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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 30, 2024

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Former US president Donald Trump (center) greets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara at his Mar-a-Lago resort, Florida, July 26, 2024. (Prime Minister's Office)

Exclusive

Trump told Netanyahu he wants Gaza war over by time he enters office — sources

Republican nominee has repeatedly called for Israel to end war quickly, but ex-Trump aide and Israeli official are first to reveal that the request has a timeline attached

The Democrat and Republican switches are seen on a lever voting machine on display during an open house and talk on the origins of the secret ballot at the New Hampshire State Archives, in Concord, New Hampshire, October 24, 2024. (Charles Krupa/AP)

Poll: Democrats, Republicans split on Israel’s responsibility for war’s escalation

By AP and ToI Staff

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks with members of the press on board Air Force Two at Philadelphia International Airport, October 21, 2024, in Philadelphia, before departing to Michigan. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

Disillusioned with Harris’s Israel support, some Arab Americans consider backing Trump

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI

Troops operating in south Lebanon in an undated photo released by the military for publication on October 28, 2024 (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 30: US says Israel has made significant progress against Hezbollah in south Lebanon

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Lebanese PM says he hopes for a Hezbollah ceasefire with Israel in ‘hours or days’ * Top US officials heading to Israel and the region

9:58 pm

In letter, over 1,000 reject attempts 'to boycott, scapegoat Jewish and Israeli authors'
9:16 pm

Drone explodes in Golan Heights, was apparently launched from Iraq
8:56 pm

Democrat Khanna condemns LGBTQ group for suspending Israeli member organization

Op-ed: Day 390 of the war

The next round in Iran, Gaza after UNRWA, and a war widow’s plea for the Haredi draft

How Iran changed the military equation, to its detriment * The UN’s Palestinian welfare agency unites the Knesset * The family of a rabbi killed in Lebanon seeks to honor his legacy

Iranian demonstrators hold posters of Hezbollah terror group leader Hassan Nasrallah, right, Hamas terror group chief Yahya Sinwar, center, and Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at Felestin (Palestine) Sq. in Tehran, Iran, Oct. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Cpt. (res.) Rabbi Avraham Yosef Goldberg (Courtesy)

MKs heed call of bereaved family to only pay respects after they reach across aisle

Promoted CampaignNotes of Strength

IDF soldiers in Lebanon and Gaza need emergency protective gear

Your help provides tactical helmets, bulletproof vests, boots, and other vital gear to IDF heroes in Lebanon and Gaza.

Demonstrators protest for the release of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip and for early elections, near the Knesset in Jerusalem, October 28, 2024. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Mediators said to examine proposal for 30-day Gaza truce, release of 11-14 hostages

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Proposal does not include demand for full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza Strip or total cessation of fighting, both of which are conditions that Hamas reiterated in recent days

Freed hostage Mia Schem, right, speaks at an event marking the Hebrew calendar anniversary of Hamas's onslaught of October 7, 2023, as her mother Keren Schem stand by her side, at Israel's consulate in New York, October 28, 2024. (Screen capture: Ynet, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Freed hostage Mia Schem says she was kept in cage with 5 other women still in Gaza

A drone from Lebanon explodes on a bridge in Nahariya, October 29, 2024 (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF says deputy head of Hezbollah's Radwan Force killed

Drone hits Nahariya, IDF warns Lebanese to flee Baalbek as US mediators head to region

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

IDF probing why radar didn’t pick up UAV before reported strike on aviation plant; two hurt by rocket in Metula; Biden envoys McGurk, Hochstein set to push ceasefire proposal

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (right) meets with Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin (left) at the Northern Command HQ in Safed, October 29, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

PM said meeting on Lebanon diplomatic solution; Hezbollah has lost 80% of its rockets

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Agencies

MK Almog Cohen argues with MK Ofer Cassif during a Knesset House Committee meeting, October 29, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Following stormy debate, lawmakers advance measure to deport terrorists’ relatives

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi speaks to air and ground crews at the Ramon Airbase in southern Israel, October 29, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief: If Iran attacks Israel again, we’ll hit ‘places we spared this time’

By Emanuel Fabian

Halevi says air force held back during retaliatory strikes as ‘we may be required to do it again,’ adds that ‘we didn’t finish this event, we are right in the middle of it’

Illustrative: A Russian-made S-300 air defense system sits on display at Baharestan Square in Tehran, Iran, September 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Israel took out primary Iranian air defenses, left it ‘essentially naked’ – report

By ToI Staff and Reuters

This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows a damaged large building at the Islamic Revolutionary Guard's Shahroud Space Center in Semnan province, Iran, October 29, 2024. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Satellite photos show Israel’s Iran strike likely hit key IRGC missile production base

By AP and ToI Staff

US again urges Israel not implement anti-UNRWA laws

US presses Israel to explain ‘horrific’ Gaza strike in which over 20 kids said killed

Hamas health ministry reports 93 killed in Beit Lahiya, a figure the IDF says shouldn’t be trusted; Biden envoy: Israel’s words on providing aid to civilians don’t match its actions

An injured man sits on the rubble of a building hit by an Israeli strike in Beit Lahiya, in northern Gaza, October 29, 2024. (AFP)

A man carries a humanitarian aid package provided by UNRWA in central Gaza City on August 27, 2024. (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP)

Israel says UNRWA in Gaza is ‘rotten’ as concern builds over new laws’ impact on aid

By Lazar Berman, Gianluca Pacchiani, Agencies and ToI Staff

Soldiers killed in the northern Gaza Strip on October 29, 2024: Top (L-R) Cpt. Yehonatan Joni Keren, Staff Sgt. Nisim Meytal; bottom (L-R): Staff Sgt. Aviv Gilboa, Staff Sgt. Naor Haimov. (Courtesy)

Four soldiers killed, officer seriously wounded in northern Gaza fighting

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and Agencies

IDF says it is probing reports 93 killed in strike on Beit Lahiya apartment; after passing laws limiting UNRWA activities, Israel says it’ll work with other agencies to ensure aid

The scene where a of a suspected terror truck ramming attack in Glilot in central Israel, October 27, 2024. (Itai Ron/Flash90)

Police say Sunday’s deadly truck ramming in Glilot was likely terror attack

By Emanuel Fabian

Alexandra Herfroy-Mischler

Israel is nowhere near ready to commemorate October 7

Survivors of all kinds must be heard, seen, respected, and receive reparations. Leadership must make amends. Only then can we begin to craft memorials

When TV ratings serve politics: A grave threat to privacy

Under the guise of transparency, a law to take control of viewing data will give the government dangerous power over the public discourse

Analysis

Gianluca Pacchiani

Hezbollah’s military is weakened, but its civil branches are deeply embedded in Lebanon

Terror group likely to feel pinch after strikes on banking arm, but its network of charities is too entrenched in Lebanon’s Shiite community to be extracted easily, expert says

Demonstrators hold up Hezbollah terror group flags and shout slogans against Israel and the United States during a protest in solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza as Israel battles Hamas there, in Beirut, Lebanon, March 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Illustrative: A plane taxis on a runway as others sit on the tarmac at Tocumen International Airport, on March 22, 2020, in Panama City, Panama. (Luis Acosta/AFP)

US offers $5M reward for info on 1994 Panama plane bombing blamed on Hezbollah

By AFP and ToI Staff

Col. Avi Marciano, the commander of the 769th 'Hiram' Regional Brigade, leads a group of journalists into Lebanon on October 28, 2024. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)

ToI in southern Lebanon

Hezbollah’s Radwan force planned to invade Israel from this village; now the IDF controls it

By Diana Bletter

Much of Kafr Kila, a central Hezbollah hub on the border with Israel, is now destroyed, as a monthlong Israeli ground offensive in south Lebanon uproots terrorist infrastructure

Temporary housing built for members of Kibbutz Be'eri in Kibbutz Hatzerim, southern Israel, October 8, 2024. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Gaza border-area development on hold as treasury freezes NIS 5 billion

Release of funds contingent on government deciding whether they will also be shared by cities beyond traditionally recognized southern frontline

Shira Albag, mother of hostage Liri Albag, far left, with other hostage family members and supporters sit on the floor in the Knesset on October 28, 2024 holding signs that read, 'This is how they urinate in the tunnels,' referring to the bottles full of urine found in the Gaza tunnels. (Courtesy Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 30: Day 390 – Knesset storm over hostages, reservists, terrorists

The United States Consulate in Jerusalem, March 4, 2019. (Ariel Schalit/AP)

Knesset passes law banning establishment of new foreign consulates in Jerusalem

Committee members at the elections for Israel's new chief rabbis in Jerusalem, September 29, 2024. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

'This whole process has been quite ugly'

Divisive, long-delayed election for chief rabbi to proceed Thursday

Over a year late, the vote for Israel’s top Ashkenazi authority seems to be on track amid political strife and broken commitments

The Miraculous Draft of Fishes, Raphael, c.1515-16 (Public domain)

Biblical scales

Scientists offer explanation for Jesus’ ‘miraculous catch of fish’

Analysis of rare mass fish mortality events in Sea of Galilee reveals that strong winds cause lower, oxygen-poor water levels to rise, suffocating fish and bringing them to surface

President Isaac Herzog (center) and his wife Michal (to his left) pose at the President's Residence in Jerusalem with members of the Israeli delegation to the upcoming United Nations COP29 climate conference in Baku, Ajerbaijan, October 29, 2024. (Mayan Toaf / GPO)

President will represent Israel at upcoming UN climate meet

Archaeology

5,000-year-old site near Beit Shemesh offers clues to how cities developed in Israel

By Gavriel Fiske

Ancient inhabitants could have been precursors to biblical Canaanites; temple building found to contain unique collection of intact miniature, ritual ceramic vessels

Israeli security forces at the scene of a deadly explosion, believed to be connected to an ongoing feud between crime families, in the central Israel city of Ramle, September 12, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

Interview197 Arab Israelis were killed in homicides so far this year

NGO head says Israeli racism and neglect responsible for Arab sector’s high murder rate

By Deborah Danan

With 2024 on path to become the deadliest year on record for Arab Israelis, Abraham Initiatives co-director Amnon Be’eri-Sulitzeanu points to National Security Minister Ben Gvir

CNN panelists Mehdi Hasan (left) and Ryan Gidursky engage in a debate, October 28, 2024. (CNN screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

‘I hope your beeper doesn’t go off’: CNN bans writer after remark to Muslim panelist

By AP

In heated exchange, Israel critic Mehdi Hasan asks Ryan Girdusky if he thinks he should die after apparent reference to Hezbollah pager blasts; CNN: No room for ‘racism’ on network

More Headlines

Professor Tim Atkins, Merseyside Police Chief Constable Serena Kennedy, and Dr Renu Bindra meet the press at Merseyside Police Headquarters, Liverpool, England, Tuesday, October 29, 2024. (Danny Lawson/PA via AP)

Al-Qaeda training manual found in home of British teen accused of murdering 3 girls

By brian melley and Jill Lawless

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

AG calls on police chief to freeze ‘illegal’ dismissal of force’s legal adviser

By Jeremy Sharon

(L-R) Yoni Rechter, Yehudit Ravitz, Gidi Gov and David Broza in a poster promoting a series of concerts in 2025 for 'The 16th Sheep' album. (Credit Guy Kushi and Yariv Fine)

Baa me a ticketKid-loved ’16th Sheep’ musicians reuniting for live show

By Jessica Steinberg

The team at proptech startup DoorLoop. (Pazit Assolin)

Proptech startup raises $100 million to drive hiring spree despite ongoing war

By Sharon Wrobel

Green Party US vice presidential candidate Rudolph 'Butch' Ware speaks with party supporters, August 19, 2024. (YouTube screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

US Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s VP pick lauded Oct. 7 massacre — report

Rabbi Walter Jacob, center, ordains three rabbis during a ceremony at the Pestalozzi strasse Synagogue in Berlin, Novemer 4, 2010. (Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty Images/via JTA)

ObituaryWalter Jacob, Pittsburgh rabbi who helped revive Reform Judaism in Germany, dies at 94

By Beth Kisseleff

The president of the Federal Republic of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L) with the president of the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece David Saltiel (C) and president of Greece Katerina Sakellaropoulou (R) pose with photographs during their visit at the site of the future Holocaust Museum in Thessaloniki on October 29, 2024. (Sakis Mitrolidis / AFP)

German president mourns Greek Jews killed in Holocaust at site of new Thessaloniki museum

By COSTAS KANTOURIS

A New York Times reviewer called Paul Mendes-Flohr's 2019 book 'Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent' a 'scrupulously researched, perceptive biography' of the German Jewish philosopher. (Wikipedia; Yale University Press via JTA)

ObituaryPaul Mendes-Flohr, Israeli-American authority on Martin Buber, dies at 83

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

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