Hi, welcome to the Times Isles Daily Briefing. It is Wednesday, August 13th, and I'm Jessica Steinberg. I'm speaking today with New York reporter Luke Tress, who gets wished a Mazaltov from us because he just got married. So Mazaltov and welcome back to the podcast, Luke. Good to have you here.

Thank you. Good to be back. It is day 677 of the war. As protests mount in Israel in support of the

hostages of the remaining hostages with retired and reserve Air Force pilots protesting near ID of headquarters in Tel Aviv,

as well as parts of the Israeli market, the tech companies, local authorities, and other

supporters planning a major protest next Sunday.

Israel may send negotiators back to Doha for talks on freeing

all the hostages and ending the war. Those are the headlines that we're seeing late Tuesday night.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that any partial hostage deals are no longer relevant.

Again, this would be about an complete deal. For our part on the podcast today, we're going to

take a closer look at what Jewish activism looks like right now in the U.S. given the rise

in anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment.

At the same time, Luke has also been reporting on a decrease in anti-Semitic hate crimes in New York.

And he's also going to talk about the possibility of a death penalty sentence for Elias Rodriguez.

The alleged killer of the two Israeli embassy staffers.

We'll get to all of that in just a moment. Stay with us.

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