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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 14, 2023

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US President Joe Biden speaks about lowering prescription drug costs at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, on December 14, 2023. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 14: Biden urges Israel to ‘be more careful’ with civilians while pursuing Hamas

By Ricky Ben-David and Michael Bachner

Sullivan urged PM to wrap up ‘high intensity’ fighting within weeks, officials say * 8 soldiers seriously hurt in Gaza * Ground op toll: 116 * IDF: 70 Hamas gunmen surrender

9:16 pm

Sullivan: Israel's bombings in Gaza must 'match its intent' to protect civilians; revamped PA should ultimately rule
9:15 pm

Biden urges Israel to 'be more careful' to save Gaza lives
8:53 pm

Erdogan says US has 'historic responsibility' to ensure Gaza ceasefire

Biden: I'll keep doing everything possible; won't give up hope

Biden meets families of hostages at White House, they plead for ‘Christmas miracle’

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Jonathan Dekel-Chen, whose son Sagui is held by Hamas, says after the meeting he thinks US is ‘completely committed to gaining the release of all the hostages’

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. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Families of hostages demand ‘urgent update’ from PM after report on no new talks

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center left) and Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Tel Aviv after talks on October 16, 2023 ((Haim Zach / GPO)

ExplainerThe debate over what should happen in Gaza after the war, explained

By Ron Kampeas and ToI Staff

Palestinians wave Hamas flags as they celebrate the release of Palestinian prisoners in Nablus in the West Bank, Nov. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

90% say PA leader Abbas should resign

Poll shows soaring Palestinian support for Hamas; 72% back October 7 atrocities

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Survey of 1,231 Palestinians, conducted largely during recent truce, shows 44% in West Bank support Hamas, up from 12% in September, while 42% in Gaza back group, rising from 38%

Hamas politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh makes a televised address on December 13, 2023. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Haniyeh floats idea of negotiations, says postwar Gaza without Hamas a ‘delusion’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits a detention facility in southern Israel where Hamas operatives detained in the Gaza Strip are being questioned by the IDF's 504 human intelligence unit, December 13, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Israeli leaders: War to go on until Hamas defeated, ‘with or without’ world’s approval

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

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US President Joe Biden, left, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, to discuss the the war between Israel and Hamas, in Tel Aviv, on October 18, 2023. (Miriam Alster/ Pool Photo via AP)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on December 10, 2023. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool/AFP)

Netanyahu reported to huddle with political advisers, seeks to poach Sa’ar

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby wears a necklace with the 'Bring Them Home-Now' message to release the hostages in Hebrew and English as he speaks at a press briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

Kirby dons 'Bring them home now' hostage necklace

Biden aide: Israel taking steps to protect civilians that even US might not have

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Kirby appears to soften critique of Israel after president decries ‘indiscriminate’ bombing; notes Israel ‘telegraphing its punches’ with evacuation map in south Gaza

Palestinians walk under the rain at a camp for displaced people in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip where most civilians have taken refuge amid the Israel-Hamas war, on December 13, 2023. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Winter rains exacerbate suffering of Gazans displaced by Israel-Hamas war

Fighting for the bodies of our children

We must remember that the real tragedy is death itself and lives should never be risked to recover bodies

Congressman Raskin: Find your moral conscience

The US Rep’s call to stop the operation in Gaza reveals a profound failure to appreciate Israel’s current existential crisis

My little league team has gone to war

As their coach, I glimpsed the kind of adults they could be. It’s no surprise they dropped everything to answer the call of duty

Arabs in Israel: More Israeli, more Palestinian

As they integrate into a state defining itself as Jewish, the need to assert their own distinct identity assumes new urgency

Interview: Day 69 of the war

How did we go so wrong: 13 questions for a former IDF intelligence chief

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Photographs of Kfir and Ariel Bibas, who are held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, seen on a menorah being lit by children at a kindergarden in Moshav Yashresh, central Israel, during Hanukkah, on December 12, 2023. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

From left to right: Joshua Mollel, a Tanzanian agricultural intern on Nahal Oz who was kidnapped on October 7, 2023, then murdered by Hamas-led terrorists in captivity. (Courtesy); Tal Chaimi (right), here with his wife Ella, was taken captive by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 from Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak. His family was told on December 13, 2023, that he was killed during the October 7 attack. (Courtesy)

Kibbutz resident Tal Chaimi, Tanzanian Joshua Mollel confirmed killed by Hamas

Illustrative: US antisemitism envoy Deborah Lipstadt on a tour of southern Israeli communities ravaged by the Hamas October 7 assault, December 13, 2023. (X/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Touring Be’eri, Lipstadt says world must ‘bear witness’ to the ‘horrors’ of Hamas

A family member whose father was murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, holds a menorah as he searches in the rubble of his home for memories, in Kibbutz Be’eri, November 30, 2023. (Chen Schimmel/Flash90)

'We find light even surrounded by ashes of destruction'

From Be’eri to DC, menorahs retrieved from the Oct. 7 wreckage light up for Hanukkah

By Jackie Hajdenberg

In the wake of the massacre, the war it launched and a rise in antisemitism, these candelabras lit in Israel, NYC’s Gracie Mansion and the White House have a special significance

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, alongside Justice Minister Yariv Levin, votes yes on the supplementary budget for 2023 to cover the costs of war with Hamas and Hezbollah, December 14, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

NIS 29 billion wartime budget boost passes, amid outcry over funds for non-war needs

By Jeremy Sharon

Infusion to cover war-related costs, but passage opens door for hundreds of millions in political earmarks; Gantz’s National Unity votes no; 2 Likud lawmakers refuse to back move

‘The best of the best’: Officers, soldiers killed in deadly Gaza ambush laid to rest

By Michael Horovitz

Top IDF brass attend funerals, with Col. Ben Basat, highest ranking officer killed in ground incursion, Lt. Col. Grinberg, head of Golani’s 13th battalion, among those laid to rest

Columbia University student Noa Fay speaks at the Washington, DC, March for Israel rally, November 14, 2023. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Interview'Talking publicly has made me feel empowered'

Barnard senior, a Black-Native American Jew, has some words for pro-Palestinian peers

By Cathryn J. Prince

As a Jew of Color raised in a kosher home, Columbia University student Noa Fay feels compelled to respond to groups accusing Israel of offenses such as colonialism and apartheid

Brown protesters arrested, Haverford students end sit-in as war tensions roil campuses

By Michael Rubinkam

Daily Briefing Dec. 14: Day 69 – Why American Jews are more afraid than Israelis

Seeking funds, White House to brief Jewish lawmakers on plan to combat antisemitism

Britain's Foreign Secretary David Cameron leaves from 10 Downing Street in central London on December 12, 2023, after attending a cabinet meeting. (Adrian Dennis/AFP)

UK slaps travel ban on settlers responsible for violence against Palestinians

By ToI Staff and Agencies

British FM David Cameron says violent settlers undermining security for both sides, urges Israel to take action, following same move by US; EU also mulling similar decision

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

File: Palestinians raise the flag of the Hamas terror group during a rally in the West Bank city of Hebron, on December 1, 2023. (Hazem Bader/AFP)

US, UK impose sanctions on more than a dozen Hamas fundraising officials

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Fire and smoke rises during an Israeli army operation in Jenin, West Bank, Wednesday, December 13, 2023. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

IDF continues 30-hour Jenin operation; 7 Palestinians said killed in fighting

By Emanuel Fabian

Hundreds detained, weapons seized and tunnels and war rooms raided; 4 soldiers hospitalized with minor injuries caused by shrapnel from controlled explosion

An IDF soldier sings from the imam's platform of a mosque in the West Bank city of Jenin, December 14, 2023. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF suspends several troops for singing Hanukkah songs into Jenin mosque loudspeakers

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Smoke billows after IDF shelling near the village of Tair Harfa (foreground) on the outskirts of the villages of Marwahin and al-Bustan in southern Lebanon near the border with northern Israel on December 13, 2023. (AFP)

Israel strikes Hezbollah in Lebanon in response to latest attacks on northern border

By Emanuel Fabian

Armed forces loyal to Yemen's Houthi rebels march through the streets of Sanaa in a show of solidarity with the Palestinians on October 15, 2023. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP)

Missile fired by Yemen’s Houthis misses container ship in Bab el-Mandeb Strait

By Jon Gambrell

Attack on Maersk Gibraltar, Hong Kong-flagged ship traveling from Oman to Saudi Arabia, is latest in series of seaborne assaults from Yemeni rebels amid Israel-Hamas war

This photo released by the Houthi Media Center shows Houthi forces boarding the cargo ship Galaxy Leader on November 19, 2023. (Houthi Media Center via AP)

ExplainerHow are Houthi seizures in the vital Red Sea shipping lane impacting global trade?

By COURTNEY BONNELL and David McHugh

Film reviewDespite the big schnoz, film doesn't probe Bernstein the Jew

Bradley Cooper’s ‘Maestro’ shows bravura, but reveals little about Leonard Bernstein

By Matt Goldberg

In select theaters now and out on Netflix Dec. 20, film is a technical masterpiece but rarely scratches below the surface, reserving its best insights for Bernstein’s wife Felicia

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Illustrative: Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his annual news conference in Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, December 14, 2023. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP/Pool)

Putin: ‘Catastrophe’ in Gaza incomparable with invasion of Ukraine

By AFP and ToI Staff

Samantha Woll, 40, of the Isaac Agree Downtown Detroit Synagogue. (Facebook)

Suspect charged with murder, home invasion in slaying of Detroit synagogue leader

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court, in Russia, December 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov)

Russian court upholds imprisonment of WSJ journalist Evan Gershkovich

By AP

Left: Roelef Bleker, mayor of the Dutch town of Enschede (Wilfried Brandsma/Wikimedia Commons). Right: Modi Ephraim, in Managua, Nicaragua, March 2017. (Courtesy: Foreign Ministry of Nicaragua)

Dutch mayor refuses to be photographed with Israeli ambassador at Hanukkah event

By Shira Li Bartov

File - Justice Minister Yariv Levin arrives at a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on December 10, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Justice minister delays meeting of politically fraught judge selection panel

By Jeremy Sharon

The US Embassy as seen from across the Tigris River in Baghdad, Iraq, in this file photo taken on January 3, 2020. (Khalid MohammedAP)

Iraqi PM’s office says some attackers of US embassy ‘linked to security services’

By AFP

Damage from alleged arson at a tent where families of Israelis killed and taken hostage on October 7 have been sleeping, near the Knesset, December 8, 2023 (Times of Israel)

Man suspected of torching hostage families’ tent due to anger over protest signs

An illustrative image of a merger and acquisition deal (designer491; iStock by Getty Images)

Israel M&A deal value hits 9-year low as Hamas war, judicial overhaul deter investors

By Sharon Wrobel

David Teeger is the captain of South Africa's under-19 national cricket team. (Screenshot from YouTube/The South African Jewish Report via JTA)

Rising South African cricket star who praised IDF cleared of hate speech allegations

By jacob gurvis

File: "Ritchie Boys" member Guy Stern speaks to the MPs as a guest in Parliament, Lower Saxony, Hanover, Germany, May 14, 2019. (Christophe Gateau/dpa via JTA)

ObituaryGuy Stern, who fled Nazis for US and served as WWII intel operative, dies at 101

By Andrew Lapin

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