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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 17, 2024

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Relatives and supporters of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza march to call for their release, in Tel Aviv on August 15, 2024. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

New bridging proposal aims to close gaps, enable final deal

Mediators push updated Gaza truce offer, hope for deal next week, as Doha talks break

By Agencies, Jacob Magid and Emanuel Fabian

Biden says sides closer than ever to a deal after progress made in two days of talks, but Hamas rejects what it calls ‘new conditions’ from Israel; Netanyahu to meet Blinken Monday

Op-ed

A hostage deal that also averts regional war should be a no-brainer for Netanyahu. But…

He might seize the moment, but has been insisting on ‘total victory’ over Hamas, and has two coalition partners that won’t settle for anything less. And then there’s the Sinwar factor

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits troops in Gaza, December 25, 2023. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Illustratice: Workers prepare the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, September 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

US official: Talks in Doha on hostage-ceasefire deal were most constructive in months

Senior Biden Administration official downplays Hamas comments criticizing latest round of negotiations, says return of terror group’s fighters to northern Gaza would violate deal

Men inspect an industrial area destroyed by an Israeli airstrike, in Wadi al-Kfour, Nabatieh province, south Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

2 IDF soldiers wounded by explosive drone strike

55 rockets launched at north after IDF strike on Hezbollah arms depot said to kill 10

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Lebanese Health Ministry says dead are all Syrian nationals and include a woman and her two children; no injuries reported in rocket attacks, but several fires erupt

Relatives of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza and supporters hold a protest march calling for a hostage deal, in Tel Aviv, August 15, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

‘Bring back hope’: Rally to push for hostage deal after negotiators finish Doha talks

Hostage families, anti-government protesters set to urge government to secure release of captives held since Oct. 7; event to mark 24th birthday of Romi Gonen, seized at Nova rave

Tens of thousands of protestors at Begin Gate in Tel Aviv, August 17, 2024. Participants were demanding a deal to free hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, and new elections in Israel. (Naama Zeevi Rivlin, Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 17: PM says Israeli negotiators voicing ‘cautious optimism’ about hostage deal

Protesters call for captives to be freed, new elections, at rallies nationwide * 2 reserve soldiers killed by roadside bomb in Gaza * IDF strikes in Lebanon amid Hezbollah attacks

8:30 pm

New Jersey man receives 7-year prison sentence for arson, antisemitic graffiti cases
7:57 pm

IDF intel chiefs never told political and military leaders they'd had Hamas battle plan since April 2022 - report
7:49 pm

Army says a second reserve soldier was killed by roadside bomb in Gaza

Vehicles move along a road underneath a pedestrian overpass with a large banner depicting the assassinated commander of the IRGC's Quds Force Qasem Soleimani (C-R), and assassinated figures of Iran-backed groups, including Palestinian Hamas's Ismail Haniyeh (C), Iraqi Hashed al-Shabi's Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis (C-L), Lebanese Hezbollah's Imad Mughnieh (3rd-R), in Tehran on August 14, 2024. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

US official warns Iran of ‘cataclysmic’ consequences if it attacks Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Senior official says Iranian strike would ‘basically derail what we think is the best opportunity’ in months to secure a Gaza ceasefire deal

Foreign Minister Israel Katz (center) with his French counterpart Stephane Sejourne (left) and British counterpart David Lammy in Jerusalem, August 16, 2024. (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

Israel expects UK, France to help hit Iran if Tehran attacks, Katz tells counterparts

By AP and ToI Staff

Argentine police arrest suspected members of an Islamist terror cell that was allegedly planning attacks on the Jewish community in Mendoza, Argentina, August 16, 2024. (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Argentine police thwart Islamist terror cell planning attacks on Jewish community

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Rattling sabers, IDF drills for long-range strike as Hezbollah touts advanced missiles

By Emanuel Fabian

Threatening messages come amid ongoing fighting along border with Lebanon, including surveillance drone thought to belong to terror group crashing in northern town

Illustrative: An IAF Boeing 707 refueling plane and several F-35 and F-15 fighter jets carry out a drill just off the coast of Israel, August 15, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Analysis

How will Gaza war feature at DNC, and could it split party as support for Harris rises?

Hostage families hope to secure primetime moment like family at RNC; voters opposed to support for Israel push to be represented; Emhoff, Shapiro expected to be among main speakers

Merchandise for US Vice President Kamala Harris is displayed as preparation continues for the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on August 16, 2024, in Chicago. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP)

Barbra Streisand speaks at the Jewish Women for Kamala Harris Zoom call on Aug. 15, 2024. (YouTube screenshot via JTA)

Barbara Streisand, Susie Essman among headliners on ‘Jewish women for Kamala’ call

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Kenneth Jacobson

Not your grandma’s Democratic Convention

Unlike today’s pro-Palestinian activists, protesters at the 1968 DNC in Chicago didn’t target an entire community of US citizens

The last Israeli-Palestinian war

People of courage on both sides must stand up now and say: I am sorry, we have crossed moral red lines that should never be crossed

Palestinians walk on the rubble of destroyed buildings, between two pools of stagnant water in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 19, 2024 (Bashar Taleb / AFP)

Gaza records first polio case in 25 years as UN seeks ceasefire to vaccinate kids

By AFP

Infant from Strip confirmed to have disease hours after World Health Organization and UNICEF announce plans to inoculate 640,000 children during two week-long truces

President Isaac Herzog speaks to anti-government protesters outside his house on August 17, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Herzog tells activists outside his home: ‘Kahanists must be removed from government’

Small group of protesters outside president’s residence in north Tel Aviv urge him to stand up against ‘dangers to democracy’; Ben Gvir attacks him for ‘disgusting hypocrisy’

A man checks the damage a day after an attack by Jewish settlers on the village of Jit near Nablus in the West Bank, on August 16, 2024. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

‘We’ll come back and kill you’: Palestinians recall horror of deadly settler riot

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Residents of Jit say attackers ransacked homes, chasing people and threatening to return later; uncle says slain man was shot in back as some locals attempted to defend village

Republican presidential candidate and former US president Donald Trump holds an event on fighting antisemitism with Miriam Adelson, at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster on August 15, 2024, in Bedminster, New Jersey. (Adam Gray/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump says US facing ‘vicious outbreak of militant antisemitism,’ blames Harris

By Ben Sales and Ron Kampeas

During speech about fighting Jew hatred, GOP nominee claims current situation ‘exactly what was going on before the Holocaust,’ warns he’ll put university presidents ‘on notice’

Illustrative: A man draped in an Israeli flag waits for the start of a commemoration ceremony, on October 27, 2023, in in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh to remember the 11 worshippers killed by a gunman at the Tree of Life synagogue five years earlier. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Jewish groups seek to quash referendum that would force Pittsburgh to boycott Israel

By Andrew Lapin

Talya Dancyg, granddaughter of hostage Alex Dancyg who was murdered in Hamas captivity, in the video of her song, 'Dragon of War,' which she'll perform at the Israel Festival in September 2024 (screen capture: YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Teens from evacuated communities to perform with music stars at Israel Festival

By Jessica Steinberg

Young artists will record and perform their own songs with musicians including Berry Sakharof and Karolina, as part of Music People project

Nominated films for Ophir prize include short docs dealing with October 7 atrocities

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative: This picture taken on December 2, 2023, shows a view of the interior of the newly restored 19th century Jewish synagogue of Ben Ezra in Coptic Cairo. (Photo by Amir MAKAR / AFP)

Interview'The community was part and parcel of Egyptian society'

Study of Cairo’s synagogues reveals an Egyptian Jewish ‘Golden Age’ abruptly ended

By Gavriel Fiske

In ‘Sacred Places Tell Tales,’ Ben-Gurion University Prof. Yoram Meital examines the modern history of Cairo’s Jews and its thriving pre-1948 community

An artist's impression of a large asteroid impacting at Chicxulub on the Mexican coastline, which caused the end-Cretaceous mass extinction, 66 million years ago, with the planet Mars and asteroid bodies in the background, in this image obtained by Reuters on August 14, 2024. (Mark Garlick/Handout via Reuters)

Asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs originated beyond Jupiter, scientists show

By Lucie AUBOURG

Researchers publish findings that used an innovative sample analysis technique to confirm assumptions about the apocalyptic culprit that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago

Sarah Levy of the US national women's rugby team carries the ball at the Paris Olympics, August 2024. (Evan Denworth)

InterviewAfter only 10 years playing, 'I just scored at the Olympics!'

US rugby player Sarah Levy kvells over Paris bronze, seeks gold at home in LA in 2028

The 28-year-old physical therapy PhD candidate and professional athlete says she’s glad to put her sport on the map for Americans – and connect with fellow Jews while she’s at it

More Headlines

Yosef Kibita poses with his new Israeli passport. (Courtesy Masorti Movement in Israel)

After 7-year legal battle, Uganda Jewish man finally gets Israeli citizenship

By Jackie Hajdenberg

A gardener waters the lawn between the tombstones at the Commonwealth Gaza War Cemetery, commonly known as the British War Cemetery and in which are interred the remains of 3217 Allied soldiers who died during World War I, in Gaza City on September 28, 2022. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Hamas plotted to threaten UK in 2022 by ‘kidnapping’ bodies of WWI soldiers – report

Tents housing internally displaced Palestinians stand on the beach in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on May 10, 2024. (Photo by AFP)

Anti-Israel activists seek to break naval blockade on Gaza, deliver humanitarian aid

By Reuters and ToI Staff

View of an empty classroom at a school in Tel Aviv, during a general strike of some municipalities and local authorities, on May 15, 2023. (Flash90)

‘School will not start,’ warns head of Teachers Union amid impasse in wage talks

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