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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 9, 2024

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Finance Minister and head of the Religious Zionist Party Bezalel Smotrich holds up a picture of Gaza Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar while arguing against a ceasefire in Gaza during a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on July 8, 2024.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Holding a Sinwar victory pic, Smotrich pans hostage deal; Lapid to PM: We’ll back it

Warning against ‘a defeat and humiliation’ as negotiations resume, Religious Zionism leader insists: ‘We will not be part of a deal to surrender to Hamas’

Hamas accuses Netanyahu of placing ‘obstacles’ to truce-hostage negotiations

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Hamas on Monday accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of putting hurdles in front of ceasefire negotiations, with talks aimed at reaching a truce-hostage release deal set to renew this week. In a statement, the terror group claimed that it was offering "flexibility and positivity" in the talks, while... Continue Reading

A boy pushes a wheelchair carrying water containers past the rubble of destroyed buildings along a street in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 8, 2024. (Bashar Taleb/AFP)

Amin Abed, 35, a Gazan critic of Hamas, is seen on a stretcher after an assault by masked men with knives and batons, July 8, 2024. (Screen capture via X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Gazan anti-Hamas activist critically injured in attack by masked men

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Hostage families attend a ceremony of writing a Torah scroll at the gravesite of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai in Meron, in northern Israel on March 10, 2024 (Photo by David Cohen/Flash90)

Parents of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin launch ‘Week of Goodness’

By Jessica Steinberg

Daniella Gilboa in a Hamas propaganda clip published January 26, 2024. (Screenshot: Telegram)

Family of hostage Daniella Gilboa allows release of Hamas video of her from January

Relatives release three-minute clip, edited from longer Hamas footage showing two other hostages, to emphasize ‘last opportunity’ to save captives’ lives

Andrey Kozlov speaks to Channel 12 in a clip that aired July 8, 2024. (Screen capture/Channel 12)

Hostage freed in rescue op says Hamas guards threatened to murder him in captivity

Danny Elgarat, whose brother Itzik Elgarat is held hostage in Gaza, is dragged out of a Knesset committee meeting on July 8, 2024 (Screen grab via Kan used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

‘Shame!’: Knesset ushers drag brother of hostage out of meeting for interrupting

By ToI Staff and Sam Sokol

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Otzma Yehudit chief accuses PM of being 'one-man government'

Some in coalition threaten its demise as Ben Gvir blocks key Shas bill, slams PM and Deri

By ToI Staff and Sam Sokol

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir entered into a bitter dispute with the ultra-Orthodox Shas party on Monday evening, vowing not to vote with the coalition, as the escalating interparty bickering aggravated already strained relations between members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing coalition. Ben Gvir, who has... Continue Reading

Otzma Yehudit chief Itamar Ben Gvir (left) and Shas leader Aryeh Deri seen speaking separately in the Knesset in this composite image. (Flash90)

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at a court hearing in Jerusalem on July 2, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Coalition pulls all bills from Knesset agenda, blaming ‘irresponsible’ Otzma Yehudit

MK Moshe Gafni chairs a meeting of the Knesset Finance Committee, July 2, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

As coalition tensions mount, top Haredi MK hints at potential dissolution of coalition

An Israeli army vehicle rolls in an area near Israel's southern border with the Gaza Strip on July 9, 2024. (Jack Guez/AFP)

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Outgoing head of the IDF Central Command Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fox speaks during a handover ceremony held at the IDF Central Command headquarters in Jerusalem, July 8, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/ Flash90)

IDF’s outgoing West Bank chief slams settler leaders for failing to rein in violence

By Emanuel Fabian

Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fox says minority adopted ‘ways of enemy,’ but leadership didn’t openly oppose it; new Central Command head Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth vows ‘zero tolerance’ for violence

Jews attend a special prayer at the newly recognized Evyatar outpost, in the West Bank, July 7, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

France and Canada pan Israel’s legalization of five new West Bank settlements

By Lazar Berman, Agencies and ToI Staff

Israelis visit the Sebastia site near Nablus on October 23, 2005. (Photo by Flash90)

Ministers move to expand Antiquities Authority jurisdiction into West Bank

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Daily Briefing July 9: Day 277 – Tension in Knesset as coalition swerves

Knesset reporter Sam Sokol reviews Monday, when a hostage’s brother is tossed from a meeting, Ben Gvir and Shas trade insults, and Naftali Bennett considers a return to politics

Shas leader Aryeh Deri (L) listens to his brother Beersheba's late chief rabbi Yehuda Deri. (Yaakov Cohen)

Yehuda Deri, brother of Shas leader and Beersheba chief rabbi, dies at 66

By Canaan Lidor

Then-prime minister Naftali Bennett speaks at a press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem on June 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ FLASH90)

Gideon Sa’ar says former PM Bennett planning a return to politics

IDF troops operate in Gaza City's Shejaiya neighborhood, in a handout image published July 9, 2024 (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF demolishes 6 Gaza City tunnels, including Islamic Jihad’s ‘flagship’ passageway

By Emanuel Fabian

At least two tunnels neared Israeli border, just across from Nahal Oz; military says 150 gunmen killed in Shejaiya, dozens more in other areas of Gaza City

A handout image released on April 7, 2024, shows a 900-meter-long tunnel uncovered by the IDF in the al-Amal neighborhood of Khan Younis, along with weapons discovered inside. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF assesses much of Hamas tunnel network still in ‘good functional state’ – report

Screen capture from undated video of the Al-Ahli Arab Anglican Hospital in Gaza City. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF denies Episcopal Church claim it ordered evacuation of Gaza City hospital

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A grey Volkswagen that carried seven Gazan laborers and their Israeli Bedouin driver, surrounded by Hamas terrorists at Sha'ar Hanegev Junction, on October 7, 2023. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israel said to hold bodies of five Gazan laborers murdered by Hamas on October 7

Terrorists attacked van carrying seven Palestinian workers driven by Bedouin Israeli man who was also murdered; two were taken alive, their fate unknown

Houses destroyed during Hamas's brutal October 7 onslaught in Kibbutz Be'eri, seen on December 20, 2023. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)

IDF chief shown results of probe into October 7 fighting at Kibbutz Be’eri

By Emanuel Fabian

Protesters outside Columbia University, New York City, New York, April 30, 2024. (Luke Tress/JTA)

Columbia axes 3 deans for text chain mocking campus antisemitism concerns

Fourth dean in conversation, which took place during panel on issue, acknowledged that remarks ‘may call to mind antisemitic tropes’; one dean said panelist came from ‘privilege’

New York University students and anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian supporters rally outside the NYU Stern School of Business building, April 22, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

NYU settles federal antisemitism lawsuit brought by Jewish students

By Jonathan Stempel

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel students take down their encampment after reaching a deal with Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island on April 30, 2024. (Joseph Prezioso / AFP)

US federal probe slams Brown for ‘no or little action’ on antisemitism complaints

By JTA and ToI Staff

A man crosses a street as motorists drive past a billboard depicting Iranian ballistic missiles in service in Tehran on April 19, 2024. (AFP)

Satellite photos show Iran expanding ballistic missile production

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Building at two key military sites follows Iran’s pledge to supply Moscow with missiles for use in Ukraine, and during ongoing attacks by its Axis of Resistance against Israel

Iran's President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian arrives to attend a meeting a day after the presidential election, at the shrine of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, July 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran’s president-elect reasserts country’s anti-Israel stance, backs ‘resistance’

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Supporters cheer as newly-elected Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (C) arrives at the shrine of the Islamic Republic's founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran on July 6, 2024. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

US not expecting policy change from Iran after election of reformist president

By AFP

Jeffrey Shandler, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University, is the author of 'Homes of the Past: A Lost Jewish Museum.' (Etty Lassman; Indiana University Press via JTA)

'Everything was gone. The question was, what do we do next?'

In the 1940s, Jewish scholars planned a museum about the world they were losing

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

A new book details how, like the Nova exhibit that was opened amid Oct. 7 fallout, a YIVO collection in NYC sought to commemorate European Jewry even before the Holocaust’s end

US President Joe Biden attends a church service at Mt. Airy Church of God in Christ, Sunday, July 7, 2024, in Philadelphia (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden gets support from key lawmakers, but others want more assurances from him

By LISA MASCARO, Zeke Miller and Seung Min Kim

Prominent members of the Black and progressive caucuses rally behind US president, as top Democrat on Armed Services Committee goes public with call for Biden to step aside

US First Lady Jill Biden speaks during a barbeque for active-duty military families in honor of the Fourth of July on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, July 4, 2024. (Mandel Ngan / AFP)

Jill Biden ‘all in’ on husband’s reelection bid as he defies calls to quit

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and Curt Anderson

US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden walk to the White House in Washington, DC, on July 7, 2024, returning from campaign events in Pennsylvania. (Chris Kleponis / AFP)

Vowing to stay in race, Biden urges Hill Democrats to ‘come together,’ defeat Trump

Yad Vashem launches new conservation facility to restore and preserve artifacts

By SHLOMO MOR and Maya Alleruzzo

AP — Israel's national Holocaust museum opened a new conservation facility in Jerusalem on Monday that will preserve, restore and store its more than 45,000 artifacts and works of art in a vast new building, including five floors of underground storage. Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center,... Continue Reading

Yellow badges and a piece of luggage are displayed at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, July 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Lucas Cunio, older brother of hostages David Cunio and Ariel Cunio, with his freshly tattooed arm at an Artists 4 Israel event at Jerusalem's Botanical Gardens on July 7, 2024 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Beauty through the pain: Survivors of October 7 inked by visiting tattoo artists

By Jessica Steinberg

12 inkers from abroad join 50 local artists to offer body art to 120 survivors, soldiers and relatives of victims of the Hamas massacre

At the main Manofim contemporary art exhibit 'Believe' on Mount Zion, opening July 9, 2024 (Courtesy Daniel Hanoch)

Jerusalem’s contemporary art festival looks at belief, in Mount Zion exhibit

By Jessica Steinberg

Manofim, meant to have opened October 8, moves annual event to summer and brings ‘Believe’ to King David’s Tomb on historic hilltop

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Members of the Australian Jewish community hold a vigil in Sydney on October 11, 2023. (David Gray / AFP)

Australia appoints special envoy to confront soaring post-October 7 antisemitism

By AP and ToI Staff

Anthony Housefather, a member of Canada's parliament representing a Montreal riding, speaks out against rising antisemitism in parliament in Ottawa, June 4, 2024. (Office of Anthony Housefather/screen capture via JTA)

Trudeau appoints new adviser on Canadian Jewish community and antisemitism

The scene of a deadly shooting in Haifa, allegedly following a burglary attempt, July 9, 2024. (Magen David Adom)

Two killed in separate shootings in Haifa and Tamra

Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron speaks during a press conference at the Bank of Israel in Jerusalem, January 2, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Central bank cuts growth forecast amid fears of intense war, escalation of fighting

By Sharon Wrobel

Israeli low-cost airline Air Haifa. (Courtesy)

New Israeli airline hopes to get license in September to start flights from Haifa

By Sharon Wrobel

(L-r) A poster for Pomidor's exhibit, "Even Elephants Hold Elections," canceled by the London gallery Metamorphika on July 4, 2024, over an artist's social media posts mourning the victims of the Oct. 7 attacks; an image shared by Pomidor of the canceled exhibit. (Screen captures/Instagram via JTA)

London gallery cancels Russian-Israeli artist’s show over posts mourning Oct. 7

By Andrew Lapin

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