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What Matters Most On Saturday, June 15, 2024

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Illustrative: Protesters at a rally calling for the release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, June 8, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

After rescue op, freed hostage urges Israelis to attend Tel Aviv rally calling for deal

Andrey Kozlov: ‘I’m home from Gaza; lots of hostages still there’; many protests to urge truce-hostage deal, others want early elections, amid anger at Haredi draft exemption vote

Shira Albag, mother of hostage Liri Albag, speaks during a conference of the Female Municipal Leaders' Forum in Ganei Tikva, June 14, 2024. (Screen capture: Ynet, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Citing rescued hostage, captive soldier’s mom says women were held as slaves

New details on hostage rescue indicate operation was nearly canceled at the last minute

Conditions at one of the locations housing hostages were seen as suboptimal, but a decision was made to proceed; IDF issues footage of troops in Gaza during the extraction

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi (left) and Shin Bet security services Director Ronen Bar at the special operations room overseeing a mission to release hostages in the Gaza Strip, June 8, 2024. (Shin Bet security services)

A photo released by the IDF on February 7, 2024 shows a major Hamas tunnel captured by Israeli troops in Khan Younis, southern Gaza (IDF)

Report: US army in October planned, shelved, potential op to rescue American hostages

Anti-government protesters demand a deal to release hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, June 15, 2024. (Omer Yelin/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Live updates (closed)

June 15: Tens of thousands of protesters demand hostage deal, elections at nationwide rallies

Cops arrest 12 at Tel Aviv rally, including newspaper photographer, for allegedly disturbing the peace * Hostage families urge government to ‘turn over every stone’ in truce talks

1:19 am

Shooting in Detroit suburb leaves 'numerous wounded victims,' authorities say
12:46 am

US accuses Iran of ignoring distress calls from cargo vessel hit by Houthi missiles
12:41 am

Sirens blare in Western Galilee

Palestinians, you can break this cycle

It is time to make clear that you seek to build your own country with honor and dignity – not in place of Israel, but next to it

Caitlin Clark is the Israel of women’s basketball

It’s almost as if we’ve already met those ignorant haters spewing vitriol against a WNBA star who did nothing to harm them

Biden adviser to visit Israel in bid to prevent all-out war

Gallant rejects Macron’s proposed trilateral task force to defuse Hezbollah tensions

By Reuters, Lazar Berman and Emanuel Fabian

Defense chief slams France’s ‘hostile policies’ toward Israel amid war, prompting spat with Foreign Ministry; homes damaged as Lebanese terror group keeps attacking northern towns

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant meets troops on the northern border, May 17, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Activists blocking the Nitzana crossing to Gaza are forcibly removed by police during protests against the transfer of humanitarian aid by Israel, April 11, 2024. (Courtesy Tzav 9)

US sanctions far-right Israeli group behind attacks on aid convoys bound for Gaza

Blacklisting Tzav 9 for disrupting aid deliveries, State Department vows no tolerance for ‘acts of sabotage and violence targeting this essential humanitarian assistance’

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 to temporarily remove aid pier from Gaza coast again due to bad weather

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Pope Francis and leaders of the G7 nations other guest nations stand for a photo, at the G7 summit, Friday, June 14, 2024, in Borgo Egnazia, near Bari, southern Italy. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

G7 calls on Israel to stop hobbling PA; says UNRWA must operate unhindered in Gaza

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Joint communique welcomes new Palestinian Authority cabinet, singles out withholding PA tax revenue a day after Smotrich rerouted funds to Israeli victims of terrorism

Rachel Meijler enters a replica of a Hamas tunnel in The Hague, Netherlands on June 6, 2024. (Rachel Meijler)

Reporter's notebook'Theoretical knowledge isn't like the discomfort inside'

At The Hague, Israelis brave protests to present a portable ‘Hamas tunnel’ exhibit

By Canaan Lidor

A gallery owner from Israel and her allies shepherd visitors into a cramped replica fitted into the box of a truck so they can get some sense of what Hamas’s hostages endure

Dr. Gili Zavon who was evacuated from Kibbutz Sa'ad to the Dead Sea. (Dafna Talmon)

Gili Zivan68-year-old mother of five from Kibbutz Sa'ad

'After the euphoria of returning home, we are struggling to take root again. Essentially, the spirit is still uprooted'

By Tamar Mor Sela

This photo released November 5, 2019, by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran shows centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility near Natanz, Iran. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP, File)

UN watchdog says Iran has activated new advanced centrifuges, plans to install more

US slams Tehran for ‘expanding nuclear program in ways that have no credible peaceful purpose,’ threatens to respond ‘accordingly’; Khamenei adviser: Iran ‘won’t bow to pressure’

Volunteers and coordinators at Social Delivery's warehouse in Beit Shemesh help to unpack and sort surplus commercial goods collected from businesses and organizations. (Courtesy)

Reporter's notebook

Modern Robin Hood with a social justice mandate helps returnees on path of renewal

By Sharon Wrobel

During war, Social Delivery collects unwanted surplus from retailers and offices of tech firms and disperses the goods ranging from clothes to furniture to Gaza border communities

A barricade and graffiti left by anti-Israel protesters at the Student Services Building at California State University in Los Angeles, June 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Cal State LA chief: Anti-Israel protesters unwelcome on campus after building takeover

By AP and ToI Staff

Spokesperson for university says demonstrators caused ‘significant damage’ when they occupied and trashed building while president was inside, though no arrests carried out

Aaron Abramson has taken over as CEO of Jews for Jesus, the third leader of the group and the first with an Israeli background, replacing David Brickner who led Jews for Jesus since 1996. (Courtesy of Jews for Jesus)

'They're still a fig leaf for the Christian mission'

With a new leader and revamped strategy, it’s a second coming for Jews for Jesus

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

This month, Aaron Abramson becomes the third to hold the title – and the first Israeli – since the controversial organization was founded in San Francisco some five decades ago

Pope Francis shakes hands with US comedian Jimmy Fallon, host of NBC's 'The Tonight Show,' during an audience with comedians in The Vatican, June 14, 2024. (Handout: Vatican Media / AFP)

Heavenly humor

Pope Francis tells visiting comedians it’s okay to ‘laugh at God’

By Giada Zampano

Pontiff hosts group of comic actors, including many prominent names, for reception at Vatican hailing the importance of humor: ‘You also make God smile’

In 'Treasure,' father-daughter duo Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry tour Poland, including Auschwitz. (Bleecker Street via JTA)

'It's about the Holocaust's intergenerational consequences'

Stephen Fry, Lena Dunham take father-daughter trip to Auschwitz in tragicomedy ‘Treasure’

By Toby Axelrod

Now in US theaters, the film based on the 2000 novel ‘Too Many Men’ sees two grieving family members take a roots trip to Poland in the post-Soviet 1990s

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Illustrative: A police car at a crime scene in Ofakim, southern Israel, June 10, 2023. (Israel Police)

Two young men shot to death in northern Arab town

Duffle bags full of donated equipment, organized by Bergen County Lev Echad amid shortages of military and medical equipment, are laid out for transport to Israel at Newark Liberty International Airport, April 10, 2024. (Courtesy of Bergen County Lev Echad via JTA)

El Al scraps post-Oct. 7 discount for shipping donated gear, quadrupling cost

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Barclays bank pulls out of UK music festivals after boycotts over Israel ties

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A picture taken on March 14, 2023 shows "The Boy in the Red Waistcoat" 1888 a masterpiece by Paul Cezanne, part of the Emil Buhrle Collection exhibited at the Kunsthaus Zurich. Kunsthaus Zurich, one of Switzerland's top art museums, launched a new review aimed at clarifying whether any of its artworks might be cultural property looted by the Nazis. (Arnd Wiegmann/AFP)

Swiss museum to remove five paintings linked to Nazi looting

By AFP

Houthi supporters attend anti-Israel and anti-US protests in Sanaa, Yemen, June 14, 2024. (AP/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Sailor missing as crew evacuated from cargo ship struck in Houthi missile attack

Firemen and policemen search for wounded people after a bomb exploded at the Argentinian Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA in Spanish) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 18, 1994. (Ali Burafi/AFP)

Court: Argentina failed to prevent or properly probe 1994 Jewish center bombing

By Alberto PEÑA

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa raises his hand as he is sworn is as a member of Parliament ahead of an expected vote by lawmakers to decide if he is reelected as leader of the country in Cape Town, South Africa, Friday, June 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

South Africa’s Ramaphosa reelected for 2nd term after last minute coalition deal

By Gerald Imray and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME

Wreckage of a car in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula after a crash in which three family members from Kafr Qasim were killed, June 15, 2024. (Screen capture: Walla, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Kafr Qasim couple, 6-month-old daughter killed in car crash in Sinai

Britain's King Charles III, right, is joined by Prince William, Prince Louis, Princess Charlotte and Kate Princess of Wales on the Balcony at Buckingham Palace after attending the Trooping the Color ceremony, in London, Saturday, June 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Kate, UK’s Princess of Wales, appears publicly for first time since cancer diagnosis

By David MILLIKIN

Heather Conn Hendel in a video published March 27, 2017, for an annual dinner of the Manhattan Jewish Experience Synagogue in which she was honored for her volunteer work. (Screen capture: Youtube/Mark Wildes MJE, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

ObituaryHeather Conn Hendel, pillar of Toronto, NYC Jewish communities, dies at 48

By Jackie Hajdenberg

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