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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 20, 2024

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A damaged building, from previous shelling attacks from Lebanon, is seen in the northern city of Kiryat Shmona on June 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Live updates (closed)

June 20: US said to fear Iron Dome could be overwhelmed in all-out war with Hezbollah

WSJ says US officials estimate number of living hostages could be as low as 50 * Nukhba force squad commander who invaded Israel on October 7 killed in airstrike in northern Gaza

8:55 pm

IDF says drone from Lebanon downed after entering Israeli skies
8:48 pm

IDF says 2 rockets fired from Gaza impacted outside kibbutz
8:18 pm

Rocket warning sirens sound in Lebanon border towns

IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari delivers an update on Israel's response to Iran's attack early on April 14, 2024. (Israeli Defense Forces/AFP)

PM's office: IDF 'of course committed' to destroying Hamas

IDF spokesman says Hamas can’t be destroyed, drawing retort from PM: ‘That’s war’s goal’

Hagari calls Hamas ‘an idea rooted in the hearts of the people,’ also says it will stay in Gaza unless alternative found; PM reiterates war aims, amid divisions with defense brass

A truck carrying humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip passes through the Kerem Shalom border crossing between southern Israel and Gaza, on June 17, 2024. (Ahikam Seri/AFP)

Amid chaos and crime in Gaza, UN said to warn Israel humanitarian ops may be halted

By Lazar Berman

Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid from the United Arab Emirates and the United States Agency for International Development cross the Trident Pier before entering the beach in Gaza, May 17, 2024. (Staff Sgt. Malcolm Cohens-Ashley/US Army Central via AP)

US hoping troubled Gaza aid pier can resume operations on Thursday

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah speaks at a ceremony commemorating a slain Hezbollah senior commander, June 19, 2024. (Screenshot)

Nasrallah says ‘no place’ in Israel would be safe in war, threatens to target Cyprus

By Gianluca Pacchiani and Agencies

In televised speech, terror leader claims Hezbollah does not want total war but is prepared for it, will not halt fighting until permanent ceasefire is reached in Gaza

Director-General of the Diaspora Affairs Ministry Avi Cohen-Scali (Diaspora Affairs Ministry)

Report: Appointment of northern rehabilitation czar delayed amid Likud machinations

By Michael Horovitz

Promoted Livestream

Israel’s strategic dilemmas

Shmuel Rosner and Avi Gil discuss Israel’s strategic dilemmas as it enters the second year of war, and the key issues awaiting the Knesset’s return today.

Inside story

Is the US poised to sanction an Israeli minister for the first time?

Some in administration suggest order Biden signed to target West Bank destabilizers should be used against Smotrich, whose withholding of funds has the PA on the verge of collapse

File - Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich addresses the press ahead of his Religious Zionism's weekly faction meeting in the Knesset, June 10, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

PM said to have ignored warnings by ministers, aides against openly criticizing US

Israeli TV says minister Dermer supported public confrontation with US but wanted Netanyahu to delay video statement until after officials’ scheduled Thursday White House meeting

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) with Israel's Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer, at the president's guest house, in Washington, DC, February 14, 2017. (Avi Ohayon/ GPO/ File)

Amid multiplying spats, Netanyahu urges coalition partners to ‘get a grip’

PM says government members must set aside ‘partisan interests’ and unite around war effort in Gaza, as he faces Haredi anger, public row with Ben Gvir, dissent from Barkat

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a video message issued June 19, 2024. (Screenshot/GPO)

Economy Minister Nir Barkat attends a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem on May 29, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 20: Day 258 – Things fall apart? Mini-revolt among a few Likud MKs

Protesters hold a placard which reads as "Raped because she is Jewish" and wave an Israeli flag as they gather to condemn the alleged antisemitic gang rape of a 12 year-old Jewish girl, at the Paris city hall square on June 19, 2024. (Alain Jocard/AFP)

Protests held in Paris and Lyon after indictments announced

Two teens charged with ‘horrific’ antisemitic rape of 12-year-old girl near Paris

By Daniel Hoffman

Third suspect indicted for anti-Jewish threats as attack sends shockwaves through France; Macron decries ‘scourge,’ urges schools to discuss hatred of Jews

Illustrative: Members of National Youth, the youth wing of the Brothers of Italy party, hold a banner reading "Homeland" as they attend a joint rally of Italy's right-wing parties at Piazza del Popolo in Rome, September 22, 2022. (Andreas Solaro/AFP)

Italian PM’s party shrugs off video of youth wing members performing fascist salutes

By AFP

Illustrative: A rose is placed near freshly polished so-called stumbling stones commemorating people, most of them Jews, deported and killed by the Nazis, in Berlin, Germany, November 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Holocaust memorial stones in Germany vandalized with antisemitic messages

Simcha Rosenberg

On not wearing my kippah post Oct. 7

Being recognized as a Jew suddenly shifted from a point of pride to something that could cause trouble

Jewish & Black: Finding my identity with the Rebbe

It was his unconditional love that got me through the shame and embarrassment of the racial mockery I endured as a child

Meirav Leshem-Gonen, mother of Hamas hostage Romi Gonen, speaks about Hamas atrocities on October 7 to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on June 19, 2024. (Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations in Geneva)

‘Face to face’: Mother of Hamas hostage confronts UN rights officials in Geneva

By AFP and ToI Staff

Meirav Leshem Gonen, whose daughter Romi was kidnapped on Oct. 7, says report by rights council ‘trivializes the severity of sexual violence experienced by women in captivity’

Illustrative: An Israeli soldier operates surveillance cameras in an undated photo. (Israel Defense Forces)

‘Their voice’: New forum of slain surveillance soldiers’ families demands Oct. 7 probe

Aviram Meir (left), rescued hostage Almog Meir Jan, and his mother, Orit Meir after his June 8, 2024 rescue from Gaza (Courtesy)

Rescued hostage Almog Meir Jan grapples with return to freedom

By Jessica Steinberg

Meir Jan’s uncle, Aviram Meir, discusses his nephew’s physical and emotional health, his need to see his fellow hostages and the embrace he receives from the Israeli public

Gazan detainees seen in a courtyard in a prison in southern Israel, February 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israel seeks to replace Red Cross with ‘external party’ for Palestinian prisoner visits

By Jeremy Sharon

Karnit Bahartan and Jacob Sharvit with the ancient jars. (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority)

'It changes our understanding of ancient mariner abilities'

3,300-year-old ship discovered off Israeli coast, the oldest ever found in deep waters

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Researchers say location of wreck, carrying hundreds of intact storage vessels, proves Late Bronze Age mariners could journey far out to sea

Illustrative: High school students, along with bereaved families and IDF soldiers, attend a memorial ceremony remembering fallen soldiers, overlooking ancient Gamla and the Sea of Galilee in the Golan Heights, on May 13, 2024. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Inside story'It didn’t feel like a normal year at all'

Difficult senior year at war not deterring Israeli high school grads from IDF service

By Gavriel Fiske

Some 110,000 students finish 12th grade on Thursday; Education Ministry went to great lengths as post-October 7 conflict upended routine, but some students say efforts fell short

An Arab Israeli girl casts her mother's ballot at a polling station in the northern Israeli town of Umm al-Fahm on March 17, 2015. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

Poll: Over half of Arab Israelis feel sense of ‘shared destiny’ with Jews

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Survey of Arab citizens also finds that over two thirds are in favor of an Arab party joining a future government coalition, and 40% say it doesn’t have to be a center-left one

Belgium starting players pose for a team photo at the beginning of the international friendly soccer match between Belgium and Luxembourg at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels, Belgium, June 8, 2024. (Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP)

Brussels declines to host upcoming Belgium-Israel soccer match, citing security risk

By Agencies and ToI Staff

City official say game scheduled for September would provoke demonstrations endangering players, spectators, residents and police

Illustrative: German WWII bunker 'The Odeon' in Alderney. The bunker is about three to four stories high and has an anti-aircraft emplacement at the back. (CC-SA-Tim Brighton)

UK government review concludes Nazi-invaded Isle of Alderney was no ‘Mini Auschwitz’

By Robert Philpot

New research raises death toll on island which housed the only concentration camp on British soil, and uncovers why perpetrators escaped justice

Visitors on a tour during the 2023 Fresh Paint art fair. (Courtesy)

This year’s Fresh Paint art fair ‘takes the temperature’ of Israeli society

By Jessica Steinberg

Some 40,000 visitors expected at annual Tel Aviv art fair slated for early July, where emerging artists meet new collectors for affordable prices

UK Labour Party leader Keir Starmer (L) speaks to port workers during a general election campaign event in Southampton, England, June 17, 2024 (Kin Cheung/AP Photo); Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader Rishi Sunak holds a Q&A election campaign event with farmers in Barnstaple, England, June 18, 2024, (Leon Neal / POOL / AFP)

New polls show UK’s Labour trouncing Conservatives in July 4 elections

Tories under PM Rishi Sunak heading for poorest result in 200 years; rival Keir Starmer forecast to lead Labour to best ever victory, with up to 516 of 650 seats in Westminster

Illustrative: Harvard University students pass anti-Israel protesters while filing into Harvard Yard for commencement at Harvard University, May 23, 2024, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

ADL revises ‘report card’ grading US campuses’ handling of antisemitism

Watchdog reassesses 12 US universities’ grades upwards, 3 downwards, citing new information and ‘serious incidents’ since failing many leading schools

Illustrative: School buses drive from the campus of East Brunswick High School after the school day on East Brunswick, New Jersey, February 22, 2018. (DOMINICK REUTER / AFP)

Officials say carelessness behind Jewish student group’s absence from US school yearbook

By Michael Rubinkam

An aerial view of American Jewish University's Sunny & Isadore Familian Campus in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles. (Courtesy of Communications Department, AJU via JTA)

US rabbinical school says probe of seminary found no systemic sexism or homophobia

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

More Headlines

A deadly road accident on Route 90, June 20, 2024 (Fire and Rescue)

Four killed in car crash in south, including 3 family members

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

Shipping industry urges Red Sea action as Yemen’s Houthis sink second merchant ship

By Jonathan Saul

Muslim pilgrims perform the farewell circumambulation or "tawaf," circling seven times around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca on June 18, 2024 at the end of the annual hajj pilgrimage. (AFP)

Death toll at hajj pilgrimage exceeds 1,000 following extreme heat

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

Fighting off Houthis for months, US carrier in Red Sea may be running out of steam

By Lolita C. Baldor and Jon Gambrell

In this September 21, 2016, file photo, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard troops march in a military parade in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Canada puts Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on terror blacklist

People enter the District Court in Stockholm, Sweden, on September 5, 2023. (Jonathan NACKSTRAND/AFP)

Swedish court clears former Syrian general accused of war crimes

By Johannes LEDEL

File: Eugene Vindman, Democratic candidate for Virginia's 7th Congressional District, attends a news conference outside the US Congress in Washington, March 13, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images via JTA)

Eugene Vindman, who featured in Trump’s first impeachment, wins Virginia primary

Comedian Modi will perform in Tel Aviv on September 12, 2024 (Courtesy)

Funny modeUS comedian Modi books Tel Aviv show after selling out in Jerusalem

By Jessica Steinberg

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