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What Matters Most On Wednesday, November 19, 2025

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US President Donald Trump, right, 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)

Bin Salman: We'll work to make sure deal happens ASAP

MBS tells Trump he wants to join Abraham Accords, but path to Palestinian state crucial

Trump admits he didn’t get commitment from Saudi crown prince during Oval Office meet, but says they had a good talk about it; pair sign deals on civil nuclear energy, future delivery of F-35s

President Donald Trump meets Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House, November 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Nov. 19: Day 775 – MBS meeting with Trump elevates Saudi Arabia’s ally status

By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid

Interview‘I hope Trump presses for Marwan’s release’

Buoyed by Trump, Marwan Barghouti’s wife presses Israelis to free terror convict for peace

After her husband was passed over for release last month, Fadwa Barghouti says in 1st-ever interview with Israeli press that his ability to unify Palestinians behind 2-state platform can stabilize region

(L-R) Hamas chief negotiator Khalil al-Hayya and US special envoy Steve Witkoff. (Collage/AP)

Witkoff scraps planned meeting with senior Hamas official — diplomat

US envoy cancels trip to Turkey, which had been primarily scheduled around meeting with Zelensky that didn’t pan out; he had planned to discuss efforts to sustain Gaza truce with Hayya

Gali (L) and Ziv Berman interviewed in New York on November 18, 2025 (Screen grab/Channel 12 news)

Former hostage twins ahead of Trump meeting: ‘We’ll thank him, ask him to keep going’

(L-R) Hamas chief negotiator Khalil al-Hayya and US special envoy Steve Witkoff. (Collage/AP)

Witkoff to meet again with senior Hamas leader for talks on Gaza ceasefire — diplomat

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Op-ed: Day 775 of the war

Netanyahu’s Oct. 7 inquiry aims to safeguard his job, not Israel’s future

An independent state inquiry is essential to prevent a recurrence of the worst disaster in Israel’s history. The PM’s panel won’t get to the truth; it puts the defendants on the bench

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pays respect to the victims of the war against Hamas in Gaza, next to a wall with faces of victims, at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem, October 12, 2025. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Footage showing an IDF strike on a Hamas facility in Lebanon on November 18, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF strikes Hamas facility near Lebanon’s Sidon; local officials say 13 killed

By Emanuel Fabian

Army says ‘military compound’ was used for training operatives to attack Israel; IDF confirms strikes earlier in the day killed two Hezbollah operatives

Weapons found by Israeli forces following an attempted smuggling from Syria into Israel, in a handout photo issued on November 19, 2025. (Shin Bet)

5 IDF troops among 12 detained in gun-running bust on Syrian border

By Emanuel Fabian

A handout photo released by the Lebanese presidency press office shows newly appointed US ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa at the presidential palace of Baabda, east of Beirut, on November 17, 2025. (HANDOUT / Lebanese Presidency / AFP)

US said to cancel meetings with Lebanese army chief for remarks criticizing Israel

By Reuters and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump (left) welcomes Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the White House, November 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Mark Schiefelbein)

On top of F-35 sale, US and Saudi Arabia ink deals for civil nuclear energy and tanks

Contradicting US intelligence, Trump says MBS ‘knew nothing’ about Khashoggi killing by Saudi agents; Riyadh announces increase in US investment commitments to $1 trillion

Crown Prince and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman waves goodbye while leaving the White House after a meeting in the Oval Office with US President Donald Trump in Washington, DC, November 18, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

Saudi crown prince heads to a US Congress no longer railing against him

By Patricia Zengerle and Simon Lewis

Live updates (closed)

Nov. 19: AG instructs Netanyahu to fill ministerial posts left vacant by Haredi lawmakers

Military says Hezbollah working to restore infrastructure in south Lebanon, violating ceasefire * High Court orders government to explain why it isn’t establishing a state commission of inquiry into Oct. 7

8:13 pm

Actor Kevin Spacey performs one-man show in Tel Aviv
7:27 pm

Ben Gvir signs off on round of senior police promotions
7:11 pm

German minister backs stripping of citizenship from Hamas supporters

Stephen M. Flatow

If Jewish teens are burning mosques, they must be held accountable

Attacks on Palestinians aren’t pranks or protests, but crimes. Not prosecuting them undermines Israel’s rule of law

Revital Yakin Krakovsky

Holocaust for sale

Nazi-era artifacts belong in museums, not going to the highest bidder, especially as every postcard, badge, and file contributes to the historical record

Everyone expects a Spanish Inquisition

After repeatedly arguing against self-appointed judges, Netanyahu’s ministers are set to appoint their own judges

Sigd: Why Ethiopians build rivers, not bridges

The ancient holiday invites us to renew our sense of shared destiny and to rise from pain with the belief that things can be different

UTJ’s Degel HaTorah faction says it supports latest version of draft exemption bill, for now

Party’s rabbinic leaders insist that yeshiva students be allowed to ‘continue to study,’ says spokesman for Rabbi Lando; Religious Zionism party demands a law that ‘enlists Haredim’

Rabbi Dov Lando in Bnei Brak, August 21, 2025. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)

Israeli security forces and rescue personnel at the scene of a terror attack at the Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank, November 18, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); inset: Aharon Cohen, the victim in the terror attack at Gush Etzion Junction on November 18, 2025. (Courtesy)

Israeli killed in terror attack at Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank; 3 others wounded

By Emanuel Fabian

Victim named as Aharon Cohen, 71; two attackers arrive in car, attempt ramming before exiting to stab people; troops open fire, killing them; woman hit by IDF fire, seriously hurt

Dr. Lise Mumporeze, a Rwanda genocide survivor, stands in the backyard of the Save a Child's Heart Legacy Heritage Children's Home in Holon on the last day of her training program in Israel before she returns to Rwanda to become the first pediatric intensive care specialist in the country on November 3, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)

'Whatever we learned in Israel has a ripple effect'

Come war, peace or pandemic, African doctors train in Israel to save lives back home

By Diana Bletter

Some 165 medical professionals have received fellowships through Save a Child’s Heart; the nonprofit has helped over 8,000 kids from around the world since 1995

Inside story

As winter arrives, Gazans in ruined Strip fear tents no match for cold and rain

Groups say aid is still being held up, even though more is entering, as first taste of winter conditions underlines need for reconstruction and not just flimsy shelters

Salam Musa, 9, carries a mattress as he walks between tents after rainfall at a temporary camp in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on Friday, November 14, 2025. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Members of the Palestinian security forces stand guard in the West Bank city of Hebron, December 24, 2024. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

EU official says it could train 3,000 non-Hamas Gaza police officers for post-war role

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Anti-Israel activists march outside of the CUNY Grad Center on July 22, 2024 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Imam at NYC college interfaith event blames Jewish speaker for Gaza, leads walkout

Addressing students, Muslim leader extols harsh punishments in sharia law, denounces Hillel representative as a ‘Zionist’ and tells followers to leave ‘out of strength and dignity’

Cameron Kasky speaks at the March for Our Lives protest on June 11, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)

Jewish Parkland shooting survivor running for Congress on anti-Israel platform

By Joseph Strauss

Donald Trump and Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun light a candle during an October 7th remembrance event at the Trump National Doral Golf Club, on October 7, 2024, in Doral, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

Group of House Democrats urges Senate to oppose Trump’s pick for antisemitism envoy

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Schoolchildren at the Nysmith School for the Gifted in Northern Virginia present a drawing of Adolf Hitler as an image of a 'strong historical leader' in October 2024, according to a legal complaint filed in July 2025 against the school. (Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law)

US school that expelled Jews after antisemitic bullying apologizes in settlement

By Luke Tress and Zev Stub

Nysmith School booted 3 Jewish children after parents complained of discrimination and of students celebrating Hitler; agrees to introduce antisemitism training, Holocaust education

Nechemya Weberman was convicted and sentenced to 103 years for child sexual abuse, October 16, 2012. (AP/Bebeto Matthews)

NY Jewish leaders asked governor to release Hasidic abuser, records show

This image provided by Sotheby's shows Gustav Klimt's 'Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer' (Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer), which sold for $236.4 million at auction, November 18, 2025, in New York. (Sotheby's via AP)

Klimt painting that saved its subject from Nazis sold for record price in auction

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM

Elisabeth Lederer, who is immortalized in six-foot portrait, survived Holocaust by telling Nazis that the famed painter was her father

Justice Minister Yariv Levin (left) and retired judge Josef Ben-Hamo (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90; Courts Authority)

Levin appoints retired judge to oversee Sde Teiman leak investigation

By Jeremy Sharon

After his first pick invalidated, justice minister taps Yosef Ben-Hamo to ‘inspect’ probe into leak of surveillance video showing alleged abuse of Palestinian security prisoner

MK Zvika Fogel leads a National Security committee meeting at the Knesset, on November 18, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset panel working on death penalty bill mulls series of draconian amendments — report

In 'The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906,' Scott D. Seligman reconstructs how a seemingly local dispute in one Brooklyn school exploded into a test case for religious freedom and civic belonging. (Nebraska University Press via JTA)

Interview

How at the turn of the century, American Jews really did wage a ‘war on Christmas’

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

A new book by historian Scott D. Seligman recalls the ‘The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906,’ when immigrants fought for the separation of church and state in public schools

More Headlines

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid (L) welcomes Noam Tibon to the Yesh Atid party, in a press conference on November 18, 2025. (Elad Gutman)

Retired general Noam Tibon, known for Oct. 7 rescue, joins Yesh Atid party

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

US chipmaker Nvidia's offices in Yokne'am in Israel's north. (Courtesy)

Israel proposes Kiryat Tivon for Nvidia’s multibillion-dollar tech campus in north

By Sharon Wrobel

Illustrative: An Iranian Revolutionary Guard speedboat moves in the Persian Gulf while an oil tanker is seen in background, July 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Iran releases Marshall Islands-flagged tanker, gives no reason for detention

By Jon Gambrell

From left; US Reps. Ro Khanna, Marjorie Taylor-Greene, and Thomas Massie speak during a news conference as the US House prepares to vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act, at the US Capitol in Washington, November 18, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

US Congress approves bill calling for release of Epstein files after Trump U-turn

By Frankie TAGGART

Iranians drive next to a billboard displaying pictures of nuclear scientists, centrifuges and a sentence reading in Farsi: 'Science is the power' at the Enqelab square in Tehran, on August 29, 2025 (AFP)

Report: Iranian scientists tied to nuclear work secretly visited Russia last year

Aftermath of an alleged attack on an Arab bus driver in Modi'in, November 2025. (Channel 13 Screenshot)

Two men arrested over assault of Arab bus driver in the West Bank

By Charlie Summers

The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi (L) and the Chairman of the IAEA Board, permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations (Vienna), Ian David Grainge Biggs (R) attend the IAEA's Board of Governors meeting at the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on November 19, 2025. (Joe Klamar / AFP)

US, European nations urge Iran to cooperate with UN nuclear watchdog

By AFP and ToI Staff

Beersheba Deputy Mayor Shimon Tubul appears on a Channel 14 news broadcast on January 22, 2025. (Screenshot/X)

Prosecutors set to indict Beersheba’s deputy mayor for assaulting Bedouin men

By Charlie Summers

Screen capture from video of Fadel Z, accused of being a member of Hezbollah, at the start of his trial in Celle, Germany, Germany, November 18, 2025. (NDR)

Lebanese man goes on trial in Germany for supplying Hezbollah with drone parts

FILE: Anti-Israel protesters and BDS activists hold Palestinian flags and a banner reading 'Country of apartheid ... Israel,' during a demonstration prior to the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel, Switzerland, May 17, 2025. (SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP)

Eurovision host Austria says it’s ‘time for diplomacy’ to ensure Israel’s inclusion

By AFP

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