Join our Community

Support ToI and remove all ads

Learn more

English
Français
עברית

Get The Daily Edition
Account
Sign In
- Sign in
- Join our Community

Open Search form

Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Video
Newsletters
Partners

Input search

English
Français
עברית

Latest Articles
Latest Alerts
Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Video
Newsletters
Partners
Community
- Join our community
- Sign in
- About The Times of Israel
- Advertise on The Times of Israel
- Contact us
- Download our App
  - For IOS users
  - For Android users
- Get the Daily Edition
- Follow us
- © 2026 The Times of Israel , All Rights Reserved
  
  Terms and conditions Privacy policy

Input search

The Daily Edition

What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Facebook
Twitter

View previous edition

View next edition

Relatives of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza meet with members of the Israeli Olympic team in Tel Aviv on August 14, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 14: Mediators downplay Hamas refusal to join high-stakes Gaza talks set for Doha

By Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

White House suggests terror group ‘posturing’ as Arab official notes Palestinians would not be in same room with Israelis anyway * IDF says 2 Hezbollah members killed in drone hit

9:03 pm

Blinken holds calls with fellow mediators ahead of Doha summit
8:53 pm

Hezbollah says two members killed in Israeli strike
8:33 pm

Arab official says Hamas will basically be at Doha talks, even if not at table

Vehicles move past a banner depicting Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei embracing Ismail Haniyeh, the slain leader of Hamas, in Tehran's Azadi Square on August 13, 2024. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Biden: Iran expected to push off attacking Israel if Gaza ceasefire deal clinched

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

US says Qatar trying to bring Hamas terror group to table for Thursday summit, though Israeli negotiator reportedly complains talks doomed unless Netanyahu expands team’s mandate

Female activists accuse Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of seeking to torpedo a hostage release deal, outside the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem, August 13, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sinwar said to demand halt to IDF operations in Gaza as precondition for talks

Relatives and supporters of Israelis held hostage by Hamas since the October 7 attacks lift flags and placards as they demonstrate calling for their release in Tel Aviv on August 10, 2024. (Oren Ziv / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 14: Day 313 – Would a failed hostage deal mean regional war?

Op-ed: Day 313 of the war

2 dead terror chiefs, a US desperate to avert war, and a terrifying lack of strategy

Israel complacently allowed Iran to build a stranglehold around it; 313 days after October 7, where’s our domestically and internationally formulated plan to break that grip?

FILE: Cars burn in Haifa following a rocket attack by Hezbollah terrorists, August 13, 2006. (Roni Schutzer / AFP)

Hamas terrorists in Gaza use makeshift launchers to fire long-range rockets at Tel Aviv, August 13, 2024 (via X)

Terror group operatives use makeshift launchers

Hamas fires rockets at Tel Aviv, a first since May, as IDF advances in Khan Younis

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

One projectile shot from southern Gaza city lands in sea, second impacts in Strip; military says troops have killed more than 100 gunmen in Rafah amid ongoing operation there

Israeli troops in an underground Hamas tunnel in Gaza, February 4, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces/AFP)

Report: IDF using Gazans to check areas that may be booby-trapped before troops enter

IDF soldiers wounded in the war with Hamas walk in the rehabilitation division of Sheba hospital in Ramat Gan, December 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Defense Ministry Rehabilitation Department says over 10,000 troops treated since Oct. 7

By Emanuel Fabian

Nathalie Andrijasevic, an assistant curator at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, handles paintings which were moved to an underground safe room at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art on August 13, 2024. (Oren ZIV / AFP)

Protect the Picasso: Fearing Iranian attack, Tel Aviv museum stashes priceless art

Facility is moving more valuable works from its collections to an underground safe room first utilized after October 7, leaving some galleries with blank walls

Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese village of Chihine near the border with Israel on August 13, 2024. (Kawnat Haju/AFP)

IDF kills 2 Hezbollah members in Lebanon, hours after downing drones along border

By Emanuel Fabian

Drone shot down over Kiryat Shmona, another intercepted over Lebanon; 40 rockets fired at north; Gallant says Israel is ‘following what is happening, in Beirut, in Tehran’

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (right) is seen boarding a two-seater F-15 fighter jet at the Tel Nof Airbase in central Israel, June 5, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

US approves $20 billion in weapons sales to Israel, including 50 fighter jets

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and Jacob Magid

State Department says deal, also including thousands of tank rounds, boosts ‘Israel’s capability to meet current and future enemy threats,’ though F-15s won’t arrive for years

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators gather on the UCLA campus, after nighttime clashes between pro-Palestinian and counterprotest groups, in Los Angeles, May 1, 2024. (Jae C. Hong/AP)

Anti-Israel students in US plan to ring in academic year with ‘strike for Palestine’

Student activists hope to pressure schools to divest from Israel by absenting themselves from campus, after tent encampments last semester failed to make schools heed their demands

Aysha Abraibesh leads a chant while pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators block commute traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge on February 14, 2024, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

San Francisco indicts 26 anti-Israel protesters who blocked Golden Gate Bridge

By AP and ToI Staff

Jonathan A. Greenblatt

Exploiting tragedy: From grief to antisemitic conspiracy

The UK knife attacks had nothing to do with Israel or Jews, but when violent extremists demonize Zionists and the Jewish state, they soon dehumanize Jews too

What will Israel be?

To truly defeat the enemy, Israel must face its own ’day after’ challenge by addressing its failings and vulnerabilities

Egyptian-American analyst and author Hussein Aboubakr Mansour at his home in Washington, DC, July 3, 2024 (screenshot from Zoom interview)

'Israel acceptance is the new litmus test for Arabs'

How an Egyptian raised on Jew-hatred turned DC lobbyist for Arab-Israeli cooperation

By Gianluca Pacchiani

He fled the Morsi regime in 2012. Now, Egyptian-American analyst Hussein Aboubakr Mansour meets with DC policymakers to create an alliance against extremism

Blinken: Minister showed 'blatant disregard' for status quo

US leads international condemnations of Ben Gvir’s ‘provocations’ at Temple Mount

By Agencies and Jacob Magid

State Department says minister’s declaration that prayer is allowed at site contributes to ‘greater insecurity and instability in the region’; UN calls move ‘unduly provocative’

This image grab taken from a UGC video footage posted on August 13, 2024 shows National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (2nd-R) chanting the slogan 'Am Yisrael Chai' (The People of Israel Live) during a visit to the Temple Mount, where he also hailed Jews at prayer in the compound. (UGC/AFP)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attend a vote at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 13, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM downplays Fitch’s downgrade but top economists warn about handling of war economy

By Sharon Wrobel

Opposition leaders say Fitch rating cut is due to government’s management of the economic fallout of the war; leading economists urge progress on 2025 budget to regain confidence

US Rep. Ilhan Omar speaks during a news conference by the Congressional Progressive Caucus on the threat of default, May 24, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

US Squad member Ilhan Omar wins Democratic primary in Minnesota

By AP and ToI Staff

Progressive incumbent avoids fate of colleagues Bush, Bowman, will face Republican Iraqi-American journalist Dalia Al-Aqidi, who has cast Omar as pro-Hamas, in election in November

From left: US Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, Democratic presidential candidate, US Vice President Kamala Harris, Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and his wife Gwen Walz greet supporters during a campaign rally at Girard College on August 6, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images via AFP)

Harris’s campaign says FBI notified it that it was targeted by ‘foreign hackers’

By AFP

A photo of the Porto cityscape, June 2024. (Romain Chauvet)

'It was the quickest way to leave'

Looking to escape war at home, Israelis seek refugee status in Portugal

By Romain Chauvet

As the Israel-Hamas conflict stretches into its 11th month, locals looking to flee its physical and economic perils find a shortcut – albeit temporary – in applying for EU asylum

Family, friends and Israelis attend the funeral of former lone soldier Jordan Cooper at the cemetery in Rishon Lezion, August 13, 2024. (Flash90)

Thousands attend US-Israeli lone soldier’s funeral after family asks public to show up

Jordan Cooper died of a nut allergy while in Israel after completing more than 200 days of reserve duty since October 7

Bedouin volunteers paint a concrete rocket shelter installed the day before in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm al-Khiran, southern Israel, on December 7, 2023 (Gianluca Pacchiani / Times of Israel)

Slaughtered peacenik Vivian Silver's org places 320 shelters

As Iranian retaliation looms, thousands of Bedouins still vulnerable to rockets

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Four months after girl, 7, is sole victim of Iran attack, unrecognized Negev communities’ residents fear for their lives amid persisting lack of rocket shelters and Iron Dome cover

This handout photo shows Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) receiving Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Moscow, August 13, 2024. (Thaer Ghanaim/PPO/AFP)

Visiting Moscow, Abbas tells Putin he’s ‘one of the dearest friends’ of Palestinians

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Hosting PA leader, Russian president says Moscow is watching war in Gaza ‘with great pain,’ reiterates his backing for the ‘creation of a fully fledged Palestinian state’

Ukrainian servicemen operate a Soviet-made T-72 tank in the Sumy region, near the border with Russia, on August 12, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Roman PILIPEY / AFP)

Ukraine presses surprise raid into Russia; border region Belgorod declares emergency

By AFP

More Headlines

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara arrives at a Jerusalem Day conference at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem, June 5, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG to High Court: ‘Clear public interest’ in wrapping up Netanyahu trial quickly

US President Joe Biden in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023 (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Dear Ethan, sincerely JoeWhen a Texas schoolboy, 9, wrote to Biden about Israel

Israeli defense technology company Elbit Systems' booth at the Eurosatory trade fair, in Villepinte, a northern suburb of Paris, June 13, 2022. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

7 charged in UK court for pro-Palestinian attack on warehouse tied to Israel’s Elbit

The Jerusalem compound of computer chip manufacturer Intel, May 18, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli fired from Intel sues company in New York over supervisor’s antisemitism

By Jonathan Stempel

View Edition by Date

July	August 2024					September
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
			1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31

The Times of Israel

Daily Edition

Free to Your Inbox

The email is either missing or invalid.

By signing up, you agree to our terms You hereby accept The Times of Israel Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, and you agree to receive the latest news & offers from The Times of Israel and its partners or ad sponsors.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
podcasts
video

terms and conditions
privacy policy
about us
advertise with us
Jobs at The Times of Israel
contact us

Community

Join our community
Sign in

Get the Daily Edition

Enter your email address

Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Whatsapp Follow us on X Follow us on Youtube Follow us on Telegram Follow us on Threads Follow us on Bluesky

© 2026 The Times of Israel, all rights reserved

Concept, design & development by

Developed by

Powered by

Never miss breaking news on Israel

Get notifications to stay updated

You're subscribed

Register for free
and continue reading

Registering allows you to manage your newsletters and alerts and helps us improve your experience. It takes just a few seconds.
Already registered? Enter your email to sign in.

Email address

Please use the following structure: example@domain.com

Or Continue with

By registering you agree to the terms and conditions. Once registered, you’ll receive our Daily Edition email for free.

Send me The Times of Israel Daily Edition

Register to continue

Email address

Or Continue with

Log in to continue

Email address

Something went wrong.
Please try again in a few minutes..

Sign in or Register

Email address * Password *

Incorrect password. Please try again or choose an option below.

I forgot my password / Send me a sign in link

Or Continue with

check your email

Check your email

We sent an email to you at .

It has a link that will sign you in.

Click the link in that email to complete your registration.