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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 22, 2024

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Chanting ‘Bring them home,’ tens of thousands applaud Goldberg-Polins’ speech at DNC

Audience’s attentive silence during address by parents of US-Israeli hostage Hersh puts to bed days of speculation that such a speech might highlight rifts in party over Gaza war

Minnesota Governor and 2024 Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz gestures after speaking on the third day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on August 21, 2024. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Vowing to ‘make a real difference,’ Democratic VP pick Tim Walz accepts nomination

By Frankie TAGGART

Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks behind bulletproof glass during a campaign rally at the North Carolina Aviation Museum & Hall of Fame in Asheboro, North Carolina, August 21, 2024. (Photo by Peter Zay / AFP)

Trump speaks behind bulletproof glass at first outdoor rally since attempt on his life

By Michelle L. Price and Jill Colvin

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

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Family and friends attend the funeral service of Yagev Buchshtav at the cemetery in Kibbutz Nirim, on August 21, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

3 recovered hostages laid to rest in Israel, 10 months after they were taken alive

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Families of Yagev Buchstav, Nadav Popplewell and Avraham Munder mourn missed chances for deal that could have saved their loved ones, at funerals in Nirim and Nir Oz

Family and friends attend the funeral service of Yagev Buchshtab at the Cemetery in Kibbutz Nirim, on August 21, 2024, Yagev Buchshtab was kidnapped to the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, his body was recently brought back to Israel in an Israeli military operation. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Hostage families, Gaza border towns join growing boycott of Oct. 7 state memorial

Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli speaks at the AJC Global Forum in Tel Aviv, on June 14, 2023 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Likud minister reportedly conditioned funds for hostage families on firing of PR man

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White House: In call with Netanyahu, Biden stresses urgency of ceasefire-hostage deal

By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

Harris also joins call; Arab officials say US went too far in backing Israel’s demands on Philadelphi Corridor; security cabinet to meet Thursday night

US President Joe Biden (right) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, July 25, 2024. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant meets troops along the Philadelphi Corridor, the Egypt-Gaza border area, August 21, 2024. (Ariel Heremoni/Defense Ministry)

Gallant: IDF razed 150 tunnels on Egypt-Gaza border, defeated Hamas’s Rafah Brigade

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

A Palestinian child receives a pentavalent shot, which protects against five diseases, in Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah, January 2, 2024, after the vaccines were delivered to the Strip in an international aid shipment. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

UN agencies wage uphill battle for vaccination after Gaza baby found to have polio

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Illustrative: A Canadian police car is seen near the Rainbow Bridge border crossing into the US in Niagara Falls, Ontario, November 22, 2023. (Usman Khan/AFP)

Bomb threats emailed to over 100 Jewish institutions in Canada

Jewish community leaders say threat was ‘designed to disrupt lives,’ thank law enforcement for swift response; Trudeau decries ‘blatant antisemitism’ of targeted campaign

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NY bookshop said to nix talk by Jewish critic of Zionism for including Zionist rabbi

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)

4 Jewish Israeli terror suspects detained over attack on West Bank village Jit

By Emanuel Fabian

Shin Bet interrogating quartet, including minor, over deadly riot last week and other terror-related incidents

A man stands in front of burnt cars, a day after an attack by Jewish settlers on the village of Jit near Nablus in the occupied West Bank that left a 23-year-old man dead and others with critical gunshot wounds, on August 16, 2024. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh / AFP)

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Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

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Outgoing head of the IDF Military Intelligence Directorate, Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva (right) incoming commander of the directorate, Maj. Gen. Shlomi Binder (left) and Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi (center) attend a handover ceremony at the Glilot Base near Herzliya, August 21, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Outgoing IDF intel chief Haliva says he failed to warn of Oct. 7, urges state probe

By Emanuel Fabian

Incoming head of Military Intelligence Directorate, Maj. Gen. Shlomi Binder, calls for focusing efforts on ‘urgent’ mission of returning hostages

El Al airplanes on the tarmac at Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport, October 4, 2022. (Moshe Shai/ Flash90/ File)

El Al announces fixed ticket costs for 4 locations amid price hike accusations

National carrier says flights to Larnaca, Athens, Vienna and Dubai to be at set prices through December as it’s accused of exploiting war to pad profits

File: American Airlines passenger jets prepare for departure, July 21, 2021, near a terminal at Boston Logan International Airport. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

American Airlines extends suspension of flights to Israel through late March 2025

By AP and ToI Staff

Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli strike that targeted a Hezbollah site in the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila on August 21, 2024. (Rabih Daher/ AFP)

IDF launches ‘extensive’ strikes against Hezbollah in 10 areas of southern Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian

Attacks follow day of rockets raining on Katzrin in Golan, wounding 1 and causing heavy damage; visiting site, Ben Gvir demands response ‘in most unequivocal, clearest way’

A Haredi draftee is received by a soldier at the Tel Hashomer base in central Israel, August 6, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF: Only some 70 Haredi men have reported to induction centers since High Court ruling

By Emanuel Fabian

Landmark decision in June declared there is no legal basis to excuse ultra-Orthodox from compulsory service, but less than three percent of 3,000 drafted have so far cooperated

Activists demonstrate on behalf of the Hamas-held Israeli hostages on International Women's Day, March 8, 2024. (Courtesy of J-United)

'We didn't foresee how impactful Oct. 7 was for the Diaspora'

Aussie Jews step up pro-Israel activism as rebel anti-Zionist group raises its profile

By Nomi Kaltmann

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By Sharon Wrobel

US financial institutions see more downgrades as credit rating agencies are not confident about the government’s ability to keep its fiscal deficit under control as war costs rise

The Wing Luke Museum in Seattle, Washington. (Screenshot via YouTube/JTA)

Declaring ‘hate has won,’ Seattle Jewish groups vow to move museum exhibit elsewhere

By Andrew Lapin

Months after staff walked out at Wing Luke Museum claiming installation on antisemitism was ‘Zionist,’ organizers give up on working with original partners

Messages reading 'Glory To Our Martyrs' and 'Divestment From Zionist Genocide Now,' along with others, are projected onto a building at George Washington University's campus in Washington, October 24, 2023. (StopAntisemitism via X)

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By Andrew Lapin

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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, center, is greeted by lawmakers while leaving the parliament after his speech during the debate on his proposed ministers, at the Majlis in Tehran, August 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

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A picture taken from southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip on December 3, 2023, shows Israeli drones flying over the Palestinian territory. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Ireland said open to buying Israeli drones despite being fierce critic over Gaza war

An aerial view of the Europe Asia Pipeline Company's (EAPC) oil terminal at Israel's southern Red Sea port city of Eilat, February 9, 2021. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

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Greek-flagged oil tanker drifting ablaze in Red Sea after apparent Houthi attack

By Jon Gambrell

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By Andrew Silow-Carroll

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