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What Matters Most On Sunday, July 13, 2025

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to reporters before a meeting with lawmakers at the Capitol in Washington, July 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Live updates (closed)

July 13: Sources familiar with truce talks accuse Netanyahu of stalling until Knesset recess

Filipina caregiver succumbs to wounds from Iranian missile attack, making her 29th victim in Israel of 12-day war * IDF said to warn PM that Gaza ‘humanitarian city’ could harm hostage talks

8:55 pm

Ex-PM Olmert says Israeli plan to create Gaza 'humanitarian city' amounts to 'concentration camp'
8:34 pm

Man shot dead in Kafr Qasim as crime wave in Arab community soars
7:39 pm

Netanyahu said to promise Smotrich return to war after Gaza truce to quell coalition threats

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, April 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

High Court gives government green light to convene new panel on firing attorney general

By Jeremy Sharon

Justice rules that court cannot address matter before decision by relevant authorities; government implied it could ignore top court if it accepted petitions seeking to torpedo procedure

Analysis

In US, Iran strikes’ afterglow buys Netanyahu time to carry on ineffective Gaza war

PM’s third White House visit ends without a truce with Hamas, and without pressure from Trump; polls within Israel show the public is fed up with the impasse

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a meeting with US President Donald Trump (not in picture) in the Blue Room of the White House in Washington, July 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (right) in the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, March 19, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM said expecting Ben Gvir to resign from government if hostage-truce deal finalized

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Netanyahu reportedly meets with far-right allies in effort to stave off rebellion over possible ceasefire, while also trying to put out fires over stalled Haredi conscription bill

Palestinians inspect the wreckage of a gas station destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, July 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Several IDF troops hurt in Gaza fighting as Palestinians reported killed at aid site

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

High Court approves government-AG compromise over appointment of new Shin Bet chief

By Jeremy Sharon

Deal will allow Netanyahu to inform senior appointments panel of nomination in two months’ time, reportedly in order to give security agency time to complete probes into PM’s aides

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and then-IDF Maj. Gen. David Zini at the Tzeelim training base in southern Israel, May 8, 2025. (GPO)

Inside Story

From raids to ransom: Israel’s hostage policy has become Hamas’s sharpest weapon

Leaders once chose rescues over negotiations. But for 50 years, public pressure and new terror tactics have led Israel to pay ever steeper prices — and that’s unlikely to change

Demonstrators in Tel Aviv protest for the release of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip, July 2, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing July 13: Day 646 – With hostage talks at a standstill, who is to blame?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jacob Magid

US bureau chief Jacob Magid on PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s whirlwind DC tour and extremist settler violence that allegedly left two Palestinians dead — including a US citizen

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to Fox News' Mark Levin in an hourlong interview aired on July 12, 2025. (Screenshot)

Netanyahu says he’s ‘confident’ hostage deal can be reached, Iran in ‘deep trouble’

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

A sign for The New York Times hangs above the entrance to its building, on May 6, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

NY Times rejects Netanyahu’s denial of report he prolonged Gaza war to stay in power

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian giving an address on the anniversary of the death of the country's former supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini at the latter's mausoleum in Tehran on June 3, 2025. (Iranian Presidency / AFP)

Iran claims its president narrowly escaped an Israeli airstrike last month

Jets said to have bombed building in western Iran where Supreme National Security Council was meeting; Pezeshkian and others lightly hurt when escaping via emergency hatch

Israeli Air Force F-15 fighter jets fly over Israel en route to carry out strikes in Iran, in a handout photo published on June 25, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli F-15 malfunctioned above Iran in war, just avoided emergency landing — report

Russia's President Vladimir Putin, left, and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi shake hands during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on June 23, 2025. (Alexander KAZAKOV / POOL / AFP)

Putin said to tell Trump, Iran that he backs deal barring Tehran from enriching uranium

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Released hostage Eli Sharabi speaks at a weekly rally at Hostages Square, Tel Aviv, July 12, 2025. (Alon Gilboa/Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

Ex-hostage to Trump: You brought me home; help bring 50 more

Eli Sharabi appeals for Trump’s help as hostage talks stall over IDF redeployment plans

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

Crowds at rallies nationwide plead for a deal; Israeli source blames Hamas for ‘refusing to compromise,’ but Israel also said set to present new maps on Gaza withdrawal

Rescued hostage Almog Meir Jan speaks in a video message released on July 6, 2024. (screenshot/Hostage and Missing Families Forum)

Rescued hostage: Freeing captives should be main war goal; protests gave us strength

‘Can I touch your fork?’

Could it be that we Jews are inadvertently fostering antisemitism?

Hussain Abdul-Hussain

US envoy Barrack should stick to the script

The ambassador’s missteps reflect a poor grasp of the region’s complex dynamics and jeopardize opportunities for peace

Prof. Dan Peer, left, with Dr. Inbal Hazan-Halefy and PhD student Shani Benarroch of Tel Aviv University. (Courtesy/Tel Aviv University)

In first, Israeli researchers develop mRNA jab against antibiotic-resistant bacterium

By Diana Bletter

Scientists from Tel Aviv University and the Israel Institute of Biological Research say their vaccine uses lipid nanoparticles and shows 100% protection in animal models

Dror-1 communications satellite ahead of launch by SpaceX on July 13, 2025 (Screen grab/SpaceX)

Israel’s most advanced communications satellite successfully launched by SpaceX

By Emanuel Fabian

4.5-ton Dror-1, developed by IAI to serve Israel’s communication needs for next 15 years, will reach fixed point over Earth within 2 weeks

An Elbit Systems Ltd. Hermes 900 StarLiner drone, capable of flying in domestic, civilian airspace alongside commercial jets. (Elbit Systems Ltd.)

Swiss reportedly mulling halt to Elbit drone deal over delivery delays

UK Green party leader Zack Polanski in 2022. (Rob Browne/ Public domain)

Profile

This Jewish non-Zionist wants to be the UK Green party’s answer to far-right populism

By Robert Philpot

Zack Polanski is running a bid to lead the fiercely anti-Israel progressive party – and he’s using populist icon Nigel Farage as an inexplicable role model

Left to right: Tucker Carlson attends the United States Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (Pool/Getty Images North America/AFP); a photo provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, March 28, 2017. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP)

Tucker Carlson suggests Jeffrey Epstein was working for Mossad

Pundit-turned-conspiracy theorist posits that Jerusalem dispatched convicted sex offender as part of blackmail op, demands it come clean; separately takes swipe at dual-citizen IDF vets

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, right, and Syria's interim president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, second left, stand on the balcony during their meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan, July 12, 2025. (Azerbaijani Presidential Press Office via AP)

Syrian and Israeli officials expected to meet in Azerbaijan as Sharaa visits

By AFP and ToI Staff

Diplomatic source says Syrian leader won’t attend meeting in Baku, which will focus on ‘the recent Israeli military presence in Syria’

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

More Headlines

This photograph shows a view of the Freedom Flotilla ship Handala as it departs for Gaza, where it aimed to break the maritime blockade, at a port in Syracuse, Sicily, southern Italy, on July 13, 2025. (Giovanni Isolino/AFP)

Activists set sail from Italy in fresh attempt to challenge Gaza blockade

By AFP and ToI Staff

Paramedics arrive to the scene of a shooting which left one woman dead and another critically injured in Lod on July 12, 2025. (Magen David Adom)

Woman killed, another critically hurt in shooting at home in Lod

By Charlie Summers

Roman parliamentarian Silviu Vexler (right) stands next to
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at Coral Temple in Bucharest, Romania, May 4, 2022. (Andrei Pungovschi/AFP)

Jewish Romanian lawmaker slams president for opposing antisemitism bill

A protester is carried away after being arrested as people gather in support of the anti-Israel group "Palestine Action", in Parliament Square, London on July 12, 2025. (Justin Tallis/AFP)

UK cops arrest Palestine Action supporters demonstrating against terror proscription

By AFP

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