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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 31, 2025

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An Israeli woman who was extracted from the West Bank city of Jericho is seen next to an officer from the Civil Administration on December 31, 2025. (Courtesy)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 31: PA security forces again help extract Israeli woman from West Bank city

Netanyahu meets Jewish and Evangelical community leaders on third day of US trip, expected to attend Trump New Year’s Eve party * Somaliland president said planning Israel trip

9:56 pm

Trump says he's pulling National Guard from Chicago, LA, Portland
9:55 pm

One security force member killed, 2 wounded in Aleppo suicide attack, Syria says
9:18 pm

PA security forces again help extract Israeli woman from West Bank city

Inside story

Trump’s effusive praise for PM part of strategy to keep disagreements private — sources

While some aides to US president have grown frustrated with Netanyahu, Trump believes public spat won’t advance his agenda and would anger conservative allies whose support he cherishes

US President Donald Trump (right) speaks to reporters as he greets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago club, December 29, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP/Alex Brandon)

This handout picture made available by the Iranian Atomic Organization (IAEO) office on November 2, 2025, shows the Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (left) and Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, during a visit to the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, to meet with senior managers in the nuclear industry in Tehran, Iran. (Handout / various sources / AFP)

After Trump’s warning of strike, Iran threatens ‘harsh’ response to any attack

By AP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Fox News in an interview broadcast on December 30, 2025. (Screenshot)

Netanyahu: ‘Handful of kids’ not from West Bank behind rising settler violence

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

In US interviews, PM says extremists ‘sometimes try to burn a home’; insists Hamas must give up its 60,000 rifles for Gaza plan to advance, says ‘all bets are off’ if Iran escalates

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

Analysis

Trump and Netanyahu present united stance on Gaza, but will Hamas agree to go along?

PM and US president seek to dispel reports of growing rift with chummy Mar-a-Lago meeting, making it easier to confront continued threats, though by no means guaranteeing success

Illustrative: A person types on a laptop keyboard, June 19, 2017. (AP/Elise Amendola/File)

Trump administration drops sanctions on executives tied to Israeli spyware firm

By Raphael Satter

People on a street in Tel Aviv, December 30, 2025. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

In first, Israeli population growth said to drop below 1%; life expectancy also down

Citing ‘very unusual figure,’ Taub research institute blames negative migration, declining fertility for ‘the start of a new era of demographic development in Israel’

A patient's room inside the psychiatric hospital in Kfar Shaul, Jerusalem, July 31, 2012 (Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

Almost 1 in 3 Israelis say they need professional mental health support – survey

By Diana Bletter

Tally comprises over 80% of Israel's violent killing in 2025

Arab society marks deadliest year on record, with 252 murder victims in 2025

By Charlie Summers

While police chief claims progress, killings still run rampant, including record number of female victims, with almost all deadly crime continuing to go unsolved, monitor says

Members of the Arab community protest against the violence in their community outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, November 9, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police and Border Police officers operating in the Bedouin town of Tarabin al-Sana, as part of a days-long crackdown in the southern village on December 30, 2025. (Israel Police)

Ben Gvir gives pep talk to cops in Tarabin al-Sana as raid on Bedouin town persists

By Charlie Summers

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett at a tech conference in Ness Ziona on May 5, 2025 (Rafi Delouya/Courtesy of the conference)

Bennett: Netanyahu aides who ‘served the enemy’ in Qatargate deserve life sentence

Former premier, running in upcoming election against current PM, notes recent reports revealing details of scandal, alleges aides smeared Egypt to help ‘enemy’ Qatar

President Isaac Herzog speaks at a Bible studies event at his residence in Jerusalem on December 30, 2025. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Herzog warns politically appointed Oct. 7 probe may ‘significantly harm’ quest for truth

An illustrated image of a flying saucer hovering over the city of Jericho in the Judean Desert. (iStock/ ronib1979)

'Positive optimism serves as practical direction of action'

In 1988, a futurist envisioned Israel in 2025. Some of his predictions were spot-on

By Zack Rothbart

In his book ‘Israel in the Year 2025,’ Dr. Alan Price imagines the Jewish state in an era of space travel, but his visions of smart homes, solar fields and cellphones ring true

When the ultra-Orthodox leaders jockey for control, the whole country loses

Political parties have no business running religious institutions; it’s unprofessional, divisive, and devoid of public trust

Amnon Beeri-Sulitzeanu

Ben Gvir is fighting against Arab citizens instead of fighting crime

Weaponizing the police against 20% of the Israeli public to advance his political agenda puts everyone at risk

From the Blogs

Menachem Rosensaft

Revelry in the age of horror: A New Year’s meditation

By 1945, the world knew what had happened and was still happening to millions in Europe, and yet there were celebrations. This is callousness

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers stand guard during a protest by Palestinians who were evacuated by the IDF from their homes in the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem, in the West Bank, on December 15, 2025. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

IDF punishes troops who vandalized vehicles during rogue raid in Palestinian village

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Military prison sentences handed down at end of year that saw spike in extremist violence in West Bank; separately, assailant who IDF says attempted to ram soldiers is shot dead

Family and friends attend the funeral of reservist soldier Roi Wasserstein, who took his own life after 300 days of reserve duty, at the cemetery in Netanya, August 1, 2025. (Tal Gal/Flash90)

IDF to enact new guidelines for recognizing suicides linked to military service

By Stav Levaton

Comedian Liz Glazer is part of the 2025-2026 Comedy for Koby tour of Israel. (courtesy)

What Matters Now podcast

Stand-up comedian Liz Glazer: ‘Israel is the reason I exist’

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Soon in Israel for the annual Comedy for Koby tour, the former law prof — the wife of a female rabbi — explains why she is the very last person to call to find out What Matters Now

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on December 17, 2025 in New York. (ANGELA WEISS / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 31: Day 817 – Mamdani to become NYC mayor as apple drops in Times Square

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Luke Tress

Palestinians walk along a street past a tent camp surrounded by buildings destroyed during the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza City, December 30, 2025. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israel bars 37 nonprofits from Gaza and West Bank for not abiding by new guidelines

By Jeremy Sharon and AFP

Jerusalem says move won’t affect aid; delicensing comes as 10 foreign ministers decry ‘renewed deterioration of humanitarian situation’ in Gaza as rain floods tents

Ultra-Orthodox children dressed up in costumes at their cheder in Jerusalem, several days before the Jewish holiday of Purim, March 5, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lapid petitions High Court to halt billion-shekel transfer to ultra-Orthodox schools

Court gives government until Wednesday morning to respond; ‘We will not allow Israel’s ultra-Orthodox children to be turned into second-class citizens,’ says UTJ chairman Goldknopf

MK Moshe Gafni, left, with MK Aryeh Deri at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 13, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shas, Degel HaTorah trade barbs in fight for control of Jerusalem religious council

Mammoth defense spending at risk of overburdening Israel, report warns

By Sharon Wrobel

Think tank cautions that welfare expenditures could suffer unless economy revs back up and state invests in infrastructure and human capital; cost of living still sky-high

IDF armored forces at a staging area in southern Israel near the border with Gaza. January 1, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

'Tomorrow is Yesterday,' by Hussein Agha, center (photo by Brett Walker), and Robert Malley (Kelley Norcia Photography)

Interview'It is about the processes and realities that led to Oct. 7'

Two long-time negotiators dissect what’s at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

By Rich Tenorio

In new book ‘Tomorrow is Yesterday,’ Jewish US diplomat Robert Malley and veteran Palestinian negotiator Hussein Agha team up to look at the hard truths behind the stalled two-state solution

More Headlines

Portland Trail Blazers forward Deni Avdija, middle, drives to the basket against Dallas Mavericks forward Naji Marshall, left, during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Portland, Oregon, December 29, 2025. (Howard Lao/AP)

Israel’s Deni Avdija 7th in NBA All-Star Game voting in West, continuing breakout season

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Storekeepers and traders walk over a bridge during a protest against the economic conditions and Iran's embattled currency in Tehran on December 29, 2025. (FARS NEWS AGENCY / AFP)

Iran’s chief prosecutor pledges ‘decisive’ response if protests destabilize country

Tatiana Schlossberg, JFK’s granddaughter, dies at 35 from rare form of leukemia

By Marc Levy and Sarah Brumfield

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks during the Live Keynote Pregame during the Nvidia GTC (GPU Technology Conference) in Washington, DC, on October 28, 2025. (Jim WATSON / AFP)

Report: Nvidia in advanced talks to buy Israel’s AI21 Labs for up to $3 billion

By Reuters, Sharon Wrobel and ToI Staff

Residents wave Somali flags at a rally against Israel's recognition of Somaliland at Mogadishu Stadium in Mogadishu on December 30, 2025. (Hassan Ali Elmi/AFP)

Thousands rally in Somalia against Israeli recognition of Somaliland

A photograph shows damaged military vehicles, reportedly sent by the United Arab Emirates to support Southern Transitional Council (STC) separatist forces, following an air strike carried out by the Saudi-led coalition in the port of Mukalla, southern Yemen, on December 30, 2025. (Photo by AFP)

ExplainerEscalation in Yemen threatens to reignite civil war, widen tensions in Gulf region

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