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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 11, 2024

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Ambassador of the Republic of South Africa to the Netherlands Vusimuzi Madonsela, right, and Minister of Justice and Correctional Services of South Africa Ronald Lamola, center, during the opening of the hearings at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, Jan. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

At World Court, South Africa accuses Israel of Gaza genocide; Israel: Baseless claims

By Jeremy Sharon

The Hague is urged to order immediate halt to IDF’s war against Hamas; ‘genocidal comments’ by PM cited; Israel: Hamas attempted genocide on Oct. 7 and South Africa is its ‘legal arm’

Judges preside over the opening of the hearings at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, January 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

The Hague hearing held as South Africa accuses Israel of ‘genocide’ in war with Hamas

By Jeremy Sharon and Agencies

Likud MK Nissim Vaturi attends a discussion in the Knesset, November 21, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ahead of Hague genocide hearings, Israeli lawmaker reiterates call to ‘burn Gaza’

Demonstrators shout slogans and brandish their weapons during a march in solidarity with the Palestinian people, in the Huthi-controlled capital Sanaa on January 11, 2024. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 11: Houthis brace for 1st US strikes in Yemen in retaliation for Red Sea strikes

Talks on getting medicine to hostages said to advance * IDF claims Hamas spent tens of millions on tunnels * Central Command reports fresh Houthi attack on shipping lanes

11:28 pm

Egypt's Suez Canal revenues down 40% due to Houthi attacks
11:21 pm

Houthi leader says no attack will go unanswered, as reports swirl of impending US-UK strike on rebel group
9:52 pm

Strikes on Houthis could come within hours, according to reports

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Daily Briefing Jan. 11: Day 97 – World watches as Israel accused of ‘genocide’ at Hague

Editor David Horovitz on the proceedings against Israel at the International Court of Justice and what messaging US Secretary of State Antony Blinken left in his wake

People raise flags and placards as they gather around a statue of late South African president Nelson Mandela to celebrate a landmark 'genocide' case filed by South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice, in the West Bank city of Ramallah on January 10, 2024. (Marco Longari/AFP)

Palestinians in West Bank rally in support of South Africa over ‘genocide’ case

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A poster for a planned Israeli government billboard campaign in the Netherlands that was rejected by local advertising companies, January 11, 2024. (National Public Diplomacy Directorate)

Israel says billboard campaign about plight of Gaza hostages rejected in Netherlands

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a message on Israel's war with Hamas, January 10, 2024. (Video screenshot)

'Israel fighting terrorists, not the Palestinian population'

Netanyahu: Let me be clear — Israel has no intention of displacing Gaza’s population

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

PM says IDF will also not permanently occupy the Strip; Likud MK: Netanyahu told me he’d like Gaza voluntary migration but is under US pressure

One of the humanitarian aid shipments awaiting entry into Gaza following an Israeli security check on January 10, 2024 at the Kerem Shalom border crossing. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)

‘No food shortage in Gaza,’ says IDF official, dismissing UN claims to the contrary

By Charlie Summers

Illustrative: Egyptian soldiers patrol on a road parallel to the Philadelphi Corridor, a buffer zone that separates Egypt from Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip, March 19, 2007. ( Cris Bouroncle/AFP)

IDF officer said to discuss future of Gaza-Egypt border road during talks in Cairo

Families of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza call to them over loudspeakers near the Israeli border with Gaza, January 11, 2024. (Flash90)

'We miss you terribly, but we are strong. Don’t lose hope'

Relatives use giant loudspeakers to shout messages to Gaza, in hope hostages can hear

Family members gather on border in attempt to reach out to loved ones who have now been held by terrorists for nearly 100 days

The Hostages and Missing Families Forum created a 'Bring Them Home Now' Christmas ornament to bring attention to the hostages still held in Gaza by Hamas terrorists since October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)

Israeli firms and organizations to hold 100-minute Gaza hostage strike on Sunday

By Sharon Wrobel

Israeli professional cycling team Israel - Premier Tech is organizing a 100-day cycling event for the remaining Hamas hostages abducted on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)

Pulling throughCyclists worldwide plan rides to mark 100 days since hostages taken captive

By Jessica Steinberg

Israeli soldiers show journalists an underground tunnel where the Israel Defense Forces said it had found evidence hostages were held by terrorists in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on January 10. 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Over 150 Hamas targets hit in south, center of Strip -- army

IDF says troops located tunnel in southern Gaza that was used to hold hostages

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Military announces death of reservist soldier in battle, raising ground operation’s death toll to 186; security cabinet set to meet to discuss postwar Gaza plans

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

In message from hospital, ‘Fauda’ actor wounded in Gaza says ‘I’ll be OK’

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, meets with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, second left, during his week-long trip aimed at calming tensions across the Middle East, in Al Ula, Saudi Arabia, Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)

Inside story

Saudi normalization still possible post-war, but price for Israel is higher — officials

Top US officials, Arab diplomat say Jerusalem will have to concede more to Palestinians than before Oct. 7 onslaught, but that Riyadh’s need for US defense guarantees hasn’t changed

AnalysisAs Israel continues to battle Hamas, Blinken comes with demands it can’t meet

By Lazar Berman

Jews pray for the army's success in the war against Hamas and the return of the Israeli hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on January 10, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Reporter's notebook'My coming here is holy warfare'

‘Impoverished, broken and in pain’: Thousands at Western Wall mass prayer for hostages

By Canaan Lidor

With 100 days of captivity fast approaching for abductees, crowds seek their salvation through God

Emuna Libman, left, and Yarden Gonen, sisters of hostages at a solidarity event for the hostages at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art on January 10, 2024. (Screenshot)

Religious, secular relatives of Gaza hostages gather to sing, pray and hope for unity

By Jessica Steinberg

Jews pray for the IDF's success in the war against Hamas, for the return of the Israeli hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, and in memory of the people murdered in the October 7 massacre, at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in the Old City of Jerusalem, January 10, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

War cabinet said to discuss Qatari deal for hostage release, exile of Hamas leaders

By ToI Staff, Canaan Lidor and Jessica Steinberg

Project Harmony: An AI vision for a better future

Could Artificial General Intelligence be harnessed to foster peace and prosperity in the Middle East? Only if we dream it first

Elliot Vaisrub Glassenberg

We must stop hardening our hearts

Hardness is natural in combat mode, but risks making it too difficult or too late to open our hearts and change our minds

Inside Story

Is Urban Dictionary’s new entry ‘to get Israeled’ an antisemitic trope? ADL weighs in

Users of online lexicon site created term ‘Israeled’ after Hamas massacres of October 7 ‘to signify claiming something that is not one’s own, in a hostile way’

Urban Dictionary screen capture of the term 'Israeled,' added in October 2023. (Matt Lebovic/Times of Israel)

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators rally near Columbia University in New York on November 15, 2023. (Bryan R. Smith / AFP)

ADL reports antisemitism in United States has ‘skyrocketed’ since Oct. 7 attack

Watchdog records 3,283 incidents of Jew hatred in 3 months since Hamas-led onslaught; figure includes 60 physical assaults, among them Jewish man in LA who died after being pushed

A truck with electronic panels calling attention to a recent controversy involving testimony to Congress by presidents of three prestigious schools drives along a street on December 12, 2023, near Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Antisemitism skyrockets on social media at Harvard after Claudine Gay’s departure

By Jordana Horn

Illustrative: Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators rally near Columbia University in New York on November 15, 2023. (Spencer Platt/ Getty Images via AFP)

Florida welcomes Jewish students fleeing post-Oct. 7 surge in campus antisemitism

By Mike Schneider

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

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

US envoy warns ‘there’ll be consequences’ if attacks continue, as forum adopts resolution implicitly condemning Iran for arming the Yemeni rebels; Russia and China among abstainers

In this image provided by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard via Tasnim News Agency on August 20, 2023, a machine gun's muzzle of a Revolutionary Guard speedboat is seen as the boat moves near USS Bataan at the Strait of Hormuz, in the mouth of the Persian Gulf. (Iranian Revolutionary Guard/Tasnim News Agency via AP)

Iran says it seized tanker in the Gulf of Oman over year-long dispute with US

A Likud center member holds up a placard of Avraham Neguise in the primaries for the Likud party at the Tel Aviv Likud polling station on February 5, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Inside storyAliyah of Falash Mura a 'disaster,' say some Ethiopian Jews

Former MK Neguise’s candidacy as ambassador to Ethiopia stirs up his ‘missionary’ past

By Canaan Lidor

Within an Ethiopian-Israeli community fractured along religious lines, the former lawmaker’s nomination is refocusing attention on his little-known Christian chapter

Hasidic Jewish students observe as law enforcement establishes a perimeter around a breached wall in the synagogue that led to a tunnel dug by students at Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters, January 8, 2024, in New York. (Bruce Schaff via AP)

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Leading officials in Hasidic movement condemn unrest at 770 as work of fringe group, as incident draws attention to group’s internal disputes and fuels antisemitic conspiracies

Hasidic Jewish students sit behind a breach in the wall of a synagogue that led to a tunnel dug by the students, Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, at Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters in New York. A group of Hasidic Jewish worshippers were arrested amid a dispute over a secret tunnel built beneath a historic Brooklyn synagogue, setting off a brawl between police and those who tried to defend the makeshift passageway. (Bruce Schaff via AP)

NYC orders vacating of Chabad HQ for stabilization work after tunnel discovery

By Jake Offenhartz

A supernova leaves behind a compact object in a binary system. (Courtesy: Weizmann/ESO)

Weizmann team says it can finally prove supernovae give birth to black holes

Researchers say dance between dead star and surviving companion in aftermath of explosive end, 75 million lightyears away, provides first direct evidence of elusive link

The Times Square outpost of Eyal Shani's fast-casual restaurant, Miznon, is becoming certified kosher. (Ben Sales/JTA)

'How can I make food without letting half my people eat it?'

Eyal Shani’s fast-casual Times Square restaurant Miznon is going kosher

By Rachel Ringler

Observant foodies are all wrapped up in the news that the famed gourmet pita restaurant is to be certified starting on Jan. 21

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Illustrative: Israel national hockey team members on the bench at the IIHF world championships in Mexico City, April 2019. (Ice Hockey Federation of Israel)

Israel barred from International Ice Hockey Federation events over security concerns

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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View of the Orot Rabin power plant at Sdot Yam beach, central Israel, April 11, 2023. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

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Pramila Patten, UN envoy for sexual violence in conflict, in New York, September 14, 2017. (Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)

UN special envoy on sexual violence to visit Israel for probe into Hamas atrocities

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Israel Police and Border Police operating in East Jerusalem. (Israel Police)

Two East Jerusalem followers of Islamic State arrested for planning terror attacks

MK Ofer Cassif attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting on the planned judicial reform, at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on June 25, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

85 lawmakers sign petition to expel far-left MK who accused Israel of genocide

By Shira Silkoff and Sam Sokol

Yuval Arad, the daughter of Ron Arad, March 9, 2009 (Uri Lenz/Flash 90)

Daughter of Ron Arad says hostage families must be wary of government promises

People pray over the flag-draped coffins of victims of a suicide-bomb attack during a funeral ceremony in the city of Kerman, Iran, January 5, 2024. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Iran names alleged bombmaker behind ISIS attack, says 1 of 2 bombers is Tajik-Israeli

By Nasser Karimi

French former basketball vice Olympic champion Emilie Gomis takes part in a 3X3 basketball exhibition game in Nantes on June 21, 2017. (Loiv Venance/AFP)

French ambassador for Olympics quits role over post seen as endorsing Oct. 7 attacks

Harrison Ford presents the award for best picture at the Oscars, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

In open letter, Jewish entertainers slam exclusion of Jews from Oscars diversity push

Norm Finkelstein was the author more than 20 nonfiction books for children and teens, including a forthcoming biography of the legendary Forward editor Abraham Cahan. (Courtesy: Holiday House/JTA)

ObituaryBoston writer Norm Finkelstein, whose YA books championed Jewish heroes, dies at 82

By Penny Schwartz

A Eurofighter from the German Air Force Weapons School takes off for an exercise in Large, Germany, April 30, 2021. (Bernd Wuestneck/dpa via AP, File)

Germany approves missile sale to Saudi Arabia for first time since 2018

By AP

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