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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 18, 2024

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IDF troops of the 252nd Reserve Division are seen operating in the Netzarim Corridor of central Gaza, in a handout photo published July 27, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

2 Israelis held for a decade would be freed in deal - report

US ‘bridging proposal’ for Gaza deal said to exclude two of Netanyahu’s key demands

Further talks set for Cairo on Sunday, as Blinken heads to Israel; mediators aiming to finalize deal in days, PM’s office cites optimism, but Hamas indicates it will reject terms

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to the media as after meeting with families of Hamas hostages, during his visit to Tel Aviv, Israel, June 11, 2024. (Jack Guez/ Pool Photo via AP)

Blinken heads to Israel for 9th time since Oct. 7, hoping to close hostage-truce deal

By Agencies and ToI Staff

View of the Philadelphi Corridor between the southern Gaza Strip and Egypt, on July 15, 2024. (Oren Cohen/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 18: Day 317 – Strategic importance of 2 Gaza corridors in hostage talks

Asked about civilian deaths in Gaza, top Hamas official ends CNN interview

Osama Hamdan charges host Jim Sciutto looking at conflict through ‘Israeli eyes’ when pushed on whether terror group accepts responsibility for using Palestinians as human shields

CNN journalist Jim Sciutto, left, speaks from Tel Aviv with Doha-based Hamas politburo member Osama Hamdan, August 17, 2024. (Screen capture: X/Jim Sciutto, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Palestinians and rescuers gather around a car targeted in an Israeli airstrike that killed two senior Hamas operatives in the West Bank city of Jenin on August 17, 2024. (Mohammad Mansour/AFP)

Two senior Hamas operatives killed in IDF drone strike in West Bank city of Jenin

By Emanuel Fabian

US President Joe Biden walks to board Air Force One at Hagerstown Regional Airport in Hagerstown, Maryland, on August 18, 2024 (ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 18: Biden says Gaza ceasefire deal ‘still possible’ and ‘we’re not giving up’

Hamas rejects new ceasefire proposals, says Netanyahu imposing new conditions * Blinken in Tel Aviv * Police probing if bomb in Tel Aviv was criminal or an attempted terror attack

10:22 pm

Biden says Gaza ceasefire is 'still possible'
10:18 pm

Reports: Israeli shot dead in Turkey as part of criminal dispute
8:21 pm

US military says it shot down Houthi drone

A farmer in Kadesh Barnea, in the Negev, inspects the condition of cherry tomatoes, after heavy rains that caused floods in the Negev Desert, February 2024. (Gili Yaari/Flash 90)

Donation Request

Help farmers on the Gaza border rebuild

They took a sandy plot of land unfit for growing vegetables and transformed it into a beautiful farm, and they’re ready to do it all over again. They need your help.

Maj. (res.) Yotam Itzhak Peled (right) and Sgt. Maj. (res.) Mordechai Yosef Ben Shoam, killed in the central Gaza Strip on August 17, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

2 IDF reservists killed by bomb during logistics supply mission in central Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

Military issues fresh evacuation orders in Maghazi, says dozens of gunmen killed across Strip; Gazan rescuers say 15 people from same family killed in Israeli strike

Demonstrators protest calling for the release of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip, outside the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, August 17, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

‘Sign a deal now’: Tens of thousands around country say hostage release is now or never

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Amid reports sides edging closer to potential agreement on Gaza ceasefire, protesters say remaining captives are running out of time

Family members of Israeli hostage Romi Gonen celebrate her 24th birthday, in Tel Aviv, August 18, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Hostage Romi Gonen’s family marks her 24th birthday with event to ‘spread light’

Phone call lured Hezbollah’s Shukr to his Beirut apartment minutes before strike – report

Official from Lebanon-based terror group tells WSJ it’s working with Iran to probe how Israel breached security to hurry secretive commander into easy-to-target 7th-floor home

People gather near a destroyed building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, July 30, 2024.; inset: Top Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in an undated photo (AP Photo/Hussein Malla; Hezbollah media office)

It’s Tu B’Av – spread the love, yes, even this year

It’s the festival of compassion, of women’s friendship, and, especially, a day when anyone can be a matchmaker

Michael Berenbaum

Can a museum – any museum – ‘eliminate hate?’

True, Holocaust museums are at a crossroads, just not the way Edward Rothstein thinks they are

Roni Cohen, right, a midwife, checks Shira Weiss as part of the 'First Contractions' project, in Shavei Zion, Israel, August 11, 2024. (Diana Bletter/The Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'During war, you can’t postpone birth'

In northern Israel, midwives prepare expectant mothers for birth during war

By Diana Bletter

With ‘First Contractions,’ expectant mothers get ready for worst-case scenarios: delivering their babies safely at home if they can’t get to a hospital and nobody can reach them

'Remarkable heroism'

The young IDF officer who ran 8 miles to the Gaza border on Oct. 7 to fight terrorists

‘It was the hardest run I’d ever done’: 2nd Lt. Avichail Reuven tells his heroic story, which Netanyahu briefly shared with Congress last month to standing ovation, in TV interview

2nd Lt. Avichail Reuven speaks to Channel 12 News in Kiryat Malachi, August, 2024. (Channel 12 News, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Palestinians celebrating, near a destroyed Israeli tank at the Gaza Strip fence east of Khan Younis, October 7, 2023. (AP/Hassan Eslaiah)

IDF leaders didn’t know intel chiefs obtained Hamas battle plan in April 2022 – report

Television report says 40-page document detailing Hamas’s plans for Oct. 7 assault was withheld from military, political leadership even after concerns were raised

The United States' Jesse Owens, center, salutes during the presentation of his gold medal for the long jump, alongside German silver medalist Luz Long, who performs a Nazi salute, right, and bronze medalist Naoto Tajima, of Japan, during the eleventh Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, August 11, 1936. (AP Photo)

Interview‘Hitler gave us the Olympics we have today’

Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘Revisionist History’ podcast examines influence of 1936 Olympics

By jacob gurvis

Together with co-host Ben Naddaff-Hafrey, the writer delves into the complex developments behind Nazi Germany hosting the Berlin Games, and what led countries to participate

Passengers at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, August 1, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni / Flash90)

As airlines scrap flights, Israeli travel has become a costly, often madcap endeavor

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Israelis and visitors often left with no choice but costly, circuitous routes, as some complain of ‘price-gouging’ by local carriers

Illustrative - An Orthodox Jewish wedding. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)

Half of Israeli Jews would prefer to marry in non-Orthodox wedding ceremonies — poll

Two-thirds of public backs lifting Chief Rabbinate’s monopoly on Jewish weddings to include Reform, Conservative, civil ceremonies; only ultra-Orthodox, far-right voters oppose

Trump: ‘Never been a more dangerous time since the Holocaust’ to be Jewish in US

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Former US president doubles down on fight against antisemitism, courting Jewish voters; reiterates claim VP Harris rejected Josh Shapiro as running mate because he’s Jewish

Republican presidential nominee former US president Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, August 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Laurence Kesterson)

US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally at Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Michigan, August 7, 2024. (Jeff Kowalsky / AFP)

‘She doesn’t need us’: Harris struggles to regain Arab American support as DNC nears

By AP

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Crocodiles at Jerusalem's Biblical Zoo, August 18, 2024. (Police spokesperson)

Crocodile attacks worker at Jerusalem’s Biblical Zoo during routine maintenance

Illustrative: Israeli security forces seen during a raid in the Tubas, in the northern West Bank, August 14, 2024. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Police said to refuse to arrest settler who tried entering Palestinian village

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen Barth Eide talks to media as he arrives to attend an informal meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs at Czernin Palace in Prague, Czech Republic on May 31, 2024. (Michal Cizek / AFP)

Norway shutters Palestinian office after Israel revokes diplomats’ accreditation

Sigal Yana Itzkovich, accused of murdering her 6-year-old son, Liam, in Herzliya on July 16, arrives for a court hearing at the Tel Aviv District Court on August 18, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Herzliya woman charged with aggravated murder of 6-year-old son

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