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What Matters Most On Monday, November 17, 2025

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Members of Hamas's armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, take part in a military parade along a street in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on January 19, 2025. (BASHAR TALEB / AFP)

Hamas diary said to show military use of schools, hospitals

Amid talk of its disarmament, Hamas said stockpiling advanced weapons abroad

By Emanuel Fabian and Stav Levaton

Report comes amid talk that US could forego demand for terror group to disarm and as IDF chief says Israel ready to seize additional territory in the Strip at any point

Illustrative: An armed Palestinian gunman stands not far from an International Red Cross (ICRC) vehicle, as a search for the bodies of slain Israeli hostages takes place, in Gaza City on November 2, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Ahead of UN vote, Hamas rejects ‘dangerous’ US proposal for Gaza stabilization force

By Nurit Yohanan

Palestinian students attend class inside a tent set up on the beach in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, November 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

In Gaza, families struggle to find spots for kids in makeshift schools

By AP

Analysis

Will government’s plan to set up its own Oct. 7 probe prompt top court to intervene?

Coalition is determined to avoid a fully independent state commission of inquiry, infuriating critics, but High Court has repeatedly refused to mandate how Israel investigates its failures

Anti-government protesters demand the establishment of a state commission of inquiry into the October 7 massacre, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, November 15, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, November 9, 2025. (Screenshot/GPO)

Government moves to appoint own probe into Oct. 7, nixing state commission of inquiry

By Sam Sokol and Nava Freiberg

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the Tel Aviv District Court for a hearing in his corruption trial, October 28, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu testimony in corruption trial on Wednesday canceled for ‘security reason’

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz delivers the opening speech at an economic summit hosted by German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung at the Adlon Hotel in Berlin, November 17, 2025. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP)

Germany to resume arms exports to Israel next week; Sa’ar urges others to follow

By Nava Freiberg, Reuters and ToI Staff

Berlin says decision hinges on Israel’s commitment to ceasefire, influx of aid to Gaza; Germany halted some weapons sales in August ahead of Israel’s plan to conquer Gaza City

Troops of the Nahal Brigade operate in southern Gaza's Rafah, in a handout photo issued on November 1, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Nov. 17: Day 773 – IDF head readies military to retake Hamas-controlled Gaza

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

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In the latest episode of One on One by Israel Bonds & ILTV, Jonah Platt shares how his hit podcast, Being Jewish, became a voice for pride and resilience.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the Tel Aviv District Court for a hearing in his corruption trial, October 28, 2025 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Nov. 17: Netanyahu testimony in corruption trial on Wednesday canceled for ‘security reason’

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Israeli far right escalates rhetoric against motion’s inclusion of pathway to Palestinian state * Trump says US will sell F-35 jets to Saudis * Extremists torch buildings, cars in Palestinian town; PM vows crackdown

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Trump says US will sell advanced F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia
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Trump leaning toward agreeing to sell F-35 jets to Saudi Arabia -- White House official
7:58 pm

Chief rabbis accuse High Court of interfering with Jewish law

Medical research

In world first, Israeli scientists use RNA-based gene therapy to stop ALS deterioration

By adding a microRNA molecule to ALS models, Tel Aviv University, Ben-Gurion University and Weizmann Institute researchers say the damaged nerve cells ‘even regenerated’

Prof. Eran Perlson of the Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences and the Sagol School of Neuroscience at Tel Aviv University, center, with Dr. Ariel Ionescu,left, and PhD student Tal Pery Gradus. (Courtesy/Tel Aviv University)

Palestinian and Israeli activists take part in a protest against settler violence as they gather in the West Bank town of Beit Jala, Nov. 14, 2025. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)

Netanyahu breaks silence on burgeoning settler violence, vows ‘forceful action’

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

At cabinet meeting, PM says Israel is a ‘nation of laws’ and violent perpetrators represent a minority of settlers in the West Bank, where attacks against Palestinians have soared

IDF troops begin the evacuation and demolition of the illegal Tzur Misgavi outpost in the West Bank, November 17, 2025. (Courtesy)

Several officers wounded in clash with settlers at demolition of illegal outpost

By Jeremy Sharon and Emanuel Fabian

Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel demonstrators rally on opposite sides of the street in front of the Roy Thompson Hall, where the documentary 'The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue' is showing, during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on September 10, 2025. (VALERIE MACON / AFP)

Inside story'Do you want us to make our wall higher?'

Once ‘the best’ place for Jews, Canada sees rising antisemitism even after Gaza ceasefire

Attacks continue to force some in the country’s 400,000-strong Jewish community to reconsider their future, even as many believe ‘the vast majority of Canadians are good people’

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)

Ex-hostage Rom Braslavski: Government ‘totally abandoning me’ and ‘laughing in our faces’

Released hostage Avinatan Or speaks at the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly, November 16, 2025. (Screenshot)

Ex-hostage Avinatan Or details unsuccessful escape attempt, severe beatings

President Isaac Herzog eulogizes slain hostage Meny Godard, at Kibbutz Be'eri, November 17, 2025. (President Isaac Herzog/X)

‘The best of humanity’: Hundreds attend funeral for slain hostage Meny Godard

Herzog apologizes on behalf of country for taking two years to return captive’s remains, asserts need to investigate October 7 failures

Analysis

IDF struggles in arms race against gun-runners on Egypt border

Military reports downing 130 smugglers’ drones, seizing 85 guns in the past month; officers say Shin Bet, police, and legislators need to help cut smuggling pipeline

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

Inside the King’s mind: What Bhutan can teach us about building the future

At a time when development often deepens inequality, the tiny Himalayan kingdom is trying to modernize without losing its soul

The sin of omission in the Sde Teiman investigation ruling

The justices opened the door to political intervention in criminal investigations, leaving out the larger context that warns how democracies die

MK's Moshe Gafni and Ya'akov Asher attend a United Torah Judaism party meeting at the Knesset on July 10, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Security beefed up for 2 UTJ lawmakers over threats from Haredi extremists — report

Gafni and Asher receive second-highest level of protection after rioters targeted latter’s home, smashed Shas MK’s car window on Saturday night to protest conscription bill

Inside story

Border Police accused of detaining entire Bedouin hamlet for hours in blanket sweep

Residents of West Bank village say officers rounded up all 180 residents, including kids and elderly, during raid to search for weapons, in what would mark highly unusual action

One of the homes in the Kasrat community in the West Bank, following a Border Police search there. November 4, 2025. (courtesy)

Blindfolded Palestinians captured in the Gaza Strip in a detention facility on the Sde Teiman military base in southern Israel. (Breaking The Silence via AP)

Palestinian prisoner deaths spike amid systematic abuse, neglect, rights group finds

A burning car can be seen in the aftermath of an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanon of town of Mansouri, which the IDF said killed a Hezbollah operative, on November 16, 2025. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Hezbollah operative killed in strike on car near Tyre — IDF

By Emanuel Fabian

Lebanese media says target, Muhammad Shuweikh, was also school principal; military says it recently conducted several overnight raids in southern Lebanon

Members of Syria's security forces stand on a tank in the predominantly Druze city of Sweida on July 15, 2025, following clashes between Bedouin tribes and Druze fighters. (Bakr Alkasem / AFP)

Syria arrests military members for deadly attacks on Druze in Sweida in July

By AP and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach Florida, on his way back to the White House, Nov. 16, 2025. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

In reversal, Trump says House Republicans should vote to release Epstein files

By KEVIN FREKING and CHRIS MEGERIAN

President, fellow Republicans say he has nothing to hide after emails released last week show Epstein writing that Trump ‘knew about the girls’

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, speaks during a town-hall style meeting, April 15, 2025, in Acworth, Georgia. (AP/Mike Stewart)

Marjorie Taylor Greene suggests Israel pressuring Trump not to release Epstein files

US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida, on his way back to the White House, November 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump defends Tucker Carlson after interview with antisemitic activist Nick Fuentes

By Michelle L. Price and CHRIS MEGERIAN

Artist Meital Katz-Minerbo working on her exhibit, 'Field Work' for the Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art, there through February 2026 (Courtesy)

'What we have now is a kind of comeback'

For first time since October 7, Ramat Gan art museum turns spotlight away from war

By Jessica Steinberg

After two years of works focused on hostages and horrors, head curator of small institution looks to unrelated subjects, such as current show on history from a female perspective

US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach Florida, on his way back to the White House, November 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump plans to meet Mamdani, says he and NYC mayor-elect will ‘work something out’

By MICHELLE PRICE and CHRIS MEGERIAN

No immediate Mamdani response to president’s remarks, but he said last week he planned to reach out ‘because this is a relationship that will be critical to the success of the city’

President Isaac Herzog meets with New York City Mayor Eric Adams, November 17, 2025. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Outgoing New York Mayor Adams meets Israeli leaders, who hail him as a ‘true friend’

By Nava Freiberg

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Supporters of alleged Palestine Action activists accused of breaking into Israeli-based defense firm Elbit Systems' site in Bristol in August 2024, hold placards and wave Palestinian flags outside Woolwich Crown Court in south east London on November 17, 2025, where the activists are due to stand trial. (Ben STANSALL / AFP)

6 anti-Israel activists stand trial in UK for breaking into Elbit site

By AFP

US President Donald Trump (left) speaks with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman before posing for a family picture with Gulf leaders during a gathering of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Riyadh on May 14, 2025. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

AnalysisTrump faces uphill battle to persuade Saudi crown prince to normalize Israel ties

By AAMER MADHANI and Matthew Lee

Israelis hike the Yehudiya Forest Nature Reserve and enjoy the Yehudiya waterfall trail featuring cascades and pools down a 400-meter vertical drop, central Golan Heights, October 23, 2025. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Environment Ministry slams Treasury attempt to weaken it, roll back green progress

Relatives of victims, who were killed in a bus accident near the holy city of Medina, mourn in Hyderabad on November 17, 2025. (Noah SEELAM / AFP)

Bus crash in Saudi Arabia kills 45 Indian pilgrims

By RAJESH ROY and OMER FAROOQ

A panel discussion at the JFNA General Assembly in Chicago on October 30, 2022. (Jewish Federations of North America)

North American Federations confab to focus on Israel’s postwar rebuilding efforts

A screengrab of a video showing unveiled women attending an art show at Tehran Design Week, released November 14, 2025. (YouTube)

‘Vulgar’ video of unveiled women attending art show sparks controversy in Iran

By AFP

The name of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz photographed at 'Gleis 17', Track 17, the memorial site for the train transportation from Berlin to the camp, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Berlin, Jan. 27, 2024 (AP/Markus Schreiber)

Survivors demand German auction house halt sale of Holocaust artifacts

By AP

A general view shows the Dead Sea in the Israeli resort town of Ein Bokek on October 18, 2024. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Sinking lowDead Sea ranked second-worst of 101 top world tourist destinations

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