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What Matters Most On Monday, September 23, 2024

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Cars sit in traffic as they flee ongoing Israeli airstrikes, in Sidon, Lebanon, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Netanyahu: We are changing the balance of power in north

Israel hits 1,600 targets in Monday strikes on Hezbollah as Lebanese flee; 492 killed

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and AP

IDF says it targeted many homes where Hezbollah keeps missiles in deadliest barrages since 2006 war, urges civilians to get away; Hezbollah fires 200 rockets deep into Israel

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi speaks at the IAF's Tel Nof base in central Israel, September 22, 2024. (Screenshot: IDF Spokesperson, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF chief vows strikes on Hezbollah will intensify until terror group ‘understands’

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Agencies

Smoke billows from the sites of Israeli airstrikes in Aramti, near the Lebanon-Israel border, on September 23, 2024 (Rabih DAHER / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Sept. 23: IDF names military offensive against Hezbollah operation ‘Northern Arrows’

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Lebanon health ministry: 492 killed in IDF strikes * Hezbollah rocket lands in Palestinian town * Netanyahu urges Lebanese civilians to evacuate: ‘Israel’s war is not with you’

8:56 pm

Senior US treasury official stresses importance of settler sanctions in call with Bank of Israel governor
8:43 pm

Lebanese health ministry raises death toll from today’s IDF airstrikes to 492, with 1,645 wounded
8:41 pm

Two-state solution is only framework for resolving the conflict, Biden and UAE leader say after meeting

A blast from an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon, on September 23, 2024 (X video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Gallant: Public must show composure, discipline in days ahead

IDF says widespread strikes target ‘infrastructure Hezbollah built up for years’

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Lebanese civilians get stark advance warnings via texts and calls to immediately move away from group’s weapons caches; Beirut says 100 killed, hundreds injured

Illustrative: Hezbollah fighters raise their fists and shout slogans during the funeral of their senior commander Ali Dibs who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Nabatiyeh town, south Lebanon, February 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sept. 23: Day 353 – Hezbollah’s capabilities and how the IDF could fight back

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Naim Qassem: More Israelis in north will have to leave homes

At funeral of slain terror chief, Hezbollah No.2 vows ‘open-ended battle of reckoning’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Crowds mass to mourn Ibrahim Aqil, killed in IDF airstrike with other Radwan Force members; ‘we sacrifice our children and grandchildren for him,’ a woman says of leader Nasrallah

Hezbollah members carry the body of the terror group's top military commander Ibrahim Aqil during his funeral in Beirut's southern suburbs on September 22, 2024. (AFP)

Lebanese first responders carry a man who was wounded after his handheld pager exploded in an attack blamed on Israel targeting Hezbollah, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, September 17, 2024. (AP Photo)

Lebanese hospitals pushed to the brink as discontent with Hezbollah mounts

By Gianluca Pacchiani

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks in a video addressed to the Lebanese people posted on X, September 20, 2024. (X screenshot)

Macron says France stands by Lebanon, calls to deescalate, doesn’t mention Hezbollah

Iranian late president Ebrahim Raisi (3rd L) visiting the navy base of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), in Bandar Abbas, southern Iran, in a picture released on February 2, 2024. (Iranian Presidency/ AFP)

Iran’s Guards ban communication devices after Hezbollah device explosions

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Official tells Reuters the force is conducting a thorough investigation into its members due to concerns about Israeli infiltration

Iranian Revolutionary Guard cadets march during an annual military parade marking the anniversary of the beginning of war against Iran by former Iraqi Dictator Saddam Hussein 44 years ago, in front of the shrine of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, September 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran’s IRGC says it arrested 12 people for alleged collaboration with Israel

By Reuters and ToI Staff

This is Israeli resistance

Israel’s precision attacks are a legitimate and necessary response to the massive harm Hezbollah has caused – a point I hope the world can yet learn

Micha Odenheimer

Kamala, what’s your plan for Iran?

For any peace between Israel and the Palestinians, Iran and its proxies would have to stop trying to destroy the Jewish state. But how would Harris stop a nuclear Iran?

Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai speaks during the funeral mass of Pascale Suleiman, a member of the Lebanese Forces Christian party, in Byblos town, north of Beirut, Lebanon, April 12, 2024 (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Inside story

As Hezbollah pummels north, Lebanon’s Christians divided on support for terror group

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Since Oct. 8, the head of the Maronite church has denounced attempts to drag Lebanon into war. While he is a lodestar for many, others have pledged allegiance to Hezbollah

Says he would 'prefer not to get to all-out war' in Lebanon

PM says weighing plan for siege on Hamas in north Gaza; believes half of hostages alive

During closed-door meeting with lawmakers, Netanyahu argues putting pressure on Hezbollah could help force Hamas’s Sinwar to the table, predicts ICC arrest warrants coming soon

FILE — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) speaks at the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, June 3, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

Yahya Sinwar, the Gaza Strip chief of the Palestinian Hamas terror group, greets supporters as he arrives at a rally marking Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day, April 14, 2023. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Reports: Hamas chief incommunicado, Israel checking longshot possibility he’s dead

However, there is currently no hard evidence to suggest the elusive Yahya Sinwar has been killed in Gaza; he has temporarily dropped off the radar before, during the war

ICA Summit breakout session on US-Israel Alliance with (l to r) moderator Yuna Leibzon, panelists Michael Oren, Victoria Coates and Dennis Ross, in Washington, DC, September 21, 2024. (Robert Sarner/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Not above the fray: How the US-Israel alliance is now part of American partisan politics

By Robert Sarner

Three experts speaking at the Israeli American Council National Summit weigh in on the once-sacrosanct bipartisan support for the Jewish state in DC and what has shifted

A picture taken from Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel shows an Israeli fighter jet firing a flare over southern Lebanon on May 16, 2024. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Army says drone launched at Israel by Iran-backed militia in Iraq shot down by jets

By Emanuel Fabian

Islamic Resistance in Iraq claims latest attack on country, the sixth within a day; no injuries caused

Analysis

Israel’s stunning intelligence successes in Lebanon highlight its grave failures in Gaza

Jerusalem has knocked Hezbollah back on its heels with strikes against senior leaders and, ostensibly, the attacks on communications devices. So why did it get October 7 so wrong?

Members of Hezbollah carry the coffins of comrades who were killed in an Israeli strike a day earlier, during their funeral procession in the southern suburbs of Beirut on September 21, 2024. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

US President Joe Biden speaks to reporters on the South Lawn as he returns to the White House in Washington, DC, on September 22, 2024. (Drew Angerer/AFP)

Biden says worried about rising Middle East tensions, trying to prevent all-out war

By ToI Staff, Agencies and Jacob Magid

US president says administration ‘pushing hard’ to avoid Israel-Hezbollah conflict from spreading across region; White House blames Sinwar for holding up hostage-ceasefire deal

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty arrives at the Rose Garden for an interview on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly at United Nations Headquarters in New York, September 22, 2024. (Photo by Bryan R. SMITH / AFP)

Egypt fears ‘all-out’ regional war, blames Israel for stances vs Hamas, Hezbollah

By AFP and ToI Staff

Interview

Jessica Steinberg

‘It could have been Keith’: Aviva Siegel says hostages’ murders sap her hopes for husband

She survived 51 days of Gazan captivity, but doesn’t know if her partner of 40 years is still alive, and what tortures he has undergone if he is

Former Gaza hostage Aviva Siegel, wife of hostage Keith Siegel, a US citizen, listens during a House Foreign Affairs Committee roundtable discussion with families of US hostages held by Hamas, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, July 23, 2024. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Adi Levy-Slama, who lost five relatives during the October 7 attack, attends memorial ceremony for the Kutz family at the Gan-Yavne cemetery in southern Israeli town of Be'er Tuvia on September 5, 2024. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Pain still raw for relatives of slain Kutz family as they visit Kfar Aza again

By AFP and ToI Staff

Justice Minister Yariv Levin attends a swearing-in ceremony for newly appointed judges at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on June 23, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Levin nominates all Supreme Court judges for president in effort to stall appointment

By Jeremy Sharon

Justice minister claims court is coercing appointment of new chief justice; opponents accuse him of shameful behavior, say he still intends to ‘crush independence of legal system’

'Jerusalem on Earth' by Abraham Rabinovich (Courtesy)

Interview

Rediscovering Jerusalem: Journalist releases new edition of Six Day War-era book

By Maya Zanger-Nadis

Abraham Rabinovich’s updated book offers new insights and photographs, capturing Jerusalem’s transformation and enduring tensions since 1967

More Headlines

Officials sign a new teachers' agreement, on September 23, 2024. Left to to right: Education Minister Yoav Kisch, Head of Wages and Labor Agreements at the Federation of Local Authorities Hagit Magen, Federation of Local Authorities chair Haim Bibas and Secondary School Teachers' Association chief Ran Erez (Education Ministry)

Government, teachers’ union announce 5-year salary agreement

By Gavriel Fiske

IDF troops carry out a drill in northern Israel, in a handout photo published September 18, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Civilian efforts to equip IDF soldiers ramp up as tensions with Hezbollah escalate

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Police at the scene of a car bomb where a man was injured in Kiryat Malachi, September 23, 2024. (Israel Police)

Man seriously hurt in car blast in south; police nab 3 suspects

By Michael Horovitz

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir's car after an accident in Ramle, April 26, 2024. The minister was lightly injured. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Ben Gvir’s driver indicted for reckless driving over crash while chauffeuring minister

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Maher hosts HBO's 'Real Time' on September 20, 2024. (Video screen capture; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Not joking aroundUS comic Bill Maher says Harris should ‘shut up’ about Israel

Illustrative: Solid waste is sorted and separated at a facility next to the Hiriya Landfilll near Tel Aviv on November 11, 2008. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Finance Ministry proposes creating independent authority to manage waste treatment

From 'Theodor,' Israeli opera production about founder of modern Zionism (Courtesy)

If you will itIsraeli Herzl opera ‘Theodor’ to premiere filmed version in NY

By Jessica Steinberg

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