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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 15, 2024

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A home torched by masked settlers in the Palestinian town of Jit in the West Bank, August 15, 2024. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

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Aug. 15: Herzog says settler violence ‘certainly not the way of Torah and Judaism’

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

IDF says 17,000 terror operatives killed in Gaza since start of war * Netanyahu pressed to form Gaza inquiry to prevent ICC arrest warrants * Hostage talks in Doha to continue Friday

9:01 pm

PA ministry names man killed in settler riot in Jit as Rasheed Seda, 23
9:01 pm

Hostage talks still ongoing, Qatar says, as source says progress made today
8:37 pm

Smotrich calls Jit rampage 'criminal anarchist violence,' says attackers don't represent settlers

Families and supporters of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza protest in the Knesset, August 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Delegation said to get somewhat expanded mandate from PM

Israel sends high-level team to Doha talks, seen as possible last chance for deal

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Team led by heads of Mossad, Shin Bet; Hamas apparently won’t take part, will interact with mediators; Jerusalem said to demand all 33 hostages returned in first stage must be alive

Jordanian cartoonist Emad Hajjaj, who regularly publishes in the Qatari-owned Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, draws an Iranian tank carries a gigantic missile launcher, which only ends up ejecting a small drone carrying a miniature rocket, August 10, 2024. (screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 15: Day 314 – Doha talks underway, while Arab cartoonists mock Iran

US Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew participates in a joint press conference with the ambassadors of Germany and Great Britain at the Hostage Families’ Forum in Tel Aviv, August 14, 2024. (David Azagury/US Embassy Jerusalem)

US, UK and German envoys push for Gaza deal: ‘All remaining issues have solutions’

By Sam Sokol and Tal Schneider

US said to believe IDF can’t make further gains against ‘diminished’ Hamas in Gaza

Current and former officials say military achievements have exceeded original expectations, but the only way to free the hostages remains an agreement with Hamas

Israeli soldiers operate in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 22, 2024. (Oren Cohen/Flash90)

Artist Tomer Peretz works on an installation planned for a Hostages Square replica near the Democratic National Convention. (Michael Cannon via JTA)

Tel Aviv’s ‘Hostage Square’ to be in Chicago for DNC — with or without a permit

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Illustrative: Right-wing Jews advocating for resettlement of Gaza gather near the border with the Strip, on the eve of Tisha B'Av, August 12, 2024. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Police detain 14 as dozens of far-right activists try to breach Gaza border for prayers

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A Biden speech urging national Israeli reckoning was shelved at the last minute. Here’s why

Top aides crafted address on Israel’s choice between integration and isolation, but instead went with another speech exposing details of Jerusalem’s freshly submitted ceasefire offer

US President Joe Biden announces a proposed truce-hostage deal between Israel and Hamas in Gaza at the White House's State Dining Room in Washington, DC, May 31, 2024. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman meets with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (not pictured) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on March 20, 2024. (Evelyn Hockstein / Pool / AFP)

Report: Saudi crown prince said he fears assassination over Israel normalization

This handout photograph taken and released by the Turkish Presidential Press Service on August 14, 2024, shows Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) shaking hands with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (L) during an official ceremony at the Presidential Complex in Ankara. (Turkish Presidential Press Service/AFP)

Hosting Abbas, Erdogan vows to keep pushing for international pressure on Israel

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Columbia President Nemat Shafik testifies before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing on 'Columbia in Crisis: Columbia University's Response to Antisemitism' on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 17, 2024. (Jose Luis Magana/AP)

Columbia president resigns amid criticism over her response to anti-Israel protests

By JTA

Minouche Shafik steps down weeks before school year starts, becoming the fourth head of an Ivy League university to quit after facing controversy related to Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack

Police patrol as workers clean up anti-Israel graffiti at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus after police evicted pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters, May 2, 2024. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP)

UCLA criticizes ruling that pro-Palestinian protesters can’t exclude Jews from campus

By Andrew Lapin

Michigan State University displayed an image of Adolf Hitler as part of a trivia quiz prior to a football game, October 21, 2023. (Alexander Haenke/X via JTA)

US college sued by quiz creator over Hitler birth question streamed at football game

By AP

File — Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef sells the hametz (food containing leavening) of the state of Israel before the upcoming Passover holiday in Jerusalem, April 21, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

In clips with Arabic subtitles, Jerusalem rabbis condemn Jewish prayer at Temple Mount

By Canaan Lidor and ToI Staff

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, center, flanked by his security detail, approaches the entrance to the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, August 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Haredi parties mull bolting coalition as Ben Gvir pushes Jewish prayer on Temple Mount

Shayna Abramson

Are my reasons for living in Israel still good enough?

Despite my many good reasons to be here, I’m troubled by the fact that Israel has not fulfilled its primary raison d’etre: a safe haven from antisemitism

You can’t read the label from inside the bottle

As US Jews take up political arms for their respective candidates and against each other, I’m out of the fray, but foresee antisemitic ire from both sides

Beni Ben Muvhar, head of the Mevo'ot HaHermon Regional Council, at the damaged hydrotherapy center, on August 13, 2024. (Gavriel Fiske/TOI)

Reporters Notebook'This place is my life’s work'

War-wrecked Galilee center for kids with disabilities plans to be ‘larger and stronger’

By Gavriel Fiske

Mevo’ot HaHermon Treatment and Rehabilitation Campus, closed since Oct. 8 and damaged by an errant missile, includes one of the largest hydrotherapy pools of its kind in Israel

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett speaks at an Israel Hayom conference, August 14, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Bennett calls for ‘all the senior leadership, political and military, to be replaced’

Ex-PM indicates possible return to politics, says Netanyahu’s words contradict his actions in management of Gaza war; urges Israel to take on Iran directly instead of its proxies

Foreign Minister Israel Katz tours the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem, February 19, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

‘Pretty infantile’: Public diplomacy mavens pan FM for insulting world leaders on X

An El Al plane arrives from France at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, August 1, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg / Flash90)

El Al’s profits soar as foreign carriers’ cancellations give it market dominance

National airline reports $147 million earnings in second quarter, up 80% on previously record-breaking Q1; firm has faced accusations of taking advantage of situation to hike prices

In Beirut, US envoy Hochstein says Gaza ceasefire crucial, ‘no more time to waste’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Hostage-truce deal with Hamas ‘would prevent an outbreak of a wider war,’ Hochstein says, as Israel continues to brace for potential attacks from Iran and Hezbollah

US special envoy Amos Hochstein delivers a statement after his meeting with Lebanon's parliament speaker (not pictured) in Beirut on August 14, 2024. (AFP)

A forest fire caused from rockets fired from Lebanon, near the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona, August 13, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

IDF drone strike kills 2 Hezbollah members amid repeated rocket attacks from Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: Iranians attend the funeral procession for seven Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members killed in a strike in Syria, in Tehran, Iran, April 5, 2024. (Atta Kenare / AFP)

Iran Guard officer dies of wounds from recent Syria airstrike – report

By Reuters and ToI Staff

A woman carries a child at Al-Nasser hospital in Khan Younis on August 15, 2024, after permission from the Israeli authorities was given for 11 children suffering from cancer to leave Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing, in order to receive treatment in Jordan. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)

WHO says 11 children with cancer evacuated from Gaza via Israel for treatment

By AP and ToI Staff

Kids exit through Kerem Shalom Crossing and are headed for Jordan, accompanied by one female escort each

IDF says it has no info on deaths of mother and 4-day-old twins in Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian, AFP and ToI Staff

2 Palestinian gunmen killed in IDF drone strike near Nablus

By Emanuel Fabian

5 Palestinian gunmen killed, four troops hurt in West Bank raid

By Emanuel Fabian

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters demonstrate outside a support rally for US Vice President Kamala Harris's presidential campaign in New York City, August 14, 2024. At rear, a picture of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is held aloft.(X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Picture of Hamas leader Sinwar held aloft

Anti-Israel protesters disrupt NYC support rally for Harris campaign

Demonstrators interrupt speakers, including mayor, then follow participants to afterparty where they set off smoke bombs, clash with police

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (right) says he has no 'personal relationship' with Imam Asad Zaman (left) who praised Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack and shared a link to a pro-Hitler video. (Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune via Getty Images. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images via JTA)

Walz says he has no personal ties to imam who praised Oct. 7, shared pro-Hitler video

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Syrian-Kurdish cartoonist Yaser Ahmad, who works for the London-based Al-Arab paper, shows Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei about to light a firework rocket with a ridiculously long wick wrapped around two coils, under the caption “The Iranian response,” indicating that it may be a long time coming, August 9, 2024. (screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Satirical cartoons in the Arab press lampoon Iran for delaying attack on Israel

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Newspapers in the region mock Tehran’s unfulfilled threats, deride its aggressive posturing; others ridicule Arab countries that are expected to support Israel in case of an attack

Iranian women not wearing their mandatory headscarf, or hijab, walk in Tehran, Iran, August 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Iranian police shoot woman while trying to seize her car over hijab violation

By Jon Gambrell

View of the Palestinian Village of Battir, with the ancient terraces and irrigation system, on February 19, 2017. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)

Watchdog slams move as further step to 'de facto annexation'

Land allocation approved for first new West Bank settlement to be built since 2017

By Jeremy Sharon

Lauding declaration of Nahal Heletz’s borders, Smotrich says he’s ‘establishing facts on the ground’ as part of ‘my life’s mission’ to prevent Palestinian state, expand settlements

Eyal Feldman will swim across Lake Skaneateles in Upstate New York to raise money for Israelis orphaned by the October 7 Hamas atrocities. (Courtesy)

Interview'It's fun and a mitzvah, it's just a way to make good news'

US-Israeli maker of Boy Butter lubricant attempts record-length swim for Oct. 7 charity

By Cathryn J. Prince

On August 17, Eyal Feldman will paddle 16 miles nonstop across upstate New York’s Skaneateles Lake to benefit orphans in Israel who lost their parents in the Hamas onslaught

More Headlines

Protesters outside the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv demand early elections and a deal for the release of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, August 10, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Almost 100 US rabbis call on Netanyahu to finalize hostage deal

By JTA and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Workers put up a commemorative plaque outside barracks formerly used to house forced laborers now turned into a memorial and museum documenting Nazi Germany´s widespread use of forced labor in Berlin´s Schoeneweide district 24 August 2006. (Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP)

German biscuit giant apologizes for larger-than-known Nazi-era slave labor force

By AFP

Tel Aviv's Kiryat Atidim tech hub. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Tech employees pay over a third of all income tax in Israel, study shows

By Sharon Wrobel

Former US president Donald Trump (left) hosts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, July 26, 2024. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu denies he spoke to Trump, after report says they discussed Gaza talks

By ToI Staff and Reuters

Algeria's Imane Khelif celebrates after defeating China's Yang Liu to win gold in their women's 66kg final boxing match at the 2024 Summer Olympics, August 9, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

France probes cyberbullying of Olympic champion Khelif by Trump, Musk, others

By AFP and ToI Staff

View of a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, August 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Parties trade blame as coalition chaos enables opposition to defeat bill for first time

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks during the annual Israel Day Parade on Fifth Avenue in New York, June 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

US Sen. Chuck Schumer to publish book on his experiences with antisemitism

France's Muhammad Abdallah Kounta celebrate after competing in the men's 4x400m relay heat of the athletics event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on August 9, 2024. (Anne-Christine Poujoulat / AFP)

French Olympian suspended for posts against Jews, Israel and hostages

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Students at Hebrew University's Mount Scopus campus on the first day of the school year, October 23, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Three Israeli universities ranked among top 100 worldwide

By Gavriel Fiske

Prof. Alon Pikarsky explains a new surgical procedure he is about to perform at Jerusalem's Hadassah Medical Center, in a video released by the hospital on October 3, 2019. (Screen capture: Youtube/Hadassah Medical Center, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Eyebrows raised as PM’s surgeon appointed to board of state-owned arms maker

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