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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 7, 2023

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Graphic content: The bodies of Israeli civilians killed by Hamas terrorists lie covered in the southern city of Sderot on October 7, 2023, after an unprecedented infiltration into Israel by hundreds of gunmen from the terrorist organization from Gaza. (Oren ZIV / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 7: Hamas terrorists burst through border, slaughter Israelis in their homes

At least 300 killed, 1,590 injured, hostages taken in multi-pronged infiltration from Gaza, as terrorists attack civilians, soldiers at 22 sites; thousands of rockets fired at Israel

12:40 am

Rocket sirens sound in Sderot, Kibbutz Nir Am
12:17 am

Sderot mayor decries 'massacre of innocent civilians,' calls to erase Hamas
12:07 am

Rocket sirens sound in Kibbutz Be’eri where Israeli forces battle Palestinian terrorists

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement on October 7, 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Screen grab)

Priority is to clear the terrorists from urban areas, PM says

‘We are at war,’ Netanyahu says, after Hamas launches devastating surprise attack

PM vows to exact ‘unprecedented price’ from terror group after hundreds of gunmen cross border, attack homes and IDF bases; thousands of rockets fired; opposition backs gov’t, IDF

The scene where a rocket fired from Gaza caused damage in the southern city of Ashkelon on October 7, 2023. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Oct. 7: Special report — Israel at war after shock Hamas infiltration

Editor David Horovitz on Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid’s call for an emergency unity government; military correspondent Emanuel Fabian gives a timeline of today’s events

Police officers evacuate a woman and a child from a site hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, October 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

'My friends are being killed while fighting for their homes'

Residents near Gaza Strip beg for IDF help as they fight off terrorists

Speaking from safe rooms close to the infiltrated Gaza border, locals say there is little military presence in their communities as gunmen freely move house to house

A rocket fired from Gaza into southern Israel hits Ashkelon, October 7, 2023 (Edi Israel/Flash90)

IDF launches retaliatory strikes on Gaza

Gaza terrorists launch surprise attack on Israel with rocket barrages and infiltrations

By Emanuel Fabian

Gunmen infiltrate Sderot, other communities; over 200 killed, 1,100 wounded; IDF declares ‘state of war,’ calls up reserves; 2,200 rockets fired, including at Tel Aviv, Dimona, J’lem

Analysis

‘A colossal failure’ as Gaza’s Hamas terrorists infiltrate, catch Israel unprepared

Assumption was that Hamas was deterred; it wasn’t. Says former Navy chief: ‘All of Israel is asking itself: Where is the IDF, where are the police, where is the security?’

Armed terrorists in southern Israel, having infiltrated from Gaza, on the morning of October 7, 2023 (Channel 12 screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

'We felt the bullets flying around us'

Thousands flee rocket and gunfire at all-night desert ‘Nature Party’; dozens missing

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Unconfirmed reports of wounded as dozens are still hiding from terrorists or evacuated by jeep to Ofakim; parents who are unable to contact children advised not to approach area

Hundreds flee gunmen at a music festival near Kibbutz Re'im, October 7, 2023. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Palestinian terrorists drive to the Gaza Strip with what is believed to be the body of Shani Louk, on October 7, 2023. (AP/Ali Mahmud)

Israel confirms civilians and soldiers abducted by Hamas into Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Unconfirmed reports say 52 Israelis taken into Gaza Strip; several vehicles, including an IDF tank and 2 Magen David Adom ambulances captured; EU says hostage-taking abhorrent

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid in a statement to the media, October 7, 2023. (Video screenshot)

Netanyahu, Lapid and Gantz discuss forming emergency government as country faces war

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and Jeremy Sharon

Opposition leader Lapid indicates PM will need to boot far right from coalition: ‘I’m willing to put aside our differences and form an emergency, narrow, professional government’

Israeli Navy ships fire at Hamas terrorists attempting to infiltrate into Israel, early October 7, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Navy says it killed dozens of Gazan terrorists attempting to infiltrate from sea

By Emanuel Fabian

Footage shows 916th Patrol Squadron firing at vessels, tractor attempting to breach security barrier near Zikim beach on Gaza border

Rockets are launched by Palestinian terror groups from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, October 7, 2023. (AP/ Hatem Moussa)

Gaza reports some 230 Palestinians dead, 1,600 wounded after Hamas assault on Israel

By Gianluca Pacchiani and Emanuel Fabian

Hamas fires a large number of rockets towards Israel in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, October 7, 2023. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Hamas commander says attacks are in defense of Al-Aqsa, claims 5,000 missiles fired

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Left: US President Joe Biden at Raleigh-Durham International Airport in Morrisville, North Carolina, March 28, 2023. (AP/Carolyn Kaster); Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on March 19, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool photo via AP)

Biden calls PM, as US offers full backing amid massive attack from Gaza

By Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian, AFP and ToI Staff

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to Ukrainian media, August 27, 2023. (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Zelensky: Israel has ‘indisputable’ right to defend itself from terror

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israeli rescue teams evacuate a wounded person by helicopter near the southern city of Sderot on October 7, 2023 (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

World reacts in shock and horror to attacks on Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Europe and US offer strong support for Jerusalem and its right to self-defense, while Muslim and Arab nations call for restraint by both sides, and Iran celebrates

Iranian demonstrators burn representations of the Israeli and the US flags in their rally to mark Jerusalem Day, an annual show of support for the Palestinians, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 14, 2023. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Iran celebrates Hamas attack on Israel as ‘proud operation’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

People dance in celebration of the attacks that the Hamas terror group carried out against Israel, at Bourj al-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp, in Beirut, Lebanon, October 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Abbas stresses Palestinian right to self-defense, as int’l community condemns Hamas

By Gianluca Pacchiani and Agencies

PA president calls to ‘strengthen Palestinian steadfastness’; US, EU countries express unequivocal support for Israel in fight against terror

From the blogs

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Catherine Perez-Shakdam

Elon Musk, will you stop the online attacks on Israel?

As Hamas supporters celebrate killing innocent Israelis, social media platforms have a responsibility to block hate speech

The region will change after this war in ways we can’t know. There will be many dead. In the end, Israel will prevail.

Film review

In ‘Fioretta,’ a father and son Euro road-trip into 500 years of Jewish family history

By Gavriel Fiske

Premiering in Israel Sunday in Tel Aviv, Matthew Mishory’s documentary follows descendants of Arnold Schoenberg as they uncover their long-buried roots in Vienna, Prague and Venice

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on June 7, 2023. (Ahmed Yosri/Pool/AFP)

Riyadh said willing to boost oil output to help clinch normalization deal with Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Saudi offers to up production as gesture toward historic 3-way agreement that would also include US-Saudi defense pact, weapons sale, and civil nuke program, WSJ reports

Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman speaks during an Interior and Environmental Protection Committee meeting at the Knesset on March 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Environment minister said planning trip to Saudi Arabia for climate conference

More Headlines

White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the 'alt-right' (L) clash with counterprotesters as they enter Emancipation Park during the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 12, 2017. (CHIP SOMODEVILLA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

HBO to air new documentary on team that sued Charlottesville rally organizers and won

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Former US President Donald Trump waves after speaking to the media during the third day of his civil fraud trial in New York on October 4, 2023. (ANGELA WEISS / AFP)

Trump denies giving Australian businessman US nuclear submarine secrets

By AFP

Pastor Ryan Burge, an associate professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University and author of, "The Nones," a book on the growing number of religiously unaffiliated Americans, preaches a sermon at First Baptist Church in Mt. Vernon, Illinois, September 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

Inside storyMeet the ‘nones,’ non-observant Americans who really don’t like organized religion

Illustrative: A woman receives a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, New York, March 27, 2019. (Seth Wenig/AP)

Health authorities issue warning after 4 toddlers in Tel Aviv infected with measles

This photo taken in 2021 shows Narges Mohammadi in Tehran, Iran. (Reihane Taravati via AP)

Nobel Peace Prizes awarded to Iranian women 20 years apart trace tensions with West

By Jon Gambrell

A Palestinian man inspects the damage in the village of Huwara in the West Bank on October 6, 2023, after an overnight attack by Israeli settlers. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

UN lashes Israel for Huwara settler violence after terror shooting

Canadian rapper Drake accepts the award for Best Rap Song for "Gods Plan" during the 61st Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California, on February 10, 2019. (Robyn Beck / AFP)

God's PlanDrake announces break from music career over health issue

By AFP and JTA

Former prime minister Ehud Barak, during a media interview in Tel Aviv, September 30, 2019. (File: Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Iranians leak personal photos of former prime minister Ehud Barak

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