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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 9, 2025

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz leaves after making a statement to journalists following a meeting of the security Cabinet of the German government at the Chancellery in Berlin on July 28, 2025. (John MACDOUGALL / AFP)

European and Arab nations slam cabinet decision

In major shift, Germany limits arms exports to Israel over Gaza City takeover plan

By Agencies, ToI Staff, Jacob Magid and Nurit Yohanan

Israel’s second-largest arms supplier to stop sales of weapons that could be used in Gaza until further notice, chancellor says; Vance: US has ‘some disagreement’ about Israel’s war strategy, but aligned on objectives; Netanyahu: ‘We are not going to occupy Gaza; we are going to free Gaza from Hamas’

US special envoy Steve Witkoff attends a trilateral signing with US President Donald Trump, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 8, 2025 (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

Trump: 'We're looking into' moving Gazans to Somaliland

Witkoff reportedly meets Qatar PM on comprehensive deal amid scramble to stop Gaza takeover

Hamas sources reportedly say intense ceasefire-hostage and disarmament talks underway to stave off Israeli occupation; Rubio blames impasse on France’s Palestine recognition

Eli Albag, the father of released hostage Liri Albag, speaks at a press conference at the Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva on January 26, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 9: Father of ex-hostage says he’d planned to ‘burn the country’ to get his daughter back

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

After tens of thousands rally for hostages and call on troops to refuse, some activists briefly block Tel Aviv highway * Gantz: Western nations’ anti-Israel rhetoric harming chances for deal

9:26 pm

Ex-hostage's father says he'd planned at one point to torch hundreds of cars, 'burn the country'
9:06 pm

Canadian PM condemns 'appalling' assault on Jewish man in front of his kids
8:29 pm

200 Hasidic men to demonstrate at military prison to protest draft-dodgers' arrests

Netanyahu’s national security adviser opposed Gaza City takeover plan — report

Tzachi Hanegbi said to have echoed IDF chief’s misgivings, told ministers he’s ‘not prepared to give up on saving the hostages,’ at meeting in which they approved military operation

File: National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi speaks to reporters at the Israel Defense Forces' Tel Aviv headquarters, October 14, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash 90)

Thousands to rally as hostage mom calls for strike over Gaza plan that ‘sacrifices’ captives

Hostage families to stage ‘hunger display’ in Tel Aviv as they assail ‘government’s decision to sacrifice our loved ones’; mother of hostage Matan Angrest calls for general strike

Demonstrators raise placards during an anti-government protest calling for the release of hostages from the Gaza Strip, outside the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv on August 6, 2025. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem on August 6, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich thinks plan to take over Gaza City doesn’t go far enough, spokesperson says

Finance minister believes operation is a ploy to revive talks, leading him to vote against it; says he’s working to ‘erase Palestinian state’ by ‘correcting’ Disengagement

Palestinian Authority UN envoy Riyad Mansour (C) speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting on the conflict in the Middle East, at the United Nations headquarters in New York on August 5, 2025. (ANGELA WEISS / AFP)

Dutch FM: 'Netanyahu's cabinet is losing Europe — totally'

World condemnations mount over Israeli plans to take Gaza City; UN Security Council to meet

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Source in forum says extraordinary session requested by several members after decision, which UN chief assails for ‘deepening the already catastrophic consequences’ for Gazans

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee delivers remarks as US President Donald Trump hosts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a dinner in the Blue Room of the White House on July 7, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images via AFP)

US envoy to Israel slams UK’s Starmer over Gaza, says he’d have lost World War II to Nazis

By AFP and ToI Staff

IDF chief: Army will carry out Gaza City occupation plan in ‘best possible way’

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan, ToI Staff and Agencies

At least 17 said dead as a result of bombing, starvation or being hit by airdropped aid across Strip; Egypt, Qatar working on comprehensive truce-hostage deal, officials say

Tents used as temporary shelters by displaced Palestinians are set up around war-damaged structures along the beach in Gaza City on August 8, 2025. (Bashar Taleb/AFP)

For Qatar, it’s not about 1967, it’s about 1948

How can a country that doesn’t recognize Israel’s right to exist mediate the Gaza conflict – Qatar is not a partner, it’s a saboteur

Let us in: The world needs uncensored reporting from Gaza now

Keeping foreign media out of the Strip violates the public’s right to know and weakens journalism’s core role: to hold power accountable

Deputy Attorney General for International Law Gilad Noam, Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, Chief Military Advocate Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi.
(Photos by Nick Gammon / AFP, Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Op-ed

Opinion: Israel is committing war crimes – and its legal heads remain silent

The silence of Israel’s three senior legal officials charged with ensuring that Israel’s military operations comply with the rules of international law is indefensible

Left: Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn attends an anti-Israel demonstration in London, February 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)/ Zarah Sultana, then a Labour MP for Coventry South, arrives for an interview with the BBC in London on July 21, 2024. (BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP)

Inside storyCorbyn is a marmite figure, attracting devotion or loathing

5 years after steering UK’s Labour to disaster, Jeremy Corbyn is back – with a sidekick

By Robert Philpot

The anti-Israel politician known for his unrepentant response to an antisemitism probe launches a new far-left party with Zarah Sultana; experts say it may have more bark than bite

Shir Siegel, center, is embraced by her parents, former hostages Keith, left, and Aviva at Shir's wedding on August 7, 2025. (Paulina Patimer)

'The image of victory'

Freed from captivity, Keith and Aviva Siegel walk daughter down aisle

Shir Siegel realizes wedding plans she pushed off when her parents were abducted on October 7, 2023; fellow ex-captives Damari, Berger, Albag and Soussana join festivities

'Jacob Encountering Rachel with her Father's Herds,' Joseph von Führich, 1836. (Wikipedia)

'Give me of the kisses of your mouth' (Song of Songs 1:2)

When did lovers start kissing in ancient Israel? A new study looks to the Bible for clues

By Rossella Tercatin

Research based on textual analysis traces the rise of ancient Israelites’ snogging to post-exilic times, likely influenced by Babylonian culture

Rabbi Levi and Sara Volovik came to western Massachusetts in 2003, and inaugurated the new Chabad of the Berkshires building in July 2025. (JTA Photo)

'I think we are blessed here'

The new Borscht Belt? More Jewish professionals are making the Berkshires a summer home

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

A new Chabad house is the latest sign of a metamorphosis in western Massachusetts as Jews are increasingly drawn to this modern, highbrow version of the Catskills

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US President Donald Trump (C), Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev (L) and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan shake hands after signing an agreement in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 8, 2025 (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

Azerbaijan and Armenia sign peace agreement at White House

By Michelle L. Price

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and US President Donald Trump shake hands before a meeting in Helsinki, Finland, on July 16, 2018. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Trump says he’ll meet Putin in Alaska on August 15

By AFP

Rabbi Yitzchok Lerman, who survived with his family in the fire that completely destroyed Congregation Beth El synagogue, stands in front of the synagogue's ruins in Rutherford, New Jersey on August 8. (Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images via JTA)

Rabbi and family safely escape fire that destroys historic New Jersey synagogue

By Grace Gilson

A devotee holds portraits of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (right) and Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani (left) in the Iraqi holy city of Karbala, on July 6, 2025. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

Iraq divided over future of pro-Iran armed alliance

By AFP

Demonstrators walk in an encampment on the UCLA campus after clashes between protesters demonstrating about the Israel-Hamas war, Wednesday, May 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, file)

Trump demands $1b from University of California over UCLA Gaza protests

By AFP

Doves fly past the 'Peace Statue' in Nagasaki, Japan, after being released into the air during the 80th annual memorial for the US nuclear bombing of the city in World War II, August 9, 2025. (JIJI PRESS / AFP)

Israeli envoy attends Nagasaki 80th atom bomb anniversary, a year after Gaza war snub

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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