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What Matters Most On Saturday, November 2, 2024

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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves to the crowd during a meeting with school and university students, in Tehran, Iran, November 2, 2024. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Khamenei threatens Israel and US with ‘a crushing response’ to Israel’s airstrikes

By AP and ToI Staff

Iran’s leader makes harshest threats yet, sending currency to new low; IRGC general says reprisal for Israeli attack that followed Iran’s missile barrage will be ‘wise, powerful’

This photo released by the US Air Force shows a B-52H Stratofortress assigned to the 5th Bomb Wing, Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, flying over an oil tanker in the Middle East on Sept. 4, 2022. (Staff Sgt. Charles Fultz/U.S. Air Force via AP)

Pentagon bolsters US presence in Middle East with B-52 bombers and warships

By AP

Iran's former foreign affairs minister Kamal Kharrazi takes part in a panel during the Doha Forum in Qatar's capital, on March 27, 2022. (Karim Jaafar/AFP)

Khamenei aide warns Iran may review nuclear doctrine if facing ‘existential threat’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Einav Zangauker, whose son Matan Zangauker has been held hostage in Gaza for over a year, speaks at a press conference in Tel Aviv on November 2, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Nov. 2: Israel reportedly pessimistic on chances of clinching hostage deal

Protesters gather in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, elsewhere to call for hostage deal, early elections * IDF kills top Hezbollah commander responsible for deadly rocket fire on Israel

9:21 pm

IDF denies World Health Organization, Hamas claims of Israeli strike on vaccination center in Gaza City
8:49 pm

Germany's ruling parties agree on landmark resolution to combat antisemitism
8:04 pm

Ben Gvir defends Otzma Yehudit MK who was dismissed from IDF over photo with graffiti in Lebanon home

Republican presidential nominee and former US president Donald Trump talks with owner Albert Abbas as he visits The Great Commoner restaurant, November 1, 2024, in Dearborn, Michigan. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump appears in Michigan with Arab supporter who claims ‘Palestine is being erased’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

‘No amount of money or power should be prioritized over human life,’ Dearborn restaurant owner tells GOP candidate, who calls for end to Israel-Hezbollah fighting in Lebanon

Congresswoman Liz Cheney gives a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, June 29, 2022, in Simi Valley, California. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Trump draws outrage after saying Liz Cheney should have guns ‘trained on her face’

Then-US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks about countering antisemitism to a group of prominent Jewish supporters in Washington, on September 19, 2024. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Settlers with US citizenship hope to see Trump back in the White House

By AFP and ToI Staff

Reflecting opinion of most Israelis, dual citizens in West Bank say ex-president won’t pressure Jerusalem to compromise with Iran and its proxies, unlike his Democratic rival

Palestinian-American entrepreneur Jamal Zaglul poses for a picture in front of his olive press in Turmus Ayya, a village in the West Bank, on October 30, 2024. (Zain Jaafar/AFP)

West Bank’s Palestinian-Americans wary of US election: ‘Nobody cares about us’

By AFP and ToI Staff

The scene of a Hezbollah rocket attack that targeted the central city of Tira, on November 2, 2024. (Jack Guez/AFP)

3 drones from Iraq shot down by air defenses over Red Sea

11 hurt, three moderately, in overnight Hezbollah rocket attack on central Israel

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

IDF says Friday strikes killed two top members of terror group; Lebanon’s health ministry reports 52 dead, transport minister says Syrian border crossing forced shut

Gantz: 'PM is responsible for what is done in his office'

Several suspects arrested amid probe of PM’s office over alleged classified intel leak

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Judge says authorities suspect leak harmed achievement of Israel war aims, confirms Shin Bet, police and IDF probing incident; report says aim in question was potential hostage deal

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walking outside his office at the Knesset in Jerusalem on September 9, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

An IDF graphic stating that top Hamas official Izz al-Din Kassab was killed by the IDF in Gaza on November 1, 2024 (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says it killed one of the last remaining Hamas politburo members still in Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian and Jacob Magid

Military announces that Izz al-Din Kassab, who served as terror group’s head of national relations, was killed alongside his assistant in Khan Younis area

Blinken speaks with top Netanyahu aide as US deadline for Israel to boost Gaza aid nears

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

AP review of UN and Israeli data shows the number of trucks entering Strip daily remains well below the 350 per day that the administration is demanding by mid-November

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid cross into the Gaza Strip from Erez crossing in southern Israel, October 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Eran Riklis, director of 'Reading Lolita in Tehran,' at the Rome Film Festival on October 27, with, from right to left, Golshifteh Farahani, Mina Kavani, Catayoune Ahmadi, Raha Rahbari, Bahar Beihaghi (Courtesy of Reading Lolita)

Premiering as missiles fly, ‘Reading Lolita in Tehran’ rewrites Israeli-Iranian script

By Jessica Steinberg

Renowned Israeli filmmaker Eran Riklis, known for humanizing complex conflicts, reflects on working with Iranian actresses to bring a 2003 memoir to life

Protesters demand a hostage deal outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in central Jerusalem, October 24, 2024. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Hostage families to rally, saying deal to free all captives would be ‘glorious victory’

Families Forum criticizes proposals for staggered-release discussed in latest talks in Doha; Tel Aviv rally numbers limited by security restrictions amid Lebanon rocket fire

Cpt. Yarden Zakay, 21, a platoon commander in the Givati Brigade's Shaked Battalion. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF Cpt. Yarden Zakay, wounded in Gaza’s Rafah in September, dies of his injuries

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Joshua Davidson

What I told my Jewish students about this terrifying political moment

No matter how ugly American politics have become, we can’t turn away in despair

Why ending UNRWA unlocks peace

Supporters of a two-state solution should favor the dissolution of a body that perpetuated the idea that Israel could cease to exist

Sid Rosenberg speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump's speech at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, October 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

'I said Democrats are Jew-haters and lowlifes and I meant it'

Shock jock Sid Rosenberg has become one of Trump’s most aggressive Jewish surrogates

After speaking at a NYC campaign rally Sunday panned by critics as ‘misogynistic, bigoted and crude,’ the radio host doubles down on the only candidate he sees as good for the Jews

Voters fill out their ballots at a polling station in Grand Rapids, Michigan, October 29, 2024. (Joshua Lott/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

How rabbis in battleground states are approaching a razor-close US election

By jacob gurvis

While doing their best to keep politics out of the pulpit, rabbis find themselves fielding more questions than ever from congregants concerned over Jewish community and Israel

Members of Israel's Bedouin community take part in the country's first legal camel race in the Negev desert, near Kibbutz Tlalim, on November 1, 2024. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Over the hump

First legal camel race held in Israel with thousands of spectators

Bedouin host says Negev event is symbol for coexistence with Jewish communities: ‘We are here together, and we will stay together and we will live here together, in peace’

Harvey Yesno, a Grand Chief of the Ojibwe tribe from Canada, praying at the Western Wall on October 28, 2024, during a visit organized by the Indigenous Embassy in Jerusalem (Perry Trotter/IEJ, Courtesy)

Reporter's notebook

Indigenous leaders rally in Jerusalem to affirm historical Jewish ties to the land

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Dozens of tribal representatives from around the world gather in the capital in solidarity with Israel amid war, and to refute narrative that the Jewish state is a colonial enterprise

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Britain's Member of Parliament Kemi Badenoch speaks after being elected as the new leader of the opposition Conservative Party, in London, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

UK Conservative Party picks pro-Israel Kemi Badenoch as new leader

By AP and ToI Staff

Anti-Israel demonstrators protest outside Columbia University, September 3, 2024, in New York. (AP/Yuki Iwamura)

Columbia paid $395,000 after suspending Jewish student for using ‘fart spray’ at protest

Conservationists from the Israel Parks and Nature Authority release an endangered turtle into the Red Sea, October 31, 2024. (Screen capture via YouTube,used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli conservationists release endangered hawksbill turtles into Red Sea

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Argentina's ambassador to the US, Gerardo Werthein, vapes during a Hanukkah event in Buenos Aires on December 12, 2023. (Juan Mabromata/AFP)

Argentina’s Javier Milei selects Jewish envoy to US as replacement for FM he fired

By Juan Melamed

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