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What Matters Most On Tuesday, June 4, 2024

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The remains of a large fire caused from rockets fired from Lebanon burns near a home in the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona, June 4, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

June 4: After 48 hours of battling flames, fire service says all blazes in north under control

IDF chief says decision nearing on how to deal with Hezbollah attacks * CIA chief, senior Biden aide headed to region * Israel signs $3 billion deal to buy 25 more F-35 fighter jets

9:13 pm

IDF stridently denies report it nixed plan to save hostages at Shifa shortly after Oct. 7
8:57 pm

US House passes bill sanctioning ICC for seeking Netanyahu, Gallant arrest warrants
8:42 pm

After 48 hours of battling flames, all blazes in north under control, fire service says

View of a large fire caused from rockets fired from Lebanon, in the northern town of Kiryat Shmona, June 3, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

‘A nightmare’: North cries out for action amid widespread fires sparked by Hezbollah

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Opposition lawmakers pan ‘weak’ government as fires burn for over a day across swaths of territory; far-right ministers say Lebanon should ‘burn,’ be sent back to ‘Stone Age’

Fires burn next to the northern city of Kiryat Shmona on June 3, 2024, following rocket and drone attacks from nearby Lebanon. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Fires rage overnight across north after Hezbollah rocket and drone attacks

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Fires on Ramim Ridge on the outskirts of the northern city of Kiryat Shmona, Upper Galilee near the Lebanese border as a result of rocket fire from Hezbollah, on June 3, 2024. (Michael Giladi/ Flash90)

Top Hezbollah operative killed in IDF strike, as drones and rockets fly at north

By Emanuel Fabian

Chaim Peri, Amiram Cooper, Yoram Metzger and Nadav Popplewell (from L to R), whose deaths in Hamas captivity were confirmed by Israel on June 3, 2024. (Courtesy)

All 4 had been seen alive in Gaza in Hamas propaganda videos

Israel announces the deaths of four hostages in Hamas captivity

By Emanuel Fabian and Amy Spiro

IDF promises to fully investigate the circumstances surrounding the deaths of Chaim Peri, 79, Amiram Cooper, 84, Yoram Metzger, 80, and Nadav Popplewell, 51

Demonstrators protest after the IDF's announcement of the deaths of four hostages in Hamas captivity, outside the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, June 3, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Protesters block Tel Aviv highway, urging hostage deal after 4 captives declared dead

United Torah Judaism chairman Yitzhak Goldknopf meets with relatives of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, June 3, 2024. (UTJ Spokesperson/X)

Both ultra-Orthodox parties back Gaza hostage deal, following far-right opposition

Yoram Metzger (Courtesy)

Son of dead hostage demands no soldiers be put in danger to retrieve father’s body

Rani Metzger, son of Yoram Metzger, 80, calls on Netanyahu to make returning living hostages his first priority; ‘Israel will be ashamed forever’ if not, he says

Protests on Tel Aviv's Begin Road on June 3, 2024, as hostage family members and supporters plead for a deal to return the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. (Gilad Furst / Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 4: Day 242 – Will the deaths of four hostages push PM to a deal?

Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, left, speaks during a meeting with US President Joe Biden in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Jan. 31, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

US seeks Security Council backing for latest hostage proposal

Biden says Israel ready to advance deal, urges Qatari pressure on Hamas to agree

Israeli officials accuse PM of harming talks with comments that pushed Hamas to ask for clarity about clauses purposely kept ambiguous so the sides would agree to 1st stage of deal

Head of the Otzma Yehudit party and Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, on June 3, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Far-right ministers accuse Netanyahu of ‘whitewashing’ hostage deal, hiding details

FILE — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) speaks at the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, June 3, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

PM says Biden version of deal ‘incomplete’; US: It accurately reflects Israeli offer

By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

Interview

After Oct. 7, UK journalist Hadley Freeman believes ‘the progressive left hates Jews’

The New York-born writer comes out with a new essay on the antisemitism emerging after the Hamas atrocities in Israel, and how it’s rooted in a hypocritical and myopic ideology

Illustrative: Anti-Israel demonstrators protest Israel's existence in New York City, October 8, 2023, following the October 7 Hamas atrocities and before Israel launched a military operation in the Gaza Strip. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

EXCERPTThe progressive left hates the Jews

By Hadley Freeman

The ‘religious’ activists who desecrate God’s name

Blocking humanitarian aid to Gazans is a perversion of Jewish values — Orthodox Jews should condemn it loudly and clearly

The PA returning to Gaza? It can’t even control the West Bank

Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority is losing its grip in Jenin, Nablus, Tulkarem. Two decades after Hamas forced it out, it is not remotely capable of reasserting itself in Gaza

Liberating the Western Wall with a prayer book

An impromptu prayer service was held that day in 1967 when Israel captured Jerusalem’s Old City – there was just one item missing

James Finney-Conlon

What I learned from the antisemite who targeted my Jewish community

Robert was not the monster I expected to meet. He also was not born hating Jews

A handout photo from the IDF shows an assault rifle that terror suspects allegedly were set to use to fire on Israeli towns across the security barrier from the West Bank city of Tulkarem, June 4, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says it killed 2 West Bank gunmen who were planning to fire at Israeli towns

By Emanuel Fabian

In crackdown, troops ambush terror suspects near Tulkarem, seize rifle they brought to use in attack; armed Palestinian suspect killed in earlier Nablus op

A bomb captured by Israeli forces, intended for use in a Hamas-directed suicide bombing, in a photo provided on June 3, 2024. (Shin Bet)

Shin Bet says it foiled Hamas suicide bombing plot directed from Turkey

By Emanuel Fabian

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk listens to questions from journalists during a press conference at the United Nations Offices in Putrajaya on June 4, 2024. (Mohd Rasfan/AFP)

UN human rights chief accuses Israel of ‘wanton’ killing in West Bank since Oct. 7

By AFP and ToI Staff

Football fans stand beneath a large banner depicting Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz (C) and his son Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (R) as they attend the World Cup 2022 Asian qualifying match between Palestine and Saudi Arabia in the town of al-Ram in the West Bank on October 15, 2019. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP / File)

Saudi Arabia largely removes negative portrayal of Israel from its school curriculum

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Religious leaders head an interfaith march in support of peace and human rights down Jaffa Street in Jerusalem on June 3, 2024. (Jacob Lazarus/Rabbis for Human Rights)

Interfaith ‘march for peace’ held in capital, in counter to Jerusalem Day Flag March

By Charlie Summers

Decrying use of religious rhetoric to promote war, liberal Jewish, Muslim, Christian and Druze religious leaders say event sends message of ‘peace, justice and equality’

Israelis wave flags during the annual Jerusalem Day Flag March, May 18, 2023. (RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP)

Contentious Jerusalem Day ‘Flag March’ to maintain route through Muslim Quarter

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

After weeks in hospital, Bedouin girl wounded in Iran attack makes TV appearance

By Gianluca Pacchiani

7-year-old Amina Hassouna speaks in front of camera hours before her fourth surgery, while her struggling family faces repeated demolition orders

Amina Hassouna, the seven-year-old Bedouin girl injured in the April 14 drone and missile attack from Iran, at Soroka hospital in Beersheba, May 2024 (courtesy)

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a ceremony marking the 35th anniversary of late leader ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini at his shrine in Tehran, Iran, June 3, 2024. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

After Khamenei praises October 7, PA says the war won’t help it gain independence

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iran's parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf waves to the media while registering his name as candidate for the June 28 presidential election at the Interior Ministry, in Tehran, Iran, June 3, 2024. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Iran’s hardline parliament speaker registers for presidential race

By Jon Gambrell

Close up of a Quina scraper found in the Jaljulia Cave prehistoric site in central Israel. (courtesy Tel Aviv University)

Archaeology

Flint tools for butchering deer were developed in Israel 400,000 years ago – study

By Gavriel Fiske

TAU researchers say the stone scrapers originated near Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim in the Samarian hills, which were likely sacred sites for prehistoric humans in the area

US police respond as encampment near LA city hall likens IDF to Ku Klux Klan

By AP and ToI Staff

Video uploaded to social media Monday night shows officers shaking tents, appearing to remove them from premises

An anti-Israel protester shouts as she is detained in a police vehicle in San Francisco, California, June 3, 2024, after being arrested in the lobby of a building housing the Israeli Consulate. (AP Photo/ Jeff Chiu)

70 arrested in anti-Israel protest at San Francisco building housing Israeli consulate

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel graffiti mars the outside of the Goodman Acker law offices, June 3, 2024, in Southfield, Michigan, just north of Detroit. (AP Photo/Corey Williams)

Anti-Israel graffiti on U of Michigan regent’s law office being probed as hate crime

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The front and back covers of the 'Shavuot of Longing' cookbook from the Hostages and Missing Families Forum for the June 2024 holiday (Courtesy)

Hostages’ families share favorite Shavuot recipes as they hold out hope for loved ones

By Jessica Steinberg

Hostages forum releases cookbook ‘Shavuot of Longing, Their Recipes on Our Table,’ as part of fundraising efforts to secure the freedom of those held captive in Gaza

Chabad on Campus shluchot visit the site of the Nova festival massacre in southern Israel on May 30, 2024, and hear testimony from survivors of the October 7 atrocities (Chabad on Campus)

'Seeing us on campus lets students know they're not alone'

In Israel, US Chabad women campus emissaries commiserate over their annus horribilis

By Maya Zanger-Nadis

Some 150 Lubavitch emissaries flew to the Holy Land for their annual convention last week, sharing stories of bravery and pride amid a massive uptick in antisemitism at universities

Demonstrators protest against the war in Gaza, at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, May 28, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Arab MKs, academics slam bill requiring universities to fire anti-Zionist faculty

‘We will not allow terrorism to take over academia,’ says coalition whip; Association of University Heads condemns ‘McCarthyistic’ campaign against higher education

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men near a sign reading 'army recruitment office' during a protest against the drafting of Haredim to the military, in Jerusalem, May 1, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Tel Aviv students threaten Netanyahu with strikes over ultra-Orthodox draft evasion

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

View of Kiryat Atidim, the tech business park of Tel Aviv. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Israel innovation head urges state to insist on stimulus for vital tech industry

By Sharon Wrobel

More funds needed in 2025 to stimulate investment and protect resilience of tech sector, the main growth engine of war-battered economy, Israel Innovation Authority says

Amit Gal, incoming commissioner for capital markets, insurance and savings at the Finance Ministry. (Courtesy)

After year and a half, Smotrich names new head of capital markets regulator

By Sharon Wrobel

Left to right: Cindy Zadikoff, CJDS head of school Judy Finkelstein-Taff, Sheri Kushner and Margalit Segal pick kohlrabi on a farm in Israel, May 2024. (Hagit Lewis via JTA)

'We've been learning about Israel for years, we had to go'

War and airline cancellations didn’t stop a Chicago Jewish day school’s Israel trip

By jacob gurvis

Even after employing a backup plan, only a frantic last-minute effort keeps a post-Oct. 7 CJDS mission to the Holy Land from going off the rails

More Headlines

Victor Katan, who shot and killed Ofir Hisdai in July 2019 over a parking lot argument, is seen after a court hearing at the Lod District Court, on June 4, 2024. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)

Man sentenced to 18 years in prison for murder over a parking space

Artist and author Miriam Libicki. (Elizabeth Karpen, via JTA)

Vancouver comics festival apologizes for excluding Jewish artist who served in IDF

By Andrew Lapin

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)

Palestinians apply to join South Africa’s ICJ case against Israel

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Forensics officers stand behind a smashed stall on the market square in Mannheim, Germany, May 31, 2024. (Uwe Anspach/dpa via AP)

Probe into stabbing attack in Germany handed to anti-terrorism prosecutor

By AFP

File: Dr. Guy Rofe, a gynecologist arrested on suspicion of sexual harassment, arrives for a court hearing at the Magistrate's Court in Haifa, January 4, 2022. (Alon Nadav/Flash90)

Gynecologist to be indicted following accusations he sexually abused patients

A police officer at the Rehovot municipality, June 4, 2024. (Israel Police)

Police arrest officials in Rehovot, Ashkelon amid multi-city graft probe

At least 12 arrested in Baghdad after riot at KFC over Israel-Hamas war

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Iran's acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri (C) meets with his Lebanese counterpart (not pictured) in Beirut on June 3, 2024. (Anwar AMRO / AFP)

Iran’s foreign minister confirms Oman-brokered talks ongoing with US

By AFP and ToI Staff

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