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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 2, 2023

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Protesters attend a demonstration for the release of hostages held by terrorists in Gaza since the October 7 attack, in Tel Aviv on December 2, 2023. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 2: Freed hostages speak at Tel Aviv rally as Netanyahu vows to press Gaza ground op

By ToI Staff and Ricky Ben-David

Rockets target Tel Aviv for first time since Nov. 20 * Gallant says Hamas refused to release women, kids, breaking deal * Hamas claims only soldiers, former troops still being held

1:09 am

Macron calls deadly Paris stabbing a terror attack, sends condolences to family of victim
11:38 pm

French interior minister says Paris assailant convicted in 2016 of planning another attack
10:55 pm

French police source: Suspect in deadly stabbing attack follows radical Islam, is mentally ill

Residents of the Qatari-funded Hamad Town residential complex in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, carry some of their belongings as they flee their homes after receiving notification from the Israeli army of an imminent strike, on December 2, 2023 (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

IDF carries out ‘extensive’ airstrikes in Khan Younis area amid heavy Gaza fighting

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Rocket fire from Gaza continues; IDF says it hit more than 400 terror targets over past day, including mosque used as command cente; IDF asks Gazan civilians to move to safe zones

Rockets are fired toward Israel from the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, December 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

US blames Hamas for end of truce, as rocket barrages fired at central Israel, south

By Emanuel Fabian and Jacob Magid

Raz Ben Ami, released from Hamas captivity on November 30, visits Tel Aviv's so-called Hostages Square to call for the release of her husband Ohad who is still held in Gaza, December 1, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Just 2 days after she was freed, Raz Ben Ami rallies for husband still held in Gaza

Be’eri resident protests in ‘Hostages Square’ for return of husband Ohad; Ilana Gritzewsky ‘on a mission’ to get boyfriend Matan Zangauker freed by terrorists

Israelis take part in a prayer for the release of hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, December 1, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Families of hostages still in Gaza call collapse of truce a ‘very hard blow’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Truce fell apart after Hamas refused to release more female Israeli hostages

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

The temporary truce between Israel and Hamas broke down this week after the Palestinian terror group that rules Gaza refused to release 10 more female hostages, and instead sought to free abductees taken on October 7 from other categories, in violation of the agreement, Israeli officials said... Continue Reading

Illustrative: A Hamas terrorist stands guard as a Red Cross vehicle transports newly released hostages in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on November 28, 2023. (AFP)

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

IDF spokesperson: Hamas was supposed to release Bibas family in truce deal it violated

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Moran Stela Yanai, 40, embraces family members at Sheba Medical Center after being released on November 29, 2023 from Gaza, where she was held by Hamas terrorists for 54 days (courtesy)

‘Some of them didn’t see daylight’: Top doctor says freed hostages ‘went through hell’

Sheba Medical Center’s Prof. Itai Pessach speaks of moment hostages realize who is not in the room to welcome them, says many didn’t realize the scale of the Oct. 7 onslaught

Kibbutz Be’eri says Ofra Keidar, abducted in Oct. 7 onslaught, died in Hamas captivity

Kibbutz Be’eri, one of the hardest hit communities during the shock October 7 attacks in southern Israel, announced Friday that one of its residents who was taken hostage in Gaza died while in captivity. In a statement, the kibbutz said Ofra Keidar, 70, had died without detailing when... Continue Reading

Ofra Keidar. (Courtesy)

Ofir Tzarfati. (Courtesy)

Troops recover body of Ofir Tzarfati in Gaza, returning him to Israel for burial

By Emanuel Fabian

Guy Iluz was taken captive by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 from the Supernova desert rave. His death was announced on December 1, 2023. (Courtesy)

Israeli taken hostage at music festival on Oct. 7 has died, his school announces

They turned us into monsters

The war is desensitizing us and our children to horror. Can our increased tolerance to antisemitism and murder be reversed?

The true wretched of the earth

On a leading Tunisian intellectual who fought for Arab liberation and refused to accept anything less for himself as a Jew

Police stationed outside a synagogue after threats to the Jewish community, in New York City, November 4, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

15 synagogues across New York hit with false bomb threats

Jewish security agency says the threats targeted 7 houses of worship in NYC, 3 in the suburbs and 5 in upstate New York

A screenshot from CCTV footage taken on December 1, 2023, across the street from the Israeli consulate in Atlanta where a protester with a Palestinian flag set themself on fire. (X/Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Protester with Palestinian flag self-immolates outside Israeli consulate in Atlanta

By Jacob Magid, AFP and ToI Staff

Jewish Chronicle Editor Jake Wallis Simons, and his new book, 'Israelophobia.' (Courtesy of the Jewish Chronicle)

Interview'With this onslaught, the mask has really come off'

UK’s Jewish Chronicle editor says ‘Israelophobia’ excuses Hamas, demonizes Israel

By Robert Philpot

In his new book, Jake Wallis Simons posits that a double standard rooted in antisemitism creates a deadly lose-lose situation for the Jewish state

Israeli women protest outside the UN Headquarters in Jerusalem, November 27, 2023. (Flash90)

Eight weeks after Oct. 7 onslaught, UN Women condemns ‘brutal attacks by Hamas’

By ToI Staff and Amy Spiro

International body leads statement with ‘regret’ that fighting resumed; says is ‘alarmed by numerous accounts of gender-based atrocities, sexual violence’ during massacre

This handout photo provided by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) official website via SEPAH News shows Iranian Revolutionary Guard soldiers taking part in a military drill near the island of Abu Musa, off the coast of the southern Iranian city of Bandar Lengeh (SEPAH NEWS / AFP)

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards says 2 officers killed in alleged Israeli strike in Syria

By ToI Staff, Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Tehran says they were ‘martyred’ while on an ‘advisory’ mission; Syrian defense ministry says several sites hit near Damascus; no comment from IDF

IDF soldiers scuffle with settlers from the Einav settlement trying to storm the town of Deir Sharaf in the Nablus governorate of the West Bank on November 2, 2023, after an Israeli was killed when his car came under fire. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

US to announce visa ban on violent settlers in coming weeks — officials

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Announcement expected to specify number rather than names of settlers banned as deterrent against those considering targeting Palestinians; French foreign ministry calls for EU ban

A woman walks along a building whose facade is covered with Stars of David painted during the night, in the Alesia district of Paris, on October 31, 2023. (Geoffroy Van der Hasselt/AFP)

'Driving polarization in the West is an easy win for Russia'

As antisemitism spikes across Europe, more fingers are pointing at Russia

By David I. Klein

As the Israel-Hamas war rages, sources claim Russians stoking an already tense situation – a strategy used by the country’s security services against the West since the Cold War

Education Ministry assigns NIS 1b for new infrastructure

‘Pop-up schools’ aim to tackle education for 52,000 evacuee students

By Gavriel Fiske

Hotels, institutions and campuses around the country are embracing the opportunity to serve as temporary schools to help traumatized children and teens regain a sense of normalcy

Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., along with other members of Congress have moment of silence as they host a candlelight vigil for Israel at the Capitol in Washington, October 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

There’s a new Jewish Caucus in US Congress, but its mission is still unclear

Jewish members of Congress gather for first meeting, but deeply divided over Israel-Hamas war, other issues; Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz: ‘We did a lot of listening’

Republican Representative George Santos of New York leaves the US Capitol after being expelled from the House of Representatives, December 1, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

US House expels New York Republican who lied about his Jewish identity, other topics

George Santos ejected from the legislature in 311-114 vote over egregious fabrications and criminal charges against him

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