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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 8, 2024

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Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah speaks to his supporters through a screen, during a ceremony to commemorate the death of top commander Fuad Shukr, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike a week earlier, in Beirut, Lebanon, August 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Mustafa Jamalddine)

Israel said to believe Hezbollah will respond before Iran to deaths of terror chiefs

By ToI Staff and Agencies

CNN says terror group seems set to strike ‘independent’ of Iran, which other reports suggest may be reconsidering; Israel said to warn of disproportionate response if civilians hurt

Iran's acting foreign minister Ali Bagheri (L) welcomes his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi ahead of their meeting in Tehran on August 4, 2024. (AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 8: Day 307 – Who is on ‘Team Israel’ as the waiting game continues

Defense Minster Yoav Gallant speaks to reservists during a drill in northern Israel, August 7, 2024 (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Gallant: Hezbollah could cost Lebanese dearly, ‘they can’t imagine what might happen’

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Demonstrators protest for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip, outside the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, August 7, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 8: Hostage families say PM must ‘demonstrate leadership,’ finalize hostage deal

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

US reportedly warns Tehran it will suffer devastating blow if it launches major attack on Israel * Security cabinet convenes in underground command room at Tel Aviv military HQ

9:45 pm

Hostage families: Government and PM must 'demonstrate leadership,' finalize hostage deal
8:54 pm

US, Egypt and Qatar call on Israel and Hamas to finalize deal 'without further delay'
8:16 pm

United Airlines' flights to Tel Aviv remain suspended

Explainer

As Iran and Hezbollah attacks loom, why hasn’t the IDF adjusted civilian guidelines?

Israel is seeking to offer early-enough warning, without dragging restrictions on for too long or burning intelligence sources

A phone screen shows the Home Front Command app on August 8, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Promoted ArticleUniversity of Haifa International

Empowering the Future: Cutting-Edge Master’s Programs at the University of Haifa

The University of Haifa presents international Master’s programs for high-demand careers with innovative hybrid learning options.

Democratic presidential nominee US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally in Romulus, in the Detroit, Michigan, metropolitan area, August 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Harris tells anti-Israel hecklers to be quiet unless they ‘want Donald Trump to win’

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Before Detroit rally, Democratic candidate meets ‘uncommitted’ vote organizers who claim she indicated openness to discussing Israel arms embargo; VP’s aide: she opposes idea

Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli with evacuated residents of northern Israel and families of Israelis who were killed since Oct. 7 protest against a hostages-for-ceasefire deal with Hamas, outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, July 14, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Minister, Black Cube CEO discussed probing Students for Justice in Palestine – report

(R to L) Deputy Foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia Waleed Al-Khuraiji and Azerbaijan Yalchin Rafiyev, Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour and Jordanian Foreign Minster Ayman Safadi, attend the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting in Jeddah on August 7, 2024. (Amer HILABI / AFP)

Saudi Arabia calls Haniyeh killing a ‘blatant violation’ of Iran’s sovereignty

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Comment by deputy FM during extraordinary meeting of Organization of Islamic Cooperation is first reaction by Iran’s regional rival to assassination in Tehran

FILE: Hamas's Khalil al-Hayya speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, in Istanbul, Turkey, April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

As Sinwar takes charge, Qatar-based Hamas official to keep leading negotiations

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Sleepwalking into a regional war

The hostage deal is nearly dead, in no small part thanks to Netanyahu’s duplicity. His indecision is an existential threat to Israel

Stephen M. Flatow

Getting a package to Tehran? Not a problem for Israel

The Jewish state has always hunted down the terrorists who harm its citizens. Why doesn’t the US?

Arrivals hall at Ben Gurion Airport, on Sunday August 4, 2024. (Gavriel Fiske/Times of Israel)

El Al adds flights from nearby Greece and Cyprus to help stranded Israelis

By Sharon Wrobel

Airline and its subsidiary Sun Dor, as well as local carrier Arkia, operate additional flights from Athens and Larnaca as major foreign airlines cancel services to Tel Aviv

Representatives from Norway and the Palestinian Authority sign agreements in Ramallah on November 30, 2022. (Wafa)

Oslo summons envoy, warns of 'consequences' to 'extreme' step

Israel revokes accreditation for Norwegian diplomats dealing with Palestinians

‘Those who conduct a unilateral policy against us will pay a price,’ says FM Katz, citing Norway’s recognition of Palestine and support for proceedings against Israel at The Hague

Eighty-five-year-old atomic bombing survivor Takeko Kudo (3rd L) and other representatives observe a moment of silence at the time of the bombing at 11:02 am during a peace memorial ceremony at an indoor facility due to approaching Typhoon Khanun in Nagasaki, Nagasaki prefecture on August 9, 2023, as the city marks the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing during World War II. (Photo by JAPAN POOL / JIJI Press / AFP) / Japan OUT / JAPAN OUT

Western ambassadors pull out of Nagasaki memorial after Israel not invited

By AFP and ToI Staff

Frisbee athletes compete in Leuven Belgium on June 21, 2024. (European Ultimate Federation)

Israelis protest ‘discriminatory’ ban from frisbee event in Belgium

By Canaan Lidor

Finance Bezalel Smotrich speaks during a press conference in the southern city of Ofakim, July 24, 2024. (Liron Molodovan/Flash90)

US ‘appalled’ by Smotrich’s suggestion that starvation of Gazans could be justified

By Jacob Magid and AFP

EU and Britain urge Israeli government to condemn the far-right minister’s remarks, while France expresses ‘deep dismay’

Far-right activists protest against the detention of Israeli reserve soldiers suspected of abusing a Hamas terror suspect, at the Sde Teiman military base near Beersheba, July 29, 2024. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)

US: Israel should have ‘zero tolerance’ for abuse, rape of any Palestinian detainee

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Illustrative: Israeli settlers hurl stones at Palestinians near the Israeli settlement of Yitzhar in the West Bank on October 7, 2020. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90/File)

Right-wing NGOs, dual citizens sue Biden administration for sanctioning settlers

By Reuters and ToI Staff

IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip in a picture released for publication on August 8, 2024 (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF: Top Hamas operative who directed West Bank terror killed in recent Gaza strike

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Military says Nael Sakhel targeted on July 24; IDF targets northern Gaza rocket launch site used in recent attack on southern Israel, denies involvement in aid worker’s death

Inside story

Hostage deal won’t happen unless Biden squeezes Netanyahu harder, Arab officials say

Frustration among Qatari and Egyptian mediators now extending from Israel to US, after Hamas caved on key demand and PM added new conditions, ToI told

Then-US President Joe Biden, right, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, July 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Eeman Nasra stands by a bomb shelter being delivered to Mazra'a, August 8, 2024. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'We didn't hear a siren, just an explosion. Then screams'

After bloody drone strike, Galilee Arab town finally gets first of promised bomb shelters

By Diana Bletter

Mazra’a mayor, Fuad Awad, put in his request soon after the war began; the shelters will help some of the 3,000 residents who have no protection

Maya Regev, 21, is seen taking her first steps with crutches after nine months of recovery following her abduction and captivity by Hamas terrorists, who shot her on October 7 during the group's attack on southern Israel, in a video posted to social media. (Screen capture via X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Freed hostage Maya Regev takes first steps, recovering from Oct. 7 injury, captivity

21-year-old, who was shot at Supernova festival and released in November deal, was worried she’d never walk again; says doctors in Gaza poured acid, vinegar into her gunshot wound

A community space and kitchen in the Zomi displaced people's camp in the Gaza Strip has been named for the Canadian-born Israeli peace campaigner Vivian Silver, who was murdered by Hamas terrorists in her home in Kibbutz Be'eri, close to the Gaza border, on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy, Damour for Community Development)

Israeli peace activist murdered by Hamas is memorialized in Gaza evacuee camp

US singer Taylor Swift performs on stage at the Paris La Defense Arena as part of her The Eras Tour, in Nanterre, northwestern France, on May 9, 2024. (Julien de Rosa / AFP)

Austrian official: IS supporter planned suicide attack at Taylor Swift show

Suspect confessed to terror plot, ‘thinks it is right to kill infidels’; jihadi material found at home of 2nd suspect, who was employed at venue days before now-canceled concerts

Taylor Swift performs at Wembley Stadium as part of her Eras Tour on Friday, June 21, 2024 in London. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)

Taylor Swift’s three Vienna concerts canceled over Islamist attack plot

By AFP

Protesters march in London during the "National March for Gaza" on August 3, 2024. (Photo by CARLOS JASSO / AFP)

UK Jews document record high 2,000 antisemitic incidents in first half of 2024

By Canaan Lidor

Community Security Trust says figure marks an all-time high for a 6-month period, is up 100% from year before; surging instances of Jew hatred include 41% jump in assault cases

From 'Japanese Sushi Girls,' an exhibit at Haifa's Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art through November 2024 (Courtesy Hedva Rokach)

Art and design on display in Haifa as creativity trumps tensions

By Jessica Steinberg

Haifa Museum of Art features six solo exhibits of artists hailing from Israel’s north, as Tikotin Museum shows Japanese design and a sushi project for reservists

Pastor John Hagee addresses a conference of Christians United for Israel, National Harbor, Maryland, June 29, 2024. (CUFI/ via JTA)

'We believe in robust foreign policy, peace through strength'

Pro-Israel US conservatives concerned over isolationism, and antisemitism, on far right

At CUFI annual summit, Christian activists and their Jewish allies address right-wing Republicans who oppose laws defining Jew hatred and want to curb aid to the Jewish state

More Headlines

A composite image shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Gideon Sa'ar, right. (Flash90)

Reported talks on Sa’ar joining government said to fail over demand for defense role

Protesters clash with police outside an army recruitment conference for young ultra-Orthodox Jews in Tel Aviv, July 30, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

IDF claims violent enlistment protests scaring off ultra-Orthodox draftees

Israel's Mikhail Yakovlev competes in a men's track cycling sprint qualifying round of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines National Velodrome, August 7, 2024. (John MACDOUGALL / AFP)

2024 Paris OlympicsIsraeli cyclist wows in opening race, taekwondo fighter ousted in 1st Paris match

Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs at a hearing on military service for ultra-Orthodox men, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, June 2, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

AG’s office accuses cabinet secretary of issuing unauthorized government legal briefs

By Jeremy Sharon

An unverified video circulating on social media purports to show Israeli travelers bound and lying face down during an armed robbery in Costa Rica. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli tourists tied up and robbed at gunpoint in Costa Rica

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)

Backed by SoftBank investment, Wiz pushes plans for expansion in Asia

By Sharon Wrobel

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