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What Matters Most On Sunday, February 4, 2024

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Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (R) and military officials meet with US envoy Amos Hochstein (L) in Tel Aviv, February 4, 2024. (Defense Ministry)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 4: In Israel, US envoy said to report progress in talks to push Hezbollah back from border

Amos Hochstein meets with Gallant * Netanyahu says Israel ‘will not agree to every deal, and not at any price’ * Soldier killed in south Gaza, raising IDF toll to 225

9:51 pm

Biden condemns anti-Arab hate after WSJ opinion piece calls Dearborn 'jihad capital'
9:11 pm

London rally calls for release of women being held by Hamas
8:51 pm

EU top diplomat says defunding UN Palestinian agency dangerous

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on January 31, 2024. (Flash90)

Lapid: 'A direct attack on Israel's international status'

Attacking Biden, Ben Gvir says Trump would have been more supportive of Israel

US president ‘busy with giving humanitarian aid and fuel, which goes to Hamas,’ far right minister tells Wall Street Journal; PM criticizes those who ‘endanger vital interests’

A small group of protesters demonstrate outside the home of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Arlington, Virginia, January 28, 2024 (Roberto Schmidt/AFPTV/AFP)

‘Kibbutz Blinken’: Activists camp outside secretary’s home, accuse him of genocide

President Joe Biden, right, and House Speaker Mike Johnson, center, during the National Prayer Breakfast, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Republicans propose $17.6 billion aid package for Israel; Biden rejects ‘ploy’

By AP, Reuters and ToI Staff

Hamas says more time needed to announce position on potential hostage deal

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Lebanon-based official says terror group ‘open to discussing any initiative’; Israel reportedly unclear on cause of delay, cites possible divisions within Hamas

Israelis rally to demand securing the release of hostages held by terrorists in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, February 3, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Screen capture from video of Thomas Hand and his daughter, released Hamas hostage Emily. (Screenshot/Channel 12; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Father of former hostage Emily Hand: Any deal with Hamas must be ‘reasonable’

Israelis attend a rally calling for the release of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, February 3, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Latest hostage rally demanding deal with Hamas takes on stronger political tones

By Canaan Lidor and Charlie Summers

Organizers and speakers at weekly protest in Tel Aviv say faith in the government needs restoring, accuse Netanyahu of being guided by desire to avoid elections

Standing behind a flaming "HELP" slogan, families and supporters of hostages held in Gaza block Tel Aviv's Ayalon highway, February 3, 2024 (Courtesy/Protest Groups)

Scuffles as hostages’ families, supporters block key Tel Aviv highway to demand deal

Hamas moves to reassert power in Gaza City areas from which Israeli forces withdrew

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Palestinians say Gaza-ruling terror group has begun deploying police officers and set up makeshift offices to distribute salary payments, leading to fresh Israeli action

Amid the Israel-Hamas war, Palestinians walk between the remains of destroyed buildings on the main road of Gaza City on January 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Hajjar)

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell arrives for an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Havana)

EU says it’s deeply concerned by expected Israeli invasion of Rafah

By AP and ToI Staff

A Jordanian textbook referring to the October 7 Hamas massacre. (X screenshot)

Jordanian school textbook said to paint October 7 atrocities in positive light

Sgt. First Class (res.) Shimon Yehoshua Asulin (IDF)

Soldier killed in southern Gaza fighting, raising ground op toll to 225

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF says troops raided a Khan Younis building used by a senior Hamas commander; air force and navy strike terror targets in Strip

IDF brass was caught off guard by dissemination of UNRWA allegations — report

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza Sigrid Kaag speaks during a press conference at the United Nations headquarters on January 30, 2024 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images North America/Getty Images via AFP)

Emirates announces $5 million to beleaguered UNRWA for Gaza reconstruction

Charles Asher Small

It’s time to cut off Qatar’s unseen hand in fueling global antisemitism

Qatar spends up to $1 trillion in assets to support terror and spread antisemitism, including, perniciously, on US college campuses

Alon Goshen-Gottstein

Sex, rabbis and the downfall of Judaism

As Jewish leaders pick and choose practices that align with their social norms, venerable traditionalists are shunted aside. To wit: Rabbi Art Green

A handout picture released by the British Ministry of Defence on February 3, 2024 shows RAF Typhoon FRG4s being prepared to conduct strikes against targets in Yemen. (Cpl Samantha Drummee / MOD / AFP)

US, Britain hit over 30 Houthi targets in fresh strikes on Iran-backed groups

By AP and ToI Staff

Fighter jets and Tomahawk missiles fired from warships in Red Sea hit 13 sites across Yemen; Pentagon chief threatens further action

A satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows a military base known as Tower 22 in northeastern Jordan on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. The damage caused by the drone strike can be seen in the center-left of the photo. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

After US strikes, Iranian proxy says it doesn’t seek further conflict with US

By AP and ToI Staff

Houthi fighters stage a rally in support of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and against the US-led airstrikes on Yemen, in Sanaa, Yemen, January 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Houthis say US, British strikes on targets in Yemen ‘will not deter us’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Two youths (R) insult and spit at Abbot Nikodemus Schnabel in Jerusalem's Old City, February 3, 2024. (Screenshot/X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

2 Jewish Israelis detained for allegedly spitting at Christian cleric in Jerusalem

Two youths insulted and spat at Christian priest in Old City in first reported incident since war started in October, though before that there had been a marked rise

Pope Francis speaks during a mass at St Peter's basilica for the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord on February 2, 2024 in The Vatican. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP)

Pope Francis decries ‘terrible increase in attacks against Jews’ worldwide

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip sit next to the border fence with Egypt in Rafah, January 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Feb. 4: Day 121 – Anatomy of the fraying Israel-Egypt alliance

Arab affairs reporter Luca Pacchiani on Hamas’s hostage deal flip-flopping; reporter Canaan Lidor on Kfar Aza returnees, the rescue/looting of pets from Gaza, and a French flame war

Illustrative: Palestinians line up for free food distribution in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, February 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb 3: Day 120 – US leads effort to draw up a day-after plan for Gaza

Marwa, left, and Milla, the widow and daughter of Musa Hassuna, an Arab Israeli man killed in a violent protest in Lod, in a still from 'Mourning in Lod,' directed by Hilla Medalia. (Courtesy of MTV Documentary Films)

Interview'Especially now, it's so important to talk with each other'

Film about deadly 2021 Arab-Jewish riots gives insight into post-Oct. 7 life in Israel

By Rich Tenorio

As festivals back out of screening Hilla Medalia’s ‘Mourning in Lod’ about two people who died in mob violence, director says her documentary’s lessons hit home now more than ever

Lebanese soldiers and Civil defense workers gather next to a damaged car in the southern town of Bazouriyeh, Lebanon, Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024, following an alleged Israeli drone strike near the Lebanese southern port city of Tyre that killed two people. (AP/Mohammad Zaatari)

Warning of war, IDF says over 3,000 Hezbollah sites in Lebanon, Syria struck so far

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Army spokesperson details strikes across northern border since Oct. 7 which have killed 200 terror operatives; says war is not Israel’s preference ‘but we are certainly prepared’

Sharon Kantor wins the iQFoil World Championships in the Canary Islands, Spain, February 3, 2024. (Screenshot: YouTube/@masmartv; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli Sharon Kantor wins gold at windsurfing World Championships

Athlete secures spot at Paris Olympics with first place finish at tournament; fellow Israeli Katy Spychakov takes bronze

Yair Lapid (left) and Noa Tishby wearing the 3D-printed yellow ribbon pins created by industrial designer Shaul Cohen for the effort to release hostages held by Hamas. (Courtesy)

Mass marker

Designer 3D-prints tens of thousands of yellow ribbon pins for hostages

By Jessica Steinberg

King of Saudi Arabia Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud on February 2, 1930. (AP Photo)

Interview

How did we get here? A new book chronicles Middle East politics, modern and ancient

By Rich Tenorio

Former French diplomat Jean-Pierre Filiu covers the region’s unlikely stories, many rulers and missed opportunities in ‘The Middle East: A Political History From 395 to the Present’

More Headlines

Newly appointed Northern Ireland's First minister, from Sinn Fein, party Michelle O'Neil speaks during the Northern Ireland Assembly, at the Parliament Building, in Stormont, February 3, 2024. (Photo by Kelvin BOYES / NORTHERN IRELAND ASSEMBLY / AFP)

Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill makes history as 1st nationalist to lead Northern Ireland

By brian melley

People hold hands in front of Germany's parliament Reichstag at a demonstration against the AfD party and right-wing extremism in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Approximately 150,000 gather in Berlin for latest protest against German far right

By EMILY SCHULTHEIS and PIETRO DE CRISTOFARO

Vincent Reynouard, prosecuted for contesting crimes against humanity, poses during his appearance before the Saverne criminal court, September 27, 2007. (Photo by Frederick FLORIN / AFP)

Scotland extradites Holocaust denier to France to face charges

By AFP

Former Supreme Court Justice Hanan Melcer speaks at a press conference for media freedom in Israel, at Bar Ilan university, February 26, 2023 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Ex-Supreme Court justice Melcer to lead panel that selects Righteous Among Nations

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