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What Matters Most On Monday, April 8, 2024

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Demonstrators call for the release of hostages held in Gaza since Hamas's October 7 massacre, during a rally in front of the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 7, 2024. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

April 8: Netanyahu says Rafah date is set; US: Hamas yet to respond on hostage deal

Terms said to include initial Eid al-Fitr truce, release of 40 hostages over 6 weeks * PIJ detainee admits its rocket hit hospital early in war * COGAT: 419 aid trucks entered Gaza today

12:34 am

London police arrest 11 pro-Palestinian activists calling on UK to ban arms sales to Israel -- report
11:50 pm

Trump says US abortion laws should be decided by states, but doesn't back national ban
9:26 pm

Leaders of France, Egypt and Jordan call for ceasefire, hostage release in joint op-ed

File: Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben Gvir (L) speaks to Religious Zionism chief Bezalel Smotrich at the Knesset on December 29, 2022 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir: If war ends without Rafah op, PM will have to go

Government’s far-right flank fumes over Khan Younis withdrawal, talk of Gaza truce

Lapid: Netanyahu has ‘full safety net’ if Ben Gvir, Smotrich bolt coalition due to hostage deal; Smotrich convenes ‘urgent’ party consultation, slams cabinet-sidelining PM

Gaza deal negotiators: (L-R) CIA chief William Burns, Egyptian intel chief Abbas Kamel, Mossad chief David Barnea, and Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani. (Collage/AP/AFP)

Israel, Hamas downplay report of progress in truce talks amid optimism from Egypt

By ToI Staff and Agencies

People visit Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on April 7, 2024, six months after Hamas's October 7 massacre, which saw terrorists kill some 1,200 people and seize 253 hostages - 129 of whom are still held hostage in Gaza. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

‘Critical days’: Israeli team gets green light for next round of Gaza truce talks

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Six months since October 7

Masses rally for hostage deal in Jerusalem amid simmering anti-government mood

By Charlie Summers

Demonstration drawing some 50,000 outside Knesset marked by criticism of Netanyahu from speakers and crowd, despite attempts by Hostages and Missing Families Forum to stay neutral

People holding photographs of Israeli family members abducted by Hamas on October 7, 2023, rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Sunday, April 7, 2024. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)

Cities in North America, Europe hold rallies marking hostages’ six months ‘in hell’

Artifacts found at the grounds of Supernova music festival in Re'im appear in an online catalog police made for survivors and victims' kin. (Israel Police)

Police invite Supernova rave survivors, victims’ kin to claim found objects

Promoted Content

Who speaks for Australian Jews?

Any expectation that Jews will speak with a single voice is doomed. But not all those who speak on behalf of the Australian community have equal claims to representativeness

Gazans return to devastated Khan Younis as Israeli troops pull back

By AFP and ToI Staff

Residents find large parts of the city reduced to rubble after months of fighting between Israeli troops and terror operatives the IDF says were embedded in residential areas

Men walk with an animal-drawn cart carrying salvaged wood from debris and trees past destroyed buildings in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis on April 7, 2024. (AFP)

Armed and masked Palestinians seen on trucks loaded with International Humanitarian Aid entering Gaza through the Kerem Shalom Crossing, in the southern Gaza Strip, April 3, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)

Israel says 322 aid trucks entered Gaza on Sunday, highest number since war started

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: An Ireland supporter holds a Palestinian flag on the stands during the Euro 2024 group B qualifying soccer match between Gibraltar and Ireland at the Argarve Stadium, outside Faro, Portugal, Oct. 16, 2023. (AP/Joao Matos)

Ireland’s sovereign investment fund to divest from six Israeli firms

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Analysis

Israel’s major ground war in Gaza is over; the state of war inflicted by Hamas is not

Sunday’s withdrawal of IDF ground forces from Khan Younis marks the end of so-called high-intensity conflict, though Hamas is still standing, and still holding 129 Oct. 7 hostages

IDF troops in Gaza, in a photograph issued by the IDF on April 5, 2024 (IDF Spokesman's Office)

Israeli F-35i and American F-15 jets hold an exercise over Israel, November 29, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

ExplainerWhat military support does the US give Israel?

By Reuters and ToI Staff

British Foreign Secretary David Cameron speaks with the media as he arrives for a meeting of NATO foreign ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, April 3, 2024. Virginia Mayo/AP)

British FM: Support for Israel is conditioned on its adherence to international law

By ToI Staff and Agencies

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi speaks to the press from an army base in central Israel, April 7, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief says withdrawal of troops from Gaza doesn’t mean war is close to end

By Emanuel Fabian

Defense minister says pullout aims to prepare army for incursion into Rafah; Herzi Halevi says Israel is engaged in ‘multifront war,’ prepared for any attack from Iran

A person holds a handful of spent bullet casings above a bigger pile in Khan Younis on April 7, 2024, after Israel pulled its ground forces out of the southern Gaza Strip, six months into the war sparked by Hamas's October 7 attacks on southern Israel. (AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing April 8: Day 185 – With Gaza troop drawdown, PM marches to Biden’s drum

A pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrator holds a sign outside the International Court of Justice, rear, in The Hague, Netherlands, February 21, 2024. (AP Photo/ Peter Dejong)

ICJ set to begin hearings on Nicaragua’s claim Germany aiding Israel’s ‘genocide’

By AP

Michael Saenger

Keeping the light on, in my campus office

We Jews are at risk, and hiding our identity won’t make us much safer. Rather, we need to signal tangibly how proud we are to be Jewish

Minda Wolff Garr

Will the world ever condemn Hamas’s goal of eliminating Israel?

And why is Israel still being castigated for the kind of terrible unintended events that happen in every war?

Anti-Netanyahu protesters throng Rothchild Boulevard in Caesarea on March 30, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

In Caesarea, protests outside Netanyahu’s home burst bucolic calm of plush beach town

By Canaan Lidor

Rallies outside the prime minister’s private residence are again drawing hundreds of people weekly, with some locals annoyed at the intrusion and others joining the fray

Lishai Miran, the wife of hostage Omri from Kibbutz Nahal Oz, speaks at a rally by returnees to the Sderot area at Sha'ar Hanegev Junction on April 6, 2024. The sign behind her reads: 'It's not Sha'ar Hanegev without them.' ( Tal Kamir)

'I expect 10-15% of us won't be returning'

6 months on, 70% of evacuees from the south are home, but thousands remain in hotels

By Canaan Lidor

Some 13 damaged or at-risk communities will take at least 18 months to repopulate; ‘a hotel is a good place to spend a vacation in, but a pretty dismal one to live long term’

File - Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani (R) in a meeting with Hamas politburo leader Ismail Haniyeh in Doha, Qatar, December 16, 2019 (from the Facebook page of Al Jazeera Palestine)

Inside story

Intel report: Qatar’s funding, policies led directly to Oct. 7; it shouldn’t be key mediator

By David Horovitz

Report by intelligence veterans on behalf of lawyers for Hamas victims’ families says US has long known the scale of Doha’s malign activities, harm to US and allies’ interests, yet still fails to act

Ali Ahmed Hussein, a senior field commander in Hezbollah's elite Radwan force, killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon, April 8, 2024 (Hezbollah photo)

Senior commander in Hezbollah’s elite force killed in IDF strike

By Emanuel Fabian

Ali Ahmed Hussein, a Radwan field commander, had been tasked with attacks on Ramim Ridge area in northern Israel amid war; explosive-laden drone hits near Rosh Hanikra

This handout picture provided by the Iranian foreign ministry on April 7, 2024, shows Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian (R) meeting with Mohammad Abdul Salam, spokesman for the Yemen's Houthi movement, in Muscat. (Photo by Iranian Foreign Ministry / AFP)

Iranian FM heads to Syria, accuses Israel of trying to start a regional war

By Reuters and ToI Staff

World Central Kitchen head Jose Andres speaks to ABC's This Week, April 7, 2024. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Head of aid group struck by IDF calls Gaza campaign ‘a war against humanity itself’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Chef Jose Andres compares Netanyahu to Putin, says war no longer about defending Israel; demands deeper, independent inquiry into deadly strike on World Central Kitchen convoy

File: Then-chief of the Australian Defense Force air chief marshal Mark Binskin at the Royal Military College, Duntroon Canberra, Australia, Monday, April 6, 2015 (AP Photo/Peter Parks, Pool)

Canberra taps former defense chief to scrutinize killing of Australian aid worker

By Agencies and ToI Staff

This undated photo provided by John Flickinger, April 5, 2024, shows Sandy Leclerc, left, and Jacob Flickinger with their son Jasper. (John Flickinger via AP)

Father of US aid worker killed by IDF urges Blinken to exert pressure on Israel

By AP

Shas rabbis spurn compromise on Haredi draft following High Court ruling

By Canaan Lidor

As Netanyahu pursues deal with parties, letter by prominent figures with ties to Shas contradicts apparent flexibility that set Sephardi faction apart from Ashkenazi counterpart

Israelis protest outside the home of Shas leader Aryeh Deri, calling for equal conscription laws to be implemented, April 1, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Illustrative: Israeli artillery unit firing shells towards Lebanon near the Israeli border with Lebanon, January 15, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

InterviewNew blood test can give early diagnosis for TBI

Invisible traumatic brain injuries in wounded IDF soldiers may have devastating effects

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Recent immigrant and expert researcher on concussions, Dr. Raquel Gardner leads efforts to raise awareness among colleagues to accurately diagnose and treat patients post-Oct. 7

Lihi Lapid (Vardi Kahana)

Interview

Author Lihi Lapid asks what happens when a mourning mother can’t remember her son

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Novel ‘On Her Own’ marks a major milestone in the writer’s career, and paints a poignant portrait of Israel that provides much-needed insight to international readers at this time

The livestock carrier Bahijah berthed at Fremantle port, Western Australia, 2018. (Bahnfrend, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons)

Controversial shipment of livestock reaches Israel from Australia after months-long odyssey

Animal rights groups slam both governments for allowing the consignment of some 14,000 sheep and calves to sail after original journey was diverted by Houthi missile attacks

Houthi supporters protest in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in Sanaa, Yemen, April 5, 2024. (AP Photo/ Osamah Abdulrahman)

Houthis claim to have fired rockets and drones at Israeli, US, and British ships

By Reuters and AFP

Einav Zangauker, mother of Matan Zangauker, who is held hostage in Gaza, demands the ouster of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanhyahu, at a demonstration with other relatives of hostages outside the Kirya military HQ in Tel Aviv, March 30, 2024 (Nevet Kahana / Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Inside story

Six months after October 7, some hostage families embracing anti-government protests

By Jessica Steinberg

No longer willing to keep their anger in check, a group of relatives of those held captive by terrorists in Gaza are speaking out against the prime minister and his cabinet

More Headlines

A six-legged deer with a rare genetic defect was spotted in southern Israel in a photo released on April 8, 2024. (Society for Protection of Nature in Israel)

Six-legged gazelle born with rare genetic defect spotted in Israel’s south

The Judicial Selection Committee meets for the first time in over 18 months in Jerusalem, on November 16, 2023. (GPO)

Dispute breaks out in Judicial Selection Committee over judicial overhaul proponent

By Jeremy Sharon

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)

Ben Gvir’s ministry takes over enforcing building violations, sparking racism charges

By Canaan Lidor

Illustrative: The main entrance of Schiphol airport, near Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 6, 2023. (PixelBiss / Shutterstock.com)

Report: Amsterdam airport guard with ‘sadism in his eyes’ harasses freed hostage

Sen. Bernie Sanders talks to the media as he walks to the House chamber before President Joe Biden's State of the Union address at the US Capitol, through March 7, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Jose Luis Magana, File)

Man arrested for setting Sen. Bernie Sanders’s office in Vermont on fire

By AP

Illustrative. Cybersecurity protection. (Thinkhubstudio via iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli cyber startups attract interest as cybersecurity attacks surge during Gaza war

By Sharon Wrobel

An amateur astronomer prepares her telescope a day before a total solar eclipse in Mazatlan, Mexico, Sunday, April 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Huge crowds await total solar eclipse in North America, but clouds may spoil view

Haim Sirotkin, the driver who is suspected of running over protesters at a demonstration in Tel Aviv on April 6, 2024, arrives for a hearing at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court the next day. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

Soccer coach who plowed into protesters in Tel Aviv kept in detention for another day

Illustrative: A police car in Rishon Lezion on July 3, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Social media influencer arrested on suspicion of raping women, including minors

Pope Francis meets at the Vatican with relatives of Shiri, Yarden, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, who have been held hostage in Gaza since October 7, on April 8, 2024. (Vatican Media handout via AFP)

Vatican: Gender-affirming surgery and surrogacy ‘contradictory to human dignity’

By Nicole Winfield

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