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• Israel's record homicide rate for 2025 proves: Ben-Gvir should be fired for incompetence

  Haaretz - 16:35 Dec 21, 2025
  

  The Attorney General will likely recommend National Security Minister Ben-Gvir's dismissal for his interference in police matters, but this year's record number of murders shows the need for his definitive ouster

• Israel Police call memorial protest for six Gaza hostages murdered in Rafah 'political demonstration against government'

  Haaretz - 16:34 Dec 21, 2025
  

  The police have opened an investigation after a protester lit Hannukah candles near the home of the Israeli educaiton minister and read out the names of the six hostages who were killed in a tunnel in Gaza last year

  Tags: Gaza

• Reports: Israeli settlers clash with Palestinians in West Bank, several wounded by IDF fire

  Haaretz - 16:14 Dec 21, 2025
  

  According to Palestinian outlets, IDF soldiers then arrested several Palestinian residents of the Kafr Qaddum area. A 22-year-old Israeli citizen was wounded by rocks thrown at the site, and he was later evacuated to a hospital

  Tags: Israeli

• Australia's Albanese booed at vigil marking one week since Bondi Hanukkah massacre

  Haaretz - 15:44 Dec 21, 2025
  

  As many as 15,000 people attended the memorial ceremony at Bondi Beach in honor of the 15 people killed at the Chabad Hanukkah event in Sydney. The father of the youngest victim, 10-year-old Matilda, lit the final candle of the menorah

• Hanukkah hate crimes: Police in Michigan, London probing incidents of antisemitic vandalism

  Haaretz - 15:05 Dec 21, 2025
  

  The Chabad Jewish center in Michigan was vandalized with a swastika and its window was shattered by rocks ■ In London, police are investigating reports of damage to two menorahs ■ Worldwide, police are heightening security following the deadly Bondi attack that killed 15 people in Sydney

  Tags: London Michigan

• Mother and son found dead in central Israel in suspected murder-suicide amid rise in femicides

  Haaretz - 14:46 Dec 21, 2025
  

  Police said the man who had jumped from his building was found in critical condition and later pronounced dead. The body of his mother was found upstairs – marking 48 femicides in 2025, compared to 38 at the same time last year, according to Haaretz's tally

• Israel Police open second investigation into Hanukkah candle-blowing incident

  Haaretz - 14:28 Dec 21, 2025
  

  According to the police, they decided to open the investigation, allegedly involving a minor who blew out candles at the entrance to a yard in Ramle, after a video of the act circulated online

• Why criticize Netanyahu when you can complain about the antisemitic Australians?

  Haaretz - 13:44 Dec 21, 2025
  

  The Israeli media's response to the terror in Australia last week set a new low

• Israel legalizes 19 West Bank settler outposts, reversing disengagement policy

  Haaretz - 13:00 Dec 21, 2025
  

  The move effectively legalizes the repopulation of four northern West Bank settlements that Israel evacuated in 2005 under the Oslo Accords. Far-right Minister Smotrich, who spearheaded the initiative, said Israel has authorized 69 new outposts over the past three years

  Tags: West Bank Israel

• Two war poems on pilots: From WWII to the Gaza War

  Haaretz - 11:27 Dec 21, 2025
  

  Contemporary Israeli poet Eli Eliahu's 'PILOTS,' written in 2025, and the late renowned American poet Howard Nemerov's 'The War in the Air' look at the role of war pilots from different angles

• Muslim extremists killed Jews in Bondi, but there are deeper forces behind today's antisemitism

  Haaretz - 11:13 Dec 21, 2025
  

  Economic distress in the U.S. and Europe is fanning the flames of extremist politics that is, at best, unfriendly to Jews

  Tags: Jews

• Knesset set to push bills for politicized Oct. 7 probe and death penalty for terrorists

  Haaretz - 10:54 Dec 21, 2025
  

  Ministers are expected to greenlight the politicized October 7 probe, and chances are slim that the opposition will garner the committee majority needed to establish a state commission of inquiry ■ Meanwhile, coalition sources refused to tell Haaretz which death penalty version they will support

• Police detain three Gaza residents they say entered Israel during Oct. 7 attack; security sources dispute timeline

  Haaretz - 10:27 Dec 21, 2025
  

  Israeli security officials said three Gaza residents detained in Rahat had been in Israel before the October 7 Hamas attack, contradicting police claims. The suspects, found with ammunition and stolen military gear, were detained during a police operation targeting weapons theft

  Tags: Gaza Israel

• Trump's pick for U.S. antisemitism envoy confirmed by Senate

  Haaretz - 09:46 Dec 21, 2025
  

  The ambassador-level post, left vacant during a surge in antisemitic incidents, was filled despite Democratic objections. Jewish groups praised the nominee's outreach to global envoys and coordinators, calling his appointment timely as threats to Jewish communities worldwide continue to rise

• Australia marks Day of Reflection for victims of deadly antisemitic Bondi shooting

  Haaretz - 09:02 Dec 21, 2025
  

  A moment of silence was observed in Australia on Sunday at 6:47 P.M., marking exactly one week since the Bondi Beach terror attack that took 15 lives at a Jewish festival celebrating the first night of Hanukkah

  Tags: Australia

• Why is Christmas on December 25?

  Haaretz - 08:06 Dec 21, 2025
  

  The strange and contradictory origins of Jesus' birthday, which only emerged centuries after the event

• IDF chief warns of combat soldier shortage, says army working to enlist ultra-Orthodox men

  Haaretz - 04:27 Dec 21, 2025
  

• Forsaken twice: How the IDF failed Gur Kehati and his family

  Haaretz - 04:05 Dec 21, 2025
  

• Israel awaits Trump-Netanyahu meeting to chart next steps on Gaza cease-fire

  Haaretz - 04:00 Dec 21, 2025
  

  Israeli officials say key decisions on the second phase of the Gaza cease-fire hinge on Trump's position, including how Hamas' disarmament would be tied to an IDF withdrawal

  Tags: Gaza

• Warnings of mass death from Israeli-induced famine in Gaza may have been premature, but hunger persists

  Haaretz - 04:00 Dec 21, 2025
  

  The Israeli government has strong arguments regarding the IPC's decision to declare a Phase 5 famine in Gaza in August. This cannot erase the cruel policy of deliberate starvation led by Netanyahu that resulted in the deaths of hundreds

  Tags: Gaza

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