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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 1, 2025

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Protests outside a discussion of petitions over whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can appoint the head of the Shin Bet, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, July 1, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Amit clears courtroom, slams bid to 'thwart judicial process'

Top justice decries ‘injury to democracy’ as hecklers disrupt hearing on Shin Bet appointment

By Jeremy Sharon, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Court tells cabinet secretary and AG’s Office to take another five days to find a compromise solution to Netanyahu’s conflict of interest in choosing new head of security agency

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) briefs President Isaac Herzog on June 17, 2025. (Avi Ohayon / GPO)

Herzog set to discuss ways to end PM’s trial, as White House highlights Trump’s empathy

By ToI Staff, Sam Sokol, Jacob Magid and Jeremy Sharon

Maj. Gen. David Zini visits families of fallen Israeli soldiers during Memorial Day at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on April 30, 2025 (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

PM’s pick to head Shin Bet said to call judiciary ‘a dictatorship that rules Israel’

US President Donald Trump talks to members of the press as he departs from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC on July 1, 2025. (Jim Watson/AFP)

IDF chief Zamir said to tell ministers: 'Hamas is dead'

Trump says he will be ‘very firm’ with Netanyahu on ending Gaza war

By Jacob Magid, Lazar Berman and Reuters

US president set to host PM at White House on Monday, amid signs Netanyahu is, for first time, ready to end the war; Trump says he expects deal next week, and that PM ‘wants it too’

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir speaks with officers at the Military Intelligence Directorate's Research Division headquarters, June 18, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief said to warn ministers further fighting in Gaza endangers hostages

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

‘We have to be united’: Father’s plea at funeral for IDF soldier killed in Gaza

By Michael Horovitz

US President Donald Trump, right, meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 7, 2025. (Saul Loeb / AFP)

Trump ends sanctions on Syria, seeks to warm its Israel ties

Netanyahu set to visit White House July 7 as US pushes for end to Gaza war

By Jacob Magid, Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and AP

Prime minister holds second meeting on ceasefire in as many days, but disagreements remain; official says Israel trying to get US to press Qatar to finagle concessions from Hamas

Israeli Air Force F-15 fighter jets fly over Israel en route to carry out strikes in Iran, in a handout photo published on June 25, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

US agencies approve $510 million sale of bomb guidance kits to Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Emergency services are seen at a residential building in Tamra, northern Israel, which sustained a direct strike during an Iranian ballistic missile attack, on June 15, 2025. (Israel Fire and Rescue Service)

Promoted ArticleOgen

Tamra’s Comeback: How Ogen Is Rebuilding Arab-Israeli Livelihoods

With critical loans and long-term mentoring, Ogen is supporting small business to recover with dignity.

A Palestinian woman walks on debris at Al-Baqa cafeteria, which was devastated in an Israeli strike on the Gaza City seafront on June 30, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

24 said killed in strike on Gaza City cafe; troops dismantle 3-km tunnel network

By Stav Levaton, Agencies and ToI Staff

Army says it worked to limit harm to civilians in strike; Hamas-linked authorities say 51 killed across Strip, including 11 near aid site, as IDF reports 140 strikes over 24 hours

Displaced Palestinians carrying relief supplies from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a private US-backed aid group, return from aid distribution centers in Rafah to their tents in the southern Gaza Strip on May 29, 2025. (Photo by AFP)

170 NGOs urge end to US-backed Gaza aid system; Israel: Hamas is firing at civilians

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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

Dozens said killed in Gaza; IDF admits it has killed several civilians near aid sites

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan, Lazar Berman and Agencies

Israeli air defenses intercept a missile fired from Yemen on July 1, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

July 1: EU says talks on Iran’s nuclear program should ‘restart as soon as possible’

Ahead of meeting with Netanyahu, US president says he hopes for ceasefire deal next week * After missile attack, Katz threatens Houthis: ‘Yemen will be treated like Tehran’

8:26 pm

More than 10,000 join opposition rally in Istanbul
8:00 pm

Arab diplomats deny Qatar has submitted a new hostage deal proposal
7:38 pm

Australian nurses who said they'd kill Israeli patients handed 2-year ban

An advertisement billboard thanking US President Donald Trump is set up on a major roadway in Damascus on June 11, 2025. (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)

Trump formally lifts sanctions shackling Syria amid hopes for transformed Mideast

By AFP

Executive order follows through on May promise to remove restrictions blocking Damascus from global finance, in move that could bolster bid to bring country into Abraham Accords

Supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah wave flags and hold pictures of their slain leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during a rally outside the Iranian embassy in Beirut's southern suburbs, to celebrate a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, on June 25, 2025. (Haitham Moussawi/AFP)

Israel says Hezbollah must disarm before any Lebanon peace talks can advance

By Lazar Berman and AFP

US President Donald Trump, right, shakes hands with Syrian President, Ahmed al-Sharaa, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 14, 2025. (Bandar AL-JALOUD / Saudi Royal Palace / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 1: Day 634 – Could Syria be next in joining the Abraham Accords?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

Two dozen Iranian Jews accused of contact with Israel as mass arrests rattle community

By Larry Cohler-Esses

Former communal leader says 11 arrested in post-war sweep have been let go, but others face charges over phone calls to relatives in Israel, as regime hunts for spies who helped Mossad

Vehicles drive past a banner showing portraits of the Iranian armed forces commanders and nuclear scientists who were killed in Israeli strikes, at Tajrish Square in northern Tehran, Iran, June 30, 2025. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

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 needs time before talks with US, claims it can start enriching again quickly

By ToI Staff, Jacob Magid and Agencies

Tiberias residents Yoni Segal, 18, and Omri Mizrahi, 20, who were arrested on suspicion of spying for Iran on June 30, 2025. (Screenshot used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law/Channel 12 News)

Iranian agent tried to recruit two Israelis in assassination plot, police say

By Charlie Summers

Settlers riot outside the Binyamin Regional Brigade military base in the West Bank, June 29, 2025. (X screenshot)

Katz announces plans to curb settler violence against Israeli troops

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Defense minister says joint task force of police, IDF and Shin Bet to be formed, social programs started to integrate extremist youth into normative educational frameworks

Security service personnel evacuate the illegal settlement outpost of Mikne Avraham in the Gush Etzion region of the West Bank, June 30, 2025. (Courtesy Hilltop Settlements WhatsApp channel)

5 illegal West Bank outposts razed by security services after attacks on IDF troops

By Jeremy Sharon

In political shakeup, National Unity No. 2 Eisenkot to leave the party, quit Knesset

Popular lawmaker said unconvinced by primaries proposal by centrist opposition party’s leader Gantz; Lapid said to try and woo Eisenkot with leadership of Yesh Atid party

MK Gadi Eisenkot (right) and National Unity leader MK Benny Gantz at a party meeting in the Knesset, on March 24, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The Knesset House Committee votes to advance the impeachment of Hadash-Ta'al chairman Ayman Odeh, June 30, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Panel votes to impeach Arab MK Ayman Odeh, paving way for possible ouster from Knesset

Kally Rubin Kislowicz

The Ayatollah owes me a vacation

I need to recover from my ’warplash’ like a dignified human – on the banks of the Kinneret, in a yurt…whatever that is

How the West got the Israel-Iran war so wrong

While analysts warned of Armageddon, Netanyahu and Trump drew lines in the sand with Churchillian clarity – and the region held

Illustrative: Employees work inside the offices of the Bezeq telecoms firm in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona near the border with Lebanon on February 22, 2024. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

Despite ongoing war, investments in Israeli startups hit three-year high

By Sharon Wrobel

Local tech firms raised $9.3 billion in capital in the first six months of 2025 as foreign investor participation in funding rounds rose

Analysis

Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Outsourced and exposed: Civilian contractors are on the frontlines of the Gaza war

As sanctioned firms secure Defense Ministry contracts, questions grow about oversight, legality, and the blurred line between soldier and civilian

An IDF bulldozer drives along a street during a military operation in the northern Gaza Strip amid continuing battles between Israel and Hamas, November 22, 2023. (Ahikam SERI / AFP)

Rabbi Asher Lopatin (left) visits the Tomb of Nahum in the town of Alqosh in Iraqi Kurdistan in April 2025. (Courtesy)

'Kurdistan is a magical oasis of tolerance and openness'

In Iraq, restored tomb of biblical prophet Nahum quietly attracts Jewish pilgrimage

By Rossella Tercatin

Despite geopolitical tensions, dozens of Jews, including Israelis, have journeyed to shrine in Kurdish city of Alqosh since its rehabilitation in 2022, says project organizer

Bob Vylan perform on the West Holts Stage, during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset, England, June 28, 2025. (Ben Birchall/PA via AP)

UK probing Kneecap, Bob Vylan over Glastonbury chants; US to revoke latter band’s visas

By AP and ToI Staff

Ahead of planned Bob Vylan tour, Washington says those who ‘glorify violence’ not welcome, after punk rap duo led chant of ‘Death, death to the IDF’

Anti-Israel demonstrators gather outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London, where Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq is taking legal action against the Department for Business and Trade over several decisions, May 13, 2025. (Ben Whitley/PA via AP)

UK High Court rejects Palestinian group’s bid to stop export of F-35 parts to Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Protesters of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign against the tournament's sponsor Barclays gather outside the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, June 30, 2025. (AP Photo/ Alastair Grant)

Pro-Palestinian protesters demand Wimbledon cut Barclays as sponsor over Israel ties

By AP and ToI Staff

People place flowers and an Israeli flag at the site of a deadly attack outside the Boulder County Courthouse on June 2, 2025 in Boulder, Colorado. (Chet Strange / Getty Images via AFP)

Karen Diamond, 82, dies of wounds sustained in Colorado attack on march for hostages

By AP, ToI Staff and JTA

US security officers surround the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC, on May 22, 2025, following a shooting that killed two people outside the Capital Jewish Museum the day before. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump administration releases $94 million in security grants for Jewish institutions

By Grace Gilson

Adam Banet, 9, who has a rare genetic mutation in the GRIN2D gene. (Courtesy)

Scientists develop model to understand rare brain disease found in 40 kids worldwide

By Diana Bletter

Tel Aviv University researchers say their investigation into a GRIN2D gene mutation will advance research into a protein important for brain function, test possible treatments

Illustrative: Residential buildings in the Ha'agamim neighborhood in the coastal city of Netanya, on January 14, 2024. (Shahar Yaari/ Flash90)

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Danish police officers in Copenhagen, Denmark, February 15, 2015. (Michael Probst/AP)

Germany accuses man of gathering info on Berlin Jews for Iran

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Graduates wave Palestinian flags during commencement ceremonies at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Harvard willfully ignored harassment of Jews and Israelis, Trump administration finds

By AP and ToI Staff

Israeli passengers on Arkia's first repatriation flight leaving from Larnaca to Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport on June 18, 2025. (Courtesy Arkia)

Arkia and Air Haifa to face class action suit over profiteering during Iran war

By Sharon Wrobel

ILLUSTRATIVE: Man holds Spanish passport, June 9, 2009. (LEON NEAL / AFP)

Spain uncovers ring of fraudsters behind fake Sephardic citizenship applications

By Orge Castellano

Marthe Cohn greets well-wishers during a car parade celebrating her 100th birthday, April 13, 2020. (Courtesy via JTA)

Marthe Cohn, Holocaust survivor and nurse who spied for the French, dies at 105

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

An exterior view of the International Criminal Court, or ICC, in The Hague, Netherlands, on April 30, 2024. (AP/ Peter Dejong)

International Criminal Court hit with ‘sophisticated’ cyberattack

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Fans of the All Boys soccer club in Argentina carry a mock coffin in the colors of the Atlanta football club, which hails from a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in Buenos Aires, and draped with the Israeli flag ahead of a match between the two teams on June 30, 2025. (Screen capture via X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Argentina probing ‘antisemitic acts’ at soccer game against team from Jewish area

Sarah Richardson. (Courtesy)

Man charged with killing his mother, the daughter of famed Noahide archaeologist

By Charlie Summers

Islamist protesters clash with Turkish anti riot police officers as they gather to protest a cartoon supposedly depicting Islam's prophet Muhammad near LeMan Magazine in Istanbul on June 30, 2025. (Ozan KOSE / AFP)

Artist arrested, hundreds riot in Turkey over cartoon said to show Prophet Muhammad

By AFP and ToI Staff

The Israeli film 'Nandauri' is one of eight feature films competing in the Haggiag competition at the 42nd Jerusalem Film Festival, July 17-26, 2025 (Credit Shai Goldman)

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

By Jessica Steinberg

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