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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 27, 2024

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A damaged Israeli military position targeted by Hezbollah is seen on the top of Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights, where the borders between Israel, Syria and Lebanon meet on June 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Drone strike kills Hezbollah operative

US joins countries telling citizens not to visit Lebanon, amid push to avert war

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Wrapping up DC trip amid diplomatic efforts to prevent all-out war, Gallant says Israel could send Lebanon to ‘back to the Stone Age’ but doesn’t want escalation with Hezbollah

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

Germany, Netherlands urge citizens to leave Lebanon for fear of war

By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

A smoke plume billows during Israeli bombardment on the village of Kfarshuba in south Lebanon near the border with Israel on June 26, 2024. (RABIH DAHER / AFP)

Israeli strikes said to kill 2 in Syria, flatten building in Lebanon, wounding 5

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech on files obtained by Israel he says prove Iran lied about its nuclear program, at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, on April 30, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu revives working groups on Iran nuclear threat following new intel — report

PM has established 6 teams after previously neglecting the issue, Axios says, amid fears that Iran could seek a nuclear breakout before next US president takes office

Women walk past election posters for Iranian reformist presidential candidate Massoud Pezeshkian along a street in Tehran on June 26, 2024 ahead of the vote. (RAHEB HOMAVANDI / AFP)

2 hardliners quit Iran presidential race a day before vote, warn of reformist victory

By AFP

Iranian demonstrators burn representations of British and US flags during a protest against the US and British military strike against Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen, in front of the British Embassy in Tehran, Iran, January 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

AnalysisNo matter who becomes Iran’s next president, much hinges on ‘Great Satan’ US

By Jon Gambrell

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, right, listens as Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, left, speaks during their meeting at the Pentagon in Washington, June 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Gallant, US declare progress on expediting arms delivery, but bomb shipment still frozen

White House acknowledges ‘bottlenecks’ for 1st time, but stops short of PM’s claim it’s withholding weapons; Gallant stresses need to settle disputes privately, in jab at Netanyahu

Likud MK Yuli Edelstein (center) chairs a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, June 26, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 27: Day 265 – Pride and politics in Israel, US and UK

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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.

Israeli settlers and supporters gather in the outpost of Evyatar in the West Bank, April 10, 2023. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Live updates (closed)

June 28: Smotrich claims cabinet green light to legalize West Bank outposts, steps against PA

35,000 at memorial concert for Nova victims * US reportedly set to unfreeze delivery of bombs to Israel * West Nile death toll up to 7 as major outbreak widens

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Smotrich claims cabinet okayed outpost legalization, sanctions against PA officials
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US set to deliver bombs that were frozen in April over Rafah op
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PM said to halt security cabinet as Smotrich pushes to legalize West Bank outpost

President Isaac Herzog (C) and his wife Michal Herzog (R, petting dog) meet with the first response team of Kibbutz Hanita in northern Israel, June 25, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

Herzog, Netanyahu tour north as UN warns of ‘apocalyptic’ war with Hezbollah

By ToI Staff, Emanuel Fabian and AFP

Premier vows ‘victory,’ president decries global apathy toward displaced Israelis; Iran said loath to send Iraqi militias to Lebanon; Katz slams Erdogan’s ‘support for Hezbollah’

Inside storyUS hoping Saudi Arabia will lead reconstruction effort

Egypt, UAE prepared to participate in postwar Gaza security force — officials

Blinken informs counterparts that Cairo and Abu Dhabi are conditionally on board, as US seeks to recruit other allies before rolling out plans for ‘day-after’ management of Strip

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, front left, attends a meeting with Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Hussein al-Sheikh, during a day of meetings about the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian terror group Hamas, in Amman, Jordan, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool photo via AP)

US Army soldiers gesture as trucks loaded with humanitarian aid arrive at the US-built floating pier Trident before reaching the beach on the coast of the Gaza Strip, June 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Journalists tour American aid pier in Gaza as it resumes operations

By Leo Correa, AMI BEN TOV and Julia Frankel

People walk amid the rubble of buildings destroyed during the Israeli bombardment of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on April 16, 2024.,(Photo by AFP)

Israel rejects UN war crimes claim: Hamas turned ‘large parts of Gaza into combat sites’

By Jeremy Sharon

Explainer

From antisemitism to Israel: The Jewish topics to watch for in the Biden-Trump debate

Trump will likely attack moderators and challenge Biden’s Gaza war policies, while both US candidates will face questions on antisemitism amid its spike on far left and far right

US President Donald Trump, left, and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, right, gesturing during the first presidential debate, September 29, 2020, at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters occupy space at an entrance to Hamilton Hall at Columbia University on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in New York. (Michael M. Santiago/Pool Photo via AP)

'It definitely makes me question my own safety on campus'

Some Jewish Columbia students see no end to campus antisemitism after DA closes case

By Cathryn J. Prince

NY prosecutor dropped charges against masked anti-Israel protesters who violently occupied university building in April, leaving many to fear they can be targeted without consequence

NYPD arrests anti-Israel protester who called to eject ‘Zionists’ from subway car

By Karen Matthews

Harvard antisemitism task force finds ‘dire’ situation for Israelis on campus

By JTA and ToI Staff

Derision, social exclusion is ‘frequent’ according to preliminary report; Jewish students fear ‘litmus tests’ for their views on Israel when engaging in extracurricular activities

An alumnus of Harvard University stands near an anti-Israel encampment set up at the university, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 14, 2024. (Michael Casey/AP)

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft walks the field during practice before an NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills, in Orchard Park, New York, January 8, 2023. (Jeffrey T. Barnes/AP)

Robert Kraft announces $1m donation to Yeshiva U after yanking funds from Columbia

By jacob gurvis

Can the Haredim and IDF peacefully co-exist?

Let’s be honest: The army has broken promises to ultra-Orthodox soldiers, and Yeshiva students aren’t all Torah scholars

Alexandria Fanjoy Silver

For the future of Israel, Biden must win

With Trump and the Squad turning Israel into a partisan issue, the only way to continue US bipartisan support of the Jewish state is reelecting Joe Biden

Slain IDF serviceman named as Cpt. Alon Sacgiu, 22

Soldier killed, 16 injured by roadside bombs during operation in West Bank’s Jenin

By Emanuel Fabian

Army bulldozers didn’t detect large explosives buried deep under road in northern West Bank; most damage caused when 2nd bomb exploded as troops came to assist

Cpt. Alon Scagio, 22 from Hadera, killed in a roadside bomb attack in the West Bank city of Jenin, June 27, 2024 (Social media)

Palestinians gather to fill water jugs near one of the strip's few functioning desalination plants in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, June 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israel said preparing to increase Gaza’s water supply, but final approvals needed

By Emily Rose and Jonathan Landay

Terrorists in West Bank may be able to fire rockets at Israel in a year — report

Broadcaster cites Palestinian Authority sources as saying pro-Iranian elements believed behind efforts to smuggle sophisticated rockets to terror groups in West Bank via Jordan

Illustrative - A cache of rockets is found by IDF troops in northern Gaza's Jabaliya, in a handout image released May 17, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant attend a press conference at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, October 28, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

Israeli officials believe ICC arrest warrants to be issued within weeks – report

Prime Minister’s Office said reexamining Netanyahu’s trip to US next month should warrants be issued, as any emergency landing in a signatory country could result in his arrest

Modi Ephraim, Israel's Ambassador to the Netherlands. (Israel Foreign Ministry)

Netherlands summons Israeli envoy over report on years-long campaign against ICC

A banner depicting Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu kissing the University of Chile rector, Rosa Deves, is displayed by students who are demanding the university break relations with Israeli universities, during an anti-Israel protest in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, June 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Parts of campus only open to those with palms painted red

In Chile, a pro-Palestinian campus occupation turns witch hunt for ‘Zionist’ faculty

By Canaan Lidor

Feeling abandoned by the university, at least two pro-Israel lecturers are preparing to leave UMCE in Santiago over fears for their safety amid student agitation

Facile preparation of peptide glass at room temperature using standard lab equipment. (Tel Aviv University)

Israeli researchers chance upon new type of glass that can fix its own cracks

By Diana Bletter

By dropping peptide powder in water, Tel Aviv University-led team says it developed a material that is easier to make, more durable and more transparent than conventional glass

‘Caught between plague and cholera’: French Jews wary as extremes set to win votes

By Elizabeth Pineau

Snap election called by Macron sees center lag as far-right, left parties tainted by antisemitism expect parliament gains, amid soaring Jew-hatred post-Oct. 7

Illustrative: Protesters hoist a banner reading 'Antisemitism is not a campaign promise,' at the entrance to a press conference where leftist French leaders announced they were forming an alliance called the New Popular Front, in Paris, France, June 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

Rev. John Bettin, head pastor at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Catholic parish, prepares to mount a revised version of the church's history of its antisemitic founder Father Charles Coughlin, Royal Oak, Michigan, Novemver 7, 2023. The new version includes a QR code for visitors to learn more about Coughlin's antisemitism. (Courtesy of Levi Smith via JTA)

'It's a legacy that hadn't been properly dealt with'

Father Coughlin’s Detroit-area church will now teach visitors about his antisemitism

By Andrew Lapin

Local Jews praise Catholic parish seat for updating its history of the popular national radio host who distributed ‘Protocols’ and suggested Jews deserved Nazi persecution

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Jerusalem District Court, June 29, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu’s lawyer tells court PM can only testify in corruption trial in March 2025

A man holds a copy of the graphic novel version of "The Diary of Anne Frank", by Israeli writer-director Ari Folman and illustrator David Polonsky, in Paris Sept. 18, 2017. (Stringer/AFP via Getty Images vita JTA)

Texas school district pulls Anne Frank’s diary after right-wing group’s complaint

By Andrew Lapin

Likud MK Yuli Edelstein leads a Knesset Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee, Jerusalem, June 26, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM meets Edelstein over remarks on Haredi draft bill seen as imperiling coalition

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Reut Karp, ex-wife, partner of chocolatier Dvir Karp, killed on October 7, whose chocolates will be sold at Cafe Otef - Re'im. The cafe opened on June 25, 2024 (Courtesy Sivan Pereg)

Second Tel Aviv branch of Cafe Otef creates employment for southern evacuees

By Jessica Steinberg

Murder and rape suspect Sami Abu Al-Asal, left, in 2023, and right in 2002. (Israel Police)

After forensic breakthrough, man convicted of murdering woman in Eilat 21 years ago

Dan Sharoni, an IDF officer accused of sexual offenses, arrives for a hearing at a military court in Beit Lid, July 24, 2022. (Flash90)

IDF officer who secretly filmed female soldiers nude convicted of dozens of sex crimes

By Emanuel Fabian

Bolivian police hold the detained Juan Jose Zuniga, former general commander of the Army, in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday, June 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Bolivia coup attempt fails after military assault on presidential palace

By Paola Flores and MEGAN JANETSKY

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrives for the cabinet meeting in the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, June 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Germany to advance bill to deport foreigners who glorify terrorism

By AFP

95-year-old German notorious Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck waits for the start of her appeal proceedings at the district court in Hamburg, northern Germany, on June 7, 2024. (Markus Scholz / POOL / AFP)

‘Nazi grandma’ convicted again of Holocaust denial in Germany

By AFP

Knesset moves toward making ‘Al Jazeera Law’ permanent, allowing blocking of broadcasts

A collection of hanukkiot, Hanukkah candelabras, in the collection of Yad Vashem, including one dedicated on June 26, 2024 (Courtesy)

Spreading lightFamily menorah saved from Holocaust is donated to Yad Vashem

By Jessica Steinberg

Washington Wizards forward Deni Avdija (8) drives to the basket past Chicago Bulls forward Torrey Craig (13) during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Washington, April 12, 2024. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)

NBA’s Wizards trade Israeli native Deni Avdija to Portland, in surprise move

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