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What Matters Most On Tuesday, October 29, 2024

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'That's it, it's over. UNRWA is out' - Likud MK Edelstein

Knesset approves laws barring UNRWA from Israel, limiting it in Gaza and West Bank

By Sam Sokol and Jacob Magid

Bucking global pressure, MKs overwhelmingly back legislation against UN Palestinian refugee agency over staffers’ terror links; PM’s office: Ready to work with world on Gaza aid

UN vehicles escort a destroyed truck reportedly used by UNRWA workers that was fired upon by Israeli forces, as it is carried by a trailer vehicle along Gaza's main Salah al-Din road outside Deir al-Balah in central Gaza on October 23, 2024. (Eyad Baba/AFP)

US urges Israel to rethink anti-UNRWA laws, warning millions at risk of ‘catastrophe’

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 29: Day 389 – If UNRWA leaves Gaza, what would fill the vacuum?

Protesters call for a hostage deal to secure the release of captives held in Gaza by the Hamas terror group, outside the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, October 26, 2024. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Top member of Israeli hostage negotiating team quits

PM ‘not certain’ negotiations can progress as Mossad chief returns from Qatar talks

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Netanyahu tells Likud meeting Israel is also pursuing ‘partial solutions,’ but Sinwar’s killing may not prove catalyst; Israeli source says Hamas has yet to respond to mediators

Inside storyIn warning, Qatar and Egypt tell US hostage talks complicated by killing of Sinwar

Poll shows Israelis massively favor Trump over Harris in US election

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Channel 12 survey finds 66% prefer Republican candidate; separate poll finds Netanyahu preferred to former PM Bennett as Likud rises amid war successes

This combination of pictures created on October 25, 2024 shows US Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris (L) attending an event on gun violence in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on September 26, 2024, and former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (R) addressing a town hall hosted by Univision and moderated by Enrique Acevedo in Miami, Florida, on October 16, 2024. (Saul Loeb and Chandan Khanna/AFP)

JD Vance is interviewed on The Tim Dillon Show on October 26, 2024. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Vance: US and Israeli interests won’t always overlap; we don’t want war with Iran

Illustrative: A kippa promoting US President Donald Trump. (Jose Juarez/AP)

GOP works on pro-Trump Jewish voter turnout in swing states to trim Democrats’ edge

By AP and ToI Staff

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Palestinians search through the rubble of a building after an Israeli strike in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, October 29, 2024. (AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 29: Hamas official says group open to ‘any deal’ that leads to ‘permanent ceasefire’

Next round of hostage-truce talks slated for Egypt this week * Four soldiers killed fighting in northern Gaza * Security cabinet to discuss diplomatic solution with Lebanon

8:46 pm

4 soldiers killed today in Jabalia slain by explosive device inside building, says IDF
8:45 pm

With budget vote looming, reports swirl over cuts and provisions
7:45 pm

IDF reservist dies of wounds sustained while fighting in Lebanon, says military

The scene of a Hezbollah rocket attack impacting in Ma’alot-Tarshiha, northern Israel, October 29, 2024 (David Cohen/Flash90); inset: Muhammad Naim, 24, who was killed in the attack (Courtesy)

Man killed in Hezbollah barrage on Ma’alot-Tarshiha in north

By Emanuel Fabian

Victim named as Muhammad Naim; drones also hit Ashkelon and Nahariya; IDF probing failure to intercept projectiles

The 'Iron Beam' laser-based air defense system is seen intercepting a target over southern Israel, March 2022. (Defense Ministry)

‘Iron Beam’ laser-based interception system set to become operational in 2025

By Emanuel Fabian

Smoke billows from the site of Israeli airstrikes on a neighborhood in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre on October 28, 2024. (KAWNAT HAJU / AFP)

IDF launches fresh strikes on Tyre as Hezbollah rockets rain down on north

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Families and friends of Israelis held hostage at the Gaza Strip attend status of Women and Gender Equality committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on October 28, 2024. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)

'F*ck the protesters,' says Regev after rally at her home

With blood-red hands, Gaza hostage supporters make their mark on opening of Knesset

By Sam Sokol and Stuart Winer

Protesters block corridors while dressed as kidnapped woman, make impassioned pleas at meetings and establish their own ‘committee’ to focus on bringing captives home

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, ahead of his address on the opening day of the winter session at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on October 28, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Gallant: Iran is weakened for 'when we want to attack later'

Netanyahu says Israel’s strikes on Iran destroyed ‘industrial factories of death’

By Lazar Berman, Emanuel Fabian and Sam Sokol

In speech to opening Knesset session, PM vows to prevent Iranian nukes, make peace with more Arab countries; Lapid to premier: ‘Take responsibility,’ no PM has weakened Israel more

Damage caused to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's home in Caesarea in a Hezbollah drone attack on October 19, 2024. (Courtesy)

Cabinet said to weigh fresh attack on Iran in response to drone strike on PM’s home

Israel restored deterrence against Iran…for now

The nuclear threat has not been erased and it’s time to translate Israel’s military successes into strategic and political gains

The miscarriage misconception: Suffering in (less) silence

Pregnancy loss is hard enough; thinking you can’t talk about it makes the pain that much worse. I’m trying to change this culture of secrecy

Republican presidential nominee and former US president Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at McCamish Pavilion, October 28, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

‘I’m not a Nazi. I’m the opposite of a Nazi,’ Trump declares amid fascism claims

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Second Gentleman Emhoff charges that GOP nominee would betray Jews and Israel ‘if it suited his personal interests,’ says he’d like to put a mezuzah on White House if Harris wins

Republican presidential nominee and former US president Donald Trump is reflected off a window as he speaks at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on October 27, 2024, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump’s MSG rally features vows to back Israel, antisemitic joke and nativist rhetoric

Hezbollah's deputy leader Sheikh Naim Qassem speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, July 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Hezbollah names deputy leader Naim Qassem as secretary-general, successor to Nasrallah

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Qassem, deputy secretary since 1991, has served as acting leader since Israel killed Nasrallah last month; Israel says his tenure ‘may be the shortest in the history’ of Hezbollah

Elite police unit stopped scores of Oct. 7 terrorists from reaching deep into Israel

Heavily outnumbered, four Gideonim fighters engaged gunmen who planned to drive pickup trucks into central region; battle held up attackers until IDF arrived

Screen capture from video of members of the elite Israel Police counter-terrorism Unit 33, at the Black Arrow war memorial site, October 2024. (Channel 12: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Maj. Guy Yaacov Nezri, 25, who was killed fighting in the Gaza Strip. (Courtesy)

IDF officer succumbs to wounds sustained fighting Hamas in northern Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid and Agencies

Smotrich urges conscription of thousands of Haredim

Ultra-Orthodox party backs down from threat to tank budget over IDF exemption bill

United Torah Judaism pushes to postpone budget vote until law passes to entrench Haredi non-service in army, then changes course to pursue daycare subsidies

Extremist ultra-Orthodox protesters lie on the sidewalk amid clashes with police during a protest against the drafting of Haredi men to the army, outside the IDF recruitment center at Tel Hashomer, August 5, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Lawmakers and ministers listen to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he addresses the first plenum session of the Knesset’s winter 2024 legislative session, October 28, 2024. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)

Ministers back bill denying the PA a path to petition the High Court of Justice

By Sam Sokol and Tal Schneider

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi attends a vote in the Knesset plenum, September 29, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG comes out against bill that would give government control of TV viewer ratings

By Jeremy Sharon

Ofer Bronchtein in Paris, August 2024. (Hally Pancer)

Interview

Macron’s point man on Israel-Palestine says ‘it’s not the right time to think about peace’

By Robert Sarner

French-Israeli Ofer Bronchtein believes that conditions conducive to peace will eventually return, despite a deteriorating relationship between the French and Israeli leaders

Smoke and fire after rockets and drones fired from Lebanon hit open areas in the Golan Heights, July 4, 2024 (Maor Kinsbursky/Flash90)

'Current IDF systems aren't designed to counter this threat'

Israeli startup says it can help detect deadly terror drones with smart signal tech

By Sharon Wrobel

As some UAVs from Hezbollah and other Iranian proxies keep evading Israel’s air defenses, tech execs say detection is the first step to remedying this defensive weakness

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Alderman Debra Silverstein and Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling speak at a press conference after a Jewish man was shot and injured, October 28, 2024. (Screenshot via JTA)

Orthodox Jew shot on way to Chicago synagogue; man charged with attempted murder

By jacob gurvis

Palestinians gather in a morgue with bodies said to be of relatives allegedly killed in Israeli airstrikes in the city of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, October 25, 2024. (AP Photo)

South Africa files its ‘evidence’ of alleged Israeli genocide in Gaza at UN court

By Jeremy Sharon

A demolition crew tears down a communal building in Kibbutz Be'eri on June 4, 2024. (Tekuma Authority)

Report: Despite war, southern Israelis most fear internal violence, political situation

In this file photo taken on February 6, 2022, Jamshid Sharmahd, who is accused by the Iranian government of being a leader of the US-based "Tondar terrorist group" behind a deadly attack in Iran in 2008, attends the first hearing of his trial in Tehran. (Koosha MAHSHID FALAHI/MIZAN NEWS AGENCY/AFP)

Germany recalls ambassador from Iran, protesting execution of Iranian-German prisoner

By AP and ToI Staff

Lahav Shani, conductor of the Israel Philharmonic, in an undated photo from circa 2024. (Credit Marco Borggreve)

Music therapy13 orchestras to perform around country, marking year since Oct. 7

By Jessica Steinberg

Sally Rooney speaks onstage during the Hulu Panel at Winter TCA 2020 at The Langham Huntington, Pasadena on January 17, 2020 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Erik Voake/Getty Images for Hulu via JTA)

Sally Rooney among 1,000 authors urging boycott of Israeli cultural institutions

Students at Reichman University in Herzliya, in an undated photo. (courtesy)

Universities gear up for new academic year in shadow of ongoing war

By Gavriel Fiske

Rivka Michaeli (left) and Uri Hochman in 'The Property,' the debut film by director Dana Modan based on the graphic novel written by her sister Rutu Modan (Credit Yaron Sherf/July August Deadline Productions and Lev Cinemas)

Sister actRutu Modan graphic novel ‘The Property’ reaches the big screen

By Jessica Steinberg

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