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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 12, 2025

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Palestinians receive meals from volunteers in Gaza City on August 10, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

Israel says review shows Hamas inflating Gaza hunger data in ‘orchestrated campaign’

By Emanuel Fabian

COGAT says Hamas figures lack credibility, and most people who died of malnutrition had pre-existing conditions — though experts say this is typical in early stages of famine

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) greets French President Emmanuel Macron before a meeting in Jerusalem on October 24, 2023. (Christophe Ena/Pool/AFP)

France slams Israel’s fresh Gaza plans as ‘disaster,’ Italy mulls sanctions

By AFP and ToI Staff

Displaced Palestinians carry food parcels and supplies from a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution point along the Netzarim corridor in the central Gaza Strip, August 8, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

American Jewish federation pledges $1M for Gaza aid through Israeli rescue nonprofit

By JTA

Visitors at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv. August 11, 2025. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90)

More universities, 70 local authorities, to back Aug. 17 strike in support of hostages

By ToI Staff and Ariela Karmel

Hebrew University, Technion, Open University to allow staff to attend protests instead of work; municipalities to dedicate day on behalf of hostages without formal shutdown

Histadrut labor union chairman Arnon Bar-David (middle) meets with senior representatives of the business sector and representatives of the families of hostages, August 11, 2025. (Courtesy)

Histadrut labor union won’t join Aug. 17 general strike; tech firms, Bar Association will

By Sharon Wrobel and ToI Staff

Padma Joshi, whose son Bipin Joshi is held hostage in the Gaza Strip, speaks to reporters after arriving at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on August 11, 2025. (Screen capture via Ynet)

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

By Jessica Steinberg

Al Jazeera reporter Anas al-Sharif (center left), who was killed by the IDF in Gaza on August 10, 2025, shown together with the late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in an undated photographed posted by the IDF's Arabic language spokesman on August 11, 2025.

Amid global outcry, IDF says Al Jazeera reporter it killed was receiving Hamas salary

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

IDF mum on affiliation of five other journalists killed with Anas al-Sharif; top EU diplomat calls on Israel to provide clear evidence of Sharif’s ties to Hamas

Palestinians struggle to get food and humanitarian aid from the back of a truck as it moves along the Morag corridor near Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, August 4, 2025. (AP Photo/ Mariam Dagga)

Former students at Israeli institute raise some $60,000 for Gazan ex-colleagues

Zakaria Zubeidi, 49, a Palestinian prisoner and former a top commander in the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades who was released by Israel, January 30, 2025. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

‘There’s no solution’: Ex-terror chief Zubeidi laments failed Palestinian strategies

By Nava Freiberg

Participants at "Camp Hallelujah" on Israel's coast during the summer of 2022. (Jacob Rivkin/Times of Israel)

From the Hartman InstitutePromoted Podcast

Concerning Camp Communities

Adina Frydman, CEO of Young Judaea Global, joins us to explore how Jewish camps create spaces where Jewish campers live, learn, and wrestle with complex identities together.

Yemenis lift placards and flags during a rally in solidarity with Palestinians and in condemnation of Israel and the US, in the Houthi-run capital Sanaa on July 25, 2025. (Mohammed HUWAIS / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 12: Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis claim attempted drone attack on Israel

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Egypt says it’s working with Qatar, US to revive plans for 60-day truce, hostage deal * Levin locks attorney general out of her office, claims she has no right to use it

8:18 pm

US indicates it will boost Gaza Humanitarian Foundation after first saying it would establish new aid plan
7:52 pm

Yemen's Houthis claim attempted drone attack on Israel today
7:34 pm

Haredi rabbi who declared it permissible to desecrate Shabbat to avoid draft praised Haredi soldiers just days before

from the blogs

From a former hostage negotiator: This is what Israel must do

In today’s chaotic ‘tunnel era’ when the old rules don’t apply, a deal, though painful, must be seen not as capitulation but as strategy

Outgoing US Secretary of State Antony Blinken bids farewell to State Department staff at the State Department in Washington, DC, on January 17, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

Blinken: Western countries are morally right to recognize Palestine, but too hasty

Former US secretary of state proposes three-year timeline to demilitarize Gaza, oust Hamas and give Palestinians a chance to show they really want to live in peace with Israel

Rabbi Charley Baginsky (right) and Rabbi Josh Levy on stage at a march for the release of hostages held in Gaza, in London, August 10, 2025. (Instagram screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Progressive rabbis booed off stage at UK hostage rally after backing Palestinian state

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Katz publicly slaps down Zamir for holding discussion on senior military appointments

By Emanuel Fabian

Defense minister says meeting held by IDF chief wasn’t coordinated with him and he won’t approve appointees whose names were leaked; IDF: Promotions were discussed according to protocol

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

IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip in an image released by the military on August 11, 2025. (IDF)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 12: Day 676 – IDF lays out projected timeline for capture of Gaza City

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

FILE: Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer speaks at the Jewish News Syndicate conference in Jerusalem, on April 28, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Netanyahu confidant Dermer plans to retire from politics before next election – report

By Michael Horovitz

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the opening ceremony of the new Knesset museum, in Jerusalem on August 11, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

PM said to rule out partial hostage deals, as Trump backs more military pressure on Hamas

By Nava Freiberg, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Dermer reportedly told security cabinet before vote on Gaza City takeover that Israel should only pursue a deal that frees all captives; mediators said presenting Hamas an offer for comprehensive deal

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

Smotrich says he’ll stay in government despite PM’s war strategy being ‘off the rails’

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

France temporarily halts visas for El Al security staff

By Nava Freiberg and Zev Stub

Move prevents airline employees from working legally in country; Israel’s embassy says it is handling the issue with the French Foreign Ministry

An El Al plane arrives from France at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, August 1, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg / Flash90)

The flags of (from top) Norway, South Africa, Palestine, Ireland, and Spain, are raised at an entrance of Ramallah city in the West Bank on May 28, 2024. (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

Norway wealth fund expects to sell more Israeli stocks over Gaza, West Bank concerns

Norway's Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg delivers remarks during an Oval Office meeting with Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store (R) and US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House on April 24, 2025, in Washington, DC. (CHIP SOMODEVILLA / Getty Images via AFP)

World’s largest wealth fund rolls back Israeli investments over West Bank, Gaza concerns

By ToI Staff and AFP

A Kaninchen Daschshund dog licks an ice cream downtown Milan, on August 12, 2025 . Italy is facing extreme heat until mid-August as temperatures above 40°C are expected to grip the entire country at least until August 15. (Photo by Stefano RELLANDINI / AFP)

Over half of Mediterranean basin and Europe hit by drought since April

By AFP and Sue Surkes

Data from the European Drought Observatory comes as Israel copes with an extreme heat wave that is expected to break records

Vehicles drive past an anti-Israeli banner depicting Iranian soldiers heading to attack Israeli territory on Enghelab (Revolution) Square, in Tehran on June 24, 2025 (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iranian police says it arrested at least 21,000 ‘suspects’ during war with Israel

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Law enforcement spokesman does not specify vast majority of allegations, says 261 suspected of espionage, 172 detained for unauthorized filming; 2,774 illegal migrants rounded up

Illustrative: The empty departure hall at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv after Israel closed its airspace to takeoff and landing following strikes on Iran, June 13, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

‘It’s a scandal’: Israel refuses to fully compensate passengers stranded by Iran war

By Sharon Wrobel

L: Defense Minister Israel Katz speaks to press at the site of where a missile fired from Iran hit in the central city of Holon, on June 19, 2025; R: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses the crowd during a meeting with the head of the judiciary and other officials in Tehran on July 16, 2025. (KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)

Katz renews warnings against Iran’s Khamenei: ‘Look up and listen to every buzz’

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Rising up with Elijah

After one more short ride to the Earth’s crust, also known as Jaffa Road, we parted. But just before we did, I shook his hand

Marina Rosenberg

As a ‘reformed’ Syria massacres its Druze, the world endorses the horror

Where is the international outcry out when Druze, Alawite, Christian, Yazidi, and Ismaili communities are murdered and raped?

Prof. Idit Maya in her laboratory at Rabin Medical Center. (Courtesy/Howard Blas)

'Some level genetic relatedness is expected among Jews'

New Israeli model improves genetic testing for expectant parents from close-knit groups

By Diana Bletter

Rabin Medical Center researcher says current standard for testing hereditary disease risk doesn’t account for Jews and other minorities who have a high degree of genetic similarity

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Tel Aviv District Court, July 14, 2025. (Reuven Kastro/ POOL)

Court says Netanyahu to testify 3 times per week from November to speed up trial

Judges also weigh holding future hearings at Beit Shemesh courthouse instead of Tel Aviv, where they have been held until now due to lack of proper shelter in Jerusalem court

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the inauguration of the Knesset Museum in central Jerusalem, August 11, 2025. (Asi Efrati/Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)

Herzog, Netanyahu appear to spar, as president makes tacit jab at judicial overhaul

Visitors at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv. August 11, 2025. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90)

Ex-Mossad agent implicated in Qatargate scandal reportedly took part in hostage talks

A swastika painted on a cardboard snowman at the entrance to the Israeli-American Council building in Los Angeles, August 10, 2025 (IAC)

Israeli-American Council LA headquarters vandalized with Nazi symbols

Antisemitic graffiti was also found in other places around the neighborhood of Woodland Hills

The Leon M. Goldstein High School for the Sciences, in New York City. (Wikimedia Commons)

US woman charged for ‘terroristic threat’ on NY high school with ‘Zionist’ students

By Grace Gilson

Antisemitic vandalism in Issaquah, Washington. Photo taken in October 2024 (Courtesy/ADL)

Only 9 US states have strong antisemitism policies, ADL says, unveiling new monitoring tool

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

Jewish National Fund to give $220 million to rehabilitate war-hit communities

US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference to discuss crime in Washington, DC, in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on August 11, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

Trump deploys US National Guard to DC to assert control of cops, curb crime wave

By AFP

A large area of synthetic grass at the Meir Park in Tel Aviv. (Adam Teva V'Din)

Green organizations: Ban synthetic grass, rubber flooring, old tires in public spaces

Huda Kattan attends the Sephora x Huda Beauty – Pink vs Peach KSA at Sidra Arts on January 16, 2024 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Cedric Ribeiro/Getty Images for Huda Beauty via JTA)

‘A smear campaign against me’: Huda Beauty founder defends anti-Israel conspiracy rant

By Grace Gilson

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