Disarray in Hezbollah as IDF kills commanders * US: Aqil’s death a ’good outcome’ * Elderly northerners anxious to return * UK left-wing activist barred from immigrating

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Saturday, September 21, 2024 [IDF confirms eliminating multiple top Hezbollah commanders in Friday’s Beirut strike]( By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies Radwan Force leadership taken out; Hezbollah acknowledges 2 top leaders, 14 others died in attack that killed head of operations Ibrahim Aqil; Lebanon says overall death toll at 31 Live updates [LIVE - US’s Sullivan: Killing of Hezbollah commander ‘a good outcome,’ but escalation worrying]( By ToI Staff Terror group confirms death of 2 top operatives, Ibrahim Aqil and Ahmed Wahab, along with 14 other members in Beirut airstrike * Rockets hit north as IDF launches new wave of strikes [IDF kills Hezbollah’s top commander, says he was overseeing plan for invasion of Galilee]( By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid and Agencies Ibrahim Aqil was wanted by US for attacks that killed dozens; 10 more of terror group’s military leadership also killed in the rare Beirut strike, as they met underground, IDF says [Who was Ibrahim Aqil? The slain Hezbollah commander wanted for ’83 Beirut barracks blast]( By Reuters and ToI Staff [Which Hezbollah and Hamas terror leaders have been taken out since October 7?]( By Jana Choukeir Interview Lazar Berman [Ex-top cyber official: It won’t be easy for Hezbollah to get new comms system in place]( Refael Franco, former deputy director general of Israel’s National Cyber Directorate, says ‘bold, unusual’ action like the detonating of the pagers is ‘how you get deterrence’ [Hezbollah was still distributing pagers hours before Tuesday blast]( By Reuters and ToI Staff [Profile / Cristiana Barsony-Arcidiacono, mystery woman whose company licensed exploding pagers]( By Krisztina Than [Israel bars UK Jewish left-wing activist from immigrating, orders him to leave by Sunday]( By Asaf Elia-Shalev Doctoral student Leo Franks arrived in April as a tourist and began the aliyah process. But after arrests in the West Bank, his passport was confiscated, and now he’s being deported Reporter's notebook [They settled the northern border. Now these elderly Israelis worry they won’t return]( By Charlotte Lawson For many seniors who have spent the past year displaced in a Haifa hotel, the ‘abandonment’ of the North is profoundly unsettling their core beliefs about the Israeli state [Those We Have Lost]( [Those We Have Lost]( [Civilians and soldiers who have fallen since Oct. 7]( [Read Here]( [Thousands attend hostage deal rally outside UN headquarters in New York]( By ToI Staff Demonstrators urge world leaders gathering for General Assembly to pay attention to plight of the captives in Gaza, note issue ‘remains conspicuously absent from the agenda’ [‘We will not abandon them’: Thousands to rally for hostages across the country]( By ToI Staff and Agencies [Top US Jewish groups, Biden and Harris slam Trump for saying Jews to blame if he loses]( By Jacob Magid and Alexander Fulbright ADL chief says ex-president highlighted record antisemitism but then undercut that by ’employing numerous antisemitic tropes’; VP’s campaign: He made the claim ‘because he’s weak’ [Former Jewish Press editor gets 4-month prison term for role in US Capitol riot]( By Ron Kampeas Top Ops Mijal Bitton [An Ishay Ribo concert becomes a moment of Jewish awakening]( At Madison Square Garden, we were surrounded by people who understood both the depths of our grief and the heights of our joy Andrew Esensten [Abshalom Ben Shlomo, Hebrew Israelite jazz man]( The masterful musician, who passed away at home in Dimona over the summer, introduced ’free play’ to the local music scene [US Mideast czar says ‘nobody shedding a tear’ for Hezbollah’s Aqil, but hints at unease]( By Jacob Magid Brett McGurk highlights terror commander Ibrahim Aqil’s role in deadly US Embassy bombing in Beirut in 1983, but acknowledges ‘disagreements with the Israelis on tactics’ [Analysis / US treading softly with Israel, Hezbollah escalation, fearing to make things worse]( By AP [Biden opens busy foreign policy stretch as US allies shift gaze to Harris and Trump]( By AP and ToI Staff [Tlaib slams ‘racist’ cartoon that shows her pager exploding]( By Agencies Palestinian-American member of Congress says the cartoon, which implies an association with Hezbollah, will incite hate and violence [UN rights chief claims detonation of Hezbollah comms devices could be a war crime]( By AFP and ToI Staff [CRM]( [US concerned Smotrich may try to collapse Palestinian banking system — officials]( By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff Finance minister has until end of next month to sign waiver allowing Israeli banks to cooperate with Palestinian ones, without which PA economy would struggle to survive [US ‘deeply disturbed’ by video of IDF troops pushing bodies of gunmen off a rooftop]( By Jacob Magid and Emanuel Fabian Israel says it will investigate incident, which ‘is not in line with IDF values’; military says local terror leader killed during Qabatiya operation [Those We Are Missing]( [The hostages and victims whose fate is still unknown]( [Read Here]( [Smoke point: A Palestinian olive farmer despairs after hundreds of trees set ablaze]( By Jeremy Sharon After over a year of access to his lands blocked, this year’s coming harvest offered hope, now shattered; though video of apparent arsonists exists, authorities not investigating [NY book festival cancels panel after participants refuse to sit with ‘Zionist’]( By Jackie Hajdenberg Two panelists at Albany event would not share stage with Jewish moderator Elisa Albert, an outspoken Israel supporter, who says she is ‘not surprised’ by such reactions since Oct. 7 [Day 351 – Has the regional war already begun?]( [listen to the podcast]( [Springfield’s Trump-voting rabbi claims Haitian immigrants lack ‘Western civilized values’]( By Andrew Lapin Reform Rabbi Cary Kozberg admits there is no basis to the former president’s claims that Haitian townsfolk are eating resident’s pets, but complains they are not trying to assimilate [The daily edition]( [facebook]( [twitter]( [instagram]( [View in browser]( [Contact support](mailto:support@timesofisrael.com) [Advertise with us](mailto:advertise@timesofisrael.com) Were you forwarded this email? 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