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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 2, 2024

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Soldiers of the Paratroopers Brigade are seen operating in southern Lebanon, in handout image published October 2, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 2: Hezbollah said hesitant to tap new leader, fearing Israeli infiltration risks successor

Israeli source tells ToI that response to Iranian missile attack will aim to cause ‘significant financial damage’ * Hamas claims responsibility for deadly terror shooting in Jaffa

8:24 pm

Melania Trump reflects on year since Oct. 7 in Rosh Hashanah message: My thoughts with those in captivity
7:02 pm

Hezbollah said hesitant to tap new leader, fearing ongoing Israeli infiltration will put Nasrallah successor at risk
6:41 pm

Jordan FM tells Iran and Israel country will 'defend itself'

Israeli security forces at the scene where a missile fired from Iran hit a school in the town of Gedera, October 1, 2024. (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)

Netanyahu said set to speak with Biden about retaliation

Israel said mulling attacks on Iran oil fields, nuclear sites in response to missile attack

Cabinet said resolved to respond militarily, but has not decided how; officials also weighing targeted assassinations, attacks on air defenses; response to be coordinated with US

Image taken from video shows missiles fired from Iran being intercepted over Jerusalem, October 1, 2024. (AP)

Iran fires 181 missiles at Israel; PM: They made a ‘big mistake’ and ‘will pay for it’

By Lazar Berman and Emanuel Fabian

IAF, along with US and Jordan, intercept most of the projectiles; 1 Palestinian killed, 2 Israelis hurt; IDF says no harm to ‘competence’ of Air Force as some missiles target bases

ID of Sameh al-Asali, a Palestinian man killed near Jericho by shrapnel of an Iranian ballistic missile launched against Israel on October 1, 2024. (X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Shrapnel from Iranian missile kills Palestinian man near Jericho

By Gianluca Pacchiani

A woman holds a sign showing the face of Hezbollah's slain leader Hassan Nasrallah with the Persian slogan 'Hezbollah is alive,' during a celebratory rally after Iran launched a barrage of missiles at Israel, in Tehran's Palestine Square, October 1, 2024. (Atta Kenare / AFP)

Iran celebrates missile attack, as IRGC vows crushing response if Israel hits back

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Urges 'every nation in world' to denounce Iran

US: We will help Israel exact ‘severe consequences’ from Iran for missile attack

Pledge to assist goes further than DC’s support after April attack, when Biden sought to limit Israel’s response; president says strike unsuccessful partly due to US assistance

US President Joe Biden speaks during a briefing on the government's response to Hurricane Helene in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024, as Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, left, and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, right, look on. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

An Israeli man walks past the rubble of a destroyed building in Hod HaSharon in the aftermath of an Iranian missile attack on Israel, on October 2, 2024.(Jack Guez / AFP)

IDF acknowledges some Iranian missiles hit airbases, says no major damage caused

By Emanuel Fabian

US vice presidential candidates JD Vance (L) and Tim Walz (R) participate in a debate hosted by CBS News in New York, October 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

At US VP debate, Vance signals he’d be okay with Israeli strike on Iran; Walz sidesteps

By AP and ToI Staff

Analysis

A nervous Iran wanted to restore old regional order, but Israel is on the offensive

Hardliners seem to have won the day in Tehran, but instead of deterring Netanyahu, they have likely sparked a painful, direct strike on Iranian territory – possibly the first of many

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, meets with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran, Iran, August 27, 2024. Between them is a portrait of the Islamic Republic's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. (KHAMENEI.IR/AFP)

Members of Israel's Home Front Command and police forces inspect a crater left by an exploded projectile at a heavily damaged school building on October 1, 2024, after Iran launched a barrage of missiles at Israel (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

West denounces Iran’s missile attack on Israel, cautions against further escalation

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Op-ed: Day 362 of the war

Iranian regime’s missile assault underlines that Israel, with US, must expedite its demise

Latest ballistic bombardment is grim reminder that the Islamic Republic is the center of the multi-front war to destroy Israel. Ultimately, it’s us or them

A father shows his children a school in Israel's southern city of Gedera on October 2, 2024, after it was hit during the previous day's barrage of ballistic missiles fired at Israel by Iran. (JOHN WESSELS / AFP)

Israelis take cover inside a bomb shelter at Ben Gurion airport as a siren alert is sounded in Tel Aviv, October 1, 2024 (Photo by Dor Pazuelo/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 2: Day 362 – Israelis shelter as Iran attacks, US vows support

A Hezbollah missile recovered by the IDF from Lebanon in recent months, in a photo released by the IDF on October 1, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Military: Current op not aimed at taking cities, will end ASAP

IDF: Hezbollah was ready to invade en masse after Oct. 7; we covertly raided 1,000 sites

By Emanuel Fabian and Michael Bachner

Army reveals 3,000 terrorists were in position to storm Galilee; strikes drove them away; commandos then carried out 70 forays into Lebanon to seize weapons, raze sites and tunnels

Two terrorists seen carrying out a deadly attack in Jaffa, October 1, 2024 (X screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the copyright law)

Seven people killed in shooting, stabbing terror attack in Jaffa

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Two terrorists attack civilians on Tel Aviv light rail, proceed to attack more people on foot before being shot, killed by security guard, civilians

Top (L-R): Inbar Segev Vigder, Ilia Nozadze, Revital Bronstein; Bottom (L-R): Shahar Goldman, Nadia Sokolenco, Jonas Chrosis; All six were killed in a shooting-and-stabbing terror attack in Jaffa on October 1, 2024. (Photos used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Six victims of Jaffa terror attack named, as more details about shooting emerge

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Foreign Minister Israel Katz (left) attends a vote at the Knesset in Jerusalem, September 30, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks at the UN Security Council meeting at the UN in New York, September 27, 2024. (Bryan R. Smith/AFP)

FM Katz bars UN chief Guterres from Israel for failing to condemn Iran over missile attack

By ToI Staff, Agencies and Jacob Magid

Germany summons Tehran’s envoy to denounce barrage, says Katz move unhelpful; other Israeli officials’ doubt he has the authority to ban Guterres

People wave Turkish and Palestinian flags during an anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protest in Istanbul, Turkey, August 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

AnalysisDespite its anti-Israel stance, Turkey isn’t shedding tears over Hezbollah losses

By AFP and ToI Staff

Not by my strength and not by our hands do we wage war

If this year has taught me anything it’s that even with all the wonders of Israeli technology, we still need God’s guidance to protect us

May this year’s inscription be better than the one of a year ago

If we can work together, despite our differences, and also seek God in the world more actively, then we are doing our due diligence for a better 5785

Explainer

Gianluca Pacchiani

Timeline of evil: Nasrallah’s death ends three-decade global trail of bloodshed

Under his leadership, Hezbollah grew into an international network that carried out terror attacks killing hundreds of Jews, Israelis and US troops, and massacred thousands of Syrians

Supporters of Iranian-backed Hezbollah raise their fists and cheer as leader Hassan Nasrallah gives a speech via a video link during a rally in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023 (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

A damaged building is seen at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut's southern suburb, Lebanon, October 1, 2024. (AP/Hassan Ammar)

IDF says strike kills head of Hezbollah unit charged with smuggling arms from Iran

By Emanuel Fabian

An Air China plane prepares to take off from Rafik Hariri International Airport as smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, October 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Airlines scramble to divert flights following Iranian missile attack on Israel

Some 80 flights heading for major Middle East hubs such as Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi were diverted on Tuesday, flight data shows

A man looks at the board displaying multiple delayed and cancelled flights at Ben Gurion International airport on August 25, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israel seeks to reverse EU’s advice to avoid its skies as foreign carriers nix flights

By Sharon Wrobel

Illustrative: Thousands of Jewish worshippers gather at the Western Wall for the Passover priestly blessing in Jerusalem's Old City on April 25, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

World’s Jewish population hits 15.8 million, on eve of Rosh Hashanah

Jewish Agency says 7.3 million Jews reside in Israel, 6.3 million in US; number of Jews worldwide has increased by 100,000 over the last year

Israeli security forces argue with Israeli settlers at the entrance to the West Bank village of Turmus Ayya on the day that Jewish extremists set fire to homes and vehicles in the town, June 21, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US sanctions ‘Hilltop Youth,’ treating extreme settler activists as organized group

Israeli official slams timing of announcement as Israel braced for Iran missile attack, along with ‘shocking lack of understanding’ since no official group exists under this name

Roni Karlinsky with his beehives at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, near the Gaza border, southern Israel, September 1, 2024. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebookMost damage to Israeli honey was from fires in north

Despite the war, no shortage of honey for Jewish New Year

Located on a kibbutz near Gaza border, the Yad Mordechai factory, Israel’s biggest honey producer, reopened a month after the Hamas infiltration and massacre on October 7

Shuli Abitbul (far left), Dani Admasu, Hen Avigdori (third from left) and Hadassa Ben Ari at a panel at Jerusalem's Mandel Leadership Institute on September 22, 2024 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

'It's all intuition'

Parents, creators discuss how to talk to kids about war, hostage crisis

By Jessica Steinberg

Conference at Jerusalem’s Mandel Leadership Institute includes TV writer Hen Avigdori, whose wife and daughter were released from captivity; ‘Laugh as much as possible,’ he says

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The headquarters of US financial company Standard and Poor's (S&P) in lower Manhattan, New York, May 2014. (mixmotive via iStock by Getty Images)

S&P cuts Israel’s rating soon after Iran attack, warns of ‘delayed economic recovery’

By Sharon Wrobel

Council on American-Islamic Relations attorney Gadeir Abbas announces a lawsuit against the University of Maryland at a press conference in College Park, Maryland on September 17, 2024. (Charlie Summers/ Times of Israel)

U of Maryland must let pro-Palestinian student group hold rally on Oct. 7, judge rules

By Andrew Lapin

Jewish men seen outside the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman, ahead of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, October 1, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Trading one war for another, Israeli Jews stream to Ukraine’s Uman for Rosh Hashanah

By AFP and ToI Staff

Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree speaks during a rally against the US and Israel in Sanaa, Yemen, September 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Houthi drone slams into ship, missile hits another in Red Sea attacks

By AP

Outgoing Acting Supreme Court President Uzi Vogelman with incoming Acting Supreme Court President Isaac Amit (L) and Justice Noam Sohlberg (R) at a farewell ceremony for Vogelman at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, October 1, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Pool)

Vogelman retires as Supreme Court president in shadow of severe judiciary-gov’t clash

By Jeremy Sharon

Signs marking the intersection of Broad and Walls Streets stand near the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday, October 1, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)

Stock markets slump, oil jumps as Iran attack sparks fear of all-out war in Mideast

By AFP and ToI Staff

Television and newspaper reporters in Los Angeles interview passersby in the Jewish neighborhood of Pico-Robertson following two shootings that occurred in the area in the previous two days on February 17, 2023. (Asaf Elia-Shalev)

Man who shot two Jews outside LA synagogues sentenced to 35 years in prison

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Illustrative: A soldier of the Danish Army (Forsvaret) guards the Copenhagen Synagogue, December 16, 2023. (Nils Meilvang/Ritzau Scanpix via AP, File)

Danish and Swedish police probing explosions, gunshot at Israeli embassies

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Herbert Kickl (C), leader and top candidate of right-wing populist Freedom Party of Austria (FPOe) is celebrated by supporters at the party's election event after exit poll numbers were announced at the Stiegl-Ambulanz restaurant in Vienna, Austria on September 29, 2024. (Alex Halada/AFP)

Disgruntled over immigration, ailing economy, Austrians handed victory to far-right party

By Louis van Boxel-Woolf

Hundreds of demonstrators hold flags and pictures of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah at a protest rally in Sydney on September 29, 2024. (Saeed KHAN / AFP)

Australia charges woman for flying Hezbollah flag at anti-Israel protest

By AFP, Agencies and ToI Staff

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