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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 24, 2024

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Flames and smoke rises from buildings hit by Israeli airstrikes on the southern suburb of Beirut, October 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Netanyahu: Hezbollah planned attack 'even greater than Oct. 7'

IDF pounds Beirut after Hezbollah’s Simhat Torah eve rocket fire at central Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

State media reports six buildings leveled in strikes on Lebanese capital; one said killed, several hurt in attack targeting office of Hezbollah-linked broadcaster Al-Mayadeen

A picture taken from the southern Lebanese city of Tyre shows smoke as it rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike on October 24, 2024. (Kawnat Haju/AFP)

Lebanese army says 3 troops killed in Israeli strike; IDF says Hezbollah building hit

By Agencies, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Israeli military vehicles and tanks near the Gaza border, as they prepare to enter the Strip for a military operation, October 6, 2024 (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Hezbollah fires rockets at Tel Aviv, year after Simhat Torah attack; IDF on alert at Gaza border

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

A woman lights candles at the site of the Nova music festival, where hundreds of revelers were killed or kidnapped by Hamas, on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, marking one year in the Hebrew calendar since the attack, near Kibbutz Re'im, southern Israel, October 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 24: Far-right ministers fume over Netanyahu’s decision to send negotiating team to Doha

By Elana Kirsh and ToI Staff

Hamas commander who led massacre at Re’im roadside shelter on Oct. 7 killed in Gaza * IDF issues evacuation orders for 6 buildings in Beirut * Over 120 rockets fired from Lebanon

8:55 pm

Rocket alert sirens sound in northern towns near Lebanon border; no injuries reported
8:54 pm

IDF issues evacuation orders for three more buildings in Beirut ahead of airstrikes on Hezbollah
8:34 pm

Shouting matches erupt in Tel Aviv between group celebrating Simhat Torah, anti-government protesters

An F-15I fighter jet of the IAF's 69th Squadron takes off from the Hatzerim Airbase in southern Israel to carry out a strike in Beirut against Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, September 27, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel said to have delayed Iran strike after US intel leak of attack plans

Report by UK’s Times says Israel has developed an alternative course of action but must war-game it before proceeding due to the need to ‘change certain strategies and components’

Islamic Republic of Iran Navy fast attack craft IRIS Zereh (P235) at sea during the "Maritime Security Belt 2024" combined naval exercise between Iran, Russia, and China in the Gulf of Oman, in an image released on March 12, 2024. (AFP / IRANIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY)

Iran and Saudi Arabia hold joint naval exercise in Sea of Oman

By AFP and ToI Staff

Al Jazeera journalists named by the IDF as members of terror groups based on documentation found in Gaza, in an image released October 23, 2024. (IDF)

IDF says Gaza documents prove 6 Al Jazeera journalists are Hamas, PIJ operatives

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Army shares personnel spreadsheets, lists of training courses and salary papers uncovered in Strip; Qatari network blasts ‘fabricated accusations’ against employees

People ride in the back of and atop a truck moving past destroyed buildings in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 23, 2024. (Bashar Taleb / AFP)

IDF says some 20,000 have left Gaza’s Jabaliya, 150 terrorists detained in latest op

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

People walk past tents sheltering people displaced by conflict in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 23, 2024. (Bashar Taleb / AFP)

Pentagon chief: Israel will ‘increase number of insurgents’ if Gazans not safeguarded

By Reuters and ToI Staff

A police commando stands guard in front of a restaurant in Arugam Bay, Sri Lanka, Oct. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Wasantha Chandrapala)

3 arrested in Sri Lanka over threats to Israelis; Chabad House named as potential target

By ToI Staff and AFP

One of the terror suspects is reportedly based in Iraq; intelligence said to have been provided from India; police spokesman says security increased in Arugam Bay surf resort area

'When the assault was over, I wasn't even allowed to cry'

Ex-hostage tells UN she was sexually assaulted by Hamas guard ‘in most horrifying way’

Amit Soussana assails ‘overwhelming silence, even denial’ of atrocities in speech to Security Council; Mia Schem: Captor ‘constantly reminded me he saw me without underwear’

Freed captive Amit Soussana speaks at the United Nations Security Council's ceremony marking 15 years since the establishment of the Mandate on Sexual Violence in Conflict, at the UN in New York, October 23, 2024. (Screen capture: X/Bring Them Home Now, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Lebanon's Prime Minister Najib Mikati (L) speaks next to France's President Emmanuel Macron during an international press conference in support of Lebanon, in Paris on October 24, 2024 (ALAIN JOCARD / POOL / AFP)

Macron pledges $108 million at Lebanon aid confab, slams Israel for ‘sowing barbarism’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

French president says while Hezbollah must stop ‘indiscriminate strikes,’ Israel ‘knows from experience that its military successes do not necessarily represent victory in Lebanon’

A bomb dropped from an Israeli jet hits a building in Ghobeiri, Beirut, Lebanon, October 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Moments of IDF airstrike in Beirut caught in photos and video

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Visitors walk past a model of Rafael's C-Dome presented at the Euronaval show, in Le Bourget, north of Paris, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Israeli manufacturers petition French court to overturn naval expo ban on firms

By Sharon Wrobel

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Oct. 24: Day 384 – An IDF rabbi weighs in on marking a difficult Simhat Torah

In a special holiday episode, we speak with Rabbi Avi Poupko, who is currently serving in the reserves in an IDF rabbinate unit along the border with Lebanon

Illustrative image: A Jewish man carries a Torah scroll during Simhat Torah celebrations at Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, on October 21, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

The rocket by my door

The shrapnel reminds me daily of the miracle that on October 7, 2023, my son and his friends survived the onslaught in Sderot

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

The dance that never stopped

After this long year of fighting to keep hope alive, I know that the true dance, the one that underlies all others, will go on

Democratic presidential nominee and US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a CNN town hall in Aston, Pennsylvania, October 23, 2024. (AP/Matt Rourke)

Harris says Trump ‘is a fascist’ after ex-aide said he wanted generals like Hitler’s

Vice president calls her rival ‘a danger to the well-being and security’ of US, saying his reported suggestion the Nazi leader ‘did some good things’ shows who he ‘really is’

File: Then-US president Donald Trump talks with White House Chief of Staff John Kelly after he was privately sworn in during a ceremony in the Oval Office in Washington, July 31, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump’s ex-chief of staff: He meets definition of fascist, prefers dictator approach

By Tim Reid, Stephanie Kelly and Jeff Mason

Republican presidential nominee and former US president Donald Trump speaks to an overflow crowd after a faith town hall at Christ Chapel Zebulon, October 23, 2024, in Zebulon, Georgia. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

‘Bibi called’: Trump claims to speak with Netanyahu on near daily basis

By AFP and ToI Staff

GOP candidate tells campaign rally ‘we have a very good relationship,’ days after saying the PM phoned because he ‘wants my view on things’

Republican presidential nominee former US President Donald Trump dances at a campaign rally, Oct. 23, 2024, in Duluth, Georgia. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Former model says Trump groped her after they were introduced by Epstein

By AFP and ToI Staff

US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (R) shakes hands with former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a presidential debate at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 2024. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Deep dive

How Donald Trump and Kamala Harris differ (and agree) on Middle East policy

The candidates have used Israel as a wedge issue ahead of the Nov. 5 election, each accusing the other of not being supportive enough – and US Jews have reasons to believe both

As US election nears, Jewish groups decry ‘xenophobia, fear and lies’ about immigrants

Yoav Kutner at his Tel Aviv home. (Yael Kutner)

'A lot of artists who took a stand have paid a price'

Israeli music guru Yoav Kutner says artists are muzzled over fears of political fallout

By Tamar Mor Sela

The media man’s tumultuous life, which includes losing his memory and a bout with cancer, didn’t strip him of his optimism even as he fears for Israel and bemoans conformist artists

Police patrol as workers clean up anti-Israel graffiti at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus after police evicted pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters, May 2, 2024. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP)

Task force says UCLA let antisemitism fester amid pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protests

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Report says Jewish and Israeli students, faculty and staff were assaulted and threatened; panel says administrators should have taken more action against campus rules violations

Hakafot — circular dances around the Torah — are a key ritual on the holiday of Simhat Torah. (Frank Rumpenhorst/picture alliance via Getty Images via JTA)

'Can we dance again? How should we respect the victims?'

Jews around the world rethink joyous Simhat Torah holiday on mournful anniversary

By jacob gurvis and Deborah Danan

Exactly one year on the Hebrew calendar after the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, communities grapple with a seemingly irreconcilable commemoration

Brooklyn Jews divided since Oct. 7 attack reunite for annual Simhat Torah event

More Headlines

Turkish police officers gather as an armored personnel vehicle moves along a road in Kahramankazan, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Ankara on October 23, 2024, near the gate of the Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI), after a huge explosion outside the headquarters left a number of people dead and injured (Adem Altan/AFP)

Attackers kill 4, injure 14 at Turkish Aerospace Industries HQ

By Ece Toksabay and Mert Ozkan

Alan Yazbek arrives at Downing Centre Local Court in Sydney, Australia, Oct. 24, 2024. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP Image via AP)

Man pleads guilty over swastika sign at anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian rally in Sydney

By AP

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