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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 18, 2023

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US President Joe Biden (L) meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023, (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Biden: The world is looking

In Tel Aviv, Biden pins blame for Gaza hospital blast on ‘the other team’

By Lazar Berman

Visiting president says Hamas makes ISIS look ‘more rational,’ praises Israelis for ‘their courage, their commitment, their bravery’ before meeting with first responders

US President Joe Biden walks up the steps of Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023, as he heads to Israel. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Summit with Arab leaders called off as Biden heads to Israel for solidarity visit

By AP, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

US President Joe Biden meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York, September 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden to ask ‘tough questions as a friend’ on Israel visit overshadowed by Gaza blast

By Jacob Magid, Agencies and ToI Staff

The scorched parking lot of the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City after an overnight blast there, October 18, 2023. (Courtesy; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israel accuses global media of parroting Hamas's allegations

IDF presents evidence misfired Gazan rocket caused hospital blast, slams Hamas ‘lies’

By Emanuel Fabian and Michael Bachner

Military airs intercepted call in which Hamas members discuss failed Islamic Jihad launch that landed in Al-Ahli parking lot, says lack of crater proves not caused by IDF ordnance

Bodies of Palestinians killed by an explosion near the Ahli Arab hospital are gathered in the front yard of the al-Shifa hospital, in Gaza City, central Gaza Strip, October 17, 2023. Israel said the explosion was caused by a rocket misfire by Palestinian terrorists, denying Hamas claims of an Israeli airstrike. (AP/Abed Khaled)

Israel says Islamic Jihad rocket misfire caused blast near Gaza hospital

By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid, Lazar Berman and Agencies

Op-ed

Haters won’t be swayed, but Hamas lies about Gaza hospital blast are being exposed

The Arab street won’t believe anything the IDF Spokesman has revealed about what happened, and our Arab allies are too fearful. But Biden now has the evidence to sustain his support

Pro-Palestinian protesters march and denounce Israel in Las Vegas, Tuesday, October 17, 2023 (AP Photo/ Ty ONeil)

Supporters of Palestinian terror group Hamas chant slogans during a protest in support of Gaza in Nablus, in the West Bank on October 18, 2023. (Thomas COEX / AFP)

Hamas urges attacks on Israelis; Arab world ignores Israeli claims on hospital blast

By AFP and ToI Staff

People take part in a protest outside the Israeli consulate to show solidarity with Palestinians, in Istanbul early on October 18, 2023. (Umit Turhan Coskun/AFP)

Protests across region after Gaza hospital strike blamed on IDF, despite Israel denial

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US President Joe Biden (right) is greeted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after arriving at Ben Gurion International Airport, October 18, 2023, in Lod. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 18: Rocket fire at northern, southern Israel intensifies after Biden’s departure

By Joshua Davidovich and Jacob Magid

PM: Israel secured ‘unprecedented’ aid from US * War cabinet bars Gaza aid from Israel until hostages released * FM: Gaza territory will shrink by war’s end, Hamas will be gone

11:25 pm

US senators say after classified briefing that Israel not behind Gaza hospital blast
9:43 pm

UK PM Rishi Sunak heads to Israel for meetings with Netanyahu, Herzog
9:27 pm

Biden to address Americans on wars in Gaza, Ukraine

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, left, shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during a press conference in Tel Aviv, Oct. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, Pool)

Visiting Chancellor Scholz says Germany’s place in hard times is ‘alongside Israel’

Netanyahu says ‘Hamas are the new Nazis’; top security official: Israel will allow humanitarian aid to south Gaza as long as it doesn’t reach terrorists

German police officers stand guard in front of the building complex of the Kahal Adass Jisroel community after it was attacked by two incendiary devices, in the center of Berlin, Germany, October 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Berlin synagogue firebombed, with antisemitism spiking as Gaza war rages

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Family members of those with German citizenship who are missing following the Hamas massacres on October 7, 2023, hold a press conference in Tel Aviv on October 17. (Screenshot)

Family members of the missing with German citizenship thank Scholz, demand action

By Jessica Steinberg

Hamas launched unique terror tactic: Livestreaming horrors on victims’ social media

‘We are not psychologically prepared for this,’ says expert, as New York Times highlights multiple cases in which distraught relatives saw gruesome updates via loved ones’ accounts

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

Ayman Nofal, commander of Hamas's Central Gaza Brigade, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on October 17, 2023 (Social media)

Israel eliminates top Hamas commander; 14 said killed as Haniyeh’s family home bombed

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Military Intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva speaks at the annual conference of the Institute for Counter-Terrorism Policy (ICT) at Reichman University in Herzliya on September 13, 2022. (Gilad Kavalerchik)

IDF intel chief says he ‘bears full responsibility’ for not warning of Hamas attack

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

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

File: Ken McCallum, director general of MI5, Britain's domestic intelligence agency, March 31, 2020. (AFP)

British spy chief says Gaza war raises risk of terror in UK, fears Iran on the move

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

Israeli soldiers patrol along a road near the border between Israel and Lebanon, in Israel, Oct. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Four soldiers lightly hurt in latest Hezbollah missile attack on Lebanon border

By Emanuel Fabian

State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman, right, and Ma’alot-Tarshiha Mayor Arkady Pomeranets touring a bomb shelter in the city, October 17, 2023. (State Comptroller’s Office)

Bomb shelters in north ‘do not provide required protection,’ says state comptroller

By Jeremy Sharon

US President Joe Biden listens as he meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (unseen) in New York, September 20, 2023. (Susan Walsh/AP)

AnalysisArab leaders say region paying price of Biden deemphasizing Israel, Palestinians

By AP and ToI Staff

Hamas uses not human shields, but human sacrifice

The terror group engineered the bombing of schools, hospitals, and mosques – making those who blame Israel for it complicit in the very cruelty they mean to condemn

To Tom Friedman and the NY Times: Stop trusting Hamas’s propaganda

When a hospital explodes in Gaza, ask: Who is happy, who is relieved, and who is upset? (Spoiler alert: It’s Hamas and its partners that benefit)

Raphael Benaroya

The free world should support Israel out of self-interest, not sympathy

The ripples go far beyond the region, burdening US resources and benefiting adversaries, including Russia and China

From Wyoming to Tel Aviv, in the wake of atrocities

The sadness of the Jewish people is crushing and complex – don’t turn from our pain too quickly

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

Israelis take cover inside a bomb shelter as rockets are fired toward Tel Aviv, October 16, 2023 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Explainer

Stay safe: The best places to go in the event of a rocket attack

A residential or communal saferoom is best, then a building shelter or public shelter. If those aren’t available, head for an internal stairwell or a room without external walls

Palestinians check the site of a deadly explosion near Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, October 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct 18: Day 12 of war – Biden in Israel & truth about the Gaza strike

Amichai Shindler (back row, left), his wife during the Sukkot holiday, October 2023. Days later, Hamas terrorists attacked the family in their home and Amichai was badly injured. (Courtesy of Shindler family)

Young dad of 6 absorbed blast to protect family in attack on Kerem Shalom

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Amichai Shindler, whose older brother was killed in 2010 terror shooting, was severely injured as Hamas terrorists blasted open saferoom door as he held it closed

Citizens, including an MK, helped repel Hamas attack in Ofakim

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Firefighters put out a blaze after a rocket strike in Ashkelon during the 2023 Israel-Gaza war (courtesy EVP)

'We would like to see if the family is still alive'

US firefighters in Israel worried about fate of Be’eri families who hosted them

By Lazar Berman

Emergency Volunteers Project members in Ashkelon bolster rescue services during war, but unable to visit kibbutz that lost over 100 members in Hamas attack

Yair Golan, October 14, 2023. (Kan TV screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law).

Ex-deputy IDF head Yair Golan wins plaudits for saving partygoers

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)

Israeli doctors pressure WHO, Red Cross and others to protect hostages in Gaza

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Composite image widely distributed on social media showing Alaa Amara distributing bicycles to evacuee children, on Thursday, October 12, 2023. (used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

'They wanted to lynch me'

Taibe bike shop torched after Arab Israeli owner donates bikes to Jews

By Gavriel Fiske

Shopkeeper Alaa Amara has received over NIS 550,000 in donations after arsonists target him for his gift of 50 bicycles to kids who evacuated their homes due to the Hamas onslaught

People walk down Regent Street as they take part in a 'March For Palestine' in London on October 14, 2023. (Justin Tallis/AFP)

Global task force against antisemitism warns of danger ahead due to Israel-Hamas war

By Stuart Winer

ADL-partnered J7 says international spike in antisemitic incidents following massive terror onslaught likely a harbinger of more ‘worrying reports’ from world’s Jewish communities

Illustrative: Antisemitic vandalism on the wall of a New York synagogue, August 17, 2022. (Courtesy)

Jews again faced most hate crimes of any religious group in 2022, FBI reports

Founders of Israeli AI cybersecurity startup Clarity from left to right: CEO Michael Matias; Natalie Fridman, chief technology officer; and Gil Avriel, chief strategy officer. (Courtesy)

Terrorists try to sway opinion with events that didn't happen

These Israelis are fighting Hamas on the war’s emerging ‘deepfake’ cyberfront

By Matt Lebovic

Generated by artificial intelligence, false footage of the Israel-Gaza war has been inundating media outlets around the world since the October 7 Hamas massacres

More Headlines

A sign for Fitch Ratings, in New York, October 9, 2011. (Henny Ray Abrams/AP)

Shekel falls as Fitch puts Israel on rating watch negative amid Gaza escalation risk

By Sharon Wrobel

File: Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, the Biden administration's pick for US ambassador to Israel, speaks during the discussion panel at the World Bank/IMF annual meeting at IMF headquarters in Washington, October 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Jack Lew, US ex-treasury secretary and Israel envoy pick, to face Senate hearing

By Agencies and ToI Staff

People look at images showing hostages held by terrorists in Gaza, on posters hung by the UEJF (Union of Jewish French Students), in Paris, France, October 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Jewish students cover Paris walls with photos of French hostages in Gaza

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir attends a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 10, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Knesset approves wartime prison crowding, among other emergency measures

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on October 12, 2023. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Lapid urges Smotrich to use coalition discretionary fund to help southern communities

Palestinian UN Ambassador Riyad Mansour, background right, addresses members of the UN Security Council at the United Nations headquarters, New York, October 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

UN Security Council to vote on condemning Hamas, attacks on civilians in Gaza war

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Manju Devi Danguara (2nd left), the mother of Ashish Chaudhary, is consoled by family members at her residence in the Kailali district of Sudurpashchim province as she mourns the loss of her son, who was killed in Hamas's devastating onslaught in Israel, October 13, 2023. (Prakash MATHEMA/AFP)

Nepalis mourn relatives and broken dreams in wake of devastating Hamas massacre

Entrepreneurs gather at the Web Summit at Parque das Nacoes, in Lisbon on November 9, 2016. (AFP/ Patricia de Melo Moreira)

Tech leaders boycott Europe’s biggest tech confab over criticism of Israeli response

By Sharon Wrobel

Outside of bunker in which Re'im musical festival attendees were murdered by Hamas stand: Latvian MP Rihards Kols, Knesset Speaker MK Amir Ohana, IDF Col (Res) Golan Vach, Estonian MP Marko Mihkelson, MK Yuli Edelstein, Lithuanian MP Žygimantas Pavilionis, October 17, 2023. (Courtesy: MK Yuli Edelstein)

InterviewBaltic MPs: Hamas is in Iran-Russia ‘axis of evil,’ Europe must reevaluate its policy

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa, left, speaks during a parliamentary session on a no confidence motion at the Portuguese parliament in Lisbon, on January 5, 2023. (PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP)

Portugal moves to end Sephardic Jewish citizenship law

By Orge Castellano

Former US president Donald Trump reacts after a "commit to caucus" rally, October 16, 2023, in Adel, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

At campaign rally, Trump vows to bar Hamas sympathizers, Gazan refugees if elected

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Students at the Herta Reich grammar school in Austria send a musical message of peace with the Hebrew song 'Hevenu Shalom Alechem.' (Courtesy)

Hevenu Shalom AleichemStudents in small Austrian town sing message of peace

By Sharon Wrobel

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