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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 4, 2024

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Palestinians walk with their belongings in Beit Lahya in the northern Gaza Strip on May 4, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. (AFP)

Gantz to Israeli source: Avoid hysterics, politics

Hamas indicates it may agree to deal; Israeli official insists truce won’t end war

By ToI Staff, Agencies and Tal Schneider

Reports of progress thanks to US assurances that 3rd phase of truce will draw conflict to close, but Israel later insists it won’t end the war and Hamas says there’ll be no deal otherwise

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)

Hamas sends delegation to Cairo, calls for deal ‘that fulfills Palestinians’ demands’

By ToI Staff, Jacob Magid and Agencies

Israeli tanks near the border with the Gaza Strip on May 2, 2024. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Israel briefed US on plan to evacuate Gazans from Rafah before offensive — officials

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Demonstrators protest calling for the release of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip and against the Israeli government outside Hakirya Base in Tel Aviv, May 4, 2024. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Live updates

May 4: Far right cheers as official, thought to be PM, says no ending war for hostage deal

By Elana Kirsh and ToI Staff

Negotiations to resume Sunday * Demonstrators rallying for captives, elections clash with police in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem * Protests, arrests at US universities as graduations held

2:55 am

Perth teen knifes man in suspected terror attack, shot dead by cops
8:56 pm

After march, protesters calling for hostage deal hold sit-in on Tel Aviv street
8:30 pm

Haredi MK rips Gantz for issuing statement on Shabbat while ignoring remarks from PM's office

Relatives and supporters of the Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas terror group call for their release during a protest in Tel Aviv, April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

‘Never again is now!’: Hostages’ families rally ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day

Saturday evening demonstration focus on captives related to survivors of WWII Nazi genocide; anti-government protests held at Tel Aviv’s Kaplan Street and nationwide

A very young Elida (left) with Stanislava and her daughter Audra, who hid Elida (renamed Rita) on their farm from late 1943 to the end of the war. (Courtesy of Zipora Klein Jakob)

Yom Hashoah

The amazing true story of a baby illegally born and smuggled out of Kovno ghetto

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Elida Freidman Goldberg Katzman changed names, families, countries and continents numerous times as she grappled until her premature death with being a Holocaust orphan from birth

Anti-Israel demonstrators at Columbia University Campus unfurl a banner as they barricade themselves inside Hamilton Hall, naming it after Hind Rajab, a Palestinian Gazan six-year-old girl killed in an Israeli airstrike amid Israel's war on Hamas, April 30, 2024, in New York City. (Marco Postigo Storel via AP)

NYPD official: Items found at Columbia show protesters were far from benign

Gas masks, knives, ‘Death to America’ pamphlet recovered after dispersing pro-Palestinian students who occupied campus building; Jewish alums: Critics of crackdown ‘a disgrace’

Officers stage near the site of a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel encampment, cleared by police overnight, on the UCLA campus Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Striking deals to end protests, a few colleges agree to review investments in Israel

By AP and ToI Staff

Emmanuel Acho and Noa Tishby have a new book titled 'Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew,' which candidly discusses race and antisemitism. (Courtesy)

Interview'What if us marginalized groups fought together?'

Noa Tishby and Emmanuel Acho discuss their candid new book on Black-Jewish relations

By Jordana Horn

The Israeli actress and the former NFL linebacker have both turned to activism. Their collaboration, ‘Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew,’ breaks taboos to find common ground

Elkana Bar Eitan

Our goal should be to overcome victimhood, not claim it

Take inspiration from Holocaust survivors’ decision to move forward and rebuild – it’s the secret sauce of the Jewish People

The speech Bibi must give before Israel enters Rafah

The government has failed to make clear to its global allies the steps Israel is taking to avoid civilian casualties in Gaza

Ilustrative: A man withdraws cash from an ATM machine at Bank of Palestine in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on May 15, 2018. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Armed Gazan gangs, some thought tied to Hamas, steal $70 million from Bank of Palestine

By AFP

French daily Le Monde reports funds taken from the vaults of several branches in the Strip by groups armed with explosives, commandos who answer to ‘Gaza’s highest authorities’

A maritime pier being built by the US military off the coast of the Gaza Strip, in an image released on April 29, 2024. (CENTCOM)

US defense secretary: No signs Hamas plans to attack our troops building Gaza pier

By Agencies, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Elyakim Libman, security guard at the Supernova desert rave who was thought to be taken captive on October 7, 2023 (Courtesy)

Remains of Elyakim Libman, presumed a hostage since Oct. 7, found in Israel

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Libman, a security guard at music festival, was erroneously buried with someone else as a result of difficulties identifying mangled bodies; discovery lowers hostage figure to 252

Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani (L), ruler of Qatar since 2013, in a meeting with Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh (R) and Khaled Mashal in Doha, October 17, 2016 (Qatar government handout)

Qatar anticipating US request to expel Hamas leaders, is open to doing so — source

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

US official says Blinken told Al-Thani last month that Doha should kick out terror officials if they continue to reject hostage deal proposals

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas meets with Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Belgium's Prime Minister Alexander De Croo in Ramallah, West Bank, November 23, 2023. (Alaa Badarneh/ Pool via AP)

Report: US rejected proposed plan by PA, Arab nations for Palestinian statehood

Foreign Minister Israel Katz in Jerusalem, February 19, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Israel says will limit Turkish trade with Palestinians, seek sanctions against Ankara

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US President Joe Biden arrives at Delaware Air National Guard Base in New Castle, Delaware, May 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

US House Democrats urge Biden to push Israel on war conduct, mull halting arms sales

By AFP and ToI Staff

Letter from 88 members of US Congress says that any potential pause on military funding should not affect missile defense systems such as Iron Dome

An IDF soldier walks through an inspection area for trucks carrying humanitarian aid supplies bound for the Gaza Strip, on the Palestinian side of the Erez crossing from southern Israel, May 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israeli rights groups tell High Court government is not meeting Gaza aid obligations

By AFP

In the Chilean capital Santiago, Palestinian journalist Nasser Abu Baker receives the 2024 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize on behalf of all Palestinian journalists selected as this year's winners at the 31st World Press Freedom Conference. May 2, 2024 (AFP/UNESCO)

UNESCO awards world press freedom prize to all Palestinian journalists in Gaza

By AFP and ToI Staff

How Jewish world marking Yom Hashoah, months after deadliest day for Jews since Holocaust

By jacob gurvis

March of the Living to be led by 55 survivors, including 7 also affected by October 7; while some double-survivors connect the two experiences, others caution against

A small Israeli flag on the rail tracks at the site of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau camp during commemorations to honor the victims of the Holocaust, near the historic gate of Birkenau (Auschwitz II) near the village of Brzezinka near Oswiecim, Poland on April 28, 2022. (Wojtek Radwanski / AFP)

King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima walked past wreaths at the national monument during the Remembrance Day ceremony on Dam Square in Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 4, 2022, commemorating civilians and members of the armed forces who have died in wars and peacekeeping missions since the start of the Second World War. (Koen van Weel/Pool Photo via AP)

Netherlands restricts access to WWII ceremony amid concerns of Gaza war protests

Illustrative: An Auschwitz survivor shows his tattooed number in Lueneburg, Germany, July 15, 2015 (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

1 in 3 Holocaust survivors can’t afford all the groceries they need — survey

By Canaan Lidor

A man pushes an elderly woman in a wheelchair as she carries a suitcase on her legs. In the back can be seen a truck from the shipping company sent to pick up the luggage. The wall projection on his right shields the photographer from being seen. Breslau, Silesia, November 21, 1941. (Courtesy of the Landesverband Sachsen der Jüdischen Gemeinden in Dresden)

'This is one of the most valuable findings in recent years'

A Jewish photographer’s rare images of an early Holocaust transport are now online

By Robert Philpot

13 recently published pictures covertly taken in Breslau, Silesia, in November 1941 show one of Germany’s first deportations of Jews through the lens of the victims and not the Nazis

Yemeni security forces stand guard during a pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel rally in the Houthi-held capital Sanaa on April 26, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip between Israel and the Palestinian terror group Hamas. (Photo by MOHAMMED HUWAIS / AFP)

Houthis threaten to target Israel-bound ships in the Mediterranean

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iran-backed rebels, who have launched scores of drone and missile attacks on shipping since November, say the escalation will take effect ‘immediately’

Troops of the IDF's 282nd Artillery Regiment are seen in northern Israel, in a handout photo published May 3, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Rockets and drone fire in north cause sirens to sound after 48 hours of quiet

By Emanuel Fabian

This image grab taken from a UGC video posted on social media on April 13, 2024, shows Iran's Revolutionary Guards rappelling down onto a container ship, MSC Aries, near the Strait of Hormuz. (Video screenshot)

Iran says it has released crew of seized Israel-linked ship

By Reuters and ToI Staff

US Education Secretary Miguel Cardona during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

5 US Jewish orgs boycott education secretary call over presence of progressive groups

Cardona makes second antisemitism presentation after Jewish Federations of North America, ADL, Conference of Presidents refuse to attend the first one

Brit Gilad. (Dafna Talmon)

Brit Gilad38-year-old mother of two from Kibbutz Tzivon

'I feel like the war is an opportunity for change. It took us back to a sensitive and doubtful place, and we cannot keep holding on to all the stories we tell ourselves'

By Tamar Mor Sela

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers scuffle with Jewish settlers from the Einav settlement, trying to storm the West Bank town of Deir Sharaf, near Nablus, November 2, 2023. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

UK joins European Union in sanctioning supremacist Lehava group and extremist settlers

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

UK’s Cameron says individuals ‘are undermining security and stability and threatening prospects for peace,’ as four far-right activists sanctioned

Iranian carpet shop owner Ali Faez works at his shop at the traditional bazaar of the city of Kashan, about 152 miles (245 km) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, April 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Sanctions, hobbled economy pull rug out from under Iran’s traditional carpet weavers

By MEHDI FATTAHI

Slump in high-value tourists additionally reduces trade, with those who do visit Iran also unable to use international credit cards

More Headlines

Illustrative: Woman holds up a dosage of Wegovy, a drug used for weight loss, in Front Royal, Virginia, March 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

Weight loss drug Wegovy arrives in Israel, ending off-label use of Ozempic

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is pictured during a visit at the company's electric car plant in Gruenheide near Berlin, eastern Germany, on March 13, 2024 (Odd Andersen/AFP)

Elon Musk says he will reinstate X account of antisemite Nick Fuentes

Rabbi Elizabeth Bahar speaks to WMGT TV in August 28, 2023 (WMGT 41/YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

North Carolina man charged with mailing antisemitic threat to Georgia rabbi

By AP and ToI Staff

The Westminster Magistrates Court in London, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Israeli private eye arrested in UK over alleged hacking for American PR firm

View of the villa built for Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels, near the Bogensee lake north of Berlin, taken on January 13, 2016. (John MacDougall/AFP)

Berlin offers to give away villa once owned by Nazi propaganda chief Goebbels

By Stephen Graham

In this photo from July 17, 2004, tourists visit the ruins of Adolf Hitler's headquarters the 'Wolf's Lair' in Gierloz, northeastern Poland, where his chief of staff members made an unsuccessful attempt at Hitler's life on July 20, 1944 (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Skeletons without hands or feet unearthed at Hitler’s WWII Wolf’s Lair

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