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What Matters Most On Thursday, November 6, 2025

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Analysis

Facing an anti-Zionist mayor: Mamdani’s election win puts NY Jews in uncharted waters

For the first time, world’s largest Diaspora community will have to contend with a New York City leader many view as a threat

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, center, speaks in front of the Unisphere alongside his transition team, in Queens, New York City, November 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)

Supporters of New York City Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani celebrate during an election night event at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater in Brooklyn, New York on November 4, 2025. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP)

Exit poll finds one-third of NYC Jews backed anti-Israel Mamdani; Cuomo took Jewish areas

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey speaks at an Election Night party on November 4, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images/AFP)

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey wins re-election, fending off socialist challenger

By AP

Analysis

Will Mamdani’s election spur a mass aliyah from NYC? Don’t count on it

Cities throughout history have seen their once-thriving Jewish communities pushed out by hate; but Israel shouldn’t ready the tarmac for waves of immigrant New Yorkers just yet

A family of immigrants to Israel, part of the stories being told at Yom Haaliyah event on November 7, 2024 at Anu Museum of the Jewish People. (Credit: Yonit Shiller)

Supporters of Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani pose for a selfie during a campaign event on November 1, 2025, in the Queens borough of New York City. (STEPHANIE KEITH / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

For many Muslim Americans, Mamdani’s win is a milestone for representation and diversity

By AP and ToI Staff

New immigrants arrive in Israel on a Nefesh B'Nefesh charter flight, August 20, 2025 (Zev Stub/Times of Israel)

Israel unveils 0% tax rate for 2026’s immigrants and returning residents

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani walks toward the podium for a news conference in Queens, New York City, November 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)

Swastikas on NYC school bring antisemitism into focus a day after Mamdani victory

Mayor-elect condemns antisemitic graffiti, calling it ‘disgusting and heartbreaking,’ vows to work for Jews who didn’t vote for him while throwing a jab at ADL chief Greenblatt

New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speaks during a news conference in the Queens borough of New York, November 5, 2025. (AP Photo/ Heather Khalifa)

ADL announces ‘Mamdani monitor’ to track incoming NYC administration

By Shira Li Bartov

A CSS volunteer stands guard outside a synagogue during a security training drill, in Westchester County, New York, April 28, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Historical US Jewish veterans group partners with synagogue security outfit

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US President Donald Trump and Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in the Oval Office of the White House on November 6, 2025. (Press Office of the President of Kazakhstan)

Live updates (closed)

Nov. 6: Kazakhstan says it’s ‘natural and logical’ for it to join Abraham Accords

Poll shows Netanyahu-led bloc slowly gaining ground against opposition * Witkoff confirms US pressuring Israel to grant safe passage to Hamas fighters stuck in Rafah in exchange for their arms

9:49 pm

AG accuses Levin of misuse of authority over pick to lead Sde Teiman leak probe; justice minister rejects claim
9:13 pm

Syria thanks US after vote to remove UN sanctions on Sharaa
8:24 pm

Deputy IDF legal chief released to house arrest after questioning -- report

Rom Braslavski on his way back to Israel after two years in captivity in Gaza, October 13, 2025. (Government Press Office)

'It's something even the Nazis didn't do'

‘I was torn apart, dying’: Rom Braslavski says captors sexually assaulted, tortured him

‘It was sexual violence, and its main purpose was to humiliate me,’ ex-hostage says. ‘I’d say to myself: ‘I survived another day in hell. Tomorrow I’ll wake up to another hell”

Joshua Loitu Mollel (Courtesy)

Six slain hostages now remain in Gaza

Deceased hostage returned by Hamas identified as Tanzanian national Joshua Loitu Mollel

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Mollel, 21, was at Kibbutz Nahal Oz as an agricultural intern on Oct. 7; Foreign Ministry says he was adopted into Israelis’ hearts: ‘We feel like one of our own is back’

Soldiers carry the coffin of Staff Sgt. Oz Daniel, whose body was returned from Gaza, at the Kfar Saba Military Cemetery on November 6, 2025 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

‘Not how I imagined welcoming you back’: Oz Daniel laid to rest after return from Gaza

Tank soldier’s mother speaks of relief amidst heartbreak that he is finally home; his twin sister thanks ‘the best brother I could ask for’

Ruby and Hagit Chen, parents of slain hostage Staff Sgt. Itay Chen, speak to the media in Tel Aviv after his body was returned to Israel overnight as part of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, November 5, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

‘There is peace for the soul’: Parents of slain ex-hostage Itay Chen now ready to grieve

By Jessica Steinberg and Emanuel Fabian

US President Donald Trump talks with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset, October 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)

US pressures Israel to allow safe passage for 100 to 200 Hamas operatives in Rafah

By Jacob Magid and Emanuel Fabian

Netanyahu opposes proposal; Israeli officials say slain hostage Lt. Hadar Goldin’s body may be in southern Gaza tunnels, though the IDF reports having no such intel

Palestinians seen along the Gaza City seafront, following the ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel, October 18, 2025 (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Nov. 6: Day 762 – US plans for ‘new Gaza’ are a win for Israel

By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid

US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz speaks at a Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the question of Palestinian statehood, during the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on September 23, 2025, at UN headquarters in New York City. (SPENCER PLATT/ Getty Images via AFP)

US envoy seeks to rally support for resolution establishing postwar Gaza security force

Analysis

Hamas is afraid Gaza will become Lebanon. So is Israel

As the two enemies try to shape the next phase of the ceasefire, Hamas aims to limit IDF freedom of action, while Jerusalem seeks to end Hamas’s veto over the Strip’s governance

A woman reacts next to pictures of Hezbollah fighters at a mass funeral in southern Lebanon on Feb. 28, 2025. (AP/Hassan Ammar)

IDF troops stand with a drone that was used in an attempted drug smuggling on the Egyptian border, March 25, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Katz orders IDF to declare Egyptian border closed military zone over drone smugglings

By Emanuel Fabian

Cochav Elkayam-Levy

Israel’s values are a strategic asset, not a luxury

Our answer to those who seek to erase us must be our commitment to democracy, equality, and peace

Ryan Aviv Fagan

The night a Midwestern kid felt something stir

I wasn’t Jewish when Rabin was shot. I didn’t know any Jews. But I was a teen trying to make sense of the world and my path to Judaism began with his loss

David Barak-Gorodetsky

Redemption hastened: Antisemitism in the age of acceleration

In a hyper-speed culture, Judaism’s insistence on law, national bonds, and sanctified time appears as a provocation

Fuentes and Carlson have no place in the conservative movement

Holding the line against antisemites and demagogues in our own ranks isn’t cancel culture, it’s moral stewardship

US Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack and Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani in Damascus, Syria, September 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

US to establish military presence in Damascus to monitor potential pact with Israel

Sources say US to use airbase near Syrian capital for logistics and surveillance; Sharaa to visit White House next week, as US looks to push Israel-Syria pact over finish line

Hezbollah fighters and supporters raise their fists and chant slogans as they march in the funeral procession of five comrades killed in Israeli strikes in recent days, in the southern town of Nabatieh, Lebanon, November 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zaatari)

Hezbollah warns Beirut against talks ‘with Zionist enemy’; IDF hits terror target in Tyre

By Nurit Yohanan, Agencies and Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: The wreckage of a vehicle is left strewn on the side of the road, a day after an Israeli airstrike that killed its occupants, in the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Roummane, in the Nabatieh district on November 2, 2025. (MAHMOUD ZAYYAT / AFP)

IDF drone strike in southern Lebanon kills operative in Hezbollah’s Radwan force

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

A poster that reads 'Give Zionism the red card' is seen on a lamp post near Villa Park in Birmingham on November 6, 2025 ahead of the UEFA Europa League league-stage football match between Aston Villa and Maccabi Tel Aviv. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP)

700 cops deployed ahead of Maccabi match in UK; activists plaster city with anti-Israel posters

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Anti-Israel rallies and counterprotests planned ahead of soccer game against Aston Villa after local officials banned Israeli fans, citing fears for their safety

Anti-Israel activists disrupting a pro-Israel student event at Toronto Metropolitan University, November 5, 2025. (Video screenshot/X)

Pro-Israel event at Toronto university ‘stormed’ by activists

By Luke Tress and ToI Staff

IAF F-16s taxi to conduct strikes on Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on October 15, 2023 (IDF)

Dutch appeals court rejects pro-Palestinian bid to stop arms exports to Israel

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Dr. Amir Golani, an archaeologist at the Israel Antiquities Authority. (Yakov Shmidov/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Archaeology'The settlement was much larger than we expected'

5,000-year-old grape press, oldest proof of wine production in Israel, found near Megiddo

By Rossella Tercatin

Archaeologists also uncover 3,300-year-old Canaanite artifacts, including a ram-shaped vessel, that may have been used for the cultic practices encountered by the early Israelites

Opposition leader and Yesh Atid chair Yair Lapid leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, October 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lapid rips up ‘corrupt’ WZO leadership deal, opens door for Yair Netanyahu appointment

By Zev Stub and Sam Sokol

Opposition leader calls to nationalize major Zionist organizations, saying they are deeply corrupt and currently exist just to create jobs for politicians’ kin and cronies

Then-Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl, right, and his son, assistant coach Steven Pearl, who is taking his place, call out to players during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Mississippi in Oxford, Miss., Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. (AP/Rogelio V. Solis)

As college hoops returns, boosters say golden age of Jewish coaching just tipping off

Three of four coaches in last year’s Final Four were Jewish, but it was an up-and-comer from a D-III school who won Red Auerbach honors, and more are in the pipeline as well

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen in the hallways of the Knesset on November 3, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

Netanyahu reportedly seeks to advance bill on conscription after getting Haredi OK

Bill would set target of drafting half of eligible Haredi men within five years; critics call it weak measure meant to enshrine ultra-Orthodox exemption, shore up PM’s government

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CBS News correspondent Debora Patta interviews US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, in a video posted to YouTube on August 7, 2025. (Screenshot via CBS Evening News)

CBS News staffer claims job cuts disproportionally hit Israel critics

Honoree Rachel Griffin Accurso, known as Ms. Rachel, attends the Glamour Women of the Year Awards at The Plaza Hotel on November 4, 2025, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Star toddler educator Ms. Rachel wears Gaza-themed dress to award ceremony

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) meets with US special envoy Steve Witkoff (3rd R) and National Security Adviser Michael Waltz (3rd L) , accompanied by Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer (2nd R), National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi (2nd L), Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter (R), and Chief of Staff Tzachi Braverman (L) and military secretary Roman Gofman (bottom C) in Washington on February 4, 2025. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Israeli envoy in DC to take on larger role as Dermer set to step down as minister — sources

Screen capture from video of Kevin Roberts, president of The Heritage Foundation, during a video statement, November 5, 2025. (X)

Heritage Foundation head apologizes amid antisemitism turmoil after defending Tucker Carlson

By JTA and ToI Staff

Danish police patrol at Copenhagen Airport, Denmark, Monday September 22, 2025. (Steven Knap/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

Man arrested for plot to supply arms for attack on Jewish targets in Germany

By AP and ToI Staff

Finance Ministry Bezalel Smotrich holds a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem on November 4, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich to halt voting with coalition until MKs pass bill giving reservists tax breaks

Pro-Israel demonstrators protest against Ben & Jerry's over its boycott of the West Bank, and against antisemitism, in Manhattan, New York City, on August 12, 2021. (Luke Tress/Flash90)

Magnum Ice Cream says Ben & Jerry’s chair, an anti-Israel activist, unfit to serve

Illustrative: A couple sit on a swing hanging from the palm trees on a beach on Ko Pha Ngan island. August 15, 2017. Photo by (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

Israeli couple arrested in Thailand over public sex at popular waterfall

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