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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 4, 2025

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United Torah Judaism MKs confer in the Knesset plenum, December 4, 2024. (Chaim Goldbergl/Flash90)

Opposition plans to move to dissolve Knesset

Elections may loom as senior rabbis tell Haredi UTJ party to bolt coalition

Party’s spiritual leaders, fed up with failure to pass a law exempting yeshiva students from conscription, reportedly refusing to speak with Netanyahu; UTJ would need Shas’s support to bring down government

United Torah Judaism chairman Yitzchak Goldknopf in the Knesset plenum, May 13, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Haredim weigh dissolving Knesset over failure to pass draft exemption bill

Palestinians carry bags filled with food and humanitarian aid provided by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a US-backed organization approved by Israel, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, June 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Gaza aid sites close for the day as GHF seeks to bolster security after shootings

Organization says it’s working to accommodate larger crowds and has made a series of requests to IDF aimed at boosting safety measures after 3 straight days of mass-casualty incidents

People carry boxes of relief supplies distributed by the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation at an aid distribution center in the central Gaza Strip on May 29, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

IDF rejects ‘exaggerated’ Hamas claims of people killed by troops near Gaza aid site

By Emanuel Fabian, Nava Freiberg and Jacob Magid

Palestinians receive food packages from the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in western Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 27, 2025. (AFP)

Key US consulting firm withdraws from American- and Israeli-backed Gaza aid agency

By Nava Freiberg, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Op-ed: Day 607 of the war

Who’s shooting whom near Rafah’s aid center, and who’s exploiting the bloodshed

Trying to pierce the fog of war has been spectacularly difficult ever since Hamas triggered almost 20 months of conflict. Israeli defeatism on the second battlefield isn’t helping

Palestinians return from a food distribution center in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on June 1, 2025. (Photo by AFP)

ToI podcastWhat Matters Now to David Horovitz: Shedding light on war when the facts are dim

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz

Pro-Israel demonstrators hold placards and wave Israeli flags as they take part in a protest outside the BBC headquarters, in London, on February 4, 2024. (HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)

BBC defends Gaza coverage after White House criticism it takes ‘the word of Hamas’

By AFP and ToI Staff

IDF reservist killed, another seriously wounded in Gaza City fighting

By Emanuel Fabian

Master Sgt. (res.) Alon Farkas’s death brings ground op toll to 425; military says three troops wounded in Hamas drone attack in Jabalia

Master Sgt. (res.) Alon Farkas, killed in Gaza on June 3, 2025 (IDF)

Israeli soldiers carry the flag-draped casket of Sgt. Omer Van Gelder, who was killed in a battle in the Gaza Strip, during his funeral at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, Tuesday, June 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

’22 years is not enough’: Three soldiers killed in Gaza roadside bomb laid to rest

In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with teachers, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, May 17, 2025. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s Khamenei rejects US nuclear deal proposal, vows to keep enriching uranium

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Senior Iranian official say Iran-based enrichment consortium ‘may warrant consideration,’ but anything outside borders ‘doomed to fail’; report suggests more talks this weekend

The Al-Ansar Mosque in Gaza's Deir al-Balah after Israeli airstrikes, June 3, 2025. (Photo by Ali Hassan/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 4: Day 607 – Iran balks, Spain reneges, Gaza aid closes for a day

By Jessica Steinberg, Lazar Berman and Ariela Karmel

A banner confiscated by police from the possession of a Palestinian man suspected of plotting a terror attack on behalf of Iran, his arrest was announced June 3, 2025. The banner reads: "Bibi is a dictator, we are not weeds. Ronen Bar we support you." (Israel Police)

Palestinian arrested for plotting terror attack on behalf of Iranian agent

By Charlie Summers

A police officer at the site of a rocket impact near the Golan Heights community of Ramat Magshimim, shortly after two rockets were fired from Syria, June 3, 2025. (Israel Police)

Live updates (closed)

June 4: Unrecognized Syrian militia claims responsibility for rocket fire on Israel, says it’s only the start

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Ex-hostage Eli Sharabi says captives knew they would’ve been freed sooner under different government * After meeting with Edelstein, PM says Haredi draft law gaps can be bridged

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GHF says sites won't reopen tomorrow morning as planned after one-day shut-down
8:39 pm

Unrecognized Syrian militia claims responsibility for rocket fire on Israel, says it's only the start
8:32 pm

US vetoes UN Security Council resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire

Ellen Ginsberg Simon

I am not a ‘good Jew’

I will not pretend that everything is okay to please you in the hopes that such an approach will end better than it did for my forebears

Waves and waves of love: An Orthodox ally at Pride

I didn’t create the tension between Jewish law and the modern LGBTQ community, and I can’t resolve it, but I will do all I can to support those navigating it

Naomi Marmon Grumet

Love in the time of war: The struggle for relationships

If you’re single, even a date can feel risky, for just when your desire for love may be strongest, your emotional resources to pursue it are depleted

How soon is too soon? School trips to October 7 sites

Preparing teens to encounter trauma requires guidance, time to process and reflect, and room to ask difficult questions. But what if it’s too recent for that?

A police officer at the site of a rocket impact near the Golan Heights community of Ramat Magshimim, shortly after two rockets were fired from Syria, June 3, 2025. (Israel Police)

Syrian gov't says not looking to threaten anyone in region

Rockets fired from Syria for first time in a year; Israel holds Sharaa responsible

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

IDF carries out airstrikes across southern Syria after two projectiles fired from 12 km inside northern neighbor; Houthi missile triggers sirens across central Israel; no injuries reported

US soldiers patrol in Syria's northeastern city Qamishli, in the Hasakeh province, mostly controlled by Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), on January 9, 2025. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)

US to scale down its military bases in Syria as part of policy shift, envoy says

By Huseyin Hayatsever and Orhan Qereman

Mouse uses its whiskers to touch and hear its environment. (Shutterstock)

Mice whiskers are about as thick as human hair

In breakthrough that may aid blind, Israeli scientists find mice use whiskers to ‘hear’

By Diana Bletter

Weizmann Institute researchers use AI models to show the act of ‘whisking’ allows mice to generate sounds that, encoded in their brain’s auditory cortex, aid them in navigation

Illustrative: A man walks past the empty stand of Israel Aerospace Industries with an empty Rafael stand seen at the Dubai Air Show in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Israeli arms sales break record for 4th year in row, reaching $14.8 billion in 2024

By Emanuel Fabian

Massive exports come despite pressure by foreign governments to cancel deals over Gaza war; air defense systems account for nearly half of sales

Spain's Defense Minister Margarita Robles arrives for a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at NATO headquarters in Brussels, on April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Spain reneges on $325m purchase of anti-tank missiles from Israel’s Rafael

By Lazar Berman and AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Tel Aviv District Court before the start of his cross-examination in his trial, June 3, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

In first day of cross-examination, Netanyahu pressed on the veracity of his memory

By Jeremy Sharon

Prosecution challenges PM on his relationship with Milchan and his police testimony, pointing to 1,778 times he told officers he ‘doesn’t remember’

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee meets with Frimet and Arnold Roth at the US Embassy in Jerusalem on May 13, 2025. (Courtesy)

Parents of Sbarro bombing victim urge US to demand Hamas terrorist’s extradition

By Nava Freiberg

Ahlam Tamimi, who played central role in 2001 Jerusalem attack that killed 16 and injured 130, has lived freely in Jordan since her 2011 release

Bouquets of flowers stand along a makeshift memorial for victims of an attack on a rally for Hamas-held hostage, outside of the Boulder County courthouse in Boulder, Colorado June 3, 2025. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Colorado suspect disguised himself as a gardener to approach victims – police

Mohamed Soliman says he carried out firebombing to avenge ‘his people’ and hoped to die during the attack; Jewish community announces vigil and fundraising for the victims

Bouquets of flowers stand along a makeshift tribute for victims of an attack outside of the Boulder County, Colorado, courthouse in Boulder, Colorado, June 3, 2025. (David Zalubowski/ AP)

Family of Colorado firebombing suspect taken into federal immigration custody

By ToI Staff and Agencies

From left to right, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, and Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit, holds a press conference following the ministerial committee of the Arab-Islamic Extraordinary Joint Summit on Gaza, in Amman, Jordan, June 1, 2025. (AP/Raad Adayleh)

Saudi official says Israel harmed normalization by blocking West Bank visit – report

Source within the Saudi royal family said to accuse Netanyahu of protecting his own interests at expense of forging ties: ‘He doesn’t want peace, he only wants to make problems’

Jewish students at El Camino Real Charter High School walk out in protest of antisemitic incidents at the Los Angeles school on February 27, 2024. (Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images via JTA)

'Jewish students have been made to feel unwelcome'

Ethnic studies compromise opens door to broader antisemitism legislation in California

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Jewish groups don’t want Jews painted unfairly or Israel singled out in a new curriculum mandate. Now, several racial caucuses may be willing to help

Lebanese Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji (left) receives his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi (center) in Beirut, Lebanon, June 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese FM stresses need to disarm Hezbollah in meeting with Iranian counterpart

By Nurit Yohanan, AP and ToI Staff

Araghchi’s first visit to Beirut since ceasefire with Israel punctuated by Lebanon’s calls to build ‘state to state’ relations, which would diminish Tehran’s sway via Hezbollah

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi lays a wreath of flowers at the grave of slain Lebanese Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in September 2024, at his mausoleum in Beirut's southern suburbs on June 3, 2025. (Anwar AMRO / AFP)

Iran’s foreign minister visits Lebanon to discuss Hezbollah support

By AFP and ToI Staff

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By Charlie Summers

Smoke rises to the sky following an Israeli strike in Gaza City, June 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Canadian authorities confirm opening probe last year into alleged war crimes in Gaza

Illustrative photo of the Tel Aviv Municipality building at Rabin Square on July 5, 2015. (Matt Hechter/Flash90)

6 employees of corporation owned by Tel Aviv city hall arrested for alleged bribery

By Charlie Summers

Far-right lawmaker Geert Wilders talks to the media after pulling his party out of the four-party Dutch coalition in The Hague, Netherlands, on June 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Dutch government collapses after far-right leader Geert Wilders quits coalition

By Richard Carter

Energy Minister Eli Cohen (fourth from right) helps inaugurate the new National Institute for Energy and Electrochemical Storage at Bar-Ilan University, near Tel Aviv, June 3, 2025. (Shlomi Mizrahi, Bar-Ilan University)

New NIS 130 million center will pioneer energy storage as renewables gain ground

Former hostage Shoshan Haran speaks about being taken captive in video for an Open University award on May 29, 2025 (Courtesy)

Seed fundingFormer hostage honored for pioneering farming work in Africa

By Jessica Steinberg

A house at 3 Hovevei Zion Street in Jerusalem, previously owned by philanthropist Michael Steinhardt, in an undated photo (Courtesy/Prosperity Real Estate)

Michael Steinhardt sells Jerusalem luxury home for $21 million

This court sketch made on November 4, 2021, shows Osama Krayem on trial for the November 13, 2015, Paris attacks, during the trial taking place in a temporary courtroom set up at the Palais de Justice of Paris. (Benoit PEYRUCQ / AFP)

Sweden tries sole surviving ISIS jihadist over Jordan pilot burned to death in Syria

By Nioucha ZAKAVATI

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