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What Matters Most On Tuesday, October 8, 2024

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A man examines his damaged apartment that was hit by a Hezbollah rocket fired from Lebanon in Kiryat Yam, northern Israel, on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Gallant: Presumed Nasrallah successor likely killed in strike

Hezbollah rains rockets on Haifa as deputy leader claims capabilities intact

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

More than 100 rockets fired in largest assault yet on port city, 1 hurt by shrapnel, several homes hit; in first, terror leader says group could consider truce not linked to Gaza

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks to the press after meeting with Syrian officials at the Iranian embassy in Damascus on October 5, 2024. (Louai Beshara/AFP)

US official: 'Our trust of the Israelis is very low right now'

Iran threatens to escalate if Israel attacks, says nuclear or oil targets a ‘red line’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

NYT says Israeli response to Iranian missile barrage last week will likely target military bases, maybe intelligence or leadership sites, but unlikely to hit nuclear facilities yet

Israelis in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv watch a screening of the National Memorial Ceremony for Bereaved Families in nearby Yarkon Park on October 7, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Commemorating October 7Netanyahu: October 7 will symbolize the price of our revival

At separate memorials, families demand accountability as PM touts Israeli ‘strength’

By Sam Sokol and Jessica Steinberg

‘The legacy of the fallen demands national soul-searching,’ says father of soldier killed battling Hamas on Oct. 7; Netanyahu: ‘We were not defeated; we will continue to fight’

Jonathan Shamriz, bereaved brother of hostage Alon Shamriz who was killed by mistake by the IDF in Gaza on December 15, 2023, speaks at the alternative Bereaved Families Ceremony on October 7, 2024 at Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park (Courtesy)

Reporter's Notebook‘We will rise from the ruins’: A bereaved audience pays homage on Oct. 7 anniversary

By Jessica Steinberg

Kibbutz Beeri residents take part in a march and a ceremony marking one year since Hamas's October 7 massacre in Kibbutz Beeri and other locations in southern Israel, October 7, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 8: Day 368 – Israelis grieve an open wound in dueling ceremonies

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Anti-Israel activists show their true face at Columbia as students mark year since Oct. 7

By Cathryn J. Prince

Supporters of the Jewish state cap a difficult year amid raucous demonstrations by rival anti-Israel groups at NYC school that has been a hotspot since Hamas onslaught sparked the war

3.5 million US Jews experienced antisemitism since Oct. 7 Hamas attack, survey finds

Anti-Israel activists set up encampment outside Jewish Democrat’s Ohio home

By JULIE CARR SMYTH

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)

Op-ed: Day 368 of the war

The long road back from October 7, 2023, runs through Tehran

The Iranian regime, coordinating assiduously for Israel’s annihilation, has been all but untouched this past year. Israel needs to do more than ‘send a message’ to the ayatollahs

People gather near a building which was hit with a rocket fired from Lebanon, in Kiryat Yam near the northern city of Haifa on October 8, 2024 (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 8: Hezbollah threatens to regularly target Haifa if Israel keeps striking Lebanon

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Gallant’s US trip to discuss response to Iran delayed, after PM set last-minute obstacles * Alleged IDF strike in Syria said to target head of Hezbollah’s coordination with Iran

8:28 pm

Report: US in talks with Iran, Arab states for ceasefire on all war fronts
8:15 pm

IDF says Hezbollah fired 180 rockets at Israel today
8:06 pm

Hezbollah threatens to regularly target Haifa if Israel keeps striking Lebanon

Trump: Israel has 'to get smart because they don’t back me'

Biden and potential successors mark Oct. 7 as US election nears, Mideast war rages

US president lights candle at White House, VP plants pomegranate tree at residence; Sullivan: Israel needs strategy to ensure battlefield wins endure; Trump visits Chabad rebbe’s grave

US President Joe Biden, center, standing with first lady Jill Biden, left, and Rabbi Aaron Alexander of the Adas Israel Congregation, after lighting a memorial candle in the Blue Room of the White House in Washington, Oct. 7, 2024, to mark the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel. (AP/Susan Walsh)

The Brandenburg Gate is illuminated with the flag of Israel in Berlin, Germany, October 7, 2024, to mark the one-year anniversary of Hamas's October 7 massacre in Israel. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)

European leaders mourn victims, decry surge in antisemitism at Oct. 7 commemorations

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A large Israeli flag is unfurled during a commemoration marking the anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terror attack on Israel, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 7, 2024. (Peter Dejong/AP)

Photo essayOctober 7 commemoration ceremonies held around the world

By AP and ToI Staff

In NYC, Jews gather together — but apart — to mark one year since Oct. 7 attack

By New York Jewish Week via JTA and ToI Staff

Events feature prayers but also protests, with some focusing on the horrors of the Hamas massacre while others also highlight the plight of Palestinians

Attendees at a left-wing Jewish rally mourn Israelis and Palestinians killed in the war caused by Palestinian terror group Hamas's October 2023 terror attack on Israel, during a memorial event at Union Square, New York, on October 7, 2024. (Julia Gergely)

The US Department of the Treasury in Washington, D.C., June 3, 2022. (K I Photography/Shutterstock.com)

Year after Oct. 7, US sanctions ‘sham charity’ and individuals for funding Hamas

By Reuters and ToI Staff

A man walks past the vandalized mural 'October 7th, Escape' by Italian artist aleXsandro Palombo, in downtown Milan, Italy, October 7, 2024. (AP Photo/ Antonio Calanni)

Mural of Oct. 7 survivor defaced, in latest example of rising antisemitism in Italy

By AP

Historian Igor Bartosik at the former Union factory adjacent to Auschwitz, from which female prisoners smuggled revolt supplies to Sonderkommando prisoners living atop Birkenau gas chambers, August 2024 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)

'These people are complete heroes'

80 years ago on Oct. 7, Jewish Sonderkommando workers staged a failed revolt at Auschwitz

By Matt Lebovic

Decades before the Hamas atrocities, inmates took up arms against their Nazi tormentors. It didn’t succeed, but the revolt was singular, unprecedented, and facilitated by women

Families of Israelis held kidnapped by Hamas terrorists in Gaza and activists protest for their release outside the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, October 7, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

In apparent U-turn, several leading religious Zionist rabbis call for hostage deal

Signatories include close advisers to Smotrich; letter urges government to reach ‘responsible’ agreement to free captives as ‘Jewish, moral and national duty of the first order’

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 attack, October 7, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Oct. 7 ceremonies across Israel see mix of searing grief, political tensions

By Deborah Danan

Hezbollah rockets target IDF intel base near Tel Aviv

Top Hezbollah man killed in Beirut strike as ground op expands in south Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says Jihad Council member and logistics chief Suhail Hussein Husseini eliminated; 4th IDF division moves into southwestern Lebanon; reservist seriously wounded

Flame and smoke rise from an Israeli airstrike on Hezbollah targets in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Illustrative: A projectile is seen in the skies over Israel early September 27, 2024, as the military said it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen using the Arrow long-range air defense system. (X screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Missile fired from Yemen shot down after triggering sirens across central Israel

By Emanuel Fabian

Lebanese men walk with a dog past tents where displaced people have been sleeping on Beirut's seaside promenade of Ain al-Mreisseh, on October 7, 2024. (Anwar AMRO / AFP)

As Lebanese flee combat zones, many regard refugees with suspicion

By AFP

FROM THE BLOGS

A holy Yom Kippur in Dizengoff Square

Should gender-separated prayers be allowed in Tel Aviv’s famed public space? This year calls us to ask a different question

BlogWe must re-commit to fight the contagion of antisemitism

By Jonathan A. Greenblatt

IDF soldier killed in Gaza; three terrorists who took part in Oct. 7 onslaught eliminated

By Emanuel Fabian

Death of Staff Sgt. Noam Israel Abdu brings Israel’s toll in ground offensive against Hamas to 350; another soldier seriously wounded

Staff Sgt. Noam Israel Abdu (Israel Defense Forces)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a cabinet meeting on October 7, 2024. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu suggests changing name of Gaza war to ‘War of Revival’

By ToI Staff, Lazar Berman and Sam Sokol

Palestinian civil defense firefighters extinguish a blaze in a building in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 7, 2024. (Photo by BASHAR TALEB / AFP)

IDF strikes Gaza rocket launching sites used to target Israel on Oct. 7 anniversary

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Khaled Mashaal speaks in Doha, Qatar, August 28, 2014. (AP/Osama Faisal/File)

Mashaal claims Hamas will rise ‘like a phoenix’ despite Gaza battlefield losses

By Agencies and Gianluca Pacchiani

Senior terror leader warns of ‘ticking time bomb’ in Mideast ‘as long as the occupation exists’; Hamas military spox hails ‘successful’ Oct. 7 attack, ‘humiliating defeat’ of IDF

Illustrative: Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar speaks during a press conference in Gaza City on May 30, 2019. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

After speculation he was killed, Sinwar said to renew contact with Qatar

Palestinians walk through the destruction left by the Israeli air and ground offensive after the IDF withdrew from Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, April 7, 2024. (AP Photo/ Ismael Abu Dayyah)

A year after Oct. 7, some Gazans rail at Hamas for causing devastating war

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Sea2Cell team in front of the Fresh Start incubator premises in Kiryat Shmona before the start of Israel's war against Hamas on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)

Food tech firms struggle to survive as war disrupts Israel’s north

By Shoshanna Solomon

The shutdown of labs and displaced workers have created a ‘big problem’ for a sector that needs stability and years of product development, while discussions over investments stall

A year of war saps Israel’s borrowing strength, while costs balloon

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Chevron suspends work on expansion of Leviathan gas field due to the escalating war

By Sharon Wrobel

Entisar Hijaze seen being arrested by police early on October 8, 2024, in Tamra, northern Israel. (Israel Police)

Arrest of Arab Israeli woman over TikTok clip raises questions about police conduct

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Entisar Hijaze detained overnight after Ben Gvir sends police her dance video dated October 7, 2023; State Attorney’s Office: Not clear why officers blindfolded her

More Headlines

France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot holds a press conference in Jerusalem on October 7, 2024, after his meeting with his Israeli counterpart. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

French FM backs Macron’s calls for arms ban, argues it’s for Israel’s security

By Lazar Berman

An Israeli reservist reads Talmud to Palestinian detainees in the West Bank, in a video posted online on October 6, 2024. (X screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Two reservists suspended for staging mock Talmud lesson with detained Palestinians

People use public toilets where there has been no water for the week since Hurricane Helene struck the region and damaged critical infrastructure, in Asheville, North Carolina, October 3, 2024. (Brittany Peterson/AP)

US Jewish officials handling hurricane communications face antisemitic harassment

Temple Israel senior rabbi Marcia Zimmerman, left, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara, center, and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey comment after terroristic threats are made to Temple Israel synagogue, October 5, 2024. (Screenshot via YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Minneapolis man arrested for threats to ‘shoot up’ local synagogue

By JTA and ToI Staff

Tunisian president and candidate for reelection Kais Saied joins his supporters after the announcement of the provisional results for the presidential elections, in the capital Tunis, Tunisia, October 6, 2024. (Anis Mili/AP)

Tunisia’s President Saied wins second term in landslide victory

By Kaouther Larbi and Youcef Bounab

Screen capture from video of former Hezbollah hostage Israeli Elhanan Tannenbaum. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Former Hezbollah hostage Elhanan Tannenbaum dies at 78

Illustrative: An Israel Police car in Tel Aviv on April 12, 2020. (joseh51camera/iStock by Getty Images)

Police arrest 2 East Jerusalem men over Tel Aviv gang rape of foreign citizen

Southfield, Michigan, chief of police Elvin Barren announces charges against a suspect in the armed robbery of the home of a University of Michigan rabbi, Oct. 7, 2024. (Screenshot via JTA)

Suspect arrested in U of Michigan rabbi’s home robbery, no evidence of antisemitism

By Andrew Lapin

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