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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 25, 2024

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Residents check the damage caused by a rocket fired from Lebanon in the Israeli coastal town of Acre on August 25, 2024. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Hezbollah thought to have targeted Mossad HQ near Tel Aviv in ‘mostly’ foiled barrage

By Emanuel Fabian and Joshua Davidovich

Army now says only hundreds of rocket launchers were set to be used in morning attack, though it hit thousands to remove ‘larger future threat’; drones aimed at Tel Aviv area

In this combination of pictures created on August 25, 2024, photos taken from a position in northern Israel show Hezbollah UAVs being intercepted by the Israeli air force over northern Israel on August 25, 2024. (Jalaa Marey / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 25: Day 324 – Will there be a sequel to the Hezbollah retaliation?

Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike on Zibqin in southern Lebanon on August 25, 2024. (Kawnat Haju / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 25: Gallant says Hezbollah ‘thrown off balance’ after ‘very, very successful’ strikes

By Michael Bachner, Michael Horovitz and Shira Silkoff

Navy soldier killed, two injured in Hezbollah attack * PM vows Israel changing situation on the northern border * Sirens activated in Rishon Lezion for first time since January

8:53 pm

Reuters safety adviser killed, two journalists injured in strike on hotel in eastern Ukraine
8:28 pm

Hagari: IDF working 'day and night' to achieve all the war goals
8:10 pm

IDF soldier lightly wounded in car ramming near Ariel in the West Bank; 2 Palestinian assailants shot dead

This photo taken from a position in northern Israel shows a Hezbollah drone intercepted by Israeli air defense over north Israel on August 25, 2024 (Jalaa Marey / AFP)

Ben Gurion Airport briefly closed, flights redirected

IDF hits Hezbollah launch sites in Lebanon to thwart major attack on central, north Israel

By Emanuel Fabian and Lazar Berman

Hundreds of rocket launchers struck simultaneously by 100 jets; targeted launchers were primed to fire at Tel Aviv at 5 a.m.; terror group fires 230 rockets and drones at Israel

US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., speaks during a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on July 25, 2024. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Top US general makes surprise trip to Middle East as threatened Iranian attack looms

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Travel chaos as Ben Gurion Airport briefly shut, foreign airlines nix flights

Main Israeli travel hub shut for 2 hours as IDF hits Hezbollah to thwart major attack; flights diverted to nearby airports; airport chief says situation slowly returning to normal

A man looks at the board displaying multiple delayed and cancelled flights at Ben Gurion International airport on August 25, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

View of the sun setting in Tel Aviv, January 29, 2024 (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Tel Aviv Stock Exchange up as Israel says it thwarted massive Hezbollah attack

Hezbollah operatives form a human barrier during the funeral procession of slain top Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut's southern suburbs on August 1, 2024. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)

IDF bracing for ‘significant week,’ as Hezbollah strike expected within days

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

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

Israeli team returns to Cairo for Gaza hostage-ceasefire deal talks as north erupts

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Israeli official says US pressuring Jerusalem to send message it doesn’t seek wider war, is still interested in talks seen as key to keeping fighting from spreading regionwide

Protesters call for the release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip outside the Kirya Base in Tel Aviv, August 24, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Protesters demand elections as hostage families seethe: ‘You could have saved them’

L to R: Sgt. First Class (res.) Nitai Metodi, Sgt. Maj. (res.) Yaniv Itzhak Oren and Sgt. First Class (res.) Danil Pechenyuk. (IDF)

3 reservists killed in central Gaza fighting, bringing IDF’s weekend toll to 4

By Emanuel Fabian

Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Danil Pechenyuk and Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Nitai Metodi killed in Gaza City bomb attack, while Sgt. Maj. (res.) Yaniv Itzhak Oren slain in clash with gunmen

Salt of the earth

Both men defended Israel in existential wars, both built a paradise near the Gaza border, and both were kidnapped alive and returned dead

Scenes from the massacres

Delacroix’s painting depicts as much brutality as Western art dares, but the real-life graphic images from October 7 are too much for us to bear

Hostage’s relative asks Netanyahu if Israelis understand Gaza captives are being raped

In fresh comments leaked from heated Friday meeting, premier tells relatives and former abductees he spent time as a simulated hostage in army exercise

Protesters in Beersheba highlight the sexual abuse suffered by hostages on the 9-month anniversary of October 7 with signs reading 'We are on the brink of giving birth' on July 7, 2024 (Tanya Zion Waldoks/Pro-democracy protest groups)

Released hostage Moran Stela Yanai in conversation with TV show "Uvda" about her experiences in Hamas captivity. (Channel 12 News, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Released hostage says Gaza captor demanded ransom from her father

Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar speaks during a rally marking Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day, in Gaza City, April 14, 2023. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

NYT: US giving ‘priceless’ help to Israel in hunt for Sinwar, but he remains elusive

US-Israeli team working intensively for 10 months on locating Hamas leader in Gaza, report says, though one source claims Jerusalem is benefiting more from the relationship than DC

Demonstrators lock arms as law enforcement officers move them down Park Avenue away from the University of Arizona campus, May 10, 2024, in Tucson, Arizona. (Kelly Presnell/Arizona Daily Star via AP)

'We can expect to see zero compromise from these groups'

Uniting as the Student Intifada, anti-Israel groups plan to further disrupt US campuses

By Cathryn J. Prince

Condoning violence and vocal in their anti-West and anti-capitalist views, the protesters are preparing to sow more chaos this year as experts warn of intolerance for other views

Illustrative: Jewish settlers swing sling shots during clashes with Palestinian close to the northern West Bank village of Burin on July 26, 2010. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh / AFP)

At least two Palestinians wounded in spate of West Bank settler attacks

No arrests announced; IDF says troops dispersed rioters in northern West Bank; no comment on incident in south where women reportedly beaten with rods

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)

Regev insists she organize Oct. 7 memorial, attacks Herzog for offering to host it

Facing backlash from hostage families and southern communities, minister says she’ll meet PM Sunday but believes president ‘picked a side’ by issuing letter without contacting her

Reporter's notebookThis year's 1st grade class standard is a lychee fruit

Flag rescue project lets evacuated Kibbutz Be’eri open school year in customary style

With help from a Bedouin embroidery maven, displaced kibbutz continued traditional 1st grade flag parade with banners carried since 1952 in a ceremony at Dead Sea

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)

Man arrested over suspected terror attack explosion at French synagogue

By Philippe Siuberski, Sylvie MALIGORNE and Jurgen HECKER

Minister says officers came under fire during operation; images show suspect wearing Palestinian flag as he set fire to police cars, synagogue doors; 2 associates also detained

Police officers stand at a cordon in the city center in the early morning in Solingen, Germany, Saturday, August 24, 2024, following Friday's deadly attack at the city's 650th anniversary celebrations. (Christoph Reichwein/dpa via AP)

ISIS claims German knife rampage that killed 3 ‘to avenge Palestine’; suspect held

By Daniel Niemann and STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN

Police officers stand guard on August 24, 2024, near the cordoned-off area where at least three people were killed and several injured when a man attacked them with a knife late on August 23, 2024, in Solingen, western Germany, as the city celebrated its 650th anniversary. (Ina Fassbender/AFP)

German officials say mass stabbing likely a terror attack as manhunt continues

By Petra Wischgoll, Tom Sims and Thomas Seythal

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Eritreans near the scene where two Eritrean asylum seekers were killed in a fight with pro-regime activists, in south Tel Aviv, August 24, 2024. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Far-right minister calls for expulsion of Eritrean asylum seekers after deadly brawl

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Ancient Mesopotamian tablets recently deciphered by Assyriologist Andrew George. (Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative)

Omens of catastropheAncient Babylonians thought solar eclipses predicted disasters

Israeli-Canadian influencer and racecar driver Joshua Cartu (R), who is wanted by US authorities for alleged binary options fraud, leaves a Russian detention center in Saint Petersburg on August 24, 2024. (Olga Maltseva/AFP)

Israeli-Canadian ‘Ferrari fugitive’ released by Russia despite US extradition request

By AFP and ToI Staff

Astronauts Butch Wilmore, left, and Suni Williams pose inside the vestibule between the International Space Station's Harmony module and Boeing's Starliner spacecraft on June 13, 2024. (NASA via AP)

NASA says SpaceX to retrieve two astronauts because of risks with Boeing capsule

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