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What Matters Most On Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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Israeli security forces at the site where a drone from Lebanon hit and caused damage to a kindergarten complex, in Nesher, northern Israel, November 11, 2024. (Flash90)

Teacher says drone ‘hit exactly' where kids had just been

Hezbollah drone hits kindergarten near Haifa; kids unharmed in bomb shelter

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

No sirens heard in community of Nesher, but staff moved youngsters to safety as a precaution; IDF bombs terror group’s southern Beirut bastion

Aid enters the Gaza Strip via the new Kissufim Crossing, November 12, 2024. (COGAT)

Live updates (closed)

Nov. 12: At UNSC, US envoy warns Israel not to forcibly displace or starve Gazans

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Trump picks settlements backer Mike Huckabee as next US envoy to Israel * Biden aide: ‘There is a shot’ at Lebanon truce soon * 2 killed as rocket from Lebanon hits Nahariya

10:01 pm

Hamas claims US not halting arms transfer to Israel means it's complicit in Gaza 'genocide'
9:57 pm

IDF issues evacuation order ahead of strike on Hezbollah site in Beirut
9:56 pm

At Security Council, US envoy warns Israel not to forcibly displace or starve Gazans

Soldiers killed in the northern Gaza Strip on November 11, 2024: (L-R) Staff Sgt. Ofir Eliyahu, Staff Sgt. Nave Yair Asulin, Staff Sgt. Gary Lalhruaikima Zolat, and Staff Sgt. Orr Katz. (Israel Defense Forces)

Four IDF soldiers killed in fighting in northern Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

Slain troops named as Orr Katz, 20; Nave Yair Asulin, 21; Gary Lalhruaikima Zolat, 21; and Ofir Eliyahu, 20; Israel’s death toll in Gaza ground operation at 375

Trucks loaded with aid drive down the Salaheddin road in the central town of Deir el-Balah in the Gaza Strip on November 5, 2024. (Eyad Baba/AFP)

Ministers approve steps to alleviate Gaza humanitarian crisis ahead of US deadline

Maj. (res.) Itamar Levin Fridman was killed during fighting in northern Gaza, November 11, 2024. (Courtesy)

Reserves officer killed by sniper fire in north Gaza fighting

By Emanuel Fabian and Reuters

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In this image taken from video, police officers patrol in riot gear on the streets of Amsterdam, November 11, 2024, as the city is facing tensions following widespread antisemitic violence last week. (AP Photo)

‘Cancer Jews’: Several arrested after tram set ablaze in week’s second Amsterdam riot

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Five more suspects in Nov. 8 attacks also arrested; Dutch PM says misbehavior by Maccabi fans doesn’t justify violent attacks: ‘Nothing excuses the deliberate hunting down of Jews’

Police officers clear people away from Dam Square during an anti-Israel protest in Amsterdam on November 10, 2024. (Robin van Lonkhuijsen / ANP / AFP via JTA)

'Governments here have proven unreliable more than once'

Amsterdam Jews are reeling from ongoing attacks, fear cops can’t protect them

By Shira Li Bartov and ToI Staff

Organized, widespread beatings of Israeli soccer fans led to a temporary ban on protests, which anti-Israel activists are ignoring, and violence is continuing

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich speaks during his Religious Zionism party's weekly faction meeting in the Knesset, November 11, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich says Trump’s victory an opportunity to ‘apply sovereignty’ in the West Bank

New administration could allow Israel to advance annexation of settlements, claims far-right finance minister, says the groundwork is already being put into place

President Isaac Herzog delivers a speech to the audience attending the Jewish Federations' 2024 General Assembly in Washington DC on November 12, 2024. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)

Herzog bids farewell to ‘dear friend’ Biden, wishes Trump success at JFNA speech

By Charlie Summers

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, center, and then-tourism minister Yariv Levin during a meeting to discuss mapping extension of Israeli sovereignty to areas of the West Bank, held in the Ariel settlement, February 24, 2020. (David Azagury/ US Embassy Jerusalem/ File)

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Ex-Trump aides warn Israeli ministers not to assume he’ll back annexation in 2nd term

Cabinet members told support for controversial move could hamper other US foreign policy goals, would only happen as part of peace plan like the one in 2020 that far-right opposed

Troops of the 646th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade operate in southern Lebanon, in a handout image published October 24, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Sharp drop seen in reservist response rate due to burnout amid long war

By Emanuel Fabian

Sources say 75% to 85% of reserve soldiers have been showing up for duty in recent weeks, compared to over 100% at start of fighting

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with members of the Nagel Committee in Jerusalem on October 13, 2024 (Prime Minister's Office Spokesman)

Higher defense spending in coming years will take toll on citizens, Treasury warns

By Sharon Wrobel

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Limping toward the light: A letter from me in this moment

In this complex and loud world piled with confusion and brokenness, the most decent thing we can do is revive the lost art of respectfulness

Thousands of partygoers dance on the beach during the Full Moon Party on Koh Phangan island in the southern Thai province of Surat Thani on the night of December 14, 2016. (Lillian Suwanrumpha / AFP)

Israel warns citizens in Thailand to be vigilant amid ‘growing fear’ of terror plots

Warning does not change threat level, says caution applies to whole country, after report that Thai police has firm indications of attack on upcoming Friday party in Koh Phangan

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Nov. 12: Day 403 – Trump administration begins to take shape

US bureau chief Jacob Magid on the diplomacy behind Qatar leaving the hostage negotiations, Trump’s call with Abbas, his aides on annexation, and possible members of Trump cabinet

Senator Marco Rubio of Florida speaks during a campaign rally for Donald Trump at J.S. Dorton Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina, November 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump expected to name pro-Israel Sen. Marco Rubio as secretary of state

Former president Donald Trump's adviser Stephen Miller (L) and former Rep. Lee Zeldin. (Collage/AFP)

Trump taps Jewish allies Stephen Miller, Lee Zeldin for top roles in administration

By JTA and ToI Staff

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir arrives for a court hearing at Jerusalem District Court to request that it bar the HaMakor news program from publishing videos, texts and recordings from a WhatsApp group chat, November 10, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

‘Constitutional crisis’: Netanyahu warns AG against reported bid to fire Ben Gvir

Lapid calls far-right police minister a ‘danger to the people of Israel,’ while Democrats party leader Yair Golan accuses the government of operating like a ‘criminal syndicate’

Former prime minister and current opposition leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu during a court hearing in his trial, at the Jerusalem District Court, May 31, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Prosecution opposes PM request to postpone testimony, demands no more trial delays

By Jeremy Sharon

Eli Feldstein (left), a former spokesman in the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is the main suspect in an investigation, launched in late October 2024, of alleged illegal access and leaking of classified intelligence material. (Kan screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law); Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) at a plenum session at the Knesset, Jerusalem, November 12, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Soldier suspected of intel theft was told Netanyahu got his material, wanted more – lawyer

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Explainer

Getting rid of these troublesome officials: Can Netanyahu fire AG, IDF chief, Shin Bet head?

PM denies plans to boot IDF and Shin Bet chiefs, though doing so would be fairly simple; government is in open conflict with AG Baharav-Miara, but ousting her would be more complex

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)

Rabbi Daniel De'ei, who organizes and financially supports round-the-clock Torah studies at Rachel's Tomb, Bethlehem, November 11, 2024. (Mati Wagner/Times of Israel)

Reporter's Notebook'There can be no victory without people studying Torah'

Haredim flock to Rachel’s Tomb to pray for the IDF – and for God not to make them enlist

On the anniversary of the matriarch’s death, Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community sees no contradiction in asking her to protect the soldiers while protecting Haredim from serving

After booting Gallant, Netanyahu said to secure support for Haredi draft exemptions

‘Kiss the flag, Nazi’: The anti-Israel event at Microsoft

Media reports on the unauthorized ‘No Azure for Apartheid’ vigil left out the part about how unsafe it felt for Jewish employees like me

Trump, masculinity, and the Jewish alternative

The rabbinic solution doesn’t erase men’s unique traits or glorify their most destructive instincts, it offers a constructive path

Defense Minister Israel Katz (right) meets with IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi (left) and members of the General Staff Forum at the Defense Ministry, November 11, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/ Defense Ministry)

Katz: Iran nuclear facilities ‘more exposed than ever’ following Israeli strikes

New defense minister says conditions in place to ‘remove threat of annihilation hanging over State of Israel’; FM Sa’ar calls Iran nuclear threat the region’s most serious issue

A handout picture provided by the Saudi Press Agency SPA on November 11, 2024, shows Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman addressing the joint extraordinary leaders summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Arab League in Riyadh. (Photo by Ahmed NURELDINE / SPA / AFP)

At Riyadh summit, Saudi crown prince backs Iran, accuses Israel of genocide

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (left) and Defense Ministry Director General Eyal Zamir (right) are seen during the launch of the Ofek-13 reconnaissance satellite, March 29, 2023. (Defense Ministry)

Defense Ministry director submits resignation to new chief in latest wartime shakeup

Marianne Bern and the key she kept from the Bielefeld synagogue that was destroyed on Kristallnacht. (Courtesy of Jennifer Bern-Vogel via JTA)

'It's all we have of our old synagogue, and now it's back'

86 years after Kristallnacht, German congregation gets back key to destroyed synagogue

By jacob gurvis

The relic, one of only two items that survived, was kept by a young girl who escaped the Nazis on the Kindertransport; now it heads home to a community in the midst of a revival

Germany detains teen with ‘extremist Islamic views’ over suspected attack plot

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israeli soldiers walking next to buildings destroyed by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023, near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, November 21, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ravaged Kibbutz Nir Oz votes to rebuild as ‘victory’ over Oct. 7 destruction

By Jessica Steinberg

Community calls on government to help reconstruction while also providing support for those who feel they cannot return to their homes due to trauma of Hamas massacre

MK Ofer Cassif, Arab Israelis and Israeli left wing student activists attend a rally marking the anniversary of the 'Nakba' at Tel Aviv University, May 15, 2024. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90)

Knesset suspends far-left MK Ofer Cassif for six months over comments on Gaza war

David Bitan, chairman of the Knesset Economics Committee (c) at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on November 11, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud MK David Bitan orders relative of dead hostage ejected from Knesset meeting

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Lufthansa aircrafts parked at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, September 2, 2022. (AP/Michael Probst)

Lufthansa group extends suspension of Israel flights through December 15

By AFP and ToI Staff

This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows Israeli forces digging along the Alpha Line separating the Golan Heights from a demilitarized zone in Syria patrolled by United Nations forces on November 5, 2024. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

IDF building along UN-patrolled demilitarized zone in Syria, satellite images show

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israelis from different walks of life meet at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem under the aegis of Rivon4 (Rivon4)

Reporter's notebookUpstart grassroots org calls for mending societal rifts as Israel begins its ‘4th quarter’

Pople look at barriers set up where a man deliberately rammed his car into people exercising, killing at least 35 and injuring many others, in Zhuhai, in southern China's Guangdong province, November 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

35 dead as driver rams into crowd at sports center in southern Chinese city

Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon talks to journalists with demonstrators from Code Pink for Peace while rallying against Israel and in support of Palestinians outside the Capitol Hill offices of Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) on February 15, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/ Getty Images/ AFP)

Susan Sarandon says she’s blacklisted in Hollywood after comments on Jews and Israel

Houthi supporters raise their machine guns during an anti-US and -Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen, November 1, 2024. (Osamah Abdulrahman/AP)

Explosions reported near Red Sea ship in suspected Houthi attack

By AP and ToI Staff

Karim Khan, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court looks up prior to a press conference in The Hague, Netherlands, July 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

ICC confirms probe of sexual misconduct allegations against prosecutor; he won’t step down

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Paul Manni, from left, Sam Alasri, Wasel Yousaf, Waseem Makani and Abrahim Tamimi, cheer as Republican presidential nominee and former US president Donald Trump's speech is broadcast during an Arab Americans for Trump watch party at the Lava Java Cafe, a hookah lounge, in the early hours of November 6, 2024, in Dearborn, Michigan. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

How Trump broke the GOP’s losing streak in America’s largest majority-Arab city

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and Mike Householder

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