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What Matters Most On Saturday, July 26, 2025

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US President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, July 25, 2025, en route to Scotland. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Apparently accepting talks impasse, Trump says Israel will have to ‘get rid of’ Hamas

US president says terror group not interested in deal; echoing Witkoff, PM says Jerusalem weighing ‘alternative options’ to free hostages

Illustrative: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, second left, and the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran chief Mohammad Eslami, second right, are seen during the 'National Day of Nuclear Technology,' in Tehran, Iran, April 9, 2025. (Iranian Presidency / AFP)

Israel was moving to 'topple regime' when Trump called truce

Strikes on Iran thwarted fission and fusion nukes, and ‘electronic pulse’ bomb – report

Israeli sources tell WaPo killing of top scientists halted development of EMP device, complex nuclear fusion warhead; half of ballistic missiles, 80% of launchers were destroyed

Cars believed to be carrying European diplomats enter the Iran's consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, ahead of a meeting with Iranian counterparts for talks over Tehran's nuclear program, July 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Iran and Europeans hold ‘frank’ nuclear talks with ‘snapback’ UN sanctions looming

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iranian security forces run toward the scene of an attack on a courthouse by separatists in the city of Zahedan on July 26, 2025 (screencapture/X)

Five civilians, three gunmen killed in courthouse attack in southeast Iran

By AFP

Humanitarian aid is prepared on an Israeli Air Force cargo plane for an airdrop in the Gaza Strip, in a handout photo issued on July 26, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

July 26: Under international pressure, Israel to create routes, pauses in fighting to allow more aid

Navy forces take over activist boat headed for Strip * Army says it’s powering Gazan desalination plant, increasing water output tenfold * Ex-captive at rally: Hostages ‘pay the price’ for failures in truce negotiations

8:58 pm

Israeli Navy forces board activist boat heading for Gaza, live footage shows
8:45 pm

Anti-war activists slam Jerusalem hostage rally for ignoring plight of Gaza's civilians
8:41 pm

Foreign Ministry confirms Israel will implement 'humanitarian pauses' in Gaza fighting to enable aid distribution

IDF troops operating in the Gaza Strip, in images published on July 26, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Gazan officials say at least 25 killed, most by gunfire while waiting for aid

By Agencies, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

UN, UK, France and Germany express serious concern over humanitarian situation in Gaza; Britain says it will take part in air drops of aid into Strip as hunger mounts

Somoud Wahdan looks at the camera as she sits with her child in an area in the northern Gaza Strip, while waiting for trucks with humanitarian aid to arrive, in Gaza City, Friday, July 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

As 9 more Gazans said to die of hunger, Israel approves resumption of aid airdrops

By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid, ToI Staff and Agencies

The genocide accusation and Hamas’s disappearing responsibility

Blaming Israel alone for Gaza’s suffering erases Hamas’s role, distorts genocide’s meaning, and echoes old anti-Jewish tropes

Can we mobilize American Jewish normies?

Mainstream Jews value balance and family—but their absence from civic life risks the very future they hope to protect

Former hostage Emily Damari speaks with The Daily Mail in an interview published July 25, 2025. (Screen capture: The Daily Mail)

Emily Damari recalls almost killing her Hamas captor, demands deal: ‘Come on already!’

Former hostage says family home of Hamas member where she was being held with Ziv Berman was bombed, describes ‘twin-like’ connection with fellow wounded hostage Romi Gonen

Hostage families and their supporters march to the US Embassy Branch Office in Tel Aviv, demanding the release of the captives, July 19, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

As truce talks falter, pro-hostage deal, anti-government rallies set to draw thousands

Yonatan Shamriz, brother of hostage Alon Shamriz, accidentally murdered by IDF troops in Gaza in December 2023, at a Tel Aviv protest after his brother was killed (Credit Omri Koren)

Film about hostage Alon Shamriz, killed in error by IDF, nominated to student Oscars

By Jessica Steinberg

ToI in Gaza

Back in Gaza City again, IDF finds itself fighting ‘infrastructure,’ not terrorists

In booby-trapped neighborhood, tank battalion commander tells ToI his forces are degrading Hamas capabilities, working to secure conditions for hostage release

IDF troops are seen in on a tank on the outskirts of Gaza City's Daraj and Tuffah neighborhoods, July 23, 2025. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Ran Hirsch's diabetic daughter, then 8, was the impetus for the launch of Eatsane and its line of mainstream products that are safe for her to eat, such as low-carb pizza crusts found at Israeli branches of Papa John's Pizza. (courtesy)

'We are a family that enjoys and celebrates around food'

Israeli papa’s food-tech startup brings low-carb pizza to diabetics like his daughter

By Sharon Wrobel

After Ran Hirsch’s daughter was diagnosed with diabetes, he partnered with her endocrinologist to create Eatsane, a successful startup making healthy versions of family faves

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron hold a joint press conference in London, July 10, 2025. (Leon Neal/Pool Photo via AP)

Breaking from France, UK only backs Palestine recognition if part of ‘wider plan’

By Reuters, AP and ToI Staff

Unlike Marcon, Starmer stops short of announcing when he’ll recognize Palestinian statehood; in call with Canadian counterpart, FM Sa’ar signals possible Israeli retaliation against Paris

France's Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noel Barrot leaves after the weekly cabinet meeting at the presidential Elysee Palace in Paris, France, July 16, 2025. (Ludovic Marin/AFP)

7 US Jewish groups snub French FM: Palestine recognition plan ‘dishonors Oct. 7 victims’

By ToI Staff and JTA

Inside story

Reuters and ToI Staff

Frustration, domestic anger drove Macron to go it alone on Palestine recognition

French president’s solo move came after UK, Canada nixed joint announcement over fear of retaliation from US and Israel, diplomats say: ‘We could not wait to get partners on board’

French President Emmanuel Macron arrives for talks with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (not pictured) at Villa Borsig, the guesthouse of the German Foreign Ministry, in Berlin, July 23, 2025. (RALF HIRSCHBERGER / AFP)

Avner Landes, author of 'The Delegation.' (Courtesy)

Interview

The semi-true story of two Soviet Jews sent abroad by Stalin to fundraise during WWII

By Janice Weizman

Avner Landes discusses his new book ‘The Delegation,’ an account of the adventures – and dark fates – of an actor and poet sent to raise money from coreligionists in the West

Israeli DJ Skazi performs at a protest against new COVID-19 restrictions, in Tel Aviv, July 25, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Set by Israeli DJ at Belgian music festival nixed over ‘security considerations’

Cancellation of Skazi’s set at Tomorrowland’s 2nd weekend comes after two Israeli festival-goers were briefly detained there for alleged war crimes last week

Members of Project Hashayara, a musical ensemble that travels across Israel and US to bring hope and support to communities, as they recorded a song in June 2025 (Courtesy)

Post-Oct. 7, convoy of Israeli musicians seeks audiences who want to sing along

By Jessica Steinberg

Hashayara Project travels around Israel and the US, performing a playlist of familiar classics with a message of hope

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An Israeli air defense system launches interceptor missiles at a missile launched by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis, as seen from Jerusalem, July 25, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF shoots down Houthi missile; sirens triggered in West Bank, Dead Sea area

By Emanuel Fabian

A man tidies the graves of Palestinian-American Sayfollah Musallet, left, and Mohammed al-Shalabi, both of whom were allegedly killed by settlers in the West Bank town of Al-Mazra’a Al-Sharqiya, July 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Families of 4 Palestinian-Americans killed in the West Bank lose hope for justice

By AP and ToI Staff

Japan's opposition party Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya speaks at the vote counting centre in Tokyo on July 20, 2025. (Photo by JIJI Press / AFP)

Japan sees wins for far-right anti-immigration party that denounced ‘Jewish capital’

By JTA

A lion cub recovered from the yard of a home in the West Bank Palestinian town of Abu Dis, July 26, 2025. (Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

Lion cub found chained in yard during police sweep in West Bank Palestinian town

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