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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 368

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Gallant: Presumed Nasrallah successor likely killed in strike

Hezbollah rains rockets on Haifa as deputy leader claims capabilities intact

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

More than 100 rockets fired in largest assault yet on port city, 1 hurt by shrapnel, several homes hit; in first, terror leader says group could consider truce not linked to Gaza

Flame and smoke rise from an Israeli airstrike on Hezbollah targets in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Top Hezbollah man killed in Beirut strike as ground op expands in south Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian

Broken glass due to Hezbollah rocket fire at a school for evacuees, in Rosh Pina, northern Israel, on September 8, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

16,000 students still evacuated from north, 90 schools damaged – official

By Gavriel Fiske

The impact site of a rocket fired from Lebanon at Haifa in northern Israel, October 6, 2024. (Screenshot, X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Five injured in Haifa after air defenses fail to intercept Hezbollah rocket barrage

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Staff Sgt. Noam Israel Abdu (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF soldier killed in Gaza; three terrorists who took part in Oct. 7 onslaught eliminated

By Emanuel Fabian

Death of Staff Sgt. Noam Israel Abdu brings Israel’s toll in ground offensive against Hamas to 350; another soldier seriously wounded

Palestinian civil defense firefighters extinguish a blaze in a building in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 7, 2024. (Photo by BASHAR TALEB / AFP)

IDF strikes Gaza rocket launching sites used to target Israel on Oct. 7 anniversary

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

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As cabinet weighs response to Iran attack, PM said hampering Gallant’s planned US trip

IDF says it destroyed Hezbollah tunnel that crossed into Israel but had no exit point * Netanyahu confirms Israel killed Nasrallah’s replacement Safieddine, and latter’s replacement

Hezbollah rains rockets on Haifa as deputy leader claims capabilities intact

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

More than 100 rockets fired in largest assault yet on port city, 1 hurt by shrapnel, several homes hit; in first, terror leader says group could consider truce not linked to Gaza

Flame and smoke rise from an Israeli airstrike on Hezbollah targets in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Top Hezbollah man killed in Beirut strike as ground op expands in south Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian

Broken glass due to Hezbollah rocket fire at a school for evacuees, in Rosh Pina, northern Israel, on September 8, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

16,000 students still evacuated from north, 90 schools damaged – official

By Gavriel Fiske

The impact site of a rocket fired from Lebanon at Haifa in northern Israel, October 6, 2024. (Screenshot, X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Five injured in Haifa after air defenses fail to intercept Hezbollah rocket barrage

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Staff Sgt. Noam Israel Abdu (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF soldier killed in Gaza; three terrorists who took part in Oct. 7 onslaught eliminated

By Emanuel Fabian

Death of Staff Sgt. Noam Israel Abdu brings Israel’s toll in ground offensive against Hamas to 350; another soldier seriously wounded

Palestinian civil defense firefighters extinguish a blaze in a building in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 7, 2024. (Photo by BASHAR TALEB / AFP)

IDF strikes Gaza rocket launching sites used to target Israel on Oct. 7 anniversary

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

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 with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Op-ed: Day 368 of the war

The long road back from October 7, 2023, runs through Tehran

The Iranian regime, coordinating assiduously for Israel’s annihilation, has been all but untouched this past year. Israel needs to do more than ‘send a message’ to the ayatollahs

Israelis in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv watch a screening of the National Memorial Ceremony for Bereaved Families in nearby Yarkon Park on October 7, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Commemorating October 7

At separate memorials, families demand accountability as PM touts Israeli ‘strength’

By Sam Sokol and Jessica Steinberg

‘The legacy of the fallen demands national soul-searching,’ says father of soldier killed battling Hamas on Oct. 7; Netanyahu: ‘We were not defeated; we will continue to fight’

Jonathan Shamriz, bereaved brother of hostage Alon Shamriz who was killed by mistake by the IDF in Gaza on December 15, 2023, speaks at the alternative Bereaved Families Ceremony on October 7, 2024 at Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park (Courtesy)

Reporter's Notebook‘We will rise from the ruins’: A bereaved audience pays homage on Oct. 7 anniversary

By Jessica Steinberg

A man cries as he holds a photo of slain hostage Carmel Gat, taken by Hamas terrorists on October 7 and killed in Gaza 11 months later, during a protest on the terror onslaught's anniversary calling for the hostages' release, in front of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem, October 7, 2024. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

Still under fire, Israel remembers Oct. 7 victims while grappling with ongoing nightmare

By Emanuel Fabian, Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

Historian Igor Bartosik at the former Union factory adjacent to Auschwitz, from which female prisoners smuggled revolt supplies to Sonderkommando prisoners living atop Birkenau gas chambers, August 2024 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)

80 years ago on Oct. 7, Jewish Sonderkommando workers staged a failed revolt at Auschwitz

By Matt Lebovic

Decades before the Hamas atrocities, inmates took up arms against their Nazi tormentors. It didn’t succeed, but the revolt was singular, unprecedented, and facilitated by women

Trump: Israel has 'to get smart because they don’t back me'

Biden and potential successors mark Oct. 7 as US election nears, Mideast war rages

US president lights candle at White House, VP plants pomegranate tree at residence; Sullivan: Israel needs strategy to ensure battlefield wins endure; Trump visits Chabad rebbe’s grave

US President Joe Biden, center, standing with first lady Jill Biden, left, and Rabbi Aaron Alexander of the Adas Israel Congregation, gives the sign of the cross after lighting a memorial candle in the Blue Room of the White House in Washington, Oct. 7, 2024, to mark the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

The Brandenburg Gate is illuminated with the flag of Israel in Berlin, Germany, October 7, 2024, to mark the one-year anniversary of Hamas's October 7 massacre in Israel. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)

European leaders mourn victims, decry surge in antisemitism at Oct. 7 commemorations

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Palestinians walk through the destruction left by the Israeli air and ground offensive after the IDF withdrew from Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, April 7, 2024. (AP Photo/ Ismael Abu Dayyah)

A year after Oct. 7, some Gazans rail at Hamas for causing devastating war

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Those we have lost

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

Those we have lost
Maya Puder, 25: Aspiring actress was everybody’s best friend

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Cpt. Amir Zur, 23: ‘You will always be our guardian angel’

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Alex Samoilov, 28, Victoria Brandis, 22: Worked as rave security

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Sgt. David Mittelman, 20: Ex-Haredi who hovered between worlds

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Sgt. Maj. Bar Sivan, 33

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Rotem Levi, 22: World traveler with plans to visit Mexico and Japan

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Staff Sgt. Sahar Meidani, 20: Golani soldier who ‘loved this country’

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Sgt. Tamir Barak, 19: Soldier’s uncle was killed in Yom Kippur War

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Omer Gavra, 26: Shin Bet agent who loved extreme sports

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Sgt. Nathan Lyard, 20: French-Israeli returned to battle after injured

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Sgt. Nativ Kuzaro, 21: Iron Dome operator’s ‘smile always led the way’

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Suhaib Abu Amer Razeem, 22: Minibus driver from East Jerusalem

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Kiattisak Patee, 35: Thai worker whose TikTok showcased farm life

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Master Sgt. Daniel Kastiel, 24: Always charged ahead

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Mira Stahl, 53: Special ed. teacher who touched countless lives

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Refael Fahimi, 63, Netanel Maskalchi, 36, and Refael Maskalchi, 12

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Staff Sgt. Aner Elyakim Shapira, 22: Unarmed, he fended off 7 grenades

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Bechor Swid, 32: Landscape gardener and father of 3 girls

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Zlata Kosovsky, 28: Dog lover with ‘beautiful green eyes’

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Maj. Ariel Ben Moshe, 27: Promising officer who dedicated life to IDF

By ToI Staff

Those we are missing

The hostages and victims whose fate is still unknown

Those we are missing
Taken captive: Tsahi Idan, terrorists promised daughter his safe return

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

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: Gali Berman, from Kfar Aza’s ‘young neighborhood’

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Naama Levy, Hands of Peace project alumnus

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Pinta Nattapong, saving up for a coffee shop

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Tal Shoham, held captive separately from family

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Maxim Herkin, was attending his first trance rave

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Ohad Yahalomi, shot in the leg by terrorists

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

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Youssef Hamis Ziyadne from Rahat

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: Elkana Bohbot, young son asking, ‘Where’s Daddy?’

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: Yosef-Haim Ohana, helped injured at Supernova rave

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: Rom Braslavski, rave guard who saved others

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

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Eli Sharabi from Kibbutz Be’eri

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

By ToI Staff

Tales of the Times

The quirky, improbable, infuriating and uplifting

Photo essay
October 7 commemoration ceremonies held around the world

By AP and ToI Staff
Prayer for salvation
Israeli Opera marks Oct. 7 anniversary with ‘Gate of Mercy’ arrangement

By Jessica Steinberg
Swat team
Melania: Smacking Trump’s hand in Israel wasn’t sign of marital ire

By ToI Staff
'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

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