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What Matters Most On Sunday, October 29, 2023

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People hold up posters of the missing as they gather outside the Qatari Embassy in London on October 29, 2023, to demand the release of the estimated 240 hostages held in Gaza by Hamas. (Justin TALLIS / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 29: US says Israel limiting Gaza ground offensive to keep from endangering hostages

By ToI Staff and Ricky Ben-David

Dagestan airport ‘freed’ from mob after assault on plane from Israel * IDF says it struck Hezbollah posts * Gallant: Don’t trust Hamas offer of ‘all for all’ prisoner swap

1:02 am

Ministry proposes moving Gaza's civilians to north Sinai, a likely non-starter
11:27 pm

Dagestan airport incident over, no Israelis hurt, Foreign Ministry says
11:02 pm

Rocket sirens sound in Sderot

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks (left) as Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (center) and head of the National Unity party Benny Gantz (right) listen, during a joint press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv. October 28, 2023. (Dana Kopel/POOL)

'We're also fighting humanity’s war against the barbarians'

PM announces 2nd stage of war, with broad ground offensive; says ‘Never Again’ is now

By Lazar Berman

Alongside Gallant and Gantz, Netanyahu says decision to expand ground operation unanimous; says not sure Iran planned Oct. 7 but Hamas and Hezbollah wouldn’t exist without it

Screen capture from video released October 28, 2023, showing a captured Hamas terrorist explaining how the Shifa hospital in Gaza City is used by Hamas as a military site. (Screenshot IDF)

In interrogation video, Hamas terrorists confirm group’s hideout under Gaza hospital

'Son of Hamas' Mosab Hassan Yousef during an interview with British television journalist Piers Morgan, October 26, 2023. (YouTube screenshot)

‘Son of Hamas’ in interview: Terrorists brought wrath of God with October 7 attack

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with troops in southern Israel on October 24, 2023. (Kobi Gidon/GPO)

Netanyahu slammed for post blaming intelligence chiefs for Oct. 7 failure; apologizes

By ToI Staff and Agencies

PM deletes tweet hours later, then apologizes and says he fully backs security chiefs, after Gantz upbraids him: ‘When we are at war, leadership must display responsibility’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant, and head of the National Unity party Benny Gantz hold a joint press conference at the Ministry of Defense, in Tel Aviv on October 28, 2023. (Dana Kopel/POOL)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct 29: Day 23 – Cracks in government unity as war enters ‘2nd phase’

Smoke rises during Israeli airstrikes, in the Gaza Strip, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, on October 28, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct 28: Day 22 of war – With IDF troops in Gaza, war enters ‘new phase’

Donation Request

Israelis are making huge sacrifices. Please make a small one.

Colel Chabad is feeding, clothing, and providing other vital services for families of the fallen, evacuees, thousands furloughed, and all Israelis in need.

Inside story

Cathryn J. Prince

Amid Gaza war, donors pull cash as US universities tolerate student support for terror

American campuses have long been hotbeds of anti-Israel sentiment, but in the wake of the Oct. 7 massacres, some givers are drawing a line at student groups praising the terrorists

Illustrative: a participant holds a placard as students gather during a 'Walkout to fight Genocide and Free Palestine' at Bruin Plaza at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) in Los Angeles on October 25, 2023 (Frederic J. Brown/AFP)

OP-ED: DAY 23 OF THE WAR

Shock at the October 7 catastrophe gives way to horror and fury at global immorality

Brief empathy over the Oct. 7 catastrophe is shifting to a global effort, propelled by Israel-haters and antisemites, to deprive us of the right to ensure it will not happen again

Protesters hold placards and wave Palestinian flags during a 'March For Palestine' in London on October 28, 2023, as they call for ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas. (Henry Nicholls/AFP)

Tamar Haya Torphiashvili, 9, died on October 28, 2023, a week after going into cardiac arrest folowing a rocket siren in Ashdod. (Courtesy)

9-year-old Ashdod girl dies after suffering cardiac arrest during rocket siren

By Michael Horovitz

Hostage vigils held across Israel, with PM criticized at some

Meeting Netanyahu, families of Gaza hostages urge ‘all for all’ prisoner swap

PM says freeing captives is major goal of war, applying pressure on Hamas is key; families declare government should agree to full exchange to obtain freedom for those held in Gaza

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara at his side, meets with representatives of families whose loved ones are being held hostage by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, October 28, 2023. (GPO)

A nation in trauma: Guard your strength

8 moves to protect yourself, including the importance of connecting with others: Call your friends and family, and help keep anxiety at bay

Molly Livingstone

Woke up. The nightmare is real

Jewish culture embraces life (also food), which makes it especially troubling that our neighbors raised on hate are a cause celebre on US college campuses

Protesters hold a banner during a pro-Palestinian march, in central London, October 28, 2023. (Jordan Pettitt/PA via AP)

Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters in London urge ceasefire, slam Israel

Britain’s foreign secretary says no indication Hamas wants truce; similar Gaza-support rallies held in Germany, Indonesia, Pakistan, France, Italy, Norway and Switzerland

A picture taken from Israel's southern city of Sderot shows rockets fired from Gaza toward Israel as smoke rises from Israeli strikes on October 28, 2023 (Aris MESSINIS / AFP)

Ground forces hit Hamas as IDF warns north Gaza residents area is now a ‘battlefield’

By Emanuel Fabian

Multiple rocket barrages target south and central Israel, with no casualties; army says it will start allowing significantly more humanitarian aid to enter southern Gaza

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a news conference on the sidelines of the 78th United Nations General Assembly, at UN headquarters in New York City on September 20, 2023. (Ed Jones/AFP)

Israel’s actions in Gaza ‘may force everyone’ to act, warns Iranian president

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Palestinians storm a UN-run aid supply center, that distributes food to displaced families following Israel's call for more than one million residents in northern Gaza to move south for their safety, in Deir el-Balah on October 28, 2023. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP)

Gazans plunder UNRWA food supplies as ‘civil order’ breaks down in war-torn Strip

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Thousands of desperate residents break into warehouses, stealing staples and hygiene supplies as conditions worsen amid siege; UN chief Guterres urges ceasefire to end ‘nightmare’

People protest demanding the release of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, October 27, 2023. (Flash90)

Qatar warns Israeli ground offensive in Gaza complicates hostage talks ‘considerably’

Elon Musk at the Vivatech technology startups and innovation fair at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, on June 16, 2023. (Alain Jocard/AFP)

Musk offers Starlink internet for ‘recognized’ aid organizations in Gaza

By AFP and ToI Staff

Analysis

Jon Gambrell and Isabel Debre

‘Like fighting ghosts’: The challenge the IDF faces in destroying Hamas’s tunnels

IAF strikes on underground targets are intensifying. But dislodging Hamas will require clearing out its vast tunnel network, a nightmarish task complicated by presence of hostages

An Israeli army officer gives journalists a tour, Friday, July 25, 2014, of a tunnel used by Palestinian terrorists for cross-border attacks, at the Israel-Gaza Border. (AP Photo/Jack Guez, Pool, File)

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

Israeli ‘World War Z’ actress indicted for allegedly cheering Hamas on Instagram

Nazareth court charges Maisa Abd Elhadi with identifying with a terror organization, incitement to terror after posts mocking elderly captive, celebrating security fence breach

Jewish protesters try to break into dorms at the Netanya Academic College, after two Arab students allegedly threw eggs at worshipers earlier in the day, October 28, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Police break up angry protest outside Netanya dorm housing Arab students

By Michael Horovitz

Jewish residents claim students threw eggs at worshipers after nearby Shabbat service, played loud Arabic music; police disperse protesters outside dorm, no one hurt

Illustrative: Palestinians hold a kite adorned with a swastika that is carrying a bomb near the border with Israel east of Gaza City, on April 20, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)

Targets used history of the Holocaust as self-defense manual

Holocaust scholars weigh in on politicians’ comparisons of Hamas to Nazis

By Matt Lebovic

US President Biden’s remarks in Tel Aviv stirred emotions, in part for his ‘connection’ of the October 7 massacres with scope of Jewish history. Is it a fair analogy?

Flares are fired from northern Israel over the southern Lebanese border village of Aita al-Shaab, on October 28, 2023. (FADEL SENNA / AFP)

Rockets fired from Lebanon at north; IDF strikes terror cells, Hezbollah sites

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF says it bombed terror group’s positions in southern Lebanon in response to attacks; Israel also said to hit Syrian military, pro-Iran militia targets in response to shelling

Rabbi Jeffrey Myers of the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, October 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Rebecca Droke)

Interview'Despite all the ugliness I still have hope'

Rabbi who survived Pittsburgh synagogue shooting 5 years ago considers this dark time

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

For Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, spiritual leader of Tree of Life/Or L’Simcha Congregation, Hamas massacre of 1,400 in Israel on October 7 is ‘retraumatizing’ to him and his community

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Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at an annual leadership meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023, in Las Vegas. Pence is dropping his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, ending his campaign for the White House. (AP/John Locher)

Mike Pence drops out of presidential race at Republican Jewish conference

By Agencies and Jacob Magid

A video appears to show Israeli West Bank settlers in an incident near Nablus in which Palestinians say a settler shot dead a Palestinian olive farmer, October 28, 2023 (video screenshot)

Palestinian said shot dead by settler while harvesting olives in West Bank

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, speaks to attendees during a rally to show their solidarity with Palestinians, in Istanbul, Turkey, October 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Israel pulls diplomats from Turkey to reassess ties as Erdogan blasts its ‘war crimes’

By Lazar Berman

Rutgers University's students place candles with the Star of David pattern to hold solidarity and vigil for Israel on Wednesday, October 25, 2023, in New Brunswick, New Jersey (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Jewish, Muslim chaplains navigate US campus tensions as Israel-Hamas war rages

Illustrative: Students take their mathematics matriculation examination in Tel Aviv, June 29, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Limited in-person classes held in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, as ministry tightens rules

By Gavriel Fiske

Matthew Perry attends the GQ Men of the Year Party 2022 at The West Hollywood EDITION on November 17, 2022. (Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for GQ/AFP)

Matthew Perry, star of 90s sitcom ‘Friends’, dies at 54

By Andrew MARSZAL

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