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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 1, 2026

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Protesters hold posters displaying the faces of men from the Bedouin village of Bir Hadaj who have been killed in recent years in what they characterize as extrajudicial killings, on January 1, 2026. (Courtesy)

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Jan. 1: Dozens protest in Negev over fatal shooting of Bedouin man

Attorney General to High Court: Ask Netanyahu to explain why he hasn’t fired Ben Gvir * Israeli security prisoner dies; prison service refuses to disclose cause of death

9:18 pm

Rabbi beaten up in Jaffa; police said to suspect attacker had nationalistic motive
8:47 pm

Three Jewish people unaccounted for after blaze in Swiss ski resort bar
8:25 pm

Mamdani nods to Jewish, Palestinian New Yorkers during swearing-in speech

Mamdani sworn in as NYC mayor, ushering in new age of anti-Zionist leadership

By AP and ToI Staff

Taking his oath on a Quran in a historic subway station on New Year’s Eve, New York’s first-ever Muslim mayor says it is ‘privilege of a lifetime’ to lead America’s largest city

New York State Attorney General Letitia James (left) administers the oath of office to Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (center) as his wife Rama Duwaji holds two Qurans, January 1, 2026, in New York. (AP/Yuki Iwamura)

New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks to the media in City Hall, New York City, December 15, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

NYC mayor releases blueprint for combating antisemitism, a day before Mamdani sworn in

Ramzi Kassem, an attorney for Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, speaks during a protest by the fringe, anti-Zionist Jewish Voice for Peace group outside Federal Plaza, New York City, April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Mamdani appoints lawyer who coached anti-Israel protesters as NYC’s chief counsel

The figure of a menorah is displayed on the pylon of the Sydney Harbour Bridge to reflect on the tragic Bondi Beach shooting attack before a New Year's Eve midnight fireworks display in Sydney on December 31, 2025. (Saeed KHAN / AFP)

Sydney brings in New Year with commemoration for victims of Bondi terror attack

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Menorah projected onto Harbour Bridge and minute of solemn silence held to honor victims of Hanukkah shooting, ahead of annual celebrations and fireworks show

A woman celebrates the new year on New Year’s Eve in Tel Aviv, December 31, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

World welcomes 2026 with fireworks, champagne after year of turmoil

By AFP

An ambulance is seen at the site of an explosion that ripped through the bar Le Constellation in Crans-Montana, a luxury ski resort town in Switzerland, on January 1, 2026. (Maxime Schmid/AFP)

Dozens dead, more than 100 injured in fire at Swiss Alps bar during New Year’s party

By AFP and AP

Rabbi Noach Koncepolski (right) stands with a passerby at the kiosk he founded on Bondi Beach, Australia, in memory of the victims of the Hanukkah terror attack there, December 2025. (Courtesy)

New Chabad center deploys at site of Bondi terror attack, dispensing acts of kindness

Volunteers at a new outreach center named for two of the victims spread messages of hope where 15 people were killed and dozens injured in the Hanukkah massacre

Screen capture from video of a suspect spraying graffiti on a mosque in Brisbane, December 2025. (The Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Australian Muslim community reports spike in hate crimes since Bondi terror attack

By Stuart Winer

More than 69,000 Israelis left Israel in 2025, as population reached 10.18 million

According to government, the population grew just 1.1% in the shadow of war, an unusually low rate, as the country saw a net negative migration of 20,000 people

Illustrative: People standing in line to go through passport control at Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Shopkeepers and traders protest in the street against the economic conditions and Iran's embattled currency in Tehran on December 29, 2025. (FARS NEWS AGENCY / AFP)

Volunteer in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard reported killed during widening protests

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Deputy governor of Western Lorestan province said to blame death of 21-year-old on demonstrators, as he urges dialogue on grievances

Shopkeepers and traders protest in the street against the economic conditions and Iran's embattled currency in Tehran on December 29, 2025. (HANDOUT / FARS NEWS AGENCY / AFP)

Iranian demonstrators try to enter government building on 4th day of protests

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Yohanan Plesner

Repairing Israel’s social fabric in 2026

In the lull between the Gaza ceasefire and a contentious election, we must confront the questions that will shape our future – including the ones that divide us

Sagit Alkobi Fishman

What New York risks losing under Mamdani

Will antisemitism in the city be discussed endlessly, or will the powers that be confront it with seriousness and resolve?

Israel’s silent crisis: The reservists

My second-grader says I’m a hero. She also wants to know if I’m ever coming home. The work-life-army struggle is real

Steven M. Albert

What happens when I wear my IDF jacket?

My kids feared I would attract a flood of hatred. It turns out they were completely wrong

High Court orders state comptroller to freeze inquiry into core issues of October 7 disaster

By Jeremy Sharon

Court indicates there’s merit to petitions that claim state comptroller probe into October 7 exceeds his authority and is flawed. Chikli calls court ‘a circus,’ and court president ‘a clown’

State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman attends a meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 12, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 1: Day 818 – Coalition, Haredim and judiciary on collision course

By Jessica Steinberg, Ariela Karmel and Sam Sokol

Supreme Court Justice Yael Willner at a court hearing on who will have authority over the Sde Teiman leak probe, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, November 11, 2025.(Yonatan SIndel/Flash90)

High Court halts transfer of NIS 1 billion to Haredi schools as it reviews case

By Jeremy Sharon, Ariela Karmel, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's chief of staff, Tzachi Braverman, attends a hearing during the premier's graft trial at the Tel Aviv District Court on December 18, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Police probing claim that PM’s chief of staff tried to cover up Bild leak — reports

By ToI Staff and Stav Levaton

Reported development regarding Tzachi Braverman comes after new claims made by key suspect Eli Feldstein in TV interview; 2nd aide to PM said to have kept contact with Feldstein

A woman and child relax next to a mural of Somaliland's flag, in Hargeisa, Somaliland, a semi-autonomous breakaway region of Somalia, on February 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Inside story'As far as I know, Jewish life has ended in Mogadishu'

Somaliland’s little-known Jewish past spans Yemenite traders and contested legends

Though no Jews live there today, the African territory has a history of Jewish merchants, and a tribal clan with a crypto-Jew origin story from centuries before Israel’s recent recognition

Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid on the Egyptian side of the Rafah Border Crossing wait to cross into the Gaza Strip, early on October 15, 2025. (AFP)

Israel expected to soon reopen Rafah Crossing for exit and entry of Gazans — US official

By Jacob Magid, Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Move expected to go ahead after PM returns from US; as 2025 comes to an end, IDF chief says Israel is determined to disarm Hamas, with 2026 a ‘decisive year’ for nation’s security

A remote-controlled, explosive-laden IDF M113 APC is seen after being detonated in southern Gaza's Rafah, April 21, 2025. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

How Israel deployed exploding armored personnel carriers during Gaza City offensive

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Palestinian patients wait to be seen at a Doctors Without Borders or Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic, in the al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City on December 31, 2025 (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

UN rights chief slams ‘outrageous’ Israeli suspension of aid groups in Gaza

By AFP, Reuters, Rossella Tercatin and Jeremy Sharon

Illustrative: Anti-Israel demonstrators protest Israel's existence in New York City, October 8, 2023, following the October 7 Hamas atrocities and before Israel launched a military operation in the Gaza Strip. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Anti-Zionism is a 'disease unto itself'

Anti-Zionism is a new chapter of Jew-hatred that must be confronted head-on, say activist academics

A growing number of alarmed scholars and professional groups call for a paradigm shift, arguing the existing tools for identifying this form of antisemitism don’t meet the moment

Supreme Court President Isaac Amit arrives for a court hearing on petitions against the appointment of retired judge Yosef Ben-Hamo to lead the probe into the Sde Teiman abuse leak, at the High Court of Justice in Jerusalem, November 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court orders state to justify law that allows firing teachers who support terror

Critics charge law empowers ‘political entities’ and deprives teachers of due process; Smotrich says judges ‘trampling Israel’s democracy and the security of its citizens’

Supreme Court President Isaac Amit presides over a hearing on petitions against the appointment of David Zini as head of the Shin Bet, November 18, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ombudsman upholds ethics complaint against top judge, doesn’t recommend disciplinary action

By Jeremy Sharon

Protesters at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2025, rally to demand the return of the bodies of 18 slain hostages still held in Gaza.(Paulina Patimer / Hostages Families Forum)

Hostages Forum announces closure, says ‘struggle not over’ while Ran Gvili still in Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Organization representing most families of Hamas captives to ‘end activities in its current form,’ with select group to continue accompanying relatives of last slain hostage

Palestinian journalists carry posters and mock coffins with pictures of their colleagues who were killed during the war in Gaza and read "stop the media genocide, journalism is not a crime," during a symbolic funeral to commemorate the second anniversary of the war in Gaza, in front of the United Nations office, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, October 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

128 journalists killed worldwide in 2025, says press group, many of them in Gaza

By AFP

From left to right: Central Command head Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth, Defense Minister Israel Katz, and Deputy Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Tamir Yadai during a visit to the West Bank, December 31, 2025. (Shlomi Amsalem/Defense Ministry)

Katz urges IDF to ready for potential ‘Oct.7-style’ mass attack on West Bank settlements

By Stav Levaton

Defense minister calls to reestablish northern West Bank military bases evacuated as part of US-backed deal, as top commander in territory tells army to prepare for ‘surprise war’

Illustrative: IDF troops during a military operation in the West Bank, December 31, 2025. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

IDF kills stone-throwing assailant in northern West Bank

By Stav Levaton and Noam Lehmann

The archaeological site of Sebastia in the West Bank, in a handout photo issued on November 20, 2025. (COGAT)

New West Bank antiquity bill seeks to extend Israeli authority over Areas A and B

By Rossella Tercatin

Mariia Seniuk of Israel performs during the women's short program at the figure skating world championships, March 26, 2025, in Boston. (AP/Charles Krupa)

Fate of Israel’s tiny Winter Olympics delegation on thin ice over bureaucratic hurdles

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands next to US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump at the president's New Year's Eve party at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, on January 1, 2026. (Screenshot: Instagram, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Netanyahu rings in 2026 with Trump at Mar-a-Lago New Year’s Eve party

By Jacob Magid and AFP

Prime minister and his wife spotted among revellers at US president’s glitzy event that included top members of his administration and Emirati billionaire Hussain Sajwani

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Evangelical community leaders in Florida on December 31, 2025. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

PM tells Evangelical leaders Israel is part of effort to protect Christians worldwide

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

More Headlines

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (right) and Deputy Commissioner Nachshon Nagler (left), commander of the Border Police's National Guard force, tour the Bedouin town of Tarabin al-Sana during a police raid on December 31, 2025. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)

Ben Gvir vows to ‘thrash’ criminals in Tarabin al-Sana, urges Shin Bet to join raid

By Charlie Summers

Residents of the Nur Shams Palestinian refugee camp watch their homes being demolished on New Year's eve by an Israeli military excavator in the Nur Shams camp, east of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, amid an ongoing offensives in the West Bank on December 31, 2025. (Photo by Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

Israel begins demolishing 25 buildings in West Bank Palestinian refugee camp

Morris Kahn, the South Africa-born Israeli billionaire entrepreneur, speaks during a press conference at the Israel Aerospace facility in Yehud on July 10, 2018. (Flash90)

ObituaryMorris Kahn, billionaire philanthropist who led Israeli moonshot, dies at 95

Prominent Jewish communal leader Rabbi Julius Berman died at age 90 in December 2025. (Yeshiva University via JTA)

Julius Berman, Orthodox rabbi who led prominent Jewish institutions, dies at 90

By Grace Gilson

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir storms out of a meeting of the Knesset Committee for the Advancement of the Status of Women and Gender Equality on December 31, 2025. (Screenshot/X)

Ben Gvir upends meeting of Knesset women’s rights committee, says it ‘harmed police’

By Ariela Karmel

'The White Lotus' from HBO Max, the streaming service launching in Israel on January 13, 2026. (Courtesy HBO)

To the MaxHBO Max streaming to launch in Israel this month

By Jessica Steinberg

US President Donald Trump smiles before he delivers remarks at a Nevada Republican volunteer recruiting event in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 8, 2023 (MARIO TAMA / Getty Images via AFP)

Blown off courseTrump eagle-minded post tilts at windmills, crash lands in Israel

By AFP

A Southern Yemen soldier of the Southern Transitional Council (STC) stands at a checkpoint in Aden, Yemen, December 31, 2025. (AP Photo)

Saudi Arabia needs to know UAE ‘serious’ about Yemen pullback – source

By AFP

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