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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 2, 2025

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Hamas-held hostage Evyatar David filmed digging what he says he fears will be his own grave in a tunnel in Gaza, in a Hamas propaganda video that his family cleared for publication on August 2, 2025.

Witkoff: US opposes expanded war; no more 'piecemeal' deals

In video, Hamas forces hostage Evyatar David to dig what he fears will be his own grave

He’s ‘a living skeleton buried alive,’ say David’s relatives after terror group shows him starving, express fear he has only days to live, plead for Trump and world to save hostages

US special envoy Steve Witkoff (R) and US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee (center) tour a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution site on August 1, 2025. (Steve Witkoff/X)

Witkoff, Huckabee tour Gaza, assess humanitarian situation, to help Trump craft aid plan

By Jacob Magid, Nava Freiberg, Emanuel Fabian, Agencies, ToI Staff and Stav Levaton

Evyatar David was taken captive by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 from the Supernova rave. (Courtesy)

Hamas issues propaganda video of hostage Evyatar David

A still of hostage Evyatar David taken from a Hamas propaganda video (left) next to photos of him in captivity in February (center), and before his capture in 2023. (Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 2: PM tells families of Evyatar David, Rom Braslavski he’ll work ‘without pause’ to bring them home

‘I never imagined a day when we would see pictures of Jews dying and there would be no savior,’ laments ex-IDF chief Eisenkot * Estimated 10,000 people join Hostages Square rally

10:41 pm

Kyiv under Russian missile attack, Ukraine says
10:10 pm

IDF says one rocket launched from Gaza, intercepted by air defenses
9:19 pm

Syrian defense ministry says attack by Kurdish-led SDF injured 4 army personnel, 3 civilians

Hamas operatives surrender to IDF troops of the Givati Brigade in northern Gaza's Beit Hanoun, August 2, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF declares defeat of Hamas battalion in Beit Hanoun, as operatives shown surrendering

By Emanuel Fabian, AP and ToI Staff

Hamas men seen surrendering to troops in northern Gaza; after deaths reported at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites, GHF says ‘nothing’ happened near them

Zamir said to urge ministers to present strategy on how they want IDF to proceed in Gaza

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Army chief tells troops that ‘in coming days we will know whether we will be able to reach a partial deal to release our hostages’; source says comprehensive deal will take ‘a long time’

This handout photo from August 1, 2025, shows IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir meeting troops in the Gaza Strip. (Israel Defense Forces)

Author David Grossman speaks during a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the current government outside the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, June 22, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

With ‘broken heart,’ author David Grossman calls Israeli actions in Gaza ‘genocide’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Literary giant and peace activist tells Italy’s La Repubblica that the very use of the word in association with Israel signals devastating moral collapse tied to ‘the occupation’

Posters reading 'Israeli not welcome' appeared in several locations in Milan, Italy on June 26, 2025. (Courtesy of Afshin Kaboli)

Poll: Most Israelis fear they won’t be able to travel abroad as global anger mounts

Hostage families and mothers praying at Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem in the West Bank in November 2024. (David Weill)

Inside Story'Reciting Shema Yisrael gave me strength,' - Eli Sharabi

‘Shabbat kept me’: Many hostages and families have turned to faith in the face of trauma

By Rossella Tercatin

For October 7 captives and their relatives, Jewish rituals have often become lifelines. Psychologists say religion offers meaning — but warn of vulnerabilities

Analysis

With Palestine recognition, allies try to get Netanyahu to listen, but risk boosting Hamas

Macron, Starmer and Carney are sending a frustated message to Israel, but give Hamas more reason to avoid a ceasefire; their actions are unlikely to change anything for the better

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)

Auschwitz museum defends barring IDF group from bringing Israeli flags into Birkenau

After local authorities stopped military delegation from carrying flags into site, museum says flags require prior coordination to avoid politicization of the former death camp

A small Israeli flag on the rail tracks at the site of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau camp during commemorations to honor the victims of the Holocaust, near the historic gate of Birkenau (Auschwitz II) near the village of Brzezinka near Oswiecim, Poland on April 28, 2022. (Wojtek Radwanski / AFP)

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen meets with Azerbaijani Economy Minister Mikayil Jabbarov in Baku on April 18, 2023. (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

Trump looks to bring Azerbaijan, Central Asian nations into Abraham Accords

By Reuters and ToI Staff

US president’s team in talks with several countries that already recognize Israel about largely symbolic move, as Saudi normalization efforts have stalled amid Gaza war

A Tisha B’Av reckoning: The silence of the center

Even as we blanch at the world’s lies, we must ask: What have we done? How did we get here, and how do we get somewhere better?

Monday my son was sworn into the IDF. That day I protested the Israeli government.

I am a rabbi who loves Israel and whose stake in the future of Israel as a democratic state with a moral army is greater than ever

People run to take cover in Jerusalem, as an alarm is sounded warning for incoming ballistic missiles fired from Yemen into Israel, July 29, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

IDF intercepts latest Houthi missile; 67th launched since March ceasefire collapse

By Emanuel Fabian

No injuries reported; missile attack comes three days after last one on Tuesday

A group of Jews stands on a balcony overlooking the Moroccan Quarter and the Western Wall, with the Dome of the Rock in the distance behind it. Circa 1920–1933. (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division)

Book excerpt

Western Wall, 1929: A Tisha B’av protest is ground zero of the Arab-Israeli conflict

By Yardena Schwartz

In an excerpt from her new book, ‘Ghosts of a Holy War,’ author and journalist Yardena Schwartz details a pivotal moment in Israel’s pre-state history and its haunting reverberations today

President Isaac Herzog at the funeral of slain hostage Yonatan Samerano in Tel Aviv, June 24, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ahead of Tisha B’Av, Herzog denounces push to oust AG, warns of deepening national rift

By ToI Staff and Jeremy Sharon

President blasts government’s contentious plan to fire Gali Baharav-Miara, says Israel faces historic challenges and must avoid tearing itself apart from within

Interview

Journalist thought her Israeli freedom-fighter mother hid something big. She was right

By Renee Ghert-Zand

In ‘My Underground Mother,’ premiering at the SF Jewish Film Festival, Marisa Fox grapples with her Polish-born mother’s motives for keeping secrets and hiding her true identity

Inside story

As IDF plans crackdown on draft dodgers, Haredim roar defiance and prepare for evasion

After army issues over 50,000 new conscription orders, UTJ spiritual leader Rabbi Dov Lando promises to ‘make the world tremble’ if evaders arrested

Rabbis Dov Lando (left) and Moshe Hillel Hirsch (center) attend an anti-enlistment conference organized by the Vaad HaYeshivot (Yeshiva Committee), July 31, 2025. (Shuki Lehrer)

Watchdogs point to the Epstein discourse as a textbook example of 'horseshoe theory,' where the far ends of the political spectrum come together. (Mugshot of Epstein; horseshoe via Getty Images via JTA)

'This rhetoric has surged across the political spectrum'

Antisemitic conspiracies about Jeffrey Epstein go mainstream as he returns to headlines

Watchdogs point to discourse around the case as a textbook example of ‘horseshoe theory,’ with extremists on the left and right disseminating anti-Jewish tropes to wide acceptance

Police officers at the scene of a suspected stabbing attempt at the entrance of Kibbutz Metzer, August 2, 2025. (Israel Police)

Palestinian ‘neutralized’ during suspected terror stabbing attempt at kibbutz

24-year-old from Tulkarem pulls out knife after blocking car exiting Kibbutz Metzer, is shot by community’s security coordinator and then arrested

More Headlines

US President Donald Trump listens during an event to sign an executive order restarting the Presidential Fitness Test in public schools, Thursday, July 31, 2025, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump moves nuclear submarines after statements by former Russian president

A view of the damage to the Holy Family Church in Gaza City, after an Israeli tank shell hit the church the previous day, in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City on July 18, 2025. (X, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

American Jewish Committee gifts $25,000 to Gaza church damaged by Israeli shelling

By PHILISSA CRAMER

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

Court refuses to extend house arrest for settler suspected of killing Palestinian activist

By Jeremy Sharon

Police patrol as workers clean up anti-Israel graffiti at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus after police evicted pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters, May 2, 2024. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP)

US administration freezes $339M for UCLA over rights violations, including antisemitism

By Olga R. Rodriguez and Collin Binkley

An Illustrative photo of tefillin. (David Cohen/Flash90)

New Trump policy letting US federal workers proselytize at work references tefillin

By Grace Gilson

Medics at the scene of a deadly accident near Harish on August 2, 2025 (Magen David Adom)

Woman killed, two injured as car plows into cyclists in northern Israel

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