Last-ditch hostage-ceasefire talks set for Doha tomorrow * Protect the Picasso: TLV museum stashes art * US students plan ’strike for Palestine’ * An improbable lobbyist

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Wednesday, August 14, 2024 Live updates [LIVE: High-level Israeli delegation reportedly set to be dispatched to Doha for Gaza talks]( By ToI Staff and Shira Silkoff Hamas participation in Doha summit still unclear * Rockets hit Kiryat Shmona after siren fails to sound * Government okays first brand new West Bank settlement since 2017 [Biden: Iran expected to push off attacking Israel if Gaza ceasefire deal clinched]( By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff US says Qatar trying to bring Hamas terror group to table for Thursday summit, though Israeli negotiator reportedly complains talks doomed unless Netanyahu expands team’s mandate [Sinwar said to demand halt to IDF operations in Gaza as precondition for talks]( By ToI Staff [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing Aug. 14: Day 313 – Would a failed hostage deal mean regional war?]( By ToI Staff Op-ed: Day 313 of the war David Horovitz [2 dead terror chiefs, a US desperate to avert war, and a terrifying lack of strategy]( Israel complacently allowed Iran to build a stranglehold around it; 313 days after October 7, where’s our domestically and internationally formulated plan to break that grip? [Hamas fires rockets at Tel Aviv, a first since May, as IDF advances in Khan Younis]( By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies One projectile shot from southern Gaza city lands in sea, second impacts in Strip; military says troops have killed more than 100 gunmen in Rafah amid ongoing operation there [Report: IDF using Gazans to check areas that may be booby-trapped before troops enter]( By ToI Staff [Over 10,000 Israeli troops treated since Oct. 7, says ministry rehab department]( By Emanuel Fabian [Those We Are Missing]( [The hostages and victims whose fate is still unknown]( [Read Here]( [Protect the Picasso: Fearing Iranian attack, Tel Aviv museum stashes priceless art]( By Nir Kafri Facility is moving more valuable works from its collections to an underground safe room first utilized after October 7, leaving some galleries with blank walls [IDF kills 2 Hezbollah members in Lebanon, hours after downing drones along border]( By Emanuel Fabian Drone shot down over Kiryat Shmona, another intercepted over Lebanon; 40 rockets fired at north; Gallant says Israel is ‘following what is happening, in Beirut, in Tehran’ [US approves $20 billion in weapons sales to Israel, including 50 fighter jets]( By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies State Department says deal, also including thousands of tank rounds, boosts ‘Israel’s capability to meet current and future enemy threats,’ though F-15s won’t arrive for years [Anti-Israel students in US plan to ring in academic year with ‘strike for Palestine’]( By ToI Staff Student activists hope to pressure schools to divest from Israel by absenting themselves from campus, after tent encampments last semester failed to make schools heed their demands [San Francisco indicts 26 anti-Israel protesters who blocked Golden Gate Bridge]( By AP and ToI Staff Top Ops Jonathan A. Greenblatt [Exploiting tragedy: From grief to antisemitic conspiracy]( The UK knife attacks had nothing to do with Israel or Jews, but when violent extremists demonize Zionists and the Jewish state, they soon dehumanize Jews too Jonathan Lipow [What will Israel be?]( To truly defeat the enemy, Israel must face its own ’day after’ challenge by addressing its failings and vulnerabilities [How an Egyptian raised on Jew-hatred turned DC lobbyist for Arab-Israeli cooperation]( By Gianluca Pacchiani He fled the Morsi regime in 2012. Now, Egyptian-American analyst Hussein Aboubakr Mansour meets with DC policymakers to create an alliance against extremism [Those We Have Lost]( [Those We Have Lost]( [Civilians and soldiers who have fallen since Oct. 7]( [Read Here]( [US leads international condemnations of Ben Gvir’s ‘provocations’ at Temple Mount]( By Agencies and Jacob Magid State Department says minister’s declaration that prayer is allowed at site contributes to ‘greater insecurity and instability in the region’; UN calls move ‘unduly provocative’ [PM downplays Fitch’s downgrade but top economists warn about handling of war economy]( By Sharon Wrobel Opposition leaders say Fitch rating cut is due to government’s management of the economic fallout of the war; leading economists urge progress on 2025 budget to regain confidence [CRM]( [US Squad member Ilhan Omar wins Democratic primary in Minnesota]( By AP and ToI Staff Progressive incumbent avoids fate of colleagues Bush, Bowman, will face Republican Iraqi-American journalist Dalia Al-Aqidi, who has cast Omar as pro-Hamas, in election in November [Harris’s campaign says FBI notified it that it was targeted by ‘foreign hackers’]( By AFP [Looking to escape war at home, Israelis seek refugee status in Portugal]( By Romain Chauvet As the Israel-Hamas conflict stretches into its 11th month, locals looking to flee its physical and economic perils find a shortcut – albeit temporary – in applying for EU asylum [Thousands attend US-Israeli lone soldier’s funeral after family asks public to show up]( By ToI Staff Jordan Cooper died of a nut allergy while in Israel after completing more than 200 days of reserve duty since October 7 [As Iranian retaliation looms, thousands of Bedouins still vulnerable to rocketsÂ]( By Gianluca Pacchiani Four months after girl, 7, is sole victim of Iran attack, unrecognized Negev communities’ residents fear for their lives amid persisting lack of rocket shelters and Iron Dome cover [Day 313 – Would a failed hostage deal mean regional war?]( [listen to the podcast]( [Visiting Moscow, Abbas tells Putin he’s ‘one of the dearest friends’ of Palestinians]( By Agencies and ToI Staff Hosting PA leader, Russian president says Moscow is watching war in Gaza ‘with great pain,’ reiterates his backing for the ‘creation of a fully fledged Palestinian state’ [Ukraine presses surprise raid into Russia; border region Belgorod declares emergency]( By AFP More Headlines [AG to High Court: ‘Clear public interest’ in wrapping up Netanyahu trial quickly]( By ToI Staff [A Texas schoolboy, 9, wrote to Biden in plea to support Israel. Then he heard back]( By ToI Staff [7 charged in UK court for pro-Palestinian attack on warehouse tied to Israel’s Elbit]( By Reuters [Israeli fired from Intel sues company in New York over supervisor’s antisemitism]( By Jonathan Stempel [The daily edition]( [facebook]( [twitter]( [instagram]( [View in browser]( [Contact support](mailto:support@timesofisrael.com) [Advertise with us](mailto:advertise@timesofisrael.com) Were you forwarded this email? [Subscribe here]( [Unsubscribe]( from this List © 2024 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved