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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 6, 2025

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Left to right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference at his office in Jerusalem, May 21, 2025. (Nava Freiberg/Times of Israel); IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir in Jerusalem on March 5, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Military chief said to clash with Netanyahu over plans to conquer Gaza, son’s tweet

Zamir reportedly warns occupation of Strip is a ‘trap’ that could endanger hostages, further exhaust troops; PM’s office: ‘IDF prepared to implement any decision made by security cabinet’

Defense Minister Israel Katz (left) and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, June 20, 2025. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Katz defends IDF chief after PM’s son insinuates that he backs ‘military coup’

Activists block the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv, during a protest calling for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip and against the government, August 5, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Hostage families, opposition decry reported plan to occupy Gaza as risk to captives

By ToI Staff, Ariela Karmel and Jessica Steinberg

Front L-R: 98th Division commander Brig. Gen. Guy Levy, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Yaniv Asor in Gaza City's Shejaiya neighborhood, July 20, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 6: Cabinet reportedly weighs occupation plan that would begin with conquering Gaza City

Senior IDF general admits to ‘disagreements’ among top officials on Gaza approach * US charges suspect in killing of Israeli diplomats with hate crimes, paving way to seeking death penalty

8:40 pm

IDF says strikes on Hezbollah targeted rocket launchers, weapons depots
8:26 pm

Iran issues message of support for Hezbollah during disarmament plan
7:29 pm

Report: Hamas leaders in Turkey pushed group toward 'complete veto' in ceasefire talks

Op-ed: Day 670 of the war

What is Netanyahu planning with Gaza’s ‘full occupation,’ and why is the IDF chief so worried?

Israel already controls 75% of the Gaza Strip. The hostages are in the other 25%. So, too, are almost all of Gaza’s two million citizens

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir speaks to troops in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, on July 7, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Palestinians carry personal belongings in the Mawasi area of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on July 28, 2025. (AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 6: Day 670 – Inside the final 25% of Gaza the IDF doesn’t control

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

Thousands participate in Chabad-Lubavitch's annual public menorah lighting ceremony at the base of the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Sunday December 6, 2015, the first night of Hanukkah. (Chabad.org/Thierry Guez)

Promoted PodcastWhat Came After

“Cherish the tension.”

Rabbi and author Emile Ackermann, founder of the first Liberal Modern Orthodox community in France, shares his vision for a Modern Orthodoxy characterized by openness and tolerance.

US President Donald Trump shouts to reporters as he surveys the grounds from the roof above the Colonnade that goes to the West Wing of the White House, August 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump: Hope a lot of people see horrible Hamas hostage video

Chiefly focused on food aid, Trump says Gaza occupation ‘pretty much up to Israel’

US president says Israel, with help from Arab states, will fund and distribute assistance to Gazans ‘who aren’t doing well in terms of food’

Palestinians carry the body of a person who was killed while trying to reach aid trucks entering northern Gaza Strip through the Zikim crossing with Israel, at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, August 6, 2025. (Jehad Alshrafi/AP)

20 Palestinians said killed, dozens wounded as Gaza aid truck overturns

By Nurit Yohanan, Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Palestinians ride on a truck loaded with food and humanitarian aid as it moves along the Morag corridor near Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, August 4, 2025. (AP/ Mariam Dagga)

Almost 9 in 10 aid trucks looted before reaching Gaza destinations, UN figures show

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

The Brandenburg Gate is illuminated in solidarity with Israel, marking the first anniversary of the Hamas-led attacks on Israel, in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. (AP/Markus Schreiber)

Inside story

Since Oct. 7, Berlin has quietly fast-tracked citizenship for hostages and their families

By Ariela Karmel

With several citizens held in Gaza, Germany has adopted a forceful role in the fight for hostages, seeing itself as responsible for their safe return from captivity

Haviv Rettig Gur (courtesy) / Illustrative: Jews visit the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, on Jerusalem Day, May 26, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: When Temple Mount prayer is a call to settle Gaza

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur

ToI’s senior analyst on National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s prayer-leading on Tisha B’Av, why World War III didn’t erupt and what the far-right politician hoped to gain

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, May 26, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett: Israel’s status in US ‘has never been so bad,’ it’s becoming a ‘leper state’

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Lengthy post by former PM, who’s set to run in next elections, also castigates current government’s public diplomacy efforts

A screenshot of aerial footage from KMOV 4 News shows graffiti reading "Death to the IDF" and a burnt car on a street in Clayton, Missouri, August 6, 2025. (YouTube screenshot)

Cars torched, ‘Death to the IDF’ graffitied in St. Louis; American IDF vet said target

Police arrest a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protester near the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the Met Gala takes place, May 6, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File)

FBI says anti-Jewish hate crimes across US hit record high in 2024

By Zev Stub and Luke Tress

The spy who stayed out of the heat

Daniel Silva struck publishing gold with his overtly Israeli secret agent Gabriel Allon, but after October 7, that fictional spy’s file was inappropriately redacted

Nvidia’s mega-campus could transform northern Israel

The global tech giant would bring thousands of jobs to a region hard-hit by war – the government must do all it can to make that happen

Prof. Benjamin Dekel, Director of the pediatric nephrology unit and the Stem Cell Research Institute at the Safra Children's Hospital at Sheba Medical Center and Director of the Sagol Center for Regenerative Medicine at Tel Aviv University. (Courtesy/Sheba Medical Center)

In a world breakthrough, Israeli researchers grow first long-term human kidney in lab

By Diana Bletter

Sheba Medical Center and Tel Aviv University scientists develop a 3D 34-week human kidney; the study could lead to better understanding of kidney diseases and new treatments

How will High Court rule?

Legal right or government caprice: Was the decision to fire the attorney general lawful?

Government says it’s entitled to modify the dismissal process in order to axe an AG who repeatedly stymied its policies, but critics argue this violates key principles of administrative law

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends the swearing-in ceremony of Justice Isaac Amit as president of the Supreme Court, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, February 13, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

L: Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on December 18, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); R: Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on November 18, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Communications minister tells staff to ignore AG’s orders, contravening High Court

By Jeremy Sharon

Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest the IDF draft outside the Jerusalem enlistment center, April 28, 2025. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)

AG’s office to High Court: State not doing enough to crack down on Haredi draft evaders

Ilay David is displayed on screen as he shows a picture of his brother of Evyatar David, who is held hostage by Hamas in Gaza, during a Security Council meeting at UN headquarters in New York City, August 5, 2025. At right, in front row with back to camera, is Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar. (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz)

Sa’ar at UN: Plans to recognize Palestinian state ‘assassinated the hostage deal’

Foreign minister says pressure on Israel is a ‘free gift to Hamas’ that prolongs the war; hostage Evyatar David’s brother tells Security Council ‘your silence is complicity’

Leftist Jews protest against the war in Gaza, in New York City, August 4, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Hundreds of leftist Jews protest against Gaza war in New York; 41 arrested

Israeli grown Jaffa Oranges. (GPO)

AnalysisIsrael projected to take an annual hit of up to $4 billion

As Trump’s tariffs come for Israel, will Startup Nation lose its competitive edge?

By Sharon Wrobel

The 15% tax set to hit Thursday bypasses much of Israel’s tech and pharma industries — so far. Experts warn, even so, these new tariffs may see Israel lose billions – and thousands of jobs

The Opera House in Tel Aviv, pictured on April 1, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

UK Royal Opera cancels 2026 production of ‘Tosca’ in Israel after staff protest

CEO’s announcement marks the latest in a string of British cultural figures denouncing Israel; 180 performers and staff at Royal Ballet and Opera accuse Israel of ‘genocide’

The Bob Vylan duo performs at the Glastonbury Festival, June 28, 2025. (Yui Mok/PA via AP)

UK antisemitism neared record levels in first half of 2025

Protesters shout slogans during a rally against Israel's operations in Gaza and Lebanon, in Athens, Greece, on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024. (AP/Yorgos Karahalis)

Greek pro-Palestinian groups plan ‘Day of Action’ targeting Israeli tourists

People pose for a picture on a burnt Hezbollah rocket launcher in the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Tibnit on November 27, 2024, after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah took effect. (Mahmoud Zayat/AFP)

Hezbollah rejects Beirut’s call to disarm as ‘major mistake’

By Nurit Yohanan, Emanuel Fabian and Reuters

Terror group says move ‘fully serves Israel’s interest’; IDF strike in Lebanon kills Hezbollah operative who it says directed terror cells in Syria to launch rockets at Golan

Lebanese president Joseph Aoun, center, and Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, left background, lead a Cabinet meeting to discuss the disarmament of Hezbollah, at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, August 5, 2025. (Lebanese Presidency press office via AP)

Lebanese cabinet tasks army with drawing up plans to disarm Hezbollah by year’s end

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

Spokesperson says Trump administration waiting for results of probe into death of Khamis Ayyad, the second US citizen allegedly killed by settlers in past month

L-R: US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and his wife, Janet Huckabee; Sara Netanyahu and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Kerry Larry, the wife of US House Speaker Mike Johnson, and Johnson, during Johnson's visit to Israel, on August 4, 2025. (PMO)

US Speaker Mike Johnson dines with Netanyahu in West Bank settlement of Shiloh

By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

View of the Givat Assaf outpost, located near the Jewish settlement of Beit El in the West Bank, June 05, 2012. (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/FLASH90)

Russia lodges protest over alleged settler assault on Russian diplomatic vehicle

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Jerusalem planning to charge drivers who enter city once light rail lines completed

Congestion fee announced by mayor not expected to take effect for at least 7 years, while the capital’s expanded public transportation network is built out

Heavy traffic near the western entrance to Jerusalem, November 25, 2019 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

In July 2025, a group of Spanish scholars suggested that a 4th-century building in the Roman city of Cástulo in south-central Spain served as a synagogue and not as a church as previously believed. Right: An aerial view of the archaeological site. Left: The reconstruction of an oil lamp featuring a menorah found in the vicinity of the building. (Courtesy of Bautista Ceprián)

ArchaeologyResearchers found 3 oil lamps depicting 7-branched menorah

Study suggests 4th-century prayer site may be one of Spain’s earliest synagogues

By Rossella Tercatin

Oil lamps decorated with menorahs and architectural evidence uncovered in the Roman city of Castulo suggest that the building was not a church, but served as Jews’ place of worship

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An illustrative photo of an execution in Iran. (AFP/Arash Khamooshi/ISNA)

Iran executes man convicted of giving Israel details of assassinated nuclear scientist

By AFP and ToI Staff

Efraim Shamir of the Israeli rock band Kaveret performs during the group's comeback tour in the summer of 2013. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Police question musician Efraim Shamir for incitement to terrorism against Netanyahu

View of a construction site in Ashkelon, July 19, 2022. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israel to invest NIS 3.2 billion for post-war rehabilitation in the south

The Mountain Jews Synagogue of Baku (Wikimedia Commons)

Azerbaijani ISIS member tried for attempted attack on Baku synagogue

Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk attends solemn ceremonies at the monument to the 1939 heroic defense of the Westerplatte peninsula to mark the 85th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, at Westerplatte, on the Baltic Sea, Poland, September 1, 2024. (Wojciech Strozyk/AP)

Foreign Ministry summons Polish envoy after Tusk slams Israel with Holocaust allusion

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Reuven Rubin's 'Tel Aviv Seashore' hosted at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, August through November 2025 (Courtesy Rubin Museum)

A welcome guestReuven Rubin works hosted by TLV Museum of Art after Iran war damage

By Jessica Steinberg

Poland's new President Karol Nawrocki, with his wife Marta Nawrocka, shows a V-sign during the inauguration ceremony in Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday, August 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Conservative Holocaust revisionist Karol Nawrocki inaugurated as Poland’s president

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Ali Larijani, a senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, delivers a statement after meeting with Lebanon's parliament speaker in Beirut on November 15, 2024. (AFP)

Ali Larijani reappointed secretary of Iran’s top security body

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Children inspect the scene in the aftermath of overnight Israeli bombardment on a camp sheltering displaced people in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on August 5, 2025. (AFP)

Israel’s Jews think IDF tries not to hurt civilians in Gaza; Arabs disagree – poll

Elad Levi, center, stars in 'Kazablan,' at Tel Aviv's Ganei Yehoshua on September 4, 2025 (Credit: Maayan Kaufman)

Love storyTel Aviv to stage free park performance of ‘Kazablan’

By Jessica Steinberg

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