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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 4, 2024

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Passengers check their flights at Ben Gurion airport on August 6, 2024, amid regional tensions. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

IDF said to warn dozens of soldiers against travel abroad over war crimes claims

Military finds anti-Israel groups filed complaints against some 30 troops who served in Gaza Strip; officials concerned images posted to social media could be used as evidence

Col. Moshe Tetro speaks during a briefing at the Kerem Shalom border crossing with Gaza on January 10, 2024. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)

Pro-Palestinian group files war crimes complaint against new IDF attaché in Brussels

A man carries a sack of donated flour distributed by UNRWA at the Nuseirat refugee camp, Gaza Strip, Tuesday December 3, 2024.(AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israel rejects claims it is restricting Gaza aid, says hundreds of trucks waiting

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Mourners take part in the funeral procession of Hezbollah fighters who were killed during the recent war with Israel, in the southern Lebanese village of Kherbet Selm on December 4, 2024. (MAHMOUD ZAYYAT / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 4: Hezbollah ‘knocked back’ by Israel but poised to rebuild for long term — US intel

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Report details new Egyptian hostage deal proposal as Qatari PM confirms talks with Trump team * All 8 suspects in settler rampage of Palestinian towns released within hours of arrest

9:48 pm

Defense minister reportedly walks back decision to end administrative detention of settlers
9:17 pm

Lebanon's Hezbollah aims to rebuild longer term despite Israeli blows, US intel says
9:16 pm

Security forces detain Hamas operative involved in deadly shooting attack in Jordan Valley

Kan 11 music editor Michal Assulin argues with Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi during an emergency conference on freedom of expression in the Knesset, December 4, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Scared for freedom of speech’: Journalists accuse government of muzzling press

Lapid accuses PM of trying ‘to stifle criticism of the government,’ whereupon communications minister’s chief of staff screams ‘shame’ and is ejected from meeting

Bank Hapoalim chairman Reuven Krupik speaks at the Globes business conference in Tel Aviv on Dec. 3, 2024. (Shlomi Yosef/Globes)

Business leaders worry about government priorities to support war-battered economy

By Sharon Wrobel

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Ronen and Orna Neutra speak at a memorial ceremony for their son Omer, a slain hostage whose body is still being held by Hamas in Gaza, at the Midway Jewish Center in Hicksville, New York, on December 3, 2024. (NY Hostages Families Forum)

'I pled for a sign of life. I didn't get any'

Slain Israeli-American hostage remembered as ‘hero of Israel’ at NY memorial service

By AP, Jacob Magid and Jessica Steinberg

Hundreds pack synagogue where Omer Neutra had bar mitzvah to pay respects; brother Daniel vows to work for release of all captives in his honor; grandmother speaks at Tel Aviv event

Israelis protest against and in support of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, outside her home in Tel Aviv on November 20, 2024. (Itai Ron/Flash90)

MKs file bill to enable police probes against AG amid growing campaign to oust her

Likud minister reveals list of 13 cabinet members who have signed letter demanding firing of Gali Baharav-Miara, with Ben Gvir reportedly lobbying other ministers to sign on

Senior West Bank police officer Avishai Mualem arrives for a court hearing at the Magistrate's Court in Jerusalem on December 2, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Top West Bank cop revealed as suspect in shadowy case linked to Ben Gvir

Neighbors save Palestinian family from burning home

8 settlers briefly held for rioting, attacking Palestinians and troops in West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

Extremists storm towns after security forces evacuate illegal settlement outpost, where 2 Border Police officers were lightly hurt; IDF clashes with settlers trying to attack village

A home burned by rioting settlers in the West Bank village of Huwara, on December 4, 2024. (Courtesy Huwara residents via Yesh Din)

Analysis

Isolated Hamas faces collapsing negotiating stance after drastic Trump threat

Terror group pinned hopes of salvation on the Iranian axis and world pressure on Israel, but now has just a few weeks until an unpredictable and angry US president returns

Former US president Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court in New York, May 20, 2024. (Steven Hirsch/ New York Post via AP, Pool)

Katz optimistic on possible hostage deal amid renewed efforts

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Defense minister says Hamas facing immense pressure to end Gaza fighting; Trump team reportedly probes hostage issue as Israel awaits truce offer response

Then-Republican presidential nominee former US president Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Lee's Family Forum, in Henderson, Nevada, October 31, 2024. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP)

Eli Feldstein, a spokesman in the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is the main suspect in an investigation launched in late October 2024, of alleged illegal access and leaking of classified intelligence material. (Kan screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Judge orders Netanyahu aide Feldstein to house arrest, gives state till Wed. to appeal

Court finds dearth of evidence that spokesman intended to harm state security when he leaked secret document to press, but does believe he knew leaking the material was illegal

Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the Jerusalem District Court for a hearing in his corruption trial on May 11, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Judges okay moving Netanyahu testimony to Tel Aviv amid concerns for his security

Why did Saudi prince Mohammed bin Salman change his rhetoric about Israel?

Normalization may be the long-term plan, but he’s being cautious, given anger about Gaza, the US political shifts, and his need for domestic stability

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Those days when American Jews all read the same books

On three new books about the books that helped define the mid-20th century American Jewish community, and why there’s no such canon today

InterviewToday, many characters' stories include little Jewish winks

He wrote the history of Jews in comics. Now he’s making Jewish comics history

By Jay Deitcher

At the annual JewCE con in Manhattan, Arie Kaplan, who exposed the industry’s Jewish roots, discusses the rise of overtly Jewish characters and what an Oct. 7 comic might look like

Moshe Weinstein, 76, an Israeli farmer, touches the ladder used by his son Omer at the site of his killing by shrapnel from a rocket launched by Hezbollah from Lebanon, at his apple farm in Metula, northern Israel, December 1, 2024. (REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov)

Israeli farmer who lost son to Hezbollah rocket tries to restore his orchard

By Reuters and ToI Staff

‘I came and saw the worst thing possible to see,’ says Moshe Weinstein, who found his son, along with four Thai workers, lying dead in his apple orchard

Anti-government fighters ride in the back of a truck in the town of Suran, between Aleppo and Hama, on December 3, 2024. (Bakr Alkasem/AFP)

Syrian rebel forces push toward Hama, intensifying pressure on Assad and his allies

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Iranian oil tanker Fortune is anchored at the dock of the El Palito refinery near Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, May 25, 2020. (AP/Ernesto Vargas)

US deepens sanctions on Iranian oil as smuggling said to rake in billions for Tehran

A screen shows the results of the vote on the resolution entitled "Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine"at the General Assembly 46th plenary meeting on December 3, 2024, at the UN headquarters in New York City. (Kena Betancur / AFP)

In policy shift, Australia backs UN call for Israeli pullout from Palestinian areas

By ToI Staff and AFP

Canberra supports measure for first time since 2001, calling for two-state solution and peace conference; country’s opposition accuses government of ‘selling out’ Jewish community

Illustrative: An employee in the offices of the Bezeq telecom firm in the northern city of Kiryat Shmona near the border with Lebanon on February 22, 2024. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

Norway wealth fund divests from Bezeq over services to West Bank settlements

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Demonstrators hold signs in protest as they block an entrance to the Google I/O conference in Mountain View, California on May 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)

Google said worried contract with Israel could damage its reputation

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Dec. 4: Day 425 – Committee pushes through weak climate bill

Arab affairs correspondent Gianluca Pacchiani discusses Lebanese Shiites and Syrian rebels; environment reporter Sue Surkes reviews a watered-down climate bill and recycled textiles

Damage caused to an apartment building following heavy rainfall in Ness Ziona, central Israel, November 21, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Knesset panel paves way for controversial climate bill to go to final Knesset votes

Illustrative: Students take their mathematics matriculation examination in Jerusalem on May 20, 2019 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Steep decline in Israeli students’ international math and science test scores

By Gavriel Fiske

Education Ministry blames COVID lockdowns for disastrous TIMSS 2023 results, which see country plummet 14 places in math and nine in science

Arthur Harari (right) as attorney Georges Kiejman in 'The Goldman Case.' (Courtesy of Menemsha Films/Moonshaker)

Award-winning French film about Jewish radical shrouded in mystery makes US debut

By Shira Li Bartov

‘The Goldman Case’ tells the story of Pierre Goldman, who was convicted of murdering two pharmacists in a robbery before a retrial cleared him of the charges

More Headlines

Ultra-Orthodox Israeli Air Force technicians are seen at the Israeli Air Force's technical school in Haifa upon completing their training, December 3, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Military establishes 1st Air Force technicians unit for ultra-Orthodox men

By Emanuel Fabian

Panoramic view of Andorra la Vella, capital of the Principality of Andorra, from a hiking trail in the Pyrenees. (Larry Luxner/ JTA)

Andorra, where non-Catholic houses of worship are illegal, gets first full-time rabbi

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Dr. Sharon Bratman-Morag of Rambam Medical Center discovers the TBCB gene mutation that causes a type of Autism Syndrome Disorder. (Rambam Medical Center)

Israeli researchers discover gene mutation in Ashkenazi Jews that can cause autism

By Diana Bletter

In this photo provided by South Korea Presidential Office, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol speaks during a press briefing at the presidential office in Seoul, South Korea, Dec. 3, 2024. (South Korea Unification Ministry via AP).

South Korea’s President Yoon backs down after briefly declaring martial law

By Jack Kim and Ju-min Park

File - International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan poses during an interview with AFP at the Cour d'Honneur of the Palais Royal in Paris on February 7, 2024. (Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)

UN watchdog to conduct probe into sexual misconduct allegations against ICC prosecutor

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A Palestinian inspects the car that was targeted in an Israeli drone strike that the military said was targeting a terror cell near the West Bank village of Aqaba, Tuesday, December 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Majdi Muhammad)

IDF says 3 gunmen planning ‘imminent terror attack’ killed in West Bank drone strike

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A man walks through the gate of the Sachsenhausen Nazi death camp with the phrase 'Arbeit macht frei' (work sets you free) in Oranienburg, Germany, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2019. (Markus Schreiber/AP)

In reversal, German court says 100-year-old Nazi guard may go on trial

By AFP

Actor Guri Alfi speaks at a New York City hostage rally for an episode of his show 'The New Jew,' which debuted on the Kan public broadcaster in November 2024. (Courtesy)

Real TVActor Guri Alfi returns to the US for new episodes of ‘The New Jew’

By Jessica Steinberg

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