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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 2, 2024

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Illustrative: Armored IDF vehicles move through the Nur Shams camp, east of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, during a raid on July 1, 2024. (Zain Jaafar/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

July 2: Halevi says Rafah campaign will ‘take time’ as IDF works to root out Hamas

Hezbollah says Gaza ceasefire will end attacks on north, but war ending without truce might not * IDF said to find pre-Oct. 7 intel should have triggered moves to head off attack

9:01 pm

Palestinians report four killed in West Bank drone strike
8:56 pm

IDF says drone strike targets Palestinian cell planting roadside bomb near Tulkarem
8:47 pm

Settlers stone Palestinian cars in West Bank, injuring three -- reports

Furious Smotrich urges Netanyahu: 'Stop this folly'

Israel boosts power to Gaza desalination plant in bid to avert humanitarian crisis

By Emanuel Fabian

Security officials say electric work critical for Israeli campaign against Hamas; vast majority of Gaza population now in humanitarian zone, where facility’s water will be sent

Palestinians conduct electric works in the Gaza Strip to increase power to a water desalination plant in coordination with Israel, July 2, 2024 (Screenshot: X)

Maj. (res.) Eyal Avnion (left) and Master Sgt. (res.) Nadav Elchanan Knoller, killed in the central Gaza Strip on July 1, 2024. (Courtesy)

Two soldiers killed in Gaza combat as IDF strikes terror targets in Khan Younis

By Emanuel Fabian

Palestinians displaced war in the Gaza Strip flee from parts of Khan Younis following an evacuation order by the Israeli army to leave the eastern part of Gaza Strip's second largest city on July 1, 2024. (Jehad Alshrafi/AP)

IDF tells Gazans to evacuate some Khan Younis neighborhoods in wake of rocket attack

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Analysis

In war with low-tech foe, startups could prevent costly failings – so why don’t they?

On Oct. 7, Israel’s $1 billion border fence sensors were blinded by cheap Hamas drones. Companies developing solutions claim they still face resistance from the defense establishment

Palestinian terrorists take control of an Israeli tank after crossing the border fence with Israel from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023. (Said Khatib / AFP)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu enters the Knesset plenum on June 24, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Inside story

Netanyahu privately showing openness to PA involvement in postwar Gaza — officials

Premier still publicly opposes Palestinian Authority rule over enclave, but his office no longer rejects role for lower-level PA employees in managing Strip once fighting ends

Shifa Hospital director Mohammed Abu Salmiya makes a statement after his release from Israeli prison alongside other detainees, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, July 1, 2024. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)

PM says ‘grave mistake’ to free Gaza hospital head; panel to oversee future releases

By Lazar Berman and AFP

An Israeli military vehicle leads a truck in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip during an operation to deliver humanitarian aid from Jordan to the coastal territory through the Erez Crossing, on May 1, 2024. (Jack Guez/ AFP)

Israel to reportedly try creating Hamas-free ‘bubble’ zones in northern Gaza

By Lazar Berman

Rescued hostage Noa Argamani (left) with her mother Liora, in an undated photo prior to Noa's abduction by Hamas on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)

Mother of hostage Noa Argamani dies of cancer three weeks after daughter’s rescue

Hospital says Liora Argamani spent her final days with her daughter, who was freed from captivity in Gaza last month in an IDF raid

Relatives of hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza attend a Religious Zionism faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 1, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opposition, hostage families press coalition to nix upcoming 3-month Knesset recess

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Analysis

How UK’s Starmer shook off predecessor Corbyn’s far-left legacy — and unpopularity

On the verge of a sweeping win, the Labour Party is very different from the one pummeled at the polls in 2019, and Jewish Brits are as pleased as any about it

Labour Party leader Keir Starmer speaks during a live TV debate, hosted by The BBC, in Nottingham, on June 26, 2024, in the build-up to the UK general election on July 4. (Phil Noble / POOL / AFP)

Campaigners calling for an end to the war in Gaza hold a flag promoting Vaz Shabir, an independent candidate in the forthcoming general election, in the town center of Keighley, northwest England, on June 14, 2024. (Oli SCARFF / AFP)

UK campaigners seek to harness anger at Gaza war among Muslim voters

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (right) and committee chair Yuli Edelstein attend a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting on the ultra-Orthodox draft law at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on July 1, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gallant: IDF needs flexible regulations on Haredi draft, not a law setting quotas

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Defense minister slams government for failing to provide army with enough manpower, notes 10,000 new troops needed but IDF can only accommodate 3,000 ultra-Orthodox this year

Police clash with ultra-Orthodox demonstrators during a protest against the recruitment of Haredim to the IDF, in Jerusalem, June 30, 2024. (Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 2: Day 270 – How the IDF could conscript Haredi yeshiva students

Screen capture from video of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, July 1, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iranian general says itching to carry out another direct missile attack on Israel

Revolutionary Guard aerospace chief Amir Ali Hajizadeh says he doesn’t know how many rockets would be used, but is ‘hopeful’ for opportunity to follow up April barrage of hundreds

Smoke rises after a missile launched from Lebanon hit a house in Metula, near the border with Lebanon, June 26, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Hezbollah member killed as IDF strikes in Lebanon after latest rocket fire at north

By Emanuel Fabian

Family and friends attend the funeral of peace activist and one of the founders of the "Women Wage Peace" movement, Vivian Silver at kibbutz Gezer, central Israel. November 16, 2023. Silver was murdered in the October 7 massacre. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)

October 7 victims sue Iran, Syria, North Korea for billions in US court

By Agencies and ToI Staff

What Acre can teach US student protesters

Though I was within easy range of Hezbollah rockets, I felt less under attack in the mixed Arab-Jewish city than on my American college campus

The brutal syllogism of this war is a deathtrap for Israel

Hezbollah won’t accept a ceasefire unless Hamas does. Hamas will not agree to a ceasefire. Hence, Israel will go to war against Hezbollah.

Analysis

New Gaza famine report reveals grim March predictions were vastly exaggerated

Study appears to emphasize outlying malnutrition results, does not disclose mortality data, leading some experts to question the basis of its new projections

Men collect food aid ahead of the upcoming Eid al-Adha holiday in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, June 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

At Tel Aviv confab, Israel’s embattled peace camp seeks to revive itself post-Oct. 7

By Charlie Summers

Bringing together Jewish and Arab activists under slogan ‘only peace can bring security,’ event features historian Yuval Noah Harari and Hadash chair Ayman Odeh as keynote speakers

Sgt. First Class (res.) Yehuda Geto, killed in the West Bank on July 1, 2024. (Courtesy)

Soldier killed, another seriously hurt by roadside bomb in West Bank’s Nur Shams

By Emanuel Fabian

Two Palestinians killed during attempt to extract troops from refugee camp near Tulkarem, including woman reportedly hit by shrapnel when gunmen set off unexploded missile

Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli speaks at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 25, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Far-right Le Pen would be ‘excellent’ as French president, says Likud minister

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Amichai Chikli claims Netanyahu shares his opinion that anti-immigration politician, who wants to limit public expressions of religion, is good for Israel

People gather at Republique plaza to protest the far-right National Rally, which came out strongly ahead in first-round legislative elections, in Paris, June 30, 2024. (Louise Delmotte/AP)

French centrists, left wing rush to build front against victorious far right

By Tassilo Hummel and Sudip Kar-Gupta

Prof. who called ICJ ‘unworthy of any trust’ tapped as Israel’s judge in genocide case

Ron Shapira, who will replace Aharon Barak as Israel’s ad hoc judge, has said The Hague-based court ’embodies and takes to the extreme all the flaws of legal discourse’

Screen capture from video of Prof. Ron Shapira, rector of the Peres Academic Center, June 2024. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Explainer

Israel’s economy seems to be doing okay, but is everything as it seems?

How Israel’s war in Gaza has affected employment, quality of life, and private and public spending, and how this is expressed in the data

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, November 29, 2020. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90/ File)

Illustrative: Bread for sale at the Rami Levy supermarket in Jerusalem on July 17, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Food and beverage prices in Israel are 52% higher than OECD average

Data shows consumer prices in Israel second only to South Korea among 38 developed countries; telecom prices are the only bright spot, at 30% cheaper than average

Illustrative. Attendees at a Yad Vashem conference. (courtesy)

Interview

Yad Vashem’s Int’l Holocaust Educators’ conference wrestles with new reality

By Gavriel Fiske

150 educators from around the world arrive in Jerusalem for the biannual meet-up in an Israel reeling from the October 7 massacre – and a Jewish world facing renewed antisemitism

The interior of the Holocaust Center for Humanity in Seattle, Washington, March 31, 2016. (Screenshot via YouTube via JTA)

US Holocaust museums slam vandalism in Seattle after police say it’s not a hate crime

By Andrew Lapin

An undated photo of Dr. Eyal Sela with the metal detector at the Galilee Medical Center. (Roni Albert)

In Israeli first, doctor uses metal detector to find shrapnel in wounded soldiers

By Diana Bletter

Low-tech innovation resulting in far quicker treatment earns surgeon Eyal Sela praise from Galilee Medical Center head, who hails initiative as ‘thinking outside the box’

More Headlines

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid at his Yesh Atid party's weekly faction meeting in the Knesset, July 1, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Lapid says Netanyahu orchestrating attorney general’s ouster to revive overhaul

Yemenis wave Palestinian flags and hold mock rockets during a march in the Houthi-run capital Sanaa in solidarity with the people of Gaza on June 28, 2024. (MOHAMMED HUWAIS / AFP)

Yemen’s Houthis claim to attack Israeli, US, UK vessels across 4 bodies of water

By Reuters and ToI Staff

A placard reading 'Loser' is seen in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, July 1, 2024. (Drew Angerer / AFP)

‘The President is now a king’: US Supreme Court grants Trump near-total immunity

By Mark Sherman

Illustrative: Lab staff prepare small petri dishes, each holding several 1-7 day old embryos, for cells to be extracted from each embryo to test for viability at the Aspire Houston Fertility Institute's in-vitro fertilization (IVF) laboratory, in Houston, Texas, February 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)

Kentucky court rejects Jewish women’s challenge to state’s abortion laws

By Jackie Hajdenberg

An New York Police Department (NYPD) car is seen in New York, on January 12, 2024. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Poll: Over 1 in 10 US Jews feel mistreated, 60% uncomfortable being openly Jewish

Adi Mizrahi, who stabbed Yuri Volkov to death in 2022 in Holon, arrives for a court hearing at the Tel Aviv District Court on January 29, 2024. (Flash90)

Holon man gets 16 years for stabbing man to death in 2022 road rage incident

Palestinian swimmer Yazan Al Bawwab reacts during the men's 100m freestyle heats at the World Swimming Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, July 26, 2023. (Lee Jin-man/AP)

Six athletes, including one woman, in Palestinian team for Paris Olympics

By AP and ToI Staff

Lightricks' Facetune app. (Courtesy)

Israeli app developer cuts 12% of its workforce to focus on AI tools to create movies

By Sharon Wrobel

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