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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 25, 2023

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UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan, left, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, center, and Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan browse the Yad Vashem Book of Names of Holocaust Victims Exhibit at United Nations headquarters, January 26, 2023. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Yad Vashem: Remark renders 'Never Again' pledge meaningless

Israel halts UN staff visas as officials pan Guterres’s ‘truly insane’ Hamas remarks

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

After UN chief says terrorist massacres ‘didn’t happen in vacuum,’ Foreign Ministry says words ‘tarnish both him and organization he heads’; Edelstein says they fan antisemitism

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, October 24, 2023. (Seth Wenig/AP)

Israel demands UN chief resign after he says Hamas attacks ‘did not occur in vacuum’

By ToI Staff and AFP

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen speaks during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, October 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct 25: Day 19 of war – Israel’s increasingly frayed ties with the UN

First responders at the site where a rocket fired from Gaza hit a building in Rishon Lezion, October 25, 2023. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 25: PM says ground op coming; IDF intercepts surface-to-air missile from Lebanon

Netanyahu says Israel fighting for existence, he’ll be probed for Oct 7. failures after war * Israel praises Qatari efforts * UN chief hits back * Rocket hits Rishon apartment building

11:40 pm

Gallant speaks again with US counterpart about Israel-Hamas war
11:25 pm

Families of Israelis held captive by Hamas meet with Italian PM
11:12 pm

Jewish students shelter in NY college library as demonstrators pound on doors, shout 'free Palestine'

US said to ask Doha to tone down Al Jazeera's Hamas coverage

In rare praise, Israel hails Qatar’s ‘crucial’ diplomatic efforts in Gaza crisis

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

National security adviser says Doha an ‘essential party in facilitation of humanitarian solution,’ after Hamas freed four hostages; former PM Bennett: Qatar is the enemy itself

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, and Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani arrive for their meeting in Lusail, Qatar, October 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

Ronen Nuetra, right, and Ruby Chen, both of whom have sons being held hostage by Hamas, speak during a rally in front of United Nations headquarters in New York, Tuesday, October 24, 2023. (Seth Wenig/AP)

At UN, Israeli officials and hostage families demand action to bring back Hamas captives

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Friday Oct. 13, 2023, and is greeted by MFA Undersecretary for Protocol Affairs Abdulmajeed Alsmari after stops in Jordan, Qatar, and Bahrain in the same day. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

Qatar positions itself as intermediary in Gaza war, even as leader blasts Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A fireball erupts during overnight Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip on October 24, 2023. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Hamas fires long-range rockets at Eilat, Haifa, as IDF strikes on Gaza continue

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Israel accuses Iran of directly aiding terror group; Hamas claims 80 killed overnight; rockets target Ashkelon, Gaza border towns; IDF strikes terror cell in West Bank’s Jenin

A grab from a UGC video posted on the Telegram channel 'South First Responders' on October 9, 2023, shows a Palestinian terrorist walking around the Supernova music festival, near Kibbutz Re'im in southern Israel on October 7. (South First Responders/AFP)

IDF publishes audio of Hamas terrorist calling family to brag about killing Jews

Hamas terrorists are seen attempting to infiltrate into Israel, October 24, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Army says sea-borne Hamas infiltration thwarted, two terrorists killed

By Emanuel Fabian

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, October 24, 2023. (Seth Wenig/AP)

Blinken urges considering ‘humanitarian pauses’ in Gaza fighting to protect civilians

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

US secretary of state says many world leaders express support for Israel in private but won’t publicly endorse its right to defend itself, or denounce Hamas terror group

A building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip is seen in Deir Al-Balah, Oct. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Hamas claims 700 killed in Gaza over past day, as hospitals filled beyond capacity

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Explainer

Is the IDF’s ongoing Gaza operation complying with the laws of war?

Civilian casualties in Gaza, as Israel sets about destroying the ruling terror group, are inevitable but not illegal, experts explain, if the army acts with necessary caution

Explosions illuminate the sky during Israeli strikes on Gaza City on October 10, 2023. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

An image shared by the IDF showing twelve oil tanks in which Hamas allegedly stores its reserves while the Gaza Strip is running out of fuel during the ongoing war with Israel, October 24, 2023. (IDF Arabic spokesman on X)

IDF says Gaza photos show half million liters of fuel held by Hamas

By Gianluca Pacchiani and Agencies

Op-ed: Day 19 of the war

Hamas, unthinkably, remains potent, still hurting Israel practically, psychologically

Empathy and support for an Israel in its darkest hour are dissipating, in a war that we don’t want to define as existential but that is looking increasingly so

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)

Three questions for the global far left

How many Jews have to die for you to care? Can you distinguish feelings from facts? Do you know what you really are?

I’m getting more Jewish by the day

After a week of crying, I found myself ashamed to have thought of myself as an American first. Now my only comfort is in the company of other Jews

Susannah Schild

Dear God, please perform miracles for our sake

The stakes in fulfilling God’s plan just got a lot higher, but how can I give up on Him now when my world is at its darkest?

Stephen D. Smith

Genocide is a clearly defined crime. Israel is not committing it.

A high civilian death toll is tragic, but does not mean Israel is trying to destroy the Palestinian people

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

Rockets, anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon into Israel

Nasrallah, senior Hamas and PIJ leaders talk of achieving ‘victory’ over Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Meeting in Lebanon, terror chiefs say they plan to halt Israel’s ‘treacherous and brutal aggression,’ as Hezbollah continues to fire rockets, missiles across border

In this photo released on October 25, 2023, by the Hezbollah Media Relations Office, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, right, meets with Ziad al-Nakhaleh, the head of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, center, and Hamas deputy chief, Saleh al-Arouri, in Beirut, Lebanon. (Hezbollah Media Relations Office, via AP )

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan talks to journalists during a joint news conference with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy following their meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, July 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Turkey’s Erdogan: Hamas aren’t terrorists, they’re mujahideen defending homeland

By Lazar Berman

IDF troops are seen in northern Israel, next to the border with Lebanon, October 24, 2023. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

IDF foils more terror cells in southern Lebanon, strikes Hezbollah position

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: This image circulating online purports to show flames and smoke rising from a site in Damascus following an alleged Israeli airstrike in Syria, early July 19, 2023. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF strikes Syria after rocket attack on north; 8 Syrian soldiers said killed

By Emanuel Fabian

Air Force hits Syrian military infrastructure and mortar launching sites after two rockets land near Golan Heights communities

File: Algerian rescue aid arrives at Aleppo International Airport on February 7, 2023, one day after a deadly earthquake hit Syria and Turkey. (AFP)

Syria accuses Israel of bombing Aleppo airport for 4th time in 2 weeks

By Emanuel Fabian

From the Blogs

Yossi Klein Halevi

Why is Israel being blamed for the Hamas massacre?

Erasing the legitimacy of the Israeli narrative fundamentally revives a pernicious antisemitic trope that Jews deserve their fate

From left to right: Gili Adar, Yuval Halivni, Reem Betito and Laor Abromov. (Camp Tel Yehudah Facebook via JTA)

'We have so many people who moved to Israel over the years'

‘They were family’: US Jewish summer camps mourn Israeli alumni killed in Hamas war

By jacob gurvis

American campers and staff for whom connection to Israel has long been a paramount value are receiving devastating news of colleagues and friends murdered in the Oct. 7 massacre

Foreign nationals in besieged Gaza await evacuation, plead for Rafah crossing to open

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Analysis

Carrie Keller-Lynn

Public trust in government scrapes bottom amid criticism for inadequate war response

Though Israel now has one of its largest cabinets ever, few of its 39 ministers are serving the country’s wartime needs, with most power centralized in Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the Yahalom unit of the IDF's Combat Engineers, October 24, 2023 (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Israel supporters at a vigil and rally for the victims of the October 7 Hamas onslaught, in New York City, October 10, 2023. (Luke Tress)

Israeli expats in US turn their anti-Netanyahu protest outfit into Israel aid effort

Singer Ishay Ribo entertains the troops, like many of his musical colleagues around Israel right now during the 2023 Israel-Gaza War (Courtesy Ishay Ribo)

Israel’s musicians sing for troops and injured, mourners and missing

By Jessica Steinberg

Ishay Ribo and Berry Sakharov, Hanan Ben Ari and Netta Barzilai, Harel Skaat, Shlomo Artzi and others compose new songs and perform old ones for the nation

Nitza Hefetz with Camille Jesalva. (Shalev Shalom, Yedioth Aharonoth)

THOSE WE CALL HEROES

Filipino caregiver paid off terrorist, saved herself and 95-year-old employer

Camille Jesalva opened wallet, handed over $370 intended for a trip home, and smartphone

Illustrative: An Israeli man wearing a prayer shawl prays next to houses destroyed by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Be'eri, October 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

In morbid routine, displaced survivors of kibbutz massacre bury friends, count dead

By Agencies and ToI Staff

More Headlines

Illustrative: A German police car in Berlin on January 24, 2020. (John Macdougall/AFP)

Man arrested in Germany on suspicion of planning to ram pro-Israel event with truck

By AFP and ToI Staff

The Israel Museum, October 2023. (Courtesy: Eli Posner)

After shock letter, Israel museum directors call on international colleagues to denounce Hamas

By Jessica Steinberg

S&P downgrades Israel’s credit outlook to ‘negative’ amid war against Hamas

By AFP and ToI Staff

Reserve IDF soldiers training at a school in the Golan Heights, on October 19, 2023. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

In-person schooling resumes across much of Israel on Wednesday

By Gavriel Fiske and ToI Staff

Shimon Lav, the National Security Ministry coordinator for establishing and arming civilian security squads and a retired deputy police commissioner, speaks at a press conference in the ministry, October 24, 2023. (Courtesy the National Security Ministry)

600 civil security squads established since Oct. 7 to boost ‘sense of security’

By Jeremy Sharon

Illustrative: A scientist sits at his desk and consults an engineer about sophisticated coding and programming at a computer science research laboratory. (iStock by Getty Images)

In times of war, Israeli startup nabs $15m to help optimize clinical trials

By Sharon Wrobel

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, welcomes US President Joe Biden to Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, July 15, 2022. (Bandar Aljaloud/Saudi Royal Palace via AP, File)

Saudi crown prince indicates Israel normalization can resume after war – White House

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Students at Hebrew University on the first day of the academic year on October 23, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Waiting for reservists to be released, university classes delayed until at least Dec 3

By Gavriel Fiske

A Hamas video shows Hamas terrorists on motorbikes crossing the breached fence from Gaza into Israel on October 7, 2023. (Youtube screenshot)

US Treasury seeking international coalition against Hamas financing

By AFP and ToI Staff

Reserve soldiers seen at a staging area near the Israeli border with Lebanon, northern Israel, October 23, 2023 (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

About 70% of tech firms face operating difficulties amid reservists’ call-up

By Sharon Wrobel

Republican US presidential candidates, from left, former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former vice president Mike Pence, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, Senator Tim Scott and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum stand on stage before a Republican presidential primary debate hosted by Fox News Channel, August 23, 2023, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Support for Israel becomes top issue for Iowa evangelicals key to first GOP caucuses

By Thomas Beaumont

Apartments belonging to real estate company Hutzot Yerushalayim have been offered to displaced Israelis until the war ends, free of charge. (Yossi Schwartz, Hutzot Yerushalayim)

Jerusalem real estate company hosts families from south in empty homes free of charge

By Tal Schneider

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