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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 26, 2024

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

After court ruling, AG tells IDF to immediately start drafting 3,000 Haredi students

By Jeremy Sharon

Notice also orders the military to draw up a conscription plan for enlistment beyond the initial figure, bans government yeshiva funding ‘directly or indirectly’

A sign protesting against the drafting of ultra-Orthodox Jews to the Israeli army, in Jerusalem, June 2, 2024. Sign reads 'Drafting Haredim to the army -- forced transgression of religion.' (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

‘A sword over the study hall’: Ultra-Orthodox media rages at court ruling on draft

Israeli soldiers and an ultra-Orthodox man are seen at the Western Wall, in the Old City of Jerusalem, June 25, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Rabbis said to raise $100 million in US for yeshivas facing cuts over IDF draft ruling

Op-Ed: Day 264 of the war

Evading national service in the Jewish state is the opposite of authentic Judaism

Belatedly outlawed by the High Court, the norm under which the Haredi community is excluded from its responsibilities is an indefensible aberration and a betrayal of Jewish values

Police disperse ultra-Orthodox Jews blocking a highway during a protest against the military draft, in the central city of Bnei Brak, on June 20, 2024. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Rabbi Moshe Maya leaves the venue of a meeting of the Shas Torah Sages Council in Jerusalem on February 20, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Senior Shas rabbi spurns draft compromise, says even those not studying must not enlist

By Canaan Lidor

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (left) speaks during a primary-night watch party in Yonkers, New York (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura) and Westchester County Executive George Latimer speaks at an election night party in White Plains, New York (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon), June 25, 2024.

Latimer calls for unity in face of 'MAGA extremism'

Congressman Bowman, who accused Israel of genocide, ousted in closely watched NY primary

Lawmaker attacks AIPAC after defeat, says public should be ‘outraged’ that group spent ‘$20 million to brainwash people’ against him; result marks 1st time member of Squad unseated

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MK Yuli Edelstein chairs a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, June 26, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz/Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)

Edelstein delays IDF reservists law amidst growing coalition tensions over draft

Haredim said to consider exiting government but staying in coalition over senior Likud MK’s statement that enlistment legislation will pass ‘with broad agreement’ or not at all

An Israeli soldier and ultra-Orthodox Jews at the Western Wall on June 25, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 26: Day 264 – Landmark decision to draft Haredim, starting July 1

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)

Inside story

US, Israel see easing of Gaza fighting as Hezbollah ‘off-ramp’ to avoid war

IDF drawdown in Strip may suffice for Lebanese terror group to end attacks that have put sides on cusp of all-out conflict, officials say, with Gaza ceasefire still elusive

National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi (L) speaks during the Herzliya Conference, June 24, 2024. (Ronen Topelberg)

Ministers blast security council head for saying idea of Hamas can’t be eradicated

By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly talks to media as she arrives to attend an informal meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs at Czernin Palace in Prague, Czech Republic on May 31, 2024. (Michal Cizek / AFP)

Canada tells citizens to leave Lebanon for fear of war between Israel, Hezbollah

By AFP and ToI Staff

An image released by the IDF on June 26, 2024, showing Doctors Without Borders staffer Fadi al-Wadiya in the uniform of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

June 26: IDF releases images showing Doctors Without Borders staffer in PIJ uniform

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

In swipe at Netanyahu, US praises Gallant’s ‘professional approach’ to arms transfer talks * US man faces criminal charges for urging ‘Zionists’ to get off NYC subway train

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US man faces criminal charges for allegedly urging 'Zionists' to get off NYC subway train
8:29 pm

Israeli forces demolish homes in West Bank hamlet, saying they were built illegally
8:03 pm

In swipe at Netanyahu, US praises Gallant's 'professional approach' to bilateral talks

Separate strike in south Gaza kills Hamas arms smuggler

IDF: Slain Gazan named as Doctors Without Borders staffer was Islamic Jihad rocket maker

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says Fadi al-Wadiya was electronics and chemistry expert in terror group; MSF issues a denial, leading IDF to release photo of him in PIJ uniform

Left: Fadi al-Wadiya, a Doctors Without Borders member who the IDF says was a PIJ rocket expert, who was killed in a strike in Gaza City, June 25, 2024. (Courtesy of Doctors Without Borders on X); Right: An image released by the IDF on June 26, 2024, showing al-Wadiya in the uniform of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group. (Israel Defense Forces)

Hamas terrorists shoot at the Israeli town of Bat Hefer from the Tulkarem area in the West Bank. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Palestinian gunman who fired on Israeli town last month arrested

By Emanuel Fabian

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh speaks during a press briefing after his meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian in Tehran, Iran, March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Hamas leader says a deal with no end to war ‘is not an agreement’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Loud and clear: The Court’s ruling on the Haredi draft

All 9 justices were unequivocal in confirming that the government is subject to the rule of law – and the delay in drafting Haredim illegal

Michal Hatuel-Radoshitzky

Double standards on display: Israel, the UN and children

4 findings that call into question the stark conclusions of the UN Children and Armed Conflict Report that blacklisted Israel for violating children’s rights

Ordaining intermarried rabbis is not enough

The Reform rabbinical school missed an opportunity to fully welcome interfaith families into the Jewish community

In the mourners’ tent after my son’s aide was killed in Gaza

Saadia Derai’s mother chastised Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials. I told her of her son’s final kindness to my family

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (R) welcomes Defense Minister Yoav Gallant to the Pentagon in Washington, June 25, 2024. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

'Time running out' on tackling Iran, defense minister says

Gallant tells Austin it’s time for US to honor pledge to prevent Iran getting nukes

By Shira Silkoff

Defense minister thanks Washington for continued support in face of threats from Tehran and its proxies, as his host urges diplomatic solution to head off war with Hezbollah

This combination of photo ahead of the June 28, 2024 Iranian presidential elections shows Iranian presidential candidates Masoud Pezeshkian, lawmaker and a former Health Minister, top left; Saeed Jalili, former senior nuclear negotiator, top center; Alireza Zakani, Tehran Mayor, top right; Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, Parliament Speaker, bottom left; Amirhossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi, the late President Raisi's Vice-President, bottom center; and Mostafa Pourmohammadi, a former Minister of Justice. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

ExplainerA heart surgeon, Tehran’s mayor, a Shiite cleric: Who will be Iran’s next president?

By AP

Ehud Barak and other prominent Israelis urge PM be disinvited

Netanyahu said set to offer new stance on Palestinian state in speech to Congress

By Lazar Berman

PM’s aides reportedly tell White House the address will enable Saudi-Israel normalization to advance; his office stresses that his opposition to Palestinian state hasn’t changed

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is greeted by members of Congress prior to addressing a joint session on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, March 3, 2015. (Amos Ben Gershom/ GPO)

A woman and her children walk past a wall with photographs of hostages who were kidnapped during the October 7, 2023, Hamas cross-border attack in Israel, seen in Jerusalem, February 26, 2024. (Leo Correa/AP)

In first, US describes Hamas response to Israeli ceasefire offer as a ‘rejection’

File - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a meeting in Bethlehem, January 23, 2020. (Alexander Nemenov, Pool via AP)

Russia says Abbas to visit Moscow for first time since 2021

Volunteers prepare food for displaced Palestinians in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 19, 2024. (AFP)

Key food security org finds no famine in Gaza, says previous assumptions wrong

By Jeremy Sharon

UN-linked IPC finds no mortality data to prove famine is present, but states a ‘high risk of famine’ remains, describing food insecurity situation in Gaza as ‘catastrophic’

Palestinians surround trucks loaded with humanitarian aid brought in through a new US-built pier, in the central Gaza Strip, May 18, 2024. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)

UN warns Israel aid operations in Gaza to halt unless safety improved

By Agencies and ToI Staff

InterviewAid convoys in Gaza are risky for IDF, but key to the war’s success, says officer

By Lazar Berman

Iranian cyber terrorism since Oct. 7 is a global threat, warns Israel cyber czar

By Sharon Wrobel

Israel’s State Comptroller is looking into potential cyber breaches of the PMO, and drone systems as part of a cyber threat preparedness report leading to and since the Hamas war

Gaby Portnoy, head of the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD) speaks at the Cyberweek annual conference at Tel Aviv University on June 25, 2024. (Courtesy)

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a joint statement to the media in Baghdad, Iraq, April 22, 2024. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/Pool via AP)

Erdogan accuses West of backing ‘Netanyahu’s plans to spread war’ throughout region

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is pictured during a visit at the company's electric car plant in Gruenheide near Berlin, eastern Germany, on March 13, 2024 (Odd Andersen/AFP)

Israel said to eye Elon Musk’s internet services in case of war in north

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff gives remarks during the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Tree of Life complex in Pittsburgh, Sunday, June 23, 2024. The new structure is replacing the Tree of Life synagogue where 11 worshipers were murdered in 2018 in the deadliest act of antisemitism in US history. (AP/Rebecca Droke)

Emhoff blasts ‘crisis of antisemitism’ at groundbreaking for Tree of Life synagogue

By Agencies and ToI Staff

At site of Pittsburgh synagogue where extremist gunned down 11 worshipers in 2018, community starts work on new complex ‘dedicated to uprooting antisemitism’

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

Report shows 80% rise in antisemitic cases in Germany, with sharp increase after Oct. 7

By Canaan Lidor

Illustrative: Protesters wave Israeli and UK flags as a pro-Palestinian rally marches past, in central London, May 18, 2024. (Benjamin Cremel / AFP)

UK medical confab goers heckle doctor who identified as a ‘practicing Jew’

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom in Yekaterinburg, Russia, June 26, 2024. (AP)

US journalist Evan Gershkovich appears in Russian court for start of spy trial

By AP

Wall Street Journal reporter faces up to 20 years in prison if court finds him guilty, which is almost certain; publisher: ‘Sham trial, bogus charges that are completely trumped up’

Illustrative: Workers repaint a Ten Commandments billboard off of Interstate 71 on Election Day near Chenoweth, Ohio, November 7, 2023. Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry on June 19. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Jewish parents join suit challenging Louisiana law requiring Ten Commandments in schools

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Lawsuit argues that last week’s law violates the First Amendment, and some Jews feel that while rooted in the Bible, the statutes as presented push Christian values on kids

From left: Gallery owner Rita Licht; Itsik Moshe, president of the Israel-Georgia Chamber of Business; Daniel Licht, who runs Ashkara Falafel; architect Ilana Slutsky; and jewelry designer Mikhail Gilichinski all gather at the Licht home in Tbilisi to enjoy a Shabbat afternoon with fellow Israelis. (Larry Luxner via JTA)

'Georgia is one of Israel's best friends in the world'

As Israeli tourism to Georgia has boomed, these Israelis have put down roots in Tbilisi

By Larry Luxner

Frustrated with Israel’s prices, politics and worsening security situation, hundreds of Sabras seek a new promised land – but they may have left one divided country for another

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A fire burns on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem on June 25, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Arson suspected in large blaze near Jerusalem hospital, army base

The office of the Abraham Initiatives coexistence organization following an explosion, in Lod, June 26, 2024. (Abraham Initiatives)

Jewish-Arab coexistence NGO hit by grenade in Lod overnight

The Leviathan natural gas platform off the shore of Israel. (Albatross)

Israel grants initial approval for additional gas exports from Leviathan reservoir

By Sharon Wrobel

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange leaves the federal court in Saipan, Mariana Islands, Wednesday, June 26, 2024. (AP/Eugene Hoshiko)

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange walks free after plea deal

By Andrew MCKIRDY and Harumi Ozawa

The Netherlands' Prime Minister Mark Rutte arrives to attend an informal EU leaders summit in Brussels, on June 17, 2024. (Nick Gammon/AFP)

NATO picks Dutch PM Mark Rutte as next chief, as alliance faces perilous times

Israel Police officers from the Ayalon District Police hold an assessment at the scene of a deadly shooting in Bat Yam, June 25, 2024. (Israel Police)

Man shot dead in Bat Yam in suspected gangland attack

Israeli troops inspect the ravaged site of the attack on the Supernova desert music festival by Palestinian terrorists near Kibbutz Reim in the Negev desert, October 10, 2023. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

War through a lens‘Fauda’ creators, other filmmakers working on October 7 films

By Jessica Steinberg

This combination of pictures created on September 29, 2020 shows Democratic Presidential candidate and former US Vice President Joe Biden (L) and US President Donald Trump speaking during the first presidential debate at the Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio on September 29, 2020. (Jim Watson and Saul Loeb/AFP)

Most US adults plan to watch some part of Biden-Trump debate, poll finds

By AP and ToI Staff

Screen capture of the Wikipedia page about the Anti-Defamation League, June 26, 2024. (Wikipedia; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Wikipedia rebuffs Jewish groups’ call to override editors’ move against ADL

By JTA

President Joe Biden speaks in the East Room at the White House in Washington, June 4, 2024. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden pardons all veterans convicted of violating defunct gay sex ban

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