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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 347

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convenes a security cabinet meeting on July 28, 2024. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Security cabinet makes return of residents to the north an official war goal

Motion approved amid tensions with Hezbollah and as US envoy visits region in attempt to avoid escalation * IDF reservist seriously wounded in fighting in southern Gaza overnight

US envoy Amos Hochstein (left) meets with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in Tel Aviv on September 16, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/ Defense Ministry)

Gallant tells US envoy only ‘military action’ can return Israelis to homes in north

By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid and Agencies

Rockets, drones from Lebanon spark fires in north but no injuries, as IDF bombs Hezbollah sites; Lebanese health ministry says one killed, two injured in Israeli strikes

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, left, and Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin at a ceremony on October 2, 2023. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Top general said pushing for ground incursion to create south Lebanon buffer zone

Troops of the Yiftah Brigade carry out a drill in northern Israel, in a handout photo published September 6, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sept. 16: Day 346 – Has the window closed for diplomacy in the north?

A flyer dropped in south Lebanon calling on people in the highlighted areas on the border, close to Ghajar, to evacuate, September 15, 2024 (X/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

After unauthorized flyers dropped, IDF says there’s no south Lebanon evacuation order

By Emanuel Fabian

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convenes a security cabinet meeting on July 28, 2024. (Haim Zach/GPO)

LiveUpdated 16min ago

Security cabinet makes return of residents to the north an official war goal

Motion approved amid tensions with Hezbollah and as US envoy visits region in attempt to avoid escalation * IDF reservist seriously wounded in fighting in southern Gaza overnight

US envoy Amos Hochstein (left) meets with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in Tel Aviv on September 16, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/ Defense Ministry)

Gallant tells US envoy only ‘military action’ can return Israelis to homes in north

By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid and Agencies

Rockets, drones from Lebanon spark fires in north but no injuries, as IDF bombs Hezbollah sites; Lebanese health ministry says one killed, two injured in Israeli strikes

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, left, and Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin at a ceremony on October 2, 2023. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Top general said pushing for ground incursion to create south Lebanon buffer zone

Troops of the Yiftah Brigade carry out a drill in northern Israel, in a handout photo published September 6, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sept. 16: Day 346 – Has the window closed for diplomacy in the north?

A flyer dropped in south Lebanon calling on people in the highlighted areas on the border, close to Ghajar, to evacuate, September 15, 2024 (X/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

After unauthorized flyers dropped, IDF says there’s no south Lebanon evacuation order

By Emanuel Fabian

Demonstrators attend an anti-government protest calling for action to release the Israeli hostages held captive in Gaza, in front of the Israeli Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, September 12, 2024. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Working on revised ceasefire deal, US urges Israel to ‘give talks time to succeed’

By Jacob Magid, Lazar Berman, Agencies and ToI Staff

Negotiators said to be revising framework, as May 27 outline ‘no longer working’; US ambassador says they’re unsure what Hamas will accept, but goal is to ‘force a decision’

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaks to reporters after his meeting with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, at Cairo airport, Egypt, Monday, June 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, Pool)

Live updates (Closed)Sept. 16: Blinken to travel to Egypt Tuesday to discuss Gaza ceasefire efforts

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant attend a vote on the state budget at the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, March 13, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Op-ed: Day 346 of the war

Netanyahu, don’t fire Gallant again: The first was a tragedy, the second could be worse

Booting the defense minister amid Israel’s gravest crisis, with conflict on multiple fronts, is reckless and dangerous. It would delight Israel’s enemies, deepen division at home

Those we have lost

Stories of the civilians and soldiers who have fallen in the Israel-Hamas war

Those We Have Lost
Staff Sgt. Adi Tzur, 20: Quietly assertive ‘hero’ soldier

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Noy Shosh, 36: Fought terrorists outside his front door

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Yoni Rapoport, 41: UK-Israeli gardener, soccer fan and father of two

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Sgt. First Class (res.) Yinon Fleishman, 31: Beloved educator

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Carolin Bohl, 22: German student wanted to make world better through art

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Adam Brema, 47: Sudanese asylum-seeker slain in Sderot

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Ariel Bilya, 28: Slain after helping 10 family members hide

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Chief Supt. Avi Amar, 54: Hero officer’s final hug caught on film

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Staff Sgt. Valentin Ghnassia, 22: French ‘ray of sun’ volunteered for IDF

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Master Sgt. Ari Zenilman, 32: Dedicated father with a brilliant mind

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
First Sgt. Mor Shakuri, 29: Police officer was planning a June wedding

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Sgt. Maj. Yulia Vakser, 37: Warrior police officer and devoted mom

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Niv Tel Zur, 22: Powerlifter who always carried a book with him

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Cpl. Naama Bony, 19: ‘Salt of the earth’ with eclectic musical tastes

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Shoshi Brosh, 75: Grandmother with ‘a blossoming garden’

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Sgt. Shirel Mor, 19: Talented pianist with ‘a huge and pure soul’

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Irit Konderov, 27: ‘Warrior mother’ who inspired her friends

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Roni Shitrit, 24: Traveled to music festival to watch the sunrise

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Aviv Atzili, 49: Painter, cyclist, lover of the land

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Alon Toledano, 54: Sensitive man who aimed to help others

By ToI Staff

Those we are missing

The hostages and victims whose fate is still unknown

Those we are missing
Taken captive: Omer Wenkert, suffers from autoimmune condition

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Yarden Bibas, injured on his head at abduction

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Bipin Joshi, Nepalese student who deflected grenades

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Daniella Gilboa, identified by the shirt she wore

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Surasak Lamnau, Thai worker abducted with employer

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Yosef-Haim Ohana, helped injured at Supernova rave

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Karina Ariev, told parents ‘continue your lives’

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Romi Gonen, after being shot in car by terrorists

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Matan Zangauker, ‘is a survivor’

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Ofer Calderon, initially escaped through window

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Eliya Cohen, dragged from a pile of dead bodies

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Sagui Dekel-Chen spotted first incoming terrorists

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Gali Berman, from Kfar Aza’s ‘young neighborhood’

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Or Levy arrived at festival minutes before onslaught

By AP
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Rom Braslavski, rave guard who saved others

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Guy Gilboa-Dalal, took a selfie with his brother for mom

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Shiri Bibas and her redheaded babies

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Nimrod Cohen, twin working to bring him home

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Ziv Berman, from his home in Kfar Aza’s young generation neighborhood

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Bar Kupershtein, last seen tied up by Hamas

By ToI Staff

Tales of the Times

The quirky, improbable, infuriating and uplifting

Yellow card
Lionel Messi’s yellow ribbon mistaken as hostage solidarity symbol

By ToI Staff
Not well versed
New York Mets player stumps fans with botched Hebrew tattoo

By ToI Staff
Sky's the limit
Jewish tech billionaire back to Earth after first private spacewalk

By AP and ToI Staff
Raising the roof
Israeli dancing dog act makes finals of ‘America’s Got Talent’

By ToI Staff
Save us... a seat
With High Holidays on horizon, a musical group takes penitence on tour

By Jessica Steinberg
Eternal flame
This year’s Hanukkah US postage stamp represents Jewish faith

By Jackie Hajdenberg
One small step
Billionaire to conduct private spacewalk with Musk’s SpaceX

By Marcia Dunn
EGOT to the top
Jewish songwriter enters elite club of EGOT winners after nabbing Emmy

By Shira Li Bartov
Palette for the palate
Chef jackets become art at pop-up exhibit benefiting the displaced

By Jessica Steinberg
Self-service
Honest customers operate unstaffed all-night store in Tel Aviv

By ToI Staff
Forever a fan
Hapoel FC unveils jersey honoring fan Hersh Goldberg-Polin

By jacob gurvis
Fuzzy memory
Netanyahu erroneously refers to ‘November 7 massacre’ in interview

By Michael Horovitz
Celeb sympathy
Hollywood stars mourn murder of 6 hostages by Hamas

By Jessica Steinberg
Muted
Ophir Awards will change tone, following deaths of six hostages

By Jessica Steinberg
Birds of a feather
While young vultures gad about, older ones prefer to stay home – study

By Sue Surkes
Spiredi-man
Medic scales burning Bnei Brak building to save elderly couple

By ToI Staff
A loss for words
At festival displaced by war, poets reflect on post-Oct. 7 work

By Jessica Steinberg
Oops!
Kid shatters 3,500-year-old jar in Haifa museum, gets invited back

By Gavriel Fiske
Omens of catastrophe
Ancient Babylonians thought solar eclipses predicted disasters

By ToI Staff
Hebrew Hat-trick
Jewish brothers to grace cover of popular hockey video game

By jacob gurvis

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