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October 7 Hamas atrocities

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara at Israel's 75th anniversary Independence Day ceremony, held at Mount Herzl, Jerusalem on April 25, 2023. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)
David Horovitz
Op-ed: Eight weeks to elections
David Horovitz
Netanyahu, who set policy and held the levers of power, now seeks to pin all blame for October 7 on others
Desperate for reelection, the PM claims he was a political victim on Oct. 7, while his wife spreads a foul conspiracy theory; but there's no escaping that the invasion took place on his watch, by a terrorist government whose rule in Gaza he insistently funded
Gadi Eisenkot, leader of the Yashar party and a former IDF chief of staff, speaks during an election campaign rally in Nordiya, August 31, 2026. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)
Amid Oct. 7 blame game, Eisenkot says PM was unreachable for 2 hours after Syria downed F-16 in 2018
By ToI Staff
Author Dara Horn in a promotional video for her Tell Institute. (screenshot)
Interview
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Dara Horn tackles enduring antisemitic lies head-on with optimistic ‘Final Solution’
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (second from right) attends a security briefing during an IDF operation in Jenin on July 3, 2023. At left is IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, and next to him is Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet is at center. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
September 2, 2026, 2:13 am
Netanyahu claims defense officials intentionally failed to wake him in hours before Oct. 7 attack
PM claims misguided security chiefs chose not to alert him because they knew he’d order mobilization and attacks on anybody approaching border and they feared this would trigger Hamas attack
By Stav Levaton
Yair Golan, leader of The Democrats party and a former IDF deputy chief of staff, speaks during an election campaign rally in Netanya, Israel, August 27, 2026. (Gili Yaari/Flash90.)
September 1, 2026, 7:36 pm
Yair Golan warns Sara Netanyahu of $825,000 suit for airing Oct. 7 conspiracy theory
Democrats leader, who rescued multiple people from Nova festival, tells PM’s wife to donate to rave’s survivors and retract suggestion he had advance knowledge of Hamas onslaught
By ToI Staff and Michael Bachner
Senior aides to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (from left): Topaz Luk, Eli Feldstein and Jonatan Urich. (Flash90)
September 1, 2026, 10:10 am
‘Let them burn’: PM’s aides said to slam IDF on Oct. 7 for being slow to release photos
Reports of text messages between Netanyahu advisers Topaz Luk, Eli Feldstein and Jonatan Urich concerning leader’s image amid Hamas massacre provoke rage from bereaved families
By ToI Staff
Left: Sara Netanyahu in a Channel 14 interview broadcast on August 31, 2026. Right: Yair Golan, October 14, 2023. (Screenshot/Channel 14; Kan TV screenshot)
September 1, 2026, 6:49 am
Sara Netanyahu pushes conspiracy theory that left-wing leader Golan had advance knowledge of Oct. 7
Golan, former deputy chief of staff, dashed to fight at Nova after invasion; his party decries ‘slander’ that ‘crosses a red line bordering on insanity’; PM’s wife also avoids ruling out ‘treason’ by security chiefs, which her husband has dismissed
By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff
An image from 'The Campaign,' an investigative documentary examining the anti-Israel Hamas social media campaign (Courtesy)
August 28, 2026, 5:16 am
A new documentary finds orchestrating hands behind global online hate after October 7
‘The Campaign,’ based on Warren Kinsella’s ‘The Hidden Hand,’ weaves in-depth interviews with investigative reporting to reveal a social media movement that spread anti-Israel messaging, fueling antisemitism
By Jessica Steinberg
Bereaved families of the October 7 massacre, members of the October Council, attend a press conference in Tel Aviv, August 24, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
August 24, 2026, 7:26 pm
‘Hair-raising’: Oct. 7 bereaved families say Israel again downplaying Hamas threat
October Council report shows terror operatives crossing ceasefire line daily, planting explosives, stealing arms, but forces not allowed to respond and officials afraid to speak up
By ToI Staff
President Isaac Herzog speaks at the opening of an AI center in Kibbutz Nir Oz, August 24, 2026. (Haim Zach/GPO)
August 24, 2026, 5:01 pm
Herzog says Israel can’t play down border residents’ jitters amid return of Gaza kites
In visit to Nir Oz, president insists security of border communities key to any future arrangement in Strip; IDF says three Oct. 7 terrorists targeted in strikes over past day
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
View of the northern town of Metula, on the border with Lebanon, June 22, 2026. (Chen Leopold/FLASH90)
August 19, 2026, 7:03 pm
Metula poetry festival moved to Jerusalem, for third year
Literary event celebrates 29 years, but northern town bombarded by Hezbollah can’t host guests just yet
By Jessica Steinberg
Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters gather at Harvard University to show their support for Palestinians in Gaza at a rally in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 14, 2023. (Joseph Prezioso / AFP)
August 13, 2026, 10:52 pm
US judge drops Trump case alleging Harvard failed to protect Jewish students
Federal court says evidence presented by administration was ‘too isolated and episodic’ to back plausible claim of institutionalized noncompliance with Civil Rights Act
By Agencies
Hamas terrorist Muhammad Fuad Gasser Sayid is seen with hostage Avinatan Or in captivity in the Gaza Strip during the war, in an image released by the IDF on April 12, 2026, showing him to have been eliminated. (Israel Defense Forces)
August 9, 2026, 12:26 am
IDF, Shin Bet acknowledge for first time special mission to hunt down and kill all Oct. 7 terrorists
Officers in ‘Nili’ unit confirm facial recognition, artificial intelligence, detainee interrogations, humint being used in operation to track down every participant in Hamas-led October 7, 2023, invasion, massacre, abductions
By Jeremy Sharon
Left: Nissim Louk speaks to Channel 12 news, May 17, 2024. (Channel 12 screenshot) Right: Transportation Minister Miri Regev speaks at the Muni Expo 2026 conference in Tel Aviv, on June 23, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
August 7, 2026, 10:50 am
‘You caused Oct 7’: Bereaved father rebukes Likud minister at Jerusalem campaign stop
Likud supporters call Nissim Louk, whose daughter Shani was murdered at the Nova festival, ‘trash,’ as he shouts at Miri Regev
By ToI Staff
Actor Noa Cohen in Avi Nesher's October 7 film, 'Our Loves' coming to Israeli theaters in September 2026. (Courtesy)
August 4, 2026, 4:42 pm
Avi Nesher’s Oct. 7 retelling, ‘Our Loves,’ to screen at Toronto Film Festival
Film included despite Israeli directors’ ongoing struggle against cultural boycotts; producers say it is a valuable way to tell Israel’s side of the Hamas-led massacre
By Jessica Steinberg
Liron Barda (left) and Bar Bechor Asraf (Courtesy)
August 4, 2026, 5:49 am
‘Twin souls’: Man dies by suicide at grave of close friend murdered at Nova on Oct. 7
Bar Bechor Asraf, 30, was close childhood friends with Liron Barda, who was killed at music festival massacre where she had stayed to tend to the wounded
By ToI Staff
Shir Matias, whose parents Deborah (Shachar) and Shlomi were killed protecting her brother Rotem at their Kibbutz Holit home in the Hamas-led onslaught of October 7, 2023, speaks at an anti-government rally in Habima Aquare, Tel Aviv, August 1, 2026. (Movement for Quality Government in Israel)
August 2, 2026, 4:20 am
At Tel Aviv rally, daughter of couple slain on Oct. 7 says government is ‘defiling our dead’
Weekly anti-government protests held in various locations, slamming failure to probe Hamas attack and also decrying Haredi military exemptions, settler violence
By Noam Lehmann
Freed hostage Evyatar David arrives at his home in Kfar Saba, October 26, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
July 31, 2026, 2:33 am
Ex-hostage Evyatar David details struggles with PTSD, a year after Hamas forced him to dig own grave
‘Rehabilitation is a different battle’ than surviving captivity, says the former hostage, as he explains how ‘that skinny guy with the spoon digging a grave is still with me’
By ToI Staff
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