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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 2, 2025

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Jihad al-Shamie, the suspect who carried out a deadly terrorist attack at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation in Manchester, UK, on Yom Kippur, October 2, 2025. (Image circulated on social media used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

2 killed, 4 seriously injured in Yom Kippur attack at UK synagogue; terrorist shot dead

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Assailant rams car into worshippers, then stabs them, tried to break into crowded synagogue; officer heard yelling suspect ‘has a bomb’; police presence boosted at synagogues across UK

Members of the Jewish community comfort each other following a deadly terror attack during Yom Kippur services at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, Manchester, northern England, October 2, 2025. (Peter Byrne/PA via AP)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 2: UK synagogue terrorist named as British citizen of Syrian descent; 3 suspects in custody

Israel demands Britain crack down on ‘rampant antisemitic and anti-Israeli incitement’ after deadly attack on Yom Kippur * IDF officer seriously hurt, 2 other troops lightly injured by gunfire in central Gaza

8:23 pm

Manchester synagogue terrorist ID'd as British citizen of Syrian descent; 3 suspects in custody
8:02 pm

Starmer visits London synagogue with his Jewish wife hours after Manchester attack
7:48 pm

IDF says 3 Hezbollah operatives killed in south Lebanon drone strikes over past day

An Israeli soldier detains Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg aboard a ship in the Global Sumud Flotilla of anti-Israel activists, in video released by the Foreign Ministry on October 1, 2025. (X screenshot)

Israel dismisses claim a ship reached waters off Gaza coast

Israel intercepts Gaza flotilla, says blockade not breached; Thunberg, others detained

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Navy boards 41 ships in anti-Israel armada after it rejects final call to change course; 400 detainees brought to Israel ahead of deportation; Foreign Ministry: All ‘safe, in good health’

Activists in orange life jackets sit aboard a Gaza-bound Sumud flotilla boat as Israeli navy soldiers sail it into the port of Ashdod, Israel, October 2, 2025, after it was intercepted while approaching the Gaza coast. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 2: Day 727 – Gaza-bound flotilla intercepted in complex Yom Kippur op

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

Hamas fires 5 rockets from Gaza on Yom Kippur, triggering sirens in Ashdod; no injuries

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

IDF says 4 projectiles intercepted, 1 hit open area; Gazan health authorities say dozens killed by Israeli fire; officer seriously wounded in attack on army post

Screenshot from a video showing the firing of a rocket from Gaza toward Ashdod on October 1, 2025. (Screen grab used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Illustrative: German police officers walks at the Oktoberfest that stays closed after a bomb threatening in Munich, Germany, October 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Germany nabs 3 suspected Hamas operatives for planning to kill Israelis, local Jews

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participate in a press conference in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC on September 29, 2025. (Jim WATSON / AFP)

'Take it or leave it,' US president reportedly told Netanyahu

Failed Israeli strike in Doha sparked push that led to Trump’s Gaza plan — report

Sources tell Axios that attack in Qatar prompted a diplomatic ‘rallying cry’ and ‘changed the regional dynamics,’ opening the door for ‘a real discussion’ on ending the Gaza war

Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani (R) and US President Donald Trump sit side by side at the Royal Palace in Doha on May 14, 2025. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

After Israeli strike, Trump declares US commitment to defend Qatar if it’s attacked again

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

American president signs executive order stating that any military action against the Gulf state will be considered ‘a threat to the peace and security of the United States’

What we IDF reservists really need: Fishing rods, not fish

Facing the shadow of death with my reserve unit regularly made getting back to normal life impossible. What I needed was a retreat to help me process; I’m not the only one

Aya I. Shechter

Driving to the synagogue I don’t pray in

For years, I missed the pervasive sense of Yom Kippur that happens in Israel, but I’ve found that crafting my own experience of the day is no less meaingful

Palestinians watch smoke billowing during airstrikes, northwest of the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, October 1, 2025. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)

Hamas said split on whether to back Trump’s plan to end Gaza war, seeks amendments

By Agencies and Nurit Yohanan

Sources both within and close to terror group say Hamas is pushing to change clauses on disarmament and timing of hostages’ release, which are Israel’s key demands for ending the fighting

The empty streets in Jerusalem, on Yom Kippur, October 2, 2025. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Medics treat over 3,000 on Yom Kippur; 7 injured running for shelter in rocket attack

293 suffer effects of fast; 295 injured on bicycles, another 23 hurt in car accidents, emergency service says; 3 babies delivered by medics

The empty streets in south Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur, October 2, 2025 (Dor Pazuelo/Flash 90)

Photo essayIsraelis flood the streets on bikes, taking advantage of Yom Kippur’s car-free roads

Katz: IDF has nearly encircled Gaza City, residents have ‘last opportunity’ to leave

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Medical sources in Hamas-run Strip report at least 35 killed by Israeli fire, mainly in Gaza City; IDF downs rockets fired from northern Gaza, including projectiles launched amid Yom Kippur

Palestinians carrying belongings arrive on a coastal path northwest of Nuseirat refugee camp as they are displaced southward following Israel's announcement that it would stop northbound traffic on the coastal Rashid road, October 1, 2025. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)

FBI Director Kash Patel speaks during a news conference with President Donald Trump in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, August 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

FBI cuts ties with ADL after row over extremist label for Charlie Kirk’s advocacy group

By Kanishka Singh

Bureau director Kash Patel says it ‘won’t partner with political fronts masquerading as watchdogs’; Anti-Defamation League says it has ‘deep respect’ for FBI, has worked with it to fight extremism

Signs are displayed outside a tent encampment at Northwestern University on April 26, 2024, in Evanston, Illinois. (AP/ Teresa Crawford/ File)

'No one's forced to agree, they're just required to listen'

Dozens of Northwestern students face penalties for boycotting antisemitism video

By Grace Gilson

While there is no requirement to endorse the contents of the training video made by Chicago’s Jewish federation, dozens protest what they call ‘biased’ content as bigotry against Jews peaks

Mamdani, appearing on ‘The View,’ earns applause for calling Gaza war a ‘genocide’

By Andrew Lapin

Disagreeing, host Sara Haines says NYC mayoral candidate has made other ‘inflammatory’ comments ‘like calling Israel an apartheid state and questioning its right to exist as a Jewish state’

New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani appears on ABC's "The View," Oct. 1, 2025. (Screenshot)

Former New York State governor Andrew Cuomo at an event marking the completion of a new Torah scroll, in New York City, May 15, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Cuomo apologizes to New York Orthodox Jews for past handling of COVID-19 restrictions

By Joseph Strauss

Screenshot from video showing an UNRWA worker next to a white UN jeep, abducting the body of Yonatan Samerano, who was killed by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023. (Screenshot)

US judge dismisses Oct. 7 victims’ $1B suit against UNRWA, ignoring DOJ’s stance

Families of around 100 victims of the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led terror assault sought damages from UN agency, claiming it aided the massacre; lawyers to appeal

Akis Dagazian, Armenia’s honorary consul in Thessaloniki, stands in front of the Armenian Church of the Virgin Mary. (Larry Luxner/JTA)

'We've experienced similar tragedy, face similar challenges'

Thessaloniki’s Armenian minority and Jewish past are bound by a shared history of genocide

By Larry Luxner

Greek port city with longstanding Armenian community was mostly Jewish before the Holocaust; Armenians emphasize marking 1915 genocide, which Netanyahu recently recognized

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A domestically-built missile "Khaibar-buster," and banners showing portraits of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, and the late armed forces commanders, who were killed in Israeli strike in June, are displayed in a military exhibition commemorating the anniversary of the start of the 1980-88 Iraq-Iran war, and 12-day war with Israel in June, at Baharestan Square, in Tehran, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards call to extend missile range in wake of war with Israel

By Reuters and ToI Staff

The Israeli team poses prior to the Group D soccer match between Israel and Japan, at the La Beaujoire stadium, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, July 30, 2024, in Nantes, France. (AP Photo/Jeremias Gonzalez)

FIFA’s Infantino takes no action against Israel, urges soccer to promote peace

By AP

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly via video at United Nations headquarters, September 25, 2025. (AP/Angelina Katsanis)

Trump peace plan charts tough course for Palestinian Authority’s return to Gaza

By Ali Sawafta and Suleiman Al-Khalidi

Azealia Banks performs during her concert at the Bataclan venue in Paris on April 12, 2025. (Photo by Xavier Galiana / AFP)

'Zionism is punk'Rapper Azelaia Banks announces Tel Aviv show to mark Oct. 7

By Grace Gilson

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