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What Matters Most On Wednesday, February 21, 2024

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IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip in a photo cleared for publication on February 21, 2024 (IDF)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 21: Official says firm evidence that hostages received meds would indicate talks can succeed

Gantz: There are early signs of progress on new hostage deal framework * US vows to protect shipping in Red Sea as Yemen’s Houthis continue ‘reckless and indiscriminate attacks’

9:48 pm

Harvard condemns student and faculty groups for posting antisemitic cartoon
9:25 pm

US, partners will continue to protect Red Sea shipping from Houthi attacks - State Dept.
9:21 pm

Target of reported IDF strike in Damascus said to be Hezbollah official

Protesters gather outside the UN headquarters in New York City on December 4, 2023, to protest the international community's perceived silence on sexual violence committed by Hamas terrorists against Israeli women during the October 7 massacre. (Carli Fogel)

Israel submits report to UN on Hamas’s mass weaponization of rape

Written by umbrella organization of rape crisis centers, grim document reviews Palestinian terror group’s strategic use of sexual violence, as deniers abound

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, greets National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at the Knesset on May 23, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

Accusing left of forsaking Jewishness, Likud campaigns with Otzma Yehudit in Tel Aviv

Despite PM’s calls for unity during war, parties tap into secular-religious divisions in the metropolis, urge preservation of its ‘Jewish heritage and character’

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Eli Albag, father of hostage Liri Albag, speaks to protesters outside military headquarters in Tel Aviv, soon after Finance Minster Bezalel Smotrich said returning the hostages was 'not the most important thing'. February 20, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Hostage families call on public to join 'protests of fury'

Smotrich says bringing hostages home ‘not the most important thing,’ sparking outcry

Far-right minister says Israel needs to focus on destroying Hamas, slams those who call for a deal ‘at any price’; Gantz and Lapid condemn his comments

Medication belonging to hostages found at Nasser Hospital, in southern Gaza's Khan Younis, in a handout image published by the IDF on February 18, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

One month after they entered Gaza, Qatar says Hamas has begun giving meds to hostages

Op-ed: Day 138 of the war

In an Israel desperate for unity, Netanyahu keeps capitulating to the far-right, Haredim

Ben Gvir’s pyromaniacal Temple Mount demands * Why the ultra-Orthodox must share the burden * The IDF’s Rafah preparations * Public diplomacy lessons unlearned

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet with the troops who participated in a hostage rescue operation in Gaza, February 12, 2024. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

In the Kalanit fields

Seeing red in the wake of October 7 can spark Jewish survival instincts, shed Jewish insecurity, and reveal the truth about Jewish anti-Zionists

Help Ukraine and you help Israel

Jewish support would help open the Ukrainian market to Israeli companies – and cover the humanitarian aid provided by before October 7

Troops operating in the Gaza Strip in an undated photo released for publication on February 21, 2024 (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF soldier killed as heavy fighting flares up again in northern Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Military confirms large-scale operation launched in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood, an area believed largely cleared of Hamas gunmen; aid groups suspend food convoys to area

Screen capture from video of a WHO mission to evacuate patients from Nasser Hospital in the Gaza Strip, February 19, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

WHO says 32 patients evacuated from ‘no longer functional’ Nasser Hospital in Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki addresses the International Court of Justice (ICJ during public hearings on the request for an advisory opinion in respect of the "Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem," from February 19 to 26 at the Peace Palace in The Hague. (International Court of Justice)

Explainer

Israel a no-show at the ICJ, but its advocates argue the ‘occupation’ isn’t illegal

Scholars contend Palestinian failure to accept several peace proposals and address Israeli security concerns are cause of long-term Israeli rule in the territories

A Palestinian flag flies outside the United Nations' highest court during historic hearings in The Hague, Netherlands, February 21, 2024, into the legality of Israel's 57-year rule of West Bank and east Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 21: Day 138 – Israel in the dock at World Court over ‘apartheid’

US vetoes Security Council resolution demanding immediate ceasefire in Gaza war

By AP, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Veto of Algerian-drafted text is the third time Washington has blocked resolutions since outbreak of fighting as Washington pushes alternative draft; UK abstains in 13-1 vote

File - US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield casts a veto vote during a UN Security Council meeting on the Israel-Hamas war, at UN Headquarters in New York City on February 20, 2024. (Angela Weiss/AFP)

Brett McGurk, US White House Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa, speaks during the 17th IISS Manama Dialogue in the Bahraini capital Manama on November 21, 2021. (Mazen Mahdi/AFP)

US envoy heads to region to push hostage deal, press Israel on Rafah offensive

By Jacob Magid and AFP

Analysis$14b US aid package for Israel crafted with eye to ‘multi-front war,’ not just Gaza

Eran Masas stands on the outskirts of Kibbutz Magen on February 19, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)

Inside story

On Oct. 7 killing grounds, a vigilante army vet inspires grieving US Jewish leaders

By Canaan Lidor

Eran Masas tells American visitors how he risked his life – and lied to his wife – to rescue survivors despite having no official mandate to act

A car is removed from the area where reported Israeli airstrikes targeted an apartment in a residential building in the Kafr Sousa district of the Syrian capital Damascus on February 21, 2024. (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)

Syria says two killed in alleged Israeli strike on Damascus apartment building

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

State media says missile fired through 4th-floor window in high-security neighborhood that houses Iranian facilities; no comment from IDF

Iran's Minister of Petroleum Eng Javad Owji arrives at the 8th OPEC International Seminar in Vienna, Austria, on July 5, 2023. (Alex HALADA / AFP)

Iran says Israel behind gas pipeline sabotage last week

By AFP and ToI Staff

A Hezbollah drone is seen near Acre in northern Israel, February 20, 2024.(Screenshot: X)

IDF says Hezbollah drone crashed in town near Acre; no sirens sound

By Emanuel Fabian

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)

Exclusive

US readying to issue 2nd round of settler sanctions in coming weeks — sources

Several more Israeli extremists will face financial penalties with additional rounds to follow, official says; add that unilateral recognition of Palestinian state not likely

Illustrative: IDF troops operate in the West Bank, February, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Troops kill 3 gunmen, detain 14 terror suspects in overnight Jenin raid – IDF

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF Military Advocate General Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi in Jerusalem on February 8, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 )

IDF’s top lawyer warns against ‘cases of unacceptable conduct’ by troops in Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

Military advocate general to evaluate incidents, some of which ‘cross the criminal threshold,’ including unjustified use of force, looting, destruction of civilian property

This handout photo published on February 20, 2024, shows IDF soldiers operating a military polling station. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF opens polling booths for troops inside Gaza to vote in municipal elections

Army says voting stations will remain open until February 27, when the rest of Israel will cast ballots in local elections that were delayed after October 7 massacres

La Falfula Groove Iraqi. From left to right: David Regev-Zaarur, Itshak Zagzag, Yohani Perez, Alan Alaev, Gavriel Zikhron and Ben Machloof. (Courtesy)

'It’s like I was the grandson of Mozart or something'

Post-Oct. 7, Israeli band channeling 1930s Baghdad gets a boost from Iraqi musicians

By Gavriel Fiske

Led by the great-grandson of a foremost Iraqi musician of his era, La Falfula Groove Iraqi personifies the spirit of a bygone age while maintaining virtual ties with the Arab world

National Security Itamar Ben Gvir leads a faction meeting of his Otzma Yehudit party at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on February 19, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court rejects petition to disqualify far-right Ben Gvir as a minister

By Jeremy Sharon

Panel of three judges find that despite Otzma Yehudit leader’s checkered past, his appointment to cabinet is not ‘unreasonable in the extreme’

Illustrative: Foreign and Israeli journalists stand on a hill overlooking the Gaza Strip in the city of Sderot, southern Israel, October 19, 2023. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Gantz’s party threatens to veto bill allowing Ben Gvir to censor foreign media

Illustrative: Victim of domestic violence and abuse. (snob/Shutterstock.com)

Ben Gvir slashes budget for programs to protect women at risk of domestic abuse

Interview

October 7 and war trauma will lead to at least 30,000 new cases of PTSD, expert says

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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Handout picture released by the press office of Colombia's then president-elect Gustavo Petro (R) shows him meeting with Bolivia's President Luis Arce (L) before his inauguration ceremony in Bogota, on August 7, 2022. (Gustavo Petro's Press Office/AFP)

Presidents of Colombia, Bolivia back Brazilian counterpart’s Israel-Hitler comparison

By AFP, Reuters and ToI Staff

Interior of the Meir Tweig Synagogue in Baghdad, Iraq, on January 7, 2022. (Sabah ARAR / AFP)

Search this new list of Jewish family names from across the Middle East

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

The limestone box discovered during the Israel Antiquities Authority excavations in the City of David. (Zohar Shemesh/Israel Museum)

Rare Second Temple-era merchants box displayed at Israel Museum

By Gavriel Fiske

Screen capture from video of Israel Weinberger, a Jewish man in London whose daughter's birth certificate was defaced to remove a reference to the State of Israel, during an interview with Sky News, February 20, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

UK man decries ‘filthy’ tampering after Israel rubbed out on baby’s birth certificate

A February 2024 Instagram image reposted by Harvard Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, since deleted, showing a cartoon with antisemitic imagery that originated in the Civil Rights Era. The post is depicted over an image of the Harvard Yard gates. (Image from X; David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images via JTA)

Harvard pro-Palestinian faculty group apologizes after sharing antisemitic imagery

By JTA and ToI Staff

A pedestrian on the campus of Yeshiva University in New York City on August 30, 2022. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images, via JTA)

Professor who quit MIT over its antisemitism response takes job at Yeshiva University

Illustrative: A sign for 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' hangs at the Broadway opening at the Lyric Theatre in New York, April 22, 2018. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Theater charity Broadway Cares to fund relief for Israelis after Gaza aid ‘confusion’

By New York Jewish Week via JTA and ToI Staff

A handout picture released by the US Central Command (CENTCOM) on February 15, 2024, shows a US navy cutter next to a vessel reportedly carrying a shipment of Iranian weapons destined for Yemen's Houthi rebels which was seized on January 28. (CENTCOM/AFP)

French navy downs two drones over Red Sea as Houthis take aim at ‘Israeli’ ships

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries CEO Richard Francis speaks at a press briefing in Tel Aviv, Feb. 20, 2024. (Courtesy)

Teva CEO says production and distribution in Israel remain largely unaffected by war

By Sharon Wrobel

A tzedakah box for charitable giving in the foyer of a synagogue in Lafayette, California, Jan. 20, 2022. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

Jews who experience antisemitism give more to charity, US survey shows

By JTA and ToI Staff

Preparations for the inauguration of the BAPS Hindu Mandir, the largest Hindu temple in the Middle East, February 14, 2024. (Ryan Lim/AFP)

First Hindu temple inaugurated in Abu Dhabi by Indian prime minister

In this Sunday, February 24, 2019, file photo, Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny takes part in a march in memory of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov in Moscow, Russia. (AP/Pavel Golovkin, File)

US to impose ‘major sanctions’ on Russia over Navalny death, as Kremlin shirks blame

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