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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 1, 2024

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, May 1, 2024. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Netanyahu tells Blinken he will not agree to end war on Hamas as part of hostage deal

By Lazar Berman

PM tells visiting US secretary that potential truce won’t forestall Rafah operation; Blinken reiterates US opposition to incursion, says Hamas ‘standing in the way of a ceasefire’

People walk by photographs of people still held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv. May 1, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Lebanese report: Israel’s offer would see partial IDF pullback in 1st phase of deal

File - US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken disembarks after landing in Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport, April 30, 2024. (David Azagury/US Embassy Jerusalem)

Blinken lands in Israel for talks with Netanyahu, Gallant amid push for hostage deal

By Lazar Berman, AFP and ToI Staff

Hamas's Gaza Strip leader Yahya Sinwar in a tunnel in southern Gaza's Khan Younis, October 10, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Op-ed: Day 208 of the war

All eyes, still, on Hamas

As Israel, the US, the hostages await Hamas’s response to an ‘extraordinarily generous’ Israeli offer, it is a sickening reality that Sinwar’s terror group still holds the key to what is unfolding

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (R) meets with the families of the hostages held by Hamas, outside of a hotel, in Tel Aviv, on May 1, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 1: Day 208 – Strong political reactions to proposed hostage deal

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich addresses the media following a meeting of his Religious Zionism faction in the Knesset, April 30, 2024. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)

Smotrich threatens to quit gov’t over hostage deal; Eisenkot slams far-right ‘blackmail’

Finance minister says he’s ‘ready to pay the political price’ to prevent ‘existential threat’ to Israel; Ben Gvir says he ‘warned’ Netanyahu of consequences of a ‘reckless deal’

Settlements and National Projects Minister Orit Strock speaks during a prayer event for the IDF's success and the return of the Israeli hostages held by Hamas, Gush Etzion, March 21, 2024. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Far-right minister: Hostage deal throws war goals in trash to save only 22-33 hostages

File: Senior Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal (L) and senior Hamas member Mousa Abu Marzouk attending a meeting between Iran's Foreign Minister and Hamas' political bureau chief in Doha, October 31, 2023. (Iranian Foreign Ministry/AFP)

Jordan flatly rejects senior Hamas official’s idea of moving leadership to kingdom

By Michael Horovitz

Promoted campaign

Running a marathon to raise money for kids with special needs after October 7th, the darkest day in Israeli history.

I was part of the Kibbutz Alumim security squad that fought a long battle to protect our home. Running saved my life on Oct. 7 – and now I’m running a marathon for special needs kids. This is my story

NYPD officers in riot gear break into a building at Columbia University, where pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel students are barricaded, in New York City on April 30, 2024 (KENA BETANCUR / AFP)

Biden condemns protesters’ use of the term 'intifada'

Police clear anti-Israel protesters from Columbia U’s Hamilton Hall after standoff

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

School president said there was no other way to restore order; two other universities reach deals to end encampments, with one agreeing to hear demands for divestment from Israel

A message in chalk decorates a sidewalk after a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel encampment was taken down at Brown University, April 30, 2024, in Providence, Rhode Island. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Brown becomes first US university to consider divesting from Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) speaks to the media on the Low Library steps on Columbia University's campus in New York on April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)

House Republicans launch probe into Columbia funding amid anti-Israel protests

By STEPHEN GROVES

Inside story

Cathryn J. Prince

Jewish Columbia students say campus escalation was ‘inevitable,’ and it won’t end well

Member of the university’s Antisemitism Task Force: ‘A small minority of faculty and students has taken the university hostage’

Anti-Israel student protesters sit outside of the occupied Hamilton Hall at Columbia University in New York City on April 30, 2024. (Emily Byrski/AFP)

Demonstrators from Columbia University's pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel encampment unfurl a banner as they barricade themselves inside Hamilton Hall, a campus building which has been occupied in past student movements, and name it after a Palestinian child allegedly killed in Gaza, April 30, 2024 in New York City. (Alex Kent/Getty Images North America/Getty Images via AFP)

ExplainerColumbia’s Hamilton Hall has a long history of occupation by protesting students

A demonstrator holds up flares as two others hold a banner reading in French 'Solidarity with Palestine' during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in the courtyard of the Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) building in Lyon, France, on April 30, 2024. (Olivier Chassignole/AFP)

Top French university loses regional funding over pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protests

By AFP and ToI Staff

A person prepares a sign reading 'Intifada Revolution' at an anti-Israel encampment at the University of Washington campus, April 29, 2024, in Seattle, Washington. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Live updates (closed)

May 1: House advances bill codifying disputed antisemitism definition amid campus tumult

Colombia to cut ties with Israel over Gaza * Blinken hails progress in getting aid into Gaza * Hamas indicates it’ll reject latest hostage deal offer, but claims talks will continue

9:50 pm

US House okays bill codifying controversial antisemitism definition amid campus tumult
8:52 pm

Report: Sinwar views latest hostage deal as trap, exiled Hamas leaders don't represent terror group
8:32 pm

US defends veto of Palestinian membership in UN Security Council vote

What you’re calling for when you call for intifada

You’re supporting murderers like those who beat my child to death – and you are doing absolutely nothing to help Palestinians

Two packs of tissues and an arm around my shoulders

I knew nothing could prepare me for saying Yizkor for my son, recently killed in war, but it was a woman’s kind comfort that surprised me

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a video address regarding reports that the ICC may issue arrest warrants against Israeli officials, April 30, 2024. (Screenshot/GPO)

Netanyahu: ICC arrest warrants would be antisemitic hate crime, distortion of justice

Amid concerted effort to prevent Hague move against Israeli leaders, Channel 12 reports PM has asked families of hostages to appeal to court on behalf of targeted officials

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivers its order on the request by Nicaragua to order Germany to cease arms sales to Israel against the background of the conflict in Gaza at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the seat of the ICJ, April 30, 2024. (Courtesy: International Court of Justice)

World Court refuses to take action against Germany for arms sales to Israel

By Jeremy Sharon

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan (R) and Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry (C) arrive to attend a meeting with their European counterparts held in Riyadh on April 29, 2024. (Fayez Nureldine / AFP)

European, Arab ministers meet in Riyadh in bid to revive two-state solution

By AFP and ToI Staff

Then-US president Donald Trump (left) smiles at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after signing a proclamation recognizing the Golan Heights as part of Israel, in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House in Washington, on March 25, 2019. (AP Photo/ Susan Walsh)

Trump says Netanyahu has ‘rightfully been criticized’ for October 7 failure

By Lazar Berman

In Time magazine interview, former US president and current GOP candidate says Hamas attack ‘should never have happened,’ pledges to ‘protect Israel’ if reelected

Former US president Donald Trump speaks upon arriving at Manhattan criminal court, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool)

Trump fined $9,000 for violating trial gag order, posting about witnesses online

This composite image shows Master Sgt. (res.) Ido Aviv (L) and Master Sgt. (res.) Kalkidan Meharim, who were killed during fighting in the central Gaza Strip on April 28, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Two reservists killed in central Gaza were mistakenly hit by IDF fire — probe

By Emanuel Fabian

Investigation finds tank shelled building where other forces were gathered in Netzarim Corridor amid exchange of fire with Hamas operatives

Screenshot of leaked Israeli Air Force drone footage from the morning of October 7, published by Channel 12 on April 30, 2024. (Screenshot, Channel 12: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

‘There’s an RPG, this is the enemy’: IAF footage shows horror as Oct. 7 terrorists ID’d

Audio recordings shed light on difficulties faced by drone operators trying to take out terrorists without harming Israeli forces on southern Israel’s Route 232

From left to right: Eugenia Mintz, Dr. Johanna Regev, Prof. Elisabetta Boaretto and Dr. Lior Regev of the Weizmann Institute of Science's Elisabetta Boaretto Labs. (Courtesy)

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New carbon-dating techniques enable ‘absolute chronology’ of First Temple-era Jerusalem

By Gavriel Fiske

Weizmann scientists say radiocarbon breakthrough provides previously unavailable means for dating urban sites; shows Jerusalem was larger, more developed than previously thought

Israel's 20-year-old Eurovision contestant Eden Golan is pictured during an interview at her house in Tel Aviv, on April 22, 2024 (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

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Israel’s Eurovision singer Eden Golan upbeat despite scrutiny

By AFP and ToI Staff

‘I’ve been getting a lot of support and haven’t really seen any negative comments,’ Golan says, days before start of competition in Malmo

Then-French president Francois Hollande walks back from a train car commemorating the Drancy concentration camp, during the inauguration of a new Holocaust memorial in Drancy, a Paris suburb, France, September 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Philippe Wojazer, Pool)

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By Cathryn J. Prince

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File: US writer Paul Auster looks on in Lyon, France, on January 16, 2018. (JEFF PACHOUD / AFP)

American-Jewish novelist Paul Auster dies at 77 of lung cancer

By Emilie BICKERTON

‘New York Trilogy’ author, who was known for his noirish existentialist novels, was rocked by family tragedies in his latter years

Heavy rockets fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon land in Kibbutz Hanita, northern Israel, on April 21, 2024. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Northerners gird for ‘immense’ destruction amid growing risk of war with Hezbollah

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Haifa resident, a 2006 war veteran, says he is ready to rejoin army if all-out conflict erupts; city’s mayor has told residents to gather supplies in case of major attack

Lebanese Christian leader: Hezbollah’s fighting with Israel harming Lebanon

By AP and ToI Staff

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A Polish police officer stands guard outside the Nozyk Synagogue in Warsaw on May 1, 2024, after a Molotov cocktail was thrown at the building. (Photo by Sergei GAPON / AFP)

Polish police investigate arson attack on Warsaw synagogue

By AFP and ToI Staff

International Atomic Energy Organization, IAEA, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi, center, and head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Mohammad Eslami arrive for a joint press conference in Tehran, Saturday, March 4, 2023. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

IAEA chief to visit Iran next week as anxiety grows over nuclear program

By AFP and ToI Staff

Musician Orian Shukron sings 'My Sunny Son,' the song he wrote in April 2024 about hostage Omer Shem Tov (Screenshot)

Sunny SonMusician Orian Shukron composes song for hostage Omer Shem-Tov

By Jessica Steinberg

An Israeli passport on January 18, 2023. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israelis can now renew biometric passports online from home, cutting out long waits

A McDonald's is seen in Tysons, Virginia, on February 5, 2024. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)

McDonald’s reports small rise in quarterly profits amid Gaza war boycott

By AFP

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, December 25, 2018. (Adam Shuldman/Flash90/File)

Israeli shares rise and shekel gains as investors watch truce, hostage deal efforts

By Sharon Wrobel

Police talking to members of the public at the scene of a deadly stabbing in Hainault, north east London, April 30, 2024. (Jordan Pettitt/PA via AP)

Sword-wielding man stabs 14-year-old boy to death, injures 4 others in London

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By Jessica Steinberg

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