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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 22, 2024

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Police at the scene of a terror shooting attack outside of Ma'ale Adumim in the West Bank, February 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean); Inset: Matan Elmaliah, 26, from Ma'ale Adumim, who was killed in the attack. (X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Local leaders: Lines at West Bank checkpoints a death trap

One killed, 11 wounded in terrorist shooting attack near Jerusalem checkpoint

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Three Palestinian gunmen open fire at Israelis stuck in traffic at checkpoint between Ma’ale Adumim settlement and capital; 2 attackers killed, 1 captured; pregnant woman wounded

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at the scene of a deadly terror attack on Route 1 near Ma'ale Adumim, in the West Bank, February 22, 2024 (Jamal Awad/Flash90).

Far-right ministers demand more settlements, checkpoints, after deadly terror attack

Police at the scene of a terror shooting attack on Route 1 near Ma'ale Adumim, in the West Bank, February 22, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Reservist soldier, fresh from Gaza war, shot Ma’ale Adumim terrorist attacker

By ToI Staff and Renee Ghert-Zand

People walk along a street ravaged by Israeli strikes in Gaza City on February 10, 2024. (AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 22: War cabinet approves dispatching delegation to hostage negotiations in Paris

By ToI Staff and Shira Silkoff

In first since Oct. 7, Smotrich says thousands of new settlement homes to be approved as response to terror shooting * PA reports one killed, 4 hurt by Israeli airstrike in Jenin

9:46 pm

After funding freezes, UNRWA chief says Palestinian refugee agency at 'breaking point'
9:14 pm

In first since Oct. 7, Smotrich says thousands of new settlement homes to be approved
8:32 pm

IDF: Security teams staffed by reservists will keep operating in Jerusalem area, 'Green Line' towns

Second high-level summit on hostages in Paris possible soon

Gantz sees signs of progress on hostage deal, warns of looming Rafah op during Ramadan

War cabinet member says government will not seek sweeping limitations on Arab Israeli worshipers at Al-Aqsa during holy month — only on individuals considered dangerous

Minister Benny Gantz at a press conference at IDF headquarters, in Tel Aviv, February 21, 2024. (Contact Productions)

War cabinet minister Benny Gantz speaks at a gathering of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, in Jerusalem on February 18, 2024 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 22: Day 139 – Politics at play as Gantz talks possible hostage deal

Ayelet Samerano, mother of murdered hostage Yonatan Samerano, speaking at a press conference on February 21, 2024. (Screen capture)

‘Does the UN hold my son?’ mother of murdered hostage asks as families assail UNRWA

By Jessica Steinberg

Amplify your Jewish organization’s message

Join hundreds of Jewish professionals online Feb. 27-29 for the Jewish Digital Summit — leaders in Jewish AI, Marketing, Tech, Fundraising and Education will empower YOU to learn and grow for 2024 and beyond.

Israeli soldiers patrol in Gaza City's Zeitoun neighborhood on November 25, 2023, on the second day of a truce between Israel and Hamas. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

IDF said advancing Gaza City pilot to have unaffiliated locals take over governance

TV report says military met with community leaders in Zeitoun neighborhood, wants them to take charge of aid distribution in hopes of establishing alternative to Hamas rule

IDF soldiers patrolling in the Gaza Strip in a photo released by the military, Feb. 22, 2024. (IDF Spokesperson)

IDF presses on with new Gaza City operation, 20 Hamas fighters killed in past day

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

The damage after a rocket fired from Lebanon hit a building in the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona, February 11, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Reporter's notebook'I feel deep pain but I am not afraid'

Refusing evacuation, those who remain in Kiryat Shmona cling to home and brace for ‘hell’

By Canaan Lidor

Saying their presence on the war-torn border helps guard the center, some 20% of the northern city’s residents won’t budge despite financial uncertainty and frequent rocket strikes

An IDF tank operates south of Gaza City, February 20, 2024. (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)

Analysis

The Gaza war is essentially over — but Israel can still win the campaign

Operations against Hamas are steadily dwindling, but with the enemy hiding underground, it can be replaced — if Israel’s leaders move beyond political concerns

UK-funded humanitarian aid for a hospital in Gaza air-dropped by the Jordanian Air Force, 21 February 2024. (UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

Citing ‘desperate’ situation, UK and Jordan airdrop supplies to north Gaza hospital

By Agencies and ToI Staff

When did cultural appropriation get cool again?

A deep dive into the hypocrisy of sporting keffiyehs and the malevolent ignorance of accessorizing with bloody hands

Maurice Hirsch and Yossi Kuperwasser

What would a ‘revitalized’ Palestinian Authority be?

Even before reforming its endemic corruption, the PA must stop promoting Jew hatred and accept Israel’s existence

Police: Terrorist in Ra’anana attack initially tried to target IDF’s Arabic spokesman

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

One of the perpetrators of deadly ramming spree last month first sought to attack well-known figure Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee after spotting him at restaurant, officials say

Avichay Adraee, the IDF's Arabic-language spokesman. (Courtesy)

Britain's main opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer speaking during the weekly session of Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) in the House of Commons, in central London on February 21, 2024. (Jesica Taylor/UK Parliament/AFP)

UK parliament descends into chaos as MPs vote to back Gaza humanitarian ceasefire

By AP, Reuters and ToI Staff

Speaker under fire for allegedly showing favor to Labour, helping Keir Starmer avoid a rebellion in his party by putting forward his own amendment to SNP legislation

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a plenum session at the Knesset on February 19, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset votes resoundingly against unilateral Palestinian state recognition

By Reuters, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Palestinians storm a UN-run aid supply center that distributes food to displaced families in the Gaza Strip, Deir al-Balah on October 28, 2023. (Mohammed Abed / AFP)

New footage purportedly shows Gazan civilians protesting against Hamas

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Deteriorating humanitarian situation reportedly prompts some Gazans to rally against terror leaders; Sinwar is said to be ill but to have broken a week-long radio silence

File: Palestinian crowds struggle to buy bread from a bakery in Rafah, Gaza Strip, February 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

As flow of aid to Gaza dries up, UN blames ‘breakdown of law and order’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Students at the Mir Yeshiva in the ultra orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim listen to a lesson by Rabbi Dov Landau, head of the Slabodka yeshiva in Bnei Brak, September 19, 2023. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Record 66,000 ultra-Orthodox men were exempted in past year

AG says Haredim face military draft if no legislation by April, seeks deadline extension

By Jeremy Sharon

Responding to petitions, Baharav-Miara’s office tells top court more time needed to solve community’s army service conundrum; Smotrich: ‘Situation is outrageous, cannot continue’

Footage from EIlat shows an interception of a missile over the Red Sea, February 22, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israel’s Arrow intercepts Houthi ballistic missile headed for Eilat

By Emanuel Fabian

Ballistic missile intercepted over Red Sea; US military destroys seven Houthi anti-ship missiles, one missile launcher and a drone that posed an ‘imminent threat’

Illustrative: In this photo provided by the Indian Navy on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024, a view of the oil tanker Marlin Luanda on fire after an attack, in the Gulf of Aden. (Indian Navy via AP)

Missiles set ship ablaze off Yemen as Houthis officially ban Israeli maritime traffic

Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike on the southern Lebanese village of Khiam near the border with Israel on February 21, 2024. (Rabih DAHER / AFP)

US senators: Truce in Gaza could pave way for Israel and Hezbollah ‘to de-escalate’

By Reuters and ToI Staff

View of a United Airlines flight at Ben Gurion Airport on August 3, 2013. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

United to resume direct flights to Israel, the first US carrier to do so since Oct. 7

Airlines says first two flights from Newark will include a stop in Munich, with goal of starting nonstop service again on March 6

A soldier arrives at Sheba Medical Center for treatment after being evacuated from the battlefield by an IDF helicopter during the Israel-Hamas war, October 2023. (Courtesy of Sheba Medical Center)

Reporter's notebookOver 2,880 wounded soldiers hospitalized in the war

Inside RAM 2, the IDF Medical Corps unit that cares for hospitalized soldiers

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Greatly expanded since the war began, RAM 2 units respond to the practical and emotional needs of wounded soldiers and their families while liaising with the army on their behalf

Richard C. Visek, acting legal adviser of the US Department of state, right, arrives to address the United Nations' highest court during hearings in The Hague, Netherlands, Feb. 21, 2024, into the legality of Israel's 57-year rule of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

At World Court, US argues against declaring Israeli West Bank rule illegal

By Jeremy Sharon

Washington asserts UN resolutions are framework for resolving conflict, says unilateral call for Israeli withdrawal would violate need to address Israeli security concerns

A Palestinian man inspects a car burnt in a reported attack the previous night by Israeli settlers in the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus in the West Bank, on February 20, 2024. (Zain Jaafar/AFP)

AnalysisHow do Biden’s new sanctions affect Jewish charities that donate in Israel?

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Brazil's Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira speaks during the G20 foreign ministers meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on February 21, 2024. (MAURO PIMENTEL / AFP)

After Holocaust remarks, Brazil condemns UN ‘paralysis’ on Gaza at tense G20 meeting

By Agencies and ToI Staff

FM says Security Council inability to act shows multilateral institutions not ‘properly equipped’ for challenges; Turkey praises Brazil president’s comparison of Gaza to Holocaust

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) shakes hands with Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at Planalto Palace in Brasilia on February 21, 2024. (Evaristo SA/AFP)

Blinken meets Brazil’s Lula days after Gaza genocide claims, says US ‘disagrees’

By AFP and ToI Staff

A Palestinian flag is displayed at a home in Dearborn, Michigan, on February 15, 2024. (Bastien INZAURRALDE / AFP)

In Michigan, Arab American voters vow to ‘punish’ Biden over support for Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

‘Vote for Palestine. No Biden’: Campaigners, angry at US president for his handling of the war, are not concerned by possibility that Republican Trump might win White House instead

Screen capture from video of Chicago high school students staging a walkout in support of a ceasefire in the war in the Gaza Strip, January 30, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

US investigating Chicago public schools after students’ anti-Israel walkout

By JTA and ToI Staff

More Headlines

Eliav Cohen-Tsemah (left) and Itay Yehoshua were friends who ran together; Yehoshua was killed in battle on October 7, 2023. Cohen-Tsemah is dedicating his 100th marathon, the 13th Jerusalem Marathon on March 8, 2024, to Yehoshua's memory (Courtesy)

A good runJerusalem marathoner dedicates 100th race to friend killed Oct. 7

By Jessica Steinberg

Team at Tel Aviv office of US-based venture capital firm Ibex Investors. (Courtesy)

US-based investment firm secures $106 million for fund to back Israeli startups

By Sharon Wrobel

Illustrative: A soldier of the Danish Army (Forsvaret) guards the Copenhagen Synagogue, December 16, 2023. (Nils Meilvang/Ritzau Scanpix via AP, File)

Post-October 7 antisemitism in Denmark at highest level since WWII

By AP and ToI Staff

Minister Gadi Eisenkot, a war cabinet observer, attends a conference at Reichman University in Herzliya, February 6, 2024 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90).

Frustrated with cabinet leaks, Eisenkot said to call for probe, polygraphs

Takeshi Ebisawa with a rocket launcher. (US District Court for the Southern District of New York)

Feds accuse alleged Japan crime boss of trying to traffic nuclear material to Iran

By AP

Palestinian radio presenter Maysam Barghouti sits at Radio Ajyal, a station based in Ramallah, Feb. 9, 2024. (Zain Jaafar/AFP)

With contact barred, families of Palestinian prisoners go on air to send messages

By AFP and ToI Staff

The portrait of Missak Manouchian is projected on the facade of the Pantheon monument in Paris, France, Feb. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

In first, France honors foreign communist WWII resistance fighter

By Sylvie Corbet

An undated photo of Nafha and Ramon prisons in southern Israel. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Palestinian terror convict dies in Israeli custody under undisclosed circumstances

A woman walks past electoral posters of Ayatollah Alireza Arafi, a candidate for the upcoming Assembly of Experts elections in downtown Tehran, Iran, February 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran begins first election campaign since Mahsa Amini’s death

By AP

US President Joe Biden arrives on Marine One to attend a fundraiser in San Francisco, February 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

In war of words, Biden calls Putin a ‘crazy SOB,’ Kremlin slams ‘Hollywood cowboy’

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