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What Matters Most On Friday, September 20, 2024

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People inspect the site of an Israeli strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, in which Hezbollah military commander Ibrahim Aqil was killed, September 20, 2024. (Reuters / Mohamed Azakir)

Live updates (closed)

Sept. 20: ‘Our goals are clear, our actions speak for themselves,’ PM says after Beirut strike

By Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

IDF says it doesn’t seek ‘broad escalation’ after killing Ibrahim Aqil, other terror chiefs, in Beirut strike * US wasn’t forewarned * UN chief meets families of hostages

8:32 pm

Harris spokesperson says Trump clinging to 'fearmongering and intimidation' after comments about Jewish Americans
8:06 pm

UN human rights chief says Hezbollah pager blasts could constitute a war crime
7:41 pm

Slamming Netanyahu, Lapid asks if he knows what the goals of the war are

Smoke and fire rise from the site of an alleged Israeli strike on the southern Lebanese border village of Mahmoudiyeh on September 19, 2024. (Rabih Daher/AFP)

Gallant: Hezbollah is 'feeling persecuted'

IDF hits more than 100 loaded Hezbollah launchers in series of major Lebanon strikes

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

After strikes, army tells residents of several northern communities to stay near bomb shelters; Metula mayor reports ‘tremendous damage’ after rockets hit buildings, spark fires

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken exits a vehicle as he departs Egypt, taking off from Cairo, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024, for meetings in Paris, France. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sept. 20: Day 350 – US carefully responds to latest escalation in north

France's outgoing Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne (R) and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speak to the press following a meeting at the French Foreign Ministry, in Paris, on September 19, 2024. (Alain Jocard/AFP)

Blinken warns against ‘escalatory actions’ in Mideast, cites risk to Gaza deal

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Iran vows 'crushing response' from 'axis of resistance'

Nasrallah says device blasts ‘could be seen as declaration of war,’ vows vengeance

By Gianluca Pacchiani, Agencies and ToI Staff

Hezbollah leader promises attacks on Israel until Gaza war ends, says country’s northern ‘settlers’ won’t be able to return home until then; IAF jets fly low over Beirut during speech

An image grab taken from Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV shows the Lebanese terror group's chief Hassan Nasrallah addressing the nation from an undisclosed location on September 19, 2024. (Al-Manar/AFP)

File: A Pegasus airlines flight prepares to land at Beirut International Airport on August 25, 2024. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

After blasts, Lebanon bans walkie-talkies and pagers from flights leaving Beirut

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The entrance of a building reportedly housing the Norta Global company according to company contacts, in Sofia, Bulgaria, September 19, 2024. (Nikolay Doychinov/AFP)

Sleuthing for origins of exploding Hezbollah pagers widens to Bulgaria and Norway

By Reuters and ToI Staff

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Jewish group executive: 'This is dangerous antisemitism'

Trump: If I lose election, Jewish people will ‘have a lot to do with’ it

GOP nominee fumes most Jews back Harris, intensifies warning of Israel’s annihilation to ‘within 2 years’ if she wins, calls rescued hostage to stage; Walz meets hostage families

Republican presidential nominee former president Donald Trump acknowledges the crowd as he exits the stage after speaking at the Israeli American Council National Summit, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina Mark Robinson speaks during the first day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 15, 2024. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)

GOP candidate in North Carolina denies calling himself ‘black NAZI’ on porn site forum

US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (R) shakes hands with former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a presidential debate at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 2024. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Poll shows US voters think Harris, Trump on equal footing on economy, crime, Gaza war

By AP

A woman looks at a mural of the five female soldiers held hostage in Gaza, at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv. September 17, 2024 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

US officials believe hostage-ceasefire deal unlikely by end of Biden’s term – report

By ToI Staff and Reuters

WSJ: Hamas makes demands and then refuses to agree to proposal when they’re met; officials say potential full war between Israel and Hezbollah would make things still more complex

Israelis protest calling for the release of hostages held kidnapped by Hamas terrorists in Gaza outside the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, September 19, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Top negotiator says proposal to end war, free all hostages ‘unknown’ to him – report

Orna Shimoni outside the Knesset, Sep. 20, 2024 (Screenshot taken from X in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

83-year-old bereaved mother starts hunger strike outside Knesset to demand hostage deal

People watch from a balcony as smoke billows during an IDF raid in the northern West Bank city of Qabatiya, September 19, 2024. (Zain Jaafar/AFP)

IDF investigating after troops filmed shoving bodies of 3 gunmen off West Bank roof

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says ‘serious incident,’ which occurred during raid in which 7 terror operatives killed, ‘is not in line with IDF values and what is expected of soldiers’

Left: Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, announces he is seeking arrest warrants from the court’s judges for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, along with Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Muhammad Deif and Ismail Haniyeh, on May 20, 2024 (ICC); Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a video address, May 20, 2024. (Screenshot/ GPO)

Israel files ICC petition challenging potential arrest warrants against PM, Gallant

Jerusalem says it rejects court’s jurisdiction in matter, asserts Israel has independent judiciary but wasn’t given chance to probe war crimes claims itself before prosecutor acted

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara on February 8, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, November 2, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

AG tells Netanyahu she won’t defend his refusal to approve state inquiry into Oct. 7

By Jeremy Sharon

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian, center, meets with Iraqi community members during his visit to Basra, Iraq, September 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jourani)

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The regional war has already begun

ToI’s senior analyst weighs in on the deep-rooted meaning of hostages in Jewish psyches and weighs in on what to look out for as Jewish students return to campuses across the US

Inverted morality

When the Western world rationalizes Hamas’s heinous disregard for all decency and worries about the terrorists’ well-being, evil has overtaken good

A beautiful life: Zechariah Haber z”l

Hamas ended my son’s life, and we’ll mourn him forever, but we won’t let them erase the extraordinary person he was before that terrible knock on the door

Little-known Hamas leader seen behind resurgence of West Bank suicide bombings

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Analysts say Istanbul-based Zaher Jabarin, now in charge of West Bank terror activity, seeking to prove mettle with return to high-profile attacks

Senior Hamas official Zaher Jabarin attends the funeral of the movement's political leader Ismail Haniyeh in the Qatari capital Doha on August 2, 2024. (Mahmud Hams / AFP)

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel supporters protest outside Columbia University, Sep. 3, 2024, in New York. (AP/Yuki Iwamura)

Inside Story'We seem to have picked up where we left off'

As Columbia reopens, fresh protests put Jewish students on edge from Day 1

By Cathryn J. Prince

Anti-Israel activity is alive and well in Morningside Heights, where some already report feeling uncomfortable as last year’s turmoil shows signs of rearing its head again

Board approves more non-lethal weapons for UCLA police after Gaza war protests

Emeritus Prof. Haim Rabinowitch with his potatoes at a Negev observation plot in southern Israel. (Ore Eldan, Rumafeed)

Kibbutz ravaged on Oct. 7 looks to renewal through gene-edited potatoes and tomatoes

As the southern community mourns its losses, Holit is set to trial a potato whose natural toxins have been gene-edited out and a tomato that grows semi-dried on the bush

The site of an IDF helicopter crash in the southern Gaza Strip, September 11, 2024. (Courtesy)

IAF chopper crash probe finds bad visibility conditions led to deadly accident

By Emanuel Fabian

‘Complex’ helipad in south Gaza combat zone, paired with darkness and heavy dust, led crew to lose ‘spatial orientation’; 2 soldiers were killed, seven wounded in Sep. 11 incident

IDF troops with the 162nd Division are seen operating in the Tel Sultan neighborhood of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip in this handout photo published on September 14, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Right-wing lawmakers question IDF’s claimed defeat of Hamas’s Rafah Brigade

Sigal Bar Zvi, head of community policing in Israel. (courtesy of Israel Police)

In parting shot, senior cop warns self-serving leaders are letting criminals run riot

Deputy Commissioner Sigal Bar Zvi assails decision-makers who serve political interests, as well as too-lenient courts and laws that overly protect individual rights

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a farewell ceremony in honor of outgoing Police Chief Kobi Shabtai, at the National Police Academy in Beit Shemesh, on July 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Attorney general says Ben Gvir’s promotion of indicted cop ‘clearly illegal’

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir arrives at a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, September 11, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir boycotts meeting on Arab crime with Netanyahu amid new spat

Jewish influencer Ellie Zeiler (Design by Jackie Hajdenberg/via JTA)

‘My life felt meaningless’: Jewish influencer swaps jet-setting for Jerusalem

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Ellie Zeiler enrolls in a seminary for Orthodox young women in the capital and is set to focus her content on life as an observant Jew, becoming first major influencer to do so

Steven Cook and Michael Solomonov shot the pictures for 'Zahav Home' in Solomonov's Philadelphia house. (Courtesy CookNSolo/via JTA)

Chef Michael Solomonov aims to simplify Israeli classics for home cooks in new book

By Rachel Ringler

‘Zahav Home’ inspired by COVID-era home cooking; author says loyal customers boosted support after post-Oct. 7 protests outside his restaurant due to his fundraising for Israel

More Headlines

In Beirut's southern suburbs, the remains of exploded pagers used by Hezbollah on display at an undisclosed location, on September 18, 2024, in a stealth attack blamed on Israel. (AFP)

No laughing matter? Hezbollah pager explosions become fodder for online jokes

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers remarks at the Holocaust Educational Trust's annual appeal dinner, Sep. 16, 2024. (Screenshot via YouTube/via JTA)

UK’s Starmer pledges to build Holocaust memorial, mandate Holocaust education

By Jackie Hajdenberg

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs a bill promoting the restitution of Nazi-looted art and personal property stolen during the Holocaust. (Office of CA Gov. Gavin Newsom via JTA)

California approves law to help Holocaust survivors and heirs recover Nazi-looted art

By Jackie Hajdenberg

A car burns after fresh explosions are reported in Lebanon on September 18, 2024, a day after thousands of Hezbollah pagers exploded in an attack blamed on Israel (Screencapture X/ used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

AnalysisHezbollah device explosions hurt psychologically more than practically, analysts say

By AP and ToI Staff

Level's new e-foil in action. (Courtesy: Level)

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This Dec. 24, 1968, file photo made available by NASA shows the Earth behind the surface of the moon during the Apollo 8 mission (William Anders/NASA via AP, File)

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