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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 9, 2024

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US President Joe Biden meets with campaign volunteers at the Dr. John Bryant Community Center, May 8, 2024, in Racine, Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

'Civilians have been killed' by those bombs. 'It's just wrong'

Biden: I won’t give Israel offensive weapons to attack in populated parts of Rafah

Unprecedentedly blunt threat marks stunning shift from president, who long rejected conditioning aid to Israel; official says US still committed to freeing hostages

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin testifies before a House Armed Services Committee hearing on the Department of Defense fiscal 2025 budget request on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Explaining arms hold up, US defense chief says Israel must account for Rafah civilians

Demonstrators demand the continuation of fighting in the Gaza Strip outside the US Embassy Branch Office in Tel Aviv, May 7, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Gallant vows: Israel will achieve its goals

PM, ministers issue defiant messages as Israel fumes over Biden’s threat of arms freeze

By Joshua Davidovich, Michael Bachner and Sam Sokol

Netanyahu reposts days-old speech rejecting external pressure; Ben Gvir: Hamas loves Biden; Trump: ‘Crooked Joe’ siding with the terrorists; US Jewish groups, GOP, some Dems decry move

File - National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at the Israel Police Independence Day ceremony at the National Headquarters of the Israel Police in Jerusalem, May 9, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ben Gvir hammered by president, opposition over ‘Hamas <3 Biden' tweet

This combination photo shows US President Joe Biden, left, on March 8, 2024, in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, October 28, 2023. (AP Photo)

‘Dangerous for Israel’: Critics slam government’s handling of US ties amid arms row

A pro-Israel supporter waves a flag while marching outside the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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May 9: Israeli envoy to US says weapons holdup sends ‘wrong message,’ puts Israel ‘in a corner’

By Michael Bachner, Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

PM: ‘If we have to stand alone, we will stand alone’ * Ministers to meet on US munitions holdup * Cairo hostage-truce talks end * Eden Golan qualifies for Saturday’s Eurovision final

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Israel's Eden Golan advances to the Eurovision grand final on Saturday
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Israeli ambassador to US: Withholding weapons from Israel sends 'wrong message'
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Hillary Clinton slams anti-Israel protests on college campuses, says students have been fed propaganda

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Masa Israel Journey to Host the Largest English-Language Yom HaZikaron Ceremony

The ceremony will unite Jews and supporters of Israel from across the globe in remembrance of the victims of terror and the fallen Israeli soldiers who sacrificed their lives to protect the State of Israel.

Op-ed: Day 216 of the war

Biden’s partial weapons freeze deepens existential threat Israel has faced since Oct. 7

The president’s words and planned action were focused on a highly significant planned IDF offensive in Rafah; the diplomatic and practical implications resonate even more widely

US President Joe Biden (L) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

President Joe Biden meets with campaign volunteers at the Dr. John Bryant Community Center, Wednesday, May 8, 2024, in Racine, Wis. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 9, Day 216 – Biden drops bombshell, Hamas’s duplicitous ‘deal’

Soldiers and members of security forces who treated and cared for Israeli soldiers killed on and since the Hamas invasion on October 7 place flags and light candles on soldiers' graves at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, on May 9, 2024, days before the annual Memorial Day for Israel's Fallen Soldiers. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

A dark year: 766 soldiers, 834 civilians killed since last Memorial Day

By Emanuel Fabian

Numbers take total casualties of war, terror to 30,140; in addition, 61 disabled veterans succumbed to injuries sustained during service; numbers published ahead of commemorations

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)

Israel’s population ticks toward 10 million milestone as it marks 76 years

Sara Jackson hugs a survivor of the Nova party in Tel Aviv on May 2, 2024. (Nova Tribe Foundation)

'I never stopped loving life'

Nova party escapees reunite with Holocaust survivor who sheltered them

By Canaan Lidor

Three women who lived through the Nazi genocide offer advice and inspiration to partygoers who escaped deadliest massacre of October 7, urging them to focus on future

Israeli strike on car in south Lebanon said to kill four Hezbollah members

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Syrian media also reports alleged IDF strike near Damascus overnight; no comment from military on incidents

Lebanese firefighters work to extinguish a car that was hit by an alleged Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanon village of Bafliyeh, May 9, 2024. (Screenshot: /X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Staff Sgt. Haim Sabach, who was killed in a Hezbollah attack on an army post near the northern community of Malkia on May 8, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF announces soldier killed in Hezbollah attack on army post in north

By Emanuel Fabian

Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike on the southern Lebanese village of Kfarkila near the border on May 8, 2024. (Rabih DAHER / AFP)

Gallant warns of potential ‘hot summer’ in north, as Hezbollah attacks IDF post

By Emanuel Fabian

My brother’s death was not in vain

Imbuing our incalculable loss with meaning means fulfilling this moment’s greatest imperative: to not tear ourselves apart

Bibi, it’s time for you to go

The office of prime minister needs a person of vision, competence and integrity, qualities you do not possess

Iran's former foreign affairs minister Sayyid Kamal Kharrazi takes part in a panel during the Doha Forum in Qatar's capital, on March 27, 2022. (KARIM JAAFAR / AFP)

Iran says it will change nuclear doctrine and build bombs if existence threatened

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Top Khamenei adviser Kamal Kharrazi says country will have ‘no choice’ in those circumstances, warns deterrence policy will change if Israel strikes nuclear facilities

Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks with the media after registering his name as a candidate for the June 18 presidential elections at elections headquarters of the Interior Ministry in Tehran, Iran, May 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Jewish groups decry visit of Iran’s Ahmadinejad to Hungarian university

By AFP

Visiting CIA chief said to tell Netanyahu he still sees chance for deal with Hamas

Report says Israeli leaders responded that Hamas’s hostages-for-truce proposal ‘crosses all red lines’; senior member of terror group clarifies Hamas won’t budge from its terms

CIA Director William Burns testifies during a US Senate hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 11, 2024. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Displaced Palestinians arrive in central Gaza after fleeing from the southern Gaza city of Rafah in Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Tens of thousands flee Rafah, leaving parts of city looking like ‘ghost town’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A Jewish student watches a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protest at Columbia University campus on November 14, 2023. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images via AFP)

In viral letter, 540 Jewish Columbia students say Zionism is core to their identity

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Authors decry those trying to ‘speak in our name,’ from anti-Zionist Jewish students leading protests to Israel supporters from outside the campus

Congress grills US public school heads on their handling of antisemitism since Oct. 7

By Andrew Lapin

Cops clear anti-Israel encampment, arrest 33 at DC campus as mayor’s hearing canceled

By AP and ToI Staff

Dublin campus protest ends as college vows to divest from Israeli settlements

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Deborah Lyons (left) with Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem, December 2023. (Courtesy)

Interview'It’s the non-Jews who have to stand up for this battle'

Canada’s antisemitism envoy says Jew-hatred is at a high — and may get even worse

By Robert Sarner

Six months into her role, Deborah Lyons sees an already dire situation exacerbated by the October 7 atrocities, saying the problem must be confronted at all levels

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich convenes the mayors of major West Bank settlements in the Finance Ministry to discuss opposition to a Palestinian state and efforts to increase settlement construction, May 8, 2024. (Courtesy Office of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich)

Smotrich warns establishment of Palestinian state is a looming ‘tangible danger’

By Jeremy Sharon

Finance minister says ‘international involvement’ is pushing for the establishment of a Palestinian state and ‘the time to act is now’

A student from the Public University of Navarra passes next to banners in Basque and Spanish supporting Palestinians and calling to "combat, denormalize and destroy Israel," in Pamplona, northern Spain, on Wednesday, April 8, 2024. (AP/Alvaro Barrientos)

Ireland, Spain could recognize Palestinian statehood later this month — report

Eden Golan booed at Eurovision dress rehearsal, vows not to be deterred

Israeli contestant also gets cheers and applause as she performs ‘Hurricane;’ Kan broadcaster, which coordinates Israel’s entry to competition, says protests ‘did not silence her’

Israel's contestant Eden Golan performs the song 'Hurricane' during the dress rehearsal for the second semifinal at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, May 8, 2024. (Martin Meissner/AP)

Illustrative image of a doctor comforting a patient with Alzheimer's Disease. (Chinnapong, iStock by Getty Images)

Study seeks to explain why Sephardi Jews more likely to get early-onset Alzheimer’s

By Renee Ghert-Zand

NIH grants $13 million for genetic research after 2018 research showed Jews with roots in Spain, Middle East and North Africa see far more cases of early cognitive decline

Yaara Cohen, 16, will perform the song she composed on May 9, 2024 at the National Library for her music teacher Shlomi Mathias, killed with his wife, Deborah Mathias, by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 (Courtesy)

Teen musician gets national platform to perform song she wrote for teacher killed Oct. 7

By Jessica Steinberg

Yaara Cohen will sing ‘Grapefruit Tree’ at a pre-Memorial Day event at the National Library, in memory of Shlomi Mathias, killed with his wife at Kibbutz Holit

Tel Aviv cancels annual Pride Parade out of respect for hostage situation

Police accompany Real Estate Enforcement Division tractors as they bulldoze the Wadi al-Khalil neighborhood in the southern Bedouin village of Umm Batin, May 8, 2024. (Israel Police)

Authorities level 47 illegal homes in Bedouin village, leaving hundreds homeless

By Michael Horovitz

Government yet to start construction on alternative housing, and residents object to moving to new neighborhood due to threats from rival families

Police officer Meir Suissa orders demonstrators to leave as they are blocked from entering Tel Aviv's Hashalom train station on July 18, 2023. (Carrie Keller-Lynn/Times of Israel)

Cop hailed by Ben Gvir after throwing stun grenade at protesters set for promotion

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Illustrative: Protesters and security guards outside the Jerusalem District Court as the convoy carrying prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaves his trial at the court. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Netanyahu’s motorcade said to include ambulance since his pacemaker was installed

State witness Ari Harow testifies in the trial against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a court hearing at the Jerusalem District Court, May 24, 2023. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

State witness in PM’s trial sentenced to 6-months community service

By Jeremy Sharon

Rep. John Hostettler, a Republican of Indiana, on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 4, 2006. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

Longtime Israel critic loses Indiana Republican House primary

Illustrative: Israeli startup Xtend supplies the Israeli army and the US Defense Department with drone operating systems. (Courtesy)

Israeli developer of VR drone system used by IDF in Hamas war raises $40m

By Sharon Wrobel

Israelis enjoying the beach in Tel Aviv during a heatwave, on April 24, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Environment laws becoming harder to pass, outgoing ministry legal adviser says

View of the Makhtesh Ramon, a crater in southern Israel, February 26, 2023. (Doron Horowitz/Flash90)

Woman found dead after apparent fall in Ramon crater in south

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