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What Matters Most On Wednesday, November 12, 2025

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US President Donald Trump (left) speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset, October 13, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/ Pool via AP)

US president: 'Let Bibi unite Israel by pardoning him'

Trump writes to Herzog asking him to pardon Netanyahu amid ‘unjustified’ trial

By Lazar Berman and Sam Sokol

President’s office says only that requests for pardon must come through necessary channels; under the law, Lapid notes, one can only be eligible for a pardon after admitting guilt

Supt. Rinat Saban speaks on police matters in a video distributed by the Israeli police in late 2021 (Israel Police)

Top cop, AG slam Ben Gvir for blocking promotion of officer involved in PM’s trial

Hadas Levy with her baby, conceived from the sperm of her fiancé, Natanel Silberg, after he was killed in December 2023, fighting Hamas terrorists in Gaza. (Courtesy/Hadas Levy)

Inside story'It is crucial to ask men while they are still alive'

‘A vast demand’ for posthumous sperm retrieval creates new life – and new questions

By Diana Bletter

Since the start of the war, postmortem sperm retrieval was performed on 250 soldiers and security personnel and on 21 civilians. There’s no national policy to decide what happens next

Footage posted on X shows the aftermath of an alleged settler attack near Tulkarem on November 11, 2025. (Screen capture/social media: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Settlers launch major West Bank arson attack; IDF, police arrest four suspects

By Nurit Yohanan, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Footage shows dozens of masked settlers gathered on hillside as factory, trucks burn below; IDF says it detained several suspects, troops later attacked by group of settlers nearby

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a debate at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 10, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Nov. 12: Day 768 – Knesset debates death penalty for terrorists

By Jessica Steinberg, Sam Sokol and Sharon Wrobel

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Nov. 12: PM’s office reportedly asked Likud members to speak out in favor of presidential pardon

Army chief says army ‘will not tolerate’ extremist settler attacks * Likud MK: Meir Kahane ‘was right about many things, today he’d get the Israel Prize’

9:26 pm

As settler attacks rise, police enforcement has plummeted, data shows
9:14 pm

In lengthy statement, PM says attacks on wife and son are an attack on him
9:09 pm

Aviva Siegel tells UN young female hostages in Gaza were repeatedly sexually assaulted

Analysis

Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Moving to shut Army Radio, Katz declares war on an unlikely pillar of independent media

Planned closure of iconic military station marks latest in series of government efforts to reshape Israel’s news landscape, raising fears of shrinking press freedom

Radio broadcasters seen in the offices of Army Radio, the national IDF radio station, in Jaffa, March 27, 2014. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash 90)

Illustrative: The entrance to Army Radio's headquarters in Tel Aviv, June 2, 2023. (Omer Fichman/Flash90)

Katz announces closure of Army Radio, claims many feel it ‘harms war effort, morale’

By Emanuel Fabian, Stav Levaton and Jeremy Sharon

Displaced Palestinians carry food parcels and supplies from aid trucks near the Zikim border crossing between Israel and Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, August 18, 2025. (Khalil Kahlout/ Flash90)

Israel reopens northern Gaza border crossing for humanitarian aid deliveries

By Nurit Yohanan and Agencies

Zikim was closed on September 12 during IDF operation to capture Gaza City and remained shut despite October 10 ceasefire, cutting off nearly all aid to the enclave’s north

IDF troops operate on the eastern side of the Yellow Line in southern Gaza's Khan Younis, in a handout photo issued on November 9, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Kushner, Netanyahu still seeking solution to impasse on terrorists in Rafah tunnels

By Lazar Berman, Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Dermer to remain involved in pushing Abraham Accords

Resigning as minister, Dermer says gov’t will be remembered for both Oct. 7 and its response

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Netanyahu’s closest aide announces he’s stepping down as strategic affairs minister in letter lauding the PM: ‘In our darkest hour, the people of Israel had worthy leaders’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, from right, attends a meeting with US President Donald Trump, not pictured, as Netanyahu's wife Sara Netanyahu, Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi and Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs listen, in the Blue Room of the White House, July 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Right-wing activists demonstrate against Hadash-Ta'al chair Ayman Odeh as he speaks at a private event in Pardes Hanna, on November 11, 2025. (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Right-wing activists picket house meeting with Arab lawmaker, attack his car

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attend a vote at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 13, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich to resume voting with coalition after compromise on reservist compensation

US President Donald Trump, right, speaks with Syria's President Ahmad al-Sharaa, at the White House in Washington on November 10, 2025. (Syrian Presidency Press Office via AP)

Sharaa says Trump backs demand for Israel to withdraw forces from Syrian territory

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Syrian leader says US president will ‘quickly push’ for solution to issue, says Israeli pullout a precondition for a security deal with his country’s southern neighbor

Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem speaks in a televised address, November 11, 2025. (Al-Manar)

‘Everything has a limit’: Hezbollah chief says near-daily IDF strikes can’t continue

By Nurit Yohanan and AFP

A man shows two ropes tied in the shape of nooses, found in the infamous Saydnaya military prison, just north of Damascus, Syria, December 9, 2024. (Hussein Malla/AP)

Exiled Syrian opens up about precariously smuggling out proof of Assad’s cruelty

Steven J. Frank

Harvard’s ‘Amateur Ethicist’ names good and bad Zionists; I say retire the label

The term meant something before the establishment of the state, but now it’s a distraction. Either you support Israel or you don’t

Almost irreplaceable: The face of the IDF in the Arab world

Retiring IDF Arabic spokesperson Avichay Adraee did his job with a rare blend of authority and humanity

Heartbeats of kindness: The day I discovered ‘Bikkur Cholim’

The organization’s devotion to strangers’ physical and religious needs transformed the hospital with kindness, and made a frightening ordeal bearable

Permanent borders, first

Israel’s current relationship with the US offers an optimal opportunity to finalize settlement blocs under Israeli sovereignty and a boundary for its security needs

Supreme Court Justice Yael Willner presides over a hearing, November 11, 2025 (Yonatan SIndel/Flash90)

High Court urges compromise in Sde Teiman leak investigation ‘for sake of public’

By Jeremy Sharon

Justices challenge legality of Levin’s appointment, but assert state attorney has conflict of interest; court suggests district court judge as option for overseeing probe

People cheer as they watch the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest finals being screened at a community center in Tel Aviv, May 17, 2025. (Maya Levin / AFP)

As Eurovision decision looms, host Austria lobbies for Israel to remain in contest

After scrapping vote on issue, EBU declines to say how decision will be made; Israel nevertheless marches ahead with finding next year’s representative to song competition

Jewish country music singer Joe Buchanan (Lila Photo)

Interview

Shalom, y’all: Jewish country music singer mixes Torah with Texas twang

Bred in America’s Bible Belt, Joe Buchanan converted to Judaism after his wife of 13 years revealed her heritage at a Holocaust museum

Illustrative: Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States peer through windows of an Eastern Airlines plane upon arriving at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, Sunday, March 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)

US deported 54 Iranian dissidents back to Iran despite pleas lives were in danger – NYT

1st such flight to Tehran carried Christian converts, a critic of Islam, ethnic minorities; many had alleged terror ties; one pleaded: ‘They will kill me. Please don’t send me back’

Merat Behnam drives her motorbike in downtown Tehran, Iran, November 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Women riding motorbikes signal societal changes in Iran

By MEHDI FATTAHI

France says it will help draft constitution for Palestinian state as Abbas visits Paris

By Jacob Magid, Agencies and ToI Staff

Macron says PA leader presented first draft, adds France to audit authority to ensure end of ‘pay-to-slay’ system; Abbas: Ramallah committed to peace, wants ‘democratic, unarmed state’

France's President Emmanuel Macron and Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas shake hands after a joint press conference at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris on November 11, 2025. (Christophe PETIT TESSON / POOL / AFP)

Riot police officers patrol by the Israeli pavilions at the Paris Air Show, June 16, 2025 in Le Bourget, north of Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

France to allow Israeli firms to take part in defense expo after reports ban was weighed

By Nava Freiberg

Sigalit Yona, an associate of Regional Cooperation Minister David Amsalem, in a report by 'Hamevaker,' on September 17, 2025. (Channel 12 screenshot)

Minister’s associate resigns from municipal job amid suspicions of doing no work

Sigalit Yona, linked to Likud’s David Amsalem, steps down from Jerusalem city hall position despite defending herself last week against allegations she doesn’t show up to the office

Histadrut chairman Arnon Bar-David speaks at a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, June 23, 2025. (Ben Hakoon/FLASH90)

Histadrut chief reportedly sought to have his wife installed on board of bank

Jack Schlossberg arrives at the JFK Library, on May 4, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

JFK’s Jewish grandson set to announce bid for Congress

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Jack Schlossberg would seek to fill seat of retiring New York Democrat Jerrold Nadler in next year’s midterm elections

A visitor looks at ancient mosaics on display at the National Museum of Syria in Damascus, May 23, 2025. (AP/Ghaith Alsayed)

Roman era-statues and other historic artifacts stolen from Syria’s national museum

By GHAITH ALSAYED and BASSEM MROUE

After reopening in January following the fall of Assad, National Museum of Damascus reports six marble statues missing as police launch investigation

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Then-US president Donald Trump speaks during a rally protesting the electoral college certification of Joe Biden as president in Washington, on January 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump claims ‘obligation’ to sue BBC over its controversial edit of his speech

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A protester holds up a placard as people take part in a protest organized by the Jewish Austrian Students' Union in front of the parliament in Vienna on November 11, 2025, against an event taking place named after Franz Dinghofer, an Austrian vice chancellor in the 1920s. (Joe Klamar/AFP)

Protest held outside Austrian parliament against event honoring declared antisemite

By AFP

New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani gives brief remarks during a Veteran's Day event at Volunteers of America - Commonwealth Veterans' Residence on November 11, 2025, in the Soundview neighborhood of the Bronx borough in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/ Getty Images/ AFP)

Progressive Jewish groups hit out at ADL over ‘Mamdani monitor’

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Anti-Israel demonstrators gather outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London, where Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq is taking legal action against the Department for Business and Trade over several decisions, May 13, 2025. (Ben Whitley/PA via AP)

UK court: Palestinian NGO can’t appeal ruling that allows sale of F-35 parts to Israel

By Reuters and ToI Staff

FILE: A woman holds a child during the funeral procession for an IDF soldier, Moshav Avnei Eitan, Golan Heights, July 27, 2025.(Michael Giladi/Flash90)

War caused extensive marital, financial strain among reservists’ families, MKs told

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Sami Hamdi in an interview on October 15, 2025 (Screen grab/Sky News)

UK Muslim commentator who hailed ‘victory’ of Oct. 7 agrees to voluntarily leave US

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Pope Leo XIV (left) picked Roberto Benigni's Holocaust film "Life is Beautiful" as one of his all-time favorites. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images / Sergio Strizzi, Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images via JTA)

Pope Leo names Italian Holocaust film ‘Life Is Beautiful’ as one of his favorite movies

By Andrew Lapin

An Iraqi voter shows her ink-marked thumb to her family members after casting her ballot at a polling station in the southern city of Basra on November 11, 2025 during Iraq's parliamentary elections. (Hussein FALEH / AFP)

Iraqis vote in general election as US and Iran both keep a close eye

Gal Gadot poses with her new star at a ceremony honoring her on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on March 18, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Gal Gadot wins 2026 Genesis Prize, will donate $1 million proceeds to help Israelis heal

By Jessica Steinberg

A combo image of footage posted to X showing a Turkish military C-130 crashing in Georgia, November 11, 2025. (Screengrabs / X)

Turkish military plane breaks up mid-air, crashes in Georgia with 20 onboard

Sample Gates on the campus of Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, June 3, 2010. (IT Communications Office via Wikimedia Commons)

New Jewish studies head at Indiana University squares off with anti-Israel student

By Andrew Lapin

Gidi Gov, pictured at a press conference on March 20, 2023, in Tel Aviv. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Singer Gidi Gov indicted for drunk driving over Tel Aviv car smash

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