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What Matters Most On Wednesday, November 1, 2023

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Top row L-R: Lt. Ariel Reich, Cpl. Asif Luger, Sgt. Adi Danan, Staff Sgt. Halel Solomon. Bottom row L-R: Staff Sgt. Erez Mishlovsky, Cpl. Lior Siminovich, Staff Sgt. Roei Dawi, Lt. Pedayah Mark

15 soldiers killed in battles inside Gaza; another by mortar shell at border

By Emanuel Fabian

Gallant says bitter combat taking a heavy toll, but hails significant achievements; communications in Gaza cut again as ground and air ops continue overnight

Staff Sgt. Lavi Lipshitz, 20, from Modiin (left) and Staff Sgt. Roei Wolf, 20, from Ramat Gan (right), who both served in the Givati Infantry Brigade’s reconnaissance unit and who were killed in fighting in the Gaza Strip on October 31, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

2 IDF soldiers killed in Gaza as troops take Hamas post, kill commander, 50 terrorists

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

This picture taken near Sderot along the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip on October 31, 2023, shows smoke plumes billowing following Israeli strikes amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian terror group Hamas. (Yuri Cortez/AFP)

Phone and internet connections in Gaza briefly go dark again as war rages

By Agencies and ToI Staff

People walk through a gate to enter the Rafah border crossing to Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip on November 1, 2023 (Mohammed ABED / AFP)

Foreign passport holders stuck in Gaza for weeks begin leaving for Egypt

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Over 500 foreigners and dual nationals expected to pass through Rafah border crossing in deal reportedly brokered by Qatar; wounded also let out for treatment

Palestinian health ministry ambulances cross the gate to enter the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip before crossing into Egypt on November 1, 2023. (Mohammed ABED / AFP)

Ambulances with Gaza wounded enter Egypt through Rafah border crossing

By AFP and ToI Staff

Egypt's Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli (C) holds a press conference during his visit to the Rafah crossing border on October 31, 2023. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)

Egypt said planning to let wounded Gazans cross border for treatment

UJIA CEO Mandie Winston, left, and members of the solidarity mission that her organization organized to Israel, meet Israeli interlocutors in Jerusalem on October 30, 2023. (Courtesy)

'People just can't believe what's happened'

Different this time: On Israel trip, UK Jewish leaders share grief and deep concern

By Canaan Lidor

Members of solidarity mission say that British Jews are worried about spiking antisemitism at home even as they mourn and pray for the victims of the terrorist attacks on Israel

Britain's main opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer delivers a speech in central London on October 31, 2023. (Daniel LEAL / AFP)

Amid internal backlash, UK Labour leader defends refusal to call for Gaza ceasefire

By AFP and ToI Staff

A man enters a building whose facade was covered with Stars of David painted during the night, in the Alesia district of Paris, on October 31, 2023. (Geoffroy Van der Hasselt / AFP)

Stars of David spray-painted on buildings in Paris, heightening fears among Jews

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israeli troops operate inside the Gaza Strip on November 1, 2023. (IDF)

Live updates (closed)

Nov. 1: Biden thanks Israel, Qatar, Egypt for facilitating exit of Gazans, as 61 aid trucks enter

IDF death toll since start of ground invasion hits 16 * Yemen claims to launch drone strike at Israel * Herzog praises national resilience * IDF strikes Hezbollah posts in Lebanon

2:03 am

MK claims libel over report he said settlers' blood worth more than that of Oct 7 dead
1:34 am

Congress rejects effort to censure Rashida Tlaib over rhetoric about Israel
12:36 am

Biden promises to combat Islamophobia as Israel-Hamas war rages

Jonathan D. Sarna

Why Israel is fast losing the public relations war

The best PR won’t stop the haters. For the rest of the world, Israel should be making its case by pushing two key messages

For Arabs and Jews in Israel these dark days, patience is a civic duty

There are well-founded fears of tensions escalating to the point of physical clashes – we must all work to avoid provocations

Deterrence is no substitute for policy

Israel should use its military capabilities to promote diplomatic agreements with its neighbors, rather than preserve the status quo of regular conflict

Hamas’s tunnel warfare harks back to the Viet Cong

Every IDF strike in Gazas’s subterranean labyrinth will reverberate aboveground, where military victories can easily morph into political defeat

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken looks on as protestors hold their hands in the air during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing to examine the national security supplemental request, on Capitol Hill, Oct. 31, 2023. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

US presses Jerusalem to release Ramallah's frozen tax funds

Blinken to visit Israel on Friday, says ‘revitalized’ PA should govern Gaza after war

Stance by secretary of state marks first time idea publicly uttered by Biden administration, which has been floating it privately with regional partners since October 7

Families and friends of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza hold an event outside the Art Museum of Tel Aviv, calling the Israeli government to act, on October 28, 2023. (Gili Yaari /FLASH90)

US special forces said deployed to help Israel track down hostages held in Gaza

Jack Lew, US President Joe Biden's nominee to be the US ambassador to Israel, testifies during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill October 18, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

Jack Lew approved as next US envoy to Israel in confirmation fast-tracked by war

By Jacob Magid and JTA

Op-ed: Day 26 of the war

A long, hard and painful war

This Editor’s Note was sent out earlier Wednesday in ToI’s weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel Community. To receive these Editor’s Notes as they’re released, join the ToI Community here. With all the attendant terrible dangers, the war against Hamas is finally being fought deep in enemy territory. Following three weeks of airstrikes targeting Hamas after its horrific... Continue Reading

Israeli soldiers gather near the border with Gaza before entering the Hamas-run enclave on October 31, 2023. (Gil COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi speaks during a statement to the media at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv on October 31, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Hanegbi says Gazans should avoid hospitals in north, urges Egypt to accept injured

By Lazar Berman

Detail from 'Warriors' Rest,' a photograph taken by Staff Sgt. Lavi Lipshitz on August 17, 2023. Lipshitz was killed in fighting in the Gaza Strip on October 31, 2023. (Instagram till_when_photo_diary)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Nov 1: Day 26 – Israel mourns soldiers but presses forward with Gaza op

Israel beefs up defenses around Eilat following Houthi attacks

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Israel has bolstered air defenses in the Red Sea area with Navy missile boats following several missile and drone attacks by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, the military said Wednesday. The vessels were deployed on Tuesday “in accordance with the assessment of the situation, and as part of the... Continue Reading

An Israeli Navy missile boat is seen off the coast of Eilat, October 31, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Illustrative: Footage purported to show a strike on the Aleppo airport in Syria, October 14, 2023. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Moscow calls Israeli strikes in Syria ‘unacceptable,’ ignores rocket fire at Israel

By AFP

FBI director: Hamas could carry out attacks on US soil; antisemitism at historic high

By AFP and JTA

WASHINGTON -- The Israel-Hamas war has raised the threat of attacks against Americans in the United States to a whole new level, while antisemitism in the United States has soared to “historic" heights, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned Tuesday. "We assess that the actions of Hamas and its... Continue Reading

FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies during a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, October 31, 2023. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (left) greets US Secretary of State Antony Blinken while arriving to testify during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing to examine the national security supplemental request, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on October 31, 2023. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Far-left US protesters disrupt congressional hearing on military aid to Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

File: US Senator Jacky Rosen, a Nevada Democrat, addresses the Jewish Federations of North America in Washington, DC, July 20, 2021. (Office of Jacky Rosen)

‘We are going to exterminate you’: US man charged with threatening Jewish senator

A woman walks by a Cornell University sign on the Ivy League school's campus in Ithaca, New York, on January 14, 2022. (Ted Shaffrey/AP)

Student hit with federal charges for online death threats aimed at Cornell Jews

By AP and ToI Staff

Patrick Dai faces five years in prison after allegedly posting gruesome threats on forum, sparking alarm on university campus in upstate New York

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activists gather for a protest at Columbia University, October 12, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

Jewish Columbia students demand university take action against rising antisemitism

A New York State Police Department cruiser is parked in front of Cornell University's Center for Jewish Living, in Ithaca, New York, October 30, 2023. (AP Photo/David Bauder)

NY cops nab suspect for threats to kill Jews at Cornell, amid antisemitism crackdown

Smoke billows on the Israeli side of the border with Lebanon, due to ongoing border crossfire exchanges between Israel, Hezbollah, and Palestinian terror groups, on October 30, 2023. (AFP)

Farmers in north soldier on despite fear Hezbollah will try to mimic Hamas onslaught

By Patrick Anidjar

‘We’ve seen what could happen to us,’ says evacuated resident, as few — mainly security teams and agricultural workers — remain near Lebanon border, under terror group’s threat

Suhaib Razeem (Courtesy)

Newly released footage shows Palestinian driver in Hamas hands before Oct. 7 slaying

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Suhaib Razeem, 22, was caught and questioned by Hamas terrorists at the Nova festival. Some called to let him go, but he was found dead 12 days later

Israelis look at photographs of hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, outside the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, October 30, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hamas claims it will free some hostages with foreign passports in coming days

By Gianluca Pacchiani, AFP and ToI Staff

Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk, September 18, 2014. (AP/Khalil Hamra)

Top Hamas official declares group is not responsible for defending Gazan civilians

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Bolivian President Luis Arce speaks during a town hall meeting called by pro-government Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) militants in El Alto, Bolivia, on October 17, 2023. (Aizar Raldes/AFP)

Bolivia cuts ties with Israel, accusing it of ‘crimes against humanity’ in Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Leftist governments in Chile and Colombia recall envoys to Jewish state in protest of Israeli military operations in war against Hamas, which expresses ‘high esteem’ for Bolivia

Rubble litters a street between smoldering buildings in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, October 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Saudi Arabia condemns ‘inhumane’ IDF strike on Gaza’s Jabaliya

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, wearing a scarf with the Palestinian and Turkish flags, stands on the stage during a rally organized by his ruling AKP party in solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza, in Istanbul on October 28, 2023. (Handout/Turkish Presidency Press Office/AFP)

Erdogan says Israel ‘completely out of its mind’ in war with Hamas, must be stopped

'It's one of the most important things I will do in my life'

Far from home, Israeli teen envoys in Diaspora show Israeli grit and resilience

By Matt Lebovic

While dealing with grief, guilt and worry for Israel’s future, the Jewish Agency’s post-high school ambassadors are on the frontlines of the war for public opinion

IDF soldiers work to uncover a terror tunnel during a raid in the West Bank city of Jenin on November 1, 2023 (Israel Defense Forces)

Four Palestinians said killed in West Bank clashes as IDF arrests top Fatah official

By Emanuel Fabian

Troops also raid terror networks in Jenin, uncovering roadside bombs and an underground tunnel; several gunmen hit in drone strike

Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event, Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

At Republican Jewish event, Trump draws applause, and anxiety, as he guns for 2nd term

GOP Jewish donors fear Trump is alienated from pro-Israel advisers who shaped his foreign policy as president, and replaced by isolationists who have flirted with antisemitism

Illustrative: The main building at Sapir Academic College draped with an Israeli flag. (courtesy)

Located near Sderot and now shuttered, Sapir College community looks to the future

By Gavriel Fiske

More Headlines

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a press conference at the Ministry of Defense, in Tel Aviv on October 28, 2023. (Dana Kopel/POOL)

Protest leaders, ex-security chiefs step up calls for Netanyahu to resign amid war

By Jeremy Sharon

Illustrative: The Jerusalem office of Qatar-based news network and TV channel Al Jazeera on July 31, 2017 (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)

Karhi plows ahead with plan to squelch Al Jazeera as defense minister backs move

By Jeremy Sharon

Birthday cakes for displaced children is just one idea approved for funding by the Daybreak project. (Oleksandr Sytnyk, iStock at Getty Images)

Non-profits join forces to award microgrants for small-scale acts of kindness

French police officers stand at the entrance of a metro station after a woman making threats was shot and wounded by police, at the Bibliotheque Francois Mitterrand station, in Paris, October 31, 2023. (Geoffroy Van der Hasselt/AFP)

French cops shoot, wound woman making threats, yelling ‘Allahu akbar’ on Paris train

By Tiphaine LE LIBOUX

Illustrative: An Iranian flag made from binary code. (Sergio Lacueva/iStock Photo by Getty Images)

From the webIran displays improved hacking abilities in cyber campaign against Israel and others

File: This picture taken on May 24, 2022, shows an aerial view of the port of Cyprus' southwestern city of Limassol. (Roy Issa/AFP)

Cyprus working with European, Mideast states on sea corridor to ship aid to Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

People cross a road near a giant billboard depicting Muslims walking with their national flags towards the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, erected in Valiasr Square in the center of Tehran on October 25, 2023. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

UN rights official says Israel-Hamas war emboldens Iranian ‘repression’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Guy Nattiv (left) and Zar Amir Ebrahimi, co-directors for 'Tatami,' who won awards at the Tokyo International Film Festival on November 1, 2023 (Courtesy)

Amid the painIsraeli-Iranian film ‘Tatami’ wins at Tokyo International Film Festival

By Jessica Steinberg

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir makes a statement to the press in Ashdod, October 31, 2023. (Video screenshot, courtesy Otzma Yehudit)

Public figures should ‘moderate discourse,’ judiciary says in rebuke to Ben Gvir

By Jeremy Sharon

Amy Schumer speaks onstage during the 'Inside Amy Schumer' SAG Screening at Crosby Hotel on April 3, 2023 in New York City. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images via AFP)

Star searchCelebrities spread stories of hostages to campaign for their freedom

By Jessica Steinberg

Natalie Raanan, 2nd left, Judith Raanan, right, are seen upon arrival in Israel after being released from Hamas captivity as government hostage envoy Gal Hirsch, center, holds their hands, October 20, 2023. (Courtesy)

US-Israeli teen held captive by Hamas returns home to Chicago following release

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israel's players celebrate after winning the UEFA Euro 2024 group I qualification football match Israel v Belarus at the Bloomfield stadium in Tel Aviv on September 12, 2023. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Israel’s home qualifying soccer matches for Euro 2024 moved to Hungary

By AP

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