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What Matters Most On Monday, June 24, 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)

'Intense phase of the fighting against Hamas is about to end'

PM says open to partial pause and hostage deal but war won’t end until Hamas destroyed

Netanyahu later says ‘Hamas is the one opposing the deal, not Israel,’ as hostage families accuse him of ‘walking back’ offer; Eisenkot: His comments contradict war cabinet decisions

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to Channel 14 in the first interview he has 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)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 24: Day 262 – PM talks partial hostage deal in 1st Hebrew interview

Troops of the 401st Armored Brigade operate in southern Gaza's Rafah, in a handout photo published June 23, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF: Troops in Rafah raze Hamas training facility, raid senior commanders’ offices

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

US hasn’t withheld weapons for Israel, but it’s done fast-tracking them — official

Emergency protocol used to cut through bureaucratic procedures in early months of war no longer in place, as intensity of IDF fighting drops and US fears of regional war rise

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers fire mortar shells towards targets in the Gaza Strip near the border with the Gaza Strip on February 8, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves following his address to a joint session of the US Congress on March 3, 2015 at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. (Mandel Ngan / AFP)

Democrats split over whether to attend Netanyahu’s upcoming Congress address

By AP and ToI Staff

Pinchas Goldschmidt, a Swiss-born rabbi and Jewish community leader, is pictured after receiving the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen 2024 (Karlspreis) on May 9, 2024 in Aachen, western Germany. (INA FASSBENDER / AFP)

Ex-chief rabbi of Moscow blames Russian government neglect for Dagestan attack

By Reuters and ToI Staff

In this photo taken from video released by The Telegram Channel of the head of Dagestan Republic of Russia on June 24, 2024, a Star of David is damaged on the wall of the the Kele-Numaz synagogue in Derbent after an attack in Dagestan, Russia (The Telegram Channel of the head of Dagestan Republic of Russia via AP)

Russia’s Dagestan region in mourning for 19 killed in attacks on synagogues, churches

By AP and ToI Staff

15 police officers among dead; gunmen said to include 2 sons and nephew of head of the Kremlin’s United Russia party’s regional branch; authorities say all 5 attackers dead

Fires burn after an attack at a synagogue in Derbent, in Russia's Dagestan region, June 23, 2024. Some initial reports say the synagogue and an adjacent church were set on fire. (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Over 15 Russian cops, civilians killed in attacks on synagogues, churches in Dagestan

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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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.

Troops of the 401st Armored Brigade operate in southern Gaza's Rafah, in a handout photo published June 23, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

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June 24: US ambassador says Israel’s impatience in receiving weapons understandable

IDF announces Sgt. Maj. Muhammad Alatrash was killed and abducted on Oct 7 * Israeli, Arab officials say PM’s vocal support for ‘partial’ deal harmed hostage talks

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Former Trump employee says boss joked about Nazi 'ovens' to Jewish executives
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Knesset advances bill to extend delay of retirement age for IDF reservists
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Blinken to talk to Gallant of need for 'robust, realistic' plan for Gaza governance

Public Diplomacy Directorate said crumbling after departure of chief and most staff

Ex-staffer says many hired after Oct. 7 have left due to work conditions, delays in pay; PM’s wife reportedly intervening in selection process to ensure loyalist tapped for job

File: Then-director of the Information Center Ministry of Culture and Sport Moshik Aviv speaks during a press conference ahead of Israel's 75th Independence Day Ceremony at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, on April 19, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli combat reservists and tank forces take part in training drills on the Lebanese front in the Golan Heights, Jan. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Knesset to vote this week on bill extending retirement age for IDF reservists

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara arrives at a Jerusalem Day conference at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem, June 5, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG: Levin’s refusal to hold vote on Supreme Court chief ‘extremely unreasonable’

Planes at the Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, on March 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Reporters denied access to Beirut airport area where weapons suspected to be stored

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Tour of Rafic Hariri airport aimed at disproving allegations Hezbollah uses it to stock missiles is cut short as authorities keep journalists outside one of the buildings

A picture shows a view of Beirut International Airport on June 21, 2024. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

Hezbollah using Beirut airport to store Iranian arms, Lebanese whistleblowers claim

Black smoke rises from homes in the northern Israeli border community of Metula after being hit by Hezbollah anti-tank missiles, as seen from the Lebanese town of Marjayoun, June 22, 2024. (AP/Hussein Malla)

Two members of Metula security team injured in Hezbollah missile attack Sunday

By Emanuel Fabian

Iran liable to join fight if Israel takes on Hezbollah, US warns

Forecasting far-reaching fallout in case of full-blown conflict, top general says America likely can’t provide same air defense help as it did against Iranian barrage in April

A smoke plume billows during an Israeli strike on the village of Khiam in southern Lebanon on June 23, 2024. (Rabih DAHER / AFP)

A missile test is seen from the ground in Israel, in a video posted to X on June 24, 2024. (Screen capture: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israel carries out rocket engine test over Mediterranean

By Emanuel Fabian

FILE - Fighters from the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah carry out a training exercise in Aaramta village in the Jezzine District, southern Lebanon, May 21, 2023 (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

After ‘unacceptable’ Hezbollah threats, European ministers fear Middle East escalation

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Shervin Eli Natan

Los Angeles, you have failed us Jews

If your mayor wants to prevent anarchy, her government cannot be lax when it comes to those who commit crimes against the Jewish community

The anguished dilemma of a Reform rabbi

Jews are a particular people with a universal message – If we abandon our particularity, we risk losing ourselves

Naveh Shoham is seen upon his arrival to Israel after 50 days in Hamas captivity in Gaza, where he was held with his sister Yahel, 3, mother Adi and grandmother Shoshan Haran, 67, on November 25, 2023. (courtesy)

Francis replies: You are still young but your words are wise

Freed hostage, 9, exchanges letters with pope, asking for help to free captive father

‘It would be better if we played [soccer] together instead of shooting at each other,’ writes Naveh Shoham, recalling grandfather, who took him to games and was murdered by Hamas

The Changing Direction protest group stages a rally calling for elections, outside the Histadrut labor federation building in Tel Aviv, June 24, 2024. (Adar Eyal / Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Anti-government protesters handcuff selves to labor union building, demanding strike

A screenshot of video showing a police officer grabbing Channel 12 news reporter Yollan Cohen at an anti-government protest in Tel Aviv, June 22, 2024. (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Police internal affairs probing cop’s violent handling of reporter at Tel Aviv rally

By Jeremy Sharon

Violent clashes erupt between pro- and anti-Israel protesters outside LA synagogue

At least one arrested, others detained after pro-Palestinian protesters apparently tried to prevent people entering Jewish house of worship to attend Israeli real estate event

Illustrative - An anti-Israel protester carries a portrait of Hamas's leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar, at a rally at Hunter College in New York City, on June 23, 2024. (X screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Anti-Israel protesters in NYC wave Hezbollah, Hamas flags, hold portrait of Sinwar

By Michael Horovitz

A group of Israelis on an educational tour visit the home of the Siman Tov family in Kibbutz Nir Oz on Friday, June 21, 2024. The parents and three children were killed and their home was torched by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Sites of devastation from Oct. 7 attack new essential stop for Israel’s visitors

By AP

Politicians visit kibbutzim as show of solidarity; hundreds of soldiers participate daily in virtual reality tours; Birthright sends nearly all participants to Nova massacre site

Illustrative - Sheep cross a road in the Jordan valley, in the West Bank on June 14, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Seizure of stray West Bank livestock prompts annexation claims in High Court hearing

By Jeremy Sharon

Palestinian shepherds lodge petition after Jordan Valley Regional Council detains hundreds of animals under municipal bylaws, demands hundreds of thousands of shekels to release them

Blindfolded Palestinians captured in the Gaza Strip in a detention facility on the Sde Teiman military base in southern Israel, winter 2023. (Breaking The Silence via AP)

State ordered to report on conditions at terror suspect detention facility in the Negev

By Jeremy Sharon and Emanuel Fabian

Britain's main opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer (L) and Leader of the Scottish Labour party Anas Sarwar (R) visit the Window Supply Company factory, in Whitburn, Bathgate, Scotland on June 21, 2024 as part the Labour general election campaign in the build-up to the UK general election on July 4. (Photo by ANDY BUCHANAN / AFP)

Keir Starmer’s centrism on Gaza alienates some UK Labour supporters

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Opposition is poised for success in next week’s British elections, but among ethnic minorities, Starmer is least popular Labour leader since at least 1996

Illustrative: People arrive at Heathrow's Terminal 5 in west London on November 30, 2021. (Adrian DENNIS / AFP)

UK probing complaint after Israelis ‘harassed’ by staff at Heathrow Airport

Illustrative: A man 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)

‘A circus. Why should I vote?’: Legacy of 2022 protests shapes Iran’s presidential race

One young woman says voting is farcical when she wants regime to be toppled; hardline Basij militia member says election will reinforce policies of Khamenei and Islamic Republic

A woman plays Hamster Combat game on a cell phone in Tehran, Iran, June 23, 2024 (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran’s ‘Hamster’ crypto craze highlights economic malaise ahead of presidential vote

By Jon Gambrell and Nasser Karimi

Iranian demonstrators hold up portraits of the Islamic Republic's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and wave Bahraini flags during a protest after the Friday noon prayer in Tehran on May 18, 2012, held in response to a government call to protest a plan to unite Bahrain with Saudi Arabia that Tehran has said is a US plot. (Atta KENARE / AFP)

Iran, Bahrain agree to discuss restoring ties in latest Gulf-Tehran thaw

By AFP

Omer Lubaton-Granot, left, and Shany Granot-Lubaton, right, with their son, Michael. (Courtesy via JTA)

Their activism 'revolutionized' expat ties with local Jews

Returning to Israel, couple reflects on pioneering unlikely protest movement in NYC

When Shany Granot-Lubaton and husband Omer arrived for 2-year stay, they hoped to escape Israeli politics. Instead, they founded an anti-overhaul movement, reinvented it after Oct. 7

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Hospital confirms death of two women in their 80s from West Nile virus

By Diana Bletter

Franciscan friars and sisters pray during a mass for the Feast of the Ascension on The Rock of the Ascension at The Chapel of the Ascension in Jerusalem on May 20, 2020. The Feast of the Ascension commemorates the Christian belief of the bodily Ascension of Jesus into heaven. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Churches protest Israel’s demand they pay property tax, say it’s undoing status quo

By Julia Frankel

FILE - Bjoern Hoecke, co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the eastern federal state of Thuringia, waits for a session of his trial over the alleged use of Nazi phrases, at the regional court in Halle, Germany, May 14, 2024 (Ronny Hartmann/Pool Photo via AP, File)

German far-right politician on trial again for alleged use of Nazi Stormtrooper slogan

By AP

Members of the Yemeni Coast Guard affiliated with the Houthi group patrol the sea as demonstrators march through the Red Sea port city of Hodeida in solidarity with the people of Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas war, on January 4, 2024 (AFP)

Attack targets ship farther away from Houthis’ Yemen base than most previous assaults

By Jon Gambrell

Illustrative: Protesters wave an Israeli flag and hold a placard reading 'Raped because she is Jewish' as they gather to condemn the alleged antisemetic gang rape of a 12-year-old girl, outside the Paris city hall, June 19, 2024. (Alain Jocard / AFP)

Six Jewish minors attacked outside movie theater in Paris suburb

Eli Zipori speaks during a protest in support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and against the Israeli legal system in Tel Aviv on December 30, 2019. (Flash90)

Channel 12 planning to sue journalist who refers to network as ‘Al Jazeera 12’

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld rips into a pro-Palestinian heckler during a stand-up performance at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia, June 22, 2024. (Screen capture: X/9News Melbourne, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Master of his domain‘I missed you!’: Seinfeld roasts another anti-Israel heckler

The Jerusalem Film Festival always opens with a screening in Sultan's Pool, this year held on July 18, 2024 (Courtesy Tom Weintraub Lok)

Movies in shadow of warJerusalem Film Festival announces Israeli lineup for July event

By Jessica Steinberg

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