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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 29, 2024

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Arie Zalmanowicz (Courtesy)

'He was murdered by torment of the body and mind'

Son says Aryeh Zalmanovich, 86, ‘was murdered’ in Gaza hospital next to Farhan al-Qadi

Rescued hostage updated Nir Oz resident’s son upon return to Israel, said two forged ‘special bond’ when held together in hospital; son says dad didn’t get medicine, care he needed

Released hostage Farhan al-Qadi, right, hugs a well-wisher as he arrives his home in the Bedouin village of Khirbet Karkur, near Rahat, southern Israel, August 28, 2024. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Rescued captive calls to ‘put an end’ to hostage saga as crowd cheers his return home

By ToI Staff and AP

Rescued hostage Farhan al-Qadi returns to a tent near his home near Rahat, August 28, 2024. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Rescued hostage said kept in total darkness during captivity, showered once a month

Relatives of hostages run toward the Gaza Strip after passing through the Nirim perimeter fence on August 29, 2024. (Courtesy Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

Hostage families symbolically breach fence near Gaza as they call out to loved ones

By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

Captive’s cousin says he’s ‘not sure it was the right decision’ to heed army’s call to turn back, pledges to be back with ‘hundreds, thousands’ next time

Singer-songwriter and reservist Idan Amedi attends a press conference following his release from Sheba Medical Center, in central Israel, after being seriously injured in the Gaza Strip, January 25, 2024. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90)

Three coalition members back celebrities’ compromises in Oct. 7 memorial fracas

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid testifies before the unofficial citizens' commission of inquiry into the failure to prevent and respond to Hamas's October 7 attack, on August 29, 2024. (Screenshot)

Civilian probe testimony

Lapid says Netanyahu knew for months before Oct. 7 that a violent eruption was looming

Opposition leader: Disaster could have been prevented, PM seemed ‘bored’ when told of dangers during joint briefing; PM’s office: He ‘did not receive any warning about the war in Gaza’

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From the blogs

Tehila Friedman

Four questions for religious Zionists, and the answers that can save Israel

An Israel that is not Jewish and democratic will come apart – the religious mainstream’s moderation can be the glue that holds it together

IDF troops are seen operating in the Gaza Strip in this handout photo published on August 29, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 29: Gallant urges adding safe return of displaced northerners to war aims

Israel tells US shots were fired at WFP vehicle in Gaza due to ‘communication error’ * Israeli doctors demand hostages be included in UN’s polio vaccine campaign in Gaza

9:16 pm

IDF says it struck gunmen who hijacked aid convoy in southern Gaza
8:50 pm

Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules in favor of Jewish family in free speech dispute over anti-hate signs
8:21 pm

Israeli doctors demand hostages be included in UN's polio vaccine campaign in Gaza

Reservists of the 252nd Division operate in the Netzarim Corridor of the central Gaza Strip, in a handout image published August 28, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF recovers body of soldier killed on Oct. 7 whose remains were kidnapped to Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

Two soldiers killed fighting in different parts of Strip, raising ground offensive toll to 342; combat engineers raze 3-kilometer tunnel

A bullet-ridden World Food Programme vehicle in Gaza on August 27, 2024. (WFP)

World Food Programme suspends movement in Gaza, says vehicle hit by bullets near IDF post

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Palestinians stand outside a damaged mosque following an Israeli military operation in the West Bank refugee camp of Al-Faraa, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

5 Palestinian gunmen, including top commander, killed by IDF at West Bank mosque

By Emanuel Fabian

Islamic Jihad chief in Tulkarem area among dead; another operative detained; two soldiers hurt; Palestinian death toll since start of operation rises to 17

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres speaks during a UN Security Council meeting on the impacts of cyber threats on international peace and security at UN headquarters on June 20, 2024, in New York. (Yuki Iwamura/AFP)

UN calls for end to IDF’s West Bank raid; Israel: We have to thwart suicide bombings

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Hamas political leader Khaled Mashaal at a rally in Hamas's honor in Cape Town, South Africa, October 21, 2015. (AFP/Rodger Bosch)

Top Hamas official Mashaal urges resumption of suicide bombings against Israel

Speaking in Istanbul, Khaled Mashaal says Israel must be met with ‘open conflict,’ calls on Palestinians to join ‘actual resistance against the Zionist entity’

Troops of the Kfir Brigade's Haruv Reconnaissance Unit are seen operating in the West Bank city of Tulkarem, August 28, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 29: Day 328 – Hamas urges suicide attacks as IDF operates in West Bank

Rare First Temple-era seal found in Jerusalem, in an image released on August 29, 2023. (Emil Aladjem/IAA)

ArchaeologyThe artifact is 'executed at the highest artistic level'

‘Extremely rare, beautiful’ First Temple-era ‘genie’ seal discovered in Jerusalem

By Gavriel Fiske

2,700-year-old stone seal is inscribed with the words ‘Yehoʼezer son of Hoshʼayahu’; its image of a protective winged demon or genie betrays Assyrian influence

Foiled Taylor Swift concert plot aimed to kill ‘tens of thousands,’ says CIA official

By STEFANIE DAZIO

Austrian teen radicalized by Islamic State prepared explosives, knives to attack 30,000 Swifties who had been expected outside pop star’s aborted Vienna show

US singer-songwriter Taylor Swift performs at the Groupama Stadium as part of The Eras Tour, in Decines-Charpieu, eastern France, June 2, 2024. (Jeff Pachoud / AFP)

EU foreign policy chief pushes for member states to sanction Ben Gvir, Smotrich

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Ireland accuses Israel of deliberately targeting civilians in Gaza and waging war on all Palestinians, calls on bloc to rethink agreements with Israel

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell rings a bell to signify the start of a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Aug. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Illustrative: Volunteers with the Hashomer Yosh (Guardians of Judea and Samaria) organization which was sanctioned by the US on August 28, 2024. (Screenshot from promotional campaign video for Hashomer Yosh; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

US issues new batch of sanctions targeting West Bank settlers amid rampant violence

By Jacob Magid and Jeremy Sharon

People check a burnt car a day after an attack by extremist settlers on the village of Jit in the West Bank, on August 16, 2024. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

‘We failed’: IDF finds it didn’t act sufficiently to prevent deadly settler rampage

By Emanuel Fabian

Inside story

‘Philadelphi is becoming Rafah’: Negotiators lament politicization of ceasefire term

Officials say Netanyahu is making a campaign out of controlling border corridor, goading Egypt and complicating hostage talks, as he did with IDF incursion into southern Gaza city

View of the Philadelphi Corridor between the southern Gaza Strip and Egypt, on July 15, 2024. (Oren Cohen/Flash90)

IDF troops operate along the Philadelphi Corridor at the Gaza-Egypt border in August 2024. (IDF)

Report: Netanyahu wanted to hold cabinet meeting at Gaza-Egypt border, was rebuffed

The beautiful flowers of darkness

How the stunning sudden brief flowering of the Cereus plant helped me grapple with the loss of my great-nephews, killed in the Gaza war

Is everything immune?

Politicians are protected from prosecution of offenses related to speech. What about when they storm an IDF army base?

Smoke and fire caused by rockets and drones fired from Lebanon, in the northern town of Katzrin, July 4, 2024 (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

146 square kilometers of vegetation scorched in north since October 7 — study

Environment ministry says 145,000 tons of dry vegetation went up in flames between October 7 and July 30, much of it caused by rocket fire from Lebanon and Gaza

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

A peacekeeper of the Spanish Contingent in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) looks on during a patrol along the Jdeideh-Marjayoun highway in southern Lebanon on August 23, 2024. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

Security Council renews UNIFIL mandate, sounds alarm over Israel-Hezbollah fighting

By AP and ToI Staff

Israel Police officer Meir Suissa, right, prepares a stun grenade moments before he hurled it into a crowd of demonstrators during a mass protest in Tel Aviv, March 1, 2023. (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Court orders state to respond to petition against promotion of indicted police officer

By Jeremy Sharon

Jerusalem District Court declines to immediately issue interim order blocking Meir Suissa from assuming command of Tel Aviv police station; police won’t say if he’s begun new role

MK Hanoch Milwidsky attends a committee hearing at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 13, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Likud MK urges public to avoid courts in same way they avoid rocket-battered north

Religious Services Minister Michael Malkieli attends a session ain the Knesset plenum, April 15, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

After ‘Rabbis Law’ stymied, Shas minister advances appointments of municipal rabbis

Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron speaks during a press conference at the Bank of Israel in Jerusalem, January 2, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bank of Israel again leaves interest rate at 4.5%, amid wartime fiscal uncertainty

By Sharon Wrobel

Central bank raises concern over the government’s expansionary fiscal policy and a widening deficit due to the war and the delay in the 2025 budget

Muslim women working on computers (illustrative photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Innovation Authority invests NIS 35m to lure tech jobs to Negev and Galilee

By Sharon Wrobel

Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl is seen at the garden of her home in Kitzbuhel, Austria, in May 1, 1945. (AP Photo/Jim Pringle)

Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl’s set directions may have led to killing of Polish Jews

New documentary shows propagandist’s lifelong commitment to Nazi cause, casting doubt on her denial of knowledge of atrocities which enabled her rehabilitation in postwar Germany

More Headlines

A police officer walks past a burnt car being moved on the bed of a towing vehicle in the seaside resort of La Grande Motte, near the city of Montpellier, southern France, on August 26, 2024, following the August 24, 2024 attack to the Beth Yaacov synagogue. (Pascal GUYOT / AFP)

French synagogue attacker who ‘long nursed hatred toward Jews’ faces terror charges

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Education Minister Yoav Kisch, left, and Teachers Union head Ran Erez, right (both photos Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High school teachers union chief declares strike over salary dispute with government

By Gavriel Fiske

Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov appears at an event on August 1, 2017 in Jakarta, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana, File)

French authorities charge Telegram’s Durov in probe into organized crime on app

By Gabriel Stargardter and Tassilo Hummel

Salma Hamamy carries a Palestinian flag during an anti-Israel protest during the University of Michigan's commencement ceremony on May 4, 2024 at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Michigan. (Nic Antaya/Getty Images via JTA)

U of Michigan student government vows to withhold funds from campus groups over BDS spat

By Andrew Lapin

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel students at Columbia University on October 12, 2023 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Two anti-Israel groups at NYU, Columbia say Instagram removed their accounts

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, speaks during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, August 22, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Jewish teachers union boss says JD Vance is ‘gross’ for calling her childless

By Jackie Hajdenberg

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) speaks to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, during a signing ceremony following their talks in Kyiv, Ukraine, August 19, 2019. (AP Photo/ Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine: Netanyahu and Zelensky spoke on phone, PM backed Ukraine’s territorial integrity

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: Democratic presidential nominee and US Vice President Kamala Harris waves as she exits her campaign bus in Savannah, Georgia, August 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Harris campaign hires Egyptian American lawyer from Michigan to lead Arab outreach

By Andrea Shalal

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