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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 5, 2024

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

Hostages' execution casts doubts on Hamas commitment to deal

US: 2 issues holding up deal, Netanyahu comments on Philadelphi make things ‘difficult’

Senior US official says identities of Palestinian prisoners to be released and presence of Israeli troops on Gaza-Egypt border are last obstacles to hostage-ceasefire deal

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press conference at the Government Press Office in Jerusalem on September 4, 2024. (ABIR SULTAN / POOL / AFP)

‘A step away from victory’? Netanyahu says his April claim was not intended literally

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer arrives for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 29, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Top Netanyahu aide doesn’t rule out pullout from Gaza-Egypt border in deal’s 2nd phase

By Lazar Berman

Police officers patrol after police fired shots at a suspicious person near the Israeli Consulate and a museum on the city's Nazi-era history in Munich, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Scholz: 'Antisemitism and Islamism have no place here'

Gunman killed in shootout near Israeli consulate in Munich, on 1972 attack anniversary

By AP, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Police shoot dead Austrian, 18, who used rifle with a bayonet attached in ‘assumed terror attack’ on consulate; local reports suggest he was known to authorities as an Islamist

Live updates (closed)

Sep. 5: Hersh-Goldberg Polin’s family approves release of Hamas propaganda clip

Thousands rally for hostage deal in Tel Aviv for fifth straight night * Netanyahu said to exclude cabinet as talks held on avenging hostage slayings * Former AG loses attempt to squelch leaked calls

10:47 pm

'It must serve as a wakeup call': Hersh Goldberg-Polin's family approves publication of Hamas propaganda clip
8:40 pm

UN says Gaza remains 'beyond catastrophic,' food still in short supply
7:57 pm

Trump says Harris victory will spell end of Israel

Jonathan Dekel-Chen, center, father of American hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen, along with other families of hostages in Gaza, speaks with reporters following their meeting with US President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in Washington, July 25, 2024. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Father of US-Israeli hostage denies American families pushing Biden to make separate deal

Jonathan Dekel-Chen responds after NBC quotes sources saying US has list of prisoners that might be offered in an exchange but regards comprehensive deal as best way forward

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands before a map during a press conference at the Government Press Office in Jerusalem, September 4, 2024. (Abir Sultan/Pool via AP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sept. 5: Day 335 – PM speaks to world, says hostage deal many steps away

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pictured at the Government Press Office in Jerusalem before giving a press conference on September 4, 2024. (Photo by ABIR SULTAN / POOL / AFP)

Accusing Netanyahu of faking support, hostage families demand he remove solidarity pin

from the blogs

Yossi Klein Halevi

Crush Hamas or free hostages? I choose the hostages

If they are abandoned, too many Israelis will believe they died for political reasons – with dire consequences for the country

People attend a rally demanding a ceasefire deal and the immediate release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip in Tel Aviv, September 4, 2024. (Ariel Schalit/AP)

Cops clash with Tel Aviv protesters on 4th night of rallies demanding hostage deal

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

Demonstrations held outside homes of 8 government ministers as pressure grows to ink an agreement; ToI reporter among those shoved and hit by police at Tel Aviv demonstration

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

Poll: Israelis believe hostage deal unlikely, are split on Netanyahu’s intentions

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Education Minister Yoav Kisch escorted by police as protesters demanding a hostage deal rally at the HaElla school in Kfar Menachem, southern Israel, September 4, 2024. (X screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Activists for hostages hound minister during school visit; 2 arrested for assault

By Michael Horovitz

‘Is God on the Jewish people’s team?’ My 4-year-old wants to know

As we Jews grieve, unable to find a reason for the immense pain, I trust that the unity in our collective heartbreak will help sustain us and enable us to grow

Jonathan Matkowsky

No refuge for Hamas supporters

A recent step by the US Justice Dept. is a warning to Qatar, Turkey and others that supporting a terror organization is against US law

Rockets fired from southern Lebanon are intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome air defense system over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel on September 4, 2024. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

1,307 rockets fired from Lebanon in August, more than any month since war started

By Emanuel Fabian

Kiryat Shmona mayor laments destruction of city, says terrorists must be made afraid to fire at Israel; four drones fired, barrage of five rockets launched at north

Men inspect a vehicle that was targeted by an Israeli airstrike in Tubas in the north of the West Bank on September 5, 2024 (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

At least 6 Palestinian gunmen killed in IDF drone strikes, clashes in West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says it carried out several airstrikes on gunmen amid ongoing counterterrorism raid in Tubas area; one identified as son of notorious terrorist Zakaria Zubeidi

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant meets with the chief of the IDF Central Command, Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth (right) and the commander of the West Bank division, Brig. Gen. Yaki Dolf (left), at an army base in the northern West Bank (Shachar Yurman/Defense Ministry)

Gallant: IDF ‘mowing the lawn’ in West Bank, but will need to ‘pull out the roots’

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli rescued hostage Farhan al-Qadi (C) at a gathering of family and friends to welcome him upon returning to his village of Khirbet Karkour near the southern Bedouin city of Rahat on August 28, 2024. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Says captors saw him as a traitor, an enemy worse than Jews

Farhan al-Qadi says he was taken hostage because he refused to point Hamas to Jews

Rescued hostage describes being shot and captured and his 11-month ordeal; report says slain captive Eden Yerushalmi had been starved in captivity, body weighed only 36 kgs

Screen capture from an undated Hamas propoganda video featuring hostage Carmel Gat who was later slain by terrorists in the Gaza Strip and her body returned to Israel. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Family of slain hostage Carmel Gat releases part of Hamas propaganda video

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Israeli teens from evacuee communities enjoy a Mets baseball game in New York City, in an undated photo from summer, 2024. (courtesy Tsofim North America)

'Everything was straight out of a movie'

100 Israeli teens from evacuated communities return from ‘dream’ US camp experience

By Gavriel Fiske

Group of teenagers from the Tsofim scouts were hosted by NJY Camps in Pennsylvania this summer, offering what organizers say is a model for deeper Israeli-Diaspora connections

Ambassador Danny Danon speaks during a UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, at the United Nations headquarters on August 22, 2024, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

‘Shadows of children’: UN Security Council hears of plight of child hostages in Gaza

Ambassador Danon claims discussion is first time Security Council addressed issue of Israeli hostages in Gaza, emphasizes accounts of sexual abuse in captivity, accuses UN of apathy

File: October 7 survivor Sabine Taasa poses for a picture at a home in Netanya, on January 28, 2024. (MARCO LONGARI / AFP)

Oct. 7 survivor tells UN to ‘stop blaming us’ for war, focus on harm to Israeli kids

By AFP and ToI Staff

David Roytman explains to volunteers of his Jerusalem Shield emergency team how to use the CornerShot system in Jerusalem on February 24, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'It would have sounded ridiculous before October 7”

In Jerusalem’s center, an elite emergency team prepares for an intense, lonely fight

By Canaan Lidor

One of 1,000 volunteer units set up after Oct. 7, Jerusalem Shield trains with expensive gear for extreme situations

The home of the Palestinian Awawdeh family south-east of the town of Deir Dibwan in the central West Bank. The Awawdeh family faced harassment and violence after an illegal farming outpost was established in June 2024 by settlers just a few hundred meters away. (Courtesy)

Court orders sanctioned settler to stop vandalizing Palestinian family’s property

By Jeremy Sharon

Awawdeh family says it suffered violence and repeated harassment since Hanina’s Farm outpost was set up in June; settlers seized livestock pen for own use, then dismantled it

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich speaks at a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem on September 3, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Smotrich spox: Arab towns' allocations flows to criminal orgs

As Smotrich holds up funding, some Arab Israeli mayors allege racism

Finance minister’s decision to withhold $55 million for economic development in the Arab sector ‘exacerbating the cycle of poverty and violence,’ says Umm al-Fahm mayor

Police officers at the scene of a car bomb killing in Ramle, September 5, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Man killed in car explosion near Ramle school, motive believed criminal feud

MK Simcha Rothman at the Israel Bar Association conference in Tel Aviv, September 3, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Right-wing MK who pushed judicial overhaul claims courts ‘helped’ Hitler

Mobileye co-founder and CEO Professor Amnon Shashua speaks at the Nasdaq exchange in New York after the Intel subsidiary went public, October 26, 2022. (Nasdaq)

Mobileye founder warns about how war, judicial overhaul hurt Israeli tech

By Sharon Wrobel

Prof. Amnon Shashua says that while Israelis are used to living in a routine of war, the uncertainty puts off foreign investors and clients, hurting the local tech environment

Ilya Sutskever, Russian Israeli-Canadian computer scientist and co-founder and then-chief scientist of OpenAI, speaks at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv on June 5, 2023. (Jack Guez/AFP)

OpenAI co-founder Sutskever’s new safety-focused AI startup SSI raises $1 billion

By Kenrick Cai, Krystal Hu and Anna Tong

Protesters flash an inverted triangle, a Hamas symbol, at CUNY's Baruch College in New York City, June 6, 2024. (Luke Tress/JTA)

CUNY under pressure to act amid series of anti-Israel protests at Hillel events

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Jewish centers at multiple NY campuses picketed with banners reading ‘Bring the war home’ and ‘Hillel go to hell’ along with Hamas symbol of inverted triangle, pictures of weapons

Jewish Rutgers University's students and members of the community gather holding placards and flags to hold solidarity and vigil for Israel on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023, in New Brunswick, N.J. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Study finds Jewish life on US campuses boosted but battered by October 7 fallout

By Andrew Lapin

Illustrative: Graffiti reading 'From the river to the sea' is seen on a building adjacent to an encampment protesting the University of Washington's ties to Israel and Boeing on the university's campus in Seattle, Washington, May 12, 2024. (Jason Redmond / AFP)

Oversight panel tells Meta not to automatically delete ‘From river to sea’ phrase

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Britain's Prime Minster Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street to go to the House of Commons for his weekly Prime Minister's Questions in London, Wednesday, September 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

UK’s Starmer defends partial Israel arms halt as ‘legal decision,’ not policy change

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israel's women's goalball team competes against China in the semifinal of the 2024 Paris Paralympics on September 4, 2024. (Lilach Weiss Rosenberg)

2024 Paris ParalympicsIsrael wins Paralympic goalball semifinal, guaranteeing gold or silver medal

A child receives a vaccination for polio in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on September 4, 2024. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

WHO hails success of polio 1st phase vaccination campaign in Gaza

By AFP

Teachers' Association chief Ran Erez attends an Education, Culture and Sports Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 29, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High school teachers’ strike may ‘certainly’ last until late October, union head says

By Gavriel Fiske

Buildings razed in Gaza City's Shejaiya neighborhood, as part of the army's efforts to establish a buffer zone on the border with the Gaza Strip, in an image provided by the IDF on January 10, 2024. The Israel-Gaza border runs across the bottom of the picture. (Israel Defense Forces)

Amnesty International calls for war crimes probe over creation of Gaza buffer zone

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Lawyer Arianit Koci speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Pristina, Kosovo, September 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Zenel Zhinipotoku)

After Turkey arrests Kosovar man over Mossad ties, lawyer asserts he is innocent

By AP and ToI Staff

Activist Greta Thunberg released by Copenhagen police after her arrest at an anti-Israel protest, September 4, 2024. (X screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Greta Thunberg briefly detained at Copenhagen protest urging boycott of Israel

Dr. Hilla Hadas, CEO of Enosh, center, with Health Minister Uriel Buright, and Ayelet Nahmias Verbin, chair of the Jewish Agency fund for victims of terror at the Enosh Mental Health Conference on September 4, 2024. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)

Israel in worst-ever mental health crisis amid ongoing war, says minister

By Diana Bletter

Debra Messing addresses a pro-Israel rally in Washington on November 14, 2023. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Celeb sympathyHollywood stars mourn murder of 6 hostages by Hamas

By Jessica Steinberg

Boar's Head meats are displayed at a Safeway store on July 31, 2024 in San Rafael, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images North America/Getty Images via AFP)

Family of Holocaust survivor files first lawsuit in Boar’s Head listeria outbreak

By Jackie Hajdenberg

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