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What Matters Most On Friday, February 9, 2024

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US President Joe Biden speaks at the White House, February 8, 2024, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Addressing state of Israel-Hamas war, Biden calls Gaza response ‘over the top’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US president also says ‘a lot of innocent people are dying, and it’s gotta stop’

The US Capitol is seen at sunrise, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

US Senate advances $95 billion bill for aid to Israel and Ukraine

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Troops operating in the Gaza Strip in a photo released by the military for publication on February 8, 2024 (Israel Defense Forces)

US intel says Israel degraded Hamas capabilities, but not close to eliminating group

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

US President Joe Biden, left, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, to discuss the the war between Israel and Hamas, in Tel Aviv, on October 18, 2023. (Miriam Alster/ Pool Photo via AP)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 9: After Moody’s downgrade, PM says credit rating will rise again once Israel wins war

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

White House says directive doesn’t have new standards but follows congressional pressure to condition Israel aid * Almost 10% of Gaza’s under 5 now acutely malnourished, UN says

11:20 pm

Netanyahu on Moody's downgrade: Economy is strong, credit rating will rise again once we win war
10:22 pm

US proposals to fund other agencies instead of UNRWA not viable -- senior aid official
10:00 pm

Moody’s lowers Israel's credit rating, downgrades outlook from 'stable' to 'negative' amid war

Screenshot showing medication packages from IDF video shot inside a tunnel beneath Khan Younis where 12 hostages were held. The video was released on February 7, 2024. (Courtesy of IDF)

Exclusive

Footage shows medication packages in Gaza tunnel where hostages were held

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Boxes of drugs include anti-fungal vaginal tablets, insulin syringes and hypothyroidism treatment, as Israel awaits proof of delivery of medicine weeks after deal

An end-to-end service for navigating the Israeli real estate market

For many people abroad, buying real estate in Israel is challenging. Prosperity Real Estate’s mission is to simplify this process for those looking to invest or build their home in the Holy Land

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset, Jerusalem, February 7, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

'For now, all that is left to do is to apply pressure'

Israel backing off hostage talks unless Hamas drops ‘delusional’ demands — official

By Lazar Berman

Israeli source says Jerusalem won’t offer counter-proposal, instead seeking to put pressure on Qatar via the US to soften terror group’s terms; targeted raids planned for Rafah

Right wing activists protest to demand the continuation of fighting against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in Jerusalem, February 8, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Protesters in Jerusalem urge continued military action in Gaza amid truce discussions

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Clashing visions of victory

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

What does winning the Israel-Hamas war look like, not only for those fighting in Gaza, but also for the Palestinian Authority, the United States and Arab states in the region?

Times of Israel senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur (Courtesy)

A simple act of defiance

I thought Israelis would have made this a thing, but my shawarma server was stunned. ’Has it really been that many days?’ he asked

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Signs of spring, though it’s still October 7th

I walk in the blue and gold sunshine of Jerusalem, with its almond blossoms, posters of hostages, and mourning tents where grief spills out

Rachelli Prawer

The kindergarten’s ‘wishing tree’ made me cry

Some, to be sure, wish for a dog or a bunny, but it’s telling that more are thinking about the soldiers and the hostages

Daniel G. Saunders

Even in the UK, all kinds of things trigger thoughts of October 7th

The challenge is finding the balance between immersing in the Jewish people’s pain and dealing with the rest of my life

Smoke rises after an Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, February 8, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Hezbollah fires 30 rockets at Israel in retaliation for reported hit on top officer

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

No injuries reported in barrage on northern Israel amid day of heightened tensions on border, after drone strike in southern Lebanon said to target two terror operatives

A burning car is seen in the southern Lebanese town of Nabatieh after it was struck in a reported Israeli airstrike on February 8, 2024. (Screenshot from X used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Top Hezbollah commander hit in apparent Israeli strike as air force head threatens more

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Mazloum Abdi, who heads the Kurdish-led, US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), speaks during an interview with AFP on October 10, 2023 in Syria's northern city of Hasakeh. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)

Head of US-backed forces in Syria seeks more air defense after deadly drone strike

By Maya Gebeily

A pregnant Shahar Naim holds a picture of her husband Amir Naim, who was killed by Hamas terrorists while defending Kibbutz Erez on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)

Family Day

Pregnant war widows carry new life while processing death of their fallen husbands

By Renee Ghert-Zand

IDF Widows and Orphans organization launches multifaceted program supporting dozens of women who face giving birth without their partners

Biden hits back at special counsel report that questions his memory, handling of docs

By Eric Tucker, LINDSAY WHITEHURST, Zeke Miller and Colleen Long

In White House remarks, US president insists memory is ‘fine’ amid unflattering characterizations, questioning of mental acuity; he won’t face charges over classified files

US President Joe Biden answers questions after speaking about the Special Counsel report in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 8, 2024 in a surprise last-minute addition to his schedule for the day. (Mandel NGAN / AFP)

US President Joe Biden answers questions about Israel after speaking about the Special Counsel report in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 8, 2024. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

After fumbling Hamas’s name, Biden mistakes dead leader for living one, again

By Agencies and ToI Staff

After Eisenkot critique, official says PM guiding ‘deep, serious’ debates on Gaza

By Lazar Berman

War cabinet member continues to criticize management of war, saying Netanyahu won’t make crucial calls on who will replace Hamas in the Strip when it’s over

War cabinet Minister Gadi Eisenkot speaks at Reichman University in Herzliya, February 6, 2024. (Gilad Kavalerchik/ Reichman University)

This picture taken from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, shows smoke rising over buildings in Khan Younis during Israeli bombardment on February 8, 2024, as fighting continues between Israel and the Palestinian terror group Hamas. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Israel ramps up strikes on Rafah as US warns major offensive would be ‘disaster’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Palestinians receive food rations at a donation point at a camp for internally displaced people in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on February 2, 2024. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Displaced by war and seeking shelter, Gazans resort to living in chicken sheds

By Reuters and ToI Staff

With around 85% of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents displaced, some families feel they have reached rock bottom as they search for a place to call home in the war-torn enclave

Top UN humanitarian official says northern Gaza assessment mission in early stages

UN chief promises to act immediately against any ‘Hamas infiltration’ of UNRWA

By Agencies and ToI Staff

UN rights chief says Israeli effort to create a Gaza ‘buffer zone’ is a ‘war crime’

By AFP

Haredi men who decided to join the military amid the war between Israel and Hamas, at the IDF recruiting offices in Tel Hashomer, near Tel Aviv, October 23, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Interview'The army isn't ready to draft them'

After the October 7 cataclysm, has the Haredi attitude to serving in the IDF changed?

According to Dr. Eliezer Hayun, an expert in Haredi society who is himself ultra-Orthodox, change will happen, but it must come from the ground up – and the IDF must be prepared

Plan to extend soldiers’ stints sparks calls to end ultra-Orthodox draft exemptions

By Sam Sokol and Emanuel Fabian

Daily Briefing Feb. 9: Day 126 – As IDF aims to extend draft time, will Haredim join?

This handout picture provided by the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him sitting on stage during a meeting with Iranian air force commanders in Tehran on February 5, 2024, with a local Kaman-12 drone displayed behind him. (khamenei.ir/AFP)

After he hailed Oct. 7 onslaught, Iran leader’s Facebook, Instagram accounts removed

By AFP and ToI Staff

Social media giant Meta says Ayatollah Khamenei repeatedly flouted ‘our dangerous organizations and individuals policy’; Twitter/X accounts still active

Members of the Ireland women's basketball team pictured before they faced Israel in EuroBasket qualifying, February 8, 2024 (X screengrab, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the copyright law)

Irish basketball team refuses to shake hands with Israelis, proceeds to lose by 30

By AP and ToI Staff

Basketball Ireland backed national women’s team forgoing pleasantries after Israeli player called them antisemitic; Israel captain: It was a lot more than a win, it became personal

President Isaac Herzog and Argentinian President Javier Milei tour Kibbutz Nir Oz on February 8, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

Argentina’s Milei sees echoes of Holocaust on visit to shattered kibbutz

Accompanied by Herzog, president visits Nir Oz, which dozens of Argentinean immigrants called home prior to October 7, when a quarter of residents were killed or kidnapped by Hamas

Kari Warberg Block, a US farmer and entrepreneur, who has been volunteering pruning tomato vines and helping harvest farmland in the western Negev close to the Egyptian border, February 2024. (Courtesy)

Interview

Meet the Christian entrepreneur becoming a voice for war-hit Israeli farmers

By Sharon Wrobel

A magazine is displayed during a preview of the exhibition 'My Verses Are like Dynamite' by Curt Bloch at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany on February 8, 2024. (Stefanie Loos / AFP)

Nazi gorillas and Hitler as a clown: Holocaust survivor’s cartoons on show in Berlin

By Deborah Cole

Full collection of Curt Block’s satirical magazines goes on display eight decades after he created them with a fountain pen and newspaper cutouts while hiding in a Dutch attic

More Headlines

This picture taken from the Israeli border with the northern Gaza Strip shows Israeli soldiers watching Gaza City from a position on January 1, 2024, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the terror group Hamas. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Bedouin Israeli who joined Hamas in Gaza in 2016 arrested trying to return to Israel

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

This undated image provided by Yasmeen Elagha shows Elagha, right, with her cousin Borak Alagha. Relatives of Borak Alagha, 28, and Hashem Alagha, 20, two American brothers trapped in Gaza, say Israeli forces have detained the two US citizens, along with their Canadian father, in a raid on their home early Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. (Yasmeen Elagha via AP)

US seeking answers after Chicago brothers, Louisiana mom detained in Gaza, West Bank

By AP and Jacob Magid

Swiss police officers stand next to a train, where passengers traveling from Yverdon to Sainte-Croix were earlier held hostage, in Essert-Sous-Champvent, western Switzerland on February 8, 2024. (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP)

Axe-wielding Iranian asylum seeker killed by police in Swiss train hostage situation

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, left, shake hand with Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine's Armed Forces Valerii Zaluzhnyi during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, February 8, 2024. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Ukraine’s Zelensky replaces his top general to shake up deadlocked war with Russia

By ILLIA NOVIKOV

A massive oil leak caused by the rupture of a Europe Asia Pipeline Company line in the Evrona nature reserve in 2014. (Environmental Protection Ministry)

State oil conglomerate fined NIS 1.5 million for massive leak in nature reserve

This picture taken on January 31, 2024 shows a view of the almost empty Roman Catholic Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth in northern Israel. Nazareth's landmark basilica is empty, the surrounding restaurants, stores and market that thrive on pilgrims are closed, while hotels in the Old City have been shut for months. (Nicolas Garcia/AFP)

Israel-Hamas war ices hopes for post-pandemic tourism rebound

By AFP

A man holds a Palestinian flag during the inauguration of Gaza street in support to the Palestinian people, in the historic center of Managua, Nicaragua on January 30, 2024. (Oswaldo Rivas/AFP)

Nicaragua files application to join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Photo released by Sputnik news agency showing Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, being interviewed by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson at the Kremlin in Moscow, February 6, 2024. (Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik, Kremlin, Pool Photo via AP)

Putin hints at possible swap of jailed WSJ reporter, urges US to push Ukraine talks

By AP

US President Joe Biden hosts Jordan's King Abdullah II at the White House on May 13, 2022. (Royal Hashemite Court)

Jordanian king to meet Biden on efforts to end Israel-Hamas war

By AFP and ToI Staff

Cars drive past City Hall, June 28, 2023, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Trisha Ahmed, File)

Minneapolis approves resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire, overriding mayor’s veto

By AP

Military vehicles parade during a pro-Palestinian rally in Yemen's Houthi-held capital Sanaa on February 7, 2024 amid the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and the Palestinian terror group Hamas. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP)

US strikes Houthi cruise missiles ‘prepared to launch’ at ships in Red Sea

By AFP

An Indian crested porcupine. (Rufus46, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)

Taibe man given 27 months behind bars for illegally hunting porcupines

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