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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 24, 2024

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This overview shows an Israeli flag flying from a pedestrian bridge above a road inscribed with the names of hostages captive in the Gaza Strip since the October 7 attacks inscribed in Hebrew, outside the Israeli Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv on August 24, 2024. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Qatari PM also reported to be joining talks

Hamas team in Cairo for hostage talks, as rallies nationwide urge deal

Terror group’s team being briefed by Egypt, but won’t negotiate, as ceasefire-for-hostages talks continue; disputes reported on Gaza-Egypt border control, hostage-release timetable

Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet security services, left, with Mossad chief David Barnea at the annual IDF memorial ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War at Yad La-Shiryon, September 27, 2023. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)

Signs of modest progress as Israel, Egypt discuss future of latter’s Gaza border

By Lazar Berman

A rally calling for the release of Israelis held hostage by Hamas in Gaza, in Tel Aviv, August 24, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 24: Hostage mother accuses PM of ‘systematically thwarting’ Gaza deal, urges US pressure

By ToI Staff, Elana Kirsh and Jacob Magid

IDF announces deaths of 3 soldiers killed in Gaza * Hamas sends team to Cairo but says it won’t join hostage-ceasefire talks * Two Eritreans killed in south Tel Aviv brawl

8:51 pm

Palestinian source tells Lebanese outlet: 'No clear progress' made in Cairo talks
8:33 pm

German police make second arrest in connection with festival stabbing attack
7:59 pm

Visiting site of synagogue blast, French PM says he is 'outraged, revolted' by attack

A terror suspect (left) caught on a surveillance camera outside the Beth Yaacov synagogue in the French seaside resort of La Grande Motte; flames outside the synagogue (right) on August 24, 2024. (X screenshots, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Macron denounces 'act of terror'; PM: 'Won't be intimidated'

France opens terror probe after blast outside synagogue; suspect seen with Palestinian flag

2 cars set on fire outside Jewish place of worship, gas canister in one of them believed to caused explosion; attacker on the run; Jewish leaders: This was an attempt to kill Jews

Rioters at the airport in Makhachkala, Dagestan, October 30, 2023, shout antisemitic slogans as they protest the arrival of an airliner coming from Tel Aviv. (AP)

Russian court sends 5 to jail over antisemitic riot at Dagestan airport in October

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid looks at portraits of former Prime Ministers Menachem Begin and David Ben-Gurion during an interview in his Tel Aviv office, August 22, 2024. (Sam Sokol/The Times of Israel)

InterviewYesh Atid chief has 'biblical Ben-Gurion, lefty Begin' on wall

‘He lost his soul’: Lapid sees ‘sacred cause’ in toppling Netanyahu’s government

By Sam Sokol and David Horovitz

Opposition leader: PM ignored ‘all red flags’ before Oct. 7, should have resigned on Oct. 8. Says Israel ‘can be what we were supposed always to be: happy, optimistic, functional’

Lapid: Netanyahu was briefed on dangers ahead of Oct. 7, ignored ‘all red flags,’ must go

By Sam Sokol and David Horovitz

Hostage daughter: Sign the deal; PM: What deal??

Ex-hostages implore Netanyahu to secure deal but PM says there isn’t one on the table

By Lazar Berman

Premier tells former captives that those claiming Israel rejecting offers are lying; PM’s wife: Army to blame for Oct. 7; former hostage: ‘A leader is responsible for the army’

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)

Noa Argamani addresses the crowd at a "Dance With Noa" party on August 23, 2024. (Twitter, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

‘We must celebrate life’: Noa Argamani dances with friends after captivity

Rescued hostage says timing is not ideal as 109 hostages remain in Gaza, including her own partner, but that it is important to ‘celebrate every moment we’re here’

Elements and renderings of the "Nova Heaven" Burning Man installation. (Courtesy of Nova Heaven)

Burning Man in US to feature massive tribute to Nova festival victims and their spirit

By jacob gurvis

When a Brooklyn bookstore canceled my event over my Zionism

First a store employee looked into my background and opted to shut down the book discussion. Then I got a flood of eye-opening phone calls

Should I have lied to the antisemite who attacked me?

He didn’t know I was Jewish – but even under threat I couldn’t pretend not to be

Illustrative: Friends and family members mourn near graves of Israeli soldiers killed on October 7, at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, on May 9, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Aug. 24: Day 323 – Spotlight on ToI’s Those We Have Lost memorial project

Project coordinator Amy Spiro joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan to speak about 10 individuals who have fallen on or since October 7 whose stories made a mark

President Isaac Herzog attends an evening in honor of the Druze community in Israel, at Yitzhak Rabin Center, in Tel Aviv, August 6, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Herzog proposes hosting state Oct. 7 memorial event amid backlash over government plan

President offers to oversee commemorations ‘in the interest of dampening the flames of controversy’; actor hurt fighting in Gaza slams Regev for dismissing criticism as ‘noise’

Israel Police operate at the scene of a fight between Eritreans where two men were killed, Tel Aviv, August 24, 2024. (Israel Police)

Two killed, five injured in brawl between Eritrean migrants in Tel Aviv

Police break up fight before medics treat the injured and rush those severely and moderately injured to the hospital

Rockets fired by Hezbollah from southern Lebanon are intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel on August 23, 2024. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

At least 7 Hezbollah operatives killed in IDF strikes as terror group bombards north

By Emanuel Fabian

No injuries after more than 100 projectiles launched from Lebanon throughout day; military says among those it targeted were two members of Hezbollah’s rocket and missile unit

An alleged Israeli airstrike in central Syria on August 23, 2024. (Screen capture/X)

Syria says Israeli airstrikes targeted several sites in country’s center, wounding 7

By AFP

University of Austin (UATX) hosts 'Admitted Students Week' for the first 100 students in its upcoming undergraduate program for the 2024-2025 school year, April 2024. (Courtesy)

Inside Story

Built to battle ‘woke’ academia, a new Texas school takes on fresh relevance after Oct. 7

By Ricky Ben-David

With a notable contingent of Jewish students and faculty, the University of Austin private liberal arts college is about to launch its inaugural undergraduate class

Anti-Israel students and activists hold a banner as they protest the Israel-Hamas war on the campus of New York University (NYU) in New York on April 22, 2024. (Photo by Alex Kent / AFP)

NYU issues hate speech guidelines discouraging students from targeting ‘Zionists’

By Andrew Lapin

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activists claim targeting Zionists isn’t antisemitic because not all Jews identify as Zionists; new policy shows school disagrees, given that most Jews do

Joshua Leifer and his new book, "Tablets Shattered." (Courtesy/Dutton Publishing via JTA)

Brooklyn book launch rescheduled after cancellation over ‘Zionist’ rabbi moderator

Protesters wearing Hamas headbands and masks at Baruch College in Manhattan, June 5, 2024. (Luke Tress via JTA)

US federal suit filed against NY county’s mask ban aimed at countering antisemitism

By AP

Combat engineers demolish Hamas attack tunnel in Rafah

IDF reservist killed, others wounded by explosive device in Gaza City

By Emanuel Fabian

Troops were operating in Zeitoun neighborhood as part of efforts to expand central Gaza corridor; military issues evacuation warning after rockets fired at Sderot

IDF Sgt. First Class (res.) Evyatar Atuar, killed by an explosive device during operations in Gaza City on August 23, 2024. (Courtesy)

Ambulances donated to Nasser hospital by the humanitarian organization Rahma Worldwide, are parked outside the medical facility in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip after entering the Palestinian territory from Egypt via the Karem Shalom gate, on August 7, 2024 (Bashar TALEB / AFP)

Gaza doctors left in the dark as fuel shortages hit hospitals

By AFP and ToI Staff

An aerial view shows a worker building a bomb shelter next to the house of an Israeli couple in Tel Mond in central Israel on August 22, 2024. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Amid Gaza war and multi-front threats, Israelis rush to build home bomb shelters

By Nir Kafri and Talek HARRIS

ICC prosecutor insists court has power to issue warrants for PM, Gallant and Sinwar

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Demanding urgent ruling, Karim Khan asserts ‘it’s settled law’ that The Hague can order arrest of Israeli leaders, rejects claim that provision of Oslo Accords trumps its authority

International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan at the Cour d'Honneur of the Palais Royal in Paris on February 7, 2024. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP)

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Forensic police use torch lights on August 24, 2024 to inspect the scene where at least three people were killed and several injured when a man attacked them with a knife on late August 23, 2024 in Solingen, western Germany, according to German media, as the city celebrated its 650th anniversary. (Photo by INA FASSBENDER / AFP)

Three killed, several wounded in knife attack at German festival

By Ina FASSBENDER and Femke COLBORNE

President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) and his wife Olena lay flowers at the Wall of Remembrance on the occasion of Independence Day of Ukraine in Kyiv, August 24, 2024. (Handout / UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE / AFP)

Zelensky vows ‘retribution’ against Russia on Ukrainian independence day

By AFP

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he is suspending his presidential campaign at a news conference Friday, August 23, 2024, in Phoenix, Arizona. (AP Photo/Darryl Webb)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspends US presidential campaign, endorses Trump

By Olivier Touron

Former US President and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump waves to his supporters as he leaves after speaking during a campaign rally at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, August 23, 2024. (Olivier TOURON / AFP)

Meta warns US campaigns to be wary after blocking Iran-linked hackers on WhatsApp

By AFP

Russian security forces in Surovkino, Volgograd region, Russia on August 23, 2024. (X screenshot)

Prisoners in Russia shot by snipers after killing 4 guards, pledging fealty to ISIS

By AP

From left to right: Luke, Quinn and Jack Hughes pose for a photo before their NHL game at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, Canada, December 5, 2023. (Jeff Vinnick/JTA via NHLI via Getty Images)

Hebrew Hat-trickJewish brothers to grace cover of popular hockey video game

By jacob gurvis

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