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What Matters Most On Friday, July 25, 2025

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France's President Emmanuel Macron waits for Lebanon's prime minister ahead of their working lunch at the presidential Elysee Palace in Paris, on July 24, 2025. (GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP)

Macron aide says Palestinian state would've prevented Oct. 7

France will recognize Palestinian state at September UN confab, Macron announces

By Agencies and Jacob Magid

Netanyahu: Palestinians want a state instead of Israel, this risks creating another Iranian proxy in West Bank; US: ‘Slap in face to Oct. 7 victims’; Hamas: Growing support for Palestinian cause

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) greets French President Emmanuel Macron before a meeting in Jerusalem on October 24, 2023. (Christophe Ena/ Pool/AFP)

Israeli ministers mock, fume at Macron for ‘rewarding terror’ by recognizing Palestinian state

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israelis watch a screening of a ceremony attended by French President Emmanuel Macron in memory of the 42 French citizens who were murdered in the October 7 attack, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, February 7, 2024. (Flash90)

‘Abandonment’: French Israelis fume as Paris prepares to recognize Palestinian state

By Michael Blum

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves 10 Downing street, in central London, on July 21, 2025, to attend a Parliamentary Liaison Committee hearing. (Adrian DENNIS / AFP)

After France, UK’s Starmer under increasing pressure to recognize Palestinian state

By ToI Staff and Agencies

British premier says statehood is Palestinians’ ‘inalienable right,’ but hasn’t so far declared recognition, even as members of his cabinet, as well as Macron, urge him to do so

Former Labour Party leader and newly elected MP Jeremy Corbyn addresses protesters during the 'National March for Gaza' calling to 'end the genocide' and 'stop arming Israel,' on July 6, 2024. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

Former UK Labour chief Jeremy Corbyn launches new anti-Israel party

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Netanyahu: Eliyahu doesn't speak for the government I lead

Far-right minister says Israel pushing to ‘wipe out’ Gaza, will make it Jewish

Amichay Eliyahu says planned settlements in Strip won’t be ‘fenced in,’ denies starvation claims; Lapid: Israel cannot win war ‘with ministers who sanctify blood and death’

Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu speaks during a Knesset Education, Culture, and Sports Committee meeting, in Jerusalem, on July 7, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends the swearing-in ceremony of Justice Isaac Amit as president of the Supreme Court, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, February 13, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Divisive vote on firing attorney general pushed off until after Tisha B’Av fast

By Jeremy Sharon

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Demonstrators protest for the release of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip, outside the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, July 23, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Hamas 'surprised' by Witkoff's rejection, wants to make deal

Israel, US recall negotiators from Doha after ‘selfish’ Hamas response to truce offer

By Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid and Agencies

US envoy Witkoff says terror group ‘doesn’t appear to be coordinated or acting in good faith,’ though senior Israeli official denies crisis in talks; hostage families demand update

Demonstrators take part in a rally calling for a deal to end the war and free all the hostages, in Tel Aviv, July 24, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

‘This war no longer has a security purpose’: Thousands rally for hostages in Tel Aviv

By Noam Lehmann, Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Parents of troops serving in Gaza address protest, lamenting that their kids are being sent to re-capture the same buildings again and again in war that only serves PM’s interests

Palestinians walk along a road toward an area in the northern Gaza Strip where trucks are entering with humanitarian aid, in Gaza City, Friday, July 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Live updates (closed)

July 25: UN chief says Gaza hunger ‘a moral crisis,’ aid set to be scaled up in case of truce

White House seeking fines from universities accused of antisemitism * US officials said to cast withdrawal of negotiators from Doha as power play against Hamas

1:30 am

International association of Conservative rabbis calls on Israel to ensure aid for Gazans
1:24 am

British PM said under pressure from cabinet, MPs to recognize Palestinian state
1:11 am

Rocket sirens activated near Gaza border in false alarm

A soldier stands near aid packages on the Gazan side of the Kerem Shalom Crossing, in the southern Gaza Strip, July 24, 2025. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Israel blames UN for Gaza aid shortage, says Hamas exploiting famine claims at talks

By Emanuel Fabian, Stav Levaton, Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

UN says Israel not creating conditions to enable safe aid delivery, while rejecting half of the requests it submits to transport aid within Gaza; 8 troops wounded in ‘operational accident’ in north Gaza

Armed Palestinians sit on trucks carrying humanitarian aid near the Zikim border crossing between Israel and Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 25, 2025. (Ali Qariqa/Flash90)

USAID finds no proof Hamas systematically loots aid; State Department, IDF push back

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Naima Abu Ful holds her malnourished 2-year-old child, Yazan, at their home in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on July 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Gaza hospitals say kids without underlying health conditions now dying of starvation

By AP and ToI Staff

Being visibly Jewish is not a crime

Instill Jewish pride in your kids, so that if they’re kicked off a plane for singing in Hebrew, they won’t want to hide their identities

The draft debate doesn’t matter; here’s what does

If we can’t debate the draft without dehumanizing each other, we should do nothing rather than destroy each other. Nothing justifies this hatred

(L-R) Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, US special envoy to Syria Tom Barrack and Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani. (Collage/AFP)

Israeli and Syrian ministers meet for 1st time since 2000, in US-facilitated dialogue

By Lazar Berman

Barrack says goal of Paris meeting was ‘de-escalation, and we accomplished precisely that’; Dermer said to represent Israel and al-Qaeda fighter-turned Syrian FM represents Sharaa

Syrian Druze fighters pose for a photograph after Syrian government forces pulled out of the southern Sweida governorate, on July 17, 2025. (Shadi AL-DUBAISI / AFP)

Syria’s Druze, once cautiously optimistic, fear the future under new Damsacus regime

By Kareem Chehayeb and ABDULRAHMAN SHAHEEN

A Syrian Druze woman bids farewell to Druze relatives and friends from Israel before crossing back into Syria at the Israeli-Syrian border, in the Golan Heights town of Majdal Shams, July 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

In Druze town of Majdal Shams, residents mourn one tragedy while fearing another

By Deborah Danan

Irina Starshenbaum as Shoshana and Douglas Booth as Tom Wilkin in 'Shoshana' by director Michael Winterbottom. (Courtesy)

Interview'It's really a simple love story'

Ideals and hearts break in this real-life Romeo and Juliet story set in Mandate Palestine

By Rich Tenorio

In US theaters today, ‘Shoshana’ portrays true romance between a Haganah member and the British officer tasked with arresting rebels like her, in a prescient tale of political complexities

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 meets European powers for new nuclear talks amid snapback sanctions threat

By AFP

German, British and French diplomats in Istanbul to meet Iranian counterparts for first time since war with Israel, as powers weigh reimposing UN sanctions

A Roman-era gold ring found during archaeological excavations at the Sussita (Hippos) National Park in July 2025. (Michael Eisenberg)

'The ring must have belonged to a little girl'

Roman-era gold jewelry found at Hippos testifies to wealth of city likely visited by Jesus

By Rossella Tercatin

Although found out of context, unearthed ring and earrings shed light on ancient Galilean affluence in the first centuries of the Common Era

Housing and Construction Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 27, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox willing to ‘leave the country’ over conscription issue, says Goldknopf

Adviser to United Torah Judaism leader tells ToI that party will return to government as soon as bill exempting Haredim from military service is passed into law

Police fire skunk liquid at protesters during demonstrations against the decision of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fire Shin Bet head Ronen Bar, in Jerusalem, March 20, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jerusalem municipality threatens legal action against police over use of Skunk liquid

By Charlie Summers

In letter to police brass, city claims it has spent millions of shekels cleaning up after noxious crowd control weapon, calling it a ‘hazard and nuisance’

ToI podcast

Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: Why Israel is misfiring in ties with Christians

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

ToI’s diplomatic reporter delves into the overdue need for official Israel to set up an office — or even a ministry — to secure ties with the Christian world

Israeli startup Scanary develops an AI-based threat-detection platform for mass security screening. (Courtesy)

Israeli startup aims to revolutionize security screening with AI-powered weapons scanner

By Sharon Wrobel

Scanary says its radar-based tech, developed by a former radar engineer of Iron Dome, can screen 25,000 people per hour to detect threats in stadiums, transit hubs and airports

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Volunteers work in Tinshemet Cave, where archaeologists are excavating one of the world's oldest known burial sites, dating back 100,000 years, near the central town of Shoam, July 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Believed to be one of the oldest burial sites in the world

100,000-year-old burial site in Israel reveals complex rituals of early humans

By Melanie Lidman

Archaeologists find skeletons at Tinshemet Cave in north, along with pebbles, animal remains and a reddish pigment made from rocks, which experts think were part of burial practices

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro visits the Hershey Company's new manufacturing plant in Hershey, Pennsylvania, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Josh Shapiro: Mamdani must check ‘blatantly antisemitic’ rhetoric among supporters

By Shira Li Bartov

Pennsylvania governor says New York City mayoral candidate ‘left open far too much space’ for extremist language, calls for political leaders ‘to speak and act with moral clarity’

Marianne Hirsch, a professor at Columbia University, poses for a portrait on July 24, 2025 in Norwich, Vermont. (AP/Michael Owens)

Columbia genocide scholar may quit school over ‘censorship’ on Israel, antisemitism

By AP and ToI Staff

The Kairos co-op house at Stanford University. (Google Maps via JTA)

Stanford suspends student co-op accused of urging Jewish students to leave

By Grace Gilson

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MK Hanoch Milwidsky attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on November 25, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud MK brought in for questioning by police over sex offense allegations

By Charlie Summers

This photograph taken during a visit of French leftist party La France Insoumise (LFI)'s MP Andree Taurinya shows Georges Ibrahim Abdallah in his prison cell in Lannemezan, southwestern France, on July 17, 2025, after an appeals court ordered his release. (Valentine Chapuis / AFP)

Lebanese terrorist convicted of killing Israeli diplomat freed by France after 40 years

By AFP and ToI Staff

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after a press statement at the Carmelite Monastery in the Buda Castle in Budapest, Hungary, April 3, 2025. (AP/Denes Erdos)

ICC refers Hungary to oversight body for not arresting Netanyahu during state visit

By AP

Flames burn near a house in Souni village, Cyprus, during a massive wildfire on the southern side of the east Mediterranean island nation's Troodos mountain range, July 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Israel to dispatch aircraft to Cyprus to help battle deadly wildfire

By Nava Freiberg and Agencies

This handout picture taken and released by the Russian space agency Roscosmos on July 25, 2025, shows a rocket booster with a number of satellites, one belonging to Iran, blasting off in far eastern Russia. (Russian Space Agency Roscosmos/AFP)

Russia launches Iranian communications satellite into orbit

By AP

British comedian Rachel Creeger will appear on Israeli stages for five performances from March 27-April 1, 2019 (Courtesy Rachel Creeger)

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