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What Matters Most On Monday, August 4, 2025

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Palestinians get food and humanitarian aid from the back of a truck as it moves along the Morag corridor near Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025. (AP/Mariam Dagga)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 4: Saudi report says Hamas under pressure to show flexibility, but unclear if new talks in offing

Government votes to fire attorney general, but court puts move on hold * Gali Baharav-Miara says ousting illegal, will keep working * Medical team assesses hostage lost over 40% body weight

9:59 pm

IDF says air defense systems working to down ballistic missile from Yemen
8:19 pm

Saudi report says Hamas under pressure to show flexibility, but unclear if new talks in offing
7:49 pm

Zamir calls off trip to US for Centcom handover as Gaza expansion looms

Analysis

Operation ‘Gideon’s Chariots’ comes to a close, with promised goals unfulfilled

Israel failed to attain objectives of ‘conquering Gaza,’ moving Palestinian population south, preventing Hamas from taking control of aid, and most importantly, releasing hostages

IDF troops of the Givati Brigade are seen in northern Gaza's Beit Hanoun, July 30, 2025. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a video released on August 3, 2025. (Screenshot/GPO)

PM said seeking ‘decisive military victory’ in Gaza, putting hostage families on edge

By Nava Freiberg, Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Families Forum calls reported plans to expand war a ‘scam’ by Netanyahu, who expresses shock at clips of skeletal captives despite reportedly having been briefed on their condition

Illustrative: Palestinians leave a food distribution point run by the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation with bags and boxes, near the Netzarim corridor in the central Gaza Strip, on August 3, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Palestinians report 23 killed near Gaza aid sites, 6 starvation deaths in past day

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Demonstrators rally in the West Bank city of Nablus in support of Palestinians detained by Israel and against the war in Gaza, August 3, 2025. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Palestinians rally across West Bank for detainees in Israeli jails, against Gaza war

By AFP and ToI Staff

Promoted PodcastThe Glue with Eric Fingerhut, JFNA

A 6-Point Plan to Keep Jews Safe

We hear from members of the communities that have most been affected, as well as security experts on what our community and the government can do to keep our communities safe.

Hostage Rom Braslavski, in a still from a propaganda video released by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, July 31, 2025. (Screenshot)

‘I am at death’s door’: Family of hostage Rom Braslavski allows release of PIJ video

‘You’re watching your son dying before your eyes,’ says father of emaciated captive; Netanyahu demands Red Cross treat hostages; Hamas agrees — if Israel opens aid corridors

Still images of hostages Ram Braslavski (left) and Evyatar David from Hamas propaganda videos, cleared for publication by their families in August 2025. (Composite screenshot)

European countries slam videos of emaciated hostages, call on Hamas to disarm

By AFP and ToI Staff

Iris Haim lights candles on the sixth night of the Jewish holiday of Hannukah, during a Knesset ceremony on December 30, 2024 .(Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Slain hostage’s mother says Israel should ‘surrender’ to Hamas to save captives

‘On the precipice of defeat’: 19 former defense chiefs demand end to Gaza war

Over a dozen ex-officials who held key posts say fighting in Strip no longer serves any attainable military goal but only political interests; letter to Trump urges him to intervene

Screen capture from video of former Mossad director Tamir Pardo speaking in a video calling to end the Gaza war, released August 3, 2025. (YouTube: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Demonstrators take part in a rally against the war in Gaza in Tel Aviv on July 31, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Hundreds of artists sign petition demanding Israel end ‘horrific’ Gaza war

US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before boarding Air Force One at Lehigh Valley International Airport, August 3, 2025, in Allentown, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump: I don’t think Gaza war is a genocide, ‘horrible things happened’ on Oct. 7

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

US president says ‘We want the people fed’ and are ‘putting up money’ for it; praises envoy Steve Witkoff, who visited Strip on Friday to help craft new aid delivery plan

US special envoy Steve Witkoff (2nd left) and US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee (3rd left) tour a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution site on August 1, 2025. (Mike Huckabee/X)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 4: Day 668 – After Witkoff tours Gaza, Trump repeats there’s no genocide

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jacob Magid

Who cares if they say it’s genocide?

The question for Israelis is not whether we are heroically fighting terrorism or committing the world’s worst crime. That’s a false binary

Stop blaming home birth. Start fixing the system.

If we truly want to make birth safer, we must first affirm that choosing where and with whom to give birth is a basic human right

Visitors look out at the Western Wall on Tisha B'Av, August 3, 2025 (Zev Stub/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

‘The whole nation needs to feel their pain’: Hostages’ plight looms over Tisha B’Av fast

Amid ongoing war and deepening societal divisions, visitors to Jerusalem’s Western Wall sing, pray, and dream of a better future on saddest day of the Jewish calendar

Edelstein shares Haredi draft proposal, hours before vote on his ouster as panel head

Bill by outgoing Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chair would revoke draft-dodgers’ driver’s licenses, ban them from leaving the country, and halve their daycare subsidies

MK Yuli Edelstein attends a House Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on August 4, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset legal adviser: Replacing defense panel head could taint Haredi enlistment law

Day before vote to replace Yuli Edelstein with Boaz Bismuth, Sagit Afik says legislative process would be marred if new chairperson comes ‘pre-committed’ to specific legislation

Knesset Legal Adviser Sagit Afik speaks during a Knesset House Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 24, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Participants in the vocational program "Matzpen-Tech" run by AJEEC partake in one of the program lectures. (Courtesy/AJEEC)

Inside story

As violent crime soars, Arabs see jobs, training as key to getting youth off streets

By Charlie Summers

Seeking ways to tamp down on mounting lawlessness and skyrocketing murders, program takes young people heading into life of crime and prepares them to enter job market instead

Liliana Laniado, a resident of Bat Yam, blocks one of her neighbors from entering a bomb shelter during an Iranian missile attack on June 22, 2025. (Screenshot/X)

Woman indicted for barring people from Bat Yam bomb shelter during Iran war

By Charlie Summers

70-year-old first to be charged for denying others access to shelters during emergency; ‘We feared for our lives,’ says neighbor that she turned away during missile barrage

Israeli flags on graves of fallen soldiers in Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem ahead of Israeli Memorial Day, April 29, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

IDF suicides tied to combat trauma, internal probes said to reveal

By Stav Levaton and Emanuel Fabian

Military steps up mental health care as Personnel Directorate chief visits reservist soldier’s grieving family

Antisemitic vandalism seen at the King David Burger restaurant in Athens, Greece on July 12, 2025. (Screenshot/Social media)

Athens mayor tussles with Israeli envoy over antisemitic graffiti in Greek capital

By AFP

Haris Doukas lashes out at ‘those who kill civilians’ after Ambassador Noam Katz says Israeli tourists in Greece feel ‘uncomfortable’ with vandalism by ‘organized minorities’

Illustrative: A nurse prepares to give an injection (iStock by Getty Images)

Dutch nurse under investigation after threatening to kill Zionist patients

More Headlines

The scene were two girls fell from the roof of an abandoned winery in Rishon Lezion, August 3, 2025. (Magen David Adom)

Two teen girls plummet from roof of Rishon Lezion building; one dead, second badly hurt

Haleema Ayyad, mother of slain Palestinian-American Khamis Ayyad, holds a mobile phone with her son's photo at the family house in Silwad, east of Ramallah, July 31, 2025. (AP/Nasser Nasser)

US confirms Palestinian killed in alleged settler attack was American citizen

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative image of the Ozora trance music festival in Hungary. (YouTube screenshot)

Israeli stabs another Israeli in Hungary, causing life-threatening injuries

Yehoram Gaon is featured in a documentary film named for him, screened at 'Docu.Text' at the National Library of Jerusalem, August 17-22, 2025 (Courtesy)

Screen timeLove, loss and dancing: National Library hosts documentary fest

By Jessica Steinberg

Actors playing out the 1898 visit of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Holy Land as part of a new exhibit at the Haifa City Museum, through February 2026 (Gani Katzner)

Summer brings the Templers, Japanese crafts and an AI artist chat to life in Haifa

By Jessica Steinberg

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