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PM returns home from DC without truce agreement in hand

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to Newsmax's Greta Van Susteren, July 11, 2025 (Screenshot/Newsmax)

Netanyahu says hoping hostage deal will be finalized ‘in a few days’

By Lazar Berman

In Newsmax interview, premier says Israel will use 60-day Gaza ceasefire ‘to try to negotiate an end to this,’ pledges to both ‘defeat these monsters and get our hostages back’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, center, meet with families of hostages held in Gaza, in Washington, DC, July 9, 2025. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Netanyahu tells hostage families Hamas will pick which captives go free in deal

By Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is joined by American lawmakers before a meeting at the US Capitol in Washington on July 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

PM says he’s in sync with Trump on hostage deal, won’t agree to one ‘at any price’

By Jacob Magid and Nurit Yohanan

Inside StoryUS said to tell mediators it won’t let Israel resume Gaza war, as optimism for deal swirls

Yemenis brandish their rifles and chant slogans during an anti-Israel, anti-US rally in the Houthi-run capital Sanaa on July 4, 2025. (Mohammed HUWAIS / AFP)

Israel urging US to resume strikes on Yemen’s Houthis, form broad coalition — report

By Nava Freiberg and Agencies

Jerusalem said to tell Washington that attacks on ships in Red Sea ‘can no longer remain solely an Israeli problem’; Houthis launch a second missile Thursday, which falls short of Israel

Screen capture from video of Houthi gunmen storming the bridge of the Iberian-flagged cargo ship Magic Seas before they sank it July 8, 2025. (Houthi Media Office)

Houthi videos show attacks that sank two ships in Red Sea this week

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Crew members said to be from cargo ship Eternity C, which sank after being attacked, are seen at sea during a rescue operation, off Yemen, in this handout image released on July 9, 2025. (Diaplous/Handout via REUTERS)

Missing sailors feared kidnapped by Houthis after deadly attack on cargo ship

The Liberian-flagged bulk carrier Eternity C is seen in Split, Croatia, January 30, 2023. (Sinisa Aljinovic via AP)

Four killed in attack by Yemen’s Houthis on Greek-owned ship in Red Sea

By Agencies and ToI Staff

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) chats with her foreign policy adviser Christoph Heusgen before the opening session of the North Atlantic Council during the NATO Summit on May 20, 2012, at McCormick Place in Chicago. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

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Report: PM once tried to get Germany’s Merkel to fire top aide over pro-Palestinian demands

After meeting with premier in Washington, hostage’s brother-in-law says he’s not convinced that returning the captives is a top priority for Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to Newsmax's Greta Van Susteren, July 11, 2025 (Screenshot/Newsmax)

Netanyahu says hoping hostage deal will be finalized ‘in a few days’

By Lazar Berman

In Newsmax interview, premier says Israel will use 60-day Gaza ceasefire ‘to try to negotiate an end to this,’ pledges to both ‘defeat these monsters and get our hostages back’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, center, meet with families of hostages held in Gaza, in Washington, DC, July 9, 2025. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Netanyahu tells hostage families Hamas will pick which captives go free in deal

By Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is joined by American lawmakers before a meeting at the US Capitol in Washington on July 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

PM says he’s in sync with Trump on hostage deal, won’t agree to one ‘at any price’

By Jacob Magid and Nurit Yohanan

Inside StoryUS said to tell mediators it won’t let Israel resume Gaza war, as optimism for deal swirls

Yemenis brandish their rifles and chant slogans during an anti-Israel, anti-US rally in the Houthi-run capital Sanaa on July 4, 2025. (Mohammed HUWAIS / AFP)

Israel urging US to resume strikes on Yemen’s Houthis, form broad coalition — report

By Nava Freiberg and Agencies

Jerusalem said to tell Washington that attacks on ships in Red Sea ‘can no longer remain solely an Israeli problem’; Houthis launch a second missile Thursday, which falls short of Israel

Screen capture from video of Houthi gunmen storming the bridge of the Iberian-flagged cargo ship Magic Seas before they sank it July 8, 2025. (Houthi Media Office)

Houthi videos show attacks that sank two ships in Red Sea this week

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Crew members said to be from cargo ship Eternity C, which sank after being attacked, are seen at sea during a rescue operation, off Yemen, in this handout image released on July 9, 2025. (Diaplous/Handout via REUTERS)

Missing sailors feared kidnapped by Houthis after deadly attack on cargo ship

The Liberian-flagged bulk carrier Eternity C is seen in Split, Croatia, January 30, 2023. (Sinisa Aljinovic via AP)

Four killed in attack by Yemen’s Houthis on Greek-owned ship in Red Sea

By Agencies and ToI Staff

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) chats with her foreign policy adviser Christoph Heusgen before the opening session of the North Atlantic Council during the NATO Summit on May 20, 2012, at McCormick Place in Chicago. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

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Report: PM once tried to get Germany’s Merkel to fire top aide over pro-Palestinian demands

After meeting with premier in Washington, hostage’s brother-in-law says he’s not convinced that returning the captives is a top priority for Netanyahu

Israeli man killed in terror attack at West Bank shopping complex; 2 attackers killed

By Emanuel Fabian

Security guard Shalev Zvuluny, 22, stabbed and shot outside supermarket; assailants shot dead by soldier and armed civilian; IDF surrounds nearby Palestinian town

Soldiers and rescue officials at the scene of a terror attack at a shopping complex at Gush Etzion Junction, in the West Bank, on July 10, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)July 10: Perpetrators of West Bank terror attack named as Palestinian Authority cops

Israeli soldiers operate in the West Bank city of Jenin, June 30, 2025. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Soldier stabbed in West Bank; Palestinian boy said to die of wounds from IDF raid last week

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

New recruits in the police's West Bank 'First Response' civilian squads attend a ceremony inaugurating unit's launch at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, Hebron, on July 9, 2025. (Screenshot/Israel Police)

Police recruit settlers for new West Bank civilian enforcement squads

By Charlie Summers and Jeremy Sharon

Volunteers from Palestinian families guard trucks carrying aid that entered the Gaza Strip from the Zikim border crossing, June 25, 2025. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)

Israel, EU agree to boost Gaza aid: ‘More trucks, more crossings, and more routes’

By Nava Freiberg

Israel to open several aid corridors, including through Egypt and Jordan, allow bakeries and kitchens to reopen, ensure security for aid workers, repair vital infrastructure

Palestinians gather at an aid distribution point set up by the privately run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), near the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on June 25, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says it will start delivering aid via community leaders

Palestinians pick up food parcels from a distribution point set up by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), on June 25, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

US official waived safeguards to rush $30 million to Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

Illustrative: A boy looks over a Palestinian tent city in the al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, July 6, 2025. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Gazans reject Trump’s displacement plan despite destruction: ‘This is our land’

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Relatives mourn over the bodies of Manal Abd Rabbo and her sister Fatima, who were among 13 people, including two women and eight children, reported killed in an Israeli strike while waiting to receive nutritional supplements at a Project Hope-run medical clinic in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, July 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Gaza officials say 8 children among 13 killed in strike IDF says targeted Hamas Oct. 7 terrorist

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan, Agencies and ToI Staff

IDF says it’s probing reports of civilian casualties in incident that appears to hit medical clinic; footage shows bodies of women and children lying in pools of blood amid dust and screaming

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Stories of the civilians and soldiers who have fallen in the Israel-Hamas war

Those we have lost
Staff Sgt. Nehoray Said, 21: Lived with ‘truth, kindness, generosity’

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Yitzhak Levy, 26: Aspiring social worker with ‘friends of all stripes’

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Lior Ben Yaakov, 44: Father of 3 slain while protecting his home

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Or Ziv, 23: Travel lover and budding model with ‘sparkling eyes’

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Adrienne Neta, 66: Native Californian was legendary midwife

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Staff Sgt. Valentin Ghnassia, 22: French ‘ray of sun’ volunteered for IDF

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Sgt. First Class Urija Bayer, 20: Messianic Jew died fighting Hamas

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Cpt. Yedidya Lev, 26: Givati commander was oldest of 8 siblings

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Stav Barazani, 22: Slain partygoer ‘was a really happy girl’

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Daniel Cohen, 25: At-risk youth counselor was optimistic until the end

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Supt. Stas Sheinkman, 40: Counter-terror cop was family’s ‘iron man’

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Staff Sgt. Itay Martsiano, 20: Soccer player and beloved little brother

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Ilan Lipovsky, 30: Psychology student, a ‘smart, quiet’ animal lover

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Oleg Lifshitz, 60: New immigrant from Ukraine who loved fishing

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Din Bar, 27, and Shoam Bar, 21: Uncle and nephew slain together

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Staff Sgt. Michael Ben Hamo, 21: Golani commander waged ‘heroic battle’

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Sgt. Ariel Erez, 19: Golani soldier whose ‘eyes were always sparkling’

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Eliad Ohayon, 23: Volunteered with kids fighting cancer

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Shani Amin, 18: Recent high school grad was family’s ‘joy and light’

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Staff Sgt. Yishay Fitusi, 21: Took local troubled youth under his wing

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Those we are missing

The hostages and victims whose fate is still unknown

Those we are missing
Taken captive: David Cunio, abducted from burning house

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Rom Braslavski, rave guard who saved others

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Yosef-Haim Ohana, helped injured at Supernova rave

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Eitan Mor, guard at rave who helped save others

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Nimrod Cohen, twin working to bring him home

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Gali Berman, from Kfar Aza’s ‘young neighborhood’

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Those we are missing
Taken captive: Segev Kalfon, last seen running across Highway 232

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Those we are missing
Taken captive: Maxim Herkin, was attending his first trance rave

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

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

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Those we are missing
Taken captive: Avinatan Or, planning to move in with girlfriend

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Those we are missing
Taken captive: Matan Zangauker ‘is a survivor’

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Alon Ohel, pianist’s family recorded song for him

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Those we are missing
Taken captive: Evyatar David, IDed in a Hamas photo on Telegram

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Those we are missing
Taken captive: Bipin Joshi, Nepalese student who deflected grenades

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Those we are missing
Taken captive: Informal educator Eitan Horn visiting from Kfar Saba

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

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Those we are missing
Taken captive: Bar Kuperstein, last seen tied up by Hamas

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Those we are missing
Taken captive: Omri Miran, driven in his own car to Gaza

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

By ToI Staff

Tales of the Times

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Beak traffic
Cop escorts mother duck, ducklings to safety on key highway

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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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Scenes to be seen
Award-winning docs and dramas dot Jerusalem Film Festival

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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
With halls shuttered, orchestras offer online concerts for distraction

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Travel buddies
Lior Raz and Rotem Sela star in ‘Off Road,’ new Netflix reality show

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Unity in song
Orchestra pauses concert to play hostage Alon Ohel’s favorite song

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Academic kudos
Dan David prize goes to 9 historians, archaeologists and filmmakers

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Rhyme and reason
‘I’m a Zionist,’ rapper Azealia Banks declares in latest tweet spree

By Grace Gilson
Cultural celebration
Israel Museum launches 60th year with live ‘One Night’ event

By Jessica Steinberg
Seed funding
Former hostage honored for pioneering farming work in Africa

By Jessica Steinberg
Troubled waters
Aviv Geffen hosts Art Garfunkel in Tel Aviv, calls for end to war

By Jessica Steinberg

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