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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 3, 2025

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Israelis protest calling for an end to the war in Gaza and for the release of hostages held in Gaza, at Latrun, on July 2, 2025. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)

Hamas said okay with US guarantee on talks to end Gaza war, as ceasefire momentum grows

By Nurit Yohanan, Stav Levaton and Agencies

60-day halt would reportedly be bookended with release of 10 living hostages, along with 18 deceased captives handed over in 3 separate groups; terror group promises not to hold ceremonies

Demonstrators protest for the release of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip, outside the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, July 2, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Israel said hoping to clinch comprehensive Gaza deal before PM’s US visit next week

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump (right) shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 7, 2025. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 3: Day 636 – Will the PM mark the war’s end at the White House?

By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid

This handout photo shows US President Donald Trump, seated, posing for a photo with American-Israeli freed hostage Edan Alexander, at the White House in Washington, on July 3, 2025. (White House)

Live updates (closed)

July 3: Israeli official says ceasefire could start next week if Hamas gives ‘positive answer’

Trump to reportedly offer personal pledge to end Gaza war in bid to secure hostage deal * Meeting US president, freed hostage Edan Alexander calls for release of all remaining captives

8:49 pm

Drone shot down near Iraqi airport housing US troops, say Kurdish security forces
8:44 pm

Rights group says Palestinians have begun moving livestock out of village due to settler harassment
8:40 pm

University of California reiterates student governments are barred from boycotting Israel

Pleading for deal, families okay clips showing hostages Maxim Herkin, Bar Kuperstein

‘We’re dead men walking,’ pair lament in footage released in April but generally not shown in Israel until now; included in video produced by forum showing Hamas propaganda of captives

Hostages Bar Kuperstein (left) and Maxim Herkin (right) are seen in a Hamas propaganda video released by the terror group in April 2025, and cleared for publication by their families on July 3, 2025. The subtitle reads: 'We're corpses with a pulse!' (Screenshot)

Former Hamas hostage Edan Alexander returns to his US hometown of Tenafly, New Jersey, June 19, 2025. (Liri Agami/Flash90)

Freed US-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander to meet Trump at White House Thursday

By Nava Freiberg and Jessica Steinberg

This combination photograph created on July 2, 2025 shows (L) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on June 30, 2025, and (R) MK Benny Gantz on June 30, 2025. (Maayan Toaf / GPO and Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Coalition said mulling asking Gantz to join if far-right parties bolt over Gaza deal

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

This aerial picture shows damaged buildings at a site hit by a missile fired from Iran in Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv on June 14, 2025. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Promoted ArticleOgen

Ogen Partners With Local Authorities to Rebuild Destroyed Neighborhoods With Dignity

From the first Iranian missiles and every day since, Ogen continues to support families and small businesses, partnering with municipalities to deliver rapid, dignified recovery.

Schoolchildren at the Nysmith School for the Gifted in Northern Virginia present a drawing of Adolf Hitler as an image of a 'strong historical leader' in October 2024, according to a legal complaint filed in July 2025 against the school. (Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law)

Private DC-area school expels siblings after parents report antisemitic bullying — lawsuit

At Nysmith School for the Gifted, an hour from US capital, students allegedly called Jews ‘baby killers,’ said they deserve to die over Gaza, and cast Hitler as a ‘strong leader’

Columbia University acting president Claire Shipman speaks during a commencement ceremony on Columbia's main campus, in Manhattan, May 21, 2025, in New York. (Jeenah Moon/Pool Photo via AP)

Acting Columbia president sorry for calling to remove Jewish board member after Oct. 7

By Luke Tress, ToI Staff and JTA

Prof. Ehud Ohana surveys his lab in the Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, destroyed by the June 19, 2025, Iranian ballistic missile strike, on June 24, 2025. (Courtesy/Dani Machlis)

Reporter's notebook'You can actually kill a cadaver twice'

Ben-Gurion University president: Iran strike has ‘far-reaching effects on Israeli science’

By Diana Bletter

Anatomy lab and 14 others damaged or destroyed, with cost to university of $200m, in missile attack on Beersheba’s Soroka Hospital. But it’s impossible to put a price on researchers’ life’s work

The paradox of the Netanyahu-Trump strike on Iran

Two right-wing leaders did what liberal predecessors would not – use force to confront a genocidal theocracy

How to break the deadlock on investigating October 7 failures

Israelis want a commission of inquiry, but the government has refused. What if a panel was tasked with preventing future disasters, not assigning blame?

This handout satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies and dated July 1, 2025, shows an overview of the Fordo Fuel Enrichment Plant complex in central Iran after US airstrikes. (Satellite image ©2025 Maxar Technologies / AFP)

Pentagon assesses strikes on Iran’s nuclear program set it back by up to two years

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Echoing Trump, US spokesman says facilities targeted in recent attacks ‘have been completely obliterated’ as Iranian FM states ‘the technology and knowhow is still there’

Atomic Energy Organization of Iran spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi (R) and Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharib Abadi (L), posing for a picture with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi (2nd L), in front of the gate of the Natanz nuclear enrichment plant in Iran's Isfahan province, November 15, 2024. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran / AFP)

US slams Iran for ‘unacceptable’ suspension of ties with UN nuclear watchdog

By AFP

In this photo released by the US Air Force on May 2, 2023, airmen look at a GBU-57, or the Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb, at Whiteman Air Base in Missouri. (US Air Force via AP, File)

Bipartisan US lawmakers propose giving bunker-buster bombs to Israel

Druze builders construct a protected room in Katzrin, Golan Heights, January 26, 2025. (Michael Giladi/FLASH90)

Protected rooms cost upwards of NIS 200,000 per apartment

After seeing Iran war damage, Israelis weigh costs of adding private shelters

Interest in adding fortified rooms has jumped since Iranian ballistic missiles killed 28, but even with some bureaucratic hurdles lifted, many are holding out for cheaper options

Boxes sit on a conveyor belt at an Amazon storage warehouse in Tepotzotlan, Mexico, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Amazon resumes deliveries to Israel after suspending service during war with Iran

By Sharon Wrobel and ToI Staff

ILLUSTRATIVE: A man holds up his cellular phone certificating that it is 'kosher' at the entrance to an ultra-Orthodox school in Jerusalem on May 6, 2020. (Nati Shohat/ Flash90)

Minister says IDF neglects Haredim, Bedouins by relying on modern tech for missile alerts

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Soldier killed in northern Gaza, 3 others seriously hurt; rockets fired at Sderot

By Stav Levaton, Nurit Yohanan, AFP and ToI Staff

Slain soldier named as Sgt. Yaniv Michalovitch, 19; Palestinian media claims head of Gaza City hospital killed in IDF strike alongside wife, 3 kids; 7 allegedly killed near aid site

Sgt. Yaniv Michalovitch, 19, of the 7th Armored Brigade. (Israel Defense Forces)

Top row, left to right: Lt. Matan Shai Yashinovski, Staff Sgt. Ronel Ben-Moshe, Sgt. Ronen Shapiro; Bottom row, left to right: Sgt. Maayan Baruch Pearlstein, Staff Sgt. Niv Radia, Sgt. Shahar Manoav, and Staff Sgt. Alon Davidov. The IDF announced that the seven soldiers were killed amid fighting in the southern Gaza Strip on June 24, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF vehicle in deadly Hamas attack had critical defects; 94 Gazans said killed

By Stav Levaton, AP and ToI Staff

Smoke plumes rise during an Israeli strike as a man pushed his bicycle along the Salah al-Din road near the Nusseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, used by food-seeking Palestinians to reach an aid distribution point set up by the privately-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), on June 25, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

‘Lies’: Israel denounces Amnesty charge that aid system uses starvation in Gaza genocide

UK human rights group says Israel creating ‘deadly mix of hunger and disease’; Israeli Foreign Ministry responds: Amnesty joining forces with Hamas

This photo, provided by an American contractor on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal operations, shows Palestinians behind gates before entering a food distribution site operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in May 2025, shortly after the start of the organization's distribution sites. (AP Photo)

US security contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo at aid-seeking Gazans

By AP and ToI Staff

Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, right, and Attorney General of New York Letitia James walk in the NYC Pride March, June 29, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)

Analysis

Pro-Israel Jewish Democrats say Mamdani’s stances are cause for concern – and action

Progressive Jews want clarification on the New York mayoral frontrunner’s defense of the phrase ‘globalize the intifada,’ while cautioning against twisting what he himself says

From left, police chief Kobi Shabtai, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana at a Purim megillah reading on a Border Police base in the West Bank on March 6, 2023. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Likud ministers urge Netanyahu to annex West Bank by the end of the month

Ahead of PM’s trip to Washington and the Knesset’s summer break, senior politicians suggest it is ‘a propitious time to move forward’ with controversial move

Hadash-Ta'al MK Ayman Odeh, left, and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara seen in a composite image. (Flash90)

Hearings on ousting attorney general, top Arab MK both scheduled for July 14

By Sam Sokol and Jeremy Sharon

Left to right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to staff at a Shin Bet facility, June 29, 2025. (Maayan Toaf/GPO); Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa attends the signing of an agreement for a regional energy project, in Damascus, Syria, May 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Syrian state media says ‘premature’ to discuss peace deal with Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Statement quoting unnamed official source says normalization not possible ‘unless the occupation… withdraws from the areas it has penetrated,’ adheres to 1970s armistice deal

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange seen on April 28, 2025. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

In wake of Iran war, Israelis hopeful for economic ‘peace dividend’ with neighbors

By Steven Scheer

A man rides a motorbike at the entrance of the Yarmuk camp for Palestinian refugees and their descendants in southern Damascus on May 22, 2025. (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)

Israeli peace overtures garner mixed reactions from citizens in Damascus, Beirut

By AFP and ToI Staff

The Talbieh neighborhood of Jerusalem (Noam Chen)

Jerusalemites on leased land fume over secret talks that could leave them in limbo

Report details proposed deal over former church lands between KKL-JNF and real estate tycoon that would extend leases by only 50 years, keeping homeowners in state of uncertainty

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Avner Netanyahu seen at the Tel Aviv District Court, where his father, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was testifying during his trial, December 10, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Military censor briefly pulls report on UK property purchase by Netanyahu’s son

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting in the Knesset on April 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud to advance bill stripping AG of authority over ministry legal advisers

Portraits of French national Cecile Kohler (L) currently imprisoned in Iran with her partner French national Jacques Paris (C) along with a placard reading "Freedom for Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris arbitrarily detained in Iran for over two years in appalling conditions" outside the Palais Bourbon, France's National Assembly, in Paris, on March 25, 2025. (Bertrand GUAY / AFP)

France says decision on Iran sanctions hinges on release of imprisoned two nationals

By AFP

A protester holds a placard reading "Terrorists don't spray paint; they bomb kids" during a protest rally in support of pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel group Palestine Action, in Trafalgar Square, London, June 23, 2025. (Henry Nicholls / AFP)

UK charges 4 anti-Israel activists over air base break-in

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

Switzerland to close Geneva branch of controversial Israel-, US-backed GHF aid group

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Ye, the US rapper formerly known as Kanye West, leaves federal court during the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs in New York, June 13, 2025. (AP/Larry Neumeister)

Australia cancels Kanye West’s visa over ‘Heil Hitler’ song release

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset, Jerusalem, on May 28, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Survey finds public trust in Netanyahu stayed low, at 40%, even in light of Iran war

By Stuart Winer

Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen (4th-R) visits a Syrian refugee camp near the village of Hawsh Al-Nabi, in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa valley, on December 10, 2018. (AFP)

Austria set to deport man to Syria, marking first for EU since Assad’s fall

Conservative Judaism has been trying to chart a middle path between Jewish tradition and acceptance of the reality of interfaith families. (Stock photo/Burke/Triolo Productions via Getty Images via JTA)

In first, US Conservative synagogue allows clergy to participate in interfaith weddings

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Ultra-Orthodox kids dressed up in costumes at their school, in Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, ahead of the Jewish holiday of Purim, on March 12, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

State turns blind eye as Haredi schools sidestep core curriculum, study reveals

By Rossella Tercatin

An aerial view of Pacific Ocean waves breaking near Morro Rock (TOP) in a marine area which is currently recommended for exclusion from the proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary along California's Central Coast on September 20, 2023. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images via AFP)

Israeli startup’s unproven marine tech raises doubts about carbon capture claims

By Helen Wieffering

An image of interstellar object A11pI3Z captured on June 2, 2025. (David Rankin, Saguaro Observatory / AFP)

Just passing throughScientists find new interstellar object racing through Solar System

By AFP

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