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What Matters Most On Friday, November 1, 2024

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Women walk past an anti-Israel billboard covering the facade of a building in Tehran on October 26, 2024. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Netanyahu says Israel can fly over Iran at will

Iranian leader Khamenei said to order reprisal attack on Israeli military sites

By ToI Staff, Emanuel Fabian and AFP

NYT says decision made after briefing on extent of damage caused by Israel retaliatory strike; separate report claims Iraqi militias will fire drones, missiles for Tehran

Members of an Iraqi Shiite militant group attend the funeral of a fighter with the Kataeb Hezbollah terror militia who was killed in a US airstrike, in Baghdad, Iraq, January 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraq trying to reel in Iran-backed groups to prevent confrontation with Israel

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Analysis

As religious Zionist IDF casualties rise, so does resentment of Haredi exemption bill

Rift between two religiously observant communities deepens as the Knesset debates a law on ultra-Orthodox military enlistment, or lack thereof, amid the ongoing multifront war

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers pray next to their artillery units near the Israeli border with Lebanon, September 29, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Rabbi Kalman Ber attends a vote for the new Chief Ashkenazi rabbi, at the Chief Rabbinate headquarters in Jerusalem, October 31, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox-backed Kalman Ber chosen as Ashkenazi chief rabbi in runoff

By Mati Wagner and ToI Staff

Zohar, Silman and Ben Gvir vote against proposal

Cabinet approves 2025 budget proposal after last-minute backtrack over stipend freezes

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Ministers agree to scrap proposed freeze for Holocaust survivors, bereaved families; opposition pans agreement; Gantz: Anyone who supports this should feel shame for rest of their life

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center), Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (left) and Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs at a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, November 1, 2024. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, at the start of cabinet meeting meant to approve the 2025 state budget, October 31, 2024 (GPO)

2025 state budget to increase defense spending, cut social services and education

By Sharon Wrobel and Sam Sokol

Israelis protest against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) outside the organization's offices in Jerusalem, March 13, 2024. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Promoted podcastJPPI

Israel severs ties with UNRWA

Dr. Einat Wilf, a former MK and co-author of ‘The War of Return’ argues that UNRWA has long been the problem and not the solution.

Troops operating in the Gaza Strip in an undated photo released for publication by the military on October 31, 2024 (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

Nov. 1: Mossad head said to tell hostage families Hamas hasn’t rejected proposed 12-day deal

IDF says it killed one of last remaining members of Hamas’s politburo still in Gaza * Amid kidnap fears, Germany tells citizens to leave Iran * North Gaza situation ‘apocalyptic’: UN agency chiefs

9:34 pm

Blinken calls Dermer to discuss Gaza humanitarian situation, with 12 days left for Israel to drastically improve crisis
9:11 pm

Mossad chief said to tell hostage families Hamas hasn't rejected Egyptian proposal for 12-day deal; will respond early next week
8:43 pm

Pentagon bolsters the US presence in the Middle East with bomber aircraft and warships

Former US president Bill Clinton speaks at a campaign event supporting Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

'This is far more complicated than you know'

On campaign trail for Harris in Michigan, Bill Clinton defends Israel’s war in Gaza

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Recalling efforts to broker peace during his own presidency, Clinton urges voters in crucial swing state to think ‘what you would do if it was your family’ killed on October 7

A frame from a new Kamala Harris ad filmed at Hymie's, the same Philadelphia Jewish deli that served as the setting for a Donald Trump ad. (Screenshot via YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Pro-Harris group counters pro-Trump ad with rebuttal filmed at same Jewish deli

Protesters hold up a Palestinian flag as Democratic US presidential nominee Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign event at the PA Farm Show Complex and Expo Center, October 30, 2024, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

VP uses Gaza protests as opportunities to rally crowd, as disruptions turn routine

By AP

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: US elections through an Israeli prism

ToI’s senior analyst on the massive dissonance between US Jews and Israelis in how they view the two leading candidates for US president — and why

This combination of pictures shows US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (L) speaking during a Get Out the Vote rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on October 30, 2024; and former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaking at a campaign rally at the PPL Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on October 29, 2024. (Angela Weiss/AFP)

Members of the Orthodox jewish community fill out ballot papers at a polling center on November 8, 2022, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

US Jewish security groups monitor conspiracy theories, polling sites ahead of election

Republican US presidential nominee former president Donald Trump, center, stands alongside local Muslim leaders during a campaign rally at the Suburban Collection Showplace, October 26, 2024, in Novi, Michigan. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump to visit Arab-majority city in Michigan, riding anger over Middle East war

By AP and ToI Staff

Former president presses last-minute push in swing state, winning endorsements from some Muslim community leaders, as VP Harris linked to Biden administration’s support for Israel

Nikki Fried, chairwoman of the Florida Democratic Party, holds a press conference criticizing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his response to the recent flooding on April 18, 2023. (Joe Raddle/Getty Images via AFP)

Florida Dem chair says many Jews have started to ‘question the Democratic Party’

Benjamin Netanyahu meets this year with presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. (Getty Images via JTA)

Analysis

Netanyahu likely prefers Trump in historically close race, but he’s hedging his bets

Israel’s recent restraint against Iran shows that the long-term health of US-Israel ties may be the PM’s main priority regardless of who wins the Nov. 5 election

The line between antisemitism and legitimate criticism of Israel

As a UK representative to Israel for years, I know well that Israel isn’t perfect, but I’m also on guard for anti-Jewish animus

William Kolbrener

Writers boycotting (Israeli) writers

Not since the Nazis has the vilification of Jews been affirmed with such moral authority. We Israelis will keep writing

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Brad Schneider, Kathy Manning and Greg Landsman

Harris is a strong ally for Israel and American Jews

Four Jewish US Congress members: Kamala has a strong record on Israel, while Trump opposed a security assistance bill and his running mate voted against it

The aftermath of disaster: Noah and choosing hope

Like Noah who survived the flood and promptly drank himself into a stupor, we may be fighting despair. To get free of it, hold onto goodness

The site of a Hezbollah rocket impact that killed two people near Kiryat Ata in northern Israel on October 31, 2024. (Flash90)

Lebanon denies US asked it to agree to unilateral ceasefire

One wounded in Hezbollah rocket barrage; IDF strikes hit Beirut for first time in days

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

30 rockets fired at Galilee region in latest barrage from Lebanon; IDF hits Hezbollah’s Beirut stronghold overnight as Iran-backed group in Iraq launches drones at Israel

US envoy Amos Hochstein leaves after attending a news conference in Beirut, Lebanon, October 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Nov. 1: Day 392 – US seeks ceasefire with Lebanon, then Gaza

Illustrative: A ship is loaded with containers at the Mediterranean port of Alexandria, Egypt, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. (AP/Amr Nabil)

Egypt denies claims it took in explosives shipment for Israeli defense firm

A student reads a bulletin board announcement of a meeting November 16, 1938, at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, which met to denounce persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany. (AP Photo/Fox)

Exhibition'We're not in the 1930s now, but there is a through line'

From Nazis to Vietnam protesters, NY exhibit highlights history of campus antisemitism

By Cathryn J. Prince

At NYC’s Center for Jewish History through Dec. 31, ‘Between Antisemitism and Activism’ looks at Jews in academia facing obstacles like quotas, Holocaust relativism and anti-Zionism

IDF troops operate in the West Bank's Nur Shams camp near Tulkarem, in a handout photo issued on November 1, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says 3 gunmen killed in airstrike, clashes during day-long West Bank raid

By Emanuel Fabian

UNRWA accuses IDF of damaging its office in Nur Shams during operation, military denies responsibility, says terrorists had planted explosives nearby

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting of his Religious Zionism party at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, October 28, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich extends deal allowing Israel-PA bank ties, but only for 1 month, angering US

Rubbish and debris are scattered near damaged buildings in the vicinity of the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip on October 31, 2024. (AFP)

IDF says it hit terrorists hiding in Gaza hospital, claims Hamas crumbling in Jabalia

By ToI Staff, Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Military publishes video of former UNRWA employee telling interrogator Hamas looted refugee aid agency; COGAT figures said to show drop in aid entering Strip for October

Analysis

How will Israel’s new anti-UNRWA laws impact the controversial agency’s operations?

New laws don’t explicitly bar UNRWA from working in Gaza and West Bank but likely make its operations impossible, with potentially severe consequences for Palestinians and Israel

Boys sit on a cart with humanitarian aid packages provided by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in central Gaza City on August 27, 2024. (Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)

Likud MK Boaz Bismuth at the Knesset's introductory session for freshman lawmakers, a day before opening session of the 25th Knesset, November 14, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lawmakers behind UNRWA ban dismiss international criticism as ‘misplaced’

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike on Hezbollah in Khiam village in southern Lebanon on October 31, 2024. (AFP)

Israel said seeking US commitment for freedom of action if Hezbollah breaches truce

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israeli TV reports progress in Israel-US talks; WSJ says Hezbollah and Lebanon unlikely to agree to Israel’s demand for ‘active enforcement’ of ceasefire; Blinken: More work to do

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian walk during their meeting on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. (Maxim Shemetov, Pool Photo via AP)

Russia says ‘comprehensive’ treaty with Iran will include defense cooperation

By Reuters and ToI Staff

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, meets Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. (Nathan Howard/Pool Photo via AP)

Saudi FM: Some deals with US not tied to Israel normalization can still move forward

Screen capture from video of Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi after being shot and injured by police during an exchange of gunfire in Chicago, Illinois, October 26, 2024. (X: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Chicago cops add terror and hate crimes charges to counts facing man who shot Jew

Rev. Mitchell L. Ikenna Johnson listens to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson during a news conference on Monday, Oct. 7, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Chicago school board president resigns amid backlash over his antisemitic posts

By Andrew Lapin

Justice Minister Yariv Levin attends a swearing in ceremony for newly appointed judges at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on June 23, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Chief justice accuses Levin of harming separation of powers in budget intervention

By Jeremy Sharon

B'nai Jeshurun, a synagogue on Manhattan's Upper West Side, in March 2022. (Noam Galai/Getty Images/JTA)

New York synagogue reveals sexual assault allegation against renowned late rabbi

By Jackie Hajdenberg

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