Welcome to the Times of Israel's daily briefing.

Today is Friday, October 10th, day 735 of the war.

I'm Marenda Borschelle Dan here with a briefer briefing from our U.S. Bureau Chief

Jacob Magid ahead of our regularly scheduled Friday Focus with Laser Bearman.

So, Jacob, thank you for joining me for

I think it's your fourth time, unprecedented fourth time this week. Unprecedented. Good to be with you again,

Amanda. Thanks so much. And Jacob will give us an update on the very early morning government vote

that led to the current ceasefire, but before that, an IDF

reserve soldier was killed in a Hamas diaper attack in Gaza City Thursday afternoon.

We learned this morning.

The slain soldier is named as Sergeant First Class Michael Morachai Nachmani, who was 26, a technology

and maintenance corps soldier in the 614th Command Engineering Battalion.

He is from Demona.

The sniper attack came after Israeli and Hamas negotiators signed a deal in Egypt to secure the release of all the hostages

held by the terror group in Gaza and a ceasefire

as part of the deal had not yet taken effect when the attack was carried out. So very early this

morning, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet voted in favor of a Gaza's ceasefire deal

that will see the hostages freed in exchange for Palestinian

security prisoners and a halt to the fighting. This vote came despite vocal objections from the

far-right coalition partners. So Jacob, fill us in on, first of all, on who voted for what.

Sure. So it wasn't a total surprise who voted against this.

Also wasn't surprised that it passed. But those who refused to get behind it were ministers from the two far right parties, Outsmae, Hehudits, which Itemar Benghvir's party, the national security minister,

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