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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 13, 2025

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Retired Israeli general Noam Tibon in the documentary 'The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue' (Courtesy)

'Festival chose to silence and erase Oct. 7,' subject says

Toronto film fest nixes Oct. 7 doc screening, cites Hamas ownership of massacre clips

By ToI Staff and Zev Stub

Organizers say filmmakers didn’t legally clear footage, also cite ‘threat of disruption’; Sa’ar: This festival would have asked Hitler for approval to use Auschwitz footage

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee speaks to The Times of Israel, August 12, 2025. (Courtesy)

Interview

Huckabee: With Palestine state move, UK and France have joined forces with Israel’s enemies

By David Horovitz

US ambassador hits back at growing denunciation of Israel’s Gaza policies, rejects reports of high death tolls around aid sites, denies Netanyahu deliberately prolonging the war

Israel said in talks with South Sudan about taking in Gazans; African country denies

By AP and ToI Staff

EU and 24 nations including UK, Japan urge action against ‘famine unfolding’ in Gaza

By AFP and ToI Staff

Inside story

As humanitarian crisis deepens, Israeli aid groups gingerly open up about work in Gaza

With disaster at its doorstep, IsraAID and SmartAID are providing water, healthcare and more to the Strip, acting as a bridge for both UN-backed NGOs and US Jews unable to stand by

Loading of IsraAID humanitarian aid trucks on their way to Gaza, Ashdod Port, January 2025. (IsraAID)

Displaced Palestinians sit on a trailer with bags of humanitarian aid they received at a distribution center run by the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) at the so-called 'Netzarim Corridor,' in the central Gaza Strip on August 4, 2025. (AFP)

US indicates it will boost GHF after initially pledging new Gaza aid plan

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From the Blogs

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Hamas livestreamed its massacre to the world – that’s public domain

The Toronto Film Festival won’t screen an October 7 documentary because the terrorists didn’t sign off on it. It’s a bogus excuse, and a cowardly one

Spanish troops take part in the exercise Resolute Warrior of the NATO Multinational Brigade in Adazi, Latvia, on November 14, 2024. (Photo by GINTS IVUSKANS / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 13: Spain signals support for UN-led mission to stabilize Gaza

Zamir approves Gaza conquest plan * Hamas tells Egyptians it’s eager to return to talks * Netanyahu assails ex-security chiefs, says IDF had abandoned commitment to ‘victory’ * 2 die of heatstroke

7:46 pm

Netanyahu: Israel at forefront of fight against 'savagery' and 'barbarism,' Hamas narrative embraced on US campuses
7:34 pm

Two children from Gaza to take part in ceremony of European soccer Super Cup
7:16 pm

Two die of heatstroke amid record temperatures

UN chief warns Israel it may be put on sexual violence blacklist; in 1st, Hamas on list

By Nava Freiberg

In letter to Israeli envoy Danny Danon, Antonio Guterres cites ‘grave concern’ over sexual abuse of Palestinian detainees in prisons; Danon calls idea ‘unfounded’ and ‘absurd’

Blindfolded Palestinians captured in the Gaza Strip in a detention facility on the Sde Teiman military base in southern Israel, winter 2023. (Breaking The Silence via AP)

US President Donald Trump listens to a question from a reporter in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, Aug. 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump administration softens criticism of Israel in overhauled human rights report

By Jacob Magid and Reuters

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

Defense officials say Katz trying to 'politicize the army'

Amid feud, Katz suggests IDF chief is working with ‘pot-stirrers’ to flout hierarchy

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Ariela Karmel

Defense minister incorrectly claims law puts him in charge of approving promotions; Ben Gvir demands PM fire Zamir if he doesn’t get rid of ‘far-left political inner circle’

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)

IDF chief said convinced he’s been ‘marked’ for dismissal by Netanyahu and his family

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Israelis on the beach in Tel Aviv, amid record-breaking heat, August 13, 2025. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90)

Israel bakes in record heat as temperatures expected to approach 50ºC

Jerusalem, which experienced unusual summer rain Tuesday night, set to reach 39ºC; Dead Sea experiences highest-recorded minimum daily temperature of 36.6°C

Enav Zangauker (R), mother of Israeli hostage Matan Zangauker, sits with a friend by a fake coffin during an anti-government protest calling for action to secure the release of Israeli hostages held captive since the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attack in front of the defense ministry in Tel Aviv on August 12, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Senior Hamas leader in Cairo to discuss reviving talks

Israel may dispatch negotiators to Doha for talks on freeing all hostages, ending war

By Jacob Magid, Nava Freiberg, Stav Levaton, AFP and ToI Staff

Netanyahu says partial hostage release deals are ‘behind us’ as Arab diplomat tells ToI that mediators are expected to push 60-day truce that will turn into a comprehensive ceasefire

Former and reserve air force pilots, along with others, demonstrate against the continuation of the Gaza war and for the release of hostages held in the Strip, near the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, on August 12, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

200 retired and reserve Air Force pilots rally near IDF headquarters to protest Gaza war

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Analysis

How the movement to resettle Gaza entered the mainstream in the wake of October 7

Two decades after Disengagement, settler activists see a rare opening to make the Strip Jewish and are working relentlessly to corral political and public support for their plans

Thousands of people turn out for an ultra-nationalist march and rally in Sderot to call for the rebuilding of Jewish settlements in Gaza, May 14, 2024. (Courtesy Nachala Settlement Movement)

Interview

Takeover of Gaza City could cost Israel NIS 100 billion, expert estimates

Military costs, aid for the enclave’s civilian population, plus global divestment may raise debt and lower quality of life for Israelis, says Hebrew U’s Prof. Esteban Klor

IDF troops are seen operating in the Gaza Strip in an image published by the military on August 8, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Men, whom the military says are terror operatives, gather around a vehicle emblazoned with the emblem of the World Central Kitchen, in central Gaza, in footage published August 12, 2025. The WCK verified the men were not connected to the NGO, the army said. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF clip shows terror operatives posing as World Central Kitchen staff in central Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Living between never and again

I am torn between pride in Israel’s extraordinary reach and capabilities and despair in the way Hamas has weaponized truth itself against the Jewish state

Benjamin Birely

Swastika over Naples

It usually takes the reaction of a non-Jewish Italian for me to realize how bad the anti-Israeli sentiment is here, but this desecration of the flag made me sick

Should immigrants be treated like Nazi war criminals?

Trump could use legislation designed to expose former Nazis hiding in the US to strip citizenship from legal immigrants. The law’s author calls it a ’desecration’

The land that refuses to be shared

One side cries defense and deterrence. The other, occupation and dispossession. They speak past each other, each believing its story the only worthy one

Justice minister has locks changed on AG’s office without warning, prompting outcry

By Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

Head of Israel Bar Association calls for Yariv Levin to be arrested after apparent breach of High Court order prohibiting him from impeding Gali Baharav-Miara’s work

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara (center) and Justice Minister Yariv Levin (right) at a farewell ceremony for retiring acting Supreme Court president Uzi Vogelman, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, October 1, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a glass of water in a video address to the Iranian people, on August 12, 2025. (Government Press Office)

Netanyahu, touting Israeli water tech, calls on drought-ravaged Iranians to oppose regime

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Ex-PM Naftali Bennett makes similar video statement, saying Jerusalem wants to share desalination techniques with a free Iran, after Iran’s president laments water, power problems

An Iranian flag flutters in front of the Iranian Consulate, where Iranian diplomats meet counterparts from Germany, Britain and France for renewed nuclear talks, in Istanbul, Turkey, on July 25, 2025. (Yasin AKGUL / AFP)

European powers say they’re ready to snap back Iran nuclear sanctions at end of August

By Agencies and ToI Staff

(L-R) Meirav Gilboa-Dalal, mother of hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal); Sylvia Cunio, mother of hostage David and Ariel Cunio; Viki Cohen, mother of hostage Nimrod Cohen; and Galia and Yeela David, respectively the mother and sister of hostage Evyatar David, pose holding photographs of their loved one after attending a meeting with the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) at the organization's headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on August 12, 2025. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

Hostages’ mothers meet Red Cross chief in Geneva: ‘We feel we touched her heart’

By ToI Staff and AFP

Mothers of David and Ariel Cunio, Evyatar David, Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Nimrod Cohen hand letters to Mirjana Spoljaric in hope the organization will be able to get them to their sons

Israeli hostage Eli Sharabi, who had been held hostage by Hamas in Gaza since October 7, 2023, is paraded by Hamas gunmen before being handed over to the Red Cross in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, February 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

‘Systematic torture and terror’: Health Ministry gives ICRC report on 12 freed hostages

By Diana Bletter

Former hostage Yocheved Lifshitz at the Knesset in Jerusalem, August 12, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ex-hostage at Knesset: PM made promises in Nir Oz visit, then ‘forgot about us’

Police patrol as workers clean up anti-Israel graffiti at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus after police evicted pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters, May 2, 2024. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP)

Judge orders White House to reinstate part of UCLA funding it froze over Gaza protests

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Ruling says Trump administration decision to suspend $584 in grants to university over antisemitism allegations violates an earlier injunction

George Washington University students carry a sign during an anti-Israel protest as George Washington University President Ellen Granberg speaks at a commencement ceremony in Washington, May 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

US feds find George Washington University ‘deliberately indifferent’ to antisemitism

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)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug 13: Day 677 – Antisemitic crime down in NY, but Jews most targeted group

By Jessica Steinberg and Luke Tress

Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun meets with Iran's head of the National Security Council Ali Larijani and a delegation at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, Lebanon, on August 13, 2025. (Lebanese Presidency / AFP)

Openly defying Iran, Lebanon’s Aoun says no armed groups allowed in country

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Lebanese president warns visiting top Iranian official against arming Hezbollah, rejects Tehran’s ‘interference,’ after Ali Larijani objected to plans to disarm its terrorist proxy

More Headlines

A Palestinian man throws a stone during a clash near the West Bank town of Duma, August 13, 2025. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Palestinian stone-thrower shot dead by off-duty soldier in West Bank altercation

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Likud MK Boaz Bismuth chairs a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, August 12, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

After replacing head of key defense panel, coalition launches new push for Haredi draft bill

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)

California Jewish groups say Trump’s $1B demand of UCLA ‘doesn’t make Jewish students safer’

By Andrew Lapin

The railway lines could cross the Samar Sands Nature Reserve in southern Israel. (Dov Greenblat, Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel)

Planners invite public to online hearing on controversial Dimona-Eilat rail proposal

An El Al flight takes off at Ben Gurion International Airport, outside of Tel Aviv, June 19, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Paris air traffic controller radios ‘Free Palestine’ to El Al pilots just after takeoff

By ToI Staff and Nava Freiberg

The Knesset Finance Committee meeting on July 29, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

Knesset finance committee approves additional NIS 177m for private Haredi schools

By Ariela Karmel

Madonna performs in the final show of her The Celebration Tour, on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Saturday, May 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)

Madonna to pope: ‘Go to Gaza and bring your light to the children before it’s too late’

By AP and ToI Staff

A fire engine arrives at the scene of a fire in the Judean Hills around Jerusalem, on August 12, 2025. (Courtesy/Fire and Rescue Service)

Car bursts into flames, sparking forest fire on Jerusalem’s outskirts

By Charlie Summers

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