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What Matters Most On Tuesday, June 11, 2024

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Family members and supporters of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza hold banners and flags during a protest calling for their return, outside meetings of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Tel Aviv, June 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Live updates (closed)

June 11: Egypt, Qatar, US reviewing Hamas response to Israeli ceasefire offer

US envoy acknowledges PM hasn’t publicly supported hostage deal he authorized * US defense chief hails hostage rescue in call with Gallant * IDF finishes West Bank counter-terror op

9:48 pm

New York mayor denounces waving of Hamas, Hezbollah flags at Nova protest: 'That is pure antisemitism'
8:38 pm

Hamas response rejects hostage-ceasefire deal offer presented by Biden -- Israeli official
8:28 pm

Hezbollah leader reportedly killed in alleged Israeli strike in southern Lebanon

IDF soldiers (clockwise from top left) Staff Sgt. Eitan Karlsbrun, Maj. Tal Pshebilski Shaulov, Sgt. Yair Levin and Sgt. Almog Shalom, killed fighting in Rafah on June 10, 2024. (IDF)

Four troops killed in booby-trapped building as fighting rages in Rafah, central Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

Seven others injured, including five seriously in explosion; IDF says tunnel shaft uncovered below the southern Gaza home indicates it belonged to Hamas operative

US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield (C) votes during a UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East at UN headquarters on June 10, 2024 in New York. (ANGELA WEISS / AFP)

UN Security Council adopts motion urging Hamas to accept Israeli hostage-truce offer

Terror group welcomes resolution even though it has yet to accept proposal; Israel avoids publicly voicing opposition to initiative after coming out against it last week

Left: Yahya Sinwar, head of Hamas in Gaza, Gaza City, April 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Adel Hana); Right: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, December 10, 2023. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool Photo via AP)

Israel’s full offer said to provide for ‘permanent’ truce before all hostages return

By Michael Bachner, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, meets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, June 10, 2024. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Blinken discusses hostage proposal, ‘day after’ Gaza war in meeting with Netanyahu

By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

Students at Hebrew University (Credit:) Yonit Schiller)

Donation Request

We Are One: Stand with the Hebrew University

While the challenges of war persist, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem remains unwavering in its pursuit of knowledge. Help support HU’s commitment to building a better world.

Hostages Almog Meir Jan and Andrey Kozlov are seen being rescued by forces of the Yamam unit, in central Gaza's Nuseirat, June 8, 2024. (Israel Police)

‘We’ve come to rescue you. Be calm’: Clip shows moment troops locate 3 hostages in Gaza home

By Emanuel Fabian

Yamam officers seen storming apartment in Nuseirat, identifying Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, and Shlomi Ziv, then extricating them under fire

Orit Meir, mother of rescued hostage Almog Meir Jan, give a statement at a press conference at Sheba Medical Center, June 10, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Rescued hostage’s mother urges deal with Hamas, says ‘I am one of the lucky ones’

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Itai Pessach, director of the children’s hospital at Sheba Medical Center, during a television interview (courtesy of Sheba Medical Center)

Rescued hostages were beaten ‘almost every day,’ says doctor who treated them

Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar speaks during a rally marking Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day, in Gaza City, April 14, 2023. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Hamas’s Sinwar said to laud high civilian death toll in Gaza as ‘necessary sacrifice’

Wall Street Journal report details messages to interlocutors in which Gazan terror chief exalts Palestinian deaths as helping increase pressure on Israel

A Palestinian man inspects the carcass of a car shot at by Israeli forces during a raid in which four Palestinians, including a Hamas commander and a member of the terror group, were killed in Kafr Ni'ma in the West Bank on June 11, 2024. (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

Hamas commander among four Palestinians killed in West Bank clash

By Emanuel Fabian

Hostage families wait outside Tel Aviv's Kempinski Hotel on June 11, 2024 to meet with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. (Credit: Yael Gadot)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing June 11: Day 249 – Blinken meets with PM, hostage families in push for deal

Political correspondent Tal Schneider discusses details of proposed hostage deal and PMO denial, Blinken visit, Gantz quitting and ultra-Orthodox draft vote in Knesset

Knesset approves revival of ultra-Orthodox enlistment bill; Gallant votes against

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Opposition rails at coalition for advancing measure, slams government for promoting exemptions to military service amid war; several Likud MKs hint bill will face heavy scrutiny

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant at a Knesset plenum vote on reviving an ultra-Orthodox military enlistment bill, early June 11, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

An Israeli airstrike is seen in northeastern Lebanon's Hermel District, early June 11, 2024. (Screenshot: X)

IDF says it hit significant Hezbollah site deep in Lebanon; 50 rockets fired at Golan

By Emanuel Fabian

This picture shows a battery of Israel's Iron Dome air defense system deployed on April 15, 2024. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

IAF says over 150 enemy drones intercepted during war; detecting them a challenge

By Emanuel Fabian

Emergency services work at an Iranian consular building after it was hit by an alleged Israeli strike in Damascus, Syria, April 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

AnalysisAnticipating war with Hezbollah, Israel weakening Iranian proxies in Syria

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Op-ed: Day 249 of the war

If Hamas wanted to end the war, it would take the Israeli offer

As the US says, and the partially published terms indicate, there is an Israeli proposal on the table that would end the war for the return of all hostages. Hamas just doesn’t want it

Rescued hostage Almog Meir Jan raises his hands in celebration as he is escorted from an IDF helicopter on arrival at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, June 8, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

'The Madwoman in the Rabbi's Attic,' by Gila Fine. (Courtesy)

'I was so hurt that the rabbis could see us this way'

A redemptive reading of Talmudic women reveals ‘radical truths’ hidden by the rabbis

By Maya Zanger-Nadis

Perfect for Shavuot learning, a new book by thinker Gila Fine reexamines the complex narratives of women in the Talmud, giving them new life with insightful second readings

Sara Yael Hirschhorn

The Israel-Hamas war could signal the end of the Black-Jewish alliance

Is the NAACP excluding the kinds of Jewish activists that founded it when it expands its focus to include international issues?

Jonathan A. Greenblatt

The hard bigotry of no expectations

Why don’t the Israel critics ask how ordinary Gazans could look the other way as innocent men and women are held hostage in their midst?

Ruthie Hollander

An aftermath of grief in the Book of Ruth

Orpah, Ruth, and Naomi each must grapple with her own sorrow and pain, and their experiences are telling for those of us who read their tale

This Shavuot: A time of reckoning

If we look to the Torah for why we do what we do, then we must make sure that the outcomes of those actions promote peace, compassion and human perfection

Former hostage Tami Metzger poses for a picture with a portrait of her husband Yoram, who was declared dead in captivity on June 3, during an interview at her residence in the southern city of Kiryat Gat on June 9, 2024. (Sharon ARONOWICZ / AFP)

Interview

AFP and ToI Staff

Widow of dead hostage says he would be alive if ‘heartless’ government had ended war

Tami Metzger, who was also abducted, assails ministers for not visiting after her release in November truce, while Netanyahu showed up at hospital to meet hostages rescued Saturday

War cabinet minister Benny Gantz attends a plenum session and a vote on reviving the Ultra Orthodox enlistment bill at the assembly hall of the Knesset, Jerusalem, June 11, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Far-right leaders slam Gantz’s exit from government, but hail ‘big opportunity’

Anti-Israel protesters demonstrate outside the Supernova music festival exhibit in New York City, June 10, 2024. (Twitter, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

NYC protesters wave terror group flags, call for intifada outside Nova massacre exhibit

Demonstrators light flares, carry signs glorifying October 7 Hamas attack and chant slogans justifying killing Israeli civilians as part of ‘Day of Rage for Gaza’ in Manhattan

US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) departs after viewing graphic footage from the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre in Israel, shown by the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on November 14, 2023. (Stefani Reynolds/AFP)

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez slams antisemitism on left, but says term is ‘weaponized to divide us’

Author Joan Leegant's latest book, 'Displaced Persons,' a collection of short stories, comes out June 1, 2024 (Courtesy)

Short stories about Israelis in flux feel familiar in novelist’s latest collection

By Jessica Steinberg

Joan Leegant’s ‘Displaced Persons’ homes in on identity, character and the Jewish experience

A view of the topographical map inside the 'Hollywoodland' exhibit. (Josh White, JWPictures/Academy Museum Foundation, via JTA)

LA’s Academy Museum to revise exhibit on Jewish founders after fresh outcry

By jacob gurvis

‘It is the only section of the museum that vilifies those it purports to celebrate,’ complain 300 Jewish industry professionals

'Mohammed,' an asylum seeker from Gaza, stands on the port of Samos in Greece on April 17, 2024. (Eliyahu Freedman/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

On a Greek isle, Gazans who fled before October 7 seesaw between hardship and hope

By Eliyahu Freedman

Palestinians were among the largest groups fleeing to Europe before the war. Now, more may be clamoring to leave as the EU eases their way, but getting there is harder than ever

Graffiti calling for the return of all the Israeli hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza is seen in Tel Aviv on March 6, 2024. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Reporter's notebook

How the phrase ‘Bring them home’ became a Rorschach test for Israeli and American Jews

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

While for Sabras the movement to free the hostages is critical of the Netanyahu government’s wartime policies, many Jews abroad view it as unconditional solidarity with Israel

More Headlines

Intel's manufacturing plant in Kiryat Gat in southern Israel. (Courtesy)

Intel suspends planned $15 billion expansion of southern Israel chip plant

By AFP

In this photo provided by US Central Command, humanitarian aid arrives in Gaza, June 8, 2024. (US Central Command via AP)

High Court orders state to demonstrate aid supply to Gaza is sufficient

By Jeremy Sharon

File: Graduate students take part in a parade in support of the Houthi rebel group in Sanaa, Yemen, June 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Yemen’s Houthis claim to nab US-Israeli spy network using aid agencies as cover

People hang a Palestinian flag in front of the Slovenian Parliament building after the National Assembly recognized a Palestinian state in Ljubljana, on June 4, 2024. (AFP)

Israel reprimands Slovenian envoy for recognizing Palestinian statehood

By Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Agencies

A man is seen cursing an Israeli in Barcelona, before the Israeli was assaulted on June 9, 2024 (Screencapture X : used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli man says he was assaulted in Barcelona over his Jewish identity

Reproductions of the coats of arms discovered at the Mt. Zion Hotel. (Anastasia Prokofyeva/IAA)

ArchaeologyBenefactors’ coats of arms revealed on early 20th century Jerusalem building

By Gavriel Fiske

A forensic officer walks past boarded windows at the US consulate as police investigate the vandalism in Sydney, June 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

US consulate in Sydney vandalized with suspected pro-Palestinian symbol

By Agencies and ToI Staff

An illustrative photo of the Tel Aviv financial business district skyline. (Elijah Lovkoff via iStock by Getty Images)

Tel Aviv moves up to 4th place in annual ranking of global tech ecosystems

By Sharon Wrobel

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