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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 18, 2024

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Ronen Neutra (L) and Orna Neutra, whose son Omer is being held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, speak during the third day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, on July 17, 2024. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)

Crowd cheers Vance's unity call, Navarro's attacks on Dems

Father of Hamas captive at RNC: Trump told me he ‘stands with the American hostages’

Thousands greet Omer Neutra’s parents with chants of ‘Bring them home’; they similarly embrace Jewish Harvard alum suing school for failing to protect him against discrimination

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks at a meeting of his Otzma Yehudit party, at the Knesset in Jerusalem on June 10, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Report: Ben Gvir urging hostage deal to be held up to avoid helping Biden vs Trump

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, ministers and MKs at the plenum hall of the Knesset in Jerusalem on July 17, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jul 18: Day 286 – Before PM goes to DC, Knesset says no Palestinian state

Knesset votes overwhelmingly against Palestinian statehood, days before PM’s US trip

The Knesset late Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to pass a resolution rejecting the establishment of a Palestinian state. The resolution was co-sponsored by parties in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition together with right-wing parties from the opposition and even received support from Benny Gantz’s centrist National Unity party. Lawmakers from... Continue Reading

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other MKs attend a Knesset plenum session on July 17, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Screen capture from video of a scuffle in the Knesset between right-wing and Arab lawmakers, July 18, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Ben Gvir calls Arab lawmakers ‘terrorists’ from Knesset rostrum, triggering melee

By Stuart Winer

MK Mansour Abbas addresses the plenum, July 17, 2024. (Dani Shem-Tov/Knesset)

Bennett rebukes former partner Abbas after he claims ‘50,000 civilians murdered in Gaza’

Gamliel: Ignore coalition threats; Regev: It’s an open wound

Urging deal, Mossad chief said to warn time running out for young female hostages

Mossad chief David Barnea told a security cabinet meeting Tuesday that young female hostages held by Hamas don’t have time to wait for a new hostage deal framework, according to unsourced leaks from the gathering that were widely reported by Hebrew media outlets Wednesday. “It could take long... Continue Reading

Mossad chief David Barnea at a Memorial Day ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, May 12, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir visits the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on July 18, 2024. (Otzma Yehudit)

Ben Gvir visits Temple Mount, urges PM ‘not to fold’ under pressure to OK hostage deal

By Sam Sokol, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Demonstrators show a picture of an Israeli held hostage in Gaza and a sign during a UN Security Council meeting on July 17, 2024 on the situation in the Middle East. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP)

Two protesters burst into UN Security Council meeting, demanding release of hostages

By Reuters, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

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Protesters march near the Gaza border, calling for a State Commission of Inquiry to investigate the failures that lead to Hamas's October 7 onslaught, July 18, 2024. (Pro-Democracy Movement/Dafna Yosha)

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July 18: Anti-government protesters march near Gaza border, demanding Oct. 7 probe

By Elana Kirsh and ToI Staff

In Rafah, Netanyahu says Gaza-Egypt border ‘critical’ for next stage of war * IDF strikes Hamas gunmen at UNRWA site * Health Ministry: Evidence of polio found in Gaza sewage samples

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8:49 pm

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8:32 pm

Hezbollah confirms death of commander in Israeli strike in southern Lebanon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in the Knesset in Jerusalem, on July 17, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lapid: Announce a hostage deal in DC or cancel your trip

PM implies he views a probe of Oct. 7 as a bureaucratic nuisance amid war on Hamas

By ToI Staff and Sam Sokol

At Knesset, PM compares himself to Duke of Wellington during Napoleonic wars, who mocked the need to inspect the condition of a battalion’s ‘jam jars’ during fighting

Released hostage Noa Argamani attends the funeral of her mother, Liora Argamani, at a cemetery in Beersheba, southern Israel, on July 2, 2024. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)

Relatives of hostages urge rescued captive Noa Argamani not to join Netanyahu in DC

High Court Justice Noam Sohlberg presides over a court hearing on the state comptroller's investigation into the failings surrounding the October 7 Hamas invasion, July 17, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

High Court seeks compromise over attempts to halt State Comptroller’s Oct. 7 probes

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30 years after AMIA, the Iranian threat remains

The world’s apathy after Argentina and now October 7 is the same inaction against the Islamic Republic’s advancing nuclear capabilities. How does this end well?

Protests are justified. Blocking roads is not.

The freedom to demonstrate is at the very core of democracy, but it does not license public disorder and anarchy

Troops operating in the Gaza Strip in an undated photo released for publication on July 18, 2024 (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF kills Islamic Jihad naval chief in Gaza; Hamas attacks troops securing aid route

By Emanuel Fabian

RPGs fired at soldiers facilitating corridor for humanitarian trucks, moderately injuring serviceman; sniper who killed IDF commando killed in separate airstrike

The image provided by US Central Command shows American and Israeli forces placing the Trident Pier on the coast of Gaza Strip on May 16, 2024. (US Central Command via AP)

US military ends operation of Gaza aid pier, will shift efforts to Ashdod port

By Reuters and ToI Staff

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

The wreckage of a car in which a Hamas commander was killed by an Israeli strike in the village of Ghazzeh in the Beqaa region of eastern Lebanon on July 18, 2024 (Hassan JARRAH / AFP)

IDF strike in Lebanon kills Hamas commander; reservist hurt in drone attack dies

By Emanuel Fabian

Sgt. First Class (res.) Efraim Ben Amram succumbs to wounds sustained in attack last month; Hezbollah operative also killed in strike in southern Lebanon

Iran's domestically built centrifuges are displayed in an exhibition of the country's nuclear achievements, in Tehran, Iran, February 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Report: US privately warned Iran over suspicious nuclear activities

Ultra-Orthodox students studying at the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, February 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Study finds many yeshiva students working illegally in violation of IDF exemptions

Israel Democracy Institute researcher Gabriel Gordon argues new data shows ultra-Orthodox don’t believe their own rhetoric about importance of learning Torah full-time

Ultra-Orthodox Jews clash with police during a protest against the drafting of Haredim to the military, on Route 4 outside of Bnei Brak, June 27, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shas rabbis tell followers to ignore draft orders as IDF preps for Haredi enlistment

The Gateway Jewish Museum of Livingston charges roughly $.30 admission and also showcases Zambia's railroad history. (Harry Wall/JTA)

'It was a tiny population influential beyond its numbers'

A railway museum in Zambia offers a clue to the African country’s rich Jewish history

By Harry D. Wall

While almost no Jews live there today, the central African nation is still influenced by the community’s historic contributions — particularly as it expands medical infrastructure

Illustrative: A dentist and her assistant seen during a dental treatment in Jerusalem, January 17, 2021. (Moshe Einhorn/Shutterstock)

Spike in Israelis seeking treatment for stress-induced dental issues since Oct. 7

By Tani Goldstein

Experts explain anxiety caused by war in Gaza has affected people’s dental — and mental — health

US Rep. Adam Schiff of California during a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, on June 21, 2022. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Leading Democrat Adam Schiff calls on Biden to leave US presidential race

California representative says leader should ‘pass the torch’ as he has ‘serious concerns about whether the president can defeat Donald Trump in November’

US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (L) looks on as President Joe Biden speaks during an event at the White House in Washington, on June 18, 2024. (Drew Angerer/AFP)

Schumer, Pelosi said to intensify pressure on Biden to quit 2024 presidential race

Elor Azaria, center, visits in the West Bank city of Hebron following his release from prison where he served a sentence for the 2016 manslaughter of an incapacitated Palestinian attacker he shot in the city during his military service, July 3, 2018. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

US sanctions ex-IDF soldier convicted of killing wounded Palestinian stabber in 2016

Visa ban on Elor Azaria, who served 9 months of 18-month prison sentence, comes months after US backtracked on sanctioning IDF battalion over alleged rights abuses in West Bank

People assess the damage inflicted on a house during an Israeli raid in the West Bank city of Jenin on July 5, 2024. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh / AFP)

AnalysisPA losing grip on West Bank amid Israeli raids, post-Oct. 7 cash freeze

By Reuters and ToI Staff

United Nations Secretary General António Guterres speaks with the media as he arrives for a EU Summit in Brussels, March 21, 2024. (AP/Omar Havana)

UN chief says Israel’s settlement activity in West Bank hampering two-state solution

By AFP and ToI Staff

Said Abu Shakra in the Umm al-Fahm Art Gallery, July, 2024. (Gali Kedar)

Interview'I am a man who turns on a light for those who are scared'

Aiming to share Palestinian art, Umm al-Fahm gallery becomes Israel’s first Arab museum

By Tamar Mor Sela

Director Said Abu Shakra frankly discusses art, his dual Israeli-Palestinian identity and family as the almost 30-year-old gallery finally gets the recognition he has dreamt of

Members of the Jerusalem Youth Chorus perform on "America's Got Talent" in an episode that aired July 16, 2024. (Screenshot via JTA)

A song of hope

Israeli-Palestinian youth chorus wows ‘America’s Got Talent’

By PHILISSA CRAMER, JTA and ToI Staff

Outfit gets standing ovation, advances past audition stage with performance of ‘Home,’ an anthem of hope in difficult times, while members deliver message of equality, inclusion

Israeli startup JaxBio is developing a simple blood test harnessing liquid biopsy technology for fast, affordable and highly sensitive diagnosis of cancer and other diseases. (Courtesy)

Nine Israeli startups secure $142 million in funding from EU Horizon program

By Sharon Wrobel

Israel ranks third in Europe in terms of the number of startups to win funding from the European Innovation Council’s accelerator program, following Germany and France

Wiz's offices in Tel Aviv. (Courtesy)

Google’s Wiz acquisition would be new feather in cap of Israeli military intelligence

By Steven Scheer

CytoReason co-founders from right to left: David Harel, CEO, Professor Shai Shen-Orr, chief scientist, Elina Starosvetsky, VP biology, and Renaud Gaujoux, principal scientist and data science architect. (Fabian Koldorff)

Backed by Nvidia and Pfizer, Israeli AI medical startup raises $80m in fresh capital

By Sharon Wrobel

Undated photo of wind turbines at the Ma'ale Gilboa wind farm. (Courtesy Wind Farm)

Groundbreaking ‘energy islands’ aim to keep Israel wired if war overwhelms power grid

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Perched on a rocky hilltop, Kibbutz Ma’ale Gilboa looks to become country’s first micro-grid, able to operate independently of main power network by using renewable energy sources

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Illustrative: A police car in Rishon Lezion on July 3, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Man arrested on suspicion of threatening to murder Netanyahu

Larry David arrives at a screening of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" during PaleyFest on April 18, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Not curbed yetLarry David, ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ lead list of Jewish Emmy nominations

By Andrew Lapin

FIFA President Gianni Infantino walks on the stage before the start of the 69th FIFA congress in Paris, June 5, 2019. (Alessandra Tarantino/AP)

Report by lawyers behind ICJ ‘genocide’ case urges banning Israel from world soccer

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Argentine President Javier Milei addresses the World Jewish Congress prior to the 30th anniversary of the bombing of the AMIA Jewish center that killed 85 people in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Argentina’s Milei vows to pursue long-neglected justice for 1994 AMIA center bombing

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Undated photo of Sigal Yana Itzkovich with her son. (Courtesy; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

‘Voices in her head’: Remand extended for mother suspected of killing 6-year-old son

Peter Buxtun, a former employee of the US Public Health Service, who became known as the whistleblower responsible for ending the Tuskegee syphilis experiment. (Courtesy Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics)

ObituaryPeter Buxtun, who blew whistle on cruel US medical study on Black men, dies at 86

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

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