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What Matters Most On Tuesday, November 19, 2024

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the plenum of the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on November 18, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

'We'll bring home dozens more hostages, I hope in near future'

Netanyahu says Biden’s counsel throughout the war was repeatedly off-mark

By Lazar Berman

PM confirms that a ‘specific component’ in Iran’s nuclear program was hit in last month’s strikes, in Knesset speech repeatedly interrupted by family members of hostages

Hostage families hold up photos of their loved ones in the gallery of the Knesset on November 18, 2024. (Photo by Chaim Goldberg FLASH90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Nov. 19: Day 410 – PM sounds off on Biden, Iran, hostages

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (R) and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi pose for a photo before their meeting in Tehran on November 14, 2024. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iran faces fresh censure over lack of cooperation at UN nuclear meeting

By AFP

Palestinians loot a humanitarian aid truck as it crosses into the Gaza Strip in Rafah, December 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair, File)

Live updates (closed)

Nov. 19: US says Gaza aid looting can’t be solved without ‘new governance and security authority’

IDF says Hezbollah behind attacks on 2 UNIFIL bases * US envoy Hochstein optimistic after meetings in Lebanon on truce deal * Qatar confirms Hamas leaders left the country

2:17 am

Oman's deputy envoy to US: 'Dangerous confusion' between Judaism and Zionism fuels antisemitism
9:40 pm

Military says Israelis rescued from Palestinian town after suspected 'criminal incident'
9:25 pm

IDF says it shot down drone heading toward Israel 'from the east'

Live fire testing at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexic,o of early versions of the Army Tactical Missile System, on December 14, 2021. (John Hamilton/U.S. Army via AP)

Putin ratchets up nuclear threat after Ukraine fires US-supplied missiles at Russia

By AFP and AP

Russian leader signs order allowing use of nuclear weapons in case of conventional attack by country backed by a nuclear power, as defiant Kyiv marks 1,000 days since invasion

Russian 9M113 Konkurs anti-tank missiles, supplied by Moscow to Syria, are found by troops of the IDF's 646th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade in southern Lebanon, in a handout image published October 24, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF finding far more Russian arms in Hezbollah’s possession than expected – report

File: An Airbus A321 airliner arrives at the Mehrabad International Airport during the delivery of the first batch of planes to the Iranian state airline Iran Air in the capital Tehran on January 12, 2017. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

UK sanctions Iran’s airline and shipping carrier over missile transfer to Russia

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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US sanctions key settlement organization Amana for dispossessing Palestinians

By Jeremy Sharon and Jacob Magid

Trump expected to reverse move, but it still sends signal to other Western countries that have already followed US in imposing sanctions against Israeli extremists in West Bank

An Israeli, allegedly from the illegal settlement outpost of Meitarim Farm, peers into the home of Palestinians in the West Bank village of Khirbet Zanuta, August 31, 2024. (Courtesy Haqel)

Hundreds attend the Zionist Organization of America's annual gala, New York, November 17, 2024. (Joseph Strauss via JTA)

ZOA fetes Trump victory, ‘most pro-Israel cabinet’ in US history at annual gala

By Joseph Strauss

Karen Paikin Barall speaks at a Jewish Federations of North America event Washington, DC, in November. (JTA)

Friction in US Jewish Federations as official said to cheer potential Gaza settlements

This photo taken on November 19, 2024 shows the scene where a rocket fired from Lebanon the previous night caused damage in the central city of Ramat Gan (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

5 wounded by Hezbollah rocket barrages on Israel as US envoy arrives in Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Attacks target central and northern Israel; Amos Hochstein says ‘real opportunity’ to end fighting; IDF said to strike building in Beirut without prior evacuation warning

Medics and police at the scene of a deadly Hezbollah rocket impact in Shfar'am, northern Israel, November 18, 2024. (Israel Police)

Woman killed in Hezbollah attack on north; 5 hurt by missile fragments near Tel Aviv

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Then-deputy chief of the Lebanese Hezbollah terror group Naim Qassem (R) attends a commemoration ceremony alongside former finance minister Ali Hassan Khalil (C) and Iran's Ambassador in Lebanon Mojtaba Amani, at the memorial grave of slain Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh on April 5, 2024. (Anwar Amro/AFP)

Lebanese official says Hezbollah agrees to US ceasefire proposal with ‘comments’

By Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid, ToI Staff and Agencies

The US media’s war on Trump’s Middle East policy

Major news outlets regularly invalidate a democratically elected president’s decisions on the Golan Heights, Judea and Samaria, and more

Problem solved: The Haredi path to military service

A novel approach to the ultra-Orthodox army service conundrum: turn it all around and draft the yeshiva dodgers. You’re welcome

Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar at a state ceremony marking the Hebrew anniversary of the Hamas October 7 attack, at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on October 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ FLASH90)

Netanyahu’s office denies reports he is planning to fire Shin Bet chief

PM reportedly seeking to dismiss Ronen Bar after flares fired at his home and amid investigations into document leaks, accusing Shin Bet of failing to protect him and his family

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

Ben Gvir accuses embattled AG of running fishing expedition against him

Analysis

MBS’s ‘genocide’ critique of Israel is worrying, but a Saudi deal is not a lost cause

Crown prince sharpened his criticism of Israel at Riyadh summit and continues to warm ties with Iran, but a defense pact with US is still his priority and Tehran still the chief foe

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman looks on as he meets US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, not pictured, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, October 23, 2024. (Nathan Howard/Pool via AP)

From L to R: Senior Hamas official Zaher Jabarin, the chairman of the group's consultative council Mohammed Ismail Darwish, known as Abu Omar Hassan, and the Palestinian movement's senior official Khaled Mashaal receive condolences during the funeral of the Palestinian movement's political leader Ismail Haniyeh in the Qatari capital Doha on August 2, 2024. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Qatar confirms departure of Hamas leaders, says group’s Doha mission may remain

By Jacob Magid, ToI Staff and Agencies

Terror group’s political bureau serves no purpose in absence of negotiations, Qatari foreign ministry spokesman tells reporters, but no decision yet on shutting it down permanently

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and slain Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, shake hands during their meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, April 20, 2024. (Turkish Presidency via AP)

US warns Turkey against harboring Hamas leaders who left Qatar

By Reuters and Jacob Magid

Smotrich: Israel must vow to stay in northern Gaza forever unless hostages returned

By Sam Sokol and Lazar Berman

Finance minister also rejects ‘surrender ‘agreement to end the war, weeks after calling for permanent settlements in Gaza; PM said to again reject ending war with hostage deal

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 11, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Palestinians are seen storming trucks loaded with humanitarian aid brought in through a new US-built pier, in the central Gaza Strip, on May 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)

UN says nearly 100 Gaza aid trucks looted, the war’s worst theft ‘in terms of volume’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy addresses the UN Security Council, as chair, during a meeting on the situation on Sudan and South Sudan, at UN headquarters in New York City, November 18, 2024. (REUTERS/ Brendan McDermid)

UN Security Council members call for ‘huge’ surge in aid entry to Gaza

By Reuters and ToI Staff

A picture shows the inside of a destroyed house in Kibbutz Kfar Aza near the border with the Gaza Strip on September 12, 2024. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Government directorate budgets NIS 180 million to rebuild devastated Kfar Aza

Plan led by kibbutz members would rehabilitate 360 residential buildings, 40 public ones, and infrastructure damaged during Hamas rampage last year

Explainer

Who are the Jews in Trump’s inner circle and how will they affect his second term?

Trump’s list of Jewish associates for his upcoming presidency includes Republican friends and family, and political allies with varying levels of experience

Top row, from left: Laura Loomer, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Stephen Miller. Bottom row: Howard Lutnick, Lee Zeldin, David Friedman, Miriam Adelson. (Collage by Grace Yagel / JTA)

Marc Rowan attends the 2022 Forbes Iconoclast Summit at New York Historical Society on November 3, 2022 in New York City. (Arturo Holmes / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Trump considers investor Marc Rowan, campus antisemitism critic, for treasury secretary

Participants in the 2024 Wheels of Love charity bicycle ride. (courtesy ALYN Hospital)

Reporter's notebook'It’s been a wonderful, amazing week'

Dedicated to fallen soldier, Wheels of Love charity bike ride crosses finish line again

By Gavriel Fiske

24th Annual benefit event for ALYN Hospital in Jerusalem, canceled last year in wake of October 7, held in honor of Sgt. First Class Yakir Hexter, a devoted volunteer

Inside story

With Gallant gone, Edelstein is the ‘final obstacle’ to Haredi draft exemption law

‘It doesn’t seem feasible at the moment for a law to pass,’ one Haredi coalition member concedes, but says government unlikely to fall over the issue

Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Yuli Edelstein attends a debate on the government-backed Haredi draft legislation, June 24, 2024. (Noam Moshkovitz/Knesset spokesperson)

File: Berlin's Police Chief Barbara Slowik (C) visits some of her officers on patrol at Boxhagener Platz, on April 30, 2020. (Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)

Berlin Police chief warns Jews, gay people to ‘be careful’ in Arab neighborhoods

Barbara Slowik says residents of some neighborhoods express open support of terror groups; 6,200 probes into antisemitic crimes opened since Oct. 7

Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema addresses an emergency meeting of the Amsterdam city council on November 12, 2024, days after mass violence against Israeli tourists following a soccer game in the Dutch capital. (Nick Gammon/AFP)

Amsterdam mayor regrets use of word ‘pogrom’ to describe attacks on Israelis

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Food blogger Ruhama Shitrit in her Newton, Massachusetts, home (Credit Heidi Aaronson)

Instagram star Ruhama Shitrit brings flavors of Israel to her US home

By Jessica Steinberg

The recipe developer didn’t expect to raise her kids in America, but after 18 years, cooking is how she infuses them with their heritage

Book offers guide to Israel’s ethnic groups through family restaurants

By Jessica Steinberg

A screenshot from a social media video showing neo-Nazis marching in Columbus, Ohio, on November 16, 2024. (X screen capture; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

White House, Ohio governor denounce neo-Nazi rally in downtown Columbus

By Andrew Lapin

Mike DeWine says no place in US state for ‘hate, bigotry, antisemitism, or violence, and we must denounce it wherever we see it’; Jewish groups also condemn weekend march

Paul Coates (YouTube screen capture; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

National Book Awards defends prize for publisher who reissued antisemitic books

By Andrew Lapin

Security camera footage shows a person suspected of having a connection to a fire at the home of a rabbi, which serves as a Chabad community center, in Arlington, Massachusetts, on May 11, 2019. (Screen capture, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Brother of suspect in Boston antisemitic arsons pleads guilty to obstructing justice

By AP

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Illustration: Israelis withdraw money from Bank Hapoalim cash machines. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Major lenders’ profits soar as banks cash in on wartime interest rate growth

By Sharon Wrobel

National Unity MK Pnina Tamano-Shata presidents over a meeting of the Knesset Committee for the Advancement of Women on November 18, 2024. (Knesset Spokesman's Office)

81% of sex crime complaints in Israel closed without an indictment, report says

Popular Mobilization Forces burn representations of US and Israeli flags during al-Quds Day in Baghdad, Iraq, May 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Ali Abdul Hassan, File)

Israel urges UN to push Iraq to take ‘immediate action’ against Iran-backed militias

By AFP and ToI Staff

Streaming platform Twitch bans use of ‘Zionist’ as coded slur for Jews and Israelis

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

The Buxton project in which Nofar Energy is involved, in Stoke-on-Trent, central England. (Nofar Energy)

Nofar Energy secures $192 million deal to supply energy storage in Britain

One Zero digital bank's securities platform. (Courtesy)

One Zero CEO steps down after halted expansion plans in Italy and layoffs due to war

By Sharon Wrobel

A handout picture provided by Jordan's Royal Palace shows King Abdullah II addressing the opening of the 20th ordinary session of the National Assembly in Amman on November 18, 2024. (Chris Setian / Jordanian Royal Palace / AFP)

Opening new parliament, Jordanian king says Amman ‘working tirelessly’ to end war

By Reuters and ToI Staff

An undated picture showing a coral that underwent bleaching in the Gulf of Eilat earlier this year. (Omri Omessi/ Assaf Zvuloni, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

First cases of coral bleaching reported in Gulf of Eilat

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