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What Matters Most On Friday, May 3, 2024

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IDF troops operate in the central Gaza corridor, in a handout image published May 1, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

May 3: Israel said to give Hamas a week to choose between hostage deal, Rafah invasion

By Jacob Magid and Elana Kirsh

CIA chief in Cairo for hostage talks, Hamas delegation slated to arrive Saturday * Israel, Hezbollah said nearing deal to end northern border tensions, but it’ll still require hostage deal first

9:00 pm

Israeli envoy condemns burning of Quran in Sweden by agitator wrapped in Israeli flag
8:35 pm

Israel yet to hear Hamas willing to retreat from maximalist demands, despite mediators' optimism, official tells ToI
8:13 pm

Hamas says it's going to Cairo with 'positive spirit' to reach agreement

Inside story

Shalom Yerushalmi

Despite Oct. 7, Netanyahu is determined to run for reelection, and certain he can win

PM is confident his hostage deal offer, praised by the US, will help silence critics. And if it leads to far-right bolting his coalition, that will only ease his path to victory

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raises a toast at the weekly cabinet meeting ahead of the Jewish New Year, September 10, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

File: Brig. Gen. Shlomi Binder in 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF appoints new intel chief, promotes 4 other generals, despite far-right opposition

By Emanuel Fabian

Cpt. Ori Mordechay Shani, a Golani commander killed at the Kissufim post, October 7, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Father of soldier killed on Oct. 7 to petition appointment of new IDF intel chief

By Emanuel Fabian

Students protest the war in Gaza at the University of Cambridge, UK. Protests have sprung up in Britain following the latest crackdowns on pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel student protests in the US. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Echoing US encampments, anti-Israel students across Britain launch campus protests

UK activists are pitching tents to call on their universities to divest from Israel; Union of Jewish Students protests ‘torrent of antisemitic hatred on campus’

An anti-Israel protest encampment on the campus of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, on April 29, 2024. (Graham Hughes / AFP)

Anti-Israel campus protests spread across the US border to Canada, Mexico

By Agencies and ToI Staff

West Yorkshire Police officer Mohammed Adil, 26, charged with terror offenses for sharing posts in support of Hamas, leaves Westminster Magistrates' Court in central London, May 2, 2024. (Victoria Jones/PA via AP)

British police officer warned he may face prison for pro-Hamas posts after Oct. 7

By AFP

'No place' for antisemitism, threats against Jewish students

Biden slams anti-Israel campus protests, says Mideast policies unchanged

US president says right to free speech must not come at expense of law and order, adds he won’t send National Guard to disperse encampments at universities

US President Joe Biden delivers remarks about student protests over the war in Gaza, from the Roosevelt Room of the White House, May 2, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Police outside Columbia University, April 30, 2024. (Luke Tress via JTA)

Jewish groups demand Columbia do more to combat antisemitism: ‘The problem is deep’

New York City police officers take people into custody near the Columbia University campus in New York, April 30, 2024, after a building taken over by anti-Israel activists earlier in the day was cleared, along with a tent encampment. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Police: More than 25% of arrested Columbia protesters not connected to university

Columbia University students Eden Yadegar and Elisha H. Baker lead songs in support of Israel on October 12, 2023, at the Columbia University campus in New York. (courtesy)

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to two Jewish student leaders at Columbia: ‘Intifada’ on campus

Eden Yadegar, president of Students Supporting Israel, and Elisha H. Baker, a Columbia Political Review editor, describe the antisemitism that led to this week’s ‘hostile takeover’

The antisemitic mask is off

This week, for the first time, I heard blatant calls from mainstream Americans for violence against Jews and the elimination of the State of Israel

Another river, another sea

What drives regular American college kids’ rage against Israel when – I’m guessing – they weren’t raised to hate Jews?

The strength of second generation trauma, after Hamas’s massacre

I worry that history is repeating itself, and I can’t help asking: Will Israel survive? If not, will it go in multiples of October 7th?

Menachem Bombach

The Haredi world must take civic responsibility

Unless we can shift the ultra-Orthodox priority of segregating from Israeli society, the community is at great risk of more disasters

A pro-Palestinian demonstrator is beaten by counter-protesters attacking the anti-Israel encampment on the campus of the University of California in Los Angeles, May 1, 2024. (Etienne Laurent/AFP)

'We don’t support what they did'

Jewish students say pro-Israel violence at UCLA protest camp undercut their advocacy

By jacob gurvis

Activists say Tuesday’s incident doesn’t represent them, makes counter-protests look bad, as various students share differing views on the campus standoffs and chaos

Police clash with anti-Israel demonstrators on the UCLA campus, May 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP/Ethan Swope)

Los Angeles police say 210 arrested during removal of anti-Israel encampment at UCLA

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Police clash with anti-Israel demonstrators on the UCLA campus, May 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP/Ethan Swope)

More than 2,100 people arrested at anti-Israel campus protests across the US

By AP and ToI Staff

Hostages' families and their supporters calling for an immediate deal to release their loved ones block Begin Street in Tel Aviv, May 2, 2024. (Yael Gadot/Pro-Democracy Movement)

Netanyahu: Jews 'will stand alone' if they must

Top ministers huddle as Israel expects Hamas to snub latest hostage deal offer

By Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

War cabinet discusses possible Rafah incursion, as reports say Sinwar will reject any deal that doesn’t explicitly end the war; Haniyeh: Proposal being studied in ‘positive spirit’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a ceremony for fallen members of the Etzel paramilitary organization in Jaffa on May 2, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

PM reiterates pledge to enter Rafah, notes coalition ‘disagreements’ on security

By Lazar Berman, AFP and ToI Staff

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to reporters at the port of Ashdod in southern Israel, May 1, 2024. (Evelyn Hockstein/ Pool Photo via AP)

Blinken: Israel’s flexibility on hostage deal speaks louder than its Rafah rhetoric

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, shake hands during their meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, April 20, 2024. (Turkish Presidency via AP)

Bilateral trade was $6.8 billion in 2023

Turkey halts all trade with Israel; Jerusalem denounces ‘dictator’ Erdogan

By Lazar Berman and Reuters

Turkish ports said already preventing export of goods to Haifa and Ashdod ports, while Israeli imports not being unloaded; FM Katz says Israel will find alternatives, emerge strong

Illustrative: A ship from the Freedom Flotilla Coalition anchors at Tuzla seaport in Istanbul, Turkey, on April 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 3: Day 210 – Turkey halts all trade with Israel after 75 years

Workers unload a truck in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip of humanitarian aid delivered from Jordan to the coastal territory through the Erez border crossing with Israel, on May 1, 2024. (Jack Guez/AFP)

US says Hamas briefly seized 1st aid shipment that entered Gaza via reopened crossing

Tom Friedman in NYT specifies Saudi demands of Israel

US ‘very close’ to bilateral deal with Saudis, but it hinges on Israel normalization

State Department spokesperson says ‘still more work to be done;’ Report says Saudis demanding Israeli exit from Gaza, settlement freeze and 3-5 year pathway to Palestinian state

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan (R) receives US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Secretariat in Riyadh on April 29, 2024. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool/AFP)

Security cabinet again delays decision to close Al Jazeera in Israel amid Gaza talks

Reports say repeated delays linked to Qatari-owners role in mediating potential hostage release, truce deal with Hamas which is at a crucial stage

Dror Or (Courtesy)

Kibbutz Be’eri says resident Dror Or was killed on Oct. 7, body being held in Gaza

Southern community attacked by Hamas confirms Or, a chef and cheesemaker, was murdered along with wife Yonat; 2 of their 3 children were taken hostage, freed in November truce deal

Dr. Arnold Clevs and former Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy at a Zikaron BaSalon event at Levy's home in Tel Aviv on May 1, 2024. (Shoshanna Solomon)

Reporter's notebook'Today's evil gives Holocaust survivors flashbacks of Nazis'

At Holocaust commemoration in Eylon Levy’s living room, Oct. 7 atrocities loom large

By Shoshanna Solomon

The former government spokesman hosted survivor Dr. Arnold Clevs as part of the Zikaron BaSalon series ahead of an Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day suffused with recent tragedy

Prescient Holocaust Remembrance Day theme focuses on destroyed communities

By Matt Lebovic

Annual Holocaust commemoration in Jerusalem to include traditional elements while making space for the unprecedented Oct. 7 massacres in southern Israel and ongoing war with Hamas

The 2024 torch-lighters at Yad Vashem's annual Holocaust commemoration for Yom Hashoah. (Courtesy)

The Waze navigation app will map more than 1,200 Zikaron Basalon gatherings and events across Israel dedicated to Holocaust remembrance. (Courtesy)

Microsoft, Meta and Google’s Waze provide tech for Holocaust remembrance projects

By Sharon Wrobel

File - International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan poses during an interview with AFP at the Cour d'Honneur of the Palais Royal in Paris on February 7, 2024. (Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)

ICC prosecutor slams effort to ‘intimidate’ him on possible arrest warrants for Israelis

Karim Khan warns against trying to impede investigation into Israel’s conduct in Gaza, after US lawmakers reportedly meet with senior court officials

Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh. (Courtesy)

IDF confirms senior Gazan doctor died in Israeli prison

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli airstrike in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

UN says Gaza reconstruction to cost $30-40 billion, damage on scale unseen since WWII

By AFP and ToI Staff

Explainer

How cutting ties with Israel could hamstring Colombia’s military, ground Air Force

Jerusalem is sole provider of maintenance to Colombia’s aging fleet of Israeli-made Kfir fighter jets, and a key supplier of other arms, cyber security; trade will also be harmed

Kfir aircraft of the Colombian Air Force overfly a Colombian flag during a ceremony commemorating Colombia's Independence Day in Bogota on July 20, 2021. (Photo by Juan BARRETO / AFP)

Illustrative. Cybersecurity protection. (Thinkhubstudio via iStock by Getty Images)

As Iranian hackers grow more skilled, Israel builds ‘cyber dome’ to protect itself

By AFP and ToI Staff

Jerusalem working with international allies to build consolidated defenses in cyberspace; Tehran said to have launched more than 800 significant cyberattacks on Israel since Oct. 7

More Headlines

Stone sinkers likely used to weigh down fishing nets, found at the 'Habonim North' martime archaeological site, off the coast of northern Israel. (courtesy Cambridge University Press/CC BY)

ArchaeologyNeolithic site shows how villagers weathered drought, climate change 8,000 years ago

By Gavriel Fiske

A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on July 19, 2023, shows a ball of light in the sky during Israeli air strikes near Damascus. (SANA / AFP)

Syria says 8 soldiers hurt in alleged Israeli strike that caused ‘material losses’

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Newly elected British Labour MP Chris Webb, right, with Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer celebrating at Blackpool Cricket Club, England, May 3, 2024, after being declared winner in the Blackpool South by-election. (Peter Byrne/PA via AP)

UK’s Conservatives set for historic loss in local polls; Labour urges general election

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men near a sign reading 'army recruitment office' during a protest against the drafting of Haredim to the military, in Jerusalem, May 1, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Government accuses AG of ‘administrative coup’ amid mutual barbs over Haredi draft

By Jeremy Sharon

Mohamad Hassouna, who resides in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Al-Fura, stands in a building near where his 7-year-old daughter Amina was injured by an Iranian missile shard in the southern Negev desert on April 14, 2024. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Demolition order issued for home of Bedouin girl hurt in Iran attack, later scrapped

Miriam Peretz holds a torch during the Israeli 66th Independence Day Ceremony at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on May 5, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Torch lighters for Independence Day chosen to highlight October 7 heroism

The illuminated image of Anne Frank's face projected on the walls of Tel Aviv's Habima Theater on May 1, 2024, ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Courtesy)

The way they were‘Deepfakes’ of Holocaust victims beamed onto Habima for Remembrance Day

By Jessica Steinberg

United States Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Michael J. Murphy kneels next to the coffins containing remains of 30 newly identified victims of the Srebrenica Genocide in Potocari, Bosnia, July 10, 2023. (AP/Armin Durgut)

‘Disgrace to diplomacy’: Bosnia accuses Israeli diplomat of genocide denial

Nika Shakarami (Wikipedia; Original publication: Unknown/Immediate source: https://www.shethepeople.tv/news/teenager-killed-in-iran-protests)

Iran denies IRGC molested, killed teen protester during Mahsa Amini unrest

By AFP

Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on May 1, 2024. (Alex Wroblewski/AFP)

Trump refuses to commit to accepting results in this year’s US presidential election

By AFP

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