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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 30, 2025

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US President Donald Trump greets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club, December 29, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Trump: 'We're doing everything' to return last hostage body

Meeting PM, Trump warns of ‘hell to pay’ if Hamas doesn’t disarm in ‘very short’ time

By Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg and Jacob Magid

US president insists he and Netanyahu are almost completely aligned despite gaps on Syria, Turkey, West Bank; also says he’d back IDF strike if Iran advances its missile and nuclear programs

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago, December 29, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 30: Day 816 – In Florida, a jovial Trump is hawkish on Gaza and Iran

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

The family of the last remaining deceased hostage in Gaza, Ran Gvili, meets in Florida with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and top White House Middle East advisers Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, December 29, 2025, in a photo sent out by the Tikva Forum. (Courtesy)

Ran Gvili’s family meets Trump and PM, demands body’s return before phase 2 of Gaza truce

By Nava Freiberg and Michael Horovitz

US President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the end of a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, December 29, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 30: Netanyahu and Trump reportedly agree to 2-month deadline for Hamas to disarm

IDF punishes troops who vandalized vehicles during unauthorized raid in Palestinian village * Supreme court president says Smotrich’s threats against him ‘cross a red line’

9:20 pm

Red Crescent says 3 wounded by gunfire when IDF thwarted alleged ramming attack
8:53 pm

Video of protester defying police in Tehran goes viral
8:33 pm

At his alternative film awards, Miki Zohar calls to 'free cinema from politics'

US President Donald Trump (R) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walk inside Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, on December 29, 2025. (Jim WATSON / AFP)

Trump claims Herzog told him Netanyahu pardon ‘on its way’; Israeli president denies it

By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

Herzog’s office says pair never spoke, but he gave a Trump representative an explanation on ‘the stage of the process’ after the pardon request was submitted a month ago

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US President Donald Trump (right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands during a joint press conference at the Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, December 29, 2025. (Jim WATSON / AFP)

Trump, top aides express concern over Israel’s West Bank policies in meeting with PM

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Asked about settler violence, US president says he and Netanyahu don’t ‘100%’ agree on West Bank, but he believes premier will ‘do the right thing’; US said to fear PA collapse

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and US President Donald Trump (left, foreground) meet with their teams at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, December 29, 2025. On the left in the background (seated, unblurred) is Israeli-American businessman Michael Eisenberg, Netanyahu's pointman to the Civil-Military Coordination Center in Kiryat Gat. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Trump to be awarded next Israel Prize, the country’s top honor

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

An Israeli Air Force F-15 fighter jet takes off for airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen, September 25, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Pentagon announces $8.6 billion Boeing contract for Israeli F-15 fighter jets

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, December 29, 2025 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Amit vows not to back down, says threats won't sway him

Supreme Court chief says Smotrich crossed ‘red line’ by pledging to ‘trample’ him

By Ariela Karmel, Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

In face of widespread criticism, far-right minister doubles down on his threat, says ‘trampling’ is what Isaac Amit does ‘day by day’

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich speaks ahead of a Religious Zionism faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, December 29, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich vows to ‘trample’ Supreme Court president in blistering attack

By Ariela Karmel and Jeremy Sharon

Mordechai Levin

Iron Beam and the end of cheap war

The age of rockets and drones is not over, but the era in which quantity alone can decide outcomes is coming to a close

We helped build Nick Fuentes. Here’s how we can take him down

To fight antisemitism among young Americans, the Jewish community needs to invest less in lobbying and debating and more in shaping online culture

Saudi Arabia bombs Yemen port over separatist weapons shipment from UAE

By AP and ToI Staff

No casualties reported in attack on Mukalla; Riyadh warns Abu Dhabi its actions in war-torn country are ‘extremely dangerous’

Screengrab of a video showing the aftermath of Saudi Arabia's strikes on what it said was weapons shipments from the United Arab Emirates to Yemen's separatist forces, in the Yemeni port city Mukalla, December 30, 2025. (X)

A CH-148 Cyclone helicopter approaches the Royal Canadian Navy frigate HMCS Ville de Quebec for landing during a maritime cooperative activity between the Philippines, Australia and Canadian navies near Scarborough Shoal in disputed waters of the South China Sea on September 2, 2025. (Ted ALJIBE / AFP)

In tit-for-tat, Iran designates Royal Canadian Navy a terrorist organization

By AFP and ToI Staff

Sajid Akram, foreground, and Naveed Akram open fire in a terror attack on people at a Jewish event in Sydney, Australia, on December 14, 2025, in an image taken from a video posted online. (Screen capture: X)

Bondi Beach terrorists ‘acted alone’ in attack on Hanukkah event — Australian police

Top cop in Australia says no evidence found showing father and son ‘were part of a broader terrorist cell, or were directed by others’ to perpetrate ISIS-inspired massacre

Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud delivers a joint press conference with the German Chancellor after talks at the Chancellery in Berlin, on November 5, 2024. (Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)

Somali president to visit Turkey after Israeli recognition of breakaway Somaliland

By AFP and ToI Staff

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud will discuss measures for ‘national unity’ and other ‘regional developments,’ after Ankara, Mogadishu both denounce Israel’s decision on autonomous territory

US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce speaks during a briefing at the State Department, April 15, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Defending Israel, US likens Somaliland recognition to Palestinian statehood acknowledgements

Critical insight

Amid threats of fresh bout with Iran, experts warn missile defenses may not be ready

With Tehran rebuilding its arsenal and US interceptor supplies depleted and slow to replenish, analysts say another war may prove more of a challenge to Israel’s home front

Israeli air defense system fires to intercept Iranian missiles over Tel Aviv, June 13, 2025. (AP/Leo Correa)

Col. (res.) Yoav Yarom, in an undated photo. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief ousts senior officer over Lebanon incident that killed civilian, soldier

By Stav Levaton

Citing ‘grave operational failure,’ Zamir orders severe reprimand of Col. (res.) Yoav Yarom, alongside his dismissal from reserve duty

IDF troops work to uncover Hamas tunnels in southern Gaza's Rafah, in a handout photo issued by the military on November 21, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF to launch comprehensive probes into Gaza ground operations, broader war

By Stav Levaton

The new spokesman for Hamas's military wing, known like his predecessor by the alias Abu Obeida, gives his first video statement on December 29, 2025. (Screenshot)

Hamas admits former spokesman killed in August, debuts new ‘Abu Obeida’

By Noam Lehmann and Agencies

Terror group also confirms death of Muhammad Sinwar for the first time, seven months after the commander was killed in an Israeli airstrike under a southern Gaza hospital

United Nations and Red Crescent workers prepare the aid for distribution to Palestinians at UNRWA warehouse in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Eslaiah, File)

Knesset passes law blocking provision of electricity and water to UNRWA facilities

MK Hanoch Milwidsky (second right) chairing a Knesset Finance committee session, December 25, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset legal adviser accuses committee chair of misconduct, pushing votes without debate

By Ariela Karmel

MK Milwidsky faces widespread condemnation for attacking Finance Committee counsel, barring opposition MK, amid effort to pass controversial budget transfers

Police raid the southern Bedouin town of Tarabin al-Sana on December 29, 2025. (Israel Police)

Heavily armed police stage large-scale raid on Bedouin town after days of clashes

By Charlie Summers

Residents of Tarabin report stun grenades thrown into homes, tear gas fired at mosque: ‘It feels like Tulkarem here’; police say 16 wanted suspects arrested, IDF ammunition seized

A 2000-year-old ritual bath is unearthed beneath the Western Wall Plaza in a discovery announced on December 29, 2025. (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Reporter's notebook'It was not a city with a temple, but a temple with a city'

Fire-blackened 2,000-year-old mikveh is a portal into 70 CE Roman conquest of Jerusalem

By Rossella Tercatin

The newly unsealed Jewish ritual bath, uncovered beneath the Western Wall Plaza, marks the first stratigraphic identification of the burnt layer from the fall of the Second Temple

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Screen capture from video of emergency services retrieving the body of a man who was swept away by a flash flood, December 30, 2025. (X)

Man swept away by flash flood found dead

Joe Jajati, right, and Salim Hamadani, second from left, in Damascus, December 29, 2025. (Courtesy/Joe Jajati)

Syrian authorities release Jewish antiquities dealer, dismiss charges against him

An Israeli Air Force refueling plane flies alongside Hellenic Air Force fighter jets during a drill over Greece, November 3, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Greece, Israel and Cyprus to step up joint exercises in eastern Mediterranean

By Reuters and Stav Levaton

The compound of Joseph's Tomb in the West Bank city of Nablus, April 10, 2022. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Visiting hours said extended for Israelis at flashpoint Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus

Illustrative: A policeman holds handcuffs. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Car with baby inside stolen from Hadera hospital; suspect arrested, infant returned

United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese looks on at the end of a press conference on the human rights situation in Gaza in Geneva, Switzerland, on September 15, 2025. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)

Georgetown University drops UN’s Albanese due to US sanctions

Illustrative: A paratrooper of the German armed forces Bundeswehr is seen with a German flag in the sky over the military base of Kaufbeuren, southern Germany, during an Open Day of the Bundeswehr, on June 17, 2023. (Christof STACHE / AFP)

German paratrooper unit probed over alleged ‘openly antisemitic clique,’ sex abuse

By AFP and ToI Staff

Russia's President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting on situation in the zone of the 'special military operation,' the Kremlin's term for the nearly four-year-long Ukraine offensive, in Moscow on December 29, 2025. (Mikhail METZEL / POOL / AFP)

Peace hopes dented as Russia says Ukraine tried to attack Putin residence

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

Iranian president urges government to heed economic protests

By AFP

New York City Mayor Eric Adams praying at the Western Wall, in Jerusalem, November 16, 2025. (Benny Polatseck/Mayoral Photography Office via AP)

NYC’s Adams says he’ll fight antisemitism with cryptocurrency after leaving office

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