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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 16, 2024

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US President Joe Biden flanked Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, right, speaks during a meeting with the members of his cabinet in the Cabinet Room of the White House, September 20, 2024. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

Israeli official: We're reviewing letter and take it seriously

US gives Israel 30 days to address Gaza aid crisis, threatens to curb weapons supply

Letter from Blinken and Austin lists series of demands, including allowing 350 trucks daily into Strip, ensuring north Gaza isn’t ‘isolated’; deadline falls days after US election

Children sift through waste at a landfill in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 15, 2024. (Bashar Taleb / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 16: Day 376 – US gives 30-day ultimatum on Gaza aid. Can Israel deliver?

Palestinians line up to buy bread at a bakery run by the UN World Food Programme and UNRWA in in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on September 8, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

UNRWA ‘very near’ possible breaking point in Gaza, head says

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 16: Mayor of Hezbollah stronghold in south Lebanon killed amid Israeli strikes

After US threat over missile supplies, Israel says 50 aid trucks enter northern Gaza * France bars Israeli firms from naval trade fair * UK mulls sanctions on Smotrich, Ben Gvir

8:26 pm

Netanyahu says IDF found 'state-of-the-art' Russian arms in Hezbollah bases
7:48 pm

Lebanese media reports airstrikes in Hezbollah's eastern Lebanon strongholds
7:26 pm

Qatar's PM says no hostage talks have taken place for 3-4 weeks

In record, US fines Lufthansa $4m for denying boarding to Jewish passengers in 2022

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Department of Transportation says fine over incident in which 128 Jews were prevented from boarding is the largest ever against an airline for civil rights violations

Jewish passengers who were kicked off a Lufthansa flight on May 3, 2022, were greeted by the police once they arrived in Frankfurt. (Courtesy via JTA)

Promoted Web EventNorthwestern Israel Innovation Project

Live webinar featuring David Horovitz, editor of The Times of Israel

Northwestern’s Israel Innovation Project invites you to this live discussion on the impact and ramifications of October 7 on Israel, the Middle East, and worldwide. Register now!

Gallant sees 'eye to eye' with PM, IDF chief on response

Israel said to decide on targets it could strike in Iran: ‘Now a matter of time’

But source tells public broadcaster ‘the targets could also change at the 11th hour’; Gallant vows response to Iranian missile attack is coming soon, will be ‘precise and deadly’

This handout photo shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (C) and IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi meeting at the 'Bahad 1' military base in southern Israel, March 7, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

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 says it will respond ‘decisively’ if Israel attacks, asks UN to intervene

By AFP, ToI Staff and Reuters

Iran is upping its cyberwarfare tactics, and is likely to only increase them further regardless of a potential Israel-Hamas ceasefire. (iStock photo/ mirsad sarajlic)

Israeli arrested for plot to kill local scientist in exchange for $100K from Iran

Illustrative: A Wizz Air flight takes off from Ben Gurion International Airport, July 22, 2019. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Wizz cancels Israel flights until mid-January; Delta won’t return before April

Some airlines are expected to gradually resume operations after EU lifts recommendation to avoid air travel to Israel amid ongoing fighting between Israel and Hezbollah

A street in the Christian quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, usually lined with restaurants and shops, sits empty amid Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza and the halt to international tourism to the city, December 14, 2023. (Gianluca Pacchiani/Times of Israel)

Israel’s growth expands at slower pace as grueling war takes economic toll

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Israelis take cover as sirens warn of an incoming missile fired from Lebanon, in Holon, October 14, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Op-ed: Day 376 of the war

After a year of war, how to get to the ‘day after’

Essential domestic and international components of a strategic approach

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Sukkot: Seeking strength

This year, we don’t need our transient sukkahs to remind us how fragile life is, but we also can’t let our knowledge impede our resolve to carry on

Warplanes and birdsong

Between sleep and alertness, life’s stresses come to the surface; I lie awake, worried, listening to the planes, until the birds let me know it’s time to get up

Sukkot: 4 parts in harmony

The joy of this holiday comes from the combination of appreciation for the individual, the community, humanity, and God, in concert together

Sukkot: Dancing over the abyss

Does the Torah really expect Jews to be altogether and only joyful during the holiday of Sukkot? That seems impossible, especially this year

Hezbollah operatives that the IDF said it arrested in south Lebanon on October 15, 2024. (IDF)

IDF says troops nabbed 3 Hezbollah commandos hiding under building in south Lebanon

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Military releases interrogation footage suggesting dissension among terror group’s ranks; Lebanon PM says he received reassurances from US that Israel will reduce strikes in Beirut

Smoke rise from the Dahiyeh suburb in southern Beirut, Lebanon, following an Israeli airstrike, October 16, 2024. (AP/Hussein Malla)

IDF strikes Beirut for first time in days amid US concerns over bombing campaign

By Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Agencies

An image grab taken from Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV shows the group's deputy chief Naim Qassem delivering a speech from an undisclosed location on October 15, 2024. (AFP/HO/Al-Manar)

Hezbollah signals Lebanon truce depends on Gaza, says it aims to cause Israel pain

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) shakes hands with French President Emmanuel Macron (L), as they hold a joint press conference in Jerusalem on October 24, 2023. (Christophe Ena/Pool/AFP)

Netanyahu, Macron trade barbs about Israel’s founding amid spat over war in Lebanon

By AFP, ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

After French leader ‘reminds’ PM that Israel was created by UN decision and therefore global body should be respected, Netanyahu says Jewish state earned its existence via 1948 war

Israeli soldiers gather near a tank in the Golan Heights on September 19, 2024. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

Israel said demining along Golan frontier, signaling op against Hezbollah could widen

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Lebanese security forces members check on displaced people who set up makeshift shelters on Beirut's seaside promenade in order to relocate them on October 10, 2024. (AFP)

Mass displacement in Lebanon raises specter of sectarianism, revives civil war trauma

By Reuters and ToI Staff

The US military deploys a THAAD missile defense system in Israel, March 2019. (US Army Europe)

Missile battery deployment deepens US role in conflict between Israel and Iran

Experts say deployment of THAAD missile defense battery brings added risk to American troops operating it, and is a sign of US commitment to Israel’s security

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant visits a Golani base in Binyamina that was hit by a Hezbollah drone strike the previous day, on October 14, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Israel turns to defense industry for help in bolstering capabilities against drones

By Reuters and ToI Staff

The Gilboa-Dalal sukkah has been left standing for a year, waiting for Guy Gilboa-Dalal, held hostage since October 7, 2023, to come home (Courtesy)

Hostage’s father won’t dismantle last year’s sukkah until his son is home

By Jessica Steinberg

Guy Gilboa-Dalal, 22, promised his father he would help put the hut away when he got back from the Nova festival

US billionaire Elon Musk, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, take a tour of Kfar Aza, November 27, 2023. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Nir Oz invites Netanyahu to visit kibbutz for first time since Oct. 7 massacre

Illustrative: A Woman removes her wedding ring. (Dragana991/iStock)

Haifa court rules divorce refusal is a crime, sentences husband to 18 months in prison

Man is 2nd to be sentenced to prison for refusing to give his wife a ‘get,’ after trapping her in marriage since 2004; rabbinic courts in US, Israel have issued rulings against him

Yael Aisenthal-Kordevani decorated her sukkah in the city of Modi'in with symbols of the year since Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel, October 15, 2024. (Courtesy Aisenthal-Kordevani)

Israelis decorate their first sukkahs since Oct. 7 with hostage photos

By Deborah Danan

Symbols of devastated border communities line walls of sukkahs one year after Hamas onslaught, as soldiers deployed to Gaza erect festive hut, shown in viral image

Smoke rises from a fire which broke out from missiles fired from Lebanon at a forest outside the northern Israeli city of Tzfat, September 24, 2024. (David Cohen/ Flash90)

Head out to nature, or stay near a bomb shelter? The Israeli Sukkot dilemma

As the Jewish state’s ultimate hiking holiday approaches, millions debate whether to get fresh air and risk being caught by enemy rockets – as this writer did

Inside Story

Asaf Elia-Shalev

Canadian crackdown on Israel-linked charities raises concerns in Jewish community

The tax authority’s revocation of charitable status for JNF Canada and others has reverberated inside and outside the country – though the motives behind it are disputed

A sign for Israel's Jewish National Fund is seen defaced, in Toronto, Canada, October 9, 2008. (Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images/JTA)

Hillel attendees in Berlin build a sukkah. (Debi Simon for Hillel Deutschland/ via JTA)

'I get pushed or yelled at, but I don't feel real danger'

Despite record post-Oct. 7 antisemitism, European Jews are out and proud this Sukkot

From Milan to Warsaw, Jewish communities are building huts and brandishing the four species as usual — with a little bit of extra protection

Amana CEO Ze'ev 'Zambish' Hever addresses his settlement group's annual conference in Jerusalem on November 14, 2017. (Courtesy: Yesha Council)

UK targets top Israeli settlement development group in third batch of sanctions

By Jacob Magid, ToI Staff and Agencies

Other sanctioned organizations include a West Bank yeshiva allegedly promoting ‘violence against non-Jewish people,’ a registered charity, and three illegal outposts

Kibbutz Yad Mordechai member Limor Livne put together 'And the Sun Did Not Stand Still,' an exhibit of Israeli artworks that opened October 8, 2024, to help bring her community and the Gaza envelope back to life (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

With October 8 art exhibit, a Gaza border kibbutz bravely looks to the day after

By Jessica Steinberg

Inspired by politician Benny Gantz’s temporary stay in Yad Mordechai, a resident sets up a former carpentry shop to host works of resilience amid aftermath of Hamas attack

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Protesters rally against antisemitism at Place de la Comedie in Montpellier, southern France, on August 27, 2024. (Pascal GUYOT / AFP)

EU issues declaration against antisemitism, calls for more action to combat it

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara addresses the Israel Bar Association's annual conference in Eilat, May 27, 2024. (Courtesy: Israel Bar Association)

State funding for daycares of draft-dodging yeshiva students ‘illegal’ — AG

By Jeremy Sharon, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Screen capture of the Town and Village Synagogue in New York. (Google Maps: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

After bomb threat during Yom Kippur service, Manhattan synagogue prayed on street

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Back to the land: Young people learn farming skills through HaShomer HaChadash. (HaShomer HaChadash)

Plans to ensure food security threatened by Treasury bid to slash agriculture funds

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, left, and Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez arrive for a joint statement at the Moncloa palace in Madrid, Spain, September 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul White)

AnalysisIn long-shot wartime proposal, Spain and PA push for reprise of 1991 Madrid peace summit

By Batya Levinthal

Illustrative: A cybersecurity expert talks about Iran hacking techniques, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, September 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Iran cyber attacks against Israel surged after Gaza war started, Microsoft reports

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A gunman from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror group participates in a rally at the Jabaliya Refugee Camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, March 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

US imposes sanctions on ‘sham charity’ fundraising for Palestinian terror group

By Reuters and ToI Staff

FILE - A woman enters the secret annex at the renovated Anne Frank House Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Full-scale replica of Anne Frank’s hidden annex heads to New York for exhibition

Houthi supporters hold posters showing Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader assassinated in Tehran during an anti-Israel and anti-American rally in Sanaa, Yemen, August 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

UN special envoy laments Houthis’ role in Mideast war, lists dire consequences

By AP and ToI Staff

Israeli actors Noa Cohen (right) as Mary and Ido Tako (left) as Joseph in Netflix's new biblical epic 'Mary.' (Christopher Raphael/Netflix)

A 'coming of age' storyIsraelis star in Netflix bible epic ‘Mary,’ also with Anthony Hopkins

Republican presidential nominee and former US President Donald Trump, right, and South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem dance to the song 'YMCA' at a campaign town hall at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, Pennsylvania, October 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

‘DJ Trump’ dances onstage for 40 minutes after interruptions at campaign event

By Adriana Gomez Licon and JONATHAN J. COOPER

Adam Abeshouse in an undated photo. (Abeshouse Productions via JTA)

ObituaryAdam Abeshouse, decorated Jewish producer for A-list classical musicians, dies at 63

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

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