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What Matters Most On Friday, June 14, 2024

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Passersby observe the photos of hostages held in the Gaza Strip that are plastered to the walls of a plaza known as Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, Israel, May 17, 2024 (AP Photo/Oded Balilty).

‘No one has any idea’ how many hostages are still alive, Hamas official says

Hamas politburo member in Beirut Osama Hamdan denies rescued hostages were subjected to abuse in Gaza; claims WSJ report that Sinwar praised Gazan civilian deaths is ‘fake message’

File: Palestinians raise the flag of the Hamas terror group during a rally in the West Bank city of Hebron, on December 1, 2023. (Hazem Bader/AFP)

Poll: Support for Hamas on the rise among Palestinians, now double Fatah’s

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Children queue with pots to receive food aid from a kitchen at the Abu Zeitun school run by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip, June 13, 2024. (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP)

‘What is Hamas waiting for?’: Palestinians in Gaza beg terror group to take truce deal

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Freed hostage Andrey Kozlov speaks in a video released on June 14, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Live updates (closed)

June 14: Hostage freed in rescue op urges Israelis to attend Tel Aviv rally calling for deal

IDF says Hezbollah fired 35 rockets in barrage at Kiryat Shmona and neighboring town * G7 leaders to call for Gaza operations of UNRWA, other UN agencies to go unhindered

12:16 am

United States braces for crushing heat wave
9:37 pm

Two rockets from central Gaza hit area near Kissufim
9:27 pm

Large fire sparked by rocket rages near northern communities

Analysis

The north is burning, but an invasion of Lebanon solves nothing

Israel needs time to build up the IDF for a decisive campaign against Hezbollah, but with a Gaza hostage deal unlikely, it has no easy way to end a fight in the north and bring residents home

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (second right) visits Kiryat Shmona on the border with Lebanon, June 5, 2024. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Students at Hebrew University (Credit:) Yonit Schiller)

Donation RequestAmerican Friends of Hebrew University

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.

President Joe Biden meets the media after signing a bilateral security agreement with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on the sidelines of the G7, Thursday, June 13, 2024, in Savelletri, Italy. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Biden says Hamas needs ‘to move’ on truce deal, blaming terror group for hold-up

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US president tells reporters at G7 summit he is not optimistic that agreement can be reached soon but hasn’t lost hope, as Washington, Doha and Cairo continue to push negotiations

Students of Birzeit University in the West Bank chant slogans during a protest in support of Gaza on June 10, 2024. (Zain Jaafar / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 14: Day 252 – As US loses patience, Hamas support rises in Gaza

World leaders talk during a flag ceremony with paratroopers at Borgo Egnazia Golf Club San Domenico as part of the G7 Summit hosted by Italy in Apulia region, on June 13, 2024 in Savelletri. (Ludovic Marin/AFP)

World leaders at G7 summit call on Hamas to accept hostage deal

By AFP and ToI Staff

‘Irresponsible speculation’: Relatives knock Gantz’s comments on Bibas hostage family

After National Unity leader said he believes Israel knows the fate of Shiri, Yarden, Ariel and Kfir, relatives say nothing is certain and express hope for good news

The Bibas family -- father Yarden, four-year-old Ariel, mother Shiri and baby Kfir -- who were abducted by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 from Kibbutz Nir Oz. (Courtesy)

A poster depicting Israeli hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal is displayed in Re'im, Feb. 26, 2024 at the Nova music festival memorial site where he was kidnapped to Gaza by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. (AP/Maya Alleruzzo)

Rescued hostage provides first sign of life from Guy Gilboa-Dalal since Oct. 7

Two hurt, fires rage after rocket and drone barrage launched at northern Israel

By Emanuel Fabian

Hezbollah says attacks come as further response to killing of top officer; two more troops wounded in anti-tank missile attack

A large fire near the northern city of Safed, sparked by rockets launched from Lebanon on June 13, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Cabinet expected to further extend emergency law raising reservists’ retirement age

Opposition slams coalition for deliberating extension at the same time it’s advancing bill to exempt most Haredi students from IDF service, with Lapid accusing government of ‘betrayal’

Israeli Infantry reservists seen during light arms training in the northern Golan Heights before heading south to the Gaza Strip on October 8, 2023. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

8 months after the 7th

The harm to our place and our bodies leaves us once again walking on that proverbial narrow bridge at the edges of time

The infiltrators among us

Those with no status who clean our streets and office buildings are not terrorists. They are strangers in a strange land

Kenneth Brander

Naso: Sotah and what I wish I’d asked Rabbi Soloveitchik

The ritual, an elaborate psychodrama aimed at restoring the marital bond, is obsolete. Can’t another marriage-related law be changed?

‘I love the IDF with a fierce and profound love’

I’ve always respected Israel’s army, but David Ben-Gurion’s emotion-packed praise seemed over the top – until now

Izhar Shay poses at the Knesset, on April 29, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Eight months later, Netanyahu calls ex-minister who lost soldier son on Oct. 7

Former science and technology minister Izhar Shay says he urged PM ‘to call or visit to console families of the fallen and murdered, even those who did not vote for him’

MK Benny Gantz attends a plenum session at the Knesset on June 11, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Back in opposition, Gantz says freeing hostages should take priority over Gaza fighting

By Shira Silkoff

This December 11, 2020, satellite photo by Maxar Technologies shows construction at Iran's Fordo nuclear facility. (Maxar Technologies via AP)

US says will turn up pressure on Iran if it doesn’t cooperate with UN nuclear watchdog

By Agencies and ToI Staff

State Depratment announcement comes after IAEA says Tehran installed extra uranium-enriching centrifuges at Fordo site and has begun setting up others

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 watchdog says Iran expanding enrichment capacity

By AFP

The Centropa archive focuses on Holocaust survivors who remained in central and eastern Europe. (Courtesy)

21,000 family photos were digitized, 40,000 pages transcribed

Centropa archive documents Holocaust survivors’ entire lives – not just the Nazi years

By Matt Lebovic

US Holocaust Museum acquires trove of interviews with Jews who stayed in central and eastern Europe in hopes of fleshing out a lost 20th-century history as told by those who lived it

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Israel Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai at the scene of a fatal shooting attack in Re'em Junction, on February 16, 2024. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Police chief to AG: Ben Gvir pushed to prevent police from guarding Gaza aid convoys

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Outgoing commissioner says minister warned him of ‘consequences’ of his insistence on protecting convoys, held talks behind his back with other top officers on various matters

Justice Minister Yariv Levin arrives at a Likud faction meeting in the Knesset, February 5, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court orders justice minister to explain why he’s not filling its vacant seats

By Jeremy Sharon

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

Court approves extension of ban on Al Jazeera operations in Israel

By Jeremy Sharon

An HSC-7 helicopter lands on the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Laboon in the Red Sea, on June 12, 2024 (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Analysis

US Navy faces ‘most sustained combat’ since WWII against Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis

Commander says ‘pretty high confidence’ Iran providing Houthis with intelligence and financial support; all signs suggest warfare will intensify

Yemenis brandish their rifles as they march in the Houthi-run capital Sanaa in solidarity with the people of Gaza on May 17, 2024 (Photo by MOHAMMED HUWAIS / AFP)

Houthis strike cargo ship in Red Sea with cruise missiles, seriously wounding civilian

By AP and ToI Staff

Archaeology'No evidence of black colorants on any of the tefillin'

Study: Ancient phylacteries’ natural leather color illustrates evolution of Jewish law

By Gavriel Fiske

Analysis of 2,000-year-old tefillin found in Judean Desert caves shows no dye was used in their construction; deep black is mandated by contemporary Jewish Law

Tefillin from around 2,000 years ago in the laboratories of the Israel Antiquities Authority. (Emil Aladjem/IAA)

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The weakness of international law

In the wake of 2 UN reports, ToI’s senior analyst delves into the use of global institutions to delegitimize Israel, even as they are unable to protect any world citizen under fire

Israel's legal team waits to hear the arguments of South Africa's legal team as part of South Africa case against Israel over Rafah offensive at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, on May 16, 2024. (Nick Gammon/AFP)

Illustrative: People are pictured in a subway train in the Manhattan borough of New York on April 1, 2024. (Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

Governor proposes mask ban on NYC subway to combat antisemitic incidents

By AP

Kathy Hochul cites incident in which anti-Israel protesters with face coverings took over subway cars, but admits challenges remain in formulating policy

A student protester waves a Palestinian flag atop turned over utility carts at California State University, Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 12, 2024. (Keith Birmingham/The Orange County Register via AP)

Anti-Israel protesters take over Cal State LA building, leaving damage and graffiti

By AP and ToI Staff

Composite photo: Rep. Jamaal Bowman (left), a New York Democrat at a campaign stop in White Plains, New York, on June 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey); Westchester County Executive George Latimer speaks in White Plains, New York, March 20, 2023. (Tania Savanna/The Journal News via AP)

Israel-Hamas war emerges as key issue in pivotal New York Democratic primary race

By AP

Gidi Markuszower (Robin van Lonkhuijsen/via JTA)

Israel-born Dutch lawmaker fails security screening, loses ministerial nomination

By Canaan Lidor

The secret service’s flagging of Gidi Markuszower of Geert Wilders’ far-right party follows his earlier disqualification in 2010 for foreign intelligence ties

Head of Shalhevet High School Rabbi David Block speaks at the class of 2023 graduation. (Screenshot via Vimeo/via JTA)

'Some won't like good journalism, but we have to keep at it'

LA Jewish day school censors two student newspaper articles on Israel-Hamas war

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Young journalists from the Shalhevet High School’s periodical made to remove issues from neighborhood shops after principal retracts stories that included anti-Israel perspectives

More Headlines

Britain's Labour Party leader Keir Starmer speaks to the audience, during the Sky News election debate, in Grimsby, England, Wednesday June 12, 2024. (Stefan Rousseau/Pool Photo via AP)

UK’s Labour pledges to recognize Palestinian state as part of future peace process

By Reuters and ToI Staff

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres listens during a UN Security Council meeting at UN headquarters in New York City on April 18, 2024. (Angela Weiss/AFP)

Israel promises reaction to UN blacklist designation, but hasn’t made decision yet

By Lazar Berman

Muslim worshipers pray around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca on June 13, 2024, ahead of the annual Hajj pilgrimage (Fadel Senna/AFP)

Pilgrims begin hajj in Mecca, with 1,000 Gazans joining at invitation of Saudi king

By AP and ToI Staff

Israeli filmmaker Tom Nesher is seen speaking at the Tribeca Film Festival, in this screenshot from a post to Instagram. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli filmmaker Tom Nesher’s debut feature wins prize at Tribeca Film Festival

Illustrative photo of antisemitic graffiti on a building near the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville, 2016. (Courtesy: Michaela Brown)

ADL says Muslims, Jews, members of LGBTQ community targeted most in online harassment

Illustrative photo of documents stored at the Israel State Archives in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

7 months after Iran-backed cyberattack, temporary fix puts state archives back online

By Gavriel Fiske

US President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, left, shake hands after signing a security agreement on the sidelines of the G7, June 13, 2024, in Savelletri, Italy. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Biden and Zelensky sign 10-year security pact, but future US support uncertain

By Colleen Long and DARLENE SUPERVILLE

Israeli dog trainer Roni Sagi and her border collie Rhythm perform on America's Got Talent, as seen in this screenshot from their audition video, posted by the show on YouTube. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Paws for thoughtIsraeli trainer and her dancing dog wow US TV talent show

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