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What Matters Most On Sunday, February 18, 2024

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Varda Alexander, second from right, and her family speaks about her grandson Idan at a rally in Tel Aviv for the release of the hostages in Gaza on February 17, 2024. (Adar Eyal/The Families and Missing Families Forum)

Relatives’ frustration showcased at hostages rally; nearby, masses call for elections

By Canaan Lidor

Dispensing with music and experts, organizers of weekly protest at Hostages Square give mic to 40 anguished families; big anti-Netanyahu crowds return to adjacent Kaplan Street

Workers and staff unload medical aid delivered by the International Committee of the Red Cross at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on December 9, 2023, amid continuing battles between Israel and Hamas. (AFP)

Medicines for hostages found in Gaza hospital sent privately by families – report

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2-L) heads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on January 7, 2024. (RONEN ZVULUN / POOL / AFP)

'Unilateral recognition of state will foil any future peace'

Rebuffing Biden, cabinet rejects unilateral Palestinian state as ‘reward for terrorism’

Approved even by centrist ministers, statement rejects ‘international diktats’ pushing two states; minister Sa’ar compares reported US-Arab proposal to appeasement of Nazis in 1938

Representatives from Norway and the Palestinian Authority sign agreements in Ramallah on November 30, 2022. (Wafa)

Live updates (closed)

Feb 18: Norway agrees to transfer frozen tax funds from Israel to PA

Gallant says Hamas looking to replace Sinwar * Israel slams Brazilian president for comparing Gaza war to Holocaust * Cabinet backs declaration against recognizing Palestinian state

9:22 pm

PM's office avers that freedom of religion will be respected during Ramadan
8:38 pm

Norway says it agrees to transfer tax funds from Israel to Palestinian Authority
8:33 pm

Israel Bar Association selects new representative on Judicial Selection Committee

This image from video shows Faisal Ali Mussalem al-Naami (right) and another terrorist abducting a body of an Israeli on October 7, 2023. (Screenshot: South First Reporters)

Video shows UNRWA social worker abducting body of Israeli on Oct. 7

By Emanuel Fabian and Reuters

UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the UNRWA headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, December 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

UNRWA chief says Israel waging campaign to ‘destroy’ Palestinian refugee aid agency

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Netanyahu: Those telling us not to enter Rafah are essentially saying ‘lose the war’

By Lazar Berman

At Jerusalem press conference, PM says civilians will be given chance to leave; says hostage deal doesn’t seem close, pledges to oppose unilateral recognition of Palestinian state

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference at his office in Jerusalem on February 17, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PA Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh speaks during a townhall meeting at the 60th Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, on February 18, 2024. (THOMAS KIENZLE / AFP)

Calling for ‘Palestinian unity,’ PA premier urges Hamas to attend Moscow meet

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Shtayyeh says world needs to ‘stop focusing on October 7,’ as Russia invites Palestinian factions to discuss coming together under banner of ‘popular resistance’

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, center, visits the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, May 21, 2023. (Courtesy: Minhelet Har Habayit)

Ben Gvir calls to bar ‘Palestinian Authority residents’ from Temple Mount on Ramadan

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Displaced Palestinians camp near the border fence between Gaza and Egypt, on February 16, 2024, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Egyptian FM: Goal is to 'eliminate the ideology behind Hamas'

US signals veto in Security Council Gaza vote as Egypt braces for IDF Rafah operation

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Washington says Algerian resolution could jeopardize ‘sensitive’ temporary truce talks; Gal Hirsch: Hamas using displaced Palestinians in south Gaza as ‘human shields’

File: An Israeli fighter jet releases flares as it flies over the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, December 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

US readies new weapons shipment to Israel; embassy says no human rights concerns

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken takes part in a panel discussion at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich, Germany, Saturday Feb. 17, 2024. (Thomas Kienzle/Pool via AP)

Blinken: Israel has extraordinary opportunity, ‘virtually every Arab country’ wants ties

By Reuters and ToI Staff

At the same time, US secretary of state tells Munich Security Conference, efforts for Palestinian statehood must advance too

Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani speaks during a joint press conference with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (not pictured) as part of Blinken's weeklong trip aimed at calming tensions across the Middle East, in Doha on January 7, 2024. (Karim Jaafar/AFP)

Qatari PM: Hostage deal shouldn’t be condition for truce, talks ‘not very promising’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

When Hamas hit suburbia

A local response to the war in Gaza laid bare the fault lines in a well-off Maryland county that prides itself on civility

Steven Berkowitz

The resolution passed, yet once again we lost

Our lives, our history and our trauma are not something to be voted on for political gain or to shame political opponents

Policewoman Az-Oolay in Jerusalem. (Shai Kendler)

'I wanted to be a different type of police officer'

Send in the clown: A slap-happy ‘policewoman’ is a gas at Israel’s many protests

By Bernard Dichek

Hashoteret Az-Oolay doesn’t discriminate between causes or sides as she spreads smiles and a message of love at demonstrations of all kinds across the country

PM: Elections have a date — in a few years; Likud official: After the war, he’s done

Senior Likud members say Netanyahu won’t be able to go on after war with Hamas ends; Lapid says if he’d been premier on Oct. 7, Netanyahu ‘would have sent people to burn my house’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, February 17, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Protesters demanding a hostage deal march down Jerusalem's Azza Street to the prime minister's official residence on February 17, 2024. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)

Jerusalem protesters amp up calls for elections, hostage deal at weekly rally

By Charlie Summers

File: Histadrut chief Arnon Bar-David declares a general strike in protest of the judicial overhaul, at a press conference in Tel Aviv on March 27, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Union chief calls for elections, says PM should resign, threatens to join protests

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Feb 18: Day 135 – Exodus into Egypt: Where will civilians in Rafah go?

Military reporter Emanuel Fabian on the IDF’s possible next focus, operation in Nasser Hospital, likely dozens of UNRWA collaborators, and what’s happening on the northern border

Screen capture from the Givechak website of the crowd funding campaign for Yinon Levi, the founder of the illegal Meitarim Farm West Bank outpost after he was put on a US sanctions list. (Screen capture, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb 17: Day 134 – How US sanctions on Jewish extremists may start cascade

Pro-Palestinian activists and supporters wave flags and carry placards during a National March for Palestine in central London on February 17, 2024. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

12 arrested as thousands join pro-Palestinian march in London

By AFP and ToI Staff

Participants assault police officers as they arrest man for holding antisemitic placard; others arrested for refusing to remove face coverings, supporting outlawed organization

Labour candidate Damien Egan gives a speech after being declared MP for Kingswood, at the Thornbury Leisure Centre, Gloucestershire, Friday February 16, 2024. (Ben Birchall//PA via AP)

Winner of by-election in UK’s Kingswood a Jew by choice, married to Israeli

Screen capture from a promotional video of actress Tracy-Ann Oberman speaking about 'The Merchant of Venice 1936,' February 2023. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Police secure opening night of London play after Jewish actress receives threats

Ethan Smith participates in a live broadcast to fellow teens at the BBYO convention in Orlando, Florida, February 16, 2024. (Jacob Gurvis/JTA)

'I don't want to be constantly looking over my shoulder'

US Jewish teens are looking at a new factor in their college search: antisemitism

By jacob gurvis

As Jew hatred rises globally after Oct. 7, a recent survey of 2,000 BBYO participants found that 64% consider campus climate for Jewish students important when picking a school

Baha'i worshippers in the Bahji Gardens in Acre. (Courtesy Baha'i World Center)

Inside story

Decision expected in legal battle over ‘holy’ classification of Baha’i gardens in Acre

By Nurit Malkin

Bahji Gardens are closed to the public as Baha’i leadership battles city’s decision to lift tax exemption and charge community NIS 7 million a year for faith founder’s burial spot

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Graffiti reading 'revenge, death to Arabs,' reportedly left by extremist settlers on a wall in the West Bank town of Turmus Ayya, February 18, 2024. (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Settlers said to throw stones, torch car, leave racist graffiti in West Bank attacks

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul in the Red Room at the state Capitol in Albany, New York, January 16, 2024. (Hans Pennink/AP)

New York governor sorry for suggesting Israel would be justified in wiping out Gaza

The commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Esmail Qaani, speaks during a ceremony marking the anniversary of the 2020 killing of Guards general Qasem Soleimani, in Tehran, Iran, on January 3, 2024. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iraqi armed groups dial down US attacks at request of Iran commander

By Ahmed Rasheed, Parisa Hafezi and Timour Azhari

People row in an inflatable dinghy through flooded streets in central Israel, February 17, 2024 (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Stormy weekend leads to floods in central cities, with more precipitation expected

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