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What Matters Most On Wednesday, November 13, 2024

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File - Then-US president Donald Trump appears on Fox & Friends with co-host Pete Hegseth during a Wounded Warrior Project Soldier Ride event at the White House in Washington, April 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Former national intel director nominated to be CIA chief

Trump taps Fox News host who said US must ‘stand by strong ally’ Israel to head Pentagon

By AP and ToI Staff

US president-elect says ‘America’s enemies on notice’ after nominating Pete Hegseth, an Iran hawk who has said ‘either we put up or shut up’ vis-à-vis Iranian nuclear program

Mike Huckabee takes questions from the media, prior to laying a brick at a new housing complex in the West Bank settlement of Efrat, Aug. 1, 2018. President-elect Donald Trump will nominate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

Trump picks settlement backer Mike Huckabee as next US ambassador to Israel

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Pete Hegseth hosts the Fox Nation's Patriot Awards, in Nashville, Tennessee, November 16, 2023. (George Walker IV/AP)

Trump’s choice of Fox News host for defense chief post shakes Pentagon, US military

By Lolita C. Baldor and TARA COPP

State Attorney's Office prosecutor Yehudit Tirosh at a hearing in the Jerusalem District Court in the trial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, November 13, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Court rejects Netanyahu’s request to delay testimony in criminal trial

By Jeremy Sharon

PM scheduled to begin giving evidence on December 2; Jerusalem District Court rules no justification for further delay after prosecution says Netanyahu can’t dictate trial schedule

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a ceremony at the National Police Academy in Beit Shemesh, on July 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

AG contends army must immediately issue 7,000 draft orders to ultra-Orthodox men

ExplainerInside the year-long struggle to pass Shas’s controversial ‘Rabbis Bill’

Analysis

Despite optimism around chances for Lebanon deal, immense obstacles remain

US and Israeli officials laud progress toward ending fighting between Hezbollah and IDF, but the Iran-backed group is unlikely to accept Netanyahu’s core demands

File: Ron Dermer, Israeli ambassador to the United States, walks through the Capitol in Washington, Sept. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

US special envoy Amos Hochstein, gestures as he meets with Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, in Beirut, Lebanon, August 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

US envoy for Lebanon says ‘there is a shot’ to get Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire soon

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Promoted CampaignIDF Widows and Orphans

The widows & orphans of the IDF need your support now more than ever

The IDF Widows & Orphans Organization helps all the spouses & children of Israel’s fallen heroes, such as Anat Meir, whose husband David fell in battle on Oct 7.

Troops operating in south Lebanon in an undated photo released for publication by the military on November 13, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF: ‘New Hezbollah targets’ reached in expanded south Lebanon ground operation

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Rockets, drones target swaths of northern Israel as fighter jets strike buildings in Beirut after evacuation warnings; IDF says several Hezbollah field commanders killed recently

Ziv Belfer (left), 52, and Shamoun Najm, 54, residents of the northern coastal city of Nahariya, who were killed in a Hezbollah rocket attack on the city on November 12, 2024. (Courtesy)

Two men killed in Hezbollah rocket attack on Nahariya, IDF pounds southern Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Palestinians collect food aid at the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip, on November 6, 2024. (Eyad Baba/AFP)

US says it won’t withhold weapons to Israel, as deadline to address aid crisis passes

Lacking leverage after election, Biden aides say Israel took sufficient steps to comply with US law, even if Jerusalem didn’t meet all the demands it was given 30 days to act on

A handout picture released by the official Jordanian news agency Petra shows an airdrop of humanitarian and relief aid to the southern Gaza Strip carried out by members of the Jordanian army on November 12, 2024. (PETRA News Agency / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Nov. 13: Day 404 – With Biden’s term nearly up, US retires threatened embargo

Op-Ed: Day 404 of the war

The ultra-divisive Netanyahu and the consequences for an Israel fighting for survival

Again and again the questions are asked, mainly by people abroad who love Israel: Don’t Israelis realize how extraordinary a leader he is? And why are so many so mistrustful and critical of him?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a state ceremony marking the Hebrew calendar anniversary of the Hamas invasion and massacre on October 7, 2023, at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on October 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Hostage Sasha Troufanov in a video released by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group on November 13, 2024. (Screengrab)

Palestinian Islamic Jihad releases propaganda video of hostage Sasha Troufanov

By ToI Staff, Emanuel Fabian and Reuters

Captive describes shortages, says he has developed skin condition in captivity, urges protests to pressure government to reach deal; Gaza drone strike kills Oct. 7 terrorist

Troops operating in south Lebanon in an undated photo released for publication by the military on November 13, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

Nov. 13: IDF says it struck Lebanon-Syria land crossings used by Hezbollah to transfer arms

6 troops killed in Lebanon * NSC denies getting suspicious intel on Hamas hours before Oct. 7 attack * Report: Israel hostage envoy tells ministers ‘time short, conditions deteriorating’

9:52 pm

Dozens detained in Amsterdam as pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters again defy ban on demonstrations
8:59 pm

Trump taps loyalist Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz to serve as attorney general
8:57 pm

IDF names 6th soldier killed earlier today in battle with Hezbollah in south Lebanon

Inside story

Gianluca Pacchiani

Though ham-handed, report on Gazan anger at Hamas appears to reflect waning support

Individuals in Strip say Palestinians no longer cheer rocket fire and some express happiness with defeat of terror organization, but say it’s time for Israel to end the war as well

Displaced Palestinians leave western Khan Yunis to areas in the eastern parts of the city following reports of Israeli forces withdrawing from the area in the southern Gaza Strip on July 30, 2024 (Bashar TALEB / AFP)

Dutch MP Geert Wilders arrives to attend a meeting of the 'Patriots for Europe' far-right European Parliament group in Brussels on October 17, 2024. (François Walschaerts/AFP)

Hard-right Dutch MP calls to deport ‘Moroccans’ involved in assaults on Jews

By AP and ToI Staff

Head of anti-immigrant party says ‘Muslims hunted Jews on the streets of Amsterdam,’ urges they be prosecuted on terror charges; comments spark parliamentary backlash

Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema addresses an emergency meeting of the Amsterdam city council days after the Dutch capital was rocked by violence against Israeli football fans in several areas of the city in Amsterdam, November 12, 2024. (Nick Gammon/AFP)

Amsterdam mayor condemns the ‘antisemitism, hooliganism’ behind attacks on Israelis

By ToI Staff and Agencies

'I don't take for granted that you opened your door to me'

In first, Smotrich visits Oct. 7-ravaged Nir Oz, says he feels ‘responsibility, guilt’

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Finance minister meets with former hostages, relatives of those still captive during tour of destroyed community; former Gush Katif rabbi urges him to speak up for the hostages

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich visits a home in Nir Oz destroyed in Hamas's October 7, 2023, onslaught, in an image from the visit provided jointly by Smotrich's office and Nir Oz, November 12, 2024. (Courtesy)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) speaks with then-cabinet secretary Tzachi Braverman during the weekly government meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, June 17, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Netanyahu’s chief of staff reportedly to be questioned over blackmail allegations

Police said seeking to lift gag order in relation to accusation that Tzachi Braverman sought to pressure IDF official to change minutes of meetings linked to October 7 attack

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a plenum session at the Knesset, Jerusalem, November 12, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

PM looking to establish probe to head off Oct. 7 commission of inquiry — report

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 11, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ben Gvir’s texts show him conspiring with aides to exert power over police – report

President Isaac Herzog (L) of Israel presents US President Joe Biden (R) with an artifact from the foot of Temple Mount in Jerusalem that has the word "Joseph" on it during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on November 12, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong / Getty Images via AFP)

Herzog: Israel will 'never forget' how Biden stood with us

‘Joseph strengthened Israel’: Herzog hails Biden in last Oval Office visit with US president

President thanks outgoing counterpart for ‘incredible’ support after Oct. 7, says ‘first and foremost’ the hostages must be freed, as White House seeks ceasefires in Gaza, Lebanon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in a video statement addressed to the Iranian people, November 12, 2024. (Screenshot/GPO)

Israel unveils its latest submarine - 'Dragon'

Netanyahu to Iranians: Another attack on Israel would ‘cripple’ Iran’s economy

By Lazar Berman

In second message within months, PM says regime fears its own citizens more than Israel; looks to future of blossoming ties, freedom and prosperity for Iranians

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi speaks during an interview with AFP in Baku on November 12, 2024, during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29). (Alexander NEMENOV / AFP)

UN nuclear watchdog chief heads for Iran, stresses need for diplomatic solution

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Women share an umbrella as they stand at Enghelab Square in Iran's capital Tehran on December 5, 2022.
(Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iran holds public execution of serial rapist convicted in dozens of cases

By AP

Israelis from Gaza-area communities welcomed in New York on Nov. 10, 2024, for 'Thanks4Giving' mega-mission of Project 24, an Israeli NGO founded in aftermath of Oct. 7 attacks (Mid Island JCC)

Seeking deeper ties, group brings Gaza-area security squads into American homes

By Matt Lebovic

‘Project 24’ initiative says thanks by flying 185 members of emergency teams and their families to Jewish communities in New York area and south Florida for some R&R and more

Kally Rubin Kislowicz

Cookies and half-nelsons

My kids are growing up, and I’ve largely been relegated to keeping the safe room stocked. I also try not to look too desperate for their attention

Stephen M. Flatow

You never forget your first-born’s birth. Or her death

On my daughter Alisa’s 50th birthday, nearly 30 years after her murder by terrorists, my family reflected on her legacy to us – and the world

Faith leaders at the UN climate conference COP29 in Baku Azerbaijan on November 12, 2024. From left: Rabbi Yonatan Neril, director of the Jerusalem-based Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development; Reverend Melanie Mullen, Director of Reconciliation, Justice and Creation Care at the US Episcopal Church' Metropolitan Serafim Kykotis, Lisa Graumlich; and Rebecca Paulsen Edwards, an atmospheric scientist training to be a Methodist deacon. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Scientist turned deacon urges faith leaders to implore followers to act on climate

At annual UN climate confab, speakers at event organized by Jerusalem-based interfaith group say scientific proof of crisis is necessary, but it’s not motivating humanity to change

Ayelet Uri Benita, left, Imad Dlal, center and Yuval Tobi, right will perform 'Everyone’s Favorite - A tribute to the songs of Tunisian diva Habiba Msika' as part of the Oud Festival on November 22, 2024. (Amikam Horesh)

Annual festival includes an oud ode to a Jewish Tunisian diva

By Jessica Steinberg

Unusual mashups abound at the 25th Jerusalem Oud Festival, ranging from Hadag Nachash performing Psalms to a Grammy-winning Indian bamboo flute player

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Elon Musk speaks before Republican presidential nominee former president Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, in New York, October 27, 2024. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Trump taps Elon Musk to co-chair advisory body on government efficiency

By Daniel Trotta and Eric Beech

Settlers rebuilding the Tzur Harel outpost in the West Bank on November 12, 2024. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF soldier moderately hurt as settlers attack troops evacuating West Bank outpost

By Emanuel Fabian

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‘Wanted posters’ featuring Netanyahu’s brother, Jewish staff hung at NY campus

By Michael Horovitz

Justice Minister Yariv Levin speaks in the Knesset plenum, November 13, 2024. (Chaim Goldbergl/Flash90)

ExclusiveBar head accuses Levin of legislative blackmail over Supreme Court president appointment

By Jeremy Sharon

Illustrative: Workers repaint a Ten Commandments billboard off of Interstate 71 on Election Day near Chenoweth, Ohio, November 7, 2023. Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry on June 19. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Federal judge temporarily halts Louisiana law requiring Ten Commandments in schools

By jacob gurvis

Rep. David Kustoff, one of the Jewish co-sponsors of a bill prohibiting nonprofits from providing support to terrorist organizations, at a news conference flanked by Israeli Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, left, and Rep. Anthony D'Esposito, right, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, February 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

US House set to vote on bill targeting nonprofits accused of supporting terrorism

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

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

UN force says Israeli work on Syrian frontier ‘severe violation’ of 1974 ceasefire deal

By Agencies and ToI Staff

(L-R) Demonstrators waved Nazi flags across the street from a community theater production of "The Diary of Anne Frank" in Howell, Michigan, Nov. 9, 2024; the group then moved onto nearby Fowlerville, Michigan. (Screenshots via American Legion Howell and WLNS News via JTA, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Masked neo-Nazi protesters target Michigan production of ‘Diary of Anne Frank’ play

By Andrew Lapin

An illustrative photo of Nvidia's HGX supercomputing platform. (Courtesy)

Google, Amazon set to compete in tender for Israel’s AI supercomputing platform

By Sharon Wrobel

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby speaks during a visit to the tomb of Oscar Arnulfo Romero in San Salvador, El Salvador, on June 4, 2024. (Marvin RECINOS / AFP)

Church of England head Justin Welby resigns over handling of sex abuse scandal

By DANICA KIRKA

Zabolon Simantov kisses the mezuzah on his way out the front door of his home at the synagogue compound in Kabul, in an undated photo. (Ezzatullah Mehrdad/Times of Israel)

Afghanistan’s last Jew arrives in Israel three years after fleeing Taliban rule

This undated photo provided by Pelham Communications on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024 of Frank Auerbach. (David Dawson/Pelham Communications via AP)

ObituaryGerman-British artist Frank Auerbach, who fled the Nazis as a child, dies at 93

By AP and ToI Staff

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