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What Matters Most On Monday, October 7, 2024

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A man cries as he holds a photo of slain hostage Carmel Gat, taken by Hamas terrorists on October 7 and killed in Gaza 11 months later, during a protest on the terror onslaught's anniversary calling for the hostages' release, in front of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem, October 7, 2024. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

Still under fire, Israel remembers Oct. 7 victims while grappling with ongoing nightmare

By Emanuel Fabian, Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

Rockets from Gaza target border region and Tel Aviv in heaviest attack in months, as 1st anniversary of earthshaking assault is marked amid widening war and continuing hostage crisis

The impact site of a rocket fired from Lebanon at Haifa in northern Israel, October 6, 2024. (Screenshot, X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Five injured in Haifa after air defenses fail to intercept Hezbollah rocket barrage

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Rockets fired from southern Lebanon are intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome air defense system over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel on August 9, 2024. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

A year of war: IDF data shows 728 troops killed, over 26,000 rockets fired at Israel

By Emanuel Fabian

Reporter's notebook

Pain, determination and survivor guilt at Nova massacre site, a year after atrocity

Thousands honor the victims of the Hamas onslaught at the location of the outdoor rave, as relatives say they must tell their loved ones’ stories

Friends and family of the victims of the Nova music festival massacre gather at the site of the massacre in southern Israel one year after the brutal assault, October 7, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ofri Rahum, who lost several relatives on October 7, 2023, at a Tel Aviv memorial event for bereaved families of victims of the Nova festival massacre, on October 6, 2024. (Gavriel Fiske/Times of Israel)

Nova families gather to mourn loved ones killed when festival became a bloodbath

By Gavriel Fiske

IMAGE: Israelis hold hands at Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, next to photographs of Israelis killed in the October 7 massacre, on the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attack, October 7, 2024. (Tomer Neubergi/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 7: Day 367 – Rockets from Gaza and Lebanon punctuate massacre memorials

2 reservists killed as IDF sends more troops into southern Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF orders additional Lebanese villages to evacuate as thousands of soldiers are deployed to join expanding ground offensive; Hezbollah fires dozens of rockets at Israel’s north

Troops of the 188th Armored Brigade operate in southern Lebanon, in a handout photo issued on October 6, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Yosi Sochr, 34, an Israeli reservist and father of four who was severely wounded fighting in Gaza, embraces his wife as he recovers at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, September 23, 2024. (REUTERS/Amir Cohen)

Oct. 7 anniversaryA year on, wounded Israeli reserves soldiers face long road to recovery

By Reuters and ToI Staff

IDF troops are seen operating in southern Lebanon, in a handout photo published October 6, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF strikes 150 Hezbollah targets in 24 hours; rocket attack wounds man in north

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and Agencies

Destroyed cars from Hamas's October 7, 2023 attacks are seen at the National Memorial Ceremony for Bereaved Families marking one year since the killings, Oct. 7, 2024 (Bereaved Families Memorial Ceremony)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 7: Israel marks anniversary of Hamas atrocities as fighting rages in Gaza, Lebanon

Relatives of hostages and other victims of terror onslaught call for state inquiry, acceptance of responsibility by leaders * Herzog: Israelis wept for a year but will rise together

8:42 pm

Harris plants tree at home in memory of Oct. 7 victims, vows to never forget
8:25 pm

Sirens, loud booms sound in Tel Aviv after rocket fire from Lebanon
8:19 pm

Smotrich said to urge military rule in Gaza, renewed settlement, as way to rescue hostages

A year later, authorities say hostage Idan Shtivi killed during October 7 attack

IDF cites new findings in declaring death of volunteer photographer, 28, apparently killed while trying to escape Nova rave; his body is one of 34 held in Gaza

Idan Shtivi (Courtesy)

Israelis attend an event calling for the release of hostages still held captive by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, and in memory of those killed in the group's attack last October 7, on the eve of the first anniversary of the attack, at "Hostage Square" in Tel Aviv, October 6, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Officials said to warn PM that hostages are in dire conditions, intel is drying up

Wiwwaro Sriaoun, 53, a mother of a remaining Thai hostage captured by Hamas, Watchara Sriaoun, attends Sunday church service, in Kut Yang village, Udon Thani province, Thailand, October 6, 2024. (REUTERS/Thomas Suen)

Rural Thai church resounds with prayers for return of captive son from Gaza

By Reuters and ToI Staff

A ceremony at Netiv Ha'asara on October 6, 2024, commemorating the 20 residents who were slain by Hamas on October 7, 2023 (Shalom Yerushalmi / Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'We are committed to seeing the light'

One year on, depths of despair and mountains of hope in the Gaza border communities

By Shalom Yerushalmi

On the first anniversary of the October 7 massacre, residents of the ‘Gaza envelope’ mourn their dead while pledging to rebuild a better, safer home

Scattered by October 7, Kfar Aza’s residents wonder if they can ever go home again

By Julia Frankel

Herzog exhorts Iranians, Lebanese to ‘rise up’ against Tehran-led anti-Israel axis

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

People hold hands at a memorial event marking the first anniversary of Hamas's October 7 terror onslaught, at Tel Aviv's Dizengoff Square, October 7, 2024. (Jack Guez / AFP)

World leaders mark grim October 7 anniversary while pressing ceasefire calls

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Biden pledges support for Israeli security as leaders from UK, Germany, Italy and elsewhere urge release of hostages, warn against rising tide of antisemitism

People react as they attend an event with members of the UK Jewish community in Hyde Park, central London on October 6, 2024, to mark the one-year anniversary of the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas in Israel. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

October 7 anniversary marked worldwide with memorials, pro- and anti-Israel protests

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) shakes hands with French President Emmanuel Macron (L), as they hold a joint press conference in Jerusalem on October 24, 2023. (Christophe Ena/Pool/AFP)

Macron speaks with Netanyahu, but doesn’t retract his call for arms embargo

By Lazar Berman

‘We are all still in pain’: Oct. 7 anniversary arrives as new footage of attack emerges

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

IDF chief: Commemoration is day of ‘deep soul-searching’ as Israel continues fight ‘for our right to be a free people in our land’; Herzog: We aim for ‘space for national mourning’

Israelis visit the site of the October 7, 2023, Reim-area Nova music festival massacre, on October 6, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Weapons seized from the Hamas terror group are presented for display to foreign journalists and others on the first anniversary of the group's October 7, 2023 attack. (Israel Defense Forces)

Ahead of anniversary, IDF displays weapons, vehicles used by Hamas in Oct. 7 attack

Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Nir Hadad (IDF)

Soldier wounded in Gaza succumbs to his injuries four months later

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Analysis

One year since Oct. 7, US resigned to limits of its influence over Netanyahu

Despite superpower status, US finds itself being led by Israel on Lebanon policy, retreating from its own ceasefire initiative and chafing at proposals to threaten security aid

Then-US President Joe Biden, right, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, July 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force Two at Charlotte Douglas International Airport, October 5, 2024. (AP/Chris Carlson)

Kamala Harris defends security aid to Israel alongside pressure for ceasefire

US CENTCOM chief Gen. Michael Kurilla (right) meets with IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi (left) and other generals at the IDF HQ in Tel Aviv, September 8, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Report finds US spent record $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel in year of war

By AP and ToI Staff

from the blogs

Yossi Klein Halevi

The end of the post-Holocaust era

October 7 shattered Israelis’ faith that the state would protect them and shook American Jewry’s sense of full social acceptance – but there is a way forward

Israeli soldiers and police clash with far-right protesters, after they broke into the Beit Lid army base over the detention for questioning of military reservists who are suspected of abuse of a Palestinian terror suspect detained there, on July 29, 2024 (Oren Ziv / AFP)

Poll finds deep divisions on Gaza war goals as post-October 7 solidarity dissipates

By Michael Bachner

A demonstrator holds an 'intifada revolution' sign as protesters block the Port of Tacoma entrances, November 6, 2023, in Tacoma, Washington. (AP Photo/ Lindsey Wasson)

ADL finds 10,000 antisemitic incidents in US since Hamas’s October 7 attack

An IDF reservist at Kfar Aza, October 21, 2023. (Paulina Patimer)

Photo essay

14 images of Israel from a year of war

By Paulina Patimer

Candid moments captured by a volunteer photographer for the Hostages and Missing Families Forum as a nation struggles to heal while its captives still in Gaza remain an open wound

Aharon Ben Haroush, right, talks to IDF soldiers during the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. (United Hatzalah)

Exclusive'We were there right in the heart of fighting'

United Hatzalah first responder reveals harrowing experience on Oct. 7 ‘road of death’

By Diana Bletter

‘It was like a terrifying train,’ says an EMT who treated casualties on Route 232, yet he tries to remember the good he and other volunteers did that day

Shani Bechhofer

Those shamelessly cruel, anti-Israel October 7 protests

The ’any means necessary’ ’pro-Palestinian’ groups are pouring salt in our wounds as we mourn the victims of Hamas’s massacre

‘The front is not there or here, but inside each of us’

How well have Israelis handled the war over the past year? By the measures David Ben-Gurion set forth, very well indeed

From the Blogs

After October 7: ToI bloggers illuminate a changed world

11 blog posts to help note the ways Israel, the Jewish people, and each of us individuals face a different reality than we did a year ago

The commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Esmail Qaani, speaks during a ceremony marking the anniversary of the 2020 killing of Guards general Qasem Soleimani, in Tehran, Iran, on January 3, 2024. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Deputy denies Iran’s Quds Force chief is missing, says he’s ‘in good health’

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Seeking to quash speculation of Esmail Qaani’s death in IDF strikes in Beirut, Iraj Masjedi says his boss is ‘carrying out his activities,’ declines to elaborate

Vehicles drive past a billboard showing the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in Iraq in a US drone attack in 2020, kissing forehead of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, in Tehran, Iran, October 5, 2024. (AP Photo/ Vahid Salemi)

Iran briefly grounds all flights as Israel mulls response to missile attack

By Agencies and ToI Staff

President Joe Biden greets four year old Abigail Mor Edan, who was abducted by Hamas on October 27, 2023 and released on November 26, 2023, in the Oval Office Dining Room, April 24, 2024. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)

A year after October 7'Sadly, our tragedy is a chance to show people the truth'

How a US family lobbied to free their 3-year-old, orphaned on Oct. 7, from Hamas captivity

By Shoshanna Solomon

US-Israeli citizen Abigail Mor Edan saw her parents murdered and was taken hostage to Gaza by terrorists. Liz Hirsh Naftali writes about the ordeal in new book ‘Saving Abigail’

Two Tel Aviv museums mark Oct. 7 with exhibits, films, and ex-hostage’s photos of home

By Jessica Steinberg

Muza — Eretz Israel Museum shows surviving photographs from mostly destroyed collection of released captive Yocheved Lifshitz, while Anu focuses on international Jewish dialogue

Students at the Yokne'am School for the Arts in a dance performance commemorating the October 7 massacres. (courtesy Yokne'am School for the Arts)

Schools mark October 7, though official ceremonies set for later in the month

By Gavriel Fiske

Hadassah Ben-Ari at her home in Pardes Hannah with a copy of her book, 'The Heroes of October 7,' on September 30, 2024. (Gavriel Fiske/Times of Israel)

Interview'I want people all over the world to read these stories'

New children’s book in English brings to life heroic tales of October 7

By Gavriel Fiske

‘The Heroes of October 7,’ crafted under the guidence of child trauma experts and edited by Hadassah Ben-Ari, aims to teach ‘moments of grace and heroism from the war’ to kids

Image: Israel Story

Israel Story

Wartime Diaries: One Year

Families, lovers, fighters, and more: one year of Wartime Diaries.

Destroyed houses from the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on southern Israel, in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, September 19, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

'We immediately saw it was mass violence against Jews'

After reaching Israel days after Oct. 7, USC Shoah Foundation is now helping record it

By Matt Lebovic

The organization’s researchers gathered hundreds of witness testimonies after the massacre and is sharing them with Israel’s National Library while advising on forming a collection

A year after October 7

Fears of a ‘lost decade’: Will the tech sector be able to save the war-hit economy?

One year on from the Hamas onslaught, experts fret over whether economic recovery is possible in the face of government inaction to bolster a key growth engine

Illustrative. An employee works in the tech sector. (Hadas Porush/ Flash90)

More Headlines

American molecular biologist Gary Ruvkun, left, and UMass Chair in Natural Sciences and professor of molecular medicine, Victor Ambros, in undated pictures. (Joshua Touster and UMass via AP)

Americans Victor Ambros, Gary Ruvkun win Nobel Prize in medicine for microRNA discovery

By AP and ToI Staff

Transportation Minister Miri Regev holds a press conference ahead of the state ceremony commemorating the October 7 Hamas attack, at the Ministry of Transport and Road Safety in Jerusalem, August 22, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

‘I’m only human’: Regev faces growing criticism over wartime transit, travel snafus

Israelis wrapped in flags visit the site of the October 7 Supernova music festival massacre, on October 6, 2024. (AP/ Ohad Zwigenberg)

Survey: 62% of Israelis believe internal divisions worse threat than external dangers

Toy poodle puppies are seen in Ben Gurion Airport after two people were caught trying to smuggle them into Israel, October 2024. (Agriculture Ministry and Tax Authority)

Customs officers foil attempt to smuggle toy poodle puppies into Israel

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