Join our Community

Support ToI and remove all ads

Learn more

English
Français
עברית

Get The Daily Edition
Account
Sign In
- Sign in
- Join our Community

Open Search form

Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Video
Newsletters
Partners

Input search

English
Français
עברית

Latest Articles
Latest Alerts
Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Video
Newsletters
Partners
Community
- Join our community
- Sign in
- About The Times of Israel
- Advertise on The Times of Israel
- Contact us
- Download our App
  - For IOS users
  - For Android users
- Get the Daily Edition
- Follow us
- © 2026 The Times of Israel , All Rights Reserved
  
  Terms and conditions Privacy policy

Input search

The Daily Edition

What Matters Most On Monday, October 14, 2024

Facebook
Twitter

View previous edition

View next edition

Four IDF soldiers killed in a Hezbollah drone attack on a a Golani base on October 13, 2024 seen in undated pictures: (Clockwise from top left): Sgt. Alon Amitay, Sgt. Omri Tamari, Sgt. Yosef Hieb, and Sgt. Yoav Agmon (Israel Defense Forces)

'The door buckled, we didn't understand what was happening'

4 soldiers killed in drone strike named, as families ask why there was no warning siren

By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

Funerals begin for victims, all aged 19, as questions abound over lack of alert ahead of attack on training base; Gallant says lessons must be learned; 40 soldiers still hospitalized

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi talks to soldiers at a Golani base in northern Israel after a deadly Hezbollah drone attack on October 14, 2024 (Israel Defense Forces)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 14: Day 374 – Drone takes heavy toll in perfect storm at IDF base

A military helicopter is seen after evacuating people wounded in a Hezbollah drone attack at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, October 13, 2024 (Flash90)

Four soldiers killed, seven seriously hurt in Hezbollah drone strike on military base

By Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Agencies

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

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 14: UNIFIL says peacekeepers to remain in southern Lebanon as pressure on Israel mounts

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Security Council condemns fighting catching Blue Helmets in crossfire without singling out Israel * Soldier killed in Gaza * US protests ‘horrifying’ result of strike on hospital in Strip

9:38 pm

UN Security Council voices concerns over fire on peacekeeper positions in Lebanon
8:44 pm

Defying Israel, UNIFIL chief says peacekeepers to 'stay in all positions' in Lebanon
8:18 pm

Biden denounces anti-Arab hate on anniversary of Palestinian-American boy's murder

Families of hostages mark year since October 7 at event with foreign diplomats

Former hostages and family members of captives appeal to foreign officials for help bringing cause back into the spotlight

Steffen Seibert, German ambassador to Israel, speaks at an event in Tel Aviv marking one year since the October 7 Hamas terror onslaught, October 13, 2024. (Paulina Patimer / Hostages Families Forum)

Israeli soldiers walk next to bodies of people murdered by Hamas terrorists lying outside the shelter in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, October 7, 2023. (Photo by Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Relatives of retirees killed on Oct. 7 sue Sderot municipality over locked shelter

Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar attends a farewell ceremony in honor of then-police chief Kobi Shabtai (not pictured), at the National Police Academy in Beit Shemesh, on July 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Shin Bet head met with Egypt intel chief over stalled hostage deal talks – report

Promoted Livestream

Israel’s strategic dilemmas

Shmuel Rosner and Avi Gil discuss Israel’s strategic dilemmas as it enters the second year of war, and the key issues awaiting the Knesset’s return today.

Interview

Gianluca Pacchiani

The force that isn’t keeping the peace in Lebanon: 4 scenarios for the future of UNIFIL

PM charges Hezbollah terror group uses UN peacekeepers as human shields, while ex-IDF intelligence expert Tal Beeri says it’s long been clear that the force isn’t fulfilling its mandate

A UNIFIL vehicle patrols near a billboard with a portrait of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, in the southern town of Adaisseh, on August 30, 2023. (Mahmoud Zayyat / AFP)

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speaks during the 'World in Progress Barcelona' Forum in Barcelona on October 14, 2024. (LLUIS GENE / AFP)

Spanish PM urges EU to accept bid to end free trade with Israel

By ToI Staff and Reuters

A picture taken during a tour organized by Hezbollah's media office on October 2, 2024, shows portraits of the Lebanese terror group's slain leader Hassan Nasrallah hanging on the rubble of a building destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Beirut's southern suburbs. (AFP)

Hezbollah said in ‘financial crisis,’ unable to pay members due to Israeli offensive

Fire after an Israeli strike, which the military said targeted a terror command center, allegedly hit a tent area in the courtyard of Al Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, October 14, 2024. (Abdel Kareem Hana/ AP)

IDF says it hit terror center in Gaza hospital compound, is probing alleged shelter shelling

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Tents set alight after Deir al-Balah strike, secondary blasts; IDF says terrorists had command center in hospital compound, looking into reports of shelling on Nuseirat school used as shelter

Palestinians transport their belongings as they flee areas north of Gaza City on October 12, 2024. (Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)

US worried about north Gaza humanitarian situation as UN says no new aid in 2 weeks

By Jacob Magid, ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: Cars destroyed by Hamas on October 7, 2023, are displayed at the civilian October 7 memorial ceremony at Yarkon Park in Tel Aviv, marking one year since the massacre, October 7, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

No representative of Oct. 7 bereaved families asked to speak at 2nd government ceremony

By ToI Staff and Sam Sokol

Victims of Hostilities Organization chair says he was asked to give speech as ‘they didn’t want screaming’ or protests at event where PM, Herzog will speak too

An Israeli man lights a memorial candle to mark the first anniversary of the October 7 attack at a cultural center in the northern city of Katzrin, October 7, 2024. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Government sets second national day of mourning for October 7

To young American Jews who turned your backs on our people

If you do not feel a special bond with other Jews, you are, in Jewish terms, emotionally damaged. A rabbi’s Yom Kippur confession

How to be an anti-Zionist without being an antisemite

And the 4 bogus anti-Israel canards – Colonization, Occupation, Apartheid, and Genocide – that show who the Jew-haters are

Illustrative: The US military returns a THAAD missile defense system from Israel to its home base, March 2019. (US Army Europe/File)

US confirms it’s sending missile defense battery, 100 troops to operate it, to Israel

By Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and AP

Pentagon says deployment of THAAD system, associated crew of US military personnel, will help bolster Israel’s air defenses following Iran’s unprecedented ballistic missile attacks

This handout picture provided by the Iranian foreign ministry shows Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (R) meeting with spokesman and chief negotiator of Yemen's Hםuthis Mohammad Abdelsalam in Oman's capital Muscat on October 14, 2024.(Photo by Iranian Foreign Ministry / AFP)

Iranian FM meets senior Houthi leader ahead of expected strike by Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

An anti-Israel sign is displayed in Tehran's Palestine Square on October 1, 2024. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

AnalysisAwaiting response to missile attack, Tehran debates next phase in Israel stand-off

By AFP

Cars that were set alight near Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park, allegedly at the behest of Iranian agents, in an undated photo. (Israel Police)

Two Israelis arrested for sabotage, plotting assassination for Iran

Vladislav Viktorson, 30, allegedly contacted via social media, then recruited his girlfriend and another to carry out vandalism; suspect agreed to kill an unnamed prominent figure

Workers remove broken glass from a damaged building that was hit during Iran's missile attack in Tel Aviv, October 2, 2024. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Iranian missile barrage caused NIS 150m to NIS 200m in damage to property

By Sharon Wrobel

Helen Mirren as Grandmère and Bryce Gheisar as Julian in "White Bird: A Wonder Story." (Larry Horricks via JTA)

‘White Bird’ stars Helen Mirren as Holocaust survivor who guides wayward grandson

By Shira Li Bartov

Author of children’s book that movie is based on says it is important that non-Jews help carry on lessons of Holocaust; film debuted this month after delay due to Hollywood strike

Congregants from Ec Chajim pray in Prague's Klausen Synagogue on Yom Kippur, October 11, 2024. (Dana Cabanova; courtesy of the Jewish Museum in Prague)

Historic Prague synagogue sees first Yom Kippur service since the Holocaust

By Shira Li Bartov

Until recently home to a Jewish Museum exhibit, 17th-century Klausen hosted a local progressive congregation whose regular space couldn’t fit the crowds expected for the sacred day

A picture taken on March 25, 2015, shows tourists walking in front of the Khazneh (Treasury) in Jordan's ancient city of Petra. (Photo by Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP)

Researchers uncover hidden tomb under ‘Indiana Jones’ landmark in Petra

Unlike other tombs found in ancient Jordanian city, which were largely empty, the newly discovered one held artifacts and at least 12 human remains believed to be 2,000 years old

'Why does the pig matter?' Jordan D. Rosenblum asks in his new book, 'Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig.' (Steve Evans/Wikimedia Commons)

From snout to tail: New book tells 3,000-year-old story of Jews and the pig

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

While the ‘other thing’ is just as unkosher as oysters or cheeseburgers, the taboo around it practically delineates Judaism itself, Jordan D. Rosenblum argues in ‘Forbidden’

More Headlines

Screen capture from video of Untersberg Mountain, 2022. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

German neo-Nazi falls to his death hiking on Hitler’s favorite mountain

Police remove a young fan, wearing a T-shirt with a slogan against National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, from a basketball game in Jerusalem, October 13, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Police briefly detain teen wearing anti-Ben Gvir T-shirt at Jerusalem basketball game

A swastika raked into a sand trap at the Hendon Golf Club in London, UK, October 11, 2024. (Screenshot from @darrengrimes_ on X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Swastika, antisemitic slogans daubed at golf club in Jewish area of London

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump gestures to the audience as he departs a campaign rally at the Calhoun Ranch, Oct. 12, 2024, in Coachella, Calif. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Man with loaded gun arrested near Trump’s weekend rally in Southern California

By Christopher Weber

Opposition Leader MK Yair Lapid leads a meeting of his Yesh Atid faction at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on September 9, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lapid warns civil servants they must oppose ‘laundering’ of state funds for Haredim

A composite photo showing US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (left) speaking during a church service at Koinonia Christian Center in Greenville, North Carolina, on October 13, 2024. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP); and former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Calhoun Ranch in Coachella, California, on October 12, 2024. (Frederic J. Brown / AFP)

Harris, Trump seek to get ahead as polls show dead heat in race for White House

By Michael Mathes and Brendan Smialowski

Shas party leader MK Aryeh Deri in the Knesset, Jerusalem, March 13, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shas chief Deri was aware state funds were going to party newspaper — report

French-Israeli diamond magnate Beny Steinmetz looks on as he arrives for the third day of his appeal against a corruption sentence linked to mining rights in Guinea, at the Geneva's courthouse, on August 31, 2022. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

Israeli mining magnate Beny Steinmetz held in Greece on Romanian arrest warrant

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Video screenshot from X of widespread littering around Romania’s Bacău "George Enescu" International Airport, October, 2024. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Jewish pilgrims returning from Uman leave piles of trash at Romanian airport

Starship's Super Heavy Booster is grappled at the launch pad in Starbase near Boca Chica, Texas, on October 13, 2024, during the Starship Flight 5 test. (SERGIO FLORES / AFP)

In milestone achievement, SpaceX ‘catches’ megarocket booster after test flight

View Edition by Date

September	October 2024					November
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30	31

The Times of Israel

Daily Edition

Free to Your Inbox

The email is either missing or invalid.

By signing up, you agree to our terms You hereby accept The Times of Israel Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, and you agree to receive the latest news & offers from The Times of Israel and its partners or ad sponsors.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
podcasts
video

terms and conditions
privacy policy
about us
advertise with us
Jobs at The Times of Israel
contact us

Community

Join our community
Sign in

Get the Daily Edition

Enter your email address

Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Whatsapp Follow us on X Follow us on Youtube Follow us on Telegram Follow us on Threads Follow us on Bluesky

© 2026 The Times of Israel, all rights reserved

Concept, design & development by

Developed by

Powered by

Never miss breaking news on Israel

Get notifications to stay updated

You're subscribed

Register for free
and continue reading

Registering allows you to manage your newsletters and alerts and helps us improve your experience. It takes just a few seconds.
Already registered? Enter your email to sign in.

Email address

Please use the following structure: example@domain.com

Or Continue with

By registering you agree to the terms and conditions. Once registered, you’ll receive our Daily Edition email for free.

Send me The Times of Israel Daily Edition

Register to continue

Email address

Or Continue with

Log in to continue

Email address

Something went wrong.
Please try again in a few minutes..

Sign in or Register

Email address * Password *

Incorrect password. Please try again or choose an option below.

I forgot my password / Send me a sign in link

Or Continue with

check your email

Check your email

We sent an email to you at .

It has a link that will sign you in.

Click the link in that email to complete your registration.