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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 26, 2023

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This screen grab taken from handout footage released by the Israeli army on October 26, 2023, shows tanks entering northern Gaza. (IDF / AFP)

IDF tanks, troops push into Gaza in limited raid ahead of ground offensive

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says it struck Hamas sites, operatives in hours-long ‘targeted raid’ before returning infantry to Israeli side of border, as larger ground assault awaits

A Palestinian man watches as others inspect the damage to destroyed houses after Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip, October 24, 2023. (Abed Khaled/AP)

IDF: Gaza resident says Hamas preventing evacuations; thousands return north

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Saleh al-Raqab, a professor at the Islamic University of Gaza and former minister of Islamic Endowments under Hamas, 2022 (Screenshot from YouTube)

Pro-Hamas Islamic scholars issue calls, fatwas inciting murder of Israelis and Jews

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Inside story

Pro-Hamas sentiment shocks European Jews, rekindling fears about their future

The disgust felt by millions toward the terrorist group’s barbarity is overshadowed by angry street protests against Israel and soaring antisemitism

People gather with placards and a large Palestinian flag to take part in a 'March For Palestine' in London on October 14, 2023 (Photo by Adrian DENNIS / AFP)

People wave Israeli flags during a demonstration against antisemitism and to show solidarity with Israel in Berlin, Germany, October 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Germany looks to bar antisemites from gaining citizenship amid spike in incidents

Police officers onboard motorbikes stand guard outside the King Baudouin Stadium after two Swedes were shot dead in an attack in Brussels on October 16, 2023. (John Thys/AFP)

Palestinian arrested in Brussels for talk about planning a suicide bombing

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A fire sparked after a rocket fired from Gaza hit a utility next to a highway near Rehovot, October 26, 2023. (Courtesy)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 26: Heavy rocket fire targets central Israel; limited IDF ground raids in Gaza to continue

Rocket lands near highway, sparking fire * White House slams ‘grotesque’ antisemitism on campuses * Pentagon: 900 US troops heading to Mideast, 2 Iron Dome batteries to Israel

8:56 pm

Pentagon says US air base in Iraq attacked again, causing minor damage
8:42 pm

Israel slams Jordanian-backed UN resolution that calls for ceasefire, doesn't mention Hamas
8:23 pm

Family of 6 US citizens trapped in Gaza begs Biden to help them exit

Security Council resolutions from US, Russia voted down

Biden: There’s no going back to prewar status quo, there must be vision of 2 states

President says Israel has responsibility to hit back at Hamas, did not demand ground op delay, doubts Gaza casualty figures; slams violence by ‘extremist settlers’ as West Bank boils

US President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference with Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, October 25, 2023. (AP Photo/ Manuel Balce Ceneta)

A photo of a man being treated after he was wounded during a clash with Palestinians close to Rimonin, October 26, 2023 (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

2 settlers wounded, one seriously, in West Bank clash; at least 3 Palestinians hurt

An armed Israeli man fires an assault rifle the air during a confrontation with unarmed anti-occupation activists, October 25, 2023 (Screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Settlers rampage through Palestinian olive grove, harass activists in West Bank

By Jeremy Sharon

Kfar Aza residents demonstrating outside the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv. (@sha_b_p via the protest movement)

'We've buried too many already'

As ground war looms, Kfar Aza residents rally outside military HQ for hostages’ return

Survivors of kibbutz massacre gather in Tel Aviv, say they have been abandoned by government; IDF raises number kidnapped on October 7 to 228

Inside storyHostage negotiators say pilloried Israeli envoy a nonfactor in talks

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

‘Protocol for the treatment’ of freed captives issued after Lifshitz presser slammed

By ToI Staff and AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a primetime address, October 25, 2023. (GPO/Screenshot)

Netanyahu: After the war, everyone will have to answer for failures, ‘including me’

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

In primetime speech, PM stops short of taking responsibility for debacle that enabled Hamas onslaught, vows ground invasion of Gaza coming, says Israel in ‘fight for our existence’

Opposition leader and Yesh Atid head MK Yair Lapid speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv on October 26, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Lapid says government not functioning, still ‘in shock’ from Hamas assault

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Economy Minister Nir Barkat (center) speaks at a meeting of the Knesset Economy Committee, October 25, 2023. (Courtesy)

Barkat slams Treasury, presents rival emergency aid plan for war-affected businesses

By Sharon Wrobel

Israeli soldiers work on a tank at a staging area near the border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, October 20, 2023. (AP Photo/ Ohad Zwigenberg)

Op-Ed

Nineteen days since the massacre, Israel has achieved nothing. It’s time to go in

Is ground operation delayed by indecision, lack of will, or a mistaken belief there is a relatively pain-free way to defeat Hamas? Or is there another more encouraging explanation?

IDF troops train in a military exercise in the Golan Heights on October 23, 2023 (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Israel said to delay Gaza invasion to allow US to bolster air defenses in region

Waiting for the ground war in Gaza

Normal life has ground to a halt. Behind everything looms the great unknown of where this war will lead

Mohammad Wattad

The Arab world must work towards the release of the hostages

Israel has a legal responsibility to use every resource at its disposal to bring them home, including the Abraham Accords

Netanyahu will eventually have to answer for abandoning those living near Gaza – he’s already taking steps to insulate himself

Hamas terrorists must not be released. My son’s murder shows why.

I oppose anything like a Shalit deal. Israel must go back to its old paradigm: You kidnap an Israeli, you die. Period

Hamas members pictured at the border a month before the terror group's October 7 onslaught. (Screenshot used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Surveillance soldiers warned of Hamas activity on Gaza border for months before Oct. 7

By Shira Silkoff

Survivors of massacre on IDF base say they passed information up the chain of command on digging, mapping, training near the fence long before mass onslaught, but were ignored

Illustrative: This handout photo provided by the IRGC official website shows Iranian Revolutionary Guard soldiers taking part in a military drill near the island of Abu Musa, off the coast of the southern Iranian city of Bandar Lengeh. (SEPAH NEWS / AFP)

500 Hamas, PIJ terrorists trained for October 7 attack in Iran last month – report

A golden bitcoin coin in front of a stock exchange chart (Getty Images)

Terrorists raised $130m in crypto since 2021; sought more via social media after attack

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Messages reading 'Glory To Our Martyrs' and 'Divestment From Zionist Genocide Now,' along with others, are projected onto a building at George Washington University's campus in Washington, October 24, 2023. (StopAntisemitism via X)

‘Glory to our martyrs’ projected onto building at George Washington University

By Andrew Lapin

Head of campus Hillel decries ‘absolutely’ antisemitic messages displayed on campus, says Jewish students ‘feel really isolated and alone’

An NYPD patrol car is parked outside a synagogue on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

NYPD data shows spike in antisemitic attacks during Israel-Hamas war

A suspect shouts 'Free Palestine' as he is arrested after allegedly breaking into the home of a Jewish family in Los Angeles, October 25, 2023 (Screen grab used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law

Suspect breaks into LA Jewish family’s home, shouts ‘Kill Jews’ and ‘Free Palestine’

Inside story

Renee Ghert-Zand

For Israel’s medical clowns, getting a giggle has never been a tougher sell

With the whole country traumatized — including themselves — ‘Dream Doctors’ do their best to therapeutically raise the spirits of the war wounded and displaced

Dream Doctors medical clowns peform a pretend wedding for a nurse and her fiancé, who had to cancel their real wedding because of the Israel-Hamas war. Sheba Medical Center, October 2023. (Dream Doctors)

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

Rishon Lezion apartment hit in major rocket fire toward central, southern Israel

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

6 lightly wounded in barrage from Gaza; IDF spokesman says military continues to bombard Gaza to ‘improve’ army’s situation for upcoming ground offensive

Israeli reserve soldiers seen in the Golan Heights during a military training before heading to the Israeli-Gaza border, on October 25, 2023. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct 26: Day 20 of war – targeted IDF raid is largest Gaza ground op yet

Jordan's Queen Rania (left) speaks to CNN's Christine Amanpour, in an interview aired October 25, 2023. (CNN screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Jordan queen skeptical Israeli children were beheaded by Hamas during onslaught

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Rania claims atrocities widely reported in news weren’t ‘independently verified’; relatives of hostages send her link to images of violence in response

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian speaks during a joint press conference with his Lebanese counterpart Abdallah Bou Habib, in Beirut Lebanon, October 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Iran foreign minister to meet with Guterres ahead of UN vote on Israel-Hamas War

By Shira Silkoff

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

UN chief doubles down on Hamas remarks, decries ‘misrepresentations’

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Michael Bachner

Volunteers search for information on hostages abducted by Palestinian terrorists on October 7 from a music festival in southern Israel near the border with Gaza, at the offices of Gitam BBDO communications group in Tel Aviv on October 25, 2023 (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Israeli tech workers bring innovation, AI to search for hostages held in Gaza

By AFP and ToI Staff

Volunteers operate ‘civilian war room’ as they work with facial recognition software to gather any available information on whereabouts of the over 220 people seized by terrorists

MK Moshe Gafni leads a meeting of the Knesset Finance Committee, which he chairs, on October 23, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Brothers in Arms protest group okayed for tax break after shifting to aid mission

Einstein Admony, Adeena Sussman, Ben Siman Tov, Lior Sercarz, Jake Cohen and Eden Grinshpan, at a fundraising effort for Asif, the Jewish Food and Culinary Institute of Israel in Tel Aviv, which is providing meals and food for displaced families and hospital workers in Israel. (Courtesy: Jake Cohen)

'My heart is broken by the attack'

Israeli and Jewish-owned restaurants in the US are raising money for Hamas victims

By Cathryn J. Prince

From food drives to military gear and pledge drives to auctions, the causes and means of fundraising for them are as varied as the establishments taking part in grassroots efforts

Rep. Mike Johnson, Republican-Louisiana, takes the oath to be the new House speaker at the Capitol in Washington, October 25, 2023. (Alex Brandon/AP)

New US House speaker kicks off term with resolution backing Israel, condemning Hamas

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Louisiana congressman Mike Johnson says non-binding declaration was ‘overdue,’ as tougher fight over military aid awaits; nine Democrats and one Republican oppose measure

Republican presidential candidate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, speaks at Saint Anselm College, in Manchester, New Hampshire, October 13, 2023. (Michael Dwyer/AP)

Florida tells universities to disband pro-Palestinian group SJP over Hamas support

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York (left) hands the gavel to then-speaker-elect Rep. Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, at the Capitol in Washington, October 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Ending weeks of gridlock, Republicans elect Trump ally Mike Johnson as House speaker

By AP and ToI Staff

Rotem Sapir from Kfar Maimon celebrated her bat mitzvah at the Tower of David Museum, with a free photo shoot offered for evacuees from the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks; her mother, Liat Sapir, commented, 'When we put our story in the perspective of 2,000-plus years, how much hope it gives' (Courtesy Tower of David Museum/Sharon Marks Atshul)

Museums rush to offer welcome activities online and, where possible, in person

By Jessica Steinberg

Cultural institutions in most places remain shuttered, while those in Jerusalem can reopen; all are providing online distractions geared especially to displaced Israeli families

Israeli Opera soloists sing ‘Bring Him Home,’ for Gaza captives

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

A mural portraying Polish-Israeli Holocaust historian and educator Alex Dancyg, who was taken hostage from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023, with the subtitle referring to him as 'Ambassador of Dialogue,' can be seen in Warsaw, Poland on October 19, 2023. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP)

Poles campaign for return of Holocaust educator, 75, taken hostage by Hamas

By Magdalena Paciorek

Jacob Lew, former treasury secretary under US president Barack Obama, testifies during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing to examine his nomination as US ambassador to Israel, in Washington, October 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Senate panel okays Biden’s pick for Israel envoy, with final vote likely next week

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The last Israeli tanks exit the Gaza Strip through the Kissufim crossing, which led to the now-evacuated Gush Katif bloc settlements, 12 September 2005. (Yoav Lemmer/AFP)

Some Israelis dream of return to Gaza settlements as IDF readies to go back in

By DAPHNE ROUSSEAU

The Knesset Guard marches during the opening session of the new Knesset, following elections, on April 30, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Knesset reportedly considering establishment of armed volunteer security squad

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)

Social lender to provide interest-free credit to war-damaged businesses and families

By Sharon Wrobel

Nir Zohar, president and chief operating officer at Wix.com, in his Tel Aviv office; Nov. 29, 2017. (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

Irish Wix employee fired for inflammatory posts about Israel-Hamas war

Ships dock at the Ashdod port in an undated photo. (Courtesy CC BY-2.5/File)

Op-edThe war with Hamas could threaten Israel’s imports

By Elisabeth Braw

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

Arab Israeli actress freed to house arrest amid alleged Hamas support

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