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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 3, 2025

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National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir leads a Jewish prayer service on the flashpoint Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, August 3, 2025. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Ben Gvir calls for sovereignty over Gaza

In first, Ben Gvir openly leads prayers on Temple Mount, in violation of status quo

By Charlie Summers

Far-right leader is first minister to pray overtly at flashpoint site as record 3,527 Jewish visitors said to ascend on fast day; Jordan, PA, Saudis condemn Ben Gvir; PM: Status quo intact

Protesters hold posters of the hostages in front of a still image taken from a Hamas video of hostage Evyatar David, on August 2, 2025. (Paulina Patimer/ Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

Captive's dad warns hostages 'dying of abuse and starvation'

‘Live hunger experiments’: Thousands rally for hostage deal after haunting videos of captives

Father of Rom Braslavski says he didn’t recognize his son in Islamic Jihad clip; brother of Evyatar David: Hamas using the captives as ‘twisted tool for their depraved propaganda’

Protesters demanding a deal to free hostages in Gaza block Tel Aviv's Ayalon Highway and hold a banner reading, "Abandoning the hostages = the destruction of the Third Temple. Bring them home. Get out of Gaza," on August 3, 2025. (Aviv Atlas/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Protesters block Tel Aviv’s Ayalon Highway in call to release hostages, end war

A still of hostage Evyatar David taken from a Hamas propaganda video (left) released on August 1, 2025. (Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

‘A shell of himself,’ ‘This is starvation’: Ex-hostage, leaders appalled by video of captive

Tal Shoham, who was in tunnel with Evyatar David, says terrorists holding him have A/C, cable TV and plenty of stolen food; Herzog: ‘Silence is not an option’

And yet: A cry of conscience in a time of war

Aiding hungry Gazans is not a sign of weakness, it is strength of the highest kind: the strength to remain human even in war

Hussain Abdul-Hussain

Born dead: The New York Declaration for two states

The text includes a single clause that – given birthrates and demographics – kills chances for a workable solution

Hamas vows not to lay down arms after Witkoff reportedly says it’s ready to demilitarize

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Accusing US of complicity in ‘genocide and starvation,’ terror group pledges to continue violent resistance ‘as long as the occupation exists,’ slams US envoy’s visit to GHF site

Hamas gunmen, wearing captured IDF uniforms and brandishing Israeli weapons, stand in formation in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, February 15, 2025. (AP Photo/ Abdel Kareem Hana)

Protesters demanding a deal to free hostages in Gaza block the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv, August 3, 2025. (Danor Aharon/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 3: UN Security Council to hold special session this week on hostages in Gaza

ICRC renews its call to be ‘granted access’ to hostages after PM’s demand * IDF shoots down Houthi drone near Gaza-Egypt border * COGAT: 23,000 tons of aid entered Gaza in past week

7:47 pm

68 Ethiopian migrants killed after boat capsized off Yemen coast, says UN
7:00 pm

Iran sets up new defense council to 'enhance capabilities' of military
6:44 pm

Hostages Forum slams Netanyahu for 'selling illusion' that military pressure will free hostages

Mounted police keep watch as pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters march towards Sydney's Harbour Bridge during a demonstration on August 3, 2025. (Saeed KHAN / AFP)

Tens of thousands join anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian march over Sydney Harbour Bridge

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Organizers call for unrestricted aid into Gaza, an Israeli ceasefire and withdrawal from the enclave, and sanctions and an arms embargo against Israel

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar holds the child of an Al-Qassam Brigades fighter with a Kalashnikov rifle in his hand during a rally in Gaza City on May 24, 2021. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

Year after Oct. 7, Yahya saw biggest rise in popularity among baby names in UK

Hamas terrorist and UNRWA staffer Muhammad Abu Attawi during the attack on a bomb shelter near Kibbutz Re'im on October 7, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

New US lawsuit demands UNRWA pay for crimes of Hamas, Hezbollah

Filing follows Department of Justice position in April that Palestinian refugee agency is not entitled to immunity

A woman holds photos of top Hezbollah commander Fouad Shukur, left, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike, Hezbollah's former leader Hassan Nasrallah, right, and his cousin and successor, Hashem Safieddine, center, during a commemoration marking the first anniversary of Shukur's death in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 3: Day 667 – Hezbollah may soon be ready to disarm, claims IDF

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

'Kindertransport' following Kristallnacht, when faith-based organizations in the UK lobbied for the entry of Jewish children as refugees. (public domain)

Records show evacuations to UK, Mandate Palestine, Australia

UK historian defies experts, discovers unknown Kindertransport records deep in Yad Vashem

By Matt Lebovic

Believed not to exist, records found in Jerusalem archives name 9,000 Jewish children saved in rescue operations out of Nazi-occupied Europe between 1938-1940

Right-wing and left-wing activists protest and clash at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, ahead of the Jerusalem Day Flag March, May 26, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israelis lament, and cling to, societal divides on a holiday mourning ancient disunity

By Deborah Danan

Increasingly riven by the ongoing war in Gaza, secular and religious, left and right are all mourning on Tisha B’Av – but for vastly different reasons

People at the scene of a reported settler attack in Aqraba, West Bank, August 2, 2025. (X screenshot used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law)

Palestinian reportedly killed, seven others wounded in settler attack near Nablus

By Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

Aqraba mayor says alleged assailants came from new illegal outpost situated on the West Bank village’s land; no immediate comment from IDF

Illustrative: An anti-Israel cartoon mocking Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is displayed at Palestine Square in central Tehran on July, 13, 2025. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

70-year-old Jewish man from New York said to be among four US citizens held by Iran

Iranian officials confirm to NYT that the unnamed detainee is one of two Americans taken into custody after Israel began strikes in June

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Troops of the 226th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade operate in the town of Hader, southern Syria, August 3, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says soldiers questioned suspected dealers, seized arms in overnight Syria raid

By Emanuel Fabian

Numerous weapons captured during operation in Hader, army says; over 300 ‘routine operations’ conducted in southern Syria in recent months

Druze militiamen ride a motorcycle past a destroyed military vehicle following last week's sectarian clashes in the Druze-majority town of Sweida, Syria, July 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

Renewed violence in Syria’s Sweida kills two as armed groups fight government forces

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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Workers and rescue forces at the scene where 26-year-old Uriel Nuri was killed by a leopard on August 1, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Jerusalem zoo still probing employee’s death, but won’t blame leopard for mauling

Illustrative: A swastika flag displayed in a showcase during the press preview at the new permanent exhibition of former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, Germany, April 13, 2016.(AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

Belgian politician apologizes after compromising photo shows him draped in Nazi flag

By AFP

New Tulane quarterback Jake Retzlaff, a transfer from Brigham Young University, shows off the Star of David on his necklace after football practice at Yulman Stadium in New Orleans, on Friday, Aug. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Brett Martel)

Jake Retzlaff, former Jewish football star at Mormon university, to play for Tulane

Illya Rechytskyy, in an undated photo. (Courtesy RCMP)

Body of Israeli man swept down Canadian river found after month-long hunt

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