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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 28, 2024

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Polio vaccines arrive at the Kerem Shalom border crossing with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, August 25, 2024. (COGAT)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 28: Israel said to have approved temporary truces in Gaza to vaccinate against polio

By Michael Bachner, Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

IDF raids terror command room in West Bank mosque * Over 300 vehicles join convoy demanding hostage deal * Report: Netanyahu looked into holding cabinet meeting at Gaza-Egypt border

8:43 pm

PMO denies report Netanyahu badmouthed Regev, says he appreciates her work
8:42 pm

Report: Netanyahu looked into holding cabinet meeting at Gaza-Egypt border, was rebuffed
8:39 pm

'What could be more important?' ask hostage relatives after convoy to Gaza border

Rescued hostage Farhan al-Qadi at Beersheba's Soroka Hospital, on August 27, 2024. (Yossi Ifergan/GPO)

Israel said to believe Hamas lost contact with some hostages

Former Rahat mayor says rescued hostage told him another captive died by his side

Info can’t be immediately verified; Ata Abu Madighem says Farhan al-Qadi ‘has many [terrible] memories’ and that his captors ‘treated him as an Israeli in every respect’

In this photo released by the Prime Minister's Office on Aug. 27, 2024, Farhan al-Qadi, 52, right meets relatives at the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, Israel. (Yossi Ifergan/GPO)

Better than a baby: ‘Surprise’ hostage rescue gives way to joy as family reunites

Rescued hostage Farhan al-Qadi at Beersheba's Soroka Hospital, on August 27, 2024. (Yossi Ifergan/GPO)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 28: Day 327 – Israel welcomes back rescued Bedouin hostage

Op-ed: Day 327 of the war

Rescue, shmescue, as the loathsome Jews would say

A Muslim liberated from heroic Hamas by the hideous Zionists? That can’t be true. And if it is, I don’t want to hear it

Rescued hostage Farhan al-Qadi seen with family members and doctors at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba on August 27, 2024. (Courtesy Soroka Medical Center)

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‘This is a war’: FM urges Gaza-style temporary evacuation of Palestinians in West Bank

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Israel Katz calls for ‘temporary evacuation of Palestinian civilians’ from cities where IDF is engaged in anti-terror raid, receives backing from Agriculture Minister Dichter

Foreign Minister Israel Katz waits for the arrival of his British counterpart, David Lammy, and his French counterpart, Stephane Sejourne, at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, August 16, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli soldiers operate during a raid in the Nur Shams camp near the city of Tulkarem in the West Bank on August 28, 2024. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

11 Palestinians killed as IDF launches major anti-terror raid in West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, left, visits the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, May 21, 2023. (Courtesy: Minhelet Har Habayit)

Critique of far-right leader is administration's harshest yet

US: Ben Gvir ‘sowing chaos, undermining Israel’s security’ with Temple Mount remarks

State Department ‘reaffirms commitment to preserving the historic status quo at Jerusalem’s holy sites,’ as far-right minister asserts Jewish right to prayer at flashpoint compound

Blindfolded Palestinians captured in the Gaza Strip in a detention facility on the Sde Teiman military base in southern Israel, winter 2023. (Breaking The Silence via AP)

High Court orders gov’t to justify ban on Red Cross visits for Palestinian prisoners

By Jeremy Sharon

Report says Israel funding Google ad campaign to discredit UNRWA

Participants in the August 28, 2024, hostage families convoy from Tel Aviv to Kibbutz Be'eri. (Courtesy Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

Hostage families lead vehicle convoy to Gaza border in call for deal to free loved ones

By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

Speakers urge government not to give up on deal over Philadelphi Corridor disagreements; say they plan to call out to captives through loudspeakers along the Gaza border Thursday

Israelis block the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv, during a protest calling for the release of Israelis held kidnapped by Hamas terrorists in Gaza on August 27, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Hostage families tell Regev not to use loved ones’ names or photos in Oct. 7 ceremony

Memorial candles line the charred desks in the destroyed command center of Nahal Oz base, February 23, 2024. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Bereaved family members fume over demolition of massacre site at Nahal Oz base

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Unbearable joy: The magnitude of hostages coming home

On 5 of the occasions (so far) when people returned alive from the hell of Hamas’s captivity, I was overcome by a sense of potential for the future

Shayndel Plotkin

A sideline view from the mothers of lone soldiers

Lone soldiers’ parents are largely in the dark about their kids’ experiences. It’s no surprise that keeps them up at night

Interview

Unapologetic optimism: How US approaches its messaging around hostage negotiations

Biden spokesperson tells ToI positivity voiced repeatedly throughout talks has always been warranted, even if deal hasn’t yet materialized; insists US ‘clear-eyed’ about challenges

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby speaks during the daily briefing at the White House, July 25, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

Israelis block the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv, during a protest calling for the release of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza on August 27, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Lower-level Israeli delegation to attend hostage talks in Doha on Wednesday

Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid from the United Arab Emirates and the United States Agency for International Development cross the Trident Pier before entering the beach in Gaza, May 17, 2024. (Staff Sgt. Malcolm Cohens-Ashley/US Army Central via AP)

Biden pushed for failed Gaza aid pier despite warnings against it, USAID says

By Ellen Knickmeyer

Tamar Ahituv, one of the founding members of the illegal West Bank outpost of Sde Ephraim, stands outside her home with her baby, July 8, 2024. (Jeremy Sharon/Times of Israel)

Inside story

‘Inheriting the land’ – an outpost settler explains her drive to seize the hilltops

By Jeremy Sharon

A resident in the recently legalized West Bank outpost of Sde Ephraim describes her passion for the land, her desire to thwart ‘Arab takeover,’ and her determination to do it all again

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah gives a televised address following an attack, largely thwarted by Israel, in retaliation for the killing of Fuad Shukr, August 25, 2024. (Screenshot)

Analysis

Amir Bar Shalom

Why Nasrallah scaled down his Sunday attack, and why Israel had limited its pre-emption

Hezbollah retaliated for Shukr’s assassination while striving to avoid all-out war; Israel, still focused primarily in Gaza, has the same goal, at least for now

Smoke is seen rising from the site of an alleged 2024 Israeli airstrike in Syria, near the border with Lebanon, said to have killed one Hezbollah operative and three Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives, in this screenshot from social media. (Screen capture via X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF drone strike on Syria-Lebanon border kills senior Islamic Jihad member, 3 others

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Israeli Paralympic rowers (from left) Moran Samuel, Saleh Shahin, Shahar Milfelder and Shmulik Daniel pose for a photo at the Paris Paralympics on August 22, 2024. (Reuven Magnagey)

2024 Paris Paralympics

Facing threats, Israeli Paralympians aim for gold in swimming, tennis, taekwondo in Paris

27 athletes in delegation competing in 10 different sports, with ‘extra motivation’ while hearing echoes of the boycott calls which surrounded their Olympic counterparts

7 Jewish athletes to look out for at the Paris Paralympics

By jacob gurvis

The tail of the sperm whale spotted off the coast of Israel in spring 2022, which the Israeli team named Kim Kobo after the photographer. (University of Haifa)

Researchers track whale’s record 2,800-kilometer swim across Mediterranean

Team led by University of Haifa expert say understanding the paths taken by whales in shallow, risky areas could help save them from accidental deaths

Left: Chief Rabbi of France Haim Korsia (Ludovic Marin / AFP), Right: French MP Aymeric Caron (AFP)

French chief rabbi accused of ‘defending war crimes’ for saying IDF should get job done

Left-wing MP files complaint against Haim Korsia for saying ‘everyone would be very happy if Israel finished the job, and we could finally build peace in the Middle East’

Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers line up in front of anti-Israel protesters gathered outside the Adas Torah synagogue in Los Angeles, California, June 23, 2024. (DAVID SWANSON / AFP)

US to spend record $454 million securing religious institutions as antisemitism spikes

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Archaeology'They wanted to show the next world'

Unique Roman-era tombs with intricate wall paintings to be open to public in Ashkelon

By Gavriel Fiske

Two tomb structures, used for generations by wealthy families in the ancient coastal city, were discovered decades ago but only recently restored

The shattered 3,500-year old jar at the Hecht Museum in Haifa, in an image released on August 27, 2024. (courtesy Hecht Museum)

Oops!

Kid shatters 3,500-year-old jar in Haifa museum, gets invited back

By Gavriel Fiske

The Hecht Museum says it has no plans to change its long-held policy of displaying certain items ‘without barriers or glass walls’

Smoke plumes billow after rockets were fired from Marjeyoun in southern Lebanon towards Metula across the border in northern Israel on July 12, 2024 (Rabih Daher/AFP)

Poetry festival moves from evacuated northern border town Metula to Jerusalem

By Jessica Steinberg

Along with most residents, event is forced to relocate southward; with poems of battle, loss and rebirth, co-director says war ‘opened a kind of black box’ of trauma for many poets

Jerry Lewis looks through the camera during filming of 'The Day the Clown Cried,' on March 20, 1972, Paris, France. (AP Photo/Jean Jacques Levy)

'He wasn't ahead of his time, it was just crazy'

Jerry Lewis’s infamously bad Holocaust film is having a moment. But you can’t watch it

By Andrew Lapin

Archival material related to ‘The Day the Clown Cried,’ the unreleased movie that ended the Jewish funnyman’s career, is now available, with a possible reboot on the horizon

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Immigrants arriving from France are greeted by WZO head Yaakov Hagoel, right at Ben Gurion airport on August 27, 2024. (Courtesy)

Over 29,000 immigrants have moved to Israel since October 7, WZO says

Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, an Arab citizen of Israel who was arrested on suspicion of incitement amid the war in Gaza, arrives for a court hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, April 19, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Anti-Israel Hebrew University professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian retires

By Gavriel Fiske

Yair Netanyahu, son of prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a court hearing in the defamation lawsuit filed by former MK Stav Shafir in Tel Aviv, on November 29, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

PM said seeking increased security for son Yair, claims he could be targeted by Iran

Ultra-Orthodox children play in the Haredi neighborhood of Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, on June 26, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Daycare subsidies for children of Haredi yeshiva students to be halted from November

By Jeremy Sharon

A battery of Israel's Iron Dome missile defense is seen in Ashkelon, August 7, 2022. (AP/Ariel Schalit, File)

Slovakia set to buy six air defense systems from Israel, as NATO boosts defenses

Palestinian director Mohammad Bakri at an event for the film 'Boy From Heaven' at the Cannes 75th international film festival, May 21, 2022. (Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

Police ban Jaffa screening of controversial ‘Jenin, Jenin 2’ film

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 urges new government to impose tighter cyberspace controls

By AFP and Reuters

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, testifies during the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, 'Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis,' in Washington, DC, on January 31, 2024. (Brendan Smialowski/ AFP)

Meta CEO Zuckerberg says US pressure to take down COVID-19 posts was ‘wrong’

By AFP

Republican presidential nominee former US president Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, August 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Laurence Kesterson)

Prosecutors resubmit charges accusing Trump of trying to overturn election

By Chris Lefkow

Kandiss Taylor, GOP Chair of Georgia's 1st Congressional District, in an episode of her podcast, "Jesus, Guns and Babies". (Screenshot)

Republican party official in Georgia says Jewish lobby ‘controlling everything’

By Jackie Hajdenberg

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