The Times of Israel is liveblogging Sunday’s events as they unfold.

Tulsi Gabbard, US President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, will visit Israel on Monday, a Trump administration official tells The Times of Israel.

Gabbard will be the latest in a wave of senior American officials who have arrived in the country over recent weeks as Washington works to advance Trump’s peace plan in Gaza.

The official could not provide further details on the length or agenda of Gabbard’s visit, noting the sensitivity of her role.

Egypt’s powerful intelligence chief Hassan Rashad was in Beirut on Sunday, an Arab diplomat tells The Times of Israel.

According to Channel 12, his trip to Lebanon focused on Hezbollah disarmament.

Lebanese media reports that an excavator in the southern Lebanon town of Khiam was targeted by an Israeli drone this evening.

Footage shows that the excavator sustained slight damage after the Israeli drone reportedly dropped a grenade on it. There are no reports of injuries.

The IDF has not yet commented. In the past, the military has said it has struck excavators in southern Lebanon being used by Hezbollah to restore its infrastructure.

????المحلقة الإسرائيلية استهدفت جرافة في مدينة الخيام pic.twitter.com/JlZkkVVM57

— bintjbeil.org (@bintjbeilnews) November 2, 2025

A dispute breaks out in the Satmar Hasidic movement in New York City over which candidate to endorse in the upcoming mayoral election.

Local media reported earlier today that Rabbi Moishe Indig, a prominent leader in the Satmar Ahronim faction, was set to endorse State Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, a far-left, anti-Israel candidate. Indig and Mamdani then met this afternoon.

Around the same time, three other leaders of the faction released a statement endorsing former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, a pro-Israel centrist and Mamdani’s leading challenger.

“The progressive movement’s crusading agenda is a threat to our ability to live as Torah Jews,” the statement says. “Please out-vote the progressive agenda and vote for Andrew Cuomo.”

“Sincerely honored by the endorsement of my good friends in the Satmar community,” Cuomo says on X. The Cuomo campaign is also claiming that the Aharonim faction endorsed him due to his “leadership and commitment to protecting their community in the face of an increasingly radicalized political environment.”

A separate faction of the Satmars, the Zalonim, said last week that it was not making an endorsement in the race.

Happening today. An official endorsement for @ZohranKMamdani by leaders of the Satmar community https://t.co/t6GMeyfEDi

— Meyer Labin (@MeyerLabin) November 2, 2025

Mamdani is the heavy favorite to win Tuesday’s election over Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa.

Some far-left Jews are backing Mamdani, while many mainstream and Orthodox groups and leaders have backed Cuomo or issued warnings about Mamdani.

The Satmars, whose New York City community is based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, are one of the city’s largest Hasidic voting blocs.

The movement is theologically non-Zionist, making Mamdani’s anti-Israel activism less of an issue, even if the movement is not aligned with left-wing political anti-Zionism.

Mamdani has said that, if elected mayor, he would not restrict yeshiva education, one of the community’s top........

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