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What Matters Most On Saturday, April 20, 2024

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An Iranian military truck carries parts of an S-300 air defence missile system 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 used radar-evading missile to hit S-300 defenses near Natanz nuke site – report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

NYT says attack was ‘calibrated’ to show Israel’s capability to dodge Iran’s air defenses, make Tehran ‘think twice’ before another assault; Iran’s FM claims it merely faced ‘toys’

This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows Iran's Natanz nuclear site, on April 14, 2023. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

In ‘message,’ IDF said to fire missiles at radar defense for secret Iran nuclear site

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Troops of the Kfir Brigade's Netzah Yehuda Battalion operate in northern Gaza's Beit Hanoun, in a handout image published March 8, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

April 20: Netanyahu calls US sanctions on IDF unit ‘the height of absurdity’

Abbas: House okay of military aid to Israel ‘an aggression against the Palestinian people’ * Weekly rallies urge elections, hostage deal * IDF hits Hezbollah in south Lebanon

9:34 pm

Abbas: House approval of military aid to Israel is 'an aggression against the Palestinian people'
8:55 pm

Gantz warns US sanctions on IDF unit would set 'dangerous precedent,' vows to fight them
8:35 pm

Protesters march through Tel Aviv streets before being dispersed by cops

Tel Aviv-Jerusalem Highway 1 is blocked by families of hostages, and other supporters, on April 19, 2024, calling for the release of the hostages and "burning" the sins of the government - abandonment, neglect, corruption, disregard for human life, fraud, political interests, indifference. (Amir Terkel / Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Hostages' younger siblings to address Saturday night protest

‘As though we’re in Gaza’: Hostage families rally ahead of Passover for their freedom

Highlighting loss of liberty, organizer’s adapt holiday’s theme: ‘In every generation, a person must see themselves as though they’re in Gaza’; anti-gov’t demos set for 55 locations

Tel Aviv-Jerusalem Highway 1 is blocked by families of hostages, and other supporters, on April 19, 2024, calling for the release of the hostages and "burning" the sins of the government - abandonment, neglect, corruption, disregard for human life, fraud, political interests, indifference. (Amir Terkel / Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Hostage families block Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway; CIA chief blames Hamas for deadlock

By Jacob Magid, ToI Staff and Agencies

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)

Promoted ArticleRofeh Cholim Association

Project Mobility: Healing Israel’s Wounded Warriors

Project Mobility aims to help wounded IDF soldiers recover with proven VR physiotherapy game-play technology. They need your support to bring this equipment to Israel.

A Columbia student wraps tefillin, while in the background, a pro-Palestinian protest encampment against Israel enters its third day, April 19, 2024. (Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA)

'I feel like I’m being radicalized and I don’t want to be'

‘I’m ready to leave this campus’: Jewish students at Columbia on discomfort, isolation

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Students say they feel unheard amid pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protests that have rocked school since Oct. 7, which escalated Thursday with tumult that included mass arrests

University of Southern Californian students carry signs protesting the cancelation of a commencement speech by the institution's 2024 valedictorian who has publicly supported Palestinians during Israel's war in Gaza, been accused of antisemitism and shared virulently anti-Israel content, on the USC campus in Los Angeles, California, April 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

USC cancels filmmaker’s keynote after dropping pro-Palestinian valedictorian speech

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A page from the Haggadah of Hope created for Passover 2024 by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum. (Courtesy)

Passover celebrants urged to set a seat for a hostage, use a Haggadah of hope

By Jessica Steinberg

A variety of projects have been created to help people mark this festival of freedom despite war, hostages and bereavement

A few new plagues for Passover

Some kosher for Pesach products should be purchased exactly zero times a year (and can a cat really eat a whole goat?)

Marina Rosenberg

Colombia’s President Petro sides with evil

The moral cowardice of Gustavo Petro’s anti-Israel obsession legitimizes Hamas and imperil’s citizens of the South American republic

UK police forced to clarify 'being Jewish not a provocation'

London cops apologize for implying Jewish man’s kippa ‘provoked’ anti-Israel crowd

By ToI Staff and Canaan Lidor

Filmed incident of officer stopping man in yarmulke from approaching pro-Palestinian march, while ‘openly Jewish’ remark escalates into media blunder for police

A screenshot from video released by the Campaign Against Antisemitism shows a London Metropolitan Police officer threatening the CAA's Gideon Falter with arrest because his presence is "antagonizing" to pro-Palestinian demonstrators at an anti-Israel march in London, April 13, 2024. (X video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Demonstrator unfurls Palestinian flag on stage at Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemoration

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Sole protester places flowers then joins dignitaries at ceremony, unfurls flag and stands with his head down; police escort him away

A pro-Palestinian protester takes the stage briefly at the official ceremony to commemorate the 81st anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Poland, April 19, 2024. (Gabe Miner via JTA)

The website of the Silver Camera Association displays a picture that award winner Sakir Khader titled 'Portrait of a Martyr.' (Screen capture: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Furor as journalist who labels dead Palestinian terrorists ‘martyrs’ gets top Dutch award

By Canaan Lidor

Jewish worshippers attend the annual Jewish pilgrimage to the Ghriba synagogue in Tunisia's southern resort island of Djerba, on May 8, 2023. (Yassine Mahjoub / AFP)

Hit by terror in 2023, Tunisian Jewish pilgrimage scaled back amid Gaza security fears

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani (R), in a meeting with Hamas politburo leader Ismail Haniyeh (L) and official Khaled Mashaal in Doha, Qatar, October 17, 2016. (Qatar government handout)

Hamas leaders said looking at leaving Qatar amid growing pressure in hostage talks

By ToI Staff and Agencies

WSJ says terror group contacted Oman and another regional state about leaders moving there; report comes after Qatari PM said Doha reconsidering its hostage talks mediator role

IDF troops operate in the West Bank's Nur Shams refugee camp, in an image published April 20, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF kills 10 Palestinian gunmen, arrests 8 in two-day West Bank raid

By Emanuel Fabian

9 Israeli troops also hurt in clashes in Nur Shams refugee camp, adjacent to Tulkarem

Soldiers Save Lives team, L to R: Baruch Apisdorf, Gidon Hazony, David Gani, Kaila Zimnavoda, Ariel Cohen, and Moshe Shear. (Courtesy Soldiers Save Lives)

Founder set up a field hospital near rave grounds on Oct. 7

After his friend was killed on Oct. 7, a 25-year-old raised millions for the war effort

By Ariella Oldfield

Gidon Hazony started Soldiers Save Lives the day after David Newman was murdered in the Supernova massacre. It continues to help soldiers and civilians in the tragedy’s wake

Blast rocks base used by Iraqi coalition of Iran-allied militias; US denies involvement

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iraq says one killed, no jets or drones in area at time of explosion; military official says blast was in ‘warehouses storing equipment’; Israeli official: Nothing to do with us

A screenshot of video from social media shows fire after a reported airstrike on a military base used by a coalition of pro-Iran militias in Iraq, early April 20, 2024. (X video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

French President Emmanuel Macron (R) welcomes Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati (L) before a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris on April 19, 2024. (Ludovic Marin/AFP)

Macron meets with Lebanese leaders to discuss effort to quell Hezbollah, Israel clashes

By AFP and ToI Staff

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)

Analysis

Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali

US military strategy in Mideast tested as Iran-Israel warfare comes out of shadows

Experts say DC may need to revisit regional deployment levels as reliance on surge troops may not be sufficient; say US intel was key to success in downing Iran’s missiles, drones

Speaker of the US House Mike Johnson talks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, April 19, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

US House gears up to pass Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan aid in unlikely bipartisan vote

Mira Telem. (Dafna Talmon)

Mira (Mirale) Telem68-year-old married mother of two from Mattat

'At Moshav Livnim, I've had peace, green, flowers and privacy. How can I have the audacity to complain and say I want my home in Mattat? But I want the reality I knew. I want my life back'

By Tamar Mor Sela

File: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa listens in Johannesburg, South Africa, to the ruling from the top UN court that harshly criticized Israel's war against Hamas, on January 26, 2024. (AP Photo)

South Africa Jewish leader: President used meet with us on antisemitism to attack Israel

SA Jewish Board of Deputies requested talks with Ramaphosa to discuss rising Jew hatred, but Wendy Kahn says he instead went on about ‘the genocide that Israel is committing’

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters in Istanbul, Turkey, April 5, 2024. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

AnalysisTurks believe Hamas fights a defensive war against Israel

To punish Israel for Gaza war, Turkey’s citizens will gladly suffer the economic cost

Political pressure forced Turkey’s hardline leader Erdogan to reluctantly halt the export of 54 products to the Jewish state – but much of the public still thinks that’s not enough

More Headlines

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, left, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, April 17, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

‘We’re not like the Nazis’: Netanyahu said to chide German FM on Gaza ‘famine’ remark

Lehava chairman Benzi Gopstein seen after a court hearing in Jerusalem on January 14, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Top Ben Gvir ally, former MK aide among targets of latest US and EU settler sanctions

French police officers take part in a security perimeter near the consulate of Iran in Paris on April 19, 2024. (Miguel Medina/AFP)

French police detain man claiming to wear explosive vest at Iran consulate in Paris

By Julia Pavesi

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on October 11, 2023. (AP/Fatima Shbair, File)

Poll: Months into Gaza war, most US Jews feel close to Israel — not its government

Police crime tape is strung at the site across from Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City after a man reportedly set himself on fire, April 19, 2024. (ANGELA WEISS / AFP)

Man self immolates outside NYC court where Trump trial held, later dies

By Luc Cohen, Jack Queen and Andy Sullivan

Rabbi Fred Neulander, incarcerated for hiring two hitmen to murder his wife Carol in 1994, is shown here in prison uniform from undated, unlocated footage in prison uniform, escorted by police. (Screen capture: Youtube/6ABC Philadelphia, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Rabbi who arranged wife’s murder to pursue affair dies in New Jersey prison at 82

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

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