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What Matters Most On Friday, July 26, 2024

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and US President Joe Biden (L) meet with families of American hostages at the White House, July 25, 2024. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

President to PM: 'We need to get this deal over the line'

Biden, Harris tell Netanyahu it’s time to seal hostage deal as families turn hopeful

By Jacob Magid, Lazar Berman and Agencies

Israel expected to send updated proposal to Hamas in coming days; relatives of captives say PM committed to urgently finalize agreement aimed at freeing abductees, ending war

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly Prime Ministers' Questions session in parliament in London, July 24, 2024. (AP/Frank Augstein)

UK confirms it will retract objection to ICC arrest warrants against Netanyahu, Gallant

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

IDF troops on the ground in the Gaza Strip during operations against Hamas, in an image released on July 25, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces/AFP)

US military chief: Israel has not shared detailed plans for ‘day after’ war in Gaza

By Reuters and ToI Staff

US Vice President Kamala Harris, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrive for a meeting in the vice president's ceremonial office at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, on July 25, 2024. (Roberto Schmidt / AFP)

Smotrich, Ben Gvir rebuke Veep, say war mustn't end

Harris: ‘I will not be silent’ on Gaza suffering; Israel: Her words harm chances for deal

By Jacob Magid, ToI Staff and Agencies

After meeting Netanyahu, US VP says she lamented ‘death of far too many innocent civilians’; top Israeli official: Remarks imply Israel-US gaps, will lead Hamas to toughen stance

This handout photo taken and released on March 5, 2024 by the ASEAN-Australia Special Summit 2024 shows Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (R) walking with his New Zealand counterpart Christopher Luxon at the National Gallery of Victoria for the ASEAN Leaders dinner during the ASEAN-Australia Special Summit 2024 in Melbourne. (Patrick Hamilton / ASEAN-Australia Special Summit 2024 / AFP)

‘It must end’: Australia, New Zealand, Canada call for immediate Gaza ceasefire

By Reuters and ToI Staff

US Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president in 2024, is seen in a digital ad released by the Republican Jewish Coalition on July 24, 2024. (Screen capture via YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

In ad, Republican Jewish Coalition slams Kamala Harris for skipping Netanyahu speech

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi (center) holds an assessment in southern Gaza's Khan Younis with chief of the Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman (left) and the commander of the 98th Division, Brig. Gen. Dan Goldfus (left), on July 25, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

July 26: Halevi says IDF applying pressure on Hamas to reach ‘good conditions’ for hostage deal

Trump welcomes Netanyahus to his Florida resort as anti-Israel protesters rally nearby * Rockets fired at Ashkelon * Israel slams UN expert’s comparison of PM to Hitler

9:03 pm

Israeli athletes pose in front of the Eiffel Tour during Paris Olympics opening ceremony
8:52 pm

Report: Netanyahu still considering offering Sa'ar defense minister role to bring him back into coalition
8:43 pm

UN rights agency: 180,000 Gazans displaced from Khan Younis in 4 days amid IDF raid to extract hostages' bodies

Promoted EssaySources: A Journal of Jewish Ideas

Centering Jewish Identity Development

Even When There Is Antisemitism on Campus

An anti-Israel, antisemitic protester holds up a Hamas flag and a sign invoking the "Final Solution" at Union Station near the US Capitol, July 24, 2024. (@eliah.goldberg/Instagram)

Activists released maggots, worms onto table at PM's hotel

Harris blasts ‘hate-fueled’ anti-Israel protests where US flag and PM effigy burned, Hamas hailed

By Jacob Magid and JTA

Demos in DC as Netanyahu spoke in Congress featured Hamas flags and signs, placard urging ‘Final Solution’ for Zionists; Veep, who skipped speech, says antisemitism has no place in US

Anti-Israel demonstrators with an effigy of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu protest near the White House to denounce US President Joe Biden meeting with Netanyahu in Washington, DC, on July 25, 2024. (Photo by Andrew Thomas / AFP)

Protesters hold anti-Israel ‘die-in’ near White House as Netanyahu meets with Biden

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Families and friends of Israeli hostages being held by Hamas hold a vigil on the National Mall calling for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept a permanent ceasefire deal to bring the hostages home, July 23, 2024. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP)

Hamas said to reject proposal for hostage-ceasefire deal before receiving it

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israeli official says terror group’s response ‘bizarre’ given that plan not yet sent; Hamas reportedly objects to demands over Philadelphi Corridor, return of Gazans to north Strip

An undated photo of Nafha and Ramon prisons in southern Israel. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

As Hamas leader in West Bank dies in prison, group urges retaliatory terror attacks

By Reuters and ToI Staff

EU foreign policy chief calls Israeli move to outlaw UNRWA ‘nonsense’

By Reuters and ToI Staff

French police said probing threat against Herzog ahead of Olympics opening ceremony

French police are investigating a person who threatened on social media to attack President Isaac Herzog at the Paris Olympics, French newspaper L'Équipe reported Friday. According to the report, authorities were alerted to the threat via the French government's Pharos website, on which users can report illegal online... Continue Reading

French President Emmanuel Macron (R) greets President Isaac Herzog ahead of a reception for heads of state and governments ahead of the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris, on July 26, 2024. (Ludovic Marin / AFP)

SNCF employees and French gendarmes inspect the scene of a suspected attack on the high speed railway network at Croiselles, northern France on July 26, 2024. (Photo by Denis CHARLET / AFP)

Coordinated sabotage paralyzes French railways hours before Olympic opening ceremony

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Handing power to the next generation is hard

How timely that this week’s Torah portion culminates in Moses’ ceding his role leading the Israelites to Joshua, for the nation’s needs come first (Pinchas)

Susannah Dainow

Shabbat replaces our regularly scheduled programs with mandated downtime, which provides recuperative rest, even when we fumble for something to do

Rockets fired from humanitarian zone kill civilians in Gaza

Bodies of 5 hostages were found in tunnel in Gaza’s Israeli-designated humanitarian zone

By Emanuel Fabian

The bodies of five Israelis killed and taken hostage by terrorists on October 7, and brought back to Israel in a special operation on Wednesday, were recovered from a tunnel located in the Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in the southern Gaza Strip, the military said Thursday. The Israel Defense Forces... Continue Reading

IDF troops are seen at the entrance to a tunnel in southern Gaza's Khan Younis where the bodies of five Israeli hostages were held, July 24, 2024 (Israel Defense Forces)

Ahead of Netanyahu-Trump meet, official says they spoke July 4 for 1st time in years

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Hours before Benjamin Netanyahu's meeting with Donald Trump, an Israeli official revealed Friday that the prime minister had called the former US president on July 4 to wish him a happy US Independence Day, apparently the first time the two had spoken since Trump's presidency ended in January 2021. Despite the yearslong silence,... Continue Reading

Then-US President Donald Trump, right, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, September 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Former US president and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump takes in the crowd after speaking during a campaign rally at the Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina, on July 24, 2024. (Logan Cyrus / AFP)

Trump: ‘If Iran assassinates me, US must wipe it off the face of the Earth’

By AFP

Former US president and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump points to supporters in the crowd after speaking during a campaign rally at the Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina, on July 24, 2024. (Logan Cyrus/AFP)

Day before meeting Netanyahu, Trump urges: ‘Finish up’ war, get your hostages back

Cpl. (res.) Moti Rave, 37, an engineering vehicle operator in the Givati Brigade killed in the Gaza Strip on July 25, 2024. (Courtesy)

IDF volunteer soldier killed in south Gaza fighting; 100 gunmen killed in Khan Younis

By Emanuel Fabian

Cpl. (res.) Moti Rave, 37, had license for heavy machinery from civilian construction work, joined army amid war to operate D9 bulldozer

Barak, whose leg was shredded by a grenade during a failed hostage rescue mission in the Gaza Strip, walks along a corridor at the Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, on July 22, 2024. (Sharon Aranowicz / AFP)

‘War wounds the human soul’: Injured IDF troops recall horrors of Gaza battles

By AFP and ToI Staff

Franz Kafka (Joel Basman) in a rendezvous with his former fiancee Felice Bauer (Lia von Blarer) in a scene from the new miniseries 'Kafka.' (Courtesy of ChaiFlicks)

Interview'People said it couldn't work, but the portrayal is magical'

Truth is stranger than fiction in new miniseries based on the life of Franz Kafka

By Rich Tenorio

In ‘Kafka,’ now streaming on ChaiFlicks, the Czech Jewish author’s escapades and complex inner struggles are creatively portrayed through the eyes of those who loved him most

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: At the Olympics, Israel is a ‘pariah state.’ Who cares?

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring one key issue currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, hosted by deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan, speaking with ToI senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur. Israel’s national anthem, "Hativkah," was loudly jeered before its soccer team kicked off play at the Paris Olympics against Mali... Continue Reading

Police stand watch outside the Olympic Village, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, July 23, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Obituary: 1951-2024

Martin Indyk, blunt diplomat who kept trying for Israeli-Palestinian peace

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Martin Indyk, the Jewish academic who brought intellectualism to pro-Israel advocacy and endured heartbreak as a US diplomat committed to bringing peace to his beloved Israel, has died. Indyk, 73, died Thursday, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the think tank he co-founded, said in a statement. His wife, Gahl Hodges... Continue Reading

Martin Indyk, former US ambassador to Israel, pictured in 2009. (Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski)

Former US ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk on June 16, 2009 (Ariel Jerozolimski)

Former US ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk dies at age 73

Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman meets US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, not pictured, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, March 20, 2024. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)

Top Israeli official insists Saudi normalization still possible before US elections

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

US, Israeli sources recently said window for deal before US elections has closed due to Congress schedule; PM, in Congress speech, said regional alliance is needed to counter Iran

A large sculpture of a bowl of borscht by artist Robin Schwartzman is the centerpiece of 'And Such Small Portions! Food and Comedy in the Catskills Resort Era' exhibit at the Borscht Belt Museum in Ellenville, New York. (Courtesy Borscht Belt Museum via JTA)

'There's no comparable place where any Jew could congregate'

A museum exhibit on Jewish food and humor puts the ‘borscht’ in Borscht Belt

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Running at the Borscht Belt Museum in Ellenville, NY, through November, ‘And Such Small Portions!’ reflects a bygone era where guests found comfort in food, laughs and one another

Religious Zionism party head MK Bezalel Smotrich (right) with Otzma Yehudit party head MK Itamar Ben Gvir in the Knesset, on December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

US said to nix plan to sanction Smotrich, Ben Gvir, but will keep blacklisting settlers

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Source says Sullivan told Netanyahu sanctions on West Bank extremists will persist despite PM’s lobbying against them; Israeli official says far-right ministers won’t be targeted

Author Gabrielle Zevin speaks about her bestseller 'Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow' during the 28th Annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at the University of Southern California on April 22, 2023, in Los Angeles. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images via JTA)

'This is antisemitism, pure and simple'

How author Gabrielle Zevin has become a literary scapegoat for anti-Israel activists

By Andrew Lapin

Reflecting a wider trend since October 7, the writer has been accused of being a Zionist, and therefore, worthy of a boycott — most recently by a Chicago bookstore’s book club

Israelis walk by a large billboard reading 'Israel is strong and will win' on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv, January 17, 2024. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

'People are trying to live like it is normal, but it’s not'

On Tel Aviv’s once-bustling Dizengoff, business owners lament another casualty of war

By Jennifer Korn

After tourism drops by roughly 75% since the Israel-Hamas conflict began in October, vendors say costs are up as sales are down — and they see no bailout on the horizon

Housing snapshot: Home sales and rentals across Israel in July 2024

By Shoshanna Solomon

More Headlines

Residents of northern communities and their supporters protest demand early elections, the restoration of security in the north and the release of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip, in Karmiel, July 25, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Thousands protest in north against government ‘abandonment,’ demand early elections

By Michael Horovitz

View of a graffiti in the southern Israeli city of Ofakim, December 4, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ofakim gets NIS 229m after Oct. 7 massacre, but kept off national recovery plan

By Canaan Lidor

Likud MK Yuli Edelstein chairs a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, July 21, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Investigating October 7Knesset panel to oversee IDF probes into October 7 failure

Debris litters a loading dock a day after Israeli strikes on the port of Yemen's Houthi-held city of Hodeida on July 21, 2024. (AFP)

Houthi chief vows ‘inevitable’ response to Israeli strikes on Hodeida

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Family members visit the site of the Supernova music festival massacre, six month after the October 7 Hamas terror assault, in Re'im forest, near the Gaza border, April 7, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

AP says damages suit for use of Oct. 7 freelancer photo ‘fatal blow’ to press freedom

By Jeremy Sharon

A 3D illustration of the brain-eating infectious amoeba Naegleria fowleri.(iStock)

Boy diagnosed with rare ‘brain-eating amoeba’ is in critical condition

By Diana Bletter

Dion Marsh, convicted of hate crimes and carjacking for an antisemitic crime spree in New Jersey, in a photo released by the Lakewood police on April 8, 2022. (Courtesy/Lakewood Township Police Department)

New Jersey man sentenced to 40 years in prison for 2022 antisemitic crime spree

By JTA and ToI Staff

The J Edgar Hoover FBI Building on June 9, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Self-described Nazi who threatened ADL offices sentenced to 2 years in prison

By Andrew Lapin

Illustrative: Power lines above the town of Bnei Re'em on April 26 2010. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Electricity bills expected to drop as major privatization reform enters into effect

Lorne Abony (right) and Tal Shmueli create Israeli-focused Texas Venture Partners. (Courtesy)

New $50 million Texas fund to scout for battle-tested Israeli defense tech

By Sharon Wrobel

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