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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 23, 2024

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A handout photo shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and his wife Sara, along with other officials, listening to Gil Dickmann (2nd L), cousin of Carmel Gat, at a meeting with families of Israelis held hostage in Gaza, in Washington, on July 22, 2024. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Meeting hostage families in US, Netanyahu says conditions for deal ‘ripening’

Israeli-American hostage families warn PM not to address Congress before deal inked; relatives urge him not to wait until Thursday to dispatch negotiating team for new talks

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a Religious Zionism faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 15, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

As Netanyahu flies to DC, Israeli politicians seek to sway his agenda from afar

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu attends a Lag B'Omer celebration in Safed, on May 26, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Top religious Zionist rabbis call for scrapping ‘dangerous’ hostage deal

Israeli military vehicles drive through a road dug up by the army to stymie hidden explosives, during a raid in Tulkarem in the West Bank on July 23, 2024. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Tulkarem commanders of Hamas, al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades killed in IDF drone strike

By Emanuel Fabian

A hole in the ground near Aqbat Jabr in the West Bank, where the Shin Bet says a Palestinian cell planned to hide Israelis after kidnapping them, in a screenshot from video released on July 22, 2024. (Shin Bet)

West Bank terror cell indicted over plot to attack, kidnap Israelis

By Emanuel Fabian

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara exit the official Wing of Zion plane in Washington, DC, on July 22, 2024. (Amos Ben Gershom / GPO)

PM to meet Harris but neither she nor Vance to attend speech

Netanyahu’s White House visit appears back on track as Biden fights off COVID

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

US official says sit-down now expected Thursday, but no final word; possible meeting with Trump also not nailed down, as GOP nominee said open to idea but not before Wednesday rally

US President Joe Biden walks to his car after stepping off of Air Force One at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, July 17, 2024, as he returns home to self-isolate after testing positive for COVID-19. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden vows to keep working to end Gaza war, free hostages in last months as president

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US Vice President Kamala Harris and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (L) speak to the press while making a stop at the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024. (Ryan Collerd/AFP)

At least two Jewish governors thought top contenders to be Harris’s running mate

By Andrew Lapin and Ron Kampeas

State leaders Josh Shapiro, J.B. Pritzker could join VP on Democratic ticket; Sen. Mark Kelly, whose wife is Jewish, and pro-Israel Gov. Andy Beshear also said in running

US vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris at her campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, on July 22, 2024.(Erin SCHAFF / POOL / AFP)

Harris snags enough delegate support to clinch US Democratic nomination

By Danny Kemp and Frankie TAGGART

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff speaks during a Jewish American Heritage Month event, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, May 20, 2024. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

Biden’s exit positions Doug Emhoff to become the first Jewish White House spouse

‘Could have been saved’: Loved ones of slain hostages decry their deaths in captivity

The loved ones of two hostages who were declared dead by the IDF on Monday grieved the news of their loss, lamenting that they could have been saved during their time in captivity. The Israel Defense Forces on Monday informed the families of Alex Dancyg, 75, and Yagev... Continue Reading

Yuval Dancyg, center, the son of Hamas hostage Alex Dancyg, attends a demonstration held in front of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, in Warsaw, Poland, October 27, 2023. (AP Photo/ Czarek Sokolowski)

Rescued hostage Almog Meir Jan speaks in a video message released on July 6, 2024. (screenshot/Hostage and Missing Families Forum)

Rescued hostage Almog Meir Jan gives thanks for bond with fellow hostages in Gaza

Demonstrators protest for the release of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip, outside Hakirya Base in Tel Aviv, July 22, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Security chiefs said to agree Israel can withstand withdrawing from Gaza for 6 weeks

Gazan dissident Hamza Howidy in Berlin, July 11, 2024 (Gianluca Pacchiani/Times of Israel)

Interview

Now in Germany, a Gazan dissident tries to set record straight on Hamas’s brutal regime

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Hamza Howidy, who left the Strip shortly before Oct. 7, describes life under repressive Islamist regime, slams Western pro-Hamas protesters: ‘They support terrorists with good PR’

A protester demonstrates against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu near The Watergate Hotel, Tuesday, July 23, 2024, in Washington. (AP/Matt Slocum)

Live updates (closed)

July 23: Amid criticism, Netanyahu office defends Friday timing of meeting with Trump

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

In US House, hostage’s dad urges lawmakers to pressure PM to take hostage deal * Macron, International Olympic Committee rebuff calls to bar Israeli athletes

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Top senator Durbin says he will boycott Netanyahu speech
9:00 pm

Netanyahu 'took week off' from hostage crisis, captive's father laments after meeting PM
8:46 pm

IDF launches new incursion into West Bank's Tulkarem -- source

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The lessons of destructions past

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Haredim aren’t Israel’s only draft Dodgers

Scant attention has been paid to skyrocketing mental health exemptions for young men and religious exemptions for young women

File - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, attends a meeting with Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Hussein al-Sheikh, during a day of meetings about the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the Jordanian capital Amman on November 4, 2023. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool/AFP)

Israel, US, UAE said to have held secret Abu Dhabi meeting on Gaza postwar plan

Axios reports proposal similar to that presented by Gallant in January, after senior UAE official signaled Abu Dhabi could contribute troops to a peacekeeping force

Smoke rises following Israeli strikes in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, July 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 23: Day 291 – Why IDF evacuated parts of Gaza humanitarian zone

Moussa Abu Marzouk (R), senior member of the Hamas terror group (R) signs a document as China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (C) and Mahmoud al-Aloul, Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of Palestinian organization and political party Fatah, look on during the signing of the 'Beijing declaration' at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on July 23, 2024 (Pedro PARDO / AFP)

Hamas, Fatah sign declaration on plans to seek joint government; Israel slams Fatah

By Agencies and ToI Staff

China upbeat on agreement made in Beijing, though previous efforts to end rift have failed; Israel’s Katz: ‘Instead of rejecting terrorism, Abbas embraces the murderers and rapists’

Lawmakers advance legislation to shut down Palestinian relief agency UNRWA

An Israeli settler shoots Zakaria al-Adra after the Israeli entered the West Bank Palestinian village of A Tuwani, October 13, 2023. (Courtesy B'tselem)

Palestinian who was shot by settler questioned on claim he threw rocks during incident

By Jeremy Sharon

Education Minister Yoav Kisch (left) and Sderot Mayor Alon Davidi visit Israeli children at their classroom on the first day of school since October 7 massacre, in the southern city of Sderot, March 3, 2024. (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)

Education minister: Students won’t start school year in displaced northern towns

Kisch presents local leaders with NIS 152 million plan for educational institutions outside war zone in north for students; Gantz says decision ‘expected and frustrating’

Illustrative: A woman walks next to an advertisement for Golan Telecom in Jerusalem, November 5, 2015. (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)

Inside story'I have a cellular double life'

Kosher cellphone bill sparks debate on Haredi consumer freedoms vs communal coercion

By Canaan Lidor

New legislation would reinforce phone plans that are under rabbinical censorship, raising questions about internal societal pressures and control

Palestinians gather to fill water jugs near one of the strip's few functioning desalination plants in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Thursday, June 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Disease expert warns polio outbreak in Gaza could spread to Israel

By Diana Bletter

Dr. Lior Nesher says that it is ‘almost impossible’ to stop the spread of the virus in aquifers; unvaccinated children most at risk

Palestinians walk past a pool of sewage water on a street in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip as municipal infrastructures fail amid the ongoing war in the Palestinian coastal territory, July 23, 2024(Eyad BABA / AFP)

Top WHO official warns Gaza in danger of polio outbreak

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Adolf Eichmann is seen standing in his bullet proof glass box as the charges against him are read during judical proceedings in the Beit Ha'Am building in Jerusalem, April 12, 1961. (AP Photo/Str)

Interview'The trial was about justice for humanity'

Israel’s landmark Eichmann trial depicted in limited-run NYC production

By Matt Lebovic

Giving Holocaust survivors a voice, Adolf Eichmann’s 1961 trial in Jerusalem held Final Solution ‘architect’ responsible for organizing deportation of Jews across Europe

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)

Google’s $23b deal to buy Israeli cybersecurity startup Wiz reported to fall apart

Cloud security startup, which propelled its founders onto small list of Israeli billionaires, will seek IPO instead; deal may have collapsed over antitrust concerns, insiders say

Team at Israeli-founded startup Linx Security. (Netanel Tobias)

Backed by Wiz founders, Tel Aviv-founded startup emerges from stealth with $33m

By Sharon Wrobel

Ariel Yaron (left), Moshe Grimaldi (second from left), Evan Gilder (center) were among five members of a Jewish contingent of Boy Scouts who participated in a CPR rescue aboard a flight to New York on July 11, 2024. (Courtesy Evan Gilder via JTA)

After 100-mile hike, US Jewish Boy Scouts perform CPR to save passenger on their plane

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Teens, their adviser and their nurse practitioner help save life of elderly man who went into cardiac arrest: ‘As pikuach nefesh as it gets’

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Actor Sasson Gabbay appears in a video released July 22, 2024, protesting planned changes to the film industry by Culture Minister Miki Zohar (Screenshot)

Prominent Israeli actors protest culture minister’s planned industry reform

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative: A general view of billboard that reads 'Ban Israel from the Olympics' on the M1 North De Villiers Graaf motorway in Johannesburg, South Africa on April 22, 2024. (Phill Magakoe/AFP)

With Israeli athletes in Paris, Palestinian Olympics team repeats call to ban them

By AFP

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

Mom suspected of killing her son says she heard voices of aliens, CIA

Republican US presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump is helped off the stage at a campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania, after an assassination attempt, July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Secret Service director says Trump shooting was agency’s biggest failure in decades

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and Farnoush Amiri

Participants at the training course for physicians in June 2024 (Courtesy)

Israel LGBTQ+ Medical Society launches course on transgender-friendly protocols

By Diana Bletter

Illustrative -- Energean working in the Karish oil field, offshore Israel, in 2020. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Energean to invest $1.2 billion to develop Katlan gas project off Israel coast

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