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What Matters Most On Tuesday, October 31, 2017

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From left, Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Eyal Zamir, IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, Gaza Division commander Brig. Gen. Yehuda Fuchs and Coordinator of the Government's Activities in the Territories Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai hold a situational assessment meeting near the Gaza border on October 31, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief warns Gaza terrorists not to retaliate for attack tunnel’s destruction

By Judah Ari Gross

Eisenkot praises Southern Command’s Gaza Division for blowing up tunnel that crossed into Israeli territory from Khan Younis

Hamas promises ‘blood for blood’ after tunnel bombing, but sticks to unity plans

Netanyahu hails ‘breakthrough technology’ in discovery of Gaza attack tunnel

By Marissa Newman and Judah Ari Gross

IDF responds to criticism: We don’t apologize for killing terrorists

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

The body of Marwan Alagha, 22, is carried by mourners after he was killed when Israel blew up a tunnel built by the Islamic Jihad terror group stretching from the Gaza Strip into its territory, at Naser hospital in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 30, 2017. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Despite huge tunnel setback, Islamic Jihad likely won’t start war with Israel

After IDF destroys cross-border attack tunnel, killing terrorists, Gazan terror group faces pressure from enclave rulers Hamas to avoid conflict

Fatah's Azzam al-Ahmad, right, and Saleh al-Arouri of Hamas shake hands after signing a reconciliation deal in Cairo, on October 12, 2017, as the two rival Palestinian movements ended their decade-long split following negotiations overseen by Egypt. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)

Hamas, Fatah accuse Israel of trying to foil unity deal by hitting terror tunnel

Israeli rap singer Yoav Eliasi takes part at a right-wing demonstration in support of Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, August 9, 2014. (Flash90)

Israeli extremist rapper hands out sweets to celebrate terrorists killed in Gaza

Masked Palestinian men holding rifles walk outside the al-Aqsa hospital's morgue in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip as six Palestinians were killed after Israel blew up what it said was a tunnel stretching from Gaza into its territory, on October 30, 2017. (AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD HAMS)

IDF blows up Gaza attack tunnel, killing 7 Palestinians and wounding 12 inside

By Dov Lieber and Judah Ari Gross

Most of the dead are Islamic Jihad members; terror group threatens to retaliate after deadliest incident since 2014 Gaza war; Israel deploys Iron Dome batteries in the area

Hebrew media reviewTunnel through the tension

By Adiv Sterman

Iran blasts ‘bloodthirsty’ Israel after terror tunnel destroyed

Schools near Gaza back to routine despite tensions over destroyed tunnel

By Judah Ari Gross

Members of the Australian Light Horse association ride through Beersheba, in the northern Israeli desert, on October 31, 2017, ahead of a reenactment of the historical fight of the ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Mounted Division) where forces captured the city from the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. (AFP PHOTO / Menahem KAHANA)

ANZAC Centenary

In Israel, Australian, New Zealand leaders mark landmark defeat of Turks in WWI

By Jonah Mandel

‘Brave ANZAC soldiers liberated Beersheba and opened the gateway for the Jewish people to reenter the stage of history,’ Netanyahu says in praise

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) shakes hands with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during a joint press conference at the Prime Minister Office in Jerusalem, on October 30, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Australia PM in Israel to mark WWI Battle of Beersheba

By AFP

President Reuven Rivlin welcomes New Zealand Governor-General Dame Patricia Reddy to the President's Residence, on October 30, 2017. (Mark Neiman/GPO)

In first, top New Zealander makes official visit to Israel

By David Sedley

Minister Tzachi Hanegbi addresses the Jewish Agency Board of Governors at the 'Ezrat Yisrael' prayer platform at the Western Wall, October 30, 2017 (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Israel insists it won’t fully implement Western Wall egalitarian prayer deal

By Raphael Ahren

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the PM's office in Jerusalem, on October 29, 2017. (Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL)

PM confirms he will speak via satellite to Jewish Federation gathering

By Raphael Ahren

Adina Shmidman, a doctor of educational psychology and the founder of a mentoring program for rabbis' wives, will be the first director of the Orthodox Union's new Department of Women's Initiatives. (Courtesy of the OU/via JTA)

Jewish feminismOrthodox Union’s new project says women don’t need to be rabbis to be leaders

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with his British counterpart, Theresa May, in London on Monday, February 6, 2017 (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Warm-ische welcome

Ahead of Netanyahu trip to London, UK’s support for Israel hits seven-year high

By Robert Philpot

UK-based think tank’s poll shows drop in backing for the BDS movement, especially among youth

When the sun stood still upon Gibeon

‘Joshua stopped the sun’ 3,224 years ago today, scientists say

By David Sedley

Researchers claim epic Biblical story is earliest account of annular eclipse that occurred on October 30, 1207 BCE; also helps pinpoint reigns of Pharaohs Ramesses and Merneptah

Joshuah Ordering the Sun to Stand Still (1743-1744), Joseph Marie Vien in Musée Fabre, Montpellier. (Public domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Yoram Dori

‘Be careful, someone may try to kill Rabin’

It was the afternoon of November 4th and my friend warned me it could happen. I didn’t believe him.

IDF forces operate in the West Bank settlement of Halamish on July 23, 2017. (IDF spokesman)

Live updates (closed)

IDF investigating shooting of alleged car-ramming driver

By Raoul Wootliff

Military Police to probe soldiers’ claim that Palestinians were attempting to run them down near West Bank settlement of Halamish

7:11 pm

2 face terror charges for thwarted 2015 France train attack
7:00 pm

Bahrain imposes visas on Qatar visitors
6:59 pm

Pope admits to snoozing while praying

Engineer Gadi Ramon points to an area inside Yitzhak Navon Railway Station, Jerusalem, that can be hermetically sealed off, October 27, 2017 (ToI staff)

Under the holy city, transformation gathers pace

On the fast track to Tel Aviv: A sneak peek at Jerusalem’s transport revolution

By David Horovitz

260 feet down, the 100 mph train is officially mere months from inauguration, as part of a radical overhaul of the entrance to Israel’s capital

The Israel I love is aiding an atrocity

My government must be held accountable for the export of weapons to a murderous regime

Diaspora leaders just don’t get secular Israelis

They need to realize that Jewish pluralism is not on the radar for most Israelis

More Headlines

Zionist Union MK Zouheir Bahloul (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Labor’s Arab MK draws leader’s opprobrium for saying Israeli Arabs aren’t free

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

A picture taken on October 28, 2016 shows a bronze statue of German theologian Martin Luther outside the Marktkirche (Market Church) in Hannover, Germany. (AFP PHOTO / dpa / Holger Hollemann)

Martin Luther 500th anniversary marred by anti-Semitism row

By Yannick Pasquet

Former tourism minister Stas Misezhnikov in court on Wednesday, December 24, 2014 (FLASH90)

In plea deal, ex-minister gets 15 months for corruption

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during a joint press conference at the Prime Minister Office in Jerusalem, on October 30, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Foreign press boycotts PM event after photographer asked to strip

By AP and ToI Staff

Tal Flicker of Israel during the fight in the 66kg category at the Judo World Championship Budapest 2017, on August 28, 2017, in Budapest, Hungary. (Rok Rakun/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images/JTA)

Israel’s judo warriors take the ‘gentle way’ in pursuit of athletic glory

By Andrew Tobin

View of neighborhoods in Ma'ale Adumim, near Jerusalem, October 3, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Saudis pushed US to stop merger of Jerusalem, West Bank settlements – report

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Illustrative: IDF forces operate in the West Bank settlement of Halamish on July 23, 2017. (IDF spokesman)

Two Palestinians shot after driving ‘suspiciously’ at soldiers — army

By Judah Ari Gross

Satellite image of the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in North Korea, April 12, 2017 (Airbus Defense & Space/38 North/Pleiades CNES/Spot Image via AP)

200 said dead in tunnel accident at North Korea nuclear test site

By AFP

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