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What Matters Most On Saturday, June 22, 2024

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Sgt. First Class (res.) Malkia Gross (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

June 22: IDF says soldier died in fighting in southern Gaza, bringing ground op toll to 315

Anti-government rallies held nationwide; 3 arrested as protesters clash with cops in Tel Aviv * Israeli source pessimistic on deal: Mediators don’t have enough leverage over Sinwar

9:39 pm

3 arrested as police move protesters blocking road outside Likud HQ in Tel Aviv
8:21 pm

Mounted police remove protesters blocking road outside Likud HQ in Tel Aviv
7:59 pm

At a Tel Aviv hotel, evacuees from Kiryat Shmona criticize calls to end war

Left: Amnon Muchtar, 67, shot dead after entering the West Bank city of Qalqilya with his car on June 22, 2024; Right: The vehicle after being set on fire (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli man shot and killed in his car in West Bank’s Qalqilya in apparent terror

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Troops enter city after killing of Amnon Muchtar, 67; army source says signs point to nationalistic motive; vehicle of victim set on fire after shooting

The crashed vehicle which police said was transporting two wanted members of the Islamic Jihad terror terror group in the West Bank city of Qalqilya, June 21, 2024 (Courtesy/X)

Police say 2 Islamic Jihad members killed in West Bank raid, one was planning attack

By Emanuel Fabian

A vehicle allegedly hit by the IDF in an airstrike that killed top Hamas and al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya operative Ayman Ghatma, near the Lebanese town of Khiara, June 22, 2024. (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF kills top Hamas man in Lebanon; US said to promise Israel full support if war erupts

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Army says operative Ayman Ghatma procured arms for terror group and an allied Lebanese faction; officials reportedly vow backing in Washington talks with Israeli counterparts

Smoke billows from fires ignited by Israeli shelling near the southern Lebanese village of Deir Mimas on June 15, 2024 (Rabih DAHER / AFP)

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

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Black smoke billows after an Israeli air strike that targeted a house in the southern Lebanese village of Khiam, near Israel's northern border with Lebanon, June 21, 2024. (Rabih Daher / AFP)

Report: Canada preparing to evacuate 45,000 citizens from Lebanon as war fears grow

DA drops charges against most anti-Israel students who occupied Columbia building

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Prosecutors partially cite lack of evidence in decision not to indict 31 of the 46 people arrested in Hamilton Hall takeover, noting they wore masks and blocked security cameras

An anti-Israel activist breaks the windows of the front door of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University in order to secure a chain around it to prevent authorities from entering on April 30, 2024 in New York City. (Alex Kent/Getty Images/AFP)

Pro-Palestinian activists block pro-Israel Jewish students during a demonstration outside Columbia University, February 2, 2024. (Luke Tress)

Columbia suspends 3 administrators who belittled campus Jews’ antisemitism worries

Illustrative: Smoke from an Israeli strike billows in the background near an area previously housing displaced Palestinians who left Rafah toward Khan Younis on June 20, 2024, in the southern Gaza Strip. (Bashar Taleb/AFP)

IDF says it’s investigating Red Cross claims strike hit Gaza office, killed 22

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Army says it did not target facility, but does not rule out attack; Red Cross doesn’t specify who carried out shelling in area of tent camp as Hamas blames Israel

Soldiers carry the coffin of Sgt. First Class (res.) Omer Smadga, 25, who was killed the day before in a mortar strike in central Gaza, at the military cemetery in Netanya, June 21, 2024. (Jack Guez / AFP)

‘Went out to fight and didn’t come home’: Funerals held for 2 soldiers killed in Gaza

I read the new ‘Gaza famine report’ so you don’t have to

5 ways the report suggests there’s no famine in Gaza

Torah is for all Jews, not just the religious ones

Israel cannot bring its light to the world while fighting an existential war, whether against Hamas or internally (Beha’alotcha)

Religious Zionism party leader Bezalel Smotrich speaks at a ceremony to inaugurate a new neighborhood in the West Bank settlement of Beit El, July 12, 2022. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

Smotrich recorded describing ‘mega-dramatic’ plan for civilian control over West Bank

NYT report on recording says far-right minister told settlers that he’s acting in way so world ‘won’t say that we are doing annexation here,’ asserts Netanyahu is ‘with us full on’

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Israeli-Palestinian Affairs Andrew Miller (right) visits Turmus Ayya in the West Bank on August 1, 2023 (US Office of Palestinian Affairs)

US point man on Israel-Palestinian conflict quits; official: ‘Should be a wake-up call’

Senior official says Andrew Miller’s departure different from that of more junior State Department figures, but others dispute that, saying he quit for ‘purely personal reasons’

File - Paris Police chief Laurent Nunez attends a press conference on logistics for the Paris 2024 Olympic games' opening ceremony, in Paris, France, June 13, 2024. (Julien de Rosa / AFP)

Islamist terrorism is ‘main concern’ for upcoming Olympics, says Paris police chief

Despite ‘no clear-cut threat,’ Laurent Nunez says terror risk no less important than far left, environmentalist and pro-Palestinian protests; notes May arrest of would-be saboteurs

Protesters hold a placard reading "Have you gotten used to antisemitism? We haven't," at a rally to condemn the alleged antisemitic gang rape of a 12 year-old girl, outside the Paris city hall, June 19, 2024. (Alain Jocard/AFP)

Two French teens charged over terror plot to attack Jewish targets

By AFP

Illustrative: Protesters at a rally calling for the release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, June 15, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

‘Unending day’: Hostage families, anti-government groups to hold weekly Tel Aviv rallies

Border Police recruits stationed outside Netanyahu’s private Caesarea residence after large-scale protests as part of a ‘week of disruption’

Protesters gather during an anti-government rally calling for early elections and a hostage deal, outside the Knesset in Jerusalem on June 18, 2024 (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

Qatari prime minister says hostage-truce talks making progress ‘to some extent’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Reporters notebook

Charlie Summers

Eight months after Oct 7, hostage families struggle to keep loved ones in headlines

Ahead of hostage families’ testimonies at UN, conference in Sderot spotlights public relations troubles of relatives of Hamas captives, invites journalists to give their input

Israeli actor Eyal Kitzis (left) interviews cousin of Hamas hostage Gil Dickmann (center) as part of a panel at Hostages and Missing Families Forum conference in Sderot on June 17, 2024. (Paulina Patimer/Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

Left: Head of the Yamina party Naftali Bennett gives a press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on April 21, 2021; Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on April 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In first, more Israelis think Bennett better suited to be PM than Netanyahu — poll

Former PM also beats out Gantz in head-to-head matchup; television survey indicates public backs IDF over premier, with 51% saying ‘total victory’ against Hamas is unattainable

Illustrative: Family and friends of Israeli soldier Sergeant Almog Shalom attend his funeral at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on June 11, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing June 22: Day 260 – Focus on ToI’s Those We Have Lost memorial project

News editor Amy Spiro and host Amanda Borschel-Dan highlight eight individuals’ stories from the hundreds of posts for those who have fallen in the Hamas onslaught and beyond

Illustrative: Palestinian construction workers at a building site in the Israeli settlement of Efrat in the West Bank, on September 29, 2020. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Reporter's notebook40,000 Palestinian laborers may now work illegally in Israel

West Bank Palestinian laborers in despair after eight months without jobs in Israel

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Before Oct. 7, 200,000 West Bankers commuted across the border for work. Now they sit home in uncertainty, while security officials warn of the potential threat of mass unemployment

Protesters burn an Israeli flag at a demonstration led by Within Our Lifetime in Manhattan, May 14, 2021. (Luke Tress)

Explainer

What is Within Our Lifetime, the group behind NY’s most extreme anti-Israel protests?

The radical organization voices support for the Oct. 7 Hamas atrocities and has posted Jewish targets online encouraging supporters to take ‘autonomous action’

Analysis

New York primary emerges as a litmus test of Israel’s role in the Democratic party

Centrist George Latimer’s challenge to incumbent and outspoken Israel critic Jamaal Bowman attracts criticism from progressives over big money from pro-Israel lobbies, GOP donors

Religious leaders place their hands on Rep. Jamaal Bowman, Democrat of New York, while praying for him during a campaign stop in White Plains, New York, June 11, 2024. (AP/Ted Shaffrey)

The Pittsburgh Pride Parade 2024 makes it way across the Andy Warhol Bridge in downtown Pittsburgh on June 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

'They want to take Pride away from us'

This Pride, queer US Jews are feeling the strain — and sometimes unsafe — over Israel

By Andrew Lapin

The increasingly popular view that anti-Zionism is a cause for the LGBTQ community to align with has isolated many of its Jewish members

Tamar Noy. (Dafna Talmon)

Tamar Noy77-year-old mother of five from Kibbutz Alumim

'Yes, awful things happened, but there were millions of miracles. Just the fact that we get up in the morning and breathe is a miracle'

By Tamar Mor Sela

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Illustrative: Jordanian security vehicles patrol the area surrounding the site of an explosion at a military munitions depot in the city of Zarqa, east of the capital Amman, September 11, 2020. (Khalil Mazraawi/AFP)

Jordanian police discover, detonate explosives in Amman-area apartment

The USS aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower, also known as 'IKE,' sails in the Red Sea, June 12, 2024. (AP/Bernat Armangue, File)

Merchant ship struck in likely Houthi attack as USS Eisenhower heads home

By Jon Gambrell

Illustrative: A woman walks past electoral posters in Tehran on June 20, 2024, ahead of the June 28 election to replace President Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a helicopter crash. (Atta Kenare / AFP)

Iranians divided on presidential vote as hardships mount, want winner to ‘act humanely’

By Payam DOOST MOHAMADI and Jérôme RIVET

Illustrative: A graduation ceremony for soldiers who completed the Israel Air Force Flight Course, at the Hatzerim Air Base in the Negev desert, June 29, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

High-ranking Air Force intel officer faked elements of life story for years – report

Ben Stiller arrives at the 28th annual Critics Choice Awards at The Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023, in Los Angeles. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

From the webBen Stiller says suffering in Israel and Gaza must end, calls for hostages to be freed

The Prime Minister's Residence on Balfour Street, Jerusalem, in an undated photograph. (Yaakov Saar/GPO)

NIS 900,000 awarded to 3 former workers at Netanyahu’s official residence in abuse case

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