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What Matters Most On Saturday, June 29, 2024

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Iran's United Nations Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani addresses the UN General Assembly at the body's headquarters in New York, February 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Iran’s UN mission threatens ‘obliterating war’ if Israel launches Lebanon offensive

By ToI Staff and Reuters

Israeli FM responds: ‘A regime that threatens destruction deserves to be destroyed’; US official warns full-blown conflict could break out with ‘little notice’

A lift truck carries a cylinder containing uranium hexafluoride gas for the purpose of injecting the gas into centrifuges in Iran's Fordo nuclear facility, November 6, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

Iran installs half of planned new centrifuges at Fordo, IAEA report says

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant at the IDF Northern Command HQ in Safed, July 28, 2024. (Shachar Yurman/Defense Ministry)

Gallant: Israel ‘not looking for war’ with Hezbollah, diplomatic route always better

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Protesters demonstrate for a hostage deal and end to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, in Jerusalem's Paris Square on June 29, 2024. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)

Live updates (closed)

June 29: MK says she was assaulted by cops, amid violent clashes at anti-government protests

Cop recorded telling detained Jerusalem protester: ‘I’ll rape your mother’ * Weekly rallies urge return of hostages, new elections as Israel, Hamas reiterate negotiating positions

9:22 pm

Protesters start fires, clash with police at anti-government after-rally
8:42 pm

'I'll rape your mother': Cop recorded threatening detained protester in Jerusalem
8:19 pm

Chief Sephardic rabbi lashes out at High Court after Haredi conscription ruling

'I know how to do this job. I know how to get things done'

Biden acknowledges ‘I don’t debate as well as I used to,’ but insists he’ll push on

By Zeke Miller, Steve Peoples, DARLENE SUPERVILLE and Michelle L. Price

US president scrambles to quell Democratic anxieties over his age amid calls to replace him as candidate after weak performance; NYT: Biden ‘failed his own test,’ should quit race

US President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign rally, Friday, June 28, 2024, in Raleigh, N.C. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Former US president Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Historic Greenbrier Farms in Chesapeake, Virginia, on June 28, 2024. (Jim Watson/AFP)

Trump again denounces political foe as a ‘Palestinian,’ this time going after Schumer

By Agencies and ToI Staff

President Joe Biden visits a presidential debate watch party in Atlanta, Georgia, June 27, 2024, (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

ExplainerWhy it would be tough to replace Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket in November

By Will Weissert

Analysis

In snap election, many French Jews reluctantly endorse far right over dreaded far left

As Macron sends voters to the polls on Sunday, unprecedented levels of antisemitism after October 7 have prominent Jews reluctantly backing a party founded by a Holocaust denier

This combination of photographs created on June 16, 2024, shows French far-right party National Rally (RN) leader Marine Le Pen (L) in Paris on October 20, 2021 and Jean-Luc Melenchon (R), candidate of the French left coalition New Popular Front for France's elections for the National Assembly, in Paris on January 24, 2017. (JOEL SAGET / AFP)

Shannon Seban, a legislative election candidate for the camp of President Emmanuel Macron, campaigns, in the Paris suburb of Ivry-sur-Seine, Tuesday June 25, 2024. (AP Photo/John Leicester)

In France’s high-stakes election, a Jewish candidate faces hate and division

By John Leicester and ALEX TURNBULL

Followers of the leftist coalition Nouveau Front Populaire (New Popular Front) glue campaign posters for the upcoming legislative election, June 26, 2024 in Strasbourg, eastern France. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

ExplainerFrance’s snap election: How it works and what comes next

By Sylvie Corbet

How to disagree as Jews in a time of deep schisms

The epic disputes between the schools of Shammai and Hillel offer a model for hearing the divine in our opponent’s words

Michael Helfand

Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law tests the future of church-state separation

The US Supreme Court upholds the principle that government cannot enact laws that are religiously coercive, but will it consider a poster coercive?

US Air Force members transfer cargo to the IDF at the Nevatim Air Base on October 15, 2023. (Edgar Grimaldo/US Air Force)

US officials say thousands of 2,000-pound bombs shipped to Israel since Oct. 7

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Over 14,000 MK-84s, which Biden paused a shipment of, are among the US munitions sent to Israeli forces fighting against Hamas and Hezbollah

US Army soldiers stand next to trucks arriving loaded with humanitarian aid 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)

US pier again removed from Gaza coast due to sea conditions, may not be reanchored

By Agencies and ToI Staff

An F-35 fighter jet takes off during a surprise exercise, 'Galilee Rose,' in February 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

NGOs seek Dutch ban on export of F-35 parts that could end up in hands of IDF

Analysis

Rafah operation and Gaza war are winding down; Israel is no closer to its goals

Netanyahu faces an unclear path to defeating Hamas, getting the hostages back, deterring Hezbollah and staying in power; US goals, and Biden’s future, are in question as well

US President Joe Biden (L) looks at at notes as he listens to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a meeting in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023 (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Einav Zangauker (center left, in black) hoists a picture of her son, captive captive Matan Zangauker, as protesters carry torches at a rally calling for the release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, in Jerusalem, June 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Weekly rally also highlights plight of kidnapped siblings

US said rewording truce-hostage offer to revive talks, as families rally for deal

New effort focused on changes to conditions for talks in first phase, US official says; protest groups gather Sat. night, and plan July 7 shutdown to mark 9 months since Oct. 7

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 24, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Poll: 66% of Israelis want Netanyahu to leave politics, 85% support Oct. 7 probe

Bennett favorite by far to lead potential right-wing dream team, survey finds; 37% of PM’s voters think he shouldn’t seek reelection; 66% think Haredim must serve in IDF

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, January 7, 2024. (Yariv Katz / Pool)

Tempers fray in cabinet as Smotrich accuses IDF chief of ‘going to sleep’ on Oct. 6

This combination of pictures created on June 29, 2024 shows (L) Iranian presidential candidate and ultraconservative former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili as he attends his election campaign rally at Sharif University in Tehran, June 22, 2024, and (R) lawmaker and former health minister Massoud Pezeshkian, a reformist candidate for Iranian president, at a campaign rally at Afrasiabi Stadium in Tehran, June 23, 2024. (Atta Kenare / AFP)

Hardliner, moderate to face off in 2nd-ever Iranian runoff, after record low turnout

By Ramin Khanizadeh and Payam DOOST MOHAMADI

Neither presidential candidate secures majority, with 40% voter turnout amid opposition boycott; reformist Pezeshkian wants ‘friendly relations with all countries except Israel’

Women get their ballot paper during the Iranian presidential election in a polling station at the shrine of Saint Saleh in northern Tehran, June 28, 2024. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

With voter turnout low, Iran presidential election results too close to call

By AP

Illustrative: People at the Evyatar outpost in the West Bank, June 22, 2023. (Flash90)

Palestinians, Israeli left slam cabinet move to legalize settlement outposts

By ToI Staff and Reuters

PLO says steps and punitive measures against PA are part of continued ‘war of genocide’ against the Palestinian people; settler leaders welcome efforts led by Smotrich

Arab-Israeli parliament member Ahmad Tibi poses for a picture during an interview with AFP at his office at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 25, 2024. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

Tibi says Arab Israelis being persecuted for Gaza sympathies in wake of October 7

Inside story

How a Brooklyn dentist almost formed a Jewish homeland in pre-WW II China

Seeing a land free of antisemitism, Albert Einstein and Chinese leaders pushed plans to settle 100,000 Jews fleeing Nazis in Yunnan, the Himalayan foothills of China’s hinterland

Books about Jews arriving and living in Shanghai in the late 1930s displayed at the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited on May 7, 2013. (Peter Parks/AFP)

A photograph by Oren Ziv, from 'Southern Album,' an exhibit that opened June 21, 2024 at the Petach Tikva Museum of Art. (Courtesy)

‘A wounded landscape’: New photo exhibit captures life in Israel’s south, then and now

By Jessica Steinberg

Historian and photographer Dana Arieli created ‘The Photographer of Things — Southern Album,’ a new exhibit at Petah Tikva Museum of Art that tells the story of the south

In this photo taken from video released by the head of Dagestan Republic of Russia on June 24, 2024, Dagestan Gov. Sergei Melikov, center, visits the damaged Kele-Numaz synagogue in Derbent, Russia. (The Telegram Channel of the head of Dagestan Republic of Russia via AP)

Dagestani Jews determined to rebuild after deadly terror attacks in southern Russia

By DEEPA BHARATH

After destruction of 110-year-old Derbent synagogue, a center for Jewish life in the region, rabbi says local community is ‘not going to hide behind high walls and be intimidated’

Thousands attend a party in Tel Aviv in memory of the victims murdered at the Reim-area Nova festival by Hamas terrorists on October 7, in Tel Aviv, June 27, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘We will dance again’: First Nova party since Oct. 7 draws revelers, survivors

By Deborah Danan

‘Healing concert’ in Tel Aviv brings 40,000-strong motley crew of trance lovers, bereaved mothers; partiers discuss trauma, show tattoos commemorating massacre, fallen loved ones

Liberman, Israeli athletes honor fallen soldier in friendly tennis match

Mira Charuvi from Kibbutz Be'eri. (Dafna Talmon)

Mira Charuvi89-year-old mother of four from Kibbutz Be'eri

'I didn't think that at the age of 89, I would need to start a new life after such a catastrophe. We moved to Tsora so the kids would have somewhere to come, but Be'eri was home'

By Tamar Mor Sela

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Protesters wearing Hamas headbands and masks at Baruch College in Manhattan, June 5, 2024. (Luke Tress via JTA)

Jewish and Black advocacy groups announce support for mask ban at NY demonstrations

A picture taken on March 14, 2023, shows "The Sower with Setting Sun," a masterpiece by Vincent van Gogh, part of the Emil Buhrle Collection exhibited at the Kunsthaus Zurich. (Arnd Wiegmann/AFP)

Swiss foundation panned for inadequate probe into origins of its Nazi-era art collection

By Christophe VOGT and ToI Staff

Houthi supporters attend anti-Israel and anti-US protests in Sanaa, Yemen, June 14, 2024. (AP/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Houthis claim hits on 4 ships in Mediterranean, Red Sea amid contradicting reports

This handout picture released by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities on June 24, 2024 shows the top fragment of a sarcophagus discovered at the site of a discovery of 33 ancient tombs in Egypt's southern city of Aswan. (Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities/AFP)

Pyramid-itis?Egyptian tomb find may shed light on ancient diseases

By AFP

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