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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 18, 2024

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Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan speaks during a Security Council meeting on a resolution that would have recognized the Palestinians as a full UN member state, at United Nations headquarters, April 18, 2024. (AP Photo/ Yuki Iwamura)

Live updates (closed)

April 18: Palestinian Authority, Hamas slam US for vetoing UNSC motion on statehood

By Elana Kirsh and ToI Staff

Israeli FM hails US for opposing measure: ‘No rewards for terrorism’ * US and UK levy sanctions on Iran * Official: Strike on Haniyeh’s family contributed to hostage talk deadlock

10:56 pm

Hamas denounces US for vetoing UNSC recognition of Palestinian state
9:58 pm

Palestinian Authority rails at US for vetoing statehood bid at UN
9:37 pm

FM Katz thanks US for opposing UN Security Council motion: 'No rewards for terrorism'

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls US President Joe Biden from IDF's Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv on April 14, 2024. (GPO)

US denies okaying Rafah op if Israel holds back on Iran

PM shelved pre-approved plans for immediate Iran reprisal after Biden call — report

Source pledges Israel will respond to Iranian attack, though not as initially planned, since ‘diplomatic sensitivities won out’; ABC says Israeli response unlikely before Passover

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on April 17, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/ GPO)

Netanyahu: Despite allies’ advice, Israel will ‘make our own decisions’ on security

By ToI Staff and Agencies

An Iranian military truck carries missiles during a military parade as part of a ceremony marking the country's annual army day in Tehran on April 17, 2024. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Israel ‘badly miscalculated’ Iranian response to Damascus strike – New York Times

Analysis

Agencies and ToI Staff

Israelis grapple with Passover theme of freedom as hostages languish in Gaza

Celebrations will be kept low-key for many, as nation’s thoughts remain with those still held captive, while their families cling to hope they will soon be freed

Chairs are set for missing members of the Bibas family who are held hostage in Gaza at a symbolic Passover Seder table on April 11, 2024, at the communal dining hall at Kibbutz Nir Oz. (Maya Alleruzzo/AP)

Op-ed: Day 195 of the warPassover 5784, reliving ancient history

By David Horovitz

Hostage Chaim Peri (left) and his grandson, Mai Albini, at an earlier Passover in Kibbutz Nir Oz. (Screenshot/Courtesy)

Grandchildren of hostages don’t feel like celebrating Passover’s message of freedom

By Jessica Steinberg

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An Israeli strike in the Baalbek region of Lebanon on April 17, 2024. (Screen capture: X)

IDF hits Hezbollah air defenses in northeast Lebanon after drone attack wounds 18

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says it targeted terror group’s infrastructure in Baalbek region, known to be a Hezbollah stronghold

An Iranian military truck carries parts of a Sayad 4-B missile past a portrait of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a military parade as part of a ceremony marking the country's annual army day in Tehran on April 17, 2024. (Atta Kenare / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Apr. 18: Day 195 – Did Israel miss its moment to hit back at Iran?

US President Joe Biden answers questions about Israel after speaking about the Special Counsel report at the White House in Washington, on February 8, 2024. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Biden urges Congress to act on Israel aid, says Iran aims ‘to destroy Israel forever’

By Jacob Magid and AP

After president’s op-ed calls for government to pass assistance packages for Israel, Ukraine, House Speaker Mike Johnson says he will push toward vote, potentially risking his job

An Iranian military truck carries an Arash drone past President Ebrahim Raisi (L) and army officers during a military parade as part of a ceremony marking the country's annual army day in Tehran on April 17, 2024. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

EU leaders back new sanctions on Iran drone, missile producers after attack on Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

General view of a UN Security Council meeting at UN headquarters in New York on April 17, 2024. (Charly Triballeau/AFP)

US leads group of 48 UN members in condemning Iranian attack on Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Palestinians play volleyball on a beach in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on April 17, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. (Photo by AFP)

IDF kills top Hamas intel officer in airstrike; crowds enjoy the beach in central Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Footage of Gazans relaxing on beach in Deir al-Balah sparks criticism in Israel that government not applying enough pressure on Hamas as hostages languish; IDF finishes Beit Hanoun op

People walk past the damaged Gaza City headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) on February 15, 2024. (AFP)

UNRWA report accuses Israeli forces of abusing staffers detained in Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A truck of flour supplied by the United Nations' World Food Program is seen at Ashdod Port, before entering the Gaza Strip on April 17, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Humanitarian aid enters Gaza Strip via Ashdod port for the first time, says IDF

By Emanuel Fabian and Jacob Magid

Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani gives a press conference with his Turkish counterpart in Doha on April 17, 2024. (Karim Jaafar/AFP)

Qatar says it’s reconsidering hostage talks mediator role after suffering ‘abuse’

Qatari PM claims Gulf state is victim of ‘point-scoring’ by unnamed politicians ‘trying to conduct election campaigns by slighting’ Doha

Rachel Goldberg on day 98 since her son, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, was abducted by Hamas, in Jerusalem, January 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Mother of Israeli-American hostage Goldberg-Polin named to Time’s influential list

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) welcoming the leader of the Palestinian terror group Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, (R) during their meeting at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, July 26, 2023. (Mustafa KAMACI / Turkish Presidency Press Office / AFP)

Erdogan to host Hamas chief Haniyeh in Turkey this weekend

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Stephen Daniel Arnoff

Hope is mandatory

This Passover, learn from Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s conviction, for our destiny depends on the capacity for profound and rapid change for the better

Where the anti-Israel youthquake is taking us

If you think things are bad for Jews now, wait til today’s ’river to the sea’ kids are making the hiring and firing decisions

Palestinian United Nations envoy Riyad Mansour speaks during a UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, at the UN headquarters in New York on March 25, 2024. (Angela Weiss/AFP)

UN Security Council slated to vote on full Palestinian membership Thursday

By Reuters and Jacob Magid

US expected to use its veto power to block the vote if it gets necessary majority, after committee was ‘unable to make a unanimous recommendation’

Op-ed

Aryeh Deri says Israel should listen to the US. So why isn’t the US listening to him?

Deri, head of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, seems to lead the government’s most moderate faction; US officials should use him to influence Netanyahu

Knesset member Aryeh Deri looks at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a vote on the state budget at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 13, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Guy Amir (left) and Hanan Savyon at a Beitar Jerusalem soccer game in a scene from their new Netflix series 'Bros.' (Courtesy Netflix)

Now streaming

Banking on ‘Bros’: Netflix’s first original Hebrew-language series is finally arriving

With its original release date delayed by the events of October 7 – and its rescheduled premiere party canceled due to the Iranian attack – ‘Bros’ emerges during a deeply charged moment

(L-R) President of Columbia University Dr. Nemat (Minouche) Shafik, Dean Emeritus of Columbia Law School David Schizer, Columbia University Board of Trustees Co-Chair Claire Shipman, and Columbia University Board of Trustees Co-Chair David Greenwald testify during a House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing about antisemitism on college campuses, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on April 17, 2024. (Drew ANGERER / AFP)

Shafik: Efforts to curb campus antisemitism are ongoing

Congresswoman to Columbia U president: ‘Fire the racists; it’s a pretty low bar’

By Jordana Horn

In four-hour hearing on antisemitism on Ivy League campus, House Committee grills university officials on incendiary staff, lack of disciplinary measure for acts of Jew hatred

Columbia President Nemat Shafik testifies before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing on 'Columbia in Crisis: Columbia University's Response to Antisemitism' on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 17, 2024. (Jose Luis Magana/AP)

At House hearing, Columbia president says university could do more against antisemitism

By JTA and ToI Staff

FBI Director Christopher Wray speaks during a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill, Monday, March 11, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

FBI director says probes of anti-Jewish hate crimes tripled in months after Oct. 7

The Google office building in New York, February 26, 2024. (Seth Wenig/AP)

Google fires 28 employees who staged anti-Israel protests at company offices

Demonstrations opposing business with Israeli government and led by No Tech for Apartheid group included 10-hour sit-ins at offices in New York and California; 9 people arrested

Illustrative - A demonstrator displays a placard with 'From the river to the sea' during a rally in solidarity with Palestinians at Oranienplatz Square in Berlin's Kreuzberg district, Germany, on November 11, 2023. (Tobias Schwarz/ AFP)

US House resolution condemns chant ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’

The headquarters for National Public Radio (NPR) stands on North Capitol Street on April 15, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

NPR editor Uri Berliner resigns after writing essay saying it has lost America’s trust

By AP and ToI Staff

Ultra-Orthodox men arrive at the IDF Recruitment Center at Tel Hashomer, in central Israel, March 28, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Government says it isn’t required to draft Haredi men, nor end funding to yeshivas

Position paper comes in response to High Court order to cease subsidizing yeshivas whose students don’t serve in the army

Shas party member Michael Malkieli at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 20, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

New regulations would expand Haredi control over municipal rabbis, sideline women

The new Custos of the Catholic Church's properties in the Holy Land Italian Franciscan priest Rev. Francesco Patton, center, stands during a procession in Jerusalem's Old City, Monday, June 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Franciscans petition court over Jerusalem Old City cable car project

Custodians of Catholic sites in the Holy Land argue that city officials broke their promise not to allow the controversial project to pass over cemetery on Mount Zion

A demolished home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza. (Home Front Command)

Government approves framework for NIS 19 billion plan to rehabilitate area near Gaza

By Canaan Lidor

5-year roadmap, which aims to upgrade and restore area affected by Oct. 7 onslaught, is ‘a historic’ move toward prosperity, says project head

Naama Shefi, founder of the Jewish Food Society and Asif: Culinary Institute of Israel, enjoys a Shabbat picnic with friends and family, also included as a chapter in 'The Jewish Holiday Table' cookbook, by Shefi with Devra Ferst (Courtesy Penny De Los Santos)

This Passover, two new cookbooks focus on Jewish holiday meals and family recipes

By Jessica Steinberg

Naama Shefi’s ‘Jewish Holiday Table’ brings Jewish dishes and stories from around the world, while Micah Siva’s ‘Nosh’ offers a plant-based twist to traditional foods

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This image provided by World Press Photo and taken by Mohammed Salem of the Reuters news agency won the World Press Photo Award of the Year and shows Palestinian woman Inas Abu Maamar, 36, embracing the body of her 5-year-old niece Saly, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 17, 2023. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters/World Press Photo via AP)

Photograph of aunt holding body of dead niece in Gaza wins World Press Photo award

By AFP and ToI Staff

Eden Golan, winner of the reality show 'The Next Star to the Eurovision' during the final of the show on February 6, 2024. (Koko/Flash90)

Sweden vows boosted security measures at Eurovision amid anti-Israel sentiment

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israel Bonds President & CEO Dani Naveh speaks at the Israel Bonds real estate & allied division luncheon in New York City, November 13, 2023. (Shahar Azran/Israel Bonds)

Bucking boycotts, Israel Bonds sells record $3b since start of Hamas war

By Sharon Wrobel

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi during his bilateral meeting with Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, April 18, 2024. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/Pool Photo via AP)

In Indonesia, Chinese foreign minister says US is preventing ceasefire in Gaza

By AP and ToI Staff

File: Members of the Swiss Parliament attend the closing day of the 51st legislature of the Swiss National Council, on September 29, 2023 in Bern. (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP)

Swiss lawmakers vote to ban Nazi symbols including flags, gestures and speech

By AFP

Armis cyber unicorn co-founders Yevgeny Dibrov (right) and Nadir Izrael. (Courtesy)

Cyber unicorn Armis buys Israeli startup Silk Security for $150 million

By Sharon Wrobel

Hazy weather over Jerusalem amid high levels of air pollution, April 18, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

Health, environment ministries issue warning over high levels of air pollution

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Runners in the Tel Aviv Night Run on April 17, 2024, racing for hostage Evyatar David, taken from the Supernova desert rave (Courtesy)

Every step countsFamily, friends of hostage run Tel Aviv race in his honor

By Jessica Steinberg

Far-right politician Bjoern Hoecke, Thuringia's AfD parliamentary group leader, speaks at the special plenary session of the Thuringia state parliament in Erfurt, Germany, January 20, 2021. (Michael Reichel/dpa via AP, File)

Prominent figure in German far-right party on trial over alleged use of Nazi slogan

By Geir Moulson and Kerstin Sopke

Gefilte fish, a traditional Passover food. (Mushki Brichta , CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons)

Tipping the scalesResearchers study how to keep our gefilte fish healthy

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