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What Matters Most On Friday, November 29, 2024

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Israeli security forces alongside a bullet-riddled bus after a Hamas terrorist attack at an intersection near the West Bank settlement of Ariel, near Nablus, November 29, 2024. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

Bus driver among seriously wounded; 4 soldiers lightly hurt

Hamas terrorist opens fire at Israeli civilian bus in West Bank; 8 wounded, 3 seriously

By Emanuel Fabian

Palestinian gunman, who used M-16 assault rifle, shot dead by troops; Al-Qassam Brigades names him as Samir Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, 46; IDF rules out possibility of second gunman

Palestinians inspect the destruction as displaced residents return to Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip after shelling of the camp stopped on November 29, 2024. (Eyad Baba/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Nov. 29: Hamas delegation expected in Cairo Saturday for hostage deal talks

Syrian rebels say they reached Aleppo’s center in lightening sweep * IDF strikes Hezbollah rocket launcher after spotting activity in violation of ceasefire

11:12 pm

Syrian authorities close Aleppo airport, cancel all flights -- military source
9:57 pm

GOP senator: Trump wants Gaza hostage-ceasefire deal before inauguration
9:42 pm

Syrian rebels say they reached Aleppo's center in lightening sweep

People take part in a protest rally against antisemitism in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Reporter's notebook'We need more people like you to speak out against hate'

Despite threats and a ban, thousands of Christians and Jews celebrate Israel in Amsterdam

Some 2,000 people attend Thursday night rally outside city hall after mayor nixes planned Dam Square demonstration, saying she’s unable to guarantee safety of attendees

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Dr. Ali Rashid Al Nuaim pays a shiva call to the family of Rabbi Zvi Kogan in Kfar Chabad, November 29, 2024 (Chabad)

Senior UAE official flies to Israel for condolence visit to family of murdered rabbi

Dr. Ali Rashid Al Nuaim of Federal Supreme Council attends shiva of Chabad emissary Zvi Kogan, murdered in apparent terror attack in Emirates

IDF chief: Military will enforce Lebanon ceasefire 'with fire'

PM threatens ‘intensive war’ if truce breached, as restrictions end in much of Israel

By Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Agencies

Netanyahu argues chances of Gaza deal have ‘changed for the better’ after achievements against Hezbollah; says he’d pause but not end war against Hamas for a hostage deal

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during an interview on Channel 14 news, November 28, 2024. (Screenshot/Channel 14; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi attends a state ceremony marking the Hebrew calendar anniversary of the Hamas onslaught on October 7, 2023, at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, October 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

IDF chief indicates he’ll resign after military finishes October 7 investigation

By Emanuel Fabian

A man celebrates carrying a picture of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, following a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah that went into effect on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

As fresh truce holds, IDF says over 12,500 Hezbollah targets hit in 14 months of war

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Military publishes data after fragile Lebanon ceasefire takes effect; some 25,000 weapons seized, 2,500-3,500 Hezbollah operatives killed; IDF also says it killed 14 top terrorists

Displaced Lebanese returning to their homes inspect the damage in the southern Lebanese village of Tair Debba on November 28, 2024. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Nov. 29: Day 420 – How IDF enforces truce in southern Lebanon’s no-go zone

View of the Philadelphi Corridor, the Egypt-Gaza border area in southern Gaza's Rafah, October 20, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Increasingly flexible Hamas said open to temporary IDF presence at Gaza-Egypt border

By Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Agencies

As long-moribund ceasefire talks ramp up, New York Times says terror group may give up core demands after ‘reality started to sink in’ following Sinwar’s death and truce in Lebanon

Aides Yisrael Einhorn (left) and Jonatan Urich (center) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2019. (Courtesy/ File)

Netanyahu aides painted Qatar as peacemaker in 2022 World Cup PR blitz — report

Reservist Tuvia Book, a combat medic in the Palmar Asaf Medical Extraction Unit, on a Gazan beach, 2024. (courtesy)

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to combat medic Tuvia Book: Reserve duty for over a year

He’s a tour guide in ‘real life,’ but since Oct. 7, the ToI blogger has spent most of his days with the Palmar Asaf Medical Extraction Unit, retrieving wounded from inside Gaza

An image from a record of seismic activity generated by Hamas vehicles heading toward the Gaza-Israel border on October 7, 2023. (Tel Aviv University)

Early warnings, identified months too late

3 seismometers in southern Israel detected Hamas activity just before Oct. 7 attack

Tel Aviv scientists find widely spaced stations picked up heavy vehicle movement in 30 minutes prior to invasion; findings could open way for detection systems to serve security

If Esau could have met Rabbi Zvi Kogan z”l

Jacob is the ’good guy’ in his family, but was his twin really such a villain? What if he had been educated with the love each child needs? (Toledot)

Internal strength

Like reinforced concrete, law and justice are things we take for granted – that is, until things go terribly wrong (Toledot)

Illustrative: Then-US secretary of state John Kerry, speaking at the Oxford Union at Oxford University, England, May 11, 2016. (Peter Nicholls/Pool Photo via AP)

After debate, Oxford Union votes Israel is ‘apartheid’ state committing ‘genocide’

By ToI Staff and Robert Philpot

Controversial event at prestigious UK university results in 278 votes in favor, 59 votes against; Arab Israeli speaker removed after he calls audience ‘terrorist supporters’

Players line up prior to the kick-off at the Europa League opening phase soccer match between Besiktas and Maccabi Tel Aviv, at the Nagyerdei Stadium in Debrecen, Hungary, November 28, 2024. (AP/Denes Erdos)

Maccabi Tel Aviv beats Turkish soccer team as match passes without incident in Hungary

By AP and ToI Staff

UN Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese appears on Piers Morgan Uncensored, November 26, 2024. (YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

UN envoy Albanese says Israel had no right to wage a war in Gaza after Oct. 7

Left to right: Dani Kogan, Deborah Greenblatt, Julian Voloj, Francil Tejada and Bradley T. Borden hold copies of 'We Are Brooklyn: Stories of Hope,' a comic book celebrating the diversity of the borough and of participants in the We Are All Brooklyn Fellowship Against Hate, November 18, 2024. (Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA)

To fight hate, these Brooklyn-based nonprofit professionals wrote a comic book together

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Six members of the We Are All Brooklyn Fellowship Against Hate tell their stories in a project initiated by the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Anti-Israel protesters disrupt Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade; 21 arrested

By AP

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

Levin convenes judicial selection panel but again stalls vote on Supreme Court chief

At long-delayed meeting, justice minister chooses to focus on technical matters and fails to call a vote, leading to accusations he is in contempt of High Court orders

A soldier-reporter for Israel's Army Radio, on November 11, 2019. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Coalition push to privatize state media continues with bill to sell off Army Radio

Illustrative: The arches of the Arab Bank building in East Jerusalem. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Under US pressure, security cabinet extends Israel-PA bank ties deal by a year

Move pushed by Biden administration comes after Smotrich had insisted on month-by-month renewals; Ben Gvir votes against the measure he says will allow Ramallah to limp on

Palestinians run to take cover during an Israeli airstrike in the Nuseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip, on November 28, 2024 (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

IDF says terrorist behind 2002 Beersheba bombing killed in recent Gaza strike

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Composite arial pictures released by the Shomrim Al Hanetzach organization in March 2024 allegedly shows an antiquities site in the West Bank town of Umm ar-Rehan before and after it was illegally razed and turned into a parking area. (Shomrim Al Hanetzach)

Palestinian given 18 months in prison for destroying West Bank antiquities site

By Gavriel Fiske

A sign declaring an upcoming construction project to replace the existing one seen behind it, Gonen neighborhood of Jerusalem, on January 19, 2020. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

'The situation is simply untenable for first-time buyers'

Why Israel’s housing market is seeing an unlikely surge amid the war

By Hadas Kuznits

Experts say a surprising spike in prices can be chalked up to systemic flaws, labor shortages and foreign buyers – but whatever the cause, Israeli buyers are feeling the squeeze

Housing snapshot: Home sales and rentals across Israel in November 2024

By Shoshanna Solomon

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Freed hostage Mia Schem attends Elton John AIDS Foundation's 32nd Annual Academy Awards Viewing Party on March 10, 2024, in West Hollywood, California. (Anna Webber / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Happy endingFormer Hamas hostage Mia Schem engaged to childhood friend

Israel Police and Magen David Adom at the scene where a policewoman was seriously injured after being shot by a man in Jerusalem, November 28, 2024. (Israel Police)

Policewoman shot, seriously injured by mentally ill man barricaded in his home

A sign for Fitch Ratings, in New York, October 9, 2011. (Henny Ray Abrams/AP)

Fitch and Moody’s express cautious optimism over ‘fragile’ ceasefire with Hezbollah

By Sharon Wrobel

State Prosecutor Amit Aisman attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee hearing at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 18, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Report: Prosecutors won’t defend administrative detention for Palestinians only

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset on November 13, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

PM said looking to reduce number of days he’ll spend testifying in court

By ToI Staff and Jeremy Sharon

A demonstrator poses with a Palestinian flag outside the International Criminal Court, ICC, during a rally urging the court to prosecute Israel's army for war crimes, in The Hague, Netherlands, November 29, 2019. (AP/Peter Dejong)

ICC spokesman: Warrants for Israeli leaders won’t be swayed by ‘political matters’

View of Assuta Medical Center, Ramat haHayal, Tel Aviv, May 20, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)

‘Slow and clumsy’: Health Ministry report pans Tel Aviv hospital over IVF foul-ups

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar gives a press conference on November 28, 2024, in Prague, Czech Republic. (Michal Cizek / AFP)

In Prague, FM Sa’ar says he expects US to punish ICC over arrest warrants

By Lazar Berman

Left: Head of the Yamina party Naftali Bennett gives a press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on April 21, 2021; Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on April 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Poll: Netanyahu’s Likud drops slightly with Hezbollah truce; Bennett would win if he ran

"Fruits et pot de gingembre" (1890-1893), by French Impressionist artist Paul Cezanne, is on exhibition at Museum Langmatt in the town of Baden, near Zurich. (Museum Langmatt)

Swiss museum settles with descendants of owners of 2 possibly Nazi-looted paintings

By AFP

View of salt formations on the Dead Sea shore on April 28, 2024. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

State should include stricter requirements in new tender to mine Dead Sea — lawyers

Director Jim Abrahams speaks onstage at the screening of "Top Secret!" during the 2017 TCM Classic Film Festival on April 8, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Charley Gallay / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Jim Abrahams, co-creator of ‘Airplane!’ and ‘The Naked Gun,’ dies at 80

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