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What Matters Most On Tuesday, November 18, 2025

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Members of the UN Security Council raise their hands to vote in favor of a draft resolution to authorize an International Stabilization Force in Gaza, on November 17, 2025 at UN headquarters in New York City. (Adam Gray/Getty Images/AFP)

PA welcomes vote, Hamas condemns it

UN Security Council endorses Trump broad Gaza peace plan, foreign stabilization force

US garners world support for 20-point proposal, which also references path to Palestinian statehood, but faces uphill battle convincing countries to provide troops to ensure Strip is demilitarized

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, November 16, 2025. (Screenshot/GPO)

In English only, Netanyahu welcomes UN vote backing ‘Trump’s vision’ for Gaza

By Nava Freiberg and Sam Sokol

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir leads an Otzma Yehudit faction meeting at the Knesset on November 17, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir calls for Abbas’s arrest if UN advances Palestinian state recognition

By Ariela Karmel

US President Donald Trump meets with Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on November 18, 2025. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Nov. 18: MBS tells Trump that Saudi Arabia will ‘definitely help’ pay for Gaza’s reconstruction

IDF chief visits terror attack site * Prosecutors set to indict Beersheba’s deputy mayor for assaulting Bedouin men

9:59 pm

US judge approves Purdue bankruptcy plan in opioid settlement, ending Sackler control
9:19 pm

US-European draft resolution at UN nuclear watchdog demands swift cooperation from Iran
8:45 pm

Lebanon death toll rises to 13, officials say

President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman speak during a meeting at the Royal Palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 13, 2025. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Trump to welcome Saudi’s MBS with offer of F-35s, while urging Israel normalization

By Steve Holland, Matt Spetalnick and Humeyra Pamuk

Senior White House official says US president ‘has been hyping up the pressure’ on Riyadh to join Abraham Accords; analysts say lack of progress won’t hinder Saudi business deals

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

Trump says Saudis will get F-35s, bucking Israeli hope he’d condition sale on peace

By Jacob Magid and Nurit Yohanan

Israeli Air Force F-35I fighter jets depart for strikes in Iran, June 13, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF opposes Saudi F-35 deal, warns Israel’s regional air superiority could be eroded

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

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Erin describes how the reaction to Hamas’s October 7 attacks compelled her to speak out against terrorism, despite severe backlash and death threats.

Justice Minister Yariv Levin attends a plenum session at the Knesset in Jerusalem, October 29, 2025. (Chaim Goldbergl/Flash90)

Levin to lead Ben Gvir, Smotrich and others in delineating government’s Oct. 7 probe

Lapid accuses PM of trying to ‘whitewash’ own responsibility by appointing far-right ministers, architect of judicial overhaul that led to ‘neglected’ security before Hamas attack

File: Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu speaks at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on July 7, 2025 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Minister says Oct. 7 inquiry will probe ‘judicial system,’ those who ‘weakened deterrence’

A candle bearing the portrait of 24-year-old Yulia Chaban, who was killed on the beach in Zikim during Hamas' October 7, 2023, attacks, is left inside a bomb shelter on the beach in the southern Israeli Kibbutz of Zikim, the closest Israeli beach to the Gaza Strip, on October 16, 2025. (Maya Levin / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Nov. 18: Day 774 – Can a governmental probe into Oct. 7 be independent?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jeremy Sharon

Jewish extremists burn Palestinian homes and cars; IDF searching for attackers

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Without specifying victims, PM offers support to military, blames violence on ‘small extremist group’ that he says disgraces Israel and Judaism, doesn’t represent settler public

A house and two vehicles belonging to Palestinians burn after a reported attack by Jewish extremists in Sa'ir, north of Hebron in the West Bank, November 17, 2025. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

A view of the plenum hall of the Knesset in Jerusalem, on November 10, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Knesset passes law expanding rabbinical courts’ powers to rule on child support

By Ariela Karmel and Sam Sokol

Two-year interim measure aimed at advancing stalled divorce cases by allowing rabbis to rule on expenses for children’s ‘upbringing, education and medical care’

A sign publicizing the move of The Great Rabbinical Court House for Appeals from its location on King George street, in central Jerusalem, to the Givat Shaul neighborhood, seen on May 26, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Former chief rabbi among senior religious officials suspected of extortion

By Charlie Summers

A 12,000-year-old Natufian clay figurine from the Nahal Ein Gev II archaeological site near the Sea of Galilee, depicting a woman and a goose, and an artistic reconstruction of the scene. Its discovery was announced in a PNAS study on November 17, 2025. (Laurent Davin/Hebrew University)

'We understand that this is an imaginary scene'

Goose bumps: 12,000-year-old figurine from Israel shows surreal woman-bird mating scene

By Rossella Tercatin

Tiny clay sculpture unearthed at Nahal Ein Gev in the Galilee is the earliest known figurine depicting human-animal interaction, as documented by study in prestigious PNAS journal

Illustrative: Hamas operatives accompanied by members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) head to east of Gaza City to search for the bodies of hostages, November 13, 2025. (AP Photo/ Jehand Alshrafi)

Hamas hands over ‘findings’ to Red Cross, not body of hostage, Israeli officials say

By Emanuel Fabian and Nurit Yohanan

Officials deny Al Jazeera report the terror group handed over one of remaining three bodies; IDF sends back dozens of Gazans who finished receiving medical treatment in Israel

Carmit Palty Katzir

The Goldin family taught me what my brother Elad already knew

Even as successive governments conveyed helplessness, these few stalwarts upheld the sacred task of redeeming captives

Ella Ben Emanuel

Teaching morality shouldn’t be hard – but it is

I don’t need to teach Israeli kids about the Holocaust, but instead to help them make sense of a world where words like ‘genocide’ have been twisted and weaponized

Memorial to Shiri Bibas and her sons erected at kibbutz where husband Yarden grew up

Zvika Pasternak’s somber work comprises footprints surrounded by circles; ‘Footprints usually represent a route,’ says the artist. ‘Here, they are trapped, frozen in time’

Former hostage Emily Damari, left, and StandWithUs CEO Roz Rothstein speak during a panel at the inaugural Pride for Israel conference in West Los Angeles, California, November 9, 2025. (StandWithUs)

Inside storyMeetup strategized how to combat anti-Zionism in LGBT spaces

In LA, pro-Israel groups hold inaugural Pride conference to counter ‘Queers for Palestine’

By Noam Lehmann

Ex-hostage Emily Damari, who hid her lesbian identity from Hamas captors, tells attendees at LA event: ‘You guys may be for Palestine, but I can tell you, Palestine is not for you’

Israelis shop for food on Israel. June 13, 2025. (Michael Giladi/FLASH90)

Comptroller finds state fumbled pay, protections for overburdened reservists

By Stav Levaton

Matanyahu Englman calls for deep reforms to address compensation gaps, weak oversight and uneven aid for hundreds of thousands who missed work or school to bolster army during war

Neo-Nazi pleads guilty to ‘monstrous plots’ to poison Jewish children in NYC

White supremacist known as ‘Commander Butcher,’ from the country of Georgia, faces 40 years in prison; separately, Maryland man pleads guilty to threatening Jewish institutions

Michail Chkhikvishvili (US Department of Justice)

New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani talks to reporters at a news conference in New York, November 17, 2025. (AP/Seth Wenig)

Mamdani says he wants to sit down with Trump to discuss affordability

By Philip Marcelo and David R. Martin

Suspects stand inside a holding cell, left, as judges preside over Syria's first public trial related to deadly clashes in March along the country's coastal provinces, at the Palace of Justice in Aleppo, Syria, Nov. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Syria holds first trial over deadly clashes between Syrian regime, pro-Assad forces

By AP

Hundreds on docket for March violence in which over 1,400 were killed, mostly civilians, as fighting between government forces, supporters of ousted leader spiraled

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General view of the Lahav 433 Police Unit headquarters in the city of Lod on March 31, 2025. (Jonathan Shaul/ Flash90)

Man who testified in Histadrut corruption probe dies by suicide

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

FILE - Lava lamps are seen through a lobby window at the headquarters of Cloudflare in San Francisco, August 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

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By Reuters and ToI Staff

International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan attends a United Nations Security Council meeting at the United Nations headquarters on January 27, 2025 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images via AFP)

Israel asks ICC to bar prosecutor under investigation from cases against PM, Gallant

By Jeremy Sharon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to testify at the District Court in Tel Aviv in his corruption trial on September 16, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

In final day of Case 1000 cross-examination, PM says ex-lawyer’s cancer impacted memory

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, who, as justice minister in 2022, appointed Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, appears before a hearing of the Knesset Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee on the splitting of the AG role, at the parliament in Jerusalem, November 17, 2025. (Screen capture: Knesset Channel via X)

Sa’ar, who tapped Baharav-Miara as AG, says role ‘dictator-like,’ must be broken up

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

A protester holds a sign related to the release of the Jeffrey Epstein case files outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, November 12, 2025 (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

US lawmakers set for vote on release of Epstein files

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Protesters take part in a youth anti-government march in Mexico City, November 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Antisemitic graffiti sprayed in Mexico during protests against Sheinbaum’s government

By PHILISSA CRAMER

South Africa's Minister of Foreign Affairs Ronald Lamola attends the first meeting of BRICS Foreign Ministers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on April 28, 2025. (Mauro PIMENTEL / POOL / AFP)

South Africa ‘suspicious’ after Israeli national is linked to Gazans fleeing Strip

By AFP and ToI Staff

The entrance to the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau with the lettering 'Arbeit macht frei' ('Work sets free') is pictured in Oswiecim, Poland, on January 25, 2015, days before the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the camp by Russian forces. (Joël Saget / AFP)

German auction house cancels ‘shameless’ sale of concentration camp artifacts

By Shira Li Bartov

The scene after a man was killed during a police chase in the Arava region, November 18, 2025 (Israel Police)

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Presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast of the Republican Party, waves to supporters after early results in the general elections in Santiago, Chile, November 16, 2025. (AP Photo/ Esteban Felix)

Hard-right former lawmaker Kast leads in Chile’s polarizing presidential runoff

By Isabel Debre

The National Insurance Institute offices in Jerusalem, October 26, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/File)

Without state handling, National Insurance faces payout shortfall, watchdog warns

By Sharon Wrobel

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