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What Matters Most On Saturday, November 8, 2025

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Lior Rudaeff (Courtesy)

'A man of the land, family and community'

Body of Lior Rudaeff returned from Gaza; he died battling Islamic Jihad terrorists on Oct. 7

By Emanuel Fabian

Rudaeff, 61, was deputy security coordinator at Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak and was part of its civil defense squad; family: ‘763 nightmarish days’ are over; 5 slain hostages still held

Police officer Master Sgt. Ran Gvili.(Courtesy)

ProfileThe only slain hostage whose body is still held in Gaza

Freed hostage Rom Braslavski addresses a rally at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv calling for the release of the remaining, deceased hostages held by Hamas, November 8, 2025. (Lior Rotstein/Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

Live updates (closed)

Nov. 8: At Hostages Square, recently freed captives declare ‘it’s time to save everyone left behind’

Demonstrations held across country to push for return of remaining slain hostages * US said pressing Israel to grant Hamas operatives in tunnel safe passage if Hadar Goldin’s body returned

8:49 pm

Man killed in Jaffa as victim of northern Tel Aviv shooting succumbs to wounds
8:23 pm

Mississippi man yells 'f--k the Jews' and throws coins at Barstool founder Dave Portnoy
8:04 pm

Cops arrest 6 over riot involving fans of soccer rivals Bnei Sakhnin and Maccabi Hafai

Israeli Ambassador to Mexico Einat Kranz Neiger speaks in a March 2025 interview. (Screen capture via Revista Cámara - Periodismo Legislativo on YouTube)

US, Israeli intel agencies tipped off Mexico to Iranian plan

Mexico thwarted Iranian plot to assassinate Israeli ambassador, officials say

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Plan to kill Einat Kranz Neiger said hatched by IRGC official stationed in Tehran-ally Venezuela and Quds Force unit responsible for plots against Jewish sites in Australia, Europe

Crowds in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv rally to urge the release of the bodies of the last 13 deceased hostages held in Gaza, October 25, 2025. (Gilad Furst / Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Masses set to rally for slain hostages still in Gaza: ‘No victory until all return’

Families plan to break dog tags together in solidarity with 5 still held; Golan to address anti-government protesters seeking to return to site of 2023 anti-overhaul rallies

Trump invites all 20 hostages freed in deal to White House

US sidelining Israel on decision-making at Gaza ceasefire HQ, official says

Israeli liaison unit said relegated to contractor role in providing aid; US includes entire Trump 20-point peace plan in UN resolution establishing international force in Strip

US Vice President JD Vance speaks to the media as US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and White House adviser Jared Kushner stand next to him, at the Civil-Military Coordination Center in Kiryat Gat, Israel, October 21, 2025. (AP/Francisco Seco)

Illustrative: The visitors' room at Evin Prison in Tehran, damaged on June 23, 2025, by Israeli airstrikes, seen on July 1, 2025. (AFP)

Iran jails Jewish Iranian-American for visiting Israel for son’s bar mitzvah 13 years ago

By Grace Gilson

Kamran Hekmati, 70, was detained earlier this year during brief trip; is held in notorious Evin prison; US calls for his immediate release and that of three other jailed Americans

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian tour's the country's Atomic Energy Organization in the capital Tehran in a photo released by the agency on November 2, 2025. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

Pezeshkian: Iran seeks peace, but won’t give up its nuclear and missile programs

By Reuters and ToI Staff

When the BBC becomes Al Jazeera’s understudy

The British broadcaster’s leaders must face consequences over leaked revelations of shockingly blatant anti-Israel bias

Taha A. Lemkhir

The tunnel of comeuppance

The fighters holed up in Gaza are a litmus test for whether Hamas will disarm or preserve its myth of eternal ’resistance’

Inside story

Already squeezed by settlers, Palestinians say IDF increasingly blocking olive harvests

The army is using closed military zone orders — meant to avert friction — to keep many West Bank residents from picking their fruit, while failing to halt settler violence, locals and activists charge

Musaab Toufan at his home on the outskirts of the village of Burin near Nablus in the West Bank, October 30, 2025. (Nurit Yohanan/Times of Israel).

Israeli soldiers and an armored vehicle deploy as Palestinians and first responders try to extinguish a burning car set ablaze during an Israeli settler attack in Beita, south of Nablus, on October 10, 2025, amid the annual olive harvest. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh / AFP)

Settler attacks on Palestinians in West Bank hit all-time high in October — UN

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Footage appears to show settlers cutting down olive trees in the South Hebron Hills, on November 7, 2025. (Screen capture via X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Settlers filmed felling Palestinian olive trees amid string of West Bank attacks

An exterior view of the S&P Global headquarters building on March 18, 2025 in New York City. (Angela Weiss/AFP)

From negative to stable: S&P upgrades Israel’s credit rating outlook after Gaza ceasefire

By Sharon Wrobel

Rating agency says the improved outlook reflects ‘assumption that the scale of direct military confrontation will remain contained’

An ivory plaque decorated with a lotus flower from the First Temple period (1200-586 BCE) unearthed in excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority and Tel Aviv University at the Givati Parking Lot in the City of David in Jerusalem, in a discovery announced on September 5, 2022. (Yaniv Berman/Israel Antiquities Authority)

ArchaeologyStudy gives support to Queen of Sheba Bible story

‘A millennium-long monopoly’: How biblical Israel imported a steady flow of African ivory

By Rossella Tercatin

Analysis of 1,500 artifacts shows imports from Nubia between 1600-600 BCE, a trade network that endured from Canaanite times to the era of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah

US Representative Elise Stefanik, a New York Republican, questions university leaders during a House Committee on Education and Workforce Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC, July 15, 2025. (AP/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Trump ally Stefanik launches bid for NY governor, blasts Mamdami as ‘antisemitic communist’

By Andrew Lapin

Video declaring US House member’s campaign notes her questioning of college presidents over campus antisemitism, as she looks to bolster her profile as a supporter of American Jews

Graduate student Momodou Taal speaks at an encampment at Cornell University campus in New York, after being suspended for disruptive behavior during anti-Israel protests, April 27, 2024. (YouTube screenshot / Cornell Daily Sun)

Cornell agrees to pay $60m fine, comply with US civil rights law against antisemitism

By AP

Sylvia Cunio, center, stands flanked by Sharon Alony Cunio (R) and Arbel Yehoud (L) at Sheba Medical Center, on October 15, 2025, after the release of her sons David and Ariel Cunio from Hamas captivity days earlier. (Alon Gilboa/Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

Interview

Hostages’ mom Sylvia Cunio says ‘unreal joy’ to have sons home, but won’t return to Nir Oz

By Jessica Steinberg

Longtime advocate speaks of how sons David and Ariel have changed, and of her deep mourning for all those lost from her community

Demonstrators attend a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel rally at the Galata Bridge in Istanbul on January 1, 2025. (Photo by Yasin AKGUL / AFP)

Turkey issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu, 36 more Israeli leaders over ‘genocide’ in Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

FM Sa’ar says Israel ‘firmly rejects’ the charges, notes same Istanbul prosecutor’s office ‘recently orchestrated the arrest of Istanbul’s mayor merely for daring to run against Erdogan’

Law enforcement official says police blocked ‘bid to trample democracy’ in Sde Teiman probe

Sources cited by Hebrew media slam judge Asher Kula for demanding evidence in case, when his appointment, opposed by AG, has not been okayed by High Court

Police chief Danny Levy speaks during a ceremony at the National Police Academy in Beit Shemesh, September 15, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Kazakh jiujitsu fighter Aldiyar Serik, left, illegally kicks his Israeli rival Omri Haviv during the finals of the Adult Men's Under 29kg No Gi category at the Jiujitsu World Championships in Bangkok, Thailand, November 7, 2025. (Screen capture: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israel’s Omri Haviv wins jiu-jitsu gold as Kazakh rival disqualified for illegal kick

Aldiyar Serik refuses to shake the Israeli fighter’s hand after the bout; Haviv advanced to World Championship final after Kuwaiti opponent backed out of fighting an Israeli

Protesters wave Palestinian flags as Team Israel Premier Tech's British cyclist Jake Stewart competes during the 18th stage of the Vuelta a Espana, a race against the clock between Valladolid and Valladolid in Spain, on September 11, 2025. (Miguel RIOPA / AFP)

Canada’s Premier Tech breaks off sponsorship of Israel cycling team

By AFP

People protest against the participation of the Israeli national team in the 2026 Soccer World Cup qualification match against Italy being played in Udine, Italy, October 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

FIFA fines Italy, Norway soccer federations for incidents involving anti-Israel fan

By AP

Homicide victims Mu'ad al-Hadra, 19; Abed Sbihat, 32; and Murad Yousef, 22, killed overnight in three separate shootings on November 6, 2025. (Facebook)

3 young Arab men shot dead in separate overnight shootings amid unabated crime wave

By Charlie Summers

Victims from Umm al-Fahm and East Jerusalem were 19, 22 and 32 years old, bringing number of Arab Israelis killed in criminal incidents this year to 218, a 7% increase from last year

More Headlines

Protesters hold placards and wave Israeli flags as they take part in a demonstration outside the BBC headquarters, in London, on February 4, 2024, to bring attention to the plight of kidnapped Israeli women in Gaza. (HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)

From our partnerDamning dossier finds ‘systemic issues’ in BBC coverage of Israel-Hamas war

Workers remove the rubble from the a site targeted overnight by an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese village of Et Taybeh on November 7, 2025. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP)

EU calls on Israel to respect ceasefire as IDF steps up strikes in southern Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

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