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What Matters Most On Monday, April 15, 2024

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An Israeli army f-15 fighter jet flies over central Israel on April 15, 2024. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

April 15: Head of UN atomic watchdog worried Israeli reprisal could target Iran nuclear sites

Massive blast from alleged Israeli strike heard across southern Lebanon * Pentagon says extra jets sent to area staying put * Iran claims West ‘should appreciate our restraint’

11:02 pm

Jordan let Israeli jets use its airspace during Iran attack -- report
10:50 pm

Extra US fighter jets moved to region before Iran attack sticking around -- Pentagon
10:35 pm

IAEA chief worried Israel could hit Iranian nuclear sites, kept inspectors home Monday

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (R) talking to French President Emmanuel Macron at a press conference in Berlin, Germany, March 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

European allies urge Israel against military response to Iran as war cabinet convenes

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Cameron says UK pursuing new sanctions against Tehran, claims regime suffered ‘double defeat’; Macron suggests diplomatic isolation more effective than military action

The Israeli war cabinet and top security officials meet in Tel Aviv on April 14, 2024, hours after Iran's missile and drone attack on Israel. (Amos Ben Gershom/ GPO)

War cabinet said to favor hitting back at Iran but divided over when and how

By Jeremy Sharon and Agencies

US President Joe Biden (right) is greeted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion International Airport, October 18, 2023. (Evan Vucci/AP)

‘Not seeking war’: White House stresses US won’t join Israeli counterstrike on Iran

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Inside story

How the US shifted from rapping Israel over Gaza to defending it against Iran

US official reveals Israel informed White House of Damascus strike at meeting on Rafah op, and president’s call with PM to discuss aid convoy strike began with coordinating on Iran

A woman walks past a mural depicting US President Joe Biden as a superhero defending Israel on a street in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, April 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

In this photo obtained from the US Department of Defense, the US Navy's aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) (IKE) transits the Strait of Hormuz on November 26, 2023. (Ruskin Naval / US Department of Defense / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Apr. 15: Day 192 – Could regional help in thwarting Iran shift global axis?

Israeli air defense systems intercept missiles fired from Iran, in central Israel, April 14, 2024. (AP/Tomer Neuberg)

Major Western powers condemn Iranian missile barrage but urge de-escalation, restraint

By Jeremy Sharon

Illustrative: Israeli evacuees from the Gaza border area get temporary shelter at a hotel in Eilat, October 17, 2023. (Aris MESSINIS / AFP)

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Analysis

Gianluca Pacchiani

Jordan’s help against Iran shows relationship with Israel still strong, despite Gaza

Caught between popular support for Palestinians and the threat of Iranian influence, Amman downplays its role in downing dozens of Israel-bound drones

A handout picture released by the Jordanian Royal Palace shows King Abdullah II (R) and his son Crown Prince Hussein meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (not seen here) in Amman, March 17, 2024. (Jordanian Royal Palace/AFP)

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, left, arrives in Abu Dhabi to offer condolences to Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, president of the UAE and ruler of Abu Dhabi, third, right, on the passing of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the late president of the UAE, at the Presidential Airport in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, May 16, 2022. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

AnalysisAs tensions between Israel and Iran rise, Gulf states seek to lower the flames

By Samia Nakhoul and Pesha Magid

Israeli air defense systems intercept missiles fired from Iran, in central Israel, April 14, 2024. (AP/Tomer Neuberg)

Jordan, France, UK summon Iranian envoys over conduct surrounding Israel strike

By Reuters, AFP and ToI Staff

A woman walks past a banner depicting launching missiles bearing the emblem of the Islamic Republic of Iran in central Tehran on April 15, 2024. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Report: Gulf states, including Saudi Arabia, provided intelligence on Iran attack

By Stuart Winer

US persuaded several countries to help in preparing for Iranian assault on Israel, enabling a comprehensive defensive shield to be put in place, Wall Street Journal says

Rep. Mike Johnson, Republican-Louisiana, takes the oath to be the new House speaker at the Capitol in Washington, October 25, 2023. (Alex Brandon/AP)

US House to vote on Israel aid package following Iran attack

By Reuters and ToI Staff

FILE - In this file photo from November 2012, Palestinian school girls pass a billboard covered by Palestinian and Iranian flags with Arabic that reads, "thanks and gratitude to Iran," in Gaza City. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)

Whoever attacks Israel ‘is a hero’ in Palestinian eyes: Many Gazans fete Iran assault

By Reuters and ToI Staff

It’s time for unconditional love

The Jewish people unites not because we have common enemies, but when we remember that we’d be nothing without each other

Unilaterally declaring Palestine a state will torpedo peace prospects

The UN may adopt a measure to recognize Palestinian statehood, but no real peace process is possible without direct negotiations

An Iranian drone is seen shortly before being shot down by an Israeli Air Force fighter jet, April 14, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

WATCH: IAF fighter jets down Iranian drones; footage shows minor damage to airbase

By Emanuel Fabian and Jacob Magid

Military spokesman says Nevatim continues to function normally after attack; American official describes ‘tense moments’ when US learned Iran had fired over 100 ballistic missiles

Pictures released by the Israel Air Force showing planes returning after intercepting the direct attack from Iran, April 14, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Should Israel launch an immediate retaliatory attack on Iran? Lawmakers are divided

Mohamad Hassouna, who resides in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Al-Fura, sits in a building near where his 7-year-old daughter Amina was injured by an Iranian missile shard in the southern Negev desert on April 14, 2024. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

‘We have no shelter,’ says Bedouin dad of girl, 7, badly hurt by shrapnel in Iran attack

By AFP and Charlie Summers

In Negev Desert, unrecognized Bedouin villages suffer dire lack of protection against rocket attacks, from the Gaza Strip and elsewhere

People walk by photographs of Israeli civilians held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, in Tel Aviv, April 9, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hamas said to demand end of war at start of deal, would only free hostages in 2nd phase

New Hamas proposal, reportedly given to mediators, provides for all hostages to go free — but only after Israel permanently ends war, displaced Gazans return unimpeded to north

Illustrative: Displaced Palestinians taking the coastal Rashid road as they attempt to return to Gaza City pass through Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, on April 14, 2024. (AFP)

Gazans flood road to north after rumors of lifted checkpoint; IDF denies opening

By AFP and ToI Staff

Photographs of Israeli hostages being held in the Gaza Strip are seen on a house in Kibbutz Be'eri, Israel, December 20, 2023. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Kibbutz Be’eri declines Independence Day torch-lighting role, rejecting ‘heroism’ theme

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

In 'Irena's Vow,' Irena Gut (Sophie Nélisse) crouches in front of the grill covering the entrance to the basement of a German officer's home in Tarnopol, Poland where she hides 12 Jews (Quiver Distribution)

'She believed that God doesn't ask you to do the impossible'

How 12 Jews survived the Holocaust hidden by a maid in a Nazi officer’s basement

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Film ‘Irena’s Vow,’ opening in the US on April 15, tells the true story of faith and humanity that led a young Polish woman to risk her life to save the lives of others

A Ryanair plane at Ben Gurion International Airport, outside of Tel Aviv. March 2, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/ Flash90)

Israel reopens airspace as airlines cancel flights in wake of Iran attack

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Israel Airports Authority says most flights of foreign carriers have been delayed, while flights by flag carrier El Al were able to take off to destinations in Europe

A closed school in the northern Israeli city of Safed, April 14, 2024, after Iran launched hundreds of attack drones and missiles at Israel overnight. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Military lifts countrywide restrictions, catching closed education system by surprise

A protective wall at the Tel Hai junction in northern Israel, close to the Lebanon border, April 1, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/FLASH90)

Four IDF troops hurt, one seriously, in blast claimed by Hezbollah on Lebanon border

By Emanuel Fabian

Terror group says bombs planted inside Lebanese territory detonated as soldiers crossed border; Israeli fighter jets hit Hezbollah sites in overnight strikes

Demonstrators wave Iran's flag and Palestinian flags as they gather at Palestine Square in Tehran on April 14, 2024, after Iran launched a drone and missile attack on Israel. (Atta Kenare / AFP)

Iran hails proxies for joining attack on Israel; IDF strikes Hezbollah in response

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Video footage shows an apparent interception by the C-Dome defense system over the Eilat area after a suspicious target entered Israeli airspace from the direction of the Red Sea, April 14, 2024. (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

For 2nd time in days, IDF downs hostile drone over Eilat with ship-mounted Iron Dome

By Emanuel Fabian

FILE: People participate in a "March Against Antisemitism" in London on November 26, 2023. (Andy Solomon / Shutterstock)

As October 7 sharpens split in UK’s far right, Jews give no quarter to either side

By Robert Philpot

British Jewry is rebuffing groups exploiting the war to spread Islamophobia under the guise of Israel support, to say nothing of those lustily doubling down on antisemitism and anti-Zionism

IDF tanks secure the area while Palestinians fleeing from combat areas in Khan Younis to Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, January 26, 2024. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)

'We won't tolerate educators who boycott our country'

Israeli academics slammed for signing letter accusing Israel of ‘plausible genocide’

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Two dozen members of academia call on the US to stop arming Israel in its war against Hamas in Gaza; students from the country’s devastated south demand their firing

9 authors refuse nominations for PEN awards, citing US group’s stance on war in Gaza

By Hillel Italie

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

‘Lively spirit’: Hundreds attend funeral of Israeli teen killed in West Bank attack

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Murderer of Benjamin Achimeir still at large, as slaying of Jerusalemite near illegal outpost sparks violent clashes between extremist settlers and Palestinians

Argentine President Javier Milei, right, hugs Argentine Sephardic Orthodox rabbi Shimon Axel Wahnish at the Western Wall, in Jerusalem's Old City, Tuesday, February 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Meet Argentina’s Axel Wahnish, first-ever rabbi to be appointed ambassador to Israel

By Juan Melamed

File: Artifacts are on display in the first ever National Museum of Archaeology in Gaza, opened by Jawdat Khoudary, a Palestinian businessman and collector, on July 28, 2008. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Gaza’s archaeology experts say enclave’s historic treasures saved by ‘irony of history’

By AFP and ToI Staff

When Gazan collector Jawdat Khoudary loaned his treasure trove of artifacts to museums in Europe in 2006, he never imagined they would still be stored in Switzerland

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (C) stands with New South Wales Premier Chris Minns (4th R) and other officials as they prepare to leave flowers outside the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping mall in Sydney on April 14, 2024. (DAVID GRAY / AFP)

Police probe killer’s targeting of women in Sydney mall attack

Protest leader Moshe Radman after being released from a police investigation in Tel Aviv-Jaffa on August 1, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Report: Anti-government protest leader kept funds raised for injured demonstrator

An illustrative photo of a gray wolf (Carlos Delgado/Wikimedia Commons)

‘We woke up to her screaming’: Wolf drags girl from tent in Negev campsite

Syrian regime soldiers walk down a road in an area around Kweyris military airport, in the eastern Aleppo province on October 16, 2015. (AFP/George Ourfalian)

Senior Syrian military official appears in Swedish court on war crimes charges

By Johannes LEDEL

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