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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 424

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Eulogizing Omer Neutra, Biden pledges further work for deal

Then-former US president Donald Trump poses for photos with family members of Hamas hostage Edan Alexander, after visiting the gravesite of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson in New York, October 7, 2024. (AP Photo/ Yuki Iwamura)

Trump warns there will be ‘all hell to pay’ if hostages aren’t released by Jan. 20

After making threat as candidate at the RNC, president-elect doubles down, two days after Hamas releases video of American-Israeli captive begging him to secure a deal

Omer Neutra, an American-Israeli citizen and 'lone soldier' who was taken hostage by Hamas on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)

IDF says US-Israeli hostage Cpt. Omer Neutra killed on Oct. 7 and his body held in Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

Smoke rises from an IDF operation in Jabalia in northern Gaza as seen from the Israeli side of the border, December 2, 2024. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)Dec. 2: IDF issues evacuation orders after Gaza rocket fire; navy downs drone over Red Sea

By Elana Kirsh and ToI Staff

Adi Alexander, father of Hamas hostage Edan Alexander, speaks at a hostage deal rally in New York, December 1, 2024. (Hostages Families Forum)

Father of hostage Edan Alexander calls on Biden, Trump and Netanyahu to ‘act now’

People attend a rally in Tel Aviv calling for the release of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, November 30, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

Netanyahu convenes discussion on hostage negotiations with new ceasefire push

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Nine said killed as IDF hits Hezbollah operatives, launchers

IDF troops patrol along the Israeli-Lebanon border in northern Israel, December 2, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

IDF launches wave of strikes in Lebanon after Hezbollah mortar attack

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Terror group says first fire since truce is an ‘initial warning’ against Israel over ‘continued violation of Lebanese airspace’; US says ceasefire holding despite incidents

IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari speaks to Sky News Arabia, on December 2, 2024 (Screencapture)

As Iran sends forces to Syria, IDF warns it not to smuggle arms to Hezbollah

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Illustrative. A Fars Air Qeshm cargo plane. (Wikimedia Commons)

Israeli jets block Iranian plane suspected of ferrying arms to Hezbollah over Syria

By Emanuel Fabian

In this picture taken from Marjayoun, thick smoke rises from explosions in the border town of Khiam in southern Lebanon, on December 1, 2024. (Photo by AFP)

IDF strikes Hezbollah amid truce violations; France said accusing Israel of transgressions

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Justice Minister Yariv Levin speaks during a Knesset plenum session on November 13, 2024. (Chaim Goldbergl/Flash90)

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Bill to give justice minister the power to set bar association fees clears first reading

Legislation has been linked by critics to government’s judicial overhaul effort * 3 killed in central Israel highway collision * France, Saudi Arabia urge Lebanon presidential vote

Then-former US president Donald Trump poses for photos with family members of Hamas hostage Edan Alexander, after visiting the gravesite of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson in New York, October 7, 2024. (AP Photo/ Yuki Iwamura)

Trump warns there will be ‘all hell to pay’ if hostages aren’t released by Jan. 20

After making threat as candidate at the RNC, president-elect doubles down, two days after Hamas releases video of American-Israeli captive begging him to secure a deal

IDF says US-Israeli hostage Cpt. Omer Neutra killed on Oct. 7 and his body held in Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

Live updates (closed)Dec. 2: IDF issues evacuation orders after Gaza rocket fire; navy downs drone over Red Sea

By Elana Kirsh and ToI Staff

Father of hostage Edan Alexander calls on Biden, Trump and Netanyahu to ‘act now’

Netanyahu convenes discussion on hostage negotiations with new ceasefire push

By ToI Staff and Agencies

IDF troops patrol along the Israeli-Lebanon border in northern Israel, December 2, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

IDF launches wave of strikes in Lebanon after Hezbollah mortar attack

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Terror group says first fire since truce is an ‘initial warning’ against Israel over ‘continued violation of Lebanese airspace’; US says ceasefire holding despite incidents

IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari speaks to Sky News Arabia, on December 2, 2024 (Screencapture)

As Iran sends forces to Syria, IDF warns it not to smuggle arms to Hezbollah

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Illustrative. A Fars Air Qeshm cargo plane. (Wikimedia Commons)

Israeli jets block Iranian plane suspected of ferrying arms to Hezbollah over Syria

By Emanuel Fabian

In this picture taken from Marjayoun, thick smoke rises from explosions in the border town of Khiam in southern Lebanon, on December 1, 2024. (Photo by AFP)

IDF strikes Hezbollah amid truce violations; France said accusing Israel of transgressions

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Justice Minister Yariv Levin speaks during a Knesset plenum session on November 13, 2024. (Chaim Goldbergl/Flash90)

LiveUpdated 2hr ago

Bill to give justice minister the power to set bar association fees clears first reading

Legislation has been linked by critics to government’s judicial overhaul effort * 3 killed in central Israel highway collision * France, Saudi Arabia urge Lebanon presidential vote

Former Kiryat Shmona mayor Prosper Azran stands in front of his mother's house, which had previously been destroyed by a Hezbollah anti-tank guided missile in Kiryat Shmona, on December 1, 2024. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Residents returning to Israel’s decimated far north worry their neighbors won’t come home

Some members of Kibbutz Manara return to discover widespread damage; in Kiryat Shmona, a former mayor says there should never have been an evacuation at all despite the dangers

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group's chief Abu Mohammed al-Julani checks the damage following an earthquake in the village of Besnaya in Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib province at the border with Turkey, on February 7, 2023. (Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

Explainer

Gianluca Pacchiani

Who are the rebels battering Syria’s regime, and do they pose a risk to Israel?

The two groups leading the assault, HTS and the SNA, are now focused on their common foe, Bashar Assad. Where might they turn their attention in the future?

A Syrian official flag lies on the ground as opposition fighters stand on the tarmac of the Aleppo international airport in Aleppo, December 2. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)

Iraqi fighters head to Syria to battle rebels, but Hezbollah said staying out of fight

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Anti-government fighters ride military vehicles as they drive along a road in the eastern part of Aleppo province on December 1, 2024. (Aref TAMMAWI / AFP)

Syria rebels appear to credit Israeli strikes on Hezbollah with aiding shock advance

By ToI Staff and Agencies

AnalysisRebels in Syria take advantage of Israel’s successes against a weakened Iran axis

By Lazar Berman

Those we have lost

Stories of the civilians and soldiers who have fallen in the Israel-Hamas war

Those We Have Lost
Daniel Levi, 34: Peruvian-Israeli doctor killed while treating wounded

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Adrienne Neta, 66: Native Californian was legendary midwife

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Cpl. Lidor Mekayes, 19: COGAT soldier dreamed of living in America

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Orel Peso, 26: Budding DJ who was schooled in New York

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Mapal Adam, 25: Hid under a truck from Hamas terrorists for hours

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Yahav Winner, 36: Filmmaker killed protecting his wife and newborn

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Staff Sgt. Ofir Zioni, 21: Golani soldier with ‘endless generosity’

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Staff Sgt. Eitan Dov Rosenzweig, 21: Intellectual, religious artist

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Sgt. Segev Schwartz, 20: Nature lover with a wide circle of friends

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Karina Davidov, 30: Manicurist who did ‘everything from the heart’

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Adi Dagan, 68: Lifelong kibbutznik ‘charmed everyone naturally’

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Shimon Hayat, 29: 5-year-old son wears his cologne to keep him close

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Michal Roimi, 22: ‘Ray of light’ murdered while dancing at festival

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Idan Dor, 25: Born leader cared for his sibling with special needs

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Moshe Ben Porat, 58: ‘God-fearing man’ slain before grandson’s brit

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Khaled Abu Farhan, 50

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Paramedic Awad Darawshe, 23: Killed treating wounded at rave massacre

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Maj. Chen Bochris, 26: Modest warrior who had ‘incredible impact’

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Ayelet and Shlomi Molcho, 54 & 63: Animal lovers with ‘shy smiles’

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Shachar Aviani, 56: Kfar Aza security chief was ‘a man of the land’

By ToI Staff

Those we are missing

The hostages and victims whose fate is still unknown

Those we are missing
Taken captive: Edan Alexander, told mother he was safe

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: David Cunio, abducted from burning house

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Naama Levy, Hands of Peace project alumnus

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Or Levy arrived at festival minutes before onslaught

By AP
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Rom Braslavski, rave guard who saved others

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Thai worker Pongsak Tanna, father of 14-year-old girl

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Youssef Hamis Ziyadne from Rahat

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Agam Berger, seen being led to a car, still dressed in her pajamas

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Segev Kalfon, last seen running across Highway 232

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Ariel Cunio told brother ‘We are in a horror film’

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Tamir Nimrodi, walked by gunmen to base gate

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Informal educator Eitan Horn visiting from Kfar Saba

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Arbel Yehud, third generation on Kibbutz Nir Oz

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Eliya Cohen, dragged from a pile of dead bodies

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Eviatar David, IDed in a Hamas photo on Telegram

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Shiri Bibas and her redheaded babies

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Pinta Nattapong, saving up for a coffee shop

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Surasak Lamnau, Thai worker abducted with employer

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Yosef-Haim Ohana, helped injured at Supernova rave

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Tal Shoham, held captive separately from family

By ToI Staff

Tales of the Times

The quirky, improbable, infuriating and uplifting

Historic move
Jerusalem ancient citadel museum to host accessibility conference

By Jessica Steinberg
Happy ending
Former Hamas hostage Mia Schem engaged to childhood friend

By ToI Staff
Tiny treasure
Girl, 12, finds 3,500-year-old Egyptian amulet on hike in central Israel

By Gavriel Fiske
Elon, watch your back?
Meta CEO Zuckerberg dines with Trump at Mar-a-Lago

By AFP
Year of discord
October 7 reverberates at Israeli music awards

By Jessica Steinberg
Sensory arts
At Nalaga’at festival, the blind lead the public to food and fun in the dark

By ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox LGBTQ+
Israel’s Nir Bergman wins director’s prize in Tallinn

By Jessica Steinberg
Fiction meets reality
3rd season of ‘Tehran,’ featuring Hugh Laurie, returns to Apple TV, Kan

By Jessica Steinberg
Her legacy lives on
Murdered peace activist Vivian Silver remembered with new prize

By Jessica Steinberg
'Greatest gift to Israel'
Warner Bros, Aaron Sorkin to tell story of ‘father’ of IAF

By ToI Staff
'We will dance again'
Pop stars spotlight October 7 massacre at ADL concert against hate

By ToI Staff
Counting sheep
Israelis swiftly snatch up tickets for ‘The 16th Sheep’ shows

By Jessica Steinberg
Feast of words
Book offers guide to Israel’s ethnic groups through family restaurants

By Jessica Steinberg
Fist of Jewry?
Jake Paul brings a touch of Jewish heritage to boxing

By JTA and ToI Staff
Identity crisis
Boycott calls over Israeli cast as Mary in Netflix’s Jesus mom epic

By Michael Horovitz
A royal reception
Israeli action star Lior Raz meets King Charles at London premiere

By ToI Staff
Old friends
‘I was a fool’: Art Garfunkel says he made amends with Paul Simon

By ToI Staff
Welcome to LA
Gal Gadot hosts Academy members for screening of Israel’s Oscars choice

By Jessica Steinberg
Under the sea
Jerusalem’s aquarium invites visitors to spend the night

By Jessica Steinberg
Round of applause
Gallant received with cheers at Shlomo Artzi concert

By ToI Staff

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