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What Matters Most On Saturday, November 30, 2024

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Former hostage Emily Hand and her father Thomas Hand speak at a rally in Tel Aviv's Hostages Square, November 30, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates

Nov. 30: Freed captive Emily Hand, father address rally marking year since 2023 deal

White House: Video of Edan Alexander is ‘cruel reminder of Hamas’s terror’ * Hostage families ask Trump to pressure PM into deal * IDF eases restrictions in northern Israel

9:14 pm

Save the Children says staff member killed in Israeli strike in Gaza
8:02 pm

Released captive Emily Hand, father address rally marking hostage deal anniversary
7:35 pm

Parents of US-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander call on Trump to work with Biden, Netanyahu on hostage deal

Anti-government fighters wave opposition flags in Syria's northern city of Aleppo on November 30, 2024. (Omar Haj Kadour / AFP)

Russia said to pledge surge of military aid to Damascus

Syrian army admits Islamist rebels enter Aleppo, upending yearslong civil war stalemate

Military says dozens of troops killed, in its first acknowledgment of failure to prevent jihadists’ surprise seizure of metropolis held by Assad since 2016

Anti-regime fighters drive along the Aleppo-Damascus M5 highway in the newly captured northwestern area of Khan al-Assal, as smoke rises in the distance on November 29, 2024 (Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

Netanyahu holds assessment on Syria as jihadists enter Aleppo in lightning assault

By AFP

Illustrative: A picture taken from Lebanon shows Syrian officials inspecting the damage on the Syrian side of the Dabussiyeh border crossing after an Israeli airstrike on November 27, 2024. (Fathi AL-MASRI / AFP)

IDF hits Hezbollah military facility in Syria, strikes ‘ceasefire violations’ in Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Army says Hezbollah continues to try bring weapons into Lebanon via civilian border crossings, vows to punish any truce violations; drone said to fire at car heading toward troops

A fisherman jumps from his boat in Tyre, southern Lebanon, November 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

In war-battered Tyre, fishermen test the waters of the ceasefire

By AP and ToI Staff

Mariam Kourani, 56, left, and her husband Ali Haidous stand on the rubble of their home after returning to the village of Hanouiyeh southern Lebanon, November 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

As truce takes effect, displaced Lebanese come home to find piles of rubble

By AP and ToI Staff

US Sen. Lindsey Graham speaks as Republican presidential candidate, former president Donald Trump, listens at a primary election night party in Columbia, South Carolina, February 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Hamas to attend Cairo talks; GOP’s Graham says Trump wants Gaza deal before inauguration

By ToI Staff and Agencies

President-elect’s ally says he is ‘focused on hostages issue’; argues Palestinian reform, enabled by Arab countries, is best defense against Hamas, not Israeli reoccupation of Gaza

Protesters block a road in demand for a hostage-ceasefire deal, in Jerusalem, November 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Hostage rallies mark one year since first and only hostage-ceasefire deal

Moshe Ya'alon attends a protest for the release of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip and for early elections, near the Knesset in Jerusalem, October 28, 2024. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Netanyahu’s ex-defense chief Ya’alon warns Israel on path of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Gaza

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Former army head says IDF already cleansing parts of Gaza of Arabs; decries moves to annex, occupy Palestinian territories, says PM and government leading Israel to ‘destruction’

Iran plans new uranium-enrichment expansion with 6,000 more centrifuges — IAEA report

By Reuters and Agencies

Tehran says the move is a response to a resolution passed against it by the nuclear watchdog’s Board of Governors last week

Various centrifuge machines line a hall at the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility, Iran on April 17, 2021. (Screenshot/Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting-IRIB, via AP)

This picture shows a replica of Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant at an exhibition at the International Conference on Nuclear Science and Technology in Isfahan in on May 6, 2024 (Atta Kenare/AFP)

British, French spy chiefs express concern over Iran nuclear program: ‘Threatens us all’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Dean Sweetland walks past a warehouse that was hit by a rocket fired from Lebanon, in Kibbutz Malkiya in northern Israel, November 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Northerners are wary of returning to border communities: ‘The ceasefire is rubbish’

By AP and ToI Staff

Many residents of battered border kibbutz communities no longer have homes, others are fearful that Hezbollah will return to threaten them

An image grab taken from Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV on November 29, 2024, shows Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem delivering a televised speech from an undisclosed location. In the corner is a picture of slain Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah. (Al-Manar / AFP)

In 1st speech since truce, Hezbollah chief claims victory, says will work with Lebanese army

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A man unloads construction materials in front of a damaged building in Metula, November 27, 2024. (David Cohen FLASH90)

IDF Northern Command chief says rebuilding can begin in damaged border communities

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and then-Bild newspaper chief editor, Kai Diekmann, right, look at original blueprints of the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz, Poland, in Berlin, August 27, 2009. (AP Photo/Rainer Jensen, Pool)

Interview

Bild’s ex-editor on that leaked document: It’s a journalist’s job to publish secret info

By Katharina Kunert

If someone gives you a document, they’re always pursuing an agenda, says Kai Diekmann; he also discusses the paper’s unique stance on Israel and his most dramatic meeting with Netanyahu

Op-ed

Shalom Yerushalmi

Levin does not seek to succeed Netanyahu. His life mission remains the judicial coup

Fueled by deep ties to Likud activists and a vision to reshape the country, the justice minister is unwavering in his pursuit of an overhaul, no matter the cost

Justice Minister Yariv Levin attends a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, in Jerusalem on November 6, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hostage father Dani Miran, far right, with a long beard grown while his son is held hostage, works with other volunteers at a pizza dinner he organized at the Hostages Forum in November 2024 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

For hostage’s dad, cooking dinners for other families offers brief respite

By Jessica Steinberg

Dani Miran, father of captive Omri Miran, hasn’t lived at home since Oct. 7: ‘Most of the time everything feels black, and if I can chop and sauté a little, that’s better’

Marc J. Rosenstein

From the river to the sea

Today’s apocalyptic vision of total victory must make way for hard decisions, arduous negotiations, and courageous leadership

Lessons of a 100–year-old postcard from an imaginary land

Where in the world is West Refaim and why did it have its own stamp? Riddles from back when the Jewish imagination went postal

Netherlands Prime Minister Dick Schoof talks during a press conference at the Catshuis, the official residence of the prime minister, in The Hague, on November 15, 2024. (Simon Wohlfahrt / AFP)

Dutch see options for Netanyahu to visit despite ICC arrest warrant

By Reuters and ToI Staff

PM says there are scenarios in which the Israeli leader could arrive without facing detention, though he does not elaborate

In this image taken from video, police stand guard forming a line near the Ajax stadium, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, November 7, 2024. Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were targeted by anti-Israel rioters in an apparently pre-planned attack following a soccer match in the Ajax stadium. (AP Photo InterVision)

Dutch ministers decry Israeli ministry’s report on Amsterdam violence

By AFP and ToI Staff

Lisa Barr, author of 'The Goddess of Warsaw.' (Courtesy)

Interview

Blacklisted for Israel support, author draws strength from Holocaust survivor grandma

By Jordana Horn

Bestselling writer Lisa Barr – targeted by hecklers and review bombers – vows that though she wants to ‘curl up in a ball’ after Oct. 7, she will ‘fight back constructively’

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel students and demonstrators shout slogans at the campus of SOAS University of London as students occupy parts of university campus in London, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

UK Jewish philanthropist quits volunteer art work over ‘alarming rise of antisemitism”

Candida Gertler announces move to protest ‘normalization of hate’ as London museum severs its ties with her amid calls to boycott her for Israel advocacy, friendship with Netanyahu

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

Ministers to discuss law barring ‘terror-supporting’ Qatar from mediating with Hamas

Bill, proposed by MKs from Likud and far-right parties, says Doha is ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’; 2nd bill would let defense minister sanction workers in ‘terror-supporting’ groups

Shaked Kestleman (Israel Story)

Israel Story

Wartime Diaries: Shaked Kestleman

A citizen stops a terrorist, but is shot by friendly fire. What does his family do next?

French President Emmanuel Macron, center left, and his wife Brigitte Macron, third right, visit the restored interiors of Notre-Dame Cathedral, Nov.29, 2024 in Paris. (Christophe Petit Tesson, Pool via AP)

France shows off Notre Dame after ‘impossible’ restoration following devastating fire

By Francesco FONTEMAGGI

Visiting the cathedral, Macron tells workers they healed ‘national wound’ with renovation work costing hundreds of millions of euros after 2019 blaze

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