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What Matters Most On Monday, December 2, 2024

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Cpt. Omer Neutra (Courtesy)

IDF says US-Israeli hostage Cpt. Omer Neutra killed on Oct. 7 and his body held in Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

Neutra, a tank commander stationed on border during Hamas’s terror onslaught, was abducted with 3 fellow troops; military chief rabbi declares death based on findings, new intel

Adi Alexander, father of Hamas hostage Edan Alexander, speaks at a hostage deal rally in New York, December 1, 2024. (Hostages Families Forum)

Father of hostage Edan Alexander calls on Biden, Trump and Netanyahu to ‘act now’

People attend a rally in Tel Aviv calling for the release of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, November 30, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

Netanyahu convenes discussion on hostage negotiations with new ceasefire push

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, on April 4, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

A week after Netanyahu called investigation a 'witch hunt'

Hitting back at Netanyahu, Shin Bet chief defends intel theft probe that led into PMO

In scathing letter that does not name PM, Ronen Bar denounces ‘conspiracies’ aimed to weaken agency, denies probe targeted PMO, says claim that suspects treated like terrorists ‘borders on incitement’

Israelis protest against Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and call for the release of Eli Feldstein, outside the AG's home in Tel Aviv on November 28, 2024.

Ministers advance ‘Feldstein Law,’ giving immunity for passing classified info to PM

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) at a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, November 1, 2024. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO); Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara at a farewell ceremony for retiring acting Supreme Court president Uzi Vogelman, at the Supreme Court, in Jerusalem, October 1, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/ POOL/ File)

AG tells court to reject petition demanding PM recuse himself during trial testimony

Omer Balva and his father Eyal in an undated photo. (Courtesy)

'I always promise him that I will keep fighting for him'

Hezbollah killed his son. Now he’s suing Iran for him – and 133 other American victims

By Cathryn J. Prince

This month, the Balva family and US attorney Jonathan Missner filed a suit against the Islamic Republic for funding the terror group that killed US citizen Sgt. 1st Class Omer Balva

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4 anti-government protesters charged with terror for firing flares at Netanyahu home

Prosecution alleges suspects had been warned by Shin Bet against using pyrotechnics, accuses group of acting out of ideological motivation to pressure PM

From left: Ofer Doron, Gal Doron, Amir Sadeh and Itay Yaffe at a court hearing at the Haifa District Court on December 2, 2024. (Flash90)

Eyal Naveh,, one of the leaders of Brothers in Arms, attends a conference at Reichman University in Herzliya, on April 4, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Katz nixes reserve duty of protest leader who urged refusal to serve over judicial overhaul

By Stuart Winer

US President-elect Donald Trump (left) dines with Sara Netanyahu and Yair Netanyahu at the Trump International Golf Course in Florida on December 1, 2024. (Yair Netanyahu/X)

Trump dines with visiting Sara Netanyahu at his Florida golf resort; Yair also attends

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Prime minister’s wife says she raised issue of hostages held in Gaza with US president-elect and noted the ‘urgent need for their swift release’

Donald Trump, right, signs autographs as Massad Boulos watches during a visit to Dearborn, Michigan on November 1, 2024. (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump says Lebanese-American in-law will be senior aide on Arab and Mideast affairs

By Jacob Magid and Reuters

After ‘ethnic cleansing’ charge, Ya’alon says IDF ‘not most moral army’; IDF rejects claims

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Ex-defense minister under Netanyahu says far-right politicians ‘corrupting army,’ triples down on accusation of war crimes in Gaza after being panned for ‘helping Israel’s enemies’

Former defense minister Moshe Ya'alon speaks to Channel 12 about his recent comments accusing the government of dragging Israel down the path of 'ethnic cleansing,' in the Gaza Strip, December 1, 2024. (Screenshot/Channel 12)

UTJ's Yitzhak Goldknopf, center, pictured with a map of prospective settlements in Gaza during a tour of the Gaza border area, November 28, 2024. Daniella Weiss is seen on the right. (Courtesy Yitzhak Goldknopf)

Daily Briefing Dec. 2: Day 423 – Haredi housing minister stirs pot with Gaza border visit

By Jessica Steinberg, Tal Schneider and Diana Bletter

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 2: IDF issues evacuation orders after Gaza rocket fire; navy downs drone over Red Sea

By Elana Kirsh and ToI Staff

Gag order lifted: Senior officer detained for questioning today is Prison Service chief Kobi Yaakobi * White House: No update on hostage deal, Hamas still ‘main stumbling block’

10:04 pm

Family and friends of slain hostage Omer Neutra gather for candlelight vigil in Ra'anana
9:34 pm

Lebanese health ministry: At least 9 killed in Israeli strikes on two southern villages
9:05 pm

Netanyahu: For court to order Oct. 7 state commission of inquiry would 'shred the separation of powers'

Former Kiryat Shmona mayor Prosper Azran stands in front of his mother's house, which had previously been destroyed by a Hezbollah anti-tank guided missile in Kiryat Shmona, on December 1, 2024. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Residents returning to Israel’s decimated far north worry their neighbors won’t come home

By Diana Bletter

Some members of Kibbutz Manara return to discover widespread damage; in Kiryat Shmona, a former mayor says there should never have been an evacuation at all despite the dangers

Illustrative. A Fars Air Qeshm cargo plane. (Wikimedia Commons)

Israeli jets block Iranian plane suspected of ferrying arms to Hezbollah over Syria

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli warplanes intercept flight, order it to turn around; incident comes amid efforts to prevent all weapons shipments to Lebanese terror group

In this picture taken from Marjayoun, thick smoke rises from explosions in the border town of Khiam in southern Lebanon, on December 1, 2024. (Photo by AFP)

IDF strikes Hezbollah amid truce violations; France said accusing Israel of transgressions

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Students return to Tel Hai Elementary School after it was closed during the war with Hezbollah, December 1, 2024. (Ynet screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Children return to schools in north as Hezbollah ceasefire holds

Syria rebels appear to credit Israeli strikes on Hezbollah with aiding shock advance

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Opposition figures speaking to Israeli TV say they love Jewish state and want to forge friendship; report indicates Hezbollah may be sending forces to Syria as Assad looks for help

Anti-government fighters ride military vehicles as they drive along a road in the eastern part of Aleppo province on December 1, 2024. (Aref TAMMAWI / AFP)

Yonatan Freeman

No cause for alarm: ICC decisions won’t change Israel’s reality

The world needs Israel in the fight against the radical forces (read: Iran) that threaten regional and global stability

Why I just subscribed to Haaretz

The government’s multi-pronged assault on the independence of Israel’s news media takes a page out of the authoritarian playbook

View of the Baneas cave, associated with Pan worship. (Doron Gahali/courtesy)

ArchaeologyWorshippers conducted 'hydromancy' to determine their fates

In a watery Golan cave, Herod’s great-grandson entertained in the Roman imperial style

By Gavriel Fiske

An altar dedicated to the cult of Pan was likely converted to a banquet area by Herodian ruler Agrippa II, aligning with the account of Josephus, new research shows

Jerusalem ancient citadel museum to host accessibility conference

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative: The Ganot Prison, also known as the Nafha prison, in southern Israel, October 29, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Senior prison service official questioned; Ben Gvir blasts ‘coup attempt’

Two police officers also probed in same affair involving breach of trust, ethical issues; key suspect said close to far-right minister, who accuses AG of intimidation

A picture taken on January 29, 2019, shows el-Jazzar mosque in the northern Israeli port city of Acre. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Ben Gvir instructs police to stop mosques from using speakers for call to prayer

A group photo from the Annual Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries, taken at the Chabad headquarters in New York, December 1, 2024 (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

‘Like a big brother’: Chabad memorializes slain UAE rabbi Zvi Kogan at annual conference

US gathering attracts record 6,500 rabbis and guests, including from war-torn Ukraine and Israel; many serve on campuses where students and faculty face rising antisemitism

Zvi Kogan, a Chabad rabbi who was murdered in the UAE in November 2024. (Courtesy: Chabad)

Killers of UAE Chabad rabbi intended to kidnap him to Oman – report

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People sit outside the Tel Aviv court building on November 21, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Netanyahu could testify in Tel Aviv courthouse basement due to security jitters

An American-Israeli Jewish teenager, accused of making dozens of anti-Semitic bomb threats in the United States and elsewhere, in a courtroom in Rishon Lezion on March 23, 2017. (Flash90)

Report: Israeli-US man behind JCC bomb threats held in Norway pending US extradition

US President Joe Biden, left, greets his son Hunter Biden after addressing Americans from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, July 24, 2024, about his decision to drop his Democratic presidential reelection bid, as first lady Jill Biden watches. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)

Biden pardons his son Hunter, breaking repeated public pledges not to do so

By Zeke Miller, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and Colleen Long

Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi faced counts of attempted murder and hate crime and terrorism charges. (Cook County Sheriff’s Department)

Man facing terror charges for shooting US Jew on way to synagogue dies in apparent suicide

Israeli security forces operate in the town of Sir, near the West Bank city of Jenin, December 1, 2024. (Nasser Ishtayeh/ Flash90)

IDF drone strike near Jenin kills Hamas terrorist behind deadly Jordan Valley shooting

By Emanuel Fabian

Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli speaks at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 25, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Romania ‘shocked’ by Israeli minister’s call with candidate who praised WWII antisemites

By Lazar Berman

Dr. Michael Wolfowicz, in an image taken from an August, 2024, interview with Israel National News. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Hebrew U criminology lecturer suspended after arrest on suspicion of beating Palestinian

By Gavriel Fiske

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 13, 2024. (Chaim Goldbergl/Flash90)

Top Likud minister said to support ousting Netanyahu in talk with hostage relatives

Iraqi women demonstrate against underage marriage in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad on August 8, 2024. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

Iraqi MPs to debate revised bill critics fear will allow 9-year-old girls to marry

By AFP

Marshall Brickman speaks to reporters during a news conference on January 22, 2008, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Marshall Brickman, who co-wrote ‘Annie Hall,’ other films with Woody Allen, dies at 85

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