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What Matters Most On Sunday, October 13, 2024

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls on UN to withdraw peacekeepers from south Lebanon on October 13, 2024 (Screen grab/GPO)

IDF: Tanks entered UNIFIL post during wounded troop extraction

Netanyahu: UN must withdraw south Lebanon peacekeepers from combat zones

By Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Agencies

PM accuses Hezbollah of using UNIFIL as ‘human shields,’ urges Guterres to get take the forces ‘out of harm’s way,’ far from terror group’s strongholds

A Hezbollah rescue worker, left, and a Lebanese civil defense worker, right, stand on the rubble of destroyed buildings at a commercial street that was hit Saturday night by Israeli airstrikes, in Nabatiyeh town, south Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

US urges Israel to quickly pivot from military offensive to diplomacy in Lebanon

By Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Agencies

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)

40 countries contributing to UN’s Lebanon peacekeeping force condemn ‘attacks’

By AFP and ToI Staff

A Palestinian stands on an Israeli tank at the border fence near the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip after some 3,000 Hamas terrorists burst through the border and entered Israel, slaughtering some 1,200 people, October 7, 2023. (Yousef Mohammed/Flash90)

Discarded plan aimed to bring down Tel Aviv's Azrieli Towers

Reports: Hamas delayed Oct. 7 attack to enlist Iran, Hezbollah; plotted 9/11-style bombing

Records of meetings indicate terror group was ready to carry out cross-border massacre by Sept. 2022, chose eventual timing for reasons that included judicial overhaul divisions

Illustrative: A man carries a humanitarian aid package provided by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in central Gaza City on August 27, 2024. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

UN says critical aid routes into northern Gaza cut off as IDF renews offensive

By Agencies and ToI Staff

In this image courtesy of DVIDS, a US Air Force Airmen offloads a THAAD launcher from a C-17 GlobeMaster III at Nevatim Air Base, Israel, for an exercise, March 1, 2019. (Robert DURR / DVIDS / AFP)

US may send Israel THAAD missile defense, as Iran seeks to ward off Israeli retaliation

By ToI Staff, Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman

No decision made yet on deployment of advanced air defense battery, which would require US troops to operate; Washington reported to think Israel is zeroing in on possible targets

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks during a joint press conference with his Iraqi counterpart Fouad Hussein (not in picture) during his visit to Baghdad, Iraq, October 13, 2024. (AP/Anmar Khalil)

Iran’s FM: ‘No red lines’ in countering Israeli response to missile attack

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The Soyuz-2.1b rocket blasts off carrying Iran's Pars-1 satellite at the Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Tsiolkovsky in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, February 29, 2024. (Roscosmos space corporation via AP)

Iran sends 2 satellites to Russia for rocket launch, says they’re for civilian purposes

By Reuters and ToI Staff

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For the Southern Lebanese Army’s second generation, Nasrallah’s death is a ‘breakthrough’

By Diana Bletter

Former SLA members refuse to speak in the face of reprisals, but these young Lebanese-Israelis believe it’s their mission to raise the curtain on the truth about Hezbollah

Christian villagers in southern Lebanon say they are ‘trapped’ in crossfire

By AFP

Lebanon’s army rendered a bystander as Israel, Hezbollah fight in country’s south

By AP

Israeli security forces and first responders gather at the site of a deadly Hezbollah drone strike near the north-central Israeli town of Binyamina, October 13, 2024. (Oren ZIV / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 13: Hezbollah threatens to increase attacks if IDF presses on with Lebanon offensive

Terror group issues threat after its drone strike kills 4 soldiers at base in north-central Israel * IDF says 25 missiles fired by Hezbollah from next to UNIFIL posts in past month

10:13 pm

Hezbollah threatens to increase attacks if IDF offensive in Lebanon continues
10:04 pm

Two hospitals in northern Gaza receive new supplies from WHO, Red Cross
9:46 pm

IDF says four soldiers killed, seven seriously wounded in Hezbollah drone strike

Families of hostages held captive by Hamas terrorists in Gaza block the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv with other activists during a protest calling for the hostages' release, October 12, 2024. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

‘No forgiveness’: Yom Kippur-themed protests slam Netanyahu for ‘neglecting’ hostages

5 arrested as activists block Tel Aviv highway, light tires to form message: ‘Sorry we were taken hostage’; Families Forum and others arrange prayer services at Hostages Square

The Neilah prayers, the final plea for atonement at the end of the Yom Kippur service, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, October 12, 2024. (Paulina Patimer/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Defense officials said to accuse government of seeking Gaza annexation over hostage deal

Dr. Raanan Rafaeli holds a feline patient during the war in Kiryat Shmona. (Courtesy)

'I love my profession but I hate the situation'

Hezbollah fire doesn’t deter dedicated vets treating animals in war-torn Kiryat Shmona

By Diana Bletter

Two veterinarians in the officially evacuated city keep their clinics open, at times forced to amputate the legs of dogs caught up in the terror group’s rocket attacks

Illustrative: Destroyed buildings at a commercial street that was hit October 12, 2024, by Israeli airstrikes, are seen in Nabatiyeh town, south Lebanon, October 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Oct. 13: Day 373 – ToI reports from southern Lebanon

Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman discusses what is happening in the war in the north and in Gaza, reports on possible US THAAD missile system deployment, and takes a look at UNIFIL

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

How the Israel-Iran rope-a-dope ends

My father’s boxing lessons taught me that a fight with the neighborhood bully must conclude with a knockout – and now is our chance

‘Operation Hush’: Silencing the families of the hostages

Just weeks after October 7th, members of Netanyahu’s coalition began a venomous attack against families of the hostages. Here’s how and why

Bais Chaya Mushka, a Jewish girls' school in Toronto, Canada, in an undated photo. (Screenshot)

Toronto Jewish school targeted by gunfire during Yom Kippur, in 2nd attack in months

By AFP and ToI Staff

Trudeau says he’s ‘very disturbed’ by incident, which comes amid dramatic rise in antisemitic attacks in the country as war rages in Middle East

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

Eran Braverman, a Kibbutz Alumim head farmer who helped battle Hamas terrorists on October 7, fingers one of the blue agave plants grown on the kibbutz for making mezcal, on September 23, 2024 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Kibbutz that fought off Oct. 7 terror endeavors to develop Israeli version of tequila

By Jessica Steinberg

Kibbutz Alumim in the Gaza border area partners with experts to plant agave succulents in Negev desert terroir, hoping to produce local mezcal spirit within a few years

Portrait of a man thought to be Christopher Columbus by Sebastiano del Piombo, 1519.(public domain)

Study finds Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe

By Graham Keeley

Researchers analyze DNA fragmented remains believed to be world-shaping explorer’s; they say any further narrowing down of his origins remains elusive

Paul Ronzheimer speaks with Channel 12 news in footage aired on October 12, 2024. (Screen capture: Channel 12; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

German journalist arrested in Beirut had feared he would be handed to Hezbollah

Paul Ronzheimer, briefly detained after speaking to an Israeli outlet from Lebanon, says he found out after his release that the Iran-backed terror group was indeed looking for him

Sir Paul McCartney and his wife Nancy Shevell leave a Yom Kippur service at Circulo Israelita de Santiago, Oct. 12, 2024. (Courtesy Circulo Israelita de Santiago)

Wings and a prayer

Paul McCartney spotted rocking Yom Kippur services in Chile

By ToI Staff and JTA

The British music legend, whose wife is Jewish, has attended High Holiday prayers in the past, and has been described as having a ‘love affair with all things Jewish’

American late-night host Bill Maher discussing Chappell Roan on HBO's 'Real Time with Bill Maher', October 12, 2024. (Screenshot: YouTube/Real Time with Bill Maher; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Bill Maher lambastes Chappell Roan: They’d throw you ‘off a roof’ in Gaza

In lengthy monologue, veteran pro-Israel pundit lectures LGBTQ singer — and Generation Z at large — after her thinly veiled reference to Palestinian rights went viral

An undated photo of a pair of eco-toilets at the IDF Nitzanim training base in southern Israel. (Guy Saly, Nature Defense Force)

When nature and duty call

Army cleans up its act with eco-toilets

Following pilot project, officer in charge of environmental protection calls for wide adoption of eco-toilets where permanent facilities needed in open areas

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