Seven aid workers who had just delivered more than 100 tons of food to central Gaza were killed last night by Israeli strikes. The workers were driving in a clearly marked aid convoy, and they had coordinated their movements with Israeli officials. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized and said Israel “deeply regrets the tragic incident.”
Videos and photos verified by The New York Times suggest the convoy was hit multiple times. The imagery shows three destroyed white vehicles, with the northernmost and southernmost vehicles nearly a mile and a half apart.
“There was a tragic case of our forces unintentionally hitting innocent people in the Gaza Strip,” Netanyahu said. “We will do everything so that this thing does not happen again.”
Aid organizations and several governments condemned the attack. The workers — a Palestinian, an Australian, a Pole, three Britons and a dual U.S.-Canadian citizen — were with the charity group World Central Kitchen, a newly important player in the effort to alleviate a looming famine in Gaza.
Biden had a rare call with Xi
In their first known conversation since November, President Biden spoke over the phone this morning with President Xi Jinping of China. Xi warned that supporting Taiwan’s independence was a red line for U.S.-China relations, and Biden urged Xi to stop aiding Russia’s economy. But the call mostly served as an effort to stabilize relations, which hit a low last year.
Is Tesla losing its grip on the E.V. market?
Tesla today reported a drop in quarterly sales, surprising many analysts who had expected the manufacturer’s performance to reflect the rising sales of its electric-vehicle rivals. The slump, its first since 2020, suggested that Tesla’s aging lineup may be losing some of its command of the market.
In China, Tesla faces BYD and dozens of other rivals with ambitions to expand worldwide. In Europe, established carmakers like Volkswagen and BMW have introduced more compelling battery-powered models. Tesla’s shares have fallen more than 30 percent this year, including a 5 percent drop today.
New technologies reshape organ transplantation
The field of transplantation has been undergoing a paradigm shift driven by a technique called perfusion. Newly approved devices preserve organs for a longer time outside the body by keeping them, on some level, alive. The technique fueled a 10 percent rise in lung, liver and heart transplants in the U.S., one of the largest year-over-year increases in decades.
Here’s how it works.
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Chicago picked a young star as its next maestro
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which is known for being led by conducting titans like Georg Solti, Daniel Barenboim and Riccardo Muti, announced today that its next leader would be Klaus Mäkelä, the 28-year-old Finnish superstar. When Mäkelä officially begins his contract in 2027, he will be the youngest maestro in the ensemble’s 133-year history, and one of the youngest ever to lead a top orchestra in the U.S.
When my colleague Joshua Barone profiled him in 2022, one violinist whom Mäkelä conducted said “after three minutes, it was very clear that we were dealing with the most precocious conducting talent that we’ve seen in the past 50 or 75 years.”
The best places to eat in New York City
Pete Wells, our restaurant critic, today released his updated list of the 100 best restaurants in New York City. He has dined at all but two of them over the past year, in search of locations that represent the city’s neighborhoods and its people.
Pete explains why each entry made the list and why you might want to check out the restaurants.
Who should be the next James Bond?
Speculation about the next James Bond is one of the British media’s most enduring parlor games. And now that Daniel Craig, the sixth cinematic 007, is officially out of commission, the rumor mill is churning once again. The latest chatter is that 33-year-old Aaron Taylor-Johnson has been offered the role.
Taylor-Johnson mostly fits the Bond mold, but some of my colleagues on the Styles desk said he wouldn’t shake things up as much as they would like. They recently debated their favorite Bond candidates.
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