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What Matters Most On Monday, November 13, 2023

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Nov. 13: Biden urges ‘less intrusive action’ at Gaza hospital, calls on Hamas to free hostages

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

As Israeli forces take over Strip’s parliament building, army reveals terror group’s use of Gaza City’s Rantisi Hospital * Rockets target central Israel * IDF ground op toll at 44

9:55 pm

'Psychological terror': IDF notifies family of hostage Noa Marciano that Hamas aired clip of her
9:51 pm

Hundreds rally for hostages' release near UN's Jerusalem offices; official comes out to speak
9:44 pm

Israel offers conditional backing for inclusion of Gaza aid in US security package for Israel

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell rings a bell to signify the start of a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, November 13, 2023. (AP Photo/ Virginia Mayo)

EU slams Hamas use of hospitals and civilians as human shields, as IDF nears Shifa

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Turkish ship carrying supplies to build field hospitals arrives in Egyptian port el-Arish as Israeli military seeks to destroy Hamas command centers in hospitals

Palestinians seen at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, November 10, 2023. (Flash90)

The Hamas compound Israeli troops expect to find under Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

People stand outside the emergency ward of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on November 10, 2023, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. (Khader Al Zanoun/AFP)

Top Biden aide: US concerned about civilian casualties in fight for Shifa Hospital

A picture taken from the Lebanese side of the border shows smoke rising on hills near the Israeli town of Metula as a result of a strike reportedly coming from Lebanon, on November 11, 2023 (Hassan FNEICH / AFP); Inset: Shalom Aboudi, 56, an Israel Electric Corporation employee who was killed in a Hezbollah attack on northern Israel, November 12, 2023 (Courtesy)

Electric worker killed in Lebanon missile attack Sunday; assaults in north continue

By Emanuel Fabian

Shalom Aboudi was on team repairing lines damaged by previous fire; 2 soldiers injured in missile attack near Netu’a; IDF hits Hezbollah compounds, command center in response

FILE - US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin testifies before a Senate Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, October 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Pentagon chief says US hit Iran-linked sites in Syria after American troops attacked

By AFP

Jamal Waraqi, an Arab Israeli volunteer for the ZAKA rescue service, November 13, 2023. (Channel 12 screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Arab ZAKA worker: ‘I had no idea where to start’; Oct. 7 massacre an affront to Islam

Jamal Waraqi describes shock over scenes in southern communities, says he keeps thinking about things he may have missed; urges all religious groups ‘to do our part for the country’

Republican US presidential candidate Chris Christie, center, speaks with Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana (right) during a visit to the ravaged Kibbutz Kfar Aza on November 12, 2023. (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset Spokesperson)

Touring Israel, GOP presidential candidate Christie says truce calls ‘make no sense’

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and AP

Britain's Home Secretary Suella Braverman at a press conference in the capital Kigali, Rwanda, March 18, 2023 (AP Photo, File)

UK’s Sunak fires minister who said police too lenient with pro-Palestinian protesters

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Suella Braverman had decried ‘pro-Palestinian mobs’ and ‘hate marchers’; former premier David Cameron appointed foreign secretary in surprise move

Britain's former prime minister David Cameron leaves Downing Street, in London, Nov. 13, 2023 after he was named foreign secretary. (James Manning/PA via AP)

In shock political comeback, former PM Cameron appointed UK foreign secretary

By Agencies and ToI Staff

In this July 15, 2014, photo, former British prime minister and Mideast envoy Tony Blair speaks during joint statements with Israel's president Shimon Peres at the President's Residence in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

Israel said seeking to appoint UK’s Tony Blair as Gaza humanitarian coordinator

To Katherine Maher: Hold the next Web Summit in Israel

From a longtime attendee to the incoming CEO of this global hi-tech industry conference: All roads lead to Tel Aviv

The return of Jewish fear

Neo-Nazis and left-wing antisemites chipped away at our sense of security for years – October 7 evaporated it

The unspoken toll across the border

For the sake of our own humanity, it’s imperative we see the humanity of those suffering on the other side

Blueprint for a post-’23 Israel: Negation of the Diaspora

Anti-Israel protestors across the world hold all Jews responsible for Israel. On this point, they happen to be right

Armed terrorists in southern Israel, having infiltrated from Gaza, on the morning of October 7, 2023 (Channel 12 screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Hamas sought to reach West Bank with Oct. 7 onslaught, spark wider war — report

By Michael Horovitz

Washington Post says terrorists sought to attack cities, military bases in planned deeper incursion; terror group gathered intelligence from laborers who worked in Israel

Israeli forces seen operating in northern Gaza in this handout photo released for publication on November 12, 2023. (IDF)

IDF says Hamas blocked fuel delivery to Shifa Hospital as troops advance in Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian and Jacob Magid

A member of Zaka at the forensic center in the Shura military base near Ramle, on October 13, 2023. where hundreds of dead bodies have arrived since Hamas-led terrorists rampaged through southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Nov. 13: Day 38 – Why Israel reduced the official October 7 death toll

Hamas reportedly freezes talks over IDF ops near hospital

Netanyahu says hostage deal ‘could’ happen, amid reports of emerging prisoner swap

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday there “could be” a potential deal to release some of the hundreds of hostages held by Hamas and other terror groups in Gaza, amid reports of an emerging proposal to exchange them for Palestinian security prisoners. NBC News cited a US administration official confirming earlier reporting that... Continue Reading

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to NBC's "Meet the Press," on November 12, 2023. (NBC screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Supernova party survivors do yoga at the Secret Forest retreat center in Cyprus, in an undated photo. (courtesy)

'We move them from survivors’ guilt to survivors’ duty'

At an exclusive Cyprus retreat center, Supernova rave survivors get help to move on

By Gavriel Fiske

Traumatized party-goers receive fully subsidized five-day holistic therapy experience including yoga, spa treatments and group sessions; there is a 1,400 person waitlist

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a security cabinet meeting in Tel Aviv, October 7, 2023. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Security cabinet approves order to shut down Hezbollah-affiliated al Mayadeen news

By Jeremy Sharon

Defense Minister Gallant says he and all security chiefs recommended measure, alleging network has undermined national security; orders to shutter Al Jazeera are on hold

Ehud Lavi speaks with Channel 12 news on November 12, 2023 (Screen grab used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Ex-Mossad deputy head: ‘Unrealistic’ to say Iran didn’t know of Hamas’s Oct. 7 plans

Behind the Headlines

Israel at war: Join ToI senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur for an in-depth webinar Thursday

On November 16, we dig deeper into global issues facing Israel and the Jewish people as the IDF continues its ground operation in Gaza. Exclusively for the ToI Community

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes part in an interview on CNN with host Dana Bash on November 12, 2023. (Screenshot used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

On CNN, Netanyahu ducks responsibility: ‘Did people ask Roosevelt after Pearl Harbor?’

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

PM rejects calls for lengthy humanitarian pauses in fighting; reiterates that PA cannot rule Gaza; says ‘Those who protest for Hamas, you’re protesting for sheer evil’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks about the Israel-Hamas war during a press conference on November 11, 2023. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

PM warns ministers to pipe down after comments on new ‘Nakba’ and nuking Gaza

The Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa was prepared for receiving patients following the outbreak of war, October 11, 2023. (Courtesy of Rambam)

Government agrees on immediate NIS 275 million to fortify hospitals

By Renee Ghert-Zand

With only a third of hospital beds and fewer than half of operating rooms protected against missile attacks, officials begin to address dangers to patients, staff and visitors

Interacting with puppies at Beit Daniella, west of Jerusalem. (Courtesy, Beit Daniella)

Troubled teens cut off from nature rehab over lack of bomb shelter

Illustrative: Evacuated Kibbutz Be'eri residents at a Dead Sea hotel, October 20, 2023. (Arik Zamir/Flash90)

Smotrich vows to divert some coalition money, as funds for war evacuees held up

By Sharon Wrobel

Mayo Clinic neurosurgeon Dr. Teodoro Forcht Dagi at Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, October 2023. (Maayan Janus/Sheba Medical Center)

Interview'A new balance or equilibrium will have to be found'

Top US neurosurgeon volunteers hard-won wartime expertise at Sheba Medical Center

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Mayo Clinic head trauma specialist Dr. Teodoro Dagi brings knowledge gained from global conflict work – including in Kosovo and Northern Ireland – to treating Israel’s war-injured

Hard left leader decries event as supporting Gaza 'massacre'

‘More than a duty’: Over 180,000 rally in France against spiraling antisemitism

By Agencies and ToI Staff

As nation records more than 1,250 anti-Jewish incidents since start of Israel-Hamas war, French PM, former presidents, far-right leader Le Pen, join march against hatred

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz addresses the audience during the Bundeswehr Conference 2023, in Berlin, on November 10, 2023. (Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)

Germany’s Scholz spurns calls for Gaza ceasefire; UK defense chief backs IDF efforts

By Agencies and ToI Staff

President Isaac Herzog (R) meets visiting French President Emmanuel Macron at his residence in Jerusalem on October 24, 2023. (Amos Ben-Gershom / GPO)

Herzog: Macron told me he didn’t mean to accuse Israel of targeting civilians

French president changes line after attacking Israel’s bombing of ‘babies, ladies, old people’; president welcomes reversal, says comments ’caused much pain and upset in Israel’

Rector of the Great Mosque of Paris, Chems-eddine Hafiz (L), flanked by Archbishop of Reims and President of the Conference des Eveques de France (CEF - Bishops' Conference of France) Eric de Moulins-Beaufort (R), Grand Rabbi of France Haim Korsia (C), President of the Orientation Council of the Foundation of Islam of France (FORIF) Sadek Beloucif (2ndL), address media during a press conference after a meeting between France's president and France's religious representatives at the Elysee Palace in Paris on November 13, 2023. (Ludovic MARIN / AFP)

Macron meets top French religious officials in bid to tackle antisemitism

By AFP and ToI Staff

Yehudit Weiss was abducted by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 from Kibbutz Be'eri. (Courtesy)

Yehudit Waiss, 65, was murdered in Gaza, her body recovered by IDF

Kibbutz Be’eri-based Yehudit and husband Shmulik stopped responding to family texts after 10:15 a.m. on October 7

Two IDF reservists booted out of the army for entering Palestinian school

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Two Israel Defense Forces reservists Israelis entered a Palestinian school on Sunday in the village of A-Tuwani, in the southern Hebron Hills, and reportedly attempted to remove a Palestinian flag from the premises. In a video widely circulated on social media, two men wearing partial IDF uniforms were filmed entering the schoolyard and... Continue Reading

Jewish settlers seen during the demolition of six illegally built structures at the outpost of Kumi Ori, outside the Jewish settlement of Yitzhar, in the West Bank, April 22, 2020. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

US-born Israeli Reform rabbi Arik Ascherman helps Palestinians during the olive harvest at a grove outside Ramallah in the West Bank on November 9, 2023. (Photo by Aris MESSINIS / AFP)

Activist Israeli rabbi helps Palestinian farmers in West Bank facing settler violence

More Headlines

Justice Minister Yariv Levin seen during a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 10, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Levin said pushing for jurists who helped draft overhaul to be Supreme Court judges

Illustrative: Israeli high school students on school trips to Poland, where they learn about the Holocaust. (Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

Citing security concerns, ministry halts schools’ Holocaust education trips to Poland

By Gavriel Fiske

Australian police use pepper spray during clashes between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel demonstrators in Melbourne's Caulfield neighborhood, November 10, 2023. (Screenshot X, Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Melbourne synagogue evacuated on Shabbat as pro-Palestinian rally held nearby

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Lights from a police car illuminate Talmud Torah Elementary School as parents pick up their children in the Cote-des-Neiges neighborhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on November 9, 2023. (Illustrative photo by Mathiew LEISER / AFP)

Jewish school in Montreal is fired upon for second time in days

By AFP and ToI Staff

Los Angeles high school students held a bake sale that raised $5,000 for the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles' Israel Crisis Fund, Nov. 6, 2023. (Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles via JTA)

US Jews are raising money for an Israel in crisis, but is there enough to go around?

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Climate activist Greta Thunberg is interrupted by a climate activist after Thunberg expressed solidarity with the Palestinians, during a rally in Amsterdam, Nov. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

At Amsterdam rally, man grabs Greta Thunberg’s mic, decrying pro-Palestinian message

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Police in the town of Tel Mond, July 10, 2018. (Flash90/File)

23-year-old man killed after apparent unintentional discharge of weapon

By Michael Horovitz

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest against Israel outside a Shabbat event being held during the Somos Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 10, 2023. (Screenshot X, Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Protesters against Israel interrupt Shabbat event for NYC officials in Puerto Rico

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