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What Matters Most On Friday, August 8, 2025

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A tent camp for displaced Palestinians stretches along Gaza City, August 3, 2025. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi)

Zamir: Op risks hostages' lives, sends troops to death trap

Bucking IDF warnings, security cabinet approves Netanyahu plan to conquer Gaza City

Residents will have until October 7 to evacuate; adopted proposal more limited than PM’s publicly stated intention to take over entire Strip, but official indicates IDF will later move on to other areas

Protesters hold a banner reading: "Occupation of Gaza endangers hostages and soldiers" at a demonstration in Tel Aviv, August 7, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

‘A disaster’: Opposition, world leaders, families of hostages blast Gaza City takeover plan

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Lapid says newly approved war expansion is ‘exactly what Hamas wanted’; hostages forum says cabinet ‘sentenced the living hostages to death’

European Commission Executive Vice President for a Clean, Just and Competitive Transition, Teresa Ribera speaks during a press conference in Beijing, on July 14, 2025. (AP/Mahesh Kumar A.)

Senior EU official says Gaza war ‘looks very much’ like definition of genocide

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A ceremony marks rebuilding in Kibbutz Nir Oz, August 7, 2025, almost two years after the October 7 massacre. (Tsafrir Abayov/FLASH90)

Kibbutz Nir Oz suspends cornerstone-laying event to protest cabinet meeting on Gaza plan

'Plan is not to occupy or annex Gaza, but to destroy Hamas'

Netanyahu: Israel to take military control of all of Gaza, but ‘we don’t want to keep it’

By ToI Staff and Stav Levaton

PM says plan is to capture entire Strip, remove Hamas, hand it to non-PA ‘Arab forces’; adds Israel and US agree on principles for post-Hamas Gaza, including non-Israeli civil control

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to Fox News on August 7, 2025 (Screen Capture)

Young settlers cry and pray on the roof during the Disengagement in Neve Dekalim on August 17, 2005. (Nati Shohat/ Flash90)

ToI podcastFriday Focus with Micah Goodman: 20 years to Disengagement as Israel is set to occupy Gaza

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

UK Ambassador to Israel Simon Walters speaks during a rally calling for the release of Hamas-held hostages, at Hostages Square, in Tel Aviv, May 18, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

British ambassador: ‘Would be a huge mistake’ for Israel to occupy entire Gaza Strip

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Representatives of member countries vote on a resolution that would have recognized the Palestinians as a full UN member state, during a Security Council meeting at UN headquarters, April 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Promoted podcastJPPI

A Diplomatic Tsunami

As Europe moves to recognize a Palestinian state, Ambassador Jeremy Issacharoff joins us to unpack what it means for Israel’s global standing,

Released hostage Sharon Alony Cunio, whose husband David Cunio is still held in Gaza, speaks at a rally at Tel Aviv's Hostages Square, February 8, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 8: Hostage David Cunio’s wife says she saw clip of him looking ‘desperate and hungry’ in captivity

By Michael Horovitz, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Canada, UAE, Qatar, France join chorus condemning Israeli plan to take over Gaza City * National Security Adviser Hanegbi said to have joined IDF chief in expressing opposition to PM’s proposal

11:00 pm

Judge weighs Trump administration's request to end protections for immigrant children
9:35 pm

Trump says he'll meet Putin on August 15 in Alaska
9:04 pm

Qatar says Israeli planned takeover of Gaza City undermines efforts to secure a ceasefire

Gaza photographer denies staging images of hunger or affiliating with Hamas

By Ben Sales and Nava Freiberg

Israeli investigative group also casts doubt on those citing German tabloid report accusing photographer Anas Zayed Fteiha of creating ‘Hamas propaganda’

Illustrative: Palestinians gather at a food distribution point in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on July 19, 2025 (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Palestinian soccer player Suleiman al-Obeid in an undated photo. (X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Palestinian former soccer star allegedly killed by Israeli forces in Gaza

By AFP and ToI Staff

Norway's Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg departs after participating in a meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House, April 24, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Alex Brandon)

Norway wealth fund to declare steps on Israeli investments, but not blanket divestment

By Reuters and ToI Staff

I’m more than a pawn in this war… I hope

We reservists wrestle with our ideals, our sense of responsibility, and our personal worries each time the army’s automated call tells us to show up

Daniel Z. Feldman

Hiroshima and Hamas: Ideas can be defeated

To defeat Japan’s traditional militarism, it was shown to be futile and then replaced with something better. That’s how we’ll defeat Hamas’s terrorism too

US President Donald Trump, left, greets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, April 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Report: Trump yelled at Netanyahu over PM’s denial of hunger in Gaza; PMO: ‘Fake news’

By ToI Staff and Nava Freiberg

Premier said to have demanded phone call after US president publicly contradicted him, but in it, Trump interrupted him and said he was shown proof of Palestinian children starving

US President Donald Trump speaks during an event with Apple CEO Tim Cook (not in picture) in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on August 6, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump: All of Middle East should join Abraham Accords after Iran nukes ‘obliterated’

By Nava Freiberg, Reuters and ToI Staff

El Al offices in Paris defaced with ‘genocide airline’ graffiti

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Transportation Minister Miri Regev blames ‘barbaric and violent act’ on Macron’s recognition of Palestinian state, as French counterpart condemns ‘acts of hatred and antisemitism’

Footage shows the Paris offices of El Al vandalized with red paint and pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel graffiti, August 7, 2025. (Theo Wargnier/Jeremy Martin/AFPTV/AFP)

Reporter's notebook

Students at flagship Jerusalem yeshiva dismiss danger of arrest as IDF cracks down

‘Every day in [my prayers] I say that I am ready to die for the sanctification of God’s name,’ says student at Mir Yeshiva, insisting that he would rather go to jail than enlist

A student stands outside of the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem, August 6, 2025. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)

Police use a water canon to disperse ultra-Orthodox demonstrators as they protest military enlistment orders and the arrest of yeshiva students who avoided the orders, during a rally in Jerusalem on August 7, 2025. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Haredi protesters clash with cops in Jerusalem, Bnei Brak as leaders vow war against draft

By Charlie Summers, Sam Sokol, Rossella Tercatin and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A pro-Israel counter-protester at an anti-Israel demonstration in Times Square, New York City, January 1, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Jews should aim to build connections, not win arguments

Amid record antisemitism, US Jewish activists call on leaders to vacate their echo chamber

Smaller organizations challenge the establishment, saying the changed atmosphere requires new tactics and communication with the public

Israeli-owned kitchen store in Maryland hit with repeated vandalism

Some Jewish educators feel ‘stabbed in the back’ as NY teachers union endorses Mamdani

By Grace Gilson

US Attorney Jeanine Pirro speaks during a news conference on charges related to the deadly shooting of Israeli Embassy staff during a news conference at the Attorney General's office for the District of Columbia in Washington, on August 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

US prosecutors consider death penalty for alleged killer of Israeli embassy staffers

Nine-count indictment against Elias Rodriguez for May shooting of Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, 26, designates attack an anti-Israel hate crime

Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union of Reform Judaism, stands second from right on the dais as a morning prayer begins at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Churchwide Assembly in Phoenix, Arizona, July 31, 2025. (Courtesy Rick Jacobs)

'We must not let Hamas kill the hope for a better tomorrow'

After Lutherans pass ‘one-sided’ Israel resolution, US rabbi’s plea for unity prevails

By Grace Gilson

Union for Reform Judaism president Rick Jacobs has decades of interfaith work under his belt, so when a church convention voiced a narrow view of the Gaza conflict, he was prepared

US neo-Nazi group says return to Trump era is ‘the best thing that’s happened to us’

New Qatargate allegationsIn separate case, Feldstein said to contradict PM's stance

Ex-PM aide crafted pro-Qatar messages, sent them to Urich, Feldstein to publish in media

By Ethan Rubinson and ToI Staff

Leaked WhatsApp messages by Yisrael Einhorn said to reveal inner workings of ‘Qatargate’ scandal; Einhorn says he and Feldstein operated independently, ‘had no connection’ with PMO

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's former aide Yisrael Einhorn. (KAN screenshot).

The Leviathan natural gas platform off the shore of Israel. (Albatross)

In Israel’s largest gas deal, Leviathan partners ink $35 billion export deal with Egypt

By Sharon Wrobel

Deal will almost triple the annual amount of natural gas supplied from the Leviathan offshore field to Egypt, and boost state revenue from royalties

Smotrich photographed next to ‘Death to Arabs’ graffiti, disavows message

By Sam Sokol, AFP and ToI Staff

Finance minister vows to undo 2005 Disengagement during tour of former settlement of Sa-Nur, marking 20 years since northern West Bank community was evacuated under the plan

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, second left, and Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan, left, stand in a structure in the area of the former settlement of Sa-Nur in the northern West Bank, August 7, 2025. The two-word phrase, written in blue on the column on the photo's right, reads 'Death to Arabs.' (Roei Hadi/Samaria Regional Council)

Palestinians pray during the funeral of 31-year-old Awdah Hathaleen, in the Masafer Yatta area south of Hebron in the West Bank on August 7, 2025. (Mosab Shawer / AFP)

Palestinian activist allegedly killed by settler buried after Israel returns body

By Nurit Yohanan, AFP and ToI Staff

David Hasdai, a resident of the illegal West Bank settlement outpost of Givat Ronen. (Naomi Hasdai)

Extremist settler acquitted of terror charges after difficulties with eyewitness testimony

By Jeremy Sharon

Scene from Roman Polanski's 'An Officer and a Spy.' (courtesy Playtime/Gaumont)

Film review

Roman Polanski’s award-winning Dreyfus Affair film makes long-awaited US debut

By Jordan Hoffman

Screening in New York from August 8, what may be the best film adaptation of France’s Kafkaesque trial has the exiled director drawing comparisons between himself and his subject

Armed and masked men attend the funeral of two operatives from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), reportedly killed in southern Lebanon in fighting with Israel, in the Ain el Helweh refugee camp on November 1, 2024. (Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)

IDF says strike on Lebanon-Syria border killed senior commander in PFLP terror group

By Emanuel Fabian, AP and Nurit Yohanan

Mohammed Wishah and his bodyguard killed in Thursday strike; separately, Friday drone attack in south kills Hezbollah intelligence commander

In this handout photo released by the Turkish Foreign Ministry press service, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, left, sits with Syria's interim President Ahmad Al-Sharaa, during their meeting in Damascus, Syria, on August 7, 2025. (Turkish Foreign Ministry via AP)

Visiting Damascus, Turkish FM pledges to deepen ties with Syria, blasts IDF actions

Hezbollah supporters wave Hezbollah flags and chant slogans during a gathering outside the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, on June 25, 2025, to honor the Islamic Republic of Iran for what organizers described as "breaking American and Israeli aggression." (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Hezbollah ministers walk out of cabinet meeting as Beirut approves US disarmament plan

By Agencies, Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

A Russian drone strike on the Nachlas Eliezer Synagogue in the Peresyp district of Odesa, Ukraine, on August 4, 2025, caused significant damage to the building. (Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt/X)

Historic Odesa synagogue sustains heavy damage from Russian drone strike

By Grace Gilson

Flames engulf Nachlas Eliezer after suicide drone crashes into building, in latest Russian attack to hit a Jewish communal space in Ukraine; no injuries reported

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, right, and Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan pose for a photo prior to their talks in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, July 10, 2025. (Azerbaijani Presidential Press Office via AP)

Trump to host Armenia, Azerbaijan for historic ‘Peace Signing’ Friday

By Michelle L. Price

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