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 Your Privacy Rights

Input search

The Daily Edition

What Matters Most On Thursday, December 5, 2019

Facebook
Twitter

View previous edition

View next edition

An Israeli Dolphin submarine at the shipyards in Kiel, northern Germany (AP/ Philipp Guelland)

Case 3000Seen as one of worst graft scandals in Israeli history

Prosecutors announce bribery charges in vast submarine corruption case

Former navy head, Israeli representative of German shipbuilder face indictments in alleged billion-shekel bribery scheme; PM’s ex-lawyer cousin to be charged with money laundering

Blue and White party members (L-R) Gabi Ashkenazi, Yair Lapid, Benny Gantz and Moshe Ya'alon during a press conference in the Golan Heights on March 4, 2019. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Case 3000After submarine charges, center-left MKs urge probe into Netanyahu’s involvement

Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli forces following a demonstration along the border between Israel-Gaza, on September 6, 2019. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Army readies for Friday Gaza protests, warns Hamas to keep lid on violence

By Joshua Davidovich

IDF reportedly fears rocket fire may accompany demonstrations if fighting gets out of hand as border protests set to resume after three-week hiatus

7:33 pm

Biden gets into heated exchange while chewing fat in Iowa
7:10 pm

Army girds for return of Gaza protests
7:02 pm

Trump denounces Iran crackdown, cagey on troop deployment

A field hospital in the Gaza Strip near the Erez crossing. (Screenshot from the Friend Ships-Project-Camp Gaza Facebook page)

Analysis

US Christians build field hospital in Gaza, deepening rift between PA and Hamas

PLO official claims project, funded by pro-Israel evangelical donors, serving ‘military, intelligence and security’ purposes, but terror group brushes off concerns

A Hamas police officer looks at a billboard in Gaza City from the terror group's military wing bearing a portrait of Israeli soldier Oron Shaul, who was killed in the 2014 Gaza war, on December 29, 2017. (Wissam Nassar/Flash90)

Hamas says 5 countries sought to broker recent failed prisoner swap with Israel

Illustrative: This photo released on August 25, 2010, by the Iranian Defense Ministry, claims to show the launch of the Fateh-110 short-range surface-to-surface missile by Iranian armed forces, at an undisclosed location. (AP Photo/Iranian Defense Ministry,Vahid Reza Alaei, HO)

Iran said exploiting Iraqi unrest to place missiles that could hit Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

NY Times quotes US officials saying the missiles also threaten Saudi Arabia and American troops stationed in area, and are part of Tehran’s efforts to project power in Middle East

An Iranian Shahab-3 missile launched during military exercises outside the city of Qom, Iran, in June 2011. (AP/ISNA/Ruhollah Vahdati)

UK, Germany and France slam Iran for working on nuclear-capable missiles

By Edith M. Lederer

The US Navy's guided-missile destroyer USS Forrest Sherman arrives in Souda Bay, Crete, Greece for the first port visit of her maiden deployment, July 25, 2007. (US Navy photo/Paul Farley/Wikipedia/Public domain)

US warship seizes suspected Iran missile parts set for Yemen

By Lolita C. Baldor

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, meeting with PM Netanyahu in Lisbon, December 4, 2019 (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu: Iran’s empire is tottering. Let’s make it totter even further

By Raphael Ahren

At meeting with Pompeo in Lisbon, PM says Israel constantly countering Iranian aggression, refuses to comment on Syria weapons warehouse strike

Foreign Minister Israel Katz arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on June 24, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Katz urges Western-Arab coalition to confront Iran over nuclear-capable missiles

By ToI Staff and Agencies

An Israeli Heron military drone flies over the southern Israeli city of Ashdod on November 13, 2019. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Airstrikes target Iranian weapons stores in eastern Syria — report

By Judah Ari Gross

In this photo provided by the Moroccan News Agency (MAP), Morocco's King Mohammed VI, center, accompanied by his son Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, left, and brother Prince Moulay Rashid addresses the Nation in a speech aired on TV, at the Royal Palace in Tetouan, Morocco, on Monday July 29, 2019. (Moroccan Royal Palace via AP)

Israel said hoping for breakthrough in ties with Morocco in next few days

By ToI Staff and Agencies

With US Secretary of State Pompeo heading to Rabat to push for normalization with Jerusalem; report says Netanyahu hoping to use achievement to boost his political fortunes

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara Netanyahu speaking to the press from the tarmac of Ben-Gurion Airport on December 4, 2019. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Netanyahu takes credit for thwarting Trump-Rouhani UN meet, hails Iran sanctions

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

In this photo released by the official website of the Office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani speaks in a meeting in Tehran, Iran, December 4, 2019. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Rouhani: Tehran hasn’t closed window on talks with US

By AP and ToI Staff

Yisrael Beytenu party chairman MK Avigdor Liberman speaks with the media, during a faction meeting in the Knesset, December 2, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Liberman: Elections unavoidable, neither narrow nor unity government an option

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Yisrael Beytenu leader says he tried to pressure Likud, Blue and White to agree on shared rule but they wouldn’t unite; ‘our hands are clean’

MK Amir Peretz speaks at a faction meeting in the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on November 25, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Labor party head says he was ‘offered the world’ to join Netanyahu-led coalition

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with Gideon Sa'ar during a Likud party meeting at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem on March 11, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud begins planning leadership race as PM faces 1st real challenge in 14 years

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) with then-defense minister Avigdor Liberman at a joint press conference on May 30, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media review

We’re done here… or are we: 6 things to know for December 5

By Joshua Davidovich

Avigdor Liberman seems to be the fat lady singing the end of attempts to avoid third elections, but some still hold out hope against all odds

Central Elections Committee director Orly Adas during a press conference at the Knesset on December 5, 2019. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Elections committee lacks staff, equipment for 3rd vote, director warns

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn sits on stage as supporters wave Palestinian flags during the party's annual conference in Liverpool, England, on September 25, 2018. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)

Analysis

UK’s Corbyn is the ‘politician of choice for anti-Semites,’ new report claims

With a week to go before general election, as Labour trails Johnson in polls but starts to close the gap, two surveys show Brits’ attitudes to Jews vis-à-vis their politics

Slavoj Zizek speaks at the London School of Economics, April 20, 2016. (Ray Tang/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images/via JTA)

British paper publishes op-ed calling settlements ‘the trouble with Jews’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

IDF soldiers patrol the Gilad Farm illegal West Bank settlement outpost on December 2, 2009. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Minister removes clause requiring settlement security funds to be spent legally

In the Jewish heart of Pittsburgh, Mr. Rogers was actually our neighbor

After the Tree of Life attack, I recalled Rogers’ advice to ’look for the helpers.’ There were many — including Tom Hanks

Remove Netanyahu right now on grounds of temporary incapacity

There’s an unacceptable, extreme conflict of interest between Netanyahu the accused and Netanyahu, head of the executive branch

Join The Times of Israel Community!

Help support our journalism and enjoy the site ADS FREE - for as little as $6 a month

JOIN US

Dutch ‘Holocaust Namenmonument’ chairman Jacques Grishaver at the brick factory Rodruza, where bricks are being made for the emerging memorial in Amsterdam (Marcel Molle/Dutch Auschwitz Committee)

Dutch Holocaust ‘Names’ memorial finally puts emphasis on victims not victors

By Matt Lebovic

Gal Gadot with her husband Yaron Versano at the Producers Guild Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, January 20, 2018. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images/via JTA)

Wonder couple

Gal Gadot and husband remaking Israeli crime drama for US audience

‘Queens’ tells the story of the women who run the Malka crime family after their husbands are killed by a rival syndicate

Celeb-rationTiffany Haddish has celebrity-filled bat mitzvah

By Gabe Friedman

Marvel-ousScarlett Johansson is back as ‘Black Widow’

By JTA

Good boysSeth Rogen and father honored for their contributions to Jewish culture

By Arielle Kaplan

Ken Ludwig, at Studio 54 in New York City, April 29, 2019. (Walter McBride/ WireImage/ Getty Images/ via JTA)

Broadway review

The king of farce’s new play is inspired by his parents’ love letters

By Curt Schleier

More Headlines

Illustrative: Young ultra-Orthodox Jewish girls seen in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City on March 21, 2012. (Serge Attal/Flash90)

Teenagers in Brooklyn throw rock at school bus carrying Jewish kids

By JTA

Prime Minister Levi Eshkol (L) and David Ben-Gurion at Lydda Airport before the latter's departure to England for Winston Churchill's funeral, January 1965. (GPO)

Faux photoInvite to Ben-Gurion memorial event uses photo of Levi Eshkol

An oversized urn covered with a black plastic wrap placed by the artist group Center for Political Beauty in front of German parliament building, the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, December 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

German activists apologize for using ‘ashes of Auschwitz victims’ in protest

By AP

The Arts Building at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

McGill board rejects motion for Jewish student to cancel Israel trip or resign

By David Lazarus

In this Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019 photo people rest on grass while reading at Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Brown U urged to divest from companies ‘facilitating rights abuses in Palestine’

By JTA

Illustrative: In this photo from the US Navy provided on November 19, 2019, the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, left, the air-defense destroyer HMS Defender and the guided-missile destroyer USS Farragut transit the Strait of Hormuz with the guided-missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Zachary Pearson/U.S. Navy via AP)

Pentagon denies US mulling sending 14,000 troops to Mideast as Iran threat grows

By AFP and ToI Staff

Holocaust survivor Leon Schwarzbaum speaks during an interview with AFP in his home in Berlin on December 4, 2019. (Odd Andersen/AFP)

InterviewAuschwitz survivor says he has ‘duty to the dead’ to share horrors of Holocaust

By Yannick Pasquet

US Rep. Ilhan Omar speaks to witnesses during a House Committee on the Judiciary‚ Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship and Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations joint hearing on the administration's 'Muslim ban' on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Florida Republican calls to hang ‘traitor’ Ilhan Omar and other Democrats

By Tamara Lush and BRENDAN FARRINGTON

Illustrative: A police cruiser in the Israeli coastal town of Bat Yam on February 27, 2017. (Moti Karelitz/Flash90)

Tira man guns down restaurant owner, is then shot dead by pursuing cop

Then-Blue and White MK Gadi Yevarkan in May 2019. (YouTube screenshot)

Culture Ministry accused of racism in spat over funds for Ethiopian center

An illustrative photo of a woman breastfeeding her baby. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Hadassah Hospital bid to foster tech yields breast milk app, other innovations

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: A Magen David Adom ambulance seen outside the Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem, on December 13, 2018. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Man killed by elevator doors in Jerusalem

View Edition by Date

November	December 2019					January
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	31

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
Your Privacy Rights
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.