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What Matters Most On Sunday, September 1, 2024

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Large crowds of Israelis call for a deal to secure the release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, outside the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, September 1, 2024. (Ohad Avrahami/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Live updates (closed)

Sep. 1: Tel Aviv highway cleared after clashes with cops following largest rallies since Oct. 7

Organizers claim nationwide rallies drew 500,000 * Smotrich demands AG seek injunctions to block planned labor strike * Ministers pan Gallant over his objection to Philadelphi move

10:15 pm

Ayalon Highway cleared after 3 hours; 30 arrested; MK says grenade needlessly thrown at crowd
9:01 pm

IDF drone strikes Palestinians hurling bombs at troops in Jenin
8:52 pm

Trump: Hostages' deaths happened because Biden, Harris are 'poor leaders'

Gallant says remaining hostages 'must be returned home'

Castigated after hostages killed, Netanyahu blames Hamas for failure to reach deal

Families Forum says deaths ‘direct result’ of PM ‘torpedoing’ agreement; Lapid slams ‘cabinet of death,’ urges general strike; far-right claims Gallant, opposition embolden Hamas

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes a video statement after the bodies of six hostages were recovered from Gaza, September 1, 2024. (screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan, speaks at a press conference outside the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv on August 31, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

‘Mr. Death’: Hostage families say Netanyahu has condemned their loved ones to die

This combination of six undated photos shows hostages, from top left, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Ori Danino, Eden Yerushalmi; from bottom left, Almog Sarusi, Alexander Lobanov, and Carmel Gat. (The Hostages Families Forum via AP)

Biden says he's 'devastated and outraged'

Bodies of 6 hostages, murdered by Hamas just days ago, found in Rafah – IDF

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Ori Danino, Alex Lobanov, Carmel Gat, Almog Sarusi discovered in Gaza tunnel; families forum urges protests; autopsy finds all 6 had gunshot wounds

This combination of six undated photos shows hostages, from top left, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Ori Danino, Eden Yerushalmi; from bottom left, Almog Sarusi, Alexander Lobanov, and Carmel Gat. (The Hostages Families Forum via AP)

Hersh, Carmel, Alex, Eden, Or, Almog: The 6 hostages murdered by Hamas just days ago

Family members and supporters stand next to pictures of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip, during a protest outside the Prime Minister's official residence in Jerusalem, August 30, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 )

IDF finds bodies in Gaza that may be of hostages; identification process underway

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Op-ed: Day 331 of the war

Netanyahu’s so-called ‘supreme effort’ for a hostage-ceasefire deal has been skewed, inadequate

Could Hamas’s latest act of barbarism, murdering six more of the hostages, have been prevented? Possibly. Could the PM and his government have done more to try to avert it? Yes

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)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Sept. 1: Day 331 – Israel shattered as 6 murdered hostages’ bodies recovered

Military reporter Emanuel Fabian describes the IDF operations in Gaza and updates us on a wave of terror attacks in the West Bank that saw 3 police officers killed this morning

Ex-hostage: I can’t start a new life here as lives end there

Hostage families vow to bring country to a halt after several bodies found in Gaza

By Jessica Steinberg, Michael Bachner, Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Forum urges major disruptions Sunday to protest government ‘abandonment,’ after thousands rally for ceasefire deal; sister of hostage injured by mounted police in Tel Aviv clashes

Protesters call for a hostage deal and demonstrate against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the government in Tel Aviv, on August 31, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Cry, the once-beloved country

We always knew that no matter how we voted, Israel would bring her captives home. That was before this coalition of lunacy came to power

Shawn Zelig Aster

Preventing tomorrow’s hostages

As long as Hamas can attack, Israel must ask how it can prevent future hostage-taking, even if doing so would mean not freeing current hostages

The scene of a shooting attack near the Tarqumiyah checkpoint in the southern West Bank, September 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

3 cops killed in southern West Bank shooting attack; gunman later killed

By Emanuel Fabian

Officers named as Arik Ben Eliyahu, Hadas Branch, and Roni Shakuri, whose daughter was killed on Oct 7; Palestinian attacker flees scene near Tarqumiyah, is killed in Hebron

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks to the press at the scene of a shooting near the Palestinian city of Tarqumiyah in the West Bank, September 1, 2024. (Screen capture: X/Itamar Ben Gvir, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Ben Gvir blames deadly West Bank shooting on Gallant for easing Palestinians’ travel

Smoke rises after an explosion during an Israeli military operation in the West Bank's Jenin refugee camp, August 31, 2024; Inset: Staff Sgt. Elkana Navon, who was killed amid the fighting in Jenin. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed; Courtesy)

Soldier killed in fierce clashes in Jenin as IDF presses major West Bank operation

By Emanuel Fabian and AFP

A health worker administers the polio vaccine to a Palestinian child in Zawayda in the central Gaza Strip on September 1, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Hamas terror group. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)

Polio vaccine drive gets underway in Gaza amid fears of outbreak

By Jeremy Sharon

Campaign led by the World Health Organization aims to inoculate 640,000 children, after first case of the disease in 25 years was reported in the territory

Gazans at a burning Israeli military vehicle on the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza border, October 7, 2023. (REUTERS/Yasser Qudih)

Report: New IDF assessment shows some 6,000 Gazans invaded Israel on Oct. 7

Idit Dayan (center, wearing yellow), the principal of the Gil Rabin School in Sderot, southern Israel, welcomes children back for the new school year, on September 1, 2024. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

While Israeli kids near Gaza rejoice at return to school, parents remain ambivalent

More than 550 children start new school year at the Gil Rabin School in Sderot, where soldiers and police stand guard outside while staff and students dress in yellow for hostages

Parents accompany their children on the first day of school in Katzrin, Golan Heights on September 1, 2024. (Michael Giladi / Flash90)

School year starts with half a million children stuck at home amid teachers’ strike

Over 2.5 million K-12 students in total registered for the new year, with 179,300 starting first grade; special security measures in place in north and south due to war

Education minister Yoav Kisch attends an Education, Culture, and Sports Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on June 26, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High school teachers go on strike Sunday after talks founder on eve of school year

By Gavriel Fiske and ToI Staff

Israeli rower Moran Samuel celebrates winning gold in the women's single sculls at the 2024 Paris Paralympics on September 1, 2024. (Lilach Weiss Rosenberg)

2024 Paris ParalympicsFive medals so far for Jewish state in Paris

Rowers take gold, bronze as Israel continues to rack up Paralympic medals

Champ Moran Samuel says the day, like the year, held mixed emotions; Druze rower Saleh Shahin, wounded in 2005 Gaza border terror attack, says he wanted to bring some ‘light’ to nation

Israeli swimmer Mark Malyar poses for a photo with his bronze medal in the men's 100m backstroke at the Paris Paralympics on August 31, 2024. (Lilach Weiss Rosenberg)

2024 Paris ParalympicsIsraeli swimmer clinches bronze at Paris Paralympics, nation’s third medal so far

Adam Kirsch, an editor at the Wall Street Journal’s Weekend Review section, is the author of 'On Settler Colonialism.' (W.W. Norton & Company/ via JTA)

Interview'Through this lens, they believe Israel should be destroyed'

A literary critic on why the ‘settler colonial’ framing is bad for Israel and Palestine

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Struck by the number of activists and thinkers who cheered the Oct. 7 Hamas atrocities, Adam Kirsch has written a book on the misguided idealism that’s fostered Jew-hatred

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View of the Ayalon prison in central Israeli town of Ramle. August 25, 2014. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90

Man who burned his young children to death in 1999 dies in prison

Brenda Abdelall, the Egyptian-American lawyer hired for Arab-American outreach by US Vice President Kamala Harris's presidential campaign in 2024, is seen in her official portrait as Assistant Secretary of Partnership and Engagement at the US Department of Homeland Security, 2022. (DHS Photo by Zachary Hupp/Released)

Harris’s director of Arab-American outreach once said ‘Zionists’ control politics

Illustrative: People on a beach as a drilling platform is seen in the background outside from Larnaca port, in the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, October 15, 2017. (Petros Karadjias/AP)

Israel’s NewMed and partners submit $4b plan for Aphrodite gas field off Cyprus

By Sharon Wrobel

The Cathedral of Learning towers over the University of Pittsburgh campus in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh, July 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Man arrested after attacking Jewish students at University of Pittsburgh

By AP

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier speaks during a commemoration service for the victims of a knife attack that killed three people last week, in Solingen, Germany, Sept. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, Pool)

Germany’s leaders pay tribute to victims of ‘horrifying’ Solingen knife attack

By AP and ToI Staff

Voters fill out their ballot papers for Saxony's regional elections at a polling station in Dresden, eastern Germany, on September 1, 2024. - (Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)

Polls open with far-right set for historic wins in two German state elections

In this undated photo provided by Helmi Hirez, Mohamed (Medo) Halimy, left, and twin brothers Mohammed Hirez, center, and Helmi Hirez, right, stand on a beach in Gaza. (Helmi Hirez via AP)

Palestinians say Gaza Tik Tok star, known for videos on life amid war, killed in strike

By AP and ToI Staff

People lay a wreath at the monument to the 1939 heroic defense of the Westerplatte peninsula outpost during solemn observances of the 85th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, at Westerplatte, on the Baltic Sea, Poland, September 1, 2024. (Wojciech Strozyk/AP)

Now fearing Russia, Poland marks 85 years since German invasion of World War II

By AP

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