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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 8, 2024

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv, on February 7, 2024. (Mark Schiefelbein / POOL / AFP)

'Toll on Palestinian civilians too high; more aid must get in'

Israel cannot use Oct. 7 as ‘license to dehumanize others,’ Blinken warns in Tel Aviv

By Lazar Berman

After talks with Israeli leaders, US secretary issues harsh critique of IDF campaign in Gaza; also says Hamas hostage proposal has ‘nonstarters’ but ‘creates space for agreement’

File - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken give a press statement after their meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on January 30, 2023. (Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/POOL)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb 8: Day 125 – ‘Dehumanization’ accusations and ‘delusional’ demands

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken addresses a press conference in Tel Aviv, on February 7, 2024. (Mark Schiefelbein / POOL / AFP)

Don’t ‘dehumanize others’: Full text of Blinken’s presser on 7th wartime Israel visit

Rockets fired from southern Lebanon are intercepted above a position across the border near Kibbutz Dan in northern Israel on November 7, 2023. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 8: Hezbollah fires 30 rockets at Upper Galilee town in response to deadly IDF drone strike

Sinwar ‘out of contact’ for 10 days * War cabinet meets on hostage deal * US intel says Israel not close to eliminating Hamas * Israel said to promise W. Bank economic help for Ramadan

10:06 pm

Hezbollah says barrage launched in response to 'Zionist aggression' in Nabatieh
9:26 pm

Hezbollah barrage consisted of 30 rockets; no immediate reports of injuries; IDF responding with artillery fire
9:23 pm

Reports of dozens of rockets fired at Upper Galilee town of Meron from Lebanon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference in Jerusalem, February 7, 2024. (Sam Sokol / Times of Israel)

PM: Absolute victory within reach; surrender to Hamas demands would bring disaster

Netanyahu downplays disagreements in cabinet over ‘day after’ plans, says he is trying to recruit regional players to help with future civil governance, vows UNRWA will be replaced

Liora Argamani in a recorded video message on November 29, 2023, for her daughter, Noa Argamani, who was abducted by Hamas on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy Sarai Givaty and Keren Kozlova)

Terminally ill mother of hostage held in Gaza hopes for final goodbye

By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber and Cecile Mantovani

A surgeon operates on a patient in a surgery operating theatre at the Gaza European Hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on December 31, 2023. (AFP)

Amid war, doctors in Gaza hospital ‘prioritize’ patients most likely to survive

By Reuters and ToI Staff

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'There won’t be any more hostages to release'

Released hostages tell PM: Only saving remaining captives will be ‘absolute victory’

By Jessica Steinberg

Families with loved ones still being held urge Netanyahu to do all he can to make a deal with Hamas after he claims that Israel is on cusp of victory by crushing terror group

Israeli women who were released from Hamas captivity in late November hold a press conference in Tel Aviv, February 7, 2024. From left, Aviva Siegel, Sahar Calderon, Nili Margalit, Adina Moshe and Sharon Aloni Cunio (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L), accompanied by deputy chief of staff Tom Sullivan (3rd-L), meets with National Unity party No. 2 Gadi Eisenkot (R) and party leader Minister Benny Gantz (2nd-R), in Tel Aviv on February 8, 2024. (Mark Schiefelbein/AFP)

Blinken pushes hopes for hostage deal in meetings with Gantz, Lapid

By AFP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Jerusalem, February 7, 2024. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

In Jerusalem, Blinken says ‘a lot of work to be done’ to reach hostage deal

By Lazar Berman

Officer seriously wounded, 2 troops lightly hurt in Hezbollah missile attack

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Iran-backed Lebanese terror group fires anti-tank missile at military base near Kiryat Shmona, also strikes house in Metula; Israeli jets reportedly fly over Beirut

This picture taken from a position near the border in northern Israel shows smoke billowing during Israeli strikes on the village of Khiam in southern Lebanon on February 8, 2024 in response to Hezbollah anti-tank missile fire (Jalaa Marey / AFP)

Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, February 8, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Lebanese officials say efforts intensify to bring calm to Lebanon-Israel border

By AP and ToI Staff

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Riyadh to host ministerial confab to advance united Arab stance for postwar Gaza

5 participating countries aim to raise pressure for ceasefire by leveraging their willingness to assist in Gaza revival and integrate Israel into region if Palestinian state advanced

Foreign Ministers from five Arab and Islamic countries From left, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, Palestine Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud and Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi arrive to the Diaoyutai state guesthouse to meet with their Chinese Counterpart Wang Yi, in Beijing, November 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Young Israelis arrive to the IDF recruitment center at Tel Hashomer, outside of Tel Aviv on March 17, 2020. (Flash90)

Pre-army academies roiled by IDF early draft notices, bemoan ‘lack of transparency’

By Gavriel Fiske

Officials and students say enlistment orders were sent to more students than had been agreed upon; yeshivas not affected

IDF reservists guard a Hamas tunnel discovered in northern Gaza's Salatin, close to Jabaliya, December 7, 2023. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Amid Gaza war, IDF plans to lengthen mandatory and reserve service

By Emanuel Fabian

A painful answer to the wrenching question of hostages

A deal that leaves Hamas able to take more hostages is not acceptable, but there is one scenario Israel could agree to

A Saudi condition for peace that Israel can’t live with

Agreeing to the establishment of a Palestinian state would be a setback that rewards decades of terrorism and violence

Minister Gadi Eisenkot, a war cabinet observer, attends a conference at Reichman University in Herzliya, on February 6, 2024 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Report: Eisenkot slams Netanyahu for time-wasting, failure to make key war decisions

War cabinet observer’s comments add to growing tensions between members of Benny Gantz’s National Unity party and rest of coalition, threatening emergency government

Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton speaks to MSNBC, February 7, 2024 (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Hillary Clinton pans Netanyahu as ‘untrustworthy,’ says he has to go

Meny Godard. (Courtesy)

Family of Manny Godard told he was killed on Oct. 7, body being held in Gaza

Be’eri resident had been presumed dead after his wife Ayelet told her daughter he had been killed, before being murdered herself, but his body was never found

Lawmakers in the Knesset plenum vote on a bill to criminalize the denial of the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7, February 7, 2024. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)

Knesset passes preliminary reading of bill banning denial of October 7 massacre

Zalman Mlotek holds forth at Yung Yiddish, on February 4, 2024. (Gavriel Fiske/Times of Israel)

'There was an unsaid need to just really be happy together'

In Tel Aviv, a maestro revels in the ‘holy work’ of preserving Yiddish culture

By Gavriel Fiske

Yung Yiddish hosts conductor Zalmen Mlotek, the man behind the acclaimed mamaloshen stage version of ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ for an evening of song and camaraderie

Amended wartime budget clears first of three Knesset plenum votes

By ToI Staff and Sam Sokol

Finance minister says ‘responsible’ NIS 582 billion spending package for 2024 will provide the resources to obtain ‘victory’ against Hamas

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich speaks during the first reading of the amended 2024 wartime budget, at the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 7, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The entrance of the museum at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem on August 9, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jerusalem minister battles to save iconic Ammunition Hill war memorial

Economy Minister Nir Barkat attends an Economic Committee meeting at the Knesset, Jerusalem, on January 3, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Economy minister issues ultimatum to food companies that hiked prices in wartime

Palestinian shops are closed during a general strike in solidarity with Gaza at the commercial center of the West Bank city of Ramallah, December 11, 2023. Arabic reads 'A new dawn in the life of the Arab nation.' (Nasser Nasser/AP)

Israel talks steps to help West Bank economy in covert meeting with PA officials

Representatives convene in Tel Aviv to discuss easing tensions ahead of Ramadan; Abbas meets US top envoy Blinken, said planning summit with Hamas leaders in Qatar

IDF demolishes Hebron home of Hamas terrorist involved in deadly West Bank attack

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Senior terror suspect killed in West Bank shootout with security forces

By Emanuel Fabian

American-Israeli rabbi-activist indicted for obstructing troops in West Bank

By Eliyahu Freedman

A Border Patrol agent asks asylum-seeking migrants to line up in a makeshift, mountainous campsite after the group crossed the border with Mexico, Friday, Feb. 2, 2024, near Jacumba Hot Springs, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Israel aid debate exposes fractures among American Jewish groups over immigration

Jewish organizations have historically pushed for increased rights for migrants, but JFNA, ADL and AJC are now embracing bill seeking to toughen the US asylum system

With reporters seeking comment, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., walks to the chamber during a test vote to begin debate on a border security bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate Republicans defeat bipartisan border deal, but Ukraine, Israel aid may survive

By STEPHEN GROVES and MARY CLARE JALONICK

US to restrict visas for those abusing spyware to target journalists, activists

By AP and ToI Staff

Kaid Abu Latif (far right) with his youngest brother, Ahmad Abu Latif and their mother, Mansoura Abu Latif, before Ahmad was killed in Gaza on January 22, 2024 during combat as a reservist (Courtesy)

Bedouin filmmaker mourns soldier brother killed in Gaza combat as movie premieres

By Jessica Steinberg

Kaid Abu Latif’s youngest sibling Ahmad fell while serving in the IDF weeks prior to film festival in their hometown Rahat

The AI-generated image posted to X by media adviser Itzik Elrov of a woman resembling Transportation Minister Miri Regev covered in popcorn supposedly dipped in blood in a post criticizing the government's handling of the war against Hamas. (Screenshot from X used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

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By Jeremy Sharon

Investigation of suspected ‘threats’ against Miri Regev — after cops denied okay for incitement probe — draws charges of politically motivated bid to chill speech

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Zachary Solomon’s ‘A Brutal Design’ joins a growing body of Jewish speculative fiction as it imagines an alternate world in which the Holocaust and antisemitism are all too real

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Rabbi Art Green. (Hebrew College/ via JTA)

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Civil defense members gather at the site of a burned vehicle targeted by a US drone strike in east Baghdad, Iraq, February 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

US drone strike in Baghdad kills senior commander of Iran-backed militia

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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By Stuart Winer

Shaimaa Zayan, left, holds Odi Doar, the mother of stabbing victim Zacharia Doar, as they stand near the podium during a press conference outside City Hall, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024, in Austin, Texas. (Mikala Compton/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Stabbing of Palestinian American in Texas meets hate crime standard, police say

By AP

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