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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 6, 2023

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Smoke rises above buildings in Gaza City as Israel launched air strikes on the Palestinian enclave on late April 6, 2023. (Mohammed ABED / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

IDF launches airstrikes in Lebanon, Gaza after rocket barrages

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Military targets tunnels, weapons sites in Strip after rockets hit northern, southern Israel; Lebanese PM condemns use of country’s soil for ‘escalation’ after 34 projectiles fired

1:33 am

IDF attacks Hamas 'infrastructure targets' in Lebanon
1:30 am

Loud explosions heard in Tyre in southern Lebanon
1:12 am

Israel launches airstrikes in Lebanon in response to rocket barrage

Israeli security forces walk next to a bank damaged by rocket fire from Lebanon in Shlomi, northern Israel, near the Lebanese border, Thursday, April 6, 2023. The branch was closed for Passover. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

No immediate claim of responsibility; 2 injured by shrapnel

34 rockets fired from Lebanon at Israel in worst barrage in years; Hamas blamed

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Hezbollah had earlier stated support for Palestinians amid unrest at Al-Aqsa Mosque, but is said to deny involvement in assault, which comes as Israelis celebrate Passover

Police clash with rioters in Umm al-Fahm as violence at Al-Aqsa Mosque spreads

Police clashed late Wednesday with residents of the northern Arab Israeli city of Umm al-Fahm, in a spillover of violent tensions at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque. The rioting came as clashes erupted at the mosque for a second straight night and Palestinians terrorists in the Gaza Strip again fired rockets toward Israel, further stoking... Continue Reading

In this screenshot of video from social media, rioters burn tires in the northern Arab Israeli city of Umm al-Fahm, April 6, 2023. (Screenshot/Twitter; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli security forces remove Palestinian Muslim worshipers sitting on the grounds of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, early on April 5, 2023. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

UN Security Council to meet on Jerusalem violence in 4th emergency session in months

Border Police stand guard outside the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City during clashes with Palestinians, on April 5, 2023. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Violent clashes break out at Al-Aqsa, 2 rockets fired from Gaza as tensions soar

Dozens skirmish with officers at flashpoint mosque for 2nd straight night; projectile lands in open territory near Gaza fence; riots erupt near border and in northern Israeli city

Illustrative: Rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip toward Israel, November 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Gaza terrorists fire salvo of anti-aircraft missiles, triggering sirens in Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) convenes the first meeting of his new government's security cabinet in Tel Aviv on January 5, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Security cabinet expected to meet following clashes at Al-Aqsa Mosque, Gaza rockets

IDF does damage control after military chief says ties with US ‘not essential’

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi said Wednesday that while security cooperation with the US is beneficial, it is not "essential" and Israel knows how to act on its own. "Israel knows how to work alone in the face of any security challenge, but it is good to see the US by our... Continue Reading

This handout photo from March 3, 2023, shows IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, left, meeting with visiting Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. (Israel Defense Forces)

Analysis

Is Netanyahu’s government botching the Abraham Accords?

Nearly three decades ago, 5,000 guests gathered in the Arava Valley near the border with Jordan to witness what they were sure would be the start of a warm peace. With US president Bill Clinton looking on, Israeli and Jordanian girls presented bouquets to Jordan's King Hussein and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. "This is peace with... Continue Reading

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu, left, Religious Zionism party head Bezalel Smotrich and other party leaders in a group photo after the swearing-in of the 25th Knesset, November 15, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Reza Ameri, Iran's new ambassador to the United Arab Emirates. (Wikipedia; CC BY-SA 4.0)

Iran names envoy to UAE after nearly eight-year absence as ties thaw

By AFP

The four sons as depicted in a Haggadah distributed by the IDF to its officers, April, 2023 (via Or Heller, Twitter)

IDF Passover Haggadah depicts ‘evil son’ as secular, other three boys as religious

Commentary in religious book distributed to officers for holiday says God sometimes ‘allows our enemies to attack us so that we’re inspired to repent’

The four strong women of the Pesach story

The annihilation of the Israelite children was defeated by Shifra, Puah, Pharoah’s daughter and Miriam – and the moral compass they shared

Because of this government, I’m eating hametz

I am appalled at the idea of forcing ill people to bow to religious laws that they may or may not share, at a time when they are at their most vulnerable

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Sinking in polls, Netanyahu belatedly bids to take control of his chaotic coalition

It’s one of the recurring ironies of Israeli politics: Nothing stabilizes a teetering government or parliamentary coalition more effectively than declining poll numbers. Since the Netanyahu government's swearing-in on December 29, the country has seemed to lurch from one dramatic crisis to another. The defense minister was fired but continues to serve; the security cabinet... Continue Reading

Israelis protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, March 18, 2023. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Interview

US envoy Lipstadt: Antisemitism won’t disappear, but we have the power to address it

In an op-ed published Wednesday for Passover, US President Joe Biden laid out his administration's approach to combating antisemitism. "Under my presidency, we continue to condemn antisemitism at every turn. Failure to call out hate is complicity. Silence is complicity. And we will not be silent," he wrote on CNN's website. Biden touted his decision to... Continue Reading

Illustrative: US Special Envoy to Combat and Monitor Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt speaks at a conference focused on bans on ritual slaughter that have been proposed and approved in European countries in Brussels on October 20, 2022. (US State Department)

US President Joe Biden listens to a reporter's question during a meeting with the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in the State Dining Room of the White House, April 4, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden vows antisemitism fight in Passover message: ‘We see this evil across society’

'Anne Frank, the Graphic Diary' (Ari Folman)

Florida high school removes graphic novel adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary

By Andrew Lapin

Interception tests of the David's Sling Aerial Defense System on March 19, 2019. (Defense Ministry)

Eyeing Moscow, Finland to purchase Israeli David’s Sling anti-missile system

By ToI Staff and AP

Deal worth $344 million announced a day after Nordic country joins NATO, dramatically expanding the military alliance’s border with Russia

Guests at a seder in Kyiv, Ukraine, including many families from heavily damaged Kharkiv, sit around the seder table on the first night of Passover, April 5, 2023. (Marcel Gascon Barbera/JTA)

Passover takes on special resonance for Ukraine Jews as seders held amid new normal

By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ

Describing holiday as ‘a story of going through trauma,’ rabbi in Kyiv calls to ‘learn from the story… and connect it to today so we learn the lessons of hope and rehabilitation’

Illustrative: A police officer guards an area in front of the Iranian Embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan, Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Aziz Karimov)

Azerbaijan arrests six radical Islamists over ‘coup plot’ blamed on Iran

By AFP and ToI Staff

Baku says men were trained by Iranian secret service and hoped to overthrow the government, set up a Sharia state

In this picture released by the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, right, meets with his Saudi Arabian counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud in Beijing, April 6, 2023. (Iranian Foreign Ministry via AP)

Iran, Saudi foreign ministers meet in China, vow to restore ‘security and stability’

By AFP

Legal group hails ruling as a 'milestone'

US federal probe finds University of Vermont mishandled antisemitism allegations

A federal investigation found that the University of Vermont mishandled allegations of antisemitism on its campus, the US Department of Education said Monday, the first time the Biden administration issued such a ruling against harassment of Jewish college students. The state’s flagship public university in Burlington, also known... Continue Reading

Illustrative: The campus of the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont, March 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Veteran journalist John Ware in front of the mural at Cable Street depicting the famous 'battle' that took place there in 1936 against Oswald Mosley’s fascists as they marched through the heavily-Jewish East End of London. (Courtesy)

InterviewThe Corbynites are on a losing streak, with bills of £5.6 m.

After backlash for exposing UK Labour antisemitism, how John Ware won back his name

By Robert Philpot

Following his 2019 segment on BBC’s ‘Panorama,’ veteran journalist has gone to court to prevent Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters from sweeping their party’s problems under the rug

Analysis

ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, Colleen Long and Jennifer Peltz

The murky legal issues behind the Trump hush money charges

NEW YORK (AP) — The cover-up is worse than the crime, the expression goes. And in the hush money case against Donald Trump, prosecutors say the cover-up made the crime worse. In an indictment and other documents unsealed Tuesday, prosecutors say Trump falsified internal business records at his company about a payoff to a porn actor in order to keep... Continue Reading

Former US president Donald Trump appears in court for his arraignment, Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Steven Hirsch via Pool)

Former President Donald Trump arrives to speak at his Mar-a-Lago estate hours after being arraigned in New York City, Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Possible Trump trial plunges US 2024 race into uncharted territory

By Sebastian Smith

Hanno Koffler as Hans Fittko, Deleila Piasko as Lisa Fittko, Cory Michael Smith as Varian Fry and Amit Rahav as Thomas Lovegrove in "Transatlantic." (Anika Molnar/Netflix via JTA)

The Jewish history behind the WWII rescue that inspired Netflix’s ‘Transatlantic’

By Shira Li Bartov

More Headlines

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is escorted by officers from the Lefortovsky court to a bus, in Moscow, Russia, March 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Blinken says he has ‘no doubt’ WSJ reporter ‘wrongfully detained’ by Russia

The scene of a collision between a truck and two private vehicles on Route 60 in the northern West Bank, April 5, 2023. (Magen David Adom)

Man killed, three lightly hurt as two cars and truck collide in West Bank

By Michael Horovitz

Illustrative: An ambulance at the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem, on November 5, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

4-year-old drowns in pool, hours before start of Passover

By Michael Horovitz

Illustrative: The Passover Seder plate, as shown in this March 8th, 2007 photo, is a special plate containing symbolic foods used by Jews during the Passover Seder. The items include (from top center): horseradish; a shank bone; a mixture of fruit, wine and nuts called haroset; lettuce, parsley and an egg. (AP Photo/Dan Goodman)

Episcopalian bishop of Missouri bans Christian Passover seders in diocese

The wooden coffin of Pharaoh Ramses II is on display Thursday, April 6, 2023 in Paris. An exhibition with 181 objects from the Kingdom of Pharaoh Ramses II opens Friday at La Grande Halle de La Villette in Paris.(AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

Photo EssaySarcophagus of Ramses II, possible pharaoh of Exodus, unveiled in Paris

By AFP

Alex Edelman has embarked on several Jewish comedy projects during the pandemic. (Will Bremridge)

Kvelling outAlex Edelman’s very Jewish show ‘Just For Us’ heads to Broadway

By julia GERGELY

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