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What Matters Most On Friday, July 12, 2024

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Defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks during a graduation ceremony at the IDF's officers school in southern Israel on July 11, 2024. (YouTube screenshot/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

In open challenge to the watching prime minister

Gallant calls for state inquiry into Oct. 7 that will probe him, Netanyahu and IDF

Crowd at officer graduation ceremony cheers defense minister’s call, particularly after he says commission should investigate PM — who has argued probe should wait till after war

The destruction caused by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Be'eri, near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, October 14, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Opposition MKs: Be’eri findings confirm need for state inquiry into Oct. 7 failures

By Michael Horovitz

Part of a house destroyed in the October 7 Hamas infiltration of Kibbutz Be'eri near the Israeli-Gaza border, October 25, 2023. (Edi Israel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 12: Day 280 – IDF probe details chain of Oct. 7 disasters at Be’eri

US official: Hamas is in 'rough shape'

Netanyahu said hardening stance on hostage deal based on intel that Hamas ‘weakened’

US, Israeli officials say terror group short on weapons, desperate for ceasefire, emboldening PM to play hardball; Mossad chief said to back him; others say demands ‘will prevent deal’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets with Mossad chief David Barnea, April 18, 2024. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

A view of the Philadelphi Corridor, the Egypt-Gaza border area in Rafah, on June 18, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Netanyahu’s office denies report Israel open to pullout from Gaza-Egypt border

By ToI Staff, Reuters and Jacob Magid

Families and supporters of Israeli hostages, held by the Palestinian terror group Hamas in the Gaza Strip since October 7, march to urge a deal for the hostages' release, along the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway near Shoresh. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

Israeli negotiators head to Cairo for further hostage talks, as PM toughens stance

By ToI Staff, Lazar Berman and Reuters

PM's 'conservative' cabinet not always 'cooperative' on aid

Biden indicates Israel can pursue Hamas leadership after war, which ‘should end now’

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

After shaky start to news conference, president gives detailed answers on Gaza war, rules out Israeli occupation, says progress being made to bridge gaps on hostage-ceasefire deal

US President Joe Biden speaks during a press conference at the close of the 75th NATO Summit at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC on July 11, 2024. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

A group of hostage family members begin second day of a four-day march from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem calling for a hostage deal and end to the war on July 11, 2024. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)

Calling for deal, hostage families continue four-day march to Jerusalem

By Charlie Summers

A US Army vessel is seen moored at the US-built floating pier Trident that connected to the beach on the coast of the Gaza Strip, June 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

US confirms Gaza pier to be shut down after unsuccessful attempt to reanchor it

By Reuters and AP

A demonstrator stands in a cage hanging from a pedestrian bridge as others wave Israeli flags during a protest marking nine months since the October 7 terror onslaught and calling for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas, in Tel Aviv on July 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

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Aerial view of Kibbutz Be'eri after the Hamas massacre, October 14, 2023. (Arik Marmor/Flash90)

For first 7 hours, residents fought terrorists almost alone

Failure and slaughter: IDF’s Be’eri probe shows army’s colossal errors, residents’ bravery

By Emanuel Fabian

Investigation into Oct. 7 Hamas invasion of kibbutz, where 101 civilians and 31 security personnel died, finds disastrous response by military amid battle against hundreds of terrorists

Elam Maor, a member of Kibbutz Be’eri’s local security team, says he spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at 11 on the morning of October 7, in a Channel 12 interview on July 11, 2024. (Screenshot used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law.)

Be’eri security team member told PM ‘hundreds of terrorists here’ at 11 a.m. on Oct. 7

A Hamas drone found by IDF troops at UNRWA's headquarters in Gaza City, in a handout photo published July 12, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

July 12: White House to reportedly host Netanyahu for meeting with Biden

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

IDF says it killed senior Hamas operative in Gaza airstrike * Hamas touts technocrat government for West Bank, Gaza after war * IDF finds Hamas command room in UNRWA HQ

8:38 pm

UN chief pleads for Palestinian refugee agency funding
8:16 pm

US CENTCOM destroys three drones in Houthi-controlled area of Yemen
7:55 pm

Man shot and killed in northern Israel

Families and friends of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza call for their return as they begin a four-day march from Tel Aviv to the Prime Minister's house in Jerusalem, in Tel Aviv, Israel, July 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

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Family members of Israeli hostages held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip lead a march from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem calling for a deal to secure their release, July 12, 2024. (Pro-Democracy Movement/Oded Engel)

On 3rd day of 4-day march from Tel Aviv, hostage families near Jerusalem, demand deal

Israel sends UNRWA list of 108 employees it says are Hamas, PIJ, terrorists

German, US outlets report Foreign Ministry provided names, passports, ‘military IDs’ of workers, urged UN agency for Palestinians fire them immediately, says more suspects to come

A screenshot of drone footage released by the IDF on May 14, 2024, shows a Palestinian gunman next to a UN vehicle at a UNRWA logistics center in Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah. (Israel Defense Forces)

A Palestinian man walks on the rubble of destroyed buildings after the Israeli military withdrew from the Shejaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City on July 10, 2024. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

‘We have nothing’: Gazans return to Shejaiya after IDF wraps up two-week raid

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Gazan anti-Hamas activist Amin Abed speaks from a hospital bed in northern Gaza after sustaining critical injury in an attack by masked assailants whom he identified with the terror group's internal security service, in a video published by Saudi state-owned Al-Arabiya news site on July 9, 2024. (Screen capture: X/Al-Arabiya, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

‘You were wrong not to kill me’: Gazan activist slams Hamas for attack on him

IDF reservist killed as Hezbollah launches wave of drone attacks on northern Israel

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Several explosive-laden UAVs impact Western Galilee as others downed by air defenses over Upper Galilee, IDF says; man caught looting homes in evacuated northern town

Sgt. First Class (res.) Valeri Chefonov. (Israel Defense Forces)

Likud MK Yuli Edelstein (gray shirt facing camera) speaks to European diplomats in Kiryat Shmona, July 11, 2024 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)

Decision on Hezbollah must come ‘very soon’, senior MK tells European diplomats

By Lazar Berman

Shalom Korai poses for a picture with members of his extended family just after he met them in person for the first time on Wednesday, July 10, 2024, in North Charleston, South Carolina. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

Holocaust survivor who never met any family finds cousins through DNA testing

By Jeffrey Collins

Saved from the streets of Warsaw in 1943, Shalom Korai had long accepted that he had no relatives, until a sample submitted to MyHeritage matched that of a woman in South Carolina

Dear G_d, I used to believe in You

If You actually created the universe, parted the Red Sea, and even gave us little miracles like latkes, why don’t you stop people from killing each other?

Pinchas Goldschmidt

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I never thought I’d have to revive a century-old defense against an officially debunked blood libel, but the Russian public needs a reminder of the truth (Hukat)

Israeli soldiers attend a swearing-in ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, on July 10, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ministers to vote Sunday on extending male mandatory IDF service to 3 years

By ToI Staff and Sam Sokol

Government order will effectively cover the next eight years; with ultra-Orthodox exempt from service, watchdog slams decision as ‘scandalous’ and a ‘moral injustice’

President Joe Biden speaks at a news conference on July 11, 2024, on the final day of the NATO summit in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

After gaffes on Harris and Zelensky, Biden faces more pressure from Dems to quit race

By Andrea Shalal, Nandita Bose and Andy Sullivan

US president refers to his ‘Vice President Trump’ at news conference, introduces Ukraine leader as ‘President Putin’ at NATO summit; 17 congressional Democrats want him to end re-election bid

US President Joe Biden similes as he meets with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the Oval Office of the White House, July 10, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

56% of Democrats think Biden should quit race after debate flop — poll

By ToI Staff and Reuters

Mother: 'I feel that he can feel me when I’m in there'

‘This was a place of joy’: Time stands still in empty bedrooms of hostages held in Gaza

By Oded Balilty and Melanie Lidman

Families reflect on significance of captives’ inner sanctums, some of which bear witness to October 7 onslaught, while others exude an untouched tranquility

Bentzi Gopstein, head of the racist Lehava organization and a former Knesset candidate for Otzma Yehudit until he was disqualified from running due to incitement to racism, stages a protest against the annual Gay Pride parade in central Jerusalem, June 6, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US issues largest yet batch of sanctions against Israeli extremists, West Bank outposts

Those targeted include anti-miscegenation Lehava group led by Ben Gvir ally, leaders of group behind attacks on Gaza aid convoys and 4 wildcat towns tied to attacks on Palestinians

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (3rd R) meets with G7 Foreign Ministers during NATO's 75th anniversary summit in Washington, DC, on July 11, 2024. (Samuel Corum/AFP)

G7 ministers rap Israel for expanding settlements, withholding PA funds

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Israeli and Palestinian children aged 6-13 at a joint soccer practice in Jerusalem's Abu Tor district organized by the "Inter Campus" social initiative (courtesy)

'We are trying to change a very complex reality'

Jewish-Arab kids’ soccer team bridges Jerusalem divide amid Euro 2024 excitement

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Squad recently resumed training after long hiatus after October 7, as project organizers hope it will foster mutual understanding in one of Jerusalem’s few mixed neighborhoods

Obituary

Mordechai Rosenstein, illuminating Jewish calligrapher, dies at 90 in Pennsylvania

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Unique brightly colored works that featured stretched out and manipulated Hebrew letters are displayed in countless homes and synagogues around the world

Mordechai Rosenstein, shown in his studio, created more than 700 works using stylized Hebrew calligraphy and vibrant colors. (Courtesy: Lisa Rosenstein via JTA)

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New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a campaign rally in the Bronx, June 22, 2024. (Luke Tress/JTA)

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Gabe and Liz Rutan-Ram in a still from a campaign ad from Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. (YouTube)

US religious freedom drive backs Jewish couple barred from Christian adoption agency

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Israeli Bedouin women working at a Bezeq customer service center, located in a mosque, in the southern Arab town of Hura, July 27, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Income from employment in Arab Israeli society grows faster than other sectors – study

By Sharon Wrobel

Huma Abedin and Alex Soros attend the 2024 Met Gala in New York. (Cindy Ord/MG24/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue via JTA)

Political power coupleSoros’s son to marry Hilary Clinton’s former adviser Huma Abedin

By Jackie Hajdenberg

The four members of Brooklyn-based Big Thief, including Israeli bassist Max Oleartchik (far right), as they announced July 11, 2024 that he is leaving the indie band for 'interpersonal reasons' (Courtesy)

Big breakIsraeli bassist leaves indie band Big Thief for ‘interpersonal reasons’

By Jessica Steinberg

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