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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 16, 2024

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IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi speaks to troops with Brig. Gen. Yotam Sigler at the Nevatim Airbase in southern Israel, April 15, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

4 ballistic missiles hit Nevatim, causing minor damage

Visiting targeted air base, IDF chief promises response to Iranian attack

By Emanuel Fabian

Iran will ‘face consequences of its actions,’ Halevi warns; military spokesman says Nevatim continues to function, cautions home front rules could change in coming days

File - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convenes a meeting of the war cabinet in Tel Aviv, early morning on April 14, 2024. (Courtesy)

War cabinet said set on ‘forceful’ response to Iran, but one that won’t spark wider war

By ToI Staff and Agencies

IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari poses next to an Iranian ballistic missile which fell in Israel, during a media tour at the Julis IDF base near Kiryat Malachi on April 16, 2024. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

April 16: UNSC committee says unable to agree on Palestinian bid for full membership

UK, German FMs set to arrive in Israel * IDF says Iran won’t get off ‘scot-free’ * Israel strikes Lebanon after rockets, drones * Hamas upped demands in latest talks, official says

11:36 pm

US CENTCOM forces successfully engage two Houthi UAVs, statement says
10:23 pm

UN says it still faces obstacles in bid to fend off famine in Gaza
8:41 pm

University of Southern California nixes valedictorian speaker over antisemitism claims

Israeli Air Force fighter jets are seen in an undated image published by the IDF on April 14, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Report: Israel reassures Arab nations they won't be endangered

US said to believe Israel won’t strike Iran directly, will focus on proxies instead

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Raisi warns ‘smallest action against Iranian interests’ will be met with ‘severe, widespread and painful response’; pressure mounts on Israel and Iran to avoid further escalation

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin watches a motorcade pass as he prepares to welcome Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani at the Pentagon on Monday, April 15, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Pentagon chief pushes support for Israel, Mideast stability in calls with counterparts

By Reuters and ToI Staff

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., left, arrives for a closed-door meeting with fellow Republicans at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, April 15, 2024. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

US House speaker launches bid to approve aid for Israel, Ukraine in separate votes

By STEPHEN GROVES and LISA MASCARO

Analysis

As Israel mulls revenge, preserving US-led cooperation also seen as dealing blow to Iran

Iran felt compelled to respond to strike on its generals, but Israel could hold back and still come out on top by making sure its alliances remain intact while Tehran’s fall apart

A man walks past a banner depicting missiles launching from a representation of the map of Iran colored with the Iranian flag in central Tehran on April 15, 2024. (Atta Kenare / AFP)

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Grossi attends IAEA Board of Governors emergency meeting in Vienna, Austria, on April 11, 2024. (Joe Klamar/AFP)

Iran closed nuclear facilities for a day following attack on Israel, says IAEA chief

By AFP

Inspections of Iranian nuclear facilities paused after Tehran’s unprecedented assault, says head of UN’s nuclear watchdog

A banner depicting the a flying missile with text in Persian reading "I will not abandon my homeland" is displayed along a street in central Tehran on April 15, 2024. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iranians brace for potential Israeli strikes amid fears for economy, anger at regime

By Parisa Hafezi

Mohammad Sarur in an undated photo posted to social media. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Lebanese officials point to Mossad being behind killing of Hamas financier

By AFP

Demonstrators take over a shopping center during a 'Strike for Gaza' protest calling for a permanent ceasfire in the Israel-Hamas conflict on April 15, 2024, in Los Angeles, California. (Robyn BECK / AFP)

Anti-Israel activists block bridges in NYC, California, halt Chicago airport traffic

Dozens arrested as demonstrators also block roads in Philadelphia, Oregon, Sea-Tac airport and elsewhere, as part of global ‘multi-city blockade’ in support of Palestinians

A Jewish student watches a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protest at Columbia University campus on November 14, 2023. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images via AFP)

ADL reports record high of US antisemitic incidents amid Hamas war

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Demonstrators hold signs and wave flags during a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel rally in Brussels on January 21, 2024. (AP/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Belgium pushes to expel controversial Palestinian activist ‘hate preacher’

This Passover we say: Let my people go – now!

The call is aimed at Hamas, but even more so at those who stay silent when they should speak out against evil

US aid to Israel must be Congress’s top priority

Having witnessed first-hand the impact of Oct. 7, and after Iran’s onslaught, the need for American support is more dire than ever

Israeli artist shutters Venice Biennale pavilion in call for hostage and ceasefire deal

By Jessica Steinberg

Artist Ruth Patir says she’ll open her exhibit, ‘(M)otherland,’ once an agreement has been reached to bring the hostages home and end the war in Gaza

Gazan journalist Sami Obeid at his home in Gaza, 2021 (courtesy)

Interview

Gazan journalist to ToI: We, the people of Gaza, are also living like hostages of Hamas

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Now with relatives in Rafah, Sami Obeid longs to return to his destroyed home in the north. Hamas hasn’t disappeared, he says, and without a ‘day-after’ plan, it will resume its rule

US says Gaza aid ‘increased dramatically,’ as convoys proceed via new crossing

By Agencies and Emanuel Fabian

An image grab from AFPTV footage shows Jordanian onlookers and security agents standing around the debris of a missile that the Jordanian forces intercepted over Amman amid an unprecedented Iranian drone and missile attack on Israel in the early hours of April 14, 2024. (Ahmad SHOURA / AFP)

Boom market

Jordanians try to sell downed Iranian rockets on the internet

By Gianluca Pacchiani

‘Used Iranian ballistic missile in good condition’: Online ads in the kingdom — some of them satirical — offer ballistic missiles, or pieces of them, for sale

File: Jordan's King Abdullah II speaks during a joint statement with French President Emmanuel Macron, February 16, 2024 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. (Yoan Valat, Pool via AP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Apr. 16: Day 193 – Why Jordan suppresses its role in blocking Iran’s drones

A handout picture provided by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) shows Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (3R) performing the Eid Al-Fitr prayer at the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca on April 10, 2024. (Photo by SAUDI PRESS AGENCY / AFP) /

Analysis‘Bad for business’: Between Israel and Iran, Gulf states scramble to avert wider war

By Talek HARRIS, Robbie COREY-BOULET and Callum PATON

'The bottom line is Hamas needs to take that deal'

US accuses Hamas of being ‘obstacle’ to Gaza truce after it rejected Israel’s proposal

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Terror group said to give mediators a new draft, claims it can only free 20 ‘humanitarian’ hostages, demands permanent end to war, return to north Gaza for displaced civilians

A protester holds a placard as relatives of hostages held in Gaza and their supporters block traffic outside of the US embassy, calling for the immediate release of all captives, Tel Aviv, April 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

In this aerial view, visitors walk past portraits of people who were abducted or killed in the Hamas massacre at the Nova music festival on October 7, at the site of the festival near Kibbutz Reim in southern Israel, April 10, 2024. (Jack Guez / AFP)

Survivors confront their trauma at site of Hamas massacre of music festival

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Freed hostage Noralin Agojo, 60, who was released on November 28, 2023, as part of a temporary ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. (Courtesy)

Freed hostage says she saw photo of Gilad Shalit in Gaza room where she was held

File: Armed settlers gather on a hill overlooking the village of al-Mughayyir near Ramallah in the West Bank on April 13, 2024 (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Two Palestinians shot dead by settlers in clashes near West Bank village

By ToI Staff, Agencies and Emanuel Fabian

IDF and police probing the violence that reportedly broke out after a settler was attacked; 3 Palestinians also reported injured in scuffles

Palestinians and left-wing activists protest against the eviction of Palestinian families from their homes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, on April 16, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court orders eviction of Palestinian family from flashpoint East Jerusalem surburb

By ToI Staff and AP

File - Opposition Leader Yair Lapid addresses the Knesset plenum, April 15, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)

Lapid calls Netanyahu an ‘existential threat’ as they spar over national security

‘All that is left of Mr. Security’ are ‘ruins from Be’eri to Kiryat Shmona,’ says Lapid. Opposition leader ‘preferred to stay abroad… while Israel was attacked,’ counters Likud

Ra'am party head MK Mansour Abbas leads a faction meeting, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 12, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Two nonprofits linked to Arab Ra’am party to be shuttered over alleged terror ties

Among the new Haggadahs to be published in 2024 are several for families and one for Star Wars fans. (Collage by Mollie Suss/JTA)

Just for Passover

Inside 10 new Haggadahs for 2024: US and Israel take their places at the Seder table

By PHILISSA CRAMER and Penny Schwartz

As Jews around the world celebrate the first Passover since Oct. 7, some of these Seder guides touch on politics, while others feature humor, history and Hollywood stars

More Headlines

Former US president Donald Trump attends the first day of his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City on April 15, 2024. (Photo by Michael Nagle / POOL / AFP)

Trump eschews campaign theatrics in court as hush money trial begins

By Jill Colvin and Michael R. Sisak

Soldiers help prepare the Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa following the outbreak of war, October 11, 2023. (Courtesy of Rambam)

On high alert since October 7, hospitals were already prepared to deal with Iran attack

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Israeli security and rescue forces at the scene where a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip by Palestinian terrorists hit and caused damage in Holon, December 11, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Funding the war with Hamas doubles Israel’s borrowing in 2023

By Reuters and ToI Staff

File: National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 15, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ben Gvir says no longer bound by coalition discipline, in spat with Haredi factions

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

The busy aisles at a Rami Levy supermarket in Pardes Hannah-Karkur, on October 10, 2023. (Gavriel Fiske/ Times of Israel)

Inflation edges higher as housing costs and travel prices rise

By Sharon Wrobel

Chicago Cubs pitcher Ken Holtzman talks with reporters after a match against Atlanta in Chicago on August 19, 1969. (James Palmer/AP Photo)

ObituaryKen Holtzman, who had the most wins of any Jewish pitcher in MLB history, dies at 78

By jacob gurvis

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