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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 24, 2024

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Protesters move away from a water jet used by security forces to disperse them during an anti-government demonstration in Tel Aviv on February 24, 2024 (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 24: War cabinet approves more talks in Qatar on hostage deal; arrests at anti-gov’t protests

Mounted cops, water cannon used against anti-gov’t demos in Tel Aviv * Rallies for hostages amid progress in Paris on possible deal * Soldier killed in Gaza * Rocket fire in north

10:00 pm

21 arrested in Tel Aviv protests as police say they came for illegitimate reasons
9:53 pm

IDF says sirens in Lower Galilee were false alarm
9:50 pm

War cabinet votes to send delegation to Qatar for additional hostage talks

Women hold torches during a march demanding the immediate release of the Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas terror group, in Jerusalem, February 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

‘Choose the lives of our loved ones’: Protesters to rally for hostages, urge elections

Families of those held in Gaza by terrorists plead for deal that would see their release; anti-government protests return to Tel Aviv’s Democracy Square: ‘It’s time to wake up’

In a photo provided by activists, hostages' families set up a Shabbat dinner table and urge an immediate deal to release their loved ones from captivity, blocking the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv, February 23, 2024. (Amir Terkel)

Israeli team holds hostage talks in Paris, amid cautious optimism for progress

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Agam Goldstein-Almog (L) and Agam Berger (R). (Courtesy)

‘She asked me to say happy birthday’: Ex-hostage’s tearful call to cellmate’s father

US secretary: Settlement expansion weakens Israel's security

US revives policy deeming settlements illegal, pans Israel’s plan for 3,000 new homes

Blinken says settlements ‘inconsistent with international law,’ reversing stance of predecessor Pompeo, after Smotrich announced building plans in response to deadly terror shooting

A picture taken in the village of Turmus Ayya near Ramallah city shows the nearby Israeli Shilo settlement in the background, in the West Bank on February 18, 2024. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with the IDF Artillery Corps’ elite Sky Riders Unit, also known by its Hebrew acronym Rochash in Zikim, February 20, 2024. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu’s post-war plan for Gaza Strip draws cool US reception

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

White House spokesperson says US doesn’t want to see Hamas govern, but also opposes displacement, downsizing of Gaza * Blinken will ‘reserve judgment’ until seeing full details

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters near Columbia University in Manhattan, February 2, 2024. (Luke Tress via JTA)

NYPD detains 20 activists as anti-Zionist group protests AIPAC, pro-Israel lawmakers

File: Lexis Zeidan yells chants to about three dozen people protesting Israel's attacks in Gaza, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024 in Dearborn, Michigan (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Michigan Arab leaders warn Biden campaign in trouble over handling of Gaza war

By AP and ToI Staff

Inna Serebro-Litvak

When sexual violence is not condemned

While my own experience was horrifying, it was nothing compared to what Israeli girls and women had to endure from Hamas

Brigitte Gabriel and me

When we first met in Jerusalem, she was Hanan, early 20s, loving life away from Lebanon. The friendship lasted until it didn’t

Gazans celebrate by a destroyed Israeli tank at the broken Israel-Gaza border fence, east of Khan Younis, October 7, 2023. (AP/Yousef Masoud)

Israel decries top US award for Gazan NYT photographer, alleging he has Hamas ties

Foreign Ministry writes to George Polk judges over award for Yousef Masoud; Times slams ‘false claims’ and ‘smear campaign’ against Masoud, who was not working for it on October 7

Palestinians line up for free food in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Feb. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

‘Hunger is killing us’: Gazans increasingly desperate amid growing humanitarian crisis

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Vehicles transporting humanitarian aid drive along the Salaheddin road in the Zeitoun district on the southern outskirts of Gaza City on November 26, 2023. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Israel says Gaza has received almost 14,000 trucks of aid since start of war

Sondos Alhoot, head of the Kol Toshaveha list, running for Jerusalem city council in the 2024 municipal elections, in a meeting with voters, February 19, 2024 (Ittay Flescher, courtesy)

Reporter's notebook

A young Arab woman seeks to make history by being voted into Jerusalem city council

By Gianluca Pacchiani

In sit-down with Jewish voters, Sondos Alhoot speaks of her efforts to break a decades-long election boycott by the city’s Arab population and bring the two communities closer

Reservist soldier Hananya Ben Shimon, 23, shot dead one of the gunmen in the deadly terror shooting attack outside of Ma'ale Adumim in the West Bank on February 22, 2024. Ben Shimon, who recently returned from the war in Gaza, was moderately injured in the attack and was hospitalized at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. (Hadassah Medical Center Spokesperson's Office)

Reservist who shot terrorist: Don’t use me to promote ‘divisive discourse,’ gun policy

Recovering from wounds sustained in West Bank attack, Hananya Ben Shimon bemoans politicians’ use of his ‘so-called heroism’ while his ‘basic rights are denied at times’ as a gay man

Interview

Far-right minister Eliyahu warns Palestinian state ‘would lead to a holocaust’

US push for two-state solution a ‘very big mistake,’ argues heritage minister; says reestablishing Jewish settlement in Gaza Strip is critical for postwar security

Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu speaks during the funeral of terror victim Matan Elmaliach at the Maale Adumim cemetery, February 22, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Leah Goldstein, the 2021 winner of Race Across America, had her invitation to speak at a Canadian women's empowerment event rescinded after Oct. 7 because of her past IDF service. (Screenshot used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law)

Ontario women’s event that canceled Jewish speaker over IDF service is itself canceled

By Jennifer Lovy

Cyclist Leah Goldstein was the keynote address at an International Women’s Day event in Ontario targeted by anti-Israel activists

Ron Rahamim. (Dafna Talmon)

Ron Rahamim36-year-old teacher and photographer from Moshav Mivtahim

'Most of the time I feel strong and stay restrained. But I have understood that I am not immune and that nothing has passed over me. Life may go on, but the soul cannot bridge the gap'

By Tamar Mor Sela

Houthi supporters attend a rally against the US-led strikes against Yemen and in the support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in Sana'a, Yemen, February 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

US says it shot down 3 Houthi attack drones, destroyed 7 missiles targeting Red Sea

By AFP

CENTCOM says the anti-ship cruise missiles were located on land and strike was in self-defense

A handout picture released on February 23, 2024, shows the M/V Rubymar, a Belize-flagged, UK-owned bulk carrier leaking oil in the Gulf of Aden after taking significant damage after an attack by Iran-backed Houthi terrorists on February 18. (CENTCOM)

Huge oil slick from cargo ship hit by Houthis triggers environmental disaster concerns

By AFP

Italian police officers beat high school protesters who were holding a rally calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, in the city of Pisa, February 22, 2024. (Screenshot/Twitter, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Police beatings of pro-Palestinian high school students spark outrage in Italy

Videos show pupils retreating under hail of blows from officers in helmets and full riot gear; opposition calls for interior minister in Meloni cabinet to address parliament

This handout picture released by the Palazzo Chigi Press Office shows Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni arriving in Kyiv on February 24, 2024 to preside over a G7 virtual meeting on Ukraine on the second anniversary of the Russian invasion. (Handout/Palazzo Chigi press office/AFP)

Italy’s PM: If Russia hadn’t invaded Ukraine, Hamas wouldn’t have carried out Oct. 7

By AP

Health officials at the announcement of the 2024 health basket recommendations. The center three are (left to right): Health Ministry Director-General Moshe Bar Siman Tov, Health Minister Uriel Busso, and health basket committee chair Prof. Dina Ben-Yehuda, February 22, 2024. (Courtesy of Health Ministry)

Israel’s 2024 health basket gets 110 new medications and technologies

By Renee Ghert-Zand

This year will see an expansion of genetic testing, treatment for adult ADHD, innovative diabetes management, and new drugs for cancer and chronic and rare diseases

More Headlines

Left to right: Kate Gerstler, Shawna Goodman Sone and Saven Hilkowitz, the knitters behind 'Scarves of Love' for the hostages held in Gaza. (Courtesy)

Warm gestureKnitters stitch together ‘Scarves of Love’ for hostages

By Jessica Steinberg

Members of HM Coastguard Search and Rescue gather after homes were evacuated when a suspected Second World War explosive device was discovered in a garden on St Michael Avenue in Plymouth, England, Thursday Feb. 22, 2024. (Matt Keeble/PA via AP)

WWII bomb prompts an evacuation in England before being taken to sea to explode

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, gestures and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves to the media as they arrive for a meeting in New Delhi, India, Jan.15, 2018. (AP Photo, File)

Israel’s military exports to top buyer India unaffected by Gaza war

Renu, the eldest sister of Shamima Begum, holds a picture of her sister while being interviewed by the media in London, on February 22, 2015. (Laura Lean/Pool/AFP)

ISIS bride stuck in Syria refugee camp loses appeal over removal of UK citizenship

Illustrative: An Israeli soldier prepares a drone to be launched near the Israeli-Gaza border, southern Israel, January 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Israel’s GPS warfare aims to keep its own drones flying and enemies baffled

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A picture taken on February 27, 2023 shows facial recognition software on the Metaverse stand at the Mobile World Congress, the telecom industry's biggest annual gathering, in Barcelona. (Thomas Coex/AFP)

Error reveals vending machine at Canada university secretly using facial recognition

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