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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 9, 2025

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US President Donald Trump, left, meets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House, July 8, 2025. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Parameters of IDF withdrawal emerge as main sticking point

Netanyahu quietly leaves White House without announcement of breakthrough in Gaza talks

By Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman

PM’s second sit-down with Trump in as many days ends with no public component; Witkoff delays Doha trip in sign talks not yet ripe after expressing optimism deal can be reached this week

US President Donald Trump, left, meets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House, July 8, 2025. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 9: Day 642 – After PM’s 2nd Trump meeting, what’s next in Doha?

By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid

Illustrative: A boy looks over a Palestinian tent city in the al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, July 6, 2025. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Gazans reject Trump’s displacement plan despite destruction: ‘This is our land’

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Illustrative: IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip in this image released on July 9, 2025 (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

July 9: Qatar reportedly tells Israel that Hamas is gearing up for ceasefire

US imposes sanctions on UN Palestinian rapporteur, citing anti-Israel, anti-US campaigns * Syrian activist at Knesset: Al-Sharaa told me chance for Israel ties a ‘unique opportunity’

7:55 pm

IDF says soldier killed, nearly abducted by Hamas gunmen in Gaza
7:41 pm

US State Department spokesperson: Lebanon advancing in efforts to disarm Hezbollah in south but more work needed
7:21 pm

US envoy says Syrian government, Kurds split on how to merge forces

Op-ed: Day 642 of the war

A new strategy for destroying Hamas?

Trump’s Middle East envoy Witkoff says the latest phased deal is almost finalized, and believes it ‘will lead to lasting peace’. We’ll know soon enough

US President Donald Trump, left, meets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House, July 8, 2025. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

US President Donald Trump waves to the media after exiting Air Force One, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, July 6, 2025, en route to the White House after spending the weekend in New Jersey. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

ExplainerAs Netanyahu nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize, a secretive process is underway

By AP

Promoted LivestreamJPPI

Rebuilding Northern Israel

When Israel’s north emptied after October 8, Nissan Zeevi of Kfar Giladi stayed. Now he wants to bring families back. A story of fear, resilience, and the fight to rebuild the Galilee.

Family and friends of Staff Sgt. Noam Aharon Musgadian attend his funeral at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on July 8, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

‘Why are you leaving me?’: 4 soldiers killed in Beit Hanoun attack laid to rest

Hundreds mourn Meir Shimon Amar, Moshe Nissim Frech, Noam Aharon Musgadian and Benyamin Asulin, slain Monday night in Gaza; Staff Sgt. Moshe Shmuel Noll to be buried Wednesday

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef delivers a lesson in Safed, on September 17, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Shas spiritual leader links death of troops in Gaza to students’ neglect of Torah

Released hostages Sasha Troufanov and Sapir Cohen pose after getting engaged in a photo released on July 9, 2025 (Courtesy)

Free love

Released hostages Troufanov, Cohen announce plans to marry

Couple was kidnapped by Hamas while visiting groom-to-be’s family in Nir Oz on October 7, only reunited in Israel when he was released over 400 days later

From ramps to good lighting, the need for accessible synagogues is clear

Here are tips to help people pray with the community, which protects their dignity, their sense of self, their religious freedom, and their sense of belonging

The Washington visit isn’t really about the leaders

The US’s new Big Beautiful Bill promotes a new economy, where innovation, military readiness, and industrial policy converge. Israel has become its model

ToI podcast

Amanda Borschel-Dan

What Matters Now to Micah Goodman: Israel may soon remake the region

After 21 months of war against Hamas, the public intellectual and author weighs in on how the 12-day Israel-Iran war is rewriting the script for Israel in the Mideast

Analysis

Shoshanna Solomon

Distracted Nation: As Israel focuses on wars, its neighbors are gaining in the AI race

Saudi Arabia and the UAE are increasingly investing money, time and effort into developing a resource that could shift the global power balance. Has Israel missed the bandwagon?

Prompt to DALL-E by Shoshanna Solomon: Image of a cyborg draped in an Israeli flag that falls behind in a race with two other cyborgs, one with the UAE flag and one with the Saudi Arabia flag, as Israeli warplanes and an Iranian flag appear in the background. (Shoshanna Solomon)

An encampment established by extremist settler activists some 50 meters from the Palestinian Bedouin hamlet of Mu'arrajat in the southern Jordan Valley in the West Bank, July 6, 2025. (Jeremy Sharon/The Times of Israel)

Reporter's Notebook

After settlers uproot another Palestinian hamlet, activists aim ire at political powers

By Jeremy Sharon

Former residents of Mu’arrajat accuse army and police of turning a blind eye to harassment, with some seeing government behind growing campaign of dispossession in West Bank

Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem speaks in an interview with the al-Mayadeen news outlet that aired on July 8, 2025. (X screenshot)

Hezbollah chief admits to wildly underestimating Israeli capabilities before pager blasts

Naim Qassem says Lebanese terror group ‘didn’t know the supply chain had been exposed,’ suggests operatives’ growing suspicions about the beepers led Israel to detonate them

IDF soldiers operate in southern Lebanon in an image released on July 9, 2025 (Israel Defense Forces)

Troops destroy Hezbollah arms in rare southern Lebanon ground raids, IDF says

By Emanuel Fabian

Paramedics inspect a burned vehicle that was targeted in an Israeli airstrike, in the Ayrouniyeh area near Lebanon's northern port city of Tripoli, July 8, 2025. (Fathi AL-MASRI / AFP)

IDF says it killed key Hamas figure in Lebanon, confirms death of Oct. 7 terrorist in Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Musk AI chatbot ‘Grok’ churns out antisemitic tropes, praises Hitler

By Stuart Winer and Reuters

Automated response system later deletes some posts, apologizes after identifying Jewish surnames as backers of ‘anti-white’ hate, saying Jews control government and Hollywood

Illustrative: Pro- and anti-Israel protesters face off outside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, May 30, 2025. (SPENCER PLATT / Getty Images via AFP)

Social media moderation cuts have caused ‘explosion of hate’ against Jews, says ADL

By AFP

Elon Musk looks on as US President Donald Trump meets South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House, May 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Turkish court orders ban on Musk’s AI chatbot Grok for offensive content about Erdogan

By AP and ToI Staff

Over 1,200 people gather for a Friends of the IDF gala in New York on October 23, 2017. (Shahar Azran/FIDF)

Inside story

Asaf Elia-Shalev

Friends of the IDF in crisis after internal report alleges financial abuse, toxic culture

Critics say chair consolidated power, authorized lavish spending, betrayed donors’ trust; organization accused of holding huge cash reserves but still fundraising

A United Airlines flight lands at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, March 31, 2025 (Yossi Aloni/ FLASH90)

United to resume flights from New York to Tel Aviv on July 21; Wizz also to return

By Sharon Wrobel and AFP

US carrier originally said flights would be paused until at least July 31 due to war with Iran; low-cost carrier Wizz also expected to resume flights to Larnaca, Budapest on Aug. 8

David Corenswet in 'Superman.' (Courtesy Warner Bros. Discovery)

Film review

The new Superman movie doesn’t fly in the face of convention – and that’s a good thing

By Jordan Hoffman

While it might vaguely touch on politics, the latest film featuring the Big Blue Boy Scout is light, clever and lands at just the right moment when it hits US theaters July 11

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 military official confirms Iran missiles hit some IDF sites last month

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Official tells Reuters that ‘very few’ locations were hit and that they remained functional; attacks were in addition to 36 Iranian missile impacts in populated areas

The Liberian-flagged bulk carrier Eternity C is seen in Split, Croatia, January 30, 2023. (Sinisa Aljinovic via AP)

Maritime security firms said on mission to save crew of Greek vessel hit by Houthis

By Agencies and ToI Staff

People hold candles and signs reading 'Put Noem in Krome' during a vigil protesting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody and mass deportations outside the Krome Detention Center in Miami on May 24, 2025. (Photo by Giorgio VIERA / AFP)

'We must not disrespect history by making false equivalencies'

‘Alligator Auschwitz’: Nickname for new ICE facility renews debate over Nazi comparisons

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

A US detention center for undocumented immigrants in the Florida Everglades has critics invoking the death camp where a million Jews were systematically exterminated

French spy chief: Uncertain where Iran’s remaining highly enriched uranium is located

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Nicolas Lerner says nuclear program set back several months, could continue covertly; French diplomatic source: European powers may restore UN sanctions on Iran if no deal reached

Nicolas Lerner, head of the French foreign intelligence service DGSE, speaks to French outlet LCI, July 8, 2025. (Screen capture: LCI via X)

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

Iranian FM: Tehran still interested in diplomacy, willing to restart nuclear talks

By Reuters and Lazar Berman

US President Donald Trump, right, meets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House, July 8, 2025. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

AnalysisAfter strikes, Israel and US diverge on how to further pressure Iran

By Samia Nakhoul

An image from 'Bliss,' a 10-minute short from Meirav Heiman and Ayelet Carmi, opening at Jerusalem's Ticho House on July 9, 2025 (Courtesy)

Female power anchors video art at Ticho House, once home to doyenne of Israeli art

By Jessica Steinberg

‘Bliss’ and ‘Zahara’ present artful, dystopian views of women in exhibit at historic Jerusalem artist’s villa

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Rose Byrne stars in 'Tow,' one of the international features being screened at the Jerusalem Film Festival, opening July 17, 2025, in Jerusalem (Courtesy)

Scenes to be seenAward-winning docs and dramas dot Jerusalem Film Festival

By Jessica Steinberg

Channel 13 reporter Aviad Glickman arrives at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem for a hearing, July 25, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Police grill legal reporter over allegation he ‘shoved’ employee of Sara Netanyahu

Eli Sharabi, left, and his brother Sharon Sharabi in London, where Eli Sharabi received the Golden Book Award on June 23, 2025, for breaking the record for the number of copies sold for his book 'Hostage.' (Courtesy)

Eli Sharabi’s memoir about life in Hamas captivity to be released in US this fall

By AP and ToI Staff

Far-left Haredi journalist Israel Frey attends a protest calling for the release of the hostages held in the Gaza Strip, outside the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, April 8, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Police probe far-left Haredi journalist who cheered IDF soldiers’ deaths in Gaza

By Charlie Summers

People tour through the ruins of ancient Persepolis, which served as the capital of the ancient Achaemenid Persian Empire in southern Iran on May 13, 2024. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Some European tourists still travel to Iran, flouting dire warnings

By AFP

A search and rescue team looks for people along the Guadalupe River near a damaged building at Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas, on July 7, 2025, following severe flash flooding that occurred during the July 4 holiday weekend. (RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP)

US Jewish camps express grief, condolences after flooding disaster at Camp Mystic in Texas

By Grace Gilson

An abandoned lifesavers' station at the Kiryat Hayyim beach in northern Israel. (Courtesy, Zalul)

Environmental groups appeal against ‘outdated’ breakwater project on Haifa beach

Illustrative: Israeli Air Force soldiers pose in front of an Arrow air defense system battery, in a photo issued by the IDF on June 26, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

7 soldiers from Arrow unit detained for alleged abuse of junior troops

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli troops stand outside Soroka Hospital in the southern city of Beersheba, after it was hit by a missile fired from Iran on June 19, 2025. (Marc Israel SELLEM / POOL / AFP)

High defense spending set to threaten fiscal stability and welfare services – report

By Sharon Wrobel

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, May 10, 2025. (AP Photo, Files)

Trump said he told Putin he’d ‘bomb the sh*t out of Moscow’ if he attacked Ukraine – report

By Reuters and ToI Staff

A 3D printer produces an innovative building material designed at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa in which microorganisms bind sand together. The final product is being exhibited in one of nine international installations at the Triennale, Milan. (Disrupt.Design Lab, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, the Technion)

Microbes pave the way for a living, green alternative to cement in buildings

S. Daniel Abraham died on June 29, 2025 at 100. (Photo courtesy S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace)

ObituaryS. Daniel Abraham, Slim-Fast inventor who advocated for Mideast peace, dies at 100

By Grace Gilson

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