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What Matters Most On Saturday, November 1, 2025

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Red Cross vehicles carrying the bodies of two people believed to be deceased hostages handed over by Hamas make their way toward the Kissufim border crossing with Israel, to be transferred to Israeli authorities, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, October 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Partial remains handed over by Hamas are not of hostages, Israeli authorities assess

By Emanuel Fabian

Terror group says it offered samples of 3 unidentified bodies it found, but Israel refused and requested the remains; no comment from Israel; bodies of 11 hostages still held in Strip

Released hostage Omri Miran, far right, his father Dani Miran, center, and Lishay Miran-Lavi, at Tel Aviv Hostages Square on October 31, 2025 (Alon Gilboa/Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

In first visit to Hostages Square, Omri Miran says supporters ‘rose up’ out of trauma

By Jessica Steinberg and Stav Levaton

Israeli soldiers sit on top of tanks at a position in the south, near the Israel-Gaza border fence, on October 30, 2025 (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

4 Gazans said killed after Israeli deadline passes for gunmen to leave IDF-held zone

By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid, Agencies and ToI Staff

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz addresses the convention of the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas, October 30, 2025. (Joseph Strauss/ JTA)

'How many elected Republicans do you see calling this out?'

Ted Cruz to Jewish Republicans: Antisemitism is ‘an existential crisis in our party’

By Joseph Strauss

The Texas senator reiterates comments he made at a megachurch last week, including the core message that he’s recently seen more Jew-hatred on the right than ever before

Ahead of Rabin memorial rally, son says Israeli leaders reignite hatred and division

By Stav Levaton

Yuval Rabin says he sees echos of incitement that led to father’s murder, as masses expected in Tel Aviv at 1st rally in 5 years, marking 30 years since PM assassinated

People visit the monument site for assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on November 4, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani waves to Rita Bellevue as she waits at a bus stop in New York, Oct. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

From the subway to social media, NYC mayoral candidates make closing arguments to voters

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE

Mamdani, Cuomo and Sliwa hit the streets to convince New Yorkers to cast ballots in their favor with early voting set to end Sunday, Election Day on Tuesday

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks to reporters after visiting New Bridges Elementary School in the Brooklyn borough of New York to observe pandemic-related safety procedures, August 19, 2020. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Fit the BillEx-NY mayor Bill de Blasio meets Bill DeBlasio after Mamdani mix-up

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and NYC Comptroller Brad Lander speak during the Jews For Racial and Economic Justice's Mazals Gala on September 10, 2025, in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images via JTA)

NYC mayoral raceWill Brad Lander’s Jewish base follow his lead and vote anti-Israel Mamdani for NYC mayor?

By Grace Gilson and Joseph Strauss

Analysis

Jackie Hajdenberg

Feminist vs. Jewish: These women say NYC’s mayoral election is forcing a painful choice

Many fear antisemitism could proliferate unchecked under virulently anti-Israel frontrunner Mamdani, while rival Cuomo has a track record of sexual harassment allegations, which he denies

Jewish women casting their votes in the New York City mayoral election face a choice between their priorities as Jews and as women. (ZAMEK/VIEWpress via Getty Images via JTA)

Threats that Donovan Hall allegedly sent to the Settenbrino family over videos their son shared from Gaza. (Courtesy)

Man who threatened Jewish hotel owners in NYC sentenced to 4 years in prison

Analysis

Netanyahu once decried ‘daylight’ with Washington, but now he tolerates Trump’s glare

White House publicly expresses frustration with Israel and apparently shapes its actions in a far more significant way than the Biden administration did, with barely any pushback from Jerusalem

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) shakes hands with US President Donald Trump after a news conference in the State Dining Room of the White House, Washington, DC, September 29, 2025. (AP Photo/ Alex Brandon)

US President Donald Trump, right, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a special plenum session in honor of Trump at the Knesset, October 13, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Two-thirds of Israelis believe US now calls the shots on IDF operations in Gaza – poll

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

A crowd gathers at the Tel Aviv ceremony commemorating 30 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, November 1, 2025. (Stav Levaton/Times of Israel)

Live updates (closed)

Nov. 1: Yair Golan: Echoes of shots that killed Rabin ‘still resonate’ in government’s actions

Rallies held to mark 30 years since PM was assassinated, urge return of remaining slain hostages * Rubio: Hamas depriving Gazans of desperately needed aid by looting humanitarian assistance

8:29 pm

Car in southern Lebanon reportedly struck by Israeli drone
8:24 pm

Levin claims AG cannot be involved in legal proceedings relating to Sde Teiman video leak, says she tried to obstruct probe into leak
8:02 pm

Freed captive Gadi Mozes says 'if Rabin were PM today, no one would have been left behind'

Screengrabs of a video posted to National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir's Telegram page on October 31, 2025, showing him next to tied-up Palestinian prisoners. (Telegram)

In video filmed next to bound prisoners, Ben Gvir urges ‘death penalty for terrorists’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Far-right minister brags about harsh treatment in prisons under his leadership, which several freed hostages have said led their captors in Gaza to torture them

Justice Minister Yariv Levin attends a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, January 21, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Right-wing politicians seize on Sde Teiman scandal to renew attacks on judicial system, AG

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman after his speech at the King Abdulaziz International Conference Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, May 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Israel-Saudi deal ‘virtually impossible’ this year, Saudi insider tells NY Times

Only a ‘miraculous change’ in Israel toward Palestinian statehood seen as enabling deal; Saudi crown prince said to seek F-35s, backing for civilian nuclear program on DC visit

Analysis

Rejecting normalization, Smotrich bids for right-wing boost at Saudis’ expense

Far-right finance minister’s incendiary ‘camel-riding’ comment seen as calculated move to energize his base and assert nationalist credentials, with little Netanyahu can do to stop him

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a Religious Zionism faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, October 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Zionism ‘without Arabs’ isn’t Zionism at all

Politicians who say they won’t sit with Arab parties aren’t just betraying Israel’s principles; they are planning for their own defeat

Jon-Erik G. Storm

Are American rabbis up for these times?

They should worry less about keeping their congregations together and more about the future of Jews in the Diaspora

Andre, played by Alex Lutz, in a still from 'Auction.' (Courtesy)

Interview'Painting's discovery was the beginning of another story'

French film ‘Auction’ revisits thrilling tussle over real-life Nazi-looted masterpiece

By Rich Tenorio

In US theaters Oct. 29, Jewish director Pascal Bonitzer’s latest feature centers on a $21 million painting by Egon Schiele that went missing in WWII and turned up on a small town wall

Palestinian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Mustafa attends an Extraordinary Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Member States of The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Jeddah on March 7, 2025. (Amer HILABI / AFP)

PA premier says Ramallah best placed to lead postwar Gaza, despite Israeli obstacles

Mohammad Mustafa says West Bank-based body is committed to seeing reforms through, insists PA offers the best chance for stability in the Strip

Masked Hamas gunmen take positions in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, ahead of handing over Israeli hostages to the Red Cross, Oct. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Jordan, Germany say Gaza’s International Stabilization Force will need UN mandate

By AFP and ToI Staff

Mourners pray over the body of 15-year-old Palestinian Yamen Hamed who was killed by Israeli forces, during his funeral in Silwad, near the city of Ramallah in West Bank on October 31, 2025. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Palestinian teen killed by IDF in clashes near Ramallah; IDF says he had ‘flaming object’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

PA names victim as 15-year-old Yamen Hamed of Silwad; settlers attack several towns, torch vehicles, while video shows settlers killing sheep in farm by Hebron earlier in the week

A view of the entrance to the Russian Compound detention center in Jerusalem, March 12. 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Police say autistic Arab Israeli teen detained on suspicion of aiding Hamas, ISIS

By Charlie Summers

This image grab taken from handout video footage released on Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Telegram account on October 26, 2025, shows RSF fighters holding weapons and celebrating in the streets of El-Fasher in Sudan's Darfur (Rapid Support Forces (RSF) / AFP)

UN demands probe into ‘horrific accounts’ of executions, gang rapes, abductions in Sudan

By AFP

Satellite imagery analyzed by Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab shows clusters in Darfur’s El-Fasher ‘consistent with adult human bodies,’ discoloration that may indicate ‘pools of blood’

An injured Sudanese woman who fled el-Fasher city, after Sudan's paramilitary forces killed hundreds of people in the western Darfur region, sits in a tent at a camp in Tawila, Sudan, Oct. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Mohammed Bakry)

Germany, Jordan, UK call for immediate ceasefire in ‘apocalyptic’ Sudan war

Visitors tour the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza on the southwestern outskirts of the capital Cairo on May 5, 2025. (Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Egypt set to open grand Giza museum, more than two decades in the making

Billion-dollar project, which chronicles 5,000 years of history, was set to open in July, but ceremony was pushed off due to Israel-Iran war

An undated handout photo taken at an undisclosed location and released on August 9, 2021, by the United States District County for the Southern District of New York shows (L-R) Prince Andrew, Virginia Giuffre, and Ghislaine Maxwell posing for a photo. (Handout / US District Court - Southern District of New York (SDNY) / AFP)

UK government, public and Giuffre family welcome Andrew’s fall from royal status

By Jill Lawless and brian melley

Praise for King Charles’s decision to strip brother of princely title, but family of Epstein trafficking victim, who died by suicide, says he should face justice for alleged sexual abuse

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Illustrative: Transport for London workers help commuters get onboard buses, during a strike by members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT), in central London, September 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Joanna Chan)

Jewish London bus passenger says driver trapped him, said he ‘looks like a Mossad agent’

By Stav Levaton

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese village of Ej Jarmaq on October 30, 2025 (Rabih DAHER / AFP)

Lebanon accuses Israel of responding to negotiation offer by ‘intensifying’ attacks

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Maccabi Tel Aviv's fans clap hands after the end of the Europa League soccer match between PAOK and Maccabi Tel Aviv at Toumpa stadium, in Thessaloniki, Greece, September 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

Aston Villa accused of snubbing British Jewish fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv over ticket plan

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa arrives at the Grand Kremlin Palace for his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on October 15, 2025. (Pavel Bednyakov / POOL / AFP)

No spoils of war: Syria’s new ruler lays down the law to loyalists

By Timour Azhari and Feras Dalatey

Members of the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force stand in the front yard as they search a home in Dearborn, Michigan, on October 31, 2025. (JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP)

FBI says it thwarted ‘potential terrorist attack’ in Dearborn, Michigan

By AFP

The "Wall of the Righteous" (Mur des Justes) outside the Shoah Memorial in Paris, France, is vandalized with red-hands graffiti, May 14, 2024. (Antonin Utz / AFP)

French court sentences 4 Bulgarians to jail for defacing Holocaust memorial

By AFP

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