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Hostage families and supporters march on the first anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 onslaught to demand their loved ones’ release, near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence on Jerusalem’s Aza Road, Oct. 7, 2024. (Noam Amir/Hostages Families Forum)
October 7, 2024, 2:10 pm
Israel remembers Oct. 7 victims while grappling with ongoing nightmare
Rockets from Gaza target border region and Tel Aviv in heaviest attack in months, as 1st anniversary of earthshaking assault is marked amid widening war and continuing hostage crisis
By Emanuel Fabian, Jessica Steinberg and TOI Staff
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi speaks in a video statement from the Tel Nof Airbase in central Israel, October 2, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
October 6, 2024, 8:01 pm
‘We are all still in pain’: Oct. 7 anniversary arrives as new footage of attack emerges
IDF chief: Commemoration is day of ‘deep soul-searching’ as Israel continues fight ‘for our right to be a free people in our land’
By Lazar Berman, Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Sam Sokol
Allan Tissenbaum, left, Uri Zakai-Or, Charlene Tissenbaum and Karen Gal-Or gather at the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh on Oct. 1. (Photo by Adam Reinherz)
October 2, 2024, 5:10 pm
IDF reservist recounts a year of combat, lost friends and wanting the hostages home
Uri Zakai-Or walks Pittsburghers through timeline of service, gifts listeners new insight
By Adam Reinherz
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the United Nations headquarters, New York City, Sept. 27, 2024. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)
September 27, 2024, 5:52 pm
Netanyahu vows in UN speech to fight on in Lebanon and Gaza
The Israeli leader’s speech Friday to the U.N. General Assembly came as Israel hit a key Hezbollah target in Beirut.
By Ron Kampeas
Smoke rises from an Israeli strike that hit Tyre, Lebanon, Sept. 26, 2024. (Daniel Carde/Getty Images)
September 26, 2024, 2:34 pm
US and allies propose ceasefire as fighting escalates between Israel and Hezbollah
Benjamin Netanyahu in a statement Thursday denied reports that he had agreed to the proposal, released before dawn in Israel.
By Ron Kampeas
Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib is photographed in his office at the City Hall in Hamtramck, Michigan, September 10, 2023. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
September 24, 2024, 2:00 pm
Mayor of Muslim-majority Michigan city endorses Trump
Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib has joined hardline pro-Israel Jews in backing Trump.
By Andrew Lapin
The London Jewish Chronicle on sale outside Westminster Cathedral, Jan. 23, 1966. (Jewish Chronicle/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
September 16, 2024, 12:39 pm
Columnists resign from London Jewish Chronicle amid allegations that Gaza news was fabricated
“With the heaviest of hearts, I need to break my connection,” wrote one longtime columnist.
By Toby Axelrod
More than 300 community members gathered at the JCC in Squirrel Hill to mourn the murder of six hostages in Gaza last week. Ben Wecht argues that its important for the Jewish communitiy not to splinter during divisive times. (Photo by Toby Tabachnick)
September 4, 2024, 10:03 am
Hundreds turn out for Pittsburgh vigil after 6 hostages murdered in Gaza
Vigil at JCC brings together diverse group of community members in solidarity
By Toby Tabachnick
Israelis attend a rally calling for the release of Israelis held kidnapped by Hamas terrorists in Gaza outside the Defense Ministry Headquarters in Tel Aviv, Sept. 1, 2024. (Itai Ron/Flash90)
September 2, 2024, 2:58 pm
Israel is reeling from an unbearable tragedy. But does it change anything?
Here’s a look at three areas that might see shifts in the coming weeks.
By Ron Kampeas
Israeli President Isaac Herzog speaks at the funeral of Hersh Goldberg-Polin in Jerusalem, Sept. 2, 2024. (Screenshot)
September 2, 2024, 11:21 am
At funeral, Israeli president asks for forgiveness from Goldberg-Polin family
"I want to say how sorry I am, how sorry I am that we didn't protect Hersh on that dark day, how sorry I am that we failed to bring him home."
By Philissa Cramer
An undated photo of Hersh Goldberg-Polin. (Jon Polin via JTA)
September 1, 2024, 8:24 am
Bodies of 6 hostages, murdered by Hamas just days ago, found in Rafah – IDF
Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Ori Danino, Alex Lubnov, Carmel Gat, Almog Sarusi discovered in Gaza tunnel; families forum urges protests; autopsy said to find all 6 had gunshot wounds
By Emanuel Fabian and TOI Staff
Rescued hostage Farhan al-Qadi seen with family members and doctors at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba on August 27, 2024. (Courtesy Soroka Medical Center)
August 29, 2024, 12:46 pm
Rescue, shmescue, as the loathsome Jews would say
A Muslim liberated from heroic Hamas by the hideous Zionists? That can’t be true. And if it is, I don’t want to hear it
By David Horovitz
Reservists of the 252nd Division operate in the Netzarim Corridor of the central Gaza Strip, in a handout image published August 28, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
August 29, 2024, 11:44 am
IDF recovers body of soldier killed on Oct. 7 whose remains were kidnapped to Gaza
Two soldiers killed fighting in different parts of Strip, raising ground offensive toll to 342; combat engineers raze 3-kilometer tunnel
By Emanuel Fabian
Farhan Al Qadi has been missing since the morning of Saturday, October 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists attacked the Israeli communities near the Gaza border (Courtesy Citizens of Bedouin Society Victims Forum in the Negev)
August 27, 2024, 8:40 am
Hostage Qaid Farhan al-Qadi, 52, rescued by IDF from tunnel in Gaza
Al-Qadi was found inside a tunnel by commandos of the Navy’s elite Shayetet 13 unit.
By Emanuel Fabian
Davis Morgenstern playing Chopin (Photo by Abigail Hakas)
August 26, 2024, 11:40 am
Local musicians dedicate concert to Israeli hostages abducted on Oct. 7
A chorus for Alon Ohel
By Abigail Hakas
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