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What Matters Most On Friday, August 30, 2024

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

Families Forum: PM takes every opportunity to thwart talks

Ministers back Netanyahu’s demand for IDF to stay in Philadelphi Corridor in any deal

Gallant votes against, Ben Gvir abstains, in vote that underlines PM’s stance after maps of planned IDF presence already shown to Hamas and mediators; demand has impeded talks’ progress

Relatives of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza and supporters take part in a rally for the release of Israelis held kidnapped by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, near the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, on August 28, 2024. (Flash90)

Gallant said to warn ministers multifront war dangerously close without hostage deal

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

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 30: Day 329 – Has Israel regained enough deterrence for a ceasefire?

Hostage families and their supporters standing next to pictures of Israelis held captive in the Gaza Strip, during a protest urging a deal to secure their release, outside the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, August 30, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 30: US official says Doha talks this week ‘detailed and constructive’

By Michael Horovitz, Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

Army says 2 terrorists killed as two cars explode in West Bank attacks * Hostage families to PM: Tell public you’ve given up on getting hostages out

1:29 am

US official says Doha talks this week 'detailed and constructive'
10:30 pm

IDF brigade head slightly wounded as troops responded to West Bank attack
10:24 pm

IDF says barrage of 40 rockets fired from Lebanon at Galilee

'1,200 were massacred, women were horribly raped on Oct. 7'

Harris says she won’t change US policy on arming Israel, stresses need for hostage deal

VP: I’m ‘unwavering’ in support for Israel, but how it defends itself matters; too many innocent Palestinians have died; ending war will allow move toward two-state solution

US Vice President Kamala Harris in an interview with CNN broadcast on August 29, 2024. (Screenshot: CNN)

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Jewish worshipers prostrate themselves on the Temple Mount during a prayer service at the holy site, August 28, 2024. (Jeremy Sharon/Times of Israel)

Open Jewish prayer, prostration on Temple Mount now ‘routine,’ activists say

By Jeremy Sharon

In recent weeks police are no longer preventing or penalizing acts at holy site as Ben Gvir pushes practice, and are allowing them on a daily basis

IDF troops with the 98th Division are seen operating in the Khan Younis area of the southern Gaza Strip in this handout photo published on August 30, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF wraps up 3-week raid in south Gaza; 250 gunmen killed, 6 km of tunnels destroyed

By Emanuel Fabian

Troops also recover bodies of six hostages in Khan Younis; military says Palestinians can return to neighborhoods that were excluded from humanitarian zone ahead of operation

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi (right) views a tunnel found along the Philadelphi Corridor in southern Gaza's Rafah, August 14, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF: Hamas’s Rafah Brigade has collapsed, 80% of border tunnels neutralized

By Emanuel Fabian

A handout IDF infographic it says is based on documents it located in the Gaza Strip showing falsified polling information, released August 29, 2024. (IDF)

Seized Hamas documents show terror group inflated its support rates, IDF says

By Emanuel Fabian and Gianluca Pacchiani

Second report says Shin Bet had believed Hamas was deterred

‘I give you a warning of war,’ Shin Bet head told PM 10 weeks before Oct. 7 — report

Continuing battle of narratives between political and defense chiefs, Ynet says Ronen Bar was likely alluding to Lebanon or West Bank; PMO: Netanyahu wasn’t alerted to war in Gaza

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, at a pre-Passover toast on April 4, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Boys sit on a cart with humanitarian aid packages in central Gaza City on August 27, 2024. (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP)

Israel agrees to localized ‘humanitarian pauses’ in Gaza for polio vaccination, WHO says

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Three-day halts to fighting in different parts of Strip to start Sunday, UN health agency says, in move coordinated with Israel; PMO denies agreement represents a truce

Palestinian boy Abdel Rahman Abu al-Jedian who contracted polio a month ago, sleeps surrounded by family members in their displacement tent in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on August 27, 2024. (Eyad Baba/AFP)

Behind Gaza polio case, experts see ‘horrible’ WHO decision fueling outbreaks worldwide

By AP and ToI Staff

Displaced Palestinians carry a box of food rations provided by the World Food Programme (WFP) at a makeshift street market in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 14, 2024. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

US says Israel behind aid convoy shooting, must ‘immediately rectify’ its conduct

By Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to Bret Stephens: Where North American universities went wrong

Pulitzer Prize-winning NYT journalist weighs in on why Jewish students shouldn’t want a place at the DEI table even as their rights are being trampled on campuses

New York Times op-ed columnist Bret Stephens. (Jason Smith via JTA)

Analysis

Anti-Israel BDS calls on UK campuses thwarted by lawfare as antisemitism spikes

Bombastic university protests fuel a record-breaking rise in reported incidents of Jew-hatred — but the type and scope of divestment they seek is often contrary to British law

Pro-Palestinian supporters gather next to a banner reading 'Oxford Action for Palestine' at Oxford University, in Oxford, England, on May 7, 2024. (Photo by Adrian DENNIS / AFP)

A student holds a keffiyeh at the beginning of a pro-Palestinian protest during the University of Michigan's Spring Commencement ceremony on May 4, 2024 at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Michigan. (Nic Antaya / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Gaza protests already marring kickoff of fall semester at several US campuses

By Andrew Lapin

Anti-Israel signs are seen posted on windows as The New School faculty set up a pro-Palestinian encampment on the university's campus May 08, 2024 in New York City (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/AFP)

NY’s New School senate blocks funding to clubs in bid to demand Israel ‘divestment’

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

Praying with the hostages at daybreak

’Blessed are You, Lord our God, Ruler of the Universe, who releases the imprisoned… May they all be returned speedily and in our day’

One nation under militarism: A reflection on a society at war with itself

The army so permeates Israeli culture that, despite the IDF’s delays on October 7th, few see the unsustainability of security through militarism

Israel's Asaf Yasur celebrates after winning a gold medal in taekwondo at the 2024 Paris Paralympics on August 29, 2024. (Lilach Weiss-Rosenberg)

2024 Paris Paralympics22-year-old is 1st Israeli to win Paralympics taekwondo gold

Israeli taekwondo champ Asaf Yasur grabs gold on first day of Paris Paralympics

Backed by large contingent of well-wishers, athlete dedicates Israel’s first medal at Games and first-ever Paralympic gold in taekwondo to ‘my beloved country’

Explosions are seen on the deck of the Sounion in a screen capture from a video released by Houthi rebels on August 29, 2024. (Video screen capture: X)

Houthi video shows rebels planted, detonated bombs on seized oil tanker

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Glamorized footage is accompanied by chants of ‘death to America; death to Israel; curse the Jews’; EU says salvaging ops have begun, no oil spill detected amid environmental fears

Explosions are seen on the deck of the Sounion in a screen capture from a video released by Houthi rebels on August 29, 2024. (Video screen capture: X)

Houthis said to okay salvage of burning tanker after setting off bombs on ship

Sue Surkes prepares to dive off the platform and glide along Jerusalem's zipline, Augut 26, 2024. (Courtesy)

Reporter's notebook

New zip line over East Jerusalem offers end-of-summer adrenaline rush

The country’s longest such attraction is the latest in a string of projects created by the right-wing City of David Foundation — all over the Green Line

People surround a burnt car in the Jenin area town of Zababdeh in the West Bank on August 30, 2024, following an IDF drone strike against Palestinian gunmen. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP)

Head of Hamas in Jenin, 2 other operatives killed in IDF drone strike, shootout

By Emanuel Fabian

Wissam Hazem shot dead by undercover forces amid ongoing major operation in northern West Bank; in all, military says 20 gunmen killed

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell speaks with the media as he arrives for a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, August 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

EU foreign policy chief admits he lacks votes for sanctioning Israeli ministers

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Foreign Minister Israel Katz awaits the arrival of his French and British counterparts at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, August 16, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Katz slams Borrell for saying he called for displacement of West Bank Palestinians

A section of a prefabricated house is moved by crane in Israel, July 19, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)

Housing snapshot: Home sales and rentals across Israel in August 2024

By Shoshanna Solomon

The Times of Israel’s regular feature on what is happening in the local property market right now

Homeowners opt for free real estate listings even when they lose money, says new study

By Jennifer Korn

Illustrative. An employee works in the tech sector. (Hadas Porush/ Flash90)

Despite industry resilience, Israeli tech firms have a host of woes as Gaza war drags on

By Shoshanna Solomon

Reserve duty, sky-high travel costs and forced relocation are weighing on smaller companies as they cut, scramble and reorient while trying to prove their worth to investors

3D printing firm Stratasys to slash 15% of its workforce, including 80 jobs in Israel

By Sharon Wrobel

More Headlines

Relatives and friends of rescued hostage Farhan al-Qadi welcome him as he returns to the southern village of Khirbet Karkour, near the Bedouin city of Rahat, August 28, 2024. (Ahmad Gharabli / AFP)

Land Authority says it won’t serve demolition notice for rescued hostage’s home

By AP and ToI Staff

The 'Block of Women' monument in central Berlin commemorates the non-Jewish women who in 1943 publicly protested against the Nazis when their Jewish husbands and fathers were set to be deported. (Wikimedia via JTA)

Berlin Holocaust memorial vandalized with antisemitic, pro-Palestinian graffiti

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Secondary School Teachers Association chair Ran Erez attends a Education, Culture, and Sports Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on June 26, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Finance minister, teachers union trade blame as strike set for first day of school year

Yisrael Neta (left), Elhanan Nir, Meron Isaacson, Bacol Serlui and Sivan Har-Shefi at the Metula Poetry Festival relocated to Jerusalem, August 28-30, 2024. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

A loss for wordsAt festival displaced by war, poets reflect on post-Oct. 7 work

By Jessica Steinberg

The flag of the International Atomic Energy Agency flies in front of its headquarters during an IAEA Board of Governors meeting in Vienna, Austria, on February 6, 2023. (Heinz-Peter Bader/AP)

Iran is further increasing stockpile of highly enriched uranium, UN report finds

By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN

A police officer walks outside the Islamic Center Hamburg with the Imam Ali Mosque during a raid Wednesday, July 24, 2024, Hamburg, Germany. (Daniel Bockwoldt/dpa via AP)

Germany boots head of banned Islamic center over alleged Hezbollah links

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Republican nominee and former US president Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event in Sierra Vista, Arizona, near the border with Mexico, August 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)

Fake pro-Trump X accounts use stolen photos of fashion influencers — study

Members of the Lev Tahor sect prepare to depart from La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City on a journey to Iraqi Kurdistan in October 2021. (Courtesy)

Guatemala probes child abuse claims against extremist Jewish cult Lev Tahor

An Iranian security official in protective clothing walks through a nuclear facility just outside the Iranian city of Isfahan, March 30, 2005. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Gas leak in an Iranian Revolutionary Guard center kills 2 and injures 10

By AP

This undated handout photo downloaded from the Symbio Wildlife Park's facebook page shows Pygmy marmosets at the Symbio Wildlife Park in Sydney.(MICK MARIC / SYMBIO WILDLIFE PARK / AFP)

Marmosets use ‘vocal labels’ to identify one another, Israeli study finds

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