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What Matters Most On Friday, September 13, 2024

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Israeli security forces at the scene of an explosion in Ramle on September 12, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

2-month-old baby critically wounded

4 killed, including 3 children, and several others wounded in Ramle car explosion

Officers probe if vehicle or nearby stores were target of criminal — not terrorist — attack; new police chief vows to ‘pursue everyone’ responsible; Ben Gvir points blame at AG

Border police officers walk through the market in Ramle a day after a nearby explosion killed four and injured nine others, September 13, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Police arrest teen suspect in deadly Ramle blast; 500 cops conduct raids

ToI in Rafah

IDF declares Hamas’s Rafah Brigade defeated; no active cross-border tunnels found

Military discloses just 9 tunnels crossed from Gaza to Egypt, all had been blocked up before IDF arrived; over 2,000 terror operatives killed, 13 km of underground passages destroyed

A large Hamas tunnel found along the Philadelphi Corridor in southern Gaza's Rafah, September 12, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Egyptian military personnel stand alert at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza Strip, in Rafah, Egypt, October 31, 2023. (AP/Mohammed Asad)

US cites Egypt’s Gaza help as it sends full $1.3B military aid despite rights concerns

By COURTNEY BONNELL

An Israeli tank rolls onto a trailer truck at a position along the border with the Gaza Strip on January 2, 2024. (Jack Guez/AFP)

US approves $165 million sale to Israel of heavy-duty tank trailers

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A man identified as Scott Hayes holds a pistol during a fight with an identified man who attacked him during a pro-Israel rally in Newton, Massachusetts on September 12, 2024. (Screen capture: X/KassyAkiva)

Man shot after attacking pro-Israel demonstrator in Boston suburb

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Activist Scott Hayes who shot his attacker was swiftly arrested and charged, drawing ADL complaint; video shows passerby yelling at group before rushing at Hayes and assaulting him

Anti-Israel protesters at a screening of the film "Hemda" (Bliss), at the Toronto Film Festival, Canada, September 10, 2024. (Channel 12 video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Protesters storm theater before Israeli film shown at Toronto film festival

By Michael Horovitz

Joining up with angry protesters, Hostages Forum says it seeks unity, but risks divide

By Jessica Steinberg

After murders of six hostages by Hamas captors in Gaza tunnel, Hostages Families Forum and smaller Begin protest group merge their Tel Aviv protests; a minority of families fume

Einav Zangauker, whose son Matan is held hostage in Gaza, blocks a main road in Tel Aviv, during a protest calling for the release of the hostages, September 13, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Hostage families chain themselves to bridge during protest on main Tel Aviv road

Activists paint yellow ribbons along route, stage sit-in as police attempt to wash them off; mother of hostage warns Netanyahu that she won’t allow him to abandon her son

Rachel Goldberg-Polin (right) and Jon Polin, parents of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin who was murdered by his Hamas captors, speak in a video published on their social media accounts, September 12, 2024 (Screenshot via social media).

Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s parents call to keep fighting for hostages ‘before it’s too late’

IDF Humvees enter the Gaza Strip near Kerem Shalom, July 15, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Two Israeli civilians detained by IDF while trying to cross into Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

Then-Defense Minister Yoav Gallant meets with soldiers of Unit 8200, the Israeli military’s main signals intelligence unit, at one of the unit's bases, May 19, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

‘I did not fulfill my mission’: Commander of IDF’s 8200 intelligence unit resigns

By Emanuel Fabian

Brig. Gen. Yossi Sariel acknowledges his unit failed to act to prevent October 7 attack, despite gathering ‘detailed information’ about Hamas’s operational attack plans

A Palestinian medic unpacks polio vaccines during an inoculation drive at the al-Daraj neighborhood clinic in Gaza City on September 10, 2024. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

WHO ‘confident’ over 90% of children in Gaza received first polio vaccine dose

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (R) meets US special envoy Amos Hochstein in Washington DC, June 24, 2024 (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Live updates (closed)

Sept. 13: Top Biden aide expected in Israel to try to head off war with Hezbollah

Family of executed hostage Alex Lobanov release his final video from captivity * Drones hit north * 3 arrested for handing out flyers calling for hostage release at Herzliya synagogue

8:07 pm

After antisemitism accusation, Borrell says Katz shouldn't 'play with big words'
7:27 pm

One person seriously inured as car explodes in Acre
7:13 pm

Hundreds protest outside Herzliya police as 3 women detained for handing out hostage posters

Displaced Palestinians live in shelter tents in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, September 12, 2024. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Sept. 13: Day 343 – Explosive results from poll of Israelis & Palestinians

Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur digs into findings from the latest Palestine-Israel Pulse survey, which shows mirror-image oppositional beliefs in the two very pessimistic peoples

While avowing support for Israel, Trump and Harris avoid calling themselves ‘Zionists’

Pressed on whether the US presidential candidates identity as ‘Zionist,’ rival campaigns both reply at length without using the term

Photo combination showing former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) and US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris participating at the presidential debate, National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 10, 2024, . (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Pro-Israel Trump backers irked by his claim Israel has two years left if Harris wins

Remarks ‘went too far,’ missed chance to properly criticize VP on Iran policy, head of Jewish security institute says; Hebrew U prof. says comment taps into serious fear

Former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during the first presidential debate at National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, September 10, 2024. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post/Getty Images via JTA)

People sit behind a bar as they attend a watch party for the US Presidential debate between Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at American Eat Co. in Tucson, Arizona, on September 10, 2024. (Rebecca Noble/AFP)

Harris leads Trump in latest poll, with 53% of voters saying Democrat won debate

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove: What binds US Jews to Israel post-Oct. 7

New book by influential Conservative NY rabbi delves into the invisible thread that has tied the Jewish state to US Jewry – and how it could be snapped in the next generation

Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, head rabbi of New York’s Park Avenue Synagogue, holding his new book, 'For Such a Time as This: On Being Jewish Today,' September 11, 2024. (Courtesy)

Mehmet, the father of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26 year-old fatally shot Turkish-American human rights activist from Seattle, speaks to the media outside the family home in Didim, Turkey, September 12, 2024. (AP/Khalil Hamra)

Father of Turkish-American activist urges US to investigate her killing in West Bank

By AP and ToI Staff

Mehmet Suat Eygi welcomes Turkish probe into ‘arbitrary murder’ of daughter Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, who IDF has said was likely killed by its ‘indirect and unintended fire’

Palestinian activists lift a banner and portraits of slain Turkish-American International Solidarity Movement activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi during a funeral procession in the West Bank city of Nablus, September 9, 2024. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Report backs claim US woman was killed half hour after West Bank protest waned

By ToI Staff and AFP

Laura Ben-David

From Manipur to Israel: A Bnei Menashe immigrant pays the highest price

First Sgt. Gideon Hanghal was killed in the line of duty, which should remind the Jewish state to bring his community home now (PHOTO ESSAY)

Today’s ‘orphans’ and ‘widows’ belong in shul too

To include singles, divorces, and others in your more normative community, embrace them and give them a seat at the table. It worked for us

Firefighting crews work to extinguish a blaze in the Birya Forest, north of Safed and close to Rehaniya following a Hezbollah rocket barrage, September 13, 2024. (Israel Fire and Rescue Services)

Hezbollah drone hits Galilee after overnight barrage on Safed sparked forest fire

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

IDF says majority of projectiles intercepted, remainder fell in open areas; Iran-backed terror group claims attack was revenge for Israeli strike in southern Lebanon a day earlier

Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar speaks during a rally marking Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day, in Gaza City, April 14, 2023. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Breaking silence again, Hamas head Sinwar thanks Hezbollah chief for attacks on north

This image made from a SpaceX video shows the start of the first private spacewalk led by Jared Isaacman, September 12, 2024. (SpaceX via AP)

High above the Earth, Jewish tech entrepreneur performs first ever private spacewalk

‘Back at home, we all have a lot of work to do. But from here, it sure looks like a perfect world,’ says Jared Isaacman after popping out of capsule to test SpaceX’s new spacesuit

'Next Stop' is the first novel by Benjamin Resnick, rabbi of the Pelham Jewish Center in suburban New York. (Kenneth Resnick; Simon & Schuster/ JTA)

Interview'US Jews suffered a paradigm shift and there's no going back'

A rabbi’s debut novel imagines a black hole swallowing Israel. And then things get weird

By Larry Yudelson

Benjamin Resnick’s ‘Next Stop’ is set in a dystopian near future where the golden age of American Jewry is just a memory — as is the Jewish state

Members of the Piyyut Ensemble, including Riff Cohen (third from left) record 'Hoshana,' ahead of the Jewish High Holidays (Screen capture/YouTube)

Save us... a seat

With High Holidays on horizon, a musical group takes penitence on tour

By Jessica Steinberg

Piyyut Ensemble joins with rocker Berry Sakharov and singer Riff Cohen for Tel Aviv show as band puts season’s liturgy, ancient and new, onstage

Illustrative: Cantors and rabbis are ordained at a ceremony at Berlin’s Rykestrasse synagogue, September 5, 2024. In all, 55 candidates have been ordained since Geiger College opened in 1999. (Toby Axelrod/ JTA)

Riven by scandal and uncertainty, a German Jewish community welcomes moment to celebrate

By Toby Axelrod

As Abraham Geiger College marks the graduation of 8 rabbis and cantors, its future remains precarious following its founder’s departure after accusations of misconduct

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Police raid the Al Jazeera offices in Jerusalem on May 5, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israel to revoke press credentials of Al Jazeera reporters after ban on network

By Sam Sokol and Agencies

This undated photo provided on September 13, 2024, by the North Korean government shows its leader Kim Jong Un, center, on an inspecting visit at what they say is an institute of nuclear weapons and a facility for nuclear materials at an undisclosed location in North Korea. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

North Korea offers first glimpse into secretive uranium enrichment site

By Hyunsu Yim and Josh Smith

Illustrative: Playtika at high-tech development centers in Herzliya, October 30, 2020. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Loss of confidence in the state’s actions drives startups to grow elsewhere – survey

By Sharon Wrobel

Howard Teich, the founding chair of the Manhattan Jewish Historical Initiative, speaks at a monument in The Battery that marks the Jewish arrival in New York in September 1654, New York, September 13, 2023. (Julia Gergely via JTA)

NYC Council to vote on recognizing anniversary of first Jewish arrivals in city

By julia GERGELY

Harvey Weinstein appears at Manhattan criminal court for a preliminary hearing on May 1, 2024 in New York. (David Dee Delgado/Pool Photo via AP)

Harvey Weinstein indicted on additional sex crimes charges ahead of New York retrial

By Michael R. Sisak

Likud MK Hanoch Milwidsky attends a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, in Jerusalem on September 12, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Compromising images of Likud lawmaker sent to Knesset offices by anonymous email

Fighters from the Popular Mobilization Forces attend the funeral of a commander from the Kataib Hezbollah paramilitary group killed in a US airstrike, in Baghdad, Iraq on February 8, 2024. (AP/Hadi Mizban, File)

US blames Iran-linked groups for Tuesday attack on Iraq diplomatic compound

By AFP

Illustrative: This frame grab from video shows the launching of underground ballistic missiles by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard during a military exercise on July 29, 2020. (Sepahnews via AP)

Iran summons European envoys, denies it transferred ballistic missiles to Russia

By AFP

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