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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 9, 2024

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L-R: Top: Cpt. (res.) Ron Efrimi, Master Sgt. (res.) Roi Avraham Maimon, Sgt. Maj. (res.) Akiva Yasinskiy; middle: Sgt. First Class (res.) Yakir Hexter, Sgt. First Class (res.) David Schwartz, Cpt. (res.) Denis Krokhmalov Veksler; bottom: Master Sgt. (res.) Amit Shahar, Sgt. Roi Tal, Sgt. First Class (res.) Gavriel Bloom, all killed in Gaza on January 8, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

40 Hamas members killed in combat deep in Khan Younis - IDF

Gaza blast and fighting kills nine troops as IDF expands ground push southward

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and Joshua Davidovich

IDF probes unintended detonation of tunnel demolition explosives that killed 6 combat engineer reservists; reporters were being shown Hamas rocket factory nearby; IDF Gaza toll: 185

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, meets US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, January 9, 2024. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Blinken meets Israel’s war leadership as US concerns grow

By Lazar Berman

Biden dispatches secretary of state to verify reduction in intensity of fighting in Gaza, stave off war between Israel and Hezbollah

US President Joe Biden delivers remarks at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, on January 8, 2024, where nine worshippers were killed in a mass shooting by a white supremacist in 2015. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)

Biden: I’m quietly working with Israel to ‘significantly’ lower IDF presence in Gaza

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Smoke billows above buildings after an alleged Israeli strike on the outskirts of Damascus on November 22, 2023. (AFP)

Syrian intel sources say Israeli strikes deadlier, more frequent since October 7

Star singer and actor Idan Amedi (R) with IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, in an undated photo. (Israel Defense Forces)

Star singer, ‘Fauda’ actor Idan Amedi seriously hurt fighting in Gaza

Reservist, who was airlifted to hospital on Monday and reportedly underwent lengthy surgery, said Tuesday to have regained consciousness; father says his life is not in danger

Promoted Video

Sheba Medical Center during Iron Swords War weeks nine and ten

The dedicated Sheba Medical Center team continues to work tirelessly, providing round-the-clock care for patients injured in the war.

IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari speaks to the press at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

IDF spokesperson says war with Hamas has ‘shifted a stage’ to less intense combat

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Hagari tells NYT new tactics require fewer troops, airstrikes; Gallant earlier tells WSJ army set to switch from ‘intense maneuvering’ to ‘special ops’ in war in Gaza

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks with soldiers near the Gaza border, October 19, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Gallant says comments on war phases not meant for ‘some woman’ from south, drawing ire

Smoke billows following an IDF strike on the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila near the border with Israel on January 9, 2024. (Rabih DAHER / AFP)

IDF: Hezbollah drone chief behind attacks on north killed in Israeli strike

By Emanuel Fabian

Strike on Ali Hussein Burji, at funeral of another slain terror commander, comes after drone attack on IDF Northern Command headquarters

This undated picture released by Hezbollah Military Media, shows senior Hezbollah commander Wissam al-Tawil, who was killed in Kherbet Selem village, southern Lebanon, on January 8, 2024. (Hezbollah Military Media, via AP)

Assassinated Hezbollah commander had role in raid that sparked 2006 war, fought in Syria

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, speaks to IDF reservists during a visit to the northern border town of Kiryat Shmona on January 8, 2024 (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

PM on Lebanon border: We’ll restore security, preferably without a widespread campaign

By Lazar Berman

IDF troops operate in Gaza in a handout image cleared for publication on January 9, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 9: White House stresses US doesn’t support Gaza ceasefire: Only benefits Hamas right now

By Ricky Ben-David and Michael Bachner

Blinken urges statehood for Palestinians, regional integration for Israel * Tank shell caused blast that killed 6 troops * Gallant: Khan Younis op to intensify until Hamas leaders found

1:36 am

US navy said to down barrage of Houthi drones and missiles targeting Red Sea shipping
11:42 pm

Smotrich rejects Blinken's call to release frozen PA tax funds, urges 'voluntary emigration' of Gazans
10:31 pm

Deputy US envoy to UN: It's 'striking' those urging end to Gaza war not demanding more of Hamas

A Hamas warehouse used to manufacture rocket parts in central Gaza's Bureij, January 8, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

ToI in Gaza

On Gaza civilian evacuation road, IDF uncovers largest Hamas rocket factory to date

By Emanuel Fabian

Multiple sites along and beneath Strip’s Salah a-Din main highway in Bureij used by terror group to manufacture rocket fuel, explosives, projectiles’ bodies, and store them

Daily Briefing Jan 9: Day 95 – ToI visits central Gaza’s massive Hamas rocket factory

22.5andMe: Am I Jewish enough?

I’d like to believe I’d never use my identity as an argument about war or foreign policy but I’d be lying if I said this doesn’t feel personal

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

The world I wish we lived in

Later, I will look at my phone and cry over the faces, but for now, I’m at the park with my nephew

The purple mountain of the Arava

My revelation on a tiny desert peak was the voice of two good friends sharing a moment of peace in a world at war

Michael Saenger

The decline and fall of the Modern Language Association

In passing a motion to support just one viewpoint on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the MLA chose to self-destruct

Participants hold up signs at the March for Israel rally organized by the Jewish Federations of North America on November 14, 2023, on the National Mall in Washington. (Daryl Perry)

Americans for Peace Now becomes first US Zionist group to call for Gaza ceasefire

Left-leaning group calls on Biden to push transition from ‘war to peacekeeping,’ suggesting first crack in broad support for Israel’s offensive among American Zionist organizations

NYPD officers arrest anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protesters as they gathered and blocked the Manhattan entrance of the Brooklyn Bridge on January 8, 2024, in New York City. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP)

US police arrest 325 anti-Israel protesters blocking New York City tunnel, bridges

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Footage from the GoPro camera of a Hamas terrorist, on October 7, 2023. (Screen capture/X used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

New GoPro footage shows Hamas terrorists infiltrating Israel unopposed on Oct. 7

Some 30 minutes of clips aired on Channel 12 reveal the ease with which Hamas’s elite Nukhba forces crossed 4 levels of defense at border without encountering any Israeli troops

Relatives and friends of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas terrorist group gather on the road near the Kerem Shalom border crossing between Israel and Gaza, in southern Israel, Tuesday, January 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Hostages’ families try in vain to block humanitarian aid from entering Gaza

Demonstrators hold a banner reading 'Raped by Hamas' during a rally in front of UNESCO headquarters in Paris on December 1, 2023. (Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)

In first, UN sending envoy to investigate Hamas sexual crimes on October 7

Pramila Patten, UN special representative on sexual violence in conflict, is reportedly slated to arrive in Israel this month at the invitation of the Foreign Ministry

Demonstrators gather outside the UN headquarters in New York City on December 4, 2023, to protest the international community's perceived silence on sexual violence committed by Hamas terrorists against Israeli women during the October 7 massacre. (Carli Fogel)

UN experts demand accountability for sexual torture during Hamas onslaught

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The Knesset Committee on the Status of Women and Gender Equality holds a hearing on the government's treatment of victims of Hamas sexual assault, January 8, 2024. Chairwoman MK Pnina Tamano-Shata is at left. (Noam Moskowitz/ Knesset Spokesperson)

Government must improve aid to victims of Hamas sexual assault – Knesset panel chief

Interview

Cathryn J. Prince

As Israel faces charges at The Hague, a Cornell expert in genocide weighs in

A child of Holocaust survivors, law prof Menachem Rosensaft has made his life’s work the study of genocide. He finds the allegation against the Jewish state both ironic and bigoted

Menachem Rosensaft delivering the keynote address at the commemoration marking the 28th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, July 2023. (Courtesy)

Right-wing Israelis attend a rally in support of the government's planned judicial overhaul and to protest against former Supreme Court president Aharon Barak, outside Barak's home in Tel Aviv, May 4, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

As allies fume, Netanyahu defends tapping right-wing bogeyman Barak for ICJ case

Israeli security forces examine the scene of a Palestinian shooting attack, near Wadi al-Haramiya, West Bank, January 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

IDF brass said to warn political leaders that West Bank on brink of violent eruption

TV report says Halevi and other top commanders told PM and war cabinet there’s a risk of major unrest due to tough economic conditions

Opposition Leader and chairman of the Yesh Atid party MK Yair Lapid leads a faction meeting at the Knesset on January 8, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lapid urges Gantz to bolt war coalition, says he’d join a government led by Edelstein

Israeli forces are seen at an illegal settler construction in the Pnei Kedem outpost in the Gush Etzion region of the West Bank, January 9, 2024. (Courtesy)

Far-right lawmakers slam IDF, Gallant over razing of illegal West Bank outpost

Analysis

Gianluca Pacchiani

Why Islamic State attacked Iran on the anniversary of Soleimani’s death

Last week’s bombing near the grave of the Quds Force general that killed 84 is the latest episode in ISIS’s war on Shiite Muslims

People attend the funeral ceremony of the victims of Wednesday's bomb explosion in the city of Kerman about 510 miles (820 kms) southeast of the capital Tehran, Iran, Friday, January 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

New York City police cars outside the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in Brooklyn December 9, 2014, in New York. (Photo by DON EMMERT / AFP)

Chaos ensues as NYPD tries to fill in secret tunnel in Chabad HQ synagogue

Several rioters arrested after damaging the prayer hall and throwing benches at police officers

Nobel laureates pen plea to international organizations demanding action on hostages

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Letter is accompanied by an updated, detailed report on hostage health based on medical records and testimony of released hostages about horrific conditions in Gaza

Illustrative - A protester adds a portrait of a hostage to a wall of such posters during a rally for supporters and relatives of Israeli hostages held by Hamas and other terror groups in Gaza since October 7, in Tel Aviv on December 23, 2023 (Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP)

An inside page from the Daily Mail, January 8, 2024.

UK’s Daily Mail highlights plight of 4 youngest female captives still held by Hamas

Elad Katzir in a hostage video published by Palestinian Islamic Jihad on January 8, 2024. (Screen capture)

Islamic Jihad airs propaganda clip claiming to show hostage alive in Gaza on Jan. 5

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Walied Khury in his blacksmith studio in Fassuta. (Duha Khoury)

'I’m Israeli, I’m part of this country'

Along the border with Lebanon, artists in a Christian Arab village forge on amid war

By Diana Bletter

For painter Rima Khoury and blacksmith Walied Khoury, Hezbollah rocket fire and the evacuation of many residents have hurt emotionally and financially, but art helps them persevere

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French Education and Youth Minister Gabriel Attal leaves after the weekly cabinet meeting at the presidential Elysee Palace in Paris, on December 20, 2023. (Ludovic Marin/ AFP)

Macron names Gabriel Attal as France’s youngest and first gay PM

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Female high school basketball player shooting basket free throw. (credit: monkeybusinessimages/ iStock)

Basketball coach fired at NY school where players shouted slurs at Jewish opponents

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Israelis protest against the soaring housing prices in Tel Aviv and cost of living, on July 2, 2022.(Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

State comptroller urges MKs to better tackle high living costs as war impact bites

By Sharon Wrobel

J. Smith-Cameron at the 81st Golden Globe Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Jan. 7, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California. (Gilbert Flores/Golden Globes 2024/Golden Globes 2024 via Getty Images / via JTA)

Captivating gestureSome at Golden Globes don yellow ribbon pins in solidarity with hostages

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli speaks at the AJC Global Forum in Tel Aviv, on June 14, 2023 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Chikli resigns from Social Equality Ministry to cut spending during war in Gaza

People gather during an anti-Israel rally in Sydney, Saturday, October 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Activists in Australia rush bike race to protest Israeli team cyclist

Property allegedly stolen by a man posing as an evacuee from southern Israel purported to have fraudulently gained access to a Tel Aviv apartment volunteered by its owner for displaced people, January 7, 2024. (Credit: Police spokesperson)

Man accused of ransacking Tel Aviv apartment that he posed as southern evacuee to live at

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a Likud party meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on January 1, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Judges say Netanyahu graft hearings to expand to three days a week

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