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What Matters Most On Friday, June 21, 2024

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

Netanyahu: I tried addressing ‘diminution’ of US weapons privately before going public

PM extends spat with Biden, but insists it can be solved ‘instantaneously with goodwill’; doesn’t say which arms withheld, but they’re needed ‘to win in Gaza, avoid war in Lebanon’

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, May 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

US vexed, disappointed by Netanyahu claim of arms holdup: ‘No one has done more for him’

By Jacob Magid and Reuters

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

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 21: Day 259 – What’s behind Netanyahu’s tiff with Washington?

File: (Left to right) Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Council chairman Tzachi Hanegbi at the State Department in Washington on March 7, 2023. (Antony Blinken/Twitter)

US hosts PM’s aides amid concern full-on war with Hezbollah would overwhelm Iron Dome

Blinken reiterates need to hike Gaza aid, plan for post-war governance amid Netanyahu’s refusal to do so; US said skeptical Israel can pull off ‘blitzkrieg’ attack against Hezbollah

An Israeli police officer inspects a site where rockets launched from southern Lebanon struck in Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel, on June 19, 2024. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

Hezbollah shells north with dozens of rockets after IDF drone strike kills commander

By Emanuel Fabian

Sgt. First Class (res.) Omer Smadga (left) and Sgt. First Class (res.) Saadia Yaakov Derai, killed in a Hamas mortar attack in central Gaza on June 20, 2024. (Courtesy)

Army strikes PIJ rocket launcher inside 'humanitarian zone'

Two IDF reservists killed, 3 seriously hurt in Hamas mortar attack in central Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

Omer Smadga dies on the birthday of his father, Olympic medalist and coach Oren Smadga; second fatality is Saadia Yaakov Derai, son of pundit and social activist Laly Derai

A child plays on a beach as a ship transporting international humanitarian aid is moored at the US-built Trident Pier near Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on May 21, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian terror Hamas group. (AFP)

US-built pier in Gaza resumes operations after latest weather setback, official says

By AP and ToI Staff

Ghazi Hamad, a member of Hamas's political bureau, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Beirut, Lebanon, October 26, 2023. (AP/Bilal Hussein)

Senior Hamas official: IDF spokesman ‘confessed’ Israel has failed in Gaza war goals

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An Israeli Air Force fighter aircraft flies over the border area between northern Israel and southern Lebanon on June 21, 2024. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

June 21: UN chief warns of catastrophe ‘beyond imagination’ if Lebanon becomes another Gaza

Canada said preparing to evacuate 45,000 citizens from Lebanon amid growing fears of war between Israel and Hezbollah * 2 reservists killed fighting in Gaza Strip

8:41 pm

Prosecutors drop most charges against protesters who occupied Columbia University building
8:23 pm

Haniyeh says Hamas is open to any initiative that ends the war
7:48 pm

IDF says airstrikes hit a series of Hezbollah positions in south Lebanon

Protesters hold a banner reading "raped at 12 because Jewish" during a demonstration called by associations including SOS Racisme and the Women's Foundation to denounce antisemitism, in Paris on June 20, 2024, after the alleged antisemetic gang rape of a 12-year-old girl in Paris' suburb of Courbevoie. (Zakaria ABDELKAFI / AFP)

Separate rally against far-right ends in clashes with cops

Hundreds protest in Paris against antisemitism after rape of 12-year-old Jewish girl

By AFP

President of Women’s Foundation tells rally incident reflects rise in antisemitism since Oct. 7, as well as ‘a rape culture to which young people are more likely to subscribe’

Protesters hold placards decrying antisemitism as they gather to condemn the antisemitic gang rape of a 12-year-old girl, during a rally in Lyon, France, June 19, 2024. (Jean-Philippe Ksiazek/AFP)

As far right and hard left vie for votes, French Jews seek least antisemitic party

By Claire Gallen

A police vehicle stands in front of the synagogue in the city center of Oldenburg, Germany, after an incendiary device was thrown at its door. (Hauke-Christian Dittrich/dpa via Getty Images via JTA

German government reports rise in extremist crimes, partly due to Israel-Hamas war

By Toby Axelrod

Lawyer for victim's family demands death penalty

ISIS-inspired Palestinian charged for murdering Israeli teen in grisly West Bank attack

By Michael Horovitz

Details of killing so gruesome they are not made public; Ahmed Dawabsha allegedly began discussing jihadist ideology with friends last year, decided all non-Muslims are infidels

14-year-old Benjamin Achimeir, who went missing in the West Bank on April 12, 2024 and was found murdered a day later. (Courtesy)

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers guard near Qalqilya on August 12, 2022. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Deadly clashes erupt in West Bank after elderly Israeli killed in carjacking

We are stronger than we think

At this time of broken illusions, Israel’s sojourn in the desert shows that the gap between the real and ideal is part of Jewish DNA (Beha’alotcha)

Avidan Freedman

The price of fear

Though rooted in real safety concerns, the push to totally ban Palestinian workers has its own dangers, external and internal

A woman pushes a stroller as she walks past a placard indicating the location where a new cultural complex will be built, in the West Bank settlement of Beit El, May 1, 2019. (Gili Yaari /Flash90)

Israel’s birth rate remains highest in OECD by far, at 2.9 children per woman

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Israel is forum’s only member state reproducing above replacement rate; report cites high Haredi rate, but even among secular population it is higher than in any other OECD country

View of a large fire caused by attacks from Lebanon, in the northern town of Kiryat Shmona, June 3, 2024 (David Cohen/Flash90)

Israel unprepared for full-blown war with Hezbollah — senior electricity official

Head of company responsible for planning country’s electrical systems says Israel would be uninhabitable after 72 hours without power; after furor, claims he misspoke

Tourists sit under a tree for shade amid hot weather at Eleftherias, Liberty, square in central capital Nicosia, Cyprus, on Friday, June 14, 2024. (AP/Petros Karadjias)

Cyprus nonplussed by Hezbollah threat it could be dragged into regional war

Posters of Israelis held hostage by Hamas are seen on the wall of the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, April 3, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Report claims only 50 hostages in Gaza still thought alive

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Netanyahu tells families of slain hostages he will not halt fight even as pressure for deal continues to mount; IDF says terror commander who took part in October 7 massacre killed

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)

Surveillance troops spotted ‘highly irregular’ Hamas drill 4 days before Oct. 7

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan addresses a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels, April 4, 2024. (Johanna Geron, Pool Photo via AP, File)

Armenia recognizes Palestinian statehood; Israel summons ambassador for reprimand

Move follows similar ones by Slovenia, Spain, Ireland and Norway, with 145 UN member states now recognizing ‘State of Palestine’; statement affirms support for two-state solution

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock delivers a statement to the media prior to the start of a European Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Brussels on May 27, 2024. (François Walschaerts/AFP)

German foreign minister to visit Israel, West Bank and Lebanon next week

By AFP and ToI Staff

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to Prof. Jan Grabowski: Appropriation of Holocaust terms in Gaza war

Historian discusses how the definitions of the terms ‘genocide’ and ‘Zionists’ are usurped and cheapened in an effort to delegitimize the Jewish state during the war against Hamas

Holocaust historian and University of Ottawa Prof. Jan Grabowski. (Katarzyna Markusz)

Salt formations on the southern coast of the Dead Sea, with the abandoned P88 pumping station in the background, and Masada on the horizon, May 28, 2024. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Enivronmental battle at lowest point on Earth

Geologists press Dead Sea Works to prevent creation of salt mountain ‘as tall as Masada’

Company said examining alternatives for disposal of mineral extraction byproduct as state’s Geological Survey pins hopes on developing beauty spot for new tourism plan

Margot Friedlander, 102, is on the cover of the July/August Vogue Germany edition. At right, she appears during an event at the Bundestag in January 2024. (Michele Tantussi/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

Timeless style

Vogue Germany’s next cover model is a 102-year-old Holocaust survivor

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Margot Friedländer moved back to Berlin when she was 89 years old, decades after surviving Theresienstadt, and has since become a local celebrity

Protesters chant: 'You're the leader, you're guilty'

Thousands rally against government outside Netanyahu’s Caesarea home

Protests also held in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv amid ‘week of disruption’ demanding elections over government’s handling of fighting in north, south, ‘shameful failure’ to free hostages

Protesters outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's private residence in Caesarea hold Israeli flags and signs with names of northern communities damaged by fires due to Hezbollah rocket and drone attacks, June 20, 2024. (Pro-Democracy Movement/Amos Gil)

Haredi protesters are seen blocking Route 4 in a demonstration against the conscription of yeshiva students, in this screenshot from a video taken June 20, 2024. (Screenshot via X, Shilo Fried, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox block highway in protest against IDF enlistment

By ToI Staff and Sam Sokol

A secular man and an ultra-Orthodox man fight during a protest against the drafting of Haredi Jews to the military, outside the IDF army recruitment office in Jerusalem, May 1, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Poll: Israelis hopeful about smoothing civil divides but split on trust in government

Volunteers staff the phones in the Westchester Unites office in New Rochelle, New York, June 19, 2024. (Luke Tress/JTA)

'Antisemitism is on the ballot'

Jewish get-out-the-vote effort seeks to unseat Israel critic Jamaal Bowman in NY primary

The June 25 vote reflects a contest between moderate Democrats who support Israel and progressives like the congressman who has cast doubt on reports of Hamas’s sexual violence

Andrew Rehfeld delivers his inaugural address as president of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion at the Plum Street Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 27, 2019. (Courtesy of HUC)

Hebrew Union College rabbinical school to admit students in interfaith relationships

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Policy change brings seminary in line with norms across Reform movement, where intermarriage is common; students with children must pledge to raise them as Jews

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Vincent van Gogh's "Der alte Turm," 1884. (Public Domain)

Swiss museum takes down 5 paintings looted by Nazis as part of probe into origins

By Jamey Keaten

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a Knesset Finance Committee meeting in Jerusalem, on June 10, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Treasury said to urge Smotrich to make cuts, hike taxes to raise NIS 30-50 billion

Yemeni coastguards loyal to the internationally recognized government ride in a patrol boat in the Red Sea off the government-held town of Mokha in the western Taiz province, close to the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait, on April 15, 2024. (Khaled Ziad/AFP)

In rarity, liquefied natural gas ship braves Red Sea days after Houthis sink vessel

File: Workers repaint a Ten Commandments billboard off of Interstate 71 on Election Day near Chenoweth, Ohio, November 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Louisiana passes law requiring public schools to display Ten Commandments

OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman (center) and Ilya Sutskever (right) on a panel at Tel Aviv University, June 5, 2023. (Chen Galili)

OpenAI co-founder creates a new AI startup with a research lab in Tel Aviv

By Sharon Wrobel

Dried dates sold at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on August 25, 2016. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Pulp frictionBan on date imports said to pit UAE against Israel’s Agriculture Ministry

BlackRock's office in the Hudson Yards neighborhood of New York City. (AP/Ted Shaffrey)

Anti-Israel backlash keeps US conglomerate away from major Malaysia project

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Actor Donald Sutherland appears at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Oct. 13, 2017. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

ObituaryDonald Sutherland, towering actor from ‘M.A.S.H.’ and ‘Hunger Games,’ dies at 88

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