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What Matters Most On Thursday, November 14, 2024

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Soldiers killed in southern Lebanon on November 13, 2024: Top, left to right: Staff Sgt. Sraya Elboim, Sgt. Shalev Itzhak Sagron, Sgt. Yoav Daniel; Bottom, left to right: Staff Sgt. Dror Hen, Staff Sgt. Nir Gofer, Cpt. Itay Marcovich

6 Israeli soldiers killed in fighting with Hezbollah as IDF pushes deeper into Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

IDF says troops died during gun battle with terror group members; air force hits Hezbollah in Beirut as Iran-backed group claims to target army’s HQ; Syria claims bombed by Israel

A man flashes a portrait of slain Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in front of the rubble of a building at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut's southern suburbs, on November 12, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah. (AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Nov. 14: Day 405 – How earlier Lebanon wars may influence a ceasefire now

Clip shows strike near Beirut airport, plane taxiing nearby

IDF says it hit 30 Hezbollah sites in Beirut, Palestinian terror targets in Damascus

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Strike in Syria said to kill 15 people; military issues evacuation orders to residents in targeted parts of Lebanese capital; over 140 rocket launchers destroyed in past week

Footage shows an Israeli airstrike in the vicinity of Beirut’s international airport, as a passenger plane is seen taxiing in the background on November 14, 2024 (Screencapture: X used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Defense Minister Israel Katz, left, during a visit to Northern Command with IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi on November 13, 2024. (Defense Ministry)

New defense minister says ‘disarming Hezbollah’ a war aim, drawing look from IDF chief

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

US Rep. Matt Gaetz speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard, File)

Trump’s AG pick called ADL ‘racist,’ invited Holocaust denier to State of the Union

By jacob gurvis

Jewish groups rush to denounce Florida congressman Matt Gaetz, who opposed an antisemitism bill because it designated the claim that Jews killed Jesus as antisemitic

US President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with House Republicans at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Washington, DC on November 13, 2024. (Allison ROBBERT / POOL / AFP)

After presidency and Senate, Republicans complete US election sweep by securing House

By STEPHEN GROVES and LISA MASCARO

Newly-elected Senate Majority Leader Sen. John Thune, left, and newly elected Senate Majority whip, Sen. John Barrasso, right, arrive for a news conference on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)

Now in control, Republicans pick South Dakota’s Thune to lead Senate majority

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and STEPHEN GROVES

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Protesters and police clash during a rally against the 'Israel is Forever' gala organized by far-right Franco-Israeli figures, in Paris, November 13, 2024, on the eve of the UEFA Nations League 2025 soccer match between France and Israel. (Louise Delmotte/AP)

Paris protesters target pro-Israel, far-right linked gala ahead of tense soccer match

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Demonstrators decry invitation sent to Finance Minister Smotrich; Israel-France game to be secured by thousands of police, as fans permitted to bring only each team’s national flag

A protestor waves a Palestinian flag during an unauthorized pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstration on Dam Square in Amsterdam on November 13, 2024. (Nick Gammon / AFP)

281 detained at pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protest for defying Amsterdam ban

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, embraces National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir as ministers attend a meeting on the planned state budget, in the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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Former Arkansas governor, an ardent settlement supporter, cautions that he will not be the one to set policy; does not rule out resettling Gaza Strip

Mike Huckabee gestures at a campaign event at the Drexelbrook Catering & Event Center, October 29, 2024, in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

US Senator Marco Rubio speaks before Republican presidential nominee former president Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania, October 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Trump officially taps Marco Rubio for secretary of state in new US administration

By Agencies and ToI Staff

This file photo taken on January 27, 2017 shows US President Donald Trump attending the ceremonial swearing-in of James Mattis as secretary of defense at the Pentagon in Washington, DC. (AFP/ Mandel Ngan)

Trump’s team said mulling mass firing of Pentagon officers who criticized him

By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali

The property in northern Nahariya where Ziv Belfer, 52, and Shimon Najm, 54, both residents of the city, were killed in a Hezbollah rocket attack on November 12, 2024. (Tsipi Aloni)

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‘History repeats itself’ as South Lebanon Army veteran, Israeli killed side-by-side

By Diana Bletter

Friends Shamoun Najm, 54, and Ziv Belfer, 52, didn’t have time to reach a nearby shelter before impact of lethal Hezbollah rockets, their Nahariya neighbors say

IDF veteran Max Long (left) and pro-Israel activist Michael Kaminsky speaking in Chicago, Illinois, November 12, 2024. (Fox News screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF veteran recounts brutal assault at Chicago campus, vows to continue his activism

Max Long, whose weekly stand invites DePaul University students to talk with him about Israel, says attack left him with concussion, fellow activist with broken arm

Illustrative: Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel students protest at an encampment on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan on April 28, 2024. (JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP)

University of Michigan student leaders impeached over anti-Israel harassment

By JTA and ToI Staff

Ben & Jerry's ice cream on sale at a shop in Jerusalem, on July 19, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben & Jerry’s sues Unilever, accusing it of silencing pro-Palestinian stance on Gaza

By Jessica DiNapoli

Israelis protest calling for a deal to release hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza outside the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, November 13, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Some hostages have lost half their body weight while in Gaza, Families Forum assesses

As families’ health team warns of life-threatening dangers ahead of winter, IDF point man said to tell ministers military achievements have created conditions for a hostage deal

US President Joe Biden, right, meets with US President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, November 13, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

White House: Biden raised issue of US hostages held in Gaza during meeting with Trump

US President Joe Biden (R) meets with US President-elect Donald Trump (L) in the Oval Office of the White House, November 13, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump makes triumphant visit to White House, where Biden pledges smooth transition

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Being othered: When my nationality precedes my academic work

Academia should provide the sanctuary of shared purpose, especially in my field of disaster medicine, which presumes everyone deserves help

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Online and off, unimpeded use of the term as a derogatory epithet helps perpetuate antisemitism across the Arab world

Ultra-Orthodox men at the Tel Hashomer military recruitment office, August 6, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF sees increase in draft of Haredi troops, but is still far off from goals

By Emanuel Fabian

Some 900 ultra-Orthodox men conscripted in latest draft period, marking an 85% increase over same period last year, but goal was 1,300

Iran's head of the Atomic Energy Organization Mohammad Eslami (R) and the United Nations nuclear chief Rafael Grossi give a joint press conference in Tehran on November 14, 2024. ( ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran says willing to hold nuclear talks, but not ‘under pressure and intimidation’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

IAEA chief, in Tehran for talks about Iran’s atomic program, urges against attacks on Iranian nuclear installations, calls for diplomacy to resolve outstanding issues

A spindle whorl found at Nahal Ein Gev II, held up in front of a 3D model. (courtesy Hebrew University/Daniel Rolider for Smithsonian-Magazine)

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12,000-year-old Stone Age site in Israel reveals first evidence of wheel technology

By Gavriel Fiske

Over 100 small stone objects from Neolithic period are the earliest instance of ‘spindle whorls,’ used to spin fibers into yarn, predating previously known textile tools by 4,000 years

An ancient tablet with an inscription of the Ten Commandments, to be auctioned in December 2024 by Sotheby's. (Screen capture via YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Oldest inscribed Ten Commandments to be auctioned in December

Illustrative: Immigrants from France arrive at Ben Gurion airport in central Israel on July 10, 2017. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Wartime budget would slash benefits for new immigrants, amid global antisemitism spike

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Government proposes ending financial assistance to anyone with over NIS 500,000 in declared assets, though payments for those under that threshold would go up 10%

State holds low-key memorial ceremony, without speeches

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Yitzhak Rabin, left, and Shimon Peres, right, going to voting room in Tel Aviv on April 22, 1974 before Labor Party central committee chose Rabin over Peres to form a new government. (AP Photo/Nash)

Prof. Nir Kedar, president of Sapir Academic College, on campus on November 3, 2024. (Gavriel Fiske/TOI)

Interview'We have a national mission to renew this area'

Sderot’s Sapir Academic College aims to arm its students with tools to rebuild after Oct. 7

By Gavriel Fiske

Campus was a closed military zone for months after war began. As the academic year begins, president Nir Kedar shares the institution’s big plans and how it bolsters resilience

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken talks to the press following a North Atlantic Council Meeting at NATO's headquarters during his one-day visit in Brussels for Ukraine talks with NATO chief, European Union diplomacy boss and Ukraine's Foreign Minister, on November 13, 2024 in Brussels. (Nicolas Tucat/Pool/AFP)

Blinken urges IDF to implement days-long pauses in Gaza fighting to allow aid delivery

Secretary says this was one of three demands that Israel fell short of meeting from letter that threatened partial arms embargo, which the US held off on implementing

EU foreign minister Josep Borrell looks on during a joint press conference following his talks with Poland's foreign minister in Warsaw on November 12, 2024. (Sergei Gapon/AFP)

EU top diplomat urges pausing Israel dialogue over Gaza war, but likely to be vetoed

By AFP and ToI Staff

Displaced Palestinians from shelters in Beit Hanoun cross the main Salaheddine road into Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip following Israeli army evacuation orders on November 12, 2024. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Israel rejects HRW accusations of ‘forcible transfer,’ ‘ethnic cleansing’ in north Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A screenshot from the Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development's Instagram page showing videos commissioned from Nas Studio, in partnership with the Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Diocese of California. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

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Tomer Aharon, chief operating officer of Batte-Re, with the black powder that is created at the end of the lithium battery recycling process (Aviv Lavie)

EnvironmentPioneering Israeli company is recycling electric vehicles’ lithium batteries

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National Security Council denies it received warnings in hours before Oct. 7 attack

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Activist Sheffi Paz, center, surrounded by supporters as she arrives at Neve Tirtza Women's Prison in Ramle to serve her sentence over convictions of vandalism, on November 14, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Defiant anti-migrant activist Sheffi Paz goes to jail, lauded as hero by far-right MKs

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Court extends by one day remand of key suspect in PMO secret documents leak case

Civil society members shout slogans during a protest against Israel outside the UN office on the first anniversary of Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, October 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Israel removes severe travel warning for Sri Lanka beach town

People depart a Lego store in Manhattan on August 29, 2024, in New York City. (SPENCER PLATT / Getty Images via AFP)

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An exterior view of the International Criminal Court, or ICC, in The Hague, Netherlands, on April 30, 2024. (AP/ Peter Dejong)

Israel asks ICC to probe possible bias of new judge on arrest warrant panel

Israeli Air Force fighter jets prepare to head out for strikes in Iran, early October 26, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

CIA official charged over classified docs leak on Israeli plans to strike Iran

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Kibbutz Kfar Aza joins Reches Real Estate to build a new NIS 250m industrial site

By Sharon Wrobel

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Students occupy Italian defense firm Leonardo’s Turin headquarters to protest Gaza war

By Reuters and ToI Staff

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