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What Matters Most On Saturday, November 16, 2024

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This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows damaged buildings at Iran's Parchin military base outside of Tehran, Iran, October 27, 2024. The damaged structures are in the bottom right corner and bottom center of the image. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

'Much harder' for Iran to develop nukes after Parchin strike

Israel hit nuke weapons research site in Iran last month, set back program — report

By ToI Staff and Reuters

Strike destroyed equipment used to design explosives for bomb; will have to be replaced if regime seeks to press ahead. IAEA chief tours nuclear sites. Iran ‘won’t try to kill Trump’

Justice Minister Yariv Levin speaks during a Knesset plenum session on November 13, 2024. (Chaim Goldbergl/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Nov. 16: Levin calls to resume judicial overhaul as response to firing of flares at PM’s house

By Elana Kirsh and ToI Staff

Soldier killed battling Hezbollah in southern Lebanon * Rocket heavily damages Haifa synagogue building; no reports of injuries * Army intercepts 2 Gaza rockets fired at Sderot

10:23 pm

After Levin calls to resume judicial overhaul, Gantz warns previous attempt 'brought disaster to Israel'
9:37 pm

Levin calls for resuming judicial overhaul as response to launching of flares at PM's house
9:03 pm

IDF says some 50 targets in Hezbollah's southern Beirut stronghold struck in past week

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

Netanyahu spokesperson Jonatan Urich also questioned under caution; in separate case, PM’s chief of staff Braverman said to admit he changed timestamp on a crucial Oct. 7 call

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

Trump team weighs Hegseth as Pentagon pick as 2017 sexual assault accusation emerges

By AFP

No charges filed but transition team reportedly shocked by allegations after police confirm they investigated reported sex crime involving Fox News host that left victim bruised

Part of a tattoo reading 'Yeshua,' Jesus' name in Hebrew, and another reading 'Deus Vult' can be seen on the arm of Pete Hegseth in a video he posted to Instagram in May 2020. (Instagram video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Trump Pentagon pick flagged in 2021 as potential insider threat for extremist-linked tattoo

By TARA COPP, Michelle R. Smith and JASON DEAREN

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are seen during the final day of the Republican National Convention, July 18, 2024, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Kushner said expected to play key role in Trump’s Mideast policy

Sources familiar with thinking of US president-elect’s son-in-law tell CNN that he’s unlikely to take a formal position in administration but will serve as an outside adviser

Rep. Josh Gottheimer speaks to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Jewish Democrat Josh Gottheimer declares bid for New Jersey governor

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Republican presidential nominee former US president Donald Trump, right, looks on as local Muslim leaders speak during a campaign rally at the Suburban Collection Showplace, October 26, 2024, in Novi, Michigan. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

US Muslims who backed Trump upset by his pro-Israel nominees

By Reuters and ToI Staff

‘Trump won because of us and we’re not happy,’ says a leader of the Abandon Harris campaign after Marco Rubio nominated as secretary of state, Mike Huckabee as envoy to Israel

Nicolien van Vroonhoven of the NSC party arrives at the official residence of Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof in The Hague, Netherlands, November 15, 2024, for crisis talks after the government's assessment that antisemitism was behind last week's violence after the soccer match between Ajax Amsterdam and Maccabi Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Phil Nijhuis)

Dutch gov’t avoids collapse over handling of antisemitic attacks on Israeli soccer fans

After Nora Achahbar quits in protest of ‘racist’ comments blaming Moroccan immigrants for violence against Tel Aviv fans, PM says deal reached for her party to stay in coalition

A Thai worker, pictured on November 3, 2024, picks the last of the sweet mini-peppers at Kibbutz Alumim, in southern Israel. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Inside Story'We've spent over NIS 4m on drip irrigation; we couldn't wait'

Still waiting for Oct. 7 compensation, a Gaza border farm community sows its fields anew

Terrorists murdered 22 foreign workers at Kibbutz Alumim; while the destruction of equipment and loss of crops are staggering, the community is looking to the future and replanting

Innovators design homes made from mushrooms as alternative to flimsy Gaza shelters

By Sahar Al Attar

The Haredi world: My love-hate relationship with a life I almost lived

There’s comfort in never having to shoulder life’s big decisions alone, yet it makes me want to scream ’Think for yourself!’

Biden’s two-month window of opportunity

A move by the outgoing president toward recognition of a Palestinian state could enable Trump to advance Israeli-Arab normalization

Combination photo showing, from L-R, Mohammed Nur Yahya, 30, Faraj Abu Arar, 20, and Fakhri Abu Medigam. (Courtesy)

Four killings within 24 hours rock Arab community, raising year’s death toll to 209

By Michael Horovitz

Police say 7 arrested in connection with separate suspected homicides; police chief holds special assessment, updates Ben Gvir on investigations

Mahatma Gandhi in a photo from a period album collected by AP reporter James A. Mills, circa 1931. (AP Photo/James A. Mills)

Deep dive

Just after Kristallnacht, Gandhi said Jews should die with joy. What would he say now?

By Zack Rothbart

Numerous comments on the Holocaust by the renowned Indian leader who favored nonviolence have been misunderstood, say experts — but what about his aversion to Zionism?

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

Lebanese terrorist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah sits during his trial, for being an accomplice in the murder of two diplomats including Charles Ray of the US and Israeli Yacov Barsimantov, for which Abdallah was condemned to life prison, at the courthouse of Lyon, central eastern France, on July 3, 1986. (Photo by AFP)

French court orders release of Lebanese terrorist who killed Israeli, US diplomats

By AFP

'Operation False Target'

Russian plan mixes deadly thermobaric drones among swarms of decoys launched at Ukraine

By Emma Burrows, HANNA ARHIROVA and Lori Hinnant

Warheads create high-pressure vortex that penetrates walls; sucking out all oxygen in their path, they can cause collapsed lungs, crushed eyeballs, brain damage even outside blast site

A Ukrainian officer shows a thermobaric charge of a downed Shahed drone launched by Russia in a research laboratory in an undisclosed location in Ukraine, Nov. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

An ambulance stolen from the Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center in Jerusalem on November 16, 2024. (Israel Police)

Man arrested for theft of ambulance from Jerusalem hospital

Suspect apprehended after chase in which the emergency medical vehicle hit a police car; man in his 20s detained and taken for questioning amid investigation into motive

'All the words have been said. But they are still there'

Grandmother of US-Israeli held in Gaza urges Biden, Trump to cooperate on hostage deal

By AP and ToI Staff

Varda Ben Baruch laments sacking of Gallant, viewed him as as ‘partner’; visitors to Tel Aviv’s Hostage Square share mixed opinions on prospects for deal after US elections

Varda Ben Baruch, whose grandson Edan Alexander is held hostage in the Gaza Strip by Hamas terrorists, gestures to a Torah scroll in his bedroom at home in Tel Aviv, November 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Hundreds gather at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv to celebrate the birthday of hostage Tamir Nimrodi, who is held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza. November 15, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Large majority of Israelis want hostage deal, even if it means ending Gaza war – poll

Palestinians walk in the vicinity destroyed homes from an Israeli military operation in the city of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on November 15, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Hamas urges Trump to pressure Israel to end Gaza war; PIJ releases hostage video

By Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Left: National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); Right: Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara (Oren Ben Hakoon/Pool)

‘It’s either her or me’: Ben Gvir signals he’ll demand firing of attorney general

Gali Baharav-Miara told PM on Thursday to consider firing the far-right national security minister for violating court rulings and repeatedly intervening in internal police matters

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Illustrative: Colorful trees stand around a church at the Dolomites mountains in St. Maddalena, St. Magdalena, in Val di Funes (Villnoess) as the sun sets, in northern Italian province of South Tyrol, Italy, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Italian hotel rejects Israeli couple’s reservation, accusing them of ‘genocide’

By AP and ToI Staff

IDF troops measure the home of Abdelqader Qawasmeh, a Hamas terrorist who carried out a deadly shooting attack, ahead of its planned demolition, early November 15, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF plans to re-demolish home of deadly West Bank attack gunman after it was rebuilt

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Law enforcement officers write a report as a worker cleans the red-black paint stain on a monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Warsaw on November 15, 2024 (Sergei GAPON / AFP)

Poland condemns vandalism after Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial sprayed with red paint

By AFP

Argentine police confiscate Nazi weapons and memorabilia from a home in the city of Quilmes, November 15, 2024. (X screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Argentina police seize large arsenal of Nazi firearms, Hitler-era memorabilia

Shel Talmy (1937-2024), record producer known for his work with The Who, The Kinks, and other classic rock bands. (Screen capture via YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

ObituaryLegendary rock producer Shel Talmy, who worked with The Who, The Kinks, dies at 87

By AP

Israeli actors Noa Cohen (right) as Mary and Ido Tako (left) as Joseph in Netflix's new biblical epic 'Mary.' (Christopher Raphael/Netflix)

Identity crisisBoycott calls over Israeli cast as Mary in Netflix’s Jesus mom epic

By Michael Horovitz

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