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What Matters Most On Sunday, July 6, 2025

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Demonstrators protest against the Israeli government and for the release of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip outside the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, July 5, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

2 rockets fired from Gaza, both intercepted; no one hurt

Israel sends team to Qatar for hostage talks, but deems Hamas demands ‘unacceptable’

By Lazar Berman, Noam Lehmann, Michael Horovitz and Jacob Magid

Hostage families demand comprehensive deal, likening partial deals that leave some behind to ‘selection’ at Nazi death camps; PM set to discuss Gaza at Monday meeting with Trump

Illustrative: Palestinian terrorist groups Islamic Jihad and Hamas arrive near the family home of slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar before handing over Israeli hostages and a Thai hostage to a Red Cross team in Khan Yunis on January 30, 2025. (Eyad Baba/AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 6: Day 639 – Hamas isn’t budging. So why the optimism for a deal?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

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)

Israel: Hamas north Gaza naval chief, other Hamas members, killed in strike on cafe last week

By Stav Levaton, ToI Staff and Agencies

President Isaac Herzog (right) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, July 6, 2025. On the table is a picture of the hostages held in Gaza. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Israeli team heads to Doha for indirect talks with Hamas

Herzog urges Netanyahu to brave ‘difficult’ choice on Gaza deal ahead of Trump meet

By Nava Freiberg

President says he fully supports efforts to bring back captives even if ‘cost is not simple,’ thanks Trump for help against Iran and ‘unwavering support for Israel’

Released hostage Ofer Calderon, top left, reunites with his children Rotem, Gaya, Erez and Sahar on February 1, 2025. Erez and Sahar were also abducted on October 7, 2023 and were freed in November 2023. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

Friends of ‘abandoned’ ex-hostage Ofer Calderon raise NIS 3 million in a day to help him rebuild life

Armed Palestinians sit on trucks carrying humanitarian aid near the Zikim border crossing between Israel and Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 25, 2025. (Ali Qariqa/Flash90)

Cabinet approves plan to let more aid into northern Gaza over hardliner protests

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Smotrich joins Ben Gvir in opposing expansion of UN-backed distribution, accuses IDF chief of failing to keep supplies out of Hamas’s hands, PM of letting army make its own decisions

Palestinians carry bags containing food and humanitarian aid packages delivered by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, June 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Netanyahu, US blame Hamas for grenade attack on Gaza Humanitarian Foundation workers

By Nava Freiberg, Stav Levaton, Agencies and ToI Staff

Omer Dostri, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's former spokesman. (Courtesy)

PM fires spokesman on eve of US trip, reportedly amid spats with Sara Netanyahu

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US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, New Jersey, July 6, 2025. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

July 6: Sources say first round of Hamas-Israel talks in Doha end inconclusively

IDF carries out ‘intense’ strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen * IDF to introduce new measures against draft dodgers and deserters, send 54,000 draft notices to ultra-Orthodox men

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Two right-wing activists arrested for attacking law enforcement at protest in Jerusalem
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IDF issues evacuation warnings for 3 Houthi-controlled ports, power plant in Yemen
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Air Force says rocket fired from Gaza earlier this evening wasn't intercepted due to human error

Rabbi Dovid Gutnick speaks to the media next to the burnt front entrance of the East Melbourne Synagogue in Melbourne on July 6, 2025. (William WEST / AFP)

Rabbi says son refused to open door for arson suspect

Man charged with setting fire to Melbourne synagogue as police probe terror motive

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Angelo Loras, 34, of Sydney, who describes himself as Iranian, suspected of starting blaze at entrance to East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation building while 20 people were inside

Destruction is seen at the scene following an attack by pro-Palestinian protesters on the Israeli-owned Miznon restaurant in Melbourne on July 4, 2025. (SOPA Images via Reuters)

Israeli leaders blast ‘vile’ attacks in Melbourne, demand Australia tackle antisemitism

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Analysis

After brief hiatus, antisemitism in Australia rears head with Melbourne attacks

While government seems to be taking anti-Jewish threats more seriously, hate speech is becoming more normalized, community leaders say

A man walks past the burnt front entrance of the East Melbourne Synagogue in Melbourne on July 6, 2025. (William WEST / AFP)

Mamdani, Jews and forms of erasure

No matter your stance on the NY mayoral candidate, any Jew should be able to recognize the dilemma of ambiguous racial categories

PM Albanese, those words don’t mean what you think they do

When you say ’antisemitism has no place in Australia’ after each attack, we Jews learn that we’re not safe – for antisemitism has its place in Australia after all

US chipmaker Nvidia's offices in Yokne'am in Israel's north. (Courtesy)

Nvidia plans to boost presence in Israel with multibillion-dollar tech campus in north

By Sharon Wrobel

The US chip giant seeks to buy land spanning up to 120 dunams (30 acres) and tap into local talent as demand for its AI chips soars

Irwin Cotler speaking at the Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights, in 2024. (Courtesy)

Interview'Nazis tried to hide what they were doing; Hamas glorified it'

Irwin Cotler sounds alarm on erosion of Israel’s greatest protection – its democracy

By Ariela Karmel

The former Canadian justice minister, attorney general and human rights lawyer discusses attacks on Israel’s judiciary and his decades of shuttle diplomacy between Israel and its neighbors

In this photo provided by the Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends the "Tasua" (ninth day) mourning ritual to commemorate martyrdom of Prophet Mohammad's grandson Imam Hussein, during the Islamic month of Muharram ahead of Ashura, July 5, 2025. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s Khamenei makes first public appearance since start of war with Israel

Footage shows 86-year-old leader waving to chanting crowd gathered at mosque in Tehran for Ashura, but he does not deliver public address

An Israel Air Force F-15 fighter jet, seen at the Tel Nof Air Force base, on January 1, 2024. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Report: Iranian ballistic missiles struck five IDF bases during war

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Satellite data from US university said to reveal strikes on intelligence base airbase and other facilities; number of successful interceptions decreased daily for first 8 days

Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem gives a televised speech on December 14, 2024. (Press TV screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Hezbollah chief vows not to surrender weapons under Israeli threats

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Shrugging off US disarmament plan, reportedly in exchange for Israeli pull back, Naim Qassem says that ‘aggression’ must stop first, insists missiles needed to resist Israel

Syria's interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, (R) welcomes then-British Foreign Secretary David Lammy in Damascus, Syria on July 5, 2025. (SANA/AFP)

Britain reestablishes full Syria ties as foreign secretary visits Damascus

By AFP

Lammy says it is in UK’s interest to support new government; al-Sharaa regime seeing lifting of sanctions across various sectors

This handout picture released by the Syrian Arab News Agency's (SANA) telegram page shows a bulldozer attempting to contain a wildfire sweeping through Qatal Maaf in the Latakia province in Syria's Mediterranean West on July 4, 2025. (SANA / AFP)

Wildfires rage in Syria for 3rd day, with conditions made worse by unexploded munitions

By AFP

Salome (right) with the midwife "Emea" (left), bathing the infant Jesus, is a common figure in Orthodox icons of the Nativity of Jesus; here in a 12th-century fresco from Cappadocia. (Public domain, via Wikipedia)

Who was buried in Salome’s cave: A disciple of Jesus, a midwife or a Jewish queen?

By Rossella Tercatin

New research suggests that a burial site once venerated by Christian pilgrims likely belonged to a member of Herod’s dynasty rather than a New Testament figure

People take part in a protest in support of 'Palestine Action', organized by the Defend Our Juries group, in front of the Mahatma Gandhi statue in Parliament Square in London, England, July 5, 2025. (Jeff Moore/PA via AP)

Supporters of Palestine Action, banned under UK terror laws, arrested at London protest

By AFP and ToI Staff

27 detained for holding cardboard signs in support of anti-Israel group that was designated a terror organization after breaking into and vandalizing UK airbase

Two shoppers select items at a grocery store in the "Tehrangeles" neighborhood of Los Angeles, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

End of Israel-Iran war tests the harmony of LA’s huge, mixed-faith Iranian community

By DEEPA BHARATH

Fallout of the 12-day war has come to ‘Tehrangeles,’ the largest Iranian diaspora community in the world; ‘It’s been an emotional roller coaster,’ says one local

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An undated illustrative photo of a fighter from Israel Police's elite YAMAM counterterror unit. (Israel Police)

Security forces nab 3 terror cell members they say were planning imminent attack

By Charlie Summers

Paramedics arrive to the scene of a grenade explosion which injured a man in Herzliya, on July 6, 2025. (Magen David Adom)

Man badly hurt in Herzliya grenade blast; police link incident to organized crime

By Charlie Summers

Sgt. Maor Cohen Eisenkot, 19, of the Golani Brigade’s 12th Battalion, killed in battle in the southern Gaza Strip on December 8, 2023. (Courtesy)

Court said to approve mom’s request to use fallen soldier son’s sperm to have grandchild

A sheriff's deputy pauses while combing through the banks of the Guadalupe River near Camp Mystic after a flash flood swept through the area, in Hunt, Texas, July 5, 2025. (Julio Cortez/AP)

Toll in Texas floods rises to at least 51 amid desperate search for missing campers

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