Join our Community

Support ToI and remove all ads

Learn more

English
Français
עברית

Get The Daily Edition
Account
Sign In
- Sign in
- Join our Community

Open Search form

Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Video
Newsletters
Partners

Input search

English
Français
עברית

Latest Articles
Latest Alerts
Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Video
Newsletters
Partners
Community
- Join our community
- Sign in
- About The Times of Israel
- Advertise on The Times of Israel
- Contact us
- Download our App
  - For IOS users
  - For Android users
- Get the Daily Edition
- Follow us
- © 2026 The Times of Israel , All Rights Reserved
  
  Terms and conditions Privacy policy

Input search

The Daily Edition

What Matters Most On Friday, November 30, 2018

Facebook
Twitter

View previous edition

View next edition

Illustrative: Two women and four minors are seen at a police station after being detained in a raid on an underage wedding in the ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem, on November 29, 2018. (Israel Police)

Police prevent underage ultra-Orthodox wedding in Jerusalem; bride-to-be is 13

Authorities say girl had been reported missing by her father 2 months ago, may have been hidden by her mother; 6 detained in raid, including 4 minors

Maayan Jess Belding (left) and Ronnie Zidon (from Maayan Jess Belding's Facebook page)

BDS activist falls in love with female soldier, becomes Zionist; they’ll marry

As her relationship with Ronnie Zidon deepened, Jess Belding did what she previously believed was unthinkable and moved to Israel; she also converted to Judaism

Yakub Barhum and Michal Baranes have built a life and a successful restaurant, Majda, in a small Arab-Israeli village, but they are considering moving abroad after recent Jewish-Arab tensions in Israel. (Ben Sales)

Fuss over celebrity wedding highlights difficulties faced by Jewish-Arab couples

Illustrative image of the port of Eilat (Jorge Novominsky/Flash90)

Police suspect terrorism as Jordanian assaults 2 Israeli co-workers in Eilat

By ToI Staff and AP

Shin Bet to question suspect over hammer attack at port, which left both victims seriously injured; second Jordanian man lightly hurt trying to restrain attacker

Members of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's armed wing, marking Al-Quds Day in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Friday, June 23, 2017. (AP/Adel Hana)

Europe agrees to back UN resolution condemning Hamas terror group

By Raphael Ahren

A car in the West Bank village of Jab'a spray-painted with the words 'Bat Ayin evacuation - revenge' in an apparent hate crime, November 30, 2018 (Courtesy)

Cars, home in Palestinian village vandalized in apparent hate crime

Syrian anti-aircraft missiles rise into the sky as Israeli missiles hit air defense positions and other military bases, in Damascus, Syria, on May 10, 2018. (Government-controlled Syrian Central Military Media, via AP)

Army finds pieces of Syrian missile in Golan field after alleged Israeli strikes

By Judah Ari Gross and AFP

Fragments found of surface-to-air missile fired overnight; Syrian monitors say IAF raid targeted Iranian, Hezbollah weapons depots; Israel mum on raid, denies claim it lost a plane

Illustrative: Flames rising after an attack in an area known to have numerous Syrian army military bases, in Kisweh, south of Damascus, released by Syria's official news agency on May 9, 2018. (SANA, via AP)

Israel reportedly strikes pro-Iranian militia sites in Syria

By Judah Ari Gross

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Iran, facing off against Israel in Syria, now sending arms directly to Lebanon

Israel’s alleged airstrike in Syria overnight was a rare exception to the new Russian-imposed rules; Tehran is shifting its tactics, as well

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, center, speaks with Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri, right, after a group photo at a conference 'Supporting the future of Syria and the region' at the Europa building in Brussels on Wednesday, April 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Israeli soldiers patrols near the area where Hezbollah held a rally to mark al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day, at the village of Maroun el-Rass on the Lebanon-Israel border, June 8, 2018. (AP/Mohammed Zaatari, File)

On northern border, IDF and Hezbollah forces patrol meters from each other

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

Tehran-Beirut cargo flight sparks concerns Iran arming Hezbollah more easily

By Judah Ari Gross

Marc Lamont Hill speaks at the United Nations on November 28, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

CNN fires commentator after he calls for ‘free Palestine from river to the sea’

By JTA and ToI Staff

Marc Lamont Hill faced accusations of anti-Semitism for using term in UN speech, denies he was advocating for Israel’s destruction or killing Jews

Robert Alter seen in his home office. (David A.M. Wilensky/via JTA)

Interview

Scholar’s coveted Bible translation, 22 years in the making, set to hit shelves

By Rich Tenorio

Christmas swastikas: German museum views ornaments over time

By AP

Exhibition explores what Germans have put on their trees over the years, from Karl Marx to Stars of David and the Dome of the Rock

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan addresses the groundbreaking ceremony for the Kartarpur Corridor in Kartarpur, on November 28, 2018. (Arif Ali/AFP)

Pakistani PM denigrates Jesus, wants world convention to prevent insult to Islam

Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart on 'The Late Show' on CBS on November 27, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Late night liturgyJon Stewart and Stephen Colbert discuss favorite Bible characters

In this Oct. 10, 2018 photo, He Jiankui speaks during an interview at a laboratory in Shenzhen in southern China's Guangdong province. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)

Israeli experts pan Chinese gene-editing as ‘drastic’ human experimentation

By Marissa Newman

‘When you are about to make such a large change to humanity, shouldn’t you consult with the human race?’ asks bioethics chair

Your silence supports the status quo

Lip-service against primary abuse is not enough; we must take action to stop the secondary abuse of gaslighting victims

Rebecca Bardach

Setting coexistence ablaze

For each hate crime, we must open another school where Jewish and Arab kids will learn together to build a society worthy of our hopes for peace

Jennifer Raskas

The problem of distance and its antidote

The story of Joseph and his brothers yields a way to build bridges across the rifts of our polarized society

The wrongfully accused

Potiphar’s wife is not the last to prey on the locals’ innate prejudice against strangers to condemn them as predators, parasites, or both

Gilad Erdan (left) and Moshe Edri (2nd from left), at a farewell ceremony for outgoing chief of police Roni Alsheich in Beit Shemesh, on November 29, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

As battle over police chief brews, ministers call to disband vetting panel

Top cabinet officials say Moshe Edri should be confirmed despite his rejection by committee, as AG weighs his legal position; Erdan names Motti Cohen as interim commissioner

Moshe Edri attends a launching of the new National Headquarters for the Protection of Children Online in Jerusalem on November 19, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Vetting panel rejects police chief nominee Edri, but ministers want him anyway

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan, right, and then-Jerusalem police chief Moshe Edri, left, at a press conference at the Russian Compound in Jerusalem, on October 7, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Israel media reviewBad cop, bad cop: 7 things to know for November 30

By Joshua Davidovich

Wikipedia uploads 28,000 photos of pre-state Israel, for all to use

By Stuart Winer

Wikimedia Israel gathers early 20th century images with expired copyright from various archives, though some claim move could have legal complications

More Headlines

President Reuven Rivlin during an interview with CNN, November 29, 2018. (GPO/Twitter)

Rivlin says Israel wants nothing to do with ‘neo-fascists’ who support it

By Stuart Winer

Michael Cohen (left), leaving the federal courthouse in New York with his attorney Guy Petrillo, after pleading guilty to lying to Congress about work he did on an aborted project to build a Trump Tower in Russia, November 29, 2018. (AP/Julie Jacobson)

Behind Cohen plea: Trump’s longtime dream of a Moscow tower

By Stephen Braun and Bernard Condon

A worker tries to get a calf that has collapsed to stand up at Tnuva's slaughterhouse in the northern city of Beit She'an, December 2012. (Animals Now)

Slaughterhouse managers convicted for urging beating, electrocution of calves

Women attend a rally protesting violence against women, following the murders of two young women, outside police headquarters in south Tel Aviv on November 28, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Thousands of women plan to strike over violence, government inaction

Photos from Quentin Tarantino and Daniella Pik's wedding celebration on Wednesday, November 28, 2018, in Beverly Hills (Courtesy Keren Wolf Instagram)

Take your PikQuentin Tarantino weds Daniella Pik in intimate Beverly Hills ceremony

By Jessica Steinberg

File: A Thai worker picks decorative flower leafs in Kibbutz Sde Nitzan's flower farm, near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, on July 20, 2014 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israel rejects ‘distorted’ BBC report on abysmal conditions of Thai farm workers

By Stuart Winer

A Jewish boy outside Yeshivah of Flatbush in the Brooklyn borough of New York, April 26, 2018. (AP/Mark Lennihan)

2 Orthodox Jewish boys attacked in Brooklyn in separate incidents

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen during the dedication of Czech House in Jerusalem on November 27, 2018). (Gali Tibbon/AFP)

As graft probes wrap up, Netanyahu launches major overhaul of defense team

Channeling Queen and their iconic 'Bohemian Rhapsody' in 'Bohemian Chanukah,' by acappella group Six13 (Courtesy Six13)

Is this just fantasy?It’s all about 8 nights in ‘Bohemian Chanukah’ homage to Queen

By Jessica Steinberg

The 'Swastika Trail' street sign hanging in Puslinch Township, Canada. (Screen capture/YouTube via JTA)

Canada reports major jump in hate crimes for 2017

By AFP

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on 'Foreign Influence Operations and Their Use of Social Media Platforms' on Capitol Hill, Washington, on September 5, 2018. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)

Facebook says COO Sandberg asked for info on Soros

By Glenn Chapman

Laura Loomer during a protest outside Twitter's Manhattan offices on November 29, 2018. (Screen capture: Periscope)

Wearing yellow star, banned far-right activist cuffs self to Twitter office

View Edition by Date

October	November 2018					December
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
			1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30

The Times of Israel

Daily Edition

Free to Your Inbox

The email is either missing or invalid.

By signing up, you agree to our terms You hereby accept The Times of Israel Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, and you agree to receive the latest news & offers from The Times of Israel and its partners or ad sponsors.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
podcasts
video

terms and conditions
privacy policy
about us
advertise with us
Jobs at The Times of Israel
contact us

Community

Join our community
Sign in

Get the Daily Edition

Enter your email address

Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Whatsapp Follow us on X Follow us on Youtube Follow us on Telegram Follow us on Threads Follow us on Bluesky

© 2026 The Times of Israel, all rights reserved

Concept, design & development by

Developed by

Powered by

Never miss breaking news on Israel

Get notifications to stay updated

You're subscribed

Register for free
and continue reading

Registering allows you to manage your newsletters and alerts and helps us improve your experience. It takes just a few seconds.
Already registered? Enter your email to sign in.

Email address

Please use the following structure: example@domain.com

Or Continue with

By registering you agree to the terms and conditions. Once registered, you’ll receive our Daily Edition email for free.

Send me The Times of Israel Daily Edition

Register to continue

Email address

Or Continue with

Log in to continue

Email address

Something went wrong.
Please try again in a few minutes..

Sign in or Register

Email address * Password *

Incorrect password. Please try again or choose an option below.

I forgot my password / Send me a sign in link

Or Continue with

check your email

Check your email

We sent an email to you at .

It has a link that will sign you in.

Click the link in that email to complete your registration.