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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 12, 2023

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A fireball erupts from an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on October 12, 2023. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 12: Israel prepares for likely Gaza ground invasion

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Message hints ground incursion might be imminent; UN says such swift movement would have devastating consequences; Israelis, Jews worldwide on edge ahead of Hamas ‘day of rage’

2:17 am

Blinken lands in Jordan for meetings with King Abdullah, Mahmoud Abbas
2:06 am

Internet connectivity in Gaza below 20%, analyst says
2:05 am

Egypt's Sissi calls for urgent delivery of humanitarian aid into Gaza

Those we have lost

Entire Siman Tov family: Murdered by Hamas in Kibbutz Nir Oz

Tamar and Yonatan, and their daughters Shahar and Arbel, and son Omer, all slain together in safe room

The Kedem Siman Tov family, murdered in their safe room in Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023. Johnny is at left. (Facebook)

Relatives of Shaked Haran from Kibbutz Be'eri near the Gaza border missing and believed to have been in Hamas captivity since Saturday, October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)

10 members of same kibbutz family believed held by Hamas, including 3 children

A video showing Avital Aladjem, a Kibbutz Holit resident, apparently being released along with two children by Hamas terrorists on the Gaza border, October 7, 2023. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF says Hamas video purporting to show 3 hostages being released is propaganda

By ToI Staff and Jessica Steinberg

Elderly couple, abducted by Hamas, tell how they refused to be taken to Gaza

By Stuart Winer

Moshe and Diana Rosen, injured by gunfire, were dragged by 5 terrorists across boundary, but then declared they would not go any further; captors eventually told them to turn back

Screen capture from video of Moshe and Diana Rosen, who were injured and abducted by Hamas terrorists but refused to be taken captive in Gaza, October 11. 2023. (Channel 12. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Twins Osher and Michael Vaknin (Courtesy)

Twins helped organize a rave in southern Israel. Neither has been seen alive since

By AFP and ToI Staff

This image provided by Eran Shani shows Shlomi Mathias playing the guitar as his wife, Debbie ‘Shahar’ Mathias, laughs and sings next to him at her 50th birthday party in Lehavim, Israel, on October 1, 2023, days before they were killed in a Hamas terror attack as they protected their son. (Eran Shani via AP)

His parents shielded him from gunfire as Hamas attacked. He survived. They did not

By AP and ToI Staff

Palestinian youth crawls under a barbed wire obstacle during a graduation ceremony for a training camp run by the Hamas movement on January 29, 2015 in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip. Photot credit: AFP/ SAID KHATIB)

From The Hartman Institute

Israel at War: Living with Evil

Donniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Halevi discuss what happens when the behavior of others descends from wrongful to outright evil, and how we might cope with it

Blood covers the floor of a bedroom of a resident of Be'eri, on October 11, 2023. (Times of Israel/Canaan Lidor)

Reporter's notebook

Be’eri’s residents are gone, but their homes attest to the horrors they endured

By Canaan Lidor

Enveloped in a stench of blood, the shattered remains of the region’s flagship kibbutz show the scope and cruelty of a well-planned massacre

Reporter's notebook

Amid the devastation of Kibbutz Be’eri, Israel keeps pulling bodies from the rubble

Almost 1 in 10 of the residents of this Gaza border kibbutz were slain by Hamas terrorists; IDF general who fought attackers here promises a ground invasion

A burned home in Kibbutz Be'eri after the deadly assault by Hamas, seen on October 11, 2023. (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

Left to right: Gad Liebersohn, 21; Yarin Amar, 22; Yaelle Bonnet, 21. All survived the massacre at the Tribe of Nova party outside Kibbutz Re'im on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy via JTA)

Interview‘The Holocaust, all over again’: The Supernova festival massacre, in survivors’ words

By Deborah Danan

(L) Ricarda Louk holds up a photo of her daughter Shani, who was abducted by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023. Photo on right is of Shani Louk. (courtesy, screen capture/X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

‘My heart broke’: Families in dark over fate of loved ones held by terrorists in Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu make statements to the media inside The Kirya, which houses the Israeli Ministry of Defense, after their meeting in Tel Aviv, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, pool)

'These images may be worth a million words.'

Blinken in Tel Aviv: As long as US exists, Israel won’t have to defend itself alone

By Lazar Berman

Secretary invokes family’s Holocaust history as he urges world to condemn Hamas massacres of Israelis; pleads to avoid harm to civilians; Netanyahu: Sanction nations that host Hamas

President Joe Biden speaks during a roundtable with Jewish community leaders in the Indian Treaty Room on the White House complex in Washington, Oct. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

‘Be careful’: Biden says he warned Iran regarding Gaza war, as Blinken heads to Israel

By Jacob Magid, JTA and AP

Inside StoryJewish White House staffers get emotional during briefing on response to Hamas massacre

Israeli soldiers seen at a staging area near the southern Israeli border with Gaza, October 12, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israel at war

Israel girds for long war as death toll since Hamas terror onslaught passes 1,300

By Emanuel Fabian

Israel says no water, electricity or letup in siege on Gaza until hostages are freed; IDF continues to hit Hamas buildings, kill terror leaders; families of 97 hostages notified

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz delivers a government statement on the situation in Israel amid a war with Hamas during a meeting of the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, October 12, 2023. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP)

Citing German responsibility for Israel’s security, Scholz offers military aid

By AP and ToI Staff

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky talks during a joint press conference with Belgium's Prime Minister Alexander De Croo (not pictured) in Brussels on October 11, 2023. (YVES HERMAN / POOL/AFP)

Zelensky urges Western leaders to visit Israel, show country it is not ‘alone’

By AFP and ToI Staff

From the blogs

Israel’s jihad remains my jihad, the IDF my soul soldiers

For Hamas, there is only the killing, the maiming, the violations, the debasing. It was there all along, but we didn’t want to see it.

Israelis mourn next to the graves of Danielle Waldmann and her partner Noam Shai, during their funeral in the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Tivon, October 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Those We Have Lost

Portraits of civilians and soldiers killed in Hamas’s onslaught on southern Israel

Republican presidential candidate former president Donald Trump speaks at Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, October 11, 2023, (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

After Hamas onslaught, Trump criticizes Israel, calls Gallant a ‘jerk’

President Isaac Herzog speaks to foreign journalists at his residence in Jerusalem on October 12, 2023. (Amy Spiro/Times of Israel)

Herzog blasts media for not calling Hamas ‘terrorists’ and downplaying terror threat

A sign informing passengers about the location of rocket shelters is set up in a hallway as travelers arrive at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on October 10, 2023. (Yuri CORTEZ/AFP)

Raising travel warning, US urges citizens to rethink visiting Israel amid Gaza war

Sharon Lifschitz, left, and Noam Sagi sit down for a press conference of British children of Israeli hostages at a hotel in London, October 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Families of UK citizens held hostage in Gaza beg for help: Captors ‘have no mercy’

Relatives of 17 Britons feared abducted to Gaza decry terrorists’ brutal rampage, urge media to ‘call Hamas for what they are’

Britain's King Charles III, left, speaks with President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal during a reception at Buckingham Palace, in London, May 5, 2023 for overseas guests attending his coronation. (Jacob King/Pool Photo via AP)

King Charles calls Herzog to express condolences over ‘barbaric’ Hamas attack

Illustrative: The heavily Jewish neighborhood of Golders Green, London ((Cnaan Lipshitz)

UK sees huge jump in antisemitic incidents after Hamas onslaught on Israel

By Stuart Winer

File - From left, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, National Unity head Benny Gantz at a press conference on October 11, 2023 announcing Israel's national emergency government. (screen capture: PMO)

Gallant vows to ‘wipe Hamas from earth,’ after ‘the worst terror attack’ in history

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Introducing ‘national emergency government,’ Netanyahu says Hamas shot children in head, burned people alive, raped women; Gantz says partisan politics put aside to safeguard Israel

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant briefs NATO counterparts on October 12, 2023 (Elad Malka/Defense Ministry)

Showing explicit video of Hamas crimes, Gallant tells NATO: ‘2023 is not 1943’

A view of the rubble of buildings hit by an Israeli airstrike, in Jabalia, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. (AP/Hatem Moussa)

Israel at warIAF hits Gaza on ‘unprecedented scale’; Strip’s power plant shuts down

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Early reports indicate dozens of drones launched from Lebanon at Israel on the evening of October 11, 2023; they proved to be false (Red Alert Screenshot via X)

90-minute panic over mass drone invasion in northern Israel proves to be false alarm

By Emanuel Fabian and Amy Spiro

Millions sent scrambling for shelter amid warnings of 15-20 drones crossing border from Lebanon; IDF says it is checking whether it ‘was a technical fault or human error’

Illustrative: Photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows a bulldozer working on a damaged runway of the Damascus International Airport, which Syria said was hit by an Israeli airstrike, in Damascus, Syria, June 12, 2022. (SANA via AP)

Syria says Israeli airstrikes hit Damascus, Aleppo airports

By AP and Emanuel Fabian

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a news conference, in New York, September 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

Iran calls on Islamic, Arab countries to confront Israel over its war on Hamas

By AFP and ToI Staff

War comes to my ultra-Orthodox community

My first thought: If the rabbi permitted my husband to ride in a car on Shabbat, something horrible must have happened

A call to Arabs everywhere

The Arab leadership in Israel, the West Bank, and elsewhere must express its utter revulsion at this unspeakable atrocity

Palestinians ride on an Israeli military vehicle taken from an army base overrun by Hamas terrorists near the Gaza Strip fence, in Gaza City, October 7, 2023. (Abed Abu Reash/AP)

Amid outcry, wounded terrorists not being treated in Israeli civilian hospitals

By Renee Ghert-Zand

After some terrorists were initially brought to emergency rooms, sparking uproar, Health Minister Moshe Arbel instructs they be redirected to prison services’ medical facilities

Illustrative -- In this May 15, 2018, photo, a scientist picks up a vial containing frozen donor sperm samples in a lab in Melbourne, Australia. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Embryologists inundated with requests for sperm retrieval from the fallen and dead

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Analysis

Gantz’s entry into government sidelines far right, with judicial overhaul’s future dim

Former IDF chief of staff has leveraged government’s need for broader political legitimacy and military experience to achieve a role of real influence

National Unity leader Benny Gantz speaks during a party conference in Drom HaSharon Regional Council, September 5, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Election posters hung by the Blue and White party show its candidate Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a Hebrew slogan reading 'Netanyahu cares only for himself,' ahead of the 2020 elections. (Miriam Alster/ FLASH90/ File)

After days of indecision, Netanyahu, Gantz agree to establish emergency war government

By Jeremy Sharon, Carrie Keller-Lynn and Amy Spiro

Illustrative: A man casts his ballot at a voting station in Israel's municipal elections, October 30, 2018, in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Local elections to be postponed by 3 months as country likely faces long war

By Michael Horovitz

ToI podcast

Amanda Borschel-Dan

What Matters Now to Micah Goodman: Vowing to stand with Israel when it fires back

The influential thinker and author describes the nation’s cocktail of emotions following the murderous Hamas infiltration from Gaza: ‘Shock, grief, frustration, inspiration, pride’

Philosopher and public intellectual Dr. Micah Goodman. (Yonit Schiller)

Yahel Shoham, 3, from Kibbutz Be'eri (courtesy)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 12: Day 6 of Israel at war – the 11 from one family held by Hamas

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Illustration: One of El Al's Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft arrives at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, August 23, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

In first in 41 years, El Al to fly on Saturday to bring reservists back to Israel

By Sharon Wrobel

An illustrative image of a stack of credit cards. (alexialex; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli victims’ credit cards reportedly abused by terrorists after Hamas onslaught

By Sharon Wrobel

A plane carrying Brazilian citizens fleeing the war between Israel and the Hamas terror group arrives at the Brazilian military airbase Galeo in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on October 11, 2023. (CARL DE SOUZA/AFP)

Countries work to evacuate their citizens from Israel as war rages with Hamas

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Foreign ministers attend an Arab League extraordinary meeting in Cairo on October 11, 2023. (Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Arab League demands Israel undo ‘unjust decision’ to cut electricity from Gaza

By AFP and ToI Staff

Palestinians in the West Bank city of Nablus celebrate on October 7, 2023, after Hamas terrorists infiltrated Israel from the Gaza Strip and launched a brutal large-scale attack on Israeli towns and cities. (Photo by Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

X takes down hundreds of accounts with Hamas ties, flags content

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends the APEC Leader's Informal Dialogue with Guests during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation APEC summit, November 18, 2022, in Bangkok, Thailand. (Athit Perawongmetha/Pool Photo via AP)

In first, Saudi Arabia’s bin Salman speaks to Iran’s Raisi about Israel-Hamas war

By AFP and ToI Staff

An image that appears to show masked settlers near the West Bank village of Qusra, October 11, 2023. (Screenshot, X used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Three Palestinians killed in clashes with settlers in West Bank

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

A Neilah service in 2017. Neilah was part of the ancient liturgy for communal fast days called in times of distress. (Courtesy Anna Carson-DeWitt via JTA)

NYC’s Hadar Institute calls for public fast day to pray for Israeli hostages of Hamas

By Jackie Hajdenberg

A photo of the first working group meeting of the Negev Forum in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi with the participation of the six founding countries: the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt, Israel, Morocco and the United States. (UAE's Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Ministry/AFP)

New Arab allies navigate Israel ties, pro-Palestinian public opinion as war erupts

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Tel Aviv's financial business district skyline, June 2022. (Elijah Lovkoff via iStock by Getty Images)

Tech giants from Google to Oracle condemn ‘horrific’ Hamas attack, pledge Israel aid

By Sharon Wrobel

The US House of Representatives at the Capitol in Washington, October 4, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

ExplainerHow war in Israel is impacting the GOP race to elect a new speaker of the House

By Laura Blessing

Screen capture from video of the Arch of Titus in Rome lit up in blue and white to show solidarity with Israel, October 11, 2023. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

From darkness to blue-whiteRome’s Arch of Titus lit up in tribute to Israel

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