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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 31, 2024

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IDF troops examine the wreckage of a car bomb in the West Bank settlement of Karmei Tzur, early August 31, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Attackers were Hebron residents; 6 suspects detained

2 car bombs detonate in coordinated West Bank attacks; terrorists killed by troops

By Emanuel Fabian

Three inadvertently hurt as terrorist shot dead at Gush Etzion gas station; local security officer lightly injured while neutralizing second attacker in Karmei Tzur

People walk along a street after Israeli bulldozers dug up the asphalt in the the Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarem in the West Bank following a large-scale military operation on August 30, 2024. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Report: Jordan fears IDF West Bank ops, settler violence will drive Palestinians across border

By ToI Staff, Emanuel Fabian and AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (foreground) and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant hold a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, December 16, 2023. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Netanyahu tells ministers he prioritizes Philadelphi over hostages, horrifying Gallant

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

In shouting match as cabinet backs PM’s demand to keep IDF on Gaza-Egypt border, Netanyahu says only firm stance will enable deal; Gallant tells colleagues they’re condemning hostages to die

Left: Head of the Yamina party Naftali Bennett gives a press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on April 21, 2021; Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on April 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Poll: 69% think Netanyahu shouldn’t run in next election, Bennett favored for PM

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

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 31: Hostage families fume at Netanyahu as protesters clash with cops in Tel Aviv

Families urge major protests Sunday, say country ‘will tremble’ * Nationwide rallies urge deal; hostage’s sister injured by mounted cop in Tel Aviv

2:56 am

Major Ukrainian drone attacks reported on Moscow region, central Russia
8:42 pm

'The country will tremble': Hostage families urge major protests tomorrow, after more captives possibly found dead
8:16 pm

IDF says it found bodies in Gaza, possibly of hostages; identification to take hours

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)

Protesters to rally for deal as PM said to prioritize Philadelphi route over hostages

Saturday night Tel Aviv demonstration to highlight hundreds of kids starting school with loved ones still held in Gaza; regulator blocks ad alluding to sexual abuse of hostages

Illustrative: Anti-Israel activists block Jewish students from walking down a street near Columbia University, February 2, 2024. (Luke Tress)

Columbia task force reports ‘crushing’ discrimination against Jews and Israelis

University’s Task Force on Antisemitism says students driven out of dorms and campus, ostracized by peers and denigrated by faculty

Fury as University of Maryland okays campus rally by anti-Israel group on October 7

By Gabe Friedman

Move to allow Students for Justice in Palestine event on anniversary of Hamas attacks outrages Jews on campus and beyond

The campus of the University of Maryland in College Park. (Courtesy)

A view of the Temple University campus in Philadelphia. (Video screenshot)

Temple University investigating pro-Palestinian march at campus Hillel

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Israeli Paralympian swimmer Ami Dadaon holds his gold medal at the Paris Games on August 30, 2024. (Lilach Weiss Rosenberg)

2024 Paris Paralympics

Ami Dadaon gives Israeli Paralympic team second gold medal with swimming victory

23-year-old sets men’s 100m freestyle record, as does rower Moran Samuel in women’s single sculls; Adnan Milad, Nadav Levi advance due to boycotts by Iranian, Tunisian opponents

A class held in a temporary school in Eilat, November 2023. (courtesy Education Ministry)

Inside story'To say the situation isn’t simple is an understatement'

Amid deep uncertainty, it’s back to school – but not back home – for northern evacuees

By Gavriel Fiske

For the second year in a row, many displaced students will attend temporary schools scattered across Israel as their families question when, or if, they will ever return northward

Shayna Abramson

The search for religious meaning and the danger of interpretations

To claim that we know, with 100% certainty, why God acted as He did on October 7 is an act of theological hubris

Everyone deserves a vacation… right?

Thoughts on the Haredi men who were barbecuing, relaxing, and playing laser tag while hiding behind faux military tents in Yarmut Park

A nurse administers Polio vaccine drops to a girl at the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on August 31, 2024 (Jihad Al-Sharafi / AFP)

Explainer

3 days, 640,000 children, 1.3M doses: The plan to vaccinate Gaza’s kids against polio

International agencies set to kick off inoculation drive using ‘humanitarian pauses’ on Sunday amid fears there could be hundreds infected with disease

Armed and masked Palestinians seen on trucks loaded with international humanitarian aid entering Gaza through the Israeli Kerem Shalom Crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, April 3, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

US aid group admits Gaza convoy was taken over by unvetted people before IDF struck them

By Emanuel Fabian

'What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine,' an exhibit at the Norman Rockwell Museum, features Norman Mingo's 1973 cover illustration for MAD Magazine #156 depicting Alfred E. Neuman as a character in 'Fiddler on the Roof.' (JTA Photo; MAD and all related elements © & ™ E.C. Publications. Courtesy of DC. All Rights Reserved. Used with permission.)

Reporter's notebook

Americana meets meshuggeneh at a museum exhibit about MAD magazine

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

‘What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine’ runs at the Norman Rockwell Museum through October 27, showcasing the periodical’s American satire with Jewish bite

Israel StoryIn partnership with The Times of Israel

Wartime Diaries: A Tale of Two Bus Stops

Stations in two neighboring towns capture how war can unify and how it can divide

Image: Israel Story

Magen David Adom medic Elhanan Mamo climbs up a burning building to save an elderly couple, Bnei Brak, August 25, 2024. (X screenshot)

Spiredi-man

Medic scales burning Bnei Brak building to save elderly couple

Elhanan Mamo says he chose to make the climb after realizing that a crane wouldn’t be able to reach the pair; later discovers he had recently resuscitated same woman

The interior of Emet Classical Academy on New York's Upper East Side, where Greek and Roman philosophers, George Washington, modular tables, and western cities dominate the aesthetics. (Courtesy Emet Classical Academy via JTA)

'It's going to allow the kids to be thinkers on their own'

In NYC, Jewish school with focus on West’s achievements to open with 40 students

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Tikvah Fund launches Emet Classical Academy, which eschews ‘woke’ educational values, as many Jews are disillusioned with progressive spaces often seen as less welcoming to them

The Taba Hilton on April 4, 2021. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Egyptian hotel worker said killed, Israeli tourists wounded in Sinai brawl

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Fight reportedly erupts after tourists refused to pay for services at Taba hotel; employee dies en route to hospital

Rabbi Michael Lerner speaks in 2019. (Video screenshot)

Obituary

Michael Lerner, influential rabbi-activist and founder of Tikkun magazine, dies at 81

By Andrew Silow-Carroll and Andrew Esensten

Publication promoted two-state solution and liberal agenda, was ‘always deliberately to the left of American Jewish liberalism’

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Screenshot of Eliyahu Rips speaking to a Czechoslovakian news channel on January 19, 2019. (Ivysilani, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

ObituaryEliyahu Rips, mathematician who claimed to find hidden code in Bible, dies at 75

Supporters of the far-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, sing the national anthem as they attend an election campaign rally of the party for upcoming state elections in Suhl, Germany, August 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

AfD set to be 1st far-right party since WWII to win majority in German state parliament

Israel's national soccer team players pose ahead of the Euro 2024 group I qualifying soccer match between Israel and Romania at the Pancho Arena in Felcsut, Hungary, November 18, 2023. (Denes Erdos/AP)

FIFA again delays review of Palestinian call to suspend Israel from world soccer

By Reuters and ToI Staff

UK Minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls Jess Phillips speaks in Parliament, London, May 14, 2024. (YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

UK minister suggests she got faster medical care because she voted for Gaza ceasefire

Islamic State militants pass a checkpoint bearing the group's trademark black flag in the village of Maryam Begg in Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

7 US troops hurt during raid with Iraqi forces in which 15 ISIS operatives were killed

By Jon Gambrell

Illustrative: Iranian police in Tehran, Iran, August 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iranian police commander dismissed after prisoner dies in custody

By AFP

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