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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 17, 2024

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A drone fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon hits a a community center in the northern border community of Arab al-Aramshe on April 17, 2023 (Screen capture X: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

14 troops, 4 civilians wounded in Hezbollah drone attack on northern border town

By Emanuel Fabian

One victim listed in critical condition, another four seriously hurt; footage shows projectile slamming into community center in Arab al-Aramshe

A plume of smoke billows during Israeli bombardment at Al-Daraj neighbourhood in Gaza City on April 16, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and Hamas (AFP)

Commando seriously hurt as Israeli tanks said to push back into northern Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian, Reuters and ToI Staff

A Hezbollah drones flies over the Galilee Panhandle (left), and the aftermath of an Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon's Ain Baal, April 16, 2024. (Screenshot: X)

2 Hezbollah commanders killed in IDF strikes as attack drones injure 3 in north

By Emanuel Fabian

UK Foreign Minister David Cameron, left, meets with President Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem, April 17, 2024. (Maayan Toaf / GPO)

After meeting Herzog, UK’s Cameron says it’s clear Israel will respond to Iran attack

By Agencies and ToI Staff

British FM hopes retaliation will not further escalate tensions, calls for G7 countries to sanction Iran; visiting German FM says all parties must act ‘prudently and responsibly’

Israeli military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, right, and his deputy Masha Michelson pose next to an Iranian ballistic missile which was intercepted and fell into the Dead Sea days earlier, during a media tour at the Julis military base near the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Malachi on April 16, 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

Response to Iranian attack a must, but Israel will be smart about it, officials say

By ToI Staff and Reuters

An Israel Air Force fighter jet F-15, at the Tel Nor airforce base. January 1, 2024. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Poll: 74% of Israelis oppose counterstrike on Iran if it harms security alliances

By Stuart Winer

Hostage advocates at the Tel Aviv Night Run on April 17, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

April 17: Over 7,000 Israeli military personnel wounded in fighting since October 7

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Rocket sirens go off near Metula
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Over 7,000 injured in fighting since October 7
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IDF soldiers wounded in the war with Hamas walk in the rehabilitation division of Sheba hospital in Ramat Gan, December 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

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IDF shows remains of Iranian ballistic missile that fell in Dead Sea

Military estimates rocket carried a 500-kilogram warhead; spokesperson says that when Iran fired at Israel it knew it would be a ‘dangerous escalation’

IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari next to an Iranian ballistic missile that fell in Israel over the weekend, at the Julis military base in the south, April 16, 2024. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Members of the emergency squad of Safed take part in a drill on April 5, 2024. (Photo by David Cohen/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Apr. 17: Day 194 – Tension on 3 fronts; climate bill advances in Knesset

An easyJet flight seen taking off from Ben Gurion International Airport, on March 24, 2018. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

UK budget carrier EasyJet extends suspension of flights to Israel until late October

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi (C) attends a military parade alongside high-ranking officials and commanders during a ceremony marking the country's annual army day in Tehran on April 17, 2024. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iranian president: ‘Tiniest invasion’ by Israel will be met with a massive response

By Agencies and ToI Staff

At annual military showcase, Ebrahim Raisi hails ‘success’ of country’s weekend missile and drone strike on Israel, as Tehran’s navy commander pledges greater presence in Red Sea

This handout picture released by the Israeli army on April 14, 2024, shows an Israeli Air Force fighter aircraft at an undisclosed airfield reportedly after a mission to intercept incoming airborne threats. (Israel Defense Forces/AFP)

ExplainerFrom proxies to gas pumps, Israel’s retaliation could hit Iran in myriad ways

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Handout picture of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi chairing a cabinet meeting in Tehran on April 2, 2024. (Iranian Presidency/AFP)

Raisi, Iranian leaders warn Israel against ‘slightest’ response to weekend attack

Analysis

Amir Bar Shalom

With attack, Iran breathes life into nascent US-led alliance from Qatar to Israel

Israeli official calls joint air defense operation run out of war room near Doha a real breakthrough, marking first time coalition has actively banded together against Tehran

The Combined Air Operations Center at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, in 2018. (US Air Force/Alexander W. Riedel)

Major General (ret.) Giora Eiland, former IDF planning and operations chief and ex-head of the National Security Council. (Courtesy)

InterviewDon't hit inside Iran; offer to stop the war for all hostages

A top ex-general’s radical strategy for tackling Iran, saving the hostages, calming the north

By David Horovitz

Giora Eiland, a former national security adviser and ex-IDF operations chief, has been bitterly critical of Israel’s response to October 7; here he sets out an alternative approach

Evacuated students walking down a path at their new school at the Ghetto Fighters' House in Kibbutz Lohamei Hagettaot, March 2024. (Diana Bletter)

'We’re trying to give the kids as much routine as possible'

Schools and students displaced in the north learn to deal with chaos sown by war

By Diana Bletter

Finding new, safer locations with bomb shelters and operating short-staffed are just some of the challenges school administrators face under Hezbollah missile threat after Oct. 7

What is resilience?

Another country coming under a massive missile attack would descend into utter chaos, but Israel just keeps on keeping on

I am a father and a soldier. I have a message for our enemies

To those who sacrifice their own families in order to destroy ours: Fear us. Fear the men who value peace, but are dragged to war

A banner depicting the mythical Persian hero Arash the archer firing a missile from his bow, with text in Persian reading 'I will not abandon my homeland,' hangs on a suspended pedestrian bridge crossing in central Tehran on April 15, 2024. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

US, Europe to up Iran sanctions as Israel pressed to ditch threatened retaliation

By ToI Staff, Agencies and Lazar Berman

EU foreign police chief says request to add IRGC to blacklist impossible without evidence of terror activity; top German, UK diplomats head to Israel to discuss lowering tensions

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech in Ankara on April 1, 2024. (Adem Altan/AFP)

Turkish president says Netanyahu to blame for Iran’s attack on Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

BBC urges UN experts to condemn Iran’s ‘harassment’ of its journalists

By AFP

California university cancels Muslim valedictorian’s speech, citing safety concerns

By steve gorman, Julia Harte and Kanishka Singh

Asna Tabassum, a student of ‘genocide resistance’ who has advocated for Israel’s eradication, says institution ‘caving to fear’; Jewish groups say she’s espoused antisemitic views

USC student Asna Tabassum speaks to ABC News, April 16, 2024 (Video screenshot)

Students are seen on campus at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, California, on April 16, 2024. (Robyn Beck/AFP)

USC Shoah foundation distances itself from canceled pro-Palestinian valedictorian

By Andrew Lapin

Illustrative image of the annual National Menorah Lighting ceremony in Washington DC on December 7, 2023. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images via AFP)

US bill on fighting antisemitism draws rare bipartisan support in Congress

The United Nations Security Council meets on the situation in the Middle East at UN headquarters in New York on March 25, 2024. (Angela Weiss/AFP)

UN Security Council committee unable to agree on Palestinian bid for full membership

Palestinian Authority still expected to push 15-member Council to vote on draft resolution in coming days, though the motion is unlikely to pass

A view of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on April 11, 2024. (Jean-Francois Badias/AP Photo)

European Parliament condemns incitement in Palestinian, UNRWA textbooks

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Qatari PM says Israel-Hamas talks on Gaza truce, hostage deal are ‘stalling’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani says Cairo-based negotiations are at ‘sensitive stage,’ urges international community to work toward ending war

Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani speaks to the press at the US State Department in Washington, DC, on March 5, 2024. (Drew Angerer/AFP)

Visiting Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, left, listens to Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif during a meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan, April 16, 2024. (Prime Minister Office via AP)

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia call for Gaza ceasefire, lament efforts so far

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Displaced Palestinian children gather to receive food at a government school in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on February 19, 2024. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

UN to launch $2.8 billion global ‘flash appeal’ for Gaza and West Bank

By AFP and ToI Staff

Money will go toward 3 million Palestinians across territories; original request for $4 billion lowered, citing limited ability to deliver all aid to areas of need

Armed and masked Palestinians seen on trucks loaded with international humanitarian aid entering Gaza through the Israeli Kerem Shalom Crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, April 3, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Government tells High Court it has taken action to increase humanitarian aid to Gaza

By Jeremy Sharon

Palestinian children sit on a hill next to tents housing the displaced in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 30, 2024. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Israeli aid group helping to provide thousands of tents for Gazans – report

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir visits the Temple Mount, January 3, 2023. (Courtesy Minhelet Har Habayit)

Ben Gvir reportedly makes it a ministry policy to change Temple Mount status quo

Far-right minister, who advocates Jewish prayer at Old City compound, said to include ‘preventing discrimination and racism’ in ministry’s work plan, wants to boost police control

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir takes part in a march to the Evyatar outpost, near the West Bank city of Nablus, during the Passover holiday, on April 10, 2023. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

Ben Gvir forms police team targeting left-wing activists in the West Bank – report

Illustrative image of a former French soldier at the 'Athos' house - a place that welcomes veterans with traumas - in Toulon, southern France, on May 26, 2021. (Nicolas Tucat / AFP)

As anxiety surges during war, Israeli GenAI platform can ease psychiatrists’ workload

By Renee Ghert-Zand

A new cutting-edge platform, developed at Sheba Hospital in the wake of October 7, substantially streamlines intake of patients for mental healthcare

Food writer Joan Nathan’s life and recipes combine in new hybrid cookbook-memoir

By Jessica Steinberg

‘My Life in Recipes, Food, Family, and Memories’ is the author’s most personal work yet, a reflection on her 80 years

Residential homes, severely damaged during Hamas's October 7 onslaught on southern Israel, line a street in the Olives Neighborhood of Kibbutz Be'eri on January 1, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)

Nature org urges opposition to ‘draconian’ proposals for rebuilding Gaza border area

Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel holds emergency meeting to warn that new committees proposed in draft law memorandum will empower government, at expense of residents

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File - Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion casts his vote at a polling station in Jerusalem, during the municipal elections on February 27, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox parties to head Jerusalem’s most powerful municipal committees

Vehicles sit abandoned in floodwater covering a major road in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, April 17, 2024. (Jon Gambrell/AP)

At least one dead as heavy rains set off flash floods in UAE

Still image from a livestreamed sermon shows an assailant approaching Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel to stab him at the Assyrian Orthodox Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Sydney, Australia, April 15, 2024. (Screenshot/Christ The Good Shepherd Church, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Sydney Muslim leader: Teenage church stabber’s dad saw no sign of son’s extremism

By mark baker and Rod McGuirk

This combination photo shows Veronica Butler, left, and Jilian Kelley, right. (Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation via AP)

Members of US anti-government group ‘God’s Misfits’ held in killings of 2 Kansas women

By Sean Murphy and Heather Hollingsworth

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