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What Matters Most On Friday, August 15, 2025

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Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators burn enlistment orders at a demonstration outside the Beit Lid military prison, August 14, 2025. (Tal Gal/Flash90)

'They’re parasites,' fumes ex-IDF personnel chief

‘Free the hostages’: Hundreds of Haredim protest outside prison holding draft evaders

Ultra-Orthodox extremists set fire to IDF conscription orders, briefly try to break into military prison, with some claiming their political leaders haven’t been hardline enough

InterviewSenior Haredi MK: The government ‘started a war with us, and we have to defend ourselves’

Power struggle in Lebanon

With barely a leg to stand on, Hezbollah may still not give up its arms without a fight

While the terror group is at its weakest point in decades, it’s still strong enough to stand up to the army tasked with confiscating its weaponry. Here’s what might happen next

Supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah terror group block the streets with burning tires as they rally in cars and motorbikes to protest the government's endorsement of a plan to disarm it, in Beirut's southern suburbs, early on August 8, 2025. (Ibrahim AMRO / AFP)

People raise their fists as Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem delivers a televised speech in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Hezbollah chief threatens ‘no life in Lebanon’ if government tries to seize weapons

By Nurit Yohanan and Reuters

Illustrative: An anti-Israel cartoon mocking Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is displayed at Palestine Square in central Tehran on July, 13, 2025. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

AnalysisReeling from war with Israel, Iran at crossroads between defiance and diplomacy

By Parisa Hafezi

First person

Driver’s ed with one of ‘the Thirty-Six’? An inspirational story, in a time of crisis

How a jovial, portly preventive driving instructor who converses with God impacted my life and those of others, even though I’m still not sure how much of what he told us was for real

Uri Tsihy at work teaching driver's ed. (Courtesy)

Promoted LivestreamJPPI

Rebuilding Northern Israel

When Israel’s north emptied after October 8, Nissan Zeevi of Kfar Giladi stayed. Now he wants to bring families back. A story of fear, resilience, and the fight to rebuild the Galilee.

Lebanese president Joseph Aoun, center, and Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, left background, lead a Cabinet meeting to discuss the disarmament of Hezbollah, at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, August 5, 2025. (Lebanese Presidency press office via AP)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 15: Lebanese PM blasts Hezbollah leader’s ‘unacceptable’ threat of civil war over disarmament

If group gives final okay, mediators plan to put PM’s assertion that he won’t agree to any more partial deals to the test * Trump, Putin begin summit on Ukraine war with warm handshake

6:53 pm

Changing strategy, White House says Rubio and Witkoff will join Trump for meeting with Putin
6:52 pm

Despite denials, Israel-South Sudan talks on relocating Gazans reportedly ongoing
6:09 pm

IDF strikes Hezbollah sites, as Katz claims Aoun's government responsible for ceasefire violations

Ben Gvir filmed visiting cell of Palestinian terror convict Barghouti, taunting him

‘Whoever messes with the Nation of Israel — we will wipe them out,’ far-right minister can be heard saying in first sighting of Barghouti in over a decade

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (left) speaks to jailed Palestinian terror convict Marwan Barghouti in his cell in footage released on August 14, 2025 (X screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Finance Bezalel Smotrich attends a press conference announcing his plans to approve more than 3,000 housing units in the E1 settlement project between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim, August 14, 2025.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

UN human rights office: E1 plan is illegal, settling occupied land is a war crime

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Germany joins EU, UK, Arab states and rights groups in opposing West Bank construction that finance minister says will ‘bury the idea of a Palestinian state’; Netanyahu still mum

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a press conference announcing his plans to approve more than 3,000 housing units in the E1 settlement project between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim on August 14, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

World largely decries new settlement plan, warns it will scuttle 2-state solution

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Palestinian property allegedly torched by settlers in the southern West Bank village of Atara on August 15, 2025. (Screen capture/X)

Settlers said to injure several Palestinians, torch property in overnight attacks

Forgiveness: My intersex journey

I thought I was transgender. I was even fired for it. But an expert in Jewish law and medicine knew better: I was female all along

Catherine Perez-Shakdam

Francesca Albanese’s soft-gloved embrace of terror

To deny that Hamas is a terrorist group, ruling by fear and waging war without conscience, numbs the world to its explicit goals and invites the next massacre

Ruthie Hollander

What we lose when we acknowledge Palestinian suffering

Recognizing others’ pain doesn’t deny or diminish our own; rather, it protects our humanity – and helps us emulate God

Do you know your ‘why’?

From the hardship of Moses to that of Rabbi Tamir Granot, our reasons to keep going give us strength and spotlight what we are meant to do (Ekev)

Illustrative: Toronto International Film Festival CEO Cameron Bailey speaks during the 2025 Canada's Walk Of Fame Induction Gala held at Metro Toronto Convention Centre on June 14, 2025, in Toronto, Ontario. (Jeremy Chan/Getty Images/AFP)

Toronto film fest to screen Oct. 7 doc initially nixed over ‘copyright concerns’

Reversing course following uproar, event organizer apologizes for poor communication, says movie on father’s rescue of his son during Hamas onslaught will premiere next week

A malnourished Palestinian child gets a check up at a medical point run by a local NGO affiliated with the primary health care of the Palestinian health ministry in al-Mawasi, in the southern Gaza Strip district, on August 13, 2025. (Photo by AFP)

UN says 13,000 children treated for malnutrition in Gaza in July as aid trickles in

By Nurit Yohanan, Shira Silkoff, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Humanitarian agency says vast majority of aid trucks raided en route, but notes that despite challenges, food prices have dropped and kitchens are producing more hot meals

ToI podcast

Friday Focus with Anita Tucker: A former Gush Katif resident yearns to go home

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

20 years ago, the Brooklyn native was forcibly pulled out of her home in Nezer Hazani, a settlement she cofounded with the blessing of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. She tells her tale

Families of the remaining 50 hostages take the stage at the second annual Nova Healing Concert in Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park, August 14, 2025. (Eclipse Media)

'Not simply words, but a promise: We will dance again'

Nearly two years after tragedy, 2nd Nova Healing Concert unites 30,000 in Tel Aviv

By Stav Levaton

Survivors, bereaved families and artists gather to honor victims of the October 7, 2023, Nova massacre and celebrate resilience, hope, and community

At the 2024 Metula Poetry Festival, held in Jerusalem as it will be this year, September 3-5, 2025 (Courtesy Confederation House)

Verses in exileMetula Poetry Festival to explores grief, resilience and renewal

By Jessica Steinberg

Defense Minister Israel Katz, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir and other military and defense officials meet at Katz's office in Tel Aviv, August 14, 2025. (Shira Keinan/Defense Ministry)

After public spat, Katz and IDF chief meet, vow to ‘act as one fist’ on Gaza City plan

By Emanuel Fabian

Zamir says cooperation between army, political leadership is crucial to ‘victory on the battlefield,’ following his meeting with defense minister to discuss Gaza City takeover plan

Then-Commander of the IDF Military Intelligence Aharon Haliva at a conference of the Gazit Institute in Tel Aviv, November 4, 2022. (Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

Former IDF intel chief appears to blame Shin Bet for failing to foresee Oct. 7 attack

Mossad chief meets Qatari leader in Doha as Israel shuts door on partial hostage deal

By Nurit Yohanan, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Barnea said to convey Israel is not bluffing with plan to conquer Gaza City; Hamas reportedly tells Egypt it will ‘keep hostages alive’ in exchange for partial IDF withdrawal

Israel's Mossad Director David Barnea speaks during the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) World Summit in the central coastal city of Herzliya on September 10, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP, File)

Danny Elgarat, the brother of slain hostage Itzik Elgarat, speaks during a National Security Committee meeting at the Knesset on March 10, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Autopsy of slain hostage Itzik Elgarat revealed he was tortured to death, brother says

An Israeli floats in the Sea of Galilee amid a heatwave on August 14, 2025. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Record-breaking heatwave has peaked; temperatures expected to normalize Saturday

Heat on Friday set to reach 44°C (111°F) in Eilat, 40°C (104°F) in Tiberias, in last burst of sweltering weather that saw two die of heatstroke, army base evacuated

This photograph shows a memorial stele and the trunk of the olive tree, presumably cut down with a chainsaw, which was planted in 2011 in front of a memorial to Ilan Halimi, whose murder caused widespread shock in France, photo taken August 15, 2025. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP)

Macron vows to punish act of ‘hate’ after memorial tree for slain French Jew cut down

By Maryam EL HAMOUCHI and Anna SMOLCHENKO

Olive tree planted in memory of Ilan Halimi, who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in 2006 antisemitic attack, is felled, sparking anger across France

Winemaker Asaf Gilai with his Cabernet grapes in Moshav Nir David in June 2025. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Desert flavors are revived after Oct. 7 at a southern Israel winery, brewery and kitchen

By Jessica Steinberg

The devastating Hamas attack changed the region, but the local culinary scene is adapting and persevering amid the uncertainty and ongoing conflict

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Passengers at Ben Gurion International airport near Tel Aviv, August 8, 2025. (Rachel Alroey/Flash90)

Israel sees record passenger travel since Oct 7. as flight prices jump by up to 119%

By Sharon Wrobel

Illustrative: View of the Bank Hapoalim offices in the center of Tel Aviv. August 4, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Top banks notch record profits from credit and fee growth during wartime

By Sharon Wrobel

Ayelet Shaked attends International Holocaust Remembrance Day Ceremony in memory of Holocaust survivor Meir Grant, in Herzliya, January 27, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Report: Iran hacked former justice minister Shaked’s phone during 12-day June war

Qatargate suspect Jonatan Urich attends a hearing at the Lod District Court on May 22, 2025. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)

Court lifts restrictions on PM’s aide suspected in Qatargate scandal

Two social media posts from the Department of Homeland Security appear to reference what some are calling neo-Nazi tropes (l-r): a reference to the antisemitic book "Which Way, Western Man?" and the use of a double-capitalized "HH" that is common online shorthand for "Heil Hitler." (Screen captures via JTA)

US Homeland Security Department accused of tweeting antisemitic dog whistles

By Andrew Lapin

John Reardon of Millis, Massachusetts, appears in an undated booking photograph after his arrest for allegedly making a threatening call to a synagogue in Attleboro, Massachusetts. (Attleboro Police Department/Handout)

Massachusetts man sentenced to 26 months for threats to synagogues, Israel consulate

By Nate Raymond

Rep.-elect Valerie Foushee, D-N.C., left, arrives for a class photo of newly-elected members of Congress on the East Front of the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

North Carolina Democrat spurns AIPAC, in latest sign of party’s distancing from Israel

By Grace Gilson

President of Argentina Javier Milei poses holding the Genesis Prize with Stan Polovets and Israeli President Isaac Herzog during the Genesis Prize ceremony at The Museum of Tolerance on June 12, 2025 in Jerusalem, Israel. (Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images for Genesis Prize Foundation via JTA)

Argentina’s Milei to use Genesis Prize money to deepen Israel-Latin America ties

By Juan Melamed

Guests on their way to attending a memorial service marking the 80th anniversary of Japan's World War II defeat, at the Nippon Budokan Hall Friday, August 15, 2025, in Tokyo. (AP/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan marks 80 years since WWII surrender amid mounting concerns about fading memory

By Mari Yamaguchi

Gil Ofer, (r), Lee Ofer, Danielle Ofer (l) and Idan Ofer (far left), at the opening of the new Bezalel art wing on July 29, 2025 (Rotem Rosman Yefet)

Canvas for collaborationBezalel launches new art wing, design hub

By Jessica Steinberg

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