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What Matters Most On Saturday, July 6, 2024

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Yahya Sinwar, head of Hamas in Gaza, greets his supporters upon his arrival at a meeting in a hall on the sea side of Gaza City, on April 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)

Hamas says it dropped demand Israel vow upfront to end war, but wants mediators’ guarantees

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Terror group seeking commitments that fighting won’t restart, negotiations will continue; Israel reportedly displaying ‘tough stance’; CIA chief said set to join talks in Doha

Mossad chief David Barnea attends a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on Holocaust Remembrance Day, May 5, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Optimism in truce-hostage talks: Mossad chief goes to and from Doha, Hamas briefs Hezbollah

By ToI Staff, Agencies and Jacob Magid

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant during a press conference in Tel Aviv, December 16, 2023. (Noam Revkin Fenton/ Flash90)

‘You’re not the prime minister’: Netanyahu said to clash with Gallant before Doha talks

Anti-government protesters start ‘week of resistance’ with Saturday rallies

Anti-government protesters were set to flock to Tel Aviv's Hostage Square and to events throughout the country Saturday in weekly protests calling for a hostage deal and new elections. The main Tel Aviv rally was set to begin at 8 p.m. and would be dedicated to the mothers of hostages being held in... Continue Reading

Anti-government protesters march to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's house in Jerusalem, July 4, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Protesters led by the mothers of Hamas-held hostages demonstrate in support of a hostage deal in Tel Aviv on July 5, 2024. The banner reads: A mother never gives up. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Two-thirds of Israelis back hostage deal over continuing war in Gaza – poll

Israeli mothers and activists take part in a protest march to mark nine months to the war between Israel and Hamas and for the release of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, July 5, 2024. The banner reads: A mother never gives up. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Mothers of hostages mark nine months since Oct. 7, urge Netanyahu to take deal

By Charlie Summers

Iranian reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian after casting his ballot during the presidential runoff elections in Shareh Qods, west of Tehran on July 5, 2024 (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iranian reformist Masoud Pezeshkian wins presidential election

Victor promises to ease hardline laws, but supports Khamenei and says he wants good ties with ‘all countries except Israel’; turnout at 49.8%, with 600,000 spoiled ballots

ProfileMasoud Pezeshkian: From heart surgeon to Iran’s new reformist president-elect

By AP

Putin welcomes Pezeshkian’s Iran election win, says nations can ‘coordinate efforts’

By AFP

Saudi Arabia, Kuwait congratulate Iran’s new reformist president elect

By AFP

Police carry away a demonstrator in Jerusalem on July 6, 2024. (Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

July 6: Police arrest protesters in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv after anti-government rallies

Arrests also made in Jerusalem * Israel said to raise new issues that may prolong truce-hostage talks * IDF targets Hamas members who used UN-run Gaza school as command center

8:46 pm

Deri's neighbors hold post-Shabbat havdala ceremony with hostage families in Jerusalem
8:20 pm

Report: Israel has raised new issues that may prolong talks for truce-hostage deal
8:12 pm

Egypt to host Israeli, US delegations for Gaza ceasefire talks, says Al Qahera TV

UK Labour MP slams abuse from pro-Palestinian activists after ‘worst election ever’

Labour MP Jess Phillips said in her victory speech on Thursday that the campaign to retain her Birmingham Yardley seat was the "worst election I have ever stood in" due to abuse she and her activists suffered at the hands of pro-Palestinian protesters. Speaking at the vote count... Continue Reading

MP Jess Phillips speaks to LBC after winning her seat in Birmingham in the UK elections, July 5, 2024. (Twitter, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Incoming Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs David Lammy arrives at Downing Street in London, Friday, July 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Thomas Krych)

New UK Foreign Secretary Lammy backs ‘immediate ceasefire,’ hostage release in Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Britain's incoming Prime Minister Keir Starmer and leader of the Labour Party, addresses the nation after his general election victory, outside 10 Downing Street in London on July 5, 2024 (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)

UK’s Starmer promises ‘government of service’ as he takes power after Labour landslide

By brian melley and Jill Lawless

With almost all results in, Labour wins 412 seats in 650-seat House of Commons; Conservatives drop to 121, their worst result ever

Britain's incoming Prime Minister and leader of the Labour Party Keir Starmer, walks to the podium to address the nation after his general election victory, outside 10 Downing Street in London on July 5, 2024. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

Full text‘Country first, party second’: New PM Starmer tells Britons, My government will serve you

Britain's incoming Prime Minister Keir Starmer and leader of the Labour Party, and his wife Victoria pose on the steps of 10 Downing Street in London on July 5, 2024 (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)

ProfileVictoria Starmer: The Jewish, low-profile wife of the new UK prime minister

By Marie Heuclin

Screen capture from undated video of IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. (res.) Peter Lerner. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

‘Pyromaniacs who spout nonsense’: Ex-IDF spokesman blames ministers for war’s bad PR

British-born Peter Lerner says government’s lack of planning for Gaza’s future left him rhetorically unarmed for foreign press as post-Oct. 7 ‘leeway of legitimacy’ faded away

Yair Netanyahu arrives for a court hearing in Tel Aviv, on November 29, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

Yair Netanyahu: ‘High Court and state prosecutor are destroying the country’

Honey, they shrunk the country

True leaders are honest about the challenges and advance strategies to address them. Instead, Israel is ruled by demagogues

The day the Mufti died

Yes, Hajj Amin al-Husayni collaborated with the Nazis, but that’s not why he was dropped from the Palestinian narrative

Referring to job: 'I have a cognitive test every single day'

In interview, Biden says only ‘the Lord Almighty’ could make him drop out of race

By AP, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

MADISON, Wisconsin — United States President Joe Biden, fighting to save his endangered reelection effort, used a highly anticipated TV interview Friday to repeatedly reject taking an independent medical evaluation that would show voters he is up for serving another term in office, while blaming his disastrous debate performance on a “bad... Continue Reading

US President Joe Biden speaks during an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, July 5, 2024. (ABC, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

US President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign rally at Sherman Middle School in Madison, Wis., Friday, July 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden vows he’s ‘staying in the race’ as he scrambles to save candidacy

By Colleen Long and Seung Min Kim

President of the Union for Reform Judaism Rabbi Rick Jacobs at The Times of Israel's Jerusalem office, July 4, 2024. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing July 6: Day 274 – Rabbi Rick Jacobs on reaching out to anti-Zionist Jews

The president of the Union for Reform Judaism says the future of Diaspora Jewish life is not in question, but it is up to Jewish leadership and educators to shape its contours

Hostage signs vandalized outside US Rep. Brad Schneider's Washington office on July 4, 2024. (Brad Schneider/X)

Hostage posters ripped off wall outside Congressman Brad Schneider’s office

Act comes a week after Schneider’s house was picketed; he blasts ‘vile act of hate’

An anti-Israel protester appears to be wearing a Hamas headband and carrying an approximation of the terror group's flag at a rally in New York City on May 18, 2024. (John Lamparski / AFP)

NYPD reports 45 antisemitic incidents last month, 57% of all hate crimes in the city

Bettina Farack, a research fellow at the Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem, speaks about the Library of Lost Books initiative during a launch event in Berlin in November 2023. (Courtesy Weiner Library via JTA)

'This cannot be done by just a handful of experts'

Amateur detectives invited to join search for lost Jewish library looted by Nazis

By Shira Li Bartov

Researchers from the Leo Baeck Institute seek to virtually reunite 60,000 texts from the modern liberal Higher Institute for Jewish Studies in Berlin, destroyed in the Holocaust

File: View of a Kiryat Shmona entrance sign that was burned in a fire started by rockets fired from Lebanon, in the northern town of Kiryat Shmona, June 4, 2024 (David Cohen/Flash90)

Two IDF soldiers lightly wounded in Hezbollah rocket barrage on Kiryat Shmona

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

IDF strikes multiple terror targets in Lebanon as cross-border fire persists in the north

Or, a solider fighting in Gaza, displays a seder plate he found in the territory. (Courtesy via JTA)

'Stealing is forbidden and immoral but this can't be theirs'

Israeli soldiers are finding Judaica in Gaza — and trying to locate the items’ owners

By Deborah Danan

A seder plate, Hanukkah menorahs and other ritual objects have been discovered during the IDF’s ongoing ground incursion in the Strip, raising a legal and moral dilemma for troops

Inside story

A fight over women’s representation leaves Israel’s Jews without chief rabbis

For the first time in over a century, Israel’s Jews have no chief rabbi after the term of both ended on Monday this week amid delays in the succession process due to the role of women, as well as alleged nepotism and internal power struggles. Former Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef and his Ashkenazi counterpart... Continue Reading

Israel's Ashkenazi former chief rabbi David Lau, right, and Israel's Sephardi former chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attend an event at a ceremony in Jerusalem, June 30, 2023. (The Chief Rabbinate of Israel)

From left to right: Carmel restaurant partners Liron Hazan, Ronnie Benarie, Asaf Moaz, Yoav Schverd, in their Los Angeles, California eatery, May 2024. (Kelly Hartog)

'We want to give that family feeling you get from the shuk'

LA’s swanky new Carmel eatery serves upscale Tel Aviv market fare, no added politics

By Kelly Hartog

Four friends focus on their love of the White City’s Carmel Market by bringing Angelenos gourmet spins on local classics despite anti-Israel spike after Oct. 7 Hamas atrocities

Adeb Mazal who evacuated from Arab al-Aramshe. (Dafna Talmon)

Adeb Mazal35-year-old community head from Arab al-Aramshe

'Our connection to our home and land is integral to our culture. It's unacceptable for us to live in an apartment complex'

By Tamar Mor Sela

More Headlines

Geneva Lopez, 27, (R) and Yitzhak Cohen, 37, whose bodies were found in the Philippines on July 6, 2024. (Social media)

Israeli man and his partner found dead in Philippines quarry after 2 weeks of searches

Illustrative: A police car near a crime scene in Jerusalem, March 6, 2024. (Israel Police)

Two men shot dead within hours in Nazareth; police said to suspect criminal disputes

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