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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 2, 2024

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People gather around the shell of a car used by US-based aid group World Central Kitchen, which was hit by an Israeli strike the previous day in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, April 2, 2024. (AFP)

Israel acknowledges killing 7 aid charity workers in ‘tragic, unintentional’ airstrike

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

World Central Kitchen halts Gaza ops after ‘unforgivable’ Israeli bombing; victims’ countries demand answers; PM says will ‘do everything’ to prevent recurrence; White House ‘heartbroken’

Palestinians carry the body of a person following an alleged Israeli airstrike, into the Al Aqsa hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, Monday, April 1, 2024 (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Aid organization says 7 workers killed in Israeli strike in central Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

This combination photo shows US President Joe Biden, left, on March 8, 2024, in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, October 28, 2023. (AP Photo)

US says Israel agreed to take concerns over Rafah op into account at virtual meeting

Iranian protesters burn representations of the US and Israeli flags during a gathering to condemn killing members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in Syria, at the Felestin (Palestine) Sq. in downtown Tehran, April 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Khamenei: 'The evil Zionist regime will be punished'

Iran and Hezbollah vow ‘punishment and revenge’ for strike that killed IRGC generals

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Tehran and its Lebanon-based proxy blame Israel for attack in Damascus that killed Quds force leaders; US reportedly tells Iran it had ‘no involvement’ or prior knowledge

IRGC official Mohammad Reza Zahedi, in July 2, 2017. (Ali Khara/Fars Media Corporation, via Wikimedia CC BY 4.0)

Iran’s top commander in Syria killed in airstrike; Tehran blames Israel, vows revenge

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Iranian late president Ebrahim Raisi (3rd L) visiting the navy base of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), in Bandar Abbas, southern Iran, in a picture released on February 2, 2024. (Iranian Presidency/ AFP)

ExplainerIran’s Revolutionary Guard: A potent terror force seeking to reshape the Middle East

By Reuters and ToI Staff

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi gives a video statement on April 3, 2024. (Screen capture/X)

Live updates (closed)

April 2: IDF chief apologizes for strike on aid convoy caused by ‘complex conditions’

By Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

Cops, anti-gov’t protesters scuffle outside PM’s home; daughter-in-law of hostage dragged roughly by police * Four cops injured in ramming within Green Line; suspect ‘neutralized’

12:26 am

Biden: NGO convoy strike isn't isolated incident; Israel hasn't done enough to protect aid workers, civilians
11:28 pm

4 police officers injured in ramming attack in central Israel; suspect 'neutralized'
10:23 pm

Bernie Sanders in message to Netanyahu: 'Stop murdering innocent people'

Promoted Research

Iran’s Network Across the Middle East

Who are these groups and how does Iran support them? We summarize the research of the experts of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Interview

The ‘improbable friend’: For true progressives, Israel is an exemplar, says Ritchie Torres

A soundbite-packed interview with the visiting Democratic rising star, a Bronx congressional neighbor of AOC who rejects her ‘genocide’ allegation as a blood libel

US Representative Ritchie Torres at a house in Kibbutz Nir Oz, March 31, 2024. (Gabriel Sod/ Courtesy of UJA-Federation)

File: Rep. Tim Walberg speaks about the USMCA trade deal at a Dana plant in Warren, Michigan, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

US congressman denies calling to nuke Gaza after urging Hiroshima-like tactics

Senator Jeff Merkley at the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies hearing, May 3, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

US senator accused of invoking blood libel in Easter post about IDF in Gaza

From one Haredi man to another

Like it or not, Haredim who live in Israel are as Zionist as any secular Tel Aviv Jew — they are integral to the Zionist project

Rivy Poupko Kletenik

Shani Louk, we ask your permission

How can we honor those whose photos, taken without permission, reveal them in the most horrific circumstances of victimhood?

International law for thee but not for me

Why has the Court’s call for the immediate and unconditional release of Israeli hostages gotten lost in the public discourse?

To help the hostages, make it personal

Every one of them is a universe. Don’t let the individual get lost in the numbers. Do the research – tell their stories

Released hostage Maya Regev speaks during a Knesset’s women’s rights committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 2, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Every girl there is sexually harassed’: Freed captives beg MKs for hostage deal

In emotional Knesset meeting, relatives of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza since October 7 call on government to secure their release; committee chair: ‘We need to bring them home’

File. Rescued hostage Louis Har speaks to Channel 12, March 12, 2024. (Screenshot)

‘Are you sure we’re not in a movie?’: Freed hostage still stunned by IDF rescue

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Apr. 2: Day 179 – Fingers pointed at IAF over strikes in Gaza and Syria

Military reporter Emanuel Fabian updates us on the deaths of 7 aid workers, the targeted killing of a top Iranian Guard officer; reporter Canaan Lidor on Easter in the Holy Land

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu practicing for the press conference he held on March 31, 2024, in a clip broadcast the next day by Channel 13 (X screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

‘Are you crazy?’: Rare clip shows frustrated PM at press conference dress rehearsal

In video accidentally leaked to news channel, a rather agitated and impatient Netanyahu barks directions at aides ahead of his Sunday night presser, which preceded his hernia op

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem on March 31, 2024. (Marc Israel Sellem/ Flash90)

Netanyahu to be released from hospital on Tuesday after hernia surgery

Illustrative: Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi heads into a cabinet meeting in the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, September 10, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Minister’s aide fired shortly after maternity leave, while husband serving in Gaza

Ultra-Orthodox Jews block a road and clash with police during a protest against the drafting of Haredim to the Israeli army, on Route 4, outside the city of Bnei Brak, April 1, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Police arrest 6 protesters, open highway after 2 hours

Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox block Route 4 in protest against IDF conscription

Members of extremist faction hold signs reading ‘To jail and not the army’ and ‘We will die rather than draft,’ as High Court order to begin draft comes into force

ExplainerThe High Court’s yeshiva funding ruling goes into effect today. What does it entail?

Anti-government protesters wave flags at a four-day sit-in near the Knesset in Jerusalem on April 1, 2024 (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

On day 2 of Jerusalem protests, speaker suggests MKs quit if they want time off

By Jessica Steinberg

Interview

UTJ’s Roth: ‘No actual benefit’ to Haredim in toppling government over yeshiva funds

MK says ultra-Orthodox parties hope Netanyahu can find ‘creative’ solution to Haredi enlistment in IDF before the High Court of Justice gives its final ruling on the matter

MK Rabbi Moshe Roth attends a Knesset House Committee meeting, January 30, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid addresses his Yesh Atid party's weekly faction meeting in the Knesset, April 1, 2024. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)

Lapid demands defense minister show ‘political courage’ and start drafting Haredim

Students from Hannah Senech Community Day School at Sima restaurant in Jerusalem, along with their accompanying teachers and guides, on March 25, 2024. (Gavriel Fiske/TOI)

'I feel so much safer in Israel than in Brooklyn'

Brooklyn 8th-graders find connection on ‘super powerful’ solidarity trip to Israel

By Gavriel Fiske

Students from New York’s Hannah Senesh Community Day School spend a week in the Holy Land in a modified graduation visit, in perhaps the first day school trip since October 7

This handout picture provided by the Palestinian Authority's press office (PPO) shows Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (C-R) meeting with Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (C-L) on the sidelines of the International Peace Summit in the New Administrative Capital (NAC), about 45 kilometers east of Cairo, on October 21, 2023. (Thaer Ghanaim/PPO/AFP)

Spain to recognize Palestinian statehood by July, its PM says

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Pedro Sanchez had previously announced joint move with three other European countries; statement comes as Palestinian UN mission announces application for full membership

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas poses for a picture with his new government, after it was sworn in on March 31, 2024, in Ramallah, in the West Bank. Finance Minister Omar Bitar is standing third from the left in the front row. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Two ministers in new Palestinian cabinet have made statements supporting terrorism

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Palestinian United Nations envoy Riyad Mansour speaks during a UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, at the UN headquarters in New York on March 25, 2024. (Angela Weiss/AFP)

Palestinian Authority to push for vote this month on full United Nations membership

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Singer Matisyahu will perform on April 2 and April 3, 2024 in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv (Courtesy)

'There's still a sense of togetherness'

Back in Israel for two shows, rapper Matisyahu says it’s nice ‘to feel the love’

By Jessica Steinberg

Following recent antisemitic experiences in the US, singer will perform in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, with special guests including his son Laivy and singers Omri Glikman and Jimbo J

Land surrounding the Herodium archaeological site in the West Bank that was appropriated as state land, on April 1, 2024. (Gush Etzion Regional Council)

Israel appropriates 42 acres in West Bank’s Etzion Bloc, declaring it state land

By Jeremy Sharon and Sam Sokol

Gush Etzion mayor hails move that will allow tourism development at Herodium site; Smotrich orders demolition of three illegal Palestinian buildings over terror shooting

Drone explodes in Jordan near southern Israel’s Ramon Airport

By Emanuel Fabian

Aircraft of unknown origin strikes open area some 200 meters from the border northeast of Eilat

This image purportedly shows the scene of a drone impact in Jordan, near Israel's Ramon Airport, April 2, 2024. (Social media: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

The Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City. (Museum of Jewish Heritage/John Halpern via JTA)

'We need to impact those who are forming their world views'

NY’s Museum of Jewish Heritage aims to help teachers nip student antisemitism in the bud

By Cathryn J. Prince

A newly-released online resource compiles commonly asked questions about Jews and Jew-hatred to teach empathy and inoculate middle and high schoolers against online propaganda

US anti-Muslim incidents hit record high in 2023, says watchdog

By Reuters and ToI Staff

More Headlines

File - White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan speaks during a joint press conference with the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak (not pictured) in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

US national security adviser to travel to Saudi Arabia for talks with crown prince

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Germany leaves the field after the World Cup Group E soccer game between Costa Rica and Germany at the Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, Qatar, December 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Lightning rodGermany redesigns soccer uniform that some say evokes Nazi insignia

By AP and ToI Staff

Japan's Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa (R) and UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini (L) prior to a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tokyo on March 28, 2024. (Yuichi Yamazaki/AFP)

Japan resumes funding to UNRWA for its ‘indispensable’ aid work in Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Russian law enforcement officers stand guard at the Red Square in Moscow on March 29, 2024. (NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA / AFP)

Russia says 4 arrested for funding, arming Moscow concert attackers

By AFP

A screenshot from security footage showing two women using stencils to spray-paint 'From the river to the sea' outside Temple Beth Zion-Beth in Pennsylvania, March 2024. (Screenshot used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Officials condemn anti-Israel, antisemitic graffiti at 2 Pennsylvania synagogues

By JTA and ToI Staff

File: Writer Sami Michael in Jerusalem in 2004 (Flash90)

ObituarySami Michael, Iraqi-born and award-winning Israeli author and activist, dies at 97

By Melanie Lidman

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