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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 17, 2024

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Yahya Sinwar, leader of the Hamas terror group, hosts a meeting with members of Palestinian factions, at the Hamas president's office in Gaza City, on April 13, 2022. (Attia Muhammed/Flash90)

Hamas leader and Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar killed by IDF troops in Gaza

By ToI Staff and Agencies

IDF confirms terror chief was shot dead in Rafah firefight Wednesday; troops spotted body Thursday and Sinwar’s identity was formally confirmed after tests; no hostages at location

IDF troops stand over the body of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza on October 17, 2024. (Courtesy)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 17: Footage shows Sinwar hurling stick at IDF drone moments before he was killed

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Netanyahu: War can end tomorrow if Hamas surrenders, frees hostages * Hostage families demand gov’t leverage killing to secure deal * Five soldiers killed in south Lebanon

8:52 pm

Macron urges Israel to halt Lebanon operations
8:51 pm

US defense secretary says death of Sinwar provides opportunity to end 'terrible war' in Gaza
8:35 pm

Blinken calls Herzog to congratulate Israel on Sinwar killing, says he's considering an imminent trip to the region

Civil defence rescue vehicles arrive at the site of an overnight Israeli air strike on the village of Qana in southern Lebanon on October 16, 2024. (Photo by Bilal KASHMAR / AFP)

IDF kills Hezbollah southern district commander; rocket fire from Lebanon wounds 4

Residents of northern Arab town treated for minor injuries; EU ministers say they back expanding UNIFIL’s rules of engagement, but need IDF to withdraw from Lebanon first

Illustrative - The German Madgeburg F261 corvette docked at the port of Beirut on January 30, 2018. (JOSEPH EID / AFP)

German UNIFIL warship downs drone off Lebanon coast; IDF kills Hezbollah commander

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Palestinians sit near the site of an Israeli airstrike which allegedly sparked a fire in tents for displaced people two days earlier in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on October 16, 2024. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Israel lets 50 aid trucks into northern Gaza after US threat to curb arms deliveries

US notes initial steps taken by Israel to boost humanitarian aid into Strip, hours after confirming it sent letter warning of consequences if situation doesn’t improve in 30 days

Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel attends a meeting of Egyptian and Sudanese foreign ministers and heads of intelligence at Tahrir Palace, in Cairo, Egypt, February 8, 2018. (Khaled Elfiqi/Pool photo via AP)

Egypt replaces spy chief who played key role in now-stalled hostage-ceasefire talks

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Sissi appoints Hassan Rashad to replace Abbas Kamel, who is moved to become a special adviser, as Iran’s FM visits Egypt as part of Middle East tour to discuss regional tensions

Inside story

Maya Gebeily, James Pearson and David Gauthier-Villars

How Hezbollah was fooled into purchasing explosive pagers

Invisible detonators and wafer-thin plastic explosives turned batteries into bombs after a fake, but convincing, online history was created for bulky new product used by thousands

In this photo released by US Air National Guard, a US Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bomber takes off from a Royal Australian Air Force base in Amberley, Australia, September 11, 2024. (Staff Sgt. Whitney Erhart/US Air National Guard via AP)

US stealth bombers hit Houthi underground weapons depots in apparent warning to Iran

By AP

Long-range B-2 plane reported used in Yemen strike for first time; US Defense Secretary Austin says op shows ability to target enemies’ facilities that are seemingly out of reach

Thousands of people turn out for an ultra-nationalist march and rally in Sderot to call for the rebuilding of Jewish settlements in Gaza, May 14, 2024. (Courtesy Nachala Settlement Movement)

‘It is doable’: 10 Likud MKs to attend conference calling for ‘resettling Gaza’

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Almost a third of lawmakers in Netanyahu’s party to participate in event organized by Nachala Settlement Movement, after a similar confab months ago drew widespread backlash

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at a press conference during the 44th and 45th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summits in Vientiane on October 11, 2024. (TANG CHHIN SOTHY / POOL / AFP)

Report: Blinken mulling post-war Gaza plan to present after US elections

Axios reports Israel, UAE asked top US diplomat to help bridge differences for joint proposal regarding Palestinian Authority involvement in Gaza

US President Joe Biden walks over to speak with reporters at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, July 15, 2024, as he heads to Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden to visit Germany for talks with Scholz, Macron and Starmer on Ukraine, Mideast

By Frank Zeller

French President Emmanuel Macron attends the first working session of the 19th Francophonie Summit, at the Grand Palais in Paris, Oct. 5, 2024. (Ludovic Marin/Pool via AP)

‘Ignorance of history’: Unease in France over Macron’s comments on Israel’s founding

By AFP

Senior right-wing politician slams ‘ignorance of the history’; in interview with French outlet, Netanyahu accuses French president of ‘distressing distortion of history’ and ‘disrespect’

French President Emmanuel Macron (C) visits a stand at the Euronaval naval defense exhibition in Le Bourget near Paris, France, on October 23, 2018. (Benoit Tessier/ Pool/ AFP/ File)

‘A disgrace’: Gallant rips Macron for again barring Israeli firms from defense expo

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Screen grab from a video on social media said to show the aftermath of an alleged Israeli strike on a target in Latakia, Syria, October 17, 2024 (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli strike said to target weapons depot in Syria’s Latakia

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Syrian state media says 2 injured; video appears to show large secondary explosions, suggesting presence of arms at targeted site; no comment from IDF

Far-right leaders Itamar Ben Gvir (left) and Bezalel Smotrich at the Knesset on December 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)

Starmer says UK weighing sanctions on Ben Gvir and Smotrich

By Agencies and ToI Staff

British PM says move being considered in light of the ‘obviously abhorrent comments’ by the far-right ministers, who fire back by saying ‘the days of the mandate are over’

Palestinians collect olives from a tree during the annual harvest season, in the West Bank village of Qusra, south of Nablus, October 15, 2024. (Flash90)

West Bank facing ‘most dangerous olive season ever,’ UN-linked experts warn

By AFP and ToI Staff

Rivy Poupko Kletenik

Graffiti comes home

I wish whoever stuck the word ’genocide’ on our lawn had the mettle to open a conversation. I am more than ready to talk

Sukkot 2024: What are we celebrating?

Simchat Torah 2023 recalled the dark days of the Holocaust. Having the means to defend ourselves makes all the difference

Columbia University assistant professor Shai Davidai is denied access to the main campus after his security card was deactivated to prevent him from accessing the lawn currently occupied by pro-Palestine student demonstrators in New York, April 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)

Israeli Columbia prof barred from campus for alleged harassment after opposing Oct. 7 protests

Shai Davidai says ban followed videos he made of himself confronting officials about anti-Israel activity on anniversary of Hamas attack; Columbia: He harassed, intimidated staff

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump embraces Miriam Adelson at an event marking one year since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, October 7, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Miriam Adelson gives $100 million to Trump campaign, making good on reported pledge

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Gift from the prolific pro-Israel donor is the largest among new batch of major spending disclosures, eclipses the $75 million that Elon Musk recently gave to a pro-Trump PAC

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to Fox News on October 16, 2024 (Screen grab)

Harris interview with conservative outlet Fox News marked by testy exchanges

Former KKK president David Duke, left, announced on his radio show Oct. 15 that he is endorsing Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein. (Photos via YouTube, Wikimedia via JTA)

Former KKK leader David Duke endorses Jill Stein in US presidential race

By Jackie Hajdenberg

A still from a production of 'October 7: In Their Own Words.' (Courtesy)

'It's just not considered cool to support Jews right now'

Despite threats and blacklist, play based on word-for-word Oct. 7 testimony tours US

By Joshua Hershfield

Irish husband-wife duo Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney felt impelled to pen ‘Oct. 7: In Their Own Words’ – but soon found themselves producing it in a hostile environment

A sukkah banner distributed by Hakhel, the Goldberg-Polins' synagogue in Jerusalem, features Hersh's face with the word meaning light. Shlomit Sattler hung the banner in her Jerusalem sukkah. (Courtesy Sattler)

In new take on tradition, UK group urges families to ‘save seat in sukkah’ for hostages

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Board of Deputies of British Jews’ initiative hearkens back to the age-old Jewish practice of inviting symbolic guests to temporary huts built for the Sukkot holiday

'West to East,' by Gaston Zvi Ickowicz, part of the 'Field' exhibit at the Israel Museum, a post-October 7 work, opened September 29, 2024. (Courtesy: Gaston Zvi Ickowicz)

The quiet after the bloodshed: Photographer captures nature in the aftermath of Oct. 7

By Jessica Steinberg

Gaston Zvi Ickowicz brings his views and angles of the devastated Gaza border area landscape to ‘Field,’ his solo exhibit at Jerusalem’s Israel Museum

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