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What Matters Most On Monday, July 1, 2024

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Director of Shifa Hospital, Mohammad Abu Salmiya, speaks after his release by Israel, July 1, 2024 (Video screenshot)

Hospital official is one of 55 Palestinian detainees freed

Ministers trade blame with Shin Bet after Shifa Hospital director is released to Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Abu Salmiya, said to have let Hamas abuse Gaza City hospital, freed due to lack of prison space; father of hostage slain there laments further ‘abandonment’; PM blames High Court

The Israel Defense Forces operate in Gaza, in a handout photo published June 30, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 1: Day 269 – Hamas recruits new gunmen in Gaza as IDF op continues

MK Limor Son Har-Melech speaks during a protest against the administrative detention of Jewish Israeli extremists, outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, May 22, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ministers aim to curb administrative detention of Israelis, despite Shin Bet warning

Analysis

Macron’s implicit endorsement of ‘antisemitic,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ far left shocks French Jews

Only two years ago French President Emmanuel Macron received the unreserved endorsement of major Jewish community groups, which regarded his centrist policies and party as the best available bulwark against political radicalism. But now, many French Jews feel betrayed by Macron, who last week announced snap parliamentary elections that backfired and boosted the far right.... Continue Reading

France's President Emmanuel Macron leaves the polling station after voting for the first round of parliamentary elections in Le Touquet, northern France on June 30, 2024. (Ludovic Marin / AFP)

Leader of the French far-right National Rally Marine Le Pen, left, and lead candidate of the party for the European election Jordan Bardella during a political meeting on June 2, 2024 in Paris. (AP/Thomas Padilla)

French far right projected to win first round in elections with 34.5% of votes

National Rally longtime leader Le Pen urges voters to hand party victory in second round of voting for National Assembly next week; President Macron calls for opposing alliance

French far right leader Marine Le Pen reacts as she meets supporters and journalists after the release of projections based on the actual vote count in select constituencies , Sunday, June 30, 2024 in Henin-Beaumont, northern France. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

ExplainerFrench far right ahead in 1st round of snap elections: Here’s what comes next

By Sylvie Corbet

Anti-Israel protesters conceal themselves from a photographer's lens on the campus of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands on June 5, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/ Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebookJewish student group offers respite from anti-Israel vitriol

Only those with palms painted pro-Palestinian red can enter parts of Erasmus University

By Canaan Lidor

In cosmopolitan Rotterdam, Jews say they feel unsafe on campus, where they endure explicit calls for their people’s ethnic cleansing alongside intimidation and antisemitic violence

20 rockets fired from Gaza in largest barrage in months; soldier killed in Rafah

By Emanuel Fabian

An Israeli soldier was killed during fighting in southern Gaza's Rafah on Monday morning, the military said, as Palestinian terrorists in the Strip launched at least 20 rockets at Israeli border communities, marking the largest barrage in at least seven months. The slain troop was named as Sgt.... Continue Reading

IDF troops operate in the central Gaza Strip, in a handout photo published by the IDF on July 1, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant meets with IDF troops in southern Gaza's Rafah, June 30, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/ Defense Ministry)

Gallant: IDF’s Rafah campaign choking Hamas by blocking crossing, destroying tunnels

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip in a picture released on June 30, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says at least 40 Hamas operatives killed as it advances in Gaza’s Shejaiya

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Who will protect France’s Jews?

After the first round of the latest elections, the country may be heading toward an ungovernable future

What Rashida Tlaib knows, or how to win when you’re losing

The US rep didn’t bother trying to convince Congress that Hamas casualty stats are accurate. She gets the power of drama

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox -- photographed here through a metal fence -- attend a rally against the conscription of Haredi yeshiva students to the military, in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood on June 30, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Police use 'skunk' water cannons to clear streets

Haredi minister’s car attacked as violence erupts at anti-draft protest in Jerusalem

5 arrested during clashes with police, officer hospitalized; stones hurled at vehicles carrying United Torah Judaism party head Yitzhak Goldknopf and his predecessor Yaakov Litzman

ExplainerThe army must soon begin enlisting ultra-Orthodox men. How will that work?

By Jeremy Sharon

President Isaac Herzog speaks during a swearing-in ceremony for newly appointed judges at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on June 23, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

President urges Israelis to tamp down rhetoric, warns against political violence

IDF troops stand at the entrance to a Palestinian Islamic Jihad underground rocket manufacturing site in southern Gaza's Rafah, in a handout image published July 1, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

July 1: Israeli forces destroy kilometer-long terror tunnel in central Gaza

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

IDF soldier killed by roadside bomb in West Bank * PM: Release of Shifa head an ‘ethical failure’ * Likud minister: Le Pen as French president would be ‘excellent’; Netanyahu agrees

7:56 pm

Israel's new judge in ICJ case is a law professor who blasted UN court as manipulative
7:43 pm

IDF says soldier killed by roadside bomb in West Bank's Nur Shams
7:18 pm

Houthis says they have targeted 4 ships 'linked to the US, UK and Israel'

Dikla Nasimi listens to her son Eliron at their home in Avdon on June 29, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebookAre there terror tunnels leading to Avdon? We don’t know

Israelis from town 2 miles from Lebanon forced to return home after running out of funds

By Canaan Lidor

After a hotel stay subsidized by a tapped-out Christian organization, Avdon’s 600 residents are refused state housing provided to others within the same distance from border

Smoke billows following Israeli strikes in the village of Shihin in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel on June 28, 2024. (Kawnat HAJU/ AFP)

18 troops hurt, one seriously, in Hezbollah drone strike in north

By Emanuel Fabian

El Al airplanes on the tarmac at Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport, October 4, 2022. (Moshe Shai/ Flash90/ File)

Turkish airport workers refuse to refuel El Al plane after emergency landing

Flight makes emergency landing in Antalya to get passenger medical attention, is forced to fly to Rhodes to refuel before heading to Tel Aviv

Top Democrats rule out replacing Biden despite calls for him to quit 2024 race

By David Morgan and Jarrett Renshaw

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top Democrats on Sunday ruled out the possibility of replacing US President Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee after a feeble debate performance, and called on party members to focus instead on the consequences of a second Donald Trump presidency. After days of hand-wringing about Biden and the outcome of... Continue Reading

US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden arrive for a post-debate rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, on June 28, 2024. (Mandel NGAN / AFP)

Doctors Without Borders staff gather at UN headquarters in New York to protest Israel's actions in Gaza, December 6, 2023, in New York. (Sara Kerens/AP Images for Doctors Without Borders)

'I was a respected scientist; now I'm assaulted on campus'

Ostracized post-Oct. 7, US doctor forms new association for Jewish health professionals

By Cathryn J. Prince

Jewish medical professionals say that since the onset of the Israel-Hamas war, they face a hostile atmosphere. The AJMA seeks to provide them resources and support

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters block the parade route during the NYC Pride March, June 30, 2024, in New York. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

‘Queer as in free Palestine’: Anti-Israel activists block New York City Pride March

By ToI Staff and AP

10 protesters arrested after breaking through barricades along the parade route, holding banners and splashing red paint on the street

Labor chairman Yair Golan (fifth from left) stands with members of his new united left-wing party 'The Democrats.' (via X, formerly Twitter)

Labor and Meretz merge into united ‘liberal-democratic Zionist party’: The Democrats

Union ‘a necessary condition for a change of government,’ says Labor chief; Meretz secretary general promises party will be ‘bigger and more influential than the Kahanists’

More Headlines

Daniel Hershkowitz, the head of the Civil Service Commission, attends a ceremony of turning the Ziv Medical Center in Safed into a Super Center, December 21, 2023. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Ministers pile on deputy AG over demand for panel to tap civil service chief

By Michael Horovitz

Illustrative — A display stands in front of the headstone of Robert L. Cotton, who served in the US Navy, in Fort Logan National Cemetery, Sunday, May 29, 2022. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

US Defense Dept. lab finds pattern of brain damage in Navy SEALs who died by suicide

A herd of sheep passes through the Jordan Valley, November 20 2009.
(Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

High Court bans settlement council from seizing stray Palestinian livestock

By Jeremy Sharon

Sara Netanyahu, right, and her son Yair watch from the gallery as the new government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (not in picture) is swon in at the Knesset in Jerusalem, December 29, 2022. (Amir Cohen/Pool/AFP)

Netanyahu’s wife, children to receive additional year of Shin Bet protection

Itamar Ben Gvir, left, and Bezalel Smotrich at the Knesset on November 21, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich says Ben Gvir and police ‘have completely failed’ to curb crime among Arabs

Illustration: High-tech development centers in Herzliya, October 30, 2020. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Amid war toll, Israeli startups nabbed $2.9b from investors, the most in two years

By Sharon Wrobel

File: View of the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on December 15, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Cabinet okays advancement of new plans to build combined office/residence for PM

Police and medical personnel at the scene investigate the murder of a woman in her 30's that was shot dead, in Lod, July 26, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Man found shot dead in Pardes Hanna in suspected gang killing

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