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What Matters Most On Friday, November 28, 2025

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi at a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on September 28, 2023 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Haredi draft exemption bill ‘endangers Israel’s future,’ says PM’s former security adviser

Hanegbi says legislation ‘enables evasion’; head of NGO supporting Haredi soldiers calls for major changes, says bill lacks structured plan for integration

InterviewOusted chair of Knesset defense panel: Government pushing ‘exact opposite’ of a conscription law

Lapid: Legislation is an 'anti-Zionist disgrace'

Bismuth presents bill exempting yeshiva students from IDF draft, loosening sanctions

Controversial legislation would only conscript members of ultra-Orthodox community who do not learn full-time in yeshiva, and lift all sanctions against draft dodgers once they turn 26

Likud MK Boaz Bismuth (left) and United Torah Judaism chairman Yitzhak Goldknopf (right) attend a meeting of the Knesset House Committee, August 4, 2025. (Dani Shem-Tov/ Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)

Op-edBismuth’s ‘conscription’ law is a corrupt load of crock meant to keep Haredim out of the army

By Shalom Yerushalmi

Two Palestinian terror suspects are seen apparently surrendering to Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Jenin, before they were shot dead, November 27, 2025. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Two Palestinian terror suspects shot dead in Jenin after surrendering to Border Police

By Emanuel Fabian, Noam Lehmann, Agencies and ToI Staff

Investigators in Justice Ministry unit launch criminal probe into three Border Police officers over incident; UN condemns ‘brazen killing’

First responders at the Tunnels Checkpoint near Jerusalem, where an off-duty soldier shot a Palestinian suspected of attempting to cross into Israel illegally, November 27, 2025. (Courtesy; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Off-duty soldier shoots Palestinian near Jerusalem who tried to enter Israel illegally

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Handsome grandfather spending time with his granddaughter in park on autumn day
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Troops of the 55th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade detain a suspect in the southern Syrian village of Beit Jinn, early November 28, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Six soldiers hurt in gun battle as IDF detains terror suspects in southern Syria

By Emanuel Fabian

Three seriously wounded; rocket-firing brothers nabbed in Beit Jinn; 13 said killed by IDF strikes after troops face fire; Syria denounces ‘war crime’

An Israeli settler activist opens a military gate on the border with Syria in the Golan Heights, November 27, 2025. (Halutzey Habashan)

Settler activists cross into Syria, are returned by IDF after brief pursuit

By Emanuel Fabian

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of El Mahmoudiyeh on November 27, 2025. (Rabih DAHER / AFP)

On truce anniversary, Israel strikes Hezbollah as Lebanese PM criticizes terror group

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Reporter's notebook

With Iran’s regime wary of widespread dissent, Tehran women let their hair down

On first visit to Iran’s capital since 2022 anti-hijab protests, AP reporter sees women openly flout headscarf laws; discontent with theocracy, fears of another war also widespread

Women cross an intersection in downtown Tehran, Iran, November 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Leaked footage from mid-2024 shows Fatemeh Shamkhani in a Western-style, low-cut strapless wedding dress, left, being led down the aisle by her father Ali Shamkhani, a close adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (Screen capture: Iran International, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Hypocrisy baredLeaked wedding video lays bare luxury that highlights hypocrisy of Iran’s political elites

By Farhang Morady

I’m glad I saw Peter Beinart at TAU. He’s less glad about it

The public intellectual I once admired is unrealistic about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and inconsistent on the sources of antisemitism

An escape escalator to heaven or the divine call to earth?

Israel’s draft-evaders need a theological recalibration: A return to Jacob’s vision in which God pulls him not away from the world but into it (Vayetzei)

Stephen M. Flatow

Thanksgiving in Jerusalem and the future of Jewish identity

High school kids and their parents are touring gap-year programs to choose where the teens will invest themselves next year

Matthew Rosenberg

Where history is made

Judaism looks for divine service not on the mountaintops or in the monasteries, but in late night diaper-changes and parent-teacher conferences (Vayetzei)

Iranian demonstrators hold Iranian, Palestinian and Lebanon's Hezbollah flags in an anti-Israeli rally after their Friday prayer in Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran said funneling huge sums to Hezbollah via Dubai in attempt to help it rebuild

Wall Street Journal reports that Tehran has sent Hezbollah hundreds of millions of dollars obtained through oil sales over the past year; UAE says working to put a stop to it

Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen speaks at a conference of the Makor Rishon newspaper at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, February 21, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)

Ex-Mossad chief says Israeli operatives are active on Iranian soil, ‘not by proxy’

By Stav Levaton and Nava Freiberg

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a video message published November 27, 2025. At top right is a portrait of his predecessor and founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. (Screen capture: Khamenei.ir)

Khamenei says Trump administration ‘not worthy of being approached’ by Iran

By AFP and ToI Staff

Palestinians walk among the ruins of destroyed buildings in Gaza City, Nov. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Live updates (closed)

Nov. 28: COGAT says 15th field hospital since start of war opened in Gaza

Military says it killed terror operative who posed threat to troops in Gaza * MP posts full British police report used to justify ban on Israeli soccer fans, links it to research by anti-Israel group

1:43 am

Flights to Philadelphia International resume after brief ground stop over bomb threat
10:51 pm

Man shot and killed in Arraba; 2nd victim seriously injured
9:58 pm

Ukrainian team to visit US this weekend for talks on plan to end war, official says

Illustrative: People wait at a bus station outside the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on November 13, 2025. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

‘To hell with Trump and Netanyahu’: Hamas messages play from Israeli bus stops in cyberattack

LED screens used to monitor arrivals and buy tickets turned into mouthpieces for terror after apparent hack from ‘hostile country,’ CEO of signage company says

ToI podcast

The Reel Schmooze: Chewing over the 1990 Thanksgiving classic ‘Avalon’

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman

This week, ToI’s film reviewer Jordan Hoffman and host Amanda Borschel-Dan on why you shouldn’t cut the turkey until everyone comes and an independent feminist Iranian documentary

Scene from the 1990 Thanksgiving classic 'Avalon.' (courtesy)

Supreme Court President Isaac Amit presides over a hearing, November 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Chaos at Sde Teiman hearing as ex-facility guard calls High Court chief ‘trash, kapo’

By Charlie Summers and Sam Sokol

Judges eject protesters from hall, resume session without audience after repeat disturbances, including by Likud MK; opposition MKs rail against ‘organized intimidation’ of court

Military Advocate General Maj. Gen. Itai Ofir speaks at a ceremony marking his entry to the role, at the IDF HQ in Tel Aviv, November 27, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Itai Ofir sworn in as military advocate general in period of ‘major crisis’ for unit

By Emanuel Fabian

This combo from photos provided by the US Attorney's Office on Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025, show National Guard members, from left, Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe and Specialist Sarah Beckstrom. (US Attorney’s Office via AP)

US National Guard member dies of wounds sustained in DC shooting

By AP

Trump announces death of Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and eulogizes her as an ‘incredible person, outstanding in every single way’; second victim said ‘fighting for his life’ in hospital

Emergency personnel keep a presence following the shooting of two National Guard soldiers near the White House in Washington, November 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Afghani man who shot officers in DC served in CIA-backed force, was granted US asylum

By Maria Danilova

ToI podcast

Lazar Focus: As US and Saudi Arabia shore up ties, is Israel left out?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

Following the crown prince’s state visit to the White House, diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman delves into the desert kingdom’s vision for the future and the chances for its realization

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

New immigrants from North America arrive at Ben Gurion airport on August 14, 2019. (Flash90)

Reporter's notebook

Immigration drill tests Israel’s readiness for en masse ingathering of exiled Jews

Learning from mistakes following Russian invasion of Ukraine, ministry simulates 10,000 immigrants inundating country over 2 weeks as it tries out newly formed plan for smoother absorption

Pope Leo XIV arrives at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit (St Esprit cathedral) for a meeting with bishops, priests, deacons, consecrated men and women, and pastoral workers in Istanbul on November 28, 2025. (Photo by YASIN AKGUL / AFP)

Pope Leo calls on Christian leaders to overcome divisions at landmark event in Turkey

Pontiff meets church leaders from Turkey, Egypt, Israel to mark anniversary of early council; urges followers to care for migrants, day after talks with Erdogan

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) shakes hands with Pope Leo XIV during an official welcoming ceremony at the Presidential Complex in Ankara on November 27, 2025. (Handout / TURKISH PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE / AFP)

On 1st trip abroad, Pope Leo calls for Turkey to be ‘source of stability’ in war-torn world

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Matan Israeli, founder of the Muslala nonprofit, at the rooftop garden he manages, November 18, 2025. (Zev Stub/Times of Israel)

Inside story'If you use limited areas wisely, it can create deep change'

Stressed from war and urban congestion, Israelis take to city rooftops to garden

With construction and postwar trauma everywhere, non-profits and communities are mobilizing to create green spaces in unlikely places

Housing snapshot: Home sales and rentals across Israel in November 2025

Transportation Minister Miri Regev (left) and Wizz Air CEO József Váradi, November 27, 2025. (Courtesy)

Low-cost Wizz Air commits to open Israel hub by spring 2026 in bid to cut high fares

By Sharon Wrobel

If plan goes ahead, Hungarian carrier will invest a billion dollars, place aircraft in Israel and double network to 50 routes in the next few years

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Portrait of a pregnant woman. (Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Health Ministry said to flag error in genetic test kit detecting rare mutation, reread results

By Diana Bletter

Maj. Gen. (res.) David Tolkowsky speaks in an interview with the Toldot Yisrael Israeli history podcast filmed January 3, 2011. (Screen capture: Toldot Yisrael via Youtube)

ObituaryDan Tolkowsky, former air force commander and Israeli tech pioneer, dies at 104

By Emanuel Fabian and Stav Levaton

Author Sarah Hurwitz appears on a panel at the annual General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America, alongside, from left, Eric Fingerhut, JFNA’s president and CEO; Israeli author Micah Goodman, and Richard Marceau of Canada’s Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, Washington, DC, November 16, 2025. (Courtesy JFNA via JTA)

Former Obama aide Sarah Hurwitz ignites social media with remarks about Holocaust education

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Illustrative: Police carry out searches for the suspected perpetrator of a deadly shooting in Jaffa, November 8, 2025. (Israel Police)

Police arrest four Tel Aviv clubgoers after they threaten and try to bite cops

By Charlie Summers

File: An Iron Dome anti-missile system fires an interceptor missile as rockets are fired from the Gaza Strip at Israel, August 6, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Italian aerospace group Leonardo unveils ‘Michelangelo Dome’ air defense system

By Reuters and ToI Staff

An armed police officer speaks to member of the public near the scene of terror attack at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue, in Crumpsall, Manchester, England, on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, October 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Ian Hodgson)

UK police arrest man allegedly linked to Yom Kippur attack at Manchester synagogue

By AP and ToI Staff

Irish author Sally Rooney speaks during the Hulu segment of the 2020 Winter TCA Press Tour at The Langham Huntington in Pasadena, California, on January 17, 2020. (Amy Sussman / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

Irish novelist says UK ban on Palestine Action could force her books off shelves

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Model Bar Refaeli attends the red carpet of the movie M - Il figlio del secolo (M - Son of the Century) presented out of competition during the 81st International Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido, on September 6, 2024. (Marco Bertorello/AFP)

Woman arrested on suspicion of stalking Israeli model Bar Refaeli

Fans wave Palestinian flags during a friendly match between a selection of Palestinian players and a group of Spanish players from the Basque Country, held to protest against Israel amid the war in Gaza, in Bilbao, Spain, November 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Miguel Oses)

FIFA teams up with Switzerland to fund soccer fields for Palestinians in West Bank

By AP

Handguns, magazines and ammunition discovered at a construction site in the northern town of Arraba on November 22, 2025. (Israel Police)

Police shutter construction site in northern Israel after uncovering weapons stash

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