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What Matters Most On Saturday, September 21, 2024

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An IDF infographic shows senior commanders in Hezbollah's Radwan Force killed in a September 20, 2024, strike in Beirut. (Israel Defense Forces)

Hezbollah in disarray; US: Nobody sheds a tear for Aqil

IDF confirms eliminating multiple top Hezbollah commanders in Friday’s Beirut strike

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Radwan Force leadership taken out; Hezbollah acknowledges 2 top leaders, 14 others died in attack that killed head of operations Ibrahim Aqil; Lebanon says overall death toll at 37

Rockets fired by Hezbollah from southern Lebanon are intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel on August 23, 2024. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Sept 21: IDF says 10 rockets launched from Lebanon deep into northern Israel

Attack marks Hezbollah’s deepest rocket fire into Israel since October * Man lightly hurt by shrapnel, no other injuries reported * Netanyahu, Gallant hold security consultations

10:47 pm

Medics: Man in his 60s lightly injured by shrapnel following rocket interception over Lower Galilee
10:43 pm

IDF: Some 10 rockets launched from Lebanon deep into northern Israel; no immediate reports of injuries
10:39 pm

US State Department urges citizens to leave Lebanon while commercial flights remain available

200 rockets launched at north, before and after Beirut raid

IDF kills Hezbollah’s top commander, says he was overseeing plan for invasion of Galilee

By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid and Agencies

Ibrahim Aqil was wanted by US for attacks that killed dozens; 10 more of terror group’s military leadership also killed in the rare Beirut strike, as they met underground, IDF says

Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil in an undated photo released by the terror group on September 21, 2024. (Hezbollah media office)

A US State Department "Wanted Poster" for Hezbollah Radwan Force commander Ibrahim Aqil. (US State Department)

Who was Ibrahim Aqil? The slain Hezbollah commander wanted for ’83 Beirut barracks blast

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Clockwise from top left: Ibrahim Aqil (US State Department), Fuad Shukr (Hezbollah media office), Muhammad Nasser (Hezbollah media office), Ismail Haniyeh (AP), Muhammad Deif (IDF), Taleb Abdullah (Hezbollah media office).

Which Hezbollah and Hamas terror leaders have been taken out since October 7?

By Jana Choukeir

Interview

Ex-top cyber official: It won’t be easy for Hezbollah to get new comms system in place

Refael Franco, former deputy director general of Israel’s National Cyber Directorate, says ‘bold, unusual’ action like the detonating of the pagers is ‘how you get deterrence’

Refael Franco, former Deputy General Director of Israel's National Cyber Directorate (courtesy)

A man holds a walkie-talkie device after he removed the battery during the funeral of persons killed when hundreds of paging devices exploded in an alleged Israeli attack on Hezbollah across Lebanon the previous day, in Beirut's southern suburbs on September 18, 2024. (Anwar Amro/AFP)

Hezbollah was still distributing pagers hours before Tuesday blast

By Reuters and ToI Staff

An undated selfie of Cristiana Barsony-Arcidiacono, the Italian-Hungarian CEO and owner of Hungary-based BAC Consulting in an unknown location in this picture obtained from social media. (Via Facebook/via Reuters)

ProfileCristiana Barsony-Arcidiacono, mystery woman whose company licensed exploding pagers

By Krisztina Than

Israeli security forces try to disperse Palestinian, left-wing Israeli and foreign activists, during a protest near the West Bank Israeli settlement of Mitzpe Yair in Masafer Yatta near Hebron on June 10, 2022. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images, via JTA)

His lawyer says she's never heard of a case like this

Israel bars UK Jewish left-wing activist from immigrating, orders him to leave by Sunday

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Doctoral student Leo Franks arrived in April as a tourist and began the aliyah process. But after arrests in the West Bank, his passport was confiscated, and now he’s being deported

Shlomi evacuees Ella and Avraham Moreno stand in the lobby of their Haifa hotel, September 2024. (Charlotte Lawson/ TOI)

Reporter's notebook'It hurts the essence of my Zionism'

They settled the northern border. Now these elderly Israelis worry they won’t return

By Charlotte Lawson

For many seniors who have spent the past year displaced in a Haifa hotel, the ‘abandonment’ of the North is profoundly unsettling their core beliefs about the Israeli state

Thousands attend hostage deal rally outside UN headquarters in New York

Demonstrators urge world leaders gathering for General Assembly to pay attention to plight of the captives in Gaza, note issue ‘remains conspicuously absent from the agenda’

Families of hostages and released hostages attend a rally outside the United Nations headquarters in New York calling for a hostage release-ceasefire deal, September 20, 2024. (Daniel Tenenbaum, Benjamin Azoulay, Britt Shacham, Tamar Shemesh/Hostages Families Forum)

Protesters against the government and for a hostage deal rally on Tel Aviv's Begin Road, September 14, 2024. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

‘We will not abandon them’: Thousands to rally for hostages across the country

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Former US president Donald Trump acknowledges the audience as he departs following his remarks during the Israeli American Council national summit in Washington, September 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Defending Trump, RJC hails his speech as a 'tour de force'

Top US Jewish groups, Biden and Harris slam Trump for saying Jews to blame if he loses

By Jacob Magid and Alexander Fulbright

ADL chief says ex-president highlighted record antisemitism but then undercut that by ’employing numerous antisemitic tropes’; VP’s campaign: He made the claim ‘because he’s weak’

Elliot Resnick, then editor-in-chief of The Jewish Press, seen in the crowd during the breach of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. (Screenshot from YouTube)

Former Jewish Press editor gets 4-month prison term for role in US Capitol riot

An Ishay Ribo concert becomes a moment of Jewish awakening

At Madison Square Garden, we were surrounded by people who understood both the depths of our grief and the heights of our joy

Andrew Esensten

Abshalom Ben Shlomo, Hebrew Israelite jazz man

The masterful musician, who passed away at home in Dimona over the summer, introduced ’free play’ to the local music scene

White House Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa Brett McGurk arrives at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, April 18, 2024. (Kent Nishimura/ Getty Images/ AFP)

US Mideast czar says ‘nobody shedding a tear’ for Hezbollah’s Aqil, but hints at unease

Brett McGurk highlights terror commander Ibrahim Aqil’s role in deadly US Embassy bombing in Beirut in 1983, but acknowledges ‘disagreements with the Israelis on tactics’

Rescuers sift through the rubble at the scene of an Israeli strike that targeted Hezbollah terror group commanders meeting in Beirut's southern suburbs a day earlier, as search and rescue operations continue on September 21, 2024. (AFP)

AnalysisUS treading softly with Israel, Hezbollah escalation, fearing to make things worse

By AP

US President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with the members of his cabinet and first lady Jill Biden, in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Friday, September 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden opens busy foreign policy stretch as US allies shift gaze to Harris and Trump

By AP and ToI Staff

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)

Tlaib slams ‘racist’ cartoon that shows her pager exploding

Palestinian-American member of Congress says the cartoon, which implies an association with Hezbollah, will incite hate and violence

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, presents a global update on human rights in the world, during the opening of the 57th session of the Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

UN rights chief claims detonation of Hezbollah comms devices could be a war crime

By AFP and ToI Staff

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a Knesset Finance Committee meeting in Jerusalem, September 16, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US concerned Smotrich may try to collapse Palestinian banking system — officials

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Finance minister has until end of next month to sign waiver allowing Israeli banks to cooperate with Palestinian ones, without which PA economy would struggle to survive

National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby speaks during the daily briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on September 18, 2024. (Jim Watson/AFP)

US ‘deeply disturbed’ by video of IDF troops pushing bodies of gunmen off a rooftop

By Jacob Magid and Emanuel Fabian

Israel says it will investigate incident, which ‘is not in line with IDF values’; military says local terror leader killed during Qabatiya operation

Bashar Eid, a Palestinian olive farmer and resident of the West Bank village of Burin, stands amid his olive trees next to his home with the illegal settlement outpost of Givat Ronen in the background. Olive groves belonging to Eid went up in flames on September 11. Eid and other villagers allege Israeli extremists who came from the nearby settlement of Yitzhar set the olive groves on fire, September 12, 2024. (Jeremy Sharon/Times of Israel)

Smoke point: A Palestinian olive farmer despairs after hundreds of trees set ablaze

By Jeremy Sharon

After over a year of access to his lands blocked, this year’s coming harvest offered hope, now shattered; though video of apparent arsonists exists, authorities not investigating

Author Elisa Albert (Courtesy Elisa Albert).

NY book festival cancels panel after participants refuse to sit with ‘Zionist’

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Two panelists at Albany event would not share stage with Jewish moderator Elisa Albert, an outspoken Israel supporter, who says she is ‘not surprised’ by such reactions since Oct. 7

Rabbi Cary Kozberg of Temple Sholom in Springfield, Ohio, in 2016; a mural in Springfield, Sept. 16, 2024. (Courtesy of Dayton Jewish Observer; Luke Sharrett/Getty Images via JTA)

'This is about a culture clash'

Springfield’s Trump-voting rabbi claims Haitian immigrants lack ‘Western civilized values’

By Andrew Lapin

Reform Rabbi Cary Kozberg admits there is no basis to the former president’s claims that Haitian townsfolk are eating resident’s pets, but complains they are not trying to assimilate

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