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What Matters Most On Monday, August 11, 2025

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on August 10, 2025. (Abir Sultan/Pool/AFP)

Concedes Israel losing 'propaganda war', says Merz 'buckled'

Netanyahu says Israel not looking to occupy Gaza but to ‘free it from Hamas’

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

PM denies seeking to prolong war, says ‘civilian administration’ to govern Gaza, details why 3 most ‘celebrated’ cases of ostensible Israeli-imposed starvation are ‘all fake’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press conference in Jerusalem on August 10, 2025. (Photo by ABIR SULTAN / POOL / AFP)

Netanyahu: ‘If we wanted to commit genocide, it would have taken exactly one afternoon’

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)

‘He was wrong’: Families fume at Netanyahu for pledging to free only ’20 hostages’

By ToI Staff, Nurit Yohanan and Jessica Steinberg

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid speaks at a Yesh Atid faction meeting at the Knesset, on July 14, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opposition pans Netanyahu as a ‘failed prime minister’ who ‘lies with brazen audacity’

After press conferences in which PM said Gaza City takeover is aimed at toppling Hamas and ending the war fast, Golan calls claims ‘ridiculous,’ Lapid says plan will cause disaster

Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi at a farewell ceremony for retiring acting Supreme Court President Uzi Vogelman, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on October 1, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Pool)

Top IDF lawyer said to warn Gaza takeover will put army in charge of daily life there

Illustrative: IDF forces operate in the Gaza Strip in a handout photo released July 3, 2025. (IDF)

IDF assessing how many troops needed for new Gaza offensive as Security Council convenes

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Israel: Move 'weakens the cause' of peace

Australia to recognize Palestinian state next month; New Zealand weighs following suit

By Agencies and ToI Staff

PM Albanese says move ‘part of a coordinated global effort’ for two-state solution, Hamas may take no part in state; New Zealand FM says recognition ‘matter of when, not if’

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks during a press conference in Canberra on August 11, 2025. (Hilary Wardhaugh / AFP)

Bono poses for photographers at the photo call for the film 'Bono: Stories of Surrender' at the 78th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, on May 17, 2025. (Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)

Bono, U2 pen sharp condemnation of Israeli military action in Gaza

Activist Greta Thunberg stands near a Palestinian flag after boarding the Madleen boat and before setting sail for Gaza along with activists of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, departing from the Sicilian port of Catania, Italy on June 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)

Greta Thunberg announces new aid flotilla to Gaza, this time with ‘dozens of boats’

By AFP and ToI Staff

A general view shows tents of displaced Palestinians in the al-Mawasi area, in the southern Gaza Strip, August 11, 2025. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 11: Gazan media reports 7 children killed in strike; IDF denies hitting civilians

Netanyahu reported to rule out partial hostage deal with Hamas * EU says Israel must provide proof Al Jazeera journalist was terrorist amid growing outcry over deadly strike

8:43 pm

IAEA official leaves Iran after meeting on future contacts, Tehran says
7:58 pm

Gazan media reports 7 children killed in strike; IDF denies hitting civilians
7:50 pm

Family of Nepalese hostage Joshi arrives in Israel to seek son's return

Al Jazeera reporter Anas al-Sharif reports in a broadcast segment posted to X on August 8, 2025. (Screenshot: X)

IDF strike on Gaza City kills Al Jazeera reporter accused of being a Hamas cell leader

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

4 more journalists and 2 others said killed in strike targeting Anas al-Sharif, who posted on X minutes before his death; groups pan Israel; pro-Israel activists note Sharif backed Oct. 7

Mourners march with the bodies of the Al Jazeera journalists who were killed in an overnight Israeli strike on their tent in Gaza City, from Al-Shifa hospital to their burial at the Sheikh Radwan cemetery in Gaza City on August 11, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

International outcry after Israel kills Al Jazeera reporter it says was Hamas terrorist

By AFP, ToI Staff and Nava Freiberg

Palestinian soccer player Suleiman Obeid (L) vies for the ball with Iranian player Hashem Beikzadeh during their West Asian Football Federation Championship (WAFF) match in the Jordanian capital Amman, 20 June 2007. (KHALIL MAZRAAWI / AFP)

After soccer star killed in Gaza, IDF says it’s unaware of casualties in the area that day

By Emanuel Fabian, Reuters and ToI Staff

Demonstrators hold placards as they take part in the March for Hostages, in London, August 10, 2025. (AP Photo/ Alberto Pezzali)

Hundreds march in London for hostages, against UK recognizing a Palestinian state

By AFP and ToI Staff

British government ‘got it wrong with its foreign policy,’ says relative of slain hostage, ‘it’s time for it to correct and refocus on the hostages’; counter-protesters arrested

One of the protests of the anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian 'Day of Action' in Greece on Sunday, August 10, 2025. (Screenshot)

Greek ‘Day of Action’ against Israel ends without major incident

By Zev Stub and ToI Staff

A protester is carried away by police officers at a 'Lift The Ban' demonstration in support of the proscribed group Palestine Action at Parliament Square, central London, on August 9, 2025. (HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)

London police up arrest tally to 522 at rally for proscribed group Palestine Action

By AFP and ToI Staff

What outweighs the need to destroy Hamas?

The terror organization is evil, but I have questions about Israel’s moral responsibility in Gaza

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Analysis

Germany’s arms embargo signals sharp downturn in relations with Israel

Chancellor Merz’s decision to restrict sales of offensive weapons to Israel appears to have caught Jerusalem off guard. Where things go from here may depend on Jerusalem’s response

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (L, on February 24, 2025 in Berlin) and
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (on December 9, 2024 in Jerusalem (Photo by INA FASSBENDER and Maya Alleruzzo / various sources / AFP)

Leaders of a new movement of mothers and women to stop the war in Gaza and free the remaining Israeli march at at Nahal Oz, southern Israel, before setting up a camp near Kibbutz Sa'ad, August 10, 2025. (Naama Zeevi Rivlin)

Women set up camp in south to launch mothers’ movement to end Gaza war, free hostages

Some 500 people take part, hoping to echo Four Mothers movement of late 1990s that helped push Israel to withdraw from southern Lebanon

PM Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference at the PM's office in Jerursalem, August 10, 2025. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 11: Day 675 – PM spells out Gaza plan in English, Hebrew pressers

By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid

A child was bound to a chair and gagged in an Israeli daycare center, prompting his mother to file a police complaint on August 9, 2025. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Child at daycare gagged, duct taped to chair by clown, photographed; mom files police complaint

Mother writes in viral post, ‘My heart is broken and my tears haven’t stopped’ after small boy is bound and gagged as a ‘joke’ by clown visiting the Jerusalem class

Graffiti reading 'There is a Holocaust in Gaza' seen spray painted on Jerusalem's Western Wall on August 11, 2025. (Conservation Division/Israel Antiquities Authority)

‘Holocaust in Gaza’ graffiti sprayed on Western Wall, reportedly by troubled Haredi man

By Rossella Tercatin and Sam Sokol

Officials and politicians across the aisle condemn the act; judge reportedly orders the 27-year-old suspect, a resident of Jerusalem, hospitalized in psychiatric ward

Children jump at trampoline practice in Shlomi on July 31, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'We have the experience, knowledge to help us recover'

Treating ‘collective traumas,’ northern town of Shlomi looks to bounce back after war

By Diana Bletter

Mayor Gabi Naaman says he expects 95% of residents evacuated due to Hezbollah attacks to return, promising ‘hope and security’ with troops protecting border from inside Lebanon

Footage filmed by Awdag Hathaleen, who was killed in a confrontation with a settler, moments before his death. The suspected shooter, Yinon Levy, can be seen confronting Palestinians. July 28, 2025. (B’Tselem)

New video shows settler shot Palestinian dead during West Bank clash, rights group says

By Nurit Yohanan

Awdah Hathaleen filmed his own final moments, B’Tselem states, as clip appears to show Yinon Levi fire in victim’s direction before he collapses; Levi was recently released by a court

An Israeli army vehicle during a military operation in Askar refugee camp east of Nablus in the West Bank, July 30, 2025. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Katz: IDF to remain in north West Bank refugee camps until year’s end at least

By Emanuel Fabian, Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

People walk across the light rail tracks on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem during a hazy summer day, August 11, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Hazardous air pollution warning issued in Jerusalem amid record-nearing heatwave

Environmental Protection Ministry says elderly, pregnant women, children, and any other sensitive people should avoid strenuous outdoor activity

As an extreme heatwave takes hold, hundreds of ultra-Orthodox men and children enjoy the sea at Tel Aviv's religious beach, August 8, 2025. (Flash90)

Weather experts predict shattering of records as extreme heatwave hits Israel

Explosives seized during a raid on an apartment that police say was used by a Palestinian father and son to plan terror attacks, photo published August 10, 2025. (Israel Police)

Father and son, a Jewish convert to Islam, indicted on terror charges

By Charlie Summers

Born to a Jewish mother, son was allegedly recruited by Muslim father into plotting terror attacks and sought to shoot up nightclub, kill pilot after rejection from IDF combat role

Illustrative: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, second left, and the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran chief Mohammad Eslami, second right, are seen during the 'National Day of Nuclear Technology,' in Tehran, Iran, April 9, 2025. (Iranian Presidency / AFP)

UN nuclear watchdog deputy head to visit Tehran on Monday, Iranian FM says

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israelis protest in support of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, near her home in Tel Aviv on August 3, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

High Court freezes AG’s ouster until further notice, decries minister’s call to defy ruling

By Jeremy Sharon

Judge Noam Sohlberg issues interim order a week after coalition voted to fire Baharav-Miara; tells Minister Shlomo Karhi that government is ‘obligated’ to respect court decisions

MK Meir Porush sits in front of a banner reading "Office of MK Meir Porush" as he demonstrates outside the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem on August 7, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Haredi MK Porush warns conscription of yeshiva students could lead to ‘civil war’

Former cabinet minister sets up tent outside Justice Ministry to protest arrests of draft evaders. Liberman calls on ultra-Orthodox to ‘join the effort to defeat the enemy’

Boris Gorbis has amassed what may be the world’s largest collection of mid-century Zionist souvenirs. (Asaf Elia-Shalev/JTA)

Reporter's notebook'These pieces weren't made for a museum, but for tourists'

Inside one man’s quixotic quest to preserve 200,000 Israeli tchotchkes

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Boris Gorbis spent a lifetime scouring garage sales, thrift shops and eBay for discarded souvenirs from the Jewish state’s early days. Now, he’s determined to secure their future

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Malka Leifer, right, is brought to a courtroom in Jerusalem, on February 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

Malka Leifer said moved to solitary after alleged sexual assault on fellow inmate

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Hadash-Ta'al chair Ayman Odeh (left) and MK Ahmad Tibi lead a faction meeting at the Knesset, on July 14, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Arab parties meeting to discuss reuniting into Joint List bloc

By Ariela Karmel

New Jewish immigrants from Spain, England, France and the Netherlands disembark from an airplane a day after the announcement of a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, as they arrive at Ben Gurion Airport, June 25, 2025. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)

New plan seeks to attract talented and wealthy Jews to immigrate to Israel

Acclaimed bassist and jazz artist Omer Avital whose composition 'North African Sounds' will be performed by the Israeli Andalusian Orchestra Ashdod in August 2025 (Courtesy)

Israeli jazz bassist in NYC comes home to compose North African sounds

By Jessica Steinberg

A health worker and other men walk amid the bodies of victims of the recent clashes between local Druze fighters and Bedouin tribes, laid out for identification in the yard of a hospital in Syria's southern city of Sweida on July 17, 2025. (Shadi AL-DUBAISI / AFP)

Syria vows investigation after video shows forces killing worker in Sweida hospital

By Nurit Yohanan, AFP and Stav Levaton

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)

Iran’s top security official heads to Iraq, Lebanon amid Hezbollah disarmament talks

By AFP and ToI Staff

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