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What Matters Most On Friday, August 1, 2025

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Aug. 1: IDF says it facilitated largest airdrop yet of humanitarian aid from 6 different countries

By Jacob Magid and Michael Horovitz

Zamir said to plead with ministers to present strategy for how they want army to proceed * Poll: Two-thirds of Israelis feel Netanyahu government’s policy doesn’t represent their will

7:42 pm

Epstein accomplice Maxwell moved to minimum security Texas prison
6:08 pm

Trump eyes bringing Azerbaijan, Central Asian nations into Abraham Accords, sources say
5:53 pm

Report: IDF chief pleads with ministers to present strategy for how they want army to proceed

Protesters hold a banner calling for sanctions to be placed on Israel during a demonstration in support of Palestinians in Gaza amid fears of starvation in the war-torn territory outside Downing Street in London on July 29, 2025. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

ToI investigates'Professionals don't know what message to promote'

Failing on the 8th front: The mounting cost of Israel’s dysfunctional public diplomacy

By Nava Freiberg

As shocking images from Gaza shape global outrage and turn allies cold, officials say they are working to improve Israel’s messaging — but the effort remains leaderless and disjointed

US President Donald Trump, right, meets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House, July 8, 2025. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

US imposes 15% tariff on goods from Israel as part of sweeping new trade policy

By Jacob Magid, AP and ToI Staff

Finance Ministry downplays move; new tax slightly lower than 17% rate announced in April, which manufacturers warned could cost 26,000 Israelis their jobs

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (C) recites a prayer during a meeting with members of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) in the West Bank city of Ramallah on June 24, 2024. (Thaer Ghanaim / PPO / AFP)

US to deny visas for PA officials over efforts to ‘internationalize’ the conflict

By Jacob Magid, ToI Staff and Nava Freiberg

Analysis

‘Losing Republicans by the day’: Support for Israel slipping among Trump’s base

Younger Republicans join MAGA isolationists and Christian conservatives in calling out Jewish state as Gaza war drags on; president hasn’t adopted their more hostile rhetoric, but has taken notice

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a cap with the message 'Trump was right about everything!' in a photo posted by the White House on July 8, 2025, after Netanyahu's meeting with US President Donald Trump. (via X)

US President Donald Trump (L) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) at the Blue Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 7, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

Trump convinced Netanyahu prolonging Gaza war for political reasons — report

A group of Jewish clergy sit-in at the office of Senate Majority Leader John Thune to bring attention to the situation in Gaza, July 29, 2025, at the Capitol in Washington. (Sue Dorfman via AP)

Amid growing alarm, US Jewish groups push Israel to ensure ample food aid to Gaza

By David Crary and TIFFANY STANLEY

Mothers of Israeli hostages and their supporters take part in a demonstration calling for their release outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, July 31, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

‘No more partial deals’: Official says Israel, US now back comprehensive plan for Gaza

By Nava Freiberg, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

If actualized, stance would mark a major shift for Jerusalem, which had crafted phased framework, though the language of the statement does not specify how or when war would end

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, meets with US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff at his office in Jerusalem on July 31, 2025. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

PM meets Witkoff on talks logjam as Trump says Hamas surrender will end Gaza’s woes

By Nava Freiberg, ToI Staff, Jacob Magid and Reuters

Israeli right-wing activists watch the northern Gaza Strip during a rally calling for the re-establishment of Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, near the border in southern Israel, Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Times of Israel poll: Narrow majority of Israelis oppose annexation of Gaza territory

By Tal Schneider and ToI Staff

From the Blogs

Why hope?

Hostages are still captive, the war labors on, antisemitism is rampant, but through it all, Israel never ceases to inspire

Hostage Rom Braslavski, in a still from a propaganda video released by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, July 31, 2025. (Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

Islamic Jihad airs video of hostage Rom Braslavski; ‘They broke him,’ family says

By Michael Horovitz

Terror group claims footage taken before contact was lost with his captors; family only approves publication of still from video, demands meeting with security chiefs, Netanyahu

Left to right: Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks with the media during a bilateral meeting with US President Donald Trump at the Trump Turnberry Golf Courses, in Turnberry south west Scotland on July 28, 2025. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP); Released hostage Emily Damari lights a torch at the prerecorded opening event of Israel's 77th Independence Day, broadcast on April 30, 2025 (Screenshot)

Starmer rejects ex-hostage’s criticism of move to potentially recognize Palestine

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

When you don’t know what to say, but you can’t say nothing

The needs of the world and my family’s needs conflict, which means I sometimes defer my obligations to focus on the endless, aimless, brutal, devastating war

Still wondering if the IDF has a gear shortage?

Soldiers fresh out of training are sent into Gaza with helmets that are older than they are and not designed for today’s battle conditions

Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Kalman Ber in his office in Jerusalem on July 22, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)

Interview'To bring unity, calling someone my brother is not enough'

In a polarized time, new chief rabbi envisions revamped Rabbinate with a wide embrace

By Rossella Tercatin

From the Haredi draft to marriage and kashrut, top Ashkenazi cleric Kalman Ber says he believes love, unity and quiet action — rather than public fights — are key to lasting change

ToI in Gaza

In Beit Hanoun for 5th time, officers say Hamas battalion to be destroyed ‘within a week’

ToI joins Givati Brigade in northeast Gazan town, where terror operatives have remained holed up for nearly 2 years; inside tunnel, troops kill Hamas company commander

IDF troops of the Givati Brigade stand over a tunnel shaft in northern Gaza's Beit Hanoun, July 30, 2025. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Demonstrators take part in a rally against the war in Gaza and the government at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, July 31, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Hundreds in Tel Aviv demand end to Gaza war: ‘It’s a duty to refuse’ to serve there

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

Ido Shelem, center, financial manager of Kibbutz Manara, stands with Almog Levanon, left, and Uriel Weintrub, founders of Shuvu Manara, in the nursery school destroyed by Hezbollah rockets during the Israel-Hezbollah conflict and is now being rebuilt. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'We’re trying to bring people back'

Demobbed IDF troops rebuild kibbutz on Lebanon border to honor fallen friends

By Diana Bletter

Iconic Kibbutz Manara saw 75% of its buildings damaged and only 40% of its population return after the war with Hezbollah; 10 new residents fresh out of uniform aim to revitalize community

An aerial view taken on January 1, 2022 from a passenger plane shows a general view of the Gulf Emirate of Dubai with the capital of the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi, in the background. (Marina Passos / AFP)

Israel evacuates diplomats from UAE after identifying heightened security risk

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Those called back include beleaguered ambassador, as National Security Council raises travel warning due to belief that terror groups have increased efforts to harm Israelis

Awdah Hathaleen (left) with Mattan Berner Kadish (right) and Hathaleen's son (center) in Umm al-Khair. (Courtesy)

Obituary

‘A man of peace’: Israeli and Jewish peace activists mourn Awdah Hathaleen

Palestinian educator who featured in Oscar-winning ‘No Other Land’ is remembered as a caring friend who chose dialogue over violence, after a settler under sanctions allegedly shot him at close range

People hang a Palestinian flag in front of the Slovenian Parliament building after the National Assembly recognized a Palestinian state in Ljubljana, on June 4, 2024. (AFP)

In EU first, Slovenia announces ban on all weapons trade with Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israeli official calls move meaningless, since it has no defense procurement there; German FM warns that Jerusalem may become further diplomatically isolated

Portugal's Prime Minister Luis Montenegro arrives to attend the European Council in Brussels on June 26, 2025. EU leaders meet from June 26 to 27 to discuss geoeconomic challenges and the ongoing developments in Ukraine and the Middle East. (NICOLAS TUCAT / AFP)

Portugal says it will consider recognizing Palestinian state in September

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Police stand guard outside the Iranian embassy after a small group of protesters threw paint at the building in London, September 25, 2022. (AP/ Alastair Grant)

14 Western allies denounce surge in Iranian assassination and kidnapping plots

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Statement by UK, US, France, and their allies accuses Tehran of working with international criminal networks to carry out attacks ‘in clear violation of our sovereignty’

Iranian rabbis and a group of Jewish community attend a gathering to condemn Israel's attacks on Gaza in Tehran, Iran, October 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Report: After war with Israel, Iran seeks Jewish targets in Europe, increases arrests

Roi Wasserstein. (Courtesy)

Reservist medic dies by suicide, prompting IDF to reassess casualty recognition

By Stav Levaton and Emanuel Fabian

Family of Roi Wasserstein says trauma from battlefield cost him his life months later; military to weigh legislative reforms

Yanniv David Levy, a researcher and curator in the Israel Antiquities Authority’s Coin Department, holds a bronze coin minted in the fourth year of the Jewish Great Revolt against the Romans (69-70 CE) found during excavations in the Jerusalem Archaeological Garden – Davidson Center in July 2025. (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority)

'It was a cry for divine intervention'

2,000-year-old ‘Redemption of Zion’ coin reveals turmoil before Jerusalem’s destruction

By Rossella Tercatin

Bronze coin minted in the fourth year of the Jewish Great Revolt against the Romans found by archaeologists excavating next to the Temple Mount

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Uriel Nuri feeding an animal at the Jerusalem Zoo. (Facebook)

Worker at Jerusalem Biblical Zoo killed in attack by leopard

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Nour Atallah (X screenshot used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

France to expel Gazan student for antisemitic posts, halt other arrivals amid probe

By AFP and ToI Staff

A protester holds a sign reading 'There are no universities left in Gaza' amid the commencement ceremony on May 29, 2025, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Libby O'Neill / Getty Images via AFP)

Trump administration refers Harvard to Justice Department over alleged antisemitism

By Reuters and ToI Staff

The scene of a fatal shooting in Lod, July 23, 2025. (Israel Police)

Two people shot dead within hours in Arab cities amid unabating homicide wave

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

General view of the scene where one of the deadliest antisemitic attacks was committed in Paris, France, August 9, 1982. (AP/ Aulnay)

French court orders trial for six suspects in 1982 terror attack on Jewish deli

By AP and ToI Staff

Niv Braun (right) and Alon Tron, co-founders of Israeli cybersecurity startup Noma Security. (Omer Hacohen)

Tel Aviv startup raises $100 million to secure AI applications and autonomous agents

By Sharon Wrobel

A Kurdish Syrian woman carries an image of a Druze elder Sheikh Merhej Shahin as a man in military attire forcibly shaved off his moustache, during a march in support of the people of Sweida in the eastern city of Qamishli on July 17, 2025. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)

Syrian government forms committee to investigate deadly clashes in Sweida

By Reuters and ToI Staff

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

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, and Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani, left, attend a joint news conference following their meeting in Moscow, Russia, July 31, 2025. (Shamil Zhumatov/Pool Photo via AP)

Syrian FM meets Putin and Lavrov, in first Russia visit since fall of Assad regime

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Enjoying the beach in Tel Aviv, during a heatwave, on April 24, 2024. (Dor Pazuelo/Flash90)

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