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What Matters Most On Saturday, November 4, 2023

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People in the crowd walk shouting antisemitic slogans at an airfield of the airport in Makhachkala, Russia, October 30, 2023. (AP Photo)

Israelis urged to reconsider overseas travel amid rising antisemitism worldwide

National Security Council calls on citizens to ‘weigh the essentiality’ of planned trips before departing, avoid outward displays of their Jewish and Israeli identities

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a rally organized by his AKP party in solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza, in Istanbul on October 28, 2023, amid the war between Israel and Hamas terror group. (Yasin Akgul/AFP)

Turkey recalling ambassador; Erdogan: We’ve written Netanyahu off

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Foreign Minister Eduardo Enrique Reina of Honduras stands for the playing of national anthems during a ceremony in Beijing, March 26, 2023. (Greg Baker/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Honduras recalls ambassador to Israel over ‘serious humanitarian situation’ in Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

IDF troops operating in the Gaza Strip in a picture released November 4, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF: Troops attacked by Hamas gunmen coming out of tunnels

IDF carries out ‘targeted’ incursion into south Gaza as troops push deeper into Strip

By Emanuel Fabian

Troops map buildings, clear area of explosive devices ahead of future stages of war; IAF says it strikes ambulance used by Hamas cell; Haniyeh home targeted; rocket fire at south

IDF forces operate in the Gaza Strip, in an image released by the military on November 3, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF still surrounding Gaza City, kills ‘numerous’ terror operatives, destroys tunnels

By Emanuel Fabian

This picture taken on November 3, 2023 shows a gaping hole following a strike on the Hajji building, which houses several offices including those of Agence France Presse (AFP) in Gaza City amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)

Projectile damages AFP’s Gaza bureau; IDF: Strike nearby may have caused debris

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Huge plums of smoke rise over the city of Khan Younis, as seen from the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on November 4, 2023, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian terror group Hamas. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Nov. 4: Gazan terrorists fire rockets at central Israel as rally held for return of hostages

Military makes ‘targeted’ incursion into southern Gaza * Anti-Israel rallies in Paris, London, Iran * Blinken meets Arab leaders in Amman * Israeli death toll in ground op at 28

9:43 pm

Blinken to meet with Abbas in Ramallah as US envisions PA's return to Gaza after war
9:38 pm

IDF says fighter jets struck Hezbollah posts after rockets fired from Lebanon
9:30 pm

Biden answers 'yes' when asked if progress made on humanitarian pause in Gaza

US official: Israeli battle plans 'significantly refined'

Hamas tried to send fighters to Egypt in ambulances for wounded Gazans — US official

Hamas tried to sneak its fighters out of the Gaza Strip in ambulances that evacuated dozens of wounded Palestinians to Egypt earlier this week, a senior Biden administration official said Friday. Hamas had compiled a list of the seriously wounded that it wanted to evacuate from Gaza for treatment in Egypt, along with... Continue Reading

Ambulances cross back into the Egyptian side of the border with the Gaza Strip in Rafah, on November 1, 2023, as they transport wounded to Egyptian field hospitals. (AFP)

Palestinian day laborers in Israel arrive in the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Shalom crossing after being brought there by Israeli authorities, November 3, 2023. (AP/Hatem Ali)

Israel sends hundreds of Gazan laborers held since Oct. 7 back into Strip

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Supporters of Iranian-backed Hezbollah raise their fists and cheer as leader Hassan Nasrallah gives a speech via a video link during a rally in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023 (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanese terror chief: 'I tell Israel: Do not go any further'

In much-hyped speech, Nasrallah makes threats but does not commit to broader war

By Gianluca Pacchiani and ToI Staff

Hezbollah chief mocks ‘weak’ Israel, warns America not to intervene, but keeps options open on wider conflict; Netanyahu tells him: You cannot imagine how much a war will cost you

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken shakes hands with Lebanon's caretaker prime minister Najib Mikati at a hotel during a day of meetings in the Jordanian capital Amman on November 4, 2023. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool/AFP)

Blinken thanks Lebanon’s leader for work preventing country ‘being pulled into a war’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to the media during a press conference, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool Photo via AP)

Pans world's short memory of Oct. 7; grieves for Gaza's kids

Stressing support for Israel, Blinken urges humanitarian pauses; PM rejects any halt

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

In Tel Aviv remarks, top US diplomat notes need for fuel in Gaza while acknowledging fears of Hamas misuse, vows that ‘as long as the US stands, Israel will not stand alone’

A dead body after the devastating assault by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Be'eri, near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, October 11, 2023 (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

9 bereaved Israeli families bring ICC war crime, genocide complaint against Hamas

By AFP and ToI Staff

US President Joe Biden (L) meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023, (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Reports: US officials warn Israel it has limited time before support for war wanes

Artist Netta Lieber Sheffer paints in the square of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, October 26, 2023, as part of the This is Us project. (Bernard Dichek)

'I felt like somehow I was getting to know her personally'

In Tel Aviv, diverse mix of artists shines spotlight on Israeli hostages

By Bernard Dichek

From around the country, artists come to city’s museum square to paint victims held in Gaza, in the hopes of drumming up support — and one day gifting portraits to their subjects

Thousands protest in Tel Aviv as Blinken visits, demanding hostages’ return

Thousands of people joined the families of hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza on Friday afternoon to stage a protest outside IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with senior Israeli officials and as the Israeli military continued its massive... Continue Reading

Protesters outside IDF Headquarters in Tel Aviv call for the release of hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, November 3, 2023 (Courtesy)

David Ben Moshe

Choosing resilience

It has happened before: We Jews have been pushed into the sea and we have overcome

I’m not Jewish, but this war is my struggle too

The appalling reaction to the Hamas massacre may have led Jews to believe they are alone. I am here to say, You are not

An image that appears to show masked settlers near the West Bank village of Qusra, October 11, 2023. (Screenshot, X used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Inside story

Israeli officials: Coalition’s West Bank policy, rhetoric harming US support for war

Sources lament that failure to address settler violence, steps to punish PA are ‘distracting’ Washington while Jerusalem needs its full backing

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir attends a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 10, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Amid Shin Bet warnings, Ben Gvir said to dismiss deadly settler violence as ‘graffiti’

NY Dem seeks meeting with Jewish voters as his stance on Israel-Hamas war criticized

New York Jewish Week via JTA -- US Representative Jamaal Bowman, the progressive New York Democrat, is asking his Jewish constituents to attend a meeting to discuss antisemitism as criticism of his stance on Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza has bolstered a potential primary challenge against... Continue Reading

Democratic Representative Jamaal Bowman of New York listens to fellow speakers before US President Joe Biden speaks during an event at SUNY Westchester Community College, May 10, 2023, in Valhalla, New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

A still from 'Sevap/Mitzvah' a short film directed by Sabina Vajrača that won the 2023 Humanitas Prize. (©geminisnakeproductions via JTA)

One good deed deserves another

Bosnian director’s short on Muslims and Jews saving one another is a ‘mitzvah’

By Shira Li Bartov

In Sabina Vajrača’s award-winning film, a Muslim family saves a Jewish one from the Nazis. 50 years later, the Jewish family returns the favor in Sarajevo

An Iranian demonstrator holds an anti-Israeli placard during a rally in front of the former US Embassy in Tehran, Iran, marking 44th anniversary of the seizure of the embassy, Nov. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

‘Death to Israel, death to America’: Iran marks anniversary of 1979 embassy takeover

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Crowds gather in Tehran, burn US and Israeli flags; parliament speaker criticizes Washington for its support of Israel in war against Hamas

Syrian immigrant Shevan ran the Amsterdam Marathon with Israeli, Palestinian and Ukrainian flags. (Courtesy of Shevan via JTA)

'I ran for peace. What more should I do?'

Jewish Syrian refugee faces increased antisemitism in Holland during war with Hamas

By Shira Li Bartov

After competing in marathon draped in Israeli and Palestinian flags to support victims of the ongoing war, Shevan came home to a swastika and Star of David painted on his door

The mezuzah contains a passage from the Torah commanding Jews to inscribe the words on the doorposts of their homes. (Marta Iwanek/Toronto Star via Getty Images via JTA)

As some US Jews take down mezuzahs due to antisemitism, some non-Jews put them up

By Andrew Lapin

‘This is the most beautiful thing anybody has ever said to me,’ California rabbi says of offer by neighbors to affix mezuzahs, calls the one at his home ‘the security system’

Darla Contois, left, as Esther Rosenblum and Lisa Edelstein as Golda Rosenblum in 'Little Bird.' (Courtesy of Steve Ackerman vi JTA)

'I grew up in a Jewish reality I didn't really fit into'

In PBS series ‘Little Bird,’ a Jewish woman uncovers her traumatic Indigenous past

By Shira Li Bartov

Airing weekly in the US through Nov. 16, the show draws on the experiences of co-creator Jennifer Podemski, a victim of the ‘Sixties Scoop’ torn from her mother’s arms

More Headlines

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel rally in London on October 21, 2023 to demand a ceasefire. (Henry Nicholls/AFP)

2 charged with terror offenses for paraglider signs at UK pro-Gaza, anti-Israel rally

FILE - Then-PSV's and currently Bundesliga's Mainz player Anwar El Ghazi, left, scores his side's fifth goal during the Europa League group A soccer match between PSV and Zurich at the Philips stadium in Eindhoven, Netherlands, on October 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

German soccer team sacks player for sharing ‘from the river to the sea’ post

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Staff work at the Magen David Adom's (MDA) Marcus National Blood Services Center, in Ramla, October 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)

Saving lives under fireUnderground blood bank proves its worth amid rocket barrages

By Alon Bernstein and SAM MEDNICK

Illustrative: The word ‘Gaza’ daubed in red paint outside the Wiener Holocaust Library in central London, November 2, 2023. (Via X)

London Holocaust library defaced with ‘Gaza’ graffiti

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