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What Matters Most On Friday, November 24, 2023

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The hostages released by Hamas in an ambulance en route to Israel on November 24, 2023. (Screen capture: Youm7)

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Nov. 24: Israel receives list of second group of hostages slated for release Saturday

By Jacob Magid, Michael Bachner, Ricky Ben-David and ToI Staff

Families are at Israeli hospitals to be reunited with 4 children, 3 mothers and 6 other women freed on first day of truce deal * Israel releases 39 terror convicts in return

10:02 pm

Hamas releases footage of hostage handover to Red Cross in apparent attempt to come off as humane
9:25 pm

200 truckloads of humanitarian aid enter Gaza -- largest total since war's outbreak
9:23 pm

Nathavaree Mulkan among the 11 foreign nationals released from Gaza

A woman looks at photographs of hostages held in Gaza displayed in Ramat Gan on November 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israel-Hamas truce comes into force, as first 13 Israeli hostages set to be freed

By Tal Schneider and Jacob Magid

Temporary pause in fighting takes effect at 7 a.m., with group of Israeli children and women to be handed over at 4 p.m.; almost all were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz

24 Palestinian women, 15 minors freed from prison in first deal for Gaza hostages

The Israel Prison Service on Friday evening released 39 Palestinian security prisoners as part of a hostage deal with Hamas that saw 13 Israeli hostages released from Gaza, where they have been held since October 7. Shortly before noon the Prison Service transferred the prisoners to Ofer Prison... Continue Reading

An Israeli prison transport vehicle carries Palestinian prisoners released by the Israeli authorities from Ofer military prison near Jerusalem on Nov. 24, 2023 as part of a deal in which the Hamas terror group released 13 hostages held in Gaza. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

A relative hugs a Thai overseas worker who was evacuated from Israel after Hamas's October 7 attacks, as he and others arrived at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Samut Prakarn Province, Thailand, on October 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)

Report: Hamas set to release 23 Thai hostages in side deal brokered by Iran

Relatives, friends and supporters of Alon Ohel (22) held hostage in Gaza since the October 7 attack by Hamas terrorists in southern Israel, take part in a protest to ask for the release of Israeli hostages in Tel Aviv on November 22, 2023. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Hostages’ families describe ’emotional rollercoaster’ as they wait for releases

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Relatives of those held in Gaza hope their loved ones are freed as soon as possible, describing the uncertainty as unbearable

The children and babies kidnapped on October 7 and held hostage by terrorists in the Gaza Strip. (Israel's official Twitter account)

Coming home: Health Ministry discloses strict protocols for treating freed hostages

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Palestinians who had taken refuge in temporary shelters return to their homes in eastern Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip during the first hours of a four-day truce between Israel and Hamas on November 24, 2023. (Mahmud Hams/ AFP)

Thousands of Gazans head north, in potential challenge to IDF’s campaign after truce

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

2 reported killed as Hamas encourages civilians to go back to war zone; IDF drops flyers, tries to prevent flow; 13 hostages to be freed at 4 p.m.; humanitarian aid enters Gaza

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks to troops of the Navy's Shayetet 13 commando unit, November 23, 2023. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Hamas commander killed ahead of truce; Gallant: War will resume for at least 2 months

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

‘Precarious calm’ on northern front as truce with Hamas takes hold

By AFP and ToI Staff

Calm returned to Lebanon's southern border Friday as a temporary truce took effect in the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Since the Israel-Hamas war erupted on October 7, Lebanon's southern border with Israel has witnessed deadly exchanges of fire, primarily involving the Israeli army and Lebanon's Hezbollah terror group, an Iranian... Continue Reading

An Israeli artillery unit stationed near the border with Lebanon, northern Israel, November 22, 2023. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

US President Joe Biden (left) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Report: Biden asked Netanyahu to try to keep north calm during temporary Gaza truce

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Smoke rises in southern Lebanon after IDF strikes targets in the country following Hezbollah attacks on Israel, November 23, 2023. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Hezbollah hits Israel with heavy rocket barrages, anti-tank missile attacks

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

View of the 'Hostage Square' in Tel Aviv, November 23, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Nov 24: Day 49 – Temporary ceasefire begins as all eyes on hostage release

Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian on where the IDF is during the pause in offensive operations, rockets from Lebanon; US bureau chief Jacob Magid on humanitarian concerns

Palestinians sell water they have looted from the humanitarian aid trucks during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip at the border with Egypt in Rafah on Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

Inside storyUS officials say Israel likely can’t make good on hostage deal promise to up Gaza aid

Hamas members pictured at the border a month before the terror group's October 7 onslaught. (Screenshot used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Reports: Senior IDF officer dismissed pre-Oct. 7 intel on Hamas invasion as ‘fantasy’

Two lower level officers in IDF’s elite intelligence Unit 8200 outlined a mass invasion one month before onslaught; top officers also waved off manual showing plans for onslaught

Benny Gantz speaks at the launch of the National Unity party campaign for the upcoming elections in Tel Aviv, September 6, 2022.(Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Election poll shows Gantz at 43 seats, Netanyahu’s Likud at 18, Smotrich out

Wartime survey finds coalition parties would crash to 41 seats, opposition parties would skyrocket to 79; respondents prefer Gantz to Netanyahu as PM, 52%-27%

An 'Eretz Nehederet' skit on November 21, 2023, with Mariano Idelman as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Yuval Semo as former prime minister Golda Meir (Courtesy)

Legacy breaker‘Your debacle has eclipsed mine’: Golda’s ghost haunts PM in satire skit

By Jessica Steinberg

Ami has been murdered, but all Naama can focus on is her vision of a baby she knows is dead (Fiction)

Adele Stowe-Lindner

Oh sister, where art thou?

The silence of international feminists in response to the horrific sexual violence against women by Hamas on October 7th is deafening

Illustrative: A woman stands with a symbolic zipper around her mouth and a sign identifying some of the hostages abducted by Palestinian terrorists during the October 7 attack at a vigil demanding government action for their return, outside the Knesset in Jerusalem on November 7, 2023. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Inside Story

Global women’s rights groups silent as Israeli women testify about rapes by Hamas

By Amelie Botbol

Despite widespread evidence of terrorists’ systematic acts of sexual brutality on Oct. 7, most worldwide organizations either have no comment or bash IDF’s military campaign in Gaza

Yad Vashem chief rejects comparison between Hamas atrocities, Holocaust

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Red-paint-covered bunches of cloth, symbolizing dead babies, placed by pro-Palestinian protesters outside the vacation home of AIPAC president Michael Tuchin, in Los Angeles, California, November 23, 2023. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Protesters set off smoke bombs outside AIPAC head’s home, call him ‘baby killer’

On Thanksgiving, pro-Palestinian activists place mock babies, spill red paint in front yard of Michael Tuchin’s Los Angeles residence, chant ‘fuck your holiday’

'I don't know how I'm going to go on'

As crops wither, farmers say fields will soon be barren without foreign workers

Volunteers help ease the agricultural sector’s devastation since Oct. 7, but as skilled manpower shortages take root throughout the country, farmers lose hope

File: Rafael Grossi (C), director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) opens the IAEA's Board of Governors meeting at the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria on November 22, 2023. (Joe Klamar / AFP)

Fear of Israel-Hamas war spreading said to restrain West from Iran nuclear crackdown

By AFP and ToI Staff

Concern over potential regional war stops IAEA Board of Governors from passing binding resolution on Tehran’s defiance of nuclear watchdog, diplomats say

Head of ITIM Rabbi Seth Farber. (Courtesy)

ToI podcast'If someone was killed as a Jew, bury them in the cemetery'

What Matters Now to Rabbi Seth Farber: Hostages and mixed burials in Jewish law

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Issues of religion and state can take on more urgency in times of war. The head of ITIM, an NGO aimed at helping Israelis navigate the country’s religious bureaucracy, explains

Liat Harlev as a BBC anchor, and Yuval Semo, playing Middle East correspondent Harry Whiteguilt, lampoon a BBC report about the bombing of a Gaza hospital, in a skit screened on October 28, 2023. (Screenshot from Eretz Nehederet. Keshet Channel 12, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

'We have the ability through humor to expose hypocrisy'

Comedians defend Israel the best way they know how: Make ’em laugh

In the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas onslaught, many are using humor to push back against what they see as a propaganda war against Israel and Jews

More Headlines

Tamir Werzberger, second from right, attends a conference on Palestinian incitement at the European Parliament in Strasburg, France on November 21, 2023. (Courtesy)

EU lawmakers host conference on Palestinian incitement in light of Oct. 7 massacre

By Canaan Lidor

Illustrative: Vandalized headstones at the ancient Jewish cemetery of Námestovo, Slovakia, in December 2019. (Courtesy of ZCN via JTA)

Authorities launch probe after at least 85 Jewish graves damaged in Belgian cemetery

By AFP and ToI Staff

At the Fadwa Touqan Mixed Elementary School in Nablus, students draw pictures of Hamas terrorists on gliders, glorifying the terrorists who paraglided into Israel on October 7, in Nablus, October 15, 2023. (Facebook screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Watchdog: Schools run by PA celebrated Oct. 7 Hamas massacres

X (formerly Twitter) CEO Elon Musk attends an in-conversation event with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London on November 2, 2023. (Kirsty Wigglesworth / POOL / AFP)

Musk to visit Israel next week, tour Gaza border towns – report

Israeli developers volunteer joining together to develop technologies to bolster Israel's defenses and civil resilience in wake of war with Hamas terror group. (Courtesy)

Volunteer group of Israeli developers raising $2m to fortify defense tech amid war

By Sharon Wrobel

Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom, known as PVV, answers questions to media after announcement of the first preliminary results of general elections in The Hague, Netherlands, November 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Europe’s hard right hopes best is yet to come after Wilders’ win in Netherlands

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi attends a hearing of the Knesset Economy Committee, November 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Minister suggests sanctions on Haaretz for ‘false propaganda,’ but action unlikely

By Jeremy Sharon

(L-R) Cuba's Prime Minister Manuel Marrero, Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel, and his wife Lis Cuesta take part in a march in support of the Palestinian people and against Israel's war with Hamas in Havana, Cuba on November 23, 2023. (Yamil Lage/AFP)

Cuban president leads pro-Palestinian march in front of US embassy in Havana

By Agencies and ToI Staff

An exterior view of Adolf Hitler's birth house, in Braunau am Inn, Austria, September 27, 2012. (Kerstin Joensson/AP)

Two streets still named for Nazis in Hitler’s Austrian hometown

By AFP

Israel's forward #21 Din David (L) shoots towards goal during the UEFA Euro 2024 Group I qualification football match between Andorra and Israel at the National Stadium in Andorra la Vella on November 21, 2023. (Valentine CHAPUIS / AFP)

Israel to play Iceland in Euro 2024 playoffs, with winner to face Bosnia or Ukraine

By AFP

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