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What Matters Most On Wednesday, November 20, 2024

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Amos Hochstein, center, a senior adviser to US President Joe Biden, arrives ahead of a meeting with Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri, in Beirut, Lebanon, November 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Syrian media reports 36 killed in Palmyra by Israeli strike

US envoy lands in Israel to discuss Lebanon truce after ‘additional progress’ in Beirut

By Lazar Berman, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Amos Hochstein expected to meet with Netanyahu on Thursday after talks with Lebanese speaker; Hezbollah fires 3 drones at northern Israel; impacts reported in Acre, Western Galilee

Amos Hochstein, center, US special envoy for Lebanon, is received ahead of a meeting with Lebanese Parliament speaker Nabih Berri, in Beirut, November 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

US envoy says Lebanon ceasefire ‘within grasp’ as soldier killed in drone strike

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and Agencies

An UN soldier stands on the top of a tower at a base of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) at the Israeli-Lebanese border as seen from northern Israel, November 19, 2024. (Leo Correa/AP)

Argentina pulls out of UNIFIL as rockets hit southern Lebanon peacekeeping mission

By Agencies and Emanuel Fabian

A convoy led by a United Nations vehicle drives past displaced Palestinians fleeing Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip on the main Salah al-Din road on November 17, 2024. (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP)

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Nov. 20: Israel said to tell US it doesn’t plan to forcibly displace Palestinians from north Gaza

By Joshua Davidovich, Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

Civilian killed in south Lebanon after entering without permission; IDF soldier killed, 2 hurt in same incident * Dueling protests held outside AG’s home amid right-wing calls for her ouster

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London police probing suspected 'religiously aggravated criminal damage' after woman burns Israeli flag at Jewish student event
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IDF soldier killed, two wounded in same incident as civilian researcher in southern Lebanon
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Ankara condemns Houthi missile attack targeting Turkish-owned cargo ship

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the Netzarim Corridor in the central Gaza Strip on November 19, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

Touring Gaza, PM vows Hamas won’t return to power, offers $5 million for hostages

Netanyahu says captives will be freed regardless, even as defense officials said to warn him that a ceasefire deal is the only way to rescue them

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the Netzarim Corridor in the central Gaza Strip on November 19, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Nov. 20: Day 411 – How PM Netanyahu launched his reelection campaign

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El Al profit jumps 260% as rivals stay away, fueling criticism over war profiteering

By Sharon Wrobel

National carrier generated a record $1 billion in revenue after most foreign airlines suspended Israel operations; some relief for severe seat shortage in sight from Arkia, Israir

El Al Airlines' Boeing 737s are pictured on the tarmac at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, March 10, 2020. (Jack Guez/ AFP/ File)

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While these two leaderships are emphatically allied, they may not be thoroughly aligned

US President Donald Trump, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, January 28, 2020, to announce the Trump administration's plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

IDF reservist killed, senior officer wounded in clash with gunmen in northern Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Death of Sgt. First Class (res.) Roi Sasson, 21, of Kfir Brigade’s Nahshon Battalion, brings toll for IDF on and since Oct. 7, 2023, to 800; Netanyahu visits Strip

Sgt. First Class (res.) Roi Sasson, killed fighting in northern Gaza on November 19, 2024. (IDF)

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

Vivian Silver, left and Amal Alsana-Alhjooj, when they worked together in the early 2000s, at AJEEC in the Negev, an organization for social change (Courtesy)

Her legacy lives onMurdered peace activist Vivian Silver remembered with new prize

By Jessica Steinberg

Palestinians inspect the damage at the site of an Israeli airstrike on the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on November 19, 2024. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Israel and US to establish channel for discussing incidents of IDF harm to civilians

Washington asked for new panel in letter that warned of potential arms embargo; US wanted first meeting by end of October but spokesperson says it won’t happen until early December

US Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), joined by fellow senators U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and U.S. Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT), listens to a question at a news conference on restricting arms sales to Israel at the U.S. Capitol on November 19, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/AFP)

ExclusiveWhite House urging Democrats to reject progressive push to block arms transfers to Israel

A statue commemorating the victims of Cafe Apropo bombing, which killed three women in 1997. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

US slaps fresh sanctions on six senior Hamas officials

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The Iranian flag outside the IAEA headquarters during the International Atomic Energy Agency's Board of Governors meeting at the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on November 20, 2024. (Joe Klamar/AFP)

Ignoring threats, Western powers officially ask UN nuke watchdog to censure Iran

By KIYOKO METZLER and Ramin Khanizadeh

UN watchdog chief welcomes Tehran’s gesture to cap uranium stockpile, but senior diplomat questions seriousness of Islamic Republic’s move

Iran's domestically built centrifuges are displayed in an exhibition of the country's nuclear achievements, in Tehran, Iran, February 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran offers to cap enriched uranium stock if UN watchdog scraps censure

File - Rear Adm. (res.) Ofer Doron speaks during a protest against the Israeli government's judicial overhaul, at the Goma junction, northern Israel, on August 12, 2023. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Ex-senior Navy officer named as one of 3 suspects in firing of flares at PM’s house

Court names Ofer Doron, who was suspended from IDF after halting reserve duty over 2023 judicial overhaul, and 2 veteran anti-government activists, in Saturday incident in Caesarea

Spokesperson Eli Feldstein is seen at an event with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the war against Hamas in Gaza, sparked by Hamas's October 7, 2023, massacre. (IDF)

Prosecutors said weighing how severe to make charges in indictment against PM’s aide

Report says Eli Feldstein facing potential counts that carry maximum sentences ranging from 7 years to life in prison; cops reportedly looking to question Serbia-based witness

Rabbi Elazar Menachem Man Shach, 1990. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

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On the anniversary of Rabbi Elazar Shach’s death, his burial place has become a prayer hub where adherents denounce newly issued military draft orders for Haredim

President Isaac Herzog (left) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the presidential complex in Ankara, on March 9, 2022. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Erdogan admits to barring Herzog’s flight to COP29 from using Turkish airspace

Turkey’s decision prevented president from attending UN climate conference in Azerbaijan, as other route would have meant crossing over Syria, Iraq and Iran

A view of the US embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, February 12, 2022. (Andrew Kravchenko/AP)

Western embassies in Kyiv shut down amid US warning of ‘significant’ Russian attack

US mission advises citizens to be ready to shelter; Kremlin says emergency Washington hotline not being used after Ukraine struck targets on Russian soil with US-made missiles

This photo taken from video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Feb. 19, 2022, shows a Russian Mobile launchers of Iskander short-range nuclear-capable missiles during a military exercise at a training ground in Russia. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

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FILE - Arthur Frommer, 83, and his daughter, Pauline Frommer, 46, pose among tourists in the Wall Street area in New York, May 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

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Arthur Frommer, guidebook trailblazer who opened world to travelers, dies at 95

By AP and ToI Staff

Legendary Jewish writer made international travel feel attainable with budget-friendly tourism guides at a time when overseas trips were exclusive province of wealthy jet-setters

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Al Schwimmer, who guided the vast operation to build Israel's air force, with Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. (Courtesy of Boaz Dvir via JTA)

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(L-R) Yoni Rechter, Yehudit Ravitz, Gidi Gov and David Broza in a poster promoting a series of concerts in 2025 for 'The 16th Sheep' album. (Credit Guy Kushi and Yariv Fine)

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A undated handout image showing a PULS artillery rocket-launcher system. (Elbit Systems)

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By Sharon Wrobel

Members of the Druze community attend a funeral in the Druze village of Maghar, on September 20, 2024. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

New curriculum to highlight Druze community and its ties to the state, ministry says

By Gavriel Fiske

Some 4.2 billion meals go into the garbage every year. (Courtesy Leket)

New law will cut waste by requiring public bodies to donate excess food

The oldest inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandment is up for auction with Sotheby's. (Sotheby's via JTA)

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