The Latest Breaking News from Israel

Lawmakers averted a shutdown as they left town for Thanksgiving but left a mountain of unfinished business. CQ Roll Call’s David Lerman, Aidan Quigley and Peter Cohn outline what is needed to salvage fiscal 2024 appropriations and an emergency spending package for Israel, Ukraine and more. Show Notes:

The senior Congress leader said that dehumanising language was being used by some Israeli ministers against Palestinians and was similar to the language that preceded the Holocaust.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Benjamin Netanyahu on Gaza's future after Israel's military response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks. Hip-hop mogul Sean Combs is accused of rape and assault.

Ziva Jelin and her family survived Hamas' brutal attack on Kibbutz Be'eri on Oct. 7. So did the 61-year-old artist's painting Curving Road, which now hangs in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

Weapons tested in each war see a spike in global demand. The current Gaza war is Israel’s latest laboratory.

German leaders host Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for talks Friday, in a highly controversial visit made more explosive by the Erdogan's branding of Israel as a "terror state".

With accusations of cronyism, an inability to make decisions, and plummeting popularity among Jerusalem insiders and the public, is the era of Israel's longest-serving prime minister finally coming to an end? Ben Judah reports

Biden gave tacit approval to the raid, claiming Hamas headquarters was hidden under the hospital

Hamas says three fighters died, while Israeli military says it killed at least five, as tensions rise