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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 13, 2023

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Soldiers killed fighting against Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip on December 12, 2023: Top: L-R: Maj. Roei Meldasi, Lt. Col. Tomer Grinberg, Sgt. Achia Daskal, Maj. Moshe Avram Bar On, Cpt. Liel Hayo; bottom: Staff Sgt. Oriya Yaakov, Sgt. First Class Rom Hecht, Maj. Ben Shelly, Sgt. Eran Aloni, and Col. Itzhak Ben Basat. (Courtesy; combo image: Times of Israel)

Col. Itzhak Ben Basat highest-ranking officer to fall

Ten soldiers, including two senior officers, killed in Gaza fighting and deadly ambush

By Emanuel Fabian

9 troops of Golani Brigade, Air Force’s Unit 669, killed in one of the deadliest incidents of ground offensive so far, taking toll to 115; combat engineer killed in separate clash

President Joe Biden meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York, September 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden: ‘Indiscriminate’ bombing costing Israel support, Netanyahu ‘has to change’

President says Ben Gvir, far-right shackling PM, who must strengthen PA; vows to help Israel ‘finish the job’ against Hamas ‘animals’; IDF: We distinguish between Hamas and civilians

Israeli troops stand near a crater caused by an airstrike, as smoke rises from Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip, December 7, 2023. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

UAE: ‘Viable two-state solution plan’ needed before we commit to rebuilding Gaza

President Joe Biden listens to a question from a reporter during a news conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden campaign speechFull text of Biden remarks on Bibi, Ben Gvir and ‘bringing Israel together’

Families of hostages held in Gaza march to the Prime Minister's Office and the Knesset in Jerusalem on December 12, 2023, demanding a resumption of negotiations (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Families of Gaza hostages march on the Knesset, demand return to negotiating table

By Jessica Steinberg

Relatives say they know price will be high for releasing remaining 135 hostages, but say they want the government ‘to be brave in their decisions’

A projected image of a hostage held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip in London, before it was taken down by an advertising company due to threats, from a Channel 12 news report, December 12, 2023. (Channel 12 screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Advertising firm pulls hostage images screened across London due to threats

By Michael Horovitz

An aerial picture from October 10, 2023, shows the abandoned site of the Supernova music festival, near Kibbutz Re'im, where some 360 people were killed in Hamas's brutal October 7 onslaught. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Alleging government mishandling, families of rave massacre victims demand answers

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IDF retrieves bodies of two hostages from Gaza: Eden Zacharia and Ziv Dado

By Emanuel Fabian

The Israel Defense Forces announced Tuesday that it had recovered the bodies of civilian Eden Zacharia and IDF Warrant Officer Ziv Dado, who were taken hostage by Hamas on October 7. The operation to recover the bodies from the Gaza Strip was carried out by the Military Intelligence... Continue Reading

Eden Zacharia and IDF Warrant Officer Ziv Dado. (Courtesy/IDF)

Illustrative: Family and friends of Israeli soldier St.-Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Zvika Lavi mourn at his funeral at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on December 12, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 13: Day 68 – Daring Gaza rescue missions with tragic consequences

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Dec. 13: Biden aide says Israel taking steps to protect civilians that even US might not have

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

US president meets hostages’ families, says working to free them * Authorities: Hostages Tal Chaimi, Joshua Mollel are dead * Hamas’s Haniyeh voices openness to talks on ending war

10:02 pm

Biden aide: Israel taking steps to protect civilians that even US might not have done
9:55 pm

PMO says US's Sullivan to meet Netanyahu, Herzog, war cabinet members during visit
9:50 pm

Hadassah to ICRC chief: Your Israel visit 'meaningless' if you don't meet hostages in Gaza

Did Israel really separate Palestinian mothers from their babies?

The Washington Post said so, which means its reporters did their due diligence, right? But they didn’t

Antisemitism at Rice University is not just real, it’s prevalent

I’ve been a professor here for 30 years and discovering how mainstream the double standard is has been a rude awakening

A new Anne Frank moment

Jewish educators must teach our youth to be confident and competent in their Jewish selves and in how they relate to Israel

If we can avoid war, shouldn’t we?

We are the simple people on the frontlines against evil, fighting for humanity. That is why we fight

Hamas used toxic substance to kill Nahal Oz troops on Oct. 7, IDF probe said to show

An investigation into the nature of the deaths of IDF surveillance soldiers serving on the Nahal Oz base on October 7 has reportedly revealed that they were killed by a toxic gas that caused suffocation and loss of consciousness within a few minutes of exposure. According to a... Continue Reading

A mural is seen outside an IDF surveillance command center at the Re'im base. The text reads: 'The flowers will continue to bloom.' November 5, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

A screenshot from a Wall Street Journal video analysis aired on December 12, 2023, showing images from annual drills by Gazan terror groups next to similar images from Hamas's October 7 onslaught in southern Israel. (Screenshot: Wall Street Journal)

Video analysis shows Hamas drills featured similar tactics to those used on Oct. 7

Illustrative: Sharon Hospital in Petah Tikva (screenshot: YouTube)

Hamas terrorist wounded in Gaza being treated in Israeli hospital — reports

A Hamas tunnel discovered by IDF troops in northern Gaza's Salatin, close to Jabaliya, December 7, 2023. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Report: IDF has begun pumping seawater into Hamas tunnels in Gaza

Wall Street Journal says tactic still at early stage and being evaluated; IDF chief has said it’s ‘a good idea,’ but environmentalists and some US officials have voiced concern

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan holds up a Hamas phone number during the UN General Assembly vote on a non-binding resolution demanding "an immediate humanitarian ceasefire" in Gaza, at UN headquarters in New York, on December 12, 2023. (Angela Weiss/AFP)

UN General Assembly overwhelmingly passes nonbinding motion demanding Gaza ceasefire

By Agencies and ToI Staff

153 vote in favor of resolution; Israel, US and just 8 others oppose it; Israeli envoy displays phone number of Hamas offices in Strip: Call Sinwar when you want ‘real’ truce

Left to right: CNN's Becky Anderson, Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, UN General Assembly President Dennis Francis, PA Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh and Jordan Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ayman Safadi attend the panel discussion 'What Now for the Middle East' during the Doha Forum in the Qatari capital on December 10, 2023. (Salim Matramkot/AFP)

Arab leaders reject international force in post-war Gaza, but offer no alternative

By AFP and ToI Staff

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers a speech during a plenary session at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, on December 13, 2023. (Frederick Florin/AFP)

EU chief says she backs imposing sanctions on Israeli extremists in West Bank

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, leads a cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on December 10, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu draws outcry for quote equating Oct. 7 toll to Oslo Accords deaths

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

After criticism by opposition and MK in his party, PM says notion of PA ruling Gaza after war is as dangerous as was bringing PLO officials from Tunisia under 1990s accords

Tempers flare during a hearing of the Knesset Finance Committee, December 12, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Additional budget funds for financing Gaza war approved for final Knesset votes

By Jeremy Sharon

Harvard says president will keep job despite backlash over antisemitism comments

By AP and JTA

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — Harvard President Claudine Gay will remain leader of the prestigious Ivy League school following her comments last week at a congressional hearing on antisemitism, the university's highest governing body announced Tuesday. "Our extensive deliberations affirm our confidence that President Gay is the right leader to help our community heal and... Continue Reading

Harvard President Claudine Gay, left, speaks as University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill listens, during a hearing of the House Committee on Education on Capitol Hill, December 5, 2023 in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

A screen capture from an 'Eretz Nehederet' video featuring US actor Michael Rapaport. (Screenshot, 'Eretz Nehederet', used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Michael and the mudbloodsMichael Rapaport in Israeli TV skit satirizing US college antisemitism

In this video shared by the Daily Targum on November 8, 2023, Students for Justice in Palestine hold a rally at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. (YouTube screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Rutgers suspends Students for Justice in Palestine for violating university policies

By Andrew Lapin

Michal David holds the tip of a quill as Rabbi David Avraham writes the initials of her five grandchildren in a Torah scroll in Tel Aviv, Israel on November 27, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook304,805 letters means 304,805 opportunities for a mitzvah

October 7 massacre spurs massive Torah scroll writing project

By Canaan Lidor

Thousands of Israeli Jews, including President Isaac Herzog, fill in letters on parchment to commemorate the 1, 200 dead and raise awareness for the 138 hostages still in captivity

Screen capture from video of Polish ultra far-right lawmaker Grzegorz Braun from Confederation (Konfederacja) using a fire extinguisher to put out a Hanukkah menorah placed in the parliament lobby, Warsaw, Poland, on December 12, 2023. (TVN24/AFP)

Far-right Polish lawmaker extinguishes Hanukkah candles in parliament

By AP and ToI Staff

Grzegorz Braun, who claims there’s a plot to turn Poland into a ‘Jewish state,’ calls candle lighting ‘satanic worship’; parliament cuts his salary as penalty

Turkish lawmaker Hasan Bitmez (C) lies on the floor after collapsing whilst delivering a speech in the Turkish Grand National Assembly in Ankara on December 12, 2023. (Adem Altan/AFP)

Turkish MP has heart attack moments after saying Israel will ‘suffer Allah’s wrath’

Analysis

Gianluca Pacchiani

Unrecognized Bedouin village gets its first-ever rocket shelter, as war rages

A bulky concrete box with walls 30 centimeters (1 foot) thick was placed at the entrance of Umm al-Hiran last week, the first public rocket shelter provided to this desert hamlet of 200 people. Until now, residents of the unrecognized Bedouin village, located next to Hura, east of the Negev’s capital Beersheba, had no adequate... Continue Reading

Bedouin volunteers paint a concrete rocket shelter installed the day before in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm al-Khiran, southern Israel, on December 7, 2023. (Gianluca Pacchiani/Times of Israel)

Ilan Evyatar (left) and Yonah Jeremy Bob (right) are the authors of 'Target Tehran.' (Courtesy)

Author interviewsIsrael has so far averted 27 attacks by Iran against Israelis

Israel’s (not-so) secret plan to prevent a nuclear Iran and create a new Middle East

By JP O’ Malley

For their new book ‘Target Tehran,’ Ilan Evyatar and Yonah Jeremy Bob interview spymasters, prime ministers and US officials on the shadowy means used to stop an existential threat

Archaeologists remove the swords from the rock crevice where they were hidden some 1,900 years ago in a cave in the Judean Desert. (Emil Aladjem/IAA)

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Swords found in Judean Desert caves ranked as most exciting archaeology story of 2023

By Gavriel Fiske

National Geographic gives top slot to discovery of 1,900-year-old, remarkably preserved Roman blades, likely cached by Bar Kochba rebels in one of 800 caves near Dead Sea

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Rabbi Tzvi Grunblatt (L) and Argentina's President Javier Milei (2-R) gesture before lighting a giant menorah for Hanukkah, in Buenos Aires on December 12, 2023. (Juan Mabromata/AFP)

Lighting menorah, Argentina’s new president says ‘forces of heaven’ will back Israel

By AFP

Israel's players sing their national anthem ahead of the 2022 Qatar World Cup Asian Qualifiers football match between Israel and Moldova, at the Turner Stadium in the Israeli southern city of Beersheba, on October 12, 2021. (Jack Guez/AFP, File)

Puma ends Israel soccer team sponsorship; Zara cancels ad campaign

Heavy smoke rises from a large tank belonging to the Europe Asia Pipeline Company, after being hit by a rocket on May 12, 2021, near Ashkelon. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Think tank: Give state environmental bodies more power and funds during war

Houthi soldiers stand guard on a missile carrier during a military parade on September 21, 2023. (MOHAMMED HUWAIS / AFP)

Houthis fire two missiles at jet fuel tanker in Red Sea; US warship downs drone

Illustration: A tired car driver. (Photo: iStock)

Backed by Volvo, Israeli driver safety startup nabs $7.25 million in fresh capital

By Sharon Wrobel

Crowds of people shop in an open-air market in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis on November 28, 2023. (Mohammed Abed/ AFP)

World Bank warns war causing ‘unparalleled’ damage to Palestinian economy

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Supreme Court building, Jerusalem (original image via iStock, composite image by The Times of Israel)

Non-Orthodox converts to Judaism eligible for free circumcision, High Court rules

By Canaan Lidor

Workers of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) agency talk together in the playground of an UNRWA-run school that has been converted into a shelter for displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 25, 2023. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Swiss parliament votes to cut funding for UNRWA amid incitement allegations

'Bitter Moments of Grace' by Matan Ben Cnaan, part of the Nassima-Landau art auction set for December 13, 2023. (Courtesy: Elad Sarig)

The art of warArt auction seeks to aid kibbutz gallery, Gaza border teens

By Jessica Steinberg

File: Kanye West watches an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles, January 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Kanye West to debut new album featuring top artists, antisemitic lyrics

By Gabe Friedman

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