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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 14, 2024

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Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli strike on a school run by UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, in Nuseirat, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Live updates (closed)

May 14: Despite bomb freeze, US moving to advance $1 billion arms sale to Israel

Report comes as Biden administration says president would veto bill unfreezing heavy munitions transfer * Hezbollah member, said to be commander, killed in alleged Israeli strike

8:58 pm

Cornell students protesting Israel dismantle encampment on their own
8:27 pm

Macron condemns vandalizing of Paris Holocaust memorial: 'Odious antisemitism'
8:14 pm

Hotels said told to make preparations to host displaced Israelis until end of 2024

Israel's Annual Independence Day ceremony begins at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, May 13, 2024. The ceremony was prerecorded this year, without a live audience. (Video screenshot)

PM, Knesset speaker tell hostages gov't working to free them

With subdued state ceremony, Israel begins marking a somber 76th Independence Day

Torch-lighting pre-recorded for first time since COVID, amid reports government organizers wanted to avoid heckling of Netanyahu, other ministers as seen at Memorial Day events

Reporter's notebook

Canaan Lidor and Charlie Summers

In foil to official state event, those hit hardest by Oct. 7 lead torch-dousing ceremony

Independence Day gathering in Binyamina features survivors of Hamas onslaught and hostages’ families putting out flames in protest; critics say symbolism sends wrong message

Participants douse torches at an alternative Independence Day ceremony in Binyamina on May 13, 2024. (Flash90)

A security volunteer yells at a protester outside the Ashdod military cemetery on May 13, 2024. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)

‘I’m a Kahanist’: Police volunteer shouts at elderly protester on Memorial Day

In Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square, tens of thousands mark Independence Day with hope for freedom

Organizers say 100,000 joined families of some of the captives, gathering under the slogan ‘Our hope is not yet lost’

Israelis attend a rally calling for the release of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at 'Hostage Square' in Tel Aviv, on the eve of Israel's 76th independence day, May 13, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

From The Blogs

It is still Yom Ha’atzmaut

Independence Day 2024 may not be a time for celebration, but it is a time to see all there is here to celebrate

A woman and boy walk with belongings past barbed-wire fences as they flee from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 11, 2024, during the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and terror group Hamas. (AFP)

UN cuts by more than half the number of women, children ‘identified’ as killed in Gaza

By Jeremy Sharon

New data on Gazan fatalities cited by UN agency separates ‘identified’ deaths in hospitals from some 10,000 alleged deaths based on Hamas ‘media sources’

Op-ed

As Israel turns 76, little to celebrate… except resilience and a unique history

Israel has never had the luxury of taking its survival for granted, as Oct. 7 proved again. And yet, through millennia, it is always those who try to destroy the Jews who disappear

Family members and friends of fallen soldiers visit their graves on Memorial Day at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, May 13, 2024. (Ohad Zwigenberg / AP)

At 43 years old, Rabbi Avi Poupko joined the IDF following the October 7 massacres and serves in the north in a reserves unit. Pictured here in Kiryat Shemona, May 2024. (courtesy)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 14: Day 221 – Why a 43-year-old rabbi joined the IDF after Oct. 7

Tali Hadad, from the southern city of Ofakim. (Ahva and Matan Golomb)

'We should feel humble and draw inspiration from our people'

How ordinary citizens became superhuman on October 7: A new book recounts their tales

Author Nachum Avniel’s ‘We’re On Our Way: The Civilians Who Saved Lives On October 7’ focuses on everyday heroes to highlight the oft-overlooked greatness Israelis hold within

Carol Silver Elliott

We must understand that this fight is for both our homeland and our very survival – we must support Israel with more than just words

How will we know when it’s time to leave?

It’s the taboo question of committed Zionists, but admitting that there’s a red line is the most loyal thing I can do as an Israeli

Israeli troops operate in the Gaza Strip, in a handout photo published May 14, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli tanks move deeper into Rafah, Palestinians say, as 450,000 flee

By Agencies and Emanuel Fabian

IDF says it’s looking into UN car hit in ‘active combat zone’; army says gun battles continuing in Rafah and north Gaza, dozens of gunmen killed

Troops of the 460th Armored Brigade operate in northern Gaza's Jabaliya, in a handout photo published May 13, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

5 troops seriously hurt in Gaza; Palestinian man said killed as UN car hit in Rafah

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Illustrative: South Africa's Foreign Minister Naledi Pandorthe, left, attends the session of the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, January 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

World Court to hear South Africa’s demand to halt Israel’s Rafah offensive this week

By AFP

Inside story

The US aims to wrap up Gaza war. How does that square with its goal of toppling Hamas?

Biden officials envision substantially weakened Hamas remaining in Gaza, but aim to marginalize it further with an Arab-backed PA that can out-govern the terror group

Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists are seen on their way to cross the Israel-Gaza border fence from Khan Younis during the Hamas-led onslaught of October 7, 2023. (Said Khatib/ AFP/ File)

Rep. Jamaal Bowman Democrat-New York speaks during a news conference on the creation of the Congressional Hip Hop Task Force on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 14, 2024. (Jose Luis Magana/AP)

Democratic primary debate for New York district gets heated over Israel-Hamas war

File: Then-National Security Council Coordinator for Indo-Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell listens during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing to examine his nomination to be Deputy Secretary of State on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Top US official doubts Israel can achieve Netanyahu’s promised ‘total victory’ in Gaza

By Reuters and ToI Staff

‘In some respects we are struggling over what the theory of victory is,’ Blinken deputy says; US denies report it conditioned intel regarding Hamas heads on Israel curbing Rafah op

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is interviewed on the Dr. Phil Primetime show on Merit Street Media from Jerusalem on May 9, 2024. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Netanyahu says perceived tensions with US make it harder to get hostages out

By Lazar Berman

Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar speaks during a rally marking Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day, in Gaza City, April 14, 2023. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Sinwar slideshow gives glimpse of secret service he runs to spy on Gazans: NYT

Presentation, said to have been prepared for viewing by Hamas leader and reviewed by newspaper, shows terror group’s surveillance of people in Gaza it suspects of dissent

BBC rejects UK foreign secretary’s call to label Hamas a terrorist group

By Stuart Winer

A group of people in Jerusalem mark Israel's 75th Independence Day with a ceremonial reading of the Declaration of Independence, on April 26, 2023 (Credit: Mabua).

'It renews the covenant between us and the state'

Emerging Independence Day ritual inspires unity and gratitude in shadow of October 7

By Maya Zanger-Nadis

Reading the Declaration of Independence together in public bridges between secular and religious Israelis in a new-old tradition that can be adapted to any citizen’s faith

Illustrative: Two men wearing Israeli flags in New York City on May 23, 2021. (Ben Sales via JTA)

How US Jews are marking Israel’s Independence Day under shadow of war

By jacob gurvis

Some communities replace the usual celebrations with sessions focused on hostage crisis, significance of Jewish democratic state, emerging antisemitism in US

Poll: Anti-Israel campus encampments made many Jewish students feel unsafe

By JTA and ToI Staff

White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, May 13, 2024. (Susan Walsh/AP)

US outraged at Israeli protesters’ assault on aid convoy: ‘Utterly unacceptable’

Two trucks set on fire in West Bank after demonstrators block supply vehicles heading to Gaza, dump contents into road; German envoy calls attack ‘disgraceful’

An aid convoy heading to the Gaza Strip that was attacked by protesters in the Hebron Hills region, May 13, 2023. (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Right-wing activists vandalize aid shipment headed to Gaza, set 2 trucks alight

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Students at Hebrew University on the first day of the academic year on October 23, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Amid war, five Israeli universities ascend in international rankings

By Gavriel Fiske

Tawakkul Karman, chairwoman of Woman Journalists Without Chains, attends the International Security Conference in Munich, Germany, February 17, 2019. (AP Photo/ Matthias Schrader/ File)

Israel protests Yemeni Nobel laureate accusing it of genocide during Vatican event

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activists picket outside the High Court in Cape Town, South Africa, Jan. 11, 2024 (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)

South Africa boycott may be looming, Israel’s foreign trade insurer warns exporters

By Sharon Wrobel

Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof poses as he arrives on May 27, 2017 for the Un Certain Regard prize ceremony at the 70th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. (Loic Venance/AFP)

Convicted Iranian filmmaker flees country on foot, will attend Cannes Film Festival

By Stuart Williams

An image grab from Hezbollah's al-Manar TV taken on February 16, 2024, shows the head of the Lebanese terror group Hassan Nasrallah delivering a televised speech. (Al-Manar/AFP)

Hezbollah leader: Israel in dilemma between defeat or ‘abyss’ in Gaza war

Renew Europe chairwoman Valerie Hayer arrives at a party meeting prior to the European Defense and Security conference at the EU headquarters in Brussels on April 17, 2024. (Ludovic Marin/AFP)

Macron party candidate says she was tricked into ‘neo-Nazi’ group photo

By AFP

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