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What Matters Most On Tuesday, October 24, 2023

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Freed Israeli hostage Yocheved Lifshitz speaks to the press, with her daughter at her side, at Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv on October 24, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israeli PR pros slam event as a Hamas propaganda victory

Freed Hamas hostage recounts ordeal, slams Israeli failures, speaks well of captors

By Carrie Keller-Lynn, Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, released Monday, describes hell as terrorists rampaged in kibbutz; abductors beat her on way to Gaza; was taken into ‘spiderweb’ of tunnels, treated with care

Composite of hostages held in Gaza by Hamas after the invasion of 3,000 terrorists into Israel on October 7, 2023, in which 1,200 people were slaughtered and some 240 taken captive. (Courtesy the Kidnapped From Israel campaign website/ Dede Bandaid, Nitzan Mintz & Tal Huber. Designed by Shira Gershoni & Yotam Kellner)

Israel, Hamas in advanced talks to release 50 more Gaza hostages — senior official

A still from a video released by Hamas's armed wing showing hostages Yocheved Lifshitz, left, and Nurit Cooper before their release from captivity, October 23, 2023. (screen capture)

Two Israeli hostages, Nurit Cooper, 79, and Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, released from Gaza

By Amy Spiro and ToI Staff

People enter Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 24, 2023. (Mahmud HAMS / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 24: More trucks carrying aid enter Gaza Strip as IDF rejects fuel demands

By Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

Army kills terrorists attempting to enter from sea * Blinken suggests possible humanitarian pause, but US refuses to back ceasefire * Washington seeking int’l sanctions on Hamas

11:05 pm

Rocket alert activated in kibbutz along Gaza border
10:18 pm

S&P downgrades Israel's credit outlook to 'negative'
10:06 pm

Rocket warning siren sounds in kibbutz near Gaza

Oct. 7 onslaught 'fundamentally changes our security reality'

IDF chief says ground op delayed by tactical, strategic matters; rockets target center

By Emanuel Fabian and Michael Bachner

IDF drops fliers in Strip promising Gazans reward for info on hostages; no injuries as projectiles hit West Bank settlement, Sderot

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi speaks to media near the Gaza border, on October 24, 2023. (Emanuel Fabian/ Times of Israel)

Israeli troops and tanks gather in a field near Kibbutz Be'eri in southern Israel on October 14, 2023. (Thomas COEX / AFP)

IDF believes it’s ready for Gaza ground offensive — and that it should start soon

By Emanuel Fabian

This photo provided by Avi Zichri shows his son, Ohad Munder-Zichri, on Oct. 1, 2023. (Courtesy of Avi Zichri via AP)

Israeli boy turns 9 in captivity, as uncertainty agonizes grief-stricken family

Courtesy of Hadassah

Promoted Content

Now More Than Ever, It’s Time to Connect

Hadassah’s Inspire Zionism symposium, hosted by the Unorthodox podcast’s Stephanie Butnick, is the place to be to celebrate and explore Zionism during this challenging time.

Macron calls for international coalition against Hamas based on anti-ISIS campaign

By Lazar Berman

French president insists on targeted operations, says Paris has directly warned Hezbollah; joins Israel in demanding immediate release of all hostages from Gaza

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) shakes hands with French President Emmanuel Macron (L), as they hold a joint press conference in Jerusalem on October 24, 2023. (Christophe Ena/Pool/AFP)

Israeli soldiers patrol near the Israeli border with Lebanon, northern Israel, October 19, 2023 (David Cohen/Flash90)

IDF intercepts drones over north, foils Hezbollah missile squads

By Emanuel Fabian

Nir Barkat, minister of economy and industry, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 10, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Barkat: We’ll wipe Iran’s leaders off the face of the earth if they expand conflict

Israeli soldiers patrol next to communities near the Israeli-Gaza border, southern Israel, October 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

US said concerned that Israel lacks achievable goals for Gaza op and IDF isn’t ready

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Officials indicate Israel still hasn’t decided whether it wants to launch major ground offensive or carry out combo of surgical strikes and targeted raids against Hamas terrorists

In this image released by the US Department of Defense, an F/A-18F Super Hornet launches from the flight deck of the world's largest aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, October 11, 2023 (Tajh Payne / US Department of Defense / AFP)

US sends senior army officers to Israel to advise IDF on Gaza ground operation plans

By AFP and Jacob Magid

This photograph distributed by Russian state-owned agency Sputnik shows Russia's President Vladimir Putin chairing a Security Council meeting via a video link in Moscow on October 20, 2023. (Gavriil GRIGOROV / POOL / AFP)

Israel protests Russian stance on war against Hamas, calls for ‘more balance’

By Lazar Berman and Michael Bachner

Foreign Ministry says it voiced displeasure to Moscow’s envoy after Russian officials criticized Israel’s ‘cruel methods’ in Gaza while backing its right to self-defense

File: Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani looks on as he waits for US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Lusail on October 13, 2023. (Jacquelyn Martin/POOL/AFP)

Qatari emir, a Hamas ally, claims Israel’s allies granting ‘free license to kill’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, October 23, 2023. (AP Photo/ Ariel Schalit)

As EU weighs ceasefire call, US rejects any such push, says it only benefits Hamas

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Nicholas Kristof’s glaring lack of concern for Israeli children

Civilian deaths in both Gaza and Israel cannot be stopped until Hamas is defeated and removed from power in Gaza

Pouring salt in the wound of Jewish trauma

Organizations like the APA and ACA have a duty to call out Hamas atrocities and to stop victim-blaming

Miriam Ezagui and the war on TikTok

Once a favorite for her videos about Judaism, I watched my friend become a target of online outrage for supporting Israel

The 3 American rabbis I’m listening to right now

Rabbis Buchdahl, Brous and Timoner forged, with their words, a path between ’tribal brotherhood’ and ’universal otherhood’

A screenshot from a video released by the Shin Bet and the Israel Police on October 23, 2023, is said to show a member of Hamas's elite Nukhba forces arrested following the October 7 onslaught speaking during his interrogation. (Shin Bet and Israel Police)

'Those who bring hostages get an apartment and $10,000'

Kill, behead, rape: Interrogated Hamas members detail atrocities against civilians

Clips released by Israeli security bodies show terrorists who took part in October 7 onslaught describing orders to dismember victims, murder women and children

Freed Israeli hostage Yocheved Lifshitz speaks to press at Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv on October 24, 2023 (Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct 24: Day 18 of war – 2 hostages freed, foreign press sees atrocities

Analysis

Israel has shunned ground operations for decades. Is it still looking for a way out?

As questions arise about the fact that the tanks are still inside Israel 17 days after the Hamas massacre, this war so far looks like the inconclusive operations that preceded it

Israeli soldiers move a tank at a staging area near the border with Gaza Strip, in southern Israel on October 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Shas chair Aryeh Deri arrives at the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on June 14, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Shas’s Deri on IDF ground offensive: There weren’t plans, army needed time to prepare

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Maisa Abd Elhadi in "Tel Aviv on Fire." (Courtesy Cohen Media Group)

Leading Arab Israeli actor Maisa Abd Elhadi detained for supporting Hamas assault

By ToI Staff and Gianluca Pacchiani

‘World War Z’ star shared image of gunmen taking elderly captive with laughing emojis, captioned photo of terrorists breaching security barrier ‘Let’s go, Berlin style’

File: Palestinian workers enter Israel after crossing from Gaza, on the Israeli side of Erez crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip, March 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Unable to return to Gaza, hundreds of laborers detained by IDF in the West Bank

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Exhibition'It's not a piece of history, it's happening now'

Brandeis exhibit on women in the Holocaust holds chilling parallels to Israel today

By Rich Tenorio

On display through Oct. 25 before heading to Miami and Mexico, ‘Lives Eliminated, Dreams Illuminated’ imagines a better future for female victims through art and music

Michigan State University displayed an image of Adolf Hitler as part of a trivia quiz prior to a football game, October 21, 2023. (Alexander Haenke/X via JTA)

Michigan State University apologizes for showing Hitler on jumbotron at football game

By jacob gurvis

Israel Story

Wartime Diaries

Everything in this corner of the world changed on Saturday, October 7, 2023. We bring you powerful voices and testimonies that paint a picture of these devastating times.

Reporter's notebook

Resilient few who’ve stayed in Kiryat Shmona share hopes, fears in Hezbollah’s shadow

By Canaan Lidor

A handful of open businesses serve the 8% of northern city’s populace who remain; the rest followed government orders to evacuate due to Hezbollah rockets, fears of escalation

Avi Yosef-Hay stands at the entrance to his bakery in Kiryat Shmona, on October 22, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)

Police evacuate a woman in Sderot from a building hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip by Palestinian terrorists on October 17, 2023. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

As state-provided hotels fill up, war evacuees incentivized to stay with relatives

By Canaan Lidor

A tent being set up in a new tent city at Kfar HaMaccabiah in Ramat Gan on October 23, 2023, for evacuees from northern and southern Israel. (Channel 12 screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Tent cities going up in Ramat Gan, Eilat to accommodate growing number of evacuees

Behind the headlines

Israel at war: Join the ToI Community for a special live update TODAY

Editor David Horovitz and diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman on an Oct. 25 webinar to drill down on what is happening in Israel – politically, diplomatically and militarily

Op-ed

Shalom Yerushalmi

As war with Hamas rages, a campaign gets underway for a return to Gaza’s settlements

Israel’s leaders are preoccupied with eliminating Hamas. But the US and others are seeking an exit strategy. Some on the right say this should involve going back to Gush Katif

A poster advocates for the resettlement of Gush Katif and the Gaza Strip amid Operation Swords of Iron, October 23, 2023. (Shalom Yerushalmi)

Samaria Council head Yossi Dagan helps distribute assault rifles to civilian security squads in settlements in the northern West Bank, October 22, 2023. (Roi Hadi)

Distribution of 300 assault rifles to West Bank civilian security squads underway

By Jeremy Sharon

Lawmakers attend a plenum session in the Knesset in Jerusalem, October 16, 2023. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Wartime Knesset pushes municipal elections to January 30, instead of next week

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Illustrative: Children watch through the window of a school bus as demonstrators attend a rally in solidarity with Israel on October 10, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Ethan Swope / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

US Jewish day schools enroll Israeli children who have been displaced by war

By Jackie Hajdenberg

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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men arrive at the IDF recruitment center to volunteer amid the ongoing war against Hamas, October 23, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

With Israel at war, 150 Haredi men draft into IDF, thousands expected to follow

By ToI Staff and Canaan Lidor

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks to troops near the Gaza border, October 19, 2023. (Ariel Hermoni/ Defense Ministry)

Same-sex couples recognized under law for bereaved families

By Shira Silkoff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) meets Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte at his office in Jerusalem, October 23, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu to visiting Greek, Dutch leaders: Civilizations must ‘unite against Hamas’

By Amy Spiro and Lazar Berman

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shakes hands with Hamas terrorist movement chief Ismail Haniyeh, prior to their meeting in Istanbul, February 1, 2020. (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool/ File)

Report: Hamas chiefs were asked to leave Turkey after October 7 attacks

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Samantha Woll, president of the board at the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, in Detroit, was found dead outside her near-downtown home on October 21. (David Guralnick/Detroit News via AP)

Detroit police: No evidence yet of antisemitism in murder of synagogue president

By SOPHIA TAREEN

Israeli soldiers walk past houses destroyed by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Be'eri, October 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Families of Be’eri massacre victims say religious officials delaying cremation

By Canaan Lidor

A protester sets the Israeli flag on fire during a pro-Palestinian rally in Milan, Italy, on October 21, 2023. (Piero CRUCIATTI/AFP)

Milan probes death threat to Jews at nightclub, dozens of antisemitic incidents

By JTA and ToI Staff

Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron speaks during a press conference at the Bank of Israel in Jerusalem, January 2, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bank of Israel shaves growth forecast, keeps interest rate steady as war bites

By Sharon Wrobel

Children shelter inside a public bomb shelter in Ashkelon, October 12, 2023. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

School system grapples with unprecedented challenges during wartime

By Gavriel Fiske

World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder gives Pope Francis a 'Kishreinu' (Hebrew for 'Our Bond') document marking influence of the Catholic Church's Nostra Aetate declaration on Catholic-Jewish relations, October 19, 2023. (Shahar Azran/WJC via JTA)

In a first, a Jewish organization opens an office at the Vatican

By Gabe Friedman

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