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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 24, 2024

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National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir visits the Temple Mount, January 3, 2023. (Courtesy Minhelet Har Habayit)

Gallant: 'A pyromaniac sitting in the Israeli government'

Ben Gvir declares Jewish prayer permitted on Temple Mount, again defying status quo

PM’s office pushes back against far-right minister, insists current situation in which Jews are banned from praying at holy site ‘has not changed and will not change’

Otzma Yehudit chief Itamar Ben Gvir (left) and Shas leader Aryeh Deri seen speaking separately in the Knesset in this composite image. (Flash90)

Itamar Ben Gvir’s exclusion from Netanyahu’s security forum sparks public feud with Shas

Netanyahu to meet Biden and Harris on Thursday, Trump on Friday

By Lazar Berman

WASHINGTON -- Benjamin Netanyahu will meet United States President Joe Biden on Thursday at the White House, the Prime Minister's Office said on Tuesday. The meeting between the two leaders, their first since Biden visited Israel after the October 7 attack by Hamas, is scheduled for 1 p.m. local time (8 p.m. in... Continue Reading

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) meets with US President Joe Biden in Tel Aviv, October 18, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Daniel Neutra, brother of Israeli-American Hamas hostage Omer Neutra, speaks to the US House Foreign Affairs Committee on July 23, 2024. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Hostage’s brother tells US lawmakers Netanyahu blind to urgency of reaching deal

Demonstrators protest against Israel in the Cannon House Office Building at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 23, 2024. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Protests look to ratchet up pressure for hostage deal, ceasefire as Netanyahu visits DC

By AP and ToI Staff

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (L) listens as US President Donald Trump speaks to the press before a meeting at New York's Palace Hotel during the 72nd UN General Assembly on September 21, 2017. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)

Trump shares letter from PA’s Abbas condemning assassination attempt

‘Acts of violence must not have a place in a world of law and order,’ Palestinian leader writes in missive publicized by GOP candidate ahead of meeting with Netanyahu

(L) National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at the Knesset on July 24, 2024 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) and (R) Republican Presidential nominee former US president Donald Trump at the Van Andel Arena on July 20, 2024 in Grand Rapids, Michigan (BILL PUGLIANO / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Ben Gvir endorses Trump in highly irregular move, day before PM meets Biden, Harris

Livnot U'Lehibanot volunteers in southern Israel, in front of the bomb shelter they painted

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US Vice President Kamala Harris campaigns for president as the presumptive Democratic candidate during an event at West Allis Central High School on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, in West Allis, Wisconsin (AP Photo/Kayla Wolf)

Mike Johnson: Outrageous that Kamala Harris is boycotting'

Israeli officials rap Harris for skipping PM Congress speech; House Speaker: Inexcusable

Vice president ‘unable to distinguish between good and evil,’ unnamed officials tell Telegraph; Harris, who as Veep would have presided over Netanyahu’s address, will be in Indiana

AnalysisKamala Harris has long embraced Jewish ties, but critics take issue with her Gaza stance

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)

Netanyahu’s visit said ‘barely registering’ in Washington amid election drama

Live updates (closed)

July 24: Bodies of three slain hostages recovered from Gaza in military operation

Protesters march in Washington as Netanyahu addresses Congress * Hostage family members removed from hall during speech * Boo-birds hound Israeli soccer squad in Olympic debut

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Families of American hostages held in Gaza blast PM's speech as 'political theater'
9:57 pm

Hamas says Netanyahu speech "pure lies'
9:47 pm

Body of soldier killed in October 7 battle recovered from Gaza

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Jul 24: Day 292 – With Israel’s chips down, Mr. Netanyahu goes to Washington

Editor David Horovitz weighs in on a new video of a hostage held by Hamas and his mother’s fight to make it public, and Israel’s deepening status as a pariah state on world stage

This combination of pictures created on July 22, 2024, shows US Vice President Kamala Harris and former US president Donald Trump. (Brendan Smialowski and Patrick T. Fallon/AFP)

Poll gives Kamala Harris slight lead over Trump in head-to-head race

Inside story

Egypt showing flexibility on IDF staying along its Gaza border to block arms smuggling

After long rejecting the idea in public, Cairo is privately moving toward allowing IDF troops to remain in a key border strip used by Hamas to smuggle weapons from Egypt into Gaza, a senior Israeli official and a second official familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel on Tuesday. The potential shift in... Continue Reading

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

ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan at the Cour d'Honneur of the Palais Royal in Paris on February 7, 2024. (Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP)

ICC accepts deluge of briefs over Gaza war case, likely delaying decision for months

By Jeremy Sharon

Analysis

Andrew Silow-Carroll

US Jews excited, and anxious, about potential representation on Democratic ticket

JTA — In a 1974 novel by the Jewish writer Wallace Markfield, a character quips, “The time is at hand when the wearing of prayer shawl and skullcap will not bar a man from the White House — unless, of course, the man is Jewish.” The joke sounded about right until 2000, when Al Gore... Continue Reading

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

ProfileMark Kelly, potential Harris VP pick, has Jewish spouse with a striking story

ProfileJosh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s Jewish governor, could be Kamala Harris’s VP pick

A screenshot of an undated video clip published on July 23, 2024, shows hostage Matan Zangauker being transported by Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip following the Hamas-led October 7 attack on southern Israel. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Says 60 families have seen unpublicized videos of loved ones

Hostage Matan Zangauker’s mom publishes clip showing him in Gaza after Oct. 7 attack

Gazans can be heard cheering as terrorists ride by on motorbike with captive; mother also shares her text exchange with Matan just before abduction, demands he be returned alive

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with rescued hostage Noa Argamani, her father Yaakov and family at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, June 8, 2024. (GPO)

Tearful Noa Argamani tells Netanyahu his vow of long war broke her in captivity

By Michael Bachner, Sam Sokol and Jacob Magid

The site of the Re'im music festival massacre, in southern Israel, June 9, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

In first, male October 7 survivor recounts rape at hands of Hamas terrorists

Op-ed: Day 292 of the war

October 7 has now become a war on every front

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. Why on earth would Yahya Sinwar have sent a message to Israel, a few short weeks before the October 7 invasion and... Continue Reading

Israeli security forces at the scene of a drone explosion in Tel Aviv on July 19, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israeli athletes pose for a photo at the Olympic Village in Paris on July 24, 2024. (Oded Karni/Olympic Committee of Israel)

2024 Paris Olympics

In the pool, on the mat and in the river, Israeli Olympians seek gold and national pride

Amid security threats and likely protests, Israel’s 88 athletes in Paris are setting their sights on new achievements, with medal hopes strongest in gymnastics, judo and sailing

Eleven Jewish athletes to watch at the 2024 Paris Olympics

By jacob gurvis

IOC president stresses neutrality after Palestinians request Olympic ban on Israel

By AFP

Inside Story

As 1,000 IDF draft orders are sent out, most Haredim adopt a wait-and-see attitude

Israelis are bracing for unrest after the army sent draft orders Sunday to 1,000 Haredi men. A court-mandated move, to date it’s the most concrete challenge to the decades-long exemption of ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students from military service. But in Haredi neighborhoods, would-be conscripts exhibit no concern. “We’re not worried,” one yeshiva student, Uriah, 17, told The Times of Israel on Sunday... Continue Reading

A Haredi man places tefillin on a soldier in the Old City of Jerusalem, June 25, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

He was our last living hostage in Gaza

After 9 months clinging to hope, a family and a community must now face news of the death of Yagev Buchshtav of Kibbutz Nirim

The duping of America

Psychological ploys by Iran and its proxies to recast terrorists as the underdogs have made strange bedfellows of radical Islamists and the progressive left

View of a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, July 22, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

As Knesset summer session winds down, lawmakers rush to pass last-minute bills

Ahead of three-month recess beginning next week, lawmakers vote in favor of bills on everything from establishing canine DNA databases to cutting benefits for terror convicts

Negev, Galilee and National Resilience Minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf at the annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group in Jerusalem, on February 26, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Far-right minister slammed for seeming to equate same-sex marriage with incest

Israeli troops kill a Palestinian Authority customs police officer in the West Bank city of Tubas, July 24, 2024. (Screenshot: X)

IDF probing killing of armed PA police officer by troops in West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

Troops demolish home of terrorist who carried out deadly shooting in February; 5 Palestinians suspected of carrying out bombing at settlement arrested

Soldier seriously injured in Hezbollah rocket attack on northern border

By Emanuel Fabian

The Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday that a soldier was seriously injured a day earlier by rocket fire from Lebanon on the Mount Dov area, as the Hezbollah terror group claimed a number of attacks on communities and outposts along the northern border. Rocket and drone alert sirens... Continue Reading

Rockets fired from southern Lebanon are intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome air defense system over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel on July 23, 2024. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

A giant fire erupts at an oil storage facility following Israeli strikes in Yemen's Houthi-held port city of Hodeida on July 20, 2024. (AFP)

Houthis threaten to attack Israeli ports, gas fields after weekend strike on Hodeida

By Gianluca Pacchiani and Emanuel Fabian

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Illustrative: Peanut puff snack Bamba. (Nataly Hanin via iStock by Getty Images)

Study finds eating Israeli Bamba drastically cuts peanut allergy risk in young kids

By Diana Bletter

US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testifies before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee during a hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building on July 22, 2024, in Washington. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images/AFP)

US Secret Service chief resigns day after grilling by Congress over Trump shooting

By Colleen Long

A police officer walks outside the Islamic Center Hamburg with the Imam Ali Mosque during a raid Wednesday, July 24, 2024, Hamburg, Germany. (Daniel Bockwoldt/dpa via AP)

Germany bans group accused of Iran links and Hezbollah support, raids properties

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Founders of Israeli startup Cyabra (from left to right): Yossef Daar, Dan Brahmy, and Ido Shraga, (Courtesy)

Israeli AI startup tracking fake news plans to list on Nasdaq at $70 million valuation

By Sharon Wrobel

Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Nasser Kanaani speaks during a press conference in the capital Tehran on December 5, 2022. (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP)

Iran condemns UN expert report on 1980s ‘atrocity crimes’

By AFP

Visitors speak with French gendarmes guarding a restricted area with barriers on the Rivoli Street, near the Louvre Museum, central Paris, on July 23, 2024, ahead of Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP)

Israel urges citizens attending Olympics to be cautious, warning of terror threats

By Lazar Berman and AFP

The School District of Philadelphia headquarters are shown in Philadelphia, July 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

ADL raises alarm over rampant antisemitism in Philadelphia schools since Oct. 7

By AP and ToI Staff

US Senator Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, leaves federal court in New York on July 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

New Jersey’s Menendez resigning from US Senate following corruption conviction

By MIKE CATALINI and MARY CLARE JALONICK

Team at Israeli tech startup Planck, a developer of an artificial intelligence-based insurance data platform. (Courtesy)

Applied Systems buys Israeli AI insurtech startup to open a local R&D center

By Sharon Wrobel

Radical Islamic cleric Anjem Choudary is seen leaving a probation hostel in London on October 19, 2018, following his release from prison. (Daniel Leal/AFP)

UK convicts radical Islamist preacher for leading proscribed terror group

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