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What Matters Most On Sunday, June 23, 2024

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to Channel 14 in the first interview he's given to an Israeli news outlet since October 7, on June 23, 2024. (Screenshot, Channel 14, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Live updates (closed)

June 23: PM says hoping for diplomatic answer to Hezbollah attacks but Israel ready for war

Netanyahu says intense Gaza fighting nearing end, allowing for more forces to be shifted to northern front * Casualties in anti-tank guided missile attack in Metula

9:01 pm

PMO: Hamas is rejecting the hostage deal offer on the table, not Israel
8:25 pm

Netanyahu asked Shin Bet to provide lifelong security details for wife and sons - report
7:58 pm

Netanyahu says he'll agree to a pause in fighting for the return of some hostages, but war won't end until Hamas is destroyed

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on June 23, 2024 (Screen grab/GPO)

Netanyahu says US arms supplies fell away 4 months ago; he went public as last resort

By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

At cabinet meeting, PM alleges ‘dramatic drop’ in weapons shipments, says he only spoke out after months of quiet efforts failed to solve problem; hopes it will be resolved soon

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant makes a statement before flying to Washington, June 23, 2024 (Defense Ministry)

Heading to US, Gallant says meetings ‘critical for the future of the war’

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Israel Defense Forces operating in Gaza, June 22, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 23: Day 261 – West Bank terror as drones attack from north and east

Large crowds outside the Begin Gate of the Defense Ministry HQ in Tel Aviv rally to demand the return of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, June 22, 2024 (Anat Azaria / Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Official to TV news: Israel went as far as it can for deal

‘All hangs by a thread,’ David Grossman tells thousands at rally for election, hostage deal

By Canaan Lidor, Charlie Summers, ToI Staff and Agencies

Former Shin Bet chief Diskin calls Netanyahu worst PM in Israeli history; thousands mark 20th birthday of hostage Naama Levy; 3 arrested amid violent clashes with cops in Tel Aviv

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

IDF announces death of soldier Malkia Gross in fighting in southern Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Army says it’s probing circumstances, as ground op toll reaches 315; Gross, from settlement of Susya, is remembered as ‘people-loving’ teacher who was beloved by his students

Hamas operations chief Raed Saad speaks in an undated photo. (social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli strike said to target Hamas operations chief Raed Saad in Gaza; unclear if he died

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Wounded in Gaza RPG attack, ICU doctor is treated, unrecognized, by his own colleagues

When the ICU team at Soroka Hospital admitted a reservist seriously wounded and unconscious after an attack in Khan Younis, they didn’t realize it was their colleague Yoav Bichovsky

Yoav Bichovsky, intensive care doctor at Soroka Hospital, speaks to Channel 12 from the Loewenstein Rehabilitation Center in an interview screened on July 22, 2024, as he recovers from injuries sustained in an RPG attack while he was in reserve service in Gaza. (Channel 12 Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF says it is investigating soldiers who tied Palestinian detainee to hood of car

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says troops acted against protocol during operation near Jenin, where troops exchanged fire with Palestinian gunmen

IDF soldiers tie injured Palestinian detainee to hood of car after an operation in the West Bank, June 22, 2024. (X, formerly Twitter, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Illustrative: A Hezbollah drone is seen being shot down by air defenses over northern Israel, June 23, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF soldier seriously hurt as Hezbollah swarms north with attack drones

By Emanuel Fabian

Explosive-laden drone intercepted over sensitive defense facility near Sakhnin; another UAV from Iraq shot down; terror group takes responsibility for strikes

Rachelli Prawer

We already know we will win. Here’s the real question

Jewish history shows that the end of the story is predetermined. But our role in it, and our destiny as individuals, is not

Kenneth Brander

Israelis are getting religion, despite a coercive Chief Rabbinate

Religion clearly does better in the free marketplace of ideas. Israel can’t become a spiritual epicenter through coercion

Chairman of the Religious Zionism party Bezalel Smotrich, center, with party members in the West Bank settlement of Efrat, October 26, 2022. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Drawing annexation claims, IDF hands many West Bank powers to civilian ally of Smotrich

By Jeremy Sharon

Left-wing activists slam transfer of key authorities, including over planning laws, land registry and regional council administration, to civilian administrator in Defense Ministry

Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez slam AIPAC funding of rival at Bowman rally in NYC

New York’s 16th District Congressman says opponent George Latimer and US-Israel lobby group are ‘destroying our democracy’; war on Hamas a key talking point

US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (L), Democrat of New York; US Independent Senator Bernie Sanders (C) from Vermont and US Representative Jamaal Bowman, Democrat of New York, attend a 'Get Out The Vote' rally on the weekend before the Democratic Primary in New York, June 22, 2024. (Yuki IWAMURA / AFP)

File: Rep. Jamaal Bowman at SUNY Westchester Community College, May 10, 2023, in Valhalla, New York (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

AIPAC leads unprecedented $14.5 million campaign against Bowman in NY primary

A picture taken on May 23, 2024, shows Limor Gonen practicing with a gun at a shooting range in the Israeli settlement of Ariel in the West Bank (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

‘The only person I can trust is myself’: Women explain rush to buy guns after Oct. 7

By AFP and ToI Staff

Civilians carrying firearms have multiplied with encouragement from far-right minister; some feminist groups say the trend is worrying and will encourage violence

The PLANETech conference held at Jaffa Port on June 18, 2024. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Confab shows off startups, from AI-driven weeders and tree tubes to alternative fats

PLANETech conference in Tel Aviv brings scientists, developers, entrepreneurs and investors together to help solve climate, environmental, sustainability challenges

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Exterior view of Patis Bakery on 93rd and Amsterdam, on a stretch of Manhattan's Upper West Side peppered with kosher restaurants and businesses. (Jackie Hajdenberg)

New York kosher bakery chain Patis files for bankruptcy

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Israeli swimmer Anastasia Gorbenko won a gold medal in the women's 200 meters individual medley event at the European Aquatics Championships, June 22, 2024. (Simona Castervillari, Israel Swimming Association)

Israel wins gold, silver in women’s event at European swimming championship

By Stuart Winer

A man affected by the scorching heat is helped by another as Muslim pilgrims arrive to perform the symbolic 'stoning of the devil' ritual as part of the hajj pilgrimage in Mina, near Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca, on June 16, 2024. (Fadel Senna/AFP)

Over 1,000 pilgrims dead during hajj in Saudi, officials say

Jewish pilgrims arrive in Uman, Ukraine ahead of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, September 14, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Moldova, Ukraine warn new Israeli travel rules threaten visa-free regimes

Elizabeth Wolf. (Euless Police Department)

US woman charged with attempted murder for trying to drown Palestinian-American girl

Illustrative image of a mosquito (nechaev-kon; iStock by Getty Images)

Two women in their 80s die of suspected West Nile virus in Petah Tikva

People hold placards bearing portraits of Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, who is arrested in Iran, and portraits of children (L), who were killed during the protests in Iran, during a rally in support of Iranian women in Istanbul, on November 26, 2022. (Yasin AKGUL / AFP)

Iran’s top court overturns rapper’s death sentence, lawyer says

By AFP

Illustrative: Yemeni youths march during a ceremony in the capital Sanaa marking the end of summer camps organized by the country's Houthi rebels, June 9, 2024. (Mohammed Huwais / AFP)

Merchant ship damaged by drone attack in Red Sea, no injuries

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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