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What Matters Most On Friday, October 20, 2023

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Smoke rises from inside an Israeli army position which was hit by missiles launched by the Hezbollah terror group, as seen from Tair Harfa village, a Lebanese border village with Israel, south Lebanon, October 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Army orders evacuation of Kiryat Shmona as terror groups keep up attacks from Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian

Soldier seriously hurt in shooting; IDF strikes five terror cells in southern Lebanon; dozens of rockets target Mount Dov, Metula; missiles hit army posts

Lebanese army soldiers clash with protesters during a demonstration, in solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza, near the US embassy in Aukar, a northern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

US, UK urge citizens to leave Lebanon as tensions rise over Israel-Hamas war

By AFP and ToI Staff

Smoke rises after a shelling in Bustan, a Lebanese border village with Israel, south Lebanon, Oct. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Live updates (closed)Oct. 19: IDF threatens Hezbollah; US says in talks with Israel for Gaza ‘safe zones’

Op-ed

Day 14 of the war: As the IDF prepares to enter Hamastan, Israel holds its breath

We all know that the mission must succeed. Because we have to be able to live in security in our small patch of land, and, as of October 7, we’re not sure that we can do that

Israeli soldiers listen to Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, during his visit to a staging area near the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

A picture taken on October 17, 2023 shows a pile of damaged and burnt vehicles in the southern city of Sderot, following the October 7 attack by Hamas. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Government sets up NIS 1 billion fund to rehab shattered Gaza border region

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Iron dome anti-missile system fires interception missiles as rockets fired from the Gaza Strip to Israel, in Sderot on May 10, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US reportedly set to provide Israel with 2 additional Iron Dome batteries

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, center, speaks at a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting in Tel Aviv, October 20, 2023. (Elad Malka/Defense Ministry)

Israel sets out 3 phases of war; will seek new ‘security regime’ once Hamas vanquished

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Defense minister Gallant says Israel currently engaged in first of three expected phases of conflict, airstrikes, with ground maneuver to follow

Israeli soldiers at a staging area near the Gaza border, October 19, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Top officials say Gaza ground offensive ‘soon,’ warn it will be ‘long and intense’

By Emanuel Fabian and Michael Bachner

Israeli soldiers at a staging area not far from the Israeli-Gaza border, October 19, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct 20: Day 14 of war – Scenarios for IDF’s ‘imminent’ ground incursion

BBC produces a montage of those abducted

Up to 200 still unaccounted for, 30 children among confirmed Gaza hostages, IDF says

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Most captives alive, but bodies of slain also held by Hamas, official says; dead terrorists, Israelis still being located in Gaza buffer zone

Illustrative: Families of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza march to 'Hostage Square,' outside the Art Museum of Tel Aviv, October 19, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

In New York's Times Square, thousands of Israel supporters demand the release of hostages held by Hamas on Oct. 19, 2023. (Luke Tress)

Thousands rally in Times Square to demand release of Hamas hostages

Pictures of over 1,000 persons abducted, missing, or killed in the Hamas onslaught on southern Israel displayed at a temporary exhibition in the Smolarz Auditorium at Tel Aviv University, October 19, 2023. (Chen Galili)

Pictures of 1,000 Hamas massacre victims displayed at Tel Aviv University exhibition

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 20: Judith Raanan, daughter Natalie back in Israel, set to reunite with relatives

By Michael Bachner and Jacob Magid

Hezbollah claims to target military positions * IDF says 20-30 rockets fired at Mount Dov on northern border * UN chief visits Egypt’s Rafah, Gaza aid expected ‘next day or so’

12:03 am

Rocket warning sirens activated in southern towns
11:20 pm

Hamas puts out video showing terror group's release of 2 US hostages
11:03 pm

BIden speaks with Judith and Natalie Raanan after they're released by Hamas

Analysis

Netanyahu and Israel must win. But for Biden, too, almost everything hinges on this war

US president is anxious over Israel’s conduct as it responds to the Hamas massacre: his reelection, regional vision, and belief in winning within the ‘law of wars’ are on the line

US President Joe Biden walks to the podium to deliver remarks on the war between Israel and Hamas, October 18, 2023, in Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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)

US intel, European source put Gaza hospital death toll at dozens or low hundreds

By Agencies, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

FILE - The US Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64) operates in the Mediterranean Sea, July 1, 2017. (US Navy photo by Lt. j.g. Xavier Jimenez/Released)

US warship in Red Sea intercepts 3 missiles fired from Yemen, possibly at Israel

By AP and ToI Staff

Land attack cruise missiles launched by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels were headed ‘potentially toward targets in Israel,’ Pentagon says

Israeli security forces inspect a site where a rocket launched from Lebanon landed in the northern city of Kiryat Shmona near the border on October 19, 2023. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

IDF says ready to repel Houthi attacks, is striking Gaza ‘at rate not seen in decades’

By Emanuel Fabian

The al-Tanf military outpost in southern Syria, October 22, 2018. (AP/Lolita Baldor)

Drone attack on US military base in Syria causes minor injuries — US officials

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The Genesis War

This war requires a name rooted in Jewishness – and, after victory, one that calls us to correct course and start again from the beginning

From Hamas to redemption, through the eyes of Ethiopian Jewry

Throughout history, a consciousness of redemption has helped Jews stave off despair, and move forward into the light (Noah)

ToI podcast

Jessica Steinberg

What Matters Now to Rachel Goldberg: Her son Hersh, held hostage by Hamas

Hersh Goldberg-Polin was captured by terrorists on Oct. 7 at the Supernova rave. In a raw interview, his mother describes him, the media campaign and an ongoing unbearable nightmare

This undated photo provided by Rachel Goldberg-Polin shows her with her son Hersh Goldberg-Polin. (Courtesy of Rachel Goldberg-Polin via AP)

Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg, parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, a Hamas hostage since October 7, speaking to Chris Cuomo in their Jerusalem home (Courtesy YouTube screen shot)

Rachel Goldberg talks about her son, Hersh, and the turning points of the last 13 days

By Jessica Steinberg

US President Joe Biden addresses the nation on the war between Israel and the Gaza-ruling Hamas terror group and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on October 19, 2023. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool/AFP)

At 'inflection point in history,' vows Israel support always

In Oval Office speech, Biden urges Congress to boost military aid for Israel, Ukraine

US president links deadly assault by Hamas to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, noting both receive Iranian support and ‘want a neighboring democracy completely annihilated’

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (L) and European Council President Charles Michel (R) participate in a media conference at the European Council building in Brussels, March 9, 2020 (AP/Olivier Matthys)

EU leaders head to White House for Biden summit on Israel-Hamas war, Ukraine

By Agencies and ToI Staff

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a debate on the attacks by Hamas against Israel and the humanitarian situation in Gaza, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on October 18, 2023. (Frederick Florin/AFP)

European Parliament calls for Hamas to be ‘eliminated,’ urges release of hostages

By ToI Staff and Agencies

UN says aid delivery into Gaza via Egypt should take place ‘in next day or so’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

International body says it’s in ‘deep and advanced negotiations with all relevant sides’ for aid to be taken across Rafah border crossing and into Strip

This picture taken on October 19, 2023 shows the closed gate to the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

US President Joe Biden speaks to members of the media during his flight returning from Israel aboard Air Force One, on October 18, 2023. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)

Biden: Main goal of Israel trip was to secure entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a press conference with Egypt's Foreign Minister (not pictured) following their meeting in Cairo on October 19, 2023. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)

UN chief calls for sustained humanitarian access to Gaza as trucks set to roll in

By AFP and ToI Staff

A fire rages near an agricultural field in Israel near the border with Gaza, on September 12, 2021. (Flash90)

Inside Story'Hamas is firing every 5 minutes to make sure yields are lost'

For Israeli farmers near Gaza, damage may be temporary but long-term crisis looms

By Canaan Lidor

The border area’s agricultural sector could undergo a rapid rehabilitation, but much depends on whether the war scares away foreign workers, experts say

Smotrich says emergency package for economy amid war is ‘broader’ than during COVID

By Sharon Wrobel

Inside Story

Thai laborers, the ‘working hands’ of Israeli farming, pay with blood

At Kibbutz Alumim close to the Gaza border, nine workers from Thailand were massacred, one was badly injured, and four were abducted by Hamas terrorists

A relative hugs a Thai worker who was evacuated from Israel, on his arrival at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Samut Prakarn Province, Thailand, October 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

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

Illustrative: Passengers head to the departure gates at Ben Gurion International Airport, June 6, 2022. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Israeli entry into US Visa Waiver Program goes into effect

Citizens with biometric passport can travel to US by filling out online form up to 72 hours before trip, will be able to remain in US for up to 90 days for business or pleasure

Palestinians wait to cross into Egypt at the Rafah border crossing in the Gaza Strip, October 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

ExplainerDespite Republican warnings, Palestinian refugees unlikely to storm US borders

By Will Weissert

Dr. Micah Goodman delivers his acceptance speech for the 2014 Marc and Henia Liebhaber Prize for Religious Tolerance. (courtesy)

After ToI podcast, US rabbis weigh thinker’s call for ‘vows’ to support Israel at war

By Matt Lebovic

Israeli author Micah Goodman wants US rabbis to take an oath in front of their congregations. While some leaders are on board, others say the gesture is redundant

From left to right: Variety contributor Malina Saval, Alex Edelman, Ike Barinholtz, Marc Maron and Tiffany Haddish speak onstage during the Variety Hollywood & Antisemitism Summit in West Hollywood, California, October 18, 2023. (Araya Doheny/Variety via Getty Images via JTA)

Exec says magazine 'stands in solidarity with Israel'

Variety’s star-studded Hollywood summit on antisemitism takes turn amid war in Israel

By jacob gurvis

Though planned before the Oct. 7 Hamas atrocities, the Jewish state dominated discussion with A-listers that also included Jewish representation onscreen and combating bigotry

MTV cancels Europe Music Awards due to Israel-Hamas war

More Headlines

New York Governor Kathy Hochul visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Wednesday, October 19, 2023. (Shlomi Amsalem/Office of Governor Kathy Hochul)

While in Israel on solidarity visit, New York governor mourns father’s sudden passing

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)

Israel bringing diplomats home from Turkey after warning its citizens to leave

By AFP and ToI Staff

A 70-meter-long (around 230 feet) display of flowers, created from thousands of blooms and shaped into the words, "We Stand With Israel," was placed in the plaza of Tel Aviv's Habima Square on Thursday (Courtesy Yahav Trudler)

'We Stand With Israel'Thousands of flowers woven into words, in memory of Israelis killed

By Jessica Steinberg

German police officers stand guard in front of the building complex of the Kahal Adass Jisroel community, which houses a synagogue, a kindergarten and a community center, in the center of Berlin, Germany, October 18, 2023. (AP/Markus Schreiber)

With rising attacks, EU works to meet security challenges amid Israel-Hamas war

By Agencies and ToI Staff

View of Kiryat Atidim, the tech business park of Tel Aviv. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Israel Innovation Authority extends $25 million lifeline to startups amid war

By Sharon Wrobel

A sign for credit agency Moody's, on August 13, 2010, in New York. (AP/ Mark Lennihan)

Moody’s says reviewing Israeli credit rating for possible downgrade due to war

By AFP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a press conference in Tel Aviv, Oct. 17, 2023. (AP/Maya Alleruzzo, Pool)

Poll: 80% of Israelis say Netanyahu must take public responsibility for Oct. 7 failures

By Michael Bachner

Gov’t approves emergency regulations that could pave way to closing Al Jazeera offices

By Jeremy Sharon

A photo of Palestinians bound and stripped after being apprehended by IDF soldiers and settlers in the central West Bank village of Wadi al-Seeq on October 12, 2023. (Used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF, settlers allegedly bind, strip, beat, burn, urinate on 3 Palestinians in W. Bank

Maccabi fans cheer before a UEFA Europe League match between Panathinaikos and Maccabi Haifa in Haifa, October 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

UEFA soccer matches in Israel halted indefinitely over war with Hamas

Justice Minister Yariv Levin seen during a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 10, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Citing war, High Court postpones hearing on shuttered Judicial Selection Committee

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

File: Steve Bell, a veteran cartoonist with Britian's Guardian newspaper, talks to the Associated Press at the launch of an exhibition of cartoons depicting President Bush in London, England, January 25, 2006. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Guardian fires cartoonist over Netanyahu cartoon panned as antisemitic

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