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What Matters Most On Friday, November 15, 2024

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FILE - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. speaks before Donald Trump at a campaign event, September 27, 2024 in Walker, Michigan. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

RFK Jr., who mused COVID was designed to spare Ashkenazi Jews, tapped to head HHS

By Andrew Lapin

Trump says he’s ‘thrilled’ to nominate the Kennedy family scion, a rabid anti-vaxxer who has compared vaccine mandates to the Holocaust, to head vast US federal health bureaucracy

North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum arrives before US President-elect Donald Trump at an America First Policy Institute gala at his Mar-a-Lago estate, November 14, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump taps Doug Burgum, pro-Israel governor with settler ties, as interior secretary

By ToI Staff and AP

German navy UNIFIL peacekeepers stand on a vessel in the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, April 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Live updates (closed)

Nov. 15: UNIFIL says HQ in southwest Lebanon hit by artillery fire, avoids assigning blame

By Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

No one is hurt in latest incident and only minor damage incurred to base’s gym * Lufthansa further extends suspension of Tel Aviv flights to December 31

9:02 pm

Report: Israeli strike on Iran military site destroyed equipment needed for Iran to develop nuclear weapon
8:54 pm

Rep. Josh Gottheimer, a Jewish Democrat, launches bid for New Jersey governor
8:37 pm

Biden says world facing 'moment of significant political change'

Ultra-Orthodox men protest against the conscription of Haredim to the IDF in Jerusalem on October 31, 2024. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Angering coalition ally, new Defense Minister Katz okays 7,000 more Haredi draft orders

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Senior official in UTJ party says ruling Likud has ‘declared war’ on the ultra-Orthodox; 1,000 enlistment orders to be issued Sunday, and the rest in coming months

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The pro-Israel dancer, singer, song writer has over 12 million social media followers. She is often criticized for being too pro-Israel. Listen to her talk about antisemitism

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's chief of staff Tzachi Braverman at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 13, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)

PM’s chief of staff questioned on suspicion of forgery, illegal altering of records

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Braverman suspected of changing timestamps on PM’s phone transcripts on morning of Oct. 7 Hamas attack; main suspect in IDF document leak case to be released to house arrest

Eli Feldstein (left,) a former spokesman in the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Kan screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law); Likud spokesman Jonatan Urich speaks at a Central Elections Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 3, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Suspected PMO leaker set for release to house arrest Sunday; 2nd PM aide questioned

AG calls on PM to weigh firing Ben Gvir for illegal interventions in police conduct

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Deputy AG sends warning letter to PMO official who reportedly demanded aides tell him about probes; coalition heads claim declaring PM incapacitated amid testimony would be a ‘coup’

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (left) and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara. (Composite: Liron Moldovan/Flash90; Israel Bar Association)

Elon Musk met Iranian UN envoy in bid to defuse tensions under Trump — report

By AFP and ToI Staff

NYT says the tech billionaire and Amir Saeid Iravani had a ‘positive’ meeting, in possible sign the US president-elect could adopt a less hawkish stance toward Tehran this term

This combination of file pictures created on November 14, 2024, shows Elon Musk (L) and Iranian Ambassador to the UN Amir Saeid Iravani. (Mandel Ngan and Bryan R. Smith/AFP)

Likud MK Eli Cohen at the Federation of Local Authorities conference in Tel Aviv, December 8, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Likud minister: Israel expects Trump to act ‘assertively’ against Iran

Iran signals it would support ceasefire in Lebanon, as Israel pounds Beirut

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

3 foreign workers lightly hurt in rocket barrage on Haifa area; AP photographs Israeli bomb hitting building in Beirut, after IDF issues evacuation order citing Hezbollah activity

Lt. Ivri Dickshtein. (IDF)

US hands ceasefire proposal to Beirut as IDF officer killed in southern Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

In Kiryat Ata, northern Israel, where a missile fired from Lebanon hit and caused damage on November 11, 2024 (Photo by Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Nov. 15: Day 406 – Life up north feels like game of Russian roulette

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Rising resentment as Haredi men refuse draft

Speaking about one of the most divisive issues facing Israeli society, ToI’s senior analyst offers perspective — and a potential way out of the problem

Illustrative: An IDF soldier walks among Haredi men during a protest in Jerusalem against a potential new draft law that they fear could end their exemptions from military service, October 31, 2024. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Who’s afraid of child sacrifice?

We’ve seen Israelis drop everything to serve their people, at great personal expense. Can American Jews learn to reach beyond themselves in this way?

Helen Gottstein

It doesn’t make sense, but you can be considered a great man, even if you are abusive to women (Vayera)

Soccer fans Dov Ber Cerf, left, and Menachem Cohen at the Stade de France in Paris, November 14, 2024, for a France-Israel Nations League soccer match. (Joshua Genuth)

Macron: 'We will not give in to antisemitism anywhere'

After minor scuffles in stands at Paris match, Israel holds France to 0-0 tie

By Joshua Genuth and Agencies

Guards quickly separate sides; some French fans boo Hatikvah; 40 arrests; crowd is lowest for national soccer team since Stade de France opened; many stay away amid security fears

Police forces leave the Dam square after shutting down a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protest at the square in Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

Dutch government says it needs ‘more time’ to implement antisemitism strategy

By AFP

Analysis

Is Trump’s pick of Huckabee as envoy to Israel a harbinger of West Bank annexation?

While proponents and opponents of move agree next US administration will seriously weigh it, some note president-elect’s unpredictability

Then-Republican US presidential nominee Donald Trump (R) and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee during a roundtable at the Drexelbrook Catering & Event Center, October 29, 2024, in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Religious Zionism party party chief Bezalel Smotrich (right) and Otzma Yehudit party chief Itamar Ben Gvir are seen during a vote at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

88 Democrats urge Biden to sanction Smotrich, Ben Gvir for ‘promoting settler violence’

Fox News contributor Pete Hegseth arrives at Trump Tower on November 29, 2016, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump’s nominee to lead Pentagon has multiple Christian and Crusader-inspired tattoos

By jacob gurvis and Asaf Elia-Shalev

An employee from the Israel Nature and Parks Authority inspects a burned tree following a rocket attack from Lebanon at the Tel Dan nature reserve in northern Israel on November 4, 2024. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Hezbollah bombardments take heavy toll on nature in northern Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Despite 70% drop in bird migration since beginning of war with Lebanese terror group, ornithologist says winged visitors likely to gradually return once hostilities end

People inspect the damage at the site of overnight Israeli airstrikes that targeted the Rweiss neighborhood in Beirut's southern suburbs on November 9, 2024. (Ibrahim Amro/AFP)

Hezbollah’s war with Israel cost Lebanon at least $8 billion — World Bank

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The opening of 'No Words,' an exhibit of the Jerusalem Biennale marking one year since Hamas's October 7, 2023, massacre, in the old Shaare Zedek building, October 7, 2024. (Yakov Buta)

‘No words’: Soldiers, immigrants, sabra artists exhibit together in Jerusalem

By Jessica Steinberg

Group exhibition marking one year since Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack brings mix of oils, watercolors, drawings, photographs and installations to Jerusalem Biennale gallery

Passengers for a flydubai flight heading to Ben Gurion Airport board their aircraft at Dubai International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, October 18, 2024. (AP/Jon Gambrell)

As most airlines avoid Israel, Emirati carriers keep up flights for diplomacy, profit

By Jon Gambrell and Tia Goldenberg

Tel Aviv-Dubai flights show United Arab Emirates commitment to Abraham Accords despite criticisms of Israel’s actions in Gaza

An Israir flight takes off from Ben Gurion International Airport, outside of Tel Aviv, August 25, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Israir and Arkia gear up to challenge El Al’s monopoly on flights to North America

By Sharon Wrobel

Wood oven-baked foccaccia at Noa Bakery, in the Jerusalem hills. (Courtesy)

Craving pastries that won’t flake out? Head for the (Jerusalem) Hills

By Jessica Steinberg

A selection of bakeries outside the capital offer a moment of peace and delectable baked pleasures

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Twelve UNRWA school principals who are members of Hamas's military wing according to the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se), in an image published on November 14, 2024. (IMPACT-se)

Education organization says 5 Gaza schools are run by Hamas men employed by UNRWA

By Michael Horovitz

A view of the unrecognized village of Umm al-Hiran, early November 14, 2024. (The Regional Council of the Unrecognized Villages in the Negev)

Unrecognized Bedouin village in Negev razed to make way for new Jewish community

By Noam Lehmann

A view of the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. (Gary Sexton Photography via JTA)

San Francisco’s Jewish museum to take ‘sabbatical’ amid financial struggles

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Smoke trails left by Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system as they intercept incoming rockets over Haifa in northern Israel on October 14, 2024. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Israel, Greece negotiating on 2 billion-euro deal for Iron Dome-like system

By Lefteris Papadimas

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