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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 9, 2024

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Supporters of Palestinians in Gaza protest in Istanbul, Turkey, April 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Opening trade war, Turkey imposes restrictions on Israel until Gaza ceasefire

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Ankara’s trade ministry lists 54 items that will not be exported to Israel, which says it will draw up its own ‘extensive’ inventory of Turkish products it will ban

Humanitarian aid is airdropped to Palestinians over Gaza City, Gaza Strip, March 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Essa)

Turkey says Israel denied its request to join Gaza aid airdrops

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Palestinians sell sweets in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on April 9, 2024. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

April 9: Top Biden adviser says Israel ready for hostage deal, Hamas needs to be pushed

Israel claims over 450 humanitarian aid trucks entered Gaza on Tuesday, in new daily high * Families of captives rally in Jerusalem as security cabinet meets on truce talks

9:03 pm

World lost 'moral compass' on Gaza, deputy UN chief says
8:57 pm

'Sea change' in Gaza aid seen, but much more needed, USAID chief says
8:56 pm

US veep Harris updates families of American hostages on talks status

In Tel Aviv, a woman walks past photographs of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, on April 8, 2024. (Miriam Alster/ FLASH90)

40 hostages, hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, 6-week truce

Hamas says it won’t compromise on key demands as US leans into hostage talks

By ToI Staff, Agencies and Lazar Berman

Qatar insists there is reason for optimism, but sources tell Times of Israel serious gaps remain; Israel’s security cabinet to discuss potential deal Tuesday

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks to soldiers drafting into the IDF's Armored and Combat Engineering Corps at the Tel Hashomer military base, central Israel, April 8, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Gallant: Israel at an opportune moment for hostage deal, facing difficult decisions

By ToI Staff and Reuters

File - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a Likud meeting at the Knesset, Jerusalem on February 5, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud lawmakers demand Netanyahu hold faction meeting on truce deal – report

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In interrogation, Islamic Jihad spokesman admits group’s rocket struck Gaza hospital

By Emanuel Fabian

Tarek Abu Shaluf, one of 500 terror operatives captured by IDF at Shifa Hospital, details how group lied about al-Ahli blast, use of Strip’s medical centers

Still image from footage released by the IDF on April 8, 2024, of the interrogation of the spokesman for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad's military wing Tarek Abu Shaluf. (Screenshot)

Nili Margalit speaks to Channel 12's Uvda on January 4, 2024. (Screen capture/Channel 12)

Freed hostage says she was abducted by armed Gaza civilians, sold to Hamas

Pope Francis during a meeting with relatives of Israeli hostages the Bibas family (Shiri, Yarden, Ariel, Kfir), Omri Miran, Agam Berger, Guy Gilboa Dalal and Tamir Nimrodi, held in the Gaza Strip by Palestinian terrorists, seen at the Vatican City, April 8, 2024. (VATICAN MEDIA / AFP)

Pope meets privately with families of Israeli hostages held in Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A tent camp housing Palestinians displaced by the Israeli offensive is seen in Rafah, Gaza Strip, February 27, 2024. (Hatem Ali/ AP)

Israel seeks 40,000 tents to evacuate Rafah civilians; hostage talks with Hamas languish

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

IDF strikes targets across Gaza, says it took out terrorist who participated in October 7 onslaught that started war; UN chief urges journalists be allowed into Strip

Illustrative - A Palestinian woman prays by a relative's tomb as others bury their dead following overnight Israeli airstrikes, at a cemetery in east Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, February 26, 2024. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Unable to travel to northern Gaza, Christians bury their dead in Muslim cemeteries

By Reuters and ToI Staff

File - US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks to reporters outside the Senate chambers before a procedural vote at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 12, 2024. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)

US Sen. Warren: World Court has ‘ample evidence’ to find Israel guilty of genocide

Still from a video statement on the war in Gaza by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, April 8, 2024. (Screenshot, GPO)

Israel has circled date in calendar for repeatedly pledged Rafah invasion, PM says

By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

Jerusalem hasn’t yet briefed Washington on the matter, Biden administration says, adding that Israel has agreed to hold off until Netanyahu’s aides discuss matter further in DC

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)

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

In first, IDF says ship-mounted Iron Dome downs hostile drone over Eilat

By Emanuel Fabian

Aircraft taken out by C-Dome, deployed on Navy’s advanced corvettes; target had flown in from eastern direction from which Iran backed militias have fired at Israel

An Israeli Navy Sa'ar 6-class corvette launches two interceptor missiles from a C-Dome system at a suspected drone, in the Eilat Bay, late April 8, 2024. (Screenshot: X)

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid make their way along a street in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 10, 2024. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

US-Israel meeting on Rafah likely to happen in DC next week

US says weekend boost in Gaza aid a ‘good start,’ but Israel not off the hook yet

After wartime record numbers of trucks enter Strip on Sunday and Monday, Biden officials say they want such figures sustained for long-term; Lapid meets Blinken, Sullivan

Armed and masked Palestinians seen on trucks loaded with international humanitarian aid entering Gaza through Israel's Kerem Shalom crossing, into southern Gaza on April 3, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing April 9: Day 186 – Israel gets aid to Gaza; will allies be appeased?

Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky speaks during an Israel-solidarity service in November 2023. Kalmanofsky is among a number of American rabbis to say that Israel's war is presenting challenging questions six months in. (Screenshot via JTA)

US rabbis grapple with anxiety over Gaza destruction as war crosses six-month mark

By JTA

Kally Rubin Kislowicz

I’m no longer in the market for beauty products — these days, I’m hoping to be bitten by a radioactive arachnid

Who should US Jews vote for? I didn’t say and I won’t

Encounters with American audiences have become a minefield with increasing charges that I endorsed Trump – or was it Biden?

British MP Mike Freer. (Courtesy)

Interview'It will take years to undo the damage done under Corbyn'

Outgoing British MP Mike Freer on the Gaza war, antisemitism and his Jewish constituents

By Robert Philpot

Stepping down over concerns for his own safety, the parliamentarian who represents the UK’s largest concentration of Jews still has high hopes for the community’s future

File - French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes King Abdullah II of Jordan before a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on February 16, 2024. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP)

In joint op-ed, leaders of France, Egypt, Jordan call for ceasefire, hostage release

By Lazar Berman

As truce talks continue in Cairo, Macron, Sissi and Abdullah warn Rafah offensive would ‘bring more death and suffering’, urge UNSC to push two-state solution

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

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 threatens to bomb nuke sites as Iran backs down from direct attack – report

Tehran said reluctant to carry out attack in response to assassination of top general in Damascus, instead likely to retaliate through proxy groups

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

Top Iranian general killed in Damascus strike sat on Hezbollah’s decision-making body

By AFP and ToI Staff

At UN court, Germany says Israel’s security ‘core’ of Berlin’s foreign policy

By Agencies and ToI Staff

German representative dismisses as ‘grossly distorted’ Nicaragua’s demand that country halt supply of military equipment to Israel due to war against Hamas in Gaza

The start of a two-day hearing in a case brought by Nicaragua accusing Germany of breaching the genocide convention by providing arms and support to Israel, at the World Court in The Hague, Netherlands, April 8, 2024. (Patrick Post/AP)

Nicaragua's Ambassador Carlos Jose Arguello Gomez, center, waits for the start of a two days hearing at the World Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, April 8, 2024, in a case brought by Nicaragua accusing Germany of breaching the genocide convention by providing arms and support to Israel. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

Nicaragua tells UN court that Germany is facilitating Israel’s ‘genocide’ in Gaza

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Shlomo Filber, former director-general of the Communications Ministry, at a hearing in the trial against former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the District Court in Jerusalem on May 18, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

State witness agreement with former Netanyahu aide Shlomo Filber to be annulled

By Jeremy Sharon

After contradicting his testimony to police in court on several occasions, ex-Communications Ministry director may now face criminal prosecution

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference in Jerusalem on March 31, 2024. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL/Flash 90)

Poll: 71% think Netanyahu should resign either immediately or right after war

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

An interfaith Ramadan Iftar organized by the Interfaith Encounter Association in Jerusalem, April 4, 2024 (Tali Webber, courtesy)

Reporter's notebookParticipants felt like they were in a parallel universe

At interfaith Ramadan iftar in Jerusalem, breaking fast under the shadow of war

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Members of the Interfaith Encounter Association share a meal and find common ground through religion in a bid to send a message of coexistence and unity

Tom Cruise poses for the media during the 'Top Gun Maverick' UK premiere at a central London cinema, on May 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

LA court rules ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ didn’t infringe Israeli writer’s copyright

By Jonathan Stempel

Lawyer for Ehud Yonay’s widow and son will appeal district judge’s decision in case accusing Paramount Pictures of pilfering from 1983 piece on US Navy fighter pilot school

HaZamir: The International Jewish Youth Choir performs at Carnegie Hall in New York City, April 7, 2024 (Wah Leong)

Concert review'HaZamir was always our happy place. Now it's our safe place'

In NY’s Carnegie Hall, global Jewish teen choir marks Oct. 7 with musical tribute

By Matt Lebovic

Songs of resilience, hope, and peace fill legendary venue as 300 teens and alumni take to stage to celebrate Israel with reflections and youth movement’s signature songs

The Epstein project planned for west Jerusalem, dubbed the Burj Jerusalem. (Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture)

Planned ‘Jerusalem Burj’ skyscraper draws opposition over proximity to landmarks

200 objections lodged against plans for 200-meter tower, designed by Burj Khalifa architect’s firm, to overlook Yad Vashem and Mount Herzl military cemetery; would be capital’s tallest building

Visitors flock to see the flowering of blue lupines on Mitzpe-Tel, a hilltop in Jerusalem where the Israel Police plans to build a large compound. (Naomi Kimchin, February 27, 2024)

Police revive plan to build complex on beloved Jerusalem hill, angering residents

An endangered Gilboa iris blooms on Mount Barkan, northern Israel, in March 2024. (Times of Israel)

Bountiful bloomsAbundant rainfall helps endangered Gilboa iris spring back

Talia Segal, a fourth-year biomedical engineering student at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, fears not only for her physical safety but struggles with 'the lack of emotional safety' in the United States. (Katja Ridderbusch)

These US Jews are recalibrating their identity in a tempestuous post-Oct. 7 environment

By Katja Ridderbusch

Concerned about their safety and uncertain about their values and friends, Jewish Americans experience a seismic shift, and a wide range of reactions, as the war in Gaza rages on

More Headlines

Ancient 6,000-year-old ivory vessel discovered near Beersheba. (Dafna Gazit/IAA)

6,000-year old ivory vessel, likely from Egypt, found near Beersheba

By Gavriel Fiske

Police Deputy Commissioner Avshalom Peled. (Courtesy)

Ben Gvir names Deputy Commissioner Avshalom Peled as next Israel Police chief

By Michael Horovitz and ToI Staff

Fireworks at the 75th anniversary Independence Day ceremony, held at Mount Herzl, Jerusalem, on April 25, 2023.(Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Independence Day ceremony to be pre-recorded, held at Gaza border communities

Illustrative: A couple sits outside a cafe next to a military recruiting poster in Kyiv, on April 9, 2024, amid Russia's invasion on Ukraine. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP)

US gives Ukraine weapons it seized from Iran en route to Houthis

By AFP

Regional Cooperation Minister David Amsalem David Amsalem at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 13, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court rejects Likud minister’s petition seeking to conscript Arab Israelis

By Jeremy Sharon

Avshalom Pollak dancer Patrick Dehaan in the new work, 'Castor,' being performed in April 2024 in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Courtesy)

TroupersChoreographer premieres new work in shadow of war

By Jessica Steinberg

A solar eclipse seen from Yunlin county, central Taiwan, on June 21, 2020. (Photo by Sam Yeh / AFP)

US Jews join eclipse-gazing throngs, as solar excitement blots out ancient fears

By JTA

A screenshot of Israeli race car driver Ariel Elkin's helmet, which was covered in photos of hostages held by terror groups in Gaza since October 7, at the Formula 4 championships in New Orleans, April 7, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Head's upIsraeli racer raises awareness for hostages – instead of trophy

Bank of Israel governor Amir Yaron speaks at a press conference in Jerusalem, April 8, 2024. (Sharon Wrobel/Times of Israel)

Bank of Israel holds borrowing costs steady, citing rising geopolitical uncertainty

By Sharon Wrobel

Magen David Adom dedicates 14 new ambulances, donated by Samaritan's Purse, to fallen volunteers and employees, Jerusalem, January 23, 2024. (Eastside Studio)

Donations to Israel since October 7 topped $1.4 billion, government reports

By JTA and ToI Staff

The website of Guernica, a literary magazine, shows the retracted essay by Israeli writer and translator Joanna Chen. (Screenshot via JTA/ used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law))

Chief editor of US literary magazine quits after Israeli writer’s war essay dropped

By Andrew Lapin

Jewish writer on dealing with terminal cancer Amy Ettinger, shown with her husband Dan White. (Courtesy Dan White, via X/JTA)

Amy Ettinger, writer of life-affirming essays on dying, succumbs to cancer at 49

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

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