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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 1, 2024

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An Israeli couple observe the damaged buildings in a village in southern Lebanon as they stand near the Israeli-Lebanese border, during the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, in northern Israel, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Tens of thousands return to school in Hezbollah-battered areas

With ceasefire holding, Home Front Command eases restrictions in northern Israel

By Emanuel Fabian

New guidelines allow for schools to operate if they have adequate shelter and for gatherings of 200 people in open spaces and 600 in closed spaces

A portrait of Hezbollah's late chief Hassan Nasrallah is projected on a building during a vigil at the site where he was killed in a September Israeli air strike, in the Haret Hreik neighborhood of Beirut's southern suburbs on November 30, 2024. - (IBRAHIM AMRO / AFP)

Iran sees ceasefire as a chance to take stock and rebuild Hezbollah – report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Mourners attend a vigil to honor Hezbollah's late chief Hassan Nasrallah, at the site where he was killed in an Israeli air strike, in the Haret Hreik neighborhood of Beirut's southern suburbs on November 30, 2024. (IBRAHIM AMRO / AFP)

Hundreds gather to mourn Nasrallah two months after Hezbollah chief’s death

By AFP and ToI Staff

Analysis

Rebels in Syria take advantage of Israel’s successes against a weakened Iran axis

Lightning advance on Aleppo by anti-Assad jihadist force could be start of wider uprising against Tehran and its proxies

Anti-government fighters wave opposition flags in Syria's northern city of Aleppo on November 30, 2024, amid a lightning offensive against forces of the Iranian- and Russian-backed government. (Omar Haj Kadour/AFP)

Anti-government fighters pose for a picture on a tank on the road leading to Maaret al-Numan in Syria's northwestern Idlib province on November 30, 2024. (Muhammad Haj Kadour / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 1: Day 422 – Syrian rebel uprising and how Israel is in the mix

Hostage Edan Alexander, 20, is seen in a Hamas propaganda video released November 30, 2024. (Video screenshot)

Mother: PM told me conditions ripe to return the hostages

In Hamas propaganda video, hostage Edan Alexander pleads with Trump to push for deal

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

In comments likely dictated to him, 20-year-old dual US citizen addresses the Israeli PM and US president-elect directly, begging for release; family allows media to publish video

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)

‘Make a deal, Bibi’: A year since Nov. 2023 truce, thousands rally for hostages

By ToI Staff and Noam Lehmann

Demonstrators call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip in Jerusalem, 23, 2024 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Hamas says open to ‘all ideas and proposals’ ahead of hostage-truce talks in Cairo

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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A wall marks the Israeli-Lebanese border near the village of Odaisseh in southern Lebanon, as seen from northern Israel, December 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 1: IDF says paratroopers killed armed Hezbollah operatives near a church in south Lebanon

By Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

Netanyahu’s ex-defense minister says IDF ‘not most moral army,’ stands by accusation of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Gaza * Trump announces Massad Boulos as senior Middle East adviser

8:04 pm

Hitting back at Netanyahu, Shin Bet chief defends probe into leaked intel, slams 'conspiracies' aimed to weaken his agency
7:49 pm

Top German diplomat says Israel has 'no excuse' for hampering delivery of aid to Gaza
7:44 pm

Netanyahu's ex-defense minister Ya'alon says IDF 'not most moral army in the world,' stands by accusation of 'ethnic cleansing'

Gallant pans ex-defense chief Ya’alon, who doubles down on Gaza ‘ethnic cleansing’ charge

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Recently fired defense minister accuses predecessor of helping Israel’s enemies; latter doubles down, says war crimes being committed, warns IDF soldiers could be vulnerable to ICC

Former defense minister Yoav Gallant (left) attends a plenum session at the Knesset, Jerusalem, November 13, 2024. (Chaim Goldbergl/Flash90); Moshe Ya'alon attends a protest near the Knesset, October 28, 2024. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

This aerial view shows a Syrian opposition flag flying above a market square in central Aleppo on November 30, 2024. (Muhammad Haj Kadour/AFP)

Syrian military says dozens of soldiers killed in major Islamist attack on Aleppo

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Assad’s army says preparing response; intel chiefs reportedly tell Netanyahu rebels’ advances in Syria spell short-term benefits, potential trouble for Israel; US monitoring situation

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (R) and his Syrian counterpart Bassam al-Sabbagh (L) hold a joint press conference in Tehran on November 19, 2024. (AFP)

Iran ‘firmly supports’ Assad as top envoy travels to Damascus after rebel attacks

By AFP

Yemenis brandish rifles and chant slogans against Israel during a rally in the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa, November 29, 2024. (Mohammed Huwais / AFP)

IDF: Ballistic missile launched by Houthis from Yemen intercepted

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Incoming projectile sets off sirens across central Israel; four lightly hurt as they scrambled to reach safe rooms; Iran-backed group takes responsibility

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, greets National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at the Knesset on May 23, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

Ben Gvir: Netanyahu showing ‘some openness’ to encouraging Palestinian migration from Gaza

Far-right minister also calls on Israel to intensify fighting in Gaza, says terms of hostage deal being discussed are ‘unacceptable,’ threatens to bolt coalition

Staff Sgt. Zamir Burke (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says soldier killed in fighting in northern Gaza on Friday

By Emanuel Fabian and Reuters

People check a car hit by an Israeli strike in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on November 30, 2024, in which five people were reported killed. (Bashar Taleb/AFP)

IDF says it killed Oct. 7 terrorist employed by aid group; 4 others said killed as well

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: Sunrise Beach in Koh Phangan, Thailand. (AP Photo/Mairead Flynn)

Israelis warned terrorists behind murder of UAE rabbi are planning attacks in Thailand

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

National Security Council warns of threat to Israelis and Jews in southeast Asia, advises against outward display of identity

Protesting students occupy an area of the quadrangle at the University of Sydney in Sydney, Friday, May 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Anti-Jewish attacks in Australia quadrupled after October 7, report finds

Report’s authors say the 2,062 incidents recorded still understate the seriousness of the surge in antisemitism

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Judaism without God

Those without faith must learn and live the commandments as a revolution, as a protest to the commonplace, as an act of defiance

Intersecting paths at Har Herzl

The grieving couple that happened to visit their son’s grave during another funeral seemed like strangers at first. And then they weren’t

'Pollice Verso (Thumbs Down),' by painter Jean-Léon Gérôme. (Public domain via JTA)

'Life was sacred; Jews were horrified by this entertainment'

There are no Jewish fighters in ‘Gladiator II.’ But what about in ancient Rome?

‘It’s pretty clear from Josephus and from the archaeology’ that gladiators fought in Caesarea, says NYU professor; Israeli actors Lior Raz and Yuval Gonen among modern-day cast

An Israeli truck transporting aid destined for the Gaza Strip arriving at a drop-off area near the Kerem Shalom crossing, on November 28, 2024. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

UNRWA pauses aid deliveries via key Israeli crossing due to looting inside Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Head of UN agency says route via Kerem Shalom no longer safe, largely blames Israel; Jerusalem downplays announcement, says only 7% of aid via crossing is coordinated with UNRWA

'I give to the soldiers from my heart, through good food'

Scarred by October 7, first responder copes with his trauma by BBQing for soldiers

By Hadas Kuznits

Struggling to deal with what he saw while recovering bodies of Hamas victims, ZAKA’s Yossi Hoffman seeks solace by offering tours of affected sites, using funds for cookouts for troops

Charles Kushner arrives for the funeral of Ivana Trump, July 20, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Trump names Jared Kushner’s father as US ambassador to France

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and Eric Tucker

Real estate developer Charles Kushner was pardoned by former president in 2020 after being convicted of witness tampering for luring his brother-in-law to meet with prostitute

Asaf Dagan with his mother, Miri. (Courtesy)

High Court rules reservist who died by suicide won’t be buried in military cemetery

By Emanuel Fabian

Rejecting appeal by family, justices say Maj. (res) Asaf Dagan can have a military ceremony in a civilian plot, as agreed by army and Defense Ministry

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