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What Matters Most On Sunday, June 9, 2024

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Rescued hostage Almog Meir Jan is reunited with his family at Sheba Medical Center, June 8, 2024. (IDF)

Father of hostage Almog Meir Jan died hours before son’s rescue: ‘He died of grief’

Freed hostage’s aunt says she rushed to brother’s home to tell him good news, only to find him dead; describes how Yossi Jan closed himself off, lost 20 kilos after son’s abduction

An Israel Air Force CH-53 Sea Stallion military helicopter flies over as people gather with Israeli national flags outside Sheba Tel Hashomer Medical Centre in Ramat Gan on June 8, 2024, where Israeli hostages were transferred after being rescued from captivity in the Gaza Strip since the October 7 attacks. (Jack Guez / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 9, Day 247: Could the daring IDF rescue reframe hostage negotiations?

Then-war cabinet ministers Gadi Eisenkot (right) and Benny Gantz hold a press conference at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, February 26, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

June 9: Following Gantz, Eisenkot also resigns, says war cabinet paralyzed by outside considerations

By Joshua Davidovich, Elana Kirsh and ToI Staff

Far-right chiefs vie for spot in war cabinet as Gantz exits * IDF drone hits Hezbollah cell firing anti-aircraft missiles * White House says rhetoric at anti-Israel rally ‘repugnant’

9:03 pm

IDF shuts access to area around Shokeda near Gaza border
8:42 pm

Fans at Coldplay Athens show chant for hostages' release
8:30 pm

Drone alerts were false alarms -- IDF

Israeli hostages pictured reuniting with family after their rescue from Hamas captivity in Gaza on June 8, 2024. Top L-R: Almog Meir Jan with his family, Noa Argamani with her father. (Israel Defense Forces) Bottom L-R: Shlomo Ziv reunites with his sister and cousin (Hostages and Missing Families Forum), Andrey Kozlov meets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Maayan Toaf / GPO)

With laughter and tears, rescued hostages reunite with their loved ones in Israel

Families of Noa Argamani, Shlomo Ziv, Almog Meir Jan and Andrey Kozlov thank IDF for their return, call for Israel to do everything it can to bring back remaining 120 captives

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Hostage Noa Argamani rescued in time to see her terminally ill mother

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Hours after her extraction from Gaza in special ops raid with three other hostages, 26-year-old is transferred to Tel Hashomer hospital to be near her mother, who has brain cancer

Hours after she was rescued from Hamas captivity in Gaza, Noa Argamani arrives at Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital to be reunited with her mother Liora who has terminal cancer, June 8, 2024 (Ichilov Hospital)

Officer dies of wounds from hostage rescue raid in Gaza; entire op renamed in his honor

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Chief Insp. Arnon Zmora, 36, from elite Yamam counter-terrorism unit, came under fire while leading team extracting hostages from building in Nuseirat; also fought Hamas on Oct. 7

Chief Inspector Arnon Zmora, who was killed in a mission to rescue hostages held in the Gaza Strip, June 8, 2024. (Israel Police)

Explainer

‘Operation Arnon’: How 4 hostages were freed from Hamas captivity in central Gaza

Daylight mission to surprise captors; special forces concurrently raid two buildings where hostages held by Palestinian families; rescue vehicle breaks down after coming under fire

Rescued hostages Andrey Kozlov (white shirt) and Almog Meir Jan (black shirt), freed by the IDF from Hamas captivity in Gaza, are escorted from an IDF helicopter on arrival at the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, June 8, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israelis celebrate in Athens, Greece after hearing of the rescue of hostages Noa Argamani, Shlomi Ziv, Almog Meir Jan, and Andrey Kozlov, June 8, 2024. (Twitter, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israelis rejoice over news of successful mission to rescue 4 hostages from Gaza

Artist Zeev Engelmayer holds his painting depicting Noa Argamani, one of four hostages rescued by the Israeli army, as activists rally in Tel Aviv, on June 8, 2024. (Jack Guez / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 8: Day 246 – Dramatic daytime IDF operation rescues 4 hostages

US President Joe Biden (L), flanked by French President Emmanuel Macron, give press statements following a bilateral meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris on June 8, 2024. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Biden hails rescue of hostages, vows to ‘not stop working’ until they’re all freed

By Agencies and Jacob Magid

Germany’s Scholz: Return of captives is ‘an important sign of hope’; Russian envoy welcomes rescue without mentioning Hamas; EU’s Borrell slams reports of ‘another massacre’ in Gaza

Ismail Haniyeh, the Qatar-based leader of Hamas, during a visit in Tehran, May 22, 2024. (Iranian Supreme Leader's Website / AFP)

Hamas sources deny Egypt, Qatar threatened to arrest leaders if hostage deal not okayed

Posters depicting the portraits of rescued Israeli hostages Andrey Kozlov, 27, Noa Argamani, 26, Shlomi Ziv, 41, and Almog Meir Jan, 22, are plastered on a wall in Tel Aviv on June 8, 2024. The text underneath reads 'it's so good you came home.' (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

US provided intelligence that helped Israel’s hostage rescue operation – report

Protesters nationwide hail hostage rescue, urge deal to free the rest; 33 arrested

By Iddo Schejter, Jessica Steinberg and Charlie Summers

Tel Aviv police disperse crowd with water cannon; rallies also held in Jerusalem, Caesarea, Herzliya; Netanyahu slammed for visiting rescued captives but ignoring grieving families

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with rescued hostage Noa Argamani, her father Yaakov and family at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, June 8, 2024. (GPO)

Netanyahu draws scorn for visiting rescued hostages but not bereaved families

War cabinet minister Benny Gantz at a Jerusalem Day ceremony in Jerusalem, on June 5, 2024. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Gantz expected to announce exit from government at rescheduled Sunday press conference

National Unity party chair set to speak at 8 p.m. after delaying planned Saturday departure from emergency coalition due to rescue of 4 hostages from Gaza

Then-defense minister Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a consultation during Hamas rocket fire at Israel and IDF counterstrikes, May 11, 2021. (Amos Ben Gershom / GPO / File)

Netanyahu urges Gantz not to bolt government in wake of successful hostage rescue

By Lazar Berman

from the blogs

Museums are the latest anti-Israel battleground

An exhibit on an anti-racism campaign by American Jews in the 40s and 50s is closed to the public following a staff walkout

Hamas chief Haniyeh warns ‘resistance will continue’ after four hostages rescued

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Terror group threatens remaining captives in Gaza following successful op to free hostages that was accompanied by intense fighting; PA’s Abbas denounces ‘bloody massacre’

A Palestinian man walks amid rubble following an Israeli military operation that rescued four hostages held by Hamas in the Nuseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip, on June 8, 2024. (Eyad Baba/AFP)

Yehudit Lindblom

A Jewish mother’s way to the soldiers’ stomachs

I spend the week cooking for those who defend Israel. Whenever they thank us, we always answer: No, it’s you we are thanking

Natan Kohn-Magnus

Self-care in times of war

With hellish events still unfolding, the best defense for our psyches may be to feel less – for now

Anti-Israel protesters demonstrate near the White House in Washington, June 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Pro-Hamas, pro-Hezbollah protesters cheer ‘jihad’ at anti-Israel rally in DC

Demonstrators near White House protest Gaza war in terror group attire, burn US flags; in London, thousands march against Israel amid chants of ‘From the river to the sea’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) meets with US President Joe Biden in Tel Aviv, October 18, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

White House declines to say if Biden will meet Netanyahu on Washington visit

By Reuters and ToI Staff

US national security adviser stresses two leaders in constant contact; says Hamas must simply say ‘yes’ to ceasefire-hostage deal proposal

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat-California, at the Capitol in Washington, on April 19, 2023. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

‘I think this is wrong’: Pelosi comes out against Netanyahu’s Congress invite

Bruno Dey, 93, a former SS guard in the concentration camp Stutthof near Danzig, sits in the regional court in Hamburg, Germany, October 17, 2019 (Daniel Bockwoldt/dpa via AP)

InterviewFar-left eschews recognizing the Shoah as a singular event

In Germany, threats to Holocaust memory come from both ends of the political spectrum

By Matt Lebovic

As the country’s memory culture is challenged from within, journalist Tobias Buck probes his own family’s Nazi past while tracing 79 years of efforts to bring perpetrators to justice

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Colombian President Gustavo Petro delivers a speech during a military ceremony at the Military School of Cadets General Jose Maria Cordova in Bogota on May 31, 2024. (Raul ARBOLEDA / AFP)

Colombia says it will halt coal sales to Israel over war in Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A view of the Monty Hall in Antwerp, Belgium in March 2023. (Google Maps)

Belgian arts center apologizes for canceling Jewish school’s event over Gaza war

By Canaan Lidor

A Yemeni child stands on the shoulders of a man as he holds onto a Palestinian flag during a solidarity march with the Palestinian people of the Gaza Strip, in the Houthi-run capital Sanaa on June 7, 2024. (MOHAMMED HUWAIS / AFP)

Two ships catch fire after apparent Houthi missile strikes off Yemen’s Aden

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Voters fill in their ballot papers at a polling station during the European Parliament and the local elections in Salgotarjan, Hungary, June 9, 2024. (Peter Komka/MTI via AP)

Polls open in 20 EU countries on final day of voting for European Parliament

Illustrative: School buses drive from the campus of East Brunswick High School after the school day on February 22, 2018, in East Brunswick, New Jersey. (DOMINICK REUTER / AFP)

Probe launched after Jewish group removed from New Jersey school yearbook

By Michael Rubinkam

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

Danish police believe attack on prime minister was not politically motivated

By AFP

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