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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 6, 2024

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Families of Israelis held kidnapped by Hamas terrorists in Gaza protest outside the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, February 6, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 6: Hamas demand for permanent ceasefire in hostage talks unacceptable — Israeli source

Biden chides terror group’s ‘over the top’ reply to Paris outline * Israel evaluating response * Qatar ‘optimistic’ * Death of Maj. David Shakuri brings ground op toll at 226

9:56 pm

Israel 'studying details' of Hamas response, 'if and how' to move on negotiations - report
9:55 pm

Syria media outlets report apparent Israeli airstrike in Homs area
9:48 pm

Israel sending Eden Golan, 20, to represent country at Eurovision 2024 in Sweden

Soldiers wearing "enemy forces" vests are seen in a video from an IDF exercise that included a simulation of Israeli settlers kidnapping Palestinians. (Screenshot/X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Smotrich: It's like a blood libel

Far-right ministers slam IDF over drill simulating settlers kidnapping Palestinians

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says exercise was among the ‘extreme scenarios’ troops drilled for, apologizes for vests labeled ‘enemy forces’ worn by soldiers pretending to be settlers

David Chai Chasdai appears at a hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on July 2, 2013. (Yossi Zeliger/FLASH90)

Local bank freezes account of second extremist settler hit with US sanctions

Sderot Mayor Alon Davidi asleep on a couch in the Prime Minister's Office, February 5, 2024. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Southern mayors camp in Netanyahu’s office to protest plan to send evacuees home

Council leaders want prime minister, defense minister to meet with them, give public assurance that it is safe to go back to communities close to Gaza Strip

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Analysis

While US won’t say it wants ceasefire, it seeks humanitarian pause it can turn permanent

US plans to use truce to advance postwar plans, officials say, indicating they won’t back subsequent resumption of fighting, even if it means allowing Hamas to remain in some form

A picture taken from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip shows smoke rising over buildings in Khan Younis in the distance, following Israeli bombardment on February 5, 2024 as fighting continues between Israel and Hamas. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, arrives for a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset on February 5, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu pressured on hostage deal, as Ben Gvir, Smotrich lash out at US

FILE - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a press conference with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz in the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 28, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP, File)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb 6: Day 123 – Political acrimony may thwart PM’s ‘total victory’ vow

Loolwa Khazzoom

The end of conversation

I don’t need someone to be like me to want to connect with them. In fact, I love difference, even on the Arab-Israeli conflict

R. David Harden

The UNRWA dilemma

With Gaza on the brink of famine, there are three ways to deliver humanitarian aid. Israeli leaders don’t like any of them

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken leaves with Saudi Arabia's Minister of State and National Security Musaed Al Aiban, right, after a meeting with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, February 5, 2024. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)

Back in region, Blinken hashes over normalization, Gaza truce deal with Saudi prince

By Reuters, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

US secretary of state meets bin Salman to kick off tour that will also bring him to Egypt, Qatar and Israel; US official says ‘impossible’ to know if, when breakthrough in offing

IDF troops are seen operating in the Gaza Strip in this handout photo cleared for publication on February 6, 2024. (IDF)

IDF pushes ahead with Gaza offensive as soldier’s death brings ground op toll to 226

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Israeli reserve soldiers take part in a military drill in the Golan Heights, northern Israel, January 24, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Two soldiers lightly injured as several rounds of rocket fire hit north

By Emanuel Fabian and Lazar Berman

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is greeted by UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini, during a day of meetings about the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Amman, Jordan, November 4, 2023. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool photo via AP)

After suspending UNRWA funding, US aims to send aid to other groups operating in Gaza

State Department says administration looking at redirecting money to World Food Program, UNICEF and other NGOs, asserting humanitarian assistance will still reach Gazans

UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees) worker walking at the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank, February 4, 2024. (Photo by Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

UN chief taps panel to probe UNRWA ‘neutrality’ after Israeli allegations

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israelis protest outside the UNRWA headquarters in East Jerusalem on February 5, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Protesters rally outside UNRWA’s headquarters in Jerusalem, demanding its ouster

By Maya Zanger-Nadis

A picture taken from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip shows smoke rising over buildings in Khan Younis following Israeli bombardment on February 5, 2024, as fighting continues between Israel and the Hamas terror group. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Israel says half Hamas fighters taken out, Sinwar on run, as PM vows victory in months

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and Sam Sokol

Defense Minister Gallant claims Hamas leader moving ‘from hideout to hideout,’ IDF on his heels, as soldiers move toward Rafah, seek to stymie resurgence in north of Strip

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid enter Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip after crossing the terminal border from Egypt, on January 17, 2024. (AFP)

France seeking ‘verifiable proof’ that medicines reached hostages in Gaza

By Lazar Berman and Agencies

Israeli soldiers close the Beit Furik checkpoint east of the city of Nablus in the West Bank on September 29, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Palestinian gunmen in West Bank attempt two shootings, no injuries

By Emanuel Fabian

The Bar-Ilan University campus, on January 31, 2024. (Gavriel Fiske/Times of Israel)

'We’ve never had anything like this year'

Released IDF reservists head back to school, but not everything is a matter of course

By Gavriel Fiske

A visit to Bar-Ilan University reveals some of the difficulties facing returning student-soldiers and how administrators are attempting to address the challenges

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir leads an Otzma Yehudit faction meeting at the Knesset on February 5, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir apologizes for tweet by his son that implied Biden has Alzheimer’s disease

Post from Shuvael Ben Gvir, 18, which appears to have been removed from social media, comes days after far-right minister harshly criticized US administration’s handling of Gaza war

US President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event in North Las Vegas, Nev., February 4, 2024. (Stephanie Scarbrough/AP)

Biden confuses Macron with dead French president Francois Mitterrand

By AFP

IDF probing alleged violations of regulations and international law during war on Hamas

Team said planning to look at airstrike on senior Hamas leader that allegedly killed dozens of civilians, demolition of university campus, and 3 hostages mistakenly shot by troops

Palestinians look at a house destroyed in an Israeli strike in Rafah, Gaza Strip, February 5, 2024. (Hatem Ali/AP)

ZAKA personnel work at a field with destroyed cars from the October 7 massacre, near the Israel-Gaza border, December 12, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ZAKA exploited Hamas’s October 7 attack to campaign for donations – report

Illustrative: A young Israeli man sleeping in his bed, December 1, 2014. (Maxim Dinshtein/Flash90)

Trying to get a good night’s sleep has been a nightmare for many Israelis since Oct. 7

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Research by psychologist shows that dreaming has changed due to heightened anxiety, but there are ways to gain control over scary scenarios playing out in our heads as we sleep

A visualization of the space shield proposed by a team of scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology's Asher Space Research Institute (ASRI) (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Could parasols in space counter global warming? Israeli scientists want to find out

A team from the Technion is ready to build a prototype shield to block solar radiation; project could ultimately reduce Earth’s temperature by 1.5 Celsius in 2 years

Underwater measurements being taken in the Mediterranean Sea. (Shay Zilberman, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Institute)

Report finds Mediterranean getting hotter, more acidic, and sea levels are rising

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Houthi supporters attend a rally in support of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and against the US-led airstrikes on Yemen, in Sanaa, Yemen, January 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Houthis fire missiles at two cargo ships in Red Sea, causing minor damage to one

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A policeman holds handcuffs. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Police officer arrested for suspected sex offenses against two boys aged 14, 12

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)

Slim majority believes return of hostages should be primary war aim in Gaza — poll

Pentagon spokesman Air Force Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, February 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Pentagon: Initial indications say no Iranians killed in recent US strikes in Mideast

By Agencies and ToI Staff

File - Police at the scene of a murder in Jadeidi-Makr on October 7, 2022. (Israel Police)

38-year-old municipal engineer killed in northern Galilee shooting

Likud MK Tally Gotliv in the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on January 29, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

It stinksLikud minister, MK face off over vodka breath, blather

Britain's King Charles III (L) waves as he leaves the London Clinic with Queen Camilla, London, January 29, 2024. (Daniel LEAL / AFP)

UK’s King Charles III diagnosed with cancer, starting treatment — palace

By AFP

Head of Lahav 433, Deputy Superintendent Moti Levi, at a court hearing in the submarine affair at the Tel Aviv District court, on September 14, 2023. (Flash90)

Head of police major crimes unit resigns after four years on job

Supreme Court Justice Uzi Vogelman at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on December 31, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Acting High Court chief orders probe into leak of landmark ‘reasonableness’ ruling

By Jeremy Sharon

Wiz's offices in Tel Aviv. (Courtesy)

Cybersecurity unicorn Wiz eyes major expansion, public stock offering

By Sharon Wrobel

Police arrest some of about 200 people taken into custody on February 5, 2024, in the Rotunda of the State Capitol in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/ Mark Scolforo)

Over 100 arrested at Pennsylvania state capitol protest calling to divest from Israel

By MARK SCOLFORO

In this photo released by the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appears in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Ballsy movePro-Palestinian porn star from US visits Tehran, sparking questions

By AP and ToI Staff

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