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What Matters Most On Friday, July 19, 2024

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A police officer collects glass shrapnel from the window of a building that was damaged in a drone strike in Tel Aviv on July 19, 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen / AFP)

Defense minister says Israel will respond to deadly attack

Explosive drone from Yemen hits Tel Aviv apartment, killing one man, wounding others

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says UAV was identified but not shot down by air defenses and sirens not activated due to human error; Iran-backed Houthis claim attack, vow to continue targeting city

An Israeli firefighter investigates the scene of a deadly drone attack in Tel Aviv, July 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Tel Aviv locals describe damaged homes, blow to trust in army after deadly drone strike

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant attend a press conference at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, October 28, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

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July 19: Gallant said to consider declaring that hostage deal within reach

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Rejecting ICJ ruling, PM says Jewish people can’t be occupiers in own land; Smotrich, Ben Gvir call for annexing West Bank in response * Blinken: We’re inside 10 yard line in hostage talks

1:31 am

Palestinians report man killed in clashes with IDF in Hebron area
12:13 am

Defiant Biden vows to stay in race despite growing revolt
8:39 pm

Biden aide: PM's speech to Congress next week won't look like one he gave in 2015

Republican presidential candidate and former president, Donald Trump, speaks during the final day of the Republican National Convention Thursday, July 18, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Says Iran was broke but is now close to nuclear weapon

Trump: Those holding US hostages will pay if they’re not freed by time I return to office

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

In RNC speech accepting nomination, ex-US president says Oct. 7 wouldn’t have happened on his watch; falsely claims 2020 election was stolen from him and Biden inherited ‘world of peace’

Republican presidential candidate former president Donald Trump stands on stage with former first lady Melania Trump during the final day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum, July 18, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jul 19: Day 287 – ToI reports from the Republican National Convention

US president Donald Trump (left) welcomes visiting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House in Washington, DC, on March 25, 2019. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Netanyahu said seeking sit-down with Trump during trip to US; will meet Kamala Harris

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12,300 Israelis left last Oct. and hadn't returned by June

Data shows post-Oct. 7 emigration surge from Israel, which has since stabilized

The number of Israelis who permanently left Israel spiked after Hamas’s October 7 massacre and the ensuing outbreak of war in Gaza but dropped in the following months and has now stabilized, according to data from the Central Bureau of Statistics cited by Channel 12 news. The figures... Continue Reading

Passengers look at a departure board at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, as flights are canceled and delayed because of a massive surprise attack by Hamas, on October 7, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

A street in the Christian quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, usually lined with restaurants and shops, sits empty amid Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza and the halt to international tourism to the city, December 14, 2023. (Gianluca Pacchiani/Times of Israel)

Up to 60,000 Israeli businesses may close in 2024 as war takes toll on economy

By Sharon Wrobel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's private residence in Caesarea. (Screenshot/Kan public broadcaster)

Report: Maintenance for PM’s private, official homes cost state NIS 2 million in 2023

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Israeli envoy: GOP’s isolationist wing is more likely to impact Ukraine than Israel

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin -- Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Herzog indicated Thursday that he is not overly concerned by the rise of the isolationist wing in the Republican Party following former president Donald Trump's selection of JD Vance as his running mate. "There's indeed an isolationist wing in the party, but from all of... Continue Reading

Republican nominee and former US President Donald Trump (left), ear bandaged after a failed assassination attempt two days earlier, and his running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance, at the Republican National Convention, July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP/Charles Rex Arbogast)

President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, Friday, June 28, 2024. (AP/Matt Kelley)

‘When, not if’: Biden could drop out of presidential race as early as this weekend

Former IDF soldier Elor Azaria, who was convicted of manslaughter for shooting dead an incapacitated Palestinian assailant in the West Bank city of Hebron, appears before a parole board in the army's Tel Aviv headquarters on March 14, 2018. (Flash90)

Israeli official slams US sanctioning of Elor Azaria as ‘politically motivated’

Some airlines ground flights, Ashdod port suspends activities

Massive tech outage disrupts global air travel and banking, impacts Israeli hospitals

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A global malfunction Friday on Microsoft’s Windows operating system, apparently linked to the IT security firm CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform, caused outages at banks, airlines, news outlets, health systems and other organizations around the world. "This is a worldwide issue on systems connected to a cybersecurity software, and not a local Israeli event," Yoram... Continue Reading

Illustrative— Magen David Adom workers seen at special emergency call center in Ramat Gan, February 23, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Relatives of Israelis held hostage by Hamas in Gaza and supporters protest for their release to mark the 20th birthday of hostage Nimrod Cohen, outside the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, July 15, 2024. (Itai Ron/Flash90)

Released hostages say captives 'abandoned' to a slow death

Israel said to pause hostage talks to include PM’s new demands in proposed deal

Netanyahu tells troops in Rafah that control over Philadelphi Corridor and Rafah Crossing is ‘critical,’ as security officials worry deal will collapse amid latest delays

Members of the independent Civilian Commission of Inquiry into the events of October 7 gather to announce the launch of their probe in Tel Aviv, July 18, 2024. (Civilian Commission of Inquiry)

Weary of government’s delays, survivors launch unofficial October 7 probe

Alon Penzel speaks at a Government Press Office conference (Government Press Office)

InterviewHolocaust survivors' grandson aiming for world to never forget

Israeli college student compiles unblinking guide to dark trail of Hamas massacre

By Diana Bletter

Foreign Ministry to distribute to embassies and visiting delegations 23-year-old’s English-language book of uncensored testimonies from October 7 survivors, volunteers and medics

IDF troops operating in the Gaza Strip, in images cleared for publication on July 19, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says it killed Hamas spymaster in Gaza City, Palestinian trying to cross border

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Military says fighter jet launched ‘precision munitions’ at intelligence officer and other operatives at UNRWA facility used by terror group

Footage posted to X purporting to show an Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza's Khan Younis, July 13, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law); Inset: The head of Hamas's military wing Muhammad Deif in undated photos revealed in January 2024 (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says ‘increasing signs’ indicate Hamas’s Muhammad Deif was killed in Gaza strike

By Emanuel Fabian

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant attend a press conference at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, October 28, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

PM vetoes Gallant’s field hospital for Gaza kids; defense officials: He’s playing politics

By Lazar Berman

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Hezbollah operative Ali Jaafar Maatouk, also known as Habib Maatouk, killed by an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon on July 18, 2024. (Hezbollah Media Office)

Top commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force killed in south Lebanon strike

By Emanuel Fabian

Ali Jaafar Maatouk was operations officer in unit responsible for attacks on Ramim Ridge area, according to IDF, which says several more Hezbollah members were killed alongside him

In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Iran's President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian, left, sits next to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a mourning ceremony commemorating the 7th-century martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson, Hussein, as a portrait of the late President Ebrahim Raisi is placed at center, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, July 12, 2024. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Inside storyHow Iran’s Khamenei, fearing for regime, orchestrated Pezeshkian’s rise to power

By Parisa Hafezi

Illustrative: A Hezbollah drone is seen being shot down by air defenses over northern Israel, June 23, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Spain, Germany arrest 4 for supplying Hezbollah with drone parts used against Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Latest in a series of controversies for German shoemaker

Adidas ‘revising’ campaign for 1972 Munich Olympics shoe that features Bella Hadid

By Jackie Hajdenberg

JTA -- Adidas said it will revise a campaign that features Palestinian-American supermodel and activist Bella Hadid modeling a sneaker recalling the 1972 Munich Olympics — the Games where 11 Israelis died in a terror attack by a Palestinian terrorist group. Various Jewish and pro-Israel leaders and institutions... Continue Reading

A new campaign for Adidas features supermodel Bella Hadid wearing a reissue of sneakers from the 1972 Munich Olympics. (Photos courtesy of Adidas. Design by Jackie Hajdenberg via JTA)

A soldier stands guard near the Champs-Elysees avenu after a stabbing Thursday, July 18, 2024 in Paris. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

French police arrest man for knife attack in name of Hamas, days before Olympics

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israeli players are seen prior to the start of the UEFA EURO 2024 qualifier play-off semi-final football match Israel v Iceland at the Szusza Ferenc Stadium in Budapest, Hungary on March 21, 2024. (Attila Kisbenedik / AFP)

Israeli soccer team to play in Olympics after FIFA delays decision on potential ban

By AP

Prof. Eugene Kandel, today the founder and the Chairman of the independent think tank RISE Israel Institute. (Courtesy)

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Illustrative: Soldiers from the IDF's Netzah Yehuda Battalion patrol near the Israeli-Gaza border, October 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF to begin drafting 3,000 Haredi men starting Sunday, in three waves

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says draft orders to be sent to the ultra-Orthodox men most likely to show up for duty, including those who work and have driver’s licenses

People hold photos of bombing victims as sirens blare during a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the bombing of the AMIA Jewish center that killed 85 people in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, July 18, 2024. (AP/Natacha Pisarenko)

30 years after AMIA bombing, Argentina’s Jews balance pain with hope for justice

By Juan Melamed

After court ruled Iran and Hezbollah were behind 1994 community center bombing, Milei vows to reopen investigations into attack after decades of stonewalling and inaction

A fragment of a rare 3,800-year-old textile, dyed with the Kermes vermilio insect. (Dafna Gazit, Israel Antiquities Authority)

Tiny 3,800-year old textile found in Israel was dyed with biblical ‘scarlet worm’

Ancient sources reference use of scale insects for red dye, but examples from before Roman period are sparse; new find ‘bridges the gap’ between written sources and found artifacts

Los Angeles Sparks head coach Joe Bryant smiles at a referee during the second half of a WNBA basketball game against the Chicago Sky in Los Angeles, September 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Lori Shepler)

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Police officer Meir Suissa orders demonstrators to leave as they are blocked from entering Tel Aviv's Hashalom train station on July 18, 2023. (Carrie Keller-Lynn/Times of Israel)

5 police officers charged with negligence for throwing stun grenades at protesters

Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy leaves at the end of a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in London on July 9, 2024. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

British FM announces new Labour government to restore UNRWA funding

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom in Yekaterinburg, Russia, June 26, 2024. (AP)

Closing arguments begin in Russian trial of US journalist Evan Gershkovich

By Kirill Zarubin

High Court Justice Yael Wilner presides over a hearing on a petition requesting the court order Justice Minister Yariv Levin call a vote in the Judicial Selection Committee to appoint a new Supreme Court president, July 18, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court tells Levin, judicial selection panel to compromise on Supreme Court president

By Jeremy Sharon

The front cover of the book, 'Mr Abandonment: The Legacy of the Man Who Forsook the Hostages,' a text accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of failures during the Israel-Hamas war. (Forum for Life)

‘Mr. Abandonment’: Book by families, public figures accuses PM of forsaking hostages

Avshalom Peled at the Israel Police Independence Day ceremony at the National Headquarters of the Israel Police in Jerusalem May 9, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Controversial police chief nominee Peled begins interim role with limited authority

A car is seen in flames in Petah Tikva, after an explosion that police are investigating as a criminal incident, July 18, 2024. (Screen capture via Channel 14; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Car explosion in Petah Tikva wounds two in suspected criminal hit

A cargo ship sails through the town of Ismailia, Egypt, March 30, 2021. (AP/Ayman Aref)

Suez Canal revenues drop as shippers stay away amid Houthi attacks

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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