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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 12, 2024

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Osama Hamdan, a senior Hamas official, attends a conference of the International Union of Resistance Clerics, in Beirut, Lebanon, March 4, 2024. (AP/Hussein Malla)

Live updates (closed)

June 12: Hamas official: Blinken ‘part of the problem, not the solution’ to war in Gaza

Osama Hamdan says terror group made no new changes to hostage deal proposal, rejecting US top envoy’s claim * Off-duty soldier opens fire, injures suspect in Jerusalem’s Old City

8:54 pm

Iran expanding enrichment capacity after IAEA demanded increased cooperation, diplomats say
8:52 pm

Residents of northern Israel visit White House to draw attention to danger posed by Hezbollah
8:08 pm

Fuming over exclusion from security assessment, Ben Gvir tells PM he 'can't hide' behind Gantz anymore

Firefighters work to extinguish a fire after missiles launched from Lebanon hit open areas near the northern city of Safed, on June 12, 2024. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Some rocket impacts spark fires, missile damages factory

215 rockets fired at north after IDF killing of ‘most senior’ Hezbollah officer yet

By Emanuel Fabian

PM holds security assessment; no injuries in barrages as Hezbollah vows to ramp up attacks; military says target Taleb Abdullah commanded key regional division in south Lebanon

Hezbollah commander Taleb Abdullah in a poster published by Hezbollah on June 11, 2024. (Hezbollah media office)

Top Hezbollah commander, 3 operatives killed in south Lebanon strike

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

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).

All four rescued hostages released from hospital as UN raises possible ‘war crimes’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Noa Argamani, Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, Shlomi Ziv clear post-captivity medical tests; rights body says Israel, Hamas may both be responsible for civilian deaths in rescue raid

The image provided by US Central Command shows American and Israeli forces placing the Trident Pier on the coast of Gaza Strip on May 16, 2024. (US Central Command via AP)

US dismisses claims that Gaza aid pier was used in IDF hostage rescue mission

By Reuters and ToI Staff

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)

Hostages Ziv, Kozlov and Meir Jan’s ordeal ‘beyond anything you can imagine’

In fresh testimony, doctors and relatives detail how they were held in the dark, locked in bathrooms and repeatedly threatened with death

Chairwoman of the 'The United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel,' South Africa's Navi Pillay speaks during a briefing to UN member states about ongoing investigations of the Commission at the UN offices in Geneva, on April 16, 2024. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

UN reports accuse Israel of ‘extermination,’ crimes against humanity; Hamas of war crimes

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israel rejects findings that ‘outrageously and repugnantly attempt to draw a false equivalence between IDF soldiers and Hamas terrorists,’ accuses UN commission of systematic bias

Displaced children pose standing at their tent on the first day of the Eid al-Fitr festival, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on April 10, 2024 (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

UN publishes report with IDF, Hamas, PIJ added to ‘list of shame’ for first time

By Jacob Magid and AP

Guterres says he’s ‘appalled by dramatic increase and unprecedented scale and intensity of grave violations’ against children in Gaza, Israel and West Bank over past year

Nimrod Nir, a fellow at The Hebrew University’s Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace and the CEO of Agam Labs, a multi-disciplinary research facility. (Courtesy)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing June 12: Day 250 – A political psychologist takes Israel’s temperature

Nimrod Nir’s findings from eight months of war include how conspiracy theories affect public opinion and whether or not the Israeli people with be ‘together’ in victory

Egypt, Qatar, US still adjudicating Hamas response

Hamas issues response to Israeli hostage deal proposal, saying it made ‘amendments’

Israel says terror group made drastic changes that amount to a rejection of its offer; official from mediating country says Hamas proposed new timeline for ceasefire, IDF withdrawal

Families and supporters of Israeli 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, Israel, June 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to the media as after meeting with families of Hamas hostages, during his visit to Tel Aviv, Israel, June 11, 2024. (Jack Guez/ Pool Photo via AP)

Blinken says Sinwar’s word ‘what counts’ after ‘hopeful’ Hamas response to UN vote

Anti-Israel protesters unfurl a banner that reads, "Long live October 7" outside an exhibit in New York City memorializing the Nova festival massacre, on June 10, 2024. (Screen capture/X)

White House slams ‘heartbreaking’ anti-Israel protest of Nova massacre exhibit in NYC

‘Banners of terror groups shouldn’t be flown anywhere, especially not on US streets,’ Biden aide says; Congress’s biggest Israel critics join condemnations, angering some followers

University of California Police officers face off against anti-Israel protesters demonstrating, outside Dodd Hall at the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, June 10, 2024. (Etienne Laurent/AFP)

UCLA police arrest 25 at anti-Israel protest; rabbi accosted, called a ‘pedophile’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Raz Segal discusses his Jewish Currents article in which he stated Israel intends to commit genocide in Gaza, October 25, 2023. (NJ Spotlight News/PBS screenshot via JTA)

U of Minnesota backtracks on Holocaust studies hire who accused Israel of genocide

By Andrew Lapin

In this undated photo, Rabbi Shimon Hartman, center in white shirt, with Haredi soldiers from Chedvata Yeshiva. (Courtesy)

'It was important to him to contribute to the Jewish people'

A yeshiva that preps Haredi men for IDF service mourns first graduate to fall in battle

As Israeli society debates mandatory ultra-Orthodox enlistment amid war, Staff Sgt. Bezalel Kovach’s life and death present a new view of what it means to belong to the community

Shavuot? I’ll have to give you a rain check

I can’t celebrate this harvest holiday if I’m not home on my kibbutz rejoicing with those brutally torn from us on Oct. 7

Menachem Rosensaft

How to destroy a Holocaust studies center

Simply do what UMN did: Appoint a new head of the center who spews widely discredited theories and accuses Israel of genocide

File - US President Joe Biden speaks during a Juneteenth concert on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, June 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

International survey finds 60% don’t have confidence in Biden’s handling of Gaza war

By ToI Staff and AP

Poll conducted in 34 countries finds that US president still engenders greater faith than rival Trump; 54% of Israelis trust Republican candidate

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2nd L), then-president Reuven Rivlin (3rd L), and then-defense minister Moshe Yaalon (2nd R) attend a ceremony for the arrival of the German-made INS Rahav, the fifth Israeli Navy submarine, at the military port of Haifa on January 12, 2016. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

German court rejects Palestinian groups’ request to block arms exports to Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Morrie Markoff in 2023. (Courtesy The Brain Donor Project via JTA)

Obituary

Morrie Markoff, Jewish supercentenarian and oldest man in US, dies at 110

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Markoff became an avid blogger and author after turning 100; leaves exceptionally lucid brain to science; wife Betty died in 2019 after 81 years of marriage

Philanthropist George S. Blumenthal with a Second Temple-era silver shekel coin, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Jerusalem, on May 20, 2024. (Gavriel Fiske/Times of Israel)

Interview'Put an ancient shekel in someone's hand and they feel it'

To fight anti-Zionism, NY philanthropist showcases artifacts that tie Jews to Israel

By Gavriel Fiske

Antiquities buff George S. Blumenthal talks about his latest project, which offers ‘bite-sized’ pieces of evidence to counter claims that Jews are not indigenous to the Holy Land

Moriah Cohen (Israel Story)

Israel Story

Wartime Diaries: Moriah Cohen

After being stabbed on the street, a woman prepares for her attacker to return to their shared neighborhood.

Weapons seized by Israeli troops amid a raid in the West Bank town of Kafr Dan, near Jenin, June 11, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

6 Palestinian gunmen killed as heavy clashes erupt near Jenin during IDF raid

By Emanuel Fabian

Army says it used ‘pressure cooker’ tactic to force suspects from building they holed up in, called in attack helicopter to strike compound

Member of France's parliament and president of the conservative Les Republicains (LR) opposition party Eric Ciotti poses before an interview on the set of the French TV channel TF1 in Boulogne-Billancourt, outside Paris, June 11, 2024. (Stephane de Sakutin / POOL / AFP)

French conservative leader embraces far-right party founded by Nazi apologist

By Shira Li Bartov

Les Republicains lawmakers furious as leader Eric Ciotti breaks longtime boycott of Le Pen’s faction after snap elections called amid establishment’s dismal showing in EU elections

France's President Emmanuel Macron delivers remarks during a press conference held at the Pavillon Cambon Capucines in Paris, June 12, 2024. (Stephane de Sakutin / AFP)

‘Time now to take action’: Macron exhorts French moderates to coalesce for snap vote

By Sylvie Corbet

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Illustrative: Yemeni youths march during a ceremony in the capital Sanaa marking the end of summer camps organized by the country's Houthi rebels, June 9, 2024. (Mohammed Huwais / AFP)

Security firm: Merchant ship hit in Red Sea off Yemen in apparent Houthi attack

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A wristwatch and a pair of earrings belonging to deceased Stanislawa Mordes are seen on June 11, 2024, in Warsaw, during a ceremony of returning the personal effects to the families of two Polish victims killed following the Warsaw Uprising from 1944. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP)

Germany returns items to descendants of Poles killed at Nazi camps

By AFP

Protesters outside Columbia University, New York City, New York, April 30, 2024. (Luke Tress/JTA)

Manhattan DA moves to dismiss hate crime charges in attack on Israeli student

Hunter Biden, center, accompanied by his mother, US First Lady Jill Biden, left, and his wife, Melissa Cohen Biden, right, walking out of federal court after hearing the verdict, June 11, 2024, in Wilmington, Delaware. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Hunter Biden found guilty of all 3 felony gun charges in federal trial

By Randall Chase, CLAUDIA LAUER, Michael Kunzelman, Colleen Long and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER

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