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What Matters Most On Tuesday, April 23, 2024

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Anti-Israel students and activists face police officers as they protest the Israel-Hamas war on the campus of New York University (NYU) in New York on April 22, 2024. (Photo by Alex Kent / AFP)

'Glory to our martyrs,' declare protesters at U of Michigan

Over 130 arrested at NYU ‘liberated zone’ as anti-Israel encampments sweep US campuses

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Emboldened by arrests at Columbia, Students for Justice in Palestine declares nationwide bid to demand colleges divest from Israel, stop ‘profiteering off the genocide in Gaza’

Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel demonstrators face off in front of the entrance of Columbia University, which is occupied by pro-Palestinian protesters in New York on April 22, 2024. One of the pro-Palestinian demonstrators is holding up a poster of Zakaria Zubeidi, a notorious Fatah commander convicted of masterminding terror attacks during the Second Intifada. (Photo by Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

Dozens arrested at Yale; Columbia pauses in-person classes after ‘burn Tel Aviv’ calls

PEN America cancels awards ceremony amid criticism over response to Israel-Hamas war

By AP and ToI Staff

Protesters hold up posters of Palestinian terror convicts

‘This is 1938,’ says Israeli professor blocked from entering Columbia’s main campus

University’s COO tells Shai Davidai that he’s barred from area of anti-Israel encampment ‘to maintain safety of the community’; Congress members demand Jewish students be protected

Israeli professor Shai Davidai speaks to reporters outside Columbia University in New York, April 22, 2024. (Luke Tress/JTA)

Alec Baldwin is accosted by an anti-Israel protester at a New York coffee shop in an undated video circulating on social media (Screenshot/X/ Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Activist at NYC cafe demands Alec Baldwin say ‘Free Palestine, f**k Israel’

Protesters set fire to a "non-Seder" table outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Caesarea call for a hostage release deal, April 24, 2024. (Arielle Skladman/Pro-Democracy Movement)

A very different night9-year-old released hostage Emily Hand sings 'Mah Nishtana'

Kibbutz Be’eri survivors hold Seder in Hostages Square; fiery protests at PM’s home

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israel marks Passover in shadow of 200 days of war, absence of 133 hostages in Gaza; hundreds demonstrate at Netanyahu’s home demanding hostage deal, set fire to ‘non-Seder table’

Rachel Goldberg and Jon Polin, parents of Hamas hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin (Courtesy)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing April 23: Day 200 – Rachel Goldberg and Jon Polin want freedom for Hersh

Israelis take part in a demonstration calling for the release of hostages, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, April 23, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hostage families to hold Q&A, rally to mark Passover and 200 days of captivity

Tel Aviv Hostages Square event comes day after protest movement calling for release of hostages held a ‘non-seder’ outside Netanyahu’s home in Caesarea

Pro-Palestinian protesters gather during a demonstration against Israel near US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's home in Brooklyn, New York City, April 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Live updates (closed)

April 23: Anti-Israel ’seder’ held near Schumer’s home during US Senate vote on Israel aid bill

Reservist killed in Gaza fighting, bringing ground op toll to 261 * US sanctions Iranian entities for ‘malicious cyber activity’ * UN chief fails to include Hamas on sexual violence blacklist

10:53 pm

Demonstrators hold 'emergency Seder' near Schumer's home to protest US support for Israel
10:20 pm

Lapid says Biden administration must intervene to stop 'unforgivable' antisemitism on US campuses
9:25 pm

Herzog and VP Harris discuss efforts to free hostages, Iran attack and antisemitism in US

From the blogs

Martin Fletcher

What if I asked them why they support murderers and rapists?

Many fear that it’s like the 1930s, when age-old hatred resurfaced ahead of the murder of six million Jews. It isn’t. It’s worse

Illustrative: Smoke rises above buildings during an Israeli strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on April 21, 2024. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Israel said readying to evacuate Palestinians from Rafah ahead of planned offensive

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Egyptian officials briefed on Israeli plans tell WSJ that IDF will gradually move into Hamas’s last major Gaza stronghold, with fighting expected to last at least 6 weeks

This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows tents being constructed near Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip on April 21, 2024 (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Satellite images show tent compound going up in south Gaza ahead of possible Rafah op

By AP, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Activists protest outside the UNRWA office in Jerusalem on March 20, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Dismissing review, Israel calls UNRWA ‘a poisoned, rotten tree whose roots are Hamas’

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Foreign Ministry says problem not ‘a few bad apples,’ charges that report ‘ignores the severity of the problem and offers cosmetic fixes’

Palestinians demonstrate in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip calling for continued international support to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), January 30, 2024. (AFP)

UNRWA review: Israel hasn’t provided evidence that agency staff were terror group members

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Announcement on Netzah Yehuda to be made in coming days

Blinken: Both Hamas onslaught, ensuing Israeli offensive raise human rights concerns

Top US diplomat denies ‘double standard’ in assessing allegations against Israel, rejects comparisons between Israeli war against terror group and Russian invasion of Ukraine

Chairs for the Bibas family, hostages held in Gaza, are seen at a Passover seder table set, Thursday, April 11, 2024, at the communal dining hall at Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel, where a quarter of all residents were killed or captured by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

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)

Qatar says Hamas will remain in Doha as long as group remains ‘useful’ for mediation

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Gulf state has been criticized in Israel for funding terror group and sheltering its politburo, amid role in hostage negotiations

Police detain 13 trying to smuggle goats onto Temple Mount for sacrifice ritual

Suspects, found by police with animals in their possession, likely seeking to perform biblical Jewish sacrificial ritual in honor of Passover

A goat confiscated by police from suspects who were looking to sacrifice the animal on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, April 22, 2024. (Israel Police)

Hezbollah drones downed off coast of Acre, Nahariya, after IDF strikes kill 2 operatives

By Emanuel Fabian

After two top members killed in south Lebanon, Hezbollah claims to target army base with explosive-laden drones in one of its deepest attacks

A member of the Lebanese intelligence service stands at the site of an Israeli strike on a vehicle in the Aadloun plain area, between Lebanon's southern cities of Sidon and Tyre, on April 23, 2024. (Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)

This picture taken from an Israeli position along the border with southern Lebanon shows smoke billowing above the Lebanese village of Odaisseh during Israeli strike on April 22, 2024(Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

Barrage of 35 rockets from Lebanon targets northern communities as Passover begins

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Inside story

US split over whether Netanyahu capable of accepting Palestinian component of Saudi deal

Key White House figures believe PM will show flexibility to salvage legacy, while others in State Dept think he’s too ideologically entrenched and beholden to far-right partners

File - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on January 7, 2024. (RONEN ZVULUN / POOL / AFP)

Sinai and Synapses puts science and religion in dialogue. (iStock/ Pict Rider)

'They tackle the same questions with different methods'

An empirical haggadah reading? How one US group is mixing science and religion

By Rich Tenorio

Sinai and Synapses seeks to disprove the theory that spirituality and science are at odds, with programming that admittedly may leave participants with more questions than answers

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., right, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., left, stand during a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony for surviving members of a top-secret WWII unit, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 21, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Israel aid bill heads to US Senate for final approval after months of delay

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

Overall $95B package, which includes aid for Ukraine and Taiwan and provisions against TikTok, will send $17B in military aid to Israel, and likely $2B in humanitarian aid for Gaza

A missile defense site near an international airport and air base is seen in Isfahan, Iran, April 22, 2024. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

New satellite photos suggest ‘precise’ nature of alleged Israeli strike on Iran radar

By Jon Gambrell

Detailed images show burn marks around radar system near Isfahan’s dual-use airport; despite evidence, Iran continues to deny it was hit

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)

Israel hails ‘clear message’ as EU expands sanctions against Iran

By Reuters, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Illustrative: People walk around the old main bazaar in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Activists say Iran launched crackdown on dissent, unrest as Israel tensions spiraled

By Parisa Hafezi

Left: Gideon Falter, chair of the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism (Courtesy Natan Lilienfeld) and (right) Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley in London, November 9, 2023. (James Manning/PA via AP, File)

London’s top cop defends officer who stopped man for being ‘openly Jewish’

After meeting Jewish community, Mark Rowley says he ‘completely understands’ behavior of policeman who prevented activist from entering pro-Palestinian march because of his kippa

Rabbi Gabriel Kretzmer-Seed, right, speaks with volunteers about his work as the Jewish chaplain at Rikers. (NYC Department of Corrections)

'It's a deeply religious concept to bring relief for others'

At Rikers Island, Jewish volunteers connect with inmates by leading prayer services

By julia GERGELY

Joining grassroots efforts to alleviate the notoriously brutal conditions at NY State’s largest jail is a group from the UWS Base that learns, prays and spends time with prisoners

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Former US President Donald Trump, center, awaits the start of proceedings at Manhattan criminal court in New York on April 22, 2024. (AP/Yuki Iwamura, Pool)

Prosecutor alleges Trump tried to ‘corrupt’ 2016 election at opening of trial

By Michael R. Sisak, Jennifer Peltz, Eric Tucker and Jake Offenhartz

The new design for Manischewitz matzah boxes (left) next to the old design. (Courtesy: Manischewitz)

The 5th QuestionWhy does that Manischewitz matzah box look so different?

By PHILISSA CRAMER and Jackie Hajdenberg

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