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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 16, 2024

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An undated picture of four IDF surveillance soldiers held hostage by Hamas in Gaza since October 7, 2023, that was made public by their families on July 16, 2024. Behind them is a framed picture of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. From left: Liri Albag, Agam Berger, Daniella Gilboa, and Karina Ariev. (Courtesy)

Hostage families release photos of 5 female soldiers from early days of captivity

Relatives of IDF observation troops kidnapped from Nahal Oz base on October 7 beg Netanyahu not to depart for Washington before signing a hostage release deal

This undated photo taken in winter 2023 and provided by Breaking the Silence, a whistleblower group of former Israeli soldiers, shows blindfolded Palestinians captured in the Gaza Strip in a detention facility on the Sde Teiman military base in southern Israel. (Breaking The Silence via AP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 16: Day 284 – Must Israelis pay for Hamas terrorists’ legal defense?

Roni Katz, whose son survived the Hamas massacre at the Nova music festival on October 7, addresses the Knesset State Control Committee on July 15, 2024. (Screenshot: Knesset Channel, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

‘I fed my 30-year-old with a spoon’: Nova survivors, relatives beg state for support

Profile

Trump VP pick JD Vance aims to balance Israel support with ‘America First’ mantra

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin -- James David Vance, a freshman US senator who has made support for Israel an exception to an "America First" foreign policy vision, was tapped on Monday as former US president Donald Trump's running mate for the upcoming presidential election. The selection of the 39-year-old Vance represents a full embrace of the growing isolationist wing of the Republican... Continue Reading

Republican US vice presidential candidate Senator JD Vance gives a thumbs-up to supporters as he is introduced during the first day of the Republican National Convention on July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio speaks to Fox News after being nominated as the Republican party's vice presidential candidate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 15, 2024. (Screen capture: Fox News, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Vance: Israel should finish war as quickly as possible, partner Sunni states against Iran

Republican US presidential candidate former president Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Republican vice presidential candidate Senator JD Vance during the Republican National Convention, July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Trump taps JD Vance, who once called him ‘America’s Hitler,’ as vice president pick

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a ceremony marking the tenth anniversary of the 2014 Gaza War, at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, July 16, 2024. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

July 16: PM says Iran has been planning multi-front attack on Israel: ‘Sinwar fired too early’

Families release new images of captive female observation troops, plea for hostage deal * Protesters block highway, clash with cops as IDF to start drafting ultra-Orthodox next week

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More than 20 rockets fired at Mount Meron area, many intercepted, others spark fires
8:32 pm

US Vice President Harris seeks Aug. 13 CBS debate against Vance
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Jets hit Hezbollah targets after barrages on north

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Trump, with ear bandaged after shooting, gets hero’s welcome at convention

By Frankie TAGGART and Michael Mathes

MILWAUKEE, United States (AFP) -- Donald Trump received a hero's welcome Monday as he entered the Republican National Convention arena with a bandaged right ear in his first public appearance since being wounded in a weekend assassination attempt. Hours after winning the formal nomination to be the Republican... Continue Reading

US former president and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, a bandage on his ear after being wounded in an assassination attempt, pumps a fist during the first day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 15, 2024. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

Republican US presidential candidate former president Donald Trump, left, and Republican vice presidential candidate Senator JD Vance appear during the Republican National Convention, July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Trump locks down GOP nomination, declares ex-critic JD Vance his running mate

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Republican presidential candidate former president Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Judge dismisses Trump classified documents case, rejects special counsel’s authority

Analysis

With victory starting to slip away, Deif strike comes at worst time for Sinwar

For nine months, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was riding high even as he hid deep underground. “We have the Israelis right where we want them,” Sinwar told other Hamas leaders, according to a June report in The Wall Street Journal. Sinwar's approach to hostage talks was evidence of his confidence. After the weeklong November ceasefire, Hamas... Continue Reading

Hamas's Gaza Strip leader Yahya Sinwar in a tunnel in southern Gaza's Khan Younis, October 10, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

CIA head says Hamas’s Sinwar under growing pressure to end war – report

CIA director Bill Burns told a closed-door conference over the weekend that the agency assesses Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is under increasing pressure from the terror group’s commanders to accept a hostage-ceasefire deal, CNN reported Tuesday. The report was based on the account of an individual who was present at the discussion at... Continue Reading

CIA director William Burns speaks during a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington, March 11, 2024. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)

A view of the Philadelphi Corridor, the Egypt-Gaza border area in Rafah, on June 18, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Israeli negotiators to head for more hostage talks despite Deif assassination attempt

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip sit waiting on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing. (Giuseppe Cacace/AFP)

Israel allows UN to bring armored vehicles, protection gear for its Gaza aid workers

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Your rabbi is in pain

The talk in the clergy support groups I facilitate is bleak – Jewish community leaders feel judged, unsupported and hopeless

Between dissolving UNRWA and propping it up

A middle-way strategy would ensure Israel’s security is not compromised while Palestinians get the aid they urgently need

On Israel, we need to speak the language of social impact

Younger adults abroad care about justice – they should find out about Israel’s massive investment in closing racial and ethnic gaps

Benyamin Moalem

What Netanyahu should and shouldn’t say to Congress

The PM should aim to unite the bipartisan majority that supports Israel instead of risking losing half as he did in 2015

Condemnation from politicians across spectrum

Yelling ‘murderers,’ ultra-Orthodox mob attacks 2 senior IDF officers in Bnei Brak

Politicians from both the coalition and opposition on Tuesday condemned a mob attack on two senior Israel Defense Forces officers in Bnei Brak the night before, declaring that such actions do not represent Jewish or Israeli values. Maj. Gen. David Zini, head of the Training Command and General... Continue Reading

Screen capture from a video on social media showing an attack on two senior IDF officers by Haredi rioters in Bnei Brak, July 15, 2024. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Members of 'penas' (festive groups) unfold a Palestinian flag on the sun section of the bullring at the begining of the fifth bullfight of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, on July 11, 2024. (Ander Gillenea / AFP)

'Jews are really scared, especially women'

From bullfights to Euro 2024, Spain’s overt Gaza support sparks fear in some Jews

By Romain Chauvet

The country, one of Europe’s most outspoken critics of Israel’s war in the Strip, is home to a Jewish community that reports feeling an increasingly hostile environment

Illustrative: View of a house that was hit by a rocket fired from Lebanon at the northern city of Kiryat Shmona, July 13, 2024. (Ayal MArgolin/Flash90)

Barrage of 20 rockets pounds northern city of Kiryat Shmona and surroundings

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

IDF says no injuries from mostly intercepted volley; woman, 25, is seriously hurt falling through glass floor in shopping mall that was apparently damaged in an earlier attack

A Hezbollah drone is seen near Acre in northern Israel, February 20, 2024.(Screenshot: X)

Lebanese man arrested in Germany for procuring drone parts for Hezbollah

By AP and ToI Staff

Vehicle damaged in a shooting attack near the West Bank town of Bayt Lid, July 16, 2024 (Magen David Adom)

Three Israelis lightly injured in shooting attack near West Bank town of Bayt Lid

By Emanuel Fabian

Victims hurt by flying glass after car comes under fire; earlier, 3 Israelis hurt by IDF fire in mishap at a checkpoint near Ramallah

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (third right), and top official Khalem Mashaal (second right), are seen meeting with Fatah's Nasser al-Qudwa (second left) and Samir al-Mashrawi (third left) in Qatar on November 22, 2023. (Courtesy)

Hamas, Fatah leaders to meet in Beijing this month for reconciliation talks

By AFP and ToI Staff

US President Joe Biden during an interview with journalist Speedy Morman (not in picture) on '360 with Speedy,' broadcast July 15, 2024. (Screen capture: Youtube/Complex, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Biden stands by identification as a Zionist: ‘Israel is a safe haven for Jews’

By Jacob Magid, ToI Staff and Agencies

US president doubles down on reelection bid, gives unprecedented detail on Saudi normalization effort; regrets telling donors ‘it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye’

President Isaac Herzog and UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy speak with the family of a hostage, in Jerusalem, on July 15, 2024. ((Haim Zach/GPO)

No war is more just than Gaza campaign, Herzog tells UK foreign secretary

By Lazar Berman

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks as he meets with G7 foreign ministers during NATO's 75th anniversary summit in Washington, DC, on July 11, 2024. (Samuel Corum / AFP)

Blinken laments Gaza civilian toll, discusses hostage deal with Israeli officials

By AFP, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Says Trump likely sees divine providence in his narrow escape

Ex-envoy Friedman: Attempted assassination of Trump and Oct. 7 both inexcusable security failures

By ToI Staff and Agencies

David Friedman, the United States ambassador to Israel under former president Donald Trump, said on Monday that the attempted assassination of Trump on Saturday was "our October 7," in terms of the "inexplicable" security and intelligence failures involved. Speaking to Channel 12, Friedman was asked how Trump’s would-be assassin, a 20-year-old whose motives... Continue Reading

Former US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks during a Republican Jewish Coalition event in Philadelphia, August 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Presumptive Republican presidential candidate former president Donald Trump is surrounded by US Secret Service agents at a campaign rally, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Trump’s raised fist amid gunfire and chaos projected characteristic image of defiance

The family of 22-year-old Omer Neutra, who is being held hostage by Hamas, in Gaza speak at a rally in New York's Central Park on July 7, 2024. Left to right: Daniel Neutra, Ronen Neutra, and Orna Neutra. (Dani Tenenbaum and Liri Agami)

Interview'It’s like drowning for nine months'

US-Israeli hostage’s family fights to keep American public interested in fellow citizen

By Cathryn J. Prince

Set to speak at Republican convention on Wednesday, Omer Neutra’s relatives say it’s a struggle to maintain media awareness of the 8 US citizens held by Hamas since Oct. 7 massacre

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid leads a Yesh Atid faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on July 15, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘A crybaby and a coward’: Lapid slams Netanyahu for complaining about incitement

Opposition leader says he gets ‘many’ threats but doesn’t moan; Likud falsely accuses him of normalizing political violence and bringing ‘the next political murder closer’

Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting in the Knesset, July 15, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman predicts Netanyahu will dissolve Knesset in Nov., says he’s meeting Bennett

Heritage sites within the Mikveh Israel Youth Village in central Israel. (Haim Shafir)

1976 law states any use of land can solely serve the school

Central Israel residents demand access to massive green space just beyond a fence

Zoned as a school, the historic Mikveh Israel Agricultural Youth Village in central Israel says it’s not a park but an educational site and farm, with heritage value

Aviad Shlomo Sarid, from the West Bank’s Revava settlement, speaks to the Kan broadcaster after the United States mistakenly levied sanctions on him instead of on Shlomo Sarid, the head of far-right group Tzav 9, July 15. 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

After mix-up, US lifts sanctions on Israeli man, blacklists similarly named activist

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

IDF reservist Aviad Shlomo Sarid says he was ‘completely surprised’ to find bank account, credit card blocked; far-right activist Shlomo Sarid slams ‘draconian sanctions’

Lehava chairman Benzi Gopstein seen after a court hearing at the Court for Local Affairs in Jerusalem, on March 31, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

EU sanctions group that tries to block aid to Gaza, far-right activists Gopstein, Marzel

More Headlines

Illustrative: An area at a date field in Eilat where West Nile virus-infected mosquitoes were found in 2020. (Gal Zagron/Environmental Protection Ministry)

Health Ministry says 440 people diagnosed with West Nile fever, 32 dead

By Diana Bletter

Female soldiers operate a tank in the Negev Desert, in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF delays tentative pilot program for female tank troops by another year

By Emanuel Fabian

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich during a cabinet meeting convened to approve the 2024 amended state budget, January 15, 2024. (Haim Zach, GPO)

Netanyahu kicks off 2025 high-level budget talks as war costs push up deficit

Troops of the elite Shaldag unit fight Hamas terrorists at the entrance to Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7, 2023. (Screen capture/Israel Defense Forces)

Air Force commando pushes back against criticism in probe of October 7

Screen capture from video purportedly showing the remains of a car hit in an alleged Israeli strike in Syria that killed regime-linked businessman Baraa Katerji, July 15, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Prominent regime-linked Syrian businessman said killed in alleged Israeli strike

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative. A man looks at dairy products while shopping at a Rami Levy supermarket. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Inflation edges higher, bolstered by uptick in housing prices

By Sharon Wrobel

Police officers on a street near the Israeli embassy in Belgrade, on June 29, 2024. (OLIVER BUNIC / AFP)

Serbia says crossbow attack on Israeli embassy was carried out by lone extremist

By AFP and ToI Staff

Youth Demand activists hold placards reading 'Stop arming Israel' and 'Never again for anyone' after laying flowers and a Palestinian flag at the Cenotaph war memorial in central London on July 15, 2024. (CARLOS JASSO / AFP)

Two anti-Israel activists arrested after protest at UK’s Cenotaph war memorial

By AFP and ToI Staff

Rapper Yoav Eliasi "The Shadow" shows his "inspector" insignia, July 15, 2024. (via Facebook)

Far-right rapper ‘The Shadow’ awarded symbolic officer rank by police

File: Quentin Tarantino speaks onstage at a "Jackie Brown" screening during the 2024 Tribeca Festival at SVA Theater on June 14, 2024, in New York City. (Photo by Roy Rochlin / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Big gunJerusalem film fest screening with Tarantino sells out in hours

By Jessica Steinberg

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