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What Matters Most On Friday, November 3, 2023

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Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, second right, Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, right, and the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, front left, attend the Ministerial meeting for the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, on the sidelines of a family photo session, at the Intercontinental Hotel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, June 8, 2023. (Ahmed Yosri/Pool Photo via AP)

Live updates (closed)

Nov. 3: Blinken visits, will join summit in Jordan; Nasrallah keeps options open

By Michael Bachner and Jacob Magid

Rocket barrage intercepted over Tel Aviv * Oxygen concentrators for Gaza tunnels found hidden in aid shipment * IDF says it hit ambulance used by Hamas cell * Ground op toll at 24

11:20 pm

US official says no sign in Nasrallah speech that Hezbollah seeking to expand fight with Israel
11:15 pm

US official: Israel okayed 'trial humanitarian pause' when Hamas freed 2 hostages on Oct. 20
11:09 pm

Hamas tried to smuggle fighters to Egypt in ambulances for wounded Gazans -- US official

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, meets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, November 3, 2023. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

As Blinken meets PM, IDF airs call it says shows Hamas storing fuel under Gaza hospital

By Emanuel Fabian

Israel working to resist international pressure to allow fuel into Strip; military ground op death toll reaches 24; US said to be flying drones over Gaza in hunt for hostages

This photo released by the Israeli military on Thursday, November 2, 2023, shows ground operations inside the Gaza Strip. (Israel Defense Forces via AP)

Israeli troops roll into Gaza City as ground offensive intensifies, IDF toll rises

By Emanuel Fabian

Lt. Col. Tomer Greenberg, commander of the Golani Infantry Brigade’s 13th Battalion, describes a dramatic overnight battle against Hamas in the Gaza Strip (screenshot: IDF)

IDF releases radio recording, footage of troops fending off Hamas ambush in Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

Polls show lower support for Israel among young Americans amid war against Hamas

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Younger voters are less likely to back Israel, support among Democrats for Israel’s conduct has declined and Americans overall are wary of being drawn into a Middle East war. Those are three takeaways from a series of polls on Israel, the Palestinians and the war in Gaza that have been... Continue Reading

Members of the Jewish community and supporters of Israel attend a rally calling for the release of hostages held by the Gaza-ruling Hamas terror group, in Times Square, New York on October 19, 2023. (Ed Jones/AFP)

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)

Cornell nixes Friday classes to regroup after threats against Jews on campus

By AFP

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., center, joined by, from left, Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., talks with reporters ahead of the debate and vote on supplemental aid to Israel, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

US House approves military aid package to Israel that Biden has vowed to veto

Over 100 aid trucks enter Gaza in a day for 1st time since start of Israel-Hamas war

Loaded with food, water and medicine, 102 trucks of humanitarian aid entered Gaza through Egypt's Rafah crossing Thursday, the Palestinian Red Crescent said, meeting a critical threshold that aid workers say is required to meet the battered Strip's needs after 27 days of war. The shipment marked the first time that over 100 trucks... Continue Reading

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid enter the southern Gaza Strip from Egypt via the Rafah border crossing on November 2, 2023. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP)

Inside storyBlinken faces uphill battle for Gaza war pauses at Israel meetings and Arab summit

Trucks carrying fuel drive in the Gaza Strip on October 22, 2023. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

IDF chief says fuel could be allowed into Gaza for hospitals; PM denies okaying move

By Amy Spiro and Emanuel Fabian

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah addresses supporters in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Nov. 3, 2014. (AP/Hussein Malla, File)

Hezbollah’s Nasrallah to break silence as Lebanon border skirmishes intensify

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iran-backed terror chief to make first public comments since devastating Hamas attack in speech that may signal if his terrorist army will widen conflict

Firefighters battle blazes in Kiryat Shmona after Hamas fires rockets from Lebanon, November 2, 2023. (Fire and Rescue Services)

Rocket from Lebanon strikes Kiryat Shmona as fighting ramps up on northern border

By Emanuel Fabian, Gianluca Pacchiani and ToI Staff

Members of Hezbollah and Hamas supporters burn an Israeli flag during a rally in Beirut, Lebanon, October 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Report: US concerned Hezbollah could get air defense system from Wagner Group

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Dear world: I don’t care

I don’t care if you’re out on the street, waving your flag and chanting your slogans. We won’t die silently the way you want us to

The end of Hamas

The group whose senior officials I negotiated with for so many years has forfeited its right to exist as a government

A Palestinian stands on an Israeli tank at the border fence near the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip after some 3,000 Hamas terrorists burst through the border and entered Israel, slaughtering some 1,200 people, October 7, 2023. (Yousef Mohammed/Flash90)

Israel said likely to form tribunal to try Hamas terrorists for October 7 atrocities

Legal authorites reportedly discussing the correct way to bring to justice the over 200 terrorists detained in Israel

Israeli artillery stationed near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, November 2, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Nov 3: Day 28 – Fighting heats up in north as Gaza City is encircled

Lt. Col. Salman Habaka, who was killed in fighting in the Gaza Strip on November 2, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Senior IDF officer who fought Hamas in Be’eri killed in Gaza fighting

Lt. Col. Salman Habaka, 33, from Galilee Druze village of Yanuh-Jat, is highest-ranking officer to perish during IDF ground operation

Palestinian border guards check the documents people leaving Gaza as dual national Palestinians and foreigners prepare to cross the Rafah border point with Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip, on November 2, 2023. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Egypt says it will help evacuate some 7,000 foreign nationals from Gaza

By AFP

Several fake Instagram profiles the IDF says were used in attempts to obtain information from soldiers for the Hamas terror group, November 2, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF exposes catfishing network seeking info on troops heading into Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian and Michael Horovitz

Ben Gvir blocks PA payments to prisoners’ canteen accounts

Ministers vote to transfer tax funds to PA, subtracting money designated for Gaza

By Amy Spiro and Michael Bachner

The security cabinet voted late Thursday evening to transfer frozen tax funds to the Palestinian Authority but hold back those monies designated for Gaza, ending a standoff between government ministers. The move was backed by security chiefs and Washington who viewed the transfer of such funds as necessary to shore up the beleaguered... Continue Reading

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Amman, Jordan, October 17, 2023. (AP Photo/ Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

Protesters wave Hamas flags after Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan, at the Al Aqsa Mosque Compound in Jerusalem's Old City, April 22, 2022. (Jamal Awad/Flash90

Minister rolls out bill to strip citizenship from terror supporters in wartime

Police inspect the scene of a stabbing attack in Jerusalem, Monday, Oct. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Bill to ban ‘systematic’ viewing of terror content readied for final Knesset passage

By Jeremy Sharon

A cruise missile launched by the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen is seen being intercepted by a missile launched from an IAF F-35I fighter jet, October 31, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF releases footage of Houthi missiles being downed over Red Sea

By Emanuel Fabian

Video shows F-35I fighter jet intercepting missile or drone and long-range Arrow system being deployed against Eilat-bound ballistic missile fired from Yemen

Bahrain's first-ever ambassador to Israel Khaled Yousif Al-Jalahma (C), his wife and President Isaac Herzog (L) after presenting his credentials at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, September 14, 2021. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Bahrain lawmakers vote to recall envoy from Tel Aviv, but Israel says ties stable

By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

Illustrative: A protest against violence against women in Tel Aviv, December 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Women in abusive homes fear for their safety as war leads to relaxed gun licensing

By Shira Silkoff

175,000 firearm license applications filed since Oct. 7 as Ben Gvir eases restrictions; forum calls for those with domestic violence complaints against them to be ineligible

Op-ed

The BBC is under fire for its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war – rightly so

LONDON -- The BBC's founding father and first director-general John Reith famously declared that its purpose is to “educate, inform and entertain.” The corporation’s coverage of Israel’s war with Hamas has arguably fallen some way short of both of those first two goals. Instead, Britain’s public service broadcaster stands accused of failing to accurately capture the... Continue Reading

Protesters hold placards and Israeli flags outside the headquarters of the BBC in London on October 16, 2023, to appeal to the corporation to call Hamas 'terrorists.' (Daniel Leal / AFP)

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to Israel Story’s Mishy Harman: ‘Wartime Diaries’

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now. This week on What Matters Now, we're handing the mic to Mishy Harman, the founder of The Times of Israel’s podcast partner, Israel Story. Since the October 7 massacre by Hamas of... Continue Reading

Clockwise from top right: Sasha Ariev, Sivan Avnery and son Tal, and Mor Maisel. (Israel Story)

Volunteers prepare aid packages and supplies for Israeli soldiers and evacuated residents in Tel Aviv on October 12, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

Study: Nearly 50% of Israeli citizens volunteered during first weeks of war

By Gavriel Fiske

Far-reaching Hebrew University analysis shows ‘pre-existing social divisions set aside’ to create over 1,000 diverse civil initiatives

Israeli reserve soldiers seen during military training in the Golan Heights, northern Israel, October 30, 2023. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Venture capitalists launch emergency impact fund for war-affected Israeli startups

By Sharon Wrobel

A relative hugs a Thai overseas worker who was evacuated from Israel after Hamas's October 7 attacks, as he and others arrived at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Samut Prakarn Province, Thailand, on October 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)

Inside StoryThai workers face dilemma: Stay and endure war, or flee but lose vital wages

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI

Conservative rabbis from across the United States surround Rachel Goldberg and Jon Polin (center), whose son Hersh Goldberg-Polin was taken hostage on Oct. 7, 2023, at the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center, October 31, 2023. (Courtesy Fuchsberg Center)

‘We were broken to see what we saw’

US rabbis make solidarity trip to Israel for firsthand experience of Hamas onlsaught

By Eliyahu Freedman

Group visits Ofakim and Be’eri, where terrorists killed more than 100 people, meet with parents of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin

Wexner museum to keep exhibit by Palestinian artist who appeared to celebrate Hamas

By Andrew Lapin

Biden’s stance on Israel-Hamas war could lose him Michigan in 2024, Democrats warn

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Netivot evacuees Limor Abergil, left, and her mother Shula sit on a beach in Eilat, on October 30, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)

Inside story'Like a family photo where someone's been cut out'

For displaced families, Eilat’s charms are a painful reminder of a life pierced by war

By Canaan Lidor

For many of the 60,000 Israelis relocated to the Red Sea resort city since the October 7 massacre, sorrow and worry overlay the memories of earlier happy vacations

More Headlines

FILE - FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried arrives at Manhattan federal court, August 11, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried convicted of defrauding crypto customers

By Larry Neumeister

Justice Minister Yariv Levin attends a conference at the Begin Heritage Center, in Jerusalem, September 5, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Justice minister, Supreme Court president appoint 14 temporary judges

By Jeremy Sharon

Council Member Inna Vernikov brings a resolution to create an annual 'End Jew Hatred' day in the New York City Council on April 27, 2023. (New York City Council Flickr via JTA)

NYC councilwoman charged for toting gun at protest against pro-Palestinian rally

By AP and ToI Staff

Goyim Defense League founder Jon Minadeo II in a video on the Goyim TV website. (Screenshot used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Goyim Defense League founder sentenced to 30 days for antisemitic littering

By Andrew Lapin

Draped in an Israeli flag, Elinor Ben David, left, hugs her daughter Liel Abissidan, 8, as they wait for a rally in support of Israel to start, at the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach, October 10, 2023, in Miami Beach, Florida. (AP/Wilfredo Lee)

For South Florida’s Jews, Biden’s handling of Israel-Hamas war is a political test

Shoah Wall of Names Memorial in Vienna, Austria, May 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Theresa Wey)

Austria increases payments to Holocaust survivors for first time in decades

By Toby Axelrod

The Jewish federation building in Detroit sits in the Bloomfield Hills suburb. (Ron Kampeas via JTA)

Man with pellet gun arrested outside headquarters of Detroit Jewish federation

By Andrew Lapin

Iranian women shout slogans during a demonstration outside the Iranian consulate in Istanbul, Saturday, October 22, 2022. (AP/Emrah Gurel)

Iranian woman sentenced to death for adultery, state media says

By AP

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