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What Matters Most On Wednesday, November 29, 2023

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Israeli hostages released on November 29, 2023: Top L-R: Raz Ben Ami, Yarden Roman, Liat Atzili, Moran Stela Yanai; middle: Liam Or, Itay Regev, Ofir Engel, Amit Shani; bottom: Gali Tarshansky, Raaya Rotem, Yelena Trufanov, and her mother Irena Tati. (Courtesy: combination image/Times of Israel)

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Nov. 29: 10 Israeli, 4 Thai hostages back in Israel, 2 Israeli-Russian women freed earlier

6th set of hostage releases completed after delay * IDF checks ‘cruel’ Hamas claim that Shiri Bibas and her 2 children are dead * PM: War to destroy Hamas will resume after truce ends

10:34 pm

Freed hostage Amit Shani's grandma: 'I didn’t believe we’d get to this moment'
10:25 pm

10 Israeli, 4 Thai hostages back in Israel after release from Hamas in Gaza
9:53 pm

Army says 14 hostages have crossed into Egypt from Gaza before returning to Israel

Op-ed: Day 54 of the war

Hamas hostage releases are a daily mix of horror and relief. And this is the easy part

This Editor’s Note was sent out earlier Wednesday in ToI’s weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel Community. To receive these Editor’s Notes as they’re released, join the ToI Community here. The abiding nightmare Israel has been living since October 7 has mutated these past few days into scenes that few if any,... Continue Reading

Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists shake hands after handing over hostages to the Red Cross in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on November 28, 2023. (AFP)

File: Demonstrators display a banner with the lettering "No peace on a stolen land" as they take part in a rally in solidarity with Palestinians and against Israel at Oranienplatz Square in Berlin's Kreuzberg district, Germany, on November 11, 2023. (Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)

Germany warns of ‘real’ Islamist terror threat in wake of Israel-Hamas war

By AFP and ToI Staff

A French floating hospital arrives off the coast of Egypt on November 27, 2023. (Emmanuel Macron/X)

French floating hospital docks off coast of Egypt to treat wounded Gazans

Israelis hold photographs of the Bibas family at a press conference calling for the release of then-10-month-old Kfir, 4-year-old Ariel, and their parents, Shiri and Yarden, at 'Hostages Square' in Tel Aviv, November 28, 2023. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90)

Hamas said to seek 4-day truce extension, as 6th group of hostages set to be freed

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israel has said it’s willing to prolong halt in fighting by 24 hours for every 10 hostages released; US, Qatar pushing larger deal that could see civilian men and soldiers returned

Israelis attend a rally calling for the release of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, outside the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, November 28, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel said open to weighing further hostage deal once all children and women freed

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A US military plane containing aid for Gaza arrives in Egypt on November 28, 2023. (CENTCOM)

First of three US planes carrying aid for Gaza arrives in Egypt

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

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Hamas to release two Russian hostages in act of ‘appreciation’ to Putin

Hamas is expected to release two hostages with Russian citizenship on Wednesday in a gesture of “appreciation” for the position taken by Russian President Vladimir Putin since the terror group's war against Israel began, a top Hamas official said. It wasn't immediate unclear if the two hostages also hold Israeli citizenship. The announcement was... Continue Reading

An International Red Cross vehicle carrying Russian-Israeli hostage Roni Krivoi released by Hamas drives towards the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, ahead of a transfer to Israel on November 26, 2023. (Mohammed ABED / AFP)

L-R: Staff Sgt. Tomer Yaakov Ahimas, Sgt. Kiril Brodski, and Sgt. Shaked Dahan. All three were determined to be dead and their remains in Hamas custody. (Courtesy)

Bodies of three soldiers killed on October 7 taken by Hamas to Gaza, IDF says

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi gives a press statement in northern Israel, November 28, 2023. (Screenshot: Israel Defense Forces)

Several injured as Hamas attacks Israeli troops in Gaza, straining fragile truce

By Emanuel Fabian, Tal Schneider and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, lays the foundation stone for a new community, Ofir, as he meets with municipal leaders of communities close to the Gaza Strip, November 29, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Several Gaza border communities refuse to send reps to meeting with Netanyahu

By Michael Horovitz

PM meets regional council heads, but some kibbutzim decry short notice for meeting, claim lack of interest, as government under fire for poor response to Oct. 7 victims

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir attends a National Security Committee meeting at the Knesset, November 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir threatens to tear down government if war not resumed

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Illustrative: Israeli artillery unit stationed near the Israeli border with Lebanon, northern Israel, November 15, 2023. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Nov 29: Day 54 – Why restrained Israel ignores Hamas violence, violations

Rachel Goldberg, mother of Hamas hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, speaks to the press on November 29, 2023 (Sreenshot)

Mother of hostage held in Gaza pans Red Cross as ‘Uber for released hostages’

By Jessica Steinberg

Rachel Goldberg criticizes aid group for not securing visits to kidnapped Israelis; says she was told hostages more valuable to Hamas alive, injured probably taken to hospitals

Emily Bornstein

Keep the Holocaust out of your anti-Israel arguments

If you believe Israel desecrates the memory of the six million, I can say with confidence that if they were alive today, you’d hate them too

PHOTO ESSAY: The beautiful bomb shelters of the Gaza Envelope

The painted concrete blocks reflect the Jews’ resilience in settling the land – even now, when they are stained with Jewish blood

There’s no shortcut to redemption

The trials of the Jewish nation are not fair: Some get more than their fair share, and some must fight for a crumb, but that is how we build

Martin Fletcher

CPJ’s misleading tally of journalist deaths is clickbait for Israel haters

It matters that a large number of listed fatalities were tragic casualties of the war, not necessarily reporters at work

Hamas terrorists seen training to attack Israel in a mock kibbutz built in Gaza (Screencapture/YouTube: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Warnings said not to reach head of Military Intelligence

Hamas ended exercise in mock Israeli town: ‘We have killed everyone on the kibbutz’

Leaked emails show veteran intel soldier warned that terror groups were training for major assault to ‘start a war,’ but her cautions were dismissed by senior officers as ‘fantasy’

From left to right: Yahli Chen, Noga Peleg, Aya Atzilia, and Leah Winkler, Nofei Habsor students who directed the short film "The Kidnapping," in a Channel 12 report, November 29, 2023. (Channel 12 news: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Nir Oz high schoolers made prescient short film about abduction months before Oct. 7

By Michael Horovitz

As Calderon family rejoices at Sahar and Erez’s return, fight continues for dad Ofer

By Jessica Steinberg

As brother and sister Erez and Sahar Calderon were released from captivity Monday night, they were holding hands, and it's that image that stuck in their cousin Abbey Onn's mind. "It's heartwarming and chilling; they're led by terrorists," said Onn, an American-born Herzliya resident who has been representing the extended family in the... Continue Reading

FILE - Sahar Calderon, right, hugs her mother after being released from Hamas captivity on November 27, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Ruti Munder after her release from Hamas captivity on November 24, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Freed hostage describes deteriorating conditions while being held by Hamas

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Freed hostage Elma Avraham, 84, no longer critical; Yaffa Adar, 85, discharged

Soroka Medical Center says Avraham is breathing on her own but remains in intensive care for treatment; Adar, 85, who became a symbol of resilience, leaves hospital

Contract between Israel and citizens broken on Oct. 7, says uncle of freed hostage

By Jeremy Sharon

Zohar Avigdori, uncle of 12-year old Noam Avigdori, who was released on Saturday from captivity in Gaza together with her mother, Sharon, said on Tuesday that the contract between Israel and its citizens was shattered on October 7 and would take decades to repair. Speaking to the press, Avigdori said that the struggle... Continue Reading

Sharon Avigdori and her daughter Noam are reunited with husband and father Hen Avigdori and their son Omer Avigdori after Sharon and Noam were released by Hamas from captivity in Gaza on Saturday, November 25, 2023. (Courtesy Avigdori family)

Yael Alon holding a sign outside the Knesset during a protest against the government, Nov. 29, 2023. It reads: 'My father was killed in the debacle of '73. My son was killed in the debacle of '23. Prosecute Bibi and his government of ruin.' (Twitter screenshot used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Police arrest activist for bereaved families at Knesset protest against government

Israeli hostages released on November 28, 2023: Top L-R: Ditza Heiman, Tamar Metzger, Noralin Babadila Agojo, Ada Sagi, Meirav Tal; bottom: Rimon Kirsht, Ofelia Roitman, Gabriela Leimberg and her daughter Mia, Clara Marman. (Courtesy; combination image: Times of Israel)

Day 5 of hostage releases

10 Israeli and 2 Thai hostages arrive back in Israel after 53 days in Gaza captivity

By Ricky Ben-David and Michael Bachner

8 women, one teen and her mom freed; most were kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz; armed, masked terrorists from Hamas and Islamic Jihad stage-manage grandiose handover to Red Cross

Ditza Heiman, 84, in her Kibbutz Nir Oz kitchen, was taken captive by Hamas on October 7, 2023. Heiman was released on November 28, 2023. (Courtesy)

RELEASED: Ditza Heiman, 84, beloved ‘savta’ returned in a wheelchair

Capture of Kibbutz Nir Oz resident, who lives alone, was filmed by Hamas terrorists during the terror onslaught on October 7

RELEASED: Longtime peace activist Ada Sagi, 75, after 53 days in Gaza

Tamar Metzger, 78, freed from Gaza in a hostage release deal

Rimon Kirsht Buchshtav released from Gaza; husband Yagev still captive

Clockwise from left: Clara Marman, Gabriela Leimberg and Mia Leimberg, captured by Hamas from from Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak on October 7, 2023, were released on November 28, 2023. (Courtesy)

Gabriela and Mia Leimberg, Clara Marman released in November truce deal

Members of extended family were captured from Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak safe room; Norberto Louis Har and Fernando Marman were rescued from Gaza on Feb. 12, 2024

RELEASED: Argentine-Israeli educator Ofelia Roitman, 77

Meirav Tal, released from Gaza; partner Yair Yaakov murdered October 7

RELEASED: Yehud resident Noralin Agojo, captured while visiting Kibbutz Nirim

Reporter's notebook

Amid Gaza war, IDF steps up West Bank raids to quell potential additional front

BEIT FURIK, West Bank — It was just past 2 a.m. Tuesday when around 100 soldiers, some on foot and others in a convoy of armored vehicles, began their movement toward a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank. The overnight operation, like many others in the West Bank in recent weeks, was focused on... Continue Reading

Israeli troops detain a wanted Palestinian man in the West Bank town of Beit Furik, early November 28, 2023. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist terror group Hamas, in Ramallah in the West Bank, November 5, 2023. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool photo via AP)

US official credits PA for relative calm in West Bank amid Israel-Hamas war in Gaza

Attempted murder, shootings, bombings: Most freed Palestinians were held for attacks

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Marah Bakeer, 24, was convicted by an Israeli court of attempting to stab an Israeli police officer in 2015. Rawan Nafez Mohammad Abu Matar, 29, another Palestinian woman, was imprisoned for stabbing an Israeli soldier in 2015. They are two of the 150 Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli custody over the past four... Continue Reading

Released Palestinian security prisoners (wearing grey jumpers) cheer after being released from the Israeli Ofer military facility in Baytunia near the city of Ramallah in the West Bank in exchange for hostages freed by Hamas in Gaza, on November 24, 2023. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Israeli security forces in front of the entrance to Ofer Prison, outside of Jerusalem, from where Palestinian terror convicts were released as part of a deal between Israel and Hamas, November 26, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Arab Israeli prisoners on list of candidates for release in Hamas hostage deal

By Jeremy Sharon

Israeli security forces guard outside the entrance to Ofer prison, outside of Jerusalem, November 26, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Arab Israeli prisoners oppose release under hostage deal, prefer to go to trial

By Michael Horovitz

Cartoonist Roz Chast attends The Hatter's Mad Tea Party: 2018 Moth Ball at Capitale on June 5, 2018 in New York City. (Ben Gabbe/Getty Images for The Moth/AFP)

Interview'My cartoons didn’t look anything like New Yorker cartoons'

Here’s what Jewish New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast’s dreams are made of

By Risa Doherty

The acclaimed illustrator, who has been at the magazine since 1978, takes readers on a nighttime tour of her phantasmagorical mind in her latest book, ‘I Must Be Dreaming’

More Headlines

FILE - This April 13, 2016 file photo shows the seal of the Central Intelligence Agency at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

CIA issues guidelines after senior official shares pro-Palestinian post

A view of the city of Rahat, in southern Israel, October 30, 2023 (Gianluca Pacchiani / Times of Israel)

Man shot dead in Bedouin village, third murder in Arab community in past 24 hours

A striped hyena in a screen grab from an undated video, Israel Nature and Parks Authority via Walls (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Military vetsIDF troops find injured hyena in West Bank, take it for treatment

Screen capture from video of Rabbi Haim Fabrizio Cipriani, 2018. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Italian rabbi faces death threats in antisemitic assault on street in Genoa

People gather for a vigil in Pliny Park in Brattleboro, Vermont, for three Palestinian-American students who were shot while walking near the University of Vermont campus in Burlington, Vermont, seen November 27, 2023. (Kristopher Radder/The Brattleboro Reformer via AP)

Anti-Israel chants at vigil for Vermont shooting of 3 men of Palestinian descent

By AP and ToI Staff

Audience members show their support at a special session of the Oakland City Council for a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, Monday, Nov. 27, 2023, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/D. Ross Cameron)

Oakland City Council calls for ceasefire in Gaza amid support for Hamas

By AP and ToI Staff

Gigi Hadid attends the Victoria's Secret New York fashion week kickoff event, at the Manhattan Center in New York City on September 6, 2023. (Angela Weiss/AFP)

Gigi Hadid apologizes for claiming Israel abducts, rapes and tortures Palestinians

By Gabe Friedman

Gil Ofarim arrives at an event at the Hotel de Rome in Berlin, August 19, 2021. (Gerald Matzka/picture alliance via Getty Images)

German-Israeli singer admits in court to inventing hotel antisemitism claim

By AFP and ToI Staff

Dallas Mavericks team owner Mark Cuban walks to his seat during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Houston Rockets in Dallas, November 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Mark Cuban ironing out $3.5b deal to sell NBA’s Mavericks to Adelson

By Tim Reynolds and Schuyler Dixon

Leonard Cohen in concert at London’s O2 Arena, September 15, 2013. (Brian Rasic/Getty Images/JTA)

About it all againNew miniseries to showcase Leonard Cohen’s romance with Marianne

By Andrew Lapin

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