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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 3, 2024

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Iranian emergency services arrive at the site where two explosions in quick succession struck a crowd marking the anniversary of the 2020 killing of Guards general Qasem Soleimani, near the Saheb al-Zaman Mosque in the southern Iranian city of Kerman on January 3, 2024. (MEHR NEWS / AFP)

Tehran vows revenge, claims Israel involved, without proof

Iran says at least 84 killed in ‘terror’ blasts near grave of slain general Soleimani

By Agencies and ToI Staff

At least 284 injured in explosions on 4th anniversary of killing of senior Revolutionary Guard terror chief; outlets say blasts caused by suicide bombers or remote detonation

Hamas deputy chief Saleh al-Arouri. (Courtesy)

Orchestrated terror attacks including 2014 murder of 3 teens

Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri killed in alleged Israeli strike in Beirut

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israel mum on blast at Hamas office in Dahiyeh suburb said to kill 7 including terror chief; all eyes on Hezbollah, which said it would respond to any targeting of Hamas in Lebanon

This file photo released by the Hamas Media Office shows deputy Saleh Arouri upon his arrival in in Gaza City from Cairo, Egypt, on August 2, 2018. (Mohammad Austaz/Hamas Media Office via AP)

Saleh al-Arouri: Mastermind of Hamas terrorism in West Bank, hostage deal negotiator

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Investigators stand in an apartment building where an alleged Israeli strike killed top Hamas terror chief Saleh Arouri, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, January 3, 2024. (AP/Hussein Malla)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 3: Day 89 – Who was West Bank Hamas terror head Saleh al-Arouri?

Smoke rises from a destroyed apartment as civil defense workers search for survivors following a massive explosion in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, that killed Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Aruori, January 2, 2024. (Bilal Hussein/AP)

Hezbollah vows revenge for a Hamas chief killed in Beirut; IDF ‘at very high readiness’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Haniyeh says Hamas ‘won’t be defeated’ after Saleh Arouri killed in precision strike blamed on Israel; Gaza-ruling terror group decries ‘cowardly assassination by the Zionist enemy’

File: Mossad Director David Barnea speaks during a Conference of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), in Tel Aviv, on September 10, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Mossad chief: Those who took part in Oct. 7 massacre signed their own death warrant

At funeral of Zvi Zamir, David Barnea says ex-spymaster’s spirit ‘will accompany us’ on mission to kill Hamas heads, likening it to Zamir’s hunt for 1972 Munich Massacre culprits

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, meets Hamas deputy chief, Saleh al-Arouri, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, July 22, 2019. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Op-ed

A Hamas chief’s killing, in a Hezbollah suburb, shows calculations remade post-Oct. 7

Wanted for years by Israel, terror orchestrator Saleh al-Arouri would have figured he was untouchable in Hezbollah’s Beirut stronghold. But no such assessments hold true anymore

Exclusive

Shalom Yerushalmi

Israel in talks with Congo and other countries on Gaza ‘voluntary migration’ plan

Senior official says Jerusalem working on postwar resettlement of Palestinians from Strip; some ministers tout Saudi Arabia as destination for Gazans seeking construction work

Illustrative -- Palestinians cross to the Egyptian side of the border crossing with the Gaza Strip in Rafah, Nov. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 3: Several Hezbollah members killed in Israeli strikes as erupting tensions roil border

By Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

Nasrallah threatens Israel over Arouri killing * US says Hamas still a force in Gaza, seeks to calm jitters over carrier departure * Justice minister says court harming unity

9:59 pm

Heavy fighting reported in Gaza
9:45 pm

Four Hezbollah members said killed as Israel strikes terror cell in southern Lebanon
9:18 pm

Top Lebanese diplomat says Beirut asking Hezbollah to avoid war

Safeguarding Israeli journalists

Among the first to view Hamas’s October 7 atrocities, reporters and photographers are now dealing with the trauma; Shomrim has a fund to help

Eliezer Finkelman

The fire hose and the trickle: Humanitarian aid to the population of Gaza

Hamas leaders explain that the terror organization elected to govern Gaza is not responsible for providing for anyone but its fighters

Jeremy M Staiman

A tin of love and cookies

Nothing compares to my mom’s recipe – given the chance, I even ate my brother’s portion. But I bet my sons serving in Gaza will share

The cracks in my plates

Since October 7, so much of who I am – my beliefs, my character, my values, my inner world – has become subject to change

Yahya Sinwar, head of Hamas in Gaza, greets his supporters upon his arrival at a meeting in a hall on the sea side of Gaza City, on April 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)

Expulsion of Hamas leaders from Gaza on the table, PM said to tell hostage families

By Michael Horovitz

Netanyahu reportedly says talks ongoing, terror group ‘eased’ conditions for deal; during meeting, representatives were unaware of killing of deputy Hamas chief

Workers and staff unload medical aid delivered by the International Committee of the Red Cross at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on December 9, 2023, amid continuing battles between Israel and Hamas. (AFP)

IDF, Shin Bet said to favor Palestinian clans temporarily administering Gaza

Outgoing Foreign Minister Eli Cohen (L) and his replacement Israel Katz shake hands at the ceremony in Jerusalem marking the handover, January 2, 2024. (Shlomi Amsalem/Foreign Ministry)

New Foreign Minister Israel Katz: My priority is bringing hostages home

By Lazar Berman

'Gaza is Palestinian land and will remain Palestinian land'

US slams ‘irresponsible’ calls by Smotrich and Ben Gvir for emigration of Gazans

State Dept issues rare, unprompted critique of ministers by name, days after Biden pressed PM to rein in far-right partners; Ben Gvir unfazed: ‘We are not another star in the US flag’

Religious Zionism party leader Bezalel Smotrich (right) and Otzma Yehudit party leader Itamar Ben Gvir at the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

Illustrative: Palestinians wait at the Rafah border crossing in Egypt after being evacuated from the Gaza Strip, on December 26, 2023. (AFP)

Smotrich doubles down on resettlement of Gazans, rejecting US criticism

By Sam Sokol and Jacob Magid

Mourners gather around the grave of Sgt. First Class (res.) Amichai Yisrael Yehoshua Oster at the Karnei Shomron military cemetery on January 2, 2024. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)

In Karnei Shomron, a community mourns a fallen son, US-Israeli Amichai Oster

The IDF reservist was abroad on October 7 but returned to join his unit, his mother said at his funeral on Tuesday. ‘He died doing what he came home to do’

Israeli troops operating in the Gaza Strip in an undated photo released by the military on January 3, 2024 (Israel Defense Forces)

Soldier killed in Gaza takes ground op toll to 175; troops find tunnel in school

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF releases footage showing close air support for ground forces after unsubstantiated claims by far-right MKs; airstrike targets Islamic Jihad weapons plant

Hamas terrorists bring a hostage into Shifa Hospital as seen on surveillance footage from October 7, 2023. (IDF)

US intel assesses Hamas used Shifa Hospital as command center, held hostages there

By Agencies and ToI Staff

IDF soldiers operating in the Gaza Strip in an undated photo released January 2, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

As combat in north Gaza slows, Gallant rejects any prospect war nearing end

By Emanuel Fabian

The United Nations flag flutters in the wind next to the International Court of Justice in the Hague, the Netherlands, on August 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Mike Corder)

Israel confirms it’ll defend itself from Gaza genocide claims in The Hague next week

By Jeremy Sharon

Spokesman: ‘History will judge South Africa for abetting modern heirs of the Nazis’; court seen unlikely to order halt to IDF campaign, could demand more aid, fuel, medical supplies

Outgoing Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen talks to the media during a press conference after a meeting with his Cypriot counterpart Constantinos Kombos at the Zenon Joint Rescue Coordination Center in southern coastal city of Larnaca, Cyprus, December 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

British and Cypriot aid screened in Cyprus heads to Gaza via Egypt

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A sandfly under a microscope. (Public Domain/World Health Organization )

Sandfly-borne parasitic disease has affected at least 100 IDF troops in Gaza

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Contracted in southern Israel before entering the Strip, cutaneous leishmaniasis causes deep, ugly skin lesions — but in most cases doesn’t affect a soldier’s ability to fight

High-tech medical simulation training arrived ‘just in time’ for IDF medics

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Soldiers use computer-controlled anatomically correct mannequins to learn key lifesaving procedures for use on the battlefield

Harvard president Claudine Gay resigns after plagiarism claims, antisemitism fracas

By AP and ToI Staff

Gay, Harvard’s first Black president, is the second Ivy League president to quit in the past month after controversial Congressional testimony on campus antisemitism

Claudine Gay addresses an audience during commencement ceremonies, May 25, 2023, on the Harvard campus, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Doctor Ernst 'Putzi' Hanfstaengl, formerly Press Chief for German Chancellor Adolf Hitler at his London home on July 7, 1937. (AP Photo/ Eddie Worth)

Inside StoryIn the 1930s, Harvard tried to keep out Jewish refugees

A century before Claudine Gay, Harvard helped Nazi Germany improve its image in the West

By Matt Lebovic

Research into ‘active collaboration’ between Harvard and Nazi Germany gains relevance as Harvard continues to frame antisemitic rhetoric on campus as freedom of speech

More Headlines

Ehud Banai at an event for hostage Amiram Cooper of Kibbutz Nir Oz, on January 1, 2024 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Musicians read, sing and strum to poems of hostage Amiram Cooper, 84, as worries mount

By Jessica Steinberg

Aviad Frija (left) at a military courtroom, Dec. 5, 2023 (Walla screenshot); Yuval Castleman. (Courtesy)

Reservist who shot hero civilian dead amid terror attack released from house arrest

By Jeremy Sharon

Fatah terror chief Marwan Barghouti, serving five life terms for murder during the Second Intifada, appears in a Jerusalem court, January 25, 2012. (Flash90)

Jailed terror convict Marwan Barghouti petitions against poor prison conditions

By Michael Horovitz

Knesset National Security Committee head MK Zvika Fogel leads a meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on January 1, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Far-right MK, ex-Shin Bet chief both panned for equating rivals to Israel’s enemies

Head of the Otzma Yehudit party National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir leads a faction meeting at the Knesset on January 1, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir says attorney general ‘hates’ him after she charges he exceeded his powers

Illustrative: A Hamas flag at the Temple Mount, in 2013 (photo credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90)

Jerusalem wedding singer charged with inciting to terror over backing for Hamas

IDF armored forces at a staging area in southern Israel near the border with Gaza. January 1, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

Only 15% of Israelis want Netanyahu to keep job after Gaza war, poll finds

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative image of police standing outside the airport in Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

3 Lebanese, Syrian nationals arrested in Buenos Aires airport over alleged terror plot

Illustrative image of homes and businesses set on fire in the state of Manipur in northeast India, after clashes erupt between ethnic, religious communities, May 3, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

7 members of Jewish Indian tribe said killed in rocket strike on Manipur synagogue

This photo released by the Houthi Media Center shows Houthi vessels escorting the captured cargo ship Galaxy Leader on Sunday, November 19, 2023. (Houthi Media Center via AP)

As Houthi attacks persist, global shipping firms say they’ll continue to avoid Red Sea

By Terje Solsvik and Vera Eckert

Palantir CEO Alex Karp arrives as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer convenes a closed-door gathering of leading tech CEOs to discuss the priorities and risks surrounding artificial intelligence and how it should be regulated, in Washington on Sept. 13, 2023. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

US tech giant Palantir decides to hold first board meeting of new year in Tel Aviv

By Sharon Wrobel

Imam Ahmad Zoud goes on an anti-Semitic rant during his Friday sermon at the Sydney mosque Masjid as-Sunnah Lakemba on December 22, 2023. (Screen capture: MEMRI, used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

In sermon, Australian imam says Jews are ‘bloodthirsty, treacherous monsters’

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