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What Matters Most On Monday, January 12, 2026

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Anti-Iranian regime protesters burn an image of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during a gathering outside the Iranian Embassy, central London, on January 12, 2026. (Henry Nicholls/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 12: IDF says it’s on alert for ‘surprise scenarios,’ calls Iran protests ‘an internal matter’

Mississippi shul arson suspect confesses, calls congregation ‘synagogue of Satan’ * Knesset advances bill putting police internal affairs unit under justice minister’s aegis

10:02 pm

Trump declares 25% tariff on countries 'doing business' with Iran
9:50 pm

UNIFIL says IDF tanks in south Lebanon fired shells near peacekeepers, used laser to track them
9:35 pm

Non-essential French embassy staff have left Iran -- sources

Protesters march along a street during a demonstration to support mass protests in Iran against the regime there, in Paris on January 11, 2026. (Kiran RIDLEY / AFP)

Iran's FM claims 'situation has come under total control'

Trump: US military ‘looking at very strong options’ on Iran, Tehran ‘wants to negotiate’

By Jacob Magid, ToI Staff and AP

Reza Pahlavi calls agencies behind internet shutdown ‘legitimate targets,’ as Tehran residents get threatening texts from police, IRGC; activists put death toll at 544; truck rams LA protesters

AnalysisAs Iran protests grow, Israel watches closely but prefers to remain on sidelines

By Melanie Lidman

US Sen. Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, speaks at a news conference after a policy luncheon at the US Capitol, Tuesday, January 6, 2026, in Washington, DC. (AP/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Some US senators skeptical about military options for Iran

Protesters burn images of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a rally in support of anti-regime protesters in Iran, in central London, January 11, 2026. (Carlos Jasso/AFP)

Activists say over 500 killed in crackdown on Iran protests as Trump weighs steps

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

US military reportedly says it needs more time to prepare for a strike; Netanyahu, IDF chief hold security talks after Iranian leaders blame Israel for chaos

People take part in a demonstration to support mass rallies denouncing the Islamic republic in Iran in Paris on January 11, 2026. (Kiran RIDLEY / AFP)

Masses gather in London, Paris, Istanbul to support Iran’s anti-regime protests

By AFP

People walk near a U-Haul truck that reportedly was driven into a crowd during a rally against the Iranian regime on January 11, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. (Jonathan Alcorn/AFP)

Truck carrying anti-shah banner drives through Iran demonstration in Los Angeles

By AP

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from the blogs

When solidarity costs too much: Europe’s silence on Iran

The uprising is a textbook liberation movement, but supporting it could serve Israeli interests – and this doesn’t fit the oppressor-oppressed binary

This photo provided by Beth Israel Congregation shows damage sustained during a fire, January 10, 2026, at Beth Israel Congregation, in Jackson, Mississippi. (Beth Israel Congregation via AP)

'We are a resilient people'

A ‘deliberate attack on Jews’: Community condemns arson attack on Mississippi synagogue

The pre-dawn blaze at the state’s largest and oldest synagogue, previously bombed by the Ku Klux Klan, has yet to be formally declared a hate crime

Fire damage to the Beth Israel Congregation, a synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi, January 10, 2026. (Beth Israel Congregation)

Mississippi’s largest synagogue severely damaged in suspected arson attack

US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with oil executives in the East Room of the White House, Jan. 9, 2026, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

‘We don’t need them. We don’t like them’: Trump says MAGA has no room for antisemites

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's chief of staff, Tzachi Braverman, is seen at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 13, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM’s chief of staff, appealing release terms, says police probe is ‘delusional, political’

Braverman suspected in leak of classified documents, is barred from Prime Minister’s Office and can’t leave country despite appointment as next ambassador to the UK

PM’s chief of staff barred from leaving the country following police interrogation

Police declare Netanyahu’s ex-campaign adviser Einhorn a ‘fugitive’ evading arrest

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 12: Day 829 – Qatargate suspect Einhorn labeled ‘fugitive criminal’

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jeremy Sharon

Tents housing displaced Palestinians are seen in Gaza City, January 11, 2026. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

Hamas tells its Gaza agencies to prepare to cede power as part of truce plan

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

Terror group spokesman says it will ‘hand over all authorities’ in Gaza to an ‘independent Palestinian technocratic committee,’ whose makeup has not yet been announced

Destroyed homes seen on January 6, 2026, in the Hamad City area, north of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. (Abed Rahim Khatib/FLASH90)

Head of Gaza militia claims killing of senior Hamas cop

By Noam Lehmann and Reuters

Explainer

Judicial overhaul redux: New laws aim to weaken legal checks on government action

Netanyahu’s coalition is advancing bills to denude the AG of power, politicize ministerial legal advisers, and give the justice minister power over internal police investigations

Justice Minister Yariv Levin speaks from the podium of the Knesset plenum, January 7, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Can we separate the art from the antisemitism?

Losing an intellectual home means losing a source of comfort – it’s a painful realization that the culture that shaped you no longer wants you

Yasmin Sacks Fridman

What the last of the Holocaust survivors deserve from us

As Knesset committee chair, I’m pushing for funds no longer needed for the deceased to be used to provide dignity, health, and security for those still left

Illustrative: Female soldiers of the Bardelas Battalion during training, July 13, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

'Despite everything, I always wanted to serve in the army'

Saved from the street, an ex-lone soldier works to lend a hand to IDF vets in her shoes

By Stav Levaton

Drawing on her own experience, Moriya Azulay established Lone Front to fill gaps faced by female combat troops lacking a family support system during and after their army service

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu waves to his supporters at his party's headquarters in Jerusalem, November 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Op-ed

Shalom Yerushalmi

As dueling political camps harden, electoral deadlock heaves back into view

Polls show neither the pro-Netanyahu bloc nor parties allied against him have a clear path to forming the next government, with little chance of wooing support from the other side

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's son Yair arrives for a court hearing in Tel Aviv, on November 29, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Yair Netanyahu said to become a member of the powerful Likud Central Committee

By Ariela Karmel

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (right) wears a kippah as he arrives to attend a memorial for the victims of a terror attack on a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 21, 2025. (DAVID GRAY / AFP)

Australian parliament to meet early to pass hate speech laws after Bondi terror attack

By AFP

Legislative response to Hanukkah shooting would create new offenses for ‘hate preachers,’ expand ban on prohibited symbols, and set framework for new list of banned hate groups

Palestinian-Australian Author Randa Abdel-Fattah speaking on an Australian Broadcasting Corporation panel about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on May 27, 2021. (Screenshot)

Australian literary fest faces boycott after dropping Palestinian activist

By Grace Gilson

Protesters decry the police's handling of crime in the Arab sector during a demonstration outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 11, 2026. (Times of Israel)

‘Arab blood isn’t cheap’: Hundreds rally in capital over police failure on violent crime

Protesters call for sacking Ben Gvir amid surge in homicides, call to ‘free Tarabin al-Sana’; police withdraw from southern Bedouin town after 12-day operation

Palestinian residents of Ras Ein al-Auja village in the West Bank pack up their belongings and prepare to leave their homes after deciding to flee mounting settler violence, January 11, 2026. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)

Fleeing settler violence, Palestinians leave one of few remaining Jordan Valley hamlets

By Julia Frankel

Burnt cars are left behind at the site of the massacre three days earlier by Palestinian terrorists on the Supernova desert music festival near Kibbutz Re'im in the Negev desert in southern Israel, on October 10, 2023. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Three sentenced for Oct. 8 looting of belongings of Nova festival victims

Beersheba residents entered site day after massacre under false pretenses, broke into abandoned vehicles and stole a laptop, credit cards and ID cards

Haredi protesters clash with attendees at a conference for the ultra-Orthodox Hasmonean Brigade in Bnei Brak on January 11, 2026. (Screenshot/social media, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Defense chiefs condemn violent disruption of Bnei Brak conference for Haredi brigade

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

IDF chief says violence against soldiers ‘crosses red line,’ while defense minister says ‘extremist fringe’ of rioters have much to learn from Hasmonean Brigade recruits

The High Court of Justice holds a hearing in Jerusalem on a petition against the Knesset Finance Committee’s decision to transfer funds to ultra-Orthodox schools that don't teach core subjects, January 8, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

High Court orders state to disclose ultra-Orthodox school curriculum and oversight

By Ariela Karmel

Timothée Chalamet poses with the award for best performance by a male actor in a motion picture – musical or comedy for 'Marty Supreme' during the 83rd Golden Globes on January 11, 2026, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California. (AP/Chris Pizzello)

Timothee Chalamet, Seth Rogen big Jewish winners at Golden Globes

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Gaza war film ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ loses in foreign category as evening largely steers clear of politics, though some celebrities don anti-ICE pins on the red carpet

Analysis

Jackie Hajdenberg

US labor experts weigh in on Breads Bakery workers’ demand to cut ties with Israel

Harry C. Katz, a labor law scholar, says ‘workers don’t have a right to tell management what to do with its own funds, or personal beliefs and political views regarding Israel’

A line of patrons extends out the door of Breads Bakery in New York City on January 9, 2026. (Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA)

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and visiting German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt sign a joint declaration in Jerusalem, January 11, 2026. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Israel, Germany agree to boost counterterrorism cooperation amid threat from Iran

By AFP

Flames rise from an Israeli airstrike that hit a building in the village of Kfar Hatta, south Lebanon, January 11, 2026. (AP/Mohammad Zaatari)

Israel hits Hezbollah sites in two waves of major strikes across southern Lebanon

By Stav Levaton and Agencies

Illustrative: A woman wearing a headscarf walks past a banner reading 'Oxford Action for Palestine' at Oxford University, in Oxford, eastern England, on May 7, 2024. (Adrian DENNIS / AFP)

UAE said to slash scholarships to study in UK, citing fear of Muslim Brotherhood

In this September 7, 2017, file photo, smoke rises from a burned house in Gawdu Zara village, northern Rakhine state, where the vast majority of Myanmar's 1.1 million Rohingya lived. (AP Photo, File)

UN court to begin hearings on whether Myanmar committed genocide against Rohingya

By AP and ToI Staff

A poster on a bus stop in Tel Aviv explains that some calves are fed with feces. (Courtesy of Animals Now)

Banned elsewhere in the West, Israel permitting farmers to use feces as cattle feed

Then-British ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson speaks as US President Donald Trump makes a trade announcement in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 8, 2025. (Jim WATSON / AFP)

UK’s former US envoy apologizes to Epstein’s victims, but not for his own ties

By Catarina Demony

This picture shows a view of the Abu Dhabi skyline on May 14, 2025. (FADEL SENNA / AFP)

Israeli reportedly held for nine days in Dubai due to mistaken identity

EU Commissioner for Defense and Space Andrius Kubilius looks on during a press conference about the military mobility package at EU headquarters in Brussels on November 19, 2025. (Nicolas TUCAT / AFP)

EU should consider forming combined military force, bloc’s defense chief says

By AFP

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