Netanyahu said set to fire Gallant, bring in Sa’ar * Op-ed: Edelstein, lost * 4 years later, amid war, Abraham Accords quietly resilient * ToI video: Reservists in Gaza

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Monday, September 16, 2024 Live updates [LIVE - Reports: PM nearing move to fire Defense Minister Gallant, replace him with Gideon Sa’ar]( By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff Netanyahu, opposition MK deny claims as Ben Gvir urges premier to oust Gallant ‘immediately’ * Hostage families call on IDF chief to allow hostage photos to be displayed on bases [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 [Trump shooting suspect apparently voted for him in 2016, had run-ins with the law]( By ToI Staff [Explainer / Latest 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]( By ToI Staff 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 [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing Sept. 16: Day 346 – Has the window closed for diplomacy in the north?]( By ToI Staff [After unauthorized flyers dropped, IDF says there’s no south Lebanon evacuation order]( By Emanuel Fabian [Those We Are Missing]( [The hostages and victims whose fate is still unknown]( [Read Here]( 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 [Edelstein’s synagogue denies calling police on women who distributed hostage flyers]( By ToI Staff [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 [UNRWA chief says Gaza polio vaccine drive has reached 90% of children]( By Reuters and ToI Staff Analysis Lazar Berman [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 [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 says despite war losses, terror group has recruited ‘new generations’]( By AFP and ToI Staff [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]( By ToI Staff Columnists Baddiel, Freedland, Aaronovitch and Freeman quit over scandal involving ‘Elon Perry’; he decries ‘witch hunt,’ tells reporter he wishes Hamas ‘would kill you’ [Ministers decry incitement after PM compared to Hitler, demand action from deputy AG]( By Sam Sokol 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’ [Culture minister not invited to this year’s muted Ophir Awards ceremony]( By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff Top Ops Shlomit Nazar [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 Alan Haber [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 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 [CRM]( [Cornell professor who praised Oct. 7 massacre allowed to resume teaching]( By ToI Staff 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 [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 [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 [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 [Day 346 – Has the window closed for diplomacy in the north?]( [listen to the podcast]( [Report: New police chief said seeing men kiss in public disgusts him]( By ToI Staff Daniel Levy said to have made comments in presence of then-district spokesman, who reportedly peppered his daily conversations with officers with ‘homo’ slur [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 [Those We Have Lost]( [Those We Have Lost]( [Civilians and soldiers who have fallen since Oct. 7]( [Read Here]( More Headlines [Abdullah taps chief of staff as Jordan’s new PM after Islamists gain in elections]( By AFP and Reuters [Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury, who praised Hamas’s Oct. 7 onslaught, dies at 76]( By AP and ToI Staff [34 female prisoners hunger strike in Iran for anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death]( By AFP [Emmys see ‘Shogun’ break records, as well as some minor Gaza war gestures]( By ToI Staff and AFP [Yellow card / Lionel Messi’s yellow ribbon mistaken as hostage solidarity symbol]( By ToI Staff [At least 7 killed, others missing after heavy rains across Europe cause mass floods]( By Karel Janicek [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? 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