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What Matters Most On Saturday, July 12, 2025

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Settlers hurl stones, reportedly during clashes with Palestinians, in the West Bank town of Sinjil on July 11, 2025. (Screen capture: Al-Jarmaq News)

IDF reservist, 2 settlers arrested over deadly incident

Family of American-Palestinian man allegedly beaten to death by settlers urges US probe

By AFP, Charlie Summers, Emanuel Fabian and Jacob Magid

Saif al-Din Musalat was ‘protecting his family’s land from settlers,’ according to his relatives, who accuse Israeli assailants of blocking ambulance ferrying him to the hospital

Settlers hurl stones, reportedly during clashes with Palestinians, in the West Bank town of Sinjil on July 11, 2025. (Screen capture: Al-Jarmaq News)

Two Palestinians, including US citizen, killed by settlers in West Bank attack — PA

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and AFP

Illustrative: Riyad Mansour. the Palestinian Authority's envoy to the United Nations (at podium), speaks during a meeting of the UN General Assembly at UN Headquarters in New York City on June 12, 2025. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

French-Saudi UN confab on two-state solution said rescheduled for July 28-29

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Relatives of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip and their supporters call for an immediate hostage release deal during a protest in Tel Aviv, Israel, July 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

US urging Hamas to move on to discuss other remaining issues

Doha talks stuck on IDF withdrawal; Palestinian officials say discussions nearing collapse

By Jacob Magid, Agencies and ToI Staff

Hamas rejects proposal showing continued Israeli control over parts of Gaza, including Rafah buffer zone, sources tell ToI; Palestinian official: Netanyahu ‘bought time’ with US trip

Demonstrators gather during an anti-government protest calling for action to secure the release of hostages held captive in the Gaza Strip, outside the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv on July 12, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

July 12: Father of captive soldier says Netanyahu ‘buying time’ at expense of the hostages

PM said to expect Ben Gvir will bolt government if truce reached with Hamas, as he’s due to meet with Edelstein on Haredi draft exemptions after bill pulled from Knesset agenda

8:58 pm

PM said to summon Ben Gvir and Smotrich, amid efforts to reach hostage-truce deal
8:38 pm

ISIS-aligned rebels kill 66 civilians in eastern Congo
8:31 pm

Netanyahu's spokesman shares post blasting 'affirmative action' in favor of Arabs

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in the Knesset, February 7, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

PMO: Story defames Israel, repeats discredited, false claims

NYT: Netanyahu shelved April 2024 Gaza truce after Smotrich threat to government

Prime minister also derailed Biden’s Saudi normalization initiative due to similar threat by Ben Gvir to bring down government as result of ‘reckless deal,’ according to NYT exposé

Pro-hostage deal protesters rally outside the US Embassy Branch Office in Tel Aviv, July 7, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Breaking with PM, 74% of Israelis back war-ending deal to free all hostages — poll

Eli Sharabi to give English-language statement

Thousands set to attend weekly rallies: ‘No victory without bringing home all 50 hostages’

Hostage families call upcoming 4,000th day since Hadar Goldin’s 2014 abduction ‘a stain on the Israeli story’; supporters of Arab MK Odeh to protest effort to eject him from Knesset

Pro-hostage deal, anti-government protesters rally outside the Begin Road entrance to the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, July 5, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Illustrative: Anti-Israel activists block Jewish students from walking down a street near Columbia University, February 2, 2024. (Luke Tress)

Israel studies programs on US campuses are at a crisis point, report warns

Study by Jewish People Policy Institute says field threatened by hostile campus activism, funding and strategy issues; leading scholar acknowledges challenges but says the discipline remains healthy

Children transporting wooden pallets ride 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 Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), June 25, 2025. (Eyad Baba / AFP)

IDF, Shin Bet: 6 top Hamas naval commandos killed recently

UN: Nearly 800 Palestinian aid-seekers killed since May, mostly near GHF sites

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Army says it issued instructions to troops ‘following lessons learned’ from deaths reported near US-, Israeli-backed aid agency sites; 18 people said killed across Strip on Friday

Carl Skau, deputy executive director of the UN World Food Program (WFP), speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Beirut, Lebanon, August 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Israeli officials signaling they want UN to remain key Gaza aid channel — WFP deputy

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Ahmed El-Sheikh Eid, 7, who shows signs of malnutrition, poses for a photo at his family tent at a camp for displaced Palestinians in al-Mawasi, near Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israel said hampering entry of baby formula into Gaza as child malnutrition climbs

By ToI Staff and AFP

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, center, meets with a delegation from the Arab and International Relations Council, a think tank, in his office in Beirut, Lebanon, July 11, 2025. (Lebanese Presidency via X)

Lebanese president says Beirut currently seeks peace, not normalization, with Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Amid efforts to disarm Hezbollah, Joseph Aoun calls decision to uphold state monopoly on arms ‘final,’ says Israeli troop presence ‘obstructs’ Lebanese army’s full deployment

Smoke billows from the reported site of an Israeli airstrike on the southern Lebanese village of Wata al-Khiam, July 12, 2025. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Lebanon reports 1 killed in strike that IDF says targeted Hezbollah operative

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Paramedics inspect a burnt vehicle, which was targeted in an Israeli airstrike, in the Ayrouniyeh area near Lebanon's northern port city of Tripoli on July 8, 2025.(Photo by Fathi AL-MASRI / AFP)

Israeli strike in south Lebanon said to kill one person, wound five

By Agencies, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

David Zvi Kalman

Grok’s antisemitic spree: Yes, AI poses a real threat to Jews

AI antisemitism is not unique to Elon Musk’s platform – these systems must be regulated for the sake of all Americans

Zahava Feldstein

How I learned to stop apologizing for being a Jew

Somewhere in the ache between the stories I inherited and the ones I later claimed, I found my way back to Zionism

Musk’s Grok chatbot checks billionaire’s views to answer questions, including on Mideast

By AP

Grok 4 has been observed searching tech mogul’s posts, or deferring to them, on issues such as Israel-Hamas war, sparking alarm among researchers over built-in bias

Elon Musk waves to supporters during a town hall Sunday, March 30, 2025, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)

Jeffrey Epstein, center, appears in court in West Palm Beach, Florida, July 30, 2008. (Uma Sanghvi/Palm Beach Post via AP)

Furor over Epstein files sparks clash between Trump’s top officials, roils MAGA base

Nelia and Gregory Shaver of Grineli Cheeses, their boutique cheesemaking business that they opened in the Golan Heights on October 6, 2023, the day before the October 7 Hamas attack (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

As winds of war die down, Golan gears up for long-awaited return of tourists

By Jessica Steinberg

With Hezbollah licking its wounds and Syria no longer a threat, businesses are hoping Israelis will again flock to land of lavender farms, glamping, wineries and artisanal cheese

Inside story'Apparently now it's chic to support terrorist groups'

As UK festivals go anti-Israel, some Jewish concert-goers try to crowd surf above the hate

By Lianne Kolirin

Despite pervasive anti-Israel sentiment in music culture, some Jewish attendees also say they have no trouble finding others in tune with their values

Interview

Rossella Tercatin

New book by Reform rabbi broaches the most indigestible of Jewish questions

In ‘Living The Letters – An Alphabet of Emerging Jewish Thought,’ Israeli scholar Michael Marmur says future of Jewish state, modern Judaism keep him up at night

Michael Marmur, a Reform rabbi based in Jerusalem and associate professor at Hebrew Union College, in his office on June 10, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)

Far-right Polish lawmaker Grzegorz Braun speaks to parliament in Warsaw, Poland, on December 11, 2023. (AP Photo/ Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish prosecutors probe far-right lawmaker who called Auschwitz gas chambers ‘fake’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Death camp museum head says will file separate complaint against Grzegorz Braun, a former presidential candidate, who also reiterated blood libel, disrupted pogrom commemoration

US State Department employees applaud as their colleagues walk outside of the State Department headquarters in the Harry S Truman Building, July 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

US State Department fires over 1,300 employees under Trump administration plan

By Matthew Lee, Farnoush Amiri and MANUEL BALCE CENETA

Dismissals are part of major reorganization of department, which proponents have touted as a streamlining measure and critics say will weaken America’s global leadership

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Captain Alfred Dreyfus, second from right, speaks with General Gillain, center, after being awarded the Legion of honor award during a ceremony marking Dreyfus' rehabilitation, at Ecole Militaire in Paris, on July 21, 1906. (Photo by AFP)

Macron declares July 12 as annual day of commemoration for Alfred Dreyfus

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A masked rebel fighter from the opposition group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham waves a jihadist flag in the courtyard of the Umayyad Mosque in the old walled city of Damascus, Syria, on December 10, 2024. (AP Photo/ Hussein Malla)

UN report sees no active ties between al-Qaeda and Islamist group led by Syria’s Sharaa

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Female soldiers train in the Negev desert. (Gili Yaari / Flash90)

IDF dismisses base commander over allegations of sexual misconduct against female soldiers

On the left, a March 1, 2003 photo obtained by AP shows Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind, shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan. On the right, a photo downloaded from the Arabic language Internet site www.muslm.net purports to also show Khalid Sheik Mohammed in detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The picture was allegedly taken in July 2009 by the International Committee of the Red Cross and released only to the detainee's family (AP/www.muslm.net)

US court rejects plea deal for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Officials inspect the site of an Air India plane crash that killed at least 260 people, on the roof of a building in Ahmedabad, India, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Air India plane’s fuel was cut moments before crash that killed at least 260, probe finds

By SHEIKH SAALIQ

Fatima Arfa, a pregnant and displaced Palestinian woman, undergoes a medical check-up at Al-Helou hospital, in Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip, July 10, 2025. (Ebrahim Hajjaj/Reuters)

Inside storyStruck by malnutrition, pregnant Gaza woman can only pray for a healthy baby

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Leader of the Nobel Committee Berit Reiss-Andersen presents the Nobel Peace Prize for 2023 to Ali, right, and Kiana Rahmani, for their mother, imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi, in Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway, December 10, 2023. (Fredrik Varfjell/NTB via AP)

Nobel peace laureate Narges Mohammadi says Iran threatens her life after war with Israel

By AP

This undated photo shows Arkansas inmate Gregory Holt, also known as Abdul Maalik Muhammad. (Arkansas Department of Correction)

US Muslim inmate who won beard case claims retaliatory transfer by Arkansas officials

By Andrew DeMillo

A demonstrator holds up a sign reading 'Stop Executions in Iran' as Iranian opposition protesters carry their national flags in Paris during a rally to protest against the visit of the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, in France, January 28, 2016. (AP Photo/Zacharie Scheurer)

Iran executes man in public over young girl’s rape, murder

By AFP

Fighters with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) line up to put their weapons into a pit during a ceremony in Sulaimaniyah, in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, on July 11, 2025. (Shwan MOHAMMED / AFP)

Kurdish PKK fighters burn their weapons at disarmament ceremony in Iraq

By Rouba El Husseini and HAZEL WARD

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