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What Matters Most On Tuesday, September 3, 2024

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem on September 2, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

PM: Biden wouldn't seek concessions after hostages killed

Netanyahu: If we leave Philadelphi, Hamas will be able to rearm, revive, repeat Oct. 7

By Lazar Berman and Sam Sokol

PM rejects even 42-day IDF withdrawal from Gaza-Egypt border for sake of hostage deal, claims Israel’s entire future at stake; Lapid: He wants war forever, will never make a deal

Abu Obeida, spokesman of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian terror group Hamas, speaks during a memorial in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on January 31, 2017. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)

Hamas hints six slain hostages extracted by IDF were murdered because troops were near

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

US President Joe Biden speaks with reporters at the White House in Washington, DC, on September 2, 2024. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Biden says US close to presenting final ceasefire offer, PM not doing enough for deal

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Netanyahu says he doesn’t believe Biden would ask for Israeli concessions after Hamas murdered 6 hostages; Hamas official claims US president’s comments prove Israel stymying talks

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem on September 2, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Official says Netanyahu’s press briefing ‘torpedoed’ hostage deal efforts – report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

‘Don’t you dare’: Herzog warns against reviving judicial overhaul, pleads for unity

By Lazar Berman

In speech to Israel Bar Association, president warns against fractures in society that weaken country’s resolve

President Isaac Herzog speaks at the Israel Bar Association annual conference in Tel Aviv, September 3, 2024. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

A mother's eulogy

‘My sweet boy Hersh, we tried so desperately to save you’

The full text of Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s speech at the funeral of her son Hersh, abducted, held captive and murdered by Hamas in Gaza, laid to rest in Jerusalem

Rachel Goldberg-Polin, mother of Hersh Goldberg-Polin whose body was recovered with five other hostages after they were murdered by Hamas in Gaza, speaks during his funeral in Jerusalem on September 2, 2024. Her husband and daughters are seated behind her. (Gil Cohen-Magen / Pool / AFP)

Alex Lobanov, pictured here with wife Michal, was the head barman at Supernova, when he was captured on October 7, 2023 by Hamas terrorists who attacked the desert rave (Courtesy)

Slain hostage Lobanov’s widow refuses to meet Netanyahu as he visits family home

Michal Lobanov also reportedly shuns phone call from prime minister, though murdered hostage’s parents accept condolence visit

Screen capture from video of former Hamas hostage Erez Calderon, September 3, 2024. (Instagram. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Released hostage Erez Calderon, 12, issues video plea for captive dad’s return

Rachel Goldberg-Polin eulogizes her son, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, at his funeral in Jerusalem on September 2, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Mother Rachel: 'You fought to stay alive and now you are gone'

‘We all failed you’: Heartbreak at funeral for Hersh Goldberg-Polin in Jerusalem

By Jessica Steinberg and Agencies

Thousands attend burial of dual US-Israeli citizen who became a symbol in the battle for the hostages, and was executed by his Hamas captors along with five others

Mourners and family members gather to bury executed US-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin whose body was recovered with five other hostages in Gaza, during the funeral at Givat Shaul cemetery in Jerusalem on September 2, 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen / POOL / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sept. 3: Day 333 – Saying goodbye to Hersh as the PM explains his strategy

Demonstrators gather for an anti-government protest calling for action to release the hostages held captive since the October 7 attacks by Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip and for a deal to release them, near the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem on September 2, 2024. Banner reads 'Hersh won't come home.' (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

Police use considerable force near PM’s home to disperse protesters urging hostage deal

By Iddo Schejter, Gavriel Fiske and ToI Staff

At least 12 arrests, ToI reporter grabbed by the throat, in Jerusalem; demos also held outside Netanyahu’s Caesarea residence and in Tel Aviv, where Ayalon Freeway blocked

The government fiddles while Israel burns

This ruling group of factional interests is too busy with political patronage and fighting the courts to put out the fires

This isn’t a war, really

For Hamas, it’s a publicity stunt, a large-scale suicide mission. And, it’s working out amazingly well for them

Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists are seen on their way to cross the Israel-Gaza border fence from Khan Younis during the Hamas-led onslaught of October 7, 2023. (Said Khatib/ AFP/ File)

Live updates (closed)

Sep. 3: US announces charges against six top Hamas leaders over Oct. 7 onslaught

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Former allies accuse Netanyahu of lying about importance of Philadelphi * Thousands rally for deal in Tel Aviv * UN Security Council to discuss hostage executions, could take fresh action aimed at ending war

8:10 pm

Trump says conflicts could turn into World War III, days after warning of Israel's demise
8:06 pm

US says it rejects ongoing IDF presence in Philadelphi Corridor, urges flexibility in talks
8:05 pm

US demands justice for executed hostages, hails Goldberg-Polin as 'American hero'

Ahmed Fawzi Nasser Muhammad Wadiyya, a Hamas Nukhba commander who led the massacre in moshav Netiv Ha'asara on October 7, 2023, is seen in CCTV footage from the attack that day. (Israel Defense Forces)

7 other operatives also killed in Gaza strike

IDF says it killed Hamas commander who murdered father in front of his kids on Oct. 7

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Terrorist who led onslaught on moshav Netiv Ha’asara was filmed drinking Coca-Cola from fridge of family home, moments after killing Gil Taasa in front of his two youngest sons

Comptroller blasts political, IDF chiefs for failing to ‘bear responsibility’ for Oct. 7

By Jeremy Sharon

Speaking at Bar Association conference, Matanyahu Englman accuses the military of building ‘high and impassable walls’ to stymie his probe into its failures surrounding the attack

State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman speaks at an Israel Bar Association conference in Tel Aviv, September 3, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Reporter's notebook

In longest West Bank raid in 20 years, IDF aims to set stage for future, smaller ops

Military shifts focus to Jenin, where troops rip up roads to find bombs, work to establish ‘operational control’; army says 14 gunmen killed, over 25 suspects detained

IDF troops are seen along a torn-up street in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, September 2, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

An Israeli soldier stands near the scene of a car bomb explosion in the West Bank settlement of Karmei Tzur, in front of a sign in which the Arabic has been blacked out by vandals, August 31, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hamas claims responsibility for dual car bombing in West Bank last week

By Emanuel Fabian

File - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at 10 Downing Street in London, March 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Netanyahu says ‘shameful’ suspension of UK arms licenses will embolden Hamas

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

After foreign secretary announces decision to suspend 30 of 350 permits, insisting it is not an embargo, PM vows Israel will prevail in Gaza war ‘with or without British arms’

British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis speaks at a National Holocaust Memorial Day event at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, on January 26, 2017, in London, England. (Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

UK chief rabbi slams government’s decision to suspend arms licenses to Israel

In this video grab taken from footage broadcast by the UK Parliamentary Recording Unit (PRU) via the Parliament TV website on September 2, 2024, Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy makes a statement on arms sales to Israel. (PRU/AFP)

UK suspends 30 of 350 arms export licenses to Israel, insists it’s not an embargo

By Agencies and Lazar Berman

People wave Turkish and Palestinian flags during an anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protest in Istanbul, Turkey, August 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Turkey arrests Kosovar man suspected of acting as ‘financier’ for Mossad

By Lazar Berman and Agencies

Since January, Turkish authorities have detained dozens suspected of collecting data for Israel as Ankara-Jerusalem relations continue to deteriorate

Screen capture from video of a brawl between Arab Israeli tourists and hotel workers in the Egyptian resort town of Taba, August 30, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Two Israelis indicted in Egypt over hotel brawl that injured six

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Emad missiles are carried during a military parade commemorating the anniversary of the start of the 1980-88 Iraq-Iran war, in front of the shrine of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, September 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Report doubts accuracy of Iran’s advanced Emad missile, used to attack Israel in April

By AP and ToI Staff

Analysts say missiles that targeted Nevatim base had a much larger ‘error circle’ than Tehran has claimed

Portraits are exhibited behind a noose as a placard reads, 'Executions pro day,' in front of the Brandenburg Gate during a demonstration by supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran in Berlin, Germany on February 10, 2024. (STEFANIE LOOS / AFP)

UN experts express alarm as they say Iran executed more than 400 people this year

By AFP

Interview

Nature meets divine in New York exhibit by Tobi Kahn, son of Holocaust survivors

By Leigh Pennington

The Lower East Side’s Museum at Eldridge Street honors the US Jewish immigrant story, continued with the spiritual works in ‘Memory and Inheritance,’ on display through November 10

More Headlines

Lufthansa aircrafts parked at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, September 2, 2022. (AP/Michael Probst)

Lufthansa group to resume flights to Israel Thursday after month-long pause

By Reuters and ToI Staff

View of an empty classroom at a school in Jerusalem, during a strike, on September 1, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

No end in sight for high school teachers’ strike after talks end with no progress

By Gavriel Fiske

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara attend the opening ceremony of the inauguration of the new emergency ward at the Barzilay hospital, in Ashkelon, Israel on February 20, 2018. (Flash90)

‘The Bibi Files’: Film featuring footage from Netanyahu probes to debut in Toronto

A screenshot from video posted to social media showing Ukrainians inspecting the damage after a Russian missile strike on the central town of Poltava, September 3, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Zelensky vows Russia will be ‘held accountable’ for killing 41 in missile strike

By Olena Harmash

Co-leader of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Alice Weidel arrives for a press conference in Berlin on September 2, 2024. (Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)

Scholz urges German parties to avoid far-right AfD after its regional election gains

A Catholic priest conducts a funeral service for remains of over 700 victims of German crimes of the World War II, discovered in the so-called Valley of Death, at the Minor Basilica of the Holy Trinity of St. John the Baptist in Chojnice, Poland, on September 2, 2024. (Sergei GAPON / AFP)

Poland holds state burial for over 700 World War II victims of Nazi Germany

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA

Screenshot of Hapoel Beersheba fans and Bnei Sakhnin fans fighting on the soccer pitch after the latter team's fans turned their backs during the national anthem, Turner Stadium, Beersheba, September 1, 2024. (X;used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Violence erupts at soccer match after fans of Arab team turn backs on national anthem

Flames and smoke rise from the Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion, which has been on fire since August 23, on the Red Sea, August 28, 2024. (EUNAVFOR ASPIDES via X/Reuters)

US says Houthi rebels targeted Saudi-owned oil tanker in latest Red Sea attack

By AP

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, walks with Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh, left, during a welcoming ceremony at Sukhbaatar Square in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, September 3, 2024. (Sofya Sandurskaya, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Defying international warrant for his arrest, Putin breezes into Mongolia

By AP

Anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders, takes his seat at the high-security court at Schiphol, near Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 2, 2024. (Peter Dejong/AP)

Pakistanis tried for incitement to kill Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders

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