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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 5, 2024

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People walk past a large mural reading "Now" at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv. June 2, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

US 'confident' Qatar is pressing Hamas as much as possible

CIA chief returns to region to push hostage deal as Israel vows not to budge further

Hamas demands proposal make clear that deal will lead to end of war; US says ‘we just need to get a ceasefire’ and that terror group’s postwar role in Gaza can be ironed out later

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

Otzma Yehudit halts coalition support, accuses PM of hiding details of hostage deal

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, front, attends a wreath-laying ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre, in Jerusalem, Israel, on May 6, 2024. (Amir Cohen/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Biden: People have ‘every reason’ to think Netanyahu extending war to stay in power

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (second right) visits Kiryat Shmona on the border with Lebanon, June 5, 2024. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Smotrich to PM: Give the order to destroy Hezbollah

Netanyahu warns: We’re ready with ‘extremely powerful’ response to Hezbollah attacks

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Visiting north, PM says Israel won’t ‘sit on its hands’; war cabinet split on timing of operation; Herzog urges world leaders to act before events spiral out of control

View of a large fire caused from rockets fired from Lebanon, near the northern city of Kiryat Shmona, June 4, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

IDF chief: Israel nearing decision on whether to launch war against Hezbollah

By Emanuel Fabian, Sam Sokol and Gianluca Pacchiani

File - National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir seen during Jerusalem Day celebrations outside the Jerusalem Great Synagogue, June 5, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

June 5: Ben Gvir: It’s my policy to let Jews pray on Temple Mount; PM: Status quo unchanged

18 arrested at Jerusalem Day flag march, including suspect found to be carrying knife * Hezbollah claims responsibility for drone attack on Hurfeish which left at least 11 hurt

9:47 pm

Germany gives Claims Conference $114 million for 'acute assistance' to Holocaust survivors
8:05 pm

Ben Gvir, Smotrich call to expand Gaza war, invade southern Lebanon in Jerusalem Day speeches
7:59 pm

Aharon Barak steps down from role as ad hoc judge at ICJ for personal reasons

Promoted EventMaccabi USA

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What do Mark Spitz, Kerri Strug, and Lenny Krayzelburg have in common? They’ve participated in the Olympics AND the Maccabi Movement, and now you can too!

Op-ed: Day 243 of the war

Why Israel needs the hostage-ceasefire deal, and must be wary if Sinwar takes it

Political and security chiefs recognize the urgency of saving the hostages, and the wider potential of a deal, but Hamas’s monstrous leader is bent on more than survival

Demonstrators light a bonfire on the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv after the announcement of the deaths of four Israeli hostages in Hamas captivity, June 3, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Demonstrators call for the release of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip, outside the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, June 4, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 5: Day 243 – Can Biden push Israel and Hamas to a hostage deal?

Gary Rosenblatt

A hallowed space in downtown New York

The sensitively curated intense Nova Music Festival Exhibit immerses its visitors in that day, from blissful dancing to the horrors at sunrise

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Dreading wedding season? Shut up and dance with me

For years, I treated celebrations as chores – but it’s more fun to take myself and my three moves to the dance floor

Nathan J. Diament

This Jerusalem Day, choose history over propaganda

American college students should learn the truth about the Middle East, though that may take leaving the ivory tower and visiting Jerusalem

Peta Jones Pellach

Like Venice, Jerusalem is sinking fast

Human actions are destroying the city’s beauty, but it’s not too late to right the ship

The head of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hossein Salami, attends a military parade as part of a ceremony marking the country's annual army day in Tehran, on April 17, 2024. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iran’s Guard head vows revenge for Syria strike: Israel will ‘pay for the bloodshed’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Jerusalem ‘must wait for a response,’ Hossein Salami threatens after Iranian military adviser killed in alleged Israeli airstrike in Aleppo is laid to rest in Tehran

A fire following an alleged Israeli airstrike near Aleppo Syria on June 3, 2024. (Screen capture: X)

Iran says IRGC general killed in alleged Israeli strike in Aleppo Monday

By AFP and ToI Staff

Transportation Minister Miri Regev holds a press conference in Jerusalem, on May 8, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Regev claims government doing ‘amazing things’: ‘So many people in hotels’ we funded

Minister ridiculed for saying Israelis should ‘thank God’ the state funds the hotel stays of those displaced by war, boasting about planned train to evacuated northern city

Jews taking part in the Flag March pass through the Damascus Gate to Jerusalem's Old City on May 29, 2022, as Israel marks Jerusalem Day. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Jerusalem braces for nationalist Flag March amid tensions over Gaza war

By Charlie Summers

Displaced civilians flee from the east of Bureij in the central Gaza Strip due to an IDF operation in the area, on June 5, 2024. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)

Military launches fresh offensive in central Gaza’s Bureij, Deir al-Balah

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF says it identified Hamas operatives, infrastructure in areas near border; 9 troops hurt in blast at southern army base; new unit established to protect Gaza periphery towns

World Central Kitchen staff distribute food boxes to Palestinians in Gaza amid the ongoing conflict and severe humanitarian situation in the territory.(Courtesy World Central Kitchen/WCK.org)

Aid trucks entering Gaza ‘at fairly good clip,’ says World Central Kitchen

By Jeremy Sharon

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks at a news conference at the German government guest house in Meseberg, north of Berlin, Germany, May 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Macron tells Netanyahu Gaza war must end, is mum on freeing hostages as condition

By Lazar Berman

Widows of 2 hostages confirmed killed in Gaza pan government’s policy on captives

Chaim Peri’s wife says family very angry over ‘abandonment of hostages’; Yoram Metzger’s widow says she doesn’t know what she would say to Netanyahu, who has ‘no compassion’

A composite image showing Tamar Metzger (left) and Osnat Peri in interviews, on June 4, 2024. (Kan/Channel 12 screenshots: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

A demolition crew tears down a communal building in Kibbutz Be'eri on June 4, 2024. (Tekuma Authority)

Bulldozers raze communal structures in Kibbutz Be’eri damaged in October 7 attack

Diaspora Ministry funded fake social media posts to spread pro-Israel content — NYT

Paper says influence campaign, which reportedly targeted Black US lawmakers, was commissioned by Israeli government, didn’t have widespread impact; ministry denies involvement

People talk near a Meta sign outside of the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, March 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Suing Meta, engineer claims he was fired over handling of Gaza content

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Metropolitan Police officers face anti-Israel protesters during a rally in central London against Israel's offensive in Gaza's Rafah, May 28, 2024. (Photo by BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP)

UK police officer faces dismissal after sentencing for sharing pro-Hamas images

By AFP

Police Superintendent Eyal Aharon. (Maya Zanger-Nadis/Times of Israel)

Testimony'It was apoclyptic. There were dead people everywhere'

How one police officer saved dozens from certain death in Kibbutz Re’im on Oct. 7

By Maya Zanger-Nadis

Sharing his story with army and police, Eyal Aharon tells how he charged into battle to save his sons when they fled the Supernova massacre and found themselves surrounded by terrorists

The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, is seen in an undated photo. (Oliver de la haye/iStock)

US House passes bill to sanction ICC for seeking Israel arrests warrants

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

42 Democrats vote with all House Republicans in favor of GOP legislation; approval less likely in Democrat-controlled Senate, amid White House opposition to sanctioning court

People hang a Palestinian flag in front of the parliament building after Slovenia's national assembly voted to recognize Palestinian state, in Ljubljana, on June 4, 2024. (AFP)

Slovenia becomes latest European nation to recognize Palestinian state

By AFP and ToI Staff

A Christian worshipper addresses a member of the Israeli security forces barring the entrance in Jerusalem's old city that leads to the the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, amid crod size concerns as Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter Saturday, on April 15, 2023. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Political climate sparks ‘notable increase’ in attacks on Israel’s Christians – NGO

By Lazar Berman

Rossing Center report says authorities must do more to counter violence against clergy, pilgrims and church sites in Jerusalem and the Galilee

Members of the Tzofim Friendship Caravan at the Israel Parade in New York City, on June 2, 2024. (Udi Almog/courtesy Tzofim Tzabar)

The song and dance of the Tzofim Friendship Caravan returns to the US

By Gavriel Fiske

Newly elected Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum greets supporters after the National Electoral Institute announced she held an irreversible lead in the election, in Mexico City, June 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Sheinbaum has 'never represented Mexico's Jewish community'

Why Mexico’s center-right Jewish community didn’t vote for its first Jewish president

By Ariela Lopez

Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, who won the election this week, inherits a country split by her predecessor’s regime – with Jews sitting on the other side of the political divide

From left: Gilad Ostrovsky, chief forester and forestry department director at KKL-JNF, Chanan Zoref, recently retired director of the Judean Mountains District, and Shani Rohatyn-Blitz, the forestry department's coordinator of research and international relations, April 16, 2024. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

World Environment Day 2024

KKL-JNF moves from massive planting to target-driven, sustainable management

Policy is ‘to ask not where we can plant, but if there is a reason to plant,’ says former official, as 103-year-old organization adapts to climate change, protects ecosystems

Mervyn Kersh, a Jewish World War II veteran who took part in 1944's Normandy Campaign, at his home in London, Great Britain, April 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Interview

‘How lucky I am’: UK-Jewish vet, aged 99, prepares to mark 80th anniversary of D-Day

By DANICA KIRKA

Mervyn Kersh recalls giving out sweets at Bergen-Belsen, near-arrest for skipping non-kosher rations; ‘I could almost say it was a crusade,’ says Normandy campaign veteran

Biden lands in France to mark 80th anniversary of D-Day, under shadow of Ukraine war

By Aurelia End and Stuart Williams

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Illustrative: A United Airlines plane taxis at Newark International Airport, in Newark, New Jersey, on January 11 2023. (Ket Betancur/AFP)

US airlines set to resume Israel flights after pauses due to October 7, Iran attack

Elliot Brandt, speaking at AIPAC's 2019 conference in Washington, DC. (Screenshot)

AIPAC names Elliot Brandt as next CEO amid uncertain future for US-Israel relations

By JTA and ToI Staff

Israeli F-35 fighter jets fly in formation during the military's Blue Flag exercise in October 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel inks deal to buy 25 more F-35 fighter jets for $3 billion

By Emanuel Fabian

An AfD election poster for the European elections reading "our country first" is fixed on a pole in Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, May 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

German far-right candidate wounded in stabbing amid series of political attacks

By Kirsten Grieshaber

Dudu Tassa (left) and Jonny Greenwood in June 2024 (Shin Katan)

Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood rejects calls to cancel tour with Israeli singer

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Tents are pictured at a pro-Palestinian encampment set up outside City Hall in downtown Los Angeles on June 3, 2024. (Etienne Laurent/AFP)

Police swiftly clear pro-Palestinian encampment outside LA city hall

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative A shell explodes over a house in al-Bustan, a Lebanese village along the border with Israel, on October 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Rights group: Israel using white phosphorus on residential buildings in Lebanon

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A Lebanese Army investigator collects forensic evidence outside the US Embassy in Awkar, a northern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sept. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Shots fired near US embassy in Beirut, no staff hurt

By AP and ToI Staff

Anti-Israel protesters camp out in tents at Columbia University on April 27, 2024 in New York. (AP Photo)

Columbia agrees to offer safety escorts on campus in settlement with Jewish student

By Agencies and ToI Staff

This picture taken on July 27, 2022, shows a view of sacks of confiscated captagon pills at the judicial police headquarters in the town of Kafarshima south of Lebanon's capital Beirut. (JOSEPH EID / AFP)

Jordan makes biggest bust of ‘ISIS drug’ in years on border with Saudi Arabia

By Reuters and ToI Staff

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