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What Matters Most On Sunday, June 8, 2025

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Left: Justice Minister Yariv Levin speaks during a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 11, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90); Right: Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a conference at the University of Haifa, December 15, 2022. (Shir Torem/ Flash90)

Levin immediately asks new ministerial committee to convene

Government approves new method to fire AG, ignoring her warning that it’s illegal

By Jeremy Sharon

Attorney General’s Office calls move to let ministerial panel approve her dismissal a ‘tectonic shift’ that will harm role’s independence, ‘remove oversight over governmental power’

The scene of suspected arson and vandalism at a Jerusalem synagogue that is often attended by Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, June 8, 2025 (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

Deri denounces 'hate crime' against Jewish values

Outrage after arson attack on Jerusalem synagogue of top Shas party rabbi

By Sam Sokol, Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Some damage to building and prayer books inside, but no injuries at house of worship frequented by former chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef; Shin Bet said to treat case as terrorism

A national flag of Iran waves in front of the building of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, in Vienna, Austria, Dec. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Gruber, File)

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June 8: Think tank says IAEA found Iran conducted implosion tests key to building nuke in 2003

IDF confirms Hamas military chief Sinwar killed in May strike on Khan Younis tunnel * Sources say hostage talks at impasse after brief US optimism

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Edelstein said willing to drop property tax sanctions in Haredi conscription bill if other measures kept
8:24 pm

Tehran says it would reduce cooperation with IAEA if anti-Iran resolution passed by agency
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Hostage talks at an impasse after brief US optimism about potential breakthrough — sources

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People carry boxes of relief supplies from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), in the central Gaza Strip on May 29, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Gaza aid group says Hamas threats to staff kept distribution hubs closed on Saturday

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

GHF accuses terror group of trying to restore previously used UN-backed mechanisms that enabled it to divert goods for its own purposes from those in need

People carry relief supplies from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a private US-backed aid group, as displaced Palestinians return from an aid distribution center in the central Gaza Strip, June 8, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

4 said killed by Israeli fire near Gaza aid site; IDF says it only fired warning shots

By AP and ToI Staff

Gaza Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basal, who the IDF says is part of Hamas's military wing, speaks to reporters at the site of a strike on the Safad School in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, September 1, 2024. (STRINGER/AFPTV/AFP)

IDF: Records prove spokesman for Gaza Civil Defense is ‘active terrorist’ in Hamas

By Emanuel Fabian

A shattered window at the Supreme Court building in Jerusalem, June 6, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Window at Supreme Court shattered by airsoft gun or slingshot, judiciary says

Incident occurred during a right-wing protest on Thursday, attended by several government ministers; Netanyahu slams ‘violence of any kind’ as Lapid blames him for incitement

IDF names two other soldiers killed in booby-trapped Gaza building on Friday

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Troops are Sgt. First Class Tom Rotstein, Staff Sgt. Uri Yhonatan Cohen; freed hostage Liri Albag, who knew two fallen soldiers: ‘They didn’t have time to really live’

Staff Sgt. Uri Yhonatan Cohen (L) and Sgt. First Class Tom Rotstein (Israel Defense Forces)

Golani troops operate in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip in this June 3, 2025, handout image from the IDF. (Israel Defense Forces)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 8: Day 611 – Booby traps, not combat: IDF’s most lethal Gaza challenge

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: This picture taken from the Israeli Golan Heights shows smoke billowing above the Syrian Governorate of Quneitra after an Israeli strike, on December 9, 2024. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

IDF says it targeted Hamas member in drone strike in southern Syria

By Emanuel Fabian

The excruciating silence about antisemitic attacks

We have always stood up for justice for others. Where are our trusted partners when Jews are targeted, burned, and killed?

Even Natasha Hausdorff missed Piers Morgan’s biggest error

The Sky News host’s problem isn’t just hostility to Israel or theatrical journalism. It’s moral evasion

Protesters against the government and for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip hold a sign reading, 'Rescue the hostages, end the war,' in Tel Aviv, June 7, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police block, clash with anti-war protesters in Tel Aviv

Thousands urge hostage release and elections at weekly rallies, as coalition teeters

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

Itzik Horn, father of hostage Eitan, calls on Witkoff to push for deal to end war, free all captives; ex-deputy AG says government members are chief inciters against judiciary

An image released by the Hamas terror group on June 7, 2025, shows Israeli hostage Matan Zangauker. (Used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law.)

Hamas issues new photo of hostage Matan Zangauker, threatens execution if troops come near

By ToI Staff, Noam Lehmann and Emanuel Fabian

Anti-government, pro-hostage deal protesters rally outside the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, May 31, 2025. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Ahead of weekly rallies, hostages’ families decry plans for partial deal

Pedestrians walk past Widener Library at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 15, 2025. (AP/ Charles Krupa)

'They do understand that this is for the future of Israel'

Israelis keep applying to top US universities amid Trump visa crackdown, advisers say

Consultants for Israeli applicants to American colleges say campus protests, immigration restrictions have scrambled application process, but students are undeterred

Detained Columbia graduate claims ‘irreparable harm’ as he pleads for release

By Philip Marcelo

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)

Hostage advocacy group attacked in Boulder will be focus of local Jewish festival

By AP and ToI Staff

Event set to take place for 30th year amid heightened security after Egyptian attacker threw Molotov cocktails at rally

Mourners gather to pay their respects next to a makeshift memorial for the Bibas' family at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on February 26, 2025, on the day of their funeral procession. (Photo by Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

Heads of terror group that abducted and murdered Bibas family killed by IDF

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Asaad Abu Sharia and Mahmoud Kaheel from Mujahideen Brigades killed in Gaza strikes; also behind murders of hostages Gadi Haggai, Judih Weinstein and Thai farmhand Nattapong Pinta

A screenshot of an undated video released by the Israel Defense Forces on December 17, 2023, shows Hamas commander Muhammad Sinwar, right, riding in a car traveling through a tunnel under the Gaza Strip. (Screenshot: Israel Defense Forces)

IDF believes it found body of Hamas leader Muhammad Sinwar in tunnel under Gaza hospital

By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid and Agencies

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)

Head of Gaza militia cited denying Israel support, demanding Hamas cede power

Protesters hold a banner reading "Free Palestine" as they join a demonstration called by Italian opposition parties in support of Palestinians amid the war in Gaza, in Rome, on June 7, 2025. (Tiziana Fabi/AFP)

Mass anti-Israel march held in Rome to denounce Italian ‘complicity’ in Gaza war

By AFP and ToI Staff

Organizers estimate some 300,000 people attended anti-war protest, urging end to violence and denouncing what some say is the silence of Italy’s far-right government

This wanted poster from the US State Departments' Rewards for Justice program shows al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader Saad bin Atef al-Awlaki. (Rewards For Justice, US Department of State, via AP)

Al-Qaeda’s Yemen chief threatens Trump, Musk over Gaza war: ‘There are no red lines’

By Jon Gambrell

US President Donald Trump, from right, speaks during a news conference with Elon Musk as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent listen in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Musk brawled with US treasury secretary, shoved him ‘like a rugby player’ – report

Washington Post says Scott Bessent hit the tech mogul after the two hurled insults at each other

This combination of pictures created on June 6, 2025, shows US President Donald Trump on the phone in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on June 27, 2017. (L)
Tesla CEO Elon Musk looking at his phone during the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States in the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (Nicholas Kamm and Kevin Lamarque/various sources/AFP)

Trump threatens Musk with ‘serious consequences’ if he backs Democratic candidates

By Nandita Bose

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Law enforcement stand during a protest in Compton, California, Saturday, June 7, 2025, after federal immigration authorities conducted operations. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)

Trump deploys National Guard to LA amid protests, despite governor’s objections

By Michelle L. Price, Eric Thayer and MORGAN LEE

Magen David Adom medics attend to a 14-year-old boy who was injured apparently while playing with a gun, near Rishon Lezion, June 8, 2025. (MDA)

Boy, 13, critically wounded by gunfire, apparently while playing with firearm

View of the nuclear reactor in Dimona, southern Israel, in 2016. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Iran threatens to soon reveal ‘treasure trove’ of secret Israeli nuclear files

Police at the scene of a homicide in Nahariya where a woman was stabbed to death, June 7, 2025. (Israel Police)

Woman killed in Nahariya, Moldovan national slain in Tel Aviv

Four bullet casings that relatives say they found in Jassem al-Sadeh’s room after his death on May 28, 2025, along with traces of blood on the bed where they say he was sleeping. (Courtesy)

West Bank family alleges soldier shot Palestinian man dead as he slept in his bed

By Nurit Yohanan

Senator Miguel Uribe looks on after the Senate voted against the government labor reform referendum promoted by Colombia's President Gustavo Petro in Bogota on May 14, 2025. (Raul ARBOLEDA / AFP)

Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe ‘fighting for life’ after shooting

By Valentín DÌAZ and Andrew BEATTY

Iranian rapper Amir Hossein Maghsoudloo, also known as Tataloo, sits at a courtroom at the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, Iran, May 7, 2024. (Tahmineh Rahmani/Mizan News Agency via AP)

Once a supporter of Iran’s hardliners, rapper now on death row for insulting Islam

Undated image of missing Israeli Michal Peleg, last seen in Crete, Greece, on June 4, 2025. (Facebook, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Search underway in Crete for missing Israeli woman, last seen on Wednesday

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