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What Matters Most On Sunday, June 2, 2024

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Far-right leaders Itamar Ben Gvir (left) and Bezalel Smotrich at the Knesset on December 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)

Gantz wants to move ahead; Lapid promises PM a safety net

Far-right parties vow to bring down government if PM backs hostage-ceasefire deal

By Jeremy Sharon

Ben Gvir says deal would spell ‘total defeat’ rather than Netanyahu’s promised ‘total victory’; Smotrich warns terror would surge, insists fighting continue until Hamas destroyed

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks about Iran during a joint meeting of the United States Congress in the House chamber at the US Capitol on March 3, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)

Netanyahu accepts invitation to address joint session of Congress

By Lazar Berman

Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on May 27, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Avigdor Liberman says Netanyahu offered him defense minister post

Op-ed: Day 240 of the war

Biden’s fateful, carefully timed, and highly complex challenge to Netanyahu and Hamas

It seems the PM is being asked to choose between his own interests and Israel’s, while Hamas is urged to consent to its own demise. But maybe there’s a more limited US game plan

US President Joe Biden checks his watch before delivering remarks on the Middle East, from the State Dining Room of the White House, May 31, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

US President Joe Biden speaks about the situation in the Middle East, in the State Dining Room of the White House on May 31, 2024 (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 2: Day 240 – Why did Biden urge Israel to take a deal it proposed?

Senior Netanyahu adviser: Israel okayed Biden-touted hostage deal, but work needed

By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

Ophir Falk tells UK’s Sunday Times there will be no permanent ceasefire until Hamas is destroyed; President Herzog tells PM he will back him on hostage release proposal

Ophir Falk (Youtube screenshot: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israelis attend a rally calling for the release of hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, June 1, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Qatari, Egyptian, US mediators urge Israel, Hamas to accept hostage deal outline

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israeli forces operating on the Gazan side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 7, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces/AFP)

Israeli, Egyptian and US officials to hold talks Sunday on reopening Rafah Crossing

By AFP and ToI Staff

Troops of the Givati Brigade operate in southern Gaza's Rafah, in a handout photo published June 2, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

June 2: War cabinet convenes to discuss hostage deal proposal put forth by Biden

Ex-minister David Levy mourned across political spectrum * Michael Douglas tours kibbutz devastated on October 7 * Tens of thousands march for Israel in New York, London

8:03 pm

Activists hold protest in Tel Aviv advocating for animal rights
7:47 pm

Tens of thousands march in London calling for release of hostages in Gaza
7:09 pm

At Israel Day parade, NYC mayor says 'loudest is not the majority' in the city

Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan Zangauker, speaks to protesters near the Begin Gate of the Defense Ministry Headquarters in Tel Aviv on June 1, 2024, demanding the government accept the hostage release proposal as laid out by President Joe Biden (Roi Boshi / Pro-Democracy Reform Movement)

Tens of thousands rally in Tel Aviv to demand hostage deal, denounce government

Protests urging early elections and Gaza ceasefire-hostage deal estimated to be largest since Oct. 7; arrests reported, 14 officers said hurt

Protesters hold large banner reading "Thank you, Biden," during a march in support of a hostage deal in Jerusalem on June 1, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Thank you, Biden’: Thousands in Jerusalem rally in support of new hostage deal offer

By Charlie Summers

Should Israel ‘clear and hold’ Gaza?

A time will come when Israel must occupy the Strip, finish off Hamas, and take responsibility for the governance of its population

Shlomo Cohen and Yaacov Samet

The genocide claim against Israel doesn’t add up

The ratio of combatant-to-civilian casualties in Gaza should be recognized as a historical achievement of protecting civilian lives

Online watchdog prods platforms to tackle posts denying sexual assault on Oct. 7

By Sharon Wrobel

Antisemitism monitor CyberWell says social media moderators are not doing enough to remove content that casts doubt on credible accounts of rape and other Hamas atrocities

Demonstrators gather during a protest decrying sexual violence against women in the October 7 massacre, outside of United Nations headquarters in New York City, on December 4, 2023. (Yakov Binyamin/Flash90)

Nine-justice High Court panel hears petitions calling for immediate Haredi draft

By Jeremy Sharon

AG says government ‘violating express rules of the court’ in its treatment of new legal situation on ultra-Orthodox conscription; 3,000 could be called up to IDF by end of year

Ultra-Orthodox men protest outside the army recruitment office in Jerusalem, March 4, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Firefighters work to extinguish a fire that broke out near the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, June 2, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Jerusalem fire forces evacuation of Israel Museum, damages youth wing’s roof

Museum says none of its collection at risk as firefighters bring blaze in Valley of the Cross under control after several hours

Israeli troops are seen operating in the West Bank refugee camp of Aqabat Jabr, April 10, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

2 Palestinian teens shot dead by troops; IDF says they were throwing firebombs

By Agencies and ToI Staff

West Bank has seen a surge in violence for more than a year, particularly since the Israel-Hamas war erupted on October 7

Former MK Shai Hermesh at a committee meeting in Knesset on November 14, 2012. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

After criticism, PM’s aide says bereaved father will read prayer at state ceremony

Cabinet secretary denies reports that Netanyahu barred Shai Hermesh, whose son was murdered on Oct. 7, from taking part in Jerusalem Day event over anti-government column he wrote

People walk by banners hanging inside a window of an an encampment set up by pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel students and activists at Ghent University, as students occupy parts of the campus in Ghent, Belgium, May 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Belgian university severs ties with all Israeli academic and research institutions

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Ghent University, which has been partly occupied by protesters against Israel, accuses the institutes of no longer aligning with its human rights policy amid Gaza war

University of Chicago students, including Youssef Hasweh, second from left, one of four students the university is withholding degrees from due to their involvement in an anti-Israel encampment, walk out of the university's convocation ceremony, June 1, 2024. (Vincent Alban/Chicago Tribune via AP)

Chicago students walk out of graduation after diplomas withheld for anti-Israel camp

By SOPHIA TAREEN

Almog Holot. (Dafna Talmon)

Almog Holot45, divorced mother of two from Kibbutz Nirim

'I'm not willing to lie to myself anymore. I have kids to take care of, and I don't want to raise them near an active volcano'

By Tamar Mor Sela

Siblings Ron and Leah Polonsky are photographed, Saturday, April 6, 2024, in Stanford, Calif. Ron swims for Stanford. Leah competes at rival California, in nearby Berkeley. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Israeli siblings Ron and Leah Polonsky chase Olympic dream from US colleges

By JANIE McCAULEY

Brother and sister from Haifa live only an hour apart in California, but it’s the farthest they’ve ever been from each other

The 'All Eyes on Rafah' AI graphic that has gone viral on Instagram is superimposed on a real-life scene as Palestinians packed up tents in Rafah following an Israeli bombing in the area, May 28, 2024. (Jehad Alshrafi/Anadolu via Getty Images/ via JTA)

After ‘All Eyes on Rafah’ AI graphic goes megaviral, pro-Israel rebuttals proliferate

By jacob gurvis

Former US president Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Trump Tower, in New York, May 31, 2024. (Julia Nikhinson/AP)

Analysis

Trump’s attacks on US justice system could be useful to autocrats like Putin

Authoritarian leaders could manipulate convicted former president’s claims of an unfair trial to boost their own standing at home, tarnish US image as a reliable democracy

Prominent Russian opposition figure and chess champion Garry Kasparov at the conclusion of the fifth Vilnius Russia Forum, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) west of Vilnius, Lithuania, May 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Russia threatens former chess champion Garry Kasparov with criminal charges

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Stormy Daniels at an event in West Hollywood, California, in 2018. (Ringo H.W. Chiu/AP)

Stormy Daniels: Trump should be jailed, given community service at women’s shelter

By AFP

Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad flashes the V-sign for victory after registering his candidacy for Iran's presidential election in Tehran on June 2, 2024 (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iranian ex-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad registers for June 28 election

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Khamenei ‘right-hand man’ Vahid Haghanian, who’s under US sanctions, also among candidates awaiting hardline Guardian Council’s approval to vie in race called after Raisi’s death

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A wild boar in a backyard of a building in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, February 8, 2023. (Shir Torem/Flash90_

Haifa wild boar culling has some residents up in arms

OpenAI says it disrupted covert influence operation by Israeli firm STOIC

By AFP

Members of the Israel Prison Service stand guard next to Hamas terrorists caught during the October 7 massacre and the ensuing war in Gaza, at a prison in southern Israel, February 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Workers allege prisoner mistreatment at field hospital for October 7 suspects

By AP and ToI Staff

The latest election results are displayed at the Results Operation Centre (ROC) in Midrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Friday, May 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

ANC loses majority in South African elections for first time since apartheid

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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