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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 5, 2025

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Judih Weinstein Haggai and Gadi Haggai (Courtesy)

Couple's son: 'An uncertainty that has ended'

IDF recovers bodies of slain hostages Gadi Haggai, Judih Weinstein in Gaza operation

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

Dual US citizens were held in Khan Younis by Hamas-allied terror group that also kidnapped, murdered Bibas family; official says Shin Bet grilling of Gazan detainee led IDF to bodies

Freed hostage Eli Sharabi speaks to Channel 12, in an excerpt from an interview set to be broadcast June 6, 2025. (Screen capture via N12 on X)

Eli Sharabi: In Gaza, we figured we’d be free already if Israel had different government

Hostage families meet with US special envoy Steve Witkoff and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles at the White House on June 3, 2025. (Hostage Family Forum)

Mediators optimistic Hamas will soon submit softened hostage deal proposal — sources

A supporter of Israel holds a picture of kidnapped Israeli hostages Gadi Haggai and Judih Weinstein on October 26, 2023, in New York. (Bryan R. Smith / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

June 5: Witkoff, Rubio praise recovery of slain hostages, urge release of remaining captives

By Joshua Davidovich, Michael Horovitz and ToI Staff

Hamas chief says terror group didn’t reject US proposal but demanded changes * Haredi Hasidic faction’s rabbis back dissolution of Knesset * Thousands rally against High Court in Jerusalem

8:52 pm

Lebanon's leaders accuse Israel of ceasefire violation after Beirut strikes
8:31 pm

ICC accuses Washington of trying to undermine its independence with sanctions
8:17 pm

US sanctions four ICC judges over efforts to prosecute Israelis, Americans

Boulder firebomber is Egyptian national, but Egypt not on list

Trump bans citizens of 12 countries from entering US, ties move to attack on Colorado rally

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US president blacklists Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen; citizens of 7 more nations partially restricted

US President Donald Trump speaks during a summer soiree on the South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, June 4, 2025. (Alex Brandon/AP)

Graduates listen to speakers while displaying 'Free Palestine' signs on their mortarboards during commencement ceremonies at Harvard University, on May 29, 2025, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Trump moves to bar US entry to foreign students planning to study at Harvard

By AP

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators rally near Columbia University in New York on November 15, 2023. (Bryan R. Smith / AFP)

US says Columbia University discriminated against Jews, should lose accreditation

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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Dorothy Shea, acting US Ambassador to the United Nations, raises her hand to veto a draft resolution calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, the release of all the hostages and unhindered aid access across the enclave, at a UN Security Council meeting on June 4, 2025, at the UN headquarters in New York. (Kyodo / Reuters)

US vetoes UN Security Council resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire

By Reuters and ToI Staff

14 other members back motion demanding release of hostages and unhindered aid; US envoy says will ‘not support any measure that fails to condemn Hamas, call for it to disarm’

US Ambassador to the United Nations Dorothy Shea (C) speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting to vote on a resolution calling for a ceasefire and unrestricted humanitarian access in Gaza, at UN headquarters in New York City on June 4, 2025. (Leonardo Munoz / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 5: Day 608 – US and Israel against the world at the UN

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jacob Magid

Palestinians pick up boxes of humanitarian aid at a distribution site managed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation on May 26, 2025. (GHF)

Report: Israel contributed NIS 700m to Gaza aid mechanism it claims not to fund

File: Likud leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu (sitting) with United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni at a vote in the Knesset, on December 28, 2022 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Netanyahu taped saying he replaced Gallant, Halevi so Haredi draft exemption bill can pass

By Nava Freiberg, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

In recording, PM labels ex-defense minister, chief of staff as ‘enormous obstacles’ to passing law exempting yeshiva students from IDF service, says he wants to save ‘the world of Torah’

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett speaks during the Israel Information Technology Conference in Ness Ziona, May 5, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

Polls: Bennett-led bloc would triumph over PM’s coalition if elections held today

Shas leader MK Aryeh Deri after a meeting on the Haredi draft bill, outside the party's Jerusalem headquarters, June 4, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Shas said planning to back Knesset dissolution over stymied draft-exemption bill

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

In 1st debate, NYC mayoral candidates spar over Israel’s right to exist as Jewish state

Far-left Zohran Mamdani, polling second, refrains from acknowledging a Jewish Israel, drawing fire from frontrunner Andrew Cuomo

Democratic mayoral candidates Andrew Cuomo, far left, and Zohran Mamdani, second from right, argue as Whitney Tilson, second from left, and Michael Blake look on during a Democratic mayoral primary debate, June 4, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, Pool)

Op-ed

For now, victory is still within reach: 10 truths about the Gaza war, 20 months in

Israeli troops are again maneuvering inside Gaza, hoping this will be the knockout blow; but Hamas is still fighting and doesn’t seem desperate for a deal

A woman and a little girl look at a mural showing female Israeli soldiers taken hostage during the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel, in Tel Aviv, January 18, 2025 (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Inside storyAs Gazans clamor for aid, looting and shootings underscore new dangers

By Nurit Yohanan

Displaced Palestinians carrying relief supplies return from an aid distribution center in the central Gaza Strip on May 29, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

GHF says Gaza aid sites not reopening Thursday morning as planned, after one-day shutdown

By Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

J’Accuse: CNN and NYT stoke hatred with false allegations

Not once did ’middle-of-the-road’ journalists pause to consider what happens when they portray Jews as a bloodthirsty people who enjoy slaughtering innocents

South Africa’s chief rabbi gets it wrong when he calls crime ‘genocide’

South Africa has a shockingly high murder rate, but without the intent to destroy a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group, it’s just not genocide

An attendee drapes herself in an Israeli flag during a community gathering at the site of an antisemitic firebombing attack against people holding a demonstration for kidnapped Israeli citizens in Gaza in Boulder, Colorado, on June 4, 2025. (Photo by Chet Strange / AFP)

Boulder’s ‘shocked and traumatized’ Jewish community takes stock of losses and strengths

By Grace Gilson

After an antisemitic firebombing attack on Sunday injured 15 people including an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor, local Jews are finding some measure of support from outside allies

US judge halts deportation of Egyptian family of Boulder hostage rally attack suspect

By AP and ToI Staff

Family of slain Israel embassy staffer speaks out against activists supporting attack

By Luke Tress and ToI Staff

Justice Minister Yariv Levin attends a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 7, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Justice minister seeks to bypass committee, oust attorney general with cabinet vote

By ToI Staff and Jeremy Sharon

Yariv Levin’s resolution would allow dismissal of Gali Baharav-Miara with just 75% cabinet support, circumventing statutory committee legally required to oversee her removal

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits at the Tel Aviv District Court before the start of his cross-examination in the criminal trial against him, June 4, 2025 (Moti Milrod/POOL)

In cross-examination, PM argues he was a ‘political corpse’ when he befriended Milchan

In an Israeli first, researchers snap pix of 3 generations of dolphins off Tel Aviv coast

By Diana Bletter

‘It’s rare’ to document dolphin families together, says University of Haifa researcher; 396 documented bottlenose dolphins live along Israeli coastline

Prof. Ran Barkai from Tel Aviv University holds a segment of an ancient elephant at the La Polledrara site in Italy in an undated picture. (Tel Aviv University)

'Our ancestors were crazy for fat'

Prehistoric elephant jerky? Early humans preserved megafauna meat in a smokehouse

By Rossella Tercatin

New Israeli research suggests large game was smoked as early as 1.8 million years ago, a survival strategy that may have helped shape human evolution far before BBQs took hold

Screen capture from video of International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi giving an interview in Damascus, Syria, June 4, 2025. (Abdelrahman Shaheen/AP)

IAEA chief: Syria to give inspectors immediate access to suspected former nuclear sites

By AP and ToI Staff

UN watchdog’s head Rafael Grossi says officials will look at 4 locations, including Deir Ezzor facility Israel bombed in 2007; says open to Damascus pursuing non-weapon program

A large Syrian flag is raised on a pole at Tishreen Park in Damascus on June 4, 2025. (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)

Syria says ‘will never be threat to anyone in region’ after rocket fire on Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

11 Israeli startups dominate list of most promising global cybersecurity firms

By Sharon Wrobel

The startups make up more than one-third of Notable Capital’s ‘Rising in Cyber 2025’ list of 30 companies solving the most urgent challenges facing security teams

Illustrative. Cybersecurity technology. (Stock Depot via iStock by Getty Images)

Illustrative: A Rafael laser interceptor system, in a handout photo issued by the defense firm on June 4, 2025. (Rafael Advanced Defense Systems)

Rafael unveils new laser interception systems, will showcase them at Paris Air Show

By Emanuel Fabian

Ohad Naharin, center, teaching a Gaga class, the body movement concept that he created. (Courtesy Gaga)

Montreal dance studio joins Israel boycott, drops classes in Ohad Naharin’s Gaga technique

By Grace Gilson

The decision by Studio 303 has triggered debate among its attendees, including Israelis, who question whether boycotting the pro-Palestinian Israeli choreographer ‘misses the mark’

Ireland’s Trinity College severs ties with Israel over Gaza war

By AFP

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Illustrative: An Israel Police car, February 27, 2017. (Moti Karelitz/Flash90)

14-year-old shot dead, relative injured in Negev town as murders continue to spike

State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman attends a Knesset Finance Committee meeting in Jerusalem, January 6, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF petitions High Court to halt state comptroller’s probe into Oct. 7 army failures

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: Voting ballots are emptied from a ballot box (iStock by Getty Images)

WZO heads likely to throw out thousands of suspect ballots as they meet on voter fraud

US President Donald Trump speaks during a summer soiree on the South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, June 4, 2025. (Alex Brandon/AP)

Trump orders inquiry into ‘conspiracy’ to hide Biden’s cognitive decline

Illustrative: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is seen on large screens as he addresses members of Norway's Parliament, The Storting, in Oslo, Norway on March 30, 2022. (Heiko JUNGE / various sources / AFP)

Norway rejects calls to toughen investment rules in Israeli companies

By AFP

An El Al plane parked at Ben Gurion Airport, May 7, 2025. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Argentina’s ambassador to Israel says El Al to begin direct Buenos Aires flights

By Juan Melamed

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