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What Matters Most On Friday, July 4, 2025

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits a destroyed home in Kibbutz Nir Oz, July 3, 2025. (Benjamin Netanyahu/X)

PM said to tell residents he has agreed to hostage deal

Anger, protests, tears and courtesy as Netanyahu finally visits Nir Oz, worst-hit Oct. 7 kibbutz

By Michael Horovitz, ToI Staff and Nava Freiberg

636 days after Hamas massacre, freed hostage refuses to shake PM’s hand, urges him to show ‘responsibility,’ get the hostages home, launch state inquiry; Einav Zangauker embraces him and wife Sara

IDF soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip, in a handout cleared for publication on July 4, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

July 4: IDF says it holds ‘operational control’ over roughly 65% of Gaza Strip

UN says more than 600 people killed near Gaza aid sites since late May * Trump shares footage of meeting with Edan Alexander, says he’s committed to returning all hostages

8:24 pm

Hamas says it gave 'positive' response, ready to start talks 'immediately' on implementation of Gaza ceasefire
7:34 pm

Hamas said asking for 'minor changes' to hostage-ceasefire proposal, including removing GHF from Strip
7:09 pm

French President Macron and Malaysian PM reaffirm calls for Gaza ceasefire

US President Donald Trump talks to journalists as he arrives at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on July 4, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

Trump says Hamas response to Gaza ceasefire-hostage deal should come in 24 hours

By Reuters, ToI Staff and Nurit Yohanan

Terror group said to show ‘flexibility’ on issue of disarmament, may agree to exile symbolic number of officials; says it will respond after talks with Gazan factions

US President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Des Moines International Airport, July 3, 2025, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP/Alex Brandon)

As sides await Hamas response to truce deal, Trump said to offer personal pledge to end war

By Nava Freiberg, Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Agencies

Promoted CampaignAmerican Technion Society

The Breakthrough Technology That Blocked Iran’s Assault on Israel

Iron Dome and Arrow technologies changed Israel’s fate. Michael Oren exposes how Technion-powered innovation became the unstoppable shield protecting millions.

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)

Freed US-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander meets Trump, urges deal for remaining captives

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

At White House, ex-soldier says he ‘came to thank the person who is responsible for saving my life,’ tells US president his treatment in captivity improved when Trump was elected

Sgt. Yair Eliyahou, 19, of the Combat Engineering Corps. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says 2 soldiers killed in separate incidents in Gaza as toll mounts

By Stav Levaton and Agencies

Hamas-linked civil defense agency claims 15 killed in Khan Younis; WHO says Nasser Hospital is ‘one massive trauma ward’ because of influx of patients hurt at aid sites

New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani responds to a question during the New York City Mayoral Candidates Forum at Medgar Evers College, April 23, 2025, in New York. (AP/Frank Franklin II)

Nearly 1/3 of New York voters support Mamdani’s statements on BDS, intifada — poll

30% say they’re more likely to vote for mayoral candidate due to his refusal to condemn phrase ‘globalize the intifada,’ while 52% say it makes them less likely to support him

Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks at his primary election party, in New York City, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa); Micah Lasher, Director of Policy for Governor Kathy Hochul, listens as Hochul presents her executive state budget in the Red Room at the state Capitol, February 1, 2023, in Albany, New York. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink);

New York rep’s endorsement of Zohran Mamdani roils Orthodox rabbis on Upper West Side

By Grace Gilson

Anti-Israel, Pro-Palestinian US protesters wave flags from the second level of the Physical Sciences Lecture Hall after they took over the building at the University of California, Irvine, May 15, 2024, in Irvine, California. (Leonard Ortiz/The Orange County Register via AP, File)

University of California reiterates ban on boycotts of Israel by student governments

By AP

ToI podcast

Friday Focus with Lazar Berman and guest John Spencer: Is the IDF winning in Gaza?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

ToI’s diplomatic reporter is joined by an expert in urban warfare to debate the success of the past almost 21 months of battle in the Strip

Posters reading 'Israeli not welcome' appeared in several locations in Milan, Italy on June 26, 2025. (Courtesy of Afshin Kaboli)

Inside story'I always thought these things happened in France, not here'

‘Israelis not welcome’: Milan Jews rattled by surge in antisemitic incidents

By Rossella Tercatin

Anti-Jewish hate crimes in Italy nearly doubled in 2024, watchdog finds — but the local community says it still receives significant support from the wider Italian society

Rochel Stoklasa

Happy Birthday, America, and thank you

Since my childhood, the US has changed in ways that concern me, but today, I’m honoring the values I learned then with hot dogs and red, white, and blue cake

Ruthie Hollander

Grandpa called it bullsh*t; I call it life

The commandments that align with our pre-existing beliefs are easier, but we don’t always have that privilege, just as we can’t know the ’why’ of everything (Hukat)

The entrance to Moshav Mivtachim, near the Gaza border in southern Israel, September 13, 2024. (Yossi Aloni FLASH90)

IDF's probes into Oct. 7

Mivtahim residents held the line as Hamas invaded, preventing deadlier outcome — probe

IDF investigation confirms systemic failures left the southern community exposed for hours, resulting in the deaths of an off-duty soldier and four security squad members

Inside Story

Small businesses struggle to stay afloat as damages from two wars deepen

Social lender is helping businesses on the brink of financial collapse receive loans and stay above water after 20 months of war, while government compensation is slow and insufficient

Farmer Dudu Argaman (right) and his wife Bat-sheva stand in front of their house and orchard of mango trees in Moshav Almagor in northern Israel. (Courtesy)

Emek Refaim Street in Jerusalem, on September 1, 2016. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Emek Refaim businesses, residents on edge as long-dreaded train construction begins

Development of the heavily-contested light rail track along the storied Jerusalem street is set to start Monday. Neighbors say it’s necessary, but won’t be pleasant

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)

Hezbollah said to be considering partial disarmament after devastating Israeli blows

By Laila Bassam and Maya Gebeily

Terror group said to perceive huge arsenal meant to deter and attack Israel as possible liability; its finances damaged by regional change, Israeli assassinations

Lebanese emergency responders inspect the debris at the site of an airstrike on a vehicle in Khalde, south of the capital Beirut on July 3, 2025. (IBRAHIM AMRO / AFP)

IDF says airstrike near Beirut targeted operative working for Iran’s Quds Force

By Stav Levaton and AFP

The US Treasury Department building is shown at dusk in Washington on June 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

US slaps sanctions on Iran’s oil smuggling network, Hezbollah finance firm

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) speaks to Mossad chief David Barnea on a visit to the Mossad headquarters, on July 2, 2025. (Haim Zach/GPO)

New footage shows strike on Tehran's Quds Square during war

Israel inflicted ‘significant damage’ on Iran during 12-day war, Mossad chief says

By Lazar Berman, Stav Levaton, Reuters and ToI Staff

David Barnea says Israel must keep up operations against Tehran; Iranian FM says Islamic Republic still committed to Non-Proliferation Treaty as it cuts ties with IAEA

Left: US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff in Paris, France, April 17, 2025. (Ludovic Marin, Pool Photo via AP); Right: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Moscow, Russia, April 18, 2025. (Tatyana Makeyeva/Pool Photo via AP)

US-Iran nuclear talks to resume in Oslo next week for first time since war — report

By ToI Staff and AFP

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)

Suspected Iran spies accused of plotting assassination of ‘senior figure’ in Israel

By Charlie Summers

An elderly couple crossing a street as smoke rises in the background at a site of a strike following a mass Russian drone and missile attack on the Ukraine's capital Kyiv, July 4, 2025. (Handout / STATE EMERGENSY SERVICE OF UKRAINE / AFP)

Israel to send clean water systems to Ukraine to replace those damaged by Russia

By ToI Staff and AP

23 hurt in Kyiv after Moscow launches largest aerial attack since start of war; Trump says he’s ‘not happy’ with war, doesn’t think Putin wants to stop

This combination photo shows US President Donald Trump in a business roundtable in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, May 16, 2025, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a signing ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, May 10, 2025. (AP Photo, Files)

Putin and Trump discuss Iran, Ukraine in ‘frank’ phone call, Kremlin official says

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

Zelig Eshhar, leading cancer researcher and immunologist, dies at 84

Research by Weizmann Institute scientist and Israel Prize winner saved ‘countless lives,’ was basis for technology sold for $12 billion in 2017

Weizmann Institute's Prof. Zelig Eshhar holds a board that illustrates how the cancer treatment works with mice, August 29, 2017. (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

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Bobby Vylan of British duo Bob Vylan performs on the West Holts Stage on the fourth day of the Glastonbury music festival at Worthy Farm in the village of Pilton in Somerset, south-west England, on June 28, 2025. (Oli SCARFF / AFP)

BBC to stop broadcasting ‘high-risk’ gigs after antisemitic chants at Glastonbury

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the suspect who allegedly attacked pro-Israel activists in Boulder, Colorado on June 1, 2025. (Screen capture/X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

US court says family of Boulder attacker who firebombed hostage rally can be deported

By Grace Gilson

Two Israeli settlers sit outside the home of a Palestinian family in the West Bank village of Mu'arajat al-Sharqiya after breaking in and forcing the family to flee, on July 3, 2025. (Looking the Occupation in the Eye)

Last two suspects in settler attack on troops and cops released to house arrest

By Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

An airplane model at a roundabout near Erbil airport in the capital of Iraq's autonomous northern Kurdish region on April 15, 2021. (Safin Hamid / AFP)

Drone downed near Iraqi Kurdistan airport where US-led coalition troops are based

By AFP

Likud MK Yuli Edelstein chairs a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, July 1, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Edelstein expected to present revised Haredi enlistment bill in coming days

Disposable plastic tableware for sale at a supermarket in Givat Shaul, Jerusalem, October 27, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Short-lived tax on disposable plastic sparked lasting Haredi hostility to green policy

The car (left) of National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir following an accident in Ramle, April 26, 2024. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Ben Gvir’s driver convicted over April 2024 car crash after running red light

By Charlie Summers

Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman attends a rally for the re-establishment of Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip in Jerusalem, February 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Green NGOs appeal to attorney general against environment minister’s refusal to release funds

A Magen David Adom ambulance stands at the scene where a 2-year-old girl was found in a closed car, unattended, unconscious and in critical condition with signs of heat stroke, in Hadera, July 3, 2025. (Magen David Adom)

3 kids suffer heat stroke after being left in cars; 2-year-old in critical condition

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's son Yair arrives for a court hearing in Tel Aviv, on November 29, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Yair Netanyahu testifies to police major crimes unit in diplomatic passports affair

By Jeremy Sharon

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