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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 9, 2024

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his advisers hold a phone call with US President Joe Biden on October 9, 2024. (Prime Minister's Office)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 9: Biden vows to remain in ‘close contact’ with Netanyahu after their first call in weeks

2 killed in Kiryat Shmona, 5 hurt near Haifa as rockets barrages continue to pound north * Supreme Court orders Tel Aviv to allow outdoor gender-separated prayers on Yom Kippur

8:58 pm

Arab-Israeli educator arrested over TikTok dance video released from custody, say police
8:53 pm

Biden stresses minimizing civilian deaths in Beirut, vows to remain in 'close contact' with Netanyahu in coming days
8:44 pm

Couple killed in Kiryat Shmona rocket attack named as Revital Yehud and Dvir Sharvit

Security forces at the scene of a terror attack in Hadera, October 9, 2024 (Tal Gal/Flash90)

6 injured, 2 critically, in terrorist stabbing spree in Hadera

Suspect, an Israeli citizen, rides moped between different sites of his attack, is eventually cornered by armed residents and subdued

This composite image shows Revital Yehud (L) and Dvir Sharvit, who were killed in a Hezbollah rocket attack on Kiryat Shmona on October 9, 2024. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Slain couple named as Revital Yehud and Dvir Sharvit

Two killed in Kiryat Shmona, several hurt in Haifa as Hezbollah rockets batter north

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Military says 3 troops seriously wounded in southern Lebanon fighting, but touts drone strike on operatives who killed paratrooper last week; 185 Hezbollah sites targeted from air

The inside of a Hezbollah tunnel that crossed into Israel, in a video released by the IDF on October 8, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF destroys Hezbollah tunnel that crossed into Israel, steps up airstrikes

By Emanuel Fabian

Broken glass due to Hezbollah rocket fire at a school for evacuees, in Rosh Pina, northern Israel, on September 8, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

16,000 students still evacuated from north, 90 schools damaged – official

By Gavriel Fiske

Illustrative: Israeli evacuees from the Gaza border area get temporary shelter at a hotel in Eilat, October 17, 2023. (Aris MESSINIS / AFP)

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) meets with US President Joe Biden in Tel Aviv, October 18, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu and Biden to hold call on Iran Wednesday after weeks of silence

US said to be frustrated after Israel declined to share information about its plans, reportedly will try to ‘shape the limitations’ of the response to Iranian missile attack

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, right, and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, left, listen to the playing of the Israeli National Anthem during an arrival ceremony at the Pentagon in Washington, June 25, 2024. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Gallant’s trip to US delayed, reportedly after Netanyahu sets last-minute obstacles

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

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

Biden said to call Netanyahu ‘a f**king liar’ after Israeli troops entered Rafah

By Lazar Berman

US: Hezbollah ceasefire call shows it's 'getting battered'

US and Arab states reportedly in talks with Iran for ceasefire on all war fronts

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israeli TV says Jerusalem informed of the initiative but not part of it; Hezbollah seems to drop demand for Gaza truce as its deputy leader backs effort for Lebanon ceasefire

Iranians burn Israeli and US flags during an anti-Israel rally in Tehran, on October 8, 2024. (AFP)

IDF forces on the ground in southern Lebanon, October 9, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 9: Day 369 – Is a diplomatic window still open in Lebanon?

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (R) pictured with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Aerospace Force Commander Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh (L) in Tehran on October 6, 2024, awarding him a medal for the Iranian attack on Israel. (KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)

Iranian official: Gulf states’ airspace must not be used in Israeli response to Iran

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Senior Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine (C) attends the funeral ceremony of slain top commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut's southern suburbs on August 1, 2024. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)

Netanyahu: Israel killed ‘Nasrallah’s replacement, and his replacement’s replacement’

By Lazar Berman and Emanuel Fabian

PM presumably referring to Hashem Safieddine, targeted in raid last week, though neither Hezbollah nor IDF have said he’s dead; urges Lebanese to ‘free your country from Hezbollah’

A residential building hit by an alleged Israeli airstrike in the Mezzeh suburb on the western outskirts of Syria's capital Damascus on October 8, 2024. (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)

Israeli strike in Syria said to target top Hezbollah official in arms smuggling unit

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

How Israel can leverage its successes (yes, successes)

Despite massive failures leading up to this year of war, Israel has key achievements it can use to solidify its regional standing

Think intifada won’t touch you? Think again

My fellow Italians chant anti-Israel slogans, forgetting that hate never ends with Jews and ignoring what that means for their own free society

Explainer

All’s fair in Lebanon war? When it comes to removing Hezbollah, Israeli experts say yes

Allegations of ‘forcible displacement’ of Lebanese civilians and disproportionate strikes on Hezbollah leaders do not match up with reality on the ground, according to academics

Cars sit in traffic as people flee the southern villages amid ongoing Israeli airstrikes, in Sidon, Lebanon, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

People search for survivors in the rubble of a building following Israeli bombardment at the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on June 16, 2024. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Ex-Biden aide claims Israel has more tolerance for causing civilian casualties than US

Ahmed Samniya stands by his porch window in Sheikh Danun, Western Galilee, on October 8, 2024. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)

'People are wary that the government might go after us next'

One year into the Hezbollah conflict, Arab Israelis confront their complicated identity

By Diana Bletter

Living near the border with Lebanon, Sheik Danun leaders say extremists in the government — not the fighting over the border — make them feel disenfranchised from Israeli society

Wounded Jewish boys in Hebron, August 1929 (Courtesy of The Hebron Archives)

Interview'The parallels were just haunting, chilling'

New book draws line from 1929 Hebron Massacre to horrific events of October 7

By Renee Ghert-Zand

In ‘Ghosts of a Holy War,’ Yardena Schwartz investigates the lies and denials that have fueled the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for a century, pushing a solution further away

‘Megalomaniac’ Sinwar ordered renewal of suicide bombings after taking power – report

WSJ says some Hamas officials have reservations about tactic but haven’t spoken up, as terror chief said to talk about the war and his role in ‘increasingly grandiose terms’

Yahya Sinwar, head of the Hamas terror group, delivers a speech in Gaza City, April 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Analysis

AP and ToI Staff

As Israel mulls response to Iran attack, past premiers differ on potential targets

Olmert says strike on nuclear sites would be a ‘mistake,’ Lapid calls oil facilities ‘most painful target,’ and Bennett urges strong blow, after Iran fired 200 ballistic missiles

In this illustrative February 3, 2007 photo, an Iranian technician walks through the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the city of Isfahan 255 miles (410 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

An Israeli armored military vehicle patrols along the border with Lebanon near the northern Arab Israeli village of Arab al-Aramshe on March 15, 2023. (JALAA MAREY / AFP)

Unfazed by IDF evacuation order, Bedouin villagers on Lebanese border cling to home

By Tani Goldstein

1,400 residents of Arab al-Aramshe have declined to leave despite army declaring the location a closed military zone

This handout picture provided by the Palestinian Press Office (PPO) shows Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas (R) meeting with the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim Khan (CL) in Ramallah in the West Bank on December 2, 2023. (Thaer Ghanaim/PPO/AFP)

Israel claims ICC prosecutor denying country’s right to probe Gaza war allegations

By Jeremy Sharon

Letter says Karim Khan’s refusal to specify the allegations against Israeli leaders before seeking their arrest means he never gave authorities a chance to actually investigate

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a plenum session and vote on reviving the ultra-Orthodox enlistment bill at the Knesset, Jerusalem, June 11, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu promises Haredi draft bill by month’s end, as ultra-Orthodox threaten budget

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Legislation meant to renew sweeping exemptions from military service, after fierce Haredi opposition to High Court ruling ordering government to end decades-long practice

A wall in Tel Aviv memorializing those killed on October 7 and in the ongoing war (Courtesy)

Bumper stickers of the fallen coalesce online into a mosaic of mourning

By Jessica Steinberg

Decals of slain Israelis bearing powerful messages are appearing on cars, walls and lampposts in a new and unusual homage. Now, Stickers of Meaning features them all in one place

Shared Home Sukkah project to be held after organizer killed on Oct. 7

By Jessica Steinberg

A woman argues with Rosh Yehudi activists at a mass street prayer for Yom Kippur on Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, on September 24, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash 90)

High Court to rule on public Tel Aviv Yom Kippur prayer amid fears of repeat clashes

On Wednesday morning, judges are set to weigh in on a controversial service that underscores deep rifts in Israeli society and saw violent confrontations when it was held last year

'Violence the only path forward,' says anti-Israel CUAD group

Columbia student group retracts apology of member who said ‘Zionists deserve to die’

Day after Oct. 7 anniversary, Columbia University Apartheid Divest issues explicit endorsement of violence as Khymani James claims he ‘never wrote neo-liberal apology’ in April

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators march through the Columbia University campus in New York City to mark a year since the Hamas terror group's onslaught on southern Israel that sparked the ongoing war in Gaza, October 7, 2024. (Kena Betancur/AFP)

An New York Police Department (NYPD) car is seen in New York, on January 12, 2024. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Police data shows antisemitic hate crimes have surged in NYC this year

More Headlines

Illustrative: Members of the Florida Army National Guard check for any remaining residents in nearly deserted Bradenton Beach, where piles of debris from Hurricane Helene flooding still sits outside damaged homes ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Milton, October 8, 2024, on Anna Maria Island, Florida. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

As Florida braces for Hurricane Milton, rabbi defies evacuation order so he can help

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Johan Åqvist, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, Hans Ellegren, Permanent Secretary and Heiner Linke, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry award this years Nobel Prize in Chemistry to David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John M Jumper at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm, Sweden, October 9, 2024. (Christine Olsson/TT News Agency via AP)

Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to scientists who predicted proteins’ shapes using AI

By Daniel Niemann and Mike Corder

A screenshot of the AI online search platform developed by Microsoft and Edut 710 to preserve testimonies of the Oct. 7 atrocities. (Courtesy)

Microsoft launches AI platform to preserve October 7 testimonies

By Sharon Wrobel

Jacob Hersant, left, a self-described Nazi, walks from the Melbourne Magistrates Court in, Melbourne, Australia, October 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk)

Self-described Nazi set to become first Australian jailed for banned salute

Police stand guard at the site of a mass shooting in Oslo, early June 25, 2022. (Javad Parsa/NTB via AP)

Norway hikes terror threat level to ‘high’ over threats to Jewish, Israeli sites

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Democratic presidential nominee US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks before planting a memorial tree on the grounds of the Vice President's residence in Washington on Oct. 7, 2024, to honor the victims and mark one year since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

71% of US Jewish voters in 7 swing states favor Harris, Democrat-affiliated poll finds

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