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What Matters Most On Sunday, June 30, 2024

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Labor MK Naama Lazimi after she was shoved and grabbed by police officers during an anti-government rally in Tel Aviv, near the offices of the Histadrut labor union, June 29, 2024. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Police launch probes into cops who told protester ‘I’ll rape your mother,’ shoved MK

By ToI Staff, Charlie Summers and Canaan Lidor

Internal investigations announced after officers yelled offensive statement at Jerusalem anti-government demonstrator, manhandled Labor’s Naama Lazimi at Tel Aviv hostage rally

Police clash with demonstrators protesting against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government and for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip, in Jerusalem, June 29, 2024. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Weekly rallies marred by police violence; detained protester threatened by cop

By Charlie Summers, Canaan Lidor and ToI Staff

A screenshot of video released by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum on June 29, 2024, shows rescued hostage Noa Argamani speaking. (Screen capture)

Weeks after her rescue, Noa Argamani calls for ‘love, not hate’ in Israeli society

Ex-hostage wants ‘everything possible’ done to free remaining captives, but doesn’t call for deal with Hamas, an option opposed by the family of her partner, hostage Avinatan Or

US soldiers carry the coffin of 1st. Lt. Nathan B. Baskind, who was buried in a German mass grave after being killed in WWII and recently reburied after DNA testing proved his identity, in Normandy, France, June 23, 2024. (Benjamin Mack-Jackson)

'We bring our fallen home, no matter how long it takes'

After 80 years in a Nazi grave, Jewish American WWII hero reburied under Star of David

By Benjamin Mack-Jackson

1st Lt. Nathan B. Baskind was killed in Normandy after D-Day. His body was never returned, but thanks to dedication and new technology, his is one of the site’s few Jewish funerals

Electoral posters of National Rally (Rassemblement National) party with the pictures of Marine Le Pen (L) and Jordan Bardella are seen pasted on in Henin-Beaumont on June 10, 2024, a day after the European elections. (Denis Charlet/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

June 30: Aliyah group head says French elections a ‘step toward’ mass Jewish immigration to Israel

Far-right National Rally wins 1st round of French election, ultimate outcome still uncertain * 18 soldiers hurt in Hezbollah drone attack * Labor, Meretz form new left-wing party

8:51 pm

North Korea fires unidentified ballistic missile to the east -- South Korean news agency
8:12 pm

Five arrested, one injured at Jerusalem protest against Haredi draft; police still dispersing crowds
8:08 pm

Murdered hostage's daughter-in-law threatens: 'If they don’t return, we’ll be waiting for Netanyahu with a noose'

Netanyahu: No change in Israel's stance on the proposal

Israel, Hamas downplay US efforts to alter hostage deal as it looks to revive talks

By ToI Staff and AP

Arab, Israeli officials nonetheless cautiously optimistic on progress in negotiations, which Washington hopes could be renewed this week despite Hamas’s apparent displeasure

Relatives and supporters of Israelis held hostage by Hamas attend a weekly protest calling for their release in Tel Aviv, June 29, 2024. (Jack Guez/AFP)

People look for salvageable items following an Israeli raid in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, June 29, 2024. (Eyad Baba/AFP)

From civilian ‘bubbles’ to Arab coalitions, Israel said weighing Gaza post-war schemes

Staff Sgt. Yair Avitan (L) and Sgt. First Class (res.) Yakir Shmuel Tatelbaum (R), killed during fighting in the northern Gaza Strip on June 28, 2024. (Courtesy)

Two soldiers killed as IDF pushes back into Gaza City’s Shejaiya

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says dozens of gunmen killed in clashes and airstrikes in new pinpoint raid; operations also continue in Rafah in Strip’s south

The image provided by US Central Command shows American and Israeli forces placing the Trident Pier on the coast of Gaza Strip on May 16, 2024. (US Central Command via AP)

UN workers begin removing aid stuck on US Gaza pier after security fears

By AP and ToI Staff

President Joe Biden, center right, and first lady Jill Biden, right, arrive on Marine One with granddaughters Natalie Biden, from left, and Finnegan Biden, at East Hampton Airport, Saturday, June 29, 2024, in East Hampton, NY (AP/Evan Vucci)

As poor debate showing roils Democrats, Bidens implore donors to stay course

By AP and ToI Staff

President reportedly to discuss future of campaign with wife during family meet-up at Camp David after weekend spent trying to move past weak, confused performance against Trump

US President Joe Biden speaks about the protests over Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza that have roiled US college campuses, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 2, 2024. (Drew Angerer / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 30: Day 268 – Is Biden up to the task of steering the Gaza war?

From left to right: Yochi Alon, Tzvi Alon and Rachel Fricker, in the David Dead Sea Resort dining hall, on Thursday July 20, 2024. (Gavriel Fiske/TOI)

Reporters Notebook'Our whole lives were upended at 6:30 a.m. on October 7'

As their stay at the Dead Sea ends, Be’eri evacuees look to the future, with hope

By Gavriel Fiske

In August, after 10 months in hotels, most Kibbutz Be’eri members will relocate to a temporary neighborhood in a kibbutz outside Beersheba until their homes are rebuilt

‘What made you move to Israel?’

I don’t always get into how I came to be aware of my Jewishness as a child in the UK, or that here, I never need explain

Bishara A. Bahbah

US Muslims could hand Trump a victory

Backing the Republican now in return for a promise to support a ceasefire in Gaza would give my community a seat at the table

People outside Kibbutz Afik wave flags as they pay their last respects Sgt. Eyal Shynes, who was killed in Gaza, June 28, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Mother of slain soldier recounts being on phone with son as he was fatally shot

Meirav Shynes tells Army Radio she was talking with 19-year-old Eyal about his plans to visit home from Gaza when he was suddenly hit by sniper, in incident filmed by Hamas

The 'last Nazi war criminal' set to escape justice

German court rules ex-concentration camp guard, 99, unfit to stand trial

Ex-SS officer Gregor Formanek served time in Soviet prison for crimes against humanity; was indicted in Germany last year; plaintiffs expected to appeal decision

This January 27, 2012, file photo taken on International Holocaust Remembrance Day shows the words 'Arbeit Macht Frei' (Work Sets You Free) marking the entrance to the Sachsenhausen Nazi concentration, in Oranienburg, Germany. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Co-leaders of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Tino Chrupalla (R) and Alice Weidel during a party congress in Essen, on June 29, 2024. (Volker Hartmann/AFP)

Far-right Alternative for Germany reports surge in membership

A damaged Israeli military position targeted by Hezbollah terrorists is seen on the top of Mount Hermon in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, from Chebaa, a Lebanese town near the border with Israel, south Lebanon, June 26, 2024. (AP/Hussein Malla)

US, Europe warn Hezbollah against war: ‘You’re not as capable as you think you are’

By AP and ToI Staff

As world tries to prevent all-out conflict, officials tell terror group it shouldn’t count on them being able to hold off Israel, or on being able to withstand an offensive

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)

Israel strikes Hezbollah sites as attacks on northern towns persist

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Israeli security forces operating in Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarem in the West Bank on January 3, 2024. (Majdi Mohammed/AP)

Islamic Jihad commander killed, 5 hurt in Israeli drone strike in Tulkarem

By Emanuel Fabian and Gianluca Pacchiani

Saeed Jaber was second in command of terror group’s local wing; Hamas official urges all Palestinians to attack Israelis across West Bank

A torched car belonging to an Israeli man who mistakenly entered the Palestinian town of Qalandiya in the West Bank on June 29, 2024. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Mob attacks car of Israeli who drove into West Bank Palestinian town Qalandiya

French nationals vote at the Lycée Français de Los Angeles during the first round of French legislative elections, in Los Angeles, on June 29, 2024. (Photo by Chris DELMAS / AFP)

France votes in fateful election that could catapult far right to power

By Johnny Cotton

First round Sunday to be followed by second round on July 7, with President Macron likely to soon have to deal with a prime minister pushing in a very different direction

A Serbian police officer is stationed outside the entrance to Israel's embassy in Belgrade, June 29, 2024. (Oliver Bunic/AFP)

Serbian police detain two after crossbow attack on Israeli embassy in Belgrade

By AFP and ToI Staff

Assailant killed, said by police to be linked to ultra-conservative Wahhabist branch of Islam; Israeli ambassador visits officer injured in ‘targeted terrorist act’

Police officers block off traffic at an intersection close to the Israeli embassy in Belgrade, Serbia, June 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)

Man shoots policeman at Israel’s embassy in Serbia with crossbow, is killed

By AP and ToI Staff

Then-Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef sells the hametz (leavened food) of the State of Israel ahead of the upcoming Passover holiday, in Jerusalem, April 21, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Outgoing chief rabbi says High Court justices ‘can’t hold a candle to our rabbis’

Assailing top court over ultra-Orthodox draft one last time before ending his 11-year tenure, Yitzhak Yosef adds another controversial remark to his résumé

More Headlines

The aftermath of a fire in a home in the West Bank settlement of Kochav Yaakov, caused by an electric bicycle battery, June 30, 2024 (Fire and Rescue Services)

Woman dies, 18 injured in Kochav Yaakov apartment fire sparked by electric bike

Druze protest outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, demanding equal rights, June 30, 2024 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Not only equal in battle’: Druze, Circassians launch protests against discrimination

Likud MK Danny Danon arrives at a Likud party meeting at the Knesset, Jerusalem, January 8, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Danny Danon approved as next UN ambassador for second stint

By Lazar Berman

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich at a conference hosted by the Makor Rishon newspaper, in Jerusalem, June 30, 2024. (Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich extends waiver allowing Israeli, Palestinian banks to cooperate

By Reuters, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

MK Simcha Rotman attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting in the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, on June 18, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shin Bet said to warn against bill to limit administrative detention of Israelis

Fleeing Iraqi civilians pass the heavily damaged al-Nuri mosque as Iraqi forces continue their advance against the Islamic State in the Old City of Mosul, July 4, 2017. (AP/Felipe Dana)

UNESCO finds Islamic State bombs in Mosul mosque walls, years after group’s defeat

By ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD

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