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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 366

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Large strike reported in Beirut after 2 missiles fired at Israel’s coastal plain

Qatari officials said to tell hostage families Sinwar no longer calling them, but is alive * Report says Quds Force chief was in Beirut last week amid speculation over death

12:57 pm

Lebanon delays start of school year due to Israeli strikes
12:56 pm

Germany's Scholz calls for Gaza ceasefire, says Jewish citizens must never again 'live in fear and terror'
12:55 pm

Starmer blasts 'vile hatred' against UK's Jewish, Muslim communities since Oct. 7
12:18 pm

Military preparing for possible long-range rocket launches from Gaza on Oct. 7 anniversary

Offensive marks 4th Jabaliya push since start of war

IDF launches new ground op in north Gaza’s Jabaliya to foil Hamas efforts to regroup

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Army says preparing for evacuation of all civilians from north of Strip into expanded humanitarian zones; confirms strikes on operatives at former school, mosque in Deir al-Balah

Displaced families who fled northern Gaza arrive in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on October 5, 2024. (BASHAR TALEB / AFP)

IDF calls on parts of central Gaza to evacuate ahead of fresh incursion

By Emanuel Fabian and AP

IDF troops with the 252nd Division operate in the Netzarim Corridor in the central Gaza Strip, in a handout image published October 3, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)Oct 4: IDF says it struck Hamas command center in former school in central Gaza

A year after Oct. 7, Kfar Aza and Nir Oz are mostly empty, with residents in anguish

By Jessica Steinberg

Residents return to visit their homes, sift through wreckage and shake their heads in disbelief that loved ones are still held hostage in Gaza

LiveUpdated 4min ago

Large strike reported in Beirut after 2 missiles fired at Israel’s coastal plain

Qatari officials said to tell hostage families Sinwar no longer calling them, but is alive * Report says Quds Force chief was in Beirut last week amid speculation over death

IDF launches new ground op in north Gaza’s Jabaliya to foil Hamas efforts to regroup

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Army says preparing for evacuation of all civilians from north of Strip into expanded humanitarian zones; confirms strikes on operatives at former school, mosque in Deir al-Balah

Displaced families who fled northern Gaza arrive in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on October 5, 2024. (BASHAR TALEB / AFP)

IDF calls on parts of central Gaza to evacuate ahead of fresh incursion

By Emanuel Fabian and AP

IDF troops with the 252nd Division operate in the Netzarim Corridor in the central Gaza Strip, in a handout image published October 3, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)Oct 4: IDF says it struck Hamas command center in former school in central Gaza

A year after Oct. 7, Kfar Aza and Nir Oz are mostly empty, with residents in anguish

By Jessica Steinberg

Residents return to visit their homes, sift through wreckage and shake their heads in disbelief that loved ones are still held hostage in Gaza

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in a video message released on October 5, 2024. (Telegram screenshot used in accordance of clause 27a of the copyright law)

Netanyahu: Israel has duty and right to hit back at Iran for missile attack, will do so

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Prime minister says no country would accept rocket barrages on its citizens, and neither will Israel, touts successes in north against Iran’s proxy Hezbollah

F-35i fighter jets are seen at the Nevatim Air Base in southern Israel, in an undated handout photo. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF planning ‘serious and significant’ response to Iranian ballistic missile attack

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

A man inspects the damage at a house hit during a rocket attack from southern Lebanon that targeted the northern Arab-Israeli village of Deir al-Asad on October 5, 2024. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Live updates (closed)Oct. 5: Top US general in Mideast arrives in Israel, as IDF preps response to Iranian attack

Iran's Supreme leader Ali Khamenei holds a rifle as he delivers a sermon denouncing Israel and justifying Hamas's October 7 slaughter in Israel, in Tehran on October 4, 2024. (X screenshot used in accordance of clause 27a of the copyright law)

Khamenei says Iran ‘won’t back down, Israel won’t last long’; hails Hamas Oct. 7 massacre

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israelis protest calling for the release of those held hostage by the Hamas terror group in Gaza, outside the Defense Ministry Headquarters in Tel Aviv, October 5, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Scaled-down rallies for hostage deal held nationwide, a year into loved ones’ captivity

Weekly rally in Tel Aviv, which has previously drawn hundreds of thousands, is capped at 2,000 by Home Front Command, amid ground op in Lebanon and brewing response to Iran attack

Protesters demand a hostage deal with Hamas in Gaza during a rally in front of the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, September 28, 2024. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Main Tel Aviv pro-hostage deal protest Saturday canceled due to Lebanon, Iran concerns

Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar gestures on stage after greeting supporters at a rally in Gaza City, May 24, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Sinwar’s growing fatalism, hope for regional war hampering hostage talks — report

Those we have lost

Stories of the civilians and soldiers who have fallen in the Israel-Hamas war

Those We Have Lost
Lotan Abir, 24: US-Israeli ‘a kind, sweet, fun-loving, innocent soul’

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Zhanna Ruderman, 48: New immigrant from Belarus who loved the sea

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Staff Sgt. Ilay Gamzo, 20: Lover of soccer who was all smiles

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Shlomo Ron, 85: Sacrificed himself to save his family

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Marina Almagor, 76: Dog lover, world traveler and doting grandma

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Marcelle Taljah, 63: Murdered a day after granddaughter born

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Jenny Nisimboim, 32: Fitness instructor who was eager to help others

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Staff Sgt. Eytan Dishon, 21: Quiet scholar ‘with a rich inner world’

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Mark Shindel, 23: Civil engineering student who loved soccer

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Lin Dafni, 22: Gifted amateur designer with a butterfly-like spirit

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Chief Warrant Officer Ido ‘Crido’ Rosenthal, 45: A habitual hero

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Staff Sgt. Shalev Baranes, 20: Golani soldier who loved his motorcycle

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Din Bar, 27, and Shoam Bar, 21: Uncle and nephew slain together

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Noam Elyakim, 46: Devoted family man who loved to sing

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Tamar Gutman, 27: Killed at rave, a rare outing for the law student

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Hadar and Itay Berdichesky, 30: Killed protecting their babies

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Sami and Ofra Keidar, 70: Kibbutznikim who built, tended Be’eri

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Galit Carbone, 66: Australian-Israeli grandmother ‘full of love’

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Mapal Adam, 25: Hid under a truck from Hamas terrorists for hours

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Cpt. Sahar Saudyan, 21: Iron Dome operator who was ‘a real hero’

By ToI Staff

Those we are missing

The hostages and victims whose fate is still unknown

Those we are missing
Taken captive: Ofer Calderon, initially escaped through window

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Omri Miran, driven in his own car to Gaza

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Arbel Yehud, third generation on Kibbutz Nir Oz

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Surasak Lamnau, Thai worker abducted with employer

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Or Levy arrived at festival minutes before onslaught

By AP
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Oded Lifshitz, drove Gazans to hospitals

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Eliya Cohen, dragged from a pile of dead bodies

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Bar Kupershtein, last seen tied up by Hamas

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Yarden Bibas, injured on his head at abduction

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Itzik Elgarat, shot in his hand by Hamas terrorists

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Matan Zangauker, ‘is a survivor’

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Informal educator Eitan Horn visiting from Kfar Saba

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Yosef-Haim Ohana, helped injured at Supernova rave

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Tamir Nimrodi, walked by gunmen to base gate

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Segev Kalfon, last seen running across Highway 232

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Gali Berman, from Kfar Aza’s ‘young neighborhood’

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Ohad Ben Ami, dual Israeli-German citizen

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Omer Wenkert, suffers from autoimmune condition

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Sagui Dekel-Chen spotted first incoming terrorists

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Eviatar David, IDed in a Hamas photo on Telegram

By ToI Staff

Tales of the Times

The quirky, improbable, infuriating and uplifting

'It's all intuition'
Parents, creators discuss how to talk to kids about war, hostage crisis

By Jessica Steinberg
The pen is mightier
National Library counts 169 publications so far about Oct. 7

By Jessica Steinberg
Home is where the hearth is
Evacuees miss their kitchens, even dishwashing, in new exhibit

By Jessica Steinberg
If these walls could speak
US ambassador fills home with Israeli art showing post-Oct. 7 resilience

By Jessica Steinberg
Son of liberty
Rare document shows Jewish financier’s role in American Revolution

By Jackie Hajdenberg
Tiny treasure
Museum of the Bible unveils newly dated ‘oldest Jewish book’

By Asaf Elia-Shalev
In safe hands
This year’s Jerusalem Design Week looks to be a port in a storm

By Jessica Steinberg
Not joking around
US comic Bill Maher says Harris should ‘shut up’ about Israel

By ToI Staff
If you will it
Israeli Herzl opera ‘Theodor’ to premiere filmed version in NY

By Jessica Steinberg
Short-lived honeymoon
Asteroid set to temporarily become Earth’s ‘second moon’

By ToI Staff
Starstruck
Petah Tikva to launch Hollywood-inspired ‘walk of fame’

By ToI Staff
Yellow card
Lionel Messi’s yellow ribbon mistaken as hostage solidarity symbol

By ToI Staff
Not well versed
New York Mets player stumps fans with botched Hebrew tattoo

By ToI Staff
Sky's the limit
Jewish tech billionaire back to Earth after first private spacewalk

By AP and ToI Staff
Raising the roof
Israeli dancing dog act makes finals of ‘America’s Got Talent’

By ToI Staff
Save us... a seat
With High Holidays on horizon, a musical group takes penitence on tour

By Jessica Steinberg
Eternal flame
This year’s Hanukkah US postage stamp represents Jewish faith

By Jackie Hajdenberg
One small step
Billionaire to conduct private spacewalk with Musk’s SpaceX

By Marcia Dunn
EGOT to the top
Jewish songwriter enters elite club of EGOT winners after nabbing Emmy

By Shira Li Bartov
Palette for the palate
Chef jackets become art at pop-up exhibit benefiting the displaced

By Jessica Steinberg

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