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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 7, 2023

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Palestinians displaced by the Israeli ground offensive on the Gaza Strip set up a tent camp in the al-Mawasi area Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 7: Biden official says US hasn’t given Israel deadline for end of Gaza military op

By Jacob Magid, ToI Staff and Ricky Ben-David

IDF: Hamas firing rockets from humanitarian zones * Police prevent far-right march in Jerusalem * WHO director: Gaza health system ‘on its knees’ * IDF ground op toll at 87

9:46 pm

Two soldiers lightly hurt in Hezbollah anti-tank missile attack; IDF hits terror group's posts in response
9:44 pm

Jon Finer: 'Aspects of IDF campaign in north didn't show sufficient care for civilian life'
9:31 pm

Thought to have been among the hostages, kibbutz says resident Dror Kaplun was murdered on Oct. 7

Harvard president Claudine Gay, left, and University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill listen during a hearing of the House Committee on Education on Capitol Hill, Dec. 5, 2023 in Washington. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)

Yad Vashem: Holocaust began with antisemitic rhetoric, actions

Heads of Harvard, Penn condemn Jewish genocide calls after appearing to condone speech

By ToI Staff and JTA

University presidents had refused to say calling for genocide of Jews is harassment on their campuses at House hearing, drawing anger; White House and Holocaust museums join outcry

US President Joe Biden delivers remarks urging Congress to pass his national security supplement request, which includes funding to support Ukraine and Israel, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on December 6, 2023. (Mandel NGAN / AFP)

Senate Republicans block aid for Israel and Ukraine, demand border policy changes

US President Joe Biden in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023 (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Democratic support for Biden ticks upward over handling of Israel-Hamas war — poll

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and Linley Sanders

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid that entered the Gaza Strip via the Rafah crossing with Egypt before the end of a 7-day cease fire, wait at the border before being unloaded on December 1, 2023. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Following US pressure, Israel approves increase of fuel deliveries to Gaza

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Netanyahu’s office says ‘minimal supplement of fuel’ will be allowed into Hamas -run enclave ‘to prevent a humanitarian collapse’ and outbreak of disease

A picture of Hersh Goldberg-Polin at a memorial for those killed and kidnapped from the Nova festival, November 28, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US Justice Department investigating slayings, kidnappings of Americans on October 7

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Demonstrators in support of Israel gather to denounce antisemitism and call for the release of hostages from Gaza on the National Mall in Washington, DC, on November 14, 2023. (Stefani Reynolds / AFP)

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Israeli FM accuses UN head of backing Hamas after he uses rare clause to urge truce

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israel's foreign minister accused United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres of supporting Palestinian terror group Hamas, called for his resignation, and said his tenure as head of the world body was "a danger to world peace," in a furious reaction on Wednesday to a letter Guterres wrote pressing... Continue Reading

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during an interview at the United Nations headquarters ahead of the COP28 meeting in New York, November 29, 2023. (Andrea RENAULT / AFP)

Video purporting to show Gazan civilians ransacking supplies stockpiled by UNRWA in early December, 2023. (Screenshot/X)

Video said to show desperate Gazans ransacking UNRWA supplies stockpile

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Displaced Palestinians who fled Khan Younis set up camp in Rafah further south near the Gaza Strip's border with Egypt, on December 6, 2023. (MAHMOUD HAMS / AFP)

IDF says Hamas firing rockets from Gaza safe zones as civilian scramble for shelter

By Emanuel Fabian and Jacob Magid

Military says terror group launched projectiles from next to tents housing civilians; troops push further into Khan Younis, Jabaliya; 5 soldiers killed, taking ground op toll to 89

Palestinians displaced by the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip set up a tent camp in Rafah on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

Israeli TV: Gaza residents increasingly directing anger at Hamas over war

IDF troops operate inside Gaza, in this handout photo released on December 6, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF troops fight in central Khan Younis as Netanyahu says Israel closing in on Sinwar

By Emanuel Fabian

Op-ed: Day 61 of the war

Why Israel, which wanted to think it was done with Gaza, sees this as a war of no choice

This Editor’s Note was sent out earlier Wednesday in ToI’s weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel Community. To receive these Editor’s Notes as they’re released, join the ToI Community here. In the summer of 2005, Israel ended its rule over Gaza. Amid intense national discord, the IDF dismantled the 21 settlements Israel... Continue Reading

Palestinian terrorists of the Islamic Jihad movement participate in an anti-Israel military parade marking the 36th anniversary of the movement's foundation in Gaza City, October 4, 2023. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Hamas conned Israel into complacency by passing intel on Islamic Jihad — report

Interview'We seek a political solution, not just a security one'

Abbas denouncing Hamas, but criticism kept private due to IDF ‘aggression’ – top aide

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has been condemning Hamas in "every call and meeting" he's held with world leaders since the group's October 7 shock attack on Israel but will not do so publicly while the war in Gaza is ongoing, a top adviser to the PA leader... Continue Reading

An undated image of Palestinian Authority presidential adviser Mahmoud Habbash. (Mahmoud Habbash/Facebook)

Alex Povolotsky, an activist with the Jordan Valley Activists group, bleeds profusely after being assaulted, allegedly by extremist settlers, in the Palestinian hamlet of Farasiya in the West Bank, December 4, 2023. (Courtesy Jordan Valley Activists)

Activist assaulted protecting Palestinian herders says he feared for his life

By Jeremy Sharon

Israelis put up posters of the those held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at 'Hostage Square' in Tel Aviv, December 6, 2023. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Urging deal, hostages’ families tell war cabinet some are facing death

In letter, forum for relatives of abductees says it has evidence some captives’ lives are in ‘immediate danger,’ implores swift exchange deal to save all those held

Israelis put up posters of the civilians held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at 'Hostage Square' in Tel Aviv, December 6, 2023. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec 7: Day 62 – Doctor finds freed hostages were sexually abused in Gaza

Mia Leimberg and her dog Bella who were released from Hamas captivity, at their home in Jerusalem, December 3, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Teen freed with dog says pooch escaped captors’ notice, provided support in Gaza

By AFP and ToI Staff

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Between the world and us, we place a light

Hanukkah is a time of turning outward, a time to show the world the humanity and courage of our people

What kind of ‘Justice for Palestine’?

By drawing no distinction between the West Bank and Israel, SJP turns every Israeli civilian into a target for violence

Elana Stein Hain

Hanukkah as the messy middle

This year, the most powerful lessons can be found in the holiday’s partial victories, flawed heroes and internal strife

Washington Post, stop whitewashing CAIR

The Council on American-Islamic Relations is far from a benign civil rights group – it’s a proven friend to Hamas

Long time Kahanist political operative Baruch Marzel speaks at the launch of the far-right 'Otzma Yehudit' party campaign, ahead of the Israeli elections, in Jerusalem on February 15, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)

Far-right groups plan march through Jerusalem Old City’s Muslim Quarter Thursday

By Jeremy Sharon

Concerns have been raised that march organized by ultranationalists could spark unrest in capital and anger Arab Israeli community

The USS Carney in the Mediterranean Sea, on November 12, 2018. (Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Ryan U. Kledzik/ US Navy via AP)

US said to tell Israel it will handle Houthi attacks, but is eschewing strikes for now

By ToI Staff and AP

Washington reportedly worried Israeli action against Iran-backed Yemeni rebels could ignite broader conflict amid ongoing war against Hamas

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant meets with mayors and local council heads of northern border towns in Nahariya on December 6, 2023. (Ariel Hermoni/ Defense Ministry)

Gallant: Residents of northern border towns won’t return before Hezbollah pushed away

File - Labor Party chair MK Merav Michaeli announces that she will step down from the party leadership, at a press conference in Tel Aviv, December 7, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Assailed for left’s Knesset woes, Michaeli says she will step down as Labor chief

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Party head announces leadership primary to replace her within months, plans to leave politics once Knesset term ends, without offering explanation or heads-up to fellow lawmakers

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich presents his 2023 wartime budget update to the Knesset, December 6, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset advances NIS 30 billion in new wartime funds, over intra-coalition objections

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

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‘Life under Hamas is like under ISIS,’ says Syria-born journalist deported from Gaza

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Manar al-Sharif, a Syrian journalist, in a virtual meeting between Gazans and Americans during Ramadan 2019, Gaza City. (courtesy)

Col. Asaf Hamami, the commander of the Gaza Division's southern brigade who was killed on October 7, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Report: Terrorists on Oct. 7 had photo of brigade chief, indicating they targeted him

Female soldiers during training, in an undated photography published by the military on June 7, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF sees surge in female conscripts seeking combat roles since start of war with Hamas

By Emanuel Fabian

Massive rise in women asking to join border defense, artillery, border police, search and rescue and other units; in first, two women pass selection for elite 669 rescue unit

Roof tile fragments discovered at the Givati Parking Lot Excavation. (Photo by Eliyahu Yannai, City of David National Park)

Archaeology

Gimme shelter: Ceramic roof tiles cast light on Greek presence in Hanukkah-era Jerusalem

By Yaakov Schwartz

Adding context to the Maccabean Revolt, City of David excavations turn up the earliest evidence of such tiles in the Land of Israel, which will be on display to the public Dec. 11

A woman walks past a menorah standing outside a Jewish synagogue ahead of the start of Hanukkah, in Miami Beach, Florida, December 1, 2023. (Rebecca Blackwell/AP)

Hanukkah theme of light shines hope for Florida Jews during Israel-Hamas war

A composite of artist John Singer Sargent, circa 1910, (Sidney Robert Carter/ Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) and his portrait of Lady Sassoon (Aline de Rothschild) 1907 (Private collection/ Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).

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Works of John Singer Sargent, portrayer of Britain’s Jewish elite, on display in Boston

By Penny Schwartz

Artist’s opulent and playful paintings can be seen at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, which inaugurates its new Judaica gallery for Hanukkah, December 7

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An illustrative photo of the Tel Aviv financial business district skyline. (Elijah Lovkoff via iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli tech exits slump 56% in 2023, deal flow drops to lowest level in a decade

By Sharon Wrobel

Rep. Jamaal Bowman from left, speaks alongside, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Rep. Jonathan Jackson and Rep. Cori Bush during a vigil with state legislators and faith leaders currently on hunger strike outside the White House to demand that US President Joe Biden call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza on November 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)

Bowman faces US Congress challenge after drawing fire over stance on Israel-Hamas war

Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gives an opening speech during the 39th session of the Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (COMCEC), in Istanbul, Turkey, December 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Erdogan warns Israel of ‘very heavy price’ if Hamas members harmed on Turkish soil

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative image of people working in finance (via Shutterstock)

Fintech startup Pontera raises $60m to expand workforce in Israel

By Sharon Wrobel

A photo of the outside of the Mount Ebal curse tablet (courtesy Pieter Gert van der Veen)

New academic articles heap fresh doubt on Mount Ebal ‘curse tablet’ interpretation

By Gavriel Fiske

Illustrative. An agronomist with equipment to measure the wind speed, temperature, humidity, and solar cell system in a field of grapevines. (Kinwun, iStock by Getty Images)

Climate tech investments down 60% during first half of 2023

View of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange on November 29, 2020. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90/ File)

Israeli regulator finds no ‘suspicious’ or abnormal trading ahead of Hamas assault

By Sharon Wrobel

Legendary TV writer and producer Norman Lear has died at the age of 101. (Courtesy)

ObituaryNorman Lear, Jewish creator of pioneering TV comedies, dies at 101

By Andrew Lapin

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