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What Matters Most On Monday, January 5, 2026

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Iranians drive past an anti-US and anti-Israel billboard displaying a message that reads 'watch out for your soldiers,' in Tehran on January 4, 2026 (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

At least 20 protesters killed

Iran accuses Israel of seeking to ‘undermine national unity,’ after Netanyahu backs protests

Foreign ministry spokesman charges Israeli, US leaders with ‘incitement to violence’ as protests show no sign of slowing; Iranian judiciary head warns no leniency for ‘rioters’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on January 4, 2026. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

Netanyahu: Now could be moment Iranians ‘take their fate into their own hands’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A video appears to show anti-regime protesters marching in Isfahan, Iran, January 1, 2026. (X screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Islamic Republic in ‘survival mode’ amid protests, Iranian officials said to believe

By Agencies and ToI Staff

FILE: In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev attends a meeting with Russia's president in Dushanbe on October 9, 2025. (Grigory SYSOYEV / POOL / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 5: Azerbaijan says it won’t join Gaza stabilization force, in fresh blow to US plan

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Bennett unveils flagship law to benefit those who serve in IDF, says all his political allies must back it * IDF hits terror targets in Lebanon, says it carried out Gaza strikes on potential threats

9:38 pm

Azerbaijan says it won't send troops to International Stabilization Force in Gaza
8:34 pm

Herzog decries 'national scourge' of violent crime in Arab community, as 3 killed within hours
8:18 pm

Delcy Rodriguez formally sworn in as Venezuela's interim president

Illustrative: View of Mount Hermon in Syria, as seen from the northern Golan Heights near the Syrian border, on December 13, 2025. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Latest round of Israel-Syria negotiations kicks off in Paris

By Lazar Berman and Agencies

Netanyahu reportedly agrees to Trump request to renew stalled talks with Damascus, while insisting potential deal must not violate Israeli red lines

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 says two Hezbollah operatives killed in Sunday drone strike in southern Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian

A Palestinian woman arrives with a child at the Doctors Without Borders or Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic, in the al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City on New Year's Eve, December 31, 2025. (Omar AL-Qattaa/AFP)

International aid groups grapple with impact of Israel’s ban on their work in Gaza

By AP and ToI Staff

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Shas chairman Aryeh Deri (center-right) chairs a faction meeting in Knesset, December 8, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Shas vows to oppose 2026 budget unless coalition passes Haredi draft exemption bill

Deputy AG assails government for ignoring High Court order on sanctions for draft dodgers; Goldknopf compares penalties for yeshiva students to ‘yellow star’

Rabbi Dov Lando in Bnei Brak, August 21, 2025. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)

Senior ultra-Orthodox rabbi: Those enforcing Haredi draft are fighting against God

Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez speaks to the press at the Foreign Office in Caracas, Venezuela, August 11, 2025. (AP/Ariana Cubillos)

Trump: New Venezuelan leader to pay ‘big price’ if she doesn’t ‘do what’s right’

By Sebastian Smith, Andrea Tosta and Patrick Fort

Interim President Rodriguez vows to defend natural resources, backs Maduro; Rubio says US not seeking regime change in Caracas, will enforce oil blockade for ‘tremendous leverage’

This screengrab taken from the X account of Rapid Response 47, an official White House account, shows Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (C) escorted by DEA agents inside the headquarters of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in Manhattan, New York, January 3, 2026. (X account of Rapid Response 47 / AFP)

How cocaine and corruption led to the indictment of Maduro

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and Larry Neumeister

Venezuelan Vice President and Oil Minister Delcy Rodriguez gives a press conference at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, March 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

ProfileWho is Delcy Rodriguez, the acting president of Venezuela after Maduro’s ouster?

Pro-government armed civilians monitor shoppers lining up outside a supermarket in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, January 4, 2026. (AP/Ariana Cubillos)

'There is fear the entire community might face repercussions'

After Maduro ouster, Venezuela’s embattled Jews watch cautiously from sidelines

Decades of repression from pro-Iran, anti-Zionist regime leave community wary of celebrating US raid, with deposed leader’s deputy now in charge, but exiles hope for regime change

The push for monarchism denies Iran’s multi-ethnic future

A truly democratic Iran cannot be built on the forced assimilation of Kurds, Baluchs, Arabs, and Turks; it must stand on a voluntary federation of equals

How to save Zionism from itself? Partner with Mansour Abbas

The opposition’s refusal to work with the Arab Ra’am party will push Israel to cross its final red lines and become a religious, fundamentalist autocracy

Let me tell you about Marjorie Taylor Greene’s district

Grievance politics, antisemitic conspiracy, and Lost Cause mythology thrive in a region marked by low educational attainment and chronic economic stress

Tammy G. Pectold

Is AI training us to stop thinking?

It can curate what comes out of my mind. Sound like me, but better. It takes my voice away to polish my words. The problem is, I love it

An image distributed by the Prime Minister's Office and apparently manipulated by Sara Netanyahu, showing her, center, and Benjamin Netanyahu at the Shul of Bal Harbour, Florida, on December 31, 2025. (Amos Ben-Gershom / GPO / Sara Netanyahu)

Sara Netanyahu touches up official photos of herself, distorting archival record

By Ariela Karmel

After photographers object to editing, PM’s wife is now credited by his office on photos, in apparent acknowledgment that images of historical importance are being manipulated

An image distributed by the Prime Minister's Office and apparently manipulated by Sara Netanyahu, showing her, center, and Benjamin Netanyahu at the Shul of Bal Harbour, Florida, on December 31, 2025. (Amos Ben-Gershom / GPO / Sara Netanyahu)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 5: Day 822 – Media decry digitally altered official photos of PM’s wife

By Jessica Steinberg, Ariela Karmel and Rossella Tercatin

Dairy farmers and their supporters protest against the milk reform led by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich at the HaGoma Junction near the city of Kiryat Shmona, northern Israel, January 6, 2026. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Hundreds of farmers protest ‘destructive’ dairy reform plan at junctions nationwide

By Sharon Wrobel and ToI Staff

Demonstrators chant, ‘Zionism and security can’t be imported,’ as agriculture minister says he’ll thwart Smotrich proposal to deregulate industry that’s likely to cost local farms

Ra'am party leader MK Mansour Abbas speaks before a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on December 29, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Abbas says Ra’am party will be open to Jewish candidates, in major shift

By Ariela Karmel

The move appears to be part of a larger process to separate the party from the Islamic Movement and boost legitimacy with Zionist parties ahead of October elections

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (right) in the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, March 19, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir’s dismissal ‘will not happen,’ vows Netanyahu, bucking AG’s pressure

In tense cabinet meeting, deputy AG trades barbs with far-right minister, warns he is eroding police independence by interfering in investigations

Screenshot of former hostages Gali (L) and Ziv Berman in an interview with Channel 12, aired January 3, 2026. (Screenshot/Channel 12)

‘Enough with the misery’: Hostage twins Gali and Ziv Berman want to move on

By Ethan Rubinson

In first major interview since their release, brothers describe strange beachside meal set up by Hamas’s Gaza leader; now reunited, they still won’t return to Kfar Aza

Charlotte Niddam in a social media video posted on September 9, 2025. (Screenshot/TikTok/@charlotteniddam; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli teen Charlotte Niddam confirmed dead in New Year’s fire at Swiss ski resort

Israel’s ZAKA volunteers said to help identify body after over 40 killed in Alps disaster; Niddam, who was also a UK and French citizen, went to Jewish school in London

Eva Schloss, the step-sister of Anne Frank and honorary president of the Anne Frank Trust UK, takes part in a candle lighting ceremony during a reception to mark Holocaust Memorial Day and the 75th publication of Anne Frank's diary for the Anne Frank Trust in London, on January 20, 2022. (Chris Jackson / POOL / AFP)

Obituary

Eva Schloss, Anne Frank’s stepsister and Holocaust survivor, dies at 96

By AFP

Schloss knew the diarist when they lived opposite each other in Amsterdam, co-founded Anne Frank Trust UK for Holocaust education; her mother married Otto Frank after war

Josef Veselsky speaks to a Slovakian media outlet in an interview aired in September 2018. (Screenshot: YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

ObituaryJosef Veselsky, Holocaust survivor, table tennis champ and Ireland’s oldest man, dies at 107

Judge Benny Sagi, late president of the Be'ersheva District Court, who was killed in a traffic accident on January 4, 2026. (Courtesy of the Judicial Authority)

Beersheba District Court President Benny Sagi killed in ‘shocking’ crash on Route 6

By Jeremy Sharon

President Herzog, Supreme Court chief, justice minister lament untimely death of judge who was ‘beloved by all,’ ‘extraordinary talented,’ and ‘a wonderful family man’

Illustrative: German federal police guards at the border control station Kiefersfelden, southern Germany, May 15, 2025. (Michaela Stache / AFP)

German state antisemitism czar’s property torched, Hamas symbol painted nearby

Police probe arson at home of Andreas Büttner, who vows ‘not to be intimidated’; Brandenburg state officials say they ‘stand by’ him

Lights are out at the S-Bahn train station at Mexikoplatz square in the district of Zehlendorf in southwest Berlin on early January 4, 2026, after power cables in the area were seriously damaged causing a power outage which left tens of thousands of households in the German capital without electricity. (Ralf Hirschberger/AFP)

Berlin power grid attack caused by ‘extremist leftists,’ officials say

Israeli midfielder Manor Solomon of Leeds United has a shot at goal during the Championship match between Plymouth Argyle and Leeds United on May 3, 2025, Home Park, Plymouth, Devon. (IMAGO/PPAUK via Reuters Connect)

Left-wing politician: 'You are not welcome in Florence'

Israeli soccer star’s transfer to Italian top league sparks outcry

By Rossella Tercatin

Winger Manor Solomon joins ACF Fiorentina in an arrival that makes news more for politics than for sports

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French court convicts 10 of cyberbullying over claims about Brigitte Macron’s gender

By Sylvie Corbet

Police and paramedics arrive at the scene of a stabbing in Pardes Hanna on December 5, 2025. (Magen David Adom)

Woman stabbed to death in Pardes Hanna; police arrest husband as suspect

By Charlie Summers

A man prays outside the Chabad House in Kathmandu, Nepal, December 18, 2016. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

Chabad evicted from center in Kathmandu amid dispute with landlord

Chochmat Nashim's Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll, second from left, with Women of Iron honorees in December 2025 (Nili Auerbach/PR)

In the frameCommunity leaders honored in inaugural Women of Iron awards

By Jessica Steinberg

A Palestinian man suspected of spiriting a young girl over the West Bank security barrier (left) seen after being arrested by Israeli police in footage released on January 4, 2026. (Israel Police)

West Bank Palestinian arrested for lowering girl over barrier into Israel by rope

By Charlie Summers

US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters while in flight on Air Force One, on January 4, 2026, as they were returning to Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Trump: US believes Ukraine did not strike Putin residence, despite Russian claims

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and AAMER MADHANI

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