Join our Community

Support ToI and remove all ads

Learn more

English
Français
עברית

Get The Daily Edition
Account
Sign In
- Sign in
- Join our Community

Open Search form

Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Video
Newsletters
Partners

Input search

English
Français
עברית

Latest Articles
Latest Alerts
Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Video
Newsletters
Partners
Community
- Join our community
- Sign in
- About The Times of Israel
- Advertise on The Times of Israel
- Contact us
- Download our App
  - For IOS users
  - For Android users
- Get the Daily Edition
- Follow us
- © 2026 The Times of Israel , All Rights Reserved
  
  Terms and conditions Privacy policy

Input search

The Daily Edition

What Matters Most On Friday, November 21, 2025

Facebook
Twitter

View previous edition

View next edition

US President Donald Trump hosts a delegation of hostage families at the White House on November 20, 2025. (White House/X)

Trump hosts captives he helped free from Gaza: ‘You’re not hostages anymore, you’re heroes’

26-strong group includes 17 of the 20 hostages released last month; thanking US president, they urge him to continue pressuring Hamas to return remaining three bodies held in Strip

US President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani as they meet in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on November 21, 2025. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Nov. 21: Trump hails ‘great’ meeting with Mamdani, who accuses US of funding genocide by Israel

IDF says troops killed West Bank gunman who shot reservist * Democrat demands release of ‘shocking’ Trump-Saudi call from 2019 after Khashoggi’s death

11:20 pm

Spanish fascists march in Madrid after Franco death anniversary
9:39 pm

Mamdani accuses US of funding genocide by Israel during warm meeting with Trump
8:25 pm

Democrat demands release of 'shocking' Trump-Saudi call from 2019 after Khashoggi's death

Analysis

‘We need to make them scared’: NYC synagogue protest crosses new red lines

Demonstration outside Park East Synagogue marks an escalation by anti-Israel protesters in terms of target and rhetoric, underlining new normal for the city’s Jews despite Gaza ceasefire

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

Cornell University students sit outside on November 3, 2023, in Ithaca, New York. (Matt Burkhartt/ Getty Images/ AFP)

Cornell grad student union adds resistance ‘by any means’ to anti-Israel resolution

New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, center, celebrates with US Senator Bernie Sanders, left, and US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, right, during an election rally on October 26, 2025, at Forest Hills Stadium in the Queens borough of New York City. (Andres Kudacki/Getty Images/AFP)

Promoted podcastJPPI

The Mamdani Warning Shot

Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch offers a clear-eyed look at what Mamdani’s win signals for liberal Judaism, the surge of anti-Zionism on the left, and the urgent need for clear Jewish leadership.

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

After protest at synagogue, Mamdani says Israel immigration event misused ‘sacred space’

By Joseph Strauss

NYC mayor-elect appears to suggest Nefesh B’Nefesh’s promotion of immigration to Jewish state is a ‘violation of international law’ in statement that doesn’t address antisemitism

Op-edA crowd chanted death threats outside an NYC synagogue. Mamdani found fault with both sides

A Palestinian inspects the damage to a warehouse following an attack by Israeli settlers in the town of Deir Sharaf, west of Nablus, in the West Bank, November
19, 2025. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Security agencies said to push new plan to counter surging settler violence

By Stav Levaton and Emanuel Fabian

Officials said to back special team to combat ‘Jewish terrorism’ in West Bank, but unlikely to resume use of administrative detention on Jews; settlers burn Palestinian scrapyard

Elisha Yered at the illegal West Bank settlement outpost of Ramat Migron, on September 8, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Singapore sanctions four Israelis over ‘extreme violence’ against Palestinians

By Reuters and ToI Staff

From Rebekah’s fear to Ben-Gvir’s hate: The crisis of Jewish narrative

The matriarch was afraid for her son, but when that same anxiety is weaponized, as it has been recently, it’s toxic – and what we need is justice and compassion

Gabriella Rosenberg

Shabbat on two wheels

With competitive tennis matches on Saturdays, I do some fancy footwork to get to them, as I’m Sabbath-observant. And then my faith helps me keep tennis in perspective

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives an interview to the Abu Ali Express Telegram channel, which aired November 20, 2025. (Abu Ali Express screenshot/Telegram)

PM: I expect Haredim to give conscription bill a chance

Netanyahu: ‘There will not be a Palestinian state,’ even at cost of ties with Saudis

By Nava Freiberg and Lazar Berman

In interview with Telegram channel, PM says border deal with Syria ‘preferable’ but won’t budge on security demands; Israel to boost arms industry to ease reliance on US

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

Netanyahu brushes off Saudi F-35 deal, says US will ensure Israel’s military edge

By Nava Freiberg, Emanuel Fabian and Reuters

Lazar Berman (courtesy) / A general view shows a Security Council meeting at the UN headquarters, September 23, 2025, at the United Nations. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

ToI podcastLazar Focus: Is Trump’s ‘pathway to a Palestinian state’ code for nation-building?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

US President Donald Trump speaks with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during the Saudi Investment Forum at the Kennedy Center, in Washington, November 19, 2025. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Trump says he’ll push for peace in Sudan at urging of Saudi crown prince

By AAMER MADHANI

US president tells business forum Bin Salman asked him to do ‘something very powerful’ in war-torn country where divided Washington allies are backing both sides in fight

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks in a news briefing after attending a conference titled "International Law Under Assault: Aggression and Self-Defense," in Tehran, Iran, November 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran vows to block foreign access to bombed nuclear sites unless deal reached

By AFP

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

AnalysisBehind Trump defense of Saudi crown prince, a deeper US shift on human rights

By Matt Spetalnick, Patricia Zengerle and Simon Lewis

This image released by the IDF on November 20, 2025, shows the inside a major Hamas tunnel in southern Gaza, where it says the body of Lt. Hadar Goldin had been held by the terror group in recent years. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF reveals major Hamas tunnel where it says Hadar Goldin’s remains were held for years

By Emanuel Fabian

Army acknowledges detaining Hamas health official Marwan al-Hams, who was thought to know where Goldin was buried, as it tried ‘dozens of covert operations’ to find soldier killed in 2014

Illustrative: Palestinian boys walk amid the debris of a building in Gaza City's Zeitoun neighborhood following an Israeli airstrike, November 20, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Seeking to help rebuild Gaza, EU bolsters reform-linked financial support for PA

By AFP and ToI Staff

Women light Shabbat candles, in Tel Aviv, on June 20, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

In wake of October 7, young Israelis embracing Jewish traditions, new survey shows

By Rossella Tercatin

By contrast, among secular Israelis, the largest community in the country, faith in God has decreased since the Hamas attack, the Jewish People Policy Institute poll finds

Former Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard speaks to i24 on November 20, 2025. (Screen capture: i24 via Youtube)

Pollard: Anti-Israel elements in US administration leaked my Huckabee meeting to get him fired

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Convicted Israeli-operated US Navy mole accuses Kushner and Witkoff of serving foreign interests, fraternizing with terrorists; says Mideast envoy sought profit, not peace

Jonathan Pollard, a former US Navy analyst who spent three decades in prison for spying for Israel, seen in Jerusalem, August 31, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Huckabee hosted ex-spy Jonathan Pollard for meeting at US embassy, NYT reports

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Jordan Hoffman and Amanda Borschel-Dan. (courtesy) / A still from 'Bad Shabbos' (Menemsha Films)

ToI podcast

The Reel Schmooze: How everything going wrong makes ‘Bad Shabbos’ so right

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman

ToI’s film reviewer Jordan Hoffman and host Amanda Borschel-Dan grapple with the classic Mel Brooks ‘The History of the World, Part I’ vs. the new(ish) release ‘Bad Shabbos’

Ethiopian Jews attend a ceremony for the Sigd holiday on the Armon Hanatziv Promenade overlooking Jerusalem's Old City on November 20, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

'Our traditions are my identity and roots'

‘This brings our community together:’ Ethiopian Jews flock to Jerusalem for Sigd holiday

By Rossella Tercatin

Thousands attended ceremony at promenade overlooking the Old City, including former Hamas hostage Avera Mengistu

Analysis

Sidestepping state October 7 probe, Netanyahu may see chance to outflank opposition

Pushing an inquiry that falls short of public demands, PM could still score politically by changing the narrative and giving his base a rallying cry ahead of elections, experts say

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset on November 10, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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

Levin officially taps retired judge to head Sde Teiman leak probe, amid court battle

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Shin Bet chief David Zini attends the state memorial ceremony marking 30 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, November 3, 2025. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Shin Bet said to back death penalty for terrorists, in departure from previous stance

Religious Zionism MK Michal Woldiger, speaking at the Knesset. (Courtesy)

Interview'We can’t poke a finger in the eye of the Haredim'

From key Knesset post, Religious Zionism’s Woldiger champions healing for war-traumatized

By Ariela Karmel

Welfare committee head pushes for better care for Oct. 7 victims, troops and more – but needs support of Haredi parties whose anti-service demands make life harder for those she seeks to help

Former IDF Military Intelligence Directorate chief Eli Zeira, July 16 2012. (Flash90)

Obituary

Eli Zeira, Yom Kippur War intel chief who assessed Egypt and Syria wouldn’t attack, dies at 97

By Emanuel Fabian and Stav Levaton

Zeira, whose dismissal of warnings before the 1973 war left Israel blindsided, became one of the most controversial figures in the nation’s military and intelligence history

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) holds a press conference with US Vice President JD Vance at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, October 22, 2025. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

'I’m worried, but I’m not alarmed'

US Jewish conservatives are still waiting for JD Vance to condemn the antisemitic right

By Joseph Strauss

Participants at a Tikvah Fund event in NYC say they haven’t heard a serious response from the US vice president to the attempted mainstreaming of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish extremists

Researchers find AI ‘DebunkBot’ blunts belief in antisemitic conspiracy theories

By PHILISSA CRAMER

US Coast Guard reverses course on policy to call swastikas merely ‘potentially divisive’

By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN, LISA MASCARO and Susan Haigh

People react as they watch the votes being counted during the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest being screened at a community center in Tel Aviv, Israel, early on May 18, 2025. (Maya Levin / AFP)

Eurovision unveils voting changes seemingly aimed at complaints over Israel

European Broadcast Union will ‘discourage disproportionate promotion campaigns,’ cap number of votes per voter at 10, to prevent stage being a ‘place of geopolitical division’

More Headlines

Sagi Mor and his family. (Courtesy of the family)

Israeli tourist drowns off coast of Koh Phangan after jumping into sea to rescue son

Netanya Mayor Miriam Feirberg-Ikar attends the second round in the elections of for the new Chief Ashkenazi rabbi, at the Chief Rabbinate headquarters in Jerusalem, October 31, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Miriam Feirberg-Ikar, ‘iron lady’ mayor of Netanya since 1998, dies at 74

Mark Mellman. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Mark Mellman, founder of Democratic pro-Israel group and adviser to Yair Lapid, dies

Undated image made available by the National Human Genome Research Institute shows the output from a DNA sequencer. (NHGRI via AP, File)

ChatGPT for genetics: Nvidia, Sheba join forces on AI engine for personalized medicine

By Sharon Wrobel

Illustrative: A man typing on a computer keyboard, January 24, 2017. (Flash90)

Anonymous website offers $100,000 to kill top Israeli research academics

Druze in Israel protest near the Israeli-Syrian border fence in solidarity with Druze in Syria, July 16, 2025. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Seven Druze men, including three Syrians, charged with smuggling arms into Israel

By Charlie Summers and Emanuel Fabian

Protesters wave Palestinian flags as Team Israel Premier Tech's British cyclist Jake Stewart competes during the 18th stage of the Vuelta a Espana, a race against the clock between Valladolid and Valladolid in Spain, on September 11, 2025. (Miguel RIOPA / AFP)

Israel-Premier Tech to rebrand after being barred from cycling race, targeted by protesters

By AP and ToI Staff

Commander of Lahav 433 Maj. Gen. Manny Binyamin attends a ceremony at the National Police Academy in Beit Shemesh, April 20, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Head of police major crimes unit, suspect in criminal probe, to take weeklong leave

By Charlie Summers

Abdallah Abu Madigham, 17 (left) and Ashraf Abu Madigham, 30 (right) who were both killed in a shooting in Rahat, southern Israel on November 20, 2025. (Facebook)

Teenage boy, man killed in Rahat double homicide; police arrest two suspects

By Charlie Summers

Omar El Akkad attends the 76th National Book Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on November 19, 2025 in New York City. (Arturo Holmes/Getty Images)

Gaza polemic denouncing indifference to Palestinian suffering wins US National Book Award

By Andrew Lapin

Former US presidents front row from left, George W. Bush with Laura Bush, Joe Biden with Jill Biden and former US vice presidents Kamala Harris and Mike Pence with Karen Pence, right, during the funeral for former US vice president Dick Cheney at the Washington National Cathedral on November 20, 2025 in Washington. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Dick Cheney’s funeral brings bipartisan tributes, but Trump and Vance not invited

By Calvin Woodward

US President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the US-Saudi Investment Forum at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, on November 19, 2025. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

Trump: Democrats who urged US troops to refuse illegal orders ‘punishable by DEATH’

By Doina Chiacu, Nandita Bose and Bo Erickson

View Edition by Date

October	November 2025					December
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
					1	2
3	4	5	6	7	8	9
10	11	12	13	14	15	16
17	18	19	20	21	22	23
24	25	26	27	28	29	30

The Times of Israel

Daily Edition

Free to Your Inbox

The email is either missing or invalid.

By signing up, you agree to our terms You hereby accept The Times of Israel Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, and you agree to receive the latest news & offers from The Times of Israel and its partners or ad sponsors.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
podcasts
video

terms and conditions
privacy policy
about us
advertise with us
Jobs at The Times of Israel
contact us

Community

Join our community
Sign in

Get the Daily Edition

Enter your email address

Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Whatsapp Follow us on X Follow us on Youtube Follow us on Telegram Follow us on Threads Follow us on Bluesky

© 2026 The Times of Israel, all rights reserved

Concept, design & development by

Developed by

Powered by

Never miss breaking news on Israel

Get notifications to stay updated

You're subscribed

Register for free
and continue reading

Registering allows you to manage your newsletters and alerts and helps us improve your experience. It takes just a few seconds.
Already registered? Enter your email to sign in.

Email address

Please use the following structure: example@domain.com

Or Continue with

By registering you agree to the terms and conditions. Once registered, you’ll receive our Daily Edition email for free.

Send me The Times of Israel Daily Edition

Register to continue

Email address

Or Continue with

Log in to continue

Email address

Something went wrong.
Please try again in a few minutes..

Sign in or Register

Email address * Password *

Incorrect password. Please try again or choose an option below.

I forgot my password / Send me a sign in link

Or Continue with

check your email

Check your email

We sent an email to you at .

It has a link that will sign you in.

Click the link in that email to complete your registration.