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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 6, 2024

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Police restrain a far-right activist from attacking a Times of Israel reporter in the Arab Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem during clashes ahead of the annual Jerusalem Day Flag Parade, June 5, 2024. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)

Ben Gvir urges ascent to Temple Mount: 'Jerusalem is ours'

Far-right violence, chants of ‘Death to Arabs,’ at Jerusalem Day Flag March in Old City

By Sam Sokol, Charlie Summers and Agencies

Extremist Jewish youths also chant ‘May your village burn’ on route through Muslim Quarter, while some assault journalists and Palestinian locals; 18 arrested

Jewish men hold Israeli flags as they dance at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, during Jerusalem Day celebrations, June 5, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 6: Day 244 – On Jerusalem Day, a celebratory march turns violent

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, during Jerusalem Day celebrations, June 5, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ben Gvir boasts of letting Jews pray on Temple Mount; Netanyahu: Status quo unchanged

A UN school housing displacing Palestinians that was hit by an Israeli strike in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, on June 6, 2024. The IDF said it hit a compound where Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists were gathered, killing many of them. (Bashar Taleb/AFP)

IDF strikes UN school in central Gaza where it says dozens of terrorists were gathered

By Emanuel Fabian

Army says 20-30 members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad were in three classrooms, separate from area where civilians sheltering

This image from video released by the IDF on June 5, 2024, shows a Hamas smuggling tunnel in southern Gaza's Rafah. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF reveals 2 km Hamas tunnel running adjacent to Egypt border crossing in Rafah

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

The remains of the home of Pessi Cohen, where Hamas held 15 hostage on October 7, 2023, in Kibbutz Be'eri, seen on November 19, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

IDF to present investigations into failures leading up to Oct. 7 starting next month

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF soldier killed by terrorists trying to infiltrate Israel from south Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

3 Hamas operatives killed inside Strip by drone strike and tank shelling some 400 meters from border; slain soldier identified as tracker Zeed Mazarib, 34

Warrant Officer Zeed Mazarib, killed battling Hamas terrorists in the southern Gaza Strip, close to the border, on June 6, 2024. (Courtesy)

Promoted ArticleUniversity of Haifa International

Discovering 3D Judaism, Israel and the Holocaust at the University of Haifa

UHaifa International offers three interlinking master’s programs with a multi-level understanding of Judaism, the Holocaust and the State of Israel.

Inside story

How Israel worked to renew Gaza’s water supply amid the war, with help from locals

Despite ministers’ early bravado and international accusations, Jerusalem went to great lengths to fix enclave’s ‘screwed-up’ infrastructure after October 7 damage, say officials

This undated photo shows Palestinian Water Authority workers repairing the Gazan side of a pipeline leading water from Israel during the country's war with Hamas. (Courtesy)

Troops operating in the Gaza Strip in an undated photo released for publication by the military on June 6, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

AnalysisDepleted Hamas switches to insurgent tactics in Gaza, posing steep challenge

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Suspected terrorists who were caught during the October 7 massacre and during the IDF operation in the Gaza Strip, seen at a courtyard in a prison in southern Israel, February 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

IDF to phase out southern detention site amid allegations of torture of terror suspects

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Demonstrators call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip outside the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, June 5, 2024. (Itai Ron/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

June 6: One week on, Qatar says Hamas still studying latest hostage deal proposal

Hamas response expected in days * Israel comes out against UN Security Council resolution being pushed by US that expresses support for Netanyahu-approved ceasefire offer

8:35 pm

Security firm reports explosion near vessel in Red Sea off coast of Yemen
8:19 pm

Report: UK's Labour Party manifesto to pledge recognition of Palestinian state
7:58 pm

Qatar says Hamas is still studying latest deal proposal, has yet to respond

'There's no time to lose,' countries tell terror group

As world urges Hamas to accept latest Gaza proposal, group signals likely rejection

By Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Reuters

Qatar says Hamas has yet to formally issue its response to Israeli offer, but terror leaders continue to insist any ceasefire must guarantee end to war;

Yahya Sinwar, head of Hamas in Gaza, greets his supporters during a meeting with leaders of Palestinian factions at his office in Gaza City, April 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (right) is seen boarding a two-seater F-15 fighter jet at the Tel Nof Airbase in central Israel, June 5, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Gallant: Talks will take place ‘under fire’; Haniyeh: No hostages without end to war

By Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Demonstrators calling for the release of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip march in Tel Aviv, June 5, 2024. (Itai Ron/Flash90)

‘March of Rage’: Protesters in Tel Aviv, elsewhere urge implementation of hostage deal

Staff Sgt. (res.) Refael Kauders killed in a Hezbollah drone attack on northern Israel on June 5, 2024. (Courtesy)

Reserve soldier killed, 10 hurt, in Hezbollah drone attack on northern town

By Emanuel Fabian

No sirens sound as at least two projectiles hit Hurfeish, several miles from border; Hezbollah claims to target IDF position; victim named as Staff Sgt. (res.) Refael Kauders

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Kiryat Shmona mayoral candidate Eli Zafrani (center) on June 5, 2024 (Eli Zafrani's Facebook page)

PM criticized for snubbing Kiryat Shmona mayor during city tour, meeting Likud candidate

Stephen Daniel Arnoff

Alchemy in the City of Gold

What should have been a celebration of the ethereal and eternal Jerusalem yesterday fell flat and hard like a lead balloon

Samuel Joseph Milstein

The country that murdered my family welcomed me — Israel won’t

It’s hypocrisy to demand Haredi enlistment to fill depleted IDF ranks while turning away a Diaspora Jew who is eager to serve

Spain's Minister of Foreign Affairs Jose Manuel Albares holds a press conference at his ministry headquarters in Madrid on June 6, 2024. (Thomas Coex/AFP)

Spain applies to join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at top UN court

By AP and ToI Staff

Madrid joins handful of countries, along with PA, seeking to boost Pretoria’s allegation at The Hague; Spanish FM: ‘We want peace to return to Gaza and the Middle East’

Retired Supreme Court President Aharon Barak sworn in as Israel’s appointee to the bench at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, January 11, 2024. (ICJ)

Aharon Barak resigns as Israeli ad hoc judge at ICJ for ‘personal reasons’

By ToI Staff and Reuters

Russia's President Vladimir Putin speaks with heads of International news agencies in Saint Petersburg on June 5, 2024. - (Vladimir ASTAPKOVICH / POOL / AFP)

Putin says Gaza conflict not a war but ‘total destruction of civilian population’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Reporter's notebook

Aggressive IDF – and PA – operations keep West Bank flashpoint quiet after October 7

Despite last week’s deadly ramming attack, violence is significantly down around Nablus and Huwara after the Samaria Regional Brigade adopted new, more aggressive posture

IDF troops of the Samaria Regional Brigade operate near Nablus, May 2023 (IDF Spokesperson)

A police car is seen in Paris, France, on March 29, 2024. (Photo by Bertrand GUAY / AFP)

Palestinian arrested in France on charges of financing West Bank terrorism

By AFP

Illustrative photo of a Traffic Police patrol car. (Israel Police)

Israeli cycling champion struck and killed by unlicensed driver fleeing police

Guy Timor, 21, mowed down by erratic driver in south during last training session before he was set to represent Israel in Grand Prix competition

This frame grab from video released by the Ansar Allah Media Office of Yemen's Houthi rebels on June 5, 2024, shows the launch of a Palestine missile from a rebel-controlled area of Yemen. (Ansar Allah Media Office via AP)

Houthis unveil solid-fuel ‘Palestine’ that resembles Iranian hypersonic missile

By Jon Gambrell

The Iran-backed Yemeni terror group fired projectile with a warhead painted like a Palestinian keffiyeh at Eilat earlier in the week without causing damage

Illustrative: Ships are seen at Saleef port in the western Red Sea Hodeida province, on May 13, 2019. (AFP)

Yemen’s Houthis say they targeted three ships in Red Sea, Arabian Sea

By Reuters and ToI Staff

An ambulance is pictured as Lebanese army deploy near the US embassy in Beirut on June 5, 2024, after a Syrian man was arrested following a shooting near the embassy. (JOSEPH EID / AFP)

Syrian man opens fire on US embassy in Beirut ‘in support of Gaza’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israeli Olympians (from L to R) Shachar Sagiv, Lihie Raz and Tom Reuveny model the 2024 official uniform on June 3, 2024. (Oded Karni/Olympic Committee of Israel)

2024 Paris Olympics

On complex world stage in Paris, Israel’s Olympians hope to stay focused on sport

Despite security threats and concerns over provocations, Israeli officials say goal is to bring home 4-5 medals at 2024 games, upping state grant to gold medalists to NIS 1 million

French President Emmanuel Macron addresses British D-Day veterans during a commemorative ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the World War II Allied landings in Normandy, at the World War II British Normandy Memorial of Ver-sur-Mer, Thursday, June 6, 2024. (Ludovic Marin/Pool via AP)

‘Free nations must stand together to oppose tyranny’: Leaders mark 80 years since D-Day

By Elizabeth Pineau, John Irish and Jeff Mason

UK’s King Charles leads British event in Normandy as pivotal Allied landing to free Europe from Nazi Germany commemorated by WWII vets, military displays

Official European Union campaign billboards are displayed in a street, in The Hague on June 6, 2024. (Nick Gammon / AFP)

European Union elections kick off across bloc, with hard-right gains expected

Pope Francis waves from the popemobile as he arrives for the weekly general audience on June 5, 2024 at St. Peter's Square in The Vatican. (Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP)

Pope laments that lessons of WWII are being forgotten

By AFP

Yinon Levy works on his farm in the South Hebron Hills, West Bank, May 12, 2024. (Maya Alleruzzo/AP)

Shrugging off international sanctions, extremist settlers appear emboldened

By AP and ToI Staff

Op-ed

How Netanyahu’s interview with France’s TF1 widened the Jerusalem-Paris divide

PM’s use of hard-right rhetoric on the eve of EU Parliament elections made some French viewers wince, adding to ire that saw Israeli companies banned from Eurosatory arms fair

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) on French TV network TF1 on May 30, 2024. (Screenshot/YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Police raid the Al Jazeera offices in Jerusalem on May 5, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

‘Close connection between Hamas and Al Jazeera,’ Tel Aviv District Court finds

By Jeremy Sharon

Palestinian activist Samer Sinijlawi in Jerusalem, May 27, 2024 (Gianluca Pacchiani/Times of Israel)

Interview'Let’s not be prisoners of the current public opinion'

Palestinian activist wants both sides to see the conflict through each other’s eyes

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Samer Sinijlawi maintains that the best way to ensure security for Israelis and dignity for Palestinians after the war is for their respective leaders to become best friends

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Magen David Adom at the scene where a baby was found unconscious after being left alone in a hot car in Sderot, June 6, 2024. (Magen David Adom)

Two-year-old dies after being left in hot car in Sderot

Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets supporters as he arrives at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, June 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India’s Modi seals third term, but sees his Hindu nationalist party lose majority

By Krutika Pathi, SHEIKH SAALIQ and David Rising

Israeli startup WalkMe, the developer of a digital adoption platform to help ease the use of complex enterprise software. (Courtesy)

German software giant SAP inks deal to buy Israel’s WalkMe for $1.5 billion

By Sharon Wrobel

The flag of the International Atomic Energy Agency flies in front of its headquarters during an IAEA Board of Governors meeting in Vienna, Austria, on February 6, 2023. (Heinz-Peter Bader/AP)

UN atomic agency passes resolution demanding Iranian cooperation on nuclear program

US President Joe Biden speaks next to First Lady Jill Biden during the annual Congressional picnic at the White House in Washington, DC, on June 4, 2024. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

US lawmakers tell Wall Street Journal that Biden showing signs of cognitive decline

Students walk by graffiti saying 'Death to Israel' near the office of the President at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, June 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Nic Coury)

Anti-Israel protesters arrested for occupying, vandalizing Stanford president’s office

By AP and ToI Staff

The car (left) of National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir following an accident in Ramle, April 26, 2024. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Ben Gvir said looking to appoint driver who crashed his car as personal assistant

A 9,000-year-old stone mask discovered in the South Hebron Hills area of the West Bank in early 2018. (Clara Amit, Israel Antiquities Authority)

Face off9,000-year-old stone mask from Hebron Hills on display at Israel Museum

By Gavriel Fiske

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