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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 12, 2024

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A picture taken from the southern Lebanese city of Tyre shows smoke rising from the site of an Israeli strike targeting the village of Qana on October 12, 2024. (Kawnat Haju/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 12: IDF says Hezbollah moving fighters, arms in ambulances; 2 Lebanon hospitals hit

By Elana Kirsh and ToI Staff

Official: US mulling deployment of THAAD to Israel * Drone downed over Red Sea; Iran-backed Islamic Resistance in Iraq claims attack * Staff Sgt. Ittai Fogel killed in Gaza fighting

12:34 am

Lebanon's Health Ministry reports 13 killed in Israeli strikes on Saturday
9:46 pm

US official confirms sending THAAD air defense system to Israel being mulled, but no decision yet
8:49 pm

IDF says some 40 rockets fired from Lebanon at north in separate barrages

Empty streets in Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, and the holiest of Jewish holidays, October 12, 2024 (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)

Medics treat 2,842 for injuries on Yom Kippur, including three wounded by rocket blast

12 hurt running to bomb shelters; 286 suffer effects of fasting; 283 injured in car accidents or biking; 146 women in labor taken to hospital, with one baby delivered in ambulance

Staff Sgt. Ittai Fogel (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF soldier killed in southern Gaza as fighting intensifies around Jabaliya

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Military calls for civilians to evacuate northern Gaza amid latest offensive, but Hamas urges them to ignore warnings and stay put; rockets fired at Ashkelon during Yom Kippur

Iran bans pagers, walkie talkies on planes after blasts targeting Hezbollah members

By AFP and ToI Staff

Move comes almost a month since Lebanese terror group members’ pagers and walkie-talkies exploded in attack blamed on Israel

Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf (2-L)) and his Lebanese counterpart Nabih Berri (L) walk together after their meeting in Beirut on October 12, 2024. (AFP)

Iran’s parliament speaker meets with Hezbollah officials, Lebanese PM

By AFP and ToI Staff

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian shake hands during their meeting on the sidelines of the International Forum "The Interconnection of Times and Civilizations – the basis of peace and development" in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Friday, October 11, 2024. (Alexander Shcherbak, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin meets with Iran’s Pezeshkian, calling for ‘new world order’ of Russian allies

By AP

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)

Hezbollah fires rockets, drones throughout Yom Kippur; Herzliya retirement home hit by UAV

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Drone strikes retirement home in coastal town, no injuries; IDF orders more south Lebanon villages evacuated, faces rising world criticism for hitting UN position amid fighting

The empty streets in Tel Aviv, on the eve of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, and the holiest of Jewish holidays. October 11, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)

Israel, on high alert, marks Yom Kippur amid war for first time since 1973

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

US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally at the Rawhide Western Town and Event Center in Chandler, Arizona, on October 10, 2024. (Photo by Rebecca Noble/AFP)

Harris to Jewish voters: ‘All options on the table’ to stop Iran from going nuclear

In pre-election High Holidays call, US vice president says diplomatic solution still preferable to keep Islamic Republic from the bomb, charges Trump won’t stand by Israel

Illustrative: In this July 2, 2012, photo, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard speedboat moves in the Persian Gulf while an oil tanker is seen in the background (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

US slaps sanctions on Iran’s ‘ghost fleet’ of oil tankers, citing attacks on Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

This ain’t your grandparents’ antisemitism

Social media trolls and campus anti-Israel protests are unpleasant, but they’re no direct trajectory to gas chambers, or even Nuremberg laws

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

This Yom Kippur, it may be God’s turn to confess

In the fullness of our grief and anger, we can make room for a dialogue with the Divine, in which God takes responsibility for what we have endured

A shocking new UN report gaslights for Hamas

The report urges Palestinians to investigate themselves for killing Jews, when their stated goal is killing Jews

Remembering Maoz

We had been given a gift. We had the opportunity to hold our son’s hand and hug him. We had the chance to say goodbye

Vehicles from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) patrol in Marjayoun in southern Lebanon on October 12, 2024. (AFP)

UN says Lebanon peacekeeper injured by fire of unknown origin, the 5th hurt in 2 days

By Agencies and ToI Staff

UNIFIL says troop underwent surgery to remove the bullet and is stable; force says buildings at position in Ramyah sustained ‘significant damage’ due to blasts from nearby shelling

Vehicles of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) patrol in Marjeyoun in southern Lebanon on October 11, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Hezbollah and Israel. (Photo by AFP)

IDF says two UN peacekeepers hurt when soldiers fired at ‘immediate threat’ to troops

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega poses for a photo during the ALBA Summit at the Palace of the Revolution in Havana, Cuba, December 14, 2021. (Adalberto Roque, Pool Photo via AP)

Nicaragua severs ties with Israel over Gaza war, calls it ‘enemy of humanity’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Managua says Israeli government is ‘fascist and genocidal,’ however move is essentially symbolic as diplomatic ties between the countries are virtually nonexistent

Shiri Artzi (Avishag Sha'ar-Yeshuv)

Interview'The importance of kindness has become so clear to me'

Israeli author Shiri Artzi reflects on her antidote for despair after the Oct. 7 horrors

By Tamar Mor Sela

The novelist and screenwriter discusses writing an obituary for a massacre victim whom she never met, leading a workshop for evacuees, and the power of love in times of adversity

Palestinian cafe in California offers ‘Sweet Sinwar’ drink for October 7 anniversary

By Jackie Hajdenberg

New menu at Oakland eatery also features ‘iced in tea fada’ celebrating ‘intifada’, inverted red triangles; Jewish groups decry glorification of Hamas terror group, deadly massacre

A view of the Jerusalem Coffee House in Oakland, California, from a video posted to social media in March 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks at a human rights-themed event hosted by his Islamist AKP political party in the Turkish capital of Ankara, August 5, 2024. (Screen capture: X/Türkiye Canlı, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Erdogan: Russia, Iran, Syria must take measures against Israel after alleged Damascus strike

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Turkish president says Israel ‘most concrete threat to regional, global peace’ after airstrike targeted top Hezbollah official from unit tasked with delivering weapons from Iran

Sandy Koufax pitches during Game 7 of the 1965 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Minnesota Twins, Oct. 14, 1965, at Metropolitan Stadium in Minneapolis. (Focus on Sport/Getty Images, via JTA)

In 1965, Sandy Koufax famously didn’t pitch on Yom Kippur. But did he go to shul?

By jacob gurvis

Daniel Schloff, 17 at the time, recalls the Dodgers star pitcher sitting in front of him at Temple of Aaron synagogue in St. Paul, Minnesota: ‘He was there 100% and I sat behind him 100%’

This photograph, taken on September 20, 2024 shows a Star of David on a Jewish tombstone at the Mirogoj cemetery in Zagreb, Croatia. (Damir Sencar / AFP)

Croatia moves to protect 52 Jewish cemeteries after decades of neglect, destruction

By Lajla Veselica

Law stipulated that graves could be reassigned if fee not paid, meaning remains of over 3,000 Jews were exhumed because families decimated by Holocaust had nobody left to pay

Tomoyuki Mimaki, representative director of the Nihon Hidankyo, attends a press conference after the group was awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, in Hiroshima on October 11, 2024. (JIJI PRESS / AFP)

Japan’s Nihon Hidankyo group wins Nobel Peace Prize for work against nuclear weapons

By Mike Corder and Elena Becatoros

Award comes as Russia has signaled it is lowering its threshold for using atomic weapons; committee says ‘taboo against the use of nuclear weapons is under pressure’

More Headlines

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

Norway introduces temporary border checks amid threats to Jewish, Israeli targets

By AP and ToI Staff

An Israeli flag flies outside a Teva Pharmaceutical Industries building on Dec. 14, 2017, in Neot Hovav, Israel. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov, File)

Israel’s Teva agrees to pay $450m in settlements in US kickback, price-fixing cases

A child receives a vaccination for polio in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on September 4, 2024. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

UN says administering 2nd dose of polio vaccine in Gaza will be ‘more complicated’

By AFP and ToI Staff

A police car leads a diplomatic motorcade past the venue for the 50th ASEAN-Australia Special Summit, which is being held at Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from March 4th-6th 2024, in Melbourne on March 5, 2024. (Martin KEEP / AFP)

Australian police sergeant likely to be charged over Nazi salute in front of recruits

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