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What Matters Most On Tuesday, November 5, 2024

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People vote in a voting tent on the day of the US presidential election, in Burnsville, North Carolina, on November 5, 2024. (Allison Joyce / AFP)

US voters head to polls with candidates in dead heat at end of turbulent campaign

A race upended by Biden’s withdrawal, assassination attempts on Trump and historic features of Harris’s candidacy narrows down to 7 swing states; more than 80 million voted early

An election official sorts mail-in ballots at the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center in Phoenix, Arizona, March 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Serkan Gurbuz, File)

ExplainerTrump wants the winner to be declared on election night. Here’s why that’s unlikely

By Nicholas Riccardi

Illustrative: Men walking in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, in 2017. (Amir Levy/ Getty Images/ File)

Crown Heights get-out-the-vote activists aim to show Chabad’s electoral might

Explainer

4 Jewish questions for Election Day 2024 and its aftermath

It’s been a long campaign season filled with debate over which presidential candidate would be better for US Jews and Israel, as many vote with new qualms after the Oct. 7 massacre

People waiting to vote November 4, 2024, stand in a long line that wrapped around the Alaska Division of Elections regional office in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

From left to right, back row: Josh Stein, Jacky Rosen; front row: Tom Suozzi, Alison Esposito, Mondaire Jones, Mike Lawler, Elissa Slotkin, Adam Schiff. (Collage by Grace Yagel/Getty Images)

Beyond Trump and Harris: Seven congressional and governor’s races Jews should watch

Republican presidential nominee former president Donald Trump talks during a visit to The Great Commoner, as owner Albert Abbas, right, listens, in Dearborn, Michigan November 1, 2024,. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP)

Trump’s Jewish supporters unconcerned by his wooing of Israel critics

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis protest against the government, calling for immediate release of the hostages that are still being held by Hamas in Gaza, outside IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, September 7, 2024. (Gili Yaari /Flash90)

Fifth suspect arrested in intelligence theft and leak case

Theft of sensitive IDF intel, transfer to ‘people at PM’s office’ called ‘systematic’

By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

Bild’s report on one such document said to pose ongoing threat to soldiers, hostages in Gaza by exposing sources; 4 suspects said to serve in IDF unit tasked with preventing leaks

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Yael Eshel (right), whose sister Roni was killed by Hamas terrorists at the IDF's Nahal Oz base on October 7, 2023, and Yuval Marciano (left), whose sister Noa was kidnapped and murdered in Gaza in November 2023, meet at the military's recruitment base at Tel Hashomer, November 4, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Younger sisters of two female soldiers killed by Hamas begin their IDF service

Yael Eshel, whose sister Roni was killed in attack on Nahal Oz base, and Yuval Marciano, whose sister Noa was kidnapped to Gaza and murdered, meet at recruitment base

Staff at Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital bid farewell to Nova survivor Nati Ganon (second left), who was hospitalized after being seriously wounded during Hamas's October 7, 2023, massacre and discharged on November 4, 2024. (Jenny Yerushalmi/Ichilov spokesperson)

Nova survivor who lost wife on Oct. 7 goes home after almost 400 days in hospital

Israelis light a bonfire on a Tel Aviv highway during a protest after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on November 5, 2024. (AP/Oded Balilty)

Live updates (closed)

Nov. 5: Biden administration caught off-guard by firing of Gallant on US Election Day

By Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

Netanyahu claims minister defied decisions * Lapid: ‘Act of madness’ * Thousands block roads, but crowds much smaller than after 2023 firing * First vote tallies give Trump slight edge

10:43 pm

Video shows MK being shoved by cop in Tel Aviv, bonfires still burning on highway
10:16 pm

Five arrested in Jerusalem, Haifa protests
9:59 pm

Herzog urges leaders to act with responsibility amid war: 'Israel's security must be above all considerations'

Staff clean a classroom at Emunah daycare in the city of Modiin, on May 7, 2020. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Government nixes vote on daycare subsidies for Haredi draft evaders after losing majority

PM orders move after 9 coalition lawmakers, including Likud MKs, say they’ll vote against bill seen by critics as effort to circumvent ultra-Orthodox enlistment in IDF

Knesset Speaker MK Yuli Edelstein in the Knesset plenum, October 28, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)

Senior Likud MK says he won’t back daycare subsidies bill for Haredi draft-evaders

By Sam Sokol and Jeremy Sharon

An ultra-Orthodox Jew protesting against the drafting of Haredim to the Israeli army holds a sign reading, 'We won't draft to an enemy army,' outside the IDF Recruitment Center at Tel Hashomer, in central Israel, September 2, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

IDF to issue 7,000 more draft orders to Haredim after unsuccessful first phase

By Emanuel Fabian

America’s election reveals the immorality of Jewish anti-Zionism

Just as Americans have the right to wrestle with the complexity of a work in progress, so do the Jews of Israel

Ellen Just Braffman

Jan. 6 made me rule out Trump; Oct. 7 made me vote for him

Kamala Harris thinks a 2-state solution will solve the Mideast conflict. Trump gets that it’s a showdown between Iran and Western values

Analysis

Asaf Elia-Shalev

Why Trump is being compared to the obscure biblical king Jehu on the Christian right

Some pastors are urging their followers to think of the Republican candidate as a present-day manifestation of the monarch who violently killed the evil Jezebel

Republican presidential nominee and former US president Donald Trump wraps up a campaign rally at J.S. Dorton Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina, November 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Russia seen behind false reports of planned US election fraud in swing states

By AFP, Reuters and ToI Staff

Harris and Trump make a furious final push one day before US election

By Jill Colvin, DARLENE SUPERVILLE and Bill Barrow

US braces for possible election day violence as Harris, Trump deliver final pitches

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) at a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, November 1, 2024. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO); Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara at a farewell ceremony for retiring acting Supreme Court president Uzi Vogelman, at the Supreme Court, in Jerusalem, October 1, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/ POOL/ File)

Netanyahu demands ‘solution’ to ‘adversarial’ AG as ministers call for her ouster

By Sam Sokol, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Lapid slams ‘threats’ against Baharav-Miara by PM, whose office then insists he is careful to follow his agreement not to meddle in legal appointments while on trial for corruption

Illustrative: A Haredi man looks at Israeli soldiers gathered at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, March 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Nov. 5: Day 396 – Haredi daycare subsidies crack coalition discipline

Interview

Though battered, Hamas still able to function in central Gaza, says tank commander

Speaking soon after his return from Netzarim Corridor, Lt. Col. Dori says he saw Hamas gunmen seize aid trucks, believes totally dismantling terror group will take a long time

Lt. Col. Dori, 14th Reserve Armored Brigade, in central Gaza, October 2024 (IDF Spokesman)

Relatives of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip and their supporters attend a rally calling for their immediate release in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, November 2, 2024. (AP/Francisco Seco)

Hamas nixes Cairo’s proposal for brief Gaza ceasefire in exchange for 4 hostages

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Diplomat says negotiations ongoing, all options still on the table; Netanyahu said willing to offer ‘millions of dollars,’ safe passage out of Gaza to captors who release hostages

People scramble to receive sacks of flour at a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) aid distribution centre in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on November 3, 2024. (Eyad Baba/AFP)

Blinken speaks with Gallant as US says Israel failing to boost Gaza aid deliveries

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Iran sentences 3 to death over 2020 killing of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Judiciary also says German-Iranian citizen Jamshid Sharmahd, jailed for pro-monarchist ‘terrorist acts,’ died before planned execution that soured Tehran-Berlin relations

The scene where Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed in Absard, a small city just east of the capital, in Tehran, Iran, on November 27, 2020. (Fars News Agency via AP); Inset: Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in an undated photo. (Courtesy)

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (right) with Brig. Gen. Yotam Sigler at the Nevatim air force base in southern Israel, October 6, 2024. (Elad Malka/Defense Ministry)

Security upped for IDF base commander after Iranian assassination plot — report

File: Armed Israeli Air Force planes depart from an unknown location to attack Iran, October 26, 2024. (Israeli Army via AP)

AnalysisIsrael’s use of air-launched ballistic missiles against Iran sparks market interest

By Reuters and ToI Staff

From 'October H8te,' Wendy Sachs' documentary that premiered in Tel Aviv on October 30, 2024 (Courtesy)

‘October H8te’ documentary aims to understand US college alignment with Hamas

By Jessica Steinberg

Wendy Sachs’ film explores how campus social justice movements ended up backing a terrorist organization, and how Jewish students dealt with the accompanying antisemitism

IDF forces operating in Lebanon in an undated photo cleared by the military for publication on November 4, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF strikes Hezbollah’s intelligence unit in Syria, issues rare confirmation

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Attack said to kill 2 members of terror group, as 3 more commanders killed in Lebanon; 5 drones, some 60 rockets fired at north, most intercepted, while troops in Lebanon press on

Illustrative: Israeli security forces seen during a military operation in the West Bank city of Qabatiya, September 19, 2024. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Over 60 PFLP operatives arrested in West Bank and Lebanon — IDF, Shin Bet

Authorities say key figures in terror group among those nabbed; PA says 2 dead in airstrike in Jenin area, plus 5 others killed in clashes with troops in northern West Bank

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (C) is greeted as US Ambassador to Qatar Timmy Davis (2R) and Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs Chief of Protocol Ibrahim Fakhroo (R) walk behind upon his arrival in Doha, October 24, 2024. (Nathan Howard/Pool/AFP)

US, Saudi Arabia said discussing security deal without Israel normalization

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Prof. Carmit Levy, left, and Prof. Yaron Carmi of Tel Aviv University. (Tel Aviv University)

Israeli researchers identify protein that stops immune cells from attacking tumors

By Diana Bletter

Footage posted to social media by anti-Israel group Palestine Action purports to show two activists stealing two busts, one of them of Israel's first president, from the University of Manchester, November 1, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

UK anti-Israel activists who ‘abducted’ busts of Weizmann post threats on social media

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at a Knesset memorial session marking 19 years since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, November 5, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

On anniversary of killing, Knesset memorial for Rabin canceled at family’s request

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators wave flags over the Brooklyn Museum during a protest demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, May 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Three indicted for anti-Israel vandalism of Brooklyn Museum officials’ homes

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A police car in Rishon Lezion on July 3, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Man shot dead in central Arab town of Kafr Qara

Screenshot of video posted on @Offinvestigatio on X, showing French anti-Israel protesters at the French Football Federation in Paris, France, Monday, November 4, 2024. (Screenshot from X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law

Anti-Israel protesters occupy French soccer federation building in Paris

By AP and ToI Staff

Besiktas midfielder Ekrem Dag (R) vies with Maccabi Tel-Aviv's forward Roberto Colautti (L) during an UEFA Europa League Group E football match at the Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv on December 1, 2011. (Jack Guez/AFP/File)

Turkish soccer club moves home game against Maccabi Tel Aviv to ‘neutral country’

By AFP and ToI Staff

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