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What Matters Most On Saturday, January 3, 2026

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Fire at Fuerte Tiuna, Venezuela's largest military complex, is seen from a distance after a series of explosions in Caracas, Venezuela, on January 3, 2026. (AFP)

Trump says US captured Venezuela’s Maduro after ‘large-scale strike’ on capital

By Agencies and ToI Staff

In swift early morning attack, explosions ring out in Caracas as US helicopters, special forces operate there; Venezuelan VP demands ‘proof of life’ of Maduro, first lady

This image posted on US President Donald Trump's Truth Social account shows what he says is Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro onboard the USS Iwo Jima after the US military captured him on January 3, 2026. (Handout/US President Donald Trump's Truth Social account/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 3: UN Security Council to convene Monday to discuss US operation in Venezuela

Netanyahu hails Trump’s ‘bold leadership’ in statement that doesn’t mention Venezuela, as minister from his Likud party says Maduro’s removal ‘sends clear message to Khamenei’

9:25 pm

Prominent right-wing agitator, 5 others detained for brawling with protesters in Tel Aviv
8:37 pm

At Colombia's request, UN Security Council to convene Monday to discuss US operation in Venezuela
7:53 pm

Father of Hadar Goldin says return of final hostage Ran Gvili is all of 'Israel's issue'

Leading Jewish groups issue warning as Mamdani cuts antisemitism protections on first day

Unusually broad alliance of organizations criticizes NY mayor for revoking IHRA antisemitism definition, anti-BDS measure; US Holocaust Museum: Revocation ‘should alarm everyone’

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani arrives at City Hall in New York, January 2, 2026. (AP/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

Zohran Mamdani stands with his mother Mira Nair and father Mahmood Mamdani as they celebrate during a primary election night gathering on June 24, 2025, in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/AFP)

AnalysisHow the politics of Mamdani’s parents, both longtime BDS supporters, shaped NYC’s new mayor

By Grace Gilson

Catherine Almonte Da Costa, left, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, center, and Jahmila Edwards, right, on December 17, 2025. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Mamdani aide ousted over antisemitic tweets scratched out of New York magazine cover

Illustrative: This screen grab taken on January 2, 2026, from UGC images posted on social media on December 31, 2025, shows protestors attacking a government building in Fasa, in southern Iran, on December 31, amid spontaneous nationwide protests driven by dissatisfaction at the country's economic stagnation. (UGC/AFP)

At least 10 said killed in Iran unrest; official threatens to respond ‘without leniency’

Tehran urges UN to condemn Trump after he warns US could intervene if protesters killed; Iranian cops say protesters have legitimate demands but stress no tolerance for ‘destructive actions’

Then-Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked at is seen at the B'Sheva newspaper's conference in Jerusalem, on October 23, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Iran-linked hackers claim they breached former minister Ayelet Shaked’s phone

Former hostage Romi Gonen speaks to Channel 12 in the second episode of a two-part interview, broadcast on January 1, 2026. (Screen capture: Channel 12)

Romi Gonen: Hamas chief offered me early release in exchange for silence on sexual assault

Former Gaza brigade head Izz al-Din al-Haddad showed up at hostage’s release in January 2025, told her he kept up his end of the deal and she should do the same, she says

Charred objects are scattered on the ground, in Moshav Netiv Ha'asara in southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip on November 17, 2023, in the aftermath of Hamas's October 7 terror onslaught. (RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP)

BBC settles with Oct. 7 survivors after filming destroyed home ‘without permission’

By AFP

People walk past trucks loaded with aid for Gaza waiting on the Egyptian side of the Strip's Rafah crossing on August 18, 2025. (Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

IDF said planning to operate inspection site at Rafah Border Crossing when it reopens

By ToI Staff and AP

The Great Isaiah Scroll, the oldest near-complete book of the Hebrew Bible, dating back to approximately 2,200 years ago. (Giorgio Skory/Qumran Caves Publication Project)

'The manuscript was not static, but full of life'

The oldest complete biblical scroll ever found was originally split in 2, scholar finds

By Rossella Tercatin

Study comes as ‘Great Isaiah,’ a 24-foot-long text parchment found with the Dead Sea Scrolls, set to be displayed by the Israel Museum in full for the first time since 1968

Óscar Reyes-Matute

Here in Venezuela, we are all in shock

With local news silent, citizens are sharing videos of explosions in Caracas and learning from sources abroad that their president was taken away by plane

Catherine Perez-Shakdam

The end of obedience in Iran

Iranians have taken to the streets and exposed the truth: Their rulers are staying in power only thanks to fear and inertia

Happy New Year. Now what?

With elections coming up, 2026 gives Israelis an opportunity to ask themselves where they want the country to be a year from now

Demonstrators hold a balloon reading 'Stop the weapons trade with Israel' during an anti-Israel rally in solidarity with Palestinian and Lebanese people ahead of the one-year anniversary of the war between Israel and Hamas, in central Madrid on October 5, 2024 (Thomas COEX / AFP)

Inside Story'This is sending a strong message that others are seeing'

With new trade restrictions, Spain looks to trigger EU cascade against Israel

Ban on products and services from the West Bank, Golan and East Jerusalem, enforceable since December 30, may be the largest state-level embargo since the Arab League boycott

Hind Rajab Foundation files criminal complaint against IDF soldier in Czech Republic

Timothée Chalamet attends the premiere of 'Marty Supreme' at the Regal Times Square on December 16, 2025 in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

ToI podcast

The Reel Schmooze: ‘Marty Supreme’ and the art of chutzpa

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman

Movie maven Jordan Hoffman and host Amanda Borschel-Dan on the new supremely Jewish sports/comedy/drama starring Timothée Chalamet and a whole cast of NY characters

Smoke billows after Israeli planes targeted Hezbollah in the Rihan Heights in the southern Lebanese district of Jezzine, on January 2, 2026. (Rabih Daher/AFP)

IDF strikes Hezbollah Radwan Force training site, weapons depots in southern Lebanon

By Stav Levaton and Agencies

Military says area was used for planning attacks against Israel, including live-fire drills; in false alarm, missile interceptor fired and sirens sound near Bar’am

Sid Caesar, flanked by Imogene Coca and Carl Reiner, in a skit from the TV variety series, 'Your Show of Shows,' 1952. (NBC Television via JTA)

Interview'American television comedy really started with him'

How Sid Caesar and a roomful of forgotten Jewish writers transformed television forever

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

In his new book, ‘When Caesar Was King,’ author David Margolick chronicles the rise, and fall into obscurity, of the sketch comedian who set the stage for the TV sitcom

The BBC says it has verified that this image circulating on social media is not manipulated by AI and is a photograph from New Year's Eve celebrations welcoming 2026 in the Swiss Alpine ski resort of Crans-Montana, where at least 40 people were killed and 119 injured in a fire that local authorities say was likely caused by sparkler candles being held too close to the ceiling. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli citizen reported missing in Swiss inferno; officials say blaze caused by sparklers

By Agencies and ToI Staff

15-year-old former student at UK Jewish school named among the missing; 1st victim identified after New Year’s blaze that left at least 40 dead, at least 80 critically wounded

People bring flowers near the sealed off Le Constellation bar, where a devastating fire left dead and injured during the New Year's celebrations in Crans-Montana, Swiss Alps, Switzerland, Jan. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/ Antonio Calanni)

Families face agonizing wait as Swiss authorities work to identify victims of bar fire

By AFP

Then-State Rep. Randy Fine, at podium, and colleagues from the Florida Legislature, endorse a proclamation backing Israel in the second week of its war with Hamas, October 18, 2023. (Florida Senate/Wikmedia via JTA)

Calls to 'kick mainstream Muslims the hell out of America'

Randy Fine’s anti-Muslim comments alarm many US Jews as pro-Israel right stays the course

By Andrew Lapin

The Republican congressman from Florida’s statements have drawn accusations of hate speech from Jewish critics even as AIPAC, the RJC and some Jewish conservatives continue to back him

An Israel Police delegation tours a crocodile farm in Hamat Gader on January 1, 2026. (Israel Police)

Prison officers tour crocodile farm as Ben Gvir said pushing for ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

Delegation headed by Prison Service’s deputy chief wanted to learn about animals’ upkeep; ‘Looks like they’re doing serious work,’ Hamat Gader CEO says

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (right) with Police Chief Commissioner Daniel Levy mark Memorial Day at Mount Herzl military cemetery on April 30, 2025. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Police chief said withholding Sde Teiman leak probe results that contradict Ben Gvir

FBI Special Agent James C. Barnacle, Jr. (center) US Attorney for Western District of North Carolina Russ Ferguson (right) and Mint Hill Police Department Chief Joseph Hatley give a press conference, January 2, 2026, in Charlotte, North Carolina. (AP/Erik Verduzco)

FBI says it disrupted plot for New Year’s Eve terror attack inspired by Islamic State

By AP

18-year-old arrested in undercover operation for alleged plan to target North Carolina grocery store, fast-food restaurant; official says suspect ‘was willing to sacrifice himself’

Rabbi Rafi Ellenson (left) and Rabbi Arielle Stein (right), the creators of the 'Rabbinic Fit Check' Instagram account. (JTA/Rafi Ellenson)

'We want to show parts of ourselves through our clothing'

From a modest start, an Instagram look book for Jewish clergy is starting to take off

By Grace Gilson

With stereotype-breaking ‘what they’re wearing’ posts, rabbis Arielle Stein and Rafi Ellenson showcase the rabbinate’s different stripes on lifestyle account Rabbinic Fit Check

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People sit on top of a car awaiting rescue services in the Shiloh River, January 2, 2026. (X Screenshot used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Four people and horse safe after getting caught in floods, rescuers say

This handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on January 2, 2026 shows Chief of the Military Intelligence of Ukraine Kyrylo Budanov (R) meeting with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv (Handout / UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE / AFP)

Zelensky names Ukraine’s head of military intelligence as his new chief of staff

By AP

This image grab from an AFPTV footage shows smoke after airstrikes as a Saudi-led coalition hit back against a sweeping advance by the UAE-backed Southern Transition Council on January 2, 2026. (AFPTV / AFP)

Saudi jets strike UAE-backed separatists in Yemen; Abu Dhabi says its forces have withdrawn

By AFP

Tom Cruise poses for the media during the 'Top Gun Maverick' UK premiere at a central London cinema, on May 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Crashed and burnedUS court says ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ didn’t infringe Israeli writer’s copyright

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