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What Matters Most On Wednesday, November 26, 2025

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Dror Or (Courtesy)

No more hostages from Be'eri remain in the Strip

Body of Dror Or, devoted father and Be’eri cheesemaker, returned to Israel from Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian and Amy Spiro

Remains of captive, whose wife was slain on October 7, handed over exactly two years after two of his children, Noam and Alma, were freed from Hamas captivity; 2 slain hostages still held

A flooded street after a rainstorm in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, amid a ceasefire, November 25, 2025. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Mediators said to meet in Cairo to discuss Gaza truce’s second phase

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A bulldozer deployed by the Gaza Municipality clears building rubble from streets in Gaza City, October 14, 2025. (AFP)

Core details of plan first revealed by ToI at start of Nov.

Construction of first US-backed housing compound said to begin this week in Rafah

NY Times report outlines American eagerness to move ahead with plan to build ‘alternative safe communities’ of temporary structures on Israeli side of Yellow Line dividing Gaza

Palestinians walk through a flooded street next to a temporary tent camp after heavy rainfall in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

‘Everything is soaked’: Rain floods Gaza tents, amid efforts to ramp up aid

By AP and ToI Staff

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/ File)

Saudi crown prince’s pushback on Israel normalization reportedly irked Trump

By Nava Freiberg

Op-ed

An editor’s flawed human ramblings on AI, journalism and the disappearance of truth

We are at risk of losing our capacity to establish the facts of what is unfolding around us. And pretty soon, we may give up trying

Clockwise from top left: US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu purportedly on a Gaza beach in a screenshot from an AI-generated video posted by Trump to his Truth Social platform on February 26, 2025; Screenshot from an AI-generated video purportedly showing a US soldier with a reporter, eating falafel, distributed by the Kiryat Gat municipality, October 22, 2025; Screenshot from an AI-generated video posted on November 21, 2025, purporting to show Israeli soldiers burning an American flag; Screenshot from an apparently manipulated video posted on November 9, 2025, purporting to show Miss Israel glaring at Miss Palestine in a beauty contest. (Screenshots via X; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Illustrative: Freed hostage Nimrod Cohen and his family members arrive in a Chery vehicle at their home in Rehovot, October 16, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Inside Story'To know where top officers are is gold for intelligence'

IDF swerves away from Chinese cars, driven by worries of spies lurking in everyday tech

By Stav Levaton

Army bans China-made autos from bases and reportedly recalls electric vehicles leased to senior officers, which experts warn are a nearly ‘perfect platform’ for espionage

IDF launches broad counterterror operation in northern West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian and Noam Lehmann

Troops detaining suspects, searching for weapons in Tubas area, after detecting efforts by terror groups to establish presence there

Israeli soldiers search an ambulance during a raid in the West Bank village of Tamun, on November 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

IDF reserve soldiers take part in a surprise military drill in northern Israel along the border with Lebanon and Syria, November 24, 2025. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Nov. 26: IDF says reservists to serve significantly less, train more in 2026

By Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

At least 5 coalition MKs say they won’t back ultra-Orthodox conscription bill — report * 60 Palestinians said detained by Israel amid large operation in northern West Bank

9:56 pm

IDF confirms killing Palestinian in West Bank after he threw explosive device at troops
9:26 pm

Herzog offers condolences after fatal shooting of US guardsmen in Washington
9:24 pm

Palestinian said killed by IDF in northern West Bank

Fragment from a Yom Kippur prayer book found in the Cairo Genizah and dating to the 11th or 12th centuries CE. (National Library of Israel collections)

'This is only the beginning'

Scholars transcribe hundreds of thousands of Cairo Geniza fragments, some never read before

By Rossella Tercatin

The MiDRASH project received an $11.5 million grant to take research on medieval Jewish literature to the next level

Nasreen Youssef filmed talking to Hamas terrorists near the yard of her home on Moshav Yated, close to the southern Gaza border, October 7, 2023. (Screenshot taken from Channel 12/Keshet TV, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law).

IDF's probes into Oct. 7

Moshav Yated stood alone on Oct. 7; local heroes, not IDF, stopped massacre, probe finds

Yearlong investigation finds residents and volunteer fighters fought off 11 terrorists and blocked further infiltrations as army defenses collapsed

Working harder, paying more, and getting less

With costs 40% higher than the OECD average, Israel’s oppressive food prices are robbing people of their dignity. Here are 5 ways to restore it

Stephen Daniel Arnoff

Can you get anything you want on Thanksgiving?

A goofball song of food and friends, bureaucracy and war, has become a prayer for better days

Talyah Ginsberg

Old dog, new tricks, and a brain that should honestly be fired

A cautionary tale about ambition, midlife, and cognitive treason

Thanksgiving needs its own haggadah

We should tell the origin story of Pilgrims and Indians in ways that acknowledge its generosity and its racial violence – and push us to shape a better future

Screen capture from video of a Military Police car overturned by anti-draft ultra-Orthodox protesters in Ramat Gan, November 26, 2025. (X)

Two arrested after ultra-Orthodox protesters overturn Military Police car in Ramat Gan

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Dozens of activists surround officers and their vehicle when they arrived in search of draft dodger; officers escape, and the yeshiva student they sought is not found

A woman wears punching gloves as mock red hands symbolizing slain women reach out of the ground in a protest display to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, outside Her Academy, a vocational school for survivors of prostitution and abuse, in Tel Aviv. November 24, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Law enforcement a no-show at Knesset discussions on violence against women

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Opposition MKs who led meetings to mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women slam Ben Gvir, who was touring prison services’ domestic violence unit

Reporter's notebook

Ariela Karmel and Sam Sokol

In rare Likud vote, stalwarts seize first chance in years to steer party machine

In south Tel Aviv stronghold, first internal ballot in 13 years pits new generation against old guard. PM visits Jerusalem poll to extol Israel’s ‘only truly democratic party’

Elections for the Likud Central Committee, in Yad Eliyahu, Tel Aviv, November 25, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speaks to the media as he stands with some of the people he has appointed to help with his transition to City Hall in New York City, on November 24, 2025. (SPENCER PLATT / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Progressive rabbis and other Jewish New Yorkers join Mamdani’s transition committees

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Among those staffing panels are Abby Stein, Ellen Lippman, Jason Klein, Rachel Timoner and Joseph Potasnik; no Orthodox rabbis on any forums

The entrance to Park East Synagogue, with dueling protesters on each side, separated by police, in New York City, November 19, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Nov. 26: Day 782 – NY Jews’ mayoral fears realized at synagogue protest. What now?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Luke Tress

This May 28, 2012 file photo shows a newspaper with a photograph of Etan Patz at a makeshift memorial in the SoHo neighborhood of New York where Patz lived before his disappearance on May 25, 1979. (AP/Mark Lennihan)

NY prosecutors to retry suspect in 1979 disappearance of Jewish boy Etan Patz

By Luke Tress and AP

Inside story

Amid measles outbreak, study finds skepticism of routine vaccines soared during COVID

Bar-Ilan researcher finds that 6.6% of parents who vaccinated an older child before the pandemic chose not to vaccinate a younger child; ‘enough to trigger’ current outbreak

Illustrative: A baby receives a routine vaccine. (naumoid; iStock by Getty Images)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center), Defense Minister Israel Katz (left) and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir oversee airstrikes in Yemen, at the Defense Ministry headquarters, Tel Aviv, May 5, 2025. (Ariel Hermoni/ Defense Ministry)

Netanyahu meets separately with Katz and Zamir in effort to defuse public feud

By Emanuel Fabian

PM reportedly demands defense minister and IDF chief get escalating spat off national headlines, after Zamir accused Katz of harming security by freezing promotions

What Matters Now podcast

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: As Hamas iron grip restores order, Gazans yearn to throw off shackles

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib

Head of Realign for Palestine weighs in on the re-rooting of the terror organization and increased chances of renewed war, as hopes of a fresh start in the Strip dwindle

Slain Hezbollah army chief led terror group’s effort to rebuild in south Lebanon – report

Haytham Ali Tabatabai helped replenish forces from 2024 losses, ensure commanders had replacements, WSJ says; Hamas, Hezbollah reportedly boosting cooperation

Hezbollah military chief Haytham Ali Tabatabai, in undated footage issued by the terror group after his death on November 23, 2025. (Hezbollah Media Office)

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, right, shakes hands with his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Chistodoulides after a joint press conference, at the presidential palace in Baabda east of Beirut, Lebanon, November 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon, Cyprus sign maritime demarcation deal, hope for energy cooperation

By Ahmed Elimam, Michele Kambas and Maya Gebeily

Cars speed past a roadside statue depicting the Virgin Mary holding the body of Jesus, in Beirut, Lebanon, November 13, 2025. (Hassan Ammar/AP)

Under glare of world media, Pope Leo XIV to visit Turkey and Lebanon

By Nicole Winfield

Fashion designer Elie Tahari at a runway show of his designs on November 6, 2025 in Miami, Florida (Courtesy)

Fashion designer Elie Tahari outfits injured IDF servicewomen

By Jessica Steinberg

Brand cofounded by Israeli-American hosts several female Israeli troops at Miami fashion show, including soldier shot 12 times: ‘An extension of the definition of warriors’

Britain's Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaks during a news conference in London, England, October 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Ex-classmates blast UK far-right leader for describing his alleged bigotry as ‘banter’

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Nigel Farage denies he ever ‘directly racially abused anybody’ following report accusing him of making racist and antisemitic remarks in school, including saying ‘Hitler was right’

A protester is taken away by police officers at a "Lift The Ban" demonstration in support of the proscribed group Palestine Action, calling for the recently imposed ban to be lifted, in Trafalgar Square, central London, October 4, 2025. (Justin Tallis/AFP)

Palestine Action co-founder challenges UK ban on group in court

By Reuters and ToI Staff

More Headlines

This jacket, bought in Israel from the online platform Shein, contained 3,269 times the PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) permitted by European standards, according to Greenpeace. These 'forever chemicals' have been linked to cancer, reproductive and developmental disorders in children, and immune system damage. (Fred Dott/Greenpeace)

Shein jacket shipped to Israel exceeds EU chemical rules by 3,269 times – probe

Far-right Polish lawmaker Grzegorz Braun speaks to parliament in Warsaw, Poland, on December 11, 2023. (AP Photo/ Czarek Sokolowski)

‘Poland is for Poles, not Jews,’ MP declares outside Auschwitz death camp

Finance Minister and Head of the Religious Zionist Party Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, November 17, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

VAT exemption on personal imports to rise from $75 to $150

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

Police said probing whether embattled senior cop tried to promote his relative

By Charlie Summers

US President Donald Trump delivers remarks during the 78th annual National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on November 25, 2025. (Heather Diehl / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Trump says ‘close’ to Ukraine war deal, but Europeans cautious

Firqat Alnoor, the Arabic classical music orchestra composed of Jewish and Arab musicians, filming an Umm Kulthum song on the dunes of Dubai, released on November 23, 2025 (Courtesy)

Israeli orchestra accused of robbing Arab heritage with release of Umm Kulthum video

By Jessica Steinberg

Members of the Knesset Honor Guard, Home Front Command, firefighters, IDF and Israel's Magen David Adom emergency medical services participate in an emergency drill simulating an earthquake near Ashkelon, on December 19, 2019. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)

Israel still woefully unprepared for major earthquake, lawmakers warn

A popemobile used by Pope Francis during his visit to Bethlehem in 2014, after renovations to convert it into a mobile health clinic for children in Gaza, as seen in the West Bank in November 2025. (Courtesy)

Popemobile used by Francis in Bethlehem refitted as mobile clinic for Gaza kids

By Lazar Berman and Agencies

Yariv Ben-Eliezer, the grandson of David Ben-Gurion, speaks at a memorial for his grandfather in Sde Boker on November 26, 2025. (Screenshot/GPO)

Ben-Gurion’s grandson: Presence of ‘Kahanist’ minister at memorial ‘disrespectful’

FILE - US Democratic Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona speaks during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing at the Capitol in Washington, January 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, file)

FBI probes congressional Democrats who warned military not to obey illegal orders

By Jana Winter and Joseph Ax

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