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What Matters Most On Monday, July 21, 2025

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Palestinians in Khan Younis protest against Hamas and in support of ending the war in Gaza, July 21, 2025. (X screenshot)

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July 21: Footage shows renewed protests in Gaza against Hamas, in support of ceasefire

IDF soldier killed in apparent accidental explosion in southern Gaza * Hostage families express fear as troops seen pushing into Deir al-Balah for first time

8:02 pm

Trump 'caught off guard' by Israeli strikes in Syria and on Catholic church in Gaza
7:59 pm

Trump didn't like seeing reports of Gazans killed trying to secure aid -- White House
7:49 pm

Man seriously wounded in Haifa shooting

Likud's Yuli Edelstein leads a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 21, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud to boot Knesset defense panel head Edelstein for blocking Haredi draft exemption

Party to select Edelstein’s replacement on Wednesday as Netanyahu looks to pave path to passing controversial legislation, keeping coalition afloat; opposition threatens to boycott the committee

United Torah Judaism party head Yitzhak Goldknopf at a meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on June 9, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Goldknopf says Netanyahu promised Haredi IDF exemptions as part of judicial overhaul

By Ariela Karmel

ExplainerGovernment tries to contain fallout after Haredi exit, with Knesset recess days away

By Ariela Karmel

Women mourn during the funeral of victims allegedly killed the previous day by Israeli strikes, at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 20, 2025. (AFP)

Hamas officials say at least 85 Gazans killed, most near aid site; IDF: Toll exaggerated

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and Agencies

Army confirms firing ‘warning shots’ near UN aid convoy, as GHF denies involvement; Israeli strikes kill 2 commanders of Hamas-linked terror group involved in Oct. 7 hostage-taking

Palestinians gather to demand an end to Israeli attacks and the entry of humanitarian aid on July 20, 2025, in the central Gaza Strip. (Photo by Ali Hassan/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 21: Day 654 – Can chaos be removed from Gaza’s aid distribution?

By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid

Smoke and flames erupt from an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Monday, July 21, 2025. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi)

IDF chief said to propose expanding hold on Gaza as alternative to ‘humanitarian city’

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

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The purple and white flag of the IDF's Givati brigade (L) and Israeli flags fly in the crowd at Belgium's Tomorrowland music festival, July 19, 2025 (X, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

2 Israelis briefly held in Belgium after activists urge their arrest for ‘war crimes’

By Nava Freiberg

Civilian and soldier, who were attending Tomorrowland festival, released after questioning; Hind Rajab Foundation says they were responsible for Gaza ‘genocide’

A performer unfurls a Palestinian flag during a performance at the London Royal Opera House, July 19, 2025. (X screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Performer raises Palestinian flag onstage at London opera, prompting brief scuffle

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My inconvenient Jewish fear

I did not expect to see the shadow of antisemitism growing in places I had always trusted and among people who say they stand for the vulnerable

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)

Sources also slam attack on Gaza church: 'What the f***?'

‘He bombs everything all the time’: US said fuming at ‘madman’ Netanyahu after Syria strikes

By Lazar Berman

White House reportedly views actions as harming Trump peace efforts, calls PM ‘child who just won’t behave’; Jerusalem tried explaining need to defend Druze, Israeli official says

US Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the US Embassy in Aukar, northern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, July 21, 2025. (Hassan Ammar/AP)

US envoy pans Israel’s Syria intervention, doubles down on support for Damascus

By AP and ToI Staff

Israel delivers medical aid to Syria’s Sweida as ceasefire appears to stick

By ToI Staff and AFP

Israel said to coordinate delivery to the Druze-majority province with the US; monitor says death toll in sectarian clashes has surpassed 1,100

This handout picture, released by Israel's health ministry on July 21, 2025, shows a worker driving in a forklift that crates set to be filled with medical supplies and sent to a hospital in Sweida, Syria, amid sectarian violence there.

Syrian Bedouin families ride in a convoy led by Red Crescent vehicles in Busra al-Harir, heading to Daraa after being evacuated from Sweida following more than a week of violent clashes, July 21, 2025. (Malek Khattab/AP)

Syria starts evacuating Bedouin families from Sweida in bid to restore calm

By GHAITH ALSAYED and Kareem Chehayeb

Israeli soldiers operating in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on November 28, 2024 (Oren Cohen/Flash90)

Inside story'Simply being in Gaza is treated as grounds for suspicion'

‘I’m afraid to go home’: Canadian IDF soldiers fear fallout from war crimes probe

By Ariela Karmel

Canada’s probe into the Israel-Hamas conflict doesn’t explicitly target Israelis, but its unclear scope has alarmed Jews amid rising international lawfare against soldiers

Ksenia Svetlova

Syria needs Israel’s diplomacy, not its military intervention

Jerusalem’s military action in Syria both risks a bloodbath in Sweida and weakens the stability of a regime whose collapse could facilitate the resurgence of Iran

Israeli actions in Sweida are both moral and strategic

Israel acted not out of expansionist aims but out of duty to protect its allies, the Druze, while balancing national interests in an unstable Syrian arena

IDF to draw down reserve deployments by 30% amid soaring fatigue, falling turnout

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Troop reductions said to begin in Gaza, West Bank, and northern front lines, as army shifts to regular forces; reservist turnout sinks below 60%

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir meets with reservists at the Tze'elim training base in southern Israel, May 14, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Destruction at the port in Yemen's city of Hodeida after Israeli warplanes struck Houthi rebel-held positions, on May 6, 2025. (AFP)

Israeli drones strike Houthi ‘military infrastructure’ at Yemen’s Hodeida port

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF says it destroyed equipment used to restore previously targeted site, vessels used by Iran-backed group; Katz threatens Yemen’s fate will be same as Tehran’s

PM ill with food poisoning; next trial testimony set for Sept. as week’s hearings nixed

By Lazar Berman and Jeremy Sharon

After Netanyahu misses weekly cabinet meeting, his office says he’ll work from home for 3 days; due to summer recess, court can only hold next graft trial hearing in September

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Tel Aviv District Court, July 14, 2025. (Reuven Kastro/ POOL)

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte gifts Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu with a painting of himself prior to a bilateral meeting between the Philippines and Israel at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, September 3, 2018. (King Rodriguez/presidential photo)

Costly cigars, sweets, an M16 rifle: PM’s office releases list of gifts officials received

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's former aide Yisrael Einhorn. (KAN screenshot).

Former Netanyahu aide living in Serbia to be questioned by Israeli cops

Germany's Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul (C), flanked by Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy (L), France's Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noel Barrot (2nd R) and EU High Representative and Vice-President for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas (R), makes a statement following their meeting with Iran's foreign minister on Tehran's nuclear program, at the Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva, on June 20, 2025 (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

Iran announces nuclear talks with European powers in Istanbul on Friday

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Tehran says countries will dispatch deputy FMs to the negotiations, which come as UK, France and Germany threaten ‘snapback’ sanctions

An Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessel watches an American warship in the Strait of Hormuz May 19, 2023. (Jon Gambrell/AP)

Iran lawmaker threatens security of Persian Gulf, key strait if UN reimposes sanctions

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A handout picture released by Iran's Atomic Energy Organization on November 4, 2019, shows the atomic enrichment facilities Natanz nuclear research center, some 300 kilometers south of capital Tehran. (HO / Atomic Energy Organization of Iran / AFP)

Iran, China and Russia to meet as sanctions threat hangs over nuclear program

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A film crew shoots a scene from the hit TV show 'Fauda' in Tel Aviv on May 30, 2019. (AP/Oded Balilty)

Funding for original Israeli TV projects is about to dry up, warn industry insiders

At the Jerusalem Film Festival, producers of hits such as ‘Tehran’ say outdated legislation coupled with wariness of international companies means Israeli productions may soon say ‘the end’

The winding road leading up to Makhtesh Ramon, a crater in southern Israel, February 26, 2023. (Doron Horowitz/Flash90)

Inside story

Plan for vast solar field riles critics seeking to preserve Negev’s open vistas

Israel Land Authority proposes using extant infrastructure near Ramon Crater to help meet goal of 30% renewable power by 2030, but some warn of project’s wide potential impacts

The Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, West Bank, on July 3, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Israel to take administrative control over Tomb of Patriarchs for construction work

By Jeremy Sharon

Civil Administration says move temporary, authority will be returned to Palestinian Hebron municipality when work is finished, but settler council claims it’s now in charge at holy site

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Screen grabs from videos posted to social media show right-wing demonstrators shouting profanities at MK Ayman Odeh, and surrounding his vehicle, in Ness Ziona, July 19, 2025. (X; used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law)

Judge criticizes police for not arresting actual perpetrators of assault on MK Odeh

By Jeremy Sharon, Leon Kraiem, Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Yasser Abu Shabab (right) and members of his group in Gaza are seen in an undated video posted by the group. (screen capture: Facebook, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Head of anti-Hamas Gaza militia says it’s backed by vast tribal network, not by Israel

Jonathan Whittall, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the West Bank and Gaza (OCHA) speaks to UN panel over Zoom on April 2, 2025. (Screenshot/AFP)

Israel refuses to renew visa for senior UN official over alleged anti-Israel slant

By Nava Freiberg

Defendant German entrepreneur and gastronome Christina Block (C) stands next to her lawyers Ingo Bott (L) and Otmar Kury ahead of the continuation of the trial against her over alleged child abduction at the District Court in Hamburg, northern Germany, on July 15, 2025. (Marcus Brandt / POOL / AFP)

German heiress accused of ordering alleged ex-Mossad agent to kidnap her two kids

By AFP

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