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What Matters Most On Friday, August 16, 2024

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Relatives of Israelis held hostage in Gaza and supporters march calling for the release of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv on August 15, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 16: PM’s office says Israel hopes mediators’ pressure on Hamas will lead to a deal

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

PA health ministry declares first Gaza polio case in 25 years * Biden aide dismisses comments from Hamas officials unhappy with how Doha talks went * Blinken to visit Israel Sunday

8:05 pm

PA health ministry announces first Gaza polio case in 25 years
7:38 pm

Top Biden aide dismisses comments from Hamas officials unhappy with how Doha talks went
7:28 pm

US official: We will do everything necessary to defend Israel from Iran

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)

Palestinian killed as settlers torch homes and cars in West Bank village

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Over 100 assailants take part in rampage in Jit; unclear who shot dead man in his 20s, while wounding another; suspect arrested; PM, Herzog, Gallant and others denounce violence

People stand inside their damaged home, a day after an attack by Jewish settlers on the village of Jit near Nablus in the West Bank that left a 23-year-old man dead and others with critical gunshot wounds, on August 16, 2024.(Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

White House leads international outrage over settler rampage, calls for accountability

By Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

A car 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)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 16: Day 315 – Extremist settler riots spark (near total) condemnation

Qatari PM said urging Iran to exercise caution amid ongoing Doha hostage-truce talks

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Hezbollah reportedly agrees to hold off on any major attack while negotiations in Qatar continue; mediators say first day of renewed talks included ‘constructive discussions’

Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman al-Thani speaks at a joint press conference with the US secretary of state in Doha, Qatar, Wednesday, June 12, 2024. (Ibraheem Al Omari/Pool via AP)

Relatives and supporters of Israelis held hostage in Gaza lift flags and placards as they demonstrate calling for their release in Tel Aviv on August 15, 2024. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Gaza truce talks in Doha get off to ‘promising start,’ set to continue Friday

By ToI Staff, Agencies and Jacob Magid

A general view shows a refinery installation in Haifa on August 13, 2024. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

Amid looming threats, residents of Haifa fear fallout from attack on power plants

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israelis attend a rally calling for the release of Israelis held by Hamas in Gaza, outside the Defense Ministry Headquarters in Tel Aviv, August 15, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

In Tel Aviv, hostage relatives tell negotiators not to come back without a deal

Thousands hold ‘Last Chance March’ through city, with some accusing Netanyahu and his coalition allies of ‘sabotaging’ talks being held in Doha

Foreign Minister Israel Katz, right, talks to his French counterpart Stephane Sejourne before a meeting in Jerusalem, April 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

French, British FMs visit Israel as it remains braced for attacks by Iran, Hezbollah

Republican presidential candidate and former US president Donald Trump holds a news conference outside the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster on August 15, 2024 in Bedminster, New Jersey. (Adam Gray/Getty Images North America/Getty Images via AFP)

Trump: I told Netanyahu ‘get your victory quickly’ because ‘the killing has to stop’

Hours later, former president accuses Kamala Harris of ‘always demanding ceasefire’; warns Hamas it better release hostages ‘before I assume office,’ says most hostages are dead

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to Yossi Klein Halevi: Will Israeli society survive this war?

Bestselling author delves into the Jewish state’s destructive internal push-pull, explains why he doesn’t despair and shares how to build bridges

Author Yossi Klein Halevi. (Shalom Hartman Institute)

The Ten Commandments, Version 2 make the Jews partners with God

The Israelites left the wilderness to find a new reality: Instead of God’s retribution, they had to fight evil themselves (Vaetchanan)

When rabbis say nothing in the face of abuse

We rabbis must condemn all immoral behavior: Legitimate anger against Hamas does not justify attacking imprisoned alleged terrorists

Footage released on August 15, 2024 shows IDF forces razing tunnels found on the Gaza-Egypt border (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF: Dozens of tunnels razed on Gaza-Egypt border, 17,000 terror operatives killed in war

By Emanuel Fabian

Hamas, repeating claim that guard killed hostage, says captor acted against its ‘ethics’; it publishes propaganda image of Ofir Tzarfati, a hostage whose body IDF recovered 8 months ago

Lior Golan and Oriana ben Aba Golan, evacuees from Kibbutz Nir Am near the southern Israeli border with Gaza, return to their home 10 months after the October 7 Hamas massacre. August 15, 2024. (Dor Pazuelo-FLASH90)

Over 80% percent of region's 50,000-plus population are back

Thousands of residents return to homes near Gaza as state ends hotel funding for some

By Canaan Lidor

Around 3,700 Israelis go back to towns they left on October 7; residents of 10 communities badly damaged in Hamas attack have housing for at least another year

Analysis

Wheels of justice grind slowly for Oct. 7 terrorists, with prosecution a complex affair

Various proposals have emerged for how to tackle the incendiary cases involving many hundreds of suspects, but there’s still no clear decision on how to move forward

A grab from a UGC video posted on the Telegram channel 'South First Responders' on October 9, 2023, shows a Palestinian terrorist walking around the Supernova music festival, near Kibbutz Re'im in southern Israel on October 7. (South First Responders/AFP)

Holding hands in a circle at the K Bar L Ranch in Montana (Courtesy/Healing in Nature)

Soldiers are patients and guinea pigs in pilot project

Weeklong retreat in Montana ranch aims to heal IDF vets from war traumas

By Diana Bletter

Israeli nonprofit formed after Oct. 7 takes combat soldiers far off the grid to a homestead where Tel Aviv and Harvard researchers offer techniques to aid reentry into normal life

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas delivers a speech during an extraordinary Parliamentary Meeting on Palestinians, at the Turkish Parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Aug. 15, 2024. (AP/Ali Unal)

In Turkey, Abbas declares he’ll go to Gaza ‘even if it costs my life,’ mourns Haniyeh

By AFP and ToI Staff

PA leader tells parliament in Ankara there can be no Palestinian state without Gaza: ‘We don’t accept any solution that would divide our territories’

Anti-Israel activists set to pack Chicago streets for Democratic convention protest

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Tens of thousands expected to join march Monday to push Biden and Harris to end support for Israel, organized by coalition of 200 groups that see new nominee as more of the same

Anti-Israel demonstrators gather to protest a campaign event for Democratic presidential candidate US Vice President Kamala Harris on August 14, 2024, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Picture showing the City Council building in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on June 2, 2017. (Eric Baradat / AFP)

From our partnerGroups challenge Pittsburgh petition to bar city from doing business with Israel

A Columbia University worker closes one of the gates at the Columbia University Campus in New York, Aug. 15, 2024. (AP/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

After Columbia president resigns, Jewish students say their goal is a ‘normal year’

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Many students ambivalent over departure of Minouche Shafik following months of anti-Israel unrest on campus, seek more clarity from administration ahead of new academic year

Illustrative: Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters march outside Columbia University, in New York City on May 23, 2024. (Kena Betancur/AFP)

US colleges revise rules to stop resurgence of anti-Israel protests this school year

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The gold dome of the Georgia Capitol in downtown Atlanta, August 27, 2022. (AP/Steve Helber)

US Jewish groups file federal lawsuit alleging antisemitism at Atlanta schools

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The Kosherie, a kosher food shop, is boarded up in preparation for more unrest in Westcliff-on-Sea, England, August 7, 2024. (John Keeble/Getty Images via JTA)

'People are openly saying they should also target synagogues'

After UK riots against Muslims and refugees, local Jews grapple with familiar extremism

By Shira Li Bartov

As violent protests rocked Britain following a stabbing attack falsely attributed to a Muslim immigrant, some of the instigators have also urged striking Jewish targets

File: An exterior view of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, December 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Netanyahu weighing various commissions of inquiry to stave off legal action at ICC

PM’s office notes AG told him she believes government should back a state commission, which he has repeatedly refused to do, saying ‘there’s no certainty’ it would prevent warrants

A viral visual Hebrew pun on Kamala Harris's name, among other new merchandise, is resonating with Jewish Democrats. (Design by Jackie Hajdenberg/ JTA)

Campaign pins targeting Jewish voters date back to 1900

Kamala Harris’s Hebrew merch is taking shape — in the form of a punctuation mark

By Jackie Hajdenberg

A new graphic offers a visual pun and a guide to properly pronouncing the candidate’s name, but it also reflects a resurgence of Jewish enthusiasm for the Democratic ticket

2024 US Olympic fencer bronze medalist Nick Itkin attends the Los Angeles premiere of Amazon MGM Studios' 'Jackpot!' at TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California, on August 13, 2024. (Valerie Macon / AFP)

Interview

Jewish US Olympic fencer Nick Itkin says piercing family history led to his bronze win

Both his parents are athletic coaches who came to America from Ukraine, so it’s no surprise the medalist is already eyeing the gold when the Games come to his hometown LA in 2028

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Illustrative: Mosquitoes cling to the inside of a jar loaded with repellent during a test as part of a tour of the Centers for Disease Control laboratory, April 4, 2024, in Fort Collins, Colorado. (David Zalubowski/AP)

West Nile cases surge in Israel as infected mosquitos spread to new cities

By ToI Staff and Diana Bletter

Hashem Younis Hashem Hnaihen (Orange County Sheriff's Office)

Jordanian man in Florida indicted for vandalizing businesses he said were pro-Israel

By AP

Transportation Minister Miri Regev arrives at a special government conference on Jerusalem Day at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem, on June 5, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Cabinet expected to tap Miri Regev to oversee October 7 memorial ceremonies

A Ukrainian tank passes by a burning car near the Russian-Ukrainian border, Sumy region, Ukraine, Wednesday, August 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Zelensky says Ukrainian forces have occupied largest town in Russia’s Sumy region

By SAMYA KULLAB and HANNA ARHIROVA

The scene of a deadly crash on Route 2 on August 15, 2024. (Courtesy: Magen David Adom)

Two killed in fiery crash on coastal highway

'Bachelorette' star Jenn Tran gives a rose to Jewish contestant Jeremy Simon. (Disney/John Fleenor)

Dating history‘Bachelorette’ contestant invokes famed great-great-grandfather rabbi on show

By Jackie Hajdenberg

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