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What Matters Most On Saturday, July 19, 2025

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US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee (C) shakes hands with Father Daoud Khoury of the Greek Orthodox Church during his visit to the Christian Palestinian village of Taybeh in the West Bank on July 19, 2025. (Jaafar Aashtityeh/ AFP)

'People need to pay a price, not just be reprimanded'

US envoy demands ‘harsh consequences’ as he visits Christian town attacked by settlers

Touring Taybeh, Mike Huckabee says ‘desecrating a church, mosque or synagogue is a crime against humanity and God’ following arson attack on ruins of Christian house of worship

Matt Gaetz during a One America News broadcast on July 16, 2025. (Screen capture/X)

In sign of shift, far-right US network airs segment on unchecked settler violence

By ToI Staff, Jacob Magid and Nurit Yohanan

Left to right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to staff at a Shin Bet facility, June 29, 2025. (Maayan Toaf/GPO); Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa attends the signing of an agreement for a regional energy project, in Damascus, Syria, May 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Several dozen Israeli Druze cross border into Syria

Israel and Syria have agreed to ceasefire, announces US envoy

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Syrian presidency confirms start of ceasefire, says it is deploying forces to Druze area; Ambassador Tom Barrack urges end to ethnic clashes inside Syria after attacks on Druze

Bedouin and tribal fighters gather in the streets of the city of Sweida in southern Syria's Druze majority province on July 19, 2025. (Bakr Alkasem/AFP)

Syria’s Sharaa urges Bedouin to honor truce with Druze, slams Israeli intervention

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Syria's interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, right, meets with US Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack, at the People's Palace in Damascus, Syria, July 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Syria erroneously thought it had green light from US, Israel to deploy troops to Sweida

By Timour Azhari, Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Maya Gebeily

Tribal and Bedouin fighters gather in the western neighborhood of southern Syria's predominantly Druze city of Sweida, amid clashes with Druze gunmen on July 19, 2025. (Abdulaziz Ketaz/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

July 19: Druze said to regain control of Sweida city after Syria announces ceasefire

Ex-captive Doron Steinbrecher urges Netanyahu, Trump to ‘make Israel great again’ with Gaza deal * Right-wing activists assault, smash MK Ayman Odeh’s car, chant ‘Death to Arabs’

9:19 pm

Rocket alerts sound in Nahal Oz near Gaza; IDF says false alarm
8:54 pm

Odeh says police stood by and did 'nothing' when he was attacked by hooligans
8:49 pm

Report: Druze regain control of Sweida city after Syria announces ceasefire

A Palestinian woman mourns over the body of a man said to have been killed near a food distribution center run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a US- and Israel-backed organization, at the Nasser hospital on July 19, 2025 (AFP)

Two reservists seriously wounded in roadside bomb attack

Palestinians say at least 26 killed near Gaza aid sites; IDF says troops fired warning shots

By Agencies, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Military says crowd approached troops in a way that ‘threatened’ them a kilometer away from food-distribution site, is investigating reports of mass casualties in latest deadly incident

This picture taken from Israel's border with the Gaza Strip shows smoke billowing over destroyed buildings during an Israeli strike on July 17, 2025. (Jack Guez/AFP)

More deaths reported near aid sites; Mossad chief, Witkoff said to discuss relocating Gazans

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and AFP

Israel accuses Hamas of foot-dragging, as sides await group’s reply to softened proposal

By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

Mediator says terror group still deliberating over updated maps submitted by Israel that reduce scope of IDF presence in Gaza during truce; Israeli official warns time not on Hamas’s side

Family members and supporters of Israeli hostage Nimrod Cohen attend an event celebrating his birthday while he remains in Hamas captivity, at Tel Aviv's Hostage Square, July 17, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

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)

Hostage families to protest at US embassy; Trump says 10 captives to be freed soon

Protestors to march from weekly Tel Aviv rally to demand comprehensive deal to return all hostages, end war, as talks on partial hostage-ceasefire deal said to advance

Illustrative: An Israeli soldier on a tank salutes in front of an Israeli flag at an IDF gathering point in a field near the Israeli border with Gaza, 2014. (Edi Israel/FLASH90)

Inside story'I had no one behind me to support me through the service'

Alone in uniform: Israel’s overlooked sabra lone soldiers come from broken or Haredi homes

By Stav Levaton

Thousands of native-born Israelis serve in the IDF without family support — but unlike immigrant volunteers, their struggles rarely make headlines

A morally clear response to the genocide accusation

Israel’s fight is not against a people, it is a war to dismantle a terror regime that brought horror to our doorsteps and promises to do it again

Peter Buchsbaum

Beware of the appointment process

Israelis who see the US as a model should take note of the harm the presidential nomination method is doing to America

Obituary

‘Ace of aces’: Giora Even Epstein, Israel’s most decorated fighter pilot, dies aged 87

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

‘Hawkeye’ Epstein was the world’s top fighter jet pilot of the supersonic era, shot down 17 Egyptian aircraft during his IAF career

Brig. Gen. (res.) Giora Even Epstein (IDF)

High Court: If government fires AG, decision will be frozen pending judicial review

By Jeremy Sharon

Communications Minister Karhi insists government won’t abide by ruling from conservative justice; petitioning NGOs applaud decision, arguing effort to oust Baharav-Miara is illegal

Supreme Court Justice Noam Sohlberg at a court hearing over government plans regarding ultra-Orthodox military service, February 26, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

A Palestinian man climbs the security barrier at the West Bank town of al-Ram to cross into Israel illegally, on September 15, 2024. (AP Photo/ Mahmoud Illean/ File)

Inside story

Barred from working in Israel, West Bank Palestinians pay a price for Gaza’s war

By Nurit Yohanan

With permits down to 11% of pre-October 7 levels, laborers once dependent on Israel for decent wages are drowning, even as robust trade ties keep the intertwined economies afloat

Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan, while waiting for former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte to appear via video link before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/ Peter Dejong, Pool/ File)

US Federal judge blocks enforcement of Trump’s sanctions on ICC for targeting Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Judge rules Trump order against prosecutor Karim Khan and 900 ICC staff is too broad and marks an unconstitutional infringement on free speech

Anti-Israel socialist protesters in New York City, June 5, 2024. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Interview

Why are US socialists so anti-Israel? Scholar lays out Soviet roots of anti-Zionist rhetoric

Izabella Tabarovsky, a researcher of antisemitism in the USSR, argues far-left rhetoric in the US is an outgrowth of a propaganda effort dating back to the 1960s

Unsatisfied with protests, anti-Zionist Jewish Voice for Peace aims to sway US elections

By Andrew Lapin and Asaf Elia-Shalev

People hold pictures of victims during a ceremony to commemorate the 31st anniversary the Mutual Israelite Association of Argentina (AMIA) terror bombing, which killed 85 and wounded more than 300, in Buenos Aires on July 18, 2025. (Luis Robayo/AFP)

‘Impunity persists, terrorism too’: Hundreds in Argentina commemorate AMIA bombing

By Martín RASCHINSKY

Demonstrators, including President Javier Milei, demand justice as they mark 31 years since deadly terror attack on Jewish center that court found Iran and Hezbollah carried out

Jewish educator Yiscah Smith in her garden in Jerusalem on May 22, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)

Interview'I get up every morning so excited to be Jewish'

Veteran educator charts new spiritual path rooted in her Jerusalem garden

By Rossella Tercatin

Yiscah Smith’s new book, ‘Planting Seeds of the Divine,’ blends Hasidic wisdom, personal transformation and contemplative practice

A message calling on US President Donald Trump to release all files related to Jeffrey Epstein is projected onto the US Chamber of Commerce building, across from the White House in Washington, on July 18, 2025. (Alex Wroblewski/AFP)

Trump sues Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street Journal for $10B over Epstein sex bombshell

By Sebastian Smith

Publisher of newspaper vows to ‘vigorously defend against any lawsuit’ as US president rages over report on ‘bawdy’ birthday letter to Epstein

Commuters walk past a bus stop near Nine Elms Station as activists put up a poster showing US President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein near the US Embassy in London, July 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Krych)

Trump’s Epstein problems continue as report resurfaces 2003 birthday letter

By Eric Tucker and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER

Yemenis lift placards and Palestinian flags during a rally against Israel and the United States, in the Houthi-run capital Sanaa on July 18, 2025. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP)

IDF downs Houthi missile that triggered sirens in central Israel, Jerusalem area

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

No injuries or damage reported in attack that the Iran-backed rebels in Yemen claim targeted Ben Gurion Airport

Rioters at the airport in Makhachkala, Dagestan, October 30, 2023, shout antisemitic slogans as they protest the arrival of an airliner coming from Tel Aviv. (AP)

Russian courts sentence 135 people linked to 2023 antisemitic airport riot

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Mob attacked plane landing from Israel in first weeks of war with Hamas; Dagestan region has seen uptick of antisemitism since war began

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Benjamin Netanyahu as pictured in his high school yearbook at Cheltenham High School in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania. (JTA)

Students at Netanyahu’s Pennsylvania high school seek to remove PM from hall of fame

By JTA and ToI Staff

Jewish women enjoying a Passover meal in Florida in 2012 made sure to have corn syrup-free, yellow-cap Coke on their table. (Courtesy of Danielle Elkins via JTA)

Coker for PassoverTrump call with Coca-Cola may turn kosher-for-Passover pop obsolete

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Michael Mizrachi gives an interview while standing over his prize after winning the main event at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, Nevada, July 16, 2025. (Youtube screenshot/POKERGO channel)

Shin Bets are offIsraeli-American wins main event at World Series of Poker

By Grace Gilson

Singer Connie Francis during a press conference in Los Angeles on Nov. 27, 1978. (AP Photo/Wally Fong)

Borscht Belt to TikTokConnie Francis, 20th-century star, recorded 60s album of Jewish songs

By PHILISSA CRAMER

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