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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 3, 2024

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US President Joe Biden speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on October 2, 2024. (Mandel Ngan / AFP)

IDF chief warns Iran: We'll respond; we can strike anywhere

Biden: US opposes Israel hitting Iran nuclear sites, response should be ‘proportional’

By Jacob Magid, ToI Staff and Agencies

President says Israel has right to hit back and that G7 leaders agreed to sanction Iran over missile attack; cabinet said holding off on response pending coordination with Washington

Iran's domestically built centrifuges are displayed in an exhibition of the country's nuclear achievements, in Tehran, Iran, February 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

ExplainerIran’s nuclear facilities: Potential targets long in Israel’s sights

People visit the site of the remains of an Iranian missile in the Negev desert near Arad on October 3, 2024, in the aftermath of an Iranian missile attack on Israel. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 3: US official says Israel doesn’t seem to have decided how to respond to Iran attack

By Elana Kirsh and Michael Horovitz

Biden: Talks ongoing on possible Israeli strike on Iranian oil sites * 200 rockets fired Friday from Lebanon at north as sirens sound non-stop * Cpt. Ben Zion Falach killed in Lebanon

8:53 pm

PA health ministry: Death toll in IDF strike in Tulkarem rises to 18
8:30 pm

After IDF evacuation order, Lebanese media reports airstrikes on two Hezbollah sites in Beirut
8:08 pm

PA health ministry reports at least 16 dead in Israeli strike in West Bank city of Tulkarem

Palestinian infamous for 2000 lynching of soldiers in Ramallah killed in Gaza strike

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Photo of Aziz Salha displaying his blood-soaked hands to mob was a defining image of the Second Intifada; IDF says he was targeted in Deir al-Balah

Palestinian Aziz Salha seen at a window showing off his blood-stained hands as a mob beat to death two Israeli soldiers in Ramallah, October 2000. (YouTube screenshot)

Yazidi woman Fawzia Amin Sido (R), who was kidnapped by ISIS in Iraq in 2014 and then transferred to Gaza, Oct. 3, 2024, seen back in Iraq after being rescued recently by Israeli security forces. Iraq made no official mention of Israel's role. (Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Israel rescues Yazidi woman from Gaza after her kidnapping by ISIS at age 11

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Fawzia Amin Sido was sold by the terror group to a Gazan man in 2014; now 21, she has been reunited with her family in Iraq

People inspect a destroyed classroom in the aftermath of Israeli bombardment on the disused Palestinian Muscat Governmental School, in Gaza City on October 2, 2024. (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP)

IDF says it struck Hamas command centers embedded in disused Gaza schools

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Trucks carrying aid queue on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on September 9, 2024. (AFP)

Food aid to Gaza falls as relief agencies dispute new Israeli customs rule

This handout picture provided by the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him during a gathering of Iranian top scientific talents in Tehran on October 2, 2024, with a portrait of the slain leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah terror group Hassan Nasrallah next to him. (KHAMENEI.IR/AFP)

Mistrust at a high between Iran and proxy, and within latter

Khamenei warned Nasrallah to flee Lebanon days before he was killed in Israeli strike

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Source say supreme leader sent IRGC’s Nilforoushan to urge Nasrallah to escape to Iran after pager detonations; the envoy was killed alongside the Hezbollah chief in Beirut bunker

A satellite photo of Israel's Nevatim air base after Iran's missile attack appears to show damage to a hangar roof, October 2, 2024 (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Satellite imagery appears to show damage at air base after Iranian missile strike

By AP and ToI Staff

Photo shows hole in roof of hangar at Nevatim, in southern Israel, with no other apparent damage; IDF has said its capabilities were unharmed

IRGC consultant said killed after Damascus strike

IDF orders more towns to evacuate in Lebanon as rocket barrages target northern Israel

By Emanuel Fabian

In first, some of the towns warned to empty are located north of Litani River; army says forces killed 60 Hezbollah men and hit 200 targets over past day

A picture taken from northern Israel along the border shows smoke billowing above south Lebanon during Israeli strikes on October 3, 2024 (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

A firefighter stands in front of an apartment hit by an Israeli airstrike, in Beirut, Lebanon, October 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

At least 6 said killed in central Beirut after IDF announces ‘targeted’ attack

By ToI Staff, Agencies and Emanuel Fabian

Israelis stand on top of the remains of an Iranian missile in the Negev desert near Arad, on October 2, 2024, in the aftermath of an Iranian missile attack on Israel. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 3, Day 363 – Israel on the offense: A pivotal week fighting 7 fronts

A screenshot of video showing an interceptor missile over central Israel, early October 3, 2024. The IDF later confirmed intercepting a 'suspicious' aerial object off the coast. (Twitter screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF shoots down drones targeting central Israel; Yemen’s Houthis claim attack

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

The Iran-backed group claims ‘vital target’ successfully hit, urges other nations to support Palestinians and Lebanese ahead of Oct. 7 anniversary

Popular Mobilization Forces burn representations of US and Israeli flags during al-Quds Day in Baghdad, Iraq, May 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Ali Abdul Hassan, File)

ExplainerAfter Iran’s attack and as Israel engages Hezbollah, will proxies in Iraq step up fire?

By Alexander Schloss

An F-15I fighter jet of the IAF's 69th Squadron takes off from the Hatzerim Airbase in southern Israel to carry out a strike in Beirut against Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, September 27, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Poll: Two-thirds of Israelis support strike on Iran if Hezbollah attacks continue

IDF soldiers killed during fighting against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon on October 2, 2024: (L-R) Top: Staff Sgt. Ido Broyer, Staff Sgt. Almken Terefe, Sgt. First Class Or Mantzur, Cpt. Eitan Itzhak Oster; Bottom: Sgt. First Class Nazar Itkin, Cpt. Harel Etinger, Sgt. First Class Noam Barzilay, Cpt. Itai Ariel Giat. (Israel Defense Forces)

Civilians from two dozen Lebanese villages told to evacuate

In first fatalities of Lebanon ground op, 8 IDF soldiers killed in battles with Hezbollah

By Emanuel Fabian

Over 100 rockets, drones fired at Israel after multiple strikes in terror group’s Beirut stronghold overnight; IDF sends 36th Division into Lebanon, joining 98th Division

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Happy birthday, humanity. We have work to do

Every day, I wrestle with how to reconcile my desire to trust, love, and believe in people with the reality I saw on October 7

Embracing complexity at our Rosh Hashanah table

What food could possibly symbolize the chaotic experience of this unprecedented year?

Rabbi Avidan Freedman (C) and other activists on hunger strike outside the Knesset. (Courtesy)

11 days in, hunger strikers unwavering as they highlight plight of Israeli hostages

By Jeremy Sharon

‘We cannot be, and we are not, a society which is happier killing our enemies than saving our children’ says hunger striker Rabbi Avidan Freedman

Illustrative: Protesters holding placards and Israeli flags join a gathering outside the headquarters of the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) in London on October 16, 2023, to appeal to the corporation to call Hamas 'terrorists.' (Daniel Leal/AFP)

InterviewBBC Arabic allegedly among most slanted global media outlets

BBC coverage of Hamas conflict ‘profoundly biased,’ says former pro-Iran commentator

By Robert Philpot

Once a vocal supporter of the Islamic Republic, Catherine Perez-Shakdam recently stepped up to head We Believe In Israel – and now has Britain’s top broadcaster in her sights

Illustrative: European diplomats visit the largely-empty city of Kiryat Shmona, July 11, 2024. (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

'I stay awake all night wondering what will happen'

Israel’s 68,000 evacuees mark the Jewish new year wondering when they will return home

By Deborah Danan

In the year since the Oct. 7 massacre, near-daily attacks by Hezbollah have left the lives of displaced northern residents in limbo. And now the conflict is intensifying

A Rosh Hashanah dinner table set up outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Caesarea home on October 2, 2024. (Oded Engel)

Hostage families set up Rosh Hashanah dinner table outside PM’s Caesarea home

Relatives of Gaza hostages mark a somber New Year with events near Netanyahu’s private residence and at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv

Shofars blown along Ukraine frontlines in Rosh Hashanah initiative for Jewish troops

By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ

Country’s largest Jewish communal body distributes the ritual instruments along with holiday kits for soldiers, ‘reinforcing their connection to their faith and heritage’ amid war

Ukrainian soldiers learn about Rosh Hashanah in the field (left) while Аriel Chernetskiy blows the shofar in uniform, September 2024. (Courtesy: Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine via JTA)

Daniel Gammerman gathers prayer items that he will use to privately worship at home during the Jewish High Holy Days, Thursday, September 26, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

'This is who I am, is there still room for me here?'

Feeling out of place at synagogue, Orthodox LGBTQ Jews make their own spaces

By María Teresa Hernández

Eshel, a US-based organization focused on LGBTQ Orthodox communities, finds that after coming out, people often wonder if they still belong in the spaces they were raised in

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