Hamas drops demand for up-front Israel pledge to end war * Reformist wins Iran presidency * Labour MP slams pro-Palestinian abuse * Judaica in Gaza * LA’s swanky TLV food

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Saturday, July 6, 2024 [Hamas says it dropped demand Israel vow up-front to end war, but wants mediators’ guarantees]( By Agencies and ToI Staff Official in terror group says it still seeks commitments from interlocutors that fighting won’t be resumed and negotiations will continue until permanent ceasefire reached [Optimism in truce-hostage talks: Mossad chief goes to and from Doha, Hamas briefs Hezbollah]( By ToI Staff, Agencies and Jacob Magid [‘You’re not the prime minister’: Netanyahu said to clash with Gallant before Doha talks]( By ToI Staff [Anti-government protesters to set off ‘week of resistance’ with Saturday rallies]( By ToI Staff Sunday will be ‘day of disruption’ with protests and rallies across the country demanding hostage deal and new elections, culminating outside Netanyahu’s Jerusalem home [Two-thirds of Israelis back hostage deal over continuing war in Gaza – poll]( By ToI Staff [Mothers of hostages mark nine months since Oct. 7, urge Netanyahu to take deal]( By Charlie Summers [CRM]( [Iranian reformist Masoud Pezeshkian wins presidential election]( By Agencies Victor promises to ease hardline laws, but supports Khamenei and says he wants good ties with ‘all countries except Israel’; turnout at 49.8%, with 600,000 spoiled ballots [Profile / Masoud Pezeshkian: From heart surgeon to Iran’s new reformist president-elect]( By AP [Putin welcomes Pezeshkian’s Iran election win, says nations can ‘coordinate efforts’]( By AFP [Saudi Arabia, Kuwait congratulate Iran’s new reformist president elect]( By AFP Live updates [LIVE: Rocket sirens blare along Gaza border as Israel, Hamas continue talks on truce-hostage deal]( By ToI Staff IDF soldiers find long-range rockets, demolish tunnels in Gaza City’s Shejaiya * Paratrooper in iconic Six Day War photo at liberated Western Wall dies at 81 [UK Labour MP slams abuse from pro-Palestinian activists after ‘worst election ever’]( By ToI Staff Jess Phillips says she and party activists suffered severe harassment during their campaign over Labour’s position on the Israel-Hamas war: ‘The humiliation was by men, to women’ [New UK Foreign Secretary Lammy backs ‘immediate ceasefire,’ hostage release in Gaza]( By Agencies and ToI Staff [UK’s Starmer promises ‘government of service’ as he takes power after Labour landslide]( By brian melley and Jill Lawless With almost all results in, Labour wins 412 seats in 650-seat House of Commons; Conservatives drop to 121, their worst result ever [Full text / ‘Country first, party second’: New PM Starmer tells Britons, My government will serve you]( By ToI Staff [Profile / Victoria Starmer: The Jewish, low-profile wife of the new UK prime minister]( By Marie Heuclin [‘Pyromaniacs who spout nonsense’: Ex-IDF spokesman blames ministers for war’s bad PR]( By ToI Staff British-born Peter Lerner says government’s lack of planning for Gaza’s future left him rhetorically unarmed for foreign press as post-Oct. 7 ‘leeway of legitimacy’ faded away [Yair Netanyahu: ‘High Court and state prosecutor are destroying the country’]( By ToI Staff Top Ops Mick Davis [Honey, they shrunk the country]( True leaders are honest about the challenges and advance strategies to address them. Instead, Israel is ruled by demagogues Martin Kramer [The day the Mufti died]( Yes, Hajj Amin al-Husayni collaborated with the Nazis, but that’s not why he was dropped from the Palestinian narrative [Those We Have Lost]( [Those We Have Lost]( [Civilians and soldiers who have fallen since Oct. 7]( [Read Here]( [In interview, Biden says only ‘the Lord Almighty’ could make him drop out of race]( By AP, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid Insisting he’s fit to run, US president lists accomplishments during his term: ‘I was also the guy who put together a peace plan for the Middle East that may be coming to fruition’ [Biden vows he’s ‘staying in the race’ as he scrambles to save candidacy]( By Colleen Long and Seung Min Kim ToI podcast [Daily Briefing July 6: Day 274 – Rabbi Rick Jacobs on reaching out to anti-Zionist Jews]( By ToI Staff The president of the Union for Reform Judaism says the future of Diaspora Jewish life is not in question, but it is up to Jewish leadership and educators to shape its contours [Hostage posters ripped off wall outside Congressman Brad Schneider’s office]( By Ron Kampeas Act comes a week after Schneider’s house was picketed; he blasts ‘vile act of hate’ [NYPD reports 45 antisemitic incidents last month, 57% of all hate crimes in the city]( By Luke Tress [Amateur detectives invited to join search for lost Jewish library looted by Nazis]( By Shira Li Bartov Researchers from the Leo Baeck Institute seek to virtually reunite 60,000 texts from the modern liberal Higher Institute for Jewish Studies in Berlin, destroyed in the Holocaust [Those We Are Missing]( [The hostages and victims whose fate is still unknown]( [Read Here]( [Two IDF soldiers lightly wounded in Hezbollah rocket barrage on Kiryat Shmona]( By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies IDF strikes multiple terror targets in Lebanon as cross-border fire persists in the north [Israeli soldiers are finding Judaica in Gaza — and trying to locate the items’ owners]( By Deborah Danan A seder plate, Hanukkah menorahs and other ritual objects have been discovered during the IDF’s ongoing ground incursion in the Strip, raising a legal and moral dilemma for troops Inside story Canaan Lidor [A fight over women’s representation leaves Israel’s Jews without chief rabbis]( The Justice Ministry’s demand that the rabbinate consider women for a position traditionally reserved for rabbis is key to the delay in succession for the first time in over a century [Day 274 – Rabbi Rick Jacobs on reaching out to anti-Zionist Jews]( [listen to the podcast]( [LA’s swanky new Carmel eatery serves upscale Tel Aviv market fare, no added politics]( By Kelly Hartog Four friends focus on their love of the White City’s Carmel Market by bringing Angelinos gourmet spins on local classics despite anti-Israel spike after Oct. 7 Hamas atrocities More Headlines [Israeli man and his partner found dead in Philippines quarry after 2 weeks of searches]( By ToI Staff [Two men shot dead within hours in Nazareth; police said to suspect criminal disputes]( By ToI Staff [The daily edition]( [facebook]( [twitter]( [instagram]( [View in browser]( [Contact support](mailto:support@timesofisrael.com) [Advertise with us](mailto:advertise@timesofisrael.com) Were you forwarded this email? 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