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What Matters Most On Monday, June 17, 2024

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Anti-government protesters face off with police outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem, on June 17, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

June 17: Anti-gov’t rally near PM’s home descends into violent clashes; 9 arrested

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Three hospitalized after police fire water cannon at anti-gov’t protesters * Deri said threatening to bring down government if bill boosting Rabbinate’s influence foiled

10:48 pm

Three hospitalized after police fire water cannon at anti-gov't protesters
8:57 pm

Far-right ministers said to have clashed with IDF chief during security cabinet meeting
8:36 pm

Intense clashes, fires and damage at Jerusalem rally; 9 arrested, including hostage's relative

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Minister Benny Gantz attend a press conference at the Defense Ministry, in Tel Aviv. December 16, 2023. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Netanyahu officially disbands war cabinet after Gantz’s departure from government

By Lazar Berman

PM tells ministers small forum created to manage war will not reconvene, with decisions instead to be made in ad hoc ‘consultations’; far-right’s Ben Gvir had been lobbying to join

Soldiers carry the flag-draped casket of Capt. Wassem Mahmoud during his funeral in the village of Beit Jann, northern Israel, June 16, 2024 (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

'A tragic day for the people of Israel'

11 funerals for IDF commanders, soldiers held across Israel as nation mourns

Troops killed in three separate incidents in Gaza laid to rest at funerals from north to south; Druze village of Beit Jann delays Eid al-Adha celebrations for day of mourning

Chief of the IDF Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman, is seen in southern Gaza's Rafah on June 12, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Fighting will continue in Rafah until Hamas is defeated there, says IDF general

By Emanuel Fabian and AFP

Dennis Ross speaks at a rally calling for the release of hostages held in Gaza in Tel Aviv, December 30, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Promoted podcastJPPI – The Jewish People’s Podcast

Ceasefire negotiations and Israeli elections

With the war continuing in Gaza and a ceasefire deal now looking unlikely, we talk to distiguished US diplomat Dennis Ross and JPPI President Professor Yedidia Stern about Israel’s options.

Top Biden aide in Israel to try to head off war with Hezbollah

By Lazar Berman

Special envoy Amos Hochstein meets with Netanyahu and Gallant, will hold talks with opposition leaders before flying to Lebanon amid spiraling conflict

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, meets with US Special Envoy Amos Hochstein in Jerusalem, June 17, 2024. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari delivers an English-language address, June 16, 2024. (Screenshot)

IDF warns Hezbollah is bringing Israel to the brink of a ‘wider escalation’

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Haredi leader Goldknopf on army draft: ‘You don’t want us and you don’t need us’

At event marking Bnei Brak centenery, UTJ chief wonders why ultra-Orthodox parties’ electoral achievements do not enable them to strike deals to avoid enlistment for their community

United Torah Judaism leader Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf in Tel Aviv on February 4, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

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

Government backs new extension to IDF reservists’ service despite backlash

Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest against the drafting of Haredim to the IDF, June 2, 2024 (Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 17: Day 255 – Will Knesset keep reservists longer but exempt Haredim?

Iris Haim speaks at the Chabad house in San Mateo, California, May 27, 2024, while on a speaking tour of North America. (Jeff Bartee Photography)

Interview

Iris Haim, mother of killed hostage, tells US Jews: ‘I bring Israel a new voice of hope’

By Natan Galula

On a speaking tour of North America, nurse whose son Yotam Haim was accidentally shot dead by IDF soldiers calls to end Israeli polarization and hints at a run in politics

Alon Gat, brother to hostage Carmel Gat, applauds a hostage rescue as he pushes for a diplomatic deal on June 12, 2024 (Courtesy)

Thrilled by IDF rescue, hostages’ families say deal only way to free their relatives

By Jessica Steinberg

The devastating reframing of Israel’s just war

Suggesting symmetry between Israel and Hamas fundamentally ruptures the sense that the lives of Jews and all Israelis matter

Martin Fletcher

When a faux rally for peace came to my Mexican town

Slogans that followed a bigoted playbook – ‘apartheid,’ ‘genocide,’ and ‘ceasefire now’ – betrayed the protest for the sham it was

Protesters are seen demonstrating near the offices of the Histadrut labor federation as part of an anti-government "week of disruption," in this screenshot from a video posted to X, June 17, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Protesters block highways ahead of Knesset protest amid ‘week of disruption’

High school students stage walkouts, buses organized to transport demonstrators to Jerusalem for major rallies in front of parliament on Monday night

Radical settler activist Neriya Ben Pazi pictured with his family at his illegal farming outpost HaMahoch in the West Bank. Another of Ben Pazi's farms, the Rimonim Farm, has received state funds through the Agriculture Ministry (Courtesy: Honenu legal aid organization)

Agriculture Ministry funding illegal farming outposts, US-sanctioned settlers – report

By Jeremy Sharon

Anti-settlement group says unauthorized West Bank farms got NIS 1.66 million in 2017-2023; some of them were founded by Israelis the US accuses of undermining West Bank stability

State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman, right, and Ma’alot-Tarshiha Mayor Arkady Pomeranets touring a bomb shelter in the city, October 17, 2023. (State Comptroller’s Office)

High Court orders state comptroller to suspend October 7 probe into IDF, Shin Bet

By Jeremy Sharon

Justice Gila Canfy-Steinitz says ruling based on classified opinions written by security agencies

Yair Netanyahu, son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives for a court hearing in a lawsuit filed by former MK Stav Shafir in Tel Aviv, on November 29, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Assailing military, Yair Netanyahu claims ‘treason’ in leadup to October 7 attack

New buildings at a construction site in the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim, February 29, 2024. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Security cabinet mulls penalizing Palestinian Authority for statehood moves

Decision pushed off as defense minister, attorney general ask for more time to study proposals; Smotrich said to agree to release some tax revenues if settlements boosted

MK Eli Dallal leads a joint meeting of the Special Committee for the Rights of the Child and the Special Committee for Combating Drug and Alcohol Abuse at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on April 19, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud MKs slam revival of bill expanding Chief Rabbinate’s influence

MK charges Religious Zionism party reintroduced bill ‘like thieves in the night’; it would create hundreds of publicly funded jobs for Orthodox rabbis, erode women’s role

The Chief Rabbis of Israel, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef (L) and Rabbi David Lau (R) speaks during an event, on January 11, 2016. (Yaakov Coehn/Flash90)

Knesset revives bill expanding Chief Rabbinate’s influence over local authorities

Micha Shtiebel, an IDF reservist of the Alexandroni Brigade, sorts through his army duffel bag containing equipment that he’s either bought himself or received from donors at his house in central Israel, May 26, 2024. (Yakov Binyamin via JTA)

'The army claims no shortage, but all my gear is donated'

Why Israeli battlefield commanders are breaking IDF rules to solicit donated gear

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

While it’s against orders for individual soldiers to accept donations, supply officers turn to Diaspora Jews regularly — not just to get more supplies, but to get them faster

Israeli arms sales break record for 3rd year in row, reaching $13 billion in 2023

By Emanuel Fabian

Defense Ministry says massive exports come as industries remain committed to Israeli war effort; air defense systems account for more than a third of sales

The Arrow air defense system is seen in a video published by the Defense Ministry on November 13, 2023. (Defense Ministry)

INS Komemiyut landing craft is seen being escorted into Israel's territorial waters by other Navy vessels, June 16, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli Navy receives second of new US-built landing craft

By Emanuel Fabian

The USS aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower sails in the Red Sea, June 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Not sunk: US aircraft carrier fights false Houthi claims with memes and muffins

By Jon Gambrell

Capt. ‘Chowdah’ Hill hosts Taco Tuesdays and posts images of sailors eating cookies, boosting morale as the Red Sea deployment stretches on and proving the USS Eisenhower is intact

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A Pakistani-made Shaheen-III missile, that is capable of carrying nuclear warheads, are displayed during a military parade to mark Pakistan National Day, in Islamabad, Pakistan, on March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Nuclear arms spending soars as global tensions ratchet up, studies show

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Supreme Court Justice Uzi Vogelman at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, before the start of a hearing against the Child Adoption Law, on August 2, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court rules to naturalize children of convert to Judaism who hid their births

By Canaan Lidor

Farmers from the Golan Heights demonstrate with colleagues from all over Israel against the war and the security of the borders in a convoy of agricultural trucks, Kibbutz Mevo Hama, southern Golan Heights , February 22, 2024. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Loan org, Leket food bank, partner to offer farmers credit to cope with war effects

Processing donated human milk at the Sussman Family Foundation Human Milk Bank at the Magen David Adom Marcus National Blood Services Center, Ramle. (Courtesy)

After pouring in following October 7, critical human milk donations now run dry

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the First Appeals Court of General Jurisdiction in Moscow, Russia, April 23, 2024. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP)

Russia to start espionage trial of US reporter Gershkovich next week

Muslim pilgrims try to reach for free drinking water in Arafat, on the second day of the annual hajj pilgrimage, near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, June 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Deaths reported in Mecca as Muslims complete last hajj ritual in extreme heat

By Sahar Al Attar

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