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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 29, 2025

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Palestinians carry personal belongings as they walk in the Mawasi area of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on July 28, 2025. (AFP)

Smotrich: Resettling Gaza is now a 'realistic' option

PM says Israel will ensure lots of Gaza aid; ministers said to mull occupation, annexation

By Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid and Sam Sokol

Netanyahu suggests images of starving Palestinians ‘staged’ by Hamas; cabinet said to weigh ‘siege,’ full occupation, annexation of Strip if no truce deal; Dermer, Hanegbi meet Witkoff

US President Donald Trump, right, speaks with the media as he greets Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the Trump Turnberry golf course in Turnberry, Scotland, July 28, 2025. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

‘You can’t fake that’: Trump sees ‘real starvation’ in Gaza, says Israel must do more

By Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid, Agencies and ToI Staff

Palestinians at the site of an Israeli air strike, at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, on July 29, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 29: Day 662 – PM vows more aid to Gaza amid talk of siege, annexation

By Jessica Steinberg and David Horovitz

People walking next to pictures of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, in Jerusalem, July 29, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

July 29: Netanyahu accuses Europeans of ‘rewarding Hamas’ by recognizing Palestinian state

By Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

Trump says Starmer didn’t discuss move with him, says he’s ‘not in the camp’ of pressing Israel for long-term solution * Arab states join call for terror group to disarm, end rule of Gaza at UN two-state conference

8:59 pm

Malta says it, too, will recognize a Palestinian state in September
8:50 pm

UK poll finds wide support for recognizing Palestinian state
8:15 pm

Hostage czar Hirsch meets with Thai envoy

Palestinians receive meals from volunteers in Gaza City, on July 28, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

'It reminds us of previous disasters in Ethiopia or Biafra'

Experts say Gaza at ‘worst-case scenario,’ famine about to cause ‘widespread death’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Calling for ‘urgent action now,’ Integrated Food Security Phase Classification says situation in the Strip is ‘unlike anything we have seen in this century’

The facade of the European Union Commission headquarters, seen in Brussels on February 18, 2025. (Nicolas TUCAT / AFP)

EU proposes cutting Israeli access to research funds over Gaza humanitarian crisis

By Nava Freiberg, Lazar Berman and Reuters

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa (2L), conference co-chair Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud (3L), UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres (C), and conference co-chair French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot (2R) stand for a group photo with high level ministers during the United Nations conference on a two state solution for Israel and the Palestinians, at UN headquarters on July 28, 2025, in New York City. (Charly Triballeau/AFP)

Dozens of countries attend UN confab on two-states boycotted by US and Israel

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

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Image of Gazan child with genetic illness being used to falsely smear Israel, COGAT charges

By Stav Levaton, ToI Staff and Agencies

Defense Ministry body says 5-year-old Osama al-Rakab was evacuated in June and is undergoing treatment in Italy; 120 aid trucks entered Gaza Sunday, another 180 to enter Monday

5-year-old Osama al-Rakab is seen receiving medical treatment, left. COGAT says a viral image of him, right, was used to falsely accuse Israel of starving children in Gaza. (Screen capture: COGAT via X)

A plane drops humanitarian aid loaded with food supplies to displaced Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip, July 27, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

Spain to airdrop 12 tons of food into Gaza, joining Mideast countries

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Awdah Hathaleen (Eldad Rafaeli)

Palestinian activist featured in Oscar-winning movie shot dead during clash with settlers

By Nurit Yohanan, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Awdah Hathaleen fatally wounded after extremist settler under Western sanctions allegedly fired at group of Palestinians who were said to have been throwing stones in West Bank

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (R) and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (L) are seen at a 'Victory Conference' calling for renewed Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, January 28, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Netherlands bars entry to Smotrich, Ben Gvir over statements on Gaza and West Bank

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Announcement is the latest sign of escalating tensions between Israel and the European Union; several other countries have banned the two far-right ministers

IDF soldiers seen in the Gaza Strip in this picture released July 29, 2025 (Israel Defense Forces)

US public approval of Israeli offensive in Gaza at lowest point of war — poll

By AP and ToI Staff

Declining support reflects growing partisan divide on Israel, with GOP still mostly backing fight against Hamas; over half of American adults disprove of Netanyahu, an all-time high

Then-Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel waves as he arrives at a news conference outside of the south air traffic control tower at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, on April 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

Rahm Emanuel lays blame on Israel for the situation in Gaza: ‘They are responsible’

By JTA and ToI Staff

Regina Spektor performs during The Wall Street Journal's The Future of Everything Festival at Spring Studios on May 21, 2024, in New York City. (Dominik Bindl/Getty Images/AFP)

‘You’re just yelling at a Jew,’ Regina Spektor tells pro-Palestinian heckler

By Grace Gilson

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The moral stakes of parenthood after death

The sperm of a dead man can be used to produce a child, even when the deceased’s wishes are not known. Life must trump silence

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Scabies outbreak plagues prisons as number of security inmates hits new high

Reports of abuse, overcrowding, disease and malnutrition have multiplied since Oct. 7, with some saying it violates both the law and human dignity

Hamas terror suspects, caught during the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and ensuing war in Gaza, crouch on the ground in the courtyard of a prison in southern Israel, February 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Prominent Palestinian journalist Nasser al-Laham speaks to Al Mayadeen following his release from Ofer Prison, on July 16, 2025. (Screenshot: Youtube)

Palestinian journalist says Israeli prison guards beat him, filmed him naked

Anti-Israel activists protest against the war in Gaza as the Crown Iris, an Israeli cruise ship, docks in Rhodes, Greece, on July 28, 2025. (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Greek riot police clash with anti-Israel protesters as Israeli ship docks in Rhodes

By AP and ToI Staff

Passengers disembark the Crown Iris safely, are greeted by local business representatives opposed to the protest as well as members of Rhodes Municipality and Chamber of Commerce

Ran Ben Shimon, head coach of the Israel national soccer team, seen during the 2026 World Cup qualifier match between Israel and Norway, in Debrecen, Hungary, on March 25, 2025. (Udi Zitiat/Flash90)

Israeli national soccer coach says he and assistant were attacked in Athens

Reservist who identified bodies after Oct. 7 found dead in suspected suicide

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Master Sgt. (res.) Ariel Meir Taman, who served in Military Rabbinate, is survived by wife and 4 children; Knesset Defense Committee urged to discuss rise in IDF suicides amid war

Reservist Ariel Meir Taman is seen in an undated photo. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF troops operate in the Jabalia area of Gaza in a photo cleared for publication on July 28, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF commutes jail time for three soldiers who refused to return to Gaza combat

By Emanuel Fabian

ToI in southern Lebanon

IDF assesses successes against Hezbollah since ceasefire could lead to it disarming

By Emanuel Fabian

Over 500 strikes launched on terror group, killing 230 operatives and taking out infrastructure since November; 1,280 complaints lodged with US-led committee

A Hezbollah supporter holds up a Hezbollah flag in front of the headquarters of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) in Beirut, Lebanon, July 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

When the army forgets its own

Why does a soldier who spends his days identifying bodies qualify for less mental health support than a soldier who cooks meals in Gaza?

For Ezra Klein, Jewish fear is a semantic debate

His analysis of Jewish division sees the fire but minimizes the alarm, reducing the safety of millions of Jews to a thought experiment

Israeli security and rescue forces at the scene of a ballistic missile impact in Rehovot, June 15, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/ Flash90)

85-year-old man dies of wounds sustained in Iranian missile attack last month

Rehovot resident’s death comes two weeks after another victim of same missile attack succumbed to injuries, raises toll from Iran’s strikes to 30

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi attends the 17th annual BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 7, 2025. (AP Photo/ Eraldo Peres)

Iran vows to respond in a ‘more decisive manner’ if attacked again by US or Israel

This handout picture released by the Houthi group's Ansarullah Media Centre on July 8, 2025, reportedly shows the Liberia-flagged bulk carrier Eternity C sinking after it was attacked by the Houthis at sea. (ANSARULLAH MEDIA CENTRE / AFP)

Houthis claim to hold 10 crew members from cargo ship they sank in Red Sea

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Hesham Taha (right) and Avi Israel, co-founders of Jerusalem-based startup Teramount. (Courtesy of Perry Mendelboim)

Two physicists are the brains of an Arab-Jewish startup connecting optics to chips

By Sharon Wrobel

Jerusalem’s Teramount secures $50 million from investors for device that connects optical fibers to silicon chips, enabling data transfer at the speed of light for AI apps

Leon Botstein, Bard College president and director of its orchestra, leads a concert in Nuremberg, Germany, May 8, 2025. (Anton Doppelbauer via JTA)

'We're committed to core beliefs that define a democracy'

80 years after WWII, Bard orchestra performs Mendelssohn at site of Nuremberg Nazi rallies

By Shira Li Bartov

Conductor and college president Leon Botstein, son of Holocaust survivors, says concert was not just a commemoration, but a pledge to fight intolerance and uphold democracy

A Box of Grossinger's Rye Cracker Boards, produced by Streit's Matzos. (Courtesy Harris Salomon via JTA)

Ryes to the occasion

Grossinger’s iconic rye bread rises again — in a new form

By Jackie Hajdenberg

The Borscht Belt resort that served as the inspiration for ‘Dirty Dancing’ is the subject of a new scripted TV show – and it’s launching a product aimed at stoking fans’ appetites

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Actor Alon Abutbul in a 2007 photo (CC; CC-BY-SA-3.0)

ObituaryLeading Israeli actor Alon Abutbul suddenly dies after collapsing at beach

By Ethan Rubinson and Jessica Steinberg

Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Kremlin in Moscow on January 30, 2020. (Maxim Shemtov/ Pool/ AFP/ File)

Putin discusses Syria and Iran in phone call with Netanyahu

By AFP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Christian conference in Jerusalem, on July 27, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Netanyahu temporarily filling all cabinet spots vacated by Haredim in row over draft

Leaders of Arab parties meeting at a press conference in Jaffa including former Hadash MK Yousef Jabareen (left), Hadash-Ta'al MK Ahmad Tibi (2nd from left), Ra'am MK Mansour Abbas (2nd from right) and Balad leader Sami Abu Shehadeh (right), July 27, 2025. (Screen capture: Yanal Jabarin via X)

Arab parties consider reviving joint ticket as Arab public backs joining government

By Ariela Karmel and Sam Sokol

Olivier Pardo, a French lawyer, arrives at the Judicial Court in Paris on November 4, 2022. (Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)

Netanyahu’s lawyer in France claims Hezbollah put a bounty on his head

By AFP

First responders at the scene of the incident at Shamir Medical Center on July 28, 2025. (Courtesy of Zaka)

Man crushed to death by falling tree branch at hospital in central Israel

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox students seen at the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, February 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Government to cut budgets of so-called ‘drop-out yeshivas’ whose students don’t enlist

NYPD officers bring out the body of Didarul Islam, who was shot and killed by a gunman earlier this evening, from New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Hospital, early Tuesday, July 29, 2025, in New York City. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)

Gunman kills 4, including off-duty police officer, in shooting at NYC office tower

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Horst Mahler waits for his trial for incitement at the higher regional court in Munich, Germany, January 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Christof Stache, file)

Leading German antisemite who moved from left-wing terrorism to neo-Nazism dies at 89

By Toby Axelrod

The 2024 Tel Aviv Dance festival taking place in the plaza of the Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater (Credit Asia Skorik)

Movement at Tel Aviv’s annual dance fest reflects a shaken nation

By Jessica Steinberg

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