 2025. (MOHAMED EL-RAAI / AFP)

UK’s Starmer under fire for welcoming ex-prisoner who called to ‘kill all Zionists’

By AFP and Zev Stub

British-Egyptian Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who arrived in UK after years in Egyptian detention, apologizes for posts endorsing violence after opposition figures call for his deportation

Brig. Gen. Shay Tayeb, head of the IDF Personnel Directorate's Planning and Personnel Management Division, addresses the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, December 14, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF tells lawmakers Haredi draft exemption bill ‘far from’ solving troop shortage

Brig. Gen. Shay Tayeb warns Knesset defense panel that cuts to the length of mandatory military service mean the current dearth of forces is only expected to get worse

Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Boaz Bismuth (center) and committee legal adviser Miri Frenkel Shor (right) during a discussion of the government's proposed law to regulate ultra-Orthodox conscription and exemptions, December 28, 2025. (Noam Moskowitz/Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)

AG’s office, Knesset legal advisory pan Haredi draft exemption bill

Supreme Court President Isaac Amit arrives for a hearing at the High Court of Justice in Jerusalem, December 23, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

High Court freezes closure of Army Radio until final ruling issued

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Court president says injunction aimed at ensuring government does not take action against station in meantime; minister insists court’s ruling is illegal, cabinet vote will stand

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, November 29, 2020. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90/ File)

Tel Aviv shares break record highs in 2025 despite war, outpacing global markets

By Sharon Wrobel

This year’s local rally outperformed gains in major global indexes, boosted by optimism over the removal of the Iranian threat and a ceasefire deal to end the two-year war in Gaza

A Loop Festival party in Pai, Thailand, in November 2025. (Social media video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Thailand shuts down dance parties targeted by anti-Israel incitement, vandalism

Israeli organizers say social media attacks and damage to venue by activists led local authorities to cancel planned music events in Pai

A bus is stopped as a tree collapses onto a road due to heavy winds and rain in Jerusalem, December 29, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Man seriously injured as balcony collapses in storm; heavy rain, high winds pummel Israel

Tel Aviv building damaged as 70-year-old taken to hospital; lanes closed on Route 4, several southern roads shut; fallen tree crushes car in Herzliya, driver narrowly avoids injury

More Headlines

Protesters from the Alawite religious minority demonstrate in in Latakia, Syria, two days after a bomb in an Alawite mosque in Homs killed eight people, December 28, 2025. (AP/Omar Albam)

3 dead, dozens injured in Syria as Alawites clash with pro-government groups

Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Donald Trump arrive at a press conference following talks at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, on December 28, 2025. (Jim WATSON / AFP)

Deal to end war in Ukraine ‘a lot closer,’ Trump says after meeting Zelensky

By Andrea Shalal and Gram Slattery

A drone view of the mass grave site in the desert near the eastern Syrian town of Dhumair, February 27, 2025. A Reuters investigation found that the Assad government secretly trucked thousands of bodies there from an exposed mass grave in the Damascus suburb of Qutayfah from 2019 to 2021. (REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi)

Syria secures Assad-era mass grave revealed in October, opens criminal investigation

By Feras Dalatey and Ryan McNeill

A Turkish special forces police officer stands guard ahead of the arrival of Pope Leo XIV to attend an ecumenical prayer service near the sunken Byzantine Basilica of Saint Neophytos by Lake Iznik, on November 28, 2025. (OZAN KOSE / AFP)

Turkey says 3 police officers, 6 terrorists killed in raid on Islamic State cell

By AP

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