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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 21, 2024

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Demonstrators call for the release of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip outside the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, August 20, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Protesters block Tel Aviv traffic after 6 bodies recovered

Blinken urges ‘maximum flexibility’ from Israel and Hamas in hostage-ceasefire talks

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Unnamed Israeli negotiator says PM’s insistence on holding Philadelphi Corridor is aimed at sabotaging talks; officials fear they missed chance to free elderly hostages in Nov. truce

Relatives and supporters of Israelis held hostage by Hamas since the October 7 attacks lift flags and placards as they demonstrate calling for their release in Tel Aviv on August 10, 2024. (Oren Ziv / AFP)

Report: Hostage-ceasefire talks on brink of collapse as Hamas remains intransigent

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, meets with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in El-Alamein, Egypt, on Tuesday, August 20, 2024. (Kevin Mohatt/Pool Photo via AP)

After Israel trip, Blinken meets Egypt’s Sissi as he looks to shore up ceasefire deal

By AFP and ToI Staff

David Amzel, owner of Lechem Tene Bakery in Gesher Haziv, stands in the kibbutz with the border of Lebanon behind him on August 15, 2024. (Diana Bletter/The Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook5 miles from Lebanon, beauty collides with hyper-vigilance

A northern kibbutz on the edge of the evacuated zone is Israel’s new de facto border

By Diana Bletter

Kibbutz Gesher Haziv residents learn to deal with a thorny reality as they try to live their daily lives alongside the threat of Hezbollah attacks

A home in Katzrin on Israel's Golan Heights that was directly hit in a rocket attack from Lebanon, August 21, 2024. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Israeli hurt in rocket barrage on Golan; Fatah official tied to Iran killed in Sidon strike

By Emanuel Fabian

Some 50 rockets launched at Katzrin after IDF hits targets deep in Lebanon; killing of Khalil Makdah is first apparent strike targeting PA’s Fatah faction in Lebanon since October

Promoted EssaySources: A Journal of Jewish Ideas

How and How Not to Help on Campus

How should off-campus stakeholders respond to campus antisemitism? From the Jewish on Campus issue of Sources: A Journal of Jewish Ideas published by the Shalom Hartman Institute.

Illustrative: In this photo from the US Navy provided on November 19, 2019, the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, left, the air-defense destroyer HMS Defender and the guided-missile destroyer USS Farragut transit the Strait of Hormuz with the guided-missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Zachary Pearson/U.S. Navy via AP)

Live updates (Closed)

Aug. 21: USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier reaches Middle East amid fears of escalation

By Michael Bachner, Michael Horovitz and ToI Staff

Aircraft carrier strike group to join USS Theodore Roosevelt * Arab officials say Israel must agree to end IDF presence in Philadelphi, Netzarim corridors if it wants deal

10:21 pm

Trump speaks from behind bulletproof glass at first outdoor rally since attempted assassination
9:50 pm

White House: Biden stressed 'urgency' of finalizing hostage-ceasefire deal in call with Netanyahu
9:25 pm

US House committee subpoenas Columbia for documents related to antisemitism investigation

Op-ed: Day 320 of the war

A bridge too far? Blinken’s desperate bid for a hostage-ceasefire deal

After Netanyahu accepted the US ‘final bridging proposal,’ the secretary said Hamas must now do the same. He made it sound so clear-cut, but the picture is getting muddier

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken departs for Egypt, in Tel Aviv, Israel, August 20, 2024. (Kevin Mohatt//Pool Photo via AP)

Inside story

How the IDF found the bodies of 6 hostages hidden in a secret Hamas tunnel

With specific, but limited intel, IDF quickly took control of a Khan Younis neighborhood; then found a loose panel in a false tunnel wall, leading to the spot where the bodies were

IDF troops are seen operating to retrieve the bodies of 6 hostages from Gaza's Khan Younis during an overnight operation, in photos cleared for publication on August 20, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli Noa Argamani, who was abducted with others from the Nova music festival during Hamas's October 7 attack on southern Israel that triggered the war, speaks during a meeting with G7 embassy representatives during a visit to Tokyo on August 21, 2024. (Richard A. Brooks / AFP)

Rescued Hamas hostage Noa Argamani says she thought ‘every night is my last’

By ToI Staff and AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets hostage families from the hardline Gvura and Tikva forums at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, August 20, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

Mainstream hostage relatives' forum says PM torpedoing deal

Meeting hardline hostage relatives, Netanyahu says ‘not sure there will be a deal’

Relatives say PM told them Israel will not give up on strategic assets it has claimed in Gaza, such as Philadelphi Corridor, for a deal with Hamas

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attend a Knesset vote on the state budget, February 7, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu met twice recently with Smotrich to gauge his opposition to deal — report

Reporter's notebook

Jews star on DNC’s main stage while keeping low profile at side events in Chicago

Delegates say focusing on small minority of protesters, and the safety precautions taken in response to them, paints inaccurate picture of Jewish experience in Democratic Party

Delegates hold up signs as US Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff speaks on the second day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on August 20, 2024. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

US President Joe Biden speaks on stage on the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, on August 19, 2024. (Robyn Beck/AFP)

Biden’s Jewish backers unruffled as his critics pan remark on anti-Israel protests

By Ron Kampeas and Ben Sales

Former President Barack Obama speaks during the Democratic National Convention August 20, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 21: Day 320 – ToI reports from Democratic National Convention in Chicago

People walk past a banner featuring a picture of the late Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed last month while in Iran, in Tehran on August 20, 2024. (Atta KENARE / AFP)

Revolutionary Guard says wait for Iran’s retaliation against Israel ‘could be long’

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Delta planes sitting on the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, Nov. 22, 2017. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images via JTA)

Delta Airlines extends suspension of Israel flights through September

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer Starmer at the Brechfa Forest West Wind Farm, a clean energy site in Pencader, Wales, August 20, 2024. (Ben Birchall/Pool via AP)

Starmer speaks with Netanyahu, discusses urgent need for ‘regional de-escalation’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Amid troop shortage, IDF begins calling up 15,000 previously released reservists

By Sam Sokol and Emanuel Fabian

Army cancels exemptions due to manpower shortage caused by hostilities in Gaza and the north. Edelstein welcomes move, calls on IDF to join in drafting Haredi enlistment bill

Israeli Infantry reservists during light arms training in the Golan Heights before heading south to the Gaza Strip, October 8, 2023. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest against mandatory enlistment outside an IDF Recruitment Center in Jeursalem, on August 21, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Five arrested as ultra-Orthodox protesters rally against draft in Jerusalem

An exhibit to raise awareness for the hostages being held in Gaza on the sidelines of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on August 20, 2024. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Israel activists erect ‘Hostage Square’ in Chicago on sidelines of Democratic convention

By Jacob Magid and JTA

Hostage’s father welcomes supportive interaction with Ocasio-Cortez; Israeli envoy raps city’s ‘institutional support’ for anti-Israel protesters as they disrupt an Orthodox event

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators clash with police near the Israeli consulate during the Democratic National Convention, on August 20, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators charge police line outside Israeli consulate in Chicago

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters march to the Democratic National Convention after a rally at Union Park, August 19, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

13 protesters arrested after clashing with police at Gaza ceasefire rally near DNC

By AP and ToI Staff

Since October 7th, the IDF has had an unsurprising mental health care crisis

What is more surprising – and very welcome – is the speed with which the army is implementing its plan for a new mental health center

5 things leaders need to know about mainstream Jewish voters

Jewish Americans are pro-Israel, pro-peace, pro-democracy, and firmly set against one particular presidential candidate

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks on crime and safety during a campaign event at the Livingston County Sheriff's Office, August 20, 2024, in Howell, Michigan. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Trump campaigns in Michigan town with historic links to white supremacists

By Helen Coster and Nathan Layne

GOP nominee’s campaign rejects criticism by Democrats of using racial tensions to generate support; protesters last month chanted ‘Heil Hitler,’ ‘we love Hitler, we love Trump’

Former US president Barack Obama gestures as he walks off stage after speaking on the second day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on August 20, 2024. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

‘Yes she can’: Obama tells cheering Democrats US ready for a Harris presidency

By Gregory WALTON

Prof. Aaron Ciechanover speaks at a protest against the planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, on April 29, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Nobel and Israel Prize laureate: ‘We won’t have a state’ if brain drain continues

Prof. Aaron Ciechanover of the Technion issues dire warning at ‘National Emergency Conference’ attended by top businessmen and academics

Governor of the Bank of Israel Amir Yaron speaks at the Maariv economic conference in Tel Aviv, March 26, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Bank of Israel head urges Netanyahu to get moving on 2025 state budget

By Steven Scheer

Karmela Waldman with her son Joel Waldman with Joel's new book, 'Surviving the Survivor,' in Toronto, May 2024. (Robert Sarner)

'It's not shtick, we're even worse when the mic is off'

True crime podcast by a Holocaust survivor and her son catapults them to unlikely fame

By Robert Sarner

Karmela Waldman and her son Joel attract millions each month with their unique series ‘Surviving the Survivor.’ Now Joel has penned a book about their lives with the same name

Sanctioned by US, activists who tried to block aid to Gaza change course

By Ariela Lopez

Leaders of Tzav 9, which has attacked humanitarian supply convoys headed to Strip, say their focus shifted from ‘field activity’ to political efforts to influence war policy

Activists blocking the Nitzana crossing to Gaza are forcibly removed by police during protests against the transfer of humanitarian aid by Israel, April 11, 2024. (Courtesy Tzav 9)

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Irmgard Furchner appears in court for the verdict in her trial in Itzehoe, Germany, December 20, 2022. (Christian Charisius/Pool Photo via DPA)

Germany upholds conviction of 99-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary

By Toby Axelrod

Shaquille O'Neal speaks at the 2024 NBA Finals in Boston, Massachusetts, June 9, 2024. (Adam Glanzman/Getty Images North America /Getty Images via AFP)

Good pointsNBA star Shaquille O’Neal sends greetings to child victims of October 7

Long Island Jewish Valley Stream (JTA/Wikimedia)

Oregon man charged with making bomb threats against New York Jewish hospitals

By Jackie Hajdenberg

A handout picture obtained from Yemen's Houthi Ansarullah Media Center shows what they say is their targeting of CHIOS LION, a Liberia-flagged crude oil tanker, by unmanned surface vessels in the Red Sea on July 15, 2024. (ANSARULLAH MEDIA CENTRE / AFP)

Commercial ship ‘not under command’ after suspected Red Sea Houthi attack, UK says

By Jon Gambrell

Hodaya Levy, 13, in an image released by the Israeli Police on August 20, 2023. (courtesy)

Police request help in finding missing Ashdod teen

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