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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 19, 2024

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, greets National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at the Knesset on May 23, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

After Ben Gvir demands spot on war cabinet, PM accuses him of leaking state secrets

In response far-right minister snipes at Netanyahu’s pacemaker; Gantz wonders why PM appointed him to the cabinet and gave him power over police if he believes he is untrustworthy

Justices hold a High Court hearing on petitions against a police regulations bill pushed for by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, on June 18, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court raises constitutional concerns over law granting Ben Gvir police powers

By Jeremy Sharon

Lawmakers take part in a debate on ultra-Orthodox enlistment in the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on June 18, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset spokesman)

MKs hope for compromise as contentious Haredi draft bill goes to committee

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a plenum session and vote on reviving the ultra-Orthodox enlistment bill at the Knesset, Jerusalem, June 11, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lapid: 'The next test will be the conscription law'

Haredim threaten to bolt coalition as PM pulls ‘Rabbis Bill’ from Knesset agenda

By Elana Kirsh and Sam Sokol

Cancelation announced hours before vote was scheduled on contentious law, as Likud MKs voice opposition; Shas, UTJ issue veiled threats to topple government

AnalysisFailure of ‘Rabbis Bill’ shatters Haredi trust in PM, putting coalition on thin ice

Likud MKs Tally Gotliv, left, and Moshe Saada attend a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting in the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 18, 2024; they both expressed opposition to the so-called "Rabbis Bill." (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM boots rebel MKs from committee, insists on urgent vote on jobs-for-rabbis law

Illustrative: Likud leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with head of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party MK Itamar Ben Gvir at a vote in the Knesset plenum, December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90/File)

Live updates (closed)

June 19: Ben Gvir said threatening vote boycott unless given more influence over Gaza war

By Michael Bachner, Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

Barkat says he and other Likud MKs will oppose Haredi draft bill without ‘fundamental’ changes * Israeli official reportedly says Nasrallah’s speech shows he’s ‘distressed’

8:48 pm

FM rebuffs UN official who warns Israel may have to deal alone with Gaza humanitarian crisis
8:30 pm

Holocaust memorial stones in Germany vandalized with antisemitic messages
8:10 pm

IDF says rocket siren in Gaza border area was a false alarm

Donation RequestIsraelGives Foundation

Emergency gear for IDF special forces

The war is unfortunately far from over and the threats to Israel’s existence are only increasing. With much gratitude and humility, we turn to you and again ask for your help.

Reporter's Notebook

In Rafah, IDF focuses on tunnels, with aim of destroying Hamas brigade within a month

ToI joins commander of Givati Brigade in Gaza’s southernmost city, where army says the terror group’s operatives have embedded themselves inside booby-trapped buildings and tunnels

A view of southern Gaza's Rafah from the Philadelphi Corridor on the border with Egypt, June 18, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Troops of the IDF's Givati Brigade operate in the Yabna camp of southern Gaza's Rafah, June 18, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 19: Day 257 – Report from Rafah: How Hamas triggers booby-traps

Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani gives a joint press conference with the visiting US secretary of state in Doha on June 12, 2024. (Ibraheem Al-Omari/Pool/AFP)

Qatari PM meets Haniyeh to push ceasefire as US blames ‘psychopath’ Sinwar for deadlock

White House: Meeting moved due to scheduling conflict

US denies report it canceled talks in DC over Netanyahu’s complaint of weapons holdup

By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

Some Israeli officials said to have been en route when Thursday meeting called off; in video, Netanyahu accused US of withholding arms transfers, sparking White House irritation

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, June 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, May 1, 2024. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Netanyahu protests ‘inconceivable’ arms halt; US: Don’t know what he’s talking about

By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

Illustrative: This photograph shows a view of a parked French National Police car, in front of the Caen-Ifs prison in Ifs, near Caen, northwestern France, on May 14, 2024. (Lou Benoist/AFP)

Three teens arrested in France on suspicion of raping 12-year-old Jewish girl

Suspects alleged to have attacked victim and beat her while hurling antisemitic insults before gang-raping her in park near her home

Op-ed: Day 257 of the war

As war winds down, diplomacy is paramount, but Netanyahu has other priorities

With Hamas being routed as an organized army yet still a potent guerrilla force, it’s time for intensive work on alternative rule for Gaza. Instead, the PM picks fights with the US

Troops of the IDF's Givati Brigade operate in the Yabna camp of southern Gaza's Rafah, June 18, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Israeli journalist Yaakov Bardugo (3rd-L) at the Knesset, Jerusalem, on May 20, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF slams right-wing pundit for ‘lie’ that military chief wants Hamas to rule Gaza

A still image of Haifa Bay from footage of northern Israel claimed by Hezbollah to have been captured with a drone on an unspecified date and published on June 18, 2024. (Screenshot, X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

FM Katz warns Hezbollah of destruction in 'total war'

In open threat, Hezbollah publishes drone footage of sites in northern Israel

By Emanuel Fabian

Terror group posts nearly 10 minutes of video, including shots of Haifa bay and sensitive military locations, as US envoy urges de-escalation in Beirut

The head of IDF Northern Command Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin (left) and head of the Operations Directorate Maj. Gen. Oded Basiuk (right) hold an assessment, July 18, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Top Israeli generals approve Lebanon offensive battle plans, army says

By Emanuel Fabian

A smoke plume billows following an Israeli strike in south Lebanon from a position along the border in northern Israel on June 18, 2024. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

Syrian officer killed in alleged Israeli strike; Hezbollah explosive drone hits north

By Emanuel Fabian

Ruthie Hollander

7 ways Gen-Z will have to grapple with Zionism – if they care at all

How can American Jewry combat the anti-Israel movement without educating toward an intellectually honest, democratic Zionism?

Menachem Rosensaft

The ADL Campus Antisemitism Report Card gets an ‘F’ from me

The ADL is supposed to be grading how the university handled antisemitic incidents on campus, not whether they happened to begin with

Protest leaders: He wants to discredit the democratic public

Preaching unity, Netanyahu slams ‘loud, sometimes violent’ anti-government protesters

By Shira Silkoff

At memorial event for Altalena Affair, PM accuses demonstrators with ‘unimaginable amounts of money’ of not supporting the IDF or the fight against Israel’s enemies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a ceremony for the victims of the 1948 Altalena incident, at Nachalat Yitzhak cemetery in Tel Aviv. June 18, 2024. (Shaul Golan/Pool/Flash90)

Tal Weissbach after being struck by a police water cannon at a Jerusalem protest on June 17, 2024. (Courtesy)

After doctor’s severe eye injury, physicians urge police to stop using water cannons

By Diana Bletter

Thousands of Israelis protest against the current government and call for early elections, near the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 18, 2024. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Mass anti-government rally held at Knesset for 2nd night, but planned march fizzles out

By Charlie Summers

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 officials say Gaza aid pier may be dismantled soon, after little success – report

New York Times reports said structure could be taken down in early July, weeks earlier than planned and after only 10 days of actual operation, due to unexpected weather conditions

Armed and masked Palestinians seen on trucks loaded with international humanitarian aid entering Gaza via the Israeli Kerem Shalom Crossing, southern Gaza Strip, April 3, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90

Trade in smuggled cigarettes said to hamper aid deliveries in Gaza

A poster of Ada Sagi, 75-year-old mother of Noam Sagi, is on display at a press conference of British children of Israeli hostages at a hotel in London, October 12, 2023. Noam Sagi, 53, is a London-based psychotherapist who grew up on Kibbutz Nir Oz. His 75-year-old mother, Ada Sagi, was taken hostage on October 7. Sharon Lifschitz, 52, is an artist and academic whose parents are peace activists aged 85 and 83 and were taken hostage too. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Hostage freed in November deal says she was held in a Gaza hospital before release

In an interview with BBC, 75-year-old Arabic teacher Ada Sagi says being kidnapped from Nir Oz by Hamas terrorists destroyed her belief in peace between Israelis and Palestinians

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks at posters of the Gaza hostages on November 14, 2023. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu to meet with relatives of deceased hostages amid mounting backlash

By AFP and ToI Staff

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk listens to delegates after delivering his report of the situation in the West Bank and Gaza during the 55th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on February 29, 2024. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)

UN rights office: Israeli Gaza strikes may have ‘systematically violated’ laws of war

Illustrative photo of a man training his dog, in the northern Israeli city of Tzfat, on January 10, 2019. (David Cohen/Flash90)

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TAU’s $10 million Doolittle prize seeks scientists who can ‘talk to the animals’

By Gavriel Fiske

The award inaugurated this month at Tel Aviv University hopes to spur research, with the aim of creating human-animal dialogue ‘at their own level’

Satellite photo from Planet Labs Inc. shows construction at the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center near Dimona, Israel, on February 22, 2021. (Planet Labs Inc. via AP)

Israel modernizing nuclear capabilities, upgrading production facilities – report

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute warns atomic weapons playing a larger role in international relations than at any time since the Cold War

Bass player Barak Mori will perform a piece he composed for his nephew, Omri Ben Shachar, killed in action in Gaza in December 2023. (Courtesy)

Bassist Barak Mori to play blue notes at Jerusalem Jazz in memory of fallen nephew

By Jessica Steinberg

Karen Frostig has been working for nearly two decades to build a memorial at Jungfernhof, the Latvian site where the Nazis likely murdered her grandparents. (Courtesy Mike E. Dunne/ via JTA)

'We need a memorial to speak the truth of what happened here'

Artist fights for memorial to 4,000 Jews who died at Jungfernhof Nazi camp in Latvia

By Deborah Lynn Blumberg

For 17 years Karen Frostig worked for recognition of the mostly German and Austrian Jewish victims who died at the poorly-documented site. Latvian officials are now showing support

Wikipedia moves to bar ADL, claiming reliability concerns on Israel and antisemitim

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Editor who initiated deliberation that ultimately led to ban on using the Jewish group as a source accuses it of ‘shameless politicization,’ while only a small minority defend it

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Muslim pilgrims gather to perform the farewell circumambulation or "tawaf," at the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca on June 18, 2024, at the end of the annual hajj pilgrimage. (AFP)

At least 550 pilgrims died during hajj, most of them from the heat, diplomats say

By AFP

Illustrative: A Kosovo government official takes a self-photo during a signing ceremony held digitally, in the capital Pristina, establishing diplomatic ties between Kosovo and Israel, February 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Kosovo and Israel agree to implement visa-free travel from September

By SYLEJMAN KLLOKOQI and LLAZAR SEMINI

Belize-flagged cargo ship Rubymar, damaged in a February 19 missile strike claimed by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, floats in the Red Sea. (Satellite image ©2024 Maxar Technologies / AFP)

Houthis sink commercial shipping vessel in Red Sea, Filipino sailor killed

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Russian President Vladimir Putin, second left, and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, second right, shake hands during the official welcome ceremony in the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, June 19, 2024. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin says Russia, North Korea made new defense pact to aid each other if attacked

By KIM TONG-HYUNG

File - US linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky is pictured during a press conference in Curitiba, Brazil, on September 20, 2018. (Heuler Andrey / AFP)

Noam Chomsky’s wife denies reports famed linguist and Israel critic died in Brazil

By Agencies and ToI Staff

This combination created on June 18, 2024 of handout pictures provided by the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) shows Presidential candidates (clockwise) Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Alireza Zakani, Mostafa Pourmohammadi, Masoud Pezeshkian, Saeed Jalili, and Amirhossein Ghazizadeh-Hashemi during a debate at the Iran State television studio in Tehran on June 17, 2024. (MORTEZA FAKHRINEJAD / IRIB / AFP)

Iran’s six presidential candidates debate economic issues as elections near

By AFP and ToI Staff

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