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What Matters Most On Tuesday, November 26, 2024

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US President Joe Biden crosses his fingers as he answers a question about a Gaza ceasefire after speaking in the Rose Garden of the White House on November 26, 2024, in Washington. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Nov. 26: Biden says ceasefire to take effect at 4 a.m. as cabinet votes 10-1 to approve deal

US president says Israel-Hezbollah truce ‘designed to be a permanent cessation of hostilities’ * IDF pounds Beirut as north bombarded by rockets, drones * Soldier killed in Gaza

11:35 pm

US official clarifies Turkey not considered a mediator in Gaza truce efforts after Hamas leaders' relocation
11:31 pm

US official: Netanyahu asked to secure Lebanon ceasefire in run-up to US elections
11:04 pm

Sharing new details of ceasefire deal, US official says international community learned from mistakes of 2006

Miro Vahknin, a member of the first response team of Rosh Hanikra, in his hair salon in Nahariya on November 26, 2024. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'It will be very hard to restore our trust'

Northern evacuees question whether a ceasefire deal is enough to see them home

By Diana Bletter

While some officials and residents express dismay at a continued lack of security plans for their communities, others dream of returning to their fields — or at least ‘normal’ life

Smoke billows above Beirut's southern suburbs following Israeli airstrikes on November 26, 2024. (Fadel Itani/AFP)

Israel hits 20 sites in Beirut within 2 minutes, in major offensive ahead of truce

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Extensive wave of strikes on Hezbollah assets comes hours before ceasefire is expected to be okayed; IDF troops reach Lebanon’s Litani River for first time since 2000

Israeli army forces stand outside a house that was hit by rockets fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon in the northern border town of Kiryat Shmona on November 26, 2024. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

Several hurt by Hezbollah fire in north as expected truce deal looms

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

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Mourners attend the funeral of Israeli-Moldovan rabbi Zvi Kogan in Kfar Chabad, a community in central Israel, on November 25, 2024. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

‘The whole world is shaken’: Chabad rabbi murdered in UAE laid to rest in Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Zvi Kogan buried at the Mount of Olives after emotional ceremony; he ‘was innocent, and that’s how he arrives in heaven,’ father says

AnalysisKilling of rabbi in UAE could bolster Israel’s ties with Arab neighbors, experts say

An Israeli soldier stands guard behind sandbags in Kibbutz Hanita near Israel's border with Lebanon, November 24, 2024. (Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Nov. 26: Day 417 – Northern mayors livid about possible ceasefire

Political correspondent Tal Schneider discusses the expected truce with Hezbollah; legal affairs reporter Jeremy Sharon reviews the PM’s trial and a Palestinian olive harvest

A house hit from missiles fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon into Metula, on the Israeli border with Lebanon, November 20, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Security cabinet member signals Lebanon deal uncertain, amid pressure to oppose it

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on April 17, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/ GPO)

Israel set to okay 60-day Lebanon truce, but pledges to act against Hezbollah

By Lazar Berman

Official claims threat of US action at UN played into Jerusalem’s decision-making, and asserts that ministers will get in line behind cessation of hostilities, even if reluctantly

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted Hezbollah in Beirut's southern suburbs on November 26, 2024 (IBRAHIM AMRO / AFP)

Ahead of expected truce, Israel vows to act forcefully to stop Hezbollah regrouping

By Lazar Berman and Agencies

This picture taken from a position in northern Israel, near the border with Lebanon, shows an Israeli flag (L) on a destroyed building, and a Lebanese flag (R) painted on a damaged building in the southern Lebanese village of Meiss El-Jabal on November 25, 2024 (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

ExplainerWhat’s in the near-finalized, US-brokered Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire deal

By ToI Staff and Agencies

People fleeing intensified fighting in Lebanon walk around a crater caused by an Israeli strike on Hezbollah weapons smuggling infrastructure, in the area of Lebanon's Masnaa border crossing with Syria, on October 4, 2024. (Hassan Jarrah / AFP)

IDF details yearslong efforts against Hezbollah arms smuggling outfit in Syria

By Emanuel Fabian

Military confirms it has been attacking Iran-backed Lebanese terror group’s Unit 4400, which is tasked with weapons delivery

Smotrich says half of Gazans can be ‘encouraged’ to leave within two years

Once the initiative is ‘successfully’ implemented in the Strip, it can be replicated in the West Bank, far-right minister claims, adding that ‘occupying Gaza is not a dirty word’

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

IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip, in a photo cleared for publication on November 16, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Officials hope Lebanon truce will isolate Hamas, pave way to deal in Gaza

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu attends a protest of bereaved families of Israeli soldiers killed in the Gaza Strip calling for the continuation of the war outside the Prime Minister's Office, in Jerusalem, May 5, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG decides not to open criminal probes into senior officials for Gaza incitement

By Jeremy Sharon

Analysis

Gianluca Pacchiani

Lebanon’s Shiites increasingly reject role of scapegoat in Hezbollah’s war on Israel

Over 1.4 million Lebanese from Hezbollah’s support base have fled their homes. And while the terror group attempts to retain their loyalty, some are calling for its demise

Illustrative: Shiite Muslims take part in a ceremony during the peak of Ashura, a 10-day period commemorating the 7th century killing of Prophet Mohammed's grandson Imam Hussein, in Beirut on July 17, 2024. (Khaled Desouki / AFP)

Col. (res.) Yoav Yarom, in an undated photo. (Israel Defense Forces)

Officer asks to quit over incident in which researcher, soldier were killed in Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian

Golani Brigade Chief of Staff Yoav Yarom takes responsibility for incident in which civilian Zeev Erlich, 71, was allowed to enter combat zone to inspect an ancient fortress

Hamas out, Arab criminal gangs in?

Netanyahu has a history of empowering unsavory elements both inside Israel and in Gaza – a clever strategy that’s doomed to backfire

Austin Reid Albanese

The vanishing Stars of David

Small-town Jewish decline in America has eroded the interpersonal ties that once bridged divides between Jews and their neighbors

Opposition warns coalition not to try renewing judicial ‘coup’ under cover of war

Foreign Minister Sa’ar defends government actions, asserts that concerns over threats by senior minister to change the regime, abolish High Court are overblown by the media

National Unity party leader Benny Gantz speaks ahead of a Knesset faction meeting on November 25, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen at the Jerusalem District Court arriving to listen to testimony by businessman Arnon Milchan, as part of Netanyahu's corruption trial, June 28, 2023. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Netanyahu to take stand on Dec. 10 after court okays partial delay of graft testimony

By Jeremy Sharon

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir leads an Otzma Yehudit faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on March 18, 2024 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

5 ex-employees of Ben Gvir’s office probed for unlawful issuance of gun permits

Israeli settlers flash middle fingers from rooftops as they taunt Palestinian locals near the Tomb of the Patriarchs, as they mark a yearly Jewish religious event in Hebron in the West Bank on November 23, 2024. (Hazem Bader/AFP)

US: Administrative detention was one of the few tools Israel used to curb settler violence

State Department condemns Katz’s decision to end practice only against Israeli extremists, says it will continue taking its own actions, while admitting that steps are reversible

Illustrative. A person in handcuffs. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Police officers, IDF soldiers arrested for kidnapping Palestinian

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

The border between Israel and Jordan on the Route 90 highway in the Jordan Valley, July 6, 2017. (Hadas Parush/ Flash90/ File)

Israel announces preliminary work on fence along entire border with Jordan

By Emanuel Fabian

Defense Ministry ordered by Katz to begin engineering planning, including environmental survey and installation of surveillance infrastructure, along 309-kilometer border

Israel's first National Marine Park at Caesarea in northern Israel, announced by the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, and the Planning Administration, on November 25, 2024. (Guy Levian, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

Israel dives into offshore conservation with first National Marine Park

Area off Caesarea joins large extension to the Evtach Marine Reserve in waters between Ashkelon and Ashdod, plus projects in Hadera and additional land in the Ramon Crater

Healthy coral reefs off the coast of Eilat in southern Israel. (Meron Segev)

Red Sea coral study points to rich microbial life as key to healthy reefs

Israelis take part in a protest march during the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women in Tel Aviv, November 24, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Fewer women seek help for domestic violence amid war, but not due to lower threat

By Ariella Oldfield

Welfare Ministry releases data that also shows requests to block firearm permits for abusers rose drastically in past year

Prof. Michael Feuer speaking at the 2024 International Education Conference in Tel Aviv, on November 25, 2024. (Sharon Eliasi/ courtesy)

Interview'I dealt with intersectionality before it was fashionable'

US dean of education defends campus diversity training, seeks more inclusivity for Jews

By Gavriel Fiske

Michael J. Feuer of George Washington University, visiting Israel for an educational conference, weighs in on the wartime campus protest movements and Trump’s plans for the US

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Anti-Israel protesters vandalize the offices of the Christians for Israel organization in Nijkerk, the Netherlands, November 26, 2024. (Alexander Blom)

Protesters vandalize Netherlands office of pro-Israel Christian group

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

A police officer stands in a police facility, right, outside a synagogue in Frankfurt, Germany, October 19, 2023. (AP Photo/ Michael Probst)

Germany charges four for setting up Hamas weapons depots across Europe

By AFP and ToI Staff

Anti-Israel protester Mai Abdulhadi seen giving Nazi salute at a protest in Montreal, Canada, on November 21, 2024. (Screenshot from @hillelneuer on X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Canadian coffee chain cuts ties with franchisee for Nazi salute at anti-Israel march

By ToI Staff and JTA

A Fly Dubai plane is parked on the tarmac at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Lod, November 10, 2024. (AP Photo/ Ohad Zwigenberg)

Tech forum names seasonal airline, reveals fares for NY route, to launch in January

By Sharon Wrobel

Tel Aviv University doctoral student Inbar Fischer researches the SHANK3 gene mutation involved in genetically-based autism, in an undated photo. (Tel Aviv University)

Israeli study finds gene mutation that may cause some autism, possibly enabling treatment

By Diana Bletter

Picture taken on November 13, 2024 shows presidential candidate Calin Georgescu at the Romanian tv station "Digi 24" in Bucharest, Romania, on November 13, 2024. (Octav Ganea / DIGI24/INQUAM PHOTOS / AFP)

Far-right politician who praised Nazi collaborators shocks with top finish in Romanian presidential election

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Israel Bar Association leader Amit Becher during a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, November 25, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)

Bar Association head, MKs ousted from stormy hearing on bill linked to judiciary fight

Israeli startup Imagindairy uses precision fermentation technology to teach microorganisms such as yeast or fungi to produce animal-free milk proteins. (Tal Shahar/Imagindairy)

Foodtech startup gets regulatory nod for protein to sell cow-free milk in Israel

By Sharon Wrobel

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