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What Matters Most On Friday, October 11, 2024

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Israeli security and rescue forces at the site where a drone fired from Lebanon caused damage to a building, in Herzliya, October 11, 2024. (Tal Gal/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

October 11: Israel shuts down for Yom Kippur with troops in combat, alerts in place

By Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

Staff Sgt. Ittai Fogel killed in Gaza * IDF chief, Shin Bet head hold assessment in southern Lebanon

9:23 pm

US slaps sanctions on Iran's 'ghost fleet' of oil tankers, citing attacks on Israel
8:38 pm

IDF says drone from Syria crashed in open area, no injuries
8:29 pm

‘All options are on the table’ to keep Iran from going nuclear, Kamala Harris says in High Holiday call with Jewish voters

Armored vehicles of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) are pictured during a patrol around Marjayoun in south Lebanon on October 8, 2024. ( AFP)

Israel denounced for fire on UNIFIL posts as UN says some peacekeepers relocating

By Lazar Berman and Agencies

IDF says it told interim force to enter protected spaces before tank fire that injured two Blue Helmets at Naqoura headquarters in southern Lebanon, sparking wide condemnation

People gather in front of buildings hit by an Israeli airstrike in central Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, October 10, 2024. (Bilal Hussein/AP)

Senior Hezbollah figure appears to escape as Israeli strikes rock central Beirut

By ToI Staff and Agencies

This handout photograph taken on February 18, 2024 by the World Health Organization shows a convoy of ambulances during a WHO, UN humanitarian agency OCHA and Palestinian Red Crescent mission to evacuate patients from Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. (Christopher Black/WHO/AFP)

UN probe claims Israel seeking to ‘destroy’ Gaza healthcare system

By Agencies and ToI Staff

John and Rachel Goldberg-Polin are interviewed by Channel 12 on October 10, 2024. (Screen capture/Channel 12: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

'We are going to heal. Hersh would want us to'

Goldberg-Polins: Leaders dismissed us when we warned hostages could be executed

Parents of slain American-Israeli hostage say son’s body was found underweight, bullet ridden, in ‘horrifying conditions’; reveal they rebuffed PM’s offer to speak after funeral

Hostage families and their supporters demand the government reach a deal to free their loved ones, in Tel Aviv, October 10, 2024. (Pro-Democracy Protest Movement/Danor Aharon)

Rallies in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem demand ‘cabinet of death’ reach hostage deal

By Michael Horovitz

Promoted Content

Comedy for Koby’s yearly tour benefiting Israel’s bereaved families

Almost sold out shows in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv & Herzilya. A great night out of top tier comedy benefiting The Koby Mandell Foundation

Reporter's Notebook

Finally on the offensive, IDF’s 91st Division slices through Hezbollah’s front lines

Reservists sustain casualties during second week of ground offensive, but assert control over Lebanon border area and Radwan weapons caches

Smoke rises from a fire that broke out as a result of rockets fired from Lebanon near Kibbutz Shamir, in the Upper Galilee, October 11, 2024 (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Foreign worker killed by unexploded ordnance in Galilee amid ongoing rocket attacks

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Thai man dies and another injured in blast, apparently caused by a munition previously fired by Hezbollah; IDF intercepts several drones from Lebanon

Tehila Friedman

Between October 7 and Yom Kippur

Some beat their chests in guilt and some prefer praise of the good, but they both reverse course regarding the public arena. I’d like to know why

Meredith Rothbart

Yom Kippur begins tonight; I don’t know how to pray

How can I when so many righteous people were not saved, when 97 cannot breathe, and when we are all plagued by memories and fears?

The remains of a missile fired from Iran into, seen in the forests of Safed, October 6, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Israeli official: No decision on Iran attack; Israel, US in tune on strategic challenges

By Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Cabinet takes no definitive ‘big decisions’ on avenging missile barrage; Gallant’s US trip still on hold; Tehran said to threaten West’s Arab allies if they assist Israeli strike

Iranian Quds Force commander General Esmail Qaani (R) arrives for the inauguration of new Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian at the parliament in Tehran, on July 30, 2024. (AFP)

After claims he died, reports now say Iran’s Quds Force chief alive but under arrest

File: Storage tanks are seen at the North Jeddah bulk plant, an Aramco oil facility, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on March 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Gulf countries lobbying US to prevent Israeli strike on Iran’s oil facilities

By Samia Nakhoul, Parisa Hafezi and Pesha Magid

This composite photo shows from left to right Master Sgt. (res.) Ori Moshe Borenstein, Maj. (res.) Netanel Hershkovitz and Master Sgt. (res.) Tzvi Matityahu Marantz, who the IDF announced on October 10, 2024, had been killed fighting Hamas in northern Gaza. (Israel Defense Forces)

3 reserve soldiers killed in northern Gaza as IDF presses offensive in Jabaliya

Palestinian Red Crescent reports 28 killed in strike on Hamas command post at former school; military says Hamas commanders who took part in Oct. 7 targeted in Wednesday airstrike

An undated picture of temporary housing being built at Kibbutz Hatzerim in southern Israel for residents of Kibbutz Be'eri. (Tekuma Authority)

Tekuma Administration reports spending NIS 6.4b on Gaza border reconstruction this year

A handout photo released by the IDF on October 11, 2024, shows what the Israeli military says are guns and other items found on a pair of terrorists killed in an airstrike near Tulkarem a day earlier. (IDF Spokesperson)

Israeli strike kills Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander in Tulkarem area

A public bomb shelter where Israelis were murdered during the October 7 massacre one year ago, on a road near the Israeli-Gaza border, southern Israel, September 19, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

'This is something that people are seeking and need'

One year after Oct. 7, a Yom Kippur ritual of communal mourning takes on fresh meaning

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Leaders try to find ways to ritualize grief, with some putting out supplements to the usual prayers that focus on the tragedy and 12 months of conflict with no end in sight

Daily Briefing Oct. 11: Day 371 – Bonus episode of ‘October’s Wake: The big questions’

Todd Richman, chairman of the Democracy Majority of Israel bleeding after he was attacked by pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters in New York City, October 7, 2024. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

NYPD probing attack on pro-Israel group’s chairman at anti-Israel Oct. 7 protest

Footage shows Democratic Majority for Israel’s Todd Richman unfurling Israeli flag in front of protesters, who then hit him, leaving him with bloody nose

This image from police-worn body camera, and provided and annotated by the US Justice Department, in the affidavit to support the criminal complaint and arrest warrant for Zachary Allen Kam, shows Kam during his arrest July 24, 2024, during protests in Washington against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to the US Congress. (US Department of Justice via AP)

Chicago man charged with assaulting police at anti-Netanyahu protests in Washington

By AP

Antisemitic graffiti is seen on a monument in Buenos Aires on October 9, 2024. (Federico Ballán/X)

‘Serve the nation, kill a Jew’ graffitied on prominent Buenos Aires monument

By Juan Melamed

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip, in photos released on October 10, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

New top Sephardic rabbi backs rulings that soldiers in combat must eat on Yom Kippur

Seeking to allay concerns of ultra-Orthodox troops in Gaza, David Yosef notes existing protocols barring them from fasting, says when in doubt they should turn to IDF rabbis

interview

‘He has no strategy’: Liberman says PM placing ego above national interest

Former defense minister claims Netanyahu, Gadi Eisenkot and Herzi Halevi dismissed his warning of Hamas invasion in 2016 because they were ‘overconfident’ and ‘arrogant’

Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting in the Knesset, May 20, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Author and Israel advocate Aviva Klompas. (Zev Fisher)

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to Aviva Klompas: Fighting for public opinion, the 8th front of the war

The author and Israel advocate has tirelessly posted on her social platforms, sharing essential objective facts and stories of those who have fallen on and since October 7

Author Michael Horowitz's new book is 'Hope and Despair.' (Courtesy)

Interview

A Middle East expert envisioned two paths for Israel. Then October 7 happened

By Rich Tenorio

French-Israeli geopolitical scholar Michael Horowitz had nearly finished his book, ‘Hope and Despair,’ when Hamas massacred 1,200 people in Israel. He’s still cautiously optimistic

A jug handle stamp impression showing that the contects beloged to the Kingdom of Judah administration, found at an 8th century BCE site in Jerusalem. (courtesy IAA)

Archaeology

The taxman cometh: Jerusalem dig shows tribute system after biblical revolt against Assyria

By Gavriel Fiske

Remains of buildings and a collection of stamped jar handles for the first time offer clues to how agricultural produce in the Jerusalem area was distributed to the empire

Members of the media work in flooded streets after Hurricane Milton made landfall in the Sarasota area on October 09, 2024, in Fort Myers, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images North America/Getty Images via AFP)

Hurricane Milton disrupts Yom Kippur plans for Florida Jews

By MARIAM FAM, GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO and holly meyer

Most rabbis and congregants heed evacuation orders, taking synagogues’ Torah scrolls with them; Chabad of Southwest Florida opts to stay open, serving as shelter for the displaced

More Headlines

Entisar Hijaze speaks with Channel 12 on October 10, 2024. (Screen capture/Channel 12)

Arab teacher arrested over TikTok dance says she was held in police car overnight

Illustrative — The Trump International Hotel is seen on June 2, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/ Getty Images via AFP)

Trump Org said looking to resume talks for Israel hotel properties when war is over

Illustrative: New Israeli shekel bills, September 24, 2023. (Hadar Youavian/ Flash90)

Fiscal deficit climbs to 8.5% as state continues to shell out for war effort

By Sharon Wrobel

A Houthi supporter raises a Palestinian flag and a machine gun, during a rally to celebrate the first anniversary of Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel, in Sanaa, Yemen, October 7, 2024. The Arabic reads 'Al-Aqsa Floods,' Hamas's name for the attack. (AP/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Iran-backed Houthis attack chemical tanker in Red Sea; no injuries or fire reported

By AP

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attends a special session of the German parliament marking the first anniversary of the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre in Israel, at the German parliament Bundestag in Berlin, October 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Scholz vows Germany to soon send Israel more weapons amid deep drop in deliveries

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Kristen Bell (left) as Joanne and Adam Brody as Noah in the Netflix series "Nobody Wants This." (Stefania Rosini/Netflix via JTA)

Netflix apparently does‘Nobody Wants This’ gets 2nd season — now with more Jews

By Andrew Lapin

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