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What Matters Most On Friday, October 27, 2023

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Explosions caused by Israeli airstrikes in the northern Gaza Strip, Oct.ober 27, 2023. (AP/Abed Khaled)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 27: Palestinians claim Israeli tanks exchanging fire with gunmen inside Gaza

By ToI Staff, Joshua Davidovich and Jacob Magid

IDF earlier said ground forces would ‘expand’ operations * UN passes resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire; no Hamas condemnation * Gaza communications collapse amid airstrikes

12:39 am

Yemen's Houthi rebels appear to threaten Israel: 'Eilat'
10:58 pm

Rocket sirens heard in moshav bordering northern Gaza
9:25 pm

FM Eli Cohen slams 'despicable' UN resolution urging ceasefire

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)

ADL urges colleges to probe SJP chapters

White House pans ‘grotesque’ college campus antisemitism in support of Hamas attacks

By Jacob Magid and JTA

Comments appear to be furthest Biden administration has gone yet to weigh in on campus debates about Israel, after previously stressing importance of allowing peaceful protests

Jewish students in a library at Cooper Union college in New York as demonstrators outside pound on the doors and chant 'Free Palestine,' October 26, 2023. (X sreenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Jewish students locked in NYC’s Cooper Union as protesters chanted ‘Free Palestine’

A sign on the Brandeis University campus with the school's emblem and motto reads, "Truth even unto its innermost parts." (Wikimedia via JTA)

Brandeis senate that didn’t rebuke Hamas doesn’t speak for us, student statements say

By jacob gurvis

Israel's Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan holds footage from Hamas's October 7 massacre, during an emergency meeting on the Israel-Hamas war at the United Nations General Assembly, in New York, October 26, 2023. (Timothy A. Clary / AFP)

Erdan shows attempted beheading in uphill bid to block UNGA resolution ignoring Hamas

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Jordan-backed, non-binding measure urging immediate ceasefire likely to pass Friday due to pro-Palestinian majority in 193-member body; Iran claims it can help in releasing hostages

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of NY at the Capitol in Washington, DC, October 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

US House overwhelmingly passes resolution condemning Hamas October 7 massacres

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A still from video released by the IDF shows Israeli tanks rolling into Gaza on October 27, 2023. (Screen capture: IDF)

IDF tanks, troops briefly enter Gaza in 2nd limited overnight raid ahead of ground op

By Emanuel Fabian

Military hits Gaza City targets during incursion; Navy commandos raid Hamas site on coast; rocket fire at center, south; at least 233 hostages were kidnapped on October 7

Defense minister: We're in decisive moments. It’s us or them

IDF kills 5 Hamas commanders; Gallant: Israel will win, next 75 years depend on it

By Emanuel Fabian and Michael Bachner

Defense minister reiterates ground incursion coming, says troops ready; rockets target center, one starts fire at Petah Tikva home; Israel denies reports of fuel-for-captives deal

Palestinians fill water containers in the street in Gaza City, October 12, 2023 (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct 27: Day 21 of war – IDF ethics in Gaza; Qatar’s role with Hamas

Ghazi Hamad, a member of Hamas's political bureau, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Beirut, Lebanon, October 26, 2023. (AP/Bilal Hussein)

Hamas official storms out of BBC interview when asked about Israeli civilians killed

By Gianluca Pacchiani

In conversation with UK broadcaster, Ghazi Hamad unwilling to explain why Israeli families were killed in their sleep, repeats lie that commanders instructed to only target IDF

File - From left to right: Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister and Putin's Special Envoy to the Middle East Mikhail Bogdanov, and Hamas head of international relations Mousa Abu Marzouk, during a trilateral meeting in Moscow on October 26, 2023. (Hamas Telegram channel)

Moscow hosts Hamas delegation and Iran’s deputy FM, prompting Israeli outrage

By Gianluca Pacchiani and Lazar Berman

Palestinian terrorists kidnap Yarden Bibas, center, from Kibbutz Nir Oz into the Gaza Strip, on October 7, 2023. (Hatem Ali/ AP)

New round of US sanctions target Hamas’s Iranian funders and terror trainers

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Zioness founder Amanda Berman at a vigil in New York City for victims of the October 7 Hamas atrocities. (Courtesy)

'It turns out that our allies don't see us as victims'

On Tree of Life shooting anniversary, liberal US Jews mourn alone over Hamas atrocities

By Danielle Ziri

Many Jewish progressives find that unlike the outpouring of support five years ago, allies don’t show up for Israel, regardless of magnitude and brutality of the violence suffered

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I have been surprised to find the Bible’s poetry giving shape to the moment, but holding fast to them has been respite from the abyss

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Prayer is the most important weapon on the battlefield of ideologies. It unties our tongues, which frees our hearts, and then moves us to righteous action

Esther Orenstein Lapian

Sarah and Hagar: The need for restraint and compassion

The very language of the Torah presents the drama from Abraham’s family to the Exodus story and beyond as an ongoing critique of power (Lech Lecha)

3136528 The Nazi case for Hamas

The logic equating the October 7 murders with civilian deaths in Gaza was tested in Nuremberg in the ’40s. It was rejected without hesitation

An Egyptian soldier stands guard at the Taba crossing between Egypt and Israel on October 26, 2011 (Mahmud Khaled/ AFP)

IAF fighter jet intercepts ‘aerial threat’ over Red Sea, hours after Egypt strike

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

IDF says drone attack on Taba wounding 6 launched from ‘Red Sea area’; incident comes week after Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen tried to fire missiles at Israel from Red Sea

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

US strikes Syria sites used by Iran, its proxies after attacks on American troops

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Families and friends of Israelis held hostage in Gaza hold a rally outside the Tel Aviv Art Museum on October 26, 2023. (Gili Yaari /Flash90)

‘Our patience is up’: Hostages’ families blast government inaction at Tel Aviv rally

Relatives of those held in Gaza say authorities aren’t updating them on negotiations, urge ministers to internalize what’s at stake and ‘take responsibility’

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) meets with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani in Lusail on October 13, 2023. (Jacquelyn Martin / POOL / AFP)

Qatar agrees to review Hamas ties after Gaza hostage situation resolved – report

Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, in Jerusalem on June 27, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcast'This is a moment of mutual strengthening'

What Matters Now to Rabbi Rick Jacobs: Coalitions of faith and conscience

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

The president of the Union for Reform Judaism, which represents some two million Jews in North America, makes an onsite tour of Israel to be able to report back and shore up support

Palestinian terrorists drive to the Gaza Strip with what is believed to be the body of Shani Louk, on October 7, 2023. (AP/Ali Mahmud)

Inside Story

Patrick Anidjar

Opening the gates of hell: How Hamas carnage unfolded on Israel’s ‘Black Shabbat’

Meticulously planned for months under nose of IDF, thousands of terrorists burst through fence under cover of immense rocket fire to unleash deadliest massacre in country’s history

Irish-Israeli Emily Kornberg Hand, who was abducted by Hamas on October 7, 2023 and released on November 25, 2023. (Courtesy)

200 foreigners, dual nationals cut down in Hamas assault. Here’s where they were from

By AFP and ToI Staff

File - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen speaks at the PEN/Hemingway 2019 Award Ceremony at The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library And Museum on April 7, 2019 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Paul Marotta/Getty Images via JTA)

'How can we promote this when people are being killed?'

92NY in tumult after canceling Israel-critical author event amid Israel-Hamas war

By Andrew Lapin

Authors pull out of future programming and staff resign as cultural center ‘postpones’ event featuring Viet Thanh Nguyen, who signed an open letter harshly criticizing Israel

Global health workers sign pro-ceasefire letter; clause to free Gaza hostages was cut

By Andrew Lapin

Eritrean asylum seekers volunteer at the Civilian Operations Hub, Expo Tel Aviv, October 19, 2023. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Inside Story

With memories of atrocities in Africa still vivid, asylum seekers are helping Israel

‘Our country is bleeding, and we are standing with it,’ says Brhane Negasi, who experienced Islamist terror in the Sinai Desert; ‘Hamas is even worse than they were,’ he insists

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Photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britain's main opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer speaking during the weekly session of Prime Minister's Questions, at the House of Commons, in London, on October 25, 2023. (Photo by Maria Unger / UK Parliament / AFP)

UK Labour leader faces internal pressure over backing for Israeli self-defense

By Peter HUTCHISON

With the city skyline in the background, a man sits at Doha corniche in Doha, Qatar, November 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Qatar sentences 8 Indians to death, reportedly on charges of spying for Israel

By Agencies and Lazar Berman

MK Michal Woldiger at the Knesset plenum, April 5, 2021. (Olivier Fitousi/Flash90)

Deputy finance minister resigns to dedicate her time, office’s budget to war efforts

South Korean army K-9 self-propelled howitzers and K-55A1 self-propelled howitzers fire during the military drills at a training field in Cheorwon, South Korea, Oct. 27, 2023. (Yang Ji-woong/Yonhap via AP)

South Korean, US troops drill for ‘Hamas-style surprise attack’ from North Korea

Illustrative: Israeli men, armed with US-made M16 automatic assault rifles, walk through the Mamilla shopping center in Jerusalem on October 25, 2023. (Yuri Cortez/AFP)

Top rabbis decry attacks on Jerusalem’s Arab municipal workers amid war tensions

By Michael Horovitz

Republican US presidential candidate Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks during a meet and greet, October 14, 2023, in Creston, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

DeSantis says Florida has sent drones, weapons, ammo to Israel amid war on Hamas

The scene where a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip by Palestinian terrorists hit in the southern city of Sderot, October 17, 2023. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Government directorate lays out rehabilitation plan for war-ravaged Gaza communities

By Sharon Wrobel

Remains of a burned-out US helicopter lies in front of abandoned chopper in the eastern desert region of Iran, April 27, 1980, one day after an abortive American commando raid to free the US Embassy hostages. (AP Photo)

Iranian court orders US to pay $420 million in damages for failed hostage rescue bid

By AFP

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