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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 31, 2025

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a press conference after a cabinet meeting to discuss both trade negotiations with the US and the situation in the Middle East, at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on July 30, 2025. (Dave Chan/AFP)

Canadian PM: 'Israeli gov't allowed a catastrophe in Gaza'

Following France and UK, Canada says it will recognize Palestinian state in September

By Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid and Agencies

Carney says step ‘predicated on the PA’s commitment to much-needed reforms,’ including elections and a demilitarized state; Israel decries ‘reward for Hamas,’ says move harms hostage-truce talks

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul poses for a photo with his Israeli counterpart, Gideon Sa'ar, ahead of a meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, on July 31, 2025 (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

En route to Israel, German FM urges 2-state process, says too soon to recognize Palestine

By Nava Freiberg

Australia's Treasurer Jim Chalmers attends a press conference regarding interest rates in Canberra's federal parliament house on July 8, 2025. (DAVID GRAY / AFP)

Australian minister says recognition of Palestinian state a matter of ‘when, not if’

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, talks with US President Donald Trump before a group photo at the G7 Summit, June 16, 2025, in Kananaskis, Canada. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump threatens to hold up Canada trade deal over Ottawa’s Palestine recognition

By Jacob Magid, Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

Canadian umbrella Jewish group also condemns announcement by PM Mark Carney, calling it ‘a recipe for another failed Palestinian pseudo-state controlled by terrorists’

Palestinians carry food supplies they received from the US aid center in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, July 30, 2025. (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 31: Day 664 – Witkoff arrives in region, Gaza aid is main topic

By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid

US Senators Bernie Sanders, left, and Chris Van Hollen walk to the chamber for votes at the Capitol in Washington, June 11, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Over half of US Senate Democrats back failed measures to block arms sales to Israel

Displaced Palestinians gather to receive aid from a GHF aid distribution point in the so-called 'Netzarim corridor' area in the central Gaza Strip on July 30, 2025. (Eyad Baba/AFP)

Israel said to warn Hamas it will annex parts of Gaza if no hostage deal reached

By Jacob Magid, Lazar Berman, Jeremy Sharon, Nurit Yohanan and Emanuel Fabian

Witkoff heads to region amid US concerns over Gaza aid crisis, reportedly may enter Gaza to visit GHF aid sites; Netanyahu meeting top aides to discuss Gaza talks

Heritage Amichay Eliyahu speaks during a protest against the hostage deal with Hamas, in Jerusalem, January 18, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Minister says hostages should be labeled ‘prisoners,’ their release delayed until war ends

Families of Israelis held hostage in Gaza hold a press conference in Tel Aviv on July 26, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

As more nations say they may recognize Palestine, hostages’ families pan move as ‘shameful’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

London pushes back against Israel’s argument that recognition rewards Hamas for Oct. 7; ex-hostage Emily Damari, a UK citizen, to Starmer: ‘Shame on you!’

IDF soldiers embrace at the funeral of reservist Tzvika Lavi at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, December 12, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF to begin discharging traumatized reservists amid growing mental health concerns

By Stav Levaton

Palestinians ride on trucks from a humanitarian aid convoy bound for Gaza City from the northern Gaza Strip, as others carry sacks of flour unloaded from the vehicles, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Live updates (closed)

July 31: Hamas tells mediators it won’t resume ceasefire talks until hunger crisis addressed

2 more Palestinians die from malnutrition in Gaza, Hamas-run health ministry says * Witkoff, Huckabee to tour Gaza food distribution sites Friday as US plans to ramp up aid

8:45 pm

2 more Palestinians die from malnutrition in Gaza -- Hamas-run Gaza health ministry
8:45 pm

Israel intensifies warning against UAE travel, evacuates embassy amid fears of attack
8:34 pm

In EU first, Slovenia bans weapons trade with Israel; Israeli official: A meaningless move

Right-wing activists attend a rally calling for the reestablishment of Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, near the border in southern Israel, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

‘Ours forever’: Hundreds march from Sderot to Gaza border to demand resettlement

By Jeremy Sharon, ToI Staff and AFP

March by Nachala movement comes as idea of reestablishing Gaza settlements finds support in government and increasingly in the public, and officials threaten to annex parts of Strip

Israeli right-wing protesters gather on a hill overlooking the Gaza Strip near the border fence on July 30, 2025, during a rally to mark 20 years since Israel's withdrawal from Gaza (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

22 ministers and lawmakers demand settlement group be allowed to tour northern Gaza

Smoke and flames erupt from an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, July 21, 2025. (Jehad Alshrafi/AP)

Smotrich, Ben Gvir said to urge razing Gaza City, with PM not objecting, IDF chief balking

Leah Goldin, left, and Simcha Goldin, the parents of Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin whose body is held by Hamas in Gaza, attend a Tel Aviv rally calling for the release of hostages on July 12, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Interview'We continue to smile, to live our lives with all the pain'

Mother of lone remaining hostage held since before Oct. 7 marks 11 years of hope and grief

By Jessica Steinberg

Leah Goldin can’t fathom the endless wait to bury her son Hadar, killed and abducted in 2014 war, and still feels the pain of exclusion after attack that brought hundreds more into her world

For these do I weep: For walls breached again

I’d thought vibrant Israel had so changed the Jewish experience that it made the mourning of Tisha B’Av rote ritual. October 7 proved me wrong

Who needs to rule Gaza? There’s only one viable option

A responsible, conditional transfer of power to the Palestinian Authority is needed – not the ‘day after,’ but now

Israel says Gazan boy in viral image was treated for genetic disorder in Israel in 2018

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

COGAT says case of Abdul Qader al-Fayoumi, 14, who reportedly died of starvation, is another in a series of distorted depictions of hunger crisis in the Strip

14-year-old Abdul Qader al-Fayoumi, in a photograph that the Defense Ministry's COGAT posted online on July 31, 2025. COGAT said reports that he died of starvation in Gaza were misleading, saying the teen suffered from a genetic neurological disorder and was treated in Israel in 2018. (X, via COGAT; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Najah (L), a 35-year-old Palestinian mother, carries her malnourished 11-month-old daughter Sila as they await treatment at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 24, 2025. (AFP)

In one of Gaza’s few malnutrition wards, a child’s arm is as wide as her mother’s thumb

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Shannon Seban, Renaissance party candidate for the European Parliament election, addresses an audience in Aubervilliers, northeastern suburbs of Paris, on June 1, 2024, ahead of the European Parliament elections. (Stephane De Sakutin / AFP)

Interview'I don't want to pick between being Jewish and being French'

French politician vocally fights antisemitism as her country is poised to recognize Palestine

By Robert Sarner

After being targeted by a ‘Nazi’ website, Shannon Seban has leaned into her Jewish identity, fighting hate on the left and right — including with her new book, ‘French, Jewish and So What?’

French university rejects Gaza student over ‘hateful’ antisemitic online posts

By AFP and ToI Staff

French ministers condemn ‘brutal’ force used to remove Jewish youths from flight

By Samuel Petrequin

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Settlements and National Missions Minister Orit Strock attend a ceremony to distribute all terrain vehicles and other security and logistical equipment to illegal farming outposts in the West Bank at the Sde Ephraim settlement, July 27, 2025. (Shahar Cohen/Benjamin Regional Council Spokesperson's Department)

Government gifts more ATVs to illegal West Bank outposts to ‘deepen control’ of territory

By Jeremy Sharon

Finance Minister Smotrich calls illegal farming outposts ‘spearhead of Zionist settlement’; 29 vehicles transferred along with drones, night vision goggles, generators and more

People inspect damage after an alleged attack by settlers in the West Bank town of Silwad on July 31, 2025. (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

Palestinian man reported killed during fiery overnight settler rampage near Ramallah

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Mourners console the family of Awdah Hathaleen in the Palestinian village of Umm al-Kheir in the southern West Bank on July 29, 2025. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

IDF court extends Palestinians’ remand after Israeli in same incident freed to house arrest

By Jacob Magid and Jeremy Sharon

CyberArk staff and Nasdaq officials celebrate the 10-year anniversary as a publicly-traded company in 2024. (Courtesy Vania Savic)

In second-biggest exit in Israeli history, Palo Alto buys CyberArk for $25 billion

By Sharon Wrobel

Acquisition a move to bolster company’s cyber offerings with identity security, to better compete in AI race against tech giants such as Microsoft

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun speaks during a ceremony marking Army Day at the country's Defense Ministry in Yarzeh, near Beirut, Lebanon, July 31, 2025. (Lebanese Presidency press office via AP)

Lebanese president calls for Hezbollah to disarm as US pressure rises

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The terror group is resisting calls to cede its weapons, but US says President Joseph Aoun’s government must compel disarmament before Israel completes withdrawal from Lebanon

People raise their fists as Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem delivers a televised speech in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Hezbollah chief says those demanding terror group’s disarmament are ‘serving’ Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Iranian oil tanker Fortune is anchored at the dock of the El Palito refinery near Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, May 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Ernesto Vargas)

US imposes major new sanctions on Iran shipping network led by Khamenei adviser’s son

A man looks at a building in Holon damaged by a ballistic missile fired from Iran on June 19, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Billions in damages: Israel rebuilds after Iran war, destruction in south and north

An overview of Israel’s rebuilding initiatives following 21 months of war, including the 12-day conflict with Iran

Isabel Frey, a singer and ethnomusicologist, contributed a parody of Israel's national anthem to a collection of Yiddish songs in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. (Michele Pauty via JTA)

Released before 9 B'av, album has no laments for hostages

New album of Yiddish songs casts Israel as ‘evildoer’ in Gaza, with no mention of Oct. 7

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

With no condemnation of Hamas, ‘Lider mit Palestine’ draws on a long Jewish history of subversive music to express solidarity with the Palestinians and oppose the war

ARC Space Lab on the Rakia Mission (Courtesy/Eytan Stibbe)

Israeli experiment on bacteria heads to International Space Station

By Diana Bletter

Sheba Medical Center launches experiment to explore how outer space affects virulence and antibiotic resistance, providing insights into astronaut health and infectious diseases

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Zohran Mamdani, Democratic nominee for New York City Mayor, speaks during a news conference at the headquarters of SEIU Local 32BJ in New York City on July 30, 2025. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP)

Mamdani holds wide edge among Jewish voters in new NYC poll; survey commissioned by Mamdani ally

By Shira Li Bartov

Students and community members hold an anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian rally at the encampment at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, on April 29, 2024. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP)

Brown reaches deal with Trump administration, agrees to several steps against antisemitism

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Haredi rabbis attend a conference against efforts to draft ultra-Orthodox youths into the IDF in Kibbutz Ma'ale Hahamisha, on July 30, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

Top rabbis double down against any Haredi enlistment as IDF issues more draft orders

By Sam Sokol and Emanuel Fabian

Tamar Gershuni, an anti-government activist in her 70s, arrested for allegedly plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives for a court hearing in Tel Aviv, July 24, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Suspect in alleged plot to assassinate Netanyahu identified as Tamar Gershuni

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio poses for photographers as he arrives for the screening of the movie 'The Revenant' in Rome, Friday, Jan. 15, 2016. (AP/Gregorio Borgia)

The Wolf of HerzliyaDiCaprio-linked luxury hotel at Herzliya Marina gets building approval

A view of Route 60 in the South Hebron Hills in the West Bank, April 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Policeman shoots, wounds masked Israeli teen throwing rocks at cars in West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

Left: Paramedics arrive to the scene of a murder in the northern Arab town Abu Snan on July 28, 2025 (Magen David Adom) and right: murder victim, Sherihan Mishleb, appearing in a video recorded months before her death (Screenshot/Ynet)

Woman believed murdered by relative filmed a video begging for help months earlier

By Charlie Summers

The fire-damaged Adass Israel Synagogue is cordoned off following an arson attack there, in Melbourne, Australia, December 6, 2024. (Tania Lee / AFP)

Suspect in Melbourne synagogue arson attack faces court

By AP and ToI Staff

Shiri Rashti and Adiv Chemel, one of the couples featured in 'Love in the Shadow of War' at Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem, opening August 8, 2025. (Credit: Limor Zadok)

Shared scars‘Human emotion born from rupture’: Tu B’Av exhibit depicts love at war

By Jessica Steinberg

This handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on July 28, 2025, shows Syrian Red Crescent trucks carrying aid arriving at Busra al-Sham in Syria's southern Daraa province before crossing the buffer zone into Sweida province. (SANA/AFP)

UN prepares aid to Syria’s Sweida, site of sectarian conflict, after government okay

By Reuters and ToI Staff

The Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sports, a complex that was shut down a decade ago, is the site of a proposed conference center. (Flickr Commons via JTA)

Lithuania goes back on pledge to convert sports complex into Jewish heritage site

By Grace Gilson

An artist's impression of elevated highways along Route 6. (Cross Israel Highway via Transportation Ministry)

Highway 6 and 6Government unveils ambitious upper level plan for Route 6

By Stuart Winer

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