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What Matters Most On Sunday, November 30, 2025

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits at the Tel Aviv District Court ahead of his testimony in the corruption trial against him, October 15, 2025. (Reuven Kastro/POOL)

PM: Trial tearing Israel apart; its end would lower flames

Netanyahu requests presidential pardon in corruption trial; doesn’t admit guilt

By Lazar Berman, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Herzog says he’ll weigh ‘extraordinary request’ based on expert opinions; allies hail move; opposition slams attempt to evade responsibility; Lapid: He needs to express remorse, quit public life

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and former prime minister Naftali Bennett (right) attend the funeral of Rabbi Haim Drukman, at Merkaz Shapira, near Kiryat Malachi, on December 26, 2022. (Gil Cohen-Magen/ AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Nov. 30 — Bennett: I support pardoning Netanyahu if it’s conditioned on his leaving politics

Herzog may offer Netanyahu a conditional pardon, reports say; president says he’s first seeking legal opinion * Dozens protest outside Herzog’s home against PM’s request

10:19 pm

Police internal affairs division denies allegations investigators assaulted senior cop during probe today
10:03 pm

Head of police major crimes unit briefly arrested after refusing to sign off on release conditions following interrogation
8:59 pm

Dublin City Council halts plans to rename city's Herzog Park after backlash from Irish government

Juma and Fadi Abu Asi, whom Palestinian media reports said were killed by the IDF in Gaza on November 29, 2025. (X, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Brothers, 8 and 11, killed in south Gaza strike; IDF: ‘Suspects’ crossed Yellow Line

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Uncle of Juma and Fadi Abu Asi says they were killed while searching for firewood in IDF-held territory; army says troops in Rafah also eliminated ‘terrorist’

IDF troops are seen in southern Gaza's Rafah, November 23, 2025. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Hamas commander killed trying to flee Rafah tunnel; slain IDF soldier’s rifle recovered

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Illustrative: This picture taken on June 8, 2025, shows a tunnel at the European Hospital during a controlled embed organized by the Israeli military, in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip. (AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Nov. 30: Day 786 – Hamas operatives trapped in tunnel had slain IDF soldier’s gun

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

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Itzik Gvili, the father of slain hostage Ran Gvili, speaks at Hostages Square, in Tel Aviv, on November 29, 2025. (Uriel Even Sapir/The Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

Activists dismantle Hostages’ Tent in Jerusalem

Father of last Israeli hostage in Gaza: Truce mustn’t advance until final 2 bodies returned

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

At what may be final weekly rally, thousands gather to demand return of Ran Gvili, Sudthisak Rinthalak; relatives denounce government Oct. 7 probe, demand independent state inquiry

Head of the Democrats party Yair Golan at a conference in Jerusalem on November 17, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Interview

A defiant Yair Golan says he can lead the left out of oblivion by redrawing the map

By Ariela Karmel

Uniting Labor and Meretz, The Democrats head claims he can attract voters without pandering; argues that ideology is less important than bread-and-butter issues like affordability

Qatar says Hamas failure to return last two slain hostages can’t ‘obstruct’ Gaza plan

Hostages’ forum slams remarks by spokesman for Qatari Foreign Ministry, says ‘the return of the hostages is the core’ of agreement formulated by Trump for a postwar Strip

Majid al-Ansari, spokesman for Qatar's Foreign Ministry, speaks onstage during Global Citizen NOW: Impact Sessions on September 24, 2025, in New York City. (ROB KIM / Getty Images via AFP)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanybahu (L) and President Isaac Herzog at event for outstanding soldiers as part of Israel's 75th Independence Day celebrations, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on April 26, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Op-ed

Herzog must reject Netanyahu’s pardon request

Granting clemency to a prime minister who denies all wrongdoing and attacks law enforcement would strike at the heart of the rule of law

Analysis

Fewer and fewer Americans support Israel. Will their next president?

2028 is three long years away, but with criticism of Israel, antisemitism and isolationism rising, US candidates may be turning away from the longtime alliance

People rally at the Lincoln Memorial in support of Israel in Washington, DC, Sunday, April 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

The historic new UN resolution is reason for hope

Ever since the important vote on November 29, 1947, endorsing the creation of the Jewish state, the UN has been remarkably unhelpful to Israel – until now

Sagit Alkobi Fishman

Do Muslim women who cover their faces cut off communication?

Religious freedom in the public square is vital, but in the classroom, the ’niqab’ gets in the way of dialogue by masking facial expressions

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir meets with troops wounded in Syria, at Sheba Hospital in central Israel, November 28, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Surgeons save soldier wounded in Syria who has a bullet lodged in his heart

By Diana Bletter and Emanuel Fabian

Rambam hospital in Haifa says two soldiers who arrived in critical condition are now stable; doctors describe ‘complex’ operation that left the bullet in place for now

Obituary

Legendary British-Jewish playwright Tom Stoppard dies at 88

Czech-born writer best known for Oscar-winning ‘Shakespeare In Love’; his final stage play, Tony-winning ‘Leopoldstadt,’ explored his own family’s Holocaust persecution

British playwright Tom Stoppard poses with the award for Best Play "Leopoldstadt" in the Radio Hotel press room during the 76th Tony Awards, in New York City on June 11, 2023. (ANGELA WEISS / AFP)

Theater reviewStoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt,’ a master playwright’s heartrending act of revelation

By David Horovitz

Then-president Chaim Herzog attends a ceremony at the Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp in Germany on April 6, 1987. (Nati Harnik/GPO)

Irish government slams Dublin plan to remove name of Chaim Herzog from city park

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Zev Stub

Foreign minister says move ‘has no place in our inclusive republic’; country’s chief rabbi says renaming park would ‘send a painful message of isolation to our small community’

Left: Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn attends an anti-Israel demonstration in London, February 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)/ Zarah Sultana, then a Labour MP for Coventry South, arrives for an interview with the BBC in London on July 21, 2024. (BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP)

‘Toxic culture’: Chaos in Corbyn’s new far-left UK party as spat overshadows 1st gathering

By AFP and ToI Staff

Co-founder Zarah Sultana skips conference’s opening day, claims ex-Labour chief accused of antisemitism has led a ‘witch hunt’ against her backers; party to pick name, leadership

Former Labour Party leader and co-founder of 'Your Party,' Jeremy Corbyn, delivers a speech on the first day of the Founding Conference for Your Party in Liverpool, north-west England, on November 29, 2025. (Darren Staples / AFP)

Jeremy Corbyn’s troubled new far-left party gathers to pick name and leader

By AFP and ToI Staff

Settlers and Palestinians face off near Bethlehem, November 29, 2025. (Screenshots, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF declares ‘closed military zone’ after settler attack wounds several Palestinians

By Emanuel Fabian

Troops use riot dispersal means after receiving reports of stone-throwing between Palestinians and settlers; Red Crescent: 10 Palestinians wounded, including one by gunfire

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)

Border cops who killed unarmed terror suspects after surrender say they feared harm

Israeli security forces on guard at Ofer Prison, outside of Jerusalem, February 8, 2025. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

UN committee calls for probe into alleged Israeli torture of Palestinian prisoners

By AFP and ToI Staff

Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee legal adviser Miri Frenkel Shor (right) and chairman Boaz Bismuth (center) during a discussion on ultra-Orthodox conscription, September 3, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset panel to begin discussing Bismuth’s draft exemption bill this week

By ToI Staff, Sam Sokol and Charlie Summers

Committee’s legal adviser said to warn revised proposal won’t withstand High Court scrutiny; Gallant says Likud has reached ‘new low’ with ‘inconceivable’ bill

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi attends a Knesset plenum session in Jerusalem, June 4, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Coalition prepares to set up special panel to advance stormy media regulation bill

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Lucas Cranach the Elder’s map of the Holy Land in Christopher Froschauer’s Old Testament. (The Wren Library, The Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, CC BY-SA)

How the first Bible to include a map helped spread the idea of countries with borders

By Nathan MacDonald

Chart from 500 years ago reflected European ignorance of Holy Land, with later iterations improving; division into territories of 12 Israelite tribes set stage for international boundaries

‘Mona Lisa of manuscripts’: Rare 15th-century bible on display in Rome

By AP

Thousands of people wait in line to schedule an appointment at the Portuguese Embassy in Israel, in central Israel, November 28, 2025. (Tal Gal/Flash90)

Thousands of Israelis line up for appointment to obtain Portuguese citizenship

Walk-in day event led by Portuguese embassy draws massive crowds as demand among Israelis surges for EU passports

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Scarlett Johansson at a special screening of 'Eleanor the Great' hosted by Sony Pictures Classics and The Cinema Society at Village East Cinema on September 24, 2025, in New York City. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images/AFP)

Scarlett Johansson says she was asked to change her film’s plot away from Holocaust

Screengrab of a social media video showing thousands of commuters backed up at Tel Aviv's HaHagana rail station after a man was killed on the tracks near the station, November 30, 2025. (X)

Man killed by train after falling on tracks in Tel Aviv, causing rush-hour chaos

An Israir flight takes off from Ben Gurion International Airport, outside of Tel Aviv, August 25, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Israeli airlines mostly unaffected as Airbus grounds 6,000 jets for software update

National Guard patrol the National Mall near the Lincoln Memorial, Nov. 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

US freezes all asylum decisions, visas for Afghans after National Guard shooting

By AP

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