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What Matters Most On Monday, June 9, 2025

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An Israeli soldier offers activist Greta Thunberg water and a pastrami sandwich after the military intercepted and boarded the boat on which she and other activists were seeking to break Israel's blockade on Gaza, early on June 9, 2025. (Foreign Ministry)

Katz orders military to show Oct. 7 atrocity film to activists

Israeli troops detain Gaza-bound activists including Greta Thunberg, tow boat to Ashdod

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Group who sought to bust blockade to be sent home; no injuries reported as Madleen intercepted; Thunberg says she’s been ‘kidnapped’; Israel says ‘selfie yacht’ a provocation, aid onboard to be sent to Strip via ‘real humanitarian channels’

Climate activist Greta Thunberg, center, waits to board 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 Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)

Katz tells IDF to prevent Greta Thunberg’s boat from breaching Gaza blockade

By Emanuel Fabian and AP

ToI in Gaza

Lazar Berman and Emanuel Fabian

Here, beneath an EU-funded Gaza hospital, Hamas military chief Mohammed Sinwar met his end

As the IDF confirms top terrorist was killed in May strike, reporters are taken to the tunnel under Khan Younis’s European Hospital where it says Hamas ran a command center, held hostages

An officer in the IDF Golani Brigade's reconnaissance company in the tunnel under a Khan Younis hospital in which Hamas military leader Mohammed Sinwar was killed, June 8, 2025. (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)

The abandoned site of the Supernova music festival, near Kibbutz Re'im, where Hamas terrorists murdered and abducted numerous partygoers, October 12, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

IDF says Hamas terrorist who stormed Nova festival on Oct. 7 killed in airstrike last month

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Live updates (closed)

Ben Gvir, Smotrich join Netanyahu’s security consult on Iran after PM’s call with Trump

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

President says Iran ‘involved’ in Gaza talks * Lapid says he hopes report of Huckabee interfering in coalition crisis not true * Police chief reinstates officer suspected of ignoring settler violence to appease Ben Gvir

9:19 pm

Katz: Thunberg and the other detained flotilla activists refused to watch film of Hamas atrocities on Oct. 7
9:00 pm

Trump told Netanyahu that US and Iran will hold 6th round of talks this weekend — PM's office
8:59 pm

Police arrest suspect in Jerusalem synagogue arson attack

An Israeli flag stands in a bed of flowers as caution tape blocks off the scene of an attack on demonstrators calling for the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza, in Boulder, Colorado, on June 1, 2025. (Eli Imadali / AFP)

From The Hartman InstitutePromoted Podcast

The War Against the Jews

Public displays of Jewishness or Zionism now seem to carry a risk in liberal bastions, as a frightening wave of antisemitism emerges not from the far-right, but from the left.

In this March 30, 2005, file photo, an Iranian security official in protective clothing walks through part of the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the city of Isfahan, Iran. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

IAEA finds Iran conducted key nuclear weapon production tests more than 2 decades ago

By Shira Silkoff

Security think tank analysis of recent nuclear watchdog report sheds light on decades of Tehran’s secretive activities, recommends bringing case to UN Security Council

A handout picture provided by the Iranian presidency shows Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian (2nd R) and the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) chief Mohammad Eslami (R) during the 'National Day of Nuclear Technology,' in Tehran, on April 9, 2025 (Iranian Presidency / AFP)

Iran says it’ll submit nuclear counteroffer after US proposal didn’t mention sanctions

By AFP

Could help scientists treat breast cancer

Israeli scientists discover immune cells that ‘both fight and fuel’ breast cancer

By Diana Bletter

Tel Aviv University researchers say neutrophils can be late-stage breast cancer target and biomarker; Beilinson Hospital scientist uses immunotherapy to treat HER2-negative breast cancer

Dr. Merav Cohen, center, of the Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology at the Gray Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences at Tel Aviv University, with Maya Levinson, left and Ori Moskowitz. (Courtesy/Tel Aviv University)

Shas to back preliminary vote to dissolve Knesset, citing stalled draft exemption law

By ToI Staff and Sam Sokol

Spokesperson for ultra-Orthodox party says it’s ‘disappointed with Netanyahu,’ as its rabbinical leaders insist no community members be conscripted into army

The entrance to the Shas party offices in Jerusalem on June 4, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Shas party leader Aryeh Deri and spiritual leader Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef visit the scene of suspected arson and vandalism at a Jerusalem synagogue on June 8, 2025. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 9: Day 612 – Will Shas bring down the coalition?

By Jessica Steinberg, Sam Sokol and Rossella Tercatin

Analysis

New plan for ousting AG: Legal battle gov’t aims to win, or election campaign cudgel?

Supreme Court will almost certainly block new process for firing the AG. Ministers are well aware of this, and of the benefit of another judicial battle to distract attention from Haredi draft-dodging

Justice Minister Yariv Levin, right, and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attend a farewell ceremony for then-acting Supreme Court President Uzi Vogelman, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, October 1, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Pool)

L: MK Gadi Eisenkot attends a National Unity faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on May 26, 2025. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90); R: National Unity Party Leader MK Benny Gantz leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on May 5, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gantz’s National Unity to hold primaries in coming months, as support down in polls

Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen attends a menorah-lighting ceremony on the sixth night of Hanukkah, at the Great Synagogue in Tel Aviv, December 30, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90/ File)

Ex-Mossad chief Yossi Cohen said considering forming new party before next election

By ToI Staff and Sam Sokol

Jeff Burak marches in Boulder, Colo., on Sunday, June 8, 2025, to call for the release of Israeli hostages. (AP/Thomas Peipert)

Hundreds in Boulder walk in support of hostages week after fiery attack

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM and JESSE BEDAYN

Large crowd attends weekly event that normally draws a few dozen, as hostage relatives join annual festival to thank community for support following pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel firebombing

Protesters rally in support of the hostages in Central Park, New York City, June 8, 2025. (Luke Tress/ Times of Israel)

Undeterred by Colorado attack, several hundred rally for hostages in NYC

Relatives of the Gaza hostages stage a demonstration outside the Likud headquarters in Tel Aviv, June 9, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Hostage talks stuck after brief US optimism about potential breakthrough — sources

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Mediators frustrated by PM’s aversion to permanent truce, trying to push Hamas to soften stance; Einav Zangauker says Hamas lied to her son, told him he’d be freed with Alexander

Elkana Bar Eitan

An open letter to Greta

You lost your way many years ago. Unfortunately, you now represent one of the worst terror groups in human history

This new Gaza operation risks crossing red lines

Israel must make clear to its global allies that it is not, in fact, intending to perpetrate ethnic cleansing in Gaza

Palestinians carry humanitarian aid back from a distribution point at the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, early on June 9, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

15 terrorists killed over past day, military says

GHF says aid site closed due to crowd ‘chaos,’ as Hamas authorities claim 6 killed

By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid, AP and ToI Staff

Witnesses accuse Israel-backed Abu Shabab militia of firing into crowd at Tel Sultan aid facility; IDF says troops destroyed mile-long tunnel in recent operations

Hamas documents reportedly show deep ties, coordination between Qatar, terror group

Papers apparently seized in Gaza show Hamas political chief told Doha its funds were the group’s ‘main artery’ and Sinwar wanted more supportive Qatar to take leading role in mediation

Then-Emir of Qatar Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, center right, and slain Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, third left, attend a corner stone-laying ceremony at a planned medical center in northern Gaza's Beit Lahiya, October 23, 2012. (Ali Ali, Pool/AP)

Analysis

Rossella Tercatin

Archaeologists find unique 1,700-year-old sarcophagus depicting booze battle with a god

A marble coffin with vivid carvings of a fabled face-off between Heracles and Dionysus discovered in Caesarea is the sole example in the region and likely belonged to a wealthy family

A third-century marble sarcophagus engraved with scenes of Greek mythology was uncovered in Caesarea, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on June 9, 2025. In this scene, Heracles lies on a lion’s skin. (Emil Aladjem, Israel Antiquities Authority)

Friends and family attend the funeral of Staff Sgt. Yoav Raver (19) at Sde Warburg in central Israel on June 8, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Hundreds in central Israel mourn four soldiers killed in Gaza blast

Funerals held for Chen Gross, Yoav Raver, Tom Rotstein and Uri Yhonatan Cohen, who were crushed Friday when a booby-trapped building exploded in Khan Younis

Chief Military Advocate Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on October 1, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash 90/File)

IDF chief pans right-wing Channel 14 for ‘malicious’ claims about army’s top lawyer

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

3 murders within hours; victims include woman stabbed to death, son arrested

By Stuart Winer

Same man also suspected of moderately wounding his pregnant wife in Umm al-Fahm; man shot dead in Daburiyya amid criminal feud, another man gunned down in Tiberias, motive unclear

Illustrative: A police car at the scene of a crime. (Israel Police)

US President Donald Trump pumps a fist as he boards Air Force One before departing for Camp David from the Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, New Jersey, June 8, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

Trump travel ban comes into effect, with citizens from 12 nations barred from US

By AFP

Move does not apply to athletes competing in 2026 soccer World Cup, which US is co-hosting with Canada and Mexico; diplomats from targeted countries also excluded

Protesters confront police on the 101 Freeway near the Metropolitan Detention Center of downtown Los Angeles, June 8, 2025. (Jae C. Hong/AP)

Violent protests in Los Angeles after Trump deploys National Guard on streets

By JASON DEAREN, jaimie ding and Jake Offenhartz

More Headlines

Nvidia employees in Israel. (Courtesy)

Nvidia and Google are top two best firms to work for in Israel in 2025: CofaceBDI

By Sharon Wrobel

Peacekeepers of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) ride in armored vehicles during a patrol along the border with Israel by the village of Kfar Kila in south Lebanon on June 4, 2025. (AFP)

US said to mull dissolving UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon

Hillel Fuld (Courtesy)

Australia blocks visit by Israel activist Hillel Fuld, causing outrage

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boards the Wing of Zion plane at Ben Gurion Airport ahead of a trip to the United States, February 2, 2025. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

PM’s medical entourage for trips abroad revealed in freedom of information request

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