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What Matters Most On Friday, October 4, 2024

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Iran's Supreme leader Ali Khamenei holds a rifle as he delivers a sermon denouncing Israel and justifying Hamas's October 7 slaughter in Israel, in Tehran on October 4, 2024. (X screenshot used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

IRGC commander threatens strikes on Israeli energy sites

Khamenei says Iran ‘won’t back down, Israel won’t last long’; hails Hamas Oct. 7 massacre

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Supreme leader, gun in hand at sermon, claims Israel will ‘never defeat Hamas and Hezbollah’ after terror chiefs killed, calls missile attack ‘minimum punishment for Zionist crimes’

IDF troops with the 252nd Division operate in the Netzarim Corridor in the central Gaza Strip, in a handout image published October 3, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

Oct 4: IDF says it struck Hamas command center in former school in central Gaza

Israeli security establishment increasingly believes Nasrallah’s presumed successor killed in strike * Hamas confirms death of commander in Israeli strike in West Bank

11:54 pm

Blast heard, smoke seen over Beirut’s southern suburbs, Reuters witnesses say
11:22 pm

Harris meets Muslim and Arab leaders in Michigan to talk Gaza, Lebanon
10:57 pm

Israeli military issues new alert for Dahiyeh residents to evacuate immediately

US President Joe Biden speaks to the media prior to departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, October 3, 2024. (Saul Loeb / AFP)

US president believes 'all-out war' in region can be avoided

Biden says holding ‘discussions’ on possible Israeli strike on Iran’s oil facilities

By ToI Staff, Agencies and Jacob Magid

Israel said closely coordinating with US on response to Iranian missile attack, expected in coming days; oil prices jump, Gulf states wary Iran will retaliate on their oil sites

Troops of the 188th Armored Brigade are seen operating in southern Lebanon, in handout image published October 4, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 4: Day 364 – War in north presses on as IDF announces killing of Hamas PM

This handout photo from the US Navy shows the Henry J. Kaiser-class fleet replenishment oiler USNS Big Horn sailing alongside the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on September 11, 2024, at an undisclosed location at sea in the Middle East. (US Navy via AP)

US augments military presence in Mideast with more fighter jets, other aircraft

By AP and ToI Staff

Senior Hezbollah leader Hashem Safieddine speaks during a conference for Saudi opposition in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanon news agency: One of the strongest raids in past year

Nasrallah’s presumed successor said to be target of heavy Israeli strike in Beirut

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Security officials said increasingly confident he was killed; NYT says he was meeting other leaders in underground bunker; IDF: Strike targeted Hezbollah’s intelligence HQ

A picture taken during a tour organized by Hezbollah's media office on October 2, 2024, shows portraits of the Lebanese terror group's slain leader Hassan Nasrallah hanging on the rubble of a building destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Beirut's southern suburbs. (AFP)

Nasrallah temporarily buried amid fears Israel will strike public funeral — source

By AFP and ToI Staff

Greek citizens, who were evacuated from Lebanon with a Greek military transport aircraft stand outside the Greek Foreign ministry building in central Athens, on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Foreigners flee Lebanon on flights and ferries as Israeli offensive intensifies

By Reuters and ToI Staff

IDF says it destroyed tunnel used to smuggle Iranian weapons from Syria to Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Reuters

Two-mile cross-border passage targeted in airstrike; military also hits ‘infrastructure’ at Masnaa border crossing used by Lebanese civilians; minister says border sealed by crater

People fleeing intensified fighting in Lebanon walk around a crater caused by an Israeli strike on Hezbollah weapons smuggling infrastructure, in the area of Lebanon's Masnaa border crossing with Syria, on October 4, 2024. (Hassan Jarrah / AFP)

NASA Planetary Science Division director Lori Glaze, left, John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory DART coordination lead Nancy Chabot, and DART program scientist Tom Statler speak during a media briefing about the agency's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), at NASA headquarters on October 11, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

'We're trying to create the future you want to live in'

A scientist helps save the world from asteroids. What would the Midrash say?

By Rich Tenorio

Addressing Boston’s Vilna Shul as part of its Lifesavers Speaker Series, Dr. Nancy Chabot shows how collaboration in the emerging field of planetary defense proves a rabbinic adage

Susannah Dainow

Be gentle with yourself on these High Holidays

Self-forgiveness is especially important and especially difficult in a year when we have perhaps sometimes acted rashly under stress

The Kamala Harris I know

Our collaboration on Jewish communal issues and our trips to Israel together have given me a window into where the candidate stands

Lebanese army fires on IDF troops in first since start of war

Officer killed in Lebanon; strike hits Hezbollah commander behind rocket attack on kids

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

IDF warns Lebanon to prevent Hezbollah smuggling Iranian arms through civilian border posts; IDF chief vows to keep Hezbollah out of southern Lebanon border area for the future

Troops of the Etzioni Brigade are seen operating in southern Lebanon, in handout image published October 3, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Palestinians are seen at the site of an airstrike in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem on October 3, 2024. The IDF and Shin Bet later said the strike, which was carried out using a fighter jet, targeted the head of a local Hamas terror network. (Twitter screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

18 said killed in Tulkarem airstrike on Hamas commander planning imminent attack

By Emanuel Fabian

Head of terror network was allegedly preparing major terror attack on Oct. 7 anniversary; rare strike by fighter jet is one of the deadliest in West Bank in years

Senior Hamas leader Rawhi Mushtaha (C) outside the VIP hall at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 15, 2021. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

IDF says it killed Hamas de facto PM – Sinwar’s right-hand man – in strike 3 months ago

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says Rawhi Mushtaha was killed along with top officials Sameh al-Siraj and Sami Odeh in a strike on a fortified underground compound for Hamas leaders

Britain's then-Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson (L) shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the UK Foreign Office in central London, February 6, 2017. Behind them is the desk on which Johnson claimed, falsely, that former UK Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour which the Balfour Declaration in 1917. (AFP/Pool/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Boris Johnson hints Netanyahu left a listening device in his bathroom during 2017 visit

In new memoir, Johnson says bug was found in routine sweep of ‘secret annex’ bathroom where PM ‘repaired for a while’ during foreign office meeting

Illustrative: IDF troops are seen at Jerusalem's Central Bus Station on May 10, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Shutdown of public transport hampers reservists called up over long holiday weekend

Transportation Ministry seeks to shift blame over latest failure to accommodate soldiers; some troops stranded abroad as foreign carriers scrap flights amid intensified fighting

Joshua Leifer and his new book, "Tablets Shattered." (Courtesy/Dutton Publishing via JTA)

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to Joshua Leifer: The fall of US Jewry and how it can rise again

While a product of the Conservative movement, the left-wing journalist argues in a new book that ultra-Orthodoxy offers blueprint for ensuring that American Jewish life can thrive

The Nova music festival in southern Israel as seen in 'We Will Dance Again.' (Courtesy)

Interview

‘We Will Dance Again’ director: Terrified Nova partygoers recorded their efforts to survive

By Jessica Steinberg

Documentary filmmaker Yariv Mozer says young people turned to TikTok when authorities didn’t answer the phone to them, broadcasting a record of the nightmarish Oct. 7 onslaught

‘We Will Dance Again’ documents Nova massacre: ‘This is not a political film. This happened’

By David Bauder

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Then-IDF Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Yeshayahu 'Shaike' Gavish seen on June 13, 1967. (CC BY-SA, GPO via Wikipedia)

Obituary

Yeshayahu Gavish, Six Day War general who captured the Sinai, dies at 99

Known as ‘Shaike,’ Palmach alum was last living senior commander from 1967 war, where he led massive Sinai battle; felt Paratroopers ‘stole the show’ with conquest of Jerusalem

A bust of the Nobel Prize founder Alfred Nobel is seen before the Nobel awards ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, December 10, 2023. (Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP)

Nobel prizes to coincide with Oct. 7 anniversary; expert urges withholding peace award

Think tank head says move would draw attention to wars in Mideast, Sudan, Ukraine; peace prize has been withheld 19 times, most recently in 1972

Illustrative: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, at podium, addresses community members and other local, state law enforcement officials in a town hall on antisemitic violence at YULA Boys High School in Los Angeles, February 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

'We're facing the most significant threat in modern history'

Hezbollah crisis adds to threats facing Diaspora Jews over High Holidays, experts say

Amid the Israel-Hamas conflict and ahead of the anniversary of Oct. 7, Jewish communities take precautions against terror retaliation, anti-Israel protests and far-right attackers

More Headlines

UN Secretary General António Guterres at a Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East at the United Nations headquarters on October 2, 2024 in New York (Bryan R. Smith/AFP)

Security Council backs Guterres after Israeli move to label UN chief ‘persona non grata’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A University of Michigan police car is seen on the Ann Arbor campus, May 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Mike Householder)

Gunman breaks into rabbi’s home during Rosh Hashanah meal for U of Michigan students

A police vehicle is seen as police officers investigate two blasts near the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark, October 2, 2024. (Ritzau Scanpix/via Reuters)

Swedish intelligence says Iran may have had role in Israeli embassy attacks in Nordics

The Israeli team poses prior to the Group D soccer match between Israel and Japan, at the La Beaujoire stadium, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, July 30, 2024, in Nantes, France. (AP Photo/Jeremias Gonzalez)

FIFA again defers decision on Palestinian request to suspend Israel from world soccer

A Palestinian man climbs the security barrier at the West Bank town of al-Ram to cross into Israel illegally, on September 15, 2024. (AP Photo/ Mahmoud Illean/ File)

Amid failing economy, West Bank Palestinians risk crossing security barrier into Israel

By AP and ToI Staff

In this photo taken on Thursday Jan. 30, 2020, Victor Perahia, interned as a child in the Drancy camp and deported to Bergen-Belsen shows a Jewish badge as he speaks to students during a workshop dedicated to the Holocaust remembrance at the Drancy Shoah memorial, outside Paris (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

ObituaryVictor Perahia, Holocaust survivor, head of French Union of Auschwitz Deportees, dies at 91

By AP

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