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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 26, 2024

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An unconfirmed image circulating on social media purports to show a site of an explosion in the Tehran area in the early hours of October 26, 2024, as Israel announces it is carrying out 'precise strikes' on Iranian military targets. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Warns it has many more targets if Iran 'escalates'

IDF hits military sites across Iran in hours-long attack, weeks after Iran’s missile barrage

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Warplanes operate freely over skies of Islamic Republic in unprecedented op, with Israel saying it hit air defenses, key missile and drone sites, in response to ‘months of attacks’

Commuters drive past a billboard in Tehran depicting missiles strikes on Jerusalem and declaring 'Israel must be wiped off the face of the Earth,' covering the facade of a building in Tehran on October 26, 2024. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

IDF spokesman warns Tehran escalation would be a 'mistake'

Iran says it has ‘duty to defend itself’ after Israeli strikes, but doesn’t vow response

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

NYT: Israel hit secretive Parchin base, S-300 air defenses near Tehran airport; reports say Israel aimed to minimize casualties; Iran says 4 soldiers killed

An Iranian military truck carries missiles during a military parade as part of a ceremony marking the country's annual army day in Tehran on April 17, 2024. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

ExplainerWhat Iran and Israel would wield in any long-range air war

Jordan: Breach of international law; Egypt: Grave concern

After Israeli strikes, West urges Iran to stand down as Muslim nations slam Jerusalem

By ToI Staff, Agencies, Jacob Magid and Emanuel Fabian

Washington says Islamic Republic must end ‘cycle of fighting,’ as official signals approval of Jerusalem’s ‘targeted and proportional’ response to Iran’s Oct. 1 missile attack

US President Joe Biden (R) and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L) speak to reporters before participating in a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on July 10, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images via AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 26: UN watchdog: Iran nuclear sites ‘not impacted’ by strikes; IDF eases restrictions in north

By ToI Staff, Elana Kirsh and Michael Horovitz

500 protesters call for hostage deal outside IDF HQ * Speakers at Hostages Square demand government ‘finish the job,’ reach single-phase agreement

8:51 pm

Rocket sirens activated in northern border communities
8:37 pm

Iran's Khamenei opens Hebrew account on X after Israeli strikes
8:06 pm

Israeli negotiator tells families Mossad chief yet to receive wide enough mandate to achieve results in hostage talks -- report

People walk and drive past a billboard covering the facade of a building on Vali-Asr square in Tehran, Iran, October 26, 2024. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

After attack, Tehran residents fear war while officials project business as usual

By Majid Sourati

Some say they’re unaware of strikes as state media downplays Israeli response to Oct. 1 missile barrage; others are concerned: ‘If they attack, it’s us who will be crushed’

Opposition pans failure to exact ‘heavy price’ from Iran, as US welcomes limited strike

By ToI Staff, Jacob Magid and Agencies

Lapid says not attacking strategic and economic targets ‘was wrong,’ Liberman dismisses ‘PR actions’; Yair Golan lauds military, White House for persuading government to hold back

Opposition chief Yair Lapid speaks during a faction meeting in Tel Aviv, October 14, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Illustrative: An Israeli Air Force F-15 Eagle fighter aircraft flies over Haifa on September 24, 2024. (Jack Guez/AFP)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Oct. 26, Day 386 – Top guns: Israeli fighter jets strike across Iran

Military reporter Emanuel Fabian on the Israel Air Force’s ‘Days of Repentance’ mission targeting military sites throughout the Islamic Republic; plus, a look at Iran’s capabilities

Arjwan Manaa, 19 (L) and Hassan Suad, 21, killed in a Hezbollah rocket attack on Majd al-Krum on October 25, 2024. (Courtesy)

2 killed, 7 hurt as Hezbollah rocket hits minimarket in northern town of Majd al-Krum

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Earlier rocket salvo injures 6 soldiers in border community of Shomera; IDF says it intercepted rockets aimed at Haifa area, drones over Galilee and Golan, amid fighting in Lebanon

It’s a betrayal to vote against Trump when you know he will likely be better for an Israel that is fighting for its survival

E. Kinney Zalesne

The case for Kamala

The vice president has stood by Israel and believes in peace. She is also not the candidate calling for a ’unified Reich’

Smoke rises during a reported Israeli raid in Tulkarem in the north of the West Bank on October 26, 2024. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Israeli forces kill Hamas operative in Tulkarem plotting ‘imminent’ attack

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

IDF says Islam Odeh planned ‘major terror attack’ for Oct. 7 anniversary with other members of terror group; troops find bomb parts in his car

Gunmen attend the funeral of five Palestinians killed in an Israeli airstrike in the West Bank city of Tubas, September 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

AnalysisAbbas treads tightrope as PA cracks down on terror groups in the West Bank

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Palestinians say 78 killed in strikes and raids across Gaza

3 soldiers killed in north Gaza as troops raid hospital in pursuit of Hamas operatives

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

IDF says it has facilitated the evacuation of patients and sent in medical supplies; Palestinians say dozens detained; WHO says it has lost contact with Kamal Adwan Hospital

Soldiers killed in fighting in Gaza on October 25, 2024 (L-R): Sgt. Ido Ben Zvi, Sgt. Hillel Ovadia, Cpt. Barak Israel Sagan (Courtesy)

An IDF soldier operating in the Gaza Strip in an image released on October 24, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

AnalysisWith no exit strategy in Gaza, ex-IDF officers fear Israel will stay indefinitely

Father Patrick Desbois visits site of Hamas massacre at Kibbutz Be'eri for the one-year commemoration of the October 7, 2023, attacks, October 2024 (B'nai B'rith International)

InterviewDesbois located 30 mass graves of Yazidis murdered by ISIS

Pioneering genocide researcher Father Desbois denounces mass murder charges against Israel

By Matt Lebovic

French-Catholic priest behind ‘Holocaust by Bullets’ investigations visits Gaza border communities, decries anti-Israel ‘propaganda’ and pushes for trials for Hamas terrorists

Undated photo of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, the Netherlands. (Oliver de la Haye/iStock)

One of 3 ICC judges weighing request to charge Netanyahu, Gallant is replaced

By AP and ToI Staff

Presiding judge, Romania’s Iulia Motoc, asked to be switched out for medical reasons, is replaced by Slovenian Beti Hohler, in further delay of potential arrest warrants

Karim Khan, center, prosecutor of International Criminal Court, greets members of delegations as he arrives for a Security Council meeting, July 13, 2023, at United Nations headquarters. (AP/Mary Altaffer, File)

ExplainerWhat are the accusations against the ICC chief seeking to charge Netanyahu?

By AP and ToI Staff

Left: Orthodox Jews congregate in Venice’s ancient Jewish ghetto. (Photo by Paolo Raccanelli); Right: Cover of 'Shylock’s Venice: The Remarkable History of Venice’s Jews and the Ghetto,' by Harry Freedman. (Courtesy)

Interview

Poetry, philosophy and a gambling rabbi: A colorful history of Venice’s Jewish ghetto

By Rich Tenorio

In ‘Shylock’s Venice,’ UK author Harry Freedman paints a vibrant picture of an oft-overlooked side of Jewish history that goes far deeper than the famous Shakespeare character

A clock in a Tel Aviv hotel. (Sophie Gordon/Flash90)

Clocks in Israel turn back as daylight saving time ends

People in Israel get an extra hour of sleep overnight Saturday-Sunday as clocks wind back an hour at 2 a.m.

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Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protesters hold signs as the presidential motorcade of US President Joe Biden drives past near Phoenix, Arizona, on October 25, 2024. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)

Anti-Israel protester interrupts Biden apology for Native American boarding schools

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A money changer counts notes at his shop in the Lebanese capital Beirut on September 22, 2022. (Anwar Amro/AFP)

Global anti-money laundering watchdog adds Lebanon to ‘gray list’

By AFP

Illustrative: A surfer attends a surfing competition organized to revive local tourism on the island at Arugam Bay in the east of Sri Lanka on September 27, 2020. (Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP)

Several Israelis remain in Sri Lanka surfing town despite terror alert

By Uditha Jayasinghe

Nelson Mandela's grandson Mandla Mandela, center, with Hamas official Basem Naim, center right, during a march to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of former South African president Nelson Mandela in Pretoria, South Africa, December 5, 2023. (AP Photo, File)

Mandela’s grandson denied UK visa over his support for Hamas

By AP

Illustrative: Police at the scene where a motorcycle exploded in Ramat Gan, on June 11, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Woman shot dead at home in Lod; numerous relatives detained as suspects

People walk by the One Franklin Square Building, home of The Washington Post newspaper, in downtown Washington, Feb. 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Washington Post announces it will not endorse Harris or Trump in US election

By Sebastian Smith

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