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 Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Facebook
Twitter

View previous edition

View next edition

Illustrative: A Magen David Adom ambulance at the scene of a deadly shooting at a cemetery in the central town of Jaljulia, November 16, 2021. (Magen David Adom)

Man shot dead leaving funeral; 2nd man, the ‘intended target,’ badly hurt

Deadly attack in Jaljulia, central Israel, linked to gang violence in Arab community; scuffles outside hospital where victims taken

Screen capture from video of Yitzhak Abergil, center, entering a courtroom at the Tel Aviv District Court, November 16, 2021. (Ynet)

Court convicts mob kingpin of murdering 3 bystanders in failed hit

Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, second right, arrives for a court hearing on corruption charges November 16, 2021, in Jerusalem. (Jack Guez/Pool Photo via AP)

Netanyahu makes rare court appearance as ex-aide’s testimony delayed

With new evidence surfacing, judges decide former PM’s confidant Nir Hefetz won’t take the stand until next week

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara (C) and their son Yair seen with actress Kate Hudson at an event held at the home of producer Arnon Milchan (right), March 6, 2014. (Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

New evidence alleges Netanyahu illicitly got luxury jewelry, clothes for his wife

Mossad chief David Barnea at a ceremony marking his taking the helm of the agency, on June 1, 2021. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Mossad chief said to discuss detained Israeli couple with Turkish counterpart

Public broadcaster says Israeli sources split on how long it will take to resolve case of Natali and Mordy Oknin, who are being held for photographing Erdogan’s palace

7:26 pm

Pfizer asks US regulators to approve promising anti-COVID pill
7:16 pm

Milchan aide said to testify Sara Netanyahu asked to replace bracelet that ex-PM said looked 'Romanian'
7:05 pm

US envoy to UN urges Gantz: Refrain from moves that undercut two-state solution

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Nov. 16 – Who should respond to hilltop youth violence?

Arab affairs correspondent Aaron Boxerman and military reporter Judah Ari Gross discuss the recent uptick in settler violence, a joint naval exercise and Palestinian financial woes

Settlers chase after Palestinians near the West Bank outpost of Homesh on November 15, 2021. (Yesh Din/Screenshot)

Settlers said to attack Palestinians near evacuated outpost; IDF called in

By Judah Ari Gross

Head of the Shin Bet security service Ronen Bar leaves his home in Rishpon, central Israel, October 11, 2021. (Flash90)

New Shin Bet chief said to meet with Palestinian leader Abbas in Ramallah

Ronen Bar reportedly held talks last week on security coordination in West Bank, efforts to broker ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza

Regional Cooperation Minister Esawi Frej at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on July 14, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel will push states to boost aid to Palestinians at donor confab, minister says

By Aaron Boxerman

Saddam Hussein Bani Odeh, a suspected member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group, who was reportedly shot dead by Israeli troops in the village of Tubas in the northern West Bank on November 16, 2021. (Social media)

Palestinians say man killed in clashes with Israeli troops in northern West Bank

By Judah Ari Gross

Archaeology

Newly found ancient fortified building seen as ‘tangible evidence’ of Hanukkah story

Weapons, coins, burnt wooden beams unearthed in Lachish Forest from structure said to be part of fortified line erected by Hellenistic army to protect city from Hasmonean offensive

Obituary

Janine Zacharia

Journalist Netty Gross, voice of those ‘who otherwise wouldn’t be heard,’ dies at 66

Tenacious reporter and sparkling storyteller took on Jewish leaders on behalf of Holocaust survivors and women denied divorce; family, colleagues mourn ‘a glorious human being’

Netty Gross-Horowitz (Courtesy)

I declined the Pilecki Prize to support brave Polish historians under threat

The institute hews to a government with a policy of Holocaust distortion that pushes the paradigm of Polish non-Jews as rescuers of Polish Jews

Michael Flynn, former national security adviser to former President Donald Trump, speaks to attendees as he endorses New York City mayoral candidate Fernando Mateo during a campaign event on Thursday, June 3, 2021, in Staten Island, N.Y. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

Michael Flynn calls for US to have ‘one religion,’ sparks outrage from Jewish groups

‘One nation under God, and one religion under God,’ says former top Trump adviser; ADL, AJC say ‘dangerous’ call violates US commitment to freedom of religion

Illustrative: In this September 20, 2013 file photo, children and adults cross a street in front of a school bus in Borough Park, a neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York that is home to many ultra-Orthodox Jewish families. (AP/Bebeto Matthews, File)

New York State vows to update rules governing secular education in yeshivas

FILE: A protester, right, holds up a sign with a swastika during an anti-vaccine protest outside the Bronx office of Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, November 14, 2021. Former Westchester County executive and gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino, at podium, spoke at the rally. (courtesy, Jeffrey Dinowitz, via Twitter)

With swastikas and yellow star, anti-vaxxers protest New York Jewish politician

In mainstream media, all-too-rare criticism of Hamas

A recent Forbes article by a Muslim peace activist arrested and deported to Egypt is the exception to the usual kid-gloves coverage of the terror group

The night before I die

It’s not that my life flashed before me, but I was resuscitated from near-death. And now doctors were going to do it again, on purpose. What if I didn’t wake up?

Helen Gottstein

The good news about sexual harassment allegations

When yet another fine upstanding citizen is accused of abuse, do you find you have a knee-jerk reaction that it simply can’t be true?

Michael Berenhaus

Israel bashing at The Washington Post

Facial recognition technology is used by most countries for security purposes. Why did the newspaper single out the Jewish state?

'President Biden is a true friend of Israel'

New Israeli ambassador to US Mike Herzog pledges to keep Israel a nonpartisan issue

Retired brigadier general, brother of the president, replaces former Likud minister Gilad Erdan in Washington, representing the changed Israeli government

Israel's Ambassador to the US Michael Herzog. (Courtesy)

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett meets with US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield in Jerusalem on November 15, 2021. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Visiting US envoy to Bennett: Biden shares commitment to new ‘spirit of cooperation’

View of the US Consulate building in Jerusalem on October 27, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Group of ex-IDF generals urges MKs to back US reopening of Jerusalem consulate

The photomontaged pictures of Helena Citron and Frank Wunsch, an Auschwitz prisoner and her SS officer who pursued a romance in the concentration camp, now the subject of an award-winning documentary, 'Love It Was Not" (Courtesy Love It Was Not)

Israeli film on SS officer’s romance with Jewish prisoner heads to Apple, Amazon

By Jessica Steinberg

‘Love It Was Not’ utilizes creative photomontage, interviews and archival testimony to describe a wildly improbable Auschwitz love affair

A burnt-out car after a fire in Ma'alot-Tarshiha, northern Israel, on November 14, 2021 (David Cohen/Flash90)

Dry November could bring devastating fires, experts warn

By Naomi Lanzkron

People sit alongside the Bat Yam promenade on March 4, 2017. (Issac Harari/Flash90)

Municipal innovation teams tackle social, economic challenges in Israeli cities

By Ricky Ben-David

Local ‘i-teams’ use tools developed by Bloomberg Philanthropies to boost civic renewal, effect change with limited resources, in partnership with Peres Center, Interior Ministry

Screen capture from video of Mordy Oknin, left, and his wife Natali, right, with an unidentified Turkish man, on a street in Istanbul, November 2021. (Channel 12 news)

Attorney of Israeli couple visits client in Turkish prison: I tried to bring hope

Nir Yaslovitzh describes tearful meeting with Mordy Oknin, held for taking photo of Erdogan’s palace; says jail conditions tough; is set to see wife Natali on Tuesday

Mordy Oknin, left, and Natali Oknin, right. (Courtesy/Facebook)

Israeli diplomats granted right to visit couple being held in Turkey

Former US president Donald Trump's defense attorney David Schoen speaks on the fourth day of Trump's second impeachment trial at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, Feb. 12, 2021. (Congress.gov via Getty Images/JTA)

Trump impeachment lawyer David Schoen to represent Steve Bannon

Attorney, who is chairman of Zionist Organization of America, will defend former US president’s adviser against contempt of Congress charges over January 6 attack

Former White House strategist Steve Bannon arrives at the FBI Washington Field Office, November 15, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Steve Bannon arrested on contempt charges for refusing to give info on Capitol raid

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MARY CLARE JALONICK

Josh Mandel, interviewing with a local TV station, during his Senate run this year. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Republican Senate candidate defends ad calling out opponent’s Jewishness

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and New Hope leader Gideon Sa'ar (right). (Flash90)

Netanyahu slams term limit bill as ‘Iranian’; Sa’ar: He once agreed to pass it

By Raoul Wootliff

Opposition leader rails against proposal to limit premier’s tenure to 8 years; Justice minister: Netanyahu begged me to join his coalition in return for introducing the same law

Shas leader Aryeh Deri with Likud's Yariv Levin during a meeting of right-wing parties in the Knesset on June 14, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In protest over power balance, Likud says it won’t send MKs to Knesset committees

More Headlines

Robert Malley, US Special Envoy for Iran, in Vienna, Austria, on June 20, 2021. (AP/ Florian Schroetter)

Lapid said to tell US envoy: Iran has no intention of rejoining nuke deal

Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks at a memorial ceremony for Israeli soldiers killed in the 2006 Second Lebanon War, at the National Hall of Remembrance at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, on June 24, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Gantz heading to Morocco next week, will sign defense deal

Screen capture from video of Jewish American historian Eliyana Adler, July, 2017. (YouTube)

Jewish historian shuns award from Polish government’s history center

By JTA and ToI Staff

View of a construction site in the central Israeli town of Beit Shemesh on September 5, 2021. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Housing prices rose nearly 10% over past year, are predicted to keep going up

In this image from video provided by NASA, the International Space Station is seen as astronauts in the SpaceX Dragon capsule undock on November 8, 2021. (NASA via AP)

Russian missile test causes debris cloud threatening International Space Station

Screen capture from video of Iran's goalkeeper Zohreh Koudaei during the AFC Women's Asian Cup India 2022 Qualifiers against Jordan, September 25, 2021. (Twitter)

Goal differenceJordan alleges Iran’s women’s soccer team goalkeeper is a man

By AFP and ToI Staff

This poster featuring US billionaire George Soros in Szekesfehervar, Hungary, reads, 'We can't let Soros get the last laugh.' It was part of a government campaign, July 6, 2017. (Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images)

Top EU court tells Hungary its ‘Stop Soros’ anti-migrant law is illegal

By AP and ToI Staff

Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish lobbying for support for a college to honor his daughters and niece at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 10, 2021. (AP Photo/ Sebastian Scheiner)

Court hears Gaza doctor’s plea for IDF apology over strike which killed 3 daughters

Art handlers adjust Mark Rothko's 'No. 7' on display at Sotheby's auction house during a press preview for the upcoming The Macklowe Collection auction, Nov. 5, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Parting paintingsBitter divorce art auction raises $676 million in New York

By ToI Staff and AFP

Then-Russian sports minister Vyacheslav Fetisov, left, during a friendly match 'USSR hockey legends' against 'World Stars team' in Moscow, January 28, 2006. (Ivan Sekretarev/AP/File)

Israel bars Russian players from attending ‘legends’ hockey game over COVID vaccine

From the official poster for the Justin Bieber world tour, when the mega pop star will be performing in Israel on October 13, 2022 (Courtesy PR)

Doing fans justicePop icon Justin Bieber announces 2022 concert in Tel Aviv

By Jessica Steinberg

Israel's national soccer team celebrates the opening goal during the World Cup 2022 group F qualifying soccer match between Austria and Israel in Klagenfurt, Austria, November 12, 2021. (Lisa Leutner/AP)

Already out of running, Israel ends World Cup soccer bid with win

View Edition by Date

October	November 2021					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
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.