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What Matters Most On Tuesday, October 15, 2024

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Medics and police at the scene of a terror attack near Ashdod in which First Sgt. Adir Kadosh (inset) was killed, October 15, 2024. (MDA; Israel Police)

Policeman killed, 4 injured in terror shooting on highway near Ashdod

Volunteer medic shoots attacker dead; doctor who stopped to help wounded is also injured; Ben Gvir says private gun ownership helped prevent worse attack

US said to be assisting Jerusalem with shortfall

Israel faces potential shortage of interceptor missiles — report

Experts warn air defenses could be ‘stretched’ if Iran reacts to anticipated Israeli retaliatory strike against it, or if Hezbollah goes all out

Smoke trails are seen as rockets launched from Lebanon into northern Israel are intercepted over Safed, October 9, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Treasury proposes to cut benefits, hike taxes for lowest earners to fund war

By Sharon Wrobel and Sam Sokol

Arrangements Law also includes measures taxing advanced study fund and pension contributions; the ‘government is going to hit you in the savings,’ warns Liberman

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich speaks during a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, September 3, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf, right, arriving for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 27, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

UTJ threatens to bolt coalition if law keeping haredim out of IDF not passed before budget

Noa Koler and the cast of Checkout (Kupa Rashit) return for a new season streaming exclusively on ChaiFlicks. (Credit: Yes Studios / ChaiFlicks)

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4 New Israeli TV Series Streaming This Fall

A new season of comedy hit Kupa Rashit, October 7 documentary series, and more: Discover the new TV series coming to Jewish streaming platform ChaiFlicks this Fall.

Senior UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Action and Reconstruction in Gaza Sigrid Kaag visits a makeshift camp for displaced Palestinians in Mawasi Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 15, 2024. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 15: Netanyahu said to reject far-right calls for IDF to distribute Gaza aid

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Lebanese PM: I have US guarantees Israeli strikes in Beirut will be reduced * WHO says latest round of polio vaccinations in Gaza has started well * UK sanctions top settler group

8:55 pm

At least 43 illegal outposts established throughout West Bank in year since Oct. 7 onslaught
8:50 pm

Sukkah built aboard US aircraft carrier deployed in Mideast
8:38 pm

IDF says it intercepted suspicious drone near Sea of Galilee after it entered Israel from Lebanon

People carry the coffin of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commander Abbas Nilforoushan during his funeral procession near the Imam Hussein shrine in Iraq's city of Karbala on October 14, 2024. (Ahmad AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

Netanyahu told Biden Israel will not attack Iranian nuclear or oil sites – report

US president said to be calmed by commitment to only attack military sites, fears broader attack would affect November election; PM’s office says Israeli interests paramount

Soldiers gather before the funeral of IDF Sgt. Yosef Hieb at the cemetery in Tuba Zangariya, northern Israel, on October 14, 2024, killed in a Hezbollah drone strike. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Hezbollah UAV that killed 4 dropped off radar, then briefly reappeared – probe

By Lazar Berman

Initial IAF inquiry finds that drone strike was part of multi-faceted air attack; Israel to broaden warnings, setting off sirens in more areas

An Israeli military ambulance arrives at the site of a drone strike near the northern Israeli town of Binyamina, on October 13, 2024, part of the continuing war between Israel and Hezbollah. (Oren ZIV / AFP)

ExplainerHezbollah’s Iranian-made drones emerge as a fierce and evasive foe for Israel

By AP and ToI Staff

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)

‘A huge boom’: Residents near IDF base shaken by deadly Hezbollah drone attack

By AFP and ToI Staff

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (R) and commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Aerospace Force Amir Ali Hajizadeh look on as Iran's new Shahed 136-B drone is displayed during the annual military parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, in Tehran on September 21, 2024. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

‘Told you so’: Ukraine’s envoy laments past Israeli refusal to collaborate on drones

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

After deadly Hezbollah strike on base, Ambassador Korniychuk says countries fighting same enemy, touts increased cooperation since Oct. 7 but wishes for more

Catherine Perez-Shakdam

UNIFIL, the peacekeepers who watch but do not see

The Force, in its current form, is worse than useless – it is an enabler of the very conflict it was designed to prevent

Stephen Saperstein Frug

This Jewish atheist has been praising God’s name

I’ve said the Mourner’s Kaddish, a prayer of elaborate affirmation of divine will, for nearly a year of my life – twice. Here’s why

Abraham H. Foxman

The most important vote US Jews will ever cast

With Israel in peril and the Jewish community under attack, we need a president with a commitment to democratic norms

Menucha Saitowitz

Two headscarves, tied differently. Two smiles. Two friends. They are what the future should look like

Sgt. Koren Bitan, whose death fighting in Gaza was announced by the IDF on October 14, 2024 (IDF Spokesman)

Army confirms airstrike killed Oct. 7 paraglider mastermind

Soldier killed in Gaza; US horrified as IAF raid said to spark deadly fire at tent camp

By Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid, Agencies and ToI Staff

Strike on Hamas center in hospital said to cause fires in nearby tents for displaced people, killing 4; US protests as images show civilians burning alive; some aid to north Gaza renewed

IDF troops seen operating in Gaza in a handout photo cleared for publication on October 9, 2024. (IDF)

IDF denies report troops are using detained Gazans as human shields

By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

Authorities seize more explosives, along with cash

Tel Aviv suicide bombing attempt in August was overseen by Hamas in Turkey – police

Israeli authorities arrest and charge eight terror operatives accused of involvement in the incident, as well as an East Jerusalem resident who allegedly transported the bomber

Security and rescue forces at the scene of an attempted suicide bombing in south Tel Aviv, August 18, 2024. (Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant visits the Nevatim air force base in southern Israel, October 6, 2024. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Gallant tells hostage families no deal on the horizon, Hamas hoping for regional war

Terror group is watching escalations with Hezbollah and Iran, has ‘hardened’ its stance, defense minister says — but if Israel can link Lebanon and Gaza to make progress, it will

Iranian Quds Force commander General Esmail Qaani seen on Iranian television on October 14, 2024 (Video screenshot)

Iranian TV shows Quds Force head after weeks of speculation regarding his fate

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Esmail Qaani apparently attends service for Revolutionary Guard commander killed in Beirut alongside Nasrallah, after reports suggested he was being questioned for spying for Israel

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

Defying Israel, UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon insists it is staying put

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Security Council expresses concern over incidents in which UNIFIL troops were hurt, doesn’t single out Israel; Netanyahu says claims IDF targeting Blue Helmets ‘completely false’

The site where a rocket from Lebanon hit in the northern city of Karmiel, October 14, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Hezbollah rockets pummel swaths of Israel as IDF vows to eliminate group’s drone unit

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Transportation Minister Miri Regev attends ceremony marking the one-year anniversary of the October 7 massacre, at Ben Gurion International Airport, October 7, 2024. (Photo by Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 15: Day 375 – Another Oct. 7 government event; UNIFIL stays in Lebanon

‘Overlooked’ grief: October 7 massacre left 2,185 bereft siblings, first study shows

By Diana Bletter

Hebrew University researcher says there’s a ‘hierarchy of grief’; urges government to give mourning siblings the same benefits as widows, parents and children of terror victims

Masada Bochris, right, with her brother, Chen Bochris who was killed battling Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Nahal Oz on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)

Elad Gilon finds a Russell species of fungi. He is doing research to determine if it is edible. (Emmanuel Sarid)

'It should not be that nobody knows which mushrooms grow here'

In first, doctoral candidate enlists foragers across Israel to help map mushroom DNA

By Diana Bletter

There are over 1,000 species of fungi in the Holy Land; what started as one scientist’s hobby has mushroomed into a collective effort on a scale never before seen in the country

Settlers allegedly carrying off stolen olives from Palestinian-owned olive trees from the land of the West Bank village of Bayt Lid close to the Einav settlement, October 2024. (Screenshot, courtesy Yesh Din)

Multiple attacks on Palestinian olive growers reported as harvest season begins

By Jeremy Sharon

NGO says harvesters facing violent assaults, theft of their crops in last two weeks, including incidents in which security forces failed to intervene

A woman pauses at the October 7 memorial ceremony at Yarkon Park in Tel Aviv, marking one year since the Hamas massacre, October 7, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

'If I die before my time comes I want you to celebrate life'

In the year since October 7, a wave of musical projects commemorate Israel’s fallen

By Gavriel Fiske

Both established and amateur artists set to music lyrics penned by the slain, capturing the spirit of those whose personal soundtracks stopped too soon

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Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi speaks during a plenum session in the Knesset, July 3, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court issues sharp ruling against attorney general over TV regulator job

By Jeremy Sharon

Neglected dogs rescued by the Agriculture Ministry and police from a pirate breeder in central Israel, October 15, 2024. (Agriculture Ministry)

Agriculture Ministry, police raid ‘puppy mill,’ rescue 30 neglected dogs

Israeli author meir Shalev speaks at the 25th Jerusalem National Book Festival held at the International Conference Center in Jerusalem. February 22, 2011. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

National Library gets Meir Shalev archive, will restrict access per author’s wish

Illustrative: A police car is seen near a crime scene in Jerusalem, March 6, 2024. (Israel Police)

Man convicted of abducting and raping woman 15 years ago

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