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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 5, 2024

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US President Joe Biden speaks to the media in the White House press room, Oct. 4, 2024, in Washington. (AP/Susan Walsh)

After opposing strikes on nuclear facilities

Biden says Israel should consider alternatives to hitting Iran’s oil fields

By Jacob Magid and AFP

US president also claims ‘no administration has helped Israel more than I have’ and says ‘Bibi should remember that’; Trump says Israel should ‘hit the nuclear [sites] first’

Democratic presidential nominee US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a rally at the Dort Financial Center in Flint, Mich., Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

In Michigan, Harris meets Arab American leaders angry over Gaza, Lebanon conflicts

By Reuters and ToI Staff

IDF planning ‘serious and significant’ response to Iranian ballistic missile attack

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Visiting Damascus, Iran foreign minister calls for ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon; Iranian oil minister says he is not concerned amid reports Israel could hit oil facilities

F-35i fighter jets are seen at the Nevatim Air Base in southern Israel, in an undated handout photo. (Israel Defense Forces)

A man inspects the damage at a house hit during a rocket attack from southern Lebanon that targeted the northern Arab-Israeli village of Deir al-Asad on October 5, 2024. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 5: Top US general in Mideast arrives in Israel, as IDF preps response to Iranian attack

Army strikes Hezbollah sites in Beirut * Rallies urging release of hostages held nationwide, nearly a year after Oct. 7 * Netanyahu, Macron in public spat after arms halt call

9:04 pm

Macron's office says France is 'Israel's steadfast friend' after PM slams arms embargo call
8:42 pm

Airstrikes in Beirut's southern suburbs shortly after IDF evacuation orders
8:10 pm

IDF says it struck Hamas command and control post within former UNRWA compound

2 IDF soldiers killed, 24 wounded in Iraq drone attack on Golan Heights base

By Emanuel Fabian

Military probing why sirens did not sound for second explosive UAV launched by Iran-backed militia at northern Israel

Soldiers killed in a drone attack on the Golan Heights on October 3, 2024: Sgt. Daniel Aviv Haim Sofer (left) and Cpl. Tal Dror. (Israel Defense Forces)

Family and friends of Israeli soldier Captain Eitan Itzhak Oster attend his funeral at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on October 2, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Oct. 5: Day 365 – Spotlight on ToI’s Those We Have Lost memorial project

Project coordinator Amy Spiro joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan to speak about 9 individuals who fell on or since October 7

Igal Hecht at the 'car graveyard' during filming of 'The Killing Roads' in March 2024. (Courtesy of Chutzpah Productions)

Interview'This was the hardest film I’ve ever made'

In ‘The Killing Roads,’ filmmaker Igal Hecht confronts the visceral pain of Oct. 7

By Robert Sarner

The powerful new documentary, its release set to coincide with the massacre’s anniversary, focuses on the Hamas slaughter on the south’s main arteries. To combat deniers, it is available for free

Protesters demand a hostage deal with Hamas in Gaza during a rally in front of the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, September 28, 2024. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Main Tel Aviv pro-hostage deal protest Saturday canceled due to Lebanon, Iran concerns

Jerusalem demonstration, smaller protests will mark year since Oct. 7; defense official said to tell families deal unlikely before end of intense fighting against Hezbollah

A man casts a shadow on the wall as he enters the roadside bomb shelter where Ziv Abud survived, protected by the crush of bodies above her, during the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, near Kibbutz Reim, seen on September 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

‘We still have nightmares. There’s no end’: Oct. 7 survivors reflect on devastating toll

By AP and ToI Staff

As one-year anniversary approaches, those who survived take stock of the pain and survivor’s guilt: ‘As the days go by it’s actually getting worse. It doesn’t get better’

Sinwar’s growing fatalism, hope for regional war hampering hostage talks — report

Hamas unwilling to engage in negotiations, US officials tell New York Times, adding terror chief’s stance has hardened since Haniyeh’s assassination in July

Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar gestures on stage after greeting supporters at a rally in Gaza City, May 24, 2021. (AP Photo/ John Minchillo)

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

Army: Head of Hezbollah comms division killed in Beirut raid

IDF says over 250 Hezbollah operatives killed in southern Lebanon ground offensive

By Emanuel Fabian

Military sources report signs of ‘exhaustion’ among terror group’s fighters; Gallant warns Israel has ‘more surprises in store’; over 180 rockets fired at north on Friday

Last year’s New Year’s card

2023 Adele could not have known what was to come. I can barely recognize that woman from way back then – all of a year ago

Ta-Nehisi Coates and the latest assault on Israel

Leaving no space for nuance, the author of The Message fails to account for Arab citizens’ increased support for the state

US and British militaries strike 15 Houthi targets across Yemen

By Agencies and ToI Staff

American officials confirm aircraft and warships bombed strongholds of the Iran-backed rebels, who have threatened ‘escalating military operations’ against Israel

Smokes raise after US aircraft and ships struck Houthi strongholds, according to the official, in Sanaa, Yemen, October 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Rabbi Seth Adelson of Congregation Beth Shalom, sits for a portrait with Audrey Glickman, a Tree of Life member who survived the 2018 synagogue attack, Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

For Pittsburgh Jews, attack anniversary adds to an already grim October

‘The trauma runs deep in our community,’ says local rabbi, in reference to 2018 Tree of Life killings. ‘You can’t separate Jews attacked in Pittsburgh and Jews attacked in Israel’

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters vandalize the Christopher Columbus fountain at Union Station in Washington DC, USA, on July 24, 2024. (Aashish Kiphayet/NurPhoto, via Reuters)

Man charged over ‘Hamas is coming’ graffiti during July anti-Netanyahu protests in DC

By AP and ToI Staff

Zaid Mohammed Mahdawi, 26, faces one count of destruction of federal property amid raucous protests that featured antisemitic messaging

'The Rise of the Spider' by Michael P. Spradlin. (Courtesy)

Interview

Depicting interwar Germany’s rising Nazi party, new kids novel teaches history, morality

By Penny Schwartz

‘The Rise of the Spider’ by NY Times bestselling author Michael P. Spradlin aims to show young readers that it’s everyday people who change the world for the better

Illustrative: A German police officer stands guard in front of a synagogue to secure the building in Frankfurt, Germany, November 8, 2023. (Michael Probst/AP)

German antisemitism czar says country facing ‘tsunami’ of Jew hatred since Oct. 7

By AFP and ToI Staff

Felix Klein warns ‘open and aggressive antisemitism’ is ‘stronger than at any time since 1945,’ says ‘under no circumstances’ should Jews be blamed for events in Mideast

Protesters hold placards and Palestinian flags during a pro-Palestinian rally, in Berlin, Germany, Oct. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Germany warns Oct. 7 anniversary could be ‘trigger event’ for domestic unrest

By Agencies and ToI Staff

35,000 Jewish pilgrims come to Ukraine for Rosh Hashanah despite official warnings

By ILLIA NOVIKOV

‘Because I had to work hard to get here, it means more to me now,’ one visitor to Uman says

Orthodox Jews pray near the lake at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman, the great grandson of the founder of Hasidic movement, in the town of Uman, Ukraine, October 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

US President Joe Biden, right, hugs Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after arriving at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, October 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Emails sent days after Oct. 7 show US concerns over risk of Israeli war crimes

By Reuters and ToI Staff

State Department officials issued stern warnings over displacement of north Gaza’s residents, potential fallout with Arab states, even as arms shipments were expedited

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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, meets with US presidential adviser Jared Kushner in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, September 1, 2020. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

Kushner has held talks with MBS on US-Saudi diplomacy, Israel normalization

By Reuters and ToI Staff

A health worker marks the finger of a child who received a vaccination for polio in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on September 4, 2024 amid the ongoing war in the Palestinian territory between Israel and terror group Hamas. (Eyad Baba/AFP)

WHO hopes to start 2nd round of Gaza polio vaccination on October 14

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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