Day 783 - US mulls Muslim Brotherhood sanctions, excludes allies Turkey, Qatar
The Times of Israel Daily Briefing
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🗓️ 27 November 2025
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Summary
Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
US bureau chief Jacob Magid joins host Jessica Steinberg for today's episode.
As US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to examine Muslim Brotherhood chapters in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon to see whether those branches should be designated as terror organizations, Magid discusses that other countries were not included, including Turkey and Qatar, which have close ties to the US.
The controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) is wrapping up five months of operations in Gaza, saying that its model is being adopted by the Civil-Military Coordination Center in Kiryat Gat, while Magid notes that it appears the original UN-backed model is back in place in Gaza.
The US is trying to get construction efforts underway in Gaza, on the Israeli side of the yellow ceasefire line, with efforts to first clear rubble from the Rafah area to build alternative safe communities. Magid discusses the pushback from Israel's government coalition, which is concerned with the issue of Hamas disarmament, while it's also unclear if Gazans would want to live under Israeli control.
Magid also talks about the revelation that US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee held a private meeting in July with Jonathan Pollard, the former US Navy analyst who served 30 years in a US prison for spying for Israel. Magid says there is widespread anger in the US administration regarding the meeting and the ongoing alignment of the US with Israel.
Check out The Times of Israel's ongoing liveblog for more updates.
For further reading:
Trump launches process aimed at potentially sanctioning Muslim Brotherhood
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation announces end of operations in Strip after 5 months
Construction of first US-backed housing compound said to begin this week in Rafah
Pollard: Anti-Israel elements in US administration leaked my Huckabee meeting to get him fired
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IMAGE: Turkish charities, in partnership with Khan Yunis municipal bulldozers, remove the rubble from Palestinian homes and streets in the northern area of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, following the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas on October 23, 2025 (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/FLASH90)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to the Times of Israel's Daily Briefing. It is Thursday, November 27th, and I'm Jessica Steinberg. |
| 0:08.0 | I just want to mention something special we're offering at Times of Israel a series of wonderful Israeli documentary films that you can watch from home with his English subtitles. |
| 0:17.0 | After each film, there's an exclusive Q&A webinar with the filmmakers hosted by TOI. |
| 0:23.5 | It's called Docuination, and it's available to members of our reader support group at Times |
| 0:28.7 | Times Visual Community. For more information, you can go to Timesavisual.com slash films. |
| 0:34.3 | That's Timesavisual.com slash films. |
| 0:40.2 | Okay, back to our podcast. I'm speaking today with U.S. Bureau Chief Jacob Magid. Happy Thanksgiving to you, Jacob. Happy Thanksgiving, Jessica. Do you want |
| 0:47.5 | to plug your book? Oh, not this turkey. That's funny. I had not thought about that. Yeah, readers, I have a Thanksgiving book about a turkey. That's funny. I had not thought about that. Yeah, readers, I have a Thanksgiving book about a |
| 0:58.1 | turkey that was taken home on the subway in 1950s New York City. Look for it. Wherever you find |
| 1:05.3 | your books. I promise that was spontaneous. I didn't ask me to do that. All right. |
| 1:11.1 | Well, anyway, it's a far cry from what we'll discuss today. |
| 1:14.5 | So heading back to the news of the moment, it is day 783 of the war. |
| 1:22.1 | Today, we will discuss U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order about the process of possibly designating |
| 1:29.4 | Muslim Brotherhood chapters as terror organizations in several countries. We'll also talk about |
| 1:34.9 | the end of operations for the short-lived Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, GHF, about this start |
| 1:42.0 | of housing construction in part of Gaza, |
| 1:46.2 | and accusations made by former Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. |
| 1:50.7 | Stay with us. |
| 1:57.0 | Why are Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews so often left out of the Jewish story? |
| 2:02.4 | In a new episode of Wandering Jews with Mikhail and Noam, |
| 2:05.8 | Michal Bitton shares findings from a groundbreaking study she directed at NYU, |
| 2:10.5 | the first of its kind to explore Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewish life in the U.S. |
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