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What Matters Most On Saturday, April 13, 2024

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14-year-old Benjamin Achimeir, who went missing in the West Bank on April 12, 2024 and was found murdered a day later. (Courtesy)

Body of Israeli teen found in West Bank; IDF says he was murdered in terror attack

By Emanuel Fabian

Benjamin Achimeir, 14, went missing while shepherding near outpost; Palestinian said shot in head by settler extremists after body found; concerns of major West Bank escalation

IDF troops search for a missing 14-year-old boy in the West Bank, April 12, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli teen goes missing in W. Bank; Palestinian killed as settlers storm village

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and AP

Israeli air defenses intercept Iranian launches on April 14, 2024. (Screenshot/Facebook)

Live updates (closed)

April 13: Iran fires 300 missiles and drones; most intercepted; minor damage at IDF base

By Jacob Magid and Amy Spiro

Unprecedented assault triggered sirens nationwide, booms of interceptions * Bedouin child hurt by shrapnel * IAF, US, UK, Jordan intercepted projectiles

12:13 am

Defense chief speaking with US counterpart regarding Iran attack
12:12 am

Iran strike caused slight damage to IDF military base - military spokesman
12:07 am

UN chief 'strongly condemns' Iran's attack on Israel, calls for 'immediate cessation of these hostilities'

This image made from a video provided to The Associated Press by a Mideast defense official shows a helicopter raid targeting a vessel near the Strait of Hormuz on April 13, 2024. (AP Photo)

Iran says vessel being taken into its territorial waters

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard seizes Israeli-linked ship with 25 crew near Strait of Hormuz

By AP and ToI Staff

Video shows commandos rappelling from helicopter onto Portugal-flagged MSC Aries in Gulf of Oman, off Emirati port Fujairah; vessel associated with Eyal Ofer’s Zodiac Group

Former Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman in an interview to Channel 12 broadcast April 11, 2024. (Screen capture: Channel 12, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

'Bottom line -- Bibi's strategy was an abject failure'

Ex-Shin Bet chief: Netanyahu unfit for office, leading Israel to its doom

Saying the PM is directly responsible through his policies for ‘the greatest disaster’ in Israel’s history, Nadav Argaman says he must go or things could get ‘very, very bad’

With each bit of eternity our enemies hope to destroy, we respond with stronger determination to live

Charles Asher Small

The West must leave Qatar’s ’Education City’

Doha, which funds global Islamist terror, has been pouring billions into US universities – and strings are definitely attached

Biden predicts Iran attack on Israel ‘sooner than later,’ renews warning: ‘Don’t’

By Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

US president: ‘We will help defend Israel and Iran will not succeed’; report warns Tehran could launch major drone and missile attack within hours in retaliation for strike on IRGC

US President Joe Biden speaks to the National Action Network Convention remotely from the South Court Auditorium of the White House, Friday, April 12, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant meets with the CENTCOM chief Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla at the Hatzor Airbase, April 12, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Report warns Iran could launch major drone and missile attack within hours

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

In this picture released by the official website of the Iranian Army on Jan. 19, 2024, a missile is launched during a military drill in southern Iran (Iranian Army via AP)

Explainer

Agencies and ToI Staff

As Israel waits for potential attack, what are Iran’s missile and drone capabilities?

Report says ballistic missiles fired from Iran would take 12 minutes to reach Israel, cruise missiles would take two hours, and drones would reach targets in nine hours

Inside Story

Cathryn J. Prince

Jewish writers say the post-Oct. 7 English literary world has blacklisted them

As the war in Gaza goes on, authors say that when they don’t face outright hostility for being Jews, they are marginalized as publishers claim their voices aren’t marketable

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators chant during a protest, April. 12, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

People protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas terror group in Tel Aviv, April 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

‘No freedom and no hope’: Separate protests Saturday to call for hostage deal, elections

Families of those held by terrorists in Gaza highlight plight ahead of Passover, the festival of freedom; rallies against government to be held in Tel Aviv and nationwide

Noa Argamani is abucted into Gaza on October 7, 2023. (Screen capture/X)

New clip shows terrified Israeli hostage Noa Argamani being abducted into Gaza

Illustrative: The Iron Dome air defense system intercepts rockets fired from Lebanon, as seen over the Hula Valley, April 12, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Hezbollah launches explosive-laden drones, dozens of rockets at northern Israel

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

IDF says air defenses intercepted 2 UAVs and some of the projectiles fired by the Iran-backed Lebanese terror group; no injuries reported

Nadim Faris forages for mushrooms near his village of Hurfeish, March 2024. (Diana Bletter)

Reporter's notebookWhere once were mushrooms are now anti-tank missiles

As Hezbollah lobs rockets from Lebanon, Druze forager continues traditional fungi hunt

By Diana Bletter

Nadim Faris’s expertise crosses borders and connects nations as Syrians and Jordanians ask him to bestow Arabic monikers on the region’s wild mushrooms

Screen grab of a video circulating on social media showing police shutting down a pro-Palestinian event over hate speech fears, April 12, 2024 (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

German police shut down pro-Palestinian gathering over hate speech concerns

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Authorities cut power after banned speaker appears via video link; British-Palestinian surgeon who spoke at ceremony for terror leader says Germany denied him entry to attend event

An armed Hamas terrorist walking around the Supernova music festival, near Kibbutz Re'im in the Negev desert in southern Israel on October 7, where terrorists from Gaza massacred hundreds of people. (South First Responders/AFP)

EU sanctions armed wings of Hamas, Islamic Jihad for sexual violence on Oct. 7

Illustrative photo of the city center of Dusseldorf, Germany, pictured on June 28, 2023. (AP/Martin Meissner)

Germany arrests 4 teens suspected of planning Islamist terror attacks

A woman passes a cigarette during a protest calling for the release of the people held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, outside the Defense Headquarters in Tel Aviv, November 3, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

Inside Story'In some ways, we are letting people get addicted'

Stressed out by war, Israelis appear to be smoking more than they have in years

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Soldiers, hostages’ families and others seem to be lighting up at increasing levels, reversing years of falling rates, but health experts aren’t pushing them to kick the habit yet

Trucks enter the northern Gaza Strip via a new land crossing, April 11, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF announces first aid convoy entered northern Gaza through new land crossing

By Emanuel Fabian

‘Northern Crossing’ opens after army declares ‘next phase’ of humanitarian operations in Strip; leaflets reportedly dropped over Rafah urging Palestinians to help find hostages

Ofer Halperin-Rothschild. (Dafna Talmon)

Ofer Halperin-Rothschild39-year-old mother of three from Kibbutz Kfar Aza

'We understood we couldn't go back. I'm not willing to do that to my children anymore. If I had any doubts before October 7, they've been settled'

By Tamar Mor Sela

More Headlines

Illustrative: Police at the scene of a double murder in Isfiya, northern Israel, April 13, 2024. (Israel Police)

Three killed in shootings in northern towns; toddler seriously wounded

Emergency officers stand by with stretchers outside Westfield Shopping Centre where multiple people were stabbed in Sydney, April 13, 2024 (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

6 killed in Sydney mall stabbing; police say terror not ruled out as motive

By AFP

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

US theater charity Broadway Cares donates to Israeli groups after Gaza aid criticism

Illustrative: Israel's players celebrate after defeating South Korea 3-1 during the FIFA U-20 World Cup third-place soccer match at Diego Maradona stadium in La Plata, Argentina, June 11, 2023. (AP/Gustavo Garello)

Israel signs agreement with South American soccer federation, paving way for elite play

By Juan Melamed

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