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What Matters Most On Monday, August 19, 2024

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, August 19, 2024. (David Azagury/US Embassy Jerusalem)

Blinken: May be hostages' last chance; have to 'get to yes'

After three-hour Blinken meeting, Netanyahu says Israel backs new US hostage proposal

By Lazar Berman

Prime minister also agrees to send main negotiators to Cairo summit this week, as top American diplomat leads push for deal

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on August 18, 2024 (Screenshot/GPO)

As Blinken arrives in Israel, Netanyahu vows to stick to demands on hostage talks

By Lazar Berman

Yuval Tal, girlfriend of IDF Sergeant Amir Lavi who was killed battling Hamas terrorists in southern Israel on October 7, visits his grave at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on August 18, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Hamas rejects US hostage-ceasefire proposal as PM said to warn chance for deal ‘not high’

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Israeli police at the scene of a bomb explosion in Tel Aviv, August 18, 2024. Police later said the incident was an attempted suicide bombing in which the bomber blew himself up. (AP Photo/Moti Milrod)

Wounded bystander describes being engulfed in flames

Hamas claims Tel Aviv blast as attempted suicide bombing, vows to carry out more

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Incident confirmed as intended terror attack, dead bomber’s identity unknown; reports suggest he came from Nablus area in West Bank; Tel Aviv police steps up operational activity

Security camera footage shows a man walking down a street in south Tel Aviv, moments before a bomb in his backpack detonated, killing him and wounding a passerby (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Man killed in Tel Aviv when bomb in his backpack goes off; police probing possible terror

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaks in Tel Aviv, Aug. 19, 2024. (Kevin Mohatt/Pool Photo via AP)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 19: Blinken said to tell hostage families Netanyahu truly wants a deal this time

Israeli official: PM believes Iran will try to attack even if there’s a deal * IDF officer killed due to malfunctioning airstrike on Gaza * Soldier killed in Hezbollah drone attack

8:43 pm

8 said wounded in Israeli airstrike on Hezbollah weapons depot in Lebanon
8:35 pm

UN says Houthis handed back control of its human rights office in Yemen
8:13 pm

Hezbollah confirms death of operative in Israeli drone strike

In this photo obtained from the US Department of Defense, the US Navy's aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) (IKE) transits the Strait of Hormuz on November 26, 2023. (Ruskin Naval / US Department of Defense / AFP)

Promoted PodcastDecision Points: Season 5

Mideast crisis moment: Stakes for the US-Israel security relationship

Will crisis create opportunity? Dana Stroul and Amos Gilead join David Makovsky to discuss the stakes for the US-Israel defense partnership at this key regional moment

Medics and IDF troops at the scene of an attack at the Bar-On industrial park in the West Bank, during which a civilian security guard was hit over the head with a hammer by a Palestinian terrorist, August 18, 2024; inset: Gidon Peri, who was killed in the attack. (Magen David Adom; courtesy)

Israeli civilian security guard killed in West Bank hammer attack

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says troops pursuing Palestinian terrorist who hit security guard in the head with a hammer and stole his handgun at Bar-On industrial park

Chief Warrant Officer Mahmood Amaria, killed in a Hezbollah drone attack near Ya'ara, August 19, 2024. (Courtesy)

Soldier killed, another seriously hurt in Hezbollah drone attack on Western Galilee

By Emanuel Fabian

Lebanese terror group launched five explosive-laden drones; one struck near Ya’ara, killing Chief Warrant Officer Mahmood Amaria; IDF kills two Hezbollah operatives

An armoured vehicle of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) patrols the southern Lebanese border area of Marjayoun on August 8, 2024. (Photo by AFP)

3 UN peacekeepers lightly hurt in southern Lebanon blast; 20 rockets fired at north

By Emanuel Fabian, Gianluca Pacchiani and Agencies

An image released by the Shin Bet amid an investigation into three Israelis accused of acting under the supervision of Iran, released July 16, 2024 (Shin Bet)

Israeli man indicted for carrying out tasks for Iranian agent

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a meeting in Jerusalem, August 19, 2024. (Haim Zach/GPO)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Aug. 19: Day 318 – As Blinken pushes deal, PM stresses right to resume war

Editor David Horovitz details what’s at stake during the ongoing hostage release negotiations and why some Israelis are against them, weighs in on last week’s Jit settler rampage

So now we’re not allowed to eliminate terrorists?

On the immoral, perilous notion that terrorist organizations and states have the right to retaliate against liberal democracies

Teachers unions are fueling anti-Israelism. Here’s how

Groups like BAMN and Educators for Palestine use the unions as vehicles to push radical curricula in K-12 schools across the US

ToI Original Video

Tel Aviv cafe brews up resilience

Cafe Otef is owned and operated entirely by those who survived the October 7 Hamas onslaught, offering products from the Gaza envelope communities

Reem and Imad Younis at Alpha Omega company headquarters, August 7, 2024. (Courtesy)

'We wanted to change the reality that we're living in'

Doubling down on unlikely success story, Arab-Israeli couple takes med-tech giant to Jenin

By Diana Bletter

Short on cash but long on grit, Reem and Imad Younis co-founded their company Alpha Omega in 1993 to make a ‘brain Waze’; now they’re taking a risk, in line with their vision

Ziv Abud (in red) stages a romantic Tu B'av dinner for one to call attention to the plight of her partner Eliya Cohen, who is held hostage in Gaza, August 18, 2024. (Screenshot, Instagram, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Partner of Gaza hostage highlights absence with staged Tu B’Av dinner on Tel Aviv beach

Ziv Abud sets up a romantic dinner for two on the Tel Aviv Promenade, but instead of sitting opposite her partner Eliya Cohen, she faced an empty chair

A post shared on Instagram by rescued hostage Noa Argamani recalls previous Tu B'Av celebrations with her partner Avinatan Or, who remains captive in Gaza, August 18, 2024. (Screenshot: Instagram; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

On eve of Tu B’Av, Noa Argamani wishes for ‘days full of love’ with abducted partner

Protesters from both sides accuse Chicago of discrimination

Pro-Palestine, pro-Israel activists jostle for airtime as DNC gets underway

Historic panel on Palestinian rights to be held at Democratic convention’s satellite location, though unclear if activists for either side will command official DNC audience

Anti-Israel demonstrators hold Palestinian flags, banners and signs during a protest on the eve of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, Illinois, on August 18, 2024. (MATTHEW HATCHER / AFP)

Osama Siblani, publisher of the Arab American News is photographed in his office in Dearborn, Michigan, April 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

ADL condemns Harris campaign chief’s meeting with journalist who praised Hamas

Anti-Israel activists demonstrate outside the US Capitol in Washington, April 20, 2024, as the House prepares to vote on approval of $95 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and other US allies. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Anti-Israel delegates plan to disrupt DNC and call for arms embargo on Israel

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Illustrative: German high school students from the Reclam gymnasium Leipzig read excerpts of the bilingual book 'Der Brief/La Lettre' detailing the results of their research into the life of Holocaust victim Martin Kober at a book launch ceremony in Leipzig's town hall, November 27, 2012. (Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP)

'Trying to simulate the Holocaust is absurd'

‘Gestapo Game’ at Tim Walz’s school was part of a trend Holocaust educators now reject

By Andrew Lapin and PHILISSA CRAMER

Amid reports that the VP candidate helped end an outdated role playing game while a teacher in Minnesota, one thing is certain – he condemned such exercises in his master’s thesis

People check the damage inside their 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 (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

State attorney to oversee investigation into Jit settler rampage

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

During meeting with top enforcement officials, Amit Aisman and others said to lash out at police in the West Bank for their failure to tackle the violence

Israeli singer Eyal Golan performs at Bloomfield Stadium, in Tel Aviv, June 13, 2024. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

State attorney seeks probe into pop singer Eyal Golan for calling to ‘erase Gaza’

Two residents of the Jerusalem neighborhood of Kafr Aqab stand next to tanks placed by local residents on rooftops and filled with water purchased privately, as their water supply is cut to only a few hours a week, July 24, 2024 (Gianluca Pacchiani/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

In summer heat, East Jerusalem suburb receives water for only 12 hours a week

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Sprawling Kafr Aqab has seen its population skyrocket in recent years, but the infrastructure and the water supply have not kept up. Now residents demand answers

Interview

‘This is a religious war’: Likud MK calls for Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount

While repeatedly challenging Netanyahu on a range of issues, lawmaker Amit Halevi insists the PM is a ‘hero’ whose coalition deserves support despite internal disagreements

Llkud MK Amit Halevi (center) visits the Temple Mount in Jerusalem during Tisha B'Av, August 13, 2024. (Courtesy)

Yisrael Beytenu chief and former defense minister Avigdor Liberman testifying before an independent civilian commission investigating the events leading up to October 7, August 18, 2024. (Civilian Commission of Inquiry)

Investigating October 7Liberman tells unofficial Oct. 7 probe he warned of Hamas invasion threat in 2016

Israel StoryIn partnership with The Times of Israel

Wartime Diaries: Toby Einhorn

Seeking love. Called to war.

Courtesy of Jenny Peperman

Director David Mamet at the Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival, August 17, 2024. (David Chen)

David Mamet in Tel Aviv: ‘Assimilated US Jews gave up the Torah for The New York Times’

By James Inverne

Writer-director visits Israel ahead of the launch of his latest film, ‘Henry Johnson,’ and Broadway run of ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’

Prolonged Gaza war hits Israeli economy with substantial slowdown

By Sharon Wrobel

Economy contracted 0.4% in April-June on a per capita basis when adjusted to population growth, and business production and exports dropped, according to statistics bureau data

Illustrative: Israelis shop at the Dizengoff Center shopping mall on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv, March 20, 2024. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich during a cabinet meeting convened to approve the 2024 amended state budget, January 15, 2024. (Haim Zach, GPO)

Netanyahu, Smotrich say they’ve agreed to pass 2025 state budget by year’s end

Illustrative: Ovens and other home related appliance or equipment in a retail store showroom. (Starush/iStock)

Reform intended to lower price of electronics in Israel goes into effect

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convenes a security cabinet meeting on July 28, 2024. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Former director of Netanyahu’s office takes job as stenographer for classified meetings

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara depart for Rome on March 9, 2023. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu spent more than $6 million on overseas trips in 2023, figures show

Police cars and officers are stationed on a street around the Israeli embassy in Belgrade, on June 29, 2024, after a man wielding a crossbow shot and wounded a police officer guarding the embassy, and was then fatally shot by the officer. (Oliver Bunic/AFP)

Serbian police kill man linked to crossbow attack on Israeli embassy in Belgrade

By AFP

A sign for The New York Times hangs above the entrance to its building, on May 6, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

NYT reporter linked to leak of Australian Jews’ details, which led to doxxing attacks

Illustrative: A Turkish police car in Istanbul, Turkey, on October 9, 2017. (OZAN KOSE / AFP)

Arab Israeli killed, another injured in shooting in Istanbul

By AP

A man wears a mask depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as activists for hostages held by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip protest against Netanyahu's government in Tel Aviv, August 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Time fact-checks Netanyahu interview, countering his denial of ‘bankrolling’ Hamas

Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman meets US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, not pictured, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, March 20, 2024. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)

Former Saudi official alleges MBS forged king’s signature on Yemen war decree

By Jon Gambrell

Brazilian television magnate and TV host Silvio Santos waves on 30 August, 2001, after being held hostage for seven hours in his home in Sao Paulo. (MAURICIO LIMA / AFP)

ObituaryBrazilian Jewish entertainment legend Silvio Santos dies at 93

By DÉBORA ÁLVARES

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