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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 8, 2024

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A man inspects the damage to a building after overnight Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 25, 2024. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

US also reviewing sale of JDAMs, but transfer isn't imminent

US confirms holding up sale of heavy bombs it feared Israel would use in Rafah

Feeling its concerns over looming major offensive weren’t getting through to Israel, Washington took unprecedented step to ensure its heavy explosives weren’t used in south Gaza city

Illustrative: Displaced Palestinians flee Rafah with their belongings on May 7, 2024, a day after the IDF ordered civilians in the city to evacuate. (AFP)

US signals backing for ‘limited op’ after IDF takes over Gazan side of Rafah crossing

Screen capture from video of IDF Spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari at a conference hosted by the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper in Tel Aviv, May 8, 2024. (Ynet. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF spokesman plays down US arms shipment holdup, says disagreements resolved privately

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip pass through the inspection area at the Kerem Shalom Crossing in southern Israel, March 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

IDF says Kerem Shalom Crossing reopened to Gaza aid, days after attack forced closure

By Emanuel Fabian

Netanyahu had assured Biden the crossing would be reopened; Rafah Crossing with Egypt remains closed amid IDF operation there

US soldiers assemble the Roll-On, Roll-Off Distribution Facility (RRDF), or floating pier, off the shore of Gaza in the Mediterranean Sea on April 26, 2024. (US Army via AP)

US completes construction of Gaza aid pier, but weather preventing installation

By AFP, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Einav Zangauker holds a sign identifying her son Matan (24), one of the hostages taken captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip during the October 7 massacre, as she stands on the roof of a car during a demonstration by hostages' relatives and supporters in Tel Aviv on May 6, 2024. (Jack Guez / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 8, Day 215 – What is Israelis’ top priority: War or hostages?

'I see your fear. You're not alone,' Biden tells US Jews

Biden in Yom Hashoah speech: ‘People already forgetting’ October 7, ‘I have not’

US president gives most forceful condemnation of anti-Israel campus protests yet, slamming ‘ferocious scourge’ of antisemitism and denial of Hamas atrocities motivating activists

Macklemore performs during the South by Southwest Music Festival on March 17, 2023, in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Jack Plunkett/Invision/AP)

US rapper Macklemore releases anthem for anti-Israel occupation at Columbia

Illustrative: A Palestinian elementary student holds a placard reading 'From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free' in Beirut, Lebanon, December 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Meta reviewing whether ‘From the river to the sea’ is acceptable speech

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Stranger Things actor, Brett Gelman, on All About Change

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Israelis block the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv, during a protest calling for the release of Israelis held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, May 8, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Protesters briefly block Tel Aviv highway to demand deal freeing hostages in Gaza

By Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

Unfurling banner calling on Israel to save who it still can, Women’s March protest group says Israeli delegation cannot return from Cairo negotiations without an agreement

The sister of hostage Shiri Bibas seen at a protest calling for the release of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip outside Hakirya Base in Tel Aviv, May 6, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Hostage families urge US, other countries to press Israel to reach deal with Hamas

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Histadrut chair Arnon Bar-David speaks at a conference hosted by the Yedioth Ahronoth news outlet, May 8, 2024. (Ynet video: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Histadrut head urges early elections, hints at potential future general strike

Op-ed: Day 215 of the war

Sinister Hamas terms would let it keep most hostages, win the war, inflame the West Bank

It took the US more than a day to internalize that Hamas had not in fact accepted a hostages-for-truce proposal. But the text of its ‘agreement’ is far more duplicitous than that

Then-Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (L) and newly freed Palestinian security prisoner Yahya Sinwar wave as supporters celebrate the release of 1,027 security prisoners in a swap for kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, on October 21, 2011. (AFP/Said Khatib)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in a video message from his office, May 7, 2024. (Screenshot/GPO)

Netanyahu says Hamas offer aimed to ‘sabotage’ Rafah op as Israeli delegation in Cairo

By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

Demonstrators protest calling for the release of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip outside Hakirya Base in Tel Aviv, May 8, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Poll: Majority of Israelis support prioritizing hostage deal over Rafah operation

Chief Inspector Yitav Lev Halevi. (Israel Police)

Commando dies after being injured during West Bank operation

By Emanuel Fabian

Chief Inspector Yitav Lev Halevy, a commander in elite Yamam unit, was critically hurt in battle with gunmen near Tulkarem

The late Noam Ashram and his family, in an undated picture. (courtesy Ashram family)

Box of memoriesWebsite aims to tell stories of fallen soldiers to their young kids

By Gavriel Fiske

IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip, in a handout image published May 8, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

May 8: Aid bound for Gaza being loaded onto ship in Cyprus after US pier completed

By ToI Staff and Michael Bachner

US defense chief: No ‘final determination’ made on paused shipment to Israel * Hezbollah launches missiles, mortars at IDF post in north * CIA chief meets Netanyahu in Jerusalem

8:54 pm

Eden Golan booed at Eurovision dress rehearsal; Kan: We will not be silenced
8:42 pm

Republican senator says US delaying weapons shipment is 'obscene' and 'absurd'
8:21 pm

American envoy to Israel tells rabbi that war in Gaza is 'very unpopular' in the US

Lies that tell a truth – and why they’re so important

Fiction gives its readers a window into the contradictions of human nature that always trouble people, no less during these difficult times

What are our (presumably) college-bound Jewish kids going to do?

If you think a university campus is no longer a good place for a nice Jewish young adult, here are some options to think about

Presumed hostage Lior Rudaeff confirmed killed on October 7; body was taken to Gaza

Announcement that Nir Yitzhak resident was murdered while defending kibbutz from terrorists comes hours after his wife vowed family ‘will continue to fight until you come home’

Lior Rudaeff (Courtesy)

Reporter's notebook

‘They did it all so easily’: Ex-hostages recount chilling details of Oct. 7, captivity

By Jessica Steinberg

Chen Goldstein-Almog tells of her daughter’s murder after terrorists found her IDF uniform at their Kfar Aza home; freed hostages speak of continuous fear of sexual assault in Gaza

Hostage father Malki Shem-Tov (left), released hostages Luis Har, Merav Tal, and Chen Goldstein-Almog and hostage brother Moshe Or at a Government Press Office panel on May 6, 2024 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Dan Hadani visits the National Library of Israel during Passover in April 2024 (David Peretz/National Library of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'Within seconds, they separated me from my sister and mother'

100-year-old who shaped Israeli photojournalism takes stage to share Holocaust survival

By Maya Zanger-Nadis

Cultural icon Dan Hadani survived the Lodz Ghetto and multiple Nazi camps. A lifelong chronicler, he continues to tell his story at the National Library of Israel

Suspect said held in slaying of Israeli businessman in Egypt as terror motive denied

By ToI Staff and Reuters

Widow of victim identified as produce exporter Ziv Kipper says she understands he was targeted over his Israeli and Jewish identity, but security source says killing was a robbery

Illustrative: A picture taken during a guided tour organised by the Egyptian State Information Service on November 20, 2019, shows policemen standing guard at Borg el-Arab prison near the Egyptian city of Alexandria. (Mohamed el-Shahed / AFP)

File: A picture taken on October 21, 2017, shows an Egyptian policeman standing guard in the new city of el-Alamein, west of Alexandria. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)

Jewish businessman shot dead in Egypt in suspected terror attack

Alma Bohadana, who died in Brazil on May 7, 2024, after falling from a height. (Courtesy; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli woman falls to her death in Brazil, reportedly trying to escape from muggers

Matisyahu Grossinger, chairman of the board of the Kiddush Hashem Archive, an ultra-Orthodox Holocaust museum in Bnei Brak, lights a memorial candle at a memorial ceremony on May 7, 2024. (Yaakov Nachumi)

In Bnei Brak, Haredim host EU diplomats at an unusual Holocaust memorial

At the ultra-Orthodox Ganzach archive, ultra-Orthodox Jews learn about the Holocaust from a Haredi perspective, both historical and theological

Military vehicles and cows are common sights in the Golan Heights, but are usually not seen together. (Uriel Heilman/ JTA)

Reporter's notebook

Covering Israel’s war-torn north is an exercise in dodging danger

By Uriel Heilman

With the constant threat of missile fire from Hezbollah terrorists, life takes on a surreal quality as soldiers, checkpoints, warning sirens and evacuees become the new normal

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters walk from Columbia University down to Hunter College, May 6, 2024, in New York City. (SPENCER PLATT / Getty Images via AFP)

Conservative US federal judges announce boycott of Columbia Law School graduates

By Karen Sloan and Nate Raymond

University promises backing for its alums in face of hiring freeze over pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protests; insists they are ‘consistently sought out’

Illustrative: An anti-Israel protester leads chants at the university's police as they are kept from the university's quad while the student encampment is dismantled at the University of Chicago, on May 7, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Anti-Israel encampment cleared at University of Chicago, but protests continue

By AP and ToI Staff

Eurovision organizers rebuke performer who wore keffiyeh during first semifinal show

EBU expresses ‘regret’ that Swedish-Palestinian singer Eric Saade violated ‘non-political nature’ of contest; Israeli-born singer for Luxembourg qualifies for grand final

Eric Saade performs the song "Popular" while wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh on his wrist during the opening of the first semifinal at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Scientists at Israeli biotech Profuse Technology develop a cocktail of small molecules that acts as a catalyst for muscle tissue growth for the production of lab-grown meat. (Courtesy)

Israel startup gets EU backing to help bring lab-grown meat cuts to table

By Sharon Wrobel

Profuse says the €2.4m grant will be used to get regulatory approval for its small molecule-based cocktail that catalyzes muscle tissue growth for cultivated meat production

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France's Prime Minister Gabriel Attal delivers a speech during the annual dinner of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF) at the Louvre Carrousel in Paris on May 6, 2024. (Julien De Rosa/AFP)

French PM attacks the left for giving Israel ‘moral lessons’ during Gaza war

Illustrative: Anti-Israel activists face police forces at the university campus of the Free University of Berlin, Germany, May 7, 2024. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP)

Police disband anti-Israel protesters at Berlin, Amsterdam and Zurich universities

By Agencies and ToI Staff

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General, Rafael Grossi, addresses the media after arriving at the Vienna International Airport in Schwechat, Austria, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Heinz-Peter Bader)

IAEA head decries ‘completely unsatisfactory’ cooperation after visit to Iran

By AFP

MK Tally Gotliv attends an Israel Hayom conference in Ashkelon, April 16, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Firebrand Likud MK assails IDF brass, citing false report a commander was fired

Robert Malley, the Biden's administration special envoy for Iran, waits to testify about the Iran nuclear deal during a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations on Capitol Hill in Washington, on May 25, 2022. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/File)

Republicans allege US envoy sent classified information to his personal email, phone

By Patricia Zengerle and Arshad Mohammed

Screen capture from video from a Foundation to Combat Antisemitism ad to be aired during NBA playoffs in 2024. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Kraft’s foundation to air ad at NBA playoffs slamming antisemitism at campus protests

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Founders of US-Israeli cyber unicorn Wiz from left to right: VP Product Yinon Costica, CEO Assaf Rappaport, CTO Ami Luttwak, and VP R&D Roy Reznik. (Avishag Shaar-Yashuv)

Israel-founded cyber unicorn Wiz raises $1 billion, soaring to $12 billion valuation

By Sharon Wrobel

In this courtroom sketch, porn star Stormy Daniels testifies on the witness stand as Judge Juan Merchan looks at a Manhattan, New York criminal court, May 7, 2024. A photo of Donald Trump and Daniels from their first meeting is displayed on a monitor. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

At NY hush money trial, Stormy Daniels shares salacious details about Trump encounter

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

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