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What Matters Most On Tuesday, October 17, 2023

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US President Joe Biden waves as he walks towards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

In Jordan, president will sit with Abdullah, Sissi, Abbas

Biden to make wartime solidarity visit to Israel on Wednesday

Blinken: President will back Israel’s obligation to tackle Hamas; Israel to develop plan with US for humanitarian aid for Gazans; White House: No conditions on Israel military aid

US citizens in Israel board ship at Haifa port to be evacuated to Cyprus, on October 16, 2023. (Photo by Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct 17: Day 11 of war – Biden to visit Israel, as some US citizens leave

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a plenum session in the Knesset in Jerusalem on October 16, 2023. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Opening Knesset amid rocket fire, PM warns Iran and Hezbollah against 2nd front

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 17: Jordan cancels Biden summit with Abdullah, Sissi, Abbas after hospital blast

IDF: Gaza explosion was caused by Islamic Jihad rocket misfire * Arab world blames Israel * Biden en route for solidarity visit * Israel tells citizens to leave Turkey, Morocco

12:53 am

Lebanese protesters break into UN building in Beirut
11:22 pm

Biden 'outraged and deeply saddened' by Gaza hospital explosion
11:16 pm

Biden speaks to Netanyahu while en route to Israel aboard Air Force One

Keren, mother of Mia Schem, and representatives of the families of the abducted people held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza hold a press conference following the release of a video by Hamas, in which the 21-year-old Israeli woman is seen. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

'She’s very terrified, in a lot of pain'

Begging world to ‘return my baby,’ mother says video of hostage daughter a good sign

By Jessica Steinberg

Keren Schem describes rollercoaster of emotions, says footage released by Hamas terror group Monday night was first confirmation that daughter survived rave massacre

A screenshot from a clip published by the Hamas terror group on October 16, 2023, showing Mia Schem, an Israeli woman abducted by terrorists from a music festival during a massacre by Hamas gunmen on October 7, 2023. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Hamas releases propaganda clip of hostage seized in Oct. 7 assault on southern Israel

By Emanuel Fabian and Gianluca Pacchiani

Families of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza since the group's murderous infiltration of Israel on October 7, 2023, protest outside the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv. October 14, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

IDF says it expects more Hamas clips of hostages, brands them ‘psychological terror’

By Emanuel Fabian, Gianluca Pacchiani and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center left) and Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Tel Aviv after talks on October 16, 2023 ((Haim Zach / GPO)

Inside story

US pressing Israel to devise strategy for scenario of Hamas’s rule being toppled

PM’s inner circle has indicated that it hasn’t thought that far ahead, leading US officials to warn that failing to do so could result in IDF being bogged down in Gaza indefinitely

Rockets are fired from Gaza toward Israel, on October 16 2023 (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Israel at warShin Bet head says ‘responsibility mine’ for Gaza failure; rockets fired at Tel Aviv

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Abu Obeida, the spokesman of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's military wing, gives a video statement on July 23, 2019. (Screen capture/ Facebook/ File)

Live updates (closed)Oct. 16: Hamas says holding 200 hostages; foreigners will go free when conditions allow

By Michael Bachner, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Op-ed

Hamas is more dangerous, utterly inhumane: Israel must not underestimate it again

The terrorist army that came to kill our people must be vanquished, with no more illusions about its capabilities and goals; and this time, we have to be taking Hamas by surprise

A children's swing hangs at a house attacked by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, seen in Kibbutz Be'eri, October 14, 2023. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Israeli volunteers offer haircuts to Israeli soldiers based near the southern Israeli border with Gaza, October 16, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Still split over nation’s leadership, gutted Israelis unite around war against Hamas

By Julia Frankel

Neomit Dekel-Chen

I decided to play dead. My son is still missing

A survivor’s account from Kibbutz Nir Oz, where Hamas terrorists murdered dozens of residents and took dozens more hostage

What we have lost

As the nightmare continues, it may be too much to ask that we have sympathy for innocent Palestinians in Gaza. But I do.

A plea for moral clarity and leadership at Harvard

The president of America’s premier university should speak forcefully and unambiguously against terror – or what’s an education for?

Plans I never thought I’d have to make

At the dinner table. my husband casually announced what we’d do if terrorists broke into our home. I was incredulous

Charred bone shards are all that remain of some of the victims of the mass murderous attack by Hamas on southern Israeli communities on October 7, 2023. Scientists and anthropologists examine and try to extract DNA from them for identification purposes at the National Center of Forensic Medicine (Abu Kabir) in Jaffa, October 16, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Warning: Graphic images'The single mercy: They weren't conscious when burned alive'

Foreign media given unprecedented access to forensic institute to witness atrocities

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Staff at Abu Kabir work 24/7 along with colleagues in IDF and police to identify victims of mass butchery by Hamas terrorists; in some cases identification likely impossible

Gaza’s medics work under Israeli strikes, lack of supplies in battle to save lives

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israeli soldiers near the border with Lebanon, October 16, 2023. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Metula missile attack injures 3; IDF kills Hezbollah cell trying to infiltrate border

By Emanuel Fabian

Israel responds to repeated anti-tank fire by shelling southern Lebanon; military says drone struck suspects as they attempted to plant bomb near border fence with front heating up

Smoke rises from Israeli shelling in Dahaira, a Lebanese border village with Israel, south Lebanon, October 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah shoots at IDF posts, fires missile at tank in fresh Lebanon border clashes

By Emanuel Fabian

From the blogs

Yossi Klein Halevi

What this war is about

On October 7, Israel became the most dangerous country in the world for Jews. The atrocity Hamas inflicted was literally unbearable

Reporter's notebook

In Netivot, poverty compounds the problems of a battered border city

Thousands of the frontline city’s residents are riding out incessant Hamas artillery, citing faith, defiance — and lack of better options

Aviel Zaguri, left, and his brother Meir stand outside their yeshiva in Netivot, Israel, on October 15, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)

Israelis inspect damaged cars after they were hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, southern Israel, October 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Their mental health tested by Hamas onslaught, Israeli teens turn to volunteering

The Sderot municipality reports a direct hit to a building sustained during a rocket barrage on October 13, 2023. (Sderot Municipality)

Bank of Israel sets out plan to freeze mortgage, loan payments for 3 months

By Sharon Wrobel

Jordanian king warns Mideast ‘on brink of abyss,’ refuses refuge for fleeing Gazans

By AFP and ToI Staff

Abdullah II meets German chancellor ahead of Scholz’s trip to Israel, says humanitarian crisis in Strip ‘has to be dealt with inside Gaza and the West Bank,’ not in Jordan or Egypt

Jordan's King Abdullah II addresses a joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (not in image) after a meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, on October 17, 2023. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)

A handout picture provided by the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on October 17, 2023, shows him speaking during a meeting in the capital Tehran. (KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)

Iran’s Khamenei says ‘no one’ can stop resistance if Israel continues Gaza offensive

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during an annual military parade in front of the shrine of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, September. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran says ‘time running out’ for solution to Gaza war, threatens ‘expanding’ conflict

By Agencies and Gianluca Pacchiani

Colonel Golan Vach (R) speaks to French parliamentarians in Kfar Aza, October 16, 2023 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)

In Kfar Aza, French MPs say gruesome scenes recall 2015 Paris massacre

By Lazar Berman

Lawmakers from delegation, which includes former prime minister, say Paris won’t tie Israel’s hands and will support Jerusalem for as long as it needs to topple Hamas

File: Israel's flag on the Berlaymont, the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, a day after the Palestinian terror group Hamas launched its devastating onslaught on Israel, October 8, 2023. (JOHANNA GERON/AFP)

Unhappy with unequivocal support for Israel, EU heads to seek consensus on Gaza war

Families of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza since the group's murderous infiltration of Israel on October 7, 2023, protest outside the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv. October 14, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Those We Are Missing

The hostages and victims whose fate is still unknown

Analysis

Gianluca Pacchiani

Far from Gaza hardships, Hamas chief and family enjoy easy life in Qatar

Thanks to Doha’s sponsorship and the wealth he accumulated as Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh and his children today live a life of wealth and privileges denied to other Gazans

FILE - Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and other Hamas leaders leading a prayer before hosting an Iftar Ramadan fast-breaking dinner in Qatar with Qatari officials and international diplomats, April 13, 2023. (Hamas.ps)

Illustrative: Palestinian men carrying bread walk past damaged cars and debris in front of a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) following Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on October 9, 2023. (Mahmud HAMS/AFP)

UNRWA indicates Hamas stole supplies from its Gaza premises, then walks back claim

A man walks past images of Israeli hostages snatched by the Palestinian terror group Hamas last week during its devastating onslaught, plastered on a wall outside the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, on October 16, 2023. (AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP)

Macron: Talks to free Gaza hostages progressing, Turkey also involved

By Agencies, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Turkish FM says matter being discussed with Hamas, touts efforts to forge peace; French embassy says president wants to come to Israel soon; China’s Mideast envoy also set to visit

France's LFI MP Daniele Obono speaks during a press conference held by French leftist party La France Insoumise in Paris, on February 22, 2023. (STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP)

French government wants hard-left lawmaker probed for backing Hamas

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A meeting of the United Nations Security Council on New York City on September 21, 2023. (Bryan R. Smith/AFP)

Security Council rejects Russian resolution on Gaza war that made no mention of Hamas

By AFP and Jacob Magid

Anagu Walle, pictured with three of her children, from left, Mrte, Ermes and Yohanis, at the Nir Etzion Resort, northern Israel, October 15, 2023. (Courtesy, Embet Chekol, Jewish Agency)

Reporter's notebook'Nobody told us about any security problems'

New immigrants who fled strife in Ethiopia now face war in Israel

Just months after reaching the Jewish state, a group of new arrivals was evacuated from an absorption center near the Gaza border town of Sderot, a target of heavy rocket fire

Music therapist Dana Shira Garai plays guitar and sings for Nadav, who was wounded defending Kibbutz Magen from Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023. Sheba Medical Center, October 15, 2023. (Renee Ghert-Zand/Times of Israel)

Testimony

From his hospital bed, injured kibbutznik recounts how his community fended off Hamas

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Civil defense team member Nadav talks of harrowing battle with terrorists, his wife’s terrible wait to hear if he was alive and the long recovery ahead

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

More Headlines

A pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel rally held at Harvard University, October 15, 2023. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

‘Sickened’ by silence on Hamas atrocities, Wexner Foundation cuts ties with Harvard

By Michael Bachner

Police patrol as a van is towed from a shooting scene in the center of Brussels, Octoberr 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Carlson)

Police shoot dead suspect in killing of 2 Swedish soccer fans on a Brussels street

Family members of Wadea Al Fayoume, who was killed in an alleged hate crime against the background of the 2023 Gaza war, bring his casket into Mosque Foundation in Bridgeview, Illinois, October 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Chicago-area Palestinians mourn Muslim boy, 6, allegedly killed over Gaza war

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi at the Knesset on January 2, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Vote on plan to shutter Al Jazeera delayed as legal concerns surface

By Jeremy Sharon

Amit Aisman speaks during a ceremony at the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem, June 28, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

Nearly 100 probes launched into Israelis suspected of praising Hamas killings

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Israel's first Olympic medalist and newly inducted International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Yael Arad speaks to the media at the end of the 141st International Olympic Committee (IOC) session in Mumbai on October 17, 2023. (Photo by INDRANIL MUKHERJEE / AFP)

‘It was very difficult’: Yael Arad departs war horrors to get Olympic honor in India

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative. US currency. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)

Shekel drops to 4 against the dollar, in first since 2015

By Sharon Wrobel

Jeff Tweedy performs with Wilco at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, in New Orleans, April 24, 2015. (Photo by Barry Brecheisen/Invision/AP, File)

Sweet singer of IsraelWilco singer Jeff Tweedy offers Jewish prayer for healing amid Israel-Hamas war

By Shira Li Bartov

Then-president Barack Obama embraces poet Louise Gluck before awarding her the 2015 National Humanities Medal during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington on September 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

ObituaryJewish poet Louise Glück, who won Nobel literature prize, dies at 80

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Colombia's President Gustavo Petro waves at his supporters at Bolivar square after a march to support his proposed reforms, in Bogota, Colombia, September 27, 2023. (Fernando Vergara/AP)

Colombia tells Israel envoy to leave as diplomatic feud over Gaza war deepens

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Taylor Swift performs at a concert on "The Eras Tour," in 2023. (Paolo Villanueva/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Bad bloodTaylor Swift’s Israeli bodyguard heads home to fight in Gaza war

By jacob gurvis

Johanna Merlin was an actress, casting director and acting teacher; she appeared as Tzeitel in the original Broadway production of 'Fiddler on the Roof,' and is seen standing to the left of a castmate in a 1964 photo. (NYU Tisch Grad Acting; Michael Ochs Archives via JTA)

ObituaryJoanna Merlin, original Tzeitel in Broadway’s ‘Fiddler,’ dies at 92

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

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