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What Matters Most On Friday, April 12, 2024

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Emergency and security personnel search the rubble at the site of strikes which hit a building annexed to the Iranian embassy in Syria's capital Damascus, on April 1, 2024. (Louai Beshara/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

April 12: Biden expects Iranian attack on Israel soon, says Tehran will not succeed

By Jacob Magid, Elana Kirsh and ToI Staff

IDF spokesman: No new Homefront guidelines * Hezbollah fires 40 rockets at Galilee * US: Iran threat to Israel ‘viable, real’ * First aid trucks enter Gaza at new Northern Crossing

9:31 pm

At least 8 rockets fired from Gaza at Sderot; no casualties
8:53 pm

Austrian Airlines suspends flights to Tehran for six days
8:53 pm

Blinken discusses need to avoid Iranian escalation in call with Jordanian FM

A handout picture provided by the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei office shows him speaking during the Eid al-Fitr prayer ceremony in Tehran on April 10, 2024. (KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)

Austin chides Gallant for lack of warning on Damascus strike

US intel said to indicate Iran could strike ‘Israeli soil’ in next 24 to 48 hours

By ToI Staff, Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

WSJ also quotes Iranian official as saying Khamenei yet to decide on plans, fearing Israel will intercept missiles and respond with major strike on Iran’s strategic infrastructure

A banner displaying pictures of Israeli army officials with their faces encircled by a red crosshair icon hangs in Tehran on April 2, 2024, following a suspected Israeli strike in Damascus that killed the top IRGC officer in Syria. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

IDF says it’s on high alert for Iranian attack, as world warns Tehran of consequences

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives to attend talks with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, December 7, 2023. (Sergei Bobylev/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russia, Germany urge restraint amid Iran threat; Lufthansa extends Tehran route stay

By Agencies and ToI Staff

'Time is not running out. It ran out'

Negotiators say Netanyahu has ‘cold indifference’ to the fate of the hostages

Two people involved in talks tell Channel 12 that PM undermines negotiators, won’t entertain new ideas; ‘without Netanyahu, the chances of making a deal would be better’

Relatives and supporters of Israeli hostages held in Gaza since the October 7 attacks by Hamas hold placards during a demonstration in Tel Aviv, on April 4, 2024. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Left: Protesters in Tel Aviv call for the government to agree to a hostage deal on April 11, 2024. (Erik Marmor/Flash90) Right: Protesters in Jerusalem call for the government to begin operating in the southernmost Gaza city of Rafah, April 11, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Dueling rallies held in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to urge hostage deal, Rafah operation

By Shira Silkoff

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Participants in the Let My People Go march hold posters of all the dates that the hostages have been held in captivity by Hamas in Gaza, on April 12, 2024. (Tanya Zion-Waldoks)

‘Let my people go’: Hostage families stage Passover-themed demonstration near Gaza border

Demonstrators wear burlap sacks to represent Jewish slavery before the exodus from Egypt, call on government to do more to reach a deal for hostages’ release

Thousands of Israelis take part in a rally in Jerusalem calling for the release of hostages held in Gaza, on April 7, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US, Israeli officials fear most hostages held by Hamas are dead — report

Ofri Bibas-Levy, sister of hostage Yarden Bibas, speaks at a pre-Passover event in the Kibbutz Nir Oz dining hall on April 11, 2024. (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)

Empty seder tables at Nir Oz as survivors mark an unhappy Passover without hostages

By Jessica Steinberg

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What Matters Now to David Horovitz: The conflicts of war coverage

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Six months on, The Times of Israel’s founding editor weighs in on the challenges confronting Jerusalem-based news site bent on providing factual, fair and fast coverage

David Horovitz, editor, The Times of Israel. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

Participants in the Let My People Go march hold posters of all the dates that the hostages have been held in captivity by Hamas in Gaza, on April 12, 2024. (Tanya Zion-Waldoks)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing April 12: Day 189 – Tension mounts over Iran, question of surviving hostages

Demonstrators gather on Kaplan Street in Tel Aviv to protest against the government and call for early elections and a deal to release hostages held by Hamas, April 6, 2024. (Ben Cohen/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Poll: Israelis remain pessimistic on future of country’s security, democracy

Humanitarian aid waits on the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, in this handout photo from April 11, 2024. (COGAT)

Israel says Kerem Shalom Crossing blocked by undistributed aid waiting on Gaza side

By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

As IDF declares ‘next phase’ of humanitarian assistance, including construction of new crossing, COGAT blames aid backup on ‘slow’ UN and its ‘lack of logistical capabilities’

File: France's Prime Minister Gabriel Attal attends a 'national tribute' ceremony to late French politician and admiral, Philippe de Gaulle, son of General de Gaulle, at the Hotel des Invalides in Paris, Wednesday, March 20, 2024. (Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP)

‘Gaza war didn’t come out of the blue’: French PM defends Israel in parliament

Activists blocking the Nitzana crossing to Gaza are forcibly removed by police during protests against the transfer of humanitarian aid by Israel, April 11, 2024. (Courtesy Tzav 9)

Right-wing activists block humanitarian aid headed to Gaza for three hours

By Jeremy Sharon

Between Star Wars and Dune: From liberty to jihad in 40 years

The differences between the two epics illuminate the shifting values and priorities of our world

Israel – Hamas war: Resentment, anger, and atonement

On October 7th, chaos replaced order and life was contaminated by death, like the Torah’s postpartum woman, whose traces of death need separation to restore order

Tali Golergant winning the Luxembourg Song Contest on January 27, 2024. (Dani Reuter/RTL Luxembourg)

Interview'Antisemitism - I've had it always, moving around the world'

Luxembourg banking on polyglot singer with Israeli roots for its Eurovision return

Tali Golergant is the first singer to represent the tiny nation since 1993. But with family ties to the Jewish state – including a brother who fought in Gaza – online hate is ablaze

Palestinian men check a bullet-riddled car following an IDF raid in the al-Faraa camp near Tubas in the West Bank on April 12, 2024. (Zain Jaafar/AFP)

IDF kills 2 Palestinians, including Hamas commander, in northern West Bank clashes

By Emanuel Fabian

Army says Mohammad Omar Daraghmeh was a ‘central Hamas operative’ in the Tubas area, was planning ‘significant terror acts’ against Israel

A general view shows a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, March. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

‘No consensus’ in Security Council on full UN membership for Palestinians, says chair

By AFP

Anti-Israel demonstrators protest against Israel's President Isaac Herzog attending the opening of the new National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Phil Nijhuis)

Inside story'It feels like back when Jews' addresses were handed out'

Once a tolerant haven, Holland sees antisemitism surge as Jews across Europe scent danger

By Canaan Lidor

A record number of hate crimes reflects a post-Oct. 7 reality that’s making the continent’s Jews question their futures, but they no longer see Israel as their ‘insurance policy’

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a debate on the attacks by Hamas against Israel and the humanitarian situation in Gaza, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on October 18, 2023. (Frederick Florin/AFP)

Europe turning blind eye to Hamas and Hezbollah networks in its territory, experts say

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Analysts say terror groups operate largely unchecked, running charities, lobbying public opinion and recruiting supporters — and the legal means to stop them are scant

Ultra-Orthodox minister breaks ranks, says some Haredi youth must be drafted

By Sam Sokol and AFP

Shas distances itself from Interior Minister Moshe Arbel’s call, says only rabbis of the Council of Torah Sages can decide policy on the thorny issue

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and youth raise placards during a protest against Israeli army conscription outside an army recruitment office in Jerusalem on April 11, 2024. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox men protest against the drafting of Haredim to the IDF, Jerusalem, April 11, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG to government: ‘No legal basis’ for continuing to exempt Haredim from IDF

A man walks over the rubble left after of the Argentinian Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) building in Buenos Aires after it was targeted in a deadly bombing, July 18, 1994 (Ali Burafi/AFP)

Argentina court blames Iran for 1990s terror attacks on Israeli embassy, AMIA center

By AFP

Branding Islamic Republic a ‘terrorist state,’ ruling says Hezbollah carried out deadly bombings on Tehran’s orders, calls 1994 bombing of Jewish center a crime against humanity

Argentinian President Javier Milei at the Shul of Bal Harbor in Surfside, Florida, on April 10, 2024, (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Argentina’s Javier Milei tells Miami shul he has Jewish heritage

By Juan Melamed

Inside story

Despite Hamas’s hopes and Biden’s fears, Ramadan didn’t spread Gaza war to Jerusalem

Officials say Palestinians weren’t interested in heeding Hamas call to rile up Al-Aqsa, where Ben Gvir was blocked from exerting influence and where Jordan played stabilizing role

Thousands of Muslim worshipers attend Friday prayers during Ramadan, at the Al-Aqsa compound atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, March 29, 2024. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Illustrative: Pro-Palestinian college students participate in a protest at Columbia University campus in New York City on November 14, 2023. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

ADL grades US campuses’ efforts to combat antisemitism, says many schools failing

Only two receive ‘A’ grade, while all Ivy League schools except Dartmouth College given D or F, in review of 85 higher education institutions

Jenni Asher is studying at the Academy for Jewish Religion California to become a cantor. (Arjun Ramesh via JTA)

'She has the ability to breathe new life into the synagogue'

Jenni Asher is set to become first ordained Black woman cantor in the US

By Andrew Esensten and Shoshana McKinney Kirya-Ziraba

The accomplished violinist and cantorial soloist will be one of America’s two Black cantors upon her graduation

More Headlines

New York police officers arrest a Hasidic Jewish student after he was removed from a breach in the wall of the synagogue that led to a tunnel dug by students at Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters, January 8, 2024, in New York. (Bruce Schaff via AP)

Thirteen men plead not guilty for melee over illegal Brooklyn Chabad tunnel

File: Female troops are seen at an IDF staging ground in southern Israel near the border with Gaza. January 1, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

IDF sees new surge in female conscripts joining combat units amid Gaza war

By Emanuel Fabian

Palestine flag emoji on an Apple device (via Social media)

iPhones suggest Palestinian flag emoji when users type ‘Jerusalem’; Apple: It’s a bug

By AFP

A construction site in the West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Adumim on February 29, 2024. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Apartment sales increased 19% in February despite ongoing Gaza war, new figures show

By Sharon Wrobel

Russian soldiers and police officers stand an the edge one of the highways entering Moscow on June 24, 2023. (Alexander Nemenov/AFP)

Russia says it foiled terror plot against Moscow synagogue

An Israeli man identified as Shalom Avitan (C) is escorted by Malaysian police upon his arrival at a court to face charges of possessing six handguns and 200 bullets in Kuala Lumpur on April 12, 2024. (Arif Kartono / AFP)

Suspected Israeli mobster pleads not guilty to firearms offenses in Malaysia

Bettany Hughes will present in two productions co-produced by Keshet International, one about the seven wonders of the ancient world. (SandStone)

Old newsKeshet announces production of two ancient history docu-series

By Jessica Steinberg

File - The site of the Supernova music festival near the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel is seen on October 12, 2023. At least 360 Israeli festival-goers were killed during the assault by Hamas terrorists on October 7. (Ohad Zwigenberg/ AP)

From the webHaifa U scientists use Nova rave massacre to study affects of psychedelics on trauma

By Natan Odenheimer, Aaron Boxerman and Gal Koplewitz

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