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What Matters Most On Wednesday, November 8, 2023

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IDF troops operate in the northern Gaza Strip in this handout photo released for publication on November 8, 2023. (IDF)

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Nov. 8: Sissi said to nix US proposal for Egypt to run Gaza security until PA ready

By Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

IDF releases clip of Hamas operatives boasting of using ambulances * Military says 50,000 Gazans moved out of northern Strip today * 33 IDF soldiers killed since start of ground op

1:22 am

Ex-PM Bennett holds hour long meeting with Jake Sullivan to discuss Israel-Hamas war
1:15 am

Jack Lew makes first visit to Western Wall as US envoy, lights candle for those killed Oct. 7
9:34 pm

Netanyahu: I told Biden accusations of violence by settler movement are 'baseless'

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken holds a press conference after attending a session of the Group of 7 Foreign Ministers meetings in Tokyo, November 8, 2023. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool Photo via AP)

US opposes ‘reoccupation’ of Gaza after Netanyahu talks of ‘indefinite’ control

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

After war, Blinken seeks ‘Gaza unified with the West Bank under the Palestinian Authority,’ no use of Gaza as a platform for terrorism, no blockade or reduction in Gaza’s territory

High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell, British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie Joly, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani pose for a family photo during their G7 foreign ministers' meetings in Tokyo on November 8, 2023. (Photo by JONATHAN ERNST / POOL / AFP)

G7 backs Gaza ‘humanitarian pauses,’ refrains from ceasefire call

By AFP and ToI Staff

On the morning after Kristallnacht, or the "Night of Broken Glass," local residents watch as the synagogue in Ober-Ramstadt, Germany, is destroyed by fire in 1938. (CNS photo/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

'The October 7 terror attack brought back so many memories'

With antisemitism surging, Diaspora synagogues are ‘afraid’ to mark Kristallnacht

By Matt Lebovic

As Holocaust survivors reflect on Oct. 7 and the ‘global pogrom’ during Israel’s war with Hamas, some Jewish communities avoid commemorating 85 years to the Night of Broken Glass

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Stand strong with Soroka Medical Center – Israel’s medical Iron Dome

American Friends of Soroka Medical Center is grateful to Fauda’s Lior Raz and The Hampton Synagogue’s Rabbi Marc Schneier for their support of Soroka’s outstanding medical response.

Palestinians fleeing Gaza City toward the south walk on a road on November 8, 2023. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

Thousands of Gazans use humanitarian corridor to move south as IDF presses offensive

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Israel says it killed head of Hamas weapons development team in airstrike; IDF special forces soldier killed in fighting, bringing military toll to 32 in ground offensive

Palestinians flee to the southern Gaza Strip on Salah al-Din Street in Bureij, Gaza Strip, November 7, 2023. (Hatem Moussa/AP)

Number of Gazans fleeing to southern Strip rises sharply, UN says

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A woman carries a white flag with a group of Palestinians fleeing Gaza City to the southern Gaza Strip on Salah al-Din street in Bureij, November 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman)

Thousands of Gazans waving white flags head south along IDF evacuation route

By ToI Staff and Agencies

IDF ‘tightening noose’ around Hamas in Gaza City; PM: No truce before hostages freed

By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid, Lazar Berman and Carrie Keller-Lynn

Netanyahu says ‘We’re reaching deeper than Hamas ever imagined,’ urges Red Cross to demand access to hostages, rules out fuel entering Gaza, warns Hezbollah against joining war

Palestinians at an UNRWA school in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 14, 2023. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)

Israel says there’s no lack of food, water and humanitarian supplies in Gaza

By Jeremy Sharon

Israeli soldiers operate inside the Gaza Strip, November 2, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Analysis

The IDF’s war on Hamas is going better than it expected… for now

Troops continue to advance in the Strip as casualties remain low and international pressure bearable, but a deadly mistake or political ‘idiocies’ could swiftly change that

Op-ed: Day 33 of the war

Israel fights back despite its government, and wonders how much time the IDF has

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. A month has passed. The pain of October 7 remains unbearably raw. As my colleague Amir Ben-David wrote on Tuesday, "Hundreds of... Continue Reading

Family and friends attend a ceremony for Israelis abducted by Hamas terrorists in Gaza a month after the October 7 massacre, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, November 7, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

File - Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara arrives to casts her ballot for the head of the Israel Bar Association at a voting station in Tel Aviv on June 20, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

AG freezes all coalition funds, deeming them budgetary source for war efforts

By ToI Staff and Carrie Keller-Lynn

AnalysisAlready battling for political survival, Netanyahu is not restraining his coalition

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Buildings destroyed in Israeli strikes on al-Zahra, on the outskirts of Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Ali Mahmoud)

Inside Story

Gaza man: Israeli agents spent hours on phone with me to evacuate targeted buildings

Mahmoud Shaheen tells BBC intel agents called him, urged him to get hundreds of residents to leave 22 buildings identified by IDF as housing Hamas infrastructure; all said survived

This aerial view shows people attending a candle-lit vigil for at Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv on November 7, 2023, marking one month since the Hamas massacre. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Israel marks one month since Hamas massacre with vigils, memorials, protests

In Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Eilat and across the country, citizens gather to mourn Oct. 7 atrocities as nation grapples with the worst attack in its history

Crowd outside the Knesset on November 7, 2023, marks 30 days since 1,400 people were killed on October 7, 2023 by Hamas terrorists in southern Israel. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

At Knesset protest, two mourners blame Netanyahu for Oct. 7, urge end to the war

By Jessica Steinberg

People pray the for the hostages from Israel held captive in Hamas during a vigil at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, November 7, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

A month after loved ones taken captive, families of hostages howl on global stage

By Amy Spiro and Jacob Magid

Our son is joining the IDF – now

When I am able to ignore my anxiety, I feel wonder and even joy that God has allowed my family to live at this time in history

Ambassador Jack Lew is a mensch

His ethical integrity and concern not only for the powerful, but the most vulnerable, know no bounds

The girl who blew bubbles

What can you do with a child who is traumatized, fragile, out of control, and won’t play nicely with her friends?

Leon Wiener Dow

Inconveniently nonbinary

What if at the core understanding of ’our’ homeland is a piece of earth that can never be possessed?

Analysis

We Arab Israelis are holding a lot of pain

We moderate Arabs and Jews have no choice: We must fight hatred, violence and the death-mongers – for the sake of all our children

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Democrat of Michigan, speaks during a demonstration calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, October 18, 2023, near the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

In rare move, US House of Representatives censures Rashida Tlaib for Israel remarks

22 Democrats join condemnation of Palestinian-American lawmaker’s comments, which included the phrase ‘From the river to the sea,’ widely regarded as a call to eliminate Israel

Israeli soldiers remove bodies of Israeli civilians in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, October 10, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Poll indicates US public divided over support for Israel after Hamas assault

By AP and ToI Staff

Sen. Bernie Sanders, Independent-Vermont, walks out of the West Wing of the White House in Washington, August 30, 2023. (Susan Walsh/AP)

In an unusual twist, AIPAC praises Bernie Sanders over Israel-Hamas ceasefire stance

By JTA and ToI Staff

A blood-soaked child's bed in Kibbutz Kfar Aza seen in a photo shared by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on October 11, 2023, in the aftermath of the Hamas assault on Israel on October 7. (X/Netanyahu)

Mental health professionals implore Netanyahu not to show atrocities film to public

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Group focused on helping suffering Israelis warns against re-traumatizing a nation still in shock from October 7 and grappling with ongoing war against Hamas

Family and friends attend a ceremony for Israelis abducted by Hamas terrorists in Gaza a month after the October 7 massacre, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, November 7, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Nov. 8: Day 33 – In the post-truth era, ‘massacre denial’ is taking root

Blood is seen splattered in a child's room following the October 7 Hamas massacre, at Kibbutz Nir Oz, October 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Israel shows world media harrowing footage of Hamas attack to ‘get message across’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Analysis

Days after speaking about peace, Gazan mother’s 3 children killed in Strip blast

For years, Umm Naim insisted on a message of peace, even after losing her husband in an Israeli strike in 2014. “We hope all the children, all the people in the earth, to be smile, to be happy," the 47-year-old told The Times of Israel last week, during a temporary stay in Ashdod after her... Continue Reading

Umm Naim reacts to the news of the death of her children, November 5, 2023 (Shevet Achim)

A man walks next to a building the façade of which was covered with Stars of David painted during the night, in the Alesia district of Paris, on October 31, 2023. (VAN DER HASSELT / AFP)

Planned march in Paris against antisemitism exposes deep divisions in France

By AFP and ToI Staff

Call for weekend event sparks bitter political squabbling amid surge in antisemitic incidents since October 7

Volunteers stand in front of trucks carrying humanitarian aid to Palestinians at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza Strip, in Rafah, Egypt, October 31, 2023. (Ahmed Hatem/AP)

Israel won’t participate in Paris Gaza aid conference organized by Macron

By AFP and ToI Staff

A man walks next to a building the façade of which was covered with Stars of David painted during the night, in the Alesia district of Paris, on October 31, 2023. (VAN DER HASSELT / AFP)

Paris Stars of David graffiti may have been ordered from abroad, prosecutor says

By AFP and Lazar Berman

Elena Colomba draws a Star of David at a Thousand Oaks, California, street corner where a Jewish pro-Israel protester, Paul Kessler, was killed during an altercation, November 7, 2023. (Jacob Gurvis/JTA)

Flowers, candles and anger at LA street corner where pro-Israel protester was killed

By jacob gurvis

‘Stop killing us!’ says local rabbi at vigil for Paul Kessler, who died following altercation with pro-Palestinian demonstrator in southern California

LA police release suspect in pro-Israel demonstrator’s death after questioning

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Reporter's notebook

At UN HQ in New York, advocates for release of Hamas’s hostages stage powerful sit-in

Over 130 protesters, including children, sit on the ground wearing black blindfolds and holding posters stating, ‘Secretary Guterres, what if Hamas kidnapped your loved ones?’

Gili Okev sits outside his ruined house in Kfar Aza, a month after Hamas terrorists invaded and killed many of his neighbors. (Deborah Danan via JTA)

1 month after Oct. 7 massacre, the ruins of Kibbutz Kfar Aza testify to its horrors

By Deborah Danan

Peter Tsadilas, owner of The Golden Dolphin in Huntington, NY (photo: Terri Wortzman Ackerman/Facebook)

'We get phone calls from people telling us it’s depressing'

Boycotted for supporting the Jewish state, US eateries are rescued by Israel supporters

By Matt Lebovic

After creating a window display with dozens of ‘Kidnapped’ posters, a Long Island diner saw a dip of 40% in sales; word got out and now business is booming

Hundreds back pro-Israel NYC coffee shop as baristas quit

Florida House passes measures to support Israel, secure Jewish institutions

By AP and ToI Staff

More Headlines

The front doors of Congregation Beth Tikvah in the Montreal suburb of Dollard-des-Ormeau were hit with a firebomb, November 6, 2023. (B'nai Brith Canada via JTA)

Molotov cocktails thrown at Montreal-area synagogue and Jewish center

By Gabe Friedman

Yanki Deri checks his phone shortly after enlisting to the Israel Defense Forces near Tel Aviv, Israel on November 8, 2023. (Courtesy)

Yanki Deri, son of Haredi Shas party’s leader, enlists into the IDF at 40

By Canaan Lidor

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 bans Students for Justice in Palestine, saying it ‘openly supports Hamas’

By jacob gurvis

Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron speaks during a press conference at the Bank of Israel in Jerusalem, on January 7, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Bank of Israel sold $8.2 billion since war started to protect shekel from collapse

By Sharon Wrobel

Ben Gurion University of the Negev students work at a logistic center set up on campus, in an undated photo during the 2023 Israel-Hamas war. (Courtesy)

Israeli universities step up to support students in reserves, war effort

By Gavriel Fiske

A demonstration for Israeli hostages staged by Hillel at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, shortly before a student was arrested for punching a Jewish student and spitting on an Israeli flag at the event, Nov. 3, 2023. (JTA)

UMass student arrested for punching Jewish student at Hillel vigil

By Andrew Lapin

Supporters of the Issue 1 abortion measure cheer at a watch party, Nov. 7, 2023, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Biden gets boost with election wins on abortion rights, Kentucky governor vote

By Nicholas Riccardi

Screen capture from video of family members of captives held by terrorists in the Gaza Strip recording a version of the song 'Like a Prayer,' November 6, 2023. (X. used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

I hear you call my nameFamilies of hostages sing Madonna’s ‘Like A Prayer’ for their release

By Stuart Winer

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