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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 23, 2024

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Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (right) speaks to Israeli Air Force pilots and crews at the Hatzerim Airbase, October 23, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Gallant at IAF base: After we strike in Iran, world will understand all our training

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Defense minister says those who dreamed of destroying Israel last year have paid ‘heavy price’; Austin says employees of his office not being probed for leak of Israeli prep for strike

The J. Edgar Hoover building, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) headquarters, is photographed on October 8, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images via AFP)

FBI says it’s probing leak of US intel on Israel’s attack plans for Iran

By AP and ToI Staff

File: Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan (R) meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Riyadh, October 9, 2024. (Saudi Foreign Ministry/AFP)

Iran says it’s planning to hold 1st joint military drills with Saudis in Red Sea

By AFP

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks with members of the media at Ben Gurion Airport before departing for Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in Tel Aviv, Oct. 23, 2024. (Nathan Howard/Pool Photo via AP)

Blinken: 'More progress needs to be made' on Gaza aid

Before flying to Riyadh to push normalization, Blinken stresses chance to end war

By Lazar Berman

After air raid sirens sound during his breakfast in Tel Aviv, US secretary of state underscores need to take advantage of opportunity offered by Sinwar’s death

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, October 22, 2024. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Blinken pushes Israel to publicly say it’s not aiming to besiege north Gaza; PM demurs

By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid enter northern Gaza in October 2024. (COGAT)

Israel says 237 aid trucks entered north Gaza in past 9 days, ending 2-week blockage

By ToI Staff and Agencies

IDF troops operate in southern Lebanon, in a handout image published October 23, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 23: Netanyahu says Hezbollah prepared ‘invasion’ of Israel involving jeeps, missiles

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Projectile fired from Lebanon impacts near West Bank security wall, lightly injuring a Palestinian * Footage shows strike hitting group of Gazans trying to help stranded, wounded boy

8:18 pm

IDF: Hezbollah fired 135 rockets at Israel on Wednesday; most at north, 6 at center
7:58 pm

Lebanon media says 4 Israeli strikes destroy residential complex in Beirut's Laylaki suburb
7:57 pm

Harris berates 'unhinged' Trump over Hitler remarks

IDF soldiers operating in south Lebanon in a handout photo published October 10, 2024 (IDF)

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Op-Ed: Day 383 of the war

We’ve had the victory pictures; here’s how Israel is aiming to actually win the war

Sinwar and Nasrallah are gone, but their weakened terror groups are still dangerous and Iran’s regime is untouched. The IDF, Netanyahu government and US are working, sometimes in harmony, to change that

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

Smoke rises by destroyed buildings from the site of an Israeli airstrike the previous day on the neighborhood of Mreijeh in Beirut's southern suburbs on October 23, 2024. (AFP)

Three Hezbollah regional commanders killed in last two days

Hezbollah targets central and northern Israel, as IDF expands Lebanon strikes to Tyre

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Two long-range rockets intercepted as terror group says it targeted Glilot base near Tel Aviv; IDF strikes weapons caches in Beirut area, ground troops destroy tunnels near border

Combination photo showing Master Sgt. (res.) Saar Eliad Navarsky, left, who was killed in a Hezbollah rocket attack and Maj. (res.) Aviram Hariv, who was killed during fighting in southern Lebanon on October 22, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Two IDF reservists killed as Hezbollah rockets pound north, drone triggers alarms

By Emanuel Fabian, Gianluca Pacchiani, Agencies and ToI Staff

A Saar-6 corvette, the latest-generation warship which Israel is using for its naval defense system amid maritime threats from Yemen's Houthi rebels, is seen in waters in Eilat, southern Israel, April 16, 2024. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)

3 drones downed while targeting Eilat, Golan; Iran-backed group in Iraq claims attacks

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

IDF Reserve soldiers and Orthodox Jews take part in prayer and the weekly reading of a Torah Scroll at dawn just before a military exercise on the Golan Heights, April 1, 2024. (Michael Giladi/ Flash90)

'In every synagogue there is also a mourner'

How Israeli Jews face the Simhat Torah holiday, forever marred by Oct. 7 massacre

Rabbis recommend muted celebrations, less festive meals and new liturgy, on the first anniversary of the Hamas atrocities that also celebrates completing the reading of the Torah

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On Simchat Torah, our Itai and 100 others are still hostage. It’s unbearable

After a full year of pain, how much longer will Prime Minister Netanyahu and other world leaders allow this to continue?

East Jerusalem spy ring indicted; prosecutors say leader received $7,000 from Iran

Suspects aged 19-23, almost all of them Israeli citizens, are accused of plotting to assassinate an Israeli nuclear scientist as well as a city mayor

A car allegedly set on fire by a group of East Jerusalem men suspected of carrying out espionage missions on behalf of Iran, in an image published October 22, 2024. (Israel Police)

Assassination plots in Israel recall Iran’s long history of hit attempts on US soil

By Gianluca Pacchiani

George Washington University study lays bare the Islamic Republic’s ‘tragicomic’ alliances with criminal gangs to kill dissidents and US officials, including former president Trump

This handout image provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on August 10, 2022, shows the wanted poster of 45-year-old Shahram Poursafi. (FBI / AFP)

Masih Alinejad, an outspoken US-based opponent of Iran's Islamist regime, flashes a v-sign as she leaves a federal courthouse in Manhattan, New York, April 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Lawrence Neumeister)

US charges IRGC official, 3 others in plot to assassinate dissident journalist

US voters fill out their ballots at the Stamford Government Center on the first day of early voting on October 21, 2024 in Stamford, Connecticut. (John Moore/Getty Images North America/Getty Images via AFP)

US intelligence says Iran, Russia and China hope to stoke post-election violence

By Jonathan Landay and Patricia Zengerle

IDF says it confirmed Nasrallah’s presumed successor was killed in Oct. 4 strike

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Hezbollah has yet to announce death of Hashem Safieddine, who was targeted in Beirut as he met with terror group’s intel chief and other top commanders

The head of Hezbollah's Executive Council Hashem Safieddine attends a ceremony of the Iran-backed terror group in Beirut's southern suburbs on May 24, 2024. (Anwar Amro/AFP)

This picture provided by the Associated Press shows AFP cameraman Dylan Collins speaking on his mobile phone after being injured by Israeli shelling at the Alma al-Shaab border village with Israel in southern Lebanon on October 13, 2023. (Hassan Ammar/AP)

US lawmakers call for probe into Israeli strike that injured US journalist in Lebanon

By AFP and ToI Staff

Simchat Torah with no easy answers

Last year, we unknowingly celebrated while families in the south were being massacred. This year, I’m told to embrace the holiday, but I’m not there yet

Jason Dov Greenblatt

Our enemies thought they could break us

After October 7, a newfound sense of unity, forged in pain, has shown the unshakable bond that links us as Jews

Hostages NOW: The infinite value of life even during war

The horrors of battle, the numbers, shifting focus to the north – too many factors chip away at our sense of urgency to bring our captives home from Gaza

Prayer books: Unexpected field guides

Even when my heart is closed, it cracks open a little for the prayers of the siddur or mahzor, and lets their words fall in

A portrayal of IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi in a Channel 14 clip berating him on October 22, 2024, with the Channel's slogan "God willing, We will win together!" on the top left. (X screenshot used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF censures right-wing TV network for mockery of military chief

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Channel 14 publishes clip making fun of Herzi Halevi, showing his eyes enlarging in response to a soldier sporting a Messiah badge

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Oct. 23: Day 383 – Two soldiers buried, neither one Jewish, both minorities

Sue Surkes discusses two funerals, as well as budget cuts to the agriculture ministry; Diana Bletter talks about PTSD of Nova survivors and rockets in northern Klil

Sri Lankan Muslims protest Israeli airstrikes in Gaza in the immediate wake of Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack — Colombo, Sri Lanka, October 13, 2023. (AP Photo)

Israel urges citizens to leave Sri Lanka surfing resort area amid terror threats

By Lazar Berman, AFP and ToI Staff

National Security Council advises travelers to leave Arugam Bay area, or at least retreat to capital city, shortly after US embassy also warns of credible info on imminent attack

Tamir Nimrodi, center, taken hostage from his army base on October 7, 2023, with his two younger sisters, Mika, left and Amit (Courtesy)

'He took all of his experiences and turned them around'

Clinging to hope, a hostage’s mother gains a new understanding of her missing son

By Jessica Steinberg

There has been no sign of life from Tamir Nimrodi since October 7, but Herut Nimrodi is still finding out new things about his flourishing in the army before being kidnapped

Relatives of Kibbutz Nir Oz hostages speak at a pre-Passover event for their return at the kibbutz dining hall, near the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, April 11, 2024. (Liron Moldovan/Flash9)

Kibbutz Nir Oz to boycott 2nd Oct. 7 state memorial, after PM ignores its invitation to visit

Event for fallen troops said drawing record-low sign-up, after government avoids asking families bereaved in attack or subsequent war to speak, fearing they’d heckle Netanyahu

This composite image shows Israel Police Commissioner Daniel Levy and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

AG freezes top cop’s ‘unprecedented’ decision to remove police legal adviser from post

Baharav-Miara intervenes after police chief Daniel Levy tells ombudsman Elazar Kahana, who opposed Ben Gvir’s effort to promote indicted cop, that he’s being moved to new position

Suzan Lopatin shows her 'Never Again' tattoo before canvassing for Vice President Kamala Harris in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 20, 2024. (Ron Kampeas/JTA)

'Pennsylvania holds 45% of the Jewish swing votes'

In Philadelphia’s suburbs, an army of canvassers targets Jewish voters

Coming from as far as Chicago, NYC and DC, volunteers with both parties seek to convince their coreligionists in the integral swing state that their candidate is best for the Jews

Mayor of Portland, Maine, apologizes for backing Israel divestment measure

By Andrew Lapin

Harris holds 46%-43% lead over Trump, immigration most urgent issue — poll

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The Park Slope Food Co-op. (CC-BY Stevendamron, Flickr)

Jewish members of New York co-op health food store file complaint over antisemitism

By Jackie Hajdenberg

The Meitarim Industrial Zone, near the Meitarim farm outpost in the South Hebron Hills, West Bank, February 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean).

Ireland eyes revival of bill to ban trade with Israeli settlements

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Roman Polanski arrives on the red carpet of the 45th Deauville US Film Festival, on September 7, 2019, in Deauville, northern France. (Loic Venance/AFP)

Case accusing ‘The Pianist’ director Polanski of sexually assaulting minor dismissed

By AFP

A screenshot of Almog Shafrir's video on TikTok of the Sabrina Carpenter performance. (TikTok screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

'How do you spell that?'Sabrina Carpenter addresses ‘too hot’ Israeli fan, is stumped over his name

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