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What Matters Most On Monday, February 12, 2024

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From L-R: Gabriela Leimberg kisses her brother Fernando Marman, Clara Marman next to her partner Louis Har, at the Sheba Medical Center February 12, 2024 (Courtesy)

Netanyahu, Gallant observe rescue op from Shin Bet war room

IDF rescues 2 hostages from south Gaza’s Rafah in daring nighttime operation

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Yamam officers breach second floor of building, kill three Hamas terrorists guarding Fernando Marman and Louis Har, as air force carries out massive strikes

Louis Har (L) and Fernando Marman after their rescue, at Sheba Medical Center, February 12, 2024. (IDF Spokesperson)

Praising hostages’ rescue, Israeli officials vow to ‘never give up’ until all are home

By Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

Louis Har (in black) and Fernando Marman reuniting with their loved ones, at Sheba Medical Center, February 12, 2024 (IDF Spokesperson)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 12: Day 129 – Daring hostage rescue brings hope to war-torn nation

US President Joe Biden arrives with Jordan's King Abdullah II to speak in the Cross Hall of the White House, February 12, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 12: Biden says deal would see at least 6-week pause ‘to build something more enduring’

Jordan’s Abdullah at White House: October 7 attacks cannot be accepted by any Muslim * Restoration work starts at Kibbutz Be’eri * US urges probe into killing of 6-year-old in Gaza

9:59 pm

Biden: Deal in works would see at least 6-week pause used 'to build something more enduring'
9:32 pm

London theater apologizes after comedian said to harass Jewish audience member who didn't stand for Palestinian flag
8:39 pm

Bulldozer crew begin two-year restoration plan for kibbutz massacred on Oct. 7

Rescued hostages reunite with families in emotional video

‘Time running out’: Relatives of rescued hostages call for deal to get back the rest

By AFP and ToI Staff

‘We are happy today, but we didn’t win,’ says Louis Har’s son-in-law; Fernando Marman’s niece says ‘we will not stop until all hostages are free’

Israelis block a highway as they demand the release of the hostage from Hamas captivity during a rally in Tel Aviv, Israel, February 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

A picture taken from Rafah shows smoke billowing during Israeli strikes over Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip at sunrise on February 11, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. (SAID KHATIB/AFP)

US sees ‘real progress’ on framework for hostage release, says senior official

By Reuters, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

IDF soldiers Sgt. First Class (res.) Alon Kleinman, 21, of Tel Aviv (L) and Sgt. First Class Adi Eldor, 21, of Haifa, whose deaths in action in Gaza were announced on February 12, 2024. (Courtesy)

Two IDF soldiers killed in southern Gaza Strip, bringing ground op death toll to 229

By Emanuel Fabian and Renee Ghert-Zand

Palestinian medics say 15 killed in airstrike in central Gaza’s Deir Al-Balah overnight; Hamas decries hostage rescue operation in Rafah as continuation of a ‘genocidal war’

Egyptian military personnel stand alert at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza Strip, in Rafah, Egypt, October 31, 2023. (AP/Mohammed Asad)

Top defense officials said to try to calm Egyptian counterparts on Rafah attack plans

Reports swirl as Gaza’s southernmost city emerges as imminent target of IDF campaign; officials reportedly tell Egyptian security establishment they will coordinate with Cairo

Biden reportedly fed up with Netanyahu, calling him ‘asshole’ over management of war

By Lazar Berman

NBC News reports that US president is telling confidants he is frustrated by prime minister’s refusal to change tactics in Gaza and agree to Saudi normalization framework

US President Joe Biden (right) is greeted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion International Airport, October 18, 2023. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (back) greets US President Joe Biden upon his arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport, October 18, 2023. (Brendan Smialowski/ AFP)

Biden said to urge PM to send team to Cairo for hostage talks

Biden tells Netanyahu: Don’t press into Rafah without ‘credible’ plan for civilians

By ToI Staff, Agencies and Jacob Magid

In 45-minute call days after president said Gaza campaign is ‘over the top,’ two leaders discuss ongoing war against Hamas, aid to Gazans, efforts to release remaining hostages

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) meets with IDF soldiers in Latrun, near Jerusalem, on February 5, 2024. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Netanyahu: US response to attack like Oct. 7 would be ‘at least as strong’ as Israel’s

By Lazar Berman and Agencies

Guy Rolnik interviewing a social media executive speaking on condition of anonymity for a scene in the "Rolnik Report." (Kan)

Interview'They don’t give a crap, as long as they keep making money'

Delete your account: How social media may be metastasizing terror in service of Hamas

By Amir Ben-David

Influential economic columnist Guy Rolnik says hatred of Israel and Jews is being spread online to an unfathomable degree, creating an algorithmically sustained shadow October 7

When the battlefield is the basketball court

The Irish women’s team refused to shake hands with the Israel’s team, leaving the Israelis no choice but to win a decisive victory

To defeat Hamas, we must use our words

The terror group must be confronted ideologically, and for this, the most important battleground is in Israel’s prisons

F-35i fighter jets are seen at the Nevatim Air Base in southern Israel, in an undated handout photo. (Israel Defense Forces)

Court orders Netherlands to stop F-35 parts delivery to Israel over war on Hamas

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Dutch government vows to appeal after judge says there is ‘undeniable’ risk exported parts are being ‘used in serious violations of international humanitarian law’

The iconic Rubinger photo of three paratroopers standing at the recaptured Western Wall in June 1967. From left: Tzion Karasenti, Yitzhak Yifat and Chaim Oshri (David Rubinger/GPO)

Solomonic ruling: 2 paratroopers can claim single spot in iconic Six Day War image

By Jeremy Sharon

The leftmost soldier in the 1967 photo of paratroopers at the Western Wall has been identified as both Zion Karasenti and Abraham Bornstein; a Tel Aviv court upholds both claims

Al Jazeera journalist is also a Hamas commander, IDF says

By Emanuel Fabian

Laptop found in Gaza base contains documents and images showing Mohamed Washah is a senior operative in terror group’s anti-tank forces and did research for air unit, military says

Undated photo allegedly showing Al Jazeera reporter Mohamed Washah in the Gaza Strip, (IDF. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Permanent Representative of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations Lana Nusseibeh speaks during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, December 22, 2023. (Yuki Iwamura/AP)

Emirati envoy conditions Gaza rehab funds on progress toward Palestinian state

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Moshe Basson foraging in the Jerusalem hills for his restaurant, Eucalyptus (Courtesy Moshe Basson)

Foraging Jerusalem restaurateur grasps the nettle, and the morel, to reopen after Oct. 7

By Jessica Steinberg

Moshe Basson of Eucalyptus is ready to serve diners again for first time since war broke out, and his long-awaited book of recipes is out too

Then-Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz (standing), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center), and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, at a press conference at the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, November 22, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

New poll shows anti-Netanyahu bloc with 75 seats, Smotrich on the brink

In Channel 12 survey, Gantz’s National Unity party receives 37 seats, with Netanyahu’s Likud at 18; majority of public wants early elections

Channel 13 reporter Gil Tamari speaks during a panel discussion on February 11, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Likud enraged after reporter says ‘Netanyahu wants all the hostages dead’

Security forces at the scene of an attempted stabbing attack in Jerusalem's Old City on February 11, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Security forces say they foiled 2 separate stabbing attacks in Jerusalem, West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

Attackers neutralized in incidents less than an hour apart; man lightly injured by shrapnel from gunfire during one attack

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

Jordan’s King Abdullah joins aid airdrop to Gaza as humanitarian crisis grows

By Reuters and ToI Staff

With monarch aboard, Jordanian military plane drops medical supplies for field hospitals in enclave; UNRWA says massive supply of food has been blocked from leaving Israeli port

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Ramallah, February 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)

PA’s Abbas in Doha to discuss efforts to achieve Gaza truce

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Israeli settlers hurl stones at Palestinians near the Israeli settlement of Yitzhar in the West Bank on October 7, 2020. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90/File)

Settlers throw stones at Palestinian vehicles near Nablus; driver hospitalized

About 15 settlers seen hurling rocks, smashing windshields and spraying tear gas at Palestinian cars near Bizzariya, according to Yesh Din

This photo shows a construction site of new housing projects in the West Bank settlement of Givat Ze'ev, June 18, 2023. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)

West Bank settler population grew by nearly 3% in 2023 — report

By AP

File: NATO military vehicles roll during a military exercising at the Training Range in Pabrade, some 60km (38 miles) north of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania on Monday, June 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Biden slams Trump’s ‘appalling’ NATO comments; alliance chief: He put allies at risk

By AFP

Republican presidential frontrunner sees severe pushback after he recounts saying he’d ‘encourage’ Russia to ‘do whatever the hell they want’ to members that don’t pay their share

Former US president and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump attends a "Get Out the Vote" Rally in Conway, South Carolina, on February 10, 2024. (Julia Nikhinson/AFP)

Trump: Frame foreign aid as a loan, demand repayment if country ‘drops us like a dog’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell attends a news conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, February 7, 2024. (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)

EU’s Borrell warns ‘NATO cannot be an alliance a la carte’ after Trump remarks

By AFP

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

AG concerned procedural shortcuts being used to pass illegal cabinet resolutions

By Jeremy Sharon

Republican presidential candidate former president Donald Trump (left) speaks at a Get Out The Vote rally at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina, February 10, 2024. (AP Photo/ Manuel Balce Ceneta) President Joe Biden meets with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the White House February 9, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Andrew Harnik)

AnalysisAllies think US is becoming less reliable, regardless of who wins election

By AP and ToI Staff

An interview between Robert Kraft and Dr. Clarence B. Jones in a Super Bowl ad placed by the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, February 11, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Super Bowl ad on antisemitism features ‘I Have A Dream’ speechwriter Clarence Jones

By JTA and ToI Staff

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes (15) celebrates after the NFL Super Bowl 58 football game against the San Francisco 49ers, in Las Vegas, February 11, 2024. John Locher/AP)

Mahomes leads Chiefs to Super Bowl thriller win over 49ers

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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