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What Matters Most On Friday, October 13, 2023

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Damage from a rocket impact in Ashkelon, October 13, 2023. (Courtesy: fire and rescue services)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 13: IDF conducts widespread strikes in Gaza; Biden speaks to hostages’ families

By Joshua Davidovich and Jacob Magid

In primetime address, PM says Israel’s Gaza strikes ‘only the beginning’; UN chief urges Israel to ‘avert humanitarian catastrophe’; Blinken criss-crosses region on Israel’s behalf

10:47 pm

Another 'unidentified object' shot down in northern Israel, military says
10:21 pm

IDF: Aerial defense forces intercept 'two unidentified targets' over Haifa
8:49 pm

Document reportedly left behind by terrorists shows Hamas fighters were instructed to kill civilians

A blood-soaked child's bed in Kibbutz Kfar Aza seen in a photo shared by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on October 11, 2023, in the aftermath of the Hamas assault on Israel on October 7. (X/Netanyahu)

Netanyahu’s office releases horrifying images of infants murdered by Hamas

Spokesman for prime minister says the decision to share shocking photos was made ‘so that the world will see just a fraction of the horrors that Hamas carried out’

The destruction caused by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Be'eri, near the Israeli-Gaza border, October 11, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 13: Day 7 of Israel at war – The stench of death at Kibbutz Be’eri

Public Diplomacy Minister Galit Distel Atbaryan speaks at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on August 16, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Public diplomacy minister quits post amid war, citing ‘waste of public funds’

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (left), Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (center) and IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi meet in Tel Aviv on October 13, 2023. (Ariel Hermoni/MoD)

Gallant: You've shown us what it means to be an ally

Pentagon chief Austin says Hamas atrocities are ‘worse than what I saw with ISIS’

‘This isn’t time for neutrality’: Visiting Tel Aviv, SecDef vows US ‘will make sure Israel has what it needs,’ decries ‘false equivalence,’ says ‘time for resolve and not revenge’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a special Knesset plenum session presenting the new emergency government, in Jerusalem, October 12, 2023. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Knesset okays war cabinet; PM: Saturday ‘most horrible day for Jews since Holocaust’

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

The USS Gerald R. Ford, arrives in Halifax on Oct. 28, 2022. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press via AP)

Here’s what military assistance the US is providing Israel since Hamas assault

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) meets with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (C) and military chiefs at IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv for a security assessment on October 8, 2023. (GPO)

Security chiefs got wind of something amiss in Gaza, thought it was a drill – reports

By Emanuel Fabian, Amy Spiro and ToI Staff

Netanyahu says he was updated only when devastating Hamas infiltration began at 6:29 a.m. Saturday; reports say top brass had ‘scraps’ of info, didn’t raise alert or boost forces

A live-fire exercise dubbed operation “Strong Pillar” outside Al-Mawasi, a town on the southern coast of the Gaza Strip, on September 12, 2023. (Hamas via AP)

Hamas drilled in plain sight, posted video of mock assault weeks before massacre

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi speaks to the media in southern Israel, October 12, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief admits failures and promises investigation; vows to ‘dismantle’ Hamas

By Emanuel Fabian and Amy Spiro

IDF warns civilians to leave north Gaza; Ashkelon takes heavy rocket fire, none hurt

By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Hamas urges residents to not follow ‘propaganda’ order, as US gives wary support; UN decries it as impossible to carry out, Israeli envoy says UN turned ‘blind eye’ to Hamas arming

Destruction from Israeli aerial bombardment in Gaza City, October 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Though Gaza kept under close watch, rescuing hostages there poses daunting task

Reporter's notebook

Once an artery of thriving southern region, Route 232 transformed into road of death

Times of Israel reporters drive along Negev highway used by Hamas during brutal Saturday invasion and discover a hellish landscape stained by blood and fire

The body of a Hamas terrorist lies near Route 232, October 11, 2023 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)

File: Members of the armed wing of Hamas parade in Gaza City on June 7, 2021. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP)

AnalysisHamas’s horrific massacre Saturday in line with decades-old brutal vision of victory

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Op-ed

Day 7 of the war: Rage and unity in Israel’s darkest hour

Despite our leadership, the people of this wonderful nation have put aside our divisions and unified – to fight back against Hamas and whoever else piles on, and to help each other

1,300 candles for 1,300 victims of the war, set out around the Dizengoff Circle in central Tel Aviv, October 12, 2023. (Zohar Tal / Protest organizers)

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Forever choosing life

I’d thought pogroms and stateless defenselessness were things of the past. But if we must fight, at least we know what we’re fighting for

The trust Biden built with Israelis doesn’t come with a blank check

The depth of the US president’s commitment impressed ordinary Israelis but an ongoing Gaza war could test ties

Susannah Schild

Back line battle scenes on the home front

I’ve seen forests burned to the ground, with all life turned to black soot. But years later, those forests display new shades of green, and I discover hope

A nation neglected

In almost every aspect of this crisis, Israelis are feeling – and filling – the vast void left by their government

Damage is seen caused to the West Bank security barrier near the Nitsanei HaShalom Industrial Zone, October 13, 2023. (Israel Police)

Police kill 4 Palestinians trying to blow a hole in West Bank security barrier

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

IDF conducts sweeping arrests in West Bank amid increase in attempted terror attacks and settler violence; Palestinians say 44 killed by army and settlers since Gaza war started

Illustrative: US Conference of Presidents leaders (from left) Malcolm Hoenlein, William Daroff and Dianne Lob visit a home in Petah Tikva hit by a rocket fired from Gaza, June 1, 2021 with IDF spokesman Jonathan Conricus (Avi Hayun)

‘Scenes out of Gaza will be hard to stomach,’ warns IDF as it tells Gazans to evacuate

Israel asks AIPAC and its followers to stick with the Jewish state ‘even as the going gets ugly,’ vowing to remove Hamas as it prepares a possible ground incursion

The exterior of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, is illuminated with blue lights in honor of the current events happening in Israel, October 11, 2023. (USHMM via JTA)

In Washington, Holocaust survivors speak out about Hamas terror onslaught

Reporter's notebook'If I speak Hebrew, something is going to happen to me'

Ahead of planned day of rage, Israelis in NY battle fears and try to cope with loss

Separated from their friends and families with few prospects of getting back, Israelis in the city face a range of difficult emotions following Saturday terror onslaught from Gaza

Israelis abroad urged to take extra care on Friday as Hamas calls for ‘day of rage’

By Gianluca Pacchiani and ToI Staff

Aaron and Tamar (Fest) Greene, dancing at their impromptu wedding on October 9. 2022, as Aaron Greene was called up for reserve duty (Courtesy Tamar Greene)

As reservists mobilize, some moved up weddings as well

By Jessica Steinberg

Amid northern jitters, Haifa’s fortified underground hospital readies for war

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Prepared in just 36 hours, 2,000-bed medical facility in Rambam parking garage can house 8,000 people, operate self-sufficiently for three days in case of nonconventional warfare

Israeli soldiers take positions alongside the border wall and fence with Lebanon as seen from the Lebanese side of the Lebanese-Israeli border in the southern village of Marwaheen, Lebanon, October 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

IDF says soldier killed in Hezbollah anti-tank cross-border missile attack

By Emanuel Fabian

Liat and David Ben Shimol, evacuees from Netiv Ha'asara who hid for 12 hours in a safe room during Hamas's October 7, 2023 terror attack, at the Yearim Hotel in Maale HaHamisha. (Jeremy Sharon)

‘There was no air force, no soldiers, we were alone,’ says Hamas massacre survivor

By Jeremy Sharon

Evacuees from Netiv Ha’asara recount hiding in safe rooms for 12 hours, comforting their children as terrorists ran rampant in the moshav and executed residents

‘We went through a pogrom’: Relatives of missing French-Israelis appeal to Macron

By Jessica Steinberg

Former soccer star, other Israeli athletes among those killed in terror onslaught

By jacob gurvis

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

Ready for action. Soldiers pose with the equipment that parent Korin Itzhaki has purchased for them with the help of donations. (Courtesy, Korin Itzhaki)

Reporter's notebook'It's about the support of the people of Israel'

IDF says it’s providing all equipment. Reservists find different reality on ground

Private citizens rush to purchase proper equipment as reserve soldiers called up for the war find old, inadequate combat gear

A scene from the 1300 Candle Vigil in Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, on October 12, 2023. (Eli Katzoff)

At impromptu Tel Aviv vigil, accidental documentarian covers war’s ‘little stories’

By Gavriel Fiske

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United States goalkeeper Matt Turner looks into the crowd during the first half of an international friendly soccer match against Uzbekistan, September 9, 2023, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

A chance discovery connects US soccer star Matt Turner to his Jewish roots

By Joseph D'Hippolito

More Headlines

A man repeatedly stabs an Israeli diplomat in Beijing, China, October 13, 2023. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli diplomat repeatedly stabbed by assailant in Beijing

Republican presidential candidate former US president Donald Trump gestures after speaking Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, at Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Trump said privately calling for Netanyahu to be ‘impeached’ over Hamas assault

Ibrahim Wadi, 63, and his son, Ahmad, 26, who according to Palestinian gov't sources were killed by Israeli settlers and soldiers as they took part in a funeral in the West Bank village of Qusra, south of Nablus, October 12, 2023. (WAFA Palestinian news agency)

2 Palestinians killed after settlers said to ambush funeral in West Bank

A 'Carlo' makeshift submachine gun used in a terror attack against police officers in Jerusalem, October 12, 2023. (Israel Police)

Two cops hurt, one seriously, in terror shooting near Jerusalem Old City

By Emanuel Fabian

The IDF demolishes a pizzeria in Huwara that posted an ad mocking an elderly woman taken hostage by terrorists into Gaza on October 12, 2023. (Screen capture/X)

IDF razes Palestinian pizzeria in West Bank after ad mocks elderly hostage in Gaza

Anti-Israel protesters rally outside the Sydney Opera House, October 9, 2023. (Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images via JTA)

Sydney government apologizes for pro-Palestine protest that had ‘gas the Jews’ chants

By Nomi Kaltmann and Gabe Friedman

Jewelry designer Moran Yanai, who was captured at the Supernova music festival by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023. She was released on November 29, 2023. (Elinor Shahar Personal Management via AP)

RELEASED: Moran Stela Yanai, jewelry designer captured at rave

By AP

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, meets with Qatari Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, right, at the State Department on Friday, Feb. 10, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

US, Qatar to bar disbursal of recently unfrozen Iranian funds after Hamas onslaught

By Matthew Lee, MARY CLARE JALONICK and Seung Min Kim

Israel Railways' HaShalom Station in Tel Aviv, August 15, 2023 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

In extraordinary move, trains to keep running on Shabbat amid war

Iranians attend a gathering in Tehran to express their solidarity with Palestine after Hamas terrorists launched a brutal onslaught from the Gaza Strip, October 2023. (AFP)

Iran: US ‘can NOT renege’ on deal to transfer $6 billion through Qatar for hostages

Illustrative: Pope Francis blesses attendees from the window of the apostolic palace overlooking St. Peter's square during the Regina Coeli prayer on May 14, 2023 in The Vatican. (Tiziana FABI / AFP)

‘I pray for those families’: Pope Francis calls on Hamas to free Israeli hostages

By Jackie Hajdenberg

The Atlanta Braves and the Philadelphia Phillies observe a moment of silence for Israel prior to game three of the National League Division Series at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, October 11, 2023. (Screenshot/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Philadelphia Phillies hold moment of silence for Israel before MLB playoff game

By jacob gurvis

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