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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 10, 2024

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a press conference, during his week-long trip aimed at calming tensions across the Middle East, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Jan. 9, 2024. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AFP)

In Israel, Blinken says peace with neighbors hinges on path to Palestinian state

By Lazar Berman

Secretary of state says US backs Israel in ensuring October 7 can’t be repeated, but death toll in Gaza ‘far too high’; announces UN plan to assess conditions in northern Strip

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken answers questions during a press conference in Tel Aviv, January 9, 2024. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)

Full textFull transcript of Antony Blinken’s remarks at Tel Aviv press conference

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)

Stop harming Gaza civilians, Blinken tells Netanyahu as fighting rages in Khan Younis

By Lazar Berman

Explainer

‘We should be worried’: Israel faces peril at The Hague in Gaza ‘genocide’ case

The bar for ‘plausibility’ in the initial proceedings is quite low, experts warn, while ministers’ inflammatory statements enabled South Africa to allege Israel has genocidal intent

A general view of a session of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, on October 1, 2018. (Bas ZERWINSKI/ANP/AFP)

Former Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks at a protest rally in central London on March 11, 2023. (Susannah Ireland/AFP)

UK Labour’s ex-chief Corbyn joins South African delegation to ICJ case against Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Screen capture from video of Britain's Foreign Secretary David Cameron as he gives evidence to a House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, in London on January 9, 2024. (PRU / AFP)

UK’s foreign minister worried Israel may have breached international law in Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

This photo released by the Houthi Media Center shows Houthi forces boarding the cargo ship Galaxy Leader on November 19, 2023. Yemen's Houthis have seized the ship in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen after threatening to seize all vessels owned by Israeli companies. (Houthi Media Center via AP)

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 10: Report says hundreds of Houthi rebels were trained by IRGC in Iran

Israeli war cabinet meets in Tel Aviv * Jordan hosts Arab summit in Aqaba * IDF chief to troops in Gaza: There is nowhere in Lebanon you can’t dismantle * Gaza ground op toll at 186

11:38 pm

Houthis dismiss UN resolution against Red Sea attacks as a 'political game'
10:50 pm

Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie ends bid to be 2024 GOP presidential nominee
10:39 pm

UN Security Council okays resolution demanding immediate end to Houthi attacks in Red Sea

Op-ed: Day 96 of the war

Our government and our essential ally, utterly at odds on how to safeguard our future

Just when the stakes are highest, amid a grueling, immensely costly war, Blinken makes plain the most fundamental differences between the two leaderships

Israeli combat reservists and tank forces take part in training drills on the Lebanese front in the Golan Heights, Jan. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on his way to a meeting with President Isaac Herzog in Tel Aviv on January 9, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 10: Day 96 – Blinken’s back, but does Netanyahu agree with him?

US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, left, meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, in Ramallah in the West Bank on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/Pool Photo via AP)

In Ramallah, Blinken tells Abbas US supports ‘tangible steps’ toward Palestinian state

By Agencies and Lazar Berman

As he tries to rally region behind postwar vision for Gaza, top US diplomat reportedly holds ‘tense’ meeting with PA leader while hundreds outside protest ‘unwelcome’ visit

Families and supporters of Israeli hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza hold signs and photos of their loved ones at a protest calling for their return, outside a meeting between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and President Isaac Herzog, in Tel Aviv, January 9, 2024. (AP/Oded Balilty)

Blinken meets with families of Israeli-US hostages, said to convey optimism on release

Jordan's King Abdullah II speaks during a plenary session at the COP28 UN Climate Summit, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 1, 2023. (Peter Dejong/AP)

Jordanian king to host Egyptian, Palestinian leaders for Gaza talks

By AFP and ToI Staff

A large explosion is seen in central Gaza's Bureij, which killed six IDF combat engineers, January 8, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

IDF probe finds tank shelling caused blast that led to deaths of 6 combat engineers

By Emanuel Fabian

Shell activated detonating cord that led to a tunnel being rigged up with explosives, setting off early explosion, according to initial army investigation

Family members mourn Hamza Dahdouh, who worked for Al Jazeera and who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, Gaza Strip, January 7, 2024 (AP Photo/Hatem Ali) (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

IDF says intel shows two journalists slain in Gaza strike were terror group members

By Emanuel Fabian and AFP

Slaying the giant

Israelis don’t want to fight, but they have no choice: They are the front line defending civilization against the onslaught of savagery

Anemones bloom the battlefield

When the beautiful red flowers carpet the ground where so much innocent blood was shed, we pray for hope

A mirror and a window: Improving Jewish day schools

What divides our schools matters surprisingly less than what they share, starting with kids who feel like they belong

The Chabad radicals within

Lubavitch headquarters is dominated by a violent messianic faction with disregard for the police. It’s time for new leadership

Top Gaza terror leaders decided on Oct. 6 to launch assault

Hamas planned Oct. 7 from before 2014, with final decision made by 5 leaders – report

Sources close to leadership of terror group’s armed wing describe planning and execution of devastating onslaught; training briefly frozen after 2014 war, okay given in 2021

Palestinian terrorists take control of an Israeli tank after crossing the border fence with Israel from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023. (Said Khatib / AFP)

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)

Watchdog finds UNRWA workers praised Hamas massacres in internal Telegram channel

Families of young female surveillance soldiers killed on October 7 attend a hearing in the Knesset, January 9, 2024. (Sam Sokol)

Parents, MKs call for probe into IDF refusal to heed surveillance troops’ warnings

Saudi Ambassdor to the UK Khalid bin Bandar bin Sultan al-Saud walks in the Houses of Parliament in London on December 19, 2019. (Adrian DENNIS / POOL / AFP)

Saudi envoy says kingdom ‘absolutely’ still open to normalization deal with Israel

But Prince Khalid bin Bandar, Riyadh’s ambassador to UK, tells BBC ties can only be formed if a Palestinian state is established, after Blinken says ‘clear interest’ remains

Itai Bausi (right) with his mother Julie Bausi (Courtesy)

Interview

US-born Israeli mother feels tortured not knowing her son’s last moments on Oct. 7

By Jessica Steinberg

Kibbutznik and former New Yorker Julie Bausi is furious at the IDF and government after son Itai died without help at the Nova music festival; she now feels more Israeli than ever

'This is supposed to be the Provence of Israel'

Facing Hezbollah rockets, volunteers evacuated from border distribute life-saving gear

By Diana Bletter

As barrages increase along border with Lebanon, helpers make sure that residents who haven’t left — and the security personnel who guard them — have the essentials

People appear to give the banned fascist salute during a rally to commemorate the 1978 murder of two members of a neo-fascist youth group, in Rome, January 7, 2024. (Screen capture: X. Used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Italian opposition demands probe after hundreds give fascist salute at Rome rally

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illicit Mussolini homage provokes ire from detractors of far-right government, inspires worry in Jewish community; minister criticizes action, resists calls to ban group

Illustrative: An Egyptian watches the British destroyer HMS Diamond pass through the Suez Canal as it sails from the Red Sea toward the Mediterranean, on December 2, 2012. (AFP)

UK, US forces repel 21 drones and missiles in ‘largest attack’ yet by Houthis

By AFP and ToI Staff

British defense secretary, noting terror group is backed by Iran, says assaults are illegal and ‘completely unacceptable,’ warns of consequences if they continue

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a weekly cabinet meeting at Hakirya base in Tel Aviv on January 7, 2024. (Yariv Katz/POOL/Flash90)

Netanyahu orders partial halt to illegal outpost razings amid outrage from right

PM instructs that settler homes in West Bank belonging to soldiers and reservists be left alone until after war with Hamas

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (right) and then-police chief Kobi Shabtai at the funeral of Border Police officer Sgt. Shay Germay at the military cemetary in Karmiel, January 7, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)

High Court says Ben Gvir violating ruling not to interfere with policing of protests

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) sits with Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli and Likud Minister May Golan (L) at the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, on June 26, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu said to freeze minister’s money-saving resignation amid Likud MK threats

By ToI Staff and Stuart Winer

IDF troops operate in Gaza in a handout image published January 8, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

BBC apologizes for report accusing IDF of ‘summary executions’ in the Gaza Strip

UK public broadcaster says that despite attributing claim to Hamas and including Israeli response, it ‘had not made sufficient effort to seek corroborating evidence’

Illustrative: Foreign and Israeli journalists stand on a hill overlooking the Gaza Strip in the city of Sderot, southern Israel, October 19, 2023. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

High Court says Israel can keep barring foreign reporters from Gaza

People react to public comment at the San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting discussing a resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, in San Francisco, California, January 8, 2024. (Nic Coury/AP)

San Francisco supervisors approve resolution calling for ‘sustained ceasefire’ in Gaza

By AP and ToI Staff

Motion condemning both sides passes in an 8-3 vote; Supervisor Matt Dorsey, who opposed, booed by audience for presenting documentation of Hamas atrocities

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters gather at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 14, 2023. (Joseph Prezioso / AFP)

US congressional panel asks to see years of antisemitism complaints in Harvard probe

By Reuters and ToI Staff

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A pumpkin damaged in a hailstorm at the central Israeli moshav Hatzav, April 2023. (Yuval Ezra)

Compensation to farmers for extreme weather-related damage up 13% in 2023

Screen capture from video of police accosting a 14-year-old East Jerusalem girl suspected of intending to die in a terror attack. (Israel Police)

East Jerusalem girl, 14, arrested for plan to carry out a terror attack and die

Illustrative: A Magen David Adom ambulance is seen on the coast of central Israel. (Magen David Adom)

Woman killed, man seriously injured in suspected murder-suicide attempt

Palantir CEO Alex Karp (right) in a conversation with tech guru Yossi Vardi at Tel Aviv University, January 9, 2024. (Sharon Wrobel/The Times of Israel)

US Palantir CEO flies company board to Israel in show of solidarity

By Sharon Wrobel

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin makes remarks at a virtual Ukraine Defense Contact Group (UDCG) meeting, at the Pentagon in Washington, November 22, 2023. (Cliff Owen/AP)

US Defense Secretary Austin being treated for prostate cancer, doctors reveal

By Seung Min Kim and Zeke Miller

A hole in the road caused by a grenade that was thrown at the Shikma jail in Ashkelon, January 10, 2024. (Israel Prison Service Spokesperson's Unit)

Grenade thrown at Ashkelon prison, damaging cars

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