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What Matters Most On Thursday, November 20, 2025

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A Palestinian textbook depicting a soldier holding a Palestinian flag and a gun, as part of a lesson on the use of hands. (courtesy)

Teacher’s guide: Zionism is terrorism, destined to disappear

Despite promised reforms, PA textbooks still teach antisemitic, anti-Israel messages

By Nurit Yohanan

First comprehensive review in four years finds no meaningful curriculum reform in textbooks for grades 1-4 and 12, which were due to be updated this year

View of the ancient archaeological site of Sebastia, near the West Bank city of Nablus, May 12, 2025. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Israel begins seizing 1,800 dunams of West Bank land to develop archaeological site

By Emanuel Fabian

A paramedic helps a Palestinian family carry their belongings as an Israeli soldier enforces an evacuation order on a house in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank on July 8, 2025. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of war crimes over West Bank displacements

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Anti-government protesters lift up placards during a demonstration against the prime minister and in support of establishing a state commission of inquiry into Hamas's October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel, in Tel Aviv on November 15, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

High Court orders government to explain why it’s not launching Oct. 7 state inquiry

By Jeremy Sharon

Government has until Jan. 4 to justify why it isn’t setting up commission that could ‘examine in an independent, professional, and impartial manner’ events around massacre

Deputy President of the Supreme Court Noam Sohlberg presides over a hearing on the government’s enforcement measures against ultra-Orthodox draft evaders, October 29, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg / Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Nov. 20: Day 776 – Court butts heads with coalition on Oct. 7 probe, draft dodgers

By Jessica Steinberg and David Horovitz

Anti-Zionist protesters chant ‘Death to the IDF’ at New York City synagogue

Activists gather in Manhattan to demonstrate against event promoting immigration to Israel, chanting to ‘globalize the intifada’ and accosting Jews

Anti-Zionist protesters outside a New York City synagogue, November 19, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Protesters hold placards decrying antisemitism as they gather to condemn the antisemitic gang rape of a 12-year-old girl, during a rally in Lyon, France, June 19, 2024. (Jean-Philippe Ksiazek/AFP)

Sentence reduced for French teen convicted in antisemitic gang rape of Jewish girl, 12

Protesters hold Hamas flags during a demonstration organized by the Gaza Solidarity Platform, against Germany's military support for Israel, in front of the German consulate in Istanbul on November 10, 2024. (KEMAL ASLAN / AFP)

Germany’s interior minister backs stripping citizenship from Hamas supporters

Promoted Content

Even if it’s hard, do what’s right: Erin Molan’s fight for Israel

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

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara visiting released hostage Alon Ohel at Beilinson Hospital, in Petah Tikva, October 14, 2025. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Nov. 20: Netanyahu speaks with freed hostage Alon Ohel about his rehabilitation

PM says Rubio assured him Israel’s military edge will remain despite US sale of F-35s to Saudis * Settlers reportedly set fire to scrapyard in Palestinian town of Huwara

9:25 pm

PM says Israel will reopen Rafah crossing when all hostages returned, calls on Egypt to let Gazans exit
9:11 pm

IDF arrested Hamas doctor in July who knew of Hadar Goldin's location, says military
9:04 pm

Netanyahu: Enlistment bill will bring 17,000 Haredi soldiers into IDF in 3 years

People walk by a gutted apartment building where residents used fabric to replace the walls at the Al-Shati camp in Gaza City, November 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

US official: Hamas attempts to break ceasefire 'will fail'

IDF launches airstrikes across Gaza after troops come under fire

By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid, Agencies and ToI Staff

Hamas-linked authorities report 25 killed in strikes targeting commander of Hamas’s Zeitoun Battalion and naval chief; EU official says bloc wants to train up to 3,000 Palestinian police

Illustrative: A German police officer stands guard in front of the synagogue in Frankfurt, Germany, November 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Mossad says foiled Hamas terror plots in Europe were planned in Qatar, maybe Turkey

By Lazar Berman

Palestinians collect drinking water at a desalination plant in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, August 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Water provider for almost half of Gaza renews services after Hamas frees employee

Inside story

Updated Gaza data shows famine claims likely inflated by UN-backed monitor

While hunger was still rampant, new malnutrition numbers indicate starvation did not meet IPC’s own levels for declaring famine, casting doubt over finding that fed anti-Israel sentiment

Palestinians wait for food at a distribution point in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, June 2, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Reporter's notebook

Holding down Gaza’s Yellow Line, IDF says ‘Hamas tests us daily’

Close to line marking army redeployment, spokesman says terror group is rearming, committing ‘hundreds’ of violations in fragile first phase of Gaza plan

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)

People use brooms to sweep a road during "We Will Rebuild It Again" campaign, organized by the Gaza Municipality in partnership with the Palestinian NGO Network and the Gaza Chamber of Commerce, on November 15, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

In Gaza, a grueling search for the dead under the rubble

By AFP and ToI Staff

Tents at a makeshift camp for people displaced by conflict are pictured in the football pitch of a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on September 30, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Knesset advances bill to block provision of electricity, water to UNRWA facilities

By Ariela Karmel and Sam Sokol

US Air Force fighter aircraft F-35 performs aerobatic maneuvers on the second day of the Aero India 2025, a biennial event, at Yelahanka air base in Bengaluru, India, February 11, 2025. (AP/ Aijaz Rahi)

Saudi Arabia to receive less advanced F-35 jets than Israel, US officials say

White House source tells Channel 12 that Washington will hold further talks with Israel to ensure fighter jet sale is balanced

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

Business and bromance: Takeaways from MBS’s red carpet visit to Washington

Prof. Ido Amit, left, Director of Weizmann’s Immunotherapy Research Center and PhD student Michelle von Locquenghien. (Courtesy)

'Opportunity' for patients with lower survival rates

Scientists create ‘immune-activating’ molecule to help the body fight cancer

By Diana Bletter

Using AI and big data, Weizmann Institute researchers build MiTEs, or natural killer/T-cell Enhancers, to combat cancers, 5 months after Iranian missile attack destroyed their lab

High Court gives government 45 days to draw up sanctions for Haredi draft dodgers

By Jeremy Sharon

In fierce rebuke, Justice Sohlberg accuses ultra-Orthodox of abandoning ‘their brothers in time of need,’ points to ‘families torn apart, reservists who lost livelihoods’ during war

Ultra-Orthodox Jews clash with police during a protest against being drafted to the army, in Jerusalem, May 5, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Haredi extremists chant "Traitor" and bang on the door of Shas MK Yinon Azoulay's apartment in Ashdod, November 19, 2025. (X screenshot)

Extremist Haredi protesters chant ‘traitor’ at Shas lawmaker’s door

Yoaz Hendel speaking at a press conference for his HaMiluimnikim party, November 19, 2025. (Courtesy)

Yoaz Hendel says his ‘Reservists’ party wants government without Haredi, Arab factions

By Ariela Karmel

Kally Rubin Kislowicz

A tale of two goals

In the fight between ’gym rat’ and ’couch potato,’ I set out to accomplish both. You can guess where I was most successful

‘Jewish wh*re’: When arguments run out

Mexico’s protesters didn’t think they needed to bother disputing Pres. Sheinbaum’s policies: They went after her identity

Officers and civilians from the US, Israel and around 20 other countries work at the Civil-Military Coordination Center in Kiryat Gat, Israel, November 19, 2025 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)

Reporter's NotebookTimes of Israel at CMCC

Optimism abounds at Gaza coordination center, but violence puts truce at risk

By Lazar Berman

Officers and civilians from 20 nations work to push ceasefire to second phase, while another Hamas attack on IDF troops in Strip leads to a major Israeli response

Analysis

As consumers froth over milk shortages, dairies spoil for a fight to halt industry shakeup

Advocacy groups plan campaign against finance minister’s proposed reforms; Agriculture Ministry pushes alternative plan amid concern for dairy farmers and food security

Dairy farm at the Gaza border community of Kibbutz Alumim. (Courtesy)

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to Prof. Asher Cohen: Academic boycott of Israel is ‘catastrophic’

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Past president of Hebrew University weathered COVID, judicial reform and a massive call-up of student reservists post-Oct. 7. Shunning of Israeli institutions a larger challenge

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (foreground) visits IDF troops in southern Syria, accompanied by IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir (right), November 19, 2025. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

IDF presence in Syria of ‘immense importance,’ Netanyahu tells troops during visit

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and AFP

Syria condemns ‘illegal’ visit ‘in the strongest terms’, as senior Israeli official says that security deal with Damascus is ‘not close yet’

IDF airstrikes in the southern Lebanese town of Shehour, after an evacuation warning, November 19, 2025. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Wave of IDF strikes hit Hezbollah weapons depots in south Lebanon after warnings

By Emanuel Fabian

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam arrives to attend a cabinet session to discuss an army plan to disarm Hezbollah, at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, on September 5, 2025. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

Lebanese prime minister accuses Israel of refusing to negotiate on border disputes

Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu speaks during a Knesset Education, Culture, and Sports Committee meeting, in Jerusalem, on July 7, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Far-right minister criticizes journalist for ‘whining’ about threats of violence

By ToI Staff and Charlie Summers

Amichay Eliyahu says media isn’t ‘protected flower’ after Guy Peleg is accosted and Channel 13 gets death threat graffiti; Israel Press Council slams him for ‘amplifying’ threats

Graffiti sprayed overnight outside the Channel 13 offices in Tel Aviv, November 19, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israeli TV network’s office vandalized with threat calling for ‘blood of traitors’

By Charlie Summers

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch at her swearing in ceremony at police headquarters in New York, November 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Mamdani to keep Jewish NYPD chief Tisch in place, winning praise from moderates

NYC mayor-elect says he ‘looks forward to working with’ well-regarded police commissioner, fulfilling campaign pledge

(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on November 19, 2025, shows US President Donald Trump aboard Air Force One on October 24, 2025 (L) and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in New York City, on November 12, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS and CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

Trump to meet Mamdani at White House Friday, setting up clash of political opposites

Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun arrives to a US Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on his nomination to be the special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, November 19, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

At Senate hearing, Trump’s pick for antisemitism envoy cites his own history with Jew hatred

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Actor Kevin Spacey at his Tel Aviv performance on November 19, 2025 (Courtesy)

'Now I've got the mic'

Kevin Spacey’s song-and-dance comeback gets warm Tel Aviv welcome

By Jessica Steinberg

Actor repeatedly refers to last eight years of his life, after he was accused by dozens of sexual misconduct, during show that looks back on his career

More Headlines

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee (right) appears on NewsNation, November 19, 2025. (Screenshot from YouTube)

Huckabee denounces settler violence as ‘terrorism,’ but says it’s not representative

By Jacob Magid, Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, November 17, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset passes law expanding financial benefits for IDF reservists

By Ariela Karmel and Sam Sokol

A flipped Audi pictured at the scene of a deadly collision in south Brooklyn on March 29, 2025 (X screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Brooklyn driver who killed Jewish mom, 2 daughters sentenced to 3-9 years in prison

Alon Ohel, top left, with his family at Hostages Square on November 19, 2025 (Hostages Forum)

Notes of hopeAt Hostages Square, Alon Ohel plays piano named for him

By Jessica Steinberg

Captain Alfred Dreyfus, second from right, speaks with General Gillain, center, after being awarded the Legion of honor award during a ceremony marking Dreyfus' rehabilitation, at Ecole Militaire in Paris, on July 21, 1906. (Photo by AFP)

France promotes Alfred Dreyfus 130 years after treason scandal

By AFP

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi (left) attends the IAEA's Board of Governors meeting at the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on November 19, 2025. (Joe Klamar / AFP)

UN nuclear watchdog demands full cooperation from Iran on sites bombed in 12-day war

By Agencies and ToI Staff

This photo provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, March 28, 2017. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP)

Trump signs bill requiring release of US government files on Jeffrey Epstein

By Andy Sullivan

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage (right) attends a press conference with Zia Yusuf, head of Reform UK's Department of Government Efficiency, in London on November 18, 2025. (Justin TALLIS / AFP)

Far-right UK lawmaker Nigel Farage denies saying ‘Hitler was right’ as a schoolboy

By AFP and ToI Staff

One of nine house fires, likely caused by intentional arson, that broke out in Beersheba overnight on November 20, 2025. (Fire and Rescue Service)

Fires in 9 Beersheba buildings lead to teen’s arrest on suspicion of arson

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

An Enigma M4 rotor key machine used for encrypted communication during World War II, ahead of its auction exhibited at the Christie's auction house in Paris, France, on November 13, 2025. (BERTRAND GUAY / AFP)

Rare Nazi Enigma machine auctioned off for almost half a million euros

By AFP

Cans of Zyklon B on display at Auschwitz. (photo credit: CC BY Jaysmark, Flickr)

French authorities probing Grok AI over ‘Holocaust-denying comments’

By AFP

Former US treasury secretary Larry Summers attends a conference on July 9, 2025, in Sun Valley, Idaho. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/AFP)

Harvard reopens probe of ex-president Larry Summers after Epstein emails release

By AP

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