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What Matters Most On Sunday, November 9, 2025

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Jared Kushner speaks at the weekly rally at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, October 11, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Nov. 9: Jared Kushner in Israel for talks with Netanyahu on Gaza, source says

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Palestinians say settlers torched dozens of olive trees in West Bank village * After 11 years, body of IDF soldier Hadar Goldin back in Israel; parents credit IDF, ‘and nobody else’

9:32 pm

Settlers allegedly torch dozens of olive trees in West Bank village
9:30 pm

Trump slams 'corrupt journalists' as BBC chief quits over speech edit
8:48 pm

Police chief says hospitalized ex-IDF legal chief had attempted suicide: 'Her life isn't rosy'

Analysis

After decade of deadlock, return of Hadar Goldin’s body may bring closure to captive nation

Fallen soldier was held by Hamas since 2014, but Israel failed for years to recover his body and others, possibly planting seeds of conflict that would precipitate his eventual return

Freed Israeli hostage Matan Angrest holds a photo of Hadar Goldin during a rally calling for the return of the deceased hostages who are held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)

Troops investigate a Hamas attack tunnel in southern Gaza's Rafah, in a handout photo issued on August 23, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Nov. 9: Day 765 – Quid pro no: Why 200 Hamas fighters are trapped in Gaza tunnels

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

An image of slain captive Lt. Hadar Goldin is shown on the screen during a protest at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv calling for the release of the remaining hostages held by Hamas, November 8, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Hamas announces it will return body of IDF soldier Hadar Goldin, held since 2014

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and Lazar Berman

Remains set to be handed back at 2 p.m.; return reportedly linked to fate of some 200 Hamas operatives trapped behind Israeli lines, who terror group vows won’t surrender

A poster of Hadar Goldin, the Givati commander killed in combat in Gaza in 2014, his poster at Tel Aviv's Hostages Square on October 28, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hamas claims to recover body of Hadar Goldin, IDF soldier killed and abducted in 2014 war

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Interview

Jessica Steinberg

Mother of lone remaining hostage held since before Oct. 7 marks 11 years of hope and grief

Leah Goldin can’t fathom the endless wait to bury her son Hadar, killed and abducted in 2014 war, and still feels the pain of exclusion after attack that brought hundreds more into her world

Leah Goldin, left, and Simcha Goldin, the parents of Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin whose body is held by Hamas in Gaza, attend a Tel Aviv rally calling for the release of hostages on July 12, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

InterviewTwin of soldier Hadar Goldin, killed in Gaza in 2014, has hopes for his return, even as Hamas stalls

By Jessica Steinberg

Ruby and Hagit, the parents of Staff Sgt. Itay Chen, salute their son at his funeral at the military cemetery in Kiryat Shaul Cemetery in Tel Aviv on November 9, 2025 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Witkoff sends video: 'Losing a child an ache beyond words'

Burying his son, Itay Chen’s father vows to pursue ‘those responsible for Oct. 7 catastrophe’

By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

Ruby Chen demands state inquiry: ‘Whole nation waits for answers’; Hagit Chen eulogizes her ‘brave, funny, good-looking son,’ laments she ‘won’t bake you cookies or set the table for 5 anymore’

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir (center) is seen in Gaza City on September 30, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Cabinet okays NIS 3.25 billion in benefits for IDF career soldiers

Package of grants and benefits aimed at ‘strengthening the soldiers’ economic security and encouraging continued long-term service,’ says government

Head of The Democrats party Yair Golan, head of National Unity party Benny Gantz, head of Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid and head of Yisrael Beytenu party Avigdor Liberman hold a joint press conference at the Knesset, November 6, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opposition heads meet, vow to fight government’s Haredi ‘evasion law,’ judicial ‘coup’

Former IDF Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi is released to house arrest outside the Neve Tirtza Women’s Prison in Ramla, November 7, 2025. (Flash90 )

Ex-IDF legal chief hospitalized after suicide attempt, police commissioner confirms

Ichilov Hospital confirms Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi admitted, undergoing assessment; police ask to apply house arrest conditions in hospital, said to be seeking to seize passport

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a hearing of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee in Jerusalem, September 30, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/ Flash90)

High Court to hear warring petitions on attorney general overseeing Sde Teiman probe

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Elad Or, brother of deceased hostage Dror Or, speaks at a rally at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on November 8, 2025. (Lior Rotstein/Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

Elad Or: Deal must be completed 'without threats of war'

‘Emotional rollercoaster’: At rally, dead hostage’s brother laments month-long wait for body

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

Freed captives say everyone must return; Rom Braslavski says he saw Hostages Square on TV in Gaza, longed to get there; Golan: Anti-government movement to ‘take it up a notch’ against PM

Catherine Perez-Shakdam

Rom Braslavski and the creed of sexual cruelty

Averting your eyes from the gory details won’t make them prettier: rather, stop allowing those who use systematic sexual violence to explain away their tactics

Quitting the WZC is a big mistake

By pulling out of key Zionist institutions, Yair Lapid deprived the liberal camp of a powerful tool for shaping Israel’s future

An election poster of the far-right anti-immigrant party Alternative For Germany, with the slogan reading "It's time for free opinion, is displayed in a street, in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Poll results 'must be a wake-up call'

German Jewish leader raises alarm as far-right AfD surges in eastern states

By Joshua Schultheis

After polls show anti-migrant party could take unprecedented power in two states next year, council president Josef Schuster warns prospect would be ‘real danger to Jewish life’

Jewish settlers attack Palestinians during the olive-picking season in the village of Beita, south of Nablus in the West Bank, November 8, 2025. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Seven injured as settlers allegedly set fire to Palestinian buildings in West Bank

By Nurit Yohanan

Footage shows burning buildings in Jaba, north of Jerusalem, with later video showing settlers and Palestinians throwing stones at each other

An Israeli settler attacks a journalist during the olive-picking season in the village of Beita, south of Nablus in the West Bank, November 8, 2025. (Nasser Ishtayeh/ Flash90)

15 hurt in W. Bank settler attacks, including Palestinian farmer recently interviewed by ToI

By Nurit Yohanan, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

New buildings at a construction site in the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim, February 29, 2024. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Tenders for record number of West Bank settlement housing units published in 2025

By Jeremy Sharon

Some 5,667 housing units will be built when the tenders are awarded, will house 25,000 residents; previous high was in 2018 when tenders for just over 3,800 homes were published

After 7 Arabs shot and killed over weekend, hundreds rally outside PM’s office

By ToI Staff and Charlie Summers

No arrests reported in connection with killings; MK Kariv accuses far-right police minister Ben Gvir of purposely neglecting deadly crime wave in Arab society

Members of the Arab community protest against the violence in their community, outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, November 9, 2025 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli security forces at the scene of a shooting in which one man was killed, in Tel Aviv, November 8, 2025. (Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)

Two men shot dead in separate incidents hours apart in Tel Aviv area

By Charlie Summers

Holocaust survivors Walter Bingham, 101, center, George Shefi, 94, right, and Paul Alexander, 87, talk as they pose for a photo after an interview at Jerusalem Great Synagogue in Jerusalem, Nov. 5, 2025, ahead the 87th anniversary of Kristallnacht (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

'Antisemitism is the panacea for all ills of the world'

Israeli Kristallnacht survivors mark 87th anniversary amid rising global antisemitism

By Melanie Lidman

Survivors see parallels between today and period ahead of Holocaust: ‘We live in an era equivalent to 1938, where synagogues are burned, and people in the street are attacked’

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)

Israel said to accuse Lebanese army of failing to prevent Hezbollah from rearming

Via US-led truce mechanism, Jerusalem reportedly threatens to continue stepped-up strikes, saying terror group has smuggled hundreds of rockets and recruited thousands of members

An Iranian man holds an anti-Israeli placard during a ceremony to mark the first anniversary of the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, in Tehran, on October 2, 2025 (AFP)

US official: Iran funneled some $1 billion to Hezbollah this year, despite sanctions

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Commuters drive along the Nawab Highway underpass in Tehran on November 3, 2025. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran to begin restricting water use in Tehran as drought reaches critical levels

In this photo released by the Saudi Royal Palace, US President Donald Trump, right, shakes hands with Syria's President Ahmad al-Sharaa in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 14, 2025. (Bandar Aljaloud/Saudi Royal Palace via AP, File)

Sharaa in US for 1st official visit of Syrian president; shoots hoops with Centcom chief

By AFP

Former rebel leader will meet with Trump on Monday; shares video of himself playing basketball with top US military officials

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, in white shirt, speaks to members of the Centro Islamico del Caribe - Masjid Ebadur Rahman mosque in prayer, on November 7, 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Angel Valentin / Getty Images via AFP)

In Israel, Mamdani’s victory stirs alarm over shifting US attitudes toward Jewish state

By AP and ToI Staff

‘For the Jews, for Israel, for everyone, it’s very bad,’ one woman says, reflecting the general sentiment; minister says NYC ‘handed over its keys to a Hamas supporter’

New York City Mayor elect Zohran Mamdani in white shirt, speaks to members of the Centro Islamico del Caribe -Masjid Ebadur Rahman mosque, San Juan, Puerto Rico, on November 7, 2025. (Angel Valentin / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Mamdani’s New York victory exposes fault lines in Jewish Democratic politics

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Democrat-New York, expresses his frustration as he speaks to reporters outside the Senate chamber to blame US President Donald Trump and the Republicans with the government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, October 16, 2025. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Progressives warn Democrats against alienating left, pan Schumer’s Senate leadership

By Adriana Gomez Licon

Prof. Avi Loeb appears on the Joe Rogan Experience, October 28, 2025. (YouTube screenshot)

Interview

Astronomer Avi Loeb warns world not to ignore new comet’s potential alien threat

By Rich Tenorio

Israel-born Harvard scientist, no stranger to controversy, has asked Kim Kardashian to join his research team after the celeb got some answers about 3I/ATLAS from a recalcitrant NASA head

More Headlines

Illustrative: Parents accompany their children to the kindergarten in Tel Aviv on October18, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Amid teacher shortage, 7 kindergartens shut in Tel Aviv; city warns more to follow

Fans hold a giant banner reading 'Stop genocide in Gaza' during the UEFA Champions League final soccer match between Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and Inter Milan in Munich, southern Germany, on May 31, 2025. (Odd Andersen / AFP)

Ireland’s soccer governing body overwhelmingly backs call for UEFA to ban Israel

Salah Abdeslam. (ABC News screenshot)

France probes suspected terror threat linked to 2015 Paris attacker

By AFP

Dave Portnoy (right) reacts after man shouts 'fuck the Jews' at him in Mississippi, November 6, 2025. (Screenshot/ X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Mississippi man yells ‘f–k the Jews’ and throws coins at Barstool founder Dave Portnoy

Professor Nurit Yaari in an undated photo (Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 4.0)

Missing professor, found after days without food or water, dies in hospital

L-R: Actress Meryl Streep attends the King's Foundation Awards ceremony, at St. James's Palace, in London, on June 12, 2025. (J RATCLIFFE / POOL / AFP); Actress Sigourney Weaver attends the world premiere of 'Dust Bunny' at the Royal Alexandra Theater during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on September 8, 2025. (VALERIE MACON / AFP)

Power playMeryl Streep, Sigourney Weaver to star in Israeli director’s new thriller

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