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What Matters Most On Friday, June 6, 2025

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Illustrative: A woman places a bouquet of flowers at a makeshift memorial for victims of a firebombing attack against a demonstration in support of the hostages in Gaza, outside the Boulder County courthouse in Boulder, Colorado, June 3, 2025. (AP/ David Zalubowski)

Live updates (closed)

June 6: IDF says Zamir approved new battle plans for Gaza

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Hamas authorities raise death toll in Friday strikes to 38* GHF says it closed distribution sites early due to overcrowding * Gazans mark first day of Eid al-Adha with prayers in ruined mosques

8:20 pm

Hamas spokesman after IDF troops killed: We'll continue hurling 'David's stones' at 'Gideon's Chariots'
8:10 pm

Iran FM says Tehran will respond to US nuclear deal proposal in coming days
7:26 pm

Abrego Garcia on way to US to face criminal charges, ABC News reports

A missile is launched from the Persian Gulf during a drill of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, in a photo provided by the IRGC's Sepahnews on January 24, 2025. (Sepahnews via AP)

Iran orders materials from China that can make some 800 ballistic missiles – report

Israel said to reassure US that it won’t strike Iranian nuclear facilities without first receiving signal from Trump that talks have failed

Isaiah Scroll from the IAA's Dead Sea Scrolls collection. (Shai Halevi, Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority)

New study revolutionizes Dead Sea Scrolls dating, might rewrite Israel’s history

By Rossella Tercatin

Trailblazing interdisciplinary system, combining AI and radiocarbon dating, indicates the precious artifacts may have been written decades – or even centuries – earlier than previously believed

Protesters wave Palestinians flags as they gather on Westminster Bridge in front of the Elizabeth Tower, commonly known by the name of the clock's bell "Big Ben", at the Palace of Westminster, home to the Houses of Parliament, in central London, on June 4, 2025 (Adrian DENNIS / AFP)

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Is Israel alone?

Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel fights back against claims that Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza and explains that the Jewish state still has friends across the globe.

Justice Minister Yariv Levin speaks during a rally outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, June 5, 2025. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Police check into shattered window at court

At rally near Supreme Court, Levin slams judicial ‘tyranny,’ vows ‘complete reform’

Justice minister promises to ‘carry out the will of the people’; Ben Gvir says war will be won by ousting Gazans, resettling Strip; 2 held at parallel anti-government protest in Tel Aviv

MK Ayman Odeh speaks during a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset in Jerusalem, on January 27, 2025. Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana is seated in the background. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Knesset to vote on expulsion of Arab lawmaker who said ‘Gaza will win’

Yasser Abu Shabab (right) and members of his group in Gaza are seen in an undated video posted by the group. (screen capture: Facebook, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Netanyahu confirms move: 'It saves lives of IDF soldiers'

Israel providing guns to Gaza gang to bolster opposition to Hamas

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Security cabinet wasn’t informed of plan to start arming Abu Shabab group, which was created in Rafah last year and has its roots in looting aid trucks

Inside storyArab envoy: Netanyahu’s arming of Gaza gang shows ‘he’s learned little since Oct. 7’

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Maj. Gen. David Zini (right) and Maj. Gen. Nadav Lotan (left) at the Aliqa base in the Golan Heights, June 4, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Netanyahu’s Shin Bet pick proudly calls himself ‘messianic’ at IDF farewell ceremony

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Protesters hold an Israeli flag stained with red paint at an anti-Israel demonstration in Madrid, Spain, on May 11, 2024.(Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP)

24-country survey: Support for Israel strongest in Kenya and Nigeria, lowest in Turkey

Climate activist Greta Thunberg boards the Madleen boat before setting sail for Gaza along with activists of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, departing from the Sicilian port of Catania, Italy, June 1, 2025. (AP/Salvatore Cavalli)

UK turns down request to intervene, says Israeli official

Israeli Navy gears up to block Greta Thunberg’s high-profile protest ship headed for Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Freedom Flotilla’s Madleen, sailing under UK flag, set to reach Israeli territorial waters in coming days; clashes with activists would likely spark uproar

France's President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a joint press conference with Brazil's president (not in picture) following a meeting at The Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris, on June 5, 2025. (Christophe PETIT TESSON / POOL / AFP)

Macron: Steps against Israel over Gaza war to be decided in ‘next couple of days’

By Lazar Berman, Agencies and ToI Staff

Displaced Palestinians walk along a road to receive humanitarian aid packages from the Israeli and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in Rafah, southern Gaza, on June 5, 2025. (Photo by AFP)

GHF resumes Gaza aid distribution after temporarily closing sites to boost security

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman, Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

This is what I chose: A call to clarity from a Jew by choice in Maine

To those who say they are anti-Zionist but not antisemitic, I say: Start proving it. Show us that when Jews are threatened, you’ll light a candle and take a stand

Is it time for compassionate Judaism to split with vengeful, racist Judaism?

I wonder how my synagogue, day school, and summer camp can be part of the same movement as people who joyfully sing ’Death to the Arabs’

Rembrandt's Moses with the Ten Commandments,1659, Germaldegalerie, Staatliche Museen, Berlin (photo credit: Google Art Poject / Wikipedia Commons)

'There are no authors of the Bible in the modern sense'

Who wrote the Bible? A pioneering new algorithm may shatter scholarly certitude

By Rossella Tercatin

Breakthrough method analyzes word distribution to clarify origins of biblical passages — including disputed stories in Genesis, Samuel and Esther

Reporter's notebook

Thousands march in Jerusalem Pride Parade, mark decade since deadly hate stabbing

By Charlie Summers

Extremist who murdered Shira Banki ‘wasn’t an outlier,’ warns father of the slain teenager; Herzog lays wreath at site of stabbing, becomes first head of state to attend parade

An Israeli soldier, his wife and their child sitting on a tank, during a family visit upon his return from a mission in the Gaza Strip on January 28, 2024. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Inside story'We need to give more breathing room to those serving'

As war drags on, reservists fight to balance military duty and the home front

By Stav Levaton

‘Your life is undergoing such a monumental change, so abruptly’: Extended deployments and repeated call-ups spark unofficial solutions, highlight the cost of Israel’s prolonged war

Reporter's notebook

A city of booby traps, tunnels: ToI in Khan Younis hours after bodies of 2 hostages retrieved

Troops advance slowly in southern Gaza city, day after bodies of slain hostages Gadi Haggai and Judih Weinstein were recovered and brought home for burial

IDF soldiers operate in Khan Younis as the IDF expands its ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, June 5, 2025. (Stav Levaton/Times of Israel)

Colorado hostage rally attacker indicted on 118 counts, including attempted murder

Mohamed Sabry Soliman also charged with assault, use of incendiary devices and animal cruelty for hurling firebombs at demonstrators; faces over 600 years in prison if convicted

Mohamed Sabry Soliman (right), the suspect who allegedly attacked pro-Israel activists (left) in Boulder, Colorado on June 1, 2025. (Screen capture/X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Illustrative: Over 2,000 people show up for the weekly solidarity demonstration Run for Their Lives in Central Park, Manhattan, January 14, 2024. (Jordana Horn/Times of Israel)

'Not one group has said that they're not interested anymore'

Israeli hostage solidarity movement Run for Their Lives presses on after Colorado attack

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Following initial pause, the group is telling local chapters to decide for themselves whether to continue weekly runs as interest skyrockets after Sunday’s antisemitic firebombing

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, June 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

IDF strikes underground Hezbollah drone factories in Beirut after evacuation warning

By Emanuel Fabian

Military slams ‘blatant violation’ of November ceasefire, accuses terror group of preparing for future war; also targets Hezbollah drone workshop in southern town of Ain Qana

IDF troops operate in southern Syria, in a handout photo issued on March 8, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

BBC says its journalists detained and strip-searched by Israeli forces in Syria

By Stav Levaton and Emanuel Fabian

(L-R) International Criminal Court Justices Beti Hohler, Reine Alapini-Gansou, Luz del Carmen Ibanez Carranza and Solomy Balungi Bossa. (ICC)

Trump administration slaps sanctions on four ICC judges over Israel and US cases

By Jacob Magid and AFP

Measures target pair of judges on panel that authorized arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant; two others okayed probe into alleged war crimes by US troops in Afghanistan

(L-R) International Criminal Court Justices Beti Hohler, Reine Alapini-Gansou, Luz del Carmen Ibanez Carranza and Solomy Balungi Bossa. (ICC)

EU rallies behind International Criminal Court after US sanctions four judges

By Stephanie van den Berg and Charlotte Van Campenhout

Illustrative: Paper voting box in front of a ballot box (iStock by Getty Images)

Religious, right-wing slates dominate after contentious US World Zionist Congress vote

Right-leaning groups will have a clear majority after more than 40% of votes went to Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox factions in election marred by fraud

Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators clash with police during a protest against the drafting of Haredi youth near Bnei Brak, June 5, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

IDF to issue 54,000 conscription orders to Haredi yeshiva students in July

By Jeremy Sharon

Military will also increase enforcement measures against Orthodox draft dodgers, including speeding up enforcement process and tightening travel bans

Left to right: Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef in Safed on September 17, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90); MK Yuli Edelstein chairs a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, April 23, 2025. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)

Shas spiritual leader: Edelstein’s soul is an abomination, shame he came to Israel

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Demonstrators clash with police during a protest against the conscription of ultra-Orthodox Jews outside the IDF Recruitment Center at Tel Hashomer, April 28, 2025 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Haredi ‘national alert system’ provides warning of IDF operations against draft dodgers

CaPow has designed thin charging pad 'stickers' to wirelessly power automated robots on the move. (Screenshot)

Interview

How an injured IDF veteran-turned-professor is creating perpetual power for robots

By Sharon Wrobel

CaPow startup founder Mor Peretz has created a way to provide machines with a ‘sip of energy’ as they move across warehouses and factories, eliminating the need to stop and charge

Passengers at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on May 4, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Inside Story

Au revoir western Europe: As Houthi attacks spike airfares, Israelis adjust summer plans

As many foreign carriers halt their flights to Tel Aviv, Israelis forgo popular but expensive cities in western Europe for breaks in nearby Greece, Cyprus, and Balkan countries

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Golani Brigade soldier identified by his first initial, Aleph, at Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center in June 2025. (Courtesy/Hadassah Spokesperson)

Golani soldier leaves Gaza fighting to donate bone marrow to 5-year-old girl

By Diana Bletter

At 'One Night,' the Israel Museum's launch of its sixtieth year celebrations on June 12, 2025, installations, artistry and performances will fill the galleries of the museum (Courtesy)

Cultural celebrationIsrael Museum launches 60th year with live ‘One Night’ event

By Jessica Steinberg

Azealia Banks performs during her concert at the Bataclan venue in Paris on April 12, 2025. (Photo by Xavier Galiana / AFP)

Rhyme and reason‘I’m a Zionist,’ rapper Azealia Banks declares in latest tweet spree

By Grace Gilson

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

Trump’s new travel ban will block ‘those in need of real refuge,’ says AJC

By Andrew Lapin

Magen David Adom paramedics at the scene of a fatal stabbing in Netanya on June 5, 2025. (Magen David Adom)

Sudanese national killed in Netanya brawl amid unrelenting crime wave

By Charlie Summers

Elon Musk, left, is seen at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, May 30, 2025; US President Donald Trump, right, appears in Arlington, Virginia, on US Memorial Day, May 26, 2025. (Allison Robbert and Saul Loeb / AFP)

Trump-Musk feud explodes with threats to cut contracts, support for impeachment

By Nandita Bose and Andrea Shalal

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