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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 5, 2025

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with the IDF General Staff Forum on June 30, 2025. At left is IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir. At right is Defense Minister Israel Katz. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

Opposition says PM wants Zamir to be a 'rubber stamp'

After war meet, Netanyahu said to favor complete conquest of Gaza even if hostages harmed

By Nava Freiberg, Emanuel Fabian, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Meeting comes as PM’s loyalists launch attacks on IDF chief Zamir for reportedly objecting to IDF fully occupying the Strip, PM’s son implies he’s leading a coup

An IDF soldier is seen next to armored vehicles in northern Gaza's Beit Hanoun, July 30, 2025. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Netanyahu said set to order full takeover of Gaza, despite IDF qualms, risk to hostages

By Stav Levaton, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits in a military vehicle in the southern city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, July 18, 2024. (Avi Ohayon/Israel Prime Minister's Office via AP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 5: Day 669 – Is Israel about to conquer the entire Gaza Strip?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz

Inside story

For many Gazans, free aid from GHF sites or UN convoys has become a last resort

Those able to fundraise enough online to cover high food prices and 50% commission are purchasing off the black market rather than risk coming under IDF fire en route to aid sites

A Palestinian vendor displays goods for sale at a street market in Gaza City, July 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Aid pallets are dropped from a military plane over Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip during an airdrop mission on August 4, 2025. (AFP)

45 Palestinians said killed in Gaza, as Israel asks Red Cross to help hostages

By Nava Freiberg, Nurit Yohanan, Emanuel Fabian, Stav Levaton, ToI Staff and Agencies

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)

'He looks like a copy of a copy of a copy of Evyatar'

Cousin of hostage Evyatar David: ‘Don’t need a degree’ to know he’s on brink of death

By Jessica Steinberg

Matan Eshet, a first cousin of the Hamas captive, describes family’s anguish at seeing propaganda video of their loved one in skeletal state

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)

Medical report: Hostages face ‘immediate risk of death’ from ‘systematic starvation’

By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

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)

Holocaust survivors say latest hostage videos recall their condition in the camps

By JTA and ToI Staff

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Sa’ar calls for world’s attention on hostages ahead of UN Security Council session

By Nava Freiberg, AFP and ToI Staff

Foreign minister says he organized special UN session to ‘put an end to the phenomena of kidnapping civilians,’ slams Western media for ‘unbalanced and twisted anti-Israel agenda’

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, standing in front of an image of hostage Evyatar David, announces that he will visit New York for a UN Security Council session on the Gaza hostages, on August 4, 2025. (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

Committee chairman MK Simcha Rothman leads a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset, on July 21, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

MK under fire after panning Israeli media for airing footage of suffering hostages

By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

If we saw a child like this 'we would suspect abuse'

‘We never see kids like this:’ Israeli doctors speak out on emaciated Gazan children

By Jeremy Sharon

Images of a skeletal Palestinian boy prompted criticism when details of a background disease emerged, but Israeli pediatricians say no Israeli patient would suffer such severe malnutrition

Mohammed al-Mutawaq, a 1.5-year-old child in Gaza City, Gaza, who has been reported as suffering from a genetic muscle disorder, July 21, 2025. (Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-arini / Anadolu, via Reuters)

Displaced Palestinians carry bags of humanitarian aid they received at a distribution center run by the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in the central Gaza Strip on August 4, 2025. (AFP)

Aiming to boost aid, Israel to allow gradual flow of goods to Gaza’s private sector

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan, Agencies and Jacob Magid

Palestinians carry packages of food taken from a humanitarian aid convoy that moved along the Morag corridor near Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, August 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga)

UK’s leading Jewish group calls Israeli aid measures in Gaza ‘long overdue’

By Grace Gilson

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, April 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

AG says effort 'mortally harms' the rule of law, democracy

Government fires attorney general; High Court immediately freezes her dismissal

By Jeremy Sharon

Justice Minister Levin insists sacking of Baharav-Miara cannot be halted on ‘procedural grounds’; fellow minister Karhi vows to ignore court order temporarily preserving her authority; PM said to accuse AG of neglecting to act against threats he faces

A banner over the Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv sponsored by former members of the IDF's search and rescue Unit 669 calls for the release of the hostages and bears the unit’s motto, a quote from Psalms: “In your distress you called and I delivered you," August 5, 2025. (Adar Eyal/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 5: US State Dept. says freeing hostages is top priority as PM eyes Gaza occupation

Tel Aviv’s Ayalon Highway reopens after dozens blocked it, called to release hostages, end Gaza war * Red Cross says no way to access hostages without guarantees from Hamas, Israel

7:53 pm

Brother of hostage Evyatar David tells UN that silence in face of Hamas cruelty 'is complicity'
7:39 pm

At Tel Aviv sit-in, mother of Nimrod Cohen says occupying Gaza will be 'death sentence' for hostages
7:28 pm

US asked Israel to probe death of Palestinian-American in Silwad, State Dept. says

Likud MK Boaz Bismuth (left) and United Torah Judaism chairman Yitzhak Goldknopf (right) attend a meeting of the Knesset House Committee, August 4, 2025. (Dani Shem-Tov/ Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)

MK Bismuth elected to head key defense panel, push through Haredi draft exemption law

Knesset lawmakers oust Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chair Yuli Edelstein, who calls his dismissal ‘the final nail in the coffin of the conscription law’

FROM THE BLOGS

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

You can weaponize our Haggadah, but our story will prevail

A museum’s anti-Israel stance ignores the history and content of the very artifact it chooses to weaponize, just as it ignores the truth here in Israel

Mike Johnson, left, and Yair Chetboun tour the settlement of Ariel on August 4, 2025. (Courtesy, Ariel Municipal Authority)

US Speaker Johnson makes landmark visit to West Bank settlement of Ariel

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

Johnson is now highest ranking US official ever to visit a settlement; while in Ariel, he reportedly says ‘the mountains of Judea and Samaria were promised to the Jewish people’

The National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Sarajevo, home to the famous Sarajevo Haggadah, on February 22, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / ELVIS BARUKCIC)

Bosnia national museum accuses Israel of ‘genocide,’ draws flak from Jewish groups

By Zev Stub and ToI Staff

National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina says profits from its sale of a publication about a historic Haggadah will be donated to help Palestinian causes

J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami addresses the liberal Zionist group’s annual conference in Washington, DC, in October 2019. (Courtesy)

J Street head says he’s now convinced Israel committing genocide in Gaza

By JTA and Jacob Magid

Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid await permission on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing with the Gaza Strip, August 3, 2025. (AFP)

Louisiana-based company reportedly hiring Eastern European truckers for Gaza aid group

Michal Hatuel-Radoshitzky

What the UN knows about aid delivery in Gaza

The body in charge of tracking humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip has data on just how much (and how little) of it reaches civilians

Yohanan Plesner

The hidden lesson of Israel’s victory over Iran

The two countries have plenty in common, but Israel has a national security asset that the Islamic Republic will never have

Kosher food tray with the words 'Free Palestin' written on the packaging, received by a Jewish passenger on Iberia Airlines flight from Buenos Aires to Madrid, in an incident made public on August 4, 2025. (Delegation of Argentine Jewish Associations)

Iberia serves Jewish passenger a kosher meal with ‘Free Palestine’ written on it

Other meals bore initials ‘FP’ in same pen, says passenger on Buenos Aires-Madrid flight, adding crew apologized; Argentine Jewish group demands airline take ‘immediate action’

Police separate pro- and anti-Israel protesters in New York City, June 16, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Antisemitic hate crimes in New York decrease in recent months — NYPD

'We want to return -- when the war ends and we get security'

Kibbutz ravaged on Oct. 7 petitions against government move pushing residents to return

Members of Nahal Oz, located just 800 meters from Gaza border, tell High Court sense of security has not been restored; state set to end subsidies for housing elsewhere

Destruction caused by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, near the Israel-Gaza border, in southern Israel, October 20, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Crocodiles rest in water at a farm in the Jordan Valley, West Bank, August 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic/File)

Crocodiles euthanized after escapes, poor treatment, cannibalism on West Bank farm

By AP

Officials say Nile crocs from a failed settlement tourist attraction were kept under abusive conditions that drove some to cannibalism

Team Israel women’s flag football team charges at the IFAF European Championship in 2019. (Courtesy of AFI)

Playing from behind, Israeli flag football draws up a Hail Mary for Olympic kick-off

By Chani Kaplan

With limited resources and growing anti-Israel hostility in sports amid ongoing war, the men’s and women’s squads are training hard for a coveted spot at the 2028 Games in LA

More Headlines

L-R: Yair Netanyahu and Qatari Emir Tamim Bin Hamad al Thani (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90/Hadi Mizban/Pool/AFP)

Netanyahu’s son calls Qatari leader ‘modern-day Hitler’

Illustrative: A man holds a sign during a rally in the War Room at the state Capitol on June 15, 2016, in Albany, New York (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

US quickly reverses pledge to link disaster funds to Israel boycott stance

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Illustrative: IDF soldiers are seen in the Gaza Strip in a handout photo released August 4, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF to stop extending deployment of conscripts, will keep special forces on for longer

By Emanuel Fabian and Nava Freiberg

Illustrative. A satellite orbiting the earth (iStock)

Israel will invest NIS 40 million to launch a national R&D lab for space tech

By Sharon Wrobel

An Israeli air defense system intercepts a missile launched by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis, early on August 5, 2025. (Screenshot: Telegram)

IDF intercepts missile from Yemen, 68th launched by Houthis since March

By Emanuel Fabian

Diaa Abu Sharif (left) and Saher Najib Ibrahim (right), victims of two separate shootings in Jaljulia and Rameh, respectively, that took place the evening of August 4, 2025. (Courtesy)

2 shot dead in separate shootings, latest to rock Arab community; no suspects arrested

By Charlie Summers

Illustrative. A man's hands in handcuffs. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Iran says it detained ‘sabotage cell’ linked to exiled opposition group

By AFP and ToI Staff

A picture shows a view of the destroyed Beirut port silos on August 1, 2025, as Lebanon prepares to mark the 5th anniversary of the August 4 harbor explosion that killed more than 250 people and injured thousands. (Joseph EID / AFP)

Five years after deadly Beirut port blast, Lebanon’s new president promises justice

By AFP

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