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What Matters Most On Saturday, April 27, 2024

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Khymani James, a leader of the anti-Israeli protests at Columbia University, seen in a January 2024 video in which he said 'Zionists don't deserve to live' (Video screenshot)

'Be grateful I'm not just going out and murdering Zionists'

Columbia protest leader banned from campus for saying ‘Zionists don’t deserve to live’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

In video, Khymani James said he felt ‘very comfortable calling for those people to die,’ later apologized for ‘misspeaking’; university president’s conduct condemned by its senate

Yad Vashem chief Dani Dayan in the Hall of Names at the Jerusalem museum, undated. (Alex Kolomoisky)

Yad Vashem to Columbia president: Take a moral stand against ‘eliminate Israel’ ideology

An anti-Israeli demonstration encampment is seen at the Columbia University, Friday, April 26, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Columbia protesters say talks with university stuck, vow to maintain anti-Israel camp

By AP and ToI Staff

Pro-Israel demonstrators gather for the 'Bring Them Home Now' rally outside Columbia University, April 26, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Reporter's notebook'What's happening on this campus is painful'

‘A focal point of hate’: Pro-Israel activists at Columbia decry campus hostility

By Cathryn J. Prince

Hundreds gather for rally to denounce unruly anti-Israel encampment that has left some Jewish students fearful to walk on campus, as Hamas-held captives weigh heavy on hearts

Ted Deutch, head of the American Jewish Committee, speaks at Columbia's center for Jewish life, April 26, 2024. (Luke Tress)

Threading needle on free speech, Jewish leaders demand Columbia rein in protests

Police officers watch students outside the Sciences-Po university, April 26, 2024 in Paris. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Schaeffer)

Paris students end Gaza protests after university agrees to ‘debate’ Israel ties

Sheryl Sandberg visits the site of Hamas's October 7 Nova festival massacre, in 'Screams Before Silence.' (Kastina Productions)

Documentary reviewWarning: Text includes graphic descriptions

Sheryl Sandberg’s new film testifies to Hamas’s brutal sexual violence on October 7

By Renee Ghert-Zand

In ‘Screams Before Silence’ documentary, survivors and witnesses share details of inconceivable cruelty by Palestinian terrorists in Israel and Gaza in hopes the world will listen

Israel tells Egypt it’s giving hostage deal ‘last chance’ before launching Rafah op

Officials say Israel is willing to make further widespread concessions to secure a deal, but won’t allow Hamas to drag out talks in a bid to forestall assault on southern Gaza

Israelis march during a protest by the relatives of hostages held in Gaza by Palestinian terrorists, outside Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv on April 25, 2024, to call for government action to release the hostages. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Relatives of Israeli hostages held in Gaza since October 7 protest outside the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv on April 25, 2024. (Jack Guez/AFP)

‘It’s time to approve the deal’: Families of hostages set to rally Saturday evening

Senior Hamas politburo official Khalil al-Hayya speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, in Istanbul, Turkey, April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Hamas says it will study Israel’s latest response in truce, hostage deal negotiations

US President Joe Biden steps off of Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, April 26, 2024, as he returns from a trip to New York. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

NYT’s Friedman: Biden could restrict arms sales if IDF enters Rafah over US objections

Columnist says Israelis need to know there’s a choice: ground op or Saudi normalization; quotes official stressing, ‘We are not saying to Israel just leave Hamas be’

UAE's Special Envoy for Climate Change Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber (L), Azerbaijan's Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources and COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev (2nd L), Azerbaijan's President Heydar Aliyev (C), German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (2nd R) and German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock are seen at the beginning of the second and last day of the Petersberg Climate Dialogue meeting in Berlin, Germany on April 26, 2024. (John MacDougall JOHN/AFP)

Saudi Arabia to host Arab, EU diplomats for talks on Gaza war

By AFP and ToI Staff

Relatives and supporters of hostages held captive by Hamas terrorists light flares and wave national flags during a demonstration calling for their release, in Tel Aviv on April 27, 2024. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

April 27: Report says Israel open to ending war against Hamas if hostage deal impemented

Protesters briefly block Ayalon Highway as 7 arrested in Tel Aviv amid nationwide rallies * Brother of captive says hostages asking country to ‘save them from this hell’

9:01 pm

Rocket sirens activate in northern Israel's Meron area
8:47 pm

Chief Sephardic rabbi says yeshiva students saved Israelis in war, not security forces
8:36 pm

Senior Israeli official says country open to ending war against Hamas

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir's car after an accident in Ramle, April 26, 2024. The minister was lightly injured. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Ben Gvir’s car flips over after running red light, minister lightly injured

Reports claim national security minister regularly orders his driver to commit traffic infractions; Ben Gvir hospitalized overnight for observation

Police at the scene after a stabbing terror attack in Ramle where a 19-year old woman was seriously wounded and the assailant shot dead, April 26, 2024. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Woman, 19, stabbed, seriously wounded by terrorist in Ramle, police say

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

From the blogs

Daniel Chamovitz

Lessons on campus protests from an Israeli university

When a pro-Palestinian rally at BGU posed a potential clash between free speech and public order, we set out rules of engagement

Help your university invest in Israel

It’s easy just to pull our donations. It’s harder to try to influence the administration. Here’s one way to do just that

The next Iranian missile attack

The phenomenal success of the Israeli Air Force and its allies on the night of April 13 must not blind us to the danger ahead

Faculty join pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel students at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, on April 24, 2024. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP)

As USC cancels graduation amid anti-Israel protests, some Jewish students feel unsafe

By jacob gurvis

One student at University of Southern California says she removed dog tags calling for release of hostages amid concerns for her own safety, others are doxxed for supporting Israel

Bipartisan bill lets US government compel universities to accept antisemitism monitors

Rockets are intercepted over northern Israel, April 26, 2024. (Screenshot: X used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Hezbollah fires 30 rockets at north after IDF drone strike kills allied terrorists

By Emanuel Fabian

Airstrike in south Lebanon takes out two members of al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya; no injuries caused in barrage on Mount Hermon

IOC President Thomas Bach speaks during an interview with AFP ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne on April 26, 2024. (Gabriel Monnet/AFP)

Olympics chief says Palestinian athletes to compete in Paris even if they don’t qualify

By AFP and ToI Staff

International Olympics Committee head Thomas Bach says he expects delegation to number 6-8; dismisses comparisons between organization’s treatment of Russia, Israel

Right: Weapons the military says were seized from two Palestinian gunmen who opened fire at a West Bank checkpoint, April 27, 2024; Left: IDF troops operate in the West Bank, in a handout image published April 26, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF: 2 Palestinian gunmen open fire at West Bank checkpoint, are shot dead by troops

By Emanuel Fabian

Ayelet Waldman, center, during a protest at the Erez Crossing on the Israel-Gaza border, April 26, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Author Ayelet Waldman, 6 other activists, rabbis arrested trying to take food into Gaza

Members of the protest action say they didn’t expect to succeed, but wanted to highlight the needs of Palestinians

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)

UN ends check into one UNRWA worker, suspends 4 more probes, says evidence lacking

By Reuters and ToI Staff

This image released by Netflix shows Jerry Seinfeld, from left, Adrian Martinez, Jack McBrayer, Thomas Lennon, Bobby Moynihan and James Marsden in a scene from "Unfrosted." (John P. Johnson/Netflix via AP)

Interview

Seinfeld commits to the bit as directorial debut tells story of Pop-Tart’s invention

‘Unfrosted’ is a star-studded Netflix comedy set in the 1960s that tells the story of the breakfast snack the comedian believes has an almost mythical quality

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking in a video message to the Israeli public on April 21, 2024. (Roi Avraham/GPO)

ICC rulings won’t affect Israel, but will create dangerous precedent, Netanyahu says

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Israel said increasingly concerned that court could issue arrest warrants against PM and other top officials for alleged violations of international law in Gaza

Itamar Rothschild (left) and Shira Naor are the two main protagonists in the new Yes dramedy 'Berlin Blues' (Courtesy)

TV series about Israelis in Berlin gains potency in wake of October 7

By Jessica Steinberg

Dramedy ‘Berlin Blues’ tells story of Yonah and Talya, a typical Israeli couple trying out life in Germany; it premiered on October 6

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