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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 19, 2024

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Israeli security forces walk along a street leading to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Caesarea on October 19, 2024, after a drone fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon targeted his house. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

IDF probing apparent failures in warning systems

Hezbollah drone targets Netanyahu’s Caesarea home; he says ‘agents of Iran tried to assassinate me’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

No one hurt as UAV explodes; PM and wife were not at home; foreign reports say house sustained minor damage; no sirens sounded; PM says those behind attack ‘made a bitter mistake’

Gaza Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza City on March 30, 2022. (Attia Muhammed/Flash90)

Sinwar's death said not to change Israel's plans to hit Iran

Israel said worried Hamas could kill hostages to avenge slain leader Sinwar

Reports say PM’s consultations focused on this concern, and that Israel warned Hamas not to harm captives; terror chief’s body could become ‘bargaining chip’ in truce-hostage talks

Drone footage of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar on October 16, 2024, shortrly before he was killed. (Courtesy)

Sinwar died of gunshot to head, says doctor who oversaw autopsy

By AFP

Part of the IDF force that encountered and killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar seen operating in Rafah in an undated picture released on October 18, 2024 (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says it killed Hamas commander tasked with guarding Sinwar, after believing him dead

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas leads a prayer in memory of those killed in Gaza at the start of a Palestine Liberation Organization Executive Committee meeting in Ramallah on October 17, 2024. (Wafa)

Abbas’s PLO mourns ‘martyrdom’ of Hamas chief Sinwar, a ‘great national leader’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

PA president’s Fatah also offers condolences to terror group; so does Turkish foreign minister as he hosts Hamas representatives

Yahya Sinwar, the top Hamas official in the Gaza Strip, in Gaza City, May 1, 2017. (Adel Hana/AP)

Confirming Sinwar’s death, Hamas insists hostages won’t be freed unless war ends

By Lazar Berman, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Analysis

After Sinwar killing, Netanyahu sees vindication in his Rafah approach

PM and his circle argue that the elimination of the Hamas leader, in the city world leaders said Israel must not invade, shows he knows what he’s doing despite opposition criticism

View of the Rafah Border Crossing in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 15, 2024 in a photo taken under the supervision of the Israel Defense Forces. (Oren Cohen/Flash90)

Yahya Sinwar, leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, speaks during a protest east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on April 6, 2018. (AFP/Said Khatib)

In letters to 10-year-old son, Sinwar sought to instill a hatred for Israel — report

Young boy said to have sent father drawings of dead IDF troops, asked when the war would end, in months of correspondence found near where terror chief was killed

This screenshot from a handout video released by the IDF on October 17, 2024, shows drone footage of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar moments before he was killed by Israeli troops, in the neighborhood of Tel Sultan in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. (Israel Defense Forces/AFP)

‘How heroes die’: Sinwar feted by some Gazans after IDF video shows his last moments

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, October 18, 2024, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump: Sinwar ‘wasn’t a good person,’ his death makes peace in Gaza ‘easier’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Staff Sgt. Ofir Berkovich (left) and Sgt. Elishai Young, killed during fighting in the northern Gaza Strip, October 19, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

2 soldiers killed in north Gaza fighting; 50 said killed as IDF strikes terror targets

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Strikes reported in northern, central Gaza; Israel says it supplied Gaza’s isolated north with 30 truckloads of aid as hundreds said to evacuate war-torn Jabaliya

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei holds a rifle as he delivers a sermon during a Friday prayer ceremony in Tehran, Iran, October 4, 2024. Behind him is a portrait of the Islamic Republic's founder, Ruhollah Khomeini. (Khamenei.ir/AFP)

Khamenei insists ‘Hamas is alive,’ and ‘resistance’ goes on, despite Sinwar’s death

By AFP and ToI Staff

‘His loss is certainly painful,’ says Iran’s leader, but ‘struggle’ against Israel ‘will not end at all’; says Sinwar left October 7 as ‘his legacy in history’

US President Joe Biden talks to the media before departing from the Brandenburg Airport in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Oct. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Biden says he has good idea of how and when Israel will respond to Iranian attack

US president asserts there’s an ‘opportunity’ to end conflict between Israel and Iran ‘for a while,’ says possible to reach ceasefire in Lebanon but doing so in Gaza will be harder

US President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the Chancellery in Berlin, on October 18, 2024. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)

Sinwar killing represents ‘inflection point’ for possible Gaza ceasefire — White House

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

US President Joe Biden (left) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023. (Haim Zach/GPO)

After taking out Sinwar, Israel aims to lock in strategic gains before US election

By Reuters and ToI Staff

The wreckage of a suspected car-ramming terror attack, after a Palestinian driver collided with a police vehicle in the West Bank on October 19, 2024. (Israel Police)

Car rams into police vehicle in suspected West Bank attack; no casualties

27-year-old Palestinian suspect dies in incident on Route 60 near Ofra settlement

Saturday night protests to demand Israel leverage Sinwar killing for hostage deal

Weekly Tel Aviv rally to resume at Hostages Square as Home Front Command eases restrictions; Families Forum: Turn ‘military achievement into a diplomatic achievement’

Protesters call for the release of Hamas hostages during a weekly rally at Tel Aviv's Hostages Square, August 24, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and his hostages pointman Gal Hirsch, pictured at the start of the Sukkot holiday, October 16, 2024. (Courtesy)

Op-ed

Shalom Yerushalmi

Netanyahu couldn’t let Sinwar emerge victorious from a hostage deal. Now he doesn’t have to

The elimination of the Hamas terror chief provides the PM with compelling reasons to push for a deal, even at the cost of withdrawing the IDF from Gaza for a while

Footage posted to social media on October 19, 2024 shows an IAF helicopter and a drone launched from Lebanon. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 19: Iran distances itself from Hezbollah attack on Netanyahu home; Israel: Tehran to blame

By Elana Kirsh and ToI Staff

IDF shows Sinwar fleeing to tunnel the night before Oct. 7 attack, spent most of year underground * Hostages’ families plead for deal * Reservist hurt in Lebanon dies of wounds

9:19 pm

IDF says 5 projectiles fired from Lebanon, some downed and others fall in open areas
9:01 pm

Rocket sirens activated in Safed and surrounding area
8:58 pm

British PM's office says Starmer told Netanyahu he was 'alarmed' by drone attack

IDF chief of staff Herzi Halevi (left) speaks to troops in southern Lebanon in a picture released on October 18, 2024 (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says Hezbollah toll at 1,500; Lebanese PM: A lesson to stay out of regional conflicts

By Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Agencies

Halevi says numbers are a ‘conservative’ estimate, adds Hezbollah forces are surrendering; rockets continue to target northern Israel; four soldiers seriously injured in fighting

Illustrative: Israeli apps alert users whenever a missile is headed into the country. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)

US indicts 2 Sudanese brothers linked to Oct. 7 cyberattacks on Israeli alert apps

Ahmed and Alaa Omer are detained in unspecified country, were interrogated by FBI for allegedly running cybercrime collective Anonymous Sudan; allegedly also targeted Iron Dome

Israel’s race to dismantle UNRWA may backfire

For all its flaws, gutting the relief agency will not make Israel safer, especially without a viable alternative

No, we shouldn’t retire the word ‘Zionism.’ We should take it back.

It is Israel’s enemies who are turning the term into a bad word. Jews must reclaim it and remind the world what it really means

Roald Dahl signs autographs for young fans in Amsterdam, October 12, 1988. (Public domain)

Theater review'I'm not forgiving him but we must hold two truths at once'

Beloved author and vicious antisemite Roald Dahl gets complex treatment in new play

By Robert Philpot

Running at London’s Royal Court Theatre through Nov. 16, ‘Giant’ presents a fictionalized depiction of the true-life controversy stirred by the writer’s vitriolic words about Jews

Obituary

Yehuda Bauer, influential Holocaust scholar, dies at age 98

By Charlie Summers

Bauer challenged the prevalent ‘sheep to the slaughter’ narrative tacked onto Holocaust survivors in Israel, helped draft leading antisemitism definition

Yehuda Bauer in his apartment in the Beit HaKerem neighborhood of Jerusalem on July 3, 2023. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)

Jagiellonian University's Collegium Broscianum, in Krakow, Poland, September 8, 2012. (CC BY-SA, Mateusz Giełczyński via Wikipedia)

Polish police probe ‘Jews to the gas’ sign at building occupied by anti-Israel students

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett delivers a video statement on Iran, October 8, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Former PM Naftali Bennett fumes over ‘sell out’ ultra-Orthodox draft exemption bill

‘Why does the nation of lions have such cowardly leadership?’ he asks, accusing government ministers of promoting ‘selfish sectarianism’ and straining burden on reserve soldiers

Family members visit the site of the Nova music festival massacre, six months after the October 7 Hamas terror assault, in Re'im forest, near the Gaza border, April 7, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Study: Nova survivors who drank alcohol before Hamas attack more likely to suffer PTSD

By Diana Bletter

Sheba Medical Center, Ben-Gurion University researchers surprised to find alcohol caused more psychological problems than psychedelics on survivors of Hamas’s Oct. 7 rave massacre

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