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What Matters Most On Friday, August 23, 2024

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Democratic presidential nominee US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during the Democratic National Convention, August 22, 2024, in Chicago. (AP/Paul Sancya)

Accepting nomination, Harris vows support for Israeli security, Palestinian self-determination

By Jacob Magid, Agencies and ToI Staff

Kamala Harris says ‘the time is now’ for hostage-truce deal, but she ‘will always ensure Israel has the ability to defend itself,’ citing ‘horror’ of October 7

US Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, waves at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, August 22, 2024. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

AnalysisAs DNC caps her ‘joyful’ rollout, Harris’s real test begins

By Steve Peoples and Zeke Miller

Left: Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, August 20, 2024. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin); Right: Republican presidential nominee former president Donald Trump, August 21, 2024. (AP/Chuck Burton)

Harris campaign says Trump ‘denigrates American Jews’ amid his attacks over Israel

Released hostages Yocheved Lifshitz, Yelena Trufanova, and her mother Irena Tati, who were kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on October 7, speak to the media after meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, outside the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, August 23, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 23: PM and his wife recorded sparring with ex-captives about hostage talks

By Elana Kirsh and ToI Staff

ICC chief prosecutor insists court has power to issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, Sinwar * Syrian reports: 3 pro-Iran fighters killed, 10 hurt in Israeli airstrike

10:05 pm

Several dead and injured in knife attack on German festival
8:47 pm

Meta says Iranian hacker group attempted to target Trump, Biden officials' WhatsApp accounts
8:41 pm

Hamas official slams US handling of hostage talks

Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet security agency, attends a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem, May 5, 2024. (Chain Goldberg/Flash90)

Ben Gvir storms out of cabinet after demanding Bar be fired

Shin Bet chief warns Netanyahu, ministers that Jewish terror endangering Israel

Railing against settler violence, Ronen Bar also warns that Ben Gvir’s visits to Temple Mount, attempts to change status quo, can ‘lead to bloodshed,’ ‘change State of Israel’

Composite image shows Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, left, and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, right. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Backing Shin Bet chief, Gallant says Ben Gvir endangering Israel’s security

IDF reserve soldiers suspected of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman detention facility attend a hearing at the Beit Lid military court, August 6, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

House arrest of 5 soldiers suspected in Sde Teiman abuse case extended by two weeks

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

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Media spotlight on anti-Israel minority at DNC paints skewed picture of a party divided

There might have been less surprise over low turnout at pro-Palestinian marches and warm reception of hostage’s family had coverage of the far-left flank been more proportionate

Uncommitted delegates hold a press conference outside the United Center before the Democratic National Convention Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024, in Chicago. (AP/Matt Rourke)

US Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her husband US Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff wave from the stage on the fourth and last day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on August 22, 2024. (Charly Triballeau / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 23: Day 322 – VP Harris reaffirms Israel support on final night of DNC

A protester listens during a demonstration near the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, August 22, 2024. (AP/Noah Berger)

Pro-Palestinian activists protest as delegates leave DNC: ‘We’ll rally all night long’

By AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) speaks to Mossad chief David Barnea at Mossad headquarters during a New Year toast on September 14, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Israeli negotiators hold talks in Cairo amid deep disagreements over Philadelphi Corridor

By Lazar Berman

Sources say progress on hostage-truce deal in jeopardy over Netanyahu’s insistence on continued IDF deployment along Egypt-Gaza border; PMO denies he’d accept international force there

Family and friends attend the funeral service of Avraham Munder, who was taken hostage by Hamas on October 7, 2023 and killed in captivity, and the reburial of Munder's son Roee who was murdered on October 7, following the recovery of Avraham Munder's body from Gaza, at the cemetery in Kibbutz Nir Oz, on August 21, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Bullet wounds in bodies of all 6 hostages from Gaza suggest they were killed by captors

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Abu Kabir Forensic Institute provides initial autospy findings of bodies recovered by IDF in Khan Younis tunnel; bodies of terrorists found nearby also examined, no gunshot wounds

Police officers block off traffic at an intersection close to the Israeli embassy in Belgrade, Serbia, after a terrorist attack there, June 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)

Hamas said to decide to target Israelis abroad in bid to avenge Haniyeh killing

Sgt. Ori Ashkenazi Nechemya, 19, was killed in battle in the Gaza Strip on August 22, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Soldier killed by anti-tank fire in Rafah, as IDF presses on with operations in Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: A Israeli soldier wounded during fighting in Gaza works with a physiotherapist at the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, Feb. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

'Nothing can save you like sports'

From Gaza to LA: Can Paralympics dream help wounded soldiers get back their fighting spirit?

Aiming to provide motivation and spirit to soldiers facing grueling rehab, sporting officials are already looking at those injured in current fighting as 2028 Paralympic hopefuls

Angry at God, with perfect faith

No matter their lifestyle or belief, every single fallen soldier was special, and I need to scream: ’Enough, God! We’ve already suffered too much’

Mordechai Soskil

Goats milk and date honey? Is it worth it?

There’s something so special about Israel that Tristan de Cunha or Uganda or New Jersey couldn’t possibly be a stand-in for it, but sometimes I wonder

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What Matters Now to Dr. Aron Troen: Dispelling claims of intentional famine in Gaza

Nutrition Science & Public Health prof dives into methodology for study showing food supply to war-torn Strip is sufficient, delves into life after his sister’s murder on Oct. 7

Hebrew University of Jerusalem Prof. Aron Troen (Louis Weil)

Regev dismisses families’ objections as ‘noise’ as she pushes ahead with Oct. 7 ceremony

She likens communities’ planned events to ‘alternative ceremonies, such as Israeli-Palestinian ceremony on Memorial Day’; is accused of ignoring pain of bereaved, hostages’ families

Transportation Minister Miri Regev holds a press conference discussing plans for the state ceremony commemorating the October 7 massacre, at the Transportation Ministry in Jerusalem, August 22, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Margalit Moses. (Courtesy)

Former Hamas hostage refuses to meet with Netanyahu, accuses PM of stalling deal

Left to right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, July 26, 2024. (GPO); Opposition Leader Yair Lapid at the Knesset, Jerusalem, July 22, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); head of the National Unity party Benny Gantz at a press conference at the Knesset on July 24, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); former prime minister Naftali Bennett speaks at the annual Cyber Week, at Tel Aviv University, June 25, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Party led by Bennett would overtake Likud in elections, could form coalition – poll

Anti-Netanyahu bloc headed by former PM would win 67 seats to coalition’s 48; Bennett preferred to Netanyahu as PM by 39% to 31%; Smotrich’s party fails to clear Knesset threshold

Left: National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at a ceremony at the Ministry of National Security in Jerusalem, May 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); Right: Police officer Meir Suissa orders demonstrators to leave as they are blocked from entering Tel Aviv's Hashalom train station on July 18, 2023. (Carrie Keller-Lynn/Times of Israel)

Ben Gvir promotes cop indicted for injuring protesters, gives him command of station

A street in the Christian quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, usually lined with restaurants and shops, sits empty amid Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza and the halt to international tourism to the city, December 14, 2023. (Gianluca Pacchiani/Times of Israel)

Israel’s economy sees biggest slowdown among OECD countries as war drags on

By Sharon Wrobel

National Unity MK Gadi Eisenkot attends a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset on July 31, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Eisenkot calls for defense chiefs to resign ‘the moment there’s a break in fighting’

‘Great mistake’ to delay hostages’ return until agreement reached regarding Gaza-Egypt border, says MK, adding he alone supported extending November truce to get out elderly men

New York University students and pro-Israeli supporters rally across from where pro-Palestinian students and supporters are protesting outside the NYU Stern School of Business building, April 22, 2024, in New York. (AP/Mary Altaffer)

One-third of non-Jewish college students in US are hostile to Jews or Israel – study

By Andrew Lapin

Brandeis U researcher urges schools ‘to move beyond… just saying how bad’ antisemitism is, says students must be punished in same way as those who express other forms of bigotry

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff addresses an event organized by the Jewish Democratic Council of America on the sidelines of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on August 22, 2024. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Final day of DNCEmhoff pledges to continue fighting against antisemitism ‘when I’m first gentleman’

Independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks to reporters at the Nassau County Supreme Court in Mineola, NY on Wednesday, August 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah, Pool)

RFK Jr. expected to drop out of US presidential race, may endorse Trump — reports

By AFP

'They seem to wiggle'Shedding light on an idea of Darwin's

Sunflowers dance together to balance sunlight and shade, Israeli researchers say

By Diana Bletter

Tel Aviv University team explains how the plants grow close together and move in zigzag patterns for optimal growth in a collective ‘dance party’

Archivist Sarah Hopley at the office of the American Jewish Historical Society in New York City, August 7, 2024. (Luke Tress/ JTA)

'There will be no other collection like it'

New ADL archive aims to show how hate — and the fight against it — have evolved

A multi-year initiative will catalog and digitize files kept since the Anti-Defamation League’s 1913 founding, aiding researchers and showing the public how hate speech is recycled

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New immigrants pose with Aliyah and Integration Minister Ofir Sofer, ministry director-general Adv. Avichai Kahana, Jewish Agency for Israel deputy director-general Shay Felber, Nefesh B'Nefesh co-founder and chairman Tony Gelbart and Nefesh B’Nefesh co-founder and executive director of Rabbi Yehoshua Fass upon their arrival to Israel, Ben Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv, August 22, 2024. (Nefesh B'Nefesh/Chen Galili)

Israel to see largest influx of immigrants since Oct. 7, most from North America

Gazan filmmaker and activist Bisan Owda is seen in her report for AJ+, 'It's Bisan from Gaza and I'm Still Alive,' published November 4, 2023. (Screen capture via YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Emmys defend nominating Gazan activist for award despite her apparent ties to PFLP

The reconstructed Garrison Church in Potsdam, Germany (CC BY-SA 4.0 Raimond Spekking & Elke Wetzig/ wikimedia)

Germany opens reconstructed 18th-century church where Hitler cemented grip on power

By Geir Moulson

Ambassador Danny Danon, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations, speaks during a UN Security Council meeting on situation in the Middle East at the United Nations headquarters in New York City, August 22, 2024. (Permanent Mission of Israel to the UN)

Israeli ambassador to UN calls Palestinian envoy ‘a terrorist in a suit’

By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

(L-R) PA President Mahmoud Abbas, Tunisian Foreign Affairs Minister Mouldi Kefi, and Fatah's ex-Secretary General Farouk Kaddumi hold hands shortly after the Abbas's arrival in Tunis, Tunisia, November 10, 2011. (Fethi Belaid/AFP)

Farouk Kaddumi, Fatah hardliner who opposed Oslo Accords, dies in Amman at 93

Abbas Araghchi attends a parliament session in the capital Tehran, on August 17, 2024, as Iran's president defends his cabinet selection. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iran’s new FM urges dialogue with EU, claims ‘right’ to retaliate for Haniyeh killing

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