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What Matters Most On Saturday, July 5, 2025

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Pictures of the remaining Israeli hostages are displayed along a long table by a beach outside the US embassy branch office in Tel Aviv on July 4, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Proximity talks could start Sunday, if gaps seen bridgeable

Hamas responds ‘positively’ to truce offer, but with reservations; says ready to start talks

Source details differences on key issues, as Hamas aims to prevent Israel from resuming war, wants to lift curbs on UN aid and seeks a more significant IDF withdrawal

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud attends a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov (not in picture) following their meeting in Moscow, Russia, July 4, 2025. (Evgenia Novozhenina / POOL / AFP)

Asked about normalization with Israel, Saudi FM says Gaza ceasefire takes priority

By ToI Staff and Reuters

Top left to right: Rabbi Dovid Gutnick walks past damage to the exterior of the East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation in Melbourne, July 5, 2025, after an arsonist set fire to the door the previous day. (James Ross/AAP Image via AP); the aftermath seen on an Australian Broadcasting Corporation news report. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).
Bottom left to right: Destruction is seen at the scene following a pro-Palestinian protesters' attack on the Israeli-owned Miznon restaurant in Melbourne on July 4, 2025. (SOPA Images via Reuters); Police escort anti-Israel protesters allegedly involved in the attack out of the establishment (AAP via Reuters)

Australian PM: 'A cowardly act of antisemitism'

Israeli restaurant attacked, synagogue torched within minutes of each other in Melbourne

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Anti-Israel mob chants ‘Death to the IDF’ while hurling furniture through ‘Miznon’ window; suspect sets entrance of historic synagogue on fire; 20 people inside evacuate unscathed

Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan Zangauker, stands with protesters demanding a hostage deal, Tel Aviv, July 5, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

July 5: Hostage families say no more ‘Schindler’s lists’ amid reports of emerging partial hostage deal

By Michael Horovitz and Jacob Magid

Weekly protests call for comprehensive deal to release all hostages, end war * Israel decries ‘terrorism’ after synagogue, Israeli restaurant attacked in Australia

10:11 pm

Report: 5 IDF bases were struck by ballistic missiles during Israel-Iran war
8:58 pm

PM's office says Hamas seeking unacceptable changes to hostage deal proposal
7:59 pm

Elon Musk says he has formed new US political party, the 'America Party'

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with the IDF General Staff Forum on June 30, 2025. At left is IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir. At right is Defense Minister Israel Katz. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

Military says it now controls 65% of Gaza Strip

Netanyahu, IDF chief said to clash in stormy meeting over plan to displace Gazans

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

‘Who will govern 2 million people?’: Eyal Zamir reportedly expresses incredulity as cabinet demands IDF move population to south of the Strip, lay siege to north

Opposition leader Yair Lapid, left, with UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan in the Emirati capital, Abu Dhabi, July 3, 2025. (X/Yair Lapid)

UAE draws Netanyahu’s ire after Emirati leaders host Lapid

US lobbyist Jay Footlik. (Middle East Investment Initiative)

US reportedly cancels probe into pro-Qatari lobbyist and Qatargate suspect Footlik

Protesters demand a deal to release hostages held in Gaza, in Rehovot, July 5, 2025. (Ori Koren/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Thousands rally for hostages with cabinet set to discuss emerging Gaza truce

Hostage Families Forum calls for Israelis to demand a deal that releases all captives, amid reports on committees having to choose who will go free and who will remain in partial deal

Met Sinwar early in war, who said it would be over in month

Freed hostage Ofer Calderon recounts trauma of learning 2 children also captive in Gaza

In first interview since release in Feb., recalls how he spent just 3 hours above ground in Gaza, learned only 2 weeks before his release that his son had survived Oct. 7

Released hostage Ofer Calderon gestures during an interview broadcast on Channel 12, July 4, 2025. (Screen capture: Channel 12)

32 said killed in IDF Gaza strikes; GHF says 2 US workers injured in attack on aid site

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Hamas authorities report 8 killed near aid site in Strip’s center; 2 assailants said to throw 2 grenades at workers at US- and Israeli-backed agency, unclear who’s behind assault

People, some carrying aid parcels, walk along the Salah al-Din road near the Nuseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, used by food-seeking Palestinians to reach an aid distribution point set up by the privately-run, US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), on June 25, 2025. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)

Inside story

Gaza’s life-saving generators face sputtering halt as fuel blockade enters fifth month

Israel has barred diesel from Strip since March — three times longer than at start of war — putting medical equipment and water treatment facilities in danger of being shut down

Kidney patients sit amid rubble outside Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday, July 1, 2025, as they wait to leave after the facility suspended its dialysis unit services due to fuel shortages needed to power its generators. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi)

When is it too late?

When does the damage to civil liberties and the assault on human rights become normalized? And so normalized as to be irreversible?

Rachel Goldenberg

We are NYC rabbis who support Mamdani. Here’s why.

His platform reflects the Jewish call for justice and also offers a clear plan to address antisemitic violence. That’s what real protection looks like

An Israeli military vehicle crosses the fence, returning from the buffer zone with Syria, near the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, on December 10, 2024. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

Syria says willing to work with US on return to 1974 disengagement deal with Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Statement by Syrian FM comes as Washington seeks Syria-Israel normalization; accord created UN-patrolled buffer zone, which Israel seized following ouster of Assad in December

Illustrative: This picture taken from Israel along the border with southern Lebanon shows smoke billowing above the Lebanese village of Bint Jbeil during Israeli airstrikes on February 28, 2024, amid ongoing cross-border tensions between Israel and the Hezbollah terror group. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

1 killed, 1 hurt in separate Israeli strikes in south Lebanon, officials say

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: An unidentified International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspector disconnects the connections between the twin cascades for 20 percent uranium production at the nuclear research center of Natanz, some 300 kilometers south of Tehran, Iran, on January 20, 2014. (KAZEM GHANE/IRNA/AFP)

Last remaining nuclear inspectors leave Iran after parliament outlaws IAEA cooperation

By Francois Murphy

Iranian foreign minister says Tehran remains committed to nuclear non-proliferation treaty; UN nuclear watchdog chief says inspection regime must not be interrupted

Defense Minister Israel Katz, right, meets with IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, left, and members of the military's top brass ahead of the Israeli operation against Iran's nuclear program, June 13, 2025. (Defense Ministry)

Katz, Zamir hail war against Iran as ‘defining milestone’ in Israel’s history

By Stav Levaton and Agencies

Masked settlers hurl rocks at Palestinians from the top of a hill in the West Bank village of Sinjil, July 4, 2025. (JOHN WESSELS / AFP)

Two people said injured in settler attack on West Bank protest march

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Settler activist accuses military of ignoring ‘violent event’ against settlers in Sinjil, during which PA official could be seen helping dismantle and burn an outpost

Jeremy Corbyn, center, takes part in an anti-Israel march in central London, February 15, 2025, organized by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. (Benjamin Cremel/AFP)

Former UK Labour leader Corbyn, ousted over antisemitism, to found new party

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Jeremy Corbyn says Starmer’s government has ‘refused to deliver the change’; lawmaker who supported Palestinian violence says she’ll join him in new left-wing party

Anti-Israel protesters, one wearing a shirt reading 'death, death to the IDF,' gather outside the High Court in London on July 4, 2025. (BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP)

Palestine Action loses bid to block UK government’s ban under terrorism laws

By AP and ToI Staff

Tal Dooreck traveled through the Philippines on his skateboard, holding onto the back of trucks (Courtesy)

Interview'I made a challenge to travel the world with none of my money'

Privileged thrill-seeking teen travels the world broke to find adventure — and altruism

19-year old Tal Dooreck Aloni, now studying in Herzliya, lived for a year bartering video services in exchange for food and board with the motto, ‘the best plan is no plan’

US President Donald Trump speaks at a rally at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, July 3, 2025, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP/Charlie Neibergall)

Trump says he didn’t know ‘Shylock’s’ antisemitic history when he used term at rally

By AP and JTA

Reporters press Trump after he cites villainous Jewish moneylender in Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’ to criticize modern-day unscrupulous moneylenders

The Baha'i temple in the northern Israeli city of Haifa is seen at night on Wednesday, February 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

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Small Baha’i faith faces persecution across Middle East and especially in Iran

Islamic Republic has been driving force in anti-Baha’i repression, which includes forced deportations, family separations, denial of marriage licenses and public school enrollment

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An entrance to the Kfar Shaul Mental Health Center, a psychiatric hospital in Jerusalem, July 31, 2012. (Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

Man indicted for mom’s murder also suspected of killing patient at Jerusalem psych hospital

Onlookers survey damage along the Guadalupe River after a flash flood swept through the area, Friday, July 4, 2025, in Kerrville, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Texas flood kills 24; frantic searches for more than 20 missing girls at summer camp

By HANNAH FINGERHUT and JIM VERTUNO

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a media conference at the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

3 mayors arrested in southern Turkey as part of crackdown on opposition to Erdogan

By AP

Trump says he thinks talks with China on TikTok sale to begin this week

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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