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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 24, 2025

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Palestinians, mostly children, push to receive a hot meal at a charity kitchen in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 22, 2025. (AFP)

UN report warns child malnutrition rising in Gaza as EU demands Israel do more on aid

By Nurit Yohanan, ToI Staff and Reuters

Report says nearly 9% of Gazan kids who were screened are suffering from acute malnutrition; European Commission: All options on the table if Israel doesn’t honor aid agreement

Demonstrators and journalists gather to protest against hunger in the Rimal district of Gaza City on July 19, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Top news agencies urge Israel to let foreign press into Gaza, say reporters starving

By AFP and ToI Staff

Screengrab of an undated video showing apparent Hamas members enjoying fresh fruit in a tunnel underneath the Gaza Strip, shared by the IDF's Arabic Spokesman on July 23, 2025. (Screenshot/IDF)

As hunger mounts, IDF shows apparent Hamas terrorists flaunting food in Gaza tunnel

French President Emmanuel Macron (CR), Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi (R) and France's Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noel Barrot (CL) listen to Dr Amal Emam, CEO of the Egyptian Red Crescent (2nd L), as they visit Egyptian Red Crescent warehouses storing aid for Gaza, in the Egyptian border town of El-Arish, Egypt, on April 8, 2025. (Benoit Tessier / POOL / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

July 24: Hamas says French announcement reflects growing global support for Palestinian cause

By Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

Netanyahu, top ministers play up security concerns should two-state solution become reality * UK’s Starmer to hold emergency meeting with France, Germany over ‘indefensible’ aid situation in Gaza

11:21 pm

Welcoming French announcement, Hamas says it reflects growing global support for Palestinian cause
9:03 pm

US envoy confirms meeting with Israeli, Syrian officials in France
8:58 pm

Foreign minister calls Macron announcement on recognition of Palestine 'absurd'

Magen David Adom ambulances at the scene of a suspected car ramming terror attack on Route 57 in central Israel, on July 24, 2025. (Magen David Adom)

8 soldiers injured in car-ramming terror attack in central Israel; manhunt underway

By Charlie Summers

Two victims in moderate condition, others lightly hurt; driver flees scene near Kfar Yona, abandons vehicle nearby; eyewitnesses say he accelerated toward bus stop

Border Police officers pose with Abed al-Karim Snober, a Palestinian terrorist accused of carrying out a botched bus bombing attack in February, following his arrest on July 22, 2025. (Israel Police)

Suspected Bat Yam bus bomber nabbed 5 months after botched attack

By Emanuel Fabian

From Left to right:
Eli Cohen- Pitchon Lev CEO
Tzvika Brot, Bat Yam Mayor
Abby Ya-Ping Lee, Representative of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Tel Aviv (Taiwan Ambassador in Israel)
MK Matan Kahana
MK Boaz Toporovski (Yesh Atid)

Promoted ArticlePitchon Lev

Pitchon Lev Responds to 600% Spike in Aid Requests During Operation Rising Lion

The non-profit organization provided life-saving assistance to more than 11,400 people, many of whom were suddenly left homeless or evacuated.

Customers wait outside of L’As du Fallafel in the historically Jewish Le Marais neighborhood of Paris, July 11, 2025 (Zev Stub/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

‘The shock is gone’: All too used to antisemitism, Parisian Jews weather post-Oct. 7 storm with aplomb

The City of Love’s 300,000-strong Jewish community lives with a mix of ‘vitality and caution,’ having coped with increased Jew-hatred since the turn of the century

Security forces are seen arresting a woman, said to be the director of the French Kinneret summer camp, after her group of some 50 kids was removed from an airplane in Valencia, Spain, on July 23, 2025. (X; used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law)

Summer camp supervisor forcibly detained

50 Jewish kids removed from flight in Spain amid conflicting accounts of clash

By Zev Stub, Nava Freiberg and AFP

Reports say group sang in Hebrew aboard aircraft; their summer camp and an Israeli minister blame antisemitic attitude; airline says they were unruly and uncompliant

Irish rap group Kneecap singer, Liam O'Hanna center, who performs under the stage name Mo Chara, outside Westminster Magistrates' Court in London on June 18, 2025, after being charged with supporting Hezbollah. (BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP)

Hungary bans anti-Israel rap group Kneecap from entering country for festival gig

French gendarmes form a perimeter as onlookers wave Palestinian flags along the race route during the 17th stage of the 112th edition of the Tour de France cycling race, 160.4 km between Bollene and Valence, southern France, July 23, 2025. (Loic VENANCE / AFP)

Anti-Israel activists protest Israeli team at Tour de France, call for ban

By Julien Pretot

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

Anti-government activist indicted on terror charges over alleged plot to kill Netanyahu

By Charlie Summers

Charge sheet says that after being diagnosed with terminal illness, defendant tried to rope fellow activist into plan to assassinate PM with RPG

Likud MK Boaz Bismuth (left) speaks with party colleague Yuli Edelstein during a discussion on a non-binding proposal to apply sovereignty over the West Bank, in the Knesset on July 23, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ousting Edelstein, Likud elects Bismuth to head key panel, advance Haredi draft exemption law

As Knesset defense panel chair, Edelstein refused to back text enshrining non-service by Haredi males; Netanyahu backed Bismuth to replace him, hopes to mend ties with ultra-Orthodox

Haredi protesters demonstrate against efforts to draft yeshiva students into the IDF at the entrance to Jerusalem on July 23, 2025. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)

Haredi protesters block entrance to Jerusalem, roads elsewhere to protest arrest of draft-dodgers

By Charlie Summers

Illustrative: IDF soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip, in an image first published on July 23, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Soldier seriously hurt in Gaza combat; IDF chief says war at ‘significant juncture’

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan, Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Agencies

IDF says 70 aid trucks entered Gaza as Israel pushes back on claims of starvation crisis; Katz: If hostages not returned soon, ‘gates of hell will open’

Palestinians make their way along al-Rashid street in western Jabalia on July 23, 2025, after receiving humanitarian aid from an aid distribution point in the northern Gaza Strip. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

UN and Israel trade blame on Gaza aid issues as criticism grows over hunger crisis

By Jacob Magid, Agencies and ToI Staff

Israel studying Hamas response to Gaza proposal; officials warn hostage deal not imminent

By Lazar Berman

One source tells ToI latest offer in Doha is ‘workable,’ but two senior officials quoted elsewhere argue Hamas is actually ‘hardening positions’ ahead of Dermer-Witkoff meeting

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer (R) speak with US envoy to the Mideast Steve Witkoff (L), during the premier's visit to Washington, DC on July 7, 2025. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

People make their way along al-Rashid street in western Jabalia on July 23, 2025, after receiving humanitarian aid from an aid distribution point in the northern Gaza Strip. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)

Hamas says it submitted reply to Gaza truce proposal amid mediators’ fury at group

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators rally on the Columbia University campus in New York City to mark a year since the Hamas terror group's onslaught on southern Israel that sparked the ongoing war in Gaza, October 7, 2024 (Alex Kent/Getty Images/AFP)

Columbia reaches $200M settlement with Trump administration over campus antisemitism

By Agencies and ToI Staff

University doesn’t admit to wrongdoing as part of agreement but its leaders acknowledge that Jewish students and faculty ‘have experienced painful, unacceptable incidents’

Protestors gather outside the Moakley Federal Courthouse, where Harvard University appeared to challenge $2.6 billion in funding cuts by the Trump administration, July 21, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

US State Department investigating Harvard’s eligibility for exchange student program

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing July 24: Day 657 – NYC fights antisemitism, anti-Zionism in public and private

By Jessica Steinberg and Luke Tress

New York reporter Luke Tress discusses mayor’s antisemitism task force, anti-Israel vandals in AOC’s office, and how the Soviet Union’s anti-Zionism influenced modern leftist rhetoric

Undated photo of Omar Fateh, who won the endorsement of the local Democratic Party in the Minneapolis mayoral race in 2025. (Courtesy Fateh campaign via JTA)

Israel critic Omar Fateh wins Democratic endorsement for mayor of Minneapolis

By JTA and ToI Staff

Menachem Bombach

Beyond the storm: A new era in Haredi yeshivas

When 3 fine, upstanding ultra-Orthodox men decide to leave their yeshiva for the IDF, change is in the air – in a very good way

Superman’s new origin story is a blood libel

The new movie slanders the superhero’s Kryptonian parents, sowing the lie that immigrants must forsake their past to join in America’s future

Palestinians queue for a hot meal at a charity kitchen run by the United Nation's World Food Programme (WFP) at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on April 26, 2025 (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Analysis

‘It’s better to die from a bomb’: Gazans’ testimony, data depict desperate hunger in Strip

As the UN reports claim a sharp rise in malnutrition cases among children, Gazans describe soaring market prices, saying, ‘hunger kills you several times a day’

Screengrab of Transportation Minister Miri Regev speaking on Ynet's "120 and One" podcast, published July 23, 2025. (Screengrab/Ynet)

Likud minister says Gaza war won’t end, Israel shouldn’t be ‘afraid’ of occupation

President Isaac Herzog visits the Gaza Strip on July 23, 2025. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

Herzog, in Gaza, says Israel is acting ‘in accordance with international law’

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

A view of the Knesset plenum on July 23, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset votes 71-13 for non-binding motion calling to annex West Bank

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Undated photo of Deborah Lyons, the antisemitism envoy for Canada. (Courtesy Government of Canada viaJTA)

Canada’s resigning antisemitism envoy laments silence of key voices

By JTA and ToI Staff

Deborah Lyons, who will leave post 3 months early, despondent over difficulty in getting people to ‘speak up, speak with clarity’ about surging antisemitism in the country

Kehillat Israel Reconstructionist Congregation in Pacific Palisades, California, as it appeared in May 2024. (Google Maps via JTA)

US’s largest Reconstructionist synagogue quits movement for allowing anti-Israel hostility

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

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

A munition from an Iranian cluster bomb that fell in central Israel, June 19, 2025. (Courtesy)

Amnesty International accuses Iran of firing cluster munitions at Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Report says Tehran launched the munitions, which scatter bomblets over an expanded area, at central Israel and Beersheba, calls their use a war crime

A billboard bearing a painting of a missile falling on Israel with a Farsi slogan reading 'The missile has fallen amidst the demons,' July 16, 2025. (Atta Kenare / AFP)

Iran says it may leave Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty if sanctions reimposed

By Farnoush Amiri

The USS Fitzgerald, an American destroyer, as reportedly seen from an Iranian helicopter on July 23, 2025. (Screenshot/X)

Iran says it confronted US destroyer in Gulf of Oman

By AFP and ToI Staff

More Headlines

Thai people who fled clashes between Thai and Cambodian soldiers take shelter in Surin province in northeastern Thailand on Thursday, July 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Sunny Chittawil)

Foreign Ministry issues travel warning for Thai-Cambodian border amid lethal clashes

By Nava Freiberg and Agencies

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar (right) meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on July 23, 2025. (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

In Kyiv, Sa’ar announces Israel-Ukraine strategic dialogue on Iranian threat

By Lazar Berman and Nava Freiberg

US President Donald Trump, joined by US Attorney General Pam Bondi, speaks on recent Supreme Court rulings in the briefing room at the White House on June 27, 2025 in Washington. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump reportedly was told he’s in the Epstein files by US attorney general

By Jeff Mason, Andrew Goudsward and Joseph Ax

Illustrative: Victim of domestic violence and abuse. (snob/Shutterstock.com)

Comptroller says state failing to address domestic abuse, violence against women

Audrey Strauss, acting US attorney for the Southern District of New York, points to a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, during a news conference in New York, on July 2, 2020. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

US judge rejects administration effort to unseal Epstein grand jury records in Florida

By AP

A convoy of ambulances and buses arrives at a checkpoint in the village of Busra al-Harir in southern Syria on its way to Sweida province, as security forces cordon off the area to block Bedouin fighters from entering the province on Tuesday, July 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

Damascus asks Turkey for defense support after sectarian clashes and Israeli strikes

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Screen capture from an AI-generated video published by Science and Technology Minister Gila Gamliel imagining a rebuilt Gaza Strip as a thriving resort under the auspices of US President Donald Trump, July 22, 2025. (X: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Trump tower glimmers over Gaza in Likud minister’s AI video pushing Gazan emigration

By JTA and ToI Staff

MK Orit Farkash-Hacohen poses for a picture at a home in Jerusalem, June 9, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In latest blow to Gantz, MK Farkash-Hacohen resigns from Blue and White

Klaus-Michael Kühne speaks to employees at the headquarters of Kühne + Nagel. (Axel Heimken/picture alliance via Getty Images, JTA)

Hamburg opera house funder has resisted scrutiny of family’s Nazi collaboration

By Grace Gilson

Billy Porter introduces Elton John during the 2024 A Year in TIME dinner at Current at Chelsea Piers on December 11, 2024 in New York City. (Noam Galai / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Billy Porter sparks controversy by saying Black people replacing Jews as targets of hate

By JTA and ToI Staff

United Torah Judaism MK Yisrael Eichler chairs a Knesset Labor and Welfare Committee meeting in Jerusalem, on June 30, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

UTJ’s Eichler elected to rabbinical judicial appointments committee

By Ariela Karmel

Team at Israeli-founded cybersecurity startup Upwind Security. (Courtesy)

Israeli-founded cyber startup set to be snapped up by Datadog in $1 billion deal

By Sharon Wrobel

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