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What Matters Most On Tuesday, June 18, 2024

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

Lapid downplays rumors of renewed alliance with Bennett

3 hospitalized as cops clash with anti-government protesters after march on PM’s home

By Sam Sokol and Gianluca Pacchiani

All 3 were hit by water cannon spray; one is a volunteer doctor; 9 arrested on 2nd day of ‘week of disruption’; Likud MK says coalition ‘has no achievements,’ mulls snap vote

Likud MK Nissim Vaturi attends a meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 1, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hardline Likud MK calls anti-government protesters a ‘branch of Hamas’

By ToI Staff and Sam Sokol

US special envoy Amos Hochstein addresses the media after meeting with Lebanon's parliament speaker in Beirut on June 18, 2024. (AFP)

In Beirut, US envoy urges de-escalation between Israel, Hezbollah: ‘Achievable, urgent’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Pushing diplomatic solution to Hezbollah-Israel exchanges of fire, Hochstein says latest Gaza hostage-ceasefire proposal could ‘end the conflict across the Blue Line’

Relatives visit the graves of killed Hezbollah fighters during Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of Sacrifice in the southern Lebanese town of Naqoura near the border with Israel on June 17, 2024. (Photo by Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)

IDF kills Hezbollah rocket specialist amid rare 3-day lull in terror group’s fire

By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid and Tal Schneider

Soldiers are seen monitoring surveillance cameras at a command center at the IDF's Re'im camp in southern Israel, November 5, 2023 (Israel Defense Forces)

Parents said threatening court case to pull surveillance troops from northern border

A smoke plume billows during Israeli strikes across the border in southern Lebanon, from a position along the border in northern Israel on June 18, 2024. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

June 18: Pentagon says no one wants to see a regional war, as IDF okays battle plans

Senior US official says Israel not responsible for limited distribution of humanitarian aid in Gaza * High Court questions law that boosted Ben Gvir’s powers

8:43 pm

US official: Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar a 'psychopath and messianic'
8:31 pm

Senior US official says Israel not behind aid distribution woes in Gaza
7:55 pm

No one wants to see regional war in Middle East - Pentagon

Residential homes, severely damaged during Hamas's October 7 onslaught on southern Israel, line a street in the Olives Neighborhood of Kibbutz Be'eri on January 1, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)

Donation RequestKibbutz Be'eri

Rebuilding Be’eri Together

Kibbutz Be’eri was one of the kibbutzim that underwent a horrific massacre in the early morning hours of October 7th, 2023. Now, they need your help.

Too late? French court strikes down ban on Israeli companies at defense trade show

By Lazar Berman

Other rulings in favor of Israeli firms likely after Paris Commercial Court decision, but leading companies aren’t rushing to attend Eurosatory 2024, which began on Monday

Visitors walk past a Type-X robotic combat vehicle on display at the Eurosatory international land, air defense and security trade fair, in Villepinte, a northern suburb of Paris, June 17, 2024. (JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP)

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

Blinken reportedly promised Netanyahu to lift restrictions on US arms shipments

Incoming coalition chairman Tzachi Hanegbi (L) and Transportation and Intelligence Minister Israel Katz (R) at a Knesset ceremony swearing in the new government on May 14, 2015 (Knesset Spokesperson)

Report: Hanegbi proposed demoting ties with states recognizing Palestine, was rebuffed

By Lazar Berman

Hamas terrorists near Kibbutz Nir Oz during the massacre on October 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Eslaiah)

3 weeks before Oct. 7, IDF Gaza Division warned of Hamas plan to attack, take 250 hostages

Report reveals Sept. 19 document that specified terror group was training for mass assault on south; ‘I feel like crying, yelling, swearing,’ says soldier involved with memo

Relatives and supporters of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas terrorists since the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, take part in a demonstration calling for their release in Tel Aviv on June 15, 2024. (Jack Guez / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 18: Day 256 – How intel of a mass Hamas hostage-taking was ignored

Protesters demand early elections and a deal to release hostages held in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv on June 15, 2024. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Senior Israeli negotiator says dozens of Gaza hostages ‘alive, with certainty’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Top unnamed official warns ‘we cannot leave them there a long time, they will die,’ says all captives need to be released in deal with Hamas before Israel can accept halting the war

Palestinians children play on the site of a destroyed building, purportedly where Israeli hostages were held and rescued during an Israeli military operation, in the Nuseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip on June 15, 2024. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Rescued hostages were held by families with known ties to Hamas, says report

Rescued hostage Noa Argamani is reunited with her father Yaakov Argamani at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, June 8, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

No rehab plan in place for Noa Argamani, other ex-hostages, doctor says at Knesset

US Vice President Kamala Harris, second from right, talks with Amit Soussana, center, before a screening of a film, "Screams Before Silence," in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, Monday, June 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

US VP: I fear testimony on Hamas sexual violence will increase as more hostages freed

By JTA and Jacob Magid

White House hosts event to combat denial of Hamas atrocities, screening ex-Facebook COO’s film; ex-captive who disclosed abuse tells attendees she can’t recover until all hostages freed

Beverly Willett

I’m Catholic. I stand with Israel.

To anti-Zionists I say is it not conceivable establishment of Israel was itself the product of divine intervention?

Not black and white: Study abroad in Israel and Palestine

As discourse on Gaza gets toxic, students of a past academic program recall the multiple perspectives that challenged their narratives

IDF troops operate in southern Gaza's Rafah, in a handout photo published June 17, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says half of Hamas’s forces in Rafah dismantled, at least 550 gunmen killed

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Military says it found 25 ‘long’ tunnels, some which may cross into Egypt, as Palestinians report Israeli troops are pushing deeper into Gaza’s southernmost city

Asaf Ben Lulu sits at the entrance to his home in Eilon on June 9, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Braving Hezbollah’s drones and rockets, the few remaining northerners brace for war

By Canaan Lidor

Confronted with their communities’ vulnerability, a handful of locals stay put as they consider an uncertain future for themselves and their still-evacuated children

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi is seen holding a situational assessment in central Gaza in an image published June 16, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Ben Gvir, Smotrich chide IDF chief over Gaza humanitarian zones, pushing Haredi draft

Halevi says his input on conscription law warranted because IDF needs troops, despite charge of meddling in political matters, according to leaked transcript of security cabinet meeting

Israeli children play on a sand dune overlooking their homes in the Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim, in the Gush Katif bloc in the southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Aug. 8, 2005. N (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

Far-right MKs announce formation of Knesset caucus to push resettlement of Gaza

The Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee discusses a bill to expand the number of municipal rabbis across the country, June 18, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset panel pushes off vote on contentious bill expanding Chief Rabbinate’s influence

Likud MKs object to promoting law during wartime; with municipalities expected to shoulder part of the cost, mayors express outrage, demand funds go to help residents during war

Otzma Yehudit MK Zvika Fogel chairs a meeting of the Knesset National Security Committee, February 27, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hardline MKs push bill to allow curbs on movement, speech based on ‘confidential intel’

Israeli-born children of African migrants and asylum-seekers protest against segregated education in Tel Aviv, September 1, 2021, Rabin Square, Tel Aviv. (Courtesy, Levinsky Garden Library)

Reporter's notebook

First year of integrating migrant children with Israelis in Tel Aviv schools ‘a success’

Municipality, Education Ministry announced integration pilot for first-graders days before High Court was to discuss petition against segregation

At left: Virginia Sen. John McGuire takes part at a campaign event in Charlottesville, Virginia, June 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthew Barakat); At right: Rep. Bob Good talks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, January 12, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

'Voting no on Israel at this moment goes against our values'

In tight Virginia primary between hardline candidates, Republican Jews focus on Israel

John McGuire and Bob Good both seen as radical by Republican Jewish Coalition, but Good’s rallying against Israel aid is helping his challenger in 5th congressional district

Illustrative: Radical anti-Israel activist Nerdeen Kiswani, front center, caused some students to feel unsafe on campus when she was invited to give the CUNY Law School commencement speech in 2022. In this undated photo, she can be seen demonstrating in New York City with the anti-Israel group Within Our Lifetime, which she founded, and which calls to 'globalize the intifada' and supports the Hamas-led October 7 massacre in Israel. (Courtesy via JTA)

U of Michigan, CUNY agree to make changes following federal antisemitism investigations

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Settled on Monday, the Title VI cases against the two major universities are the first to conclude since a wave of anti-Israel activity erupted on campuses nationwide after Oct. 7

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Illustrative photo of Israeli high school students taking an exam, in Tel Aviv on June 29, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

OECD study shows Israeli teens excel at ‘creative thinking’

By Gavriel Fiske

Illustrative: Mosquitoes cling to the inside of a jar loaded with repellent during a test as part of a tour of the Centers for Disease Control laboratory, April 4, 2024, in Fort Collins, Colorado. (David Zalubowski/AP)

7 hospitalized in Tel Aviv area with West Nile fever; 2 in serious condition

By Stuart Winer

Tesfai Kasau, father of missing 9-year-old Haymanut, speaks to the Knesset Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs, June 18, 2024. (Screenshot/Knesset Channel, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Father of missing 9-year-old girl: Government ‘not doing enough’ to find her

Shaina Taub accepts the Best Original Score award for "Suffs" onstage during The 77th Annual Tony Awards at David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, June 16, 2024 in New York City. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions via JTA)

‘Suffs’ creator cites Jewish text Pirkei Avot in Tony Awards acceptance speech

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Illustrative: An El Al plane lands at Ben Gurion Airport, on October 13, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

After outcry, El Al reinstates discount for shipping war gear donated to Israel

By JTA and ToI Staff

Illustrative: The Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)

AI could spread false and misleading information on Holocaust, UNESCO report warns

By David Klepper

Tel Aviv skyline. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Tel Aviv bumped down to 16th most expensive city for overseas workers – survey

By Sharon Wrobel

A section of the polluted Saadia Stream that flows through the northern city of Haifa. (Haifa Municipality Spokesperson's Department)

State begins rehabilitation of polluted Haifa stream

Illustrative: Israel Police investigate the scene of a crime on June 2, 2021. (Israel Police)

Son suspected of stabbing mother to death in southern city of Arad

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un shake hands during their meeting at the Vostochny cosmodrome in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, on September 13, 2023. (Vladimir Smirnov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Before summit with North Korea’s Kim, Putin vows they’ll beat sanctions together

By KIM TONG-HYUNG

Johan Floderus kneels down and proposes to his boyfriend at Arlanda airport near Stockholm, Sweden, June 15, 2024. (Tom Samuelsson/Regeringskansliet via AFP)

Swedish man released from Iran proposes to boyfriend upon landing

By AFP

Ryan Warsofsky, middle, holds up a jersey between San Jose Sharks general manager Mike Grier, left, and president Jonathan Becher at a news conference introducing Warsofsky as the NHL hockey head coach of the Sharks in San Jose, California, June 17, 2024. (Jeff Chiu/AP)

San Jose Sharks’ Ryan Warsofsky becomes first Jewish NHL head coach in 32 years

By jacob gurvis

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