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What Matters Most On Monday, September 16, 2024

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaks to reporters after his meeting with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, at Cairo airport, Egypt, Monday, June 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, Pool)

Live updates (Closed)

Sept. 16: Blinken to travel to Egypt Tuesday to discuss Gaza ceasefire efforts

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Security cabinet meets amid reports of Gallant’s looming ouster * Hostage families warn Sa’ar against joining gov’t that ‘abandoned’ their loved ones

9:57 pm

Blinken to travel to Egypt Tuesday to discuss ceasefire-hostage deal efforts
8:59 pm

Suspected Trump gunman fired no shots — US Secret Service
8:51 pm

US sanctions spyware ex-IDF officer's firm behind tool used to spy on dissidents, journalists

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives at Harry Reid International Airport to board a plane after a campaign trip, September 14, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

White House ‘relieved’ GOP candidate unharmed

Trump safe after apparent assassination attempt at his Florida golf course, FBI says

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, Colleen Long, MICHAEL BALSAMO and Zeke Miller

Months after bullet grazed his ear at rally, former US president says he is well after man pointed gun some 400 meters from him; suspect Ryan Routh, a former Trump voter, in custody

This screengrab taken from AFPTV on September 16, 2024 shows Ryan Wesley Routh speaking during an interview at a pro-Ukraine rally in 2022 (AFPTV / AFP)

Trump shooting suspect apparently voted for him in 2016, had run-ins with the law

Republican US presidential candidate former president Donald Trump is surrounded by US Secret Service agents at a campaign rally after apparently being shot in his ear, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

ExplainerLatest attack on Trump a reminder of past assassination attempts against US leaders

By Kanishka Singh

Top general said pushing for ground incursion to create south Lebanon buffer zone

Defense minister tells US counterpart possibility of reaching diplomatic solution on border is passing, though he is thought to oppose risking all-out war amid manpower worries

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, left, and Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin at a ceremony on October 2, 2023. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Troops of the Yiftah Brigade carry out a drill in northern Israel, in a handout photo published September 6, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sept. 16: Day 346 – Has the window closed for diplomacy in the north?

A flyer dropped in south Lebanon calling on people in the highlighted areas on the border, close to Ghajar, to evacuate, September 15, 2024 (X/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

After unauthorized flyers dropped, IDF says there’s no south Lebanon evacuation order

By Emanuel Fabian

Op-ed

Shalom Yerushalmi

Yuli Edelstein, once a Soviet Prisoner of Zion, now a supporter of political arrests

He should have been at the forefront of support for the three women who placed ‘Let My People Go’ hostage flyers on the seats at his synagogue. Instead, he backed their detention

Committee chairman Yuli Edelstein (Likud) at a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 16, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Protesters surround MK Yuli Edelstein as he walks to synagogue in Herzliya the day after three women were arrested for placing hostage flyers in the house of worship, September 14, 2024 (Yair Palti/Pro-Democracy Protest groups)

Edelstein’s synagogue denies calling police on women who distributed hostage flyers

Palestinians check the rubble of a house following Israeli bombardment in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, on September 16, 2024. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Several Gazans killed in strikes as IDF appears to zero in again on northern Strip

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Army says it bombed school-turned-shelter being used as Hamas command center for second time in days; report suggests fighters regrouping faster than Israel can stamp them out

A Palestinian medic administers polio vaccines to children at the al-Daraj neighborhood clinic in Gaza City on September 10, 2024. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

UNRWA chief says Gaza polio vaccine drive has reached 90% of children

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Analysis

Four years on, Abraham Accords are strained by Gaza war — but prove resilient

The visibility of ties with Bahrain, Morocco and the UAE has changed since Hamas’s attacks on October 7, but Israel’s newest Arab partners remain committed to strategic choice

From left, Bahrain Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US president Donald Trump, and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, sit during the Abraham Accords signing ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, September 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Left to right: Elia Toledano, Cpl. Nik Beizer, Sgt. Ron Sherman, taken hostage by Hamas on October 7. Their bodies were recovered by the IDF and returned to Israel on December 15, 2023. (Courtesy)

Mother of slain captive: How could army not have had intel?

Months after bodies recovered, IDF says 3 hostages were killed as ‘byproduct’ of strike

By Emanuel Fabian

Sgt. Ron Sherman, Cpl. Nik Beizer, Elia Toledano were in tunnel network targeted in Israeli airstrike on Hamas brigade commander in November; exact cause of deaths still unknown

Hamas official Osama Hamdan looks on during an interview with AFP in Istanbul on September 15, 2024. (Ozan Kose/AFP)

Hamas official says despite war losses, terror group has recruited ‘new generations’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israeli security forces near the scene of a stabbing attack at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City on September 15, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Border Police officer lightly hurt in stabbing attack at Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Jewish Chronicle stalwarts bail over UK paper’s ties to alleged Gaza war fabulist

Columnists Baddiel, Freedland, Aaronovitch and Freeman quit over scandal involving ‘Elon Perry’; he decries ‘witch hunt,’ tells reporter he wishes Hamas ‘would kill you’

Elon Perry speaks to Al Jazeera in an undated video (Screenshot: Al Jazeera)

Ministers decry incitement after PM compared to Hitler, demand action from deputy AG

At fiery cabinet meeting, Likud’s David Amsalem says attorney general ‘should have been fired on the first day of the government, and if not then on the second’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting. (Maayan Toaf / GPO, undated photo)

Culture and Sports Minister Miki Zohar attends a ceremony for the Israeli Olympic and Paralympic delegation competing at the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on June 19, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Culture minister not invited to this year’s muted Ophir Awards ceremony

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

The very best of summer camp: Kids from the Gaza envelope take a break

Sports, swimming, and bonding with American Jewish teens helped remind my 20 traumatized students of the good in the world

Don’t believe what you read in the news

Limit your media exposure to steer clear of the conflict and controversy reportedly plaguing Israel and world Jewry and see the greater unity around you

A reservist in Gaza, September 13, 2024. (Eli Katzoff/The Times of Israel)

ToI Original Video

The 8119th Reserve Battalion

ToI follows the 8119th Reserve Battalion to the frontlines in the Gaza Strip, offering an unfiltered look into the intense, precarious nature of reservists’ life in the war zone

Cornell professor who praised Oct. 7 massacre allowed to resume teaching

Decision signals about-face from university’s initial rebuke, comes on heels of president’s resignation; NY Representative Claudia Tenney says she’s ‘deeply disgusted’ by move

Cornell University Prof. Russell Rickford, who praised the Hamas atrocities of October 7, 2023, as 'exhilarating,' speaks at a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel rally on October 15, 2023, at the Ithaca Commons. (Screenshot from The Cornell Daily Sun, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Construction works on new housing in the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Gat, July 29, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Israeli inflation picks up more than forecast as travel costs and home prices soar

By Sharon Wrobel

Consumer prices accelerated to 3.6% in August, the highest level since October, reducing the odds that the central bank will cut high borrowing costs in the coming months

Illustrative: An anti-Israel rally at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2017. (YouTube screenshot/ used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

'Too many schools say Jewish students just need to take it'

4 years after complaint, Illinois university bans harassment of students for Zionist views

By Cathryn J. Prince

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign amends its code of conduct after a 2020 complaint alleging numerous antisemitic acts, but its timing amid the Gaza war is notable

Israeli soldiers on guard while students arrive to their first day of school at Lev Ha'Emek School in Neot Mordechai, northern Israel, on Septmber 1, 2024.(Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Israelis feel fractured school system cannot promote a shared identity – poll

By Gavriel Fiske

IDI survey finds 45% of Jews, 16% of Arabs want schools to focus on ‘national unity’; many Israelis want hostages discussed in schools, but less so on religious and political right

Police Coastal District chief Daniel Levy attends a ceremony at the National Security Ministry in Jerusalem, July 4, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Report: New police chief said seeing men kiss in public disgusts him

Daniel Levy said to have made comments in presence of then-district spokesman, who reportedly peppered his daily conversations with officers with ‘homo’ slur

History teachers attending the September 2-6, 2024, Holocaust education conference organized by TOLI gather for a group photo at Albania’s University of Elbasan. (Larry Luxner/JTA)

Up to 3,000 foreign Jews found refuge in Albania during WWII

Albania saved Jews from Nazis. Now educators teach the Holocaust to a new generation

By Larry Luxner

Few youth know Albania is the only European country whose Jewish population was higher after WWII; a teachers’ conference aims to change that – and inspire kids with the country’s heroism

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Jafar Hassan, left, appointed Jordan's prime minister on Sunday, sits with his predecessor, then-PM Bisher Khasawneh, at Al Shati Palace, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, March 21, 2024. (Ryan Carter/UAE Presidential Court/Handout via REUTERS)

Abdullah taps chief of staff as Jordan’s new PM after Islamists gain in elections

By AFP and Reuters

Lebanese writer Elias Khoury speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at his office in the Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut, Lebanon, August 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury, who praised Hamas’s Oct. 7 onslaught, dies at 76

By AP and ToI Staff

US demonstrators carry a large photo of Mahsa Amini during a protest against the Iranian regime, in Los Angeles, on October 22, 2022, following the death of Amini in the custody of the Islamic Republic's notorious "morality police." (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

34 female prisoners hunger strike in Iran for anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death

By AFP

Israeli actor Ido Samuel wears a yellow pin in solidarity with hostages held in Gaza as he attends the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on September 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images/AFP)

Emmys see ‘Shogun’ break records, as well as some minor Gaza war gestures

By ToI Staff and AFP

Lionel Messi controls the ball during the Major League Soccer (MLS) regular season football match between Inter Miami and Philadelphia Union at Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, September 14, 2024. (Chris ARJOON / AFP)

Yellow cardLionel Messi’s yellow ribbon mistaken as hostage solidarity symbol

Flooded houses in Jesenik, Czech Republic, September 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

At least 7 killed, others missing after heavy rains across Europe cause mass floods

By Karel Janicek

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