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What Matters Most On Monday, June 30, 2025

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A West Bank security installation that was torched overnight by settlers on June 30, 2025 (Israel Defense Forces)

Settlers torch West Bank security site, riot against ‘traitor’ IDF officer; no arrests

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Military says arson attack on counterterror installation ‘poses a danger to the security of the residents’; IDF releases footage of Friday settler ambush on military patrol

A West Bank security installation that was torched overnight by settlers on June 30, 2025 (Israel Defense Forces)

PM condemns ‘fanatic few’ settlers for attacking IDF; Lapid: ‘Terrorists are terrorists’

By ToI Staff, Nava Freiberg and Emanuel Fabian

A West Bank security installation that was torched overnight by settlers on June 30, 2025 (Israel Defense Forces)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 30: Day 633 – Rioting settlers torch IDF facility meant to protect them

By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Tal Schneider and Jeremy Sharon

A billboard is displayed in Tel Aviv by the "Coalition for Regional Security," an Israeli political-security initiative, depicting Middle Eastern leaders alongside US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with a Hebrew slogan calling for a new "Abrahamic Covenant," June 26, 2025. (Jack Guez/AFP)

'There may be an opportunity'

Israel in ‘advanced talks’ for deal to end hostilities with Syria, says senior official

By Lazar Berman

Pact would fall short of full peace, with Syrian officials said to prefer limited deal; FM Sa’ar stresses Golan Heights will remain Israeli even if countries normalize relations

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to Shin Bet staff, June 29, 2025. (Video screenshot)

PM: Iran war opened broad regional possibilities, ‘first we need to free the hostages’

By Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid, Agencies and ToI Staff

Dani Elgarat, the brother of slain hostage Itzik Elgarat, speaks during a Finance Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 30, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hamas tortured hostage Itzik Elgarat to death, thinking he was a pilot, says brother

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Dani Elgarat reveals family given details of how sibling, 68, died in Gaza; Knesset guards forcibly remove him from committee meeting after he accuses Netanyahu of funding Hamas

Sgt. Yisrael Natan Rosenfeld, 20, of the 601st Combat Engineering Battalion. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF soldier killed in combat in northern Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman, Nurit Yohanan and Agencies

Rom Braslavski was taken captive by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, from the Nova desert rave. (Courtesy)

Aunt of hostage Rom Braslavski seeks greater support for her heroic nephew

By Jessica Steinberg

Mourners gather in Enghelab Square to attend the funeral ceremony of the Iranian army generals, nuclear scientists and their family members who were killed in Israeli strikes, in Tehran, Iran, June 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Promoted podcastJPPI

Will the ceasefire hold?

And will Donald Trump continue to stand by Israel? And is regime change in Iran still a realistic objective?

Inside story

Israel was facing destruction at the hands of Iran. This is how close it came, and how it saved itself

Iran was a decision and a few weeks away from nuclear weapons. But unlike Gaza 2023, Israel had been watching

A giant billboard depicting Muslim peoples walking with flags toward the Dome of the Rock shrine in Jerusalem is erected in Valiasr Square in the center of Tehran, October 25, 2023. (Atta Kenare / AFP)

CIA Director John Ratcliffe departs a classified briefing for senators at the US Capitol on Capitol Hill, June 26, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

CIA chief says strike on metal conversion site set Iran nuclear program back by years

By AP and ToI Staff

Damage at the Bazan Group's oil refinery in Haifa Bay, northern Israel, after it was hit by an Iranian missile between June 15-16, 2025. (Used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Haifa oil refinery partly reopens after shutdown caused by deadly Iran strike

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Live updates (closed)

June 30: Netanyahu to meet Trump in Washington next week, White House official says

White House says Trump just showing empathy with calls for Netanyahu trials to be dropped * Congress okays sale of bomb guidance kits to replenish stocks used against Iran

8:50 pm

US official confirms that Trump will host Netanyahu at White House on July 7
8:44 pm

IDF says strike targeted Hamas operatives after over 30 reported killed at Gaza City cafe
8:43 pm

G7 FMs call for resumption of talks on Iran nuclear deal

Trump: I’m not talking to Iran, nor offering it anything after US struck nuke sites

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Tehran criticizes US president for sanctions ‘games,’ says its usual IAEA cooperation cannot be expected; France, Germany, UK condemn Iran’s ‘threats’ against watchdog head

US President Donald Trump points to a reporter to take a question as he speaks to the media, June 27, 2025, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

US President Donald Trump speaks to Fox News's Maria Bartoromo in an interview aired June 29, 2025. (Screen capture via YouTube)

Trump: Iran’s nuclear program is over, bombs penetrated Fordo ‘like it was butter’

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

A woman walks past a residential building that was hit in an Israeli strike covered with a big Iranian flag, in Tehran on June 25, 2025. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran raises death toll from conflict with Israel to more than 900

By Agencies and ToI Staff

To the backdrop of a Palestinian flag, Bobby Vylan of British duo Bob Vylan performs on the West Holts Stage on the fourth day of the Glastonbury festival at Worthy Farm in the village of Pilton in Somerset, southwest England, on June 28, 2025. (Oli SCARFF / AFP)

BBC regrets not stopping Glastonbury ‘Death to the IDF’ livestream

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Broadcaster says onscreen warning was insufficient, and it should not have aired ‘utterly unacceptable’ chants led by rap act Bob Vylan at music festival

Asked repeatedly to repudiate ‘globalize the intifada’ slogan, Mamdani sidesteps

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Presumptive New York City Democratic mayoral nominee says it is not his job to ‘police language,’ stresses he will work to combat antisemitism

Screen capture from video of Democratic New York City mayoral primary winner Zohran Mamdani during an interview with NBC's 'Meet the press,' June 29, 2025. (NBC: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Noga Levtzion Nadan

The writing was on the ammonia tank

The risks of the mass disaster that was averted in Haifa are not jokes, but warnings of calamities that could shut down the entire region for years

Steven J. Frank

Iran’s road back

Trump is all about the win, they told you. All you have to do is play the battered, penitent child. Let Israel be the recalcitrant bully

The 28 victims of Iranian missiles in June 2025, from top left: Yevgenia Blinder, Eti Cohen Angel, Yisrael Aloni, Manar Khatib, Shada Khatib, Hala Khatib, Manar Khatib, Miki Nahum, Belina Ashkenazi, Efrat Saranga, Meir Vaknin, Mariia Pieshkurova, Daisy Yitzkahi, Hadassah Belo, Kostiantyn Tutevich, Illia Pieshkurov, Anastasia Buryk; Cpl. Eitan Zacks, Noa Boguslavsky, Uri Levy, Igor Fradkin, Daniel Avraham, Avraham Cohen, Naomi Shaanan, Ivette Shmilovitz, Yaakov Belo and Michal Zacks. No image of Olena Sokolova is available. (Composite: TOI/Courtesy)

Israel-Iran war

These are the 28 victims killed in Iranian missile attacks during the 12-day conflict

From a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor to a 7-year-old Ukrainian cancer patient, the following are those slain in some of the 36 Iranian ballistic missile impacts

Rescuers search through the rubble of a damaged section of Evin Prison following an Israeli strike the day before, in Tehran, Iran, June 24, 2025. (Mostafa Roudaki/Mizan News Agency/AP)

Israel’s strike on Iran’s Evin prison sparks fear for political prisoners

By AP and ToI Staff

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi attends an extraordinary Board of Governors meeting at the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria on June 23, 2025. (Joe Klamar / AFP)

Iran says it poses no threat to IAEA chief after newspaper called for his execution

Their labs destroyed by a missile, Weizmann scientists publish innovative blood cancer study

By Diana Bletter

Researchers say they won’t be able to return to facilities for years; findings can potentially lead to blood test that could replace invasive diagnostic bone marrow sampling

Prof. Amos Tanay, left, and Prof. Liran Shlush of Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot (Courtesy/Eitan Ido)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a hearing in his trial on corruption charges at the district court in Tel Aviv on December 10, 2024. (Menahem Kahana/Pool via Reuters)

Inside story

Despite reports, coalition seems unlikely to attempt to halt PM’s trial legislatively

‘There’s no legal precedent for a piece of legislation canceling a trial that is already in progress,’ says coalition source, as some Likud MKs also downplay prospect of such a law

Retired Canadian justice Harry LaForme, seen here in a video address upon receiving an honorary doctorate from Nipissing University. (YouTube screenshot)

Interview'Jewish colleagues identified with my otherness'

An Anishinaabe Zionist on how Indigenous history is weaponized to promote antisemitism

By Ariela Karmel

On his first visit to Israel, Canada’s first Indigenous appellate court justice Harry LaForme explains why he sees the Jewish state as an Indigenous triumph, not a colonial enterprise

Kibbutz Nirim, after renovations. (Epstein Project Managers/Tekuma Directorate)

State approves immediate return home of 7 of 13 worst-hit Gaza border communities

Defense Ministry withdraws prohibitions after Tekuma Directorate completes many repairs; state will generally stop supporting rental payments for the seven, with some exceptions

An IDF Oshkosh JLTV light armored utility vehicle, August 3, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Norwegian pension fund drops US, German defense firms from portfolio over Gaza war

By AFP and ToI Staff

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The Ayalon Prison complex in Ramle, central Israel. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Ex-warden claims he was fired, framed over refusal to go easy on Jewish inmates

By Charlie Summers

The broadcast offices and studios of the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation in Jerusalem, January 31, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90/ File)

Ministerial committee gives thumbs-up to bill aimed at selling off Kan news division

The team at Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity unicorn Cato Networks. (Courtesy)

Cybersecurity unicorn Cato Networks snags $359m, soaring to $4.8 billion valuation

By Sharon Wrobel

German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, left, and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar visit the scene where a ballistic missile fired from Iran impacted in Bat Yam on June 29, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

Germany seeks increased Israeli partnership on cyber-defense, plans ‘Cyber Dome’

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Delegates to the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, April 20, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot)

Shas, 3 other slates punished for voter fraud at US vote for World Zionist Congress

Otzma Yehudit MK Almog Cohen at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, July 1, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

After only three months, far-right deputy minister quits role to return to Knesset

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