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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 23, 2025

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Aid awaits collection on the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom Crossing with the Gaza Strip, in a handout photo issued on July 21, 2025. (COGAT)

Official: Gaza humanitarian situation needs to be stabilized

Israel denies Gaza famine claims, says aid is entering Strip but not being distributed

By Emanuel Fabian

950 aid trucks waiting on Gaza side of border, COGAT says, blaming UN bottleneck; offical says ‘we have not identified starvation,’ Hamas exploiting humanitarian situation to pressure hostage talks

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, right, attends a Knesset conference discussing Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip at the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 22, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Smotrich: Gaza will be ‘inseparable part of Israel,’ IDF chief favors ‘security annexation’

By Ariela Karmel

An Israeli settler youth, wearing an anti-disengagement T-shirt that reads: 'A Jew doesn't expel a Jew,' September 27, 2005. (DAVID FURST / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 23: Day 656 – MKs, activists form action plan to undo 2005 Gaza pullout

By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Jeremy Sharon and Ariela Karmel

Op-ed: Day 656 of the war

How Israel made itself responsible for Gaza, and for all the death, hunger and destruction there

A war that began with the imperative to destroy Hamas’s military machine and get back the hostages has metastasized into an Israeli military takeover of most of Gaza, overseen by a government dependent on the support of would-be permanent occupiers

Mourners carry the shrouded body of Palestinian youth Abdul Jawad al-Ghalban, 14, who apparently died of starvation, before his burial, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 22, 2025 (AFP)

Latin Patriarch Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa speaks during a joint press conference with the Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III, not pictured, following their visit to the Gaza Strip, in Jerusalem, July 22, 2025. (Mahmoud Illean/AP)

Gaza war must end, says top Catholic official in Israel after visiting damaged church

By Lazar Berman

A view of the damage to the Holy Family Church in Gaza City, after an Israeli tank shell hit the church, in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City on July 17, 2025. (Omar al-Qattaa/AFP)

IDF says probe found deadly Gazan church strike caused by misfired munition

By Stav Levaton, Emanuel Fabian, AFP, ToI Staff and Diana Bletter

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir meets with officers at an army base, July 22, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

July 23: IDF chief says military campaign at ‘a very significant juncture’

UN: Aid amassing at Gaza crossings because Israel not allowing pickup * Three soldiers suspected of sabotaging IDF drones, says military * IAEA technical team to visit Iran

8:56 pm

Turkey calls non-binding Knesset vote in favor of annexing West Bank 'illegitimate'
8:13 pm

Russia says it agreed at peace talks on new POW swap, ready to hand over more bodies
7:55 pm

Report: Trump told in May that his name appears in Epstein files

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Chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Yuli Edelstein, delivers a statement to the media on the military draft law at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, July 15, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud to vote Wednesday to replace Edelstein at helm of powerful Knesset panel

By Ariela Karmel

Under fire for blocking draft exemption bill that triggered ultra-Orthodox exit from government, lawmaker faces ouster from chairmanship of Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee

US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff (L), accompanied by White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles (R), speaks during a dinner with US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Blue Room of the White House on July 7, 2025 in Washington, DC (Andrew Harnik / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Witkoff hoping to travel to Doha this week to close hostage deal — source

After State Department spokesperson announces US envoy is already heading to region, source clarifies that he is going to Europe and will only continue the trip if talks further progress

Rom Braslavski was taken captive by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, from the Nova desert rave. (Courtesy)

Islamic Jihad claims to lose contact with captors of hostage Rom Braslavski

By Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

Avera Mengistu (center) is embraced by family members at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv after being released from Hamas captivity in Gaza, February 22, 2025. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

Avera Mengistu discharged from hospital 5 months after release from Hamas captivity

Inside story

Concerns deepen over military’s mental health system after series of soldier suicides

As lawmakers demand transparency from the IDF, experts urge deeper understanding of war’s psychological toll on troops

IDF soldiers hold a wreath at the funeral of soldier Ron Sherman at the Lehavim cemetery, December 15, 2023. (Flash90)

Tourists walk on the beach in front of hotels on the Aegean island of Rhodes on August 29, 2020. (Louisa GOULIAMAKI / AFP)

Israeli teens say anti-Israel mob, armed with knives, attacked them in Rhodes

Seeking to avoid Israel-related protest scuffle outside nightclub, youths say they tried to leave the area, but were pursued on motorcycles and on foot and were beaten as they hid

Footage posted to social media shows a large anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protest that prevented hundreds of Israelis from disembarking a cruise ship at the Greek island of Syros, July 22, 2025. (X; used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law)

Greek protesters block Israeli cruise ship from docking, forcing reroute to Cyprus

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

ToI podcast

Amanda Borschel-Dan

What Matters Now to Dan Ben-David: Israel’s moment of truth is here

The prominent economist lays out his vision for Israel 2.0 and the four cornerstones needed to get there. The catch? The growing Haredi population must get on board

Students sit on the front steps of Low Memorial Library on the Columbia University campus in New York City, February 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

Columbia University suspends and expels dozens of students over anti-Israel unrest

Penalties come as the university faces heavy US government pressure to rein in campus antisemitism, with the loss of research funding

Sen. Bernie Sanders (left) with Mahmoud Khalil, July 22, 2025. (Bernie Sanders via X)

Bernie Sanders meets with anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil

Fatima Heyward, the newly elected president of the Young Democrats of America. (Screenshot via JTA)

Democratic Party’s youth wing backs motion decrying Israel’s ‘ongoing genocide in Gaza’

By Grace Gilson

Donna Robinson Divine

Actually, Israel Studies are doing just fine

A JPPI report that the academic discipline is in decline ignores the profusion of college courses, journal articles, and well-attended conferences

Kobi Kalfon, father of hostage Segev Kalfon, in Washington, DC in July 2025 (Courtesy)

Interview

Father of hostage Segev Kalfon tries new tactics to save his son

By Jessica Steinberg

Kobi Kalfon, a bakery owner from Dimona who shied away from press and politics for months, now turns to leaders in Israel and Washington, DC, sharing his son’s plight

Analysis

Investors bet on Israeli resilience: Wartime stock market is world’s fastest growing

And even with conflict still raging in the Gaza Strip and an economy saddled with war debt, the shekel is at recent highs against the euro and dollar

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange seen on April 28, 2025. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Inside story

Hamstrung PA weighs options as Israel continues to withhold its much-needed funds

Ramallah could halt security cooperation with IDF or declare state of emergency in West Bank, though both those steps may boomerang, highlighting authority’s challenges

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Muhammad Mustafa holds a cabinet meeting in Ramallah on July 17, 2025. (PA foreign ministry/X)

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

Anti-government activist in her 70s arrested for plotting to assassinate Netanyahu

Suspect from Tel Aviv, whose identity is under gag order, allowed to return home with restraining order to stay away from PM and government buildings

Iranian officials said to suspect Israel behind mysterious blasts across country

NYT says explosions and fires at infrastructure sites, apartments, and factories have some believing Mossad is working to sow chaos and fear

Screen capture from video purportedly of a fire at a building in the Fatemiyeh area of Qom city which authorities reportedly said was caused by a water heater explosion. (X: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

A Palestinian and UN flag wave together for the first time above a UN agency, the UNESCO headquarters in Paris (with the Eiffel tower in the background), on December 13, 2011. (Photo by Joël SAGET / AFP)

Trump again to pull US out of ‘woke’ UNESCO, citing anti-Israel bias

By Nava Freiberg, Lazar Berman and Agencies

White House slams cultural agency’s ‘globalist agenda’ and stance on Palestine; Israel welcomes exit while UNESCO ‘regrets’ it, points to increased efforts against antisemitism

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press at the end of a reception with Republican members of Congress at the White House in Washington, DC on July 22, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

Trump alleges Obama ‘coup’ as Epstein questions mount

By Sebastian Smith

Israeli citizens stage a protest demanding action from the European Union against the government of Israel to stop the war, outside the Portuguese parliament in Lisbon, May 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

AnalysisWar in Gaza tests ties between Israel and traditional European allies

By AP 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)

US envoy denies Syrian regime forces were involved in atrocities against Druze

By Samia Nakhoul and Maya Gebeily

Tom Barrack urges Sharaa to be ‘more inclusive quicker’ or risk his country’s fragmentation; says IDF strikes added to ‘confusion,’ offers to be ‘honest intermediary’ between Israel, Syria

A Hezbollah supporter takes a selfie while waving a Hezbollah flag as he stands on a tree outside the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, June 25, 2025. (AP/Hassan Ammar)

Hezbollah refusing to surrender weapons to Lebanese government – report

Ozzy Osbourne performing at half time during an NFL Professional Football Game between the Los Angeles Rams and Buffalo Bills on September. 8, 2021, in Inglewood, California (AP Photo/John McCoy)

Obituary

Ozzy Osbourne stood against anti-Israel bias and antisemitism

Black Sabbath frontman played twice in Israel and his wife Sharon, of Jewish descent, has described how he recoiled at hatred of Jews after October 7 Hamas attack

Ozzy Osbourne performs during the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony at Alexander stadium in Birmingham, England, Aug. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

Ozzy Osbourne, godfather of heavy metal music, dies at 76

By Mark Kennedy

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A screenshot of video released by the IDF on October 19, 2024, shows Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar's wife, Samar Muhammad Abu Zamar, holding a handbag, escaping into a tunnel with him and their children on the night before the Gaza-ruling terror group's October 7, 2023, onslaught against Israel. (Screen capture; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Yahya Sinwar’s widow fled Gaza using fake passport to Turkey and remarried — report

Yisrael Einhorn (YouTube screenshot)

Ex-aide to PM living in Serbia grilled by Israeli cops over leaked files, Qatargate

The scene of a fatal shooting in Jaffa, July 22, 2025. (Israel Police)

Three violently killed in Arab communities within hours as homicide wave continues

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Brigadier Yahya Saree Qasim, the spokesman for Yemen's Houthis, gestures as he speaks during a protest to denounce US airstrikes on Yemen, in Sanaa on April 18, 2025. (MOHAMMED HUWAIS / AFP)

US slaps Yemen’s Houthis with fresh sanctions targeting smuggling network

By Reuters, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Members of the Knesset Honor Guard, Home Front Command, firefighters, IDF and Israel's Magen David Adom emergency medical services participate in an emergency drill simulating an earthquake near Ashkelon, on December 19, 2019. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)

Israel woefully unprepared, unequipped to deal with major earthquake, ombudsman finds

By Shira Silkoff

From left: FIDF national director Nadav Padan, FIDF chairperson Morey Levovitz, Sheba Medical Center director-general Prof. Yitshak Kreiss, and Itamar Graff of the Defense Ministry at ceremony announcing a major FIDF donation to Sheba to expand its mental healthcare capacity by 50%, including at Beit Halochem locations. February 1, 2024. (Courtesy of Sheba Medical Center)

FIDF chairman and CEO resign amid reports of financial abuse, mismanagement

This May 28, 2012 file photo shows a newspaper with a photograph of Etan Patz at a makeshift memorial in the SoHo neighborhood of New York where Patz lived before his disappearance on May 25, 1979. (AP/Mark Lennihan)

Court rules to release or give retrial to man convicted of killing Etan Patz

By Grace Gilson

Rabbi Neil Danzig, shown in an undated photo, was an authority on the Babylonian Jewish scholars known as Geonim. (Courtesy Danzig Family)

Rabbi Neil Danzig, scholar who unlocked mysteries of the Talmud, dies at 74

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

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