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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 4, 2024

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A handout picture provided by the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him meeting with politicians and government officials in Tehran on April 3, 2024. (KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)

Intel chief: Worst may not be behind us; 'complex days ahead'

Amid retaliation threats from Iran, IDF cancels home leave for all combat troops

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Army braces for possible missile attacks, including directly from Iran; scrambled GPS systems – linked to IDF measures against attack – tell drivers in central Israel they’re in Beirut

File - A billboard displays a portrait of slain Iranian general Mohammad Reza Zahedi, with a slogan in Hebrew saying 'You will be punished,' April 3, 2024, at Palestine Square in Tehran. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Israel beefs up air defenses, calls up troops as Iran payback for Syria strike looms

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Reuters

A handout picture provided by the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him meeting with politicians and government officials in Tehran on April 3, 2024. (KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)

Khamenei says Israel will ‘be slapped’ for strike on Iran Guard general in Damascus

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The Open Arms vessel which ferried food rations provided by aid group World Central Kitchen for the Gaza Strip, is docked in the port of Larnaca on the southern coast of Cyprus on April 3, 2024. (Etienne Torbey/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

April 4: Pentagon says US ‘on track’ to build Gaza aid pier, Israel to secure shore

By Elana Kirsh and ToI Staff

Biden tells Netanyahu immediate ceasefire needed to stabilize humanitarian situation, protect civilians * IDF spokesman moves to reassure public as Iran vows reprisal for Syria strike

10:20 pm

Pentagon says US 'on track' to build Gaza aid pier in coming weeks, Israel to secure shore
9:57 pm

Rocket sirens sound in farming towns near Lebanon border
9:53 pm

After PM speaks with Biden, ministers okay steps to swiftly ramp up aid flow to Gaza

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)

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Daily Briefing April 4: Day 181 – Israel braces for possible retaliatory Iran strike

Editor David Horovitz delves into fallout from accidental IDF strike on aid workers’ cars; war cabinet minister Benny Gantz’s call for early election; and the Knesset’s vacation

In this photo released by the official Syrian state news agency SANA, emergency service workers clear the rubble at a destroyed building allegedly struck by Israeli jets in Damascus, Syria, Monday, April 1, 2024. (SANA via AP)

EU condemns attack on Damascus mission that killed top Iranian generals

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Palestinians lift flags during a rally marking the 59th anniversary of the Fatah movement foundation in Ramallah in the West Bank on December 31, 2023. (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

Fatah accuses Iran of sowing chaos in West Bank

By Reuters and ToI Staff

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

Netanyahu and Biden slated to speak Thursday

Senior Israeli official warns of growing ‘shoot first, ask later’ culture in IDF

Head of World Central Kitchen accuses Israel of ‘systematically’ targeting aid convoy, says WCK was in IDF-controlled area; international criticism continues to pour in

A United Nations vehicle drives on a street in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on April 2, 2024. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Groups accuse Israel of ‘systematic’ attacks on aid workers, but won’t leave Gaza

By AFP and ToI Staff

Yacov Livne. (Foreign Ministry)

Polish-Israeli tensions deepen over Israeli ambassador’s ‘outrageous’ comment

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (left) greets US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at Ben Gurion Airport, March 2023. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

US defense chief says killing of aid workers reinforces concerns over Rafah operation

By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

Gallant tells Austin thorough investigation being conducted into deaths of World Central Kitchen staffers; officials say IDF has completed its part of probe into incident

US First Lady Jill Biden speaks as President Joe Biden looks on at the White House Easter Egg Roll, April 1, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Jill Biden reportedly privately pushing for end to war in Gaza

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Head of the National Unity party Minister Benny Gantz calls for elections, at a press conference at the Knesset, April 3, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Gantz calls for early elections in September to ‘renew trust’ in government

Israeli soldiers stand near the body of a Palestinian terrorist in Kfar Aza, in the south of Israel, bordering Gaza Strip on October 10, 2023. (Thomas COEX / AFP)

IDF probe into failures leading to Oct. 7 attack to focus on period starting in 2018

By Emanuel Fabian

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

Analysis

As handling of war pushes US away, Netanyahu’s half-steps may not be enough to fix ties

After PM reacted to Security Council vote by canceling meet on Rafah, sides show desire to patch things up. But amid Gaza death and ruin, and a looming vote, that ship may have sailed

An undated photo of Lidor Levy, 34, who died on April 4, 2024 of wounds sustained in a Gan Yavne stabbing attack (Courtesy)

Lidor Levy, 34, dies of wounds from Gan Yavne terror stabbing

By Renee Ghert-Zand and ToI Staff

Computer engineer leaves behind infant daughter and pregnant wife; family describes him as ‘exemplary, full of love, nobleness and generosity’

Shin Bet says it foiled plot by Arab Israelis, Palestinians to assassinate Ben Gvir

By Emanuel Fabian

Group allegedly planned RPG hit on far-right national security minister; also said to plan attacks at Ben Gurion Airport, IDF bases, government complex in Jerusalem

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir leads a meeting of his far-right Otzma Yehudit party at the Knesset, on March 18, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The cost of ignoring Gazan suffering

The belief that only Hamas is responsible for the death & destruction shields Israelis from the horror being inflicted on civilians

Psychotherapy blacklisted: A new cost of the war

Is it OK to seek a therapist sympathetic with Zionism? How should a Zionist therapist relate to a pro-Palestinian client?

File: Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour speaks during a session of the United Nations Security Council, at the UN headquarters in New York, March 25, 2024. (Angela Weiss/AFP)

US signals opposition to renewed Palestinian bid for statehood status at UN

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

State Department says Palestinian state should be established ‘through direct negotiations… not at the United Nations,’ as PLO envoy seeks vote later this month

File: This combo image shows US President Joe Biden, left, January 5, 2024, and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, right, January 19, 2024. (AP Photo)

As Biden faces protests over Israel support, Trump getting fewer opponents at rallies

By Jill Colvin and Will Weissert

Hamas won’t budge on hostage deal demands, including end to war; Qatar says talks stuck

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Qatari PM says Doha committed to negotiations, but deadlock remains around north Gaza return, identity of prisoners to be released; IDF chief touts military pressure to force deal

Ismail Haniyeh, the Doha-based political bureau chief of the Palestinian terror group Hamas, speaks on a televised speech on the occasion of Quds (Jerusalem) Day on April 3, 2024. (Hamas Media Office/AFP)

Freed hostage Amit Soussana speaks about Hamas's sexual abuse in a segment published April 3, 2024, from the upcoming documentary 'Screams Before Silence,' produced by Kastina Communications. (Screen capture: X/Israel Hayom, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Former captive describes Hamas guard’s sexual abuse in new footage

Alon Grozov lies under a water cannon during a protest outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem, April 2, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Protester who climbed under water cannon: I wanted to protect hostages’ families

Alon Grozov says the thought of what the hostages are going through in Gaza gave him strength to stay under vehicle in demonstration near Netanyahu’s Jerusalem residence

Illustrative -- Palestinians cross to the Egyptian side of the border crossing with the Gaza Strip in Rafah, Nov. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

UK charities urge government to welcome Gazans with family ties in Britain

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Tens of thousands of Gazans who manage to leave the Strip linger in limbo, with very few countries – none in the Arab world – willing to take them in as refugees

IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip in this undated handout photo released on April 4, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

3 former UK Supreme Court justices urge government to place arms embargo on Israel

By Jeremy Sharon

Destruction caused by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Nir Oz seen on October 19, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

'We must give a voice to the voiceless'

Post-Oct. 7 antisemitism spurs pair to use hostages’ roots to highlight Jewish diversity

By Maya Zanger-Nadis

Two friends, disillusioned with harsh stereotypes of Jews and Zionists on social media, create Our Shared Jewish History on Instagram to showcase beauty of global Jewry

Holocaust agency opens survivor speakers bureau to fight spiking global antisemitism

By AP and ToI Staff

Matisyahu in the first of two Israel performances on April 2, 2024, in Jerusalem (Daniel Laufer)

Matisyahu thrills in Jerusalem, where both rapper and crowd hanker for good ol’ days

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

'Ubeidiya National Park dedication, April 4, 2024. (Shai Isaacs,/IAA)

New national park centered on prehistoric site officially opens to public

By Gavriel Fiske

This aerial photograph, taken on February 10, 2021, shows the oil storage containers of the Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company (EAPC) in the mountains near Israel's Red Sea port city of Eilat. (MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP)

Knesset committee peels away secrecy rules governing state oil company

Illustrative: Students from Hunter College in New York City chant and hold up signs during an anti-Israel demonstration at the entrance of their campus on October 12, 2023. (Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images, via JTA)

Most US Jewish parents say kids’ college choices affected by Oct. 7 — survey

By JTA

A Nazi medical device used to measure head size is seen at the Interpol headquarters in Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 16, 2017. (AP/Natacha Pisarenko)

Leading US medical journal examines its past endorsement of Nazi race science

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Illustrative: View of workers in a construction site in Jerusalem, March 5, 2024 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shortage of Palestinian workers at Israeli building sites leaves hole on both sides

By Reuters and ToI Staff

FILE: A motorcycle of Basij, Iranian paramilitary militia, is set on fire during a protest after a 22-year-old woman Mahsa Amini's death when she was detained by the morality police, in Tehran, October 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Middle East Images)

UN rights council votes to extend scrutiny of Iran by additional year

By AFP

The entrance to the Gymnasia Rehavia high school in Jerusalem on May 31, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Study finds narrowing gap in state spending on Jewish and Arab high school students

By Gavriel Fiske

Wiz's offices in Tel Aviv. (Courtesy)

Wiz founders earn way into billionaires club, bumping up Israelis on rich list

By Sharon Wrobel

Arab Israelis work at fintech firm Pagaya's site located at the Northmed Innovation Center in the Arab city of Sakhnin in northern Israel. (Courtesy)

Israeli fintech firm Pagaya taps into Arab talent pool during ongoing war

By Sharon Wrobel

Screen capture from video purportedly showing battles between Iranian security forces and attackers of the Jaish al-Adl terror group in Sistan-Baluchistan province, Iran, April 4, 2024.

Jihadist-claimed attacks on Iranian security personnel kill 5, according to state TV

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