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What Matters Most On Friday, June 27, 2025

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Defense Minister Israel Katz speaks to reporters at the site of an Iranian missile impact in Holon, June 19, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

It would take Iran 'long years' to rebuild its nuke program

Katz says Israel sought to kill Khamenei, but didn’t find an opportunity

By Stav Levaton and Ben Sales

Defense minister says government began war without knowing if US would join attacks, admits Israel doesn’t know whereabouts of all enriched uranium, says will strike Iran again if needed

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi attends a meeting with Russia's President at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on June 23, 2025. (Sergei Karpukhin / AFP)

Iran says it’s still mulling talks with US, after Trump claims meeting planned next week

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Inside Story

‘The stars aligned’: Why Israel set out for a war against Iran, and what it achieved

IDF saw the regime’s growing nuclear threat, alongside the collapse of proxy groups, and was at peak readiness to tackle the dangers; ‘existential threat’ removed, but Iran will continue to challenge Israel

A file photo shows an Israeli Air Force F-16 fighter jet taking off for strikes in Iran during the June 2025 conflict, in a handout photo published on June 27, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

US President Donald Trump speaks at the end of the NATO summit, flanked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in The Hague, Netherlands, on June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump says no enriched uranium moved out of Fordo, as debate over strikes’ impact goes on

By Ben Sales and Agencies

Reza Najafi, Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), speaks to journalists shortly after an IAEA Board of Governors meeting at the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria on June 23, 2025. (Joe Klamar/AFP)

Iran vetting body approves bill suspending cooperation with UN nuclear watchdog

By AFP and ToI Staff

Palestinian children scrape the pot for a portion of food at a food distribution point in Gaza City on June 27, 2025. (Bashar Taleb/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

June 27: Israel accuses UN of ‘aligning itself’ with Hamas over Gaza aid

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Trump laments humanitarian crisis in Strip, touts US decision to donate $30 million to controversial aid group * IDF chief believes Iran no longer a nuclear threshold state

8:53 pm

Trump speculates Gaza ceasefire will be reached 'within the next week'
8:19 pm

Saudi Arabia condemns settler violence 'under protection' of Israeli troops
8:13 pm

Israel says UN 'aligning itself' with Hamas over Gaza aid

Promoted PodcastThe View from Mt. Scopus

Overcoming Disease

Hebrew University scientists have always led pioneering research into the major epidemics of their times, from malaria in 1925 to obesity and resistance to antibiotics today.

Posters of the Gaza hostages are displayed in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, June 26, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Plan could see Israel commit to supporting 2-state solution

Netanyahu, Trump said working on plan to end Gaza war and expand Abraham Accords

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

One report claims deal is imminent, despite mediators saying no progress made in Cairo talks; PM said hoping to receive pardon in criminal graft trial as part of agreement

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a video statement on June 26, 2025. (Screen capture/X)

Netanyahu: Win over Iran created opportunity that must be seized to expand peace deals

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Op-ed

Shalom Yerushalmi

A Netanyahu ally tells ToI no one will remember Oct. 7 by election time. He may be right

A triumphant narrative is being carefully crafted by the PM’s inner circle to fully clear him of responsibility for the disaster, as he systematically removes all ties to it

Nathan Eshel at a meeting in the Knesset on May 20, 2019 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Tel Aviv District Court before the start of his testimony in his trial, June 3, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Court twice rejects PM’s requests to delay trial testimony; lawyer cited diplomatic developments

After judge says defense didn’t present clear justification for postponing hearings, Netanyahu refiles request with copy of schedule as evidence; second request also rejected

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the Tel Aviv District Court on June 9, 2025. (Yariv Katz/POOL)

Secret deal to end Netanyahu trial fell apart over PM’s refusal to step down — source

By Jeremy Sharon

Inside story

Nurit Yohanan and Jacob Magid

After a month, deadly shootings near Gaza aid sites still a near-daily menace

With nearly 500 reported killed trying to reach Gaza Humanitarian Foundation locations, the IDF says it’s working on reducing friction points, even as gunfire and shelling persist

Palestinians who were injured allegedly by Israeli fire as they gathered near a food aid center receive care at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on June 17, 2025. (AFP)

Armed Palestinians sit on trucks carrying humanitarian aid near the Zikim border crossing between Israel and Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 25, 2025. (Ali Qariqa/Flash90)

Gaza clans deny Hamas is stealing aid, after Israel partially halts deliveries

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

ToI podcast

Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: Israel-Iran war’s aftershocks for Russia and China

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

ToI’s diplomatic correspondent delves into how the war has shifted approaches and positions for Russia, China, Turkey and the big fish — Saudi Arabia

Khalil Naderi, spokesperson for the Kurdistan Freedom Party, or PAK, a separatist Iranian Kurdish group based in Iraq, poses for a portrait at a party office in an undisclosed location in Iraq's Irbil governorate, June 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Rashid Yahya)

Iranian Kurdish dissidents abroad watch for signs of Tehran’s vulnerability

By Stella Martany and Ellen Knickmeyer

The Nova music festival in southern Israel as seen in 'We Will Dance Again.' (Courtesy)

‘We Will Dance Again’ film on Nova massacre wins award at Documentary Emmys

Slain hostage Ofra Keidar's coffin during her funeral at Kibbutz Be'eri cemetery, June 26, 2025. (Maya Mashal/Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

‘A huge hole has opened up since Oct. 7’: Funeral held for slain hostage Ofra Keidar

By Jessica Steinberg

Peter Himmelman

Zohran Mamdani: Calling for change in insidious ways

This nomination normalizes language and behavior that is dangerous for all Americans and the increasingly polarized nation

Peta Jones Pellach

Australia is no longer my second home

When I moved to Israel, I was fulfilling a dream, not escaping the intolerable. Recent immigrants from down under cannot say the same

Inside story

Disgruntled El Al customers stranded abroad find little help in getting back home

Stranded travelers stuck in London join long standby queues at Heathrow and are furious the airline has gone back to normal, selling new tickets, before taking care of them

Illustrative: Stranded Israelis wait in a standby queue at Heathrow Airport in London to try and get seats on an El Al flight departing for Tel Aviv, on June 25, 2025. (Courtesy)

German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt (Courtesy)

Interview

How Hannah Arendt faced down tyranny in the US, far from Eichmann’s Jerusalem trial

By Rich Tenorio

New documentary airing June 27 in the US on PBS explores how the Jewish writer and activist brought lessons from WWII Germany to McCarthy-era America — and draws a modern-day parallel

Haifa Educational Zoo (Louis Ariel Goldschmidt Zoo) has more than 100 types of animals, including primates, reptiles, birds, predators, and herbivores, October 23, 2024. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Reporter's notebook

Days after end of Operation Rising Lion, Haifa zoo roars back into action

By Diana Bletter

After repeatedly being forced to close due to conflicts since Oct. 7, 2023, the zoological garden welcomes visitors back – and its staff has a message about their mission

Anti-government protesters attend a rally against the war in Gaza, at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, June 26, 2025. (Flash90)

Four arrested for blocking traffic on main road

Thousands attend first in-person rally for Gaza hostage deal since Iran ceasefire

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

Demonstration urging end to war highlights plight of mothers of soldiers fighting in Gaza; hostages’ families reportedly pushing for meeting with Trump next week

A protester shouts at Israel Police officer Meir Suissa (left), who threw a stun grenade at a Tel Aviv rally, on March 9, 2023. (Carrie Keller Lynn/Times of Israel)

Court blocks Ben Gvir’s promotion of police officer indicted for injuring protesters

By Charlie Summers

Hadas Tal, an evacuee from Holon whose home was damaged by an Iranian missile helps a fellow evacuee at the Leonardo Jerusalem Hotel on June 24, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebookLeonardo hosted 100s of evacuees in Oct. 7 aftermath

‘We had 10 minutes to pack our life’: Jerusalem hotel absorbs displaced Israelis – again

By Rossella Tercatin

After Iran’s missile strike shattered their homes, hundreds of Holon residents find temporary shelter in the capital while juggling fear, resilience and hope

Holocaust survivors look on during the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's Annual Days of Remembrance ceremony at the US Capitol on April 23, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images via JTA)

Trump’s Social Security Administration cuts hurt US Holocaust survivors, advocates say

By Andrew Lapin

Attorneys say DOGE’s slashing of staffers and field offices may make it harder to correct a longtime glitch that can cause survivors in their 80s and 90s to lose their benefits

Left: A 1900-year-old bronze disc shaped like a lion head found in Khirbat Ibreika near Kfar Saba. Right: The tomb where the disc was found, together with glass vessels. (Dafna Gazit, Israel Antiquities Authority - Assaf Peretz/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Archaeology

Enigmatic bronze lion heads found in 1,900-year-old tomb in central Israel

By Rossella Tercatin

Discovered near Kfar Saba, the ornate coffin fittings may hint at ties to pagan cults — or a Roman soldier’s final journey

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Smoke rises after Israeli airstrikes near Nabatieh in southern Lebanon on June 27, 2025. (Rabih Daher/AFP)

IDF hits Hezbollah targets, blames terror group rocket fire for death of woman in area

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and AFP

The white dome of the restored Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem, as seen on June 3, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)

Government plan for restored synagogue in Jerusalem’s Old City fuels fear of Haredi takeover

By Rossella Tercatin

A Hezbollah supporter takes a selfie while waving a Hezbollah flag as he stands on a tree outside the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, June 25, 2025. (AP/Hassan Ammar)

IDF says it killed two Hezbollah operatives in southern Lebanon strikes

By Stav Levaton, Emanuel Fabian and AFP

Firemen and policemen search for wounded people after a bomb exploded at the Argentinian Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA in Spanish) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 18, 1994. (Ali Burafi/AFP)

Argentina to try 10 Iranians, Lebanese in absentia over 1994 bombing of Jewish center

By Sonia AVALOS

Books and former chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef's chair, that were burnt in an arson attack at the Or Habib synagogue in Jerusalem's Sanhedria neighborhood on June 8, 2025. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel

Resident of Haredi city indicted over Jerusalem synagogue arson that drew outrage

By Charlie Summers

Piers Morgan debates Diaspora Affairs Minister Avichai Chikli on "Piers Morgan Uncensored" on June 24, 2025. (YouTube screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

In seething debate, Piers Morgan, Diaspora Minister Chikli spar over antisemitism claim

Ivo Herzog, left, son of journalist Vladimir Herzog who was killed in 1975 during the military dictatorship, accompanies Congressman Romario in Rio de Janeiro, April 1, 2013. (AP/Felipe Dana)

Brazil agrees to compensate family of Jewish journalist killed by military 50 years ago

By GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA

Itay Mautner and Michal Vaknin, artistic directors of the Israel Festival, rescheduled for July 16 - August 14, 2025 (Credit: Yair Meyuhas)

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

By Jessica Steinberg

The leader of the Sweden Democrats Jimmie Akesson delivers a speech at the party's election watch in Nacka, near Stockholm late Sunday evening on September 11, 2022. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP)

Sweden Democrats apologize for past Nazi links, antisemitism as election nears

By Reuters and ToI Staff

During the opening night of the 41st Jerusalem International Festival, held in July 2024 (Sivan Farag)

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

By Jessica Steinberg

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