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What Matters Most On Thursday, November 30, 2023

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Police and rescue workers at the scene of a terror shooting attack in Jerusalem, November 30, 2023. (Ohad Zwigenberg/AP)

Soldiers who killed the terrorists were heading back to Gaza

Four killed, 5 injured in Hamas-claimed terror shooting at Jerusalem bus stop

By Emanuel Fabian

Three victims killed by terrorists, while fourth man was a civilian who fired at the shooters and was mistaken by other responders for one of the attackers; two gunmen shot dead

Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi is greeted during a welcome ceremony in Ramallah on November 29, 2023, following the release of 30 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails in a deal for Israeli hostages in Gaza. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi among 30 prisoners released in deal for hostages

An armed Palestinian man stands among residents in Jenin as they examine the damage sustained by a house during an IDF raid in the area on November 29, 2023. (Zain Jaafar/AFP)

IDF kills two senior terror operatives in Jenin during West Bank raid

By Emanuel Fabian

A screenshot from Egyptian television shows siblings Bilal and Aisha Ziyadne, Ilana Gritzewsky, Nili Margalit, Shani Goren and Sapir Cohen at the Rafah Border Crossing after being released as hostages by the Gaza-ruling Hamas terror group, November 30, 2023. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

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Nov. 30: Hostages freed Thursday night reunite with relatives

By Michael Bachner and Ricky Ben-David

8 Israeli hostages released today in total * 30 Palestinians let go in Ramallah * Blinken warns Israel on scale of civilian losses, says safe zones needed before fighting resumes

12:07 am

Freed hostages en route to hospitals for reunions
10:50 pm

Man hit by friendly fire during terror attack dies of wounds, hospital confirms
9:48 pm

Military says 6 freed hostages now back in Israel

Israeli soldiers seen near the Israeli-Gaza border, southern Israel, November 29, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Hamas says will release hostages, 3 bodies on Thursday as Gaza truce extended

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israel was initially said to be expecting 8; Hamas later said 2 Russian dual nationals to be freed; terms finalized just ahead of 7 a.m. deadline, when fighting would have renewed

Bilal (left) and Aisha Ziyadne, two Bedouin siblings kidnapped by Hamas on October 7, 2023, and taken to Gaza together with their father and older brother. Bilal and Aisha were freed on November 30, 2023. (Courtesy)

Two Bedouin teens released from Gaza; father and older brother still held hostage

Israeli soldiers seen at a staging area near the Israeli-Gaza border, southern Israel, November 29, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Netanyahu, Gallant emphatic war will resume soon, though current truce may be extended

By ToI Staff and Carrie Keller-Lynn

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The Bibas family, father Yarden, mother Shiri, baby Kfir and four-year-old Ariel, were taken captive by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 from Kibbutz Nir Oz. (Courtesy)

Members of the Hamas and the Islamic Jihad terror groups release Israeli hostages to the Red Cross, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, November 28, 2023. (Flash90)

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Yocheved Lifshitz (center), who was freed in October from Hamas captivity, protests in Tel Aviv on November 28, 2023, alongside family members, for the release of the remaining hostages, including her husband, Oded. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Freed hostage Lifshitz: I asked Hamas official how he wasn’t ashamed. He didn’t reply

Released captive Rimon Kirsht Buchshtav lauded for defiant stare at Hamas terrorist, while Adina Moshe praised for bravery in asking for older woman to be freed instead of her

Thai nationals freed from Gazan captivity hug at a hospital in Israel in a photo released by the Thai government on November 27, 2023. (Courtesy)

Freed Thai hostage says Israelis held with him were abused, beaten

Liora Argamani in a recorded video message on November 29, 2023, for her daughter, Noa Argamani, who was abducted by Hamas on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy Sarai Givaty and Keren Kozlova)

Terminally ill mother of hostage Noa Argamani records plea to see her

By Jessica Steinberg

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)

Day 6 of hostage releases

12 Israeli women and teens, 4 Thais, released from Hamas captivity under truce deal

Among those freed are Raaya Rotem, mother of Hila released days ago; 13-year-old Gali Tarshansky; Yarden Roman-Gat, who handed daughter to husband so they could flee to safety

Simcha Shani, grandmother of Amit Shani, hugs her grandson’s other grandparents Musa and Dahlia Weissman after receiving news that Amit Shani has been released from captivity in Gaza, November 30, 2023. (Jeremy Sharon/Times of Israel)

Be’eri community shouts for joy as kibbutz’s Gaza hostages make their way home

By Jeremy Sharon

Members of Kibbutz Ramat Rachel await the expected release of a resident who was taken hostage in the Hamas onslaught on October 7, on November 29, 2023. (Iddo Schejter/Times of Israel)

In Kibbutz Ramat Rachel, residents huddle to witness return of kidnapped son

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Musk apologizes for endorsing antisemitic post, curses advertisers boycotting X for it

By Andrew Lapin

Back from Israel, social media platform owner says any who try to ‘blackmail’ him by withholding ads can ‘go f**k yourself’; suggests some Jewish groups have funded Hamas affiliates

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer answers questions from reporters outside the Senate chamber, at the Capitol in Washington, Nov. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

On Senate floor, Chuck Schumer says US Jews ‘feel alone’ amid rise in antisemitism

By STEPHEN GROVES

Sen. Michael Bennet, a Colorado Democrat, runs out of a Senate room where there was a screening of the October 7 Hamas atrocities, in the US Capitol, November 28, 2023. (Ron Kampeas/ JTA)

Stark footage of Hamas’s Oct. 7 atrocities leaves US senators silent and tearful

Kibbutz Be'eri residents and visitors on November 27, 2023 inaugurate a Torah scroll in the kibbutz in memory of Amit Man, among those murdered by terrorists on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy of Amit Man's family)

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Pause in war gives traumatized Israelis a chance to visit home – or what’s left of it

By Canaan Lidor

Temporary Israel-Hamas ceasefire allows residents of Sderot and nearby kibbutzim to briefly return, stock up on gear… and begin to internalize what’s happened

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivers remarks during a Security Council open debate on the maintenance of international peace and security at the UN headquarters in New York on November 20, 2023. (Yuki IWAMURA / AFP)

After 7 weeks of silence, UN chief calls to investigate Hamas sex crimes on Oct 7

By Amy Spiro, Jacob Magid and Carrie Keller-Lynn

Envoy Erdan slams lengthy delay, casting of doubt by Guterres on such incidents during terror onslaught in Israel, despite testimony from survivors, first responders, morgue workers

Gali Tarshanksy, 13, was taken captive on October 7, 2023, from her home on Kibbutz Be'eri by Hamas terrorists and released on November 29, 2023. (Courtesy)

RELEASED: Gali Tarshansky, 13, abducted after her brother was murdered at Be’eri

Gali, Lior and father Ilya tried to escape out of their safe room window on Oct. 7

Raz Ben Ami, 57, was taken hostage on Kibbutz Be'eri by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 and released on November 29, 2023. (courtesy)

Raz Ben Ami, released after 54 days; husband Ohad still captive

Amit Shani, 16, was taken captive by Hamas terrorists at Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7, 2023 and released on November 29, 2023. (Courtesy)

RELEASED: Amit Shani, 16, captured at Be’eri as family watched

Raaya Rotem was taken hostage by Hamas terrorists from Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7, 2023. She was freed on November 29, 2023. (Courtesy)

RELEASED: Raaya Rotem freed Nov. 29, reunited with daughter Hila, freed Nov. 25

Mother and daughter from Kibbutz Be’eri released separately by Hamas, in a breach of terms of temporary ceasefire

Yarden Roman-Gat, captured on October 7, 2023 and released on November 29, 2023. (Courtesy)

RELEASED: Yarden Roman-Gat, handed daughter to husband who escaped

Ofir Engel was taken hostage by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 from Kibbutz Be'eri and released on November 29, 2023. (Courtesy)

RELEASED: Ofir Engel, 18, captured at Be’eri while visiting his girlfriend

Liam Or, 18, taken captive by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 from his home in Kibbutz Be'eri and released on November 29, 2023. (Courtesy)

Liam Or, 18, released from Gaza with two of his cousins

Or’s cousins 17-year-old Noam and 13-year-old Alma Or were released on November 25, his uncle’s body is being held captive

RELEASED: Itay Regev will reunite with sister Maya, both abducted from Supernova

RELEASED: Moran Stela Yanai, jewelry designer captured at rave

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Playwright Joshua Hershfield will stage a reading of ‘RISE’ on Thursday as pilot for Israeli production of musical based on female couriers who planned ghetto revolts

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Pope Francis arrives for the weekly general audience at Paul-VI hall in The Vatican on November 29, 2023. (Tiziana FABI / AFP)

Report: Pope told Herzog last month Israel can’t ‘respond to terror with terror’

The moon rises in the sky behind the 5th century BCE Parthenon temple at the ancient Acropolis hill, in Athens, July 31, 2023. (Petros Giannakouris/AP)

Some Israelis shelter in Athens as war with Hamas rages on

By AFP and ToI Staff

Tables and chairs at a restaurant that has closed in Sderot, Oct. 25, 2023 (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

OECD cuts Israel growth forecast due to war, sees temporary slowdown in economy

By Sharon Wrobel

At a rally for Israel in Munich, a participant holds a sign reading "You are not alone. No tolerance for antisemitism," Nov. 26, 2023. (JTA/Stefan Puchner/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Antisemitism in Germany increased by 320% after Oct. 7, report finds

By Shira Li Bartov

IDF censor Brig. Gen. Kobi Mandelblit attends a State Control Committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, on June 5, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Report: Military censor says PM unjustifiably pressing him to clamp down on reporting

Masked settlers hurl stones at Palestinian homes in the northern West Bank village of Burin, March 3, 2023. (Yesh Din)

Video shows Israeli extremists assaulting Palestinians in their West Bank homes

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Screen capture from video of an assailant, bottom right, stabbing a pregnant woman in Lod, November 30, 2023. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Pregnant woman stabbed to death in front of her kids in Lod; unborn baby also dies

A municipal worker cleans swastikas spray painted on columns of the Rivoli Street in central Paris, on October 11, 2020. (Stephane De Sakutin/AFP)

France charges two for justifying crimes against humanity over swastikas in Paris

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: An Egyptian watches the British destroyer HMS Diamond pass through the Suez Canal as it sails from the Red Sea toward the Mediterranean, on December 2, 2012. (AFP)

Britain sends destroyer to Gulf to bolster maritime security

By Agencies and ToI Staff

InterviewIn wartime, a US investor scouts for more battle-tested Israeli tech

By Sharon Wrobel

Illustrative: This handout picture courtesy of the US Navy taken on October 19, 2023, shows the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64) defeating a combination of Houthi missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles in the Red Sea. (Aaron Lau / US NAVY / AFP)

US warship in South Red Sea shoots down Iranian-made drone launched from Yemen

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A fire at Congregation Beth Israel in Austin, Texas set on October 31, 2021 damaged the sanctuary, historic front doors and stained glass windows at the Reform synagogue. (Austin Fire Department via JTA)

Austin synagogue arsonist sentenced to 10 years in prison for 2021 attack

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