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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 12, 2025

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Illustrative: An IAF Boeing 707 refueling plane and several F-35 and F-15 fighter jets carry out a drill just off the coast of Israel, August 15, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Iran says 'friendly' country warned it of potential attack

Israel said ready to strike Iran, possibly within days, even as nuke talks set to resume

By ToI Staff and Reuters

Israel may hit nuclear sites without US help, NBC says; Iran reportedly prepared to launch hundreds of missiles at Israel in response; Oman confirms parley planned for Sunday

Illustrative: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, second left, and the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran chief Mohammad Eslami, second right, are seen during the 'National Day of Nuclear Technology,' in Tehran, Iran, April 9, 2025. (Iranian Presidency / AFP)

Iran vows to ramp up enrichment after UN watchdog finds it breached nuke safeguards

By Lazar Berman and Agencies

US Embassy in Bahrain says activities running per normal

US restricts staff’s travel in Israel as Iran drills its military amid soaring tensions

By Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Agencies

US diplomats and families in Israel told to remain in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem or Beersheba; IRGC chief warns response to Israeli attack would be ‘more forceful’ than in past

View of the US Embassy Branch Office in Tel Aviv, May 7, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

US President Donald Trump applauds on stage at the Al Udeid Air Base, May 15, 2025, in Doha, Qatar. (AP/Alex Brandon)

US begins evacuating Mideast embassies, army bases as Iran nuclear talks come to a head

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Local Palestinian staffers of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in blue vests form a human chain to protect female aid recipients at one of GHF's distribution sites on June 9, 2025. (GHF)

Aid dispersed overnight by GHF despite IDF ban

Gaza aid group says Hamas killed at least 8 local staffers, possibly abducted others

By Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman

GHF says terror group attacked bus ferrying workers to distribution site, while Hamas-linked accounts say its gunmen targeted members of Israel-backed Abu Shabab clan, which the clan denies

Gazans gather relief supplies at a distribution center run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the central Gaza Strip on June 8, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Gazans seeking aid from Israel-backed GHF forced to contend with chaos, peril

By Nurit Yohanan

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UTJ lawmakers Ya'akov Tessler and Moshe Gafni attend a vote on the proposal to dissolve the Knesset, Jerusalem, June 12, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Edelstein said to walk back some sanctions on draft dodgers

After compromise, Haredi parties back off threat to dissolve Knesset and trigger elections

By Sam Sokol and Stuart Winer

Opposition goes ahead with doomed vote in bid to strip leverage from Shas and UTJ, who had warned they would support toppling of government unless it backed friendly IDF draft bill

United Torah Judaism chairman Yitzchak Goldknopf attends a faction meeting in the Knesset, May 19 , 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

UTJ’s Goldknopf resigns from cabinet after Knesset fails to pass dissolution bill

Knesset member Aryeh Deri looks at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a vote on the state budget at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 13, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Coalition scrambles for deal with Haredim ahead of preliminary vote to dissolve Knesset

Israeli Air Force fighter jets prepare for takeoff for airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen, May 5, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

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Security cabinet discusses state of hostage deal talks — official * Lebanese health ministry reports 1 killed by Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon

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Young man shot dead in Ar'ara in northern Israel
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Israeli envoy: UN resolution lends legitimacy to terror and ignores Hamas's massacre
10:57 pm

UN overwhelmingly demands immediate Gaza ceasefire over US, Israel opposition

Hamas’s new Gaza leader: A Hebrew-speaking ‘ghost’ with a $750,000 price on his head

With Israel having eliminated his predecessors the Sinwar brothers, Izz al-Din Haddad now heads terror group in Strip where he is said to carry photos of hostages in his phone

Hamas Gaza chief Izz al-Din al-Haddad, then the commander of the terror group's Gaza City Brigade, is seen in a video released by Hamas’s military wing in May 2022 (social media)

Annalena Baerbock of Germany addresses the United Nations General Assembly after she was elected president of the 80th session of the body, June 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

UN set to hold non-binding vote on Gaza ceasefire; Israel slams ‘charade’

By Reuters and ToI Staff

European Parliament member Rima Hassan speaks during a rally in central Paris on May 29, 2024, to protest an Israeli strike on a camp in Rafah. (Zakaria Abdelkafi/ AFP)

Israel holding two Gaza boat activists in solitary confinement, NGO claims

By AFP and ToI Staff

Turn to Jewish Black Zionists to fight antisemitism strategically

Imagine if my Saba’s story of surviving the Holocaust and rebuilding Israel was amplified with the same reach as the voices of disconnected pop-culture celebrities

614 days late Judih and Gadi finally laid to rest

The fatal flaws in the system let you down, as it let down so many, tragically, finally, completely

Bodies of Yair Yaakov, second slain hostage recovered by IDF from Khan Younis

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says Nir Oz resident abducted, murdered by Islamic Jihad terrorists on Oct. 7; second hostage also from kibbutz

Yair Yaakov (Courtesy)

IDF's probes into Oct. 7Troops failed to engage Oct. 7 terrorists at Pri Gan; nearby town, cops rushed to help — probe

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir speaks with officers in the northern Gaza Strip, June 11, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

New structural changes to IDF include bolstering border and air defense units

By Emanuel Fabian

US President Donald Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Poll finds Israelis high on Trump, while rest of world takes dim view of US leader

By AFP and ToI Staff

Favorability rating of US goes up under new administration, with 83% of Israelis expressing confidence in US president’s foreign affairs chops and over 60% happy with handling of Mideast

People walk next to a sign with a portrait of US President Donald Trump in central Jerusalem, May 7, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘No disrespect’ to Netanyahu, but Trump could do his job while president, says Witkoff

Argentinian President Javier Milei laughs as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a special Knesset plenum session in honor of the visiting South American leader, June 11, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

'International community is being manipulated by terrorists'

Milei, visiting Knesset, says Argentina to move its embassy to Jerusalem in 2026

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Argentinian president warmly welcomed by Netanyahu, Ohana and Lapid, who all praise his pro-Israel stance, welcome him as a ‘true friend’

Ex-hostage Iair Horn speaks at a rally in Tel Aviv's Hostages Square, May 28, 2025. (Omer Yelin/Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

Released hostage Iair Horn feels like he is still captive in Gaza

By Jessica Steinberg

The 46-year-old isn’t completely present in his life, says his sister-in-law Dalia Cusnir, who’s holding the family together as they await release of another brother, Eitan Horn

Orchestra pauses concert to play hostage Alon Ohel’s favorite song

By Jessica Steinberg

In this photo provided by the Saudi Royal Palace, Saudi's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, talks to French President Emmanuel Macron during the One Water Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. (Bandar Aljaloud/Saudi Royal Palace via AP)

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MBS attendance at 2-state confab could signal France will recognize Palestinian state

Final decision not made, but diplomats tell ToI that Saudi crown prince instructed staff to prepare for his arrival at UN conference, which could lead other world leaders to take part

French President Emmanuel Macron, right, speaks with Saudi Arabia's Prime Minister and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud prior to a group photo at an EU-Gulf Cooperation Council meeting in Brussels, Belgium, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Havana)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 12: Day 615 – Will France declare a Palestinian state to please the Saudis?

By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid

People walk next to a sign with portraits of US President Donald Trump (L) and US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee in central Jerusalem on May 7, 2025. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

US slams UN conference on Israel-Palestinian issue, warns of consequences

By Reuters, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

A man wearing fishnet tights dances at the annual Gay Pride Parade in Tel Aviv, on June 9, 2017. Friday's Parade marks the end of Pride Week in Tel Aviv, internationally acclaimed as one of the most proud and gay-friendly cities in the world. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

US embassy to boycott Tel Aviv Pride Parade, in Trump-era reversal

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Notification of absence sent to Foreign Ministry reportedly refers to ‘LGB community’, in line with Trump administration’s moves against transgender community

A man suspected of murdering his 80-year-old mother barricades himself on the roof of an apartment building in Rehovot on June 12, 2025. (Screenshot/Ynet)

Man suspected of murdering mother jumps to his death from roof after police standoff

By Charlie Summers

Second murder-suicide of its kind within a month as number of female murder victims surpasses 2024 total; suspect reportedly ascended to roof after calling police and paramedics

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Longshot shareholder proposals bring fight over Israel to corporate boardroom

ADL investor advocacy arm JLens, which has challenged Meta on hate speech, says major firms face a flood of anti-Israel measures — few of which succeed

Illustrative: Anti-Israel demonstrators protest outside the Carrefour group's general meeting of shareholders in Aubervilliers, northern Paris, on May 24, 2024. (Mehdi FEDOUACH / AFP)

Members of the Columbia University Apartheid Divest group, including Mahmoud Khalil, center, are surrounded by members of the media outside the Columbia University campus, April 30, 2024, in New York. (AP/Mary Altaffer)

US judge says Trump can’t cite foreign policy as grounds to detain Columbia activist

(L) Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., February 18, 2022, and (R) Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., May 18, 2023. (AP Photo/File)

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Rashida Tlaib vote ‘present’ on item condemning antisemitism

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Demonstrators gather outside the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on January 31, 2025, to protest against a plan floated by US President Donald Trump to move Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Egypt and Jordan. (Kerolos Salah/AFP)

Egyptian authorities detain hundreds of activists planning march to Gaza

By AFP

Organizers say participants from US, Australia, France, Spain among those questioned by police ahead of Friday march toward Rafah Crossing to demand entry of humanitarian aid

Members of a convoy en route to Gaza wave Palestinian flags from a bus as the group travels toward Egypt's Rafah Crossing, in Zawiya, Libya on June 10, 2025. (AP/Yousef Murad)

Gaza-bound land convoy arrives in Libya, headed to Rafah to defy Israel’s aid blockade

By Agencies and ToI Staff

People cheer as a convoy of buses from North Africa depart from Tunisia to Gaza to break Israel's blockade on the Hamas-ruled territory, in Gabes, Tunisia, June 9, 2025. (AP)

Katz urges Egypt to block Gaza-bound activist convoys

By AFP and ToI Staff

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People watch smoke rising after an airplane crash that killed at least 260 people in India's northwestern city of Ahmedabad, Gujarat state, June 12, 2025. (Mohan Nakum via AP)

Air India plane bound for London crashes with 242 on board

Weapons found by IDF troops during an operation in southern Syria's Beit Jinn, early June 12, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli troops enter southern Syrian village to arrest alleged Hamas members

By Emanuel Fabian

Harvey Weinstein appears at Manhattan criminal court in New York, June 10, 2025. (Michael Nagle/Pool Photo via AP)

Jury convicts Harvey Weinstein of top charge in retrial of his landmark sex crimes case

By Jennifer Peltz and Michael R. Sisak

This file frame grab from video posted online March 18, 2019, by the Aamaq News Agency, a media arm of the Islamic State group, shows an IS fighter firing his weapon during clashes with the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters, in Baghouz, Syria. (Aamaq News Agency via AP)

Islamic State reactivating fighters, eyeing comeback in Syria and Iraq

By Ahmed Rasheed, Timour Azhari and Michael Georgy

This undated image provided by the Guam Department of Corrections shows Asif William Rahman. (Guam Department of Corrections via AP)

Former CIA analyst sentenced to 37 months in prison for leaking Israeli attack plans

By AFP

A Kennedy MAHA booth was present at the Independent National Convention in Denver, Colorado, on Sept. 19, 2024. (Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via Getty Images/JTA); Inset: Leland Lehrman attends the Roni Willett And Walid Layadi-Marfouk Host UN General Assembly Exhibition Africa House Second Generations Closing Reception at Africa House on September 27, 2018 in New York City. (Jared Siskin/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images/JTA)

Head of RFK Jr.’s MAHA Institute believes the Protocols of the Elders of Zion are real

By Andrew Lapin

In this photo taken by an individual not employed by The Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, protesters chant slogans during a protest over the death of a woman who was detained by the morality police, in downtown Tehran, Iran, September 21, 2022. (AP)

Iran executes man over 2022 protest killings; activists say he was framed

By AP

Rotem Sela, left and Lior Raz star in 'Off Road,' a new show launching on Netflix Israel on June 12, 2025 (Courtesy)

Travel buddiesLior Raz and Rotem Sela star in ‘Off Road,’ new Netflix reality show

By Jessica Steinberg

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