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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 10, 2024

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Defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks to troops at an Iron Dome battery in northern Israel, April 10, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Israel threatens ‘powerful response’ in Iran’s territory if it attacks from own soil

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Ministers of defense and foreign affairs issue threat after Khamenei publicly vows to ‘punish’ Israel over Damascus strike that killed senior IRGC officers

An Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessel watches an American warship in the Strait of Hormuz, May 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

IRGC naval chief threatens to close key strait, vows response to Syria strike coming

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Gaby Portnoy, director general of the Israel National Cyber Directorate, speaks at the Cybertech 2024 conference in Tel Aviv, April 9, 2024. (Cybertech)

Cyberattacks by Iran, Hezbollah have tripled during the war, says Israel cyber czar

By Sharon Wrobel

US President Joe Biden meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York, September 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

US president: 'I think what he’s doing is a mistake'

Biden urges Israel ‘to just call for’ 6-8 week ceasefire, slams PM’s handling of Gaza war

White House denies US president’s remarks in interview taped last week marked shift in policy, insists he was referring to truce and hostage release deal currently being negotiated

Protesters interrupted US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin as he testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on April 9, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images North America/Getty Images via AFP)

US says ‘no evidence’ of Gaza genocide, but wants Israel to deliver on aid long-term

Op-ed

It’s not whether Netanyahu should go, it’s how

He failed Israel with his policies on Hamas before October 7. His presence complicates the necessary defeat of Hamas now. If he won’t move aside, his colleagues should seek a transition that minimizes national divides and harm to the war effort

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to IDF officers at one of the communities hit by the deadly Hamas assault, on October 14, 2023 (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant meets with US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in Washington, March 26, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Contradicting Netanyahu, Gallant told Austin no date set for Rafah op — source

Israeli soldiers gather around army tanks stationed in an area along the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel on April 10, 2024. (Jack Guez / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing April 10: Day 187 – Biden again puts onus on Israel to pause the war

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April 10: American official says US will help defend Israel if Iran, proxies launch attack

By Joshua Davidovich, Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

CENTCOM head reportedly visiting Israel Thursday to discuss threats from Tehran * Haniyeh says he’s grateful for sons’ ‘martyrdom’ and it won’t won’t affect ceasefire demands

9:38 pm

US not ruling out launching joint response against Iran if it attacks Israel -- report
8:28 pm

CENTCOM head to visit Israel Thursday to discuss threat of Iranian attack - report
8:02 pm

Germany's Lufthansa suspends flights to Tehran amid concerns of Iranian attack on Israel

Illustrative: weapons seized by security forces near Neve Ur in northern Israel, after an alleged gun-smuggling over the border with Jordan on July 8, 2022. (Israel Police)

NYT: Iran has flooded West Bank with arms for 2 years, aims to make it next flashpoint

Report details smuggling routes and complex network of terror groups, criminal gangs and Bedouin used by Tehran to ‘inundate’ area with weapons, ‘foment unrest’ against Israel

Illustrative: An Iron Dome anti-missile system near the border with Lebanon, in northern Israel, April 7, 2023. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Rocket fired at Kiryat Shmona as UN peacekeepers on Lebanon border fear escalation

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Illustrative - Egyptian trucks carrying humanitarian aid bound for the Gaza Strip queue outside the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the enclave, March 23, 2024. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)

Israel claims highest single-day number of aid trucks enters Gaza since war began

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Indonesia participates in massive airdrop marking end of Ramadan, in an apparent first time Muslim nation has flown through Israeli airspace; UNRWA disputes Israeli numbers

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez addresses parliament at the Spanish lower house, Congress of Deputies, in Madrid on April 10, 2024. (Thomas Coex/AFP)

Spain’s PM: Israel’s ‘disproportionate response’ in Gaza could destabilize the world

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Waiting for a missile from Iran

An app on my phone tells me that all of Israel is in danger. So I call my children: Should I worry?

Is war with Iran inevitable?

Iranian officials are quietly suggesting a new approach, different from anything they’ve told me before

Is the chief of staff qualified to understand Sinwar?

In the wake of another military intelligence failure to grasp the strategic landscape, Israel should stop assuming army brass are experts in foreign affairs

The healing power of maror

Akin to trauma therapy, the seder is a way to process generational memories together, learn how to touch our grief from a distance, and carry on

Israeli rock band 'Hayehudim' performs during a live concert in the Magesta Festival in Elma, Zichron Yaakov, on June 15, 2019. (Yahav Gamliel/Flash90)

New York venue cancels show by Israeli band ‘The Jews,’ citing their name

Brooklyn Monarch concert hall tells Hayehudim that there is a problem with ‘the political nature of the band’s name’

Illustrative: The phrase 'Zero tolerance for antisemitism,' drawn on a carton banner held by a girl at a rally. (Andrii Koval/iStock)

'Not everyone protesting the war in Gaza today hates Jews'

Has the term ‘antisemitism’ been overused – or overblown – beyond usefulness?

By Matt Lebovic

Historians criticize use of word as ‘super-category’ for all anti-Jewish discrimination — from antiquity through Hamas’s October 7 massacre in Israel and global surge in Jew-bashing

British Foreign Secretary David Cameron speaks during a joint press conference with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, at the State Department in Washington, DC, on April 9, 2024. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

UK arms exports to Israel will continue, Cameron says, bucking left-wing pressure

British foreign secretary says he still has ‘grave concerns’ regarding Gaza humanitarian situation, but London remains committed to supporting Israel’s ability to combat Hamas

French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne poses with a gift in Nairobi, on April 6, 2024. (Simon Maina/AFP)

French FM threatens possible sanctions to force Israel to boost Gaza aid

By Reuters and ToI Staff

File - Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki (R) receives Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong (L), in Palestinian Authority-controlled Ramallah, in the West Bank, January 17, 2024. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Australian FM says Canberra to consider recognizing Palestinian state

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Released hostage Raz Ben Ami (right) and Reuma Tarshansky attend status of Women and Gender Equality committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on Tuesday. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

At Knesset hearing, released hostage and families decry lack of state support

Relatives describe bureaucratic hurdles to getting much needed financial and emotional support for freed captives, those with loved ones still in Gaza: ‘This isn’t normal’

A screen grab provided by police from a video apparently showing a torch thrown by a protester toward a mounted officer during a demonstration in Jerusalem on April 3, 2024 (Israel Police)

Activist arrested over torches thrown at police during protest, sent to house arrest

Activists protest against United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) outside their offices in Jerusalem, March 27, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Relatives of October 7 victims file suit against Canadian resumption of UNRWA funding

By Jeremy Sharon

IDF says troops battling gunman in central Gaza corridor

Hamas could agree to free some hostages before permanent ceasefire in Gaza – report

By Lazar Berman, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Lebanese outlet says deal would include ‘proportionate’ release of Palestinian prisoners, return of displaced north Gazans; Israel said insisting on 40 living captives in 1st stage

Demonstrators call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas terror group, during a rally marking six months to the war, outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Families of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip and their supporters call for a deal to release the captives, outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, April 9, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Cabinet meets on potential hostage deal, but Hamas still seen demanding end to war

By Jacob Magid, Lazar Berman, Maya Zanger-Nadis and ToI Staff

Pro-Israel demonstrators rally outside the Bryn Mawr Film Institute after theater was ordered by a court to screen an Israeli documentary, April 7, 2024 (Screen grab via ABC 6 used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Latest flareup in tensions over Israel in Philadelphia area

Forced by court, Philadelphia theater shows Israeli film after initial cancellation

By JTA and ToI Staff

Screening of movie on life of singer Yehuda Poliker comes after Bryn Mawr Film Institute director had said it would be seen as ‘endorsement’ of Israel’s conduct in the war

Anti-Israel activist Tarek Bazzi speaks in front of a Palestinian flag at an al-Quds Day rally in Dearborn, Michigan, April 5, 2024. (MEMRI screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

At Michigan Quds Day rally, protesters chant ‘Death to Israel’ and ‘Death to America’

By Michael Horovitz

Moroccans protesting in support of Palestinians in Gaza and against normalization of relations between Morocco and Israel in Casablanca, Morocco, April 6, 2024. (Hicham Rafih/AFPTV/AFP)

Moroccan protesting Israel ties, war in Gaza given five-year prison sentence

The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. (Andrew Esensten)

'There’s a sense of loss and disappointment'

7 anti-Zionist Jewish artists pull out of California Jewish museum’s exhibit

By Andrew Esensten

When the California Jewish Open exhibit opens at San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum in June, the gallery walls will have blank spaces where the art was supposed to hang

Alumni of Western Negev high school reunite via art to support October 7 survivors

By Jessica Steinberg

Now far-flung, graduates of Maale Habesor near the Gaza border team up to fight for hostages, help evacuees and create a group exhibit in Tel Aviv

'Pop Quiz,' an exhibit of works relating to October 7, created by fellow alumni of regional high school Maale Habesor, open through April 30, 2024 (Courtesy)

Illustrative: Avi Azulay as Moses holds the Ten Commandments in the Netflix series 'Testament: The Story of Moses.' (Courtesy Netflix)

Passover 2024

‘Testament: The Story of Moses’ is a top Netflix show — and it features multiple rabbis

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Released around Easter and Passover, the docudrama turns to Jewish, Christian and Muslim clergy, making it a great addition to the streamer’s small faith and spirituality category

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Illustrative: Police inspect the scene of a murder in the northern city of Nazareth on September 23, 2019. (Israel Police Spokesperson)

Death toll rises in Nazareth extended family shooting; motive unknown

A screen grab from TV show 'The Tattooist of Auschwitz' (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ premieres: ‘In the worst of times there’s always hope’

Elizabeth Tsurkov in an undated photo (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

US lawmakers press White House to secure release of Israeli researcher kidnapped in Iraq

Hosts Alesha Dixon, Graham Norton, Hannah Waddingham and Julia Sanina appear on stage during the final of the Eurovision Song contest 2023 on May 13, 2023 at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool, northern England. (Paul Ellis/AFP)

Eurovision organizer slams ‘online abuse’ aimed at artists over Israeli inclusion

File - National Security Itamar Ben Gvir leads an Otzma Yehudit faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 4, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

A leader of European Jews accuses Ben Gvir of exacerbating antisemitism

By Canaan Lidor

Screen capture from video of Polish ultra far-right lawmaker Grzegorz Braun from Confederation (Konfederacja) using a fire extinguisher to put out a Hanukkah menorah placed in the parliament lobby, Warsaw, Poland, on December 12, 2023. (TVN24/AFP)

Far-right Polish MP charged after extinguishing parliament’s Hanukkah candles

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