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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 17, 2024

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Families of Israeli observation soldiers who were killed by Hamas terrorists at the Nahal Oz surveillance outpost on October 7, speak to the press after meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, July 17, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

'All this information -- it's astonishing to me,' PM says

Netanyahu pleads ignorance in meeting with families of slain surveillance soldiers

In recordings, PM heard saying he didn’t know the female troops at Nahal Oz base raised alarms before October 7, had no idea they were unarmed; refuses to commit to state inquiry

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a security cabinet meeting, April 4, 2024. (Channel 12 screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Netanyahu panned for allegedly telling cabinet ‘hostages are suffering but not dying’

By Lazar Berman and Sam Sokol

Shahar Yaori, whose son Amit Yaori was killed fighting in Gaza in 2014, confronts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the state ceremony marking 10 years since Operation Protective Edge at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, July 16, 2024. (Shalev Shalom/POOL)

Netanyahu heckled by bereaved parents at ceremony marking 10 years to 2014 Gaza war

By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

Supporters watch the program outside the venue where Democratic presidential candidate former vice president Joe Biden is speaking, during the final day of the Democratic National Convention, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020, at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

GOP convention crowd erupts when asked to cheer for Israel

Bucking far-left flank, Democrats advance platform touting support for Israel

Position tempered by push for Palestinian statehood, criticism of Israeli policy in the West Bank; contrasts with GOP’s unconditional support, which galvanizes Milwaukee crowd

Republican Jewish Coalition CEO Matt Brooks speaks during the second day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, July 16, 2024. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)

Republican Jewish Coalition CEO gives first-ever GOP convention speech

Former US president and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (top, on screen) applauds as US former ambassador to the United Nations and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley speaks during the second day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 16, 2024.(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)

Former rivals endorse Trump at RNC in show of unity days after assassination attempt

By Alexandra Ulmer, Gram Slattery and Nathan Layne

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

The families of five hostage surveillance soldiers released images on Tuesday evening from the young women's first days in captivity in Gaza, demanding a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to push for the hostages' release. In one undated image, Liri Albag, Karina Ariev, Agam Berger and Daniella... Continue Reading

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)

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

Relatives of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza march with their supporters, demanding a hostage deal and the return of their loved ones outside the Hebrew University Givat Ram campus in Jerusalem, July 16, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli college students urge hostage deal and end to war in nationwide protests

By Charlie Summers

View of the Rafah Border Crossing in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 15, 2024 in a photo taken under the supervision of the Israel Defense Forces. (Oren Cohen/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

July 17: Israeli, US, PA officials said to hold secret talks on control of Rafah Crossing

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Shas tells PM to push ahead with deal and ignore far-right threats * Protesters call on Netanyahu to approve agreement before US trip * IDF destroys Hamas attack tunnel from Rafah

8:41 pm

Report: US privately warned Iran over suspicious nuclear activities
8:14 pm

Air Force chief says IAF was at full 'operational competency' ahead of Oct. 7
7:57 pm

Gantz slams US for sanctioning Elor Azaria: 'No justification to interfere in Israel’s internal legal processes'

Op-ed: Day 285 of the war

Hamas is weakened, but there’s no room for complacency

This Editor’s Note was sent out earlier Wednesday in ToI’s weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel Community. To receive these Editor’s Notes as they’re released, join the ToI Community here. Senior officers in the IDF are sounding increasingly upbeat about the progress of the war -- and the process of dismantling Hamas's... Continue Reading

Families of Israeli surveillance soldiers who were killed by Hamas terrorists at the Nahal Oz surveillance outpost on October 7, 2023, hold up photographs of the soldiers and speak to the press after meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, July 17, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip, in an image released on July 10, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF increasingly certain Deif died in strike, says Hamas fighters in ‘survival mode’

By Emanuel Fabian

Military assesses it will take months to locate all tunnels along the Gaza-Egypt border, but Rafah Brigade mostly dismantled; half of terror group’s military leadership killed

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attend a cadets graduation ceremony at the IDF's officers school in southern Israel, known as Bahad 1, March 7, 2024. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Halevi demanding PM apologize for saying IDF not pressuring Hamas enough — report

Israel Defense Forces operate in Gaza, July 17, 2024, in this handout image. (Israel Defense Forces)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 17: Day 285 – Hamas is forced to surface as Gaza tunnels destroyed

An image grab taken from Hezbollah's al-Manar TV on July 10, 2024, shows the Lebanese terror group's chief Hassan Nasrallah giving a speech from an undisclosed location in Lebanon. (Al-Manar/AFP)

Nasrallah threatens to fire rockets at Israeli areas not yet targeted by Hezbollah

By Gianluca Pacchiani and ToI Staff

In televised address, terror group leader cites reported spike in civilian deaths in southern Lebanon, denies rumors of ‘finalized agreement’ to halt ongoing deadly border violence

Smoke rises from around the northern city of Kiryat Shmona, following a missile attack from Lebanon, July 16, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

100 rockets target northern Israel as IDF strikes in Lebanon said to kill 5 Syrians

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

An image released by the Shin Bet amid an investigation into three Israelis accused of acting under the supervision of Iran, released July 16, 2024 (Shin Bet)

3 Israelis arrested for allegedly carrying out tasks for Iranian intelligence agents

By Jeremy Sharon

If Israel is a priority, when am I making aliyah?

Living in the US isn’t an excuse to be disengaged from the Jewish state. Just the opposite – it’s a reason to double down on our commitment

So you want to fight antisemitism?

7 things you can do to ensure that Jew-hatred will not be tolerated, from using social media for activism to pushing for laws against hate crimes

Illustrative image of a 2017 2Break session in Tel Aviv. (screenshot)

'People feel like a burden was lifted from their shoulders'

Tel Aviv ‘rage room’ a smash hit for post-October 7 Israelis desperate to vent

By Jennifer Korn

While the therapeutic benefits are debatable, participants at 2Break get momentary catharsis by obliterating computers, tea sets and garden gnomes with a variety of weaponry

The 'Wing of Zion,' the Israeli version of Air Force One, is seen above Ben Gurion Airport, on its first test flight, November 3, 2019. (Yoav Weiss/Israel Aerospace Industries)

State plane makes inaugural flight to US for PM’s visit; will have to come back for him

By Lazar Berman

Wing of Zion carries equipment and some of Netanyahu’s security delegation; it’ll fly out again next week with PM on board; is too small to have done it all in one go

AnalysisLiberman and Bennett meet in bid to forge new right-wing bloc, but who would lead it?

By Shalom Yerushalmi

Report says Hamas denial of targeting civilians false

Human Rights Watch details hundreds of war crimes by Hamas-led terrorists on Oct. 7

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Hamas led armed Palestinian groups in committing hundreds of highly coordinated war crimes, including attacks on civilians and gender-based violence, during the October 7 onslaught on Israel that set off the war in Gaza, Human Rights Watch said in a comprehensive report published Wednesday. One of the most... Continue Reading

Bloodstains are pictured on November 9, 2023, on a room's door at the Thai workers' residence inside Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel, after the October 7 attack by Hamas. (Gil Cohen-Magen / AFP)

A US Army vessel is seen moored at the US-built floating pier Trident that connected to the beach on the coast of the Gaza Strip, June 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Israel to set up port facility to replace US pier, build field hospital for Gaza kids

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US had intel on Iran plot to kill Trump, stepped up security, unrelated to Sat. shooting

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The United States received intelligence from a human source in recent weeks regarding an Iranian plan to assassinate former president Donald Trump, CNN reported on Tuesday, and the Secret Service was instructed to step up security around him due to the threat. There was no indication that Thomas... Continue Reading

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump watches during the Republican National Convention, Monday, July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Then-US president Donald Trump (right) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before Trump's departure to Rome at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, on May 23, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO via Flash90)

Netanyahu aides said to see hope of mending fences with Trump after assassination attempt

An undated image obtained 14 July, 2024 shows a driver's license photograph of Thomas Matthew Crooks, the suspected shooter of former US president Donald Trump. (Handout / AFP)

FBI cracked Trump shooter’s phone with tech from Israel’s Cellebrite – report

Undated photo of Late Roman Period ring discovered by 13-year-old Yair Whitestone while hiking on Mount Carmel. (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Oh my goddess

Teen finds 1,800-year-old ring featuring Minerva, Roman goddess of battle

Yair Whitestone, 13, found ring while hiking near Haifa with reservist dad, was commended for turning it over to Antiquities Authority; goddess was ‘very popular’ in Land of Israel

Dagan Peleg (left), Tom Carbone and Yaakov Benacot (right) of Be'eri Dairy on June 27, 2024, still in recovery from October 7 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Be’eri’s boutique cheesemakers carry on, without Dror Or’s ‘golden hands’

By Jessica Steinberg

Dairy originally established to make yogurt and labneh for kibbutz eventually became accomplished in artisanal cheeses, only to be decimated by the Hamas attack

Founders of US-Israeli cyber unicorn Wiz from left to right: VP Product Yinon Costica, CEO Assaf Rappaport, CTO Ami Luttwak, and VP R&D Roy Reznik. (Avishag Shaar-Yashuv)

Explainer

Could Google’s $23b bid for Israel-founded cyber unicorn boost local tech outlook?

Parent company Alphabet is said to be in ‘advanced talks’ with Wiz, in what would mark the biggest-ever Israeli tech acquisition, and generate tax windfall during Gaza war period

Ultra-Orthodox soldiers attend a swearing-in ceremony as they enter the IDF 'Nahal Haredi' unit, at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem on May 26, 2012. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

IDF says it will begin drafting ultra-Orthodox from Sunday; protesters block road

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says move will further strengthen ‘the people’s army’ during a time of war, weeks after High Court ruled that the state can no longer push off haredi conscription

More Headlines

Illustrative - US soldiers patrol an area near Syria's northeastern Semalka border crossing with Iraq's Kurdish autonomous territory, on November 1, 2021. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)

Drones said to target Iraq base used by US-led forces to ’embarrass’ Baghdad

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israeli State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman attends the Eli Horowitz Conference for Economy and Society, organized by Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem, May 22, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

State comptroller finds wage gap, underrepresentation of women in local government

Israeli police prevent activists from blocking trucks carrying humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip at the Kerem Shalom border crossing between Israel and Gaza, in southern Israel, January 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Israeli groups that block aid entering Gaza receive tax-deductible donations from US

By Uri Blau, MILAN CZERNY and Josef Federman

AnalysisPezeshkian courts EU, rules out nukes, but flirts with leaving non-proliferation pact

By Amir Bar Shalom

Illustrative: A man walks by school bus with Yiddish signage in Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York City, January 1, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Neo-Nazi known as ‘Commander Butcher’ charged for plot to poison Jewish kids in NYC

Russian American writer Masha Gessen after receiving the Hannah Arendt Prize, in event room F61 in Bremen, Germany, Saturday, December 16, 2023. (Focke Strangmann/dpa via AP)

Russia sentences Masha Gessen to prison in absentia for comments on Ukraine war

By Andrew Lapin

Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide attends a ministerial meeting held in Riyadh on April 29, 2024, to discuss the Gaza crisis amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and the terror group Hamas. (Photo by Fayez Nureldine / AFP)

Israeli FM bars Norwegian counterpart from visiting, citing Palestine recognition

By Lazar Berman

Illustrative: Israelis enjoy the beach in Bat Yam, June 29, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

A scorching 2100: Israeli forecasters predict blistering heat in decades to come

US Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey enters federal court in New York, July 16, 2024. (AP/Seth Wenig)

US Senator Bob Menendez convicted on all corruption charges, including bribery

By Larry Neumeister and Philip Marcelo

First responders at the scene of a suspected murder of a 6-year-old boy in Herzliya on July 16, 2024. (Courtesy ZAKA)

Woman arrested on suspicion of murdering son, 6, attacking security guard with axe

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