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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 16, 2025

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Israeli troops use tear gas to disperse the crowds as Druze attempt to cross the Syrian border on the Golan Heights near Majdal Shams on July 16, 2025 (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

PM urges Druze to return; IDF envisages days of fighting

Border chaos as 1,000 Druze breach frontier into Syria; heavy IDF strikes hit Damascus

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan, Agencies and ToI Staff

IDF attempts to stop Syrian Druze from entering Israel; death toll in Syrian regime attacks on Sweida nears 250; IDF airstrikes hit Syrian general staff HQ, near presidential palace, army convoys

Syria's security forces pose for a picture on a roundabout in the predominantly Druze city of Sweida on July 15, 2025, following clashes between Bedouin tribes and Druze fighters. (Sam HARIRI / AFP)

Syria asserts right to defend itself from Israeli attacks amid carnage in Druze area

By AFP and ToI Staff

Security members carry belongings as they leave the damaged Syrian Defense Ministry building allegedly hit by several Israeli airstrikes, in Damascus, Syria, July 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Live updates (closed)

July 16: US says parties have agreed on steps to end ‘horrifying situation’ in Syria

Syrian media reports renewed Israeli strikes near Damascus * Trump announces ‘good news in Gaza’ after sources say Israel softened stance, creating chance to reach deal within days

8:27 pm

Syrian defense ministry says soldiers have started withdrawing from Druze-majority Sweida
7:56 pm

Iran condemns Israel's 'unhinged aggression' in Syria
7:34 pm

Trump: 'We have good news on Gaza'

Palestinians carry humanitarian aid packages near the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution center operated by the US-backed organization in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, June 26, 2025. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Gaza aid group says 20 killed in crowd crush, blames armed Hamas agitators

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation reports that, for first time, it identified ‘multiple firearms’ among masses waiting for supplies; IDF opens new corridor dividing Khan Younis

Mourners pray beside the bodies of Palestinians who were reportedly killed by an Israeli airstrike, during their funeral at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, July 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

93 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza, Hamas-run health ministry says

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and AP

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Hearing ends early due to developments in Syria

In show of support, US ambassador Huckabee attends Netanyahu’s criminal trial

By Jeremy Sharon and Nava Freiberg

Envoy says he’s representing what US president has said ‘repeatedly’ about the trial; almost as soon as he arrives, proceedings become closed due to subject matter

Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana (L), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) and US Ambassador Mike Huckabee (R) at the Tel Aviv District Court during the premier's criminal trial on July 16, 2025 (Courtesy via Ohana's spokesman)

Sayfollah Musallet, a Palestinian-American who was allegedly beaten to death by settlers in the West Bank on July 11, 2025. (X, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

US envoy urges Israel to probe ‘terrorist murder’ of Palestinian-American in West Bank

Huckabee’s statement appears to be his first on settler violence; police representative stuns judge by admitting to being unaware anyone was killed in attack

Op-ed: Day 649 of the war

Netanyahu’s endgame – on Gaza, Haredi service in the IDF, and winning the next election

The prime minister will have to face the electorate again sometime soon. He intends to do so on his own terms, with as much authority as possible concentrated in his own hands

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Muni Expo 2025 conference in Tel Aviv, on July 15, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Yuli Edelstein delivers a statement on efforts to pass an ultra-Orthodox conscription law, July 15, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Edelstein stands ground on draft-dodger sanctions as Shas set to depart coalition

‘Public will not forgive those who fail to rise to the occasion,’ powerful Likud MK warns Haredi parties, whose exit will not topple Netanyahu government for the time being

AnalysisAre Shas and UTJ poised to collapse Netanyahu’s government?

By Ariela Karmel

Does Haredi leadership prefer being in the opposition?

If the draft exemption law that drew Haredi parties into government isn’t happening, then politics does nothing but sully the ’authentic Jews’

America must help protect Syria’s Druze

The US lifted sanctions against Syria to help ensure a stable nation that protects its minorities. The Druze plight is a litmus test for those commitments

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Charlie Summers

Luring in Israelis of all types, Iran casts about in hopes of snagging ‘quality’ spies

Promising easy money and exploiting societal rifts, Tehran has allegedly recruited dozens of ordinary Israelis to gather intelligence, vandalize property, and plot killings

Pedestrians walk past a mural at Palestine Square in central Tehran on July 8, 2025, as an anti-Israeli billboard is displayed on the facade of a building depicting the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with text in Persian and Hebrew reading "Netanyahu lost another war; you fell victim to Bibi's political games; Where will the next failure to stay in power occur?" (AFP)

Trump to meet Qatar’s PM, with Gaza ceasefire said to be key talking point

By Reuters, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Sheikh Mohammed al-Thani to visit US president at White House, reportedly to discuss stalled efforts to halt war, reach fresh nuclear deal with Iran

Qatar's Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani speaks during a press conference in Doha on June 24, 2025. (Karim JAAFAR / AFP)

Rabbi Elhanan Danino speaks at a memorial event in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, February 20, 2025. (Alon Gilboa/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Hostage’s father: ‘Senior official’ said he can handle ‘200 more bereaved families’

Sa’ar hails ‘diplomatic victory’ as EU holds off on sanctioning Israel over Gaza war

By Jacob Magid and Nava Freiberg

But EU officials say they’ll reconsider sanctions at next meeting in two weeks if Israel doesn’t implement pledged steps on Gaza aid and release tax funds withheld from the PA

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar and EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas in Brussels on July 15, 2025. (Gideon Sa'ar/X)

Illustrative: A Palestinian child looks on as smoke billows in the distance following a bombardment in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on June 11, 2025. (AFP)

Amid heated debate, no real plan for ‘humanitarian city’ in Gaza, officials say

By Reuters and ToI Staff

This handout photograph taken and released by the German Federal Foreign Office on June 20, 2025 shows Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (2nd-L) during a meeting on Tehran's nuclear program, with Germany's Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot, the European Union's top diplomat Kaja Kallas and Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy, at the Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva. (Handout/ German Federal Foreign Office/AFP)

US, European allies to give Iran until end of August to reach nuclear deal – report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Nations said to believe snapback process must be completed before Russia takes Security Council presidency; PM raised matter with Trump amid concern US president could oppose it

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addressing the crowd during a meeting with the head of the judiciary and other officials in Tehran on July 16, 2025. (KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)

Khamenei says Israel launched war to ‘overthrow system’ in Iran

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Two Iranian warships approach Iran's southeastern port city of Chahbahar, in the Gulf of Oman, December 27, 2019. (Iranian Army via AP)

Iran seizes foreign tanker for smuggling 2 million liters of fuel, crew arrested

US Representative Elise Stefanik, a New York Republican, questions university leaders during a House Committee on Education and Workforce Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC, July 15, 2025. (AP/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

US university heads grilled in Congress about anti-Israel terror support on campus

Leaders of City University of New York, Georgetown and Berkeley hauled before lawmakers; protesters repeatedly interrupt proceedings with shouts of ‘genocide’

Protesters demonstrate against Israel's war in Gaza on the campus of DePaul University, April 30, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, file)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 16: Day 649 – College heads, NYC comptroller on the mat over anti-Zionism

By Jessica Steinberg and Luke Tress

Illustrative: An upset student sits in a school yard (iStock by Getty Images)

Antisemitism in Ontario schools ‘dire’ and underreported, Canadian study finds

Then-Republican presidential nominee President Donald Trump talks with Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun at an event marking one year since the October 7 Hamas atrocities, October 7, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Post of envoy to combat antisemitism remains unfilled 6 months into Trump’s 2nd term

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

US president tapped Hasidic fixer Yehuda Kaploun for the ambassador-level role, but GOP-controlled Senate has yet to schedule a confirmation hearing despite rising Jew hatred worldwide

Christine Toretti, left, nominee for U.S. Ambassador to Sweden, listens as former White House National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, testifies during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee nomination hearing on his nomination to be US Representative to the United Nations, Tuesday, July 15, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump’s pick for UN ambassador says he’ll work to dismantle UNRWA if confirmed

Hasidic duo Zusha performing in 2019. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Woodstock, but make it Orthodox: A Jewish music festival comes to the Catskills

By Jackie Hajdenberg

On Aug. 7, Israeli singer Ishay Ribo will headline the Yamim Ba’im concert, which seeks to put a spiritual stamp on a venue with a very different Jewish legacy dating back to 1969

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By Jessica Steinberg

Ahead of an upcoming Israel Festival event, actor discusses his interviews with bereaved parents, hostages’ families and American Jews for ‘The New Jew’ series, and how he remains hopeful

Supt. Rinat Saban speaks on police matters in a video distributed by the Israeli police in late 2021 (Israel Police)

Ben Gvir delays promotion of cop investigating PM’s graft case, sparking police backlash

By Charlie Summers

AG decries ‘political interference’ by far-right minister, says move may be ‘blatant violation’ of legally binding agreement barring him from involvement in police appointments

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By Charlie Summers

New York City mayoral candidate and former New York governor Andrew Cuomo (C) speaks during an election party following the primaries at the Carpenters Union in New York City on June 24, 2025. (John Lamparski / AFP)

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By Grace Gilson

Prof. Michael Fainzilber, left, and Dr. Eitan Erez Zahavi of Weizmann Institute of Science. (Courtesy/Weizmann Institute of Science)

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By Diana Bletter

Home Front Command chief Maj. Gen. Rafi Milo (center) at the scene of an Iranian ballistic missile impact in central Israel, June 16, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

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By Jessica Steinberg

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By Jessica Steinberg

Handout picture released on May 11, 2025 by Argentina's Supreme Court showing authorities checking Nazi documentation found in boxes stored at the basement of the Justice Palace, in Buenos Aires. (Handout / ARGENTINA'S SUPREME COURT OF JUSTICE / AFP)TS

Nazi documents found in Argentina raise uncomfortable questions about country’s past

By Leila Miller

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