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Three IDF troops killed, officer seriously wounded in northern Gaza fighting

Motion to expel Hadash Ta’al chair Ayman Odeh fails to pass * Despite Netanyahu’s last-ditch efforts, both factions of United Torah Judaism announce resignation from government

12:57 am

Sa’ar welcomes presence of Syrian counterpart at EU summit, says Israel has no plans to stay in Gaza
12:22 am

Settlers reportedly torch vehicles on outskirts of Palestinian village in West Bank
12:00 am

Agudat Yisrael announces resignation from government, following Degel HaTorah's lead
11:48 pm

IDF soldier found dead on base in northern Israel in suspected suicide

Panel to hold second hearing, summon AG again

Attorney General Gali Baharav Miara attends a hearing of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee at the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG stays away from her dismissal hearing: ‘A sham that harms rule of law, democracy’

By Tal Schneider, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Protesters rally in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem against Gali Baharav-Miara’s firing; Herzog praises her wartime actions, warns of national ‘pandemonium’

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

High Court gives government green light to convene new panel on firing attorney general

By Jeremy Sharon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Justice Minister Yariv Levin, and other ministers in the Knesset plenum during a vote on a law to overhaul Israel's judicial selection process, March 27, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ministers back bill letting new governments clean house from army chief to AG

By Sam Sokol and Jeremy Sharon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and IDF Maj. Gen. David Zini at the Tzeelim training base in southern Israel, May 8, 2025. (GPO)

High Court approves government-AG compromise over appointment of new Shin Bet chief

By Jeremy Sharon

'Not my personal political survival that I'm concerned with'

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Tel Aviv District Court, July 14, 2025. (Reuven Kastro/POOL)

In English-language video, Netanyahu absolves himself of any blame for Oct. 7 attack

By Nava Freiberg

Facing coalition turmoil and growing criticism over Gaza conflict, PM hails his wartime actions, repeats claims that intel officials dismissed Hamas threat and kept him in the dark

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media on arrival at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, en route to Washington, after attending the Club World Cup final soccer match in New Jersey, July 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump hopes for Gaza deal within a week, as sources allege Netanyahu stalling

By Jacob Magid, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

This handout picture released by the Palestinian Authority's press office (PPO) shows President Mahmoud Abbas (R) meeting with Britain's former prime minister Tony Blair in Amman, Jordan, on July 13, 2025. (Photo by Thaer GHANAIM / PPO / AFP)

Abbas urges Hamas to free hostages, says terror group won’t rule postwar Gaza

AnalysisIn US, Iran strikes’ afterglow buys Netanyahu time to carry on ineffective Gaza war

By Lazar Berman

LiveUpdated 22min ago

Three IDF troops killed, officer seriously wounded in northern Gaza fighting

Motion to expel Hadash Ta’al chair Ayman Odeh fails to pass * Despite Netanyahu’s last-ditch efforts, both factions of United Torah Judaism announce resignation from government

Attorney General Gali Baharav Miara attends a hearing of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee at the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG stays away from her dismissal hearing: ‘A sham that harms rule of law, democracy’

By Tal Schneider, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Protesters rally in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem against Gali Baharav-Miara’s firing; Herzog praises her wartime actions, warns of national ‘pandemonium’

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

High Court gives government green light to convene new panel on firing attorney general

By Jeremy Sharon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Justice Minister Yariv Levin, and other ministers in the Knesset plenum during a vote on a law to overhaul Israel's judicial selection process, March 27, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ministers back bill letting new governments clean house from army chief to AG

By Sam Sokol and Jeremy Sharon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and IDF Maj. Gen. David Zini at the Tzeelim training base in southern Israel, May 8, 2025. (GPO)

High Court approves government-AG compromise over appointment of new Shin Bet chief

By Jeremy Sharon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Tel Aviv District Court, July 14, 2025. (Reuven Kastro/POOL)

In English-language video, Netanyahu absolves himself of any blame for Oct. 7 attack

By Nava Freiberg

Facing coalition turmoil and growing criticism over Gaza conflict, PM hails his wartime actions, repeats claims that intel officials dismissed Hamas threat and kept him in the dark

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media on arrival at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, en route to Washington, after attending the Club World Cup final soccer match in New Jersey, July 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump hopes for Gaza deal within a week, as sources allege Netanyahu stalling

By Jacob Magid, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

This handout picture released by the Palestinian Authority's press office (PPO) shows President Mahmoud Abbas (R) meeting with Britain's former prime minister Tony Blair in Amman, Jordan, on July 13, 2025. (Photo by Thaer GHANAIM / PPO / AFP)

Abbas urges Hamas to free hostages, says terror group won’t rule postwar Gaza

AnalysisIn US, Iran strikes’ afterglow buys Netanyahu time to carry on ineffective Gaza war

By Lazar Berman

Qatargate suspect Jonatan Urich (right) arrives at a hearing at the Central District Court with his attorney, Amit Hadad, on May 22, 2025. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)

Netanyahu slams charges against key aide as ‘baseless and unfounded’

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Draft indictment alleges Jonatan Urich transmitted classified documents to harm state security, destroyed evidence; says PM: ‘Jonatan did not harm state security’

Qatargate suspect Jonatan Urich attends a hearing at the Lod District Court on May 22, 2025. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)

Top Netanyahu aide Jonatan Urich set to be charged in leaked documents case

By Charlie Summers, Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

A burning tank in the Mazraa area, near Sweida, Syria, on July 14, 2025. (Bakr ALkasem / AFP)

IDF strikes several tanks in south Syria as regime forces, Bedouin clash with Druze

By Emanuel Fabian, AP and ToI Staff

Army says it hit tanks to ‘prevent their arrival’ at sites of fighting against Druze, in rare occurrence of Israel targeting forces of Syria’s new government; no injuries reported

Screen captures from videos purporting to show clashes between Syrian Druze and Bedouin militias in the area of Sweida, southern Syria, July 13, 2025. (X: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

37 said killed in deadly clashes in predominantly Druze city in southern Syria

By AFP and ToI Staff

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, right, and Syria's interim president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, second left, stand on the balcony during their meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan, July 12, 2025. (Azerbaijani Presidential Press Office via AP)

Syrian and Israeli officials expected to meet in Azerbaijan as Sharaa visits

By AFP and ToI Staff

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir (center) at the scene of a terror attack at Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank, July 10, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief said to call Gaza humanitarian city plan ‘unworkable’ at security meeting

Report says Eyal Zamir pushing back on controversial idea, telling PM, Katz that ‘it has more holes than cheese’; Netanyahu said to be ‘determined’ that it go ahead

A composite image shows Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman (L), Opposition Leader Yair Lapid (C), and Blue and White - National Unity chairman Benny Gantz (R), at their respective faction meetings at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on July 14, 2025. (All photos Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lapid leads opposition pushback to ‘crazy’ plan for ‘humanitarian city’ in Gaza

By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

Children play around waste in front of the closed UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City, on May 20, 2025. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)

IDF said to warn against Gaza ‘humanitarian city’; ex-PM brands it ‘concentration camp’

By Nava Freiberg, ToI Staff and AFP

This screenshot from the trailer for 'Gaza: How to Survive A War Zone' shows narrator Abdullah Al-Yazouri, whose father is a Hamas deputy minister. (YouTube screenshot used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law)

BBC: Gaza documentary breached rules by not disclosing narrator was Hamas official’s son

By Reuters and ToI Staff

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Those we are missing

The hostages and victims whose fate is still unknown

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Taken captive: Avinatan Or, planning to move in with girlfriend

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Those we are missing
Taken captive: Tamir Nimrodi, walked by gunmen to base gate

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Taken captive: Matan Angrest, turned 21 while held hostage in Gaza

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Taken captive: Guy Gilboa-Dalal, took a selfie with his brother for mom

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Taken captive: Maxim Herkin, was attending his first trance rave

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Taken captive: Ziv Berman, from his home in Kfar Aza’s young generation neighborhood

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Taken captive: Matan Zangauker ‘is a survivor’

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Taken captive: Eitan Mor, guard at rave who helped save others

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Taken captive: Yosef-Haim Ohana, helped injured at Supernova rave

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Taken captive: Alon Ohel, pianist’s family recorded song for him

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Taken captive: Bar Kuperstein, last seen tied up by Hamas

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Taken captive: Informal educator Eitan Horn visiting from Kfar Saba

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Taken captive: Gali Berman, from Kfar Aza’s ‘young neighborhood’

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Taken captive: Rom Braslavski, rave guard who saved others

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Taken captive: Nimrod Cohen, twin working to bring him home

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Taken captive: Omri Miran, driven in his own car to Gaza

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Taken captive: Ariel Cunio told brother ‘We are in a horror film’

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Taken captive: Segev Kalfon, last seen running across Highway 232

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Taken captive: Bipin Joshi, Nepalese student who deflected grenades

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Those we are missing
Taken captive: Elkana Bohbot, young son asking, ‘Where’s Daddy?’

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Wing and a prayer
Netanyahu gifts Trump mezuzah case in shape of B-2 bomber

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Free love
Released hostages Troufanov, Cohen announce plans to marry

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Just passing through
Scientists find new interstellar object racing through Solar System

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The art of the matter
When artists make movies: Free screenings in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv

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Cinema of value
Jerusalem Film Festival to open with Cannes winner ‘Sentimental Value’

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Can't stop the music
Israel Festival schedules new dates following ceasefire with Iran

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Movie time
Gal Gadot to be special guest at this year’s Jerusalem Film Festival

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A beer for the boys
Brewery creates ‘My Brother’ pale ale for kidnapped soldiers

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Underground art
Iranian missiles force museums to move valuables to safe areas

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Signs of the times
Hapoel fans model new uniforms, with Hersh logo, in bomb shelters

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War drums
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Cultural celebration
Israel Museum launches 60th year with live ‘One Night’ event

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Seed funding
Former hostage honored for pioneering farming work in Africa

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