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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 2, 2025

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US President Donald Trump speaks with the press on board Air Force One as he travels from Ochopee, Florida, to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland on July 1, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)

Despite announcement, mediator says major hurdles remain

Trump says Israel ‘agreed to necessary conditions to finalize’ 60-day Gaza ceasefire

US president says ‘we’ll work with all parties to end the war’ during two-month truce, urges Hamas to accept the proposal ‘because it will not get better — it will only get worse’

People walking next to pictures of hostages held by terrorists in Gaza, in Jerusalem, July 2, 2025 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Responding to Trump, Hamas says Gaza deal must ‘clearly lead to complete end’ of war

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Nurit Yohanan

Left: National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, January 16, 2025; Right: Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, January 13, 2025. (Both photos by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir said seeking partnership with Smotrich to thwart emerging hostage deal

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Defense Minister Israel Katz and Tourism Minister Haim Katz, along with senior IDF officials, visit troops in Rafah, southern Gaza, July 2, 2025. (Ariel Hermoni/ Defense Ministry)

Live updates (closed)

July 2: Katz says Israel won’t ‘give up or compromise’ on defeating Hamas, recovering hostages

Released hostage Edan Alexander to meet Trump at White House on Thursday * Likud ministers call for PM to annex West Bank by end of Knesset summer session on July 27

8:35 pm

Two French nationals detained in Iran charged with spying for Mossad, families say
7:45 pm

Report: Israel in talks with Russia about de-escalation in Syria, Iran's nuclear program
7:35 pm

Pentagon says US strikes set Iran's nuclear program back by up to two years

Interview'We have one mission, feed Gazans'

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is answer to ‘broken aid system,’ says group’s head

By Lazar Berman

Rev. Johnnie Moore, executive chairman of controversial new GHF, tells The Times of Israel that safety and order will improve, blames Hamas for violence and disinformation

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Clockwise from top left: New York Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa); Settlers riot outside the Binyamin Regional Brigade military base in the West Bank, June 29, 2025 (X screenshot); Palestinians pick up food parcels from a distribution point set up by the privately-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, June 25, 2025 (Eyad BABA / AFP); MK Gadi Eisenkot, July 1, 2025 (Erik Marmor/Flash90); Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump at the Oval Office, April 7, 2025 (Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images via AFP); Residential buildings destroyed by an Iranian missile strike in Bat Yam, central Israel, June 15, 2025 (AP Photo/Baz Ratner).

Op-ed: Day 635 of the war

While we were in the bomb shelters

Six brief insights as we reemerge into the light

Israeli security and rescue forces at the scene where a ballistic missile fired from Iran hit and caused damage in Tel Aviv, June 22, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

2,000 new immigrants among 10,000 Israelis still displaced after war, MK says

Catherine Perez-Shakdam

After the atrocity, the erasure

In the face of those who would deny Jewish history and humanity, we will speak, write, and testify to the truth of October 7

A narrow window for peace in Gaza

With US pressure mounting and a tentative offer on the table, a deal to end the Gaza war could be struck within weeks – if key players act now

Inside story

Threats or nuisance? After years of cooperation, some Gaza clans rise up against Hamas

As the war drags on and aid supplies are increasingly precious, large, heavily armed clans in the southern Strip are openly defying the terror group. Could they be viable partners for Israel?

A gunman from the Abu Ziyad clan, who appeared in a video in which the family demanded that Hamas hand over operatives responsible for killing one of its relatives. June 2025. (screen capture: Facebook, 27a clause of the copyright law)

This handout picture provided by the Iranian presidency shows Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian giving an address on the anniversary of the death of the country's former supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini at the latter's mausoleum in Tehran on June 3, 2025. (Iranian Presidency / AFP)

Iranian president enacts law suspending cooperation with UN nuclear watchdog

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Legislation aims to ‘ensure full support for the inherent rights’ of Iran, ‘especially uranium enrichment’; IAEA says ‘awaiting further official information’ from Tehran

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in an interview broadcast on June 30, 2025 (Screen grab/CBS)

US strikes ‘seriously damaged’ Fordo nuclear site, Iran’s FM says

By ToI Staff and Agencies

An Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessel watches an American warship in the Strait of Hormuz May 19, 2023. (Jon Gambrell/AP)

Iran readied to mine key Strait of Hormuz after Israel began strikes, say US sources

By Gram Slattery and Phil Stewart

MK Gadi Eisenkot en route to a press conference after announcing his resignation from the Knesset and his departure from the National Unity party, in Tel Aviv, July 1, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Wants 'Zionist, patriotic, statesmanlike, democratic' gov't

After quitting Knesset, Eisenkot says he is working to build a ‘governing alternative’

Says Netanyahu must resign because of October 7; MK Matan Kahana, who has followed Eisenkot out of National Unity party, says he will try to broker an alliance with Bennett

MK Gadi Eisenkot holds a press conference after announcing his resignation from the Knesset and his departure from the National Unity party, in Tel Aviv, July 1, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Eisenkot party would win 7-9 seats; balance between pro- and anti-Netanyahu blocs unchanged

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the courtroom at the Tel Aviv District Court to testify in his corruption trial, June 4, 2025. (Moti Milrod/POOL via Flash90)

Court lets Netanyahu skip testimony next week for trip to meet Trump

By Jeremy Sharon

Centrifuges line a hall at the Uranium Enrichment Facility in Natanz, Iran, in a still image from a video aired by the Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting company on April 17, 2021, six days after the hall had been damaged in a mysterious attack. (IRIB via AP)

Explainer

Why the United States bombed a bunch of metal tubes in Iran

A nuclear engineer explains the importance of centrifuges to Iranian efforts to build nuclear weapons, and what the Islamic Republic likely had before Trump’s June 21 strike

Analysis

Israel’s 12-day war with Iran was a test of technological dominance

From drones to missile defense, the military’s multi-domain capabilities reshaped the battlefield against growing threats from the Islamic Republic

An Arrow anti-missile system fires an interceptor missile during Israel's 12-day conflict with Iran, in am image cleared for publication on July 1, 2025. (Defense Ministry)

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

IDF intercepts missile from Yemen, two from Gaza after sirens blare across Israel

By Stav Levaton and Jacob Magid

Smoke billows from the Bazan oil refinery in Haifa, northern Israel, after an Iranian missile hit early on June 16, 2025. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Refinery hit by Iran missiles emitting ‘100 times higher than usual’ levels of benzene

US President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable at "Alligator Alcatraz," a new migrant detention facility at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility, July 1, 2025, in Ochopee, Florida. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump threatens to arrest anti-Israel New York City mayoral candidate Mamdani

US president suggests that the state assembly member is in the country illegally, throws support behind incumbent Eric Adams, whom he says he ‘helped out a little bit’ in the past

Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani takes selfies with supporters after speaking at his primary election party, June 25, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 2: Day 635 – How did an anti-Israel candidate win NYC’s primary?

By Jessica Steinberg and Luke Tress

New York City mayoral candidate Democratic State Representative Zohran Mamdani campaigns in New York City on April 16, 2025. (ANGELA WEISS / AFP)

Deep diveWhat NYC mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani has said about Jews and Israel

By Gabe Friedman

Four members of the Pauker family in the the Kibbutz Nir Oz vineyards, planted by Gideon Pauker before he was murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 (Credit Naama Kaspi)

To life: Grandson revives wines of vintner killed October 7 in Kibbutz Nir Oz

By Jessica Steinberg

Pauker Winery becomes a commercial enterprise in the name of murdered kibbutznik Gideon Pauker, carried on by his family and winemaking friends

Hamas forced hostages to choose fellow captives to be killed, Ohad Ben Ami says

Illustrative: Young Jewish protesters throw rocks as Israeli police forces arrive at the illegal outpost of Amona, on February 1, 2017, on the morning of the settlement's evacuation. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: When Israeli extremists go to war – against Israel

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur

ToI’s senior analyst on the Labor Party-roots of early settlements and how the post-1967 vision of security and returning to the Land of Israel has been warped

An El Al flight takes off from Ben Gurion International Airport, outside of Tel Aviv, June 19, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Foreign, local carriers urge Israel to bear passenger compensation for nixed flights

By Sharon Wrobel

Request comes as most European and US airlines are still avoiding Israel after Iran ceasefire came into effect, and are weighing future flight operations to the country

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UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights Situation in the Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese holds a press conference at the UN City in Copenhagen, Denmark on February 5, 2025. (James Brooks / AFP)

US urges UN to remove envoy for ‘virulent antisemitism and support for terrorism’

By JTA and Lazar Berman

Call to dismiss Francesca Albanese, who has claimed ‘Jewish lobby’ controls Washington, comes as she releases new report asserting Israel has ‘a calculated economy of genocide’

Bruria Wiesel Adini studies resilience as the head of the Department of Emergency Management and Disaster Medicine at Tel Aviv University’s School of Public Health. (Courtesy via JTA)

Interview

Between COVID, Oct. 7 and Iran, how much can Israelis take? A trauma expert finds out

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

After studying Israeli resilience under war, Prof. Bruria Adini recommends the government encourage social cohesion through transparency and rebuilding of trust

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Police use a water cannon to disperse demonstrators during a protest against the recruitment of ultra-Orthodox Jews to the IDF, in Jerusalem, June 30, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Haredi, opposition MKs push bill to bar use of ‘Skunk’ liquid on protesters

By Charlie Summers

Nicol Raidman at a launch party for her book 'No Masks' in Tel Aviv, on February 2, 2018 (Miriam Alstre/FLASH90)

Grenade tossed into yard of Netanyahu-linked socialite Nicol Raidman, no injuries

An undated image of Supt. Lee Pearl-Bahiri, who resigned from the Israel Police on July 1, 2025, citing what she said is the force's politicization and lack of resources. (Courtesy)

Senior cop quits, alleging government has politicized and neglected police force

By Charlie Summers

US President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable at a new migrant detention facility at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility, July 1, 2025, in Ochopee, Florida (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Paramount to pay $16m in settlement with Trump over ’60 Minutes’ interview with Harris

By AP

US President Donald Trump boards Air Force One for a trip to visit a new migrant detention center in Ochopee, Florida, Tuesday, July 1, 2025, in Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

‘Smear campaign’: US downplays pro-Iran hackers’ claims of retrieving Trump emails

By David Klepper

US President Donald Trump (left) and Elon Musk speak in the Oval Office before departing the White House in Washington, DC, on March 14, 2025. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP)

Trump says DOGE might have ‘to eat Elon’ as Musk proposes new political party

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents look over lists of names, and their hearing times and locations, inside the Federal Plaza courthouse before making arrests on June 27, 2025, in New York. (Bryan R. Smith/AFP)

New Jersey mayor calls for release of synagogue custodian detained by ICE

By Grace Gilson

Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks at his primary election party, in New York City, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)

Victory of anti-Israel NYC mayoral candidate Mamdani in Democratic primary confirmed

By AP and ToI Staff

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama speaks in a video broadcast at the start of the 15th Tibetan Religious Conference, a meeting of religious leaders in McLeod Ganj, near Dharamsala on July 2, 2025. (Sanjay BAID / AFP)

Leader of Tibetan Buddhism says he won’t be last Dalai Lama as he plans to reincarnate

By SHEIKH SAALIQ

From 'Image Within a Human,' one of the films being screened at the Artist Film Festival, July 9-12, 2025, held in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem (Credit Amir Yatziv)

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

By Jessica Steinberg

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