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What Matters Most On Monday, September 2, 2024

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A memorial candle showing the slain hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin on a table during a vigil in his memory in Jerusalem. (Leo Correa / AP)

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Sep. 2: ‘A speech full of lies’: Hostage Families Forum blasts Netanyahu’s press conference

PM insists he’s committed to hostage deal, blames Hamas for stalled talks * Opposition denounces his ‘shameful’ political spin * Biden says mediators still talking

9:18 pm

'A speech full of lies': Hostage Families Forum blasts PM's press conference
9:07 pm

Hostages Forum thanks Biden for efforts on hostage-truce deal, calls on Netanyahu to show 'similar determination'
8:59 pm

Biden says talks with Qatari, Egyptian negotiators to secure hostage-ceasefire deal are ongoing

Protesters calling for a hostages-for-ceasefire deal at Hakfar Hayarok Junction near Ramat Hasharon, in central Israel, September 2, 2024. (Hillel Maeir/Flash90)

Court shuts down Histadrut strike, accepting government claim it was political

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Union boss says he’ll respect ruling, but doesn’t regret move; MKs urge class action suit; some activists protest against strike demanding truce-hostage deal, saying it aids Hamas

Protesters demanding a hostage release deal block traffic at a junction next to the city of Ramat Hasharon, September 2, 2024. (Hillel Maeir/Flash90)

Striking unions join protest as thousands take to streets for hostage deal

Histadrut Labor Federation chief Arnon Bar-David announces a general strike over the government's failure to release hostages held in Gaza, September 1, 2024. (Histadrut)

Histadrut labor union announces nationwide strike, over failure to release hostages

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)

Hostage's mother: PM playing Russian roulette with lives

Masses protest across Israel in flood of grief, anger after Hamas executes 6 hostages

By Noam Lehmann, Gianluca Pacchiani, ToI Staff and Agencies

Almost 300,000 rally in Tel Aviv in largest protest since Oct. 7, later clashing with police, blocking highway for hours; demand PM reach hostage deal; 200,000 more rally nationwide

Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar speaks during a rally marking Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day, in Gaza City, April 14, 2023. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Promoted Podcast

Inside Hamas: Its leaders and the organization’s evolution

How has the Palestinian Sunni Islamist movement evolved over the last few decades, and how can we understand the organization and its leadership today?

Islamism’s assault on Israel is a crime against all of humanity

The vile murder of 6 Israeli hostages tells us who Hamas is – the heroic rescue of Bedouin captive Farhan al-Qadi tells us who Israel is

Rachel Goldberg-Polin: The piercing cry of Jewish motherhood

The world turned away as Jews were murdered and I was left adrift, until one woman stood up and shared her love in the fight for her son

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)

Netanyahu said to claim general strike a show of ‘support’ for Sinwar and Hamas

In cabinet meeting, premier insists issue of Israeli presence on Gaza-Egypt border ‘existential,’ while vowing to ‘exact a price’ from terror group for murder of six hostages in Gaza

The coffin of the slain hostage Almog Sarusi, who was killed in Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip, is placed in a grave during his funeral at a cemetery in Ra'anana, September 1, 2024. (AP Photo/ Ariel Schalit)

Autopsy finds 6 hostages were shot multiple times at close range in last 48-72 hours

By Emanuel Fabian

Findings indicate captives were executed by Hamas guards as IDF troops closed in on Rafah tunnel complex; IDF chief visits site where bodies were found

Rachel Goldberg and Jonathan Polin, parents of Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, attend a demonstration by the families of the hostages taken captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, August 29, 2024, days before their son's body was recovered by Israeli forces on August 31, with indications that he had been killed within 48 hours of its recovery. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Biden, Harris call parents of slain American hostage, as Western leaders express horror

By ToI Staff, Agencies and Jacob Magid

In Tel Aviv, protesters demanding a hostage release deal block the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv, September 2, 2024. (courtesy)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sept. 2: Day 332 – The two events that led to this eruptive Israeli moment

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)

Gallant said to call Philadelphi demand a ‘disgrace,’ drawing fury from PM, ministers

Defense minister reportedly urges softening negotiating stance to save hostages at security cabinet meeting, but ministers say doing so would incentivize Hamas to murder them

A rally calling for the release of Israelis held kidnapped by Hamas terrorists in Gaza at Central Park in New York City, on September 1, 2024. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Biden, Harris to huddle with US negotiators for Gaza deal push after hostage killings

By Lazar Berman

White House working on ‘take it or leave it’ proposal that could spell end of US mediation efforts, Washington Post reports; Israel’s UN envoy demands Security Council convene

Shira Ben-Sasson, a founder of the Hakhel synagogue in Jerusalem, lights a candle in memory of congregant and slain hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, September 1, 2024. (Deborah Danan)

In Jerusalem, hundreds gather to grieve slain ‘child of light’ Hersh Goldberg-Polin

By Jessica Steinberg, JTA and Deborah Danan

Family, friends and fellow immigrants express sadness over death, hail mother for tireless advocacy; Israelis to line streets in salute for funeral

Relatives and friends attend the funeral of Alexander Lobanov, whose body was among six recovered from the Gaza Strip after they were murdered by their Hamas captors, at the Ashkelon cemetery in southern Israel on September 1, 2024. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

‘You loved freedom – and they took it from you,’ mourns widow of Alex Lobanov at funeral

By Jeremy Sharon

A vigil at Columbus Circle in New York City on Sept. 1, 2024 for six hostages killed by Hamas in Gaza. (Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA)

New Yorkers hold vigil to mourn 6 slain hostages recovered from Gaza

By Jackie Hajdenberg

First Sgt. Roni Shakuri (left) and his daughter, First Sgt. Mor Shakuri. (Israel Police)

Policeman killed in West Bank shooting was father of officer killed on Oct. 7

First. Sgt. Roni Shakuri’s brother-in-law says bereaved father had just begun smiling again after recent sailing trip; daughter Mor fell in battle at Sderot police station

Security officials approach a suspicious vehicle outside the West Bank settlement of Ateret on September 2, 2024. (Israel Police)

Car bomb outside West Bank settlement neutralized by cops

Police say tinted windows on suspicious vehicle near Ateret made explosives hard to see, days after two car bombs exploded in southern West Bank

Rescue personnel evacuate an Israeli man who was seriously injured when a Hezbollah anti-tank missile hit Kfar Yuval in the Upper Galilee, September 1, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flahs90)

Three wounded by Hezbollah anti-tank missile; 30 rockets fired at north on Sunday

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF strikes targets in Lebanon; Defense Minister Gallant vows the north’s suffering ‘won’t be in vain’ as he visits Majdal Shams, where Hezbollah rocket killed 12 children in July

Lebanese security forces and rescue teams inspect a charred car that was hit by an Israeli drone strike near Naqoura on the border with Israel on September 2, 2024. (AFP)

2 said killed in Israeli airstrike on vehicle in south Lebanon

By AFP and Emanuel Fabian

People visit the Citadel of Aleppo in northern Syria on March 31, 2024, during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan. (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)

Fearing war, some Lebanese hatch a surprising escape plan: Syria

By AP and ToI Staff

The inauguration ceremony of Rabbi Yoni Wieder as chief rabbi of Ireland was held at the Dublin Hebrew Synagogue, May 21, 2024. (Ros Kavanagh/ Courtesy Office of the Chief Rabbi of Ireland via JTA)

Interview'I never set out to be a chief rabbi, I just loved Judaism'

At 28, Ireland’s new chief rabbi is leading an aging population in a time of turmoil

By Shira Li Bartov

As the first to hold the position since 2008, Rabbi Yoni Wieder faces challenges on multiple fronts, integrating new and old community members amid unprecedented anti-Israel bias

Israeli swimmer Ami Dadaon poses with his silver medal at the 2024 Paris Paralympics on September 1, 2024. (Lilach Weiss Rosenberg)

2024 Paris Paralympics

Israeli swimmer celebrates silver medal at Paralympics during ‘pain’ of tragic day

Ami Dadaon takes second place in 150m individual medley, as Mark Malyar finishes 5th in 200m individual medley; tennis players Adam Berdichevsky, Sergei Lysov knocked out of Games

Opening the new school year at the Horesh school in Zichron Yaakov, on September 1, 2024. (Gavriel Fiske/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'We have to make lemonade from lemons'

As northern evacuees begin school in Zichron Yaakov, some find a silver lining

By Gavriel Fiske

At the Horesh combined primary and middle school in the northern town, displaced kids absorbed into the general student body are starting their second school year away from home

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Bjoern Hoecke, top candidate in the German state of Thuringia of the far-right Alternative for Germany, walks through the state parliament, in Erfurt, Germany, Sept. 1, 2024. (Bodo Schackow/dpa via AP)

Far-right party wins German state election, piling new pressure on Scholz

By Geir Moulson

Illustrative: A person being arrested. (BrianAJackson via iStock by Getty images)

Reservist arrested for attempting to murder Arab passerby in Jerusalem

This handout satellite image taken on August 29, 2024, and released by Maxar Technologies, shows fire on the deck of the Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion, located in the Red Sea. (Maxar Technologies / AFP)

As tanker keeps burning in Red Sea, projectiles hit two other ships off Yemen coast

By AP

Handout picture of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi chairing a cabinet meeting in Tehran on April 2, 2024. (Iranian Presidency/AFP)

Helicopter crash that killed Iran’s president caused by weather, final report says

By AFP

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