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What Matters Most On Saturday, June 8, 2024

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Israeli hostages pictured after their rescue from Hamas captivity in Gaza on June 8, 2024. From left: Shlomi Ziv (IDF); Andrey Kozlov and Almog Meir Jan (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90); and Noa Argamani (Courtesy).

Hostages in good condition; Hamas reports many casualties

IDF rescues 4 hostages from 8 months’ captivity in daytime operation in central Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

Special forces raid two Hamas buildings in Nuseirat, extricating Noa Argamani, Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, Shlomi Ziv; officer Arnon Zmora, one of the rescue leaders, is killed

Protesters on Tel Aviv's Begin Road in front of the Kirya IDF Military Headquarters urge a deal for the release of the remaining hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, hours after the IDF rescued four hostages, June 8, 2024. (Dana Reany: Pre-Democracy Reform Movement)

Live updates (closed)

June 8: Rallies celebrate rescue of 4 hostages, urge deal to free remaining captives

Far-right leaders: Military pressure is the way to free captives * Noa Argamani, Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov and Shlomi Ziv unite with families, start telling captivity stories

9:03 pm

'I'm fine now, thank you everyone,' rescued hostage Almog Meir Jan tells media
8:55 pm

Russian ambassador hails hostages' rescue, without mentioning Hamas
8:45 pm

Parents of rescued hostage Andrey Kozlov heading from Russia to Israel

Op-Ed

Rescue brings rare cause for Israeli joy, before hearts return to 116 hostages still held

Saturday’s daylight IDF operation was only the third such success since the start of the war; common to all three was that the rescued hostages were not held in tunnels

Noa Argamani is embraced by her father, Yaakov, at Sheba Medical Center after being rescued from Hamas captivity, June 8, 2024. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Gantz scraps anticipated resignation announcement following news of hostages’ rescue

War cabinet member was expected to quit government after PM failed to present ‘day after’ Gaza plan by deadline he set; unclear if press conference will be rescheduled

National Unity party chief Benny Gantz holds a press conference in Ramat Gan, May 18, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Knesset plenum session in Jerusalem on May 27, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

TV survey: 62% won’t vote for any party that backs Netanyahu continuing as premier

Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs at a hearing on military service for ultra-Orthodox men, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, June 2, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Cabinet secretary: ‘Time not yet ripe’ to investigate state’s handling of Gaza war

Weekly rallies urging elections, hostage deal held amid elation over rescue op

Families forum pledges to continue pushing ‘Netanyahu deal’ for release of hostages as part of ceasefire, says government has duty to bring Israelis ‘happiness, joy and closure’

Illustrative: Protesters call for the release of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip outside the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, June 5, 2024. (Itai Ron/Flash90)

IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip in a photo approved for publication on June 2, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Believed to be first democratic country included on list

Israel livid as it’s added to UN ‘list of shame’ for wartime children’s rights violations

Israel put on list for first time, alongside Hamas, Islamic Jihad; PM slams delusional’ move; Jerusalem defends ‘most moral army in world,’ says decision will impact ties with UN

Youths inspect damage to a storage container that was hit by an Israeli strike at the Asmaa school, run by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), in Gaza City's Shati refugee camp, June 7, 2024. The IDF says a Hamas cell was operating from the container. (Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)

IDF says strike hit Hamas command room housed in container at Gaza City UN school

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Army doesn’t say how many gunmen hit; Palestinians say 15 dead, including at least 3 civilians; IDF identifies 17 terror operatives killed in Thursday strike on UNRWA school

Daniel G. Saunders

The Nazis weren’t ’white supremacists’

They wanted an Aryan race that was pure in blood, not white of skin. To not know this is to not understand the Holocaust

The Jewish problem with calling Trump’s guilty verdict ’rigged’

The disgruntled response to the NY court ruling is out of step with the Talmud’s take on jurisprudence. It’s also dangerous

Illustrative - Rockets fired from southern Lebanon are intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome air defense system over the Golan Heights on May 16, 2024. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

In apparent deepest attack of war, drone launched from Lebanon strikes near Nazareth

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF says it failed to intercept projectile, investigating why sirens didn’t warn of incoming drone; Hezbollah doesn’t immediately take credit

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, front left, attends a meeting with Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Hussein al-Sheikh, during a day of meetings about the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian terror group Hamas, in Amman, Jordan, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool photo via AP)

Exclusive

US urging Arab allies not to set deadline for post-war two-state solution

Documents obtained by ToI detail principles US aims to advance on securing Gaza ceasefire, including Palestinian state based on 1967 lines ‘as envisioned in Arab Peace Initiative’

A Palestinian stranded in Egypt waits to cross Rafah crossing to the Gaza Strip at Rafah, Egypt, after a temporary truce came into effect, November 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Talks on reopening Rafah Crossing stuck over Netanyahu refusal to allow PA involvement

Israel’s security establishment backs including PA in running border terminal, but is handcuffed by political echelon which believes it has other options, officials tell ToI

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, right, talks to Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, before their meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (not in picture), in Cairo, Egypt, March 21, 2024. (AP/Amr Nabil)

Report: At US request, mediators pressed Hamas to okay Gaza deal with expulsion threat

Qatar and Egypt also warned Doha-based politburo of arrests, freezing of assets, sanctions, officials tell WSJ, but terror group did not budge on demands

Democratic Representative Ritchie Torres of New York speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 17, 2023. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

Ritchie Torres slams ‘blithering idiots’ behind secret Israeli influence campaign

Lawmaker says ‘brain might be rotting’ of anyone who thinks he needs convincing to support Israel, after NYT report on effort to encourage Black Democrats to back military funding

File - US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken disembarks after landing in Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport, April 30, 2024. (David Azagury/US Embassy Jerusalem)

Blinken to return to Israel next week, as US pushes Hamas to take hostage deal offer

US secretary of state will also visit Egypt and Qatar, who are mediating ceasefire talks; he’ll also attend a donor conference for the Palestinians in Jordan

The scene of the murder of an 18-year-old woman in the western Galilee on June 9, 2023. (screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

'If a man raises his voice, then his arm, it will get worse'

Domestic violence rates nearly doubled since Oct. 7. Eight women were murdered in 2024

By Diana Bletter

Experts at conference on femicide say it’s not the more widespread availability of weapons that is killing women, it’s the indifference of those meant to protect them

The image provided by US Central Command shows US Army soldiers assigned to the 7th Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary), US Navy sailors assigned to Amphibious Construction Battalion 1, and Israel Defense Forces placing the Trident Pier on the coast of Gaza Strip on Thursday, May 16, 2024. (US Central Command via AP)

US military says pier in Gaza reconnected after repairs and aid will flow soon

By Lolita C. Baldor and TARA COPP

CENTCOM says shipments will resume in days with goal of getting 1 million pounds of food and other supplies via sea route into the Strip every two days.

The new visitor's center at the Einot Zukim (Ein Feshkha) nature reserve on the northern Dead Sea, southern Israel. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Dead Sea oasis’s new visitor complex showcases efforts to save unique ecosystem

Einot Zukim Nature Reserve – also known by its Arabic name Ein Feshkha – has a new standout desert-life education center that blends in with the surrounding cliffs

Naama Shaked. (Dafna Talmon)

Naama Shaked51-year-old mother of one from Kibbutz Kissufim

'The best way for me to get through this situation is to accept it without argument. It turns out I'm stronger than I thought'

By Tamar Mor Sela

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Activists protest outside of the White House during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Washington, November 4, 2023. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)

Security upped at White House ahead of rally against Israel for responding to Oct. 7

By Reuters and ToI Staff

US President Joe Biden delivers a speech on the legacy of Pointe du Hoc, and democracy around the world, Friday, June 7, 2024 as he stands next to the Pointe du Hoc monument in Normandy, France. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden uses cliffs of Normandy to channel Reagan, call to defend freedom and democracy

By CHRIS MEGERIAN

Houthi supporters attend a rally against the war in the Gaza Strip and the US-led bombing in Yemen in Sanaa on Friday, June 7, 2024. (AP/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Yemen’s Houthis claim to target two vessels in the Red Sea

By Reuters and ToI Staff

The campus of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 21, 2019. HUC's board of directors is considering a new proposal to stop admitting rabbinical students to its Cincinnati campus. (Warren LeMay via Creative Commons/ via JTA)

Ohio court bars cash-strapped Hebrew Union College from selling rare books

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Police surround a building in Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology where anti-Israel activists had barricaded themselves, as protesters' supporters gather, in Stockholm, Sweden, June 7, 2024. (Screen capture: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

19 anti-Israel activists detained after blockade in campus building in Sweden

By AP and ToI Staff

File - El Shafee Elsheikh, one of the Islamic State Beatles,' speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at a security center in Kobani, Syria March 30, 2018. (Hussein Malla/AP)

US federal appeals court upholds 2022 conviction of Islamic State ‘Beatle’

By Matthew Barakat

Supporters of then-US President Donald Trump from multiple white nationalist groups march with torches through the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 11, 2017. (Mykal McEldowney/The Indianapolis Star via AP)

Mistrial declared for torch wielder at Charlottesville white nationalist rally

By AP

File - University of California academic workers with the UAW 4811 union stage a protest on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, California, May 31, 2024. (Screen capture: X/ieUnionActivist, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Court orders UC academic workers to temporarily halt strike over war in Gaza

By AP

Pope Francis (center) poses for a photo with Raphael Schutz, the Israeli ambassador to the Holy See (first from left), Rabbi Abramo Alberto Funaro (second from left), Redouane Abdellah of Rome's Islamic Center (second from right) and Issa Kassissieh, the Palestinian Authority's ambassador to the Holy See (first from right) after an evening of peace prayers in the Vatican Gardens, at the Vatican, June 7, 2024. (Alessandra Tarantino / POOL / AFP)

‘The hatred it sows’: Pope recreates 2014 Vatican summit to pray for end to Gaza war

By Agencies and ToI Staff

FILE - Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen attends a ceremony at the Danish monument outside of Sainte Marie du Mont, Normandy, June 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeremias Gonzalez, File)

Denmark’s PM assaulted in Copenhagen; police arrest suspect

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