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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 27, 2024

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Captive found alone in tunnel, troops didn't face resistance

Hostage rescued by IDF from tunnel in south Gaza after 10 months of Hamas captivity

By Emanuel Fabian

Farhan al-Qadi, 52, Bedouin father of 11, was found by special forces in ‘brave and complex’ operation, army says; he’s the eighth hostage to be extricated alive

Rescued hostage Farhan al-Qadi (right) in a selfie taken by his brother Hatem at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba on August 27, 2024. (Courtesy)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 27: Mayor says freed hostage in ‘good spirits’ after 10 months of ‘difficult conditions’

Farhan al-Qadi expresses joy at return, says remaining captives are ‘suffering’ * Israel to send low-level delegation to next round of hostage-ceasefire talks in Doha

8:58 pm

State Department: Ben Gvir 'sowing chaos, undermining Israel's security' with Temple Mount remarks
8:53 pm

Israeli drone strike reported in northeastern Lebanon
8:20 pm

Ex-president Trump faces new US indictment in 2020 election subversion case

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi (left) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr, fly to the IDF Northern Command, August 26, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Top US general says risk of broader war ‘somewhat’ abated after Israel-Hezbollah clash

By Reuters and ToI Staff

C.Q. Brown says Lebanese terror group ‘still has capability’ after IDF strikes, warns Iran poses a significant danger but US and allies now ‘better postured’ to defend against it

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi (left) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr,. August 26, 2024 (Israel Defense Forces)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 27: Day 326 – Is the threat of broader war on the wane?

Anti-government protesters call for immediate elections in Tel Aviv, July 13, 2024. (Omer Yelin/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Promoted PodcastDecision Points: Season 5

What Do Polls Tell Us About Israeli and Palestinian Attitudes?

Expert Israeli & Palestinian pollsters, Tamar Hermann and Khalil Shikaki, join David Makovsky to discuss the trendlines of Israeli and Palestinian public opinion since 10/7.

High Court tells Levin to quickly start process for appointing new court president

By Jeremy Sharon

Top court says there is ‘no escape’ from filling the position after justice minister was given enough time to seek ‘broad consensus’ on the appointment, but failed

Justice Minister Yariv Levin (right) attends a swearing-in ceremony for newly appointed judges along with Supreme Court Acting President Uzi Vogelman, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on June 23, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Justice Minister Yariv Levin attends a swearing-in ceremony for newly appointed judges at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on June 23, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Supreme Court head rejects Levin plan to make conservative judge chief justice for a year

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi (center) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr. (right), August 26, 2024 (Israel Defense Forces)

Halevi hosts US army chief Brown in north; Gallant says must be ready to thwart Iran nukes

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Meeting counterpart day after Hezbollah bombardment and preemptive Israeli strikes, IDF chief vows to continue to degrade terror group, quickly enable displaced residents to return

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with the President Masoud Pezeshkian's administration, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, August 27, 2024. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s Khamenei backs resumption of nuclear talks with ‘enemy’ US

By AP

Mateh Asher Regional Council chair Moshe Davidovitch (center left) speaks to Education Minister Yoav Kisch (center right) at a meeting between Kisch, northern mayors and officers from the IDF's Home Front Command ahead of the new school year, August 26, 2024 (Walla News screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the copyright law)

‘You despise us’: Northern mayors slam minister for lack of support ahead of school year

Regional council chair says government showed its indifference to the north by carrying out a preemptive strike on Hezbollah only when the country’s center was threatened

Smoke billows from an area targeted by an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese village of Qusayr on August 25, 2024. (AFP)

‘Israel has lost its deterrent power’: Iran praises largely foiled Hezbollah strike

By AFP and ToI Staff

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

Some airlines resume flights to Israel after cancellations amid Hezbollah clash

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Activists carry a message for US President Joe Biden as relatives of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip and their supporters call for their immediate release and to protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, in Tel Aviv on August 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

US says talks still moving ahead but ‘up to those in the room’ when deal can be sealed

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

White House says teams working on deal’s ‘finer details’; report says negotiators setting aside for now deadlocked issues of IDF presence on Egypt-Gaza border and Netzarim Corridor

Religious Jews are escorted by Israeli police as they tour the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, September 24, 2018. (Sliman Khader/Flash90)

Heritage Ministry to fund Temple Mount tours amid far-right push to alter status quo

Decision by ministry, headed by politician from far-right Otzma Yehudit party, will mark first time state has funded such activities on flashpoint holy site

At my daughter’s grave

22 years after terrorists murdered Malki, a Hamas RPG killed our son-in-law in the line of duty. Both were betrayed by Israel’s leadership

We are no longer on the same side

The south is scorched, the north ablaze, and in Jerusalem the government sits, ensuring that whatever’s left is burned to the ground

IDF says it carried out drone strike on West Bank terror cell; 5 reported killed

By Emanuel Fabian

Hamas member released in November hostage deal said among those killed in Nur Shams; after searches, army rules out reports of suspected kidnapping at Tapuach Junction

Footage of an IDF drone strike in the Nur Shams Camp in the West Bank on August 26, 2024. (Screen capture/x)

Palestinians run from gunfire in the West Bank village of Wadi Rahhal, late August 26, 2024. (Screenshot: X)

Man shot dead by troops amid clash between settlers, Palestinians in West Bank village

By Emanuel Fabian

Katarzyna and Artur Goławski, co-managers of the Kuzmiuk Bakery, hold their signature cebularz, once called pletzel by Lublin's Yiddish-speaking Jews. (Shira Li Bartov/ JTA)

'People used to stand in line outside waiting to get in'

Owners of Lublin’s oldest bakery learn it had belonged to Jewish family killed by Nazis

By Shira Li Bartov

Before 99% of the city’s Jews were murdered, the Kuźmiuk Bakery brought customers from near and far; the descendants of the family who took over only learned of its origins in 2017

Incoming Israeli Chief of Police Daniel Levi (L) and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (R) at a ceremony in Levi's honor held at the Ministry of National Security in Jerusalem, August 25, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

New police chief won’t say if he’ll obey AG on Ben Gvir’s promotion of indicted cop

Controversy comes amid latest clash between attorney general and far-right minister over his efforts to influence policy of the Israel Police

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir attends a ceremony for the incoming police commissioner at the National Security Ministry in Jerusalem, August 25, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Op-ed

Shalom Yerushalmi

By exploiting Netanyahu’s weakness, Ben Gvir is raking in political capital

PM apparently fails to realize that by attacking Shin Bet head Ronen Bar, Ben Gvir is asserting himself as the master of the house, and eating into Netanyahu’s own support

Israelis embrace next to photos of people killed and taken captive by Hamas terrorists during their violent rampage through the Nova music festival in southern Israel, which are displayed at the site of the event, as Israeli DJs spun music, to commemorate the October 7, massacre, near Kibbutz Re'im, November 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Huge alternative Oct. 7 memorial ceremony to be held in Tel Aviv; state event in Ofakim

Tens of thousands expected at Yarkon Park gathering to be emceed by Hanoch Daum and Rotem Sela, include speeches by bereaved families, relatives of hostages, Gaza border residents

A still image of Republican nominee and former US president Donald Trump, from an election ad published August 26, 2024. (Screen capture: X/Donald J. Trump, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

New Trump ad pays tribute to ‘thousands’ of Oct. 7 victims

Israel Prison Service dog handler Yochai Avni. (Courtesy)

In reversal, army prosecutor says prison guard’s murder motivated by terror

Indictment says motive was Yochai Avni being Jewish; suspect Ibrahim Mansour claims killing was robbery gone wrong; report says terror charge added after he failed polygraph

Workers of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) hand out flour rations and other supplies to people at an UNRWA warehouse in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on December 12, 2023. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

UN says humanitarian work in Gaza halted as IDF orders evacuation in Deir al-Balah

By AFP

Official says personnel have been focusing operations in the area but cannot continue as military instructs civilians to leave during fight with Hamas

Author and native New Yorker Sarah Seltzer, left, and the cover of her debut novel 'The Singer Sisters.' (Kurt Sneddon/Flatiron Books/ via JTA)

Interview'This family had to be like us, joking about pastrami'

In new book ‘The Singer Sisters,’ a Jewish rock music family finds sex, drugs – and deli

By Gabe Friedman

While some of the most iconic folk legends of the ’60s and ’70s were Members of the Tribe, author Sarah Seltzer’s fictional dynasty’s drama strikes a particularly Jewish chord

Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich speaks during a press conference in the southern Israeli city of Ofakim, July 24, 2024. (Liron Molodovan/Flash90)

Facing backlash, gov’t okays NIS 3.4 billion in new spending for evacuees, reservists

By ToI Staff and Sharon Wrobel

Smotrich insists proposed budget expansion won’t push deficit past the 6.6% of GDP target set for the year, after it widened last month to 8.1% due to war-related outlays

Children in their classroom in the southern Israeli city of Sderot on their first day back since the October 7 Hamas massacre of 1,200 people on the Israeli side of the Gaza border, March 3, 2024. (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)

Up to NIS 30,000 offered to teachers, psychologists who move to Gaza border towns

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People place flowers near the scene of a knife attack in Solingen city center, Germany, August 24, 2024. (Henning Kaiser/ dpa via AP)

Stabbing in Germany’s Solingen fuels bitter debate on immigration

Tomas Zeron, the former director of the Criminal Investigation Agency of Mexico, fled to Israel in 2019 and is seeking asylum. (Screen capture/Channel 12, used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law)

Mexican fugitive official in Israel implicates ex-president in students’ disappearance

By AP

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