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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 16, 2025

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Protesters light a bonfire on Tel Aviv's Begin Road as they call for the release of Hamas-held hostages in Gaza, August 16, 2025. (Aviv Hassidov / Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 16: Netanyahu insists on comprehensive deal for all hostages; won’t end war unless all his demands met

At rallies, families of hostages urge all Israelis to join tomorrow’s nationwide strike * Itzik Horn says planned Gaza City operation would be death sentence for his hostage son Eitan

8:56 pm

Missing man in Jaffa drowning incident found alive on beach
8:08 pm

Woman shot in Arab coastal town dies of wounds
7:53 pm

'You believe him?' Shas spiritual leader slams Haredi leaders for trusting 'atheist' Netanyahu on enlistment bill

Protesters block the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv at a demonstration calling to free the hostages and end the war in Gaza, on August 14, 2025. (Danor Aharon/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Thousands to rally for hostages ahead of Sunday’s planned nationwide strike

Demonstrations in Tel Aviv will feature speeches by family members of captives, victims of October 7, as activists hope to bring country to a halt to pressure government on deal

Protestors block a road during an anti-government rally calling for action to secure the release of Israeli hostages held captive since the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack in Tel Aviv on August 12, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Police strip-searched three more women arrested at demonstration — report

Najwa Mulla, a volunteer, stands in a warehouse in the Druze village of Julis, Galilee, next to boxes of medical supplies that will be sent to hospitals in Sweida, Syria, on August 6, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

In a Galilee war room, Startup Nation’s Druze mobilize to help their Syrian brethren in Sweida

By Diana Bletter

With reports of 1,800 Syrian Druze killed by government-led forces amid acts of rape and cruelty, Israel’s Druze have created a volunteer team tasked with sending medical supplies and support

Demonstrators protest for the release of the hostages held in the Gaza Strip, outside the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, August 12, 2025. (Flash90)

Hamas negotiators signal willingness to ease demands that collapsed talks — officials

Arab diplomat tells ToI that the gaps remain wide, particularly over Israel’s demand that Hamas disarm; security chiefs expected to urge political leaders to back 60-day truce deal

IDF troops operate in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, in a handout photo issued on August 15, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

In fresh offensive on Gaza City outskirts, IDF says dozens of ‘terror targets’ destroyed

By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid, Agencies and ToI Staff

Pushing into Zeitoun, army says troops working to ‘locate explosives, eliminate terrorists’; IDF seals 7km of Hamas tunnels with cement; UN says 1,760 killed seeking aid since May

In the summer heat, Palestinian children carry jerrycans after collecting water from a distribution point in Gaza City, August 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Some Gazan families turn to drinking unclean water as they battle heat, thirst

By AP and ToI Staff

'I am saying this again today: It can happen again'

Former IDF intel chief: Oct. 7 was ‘much deeper’ than an intelligence failure

In leaked recordings, Aharon Haliva recounts night before Hamas attack, lambasts Netanyahu for not resigning and claims high Gaza death toll ‘required for future generations’

Military Intelligence Directorate chief Maj. Gen Aharon Haliva speaks at an intelligence officers' graduation ceremony, January 3, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli right-wing activists watch the northern Gaza Strip during a rally calling for the re-establishment of Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, near the border in southern Israel, Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Twenty years on from Gaza withdrawal, Israel is again mired in the Strip

By Melanie Lidman

For Israelis evacuated in the 2005 disengagement, the war is viewed as an opportunity to undo past mistakes and return; Palestinians fear a long-term reumption of Israeli control

Build a first-class refugee camp for Gazans in Israel

The plan would take civilians out of harm’s way and out of Hamas control while the Strip is rebuilt as a military and governing power

Steven E. Zipperstein

The Gaza genocide claim fails the test of law and fact

The case against Israel does not meet the key legal criteria of intent and scope, nor is there a threat to the Gaza population’s overall survival

US President Donald Trump boards Air Force one at Joint Base Elmendorf- Richardson following a meeting with Russia's President Vladimir Putin, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025, in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump to meet Zelensky Monday after summit with Putin

By SAMYA KULLAB and Elise Morton

Echoing Russian leader’s position, US president says overall peace agreement needed, not a ceasefire; Ukraine’s leader says he held ‘long and substantive’ conversation with Trump

US President Donald Trump (R) and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands at the end of a joint press conference after participating in a US-Russia summit on Ukraine at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 15, 2025. (Drew Angerer/AFP)

Trump-Putin summit ends without breakthrough on halting Russia’s war in Ukraine

By Steve Holland, Andrew Osborn and Darya Korsunskaya

Maccabi Haifa fans display banner reading "Murderers since 1939" at match against a Polish club in Hungary, August 15, 2025. (Screenshot/X)

Outrage as Maccabi Haifa fans hold ‘Murderers since 1939’ sign at match vs. Polish club

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Poland condemns ‘scandalous’ banner; Israeli embassy calls it ‘shameful’; Polish fans later attack Israeli fan bus; separately, Israel said to fear possible ban for teams over Gaza

Economist E.J. Antoni is interviewed in front of art depicting the Nazi warship Bismarck, December 9, 2024. In August 2025, President Trump nominated Antoni to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (Screenshot via YouTube/ via JTA)

E.J. Antoni, Trump’s new favorite economist, thinks a Nazi warship is ‘hard not to love’

By Andrew Lapin

President’s nominee to run Bureau of Labor Statistics has also had exchanges about German victimhood with pundit Candace Owens, even as many isolated her for her vocal antisemitism

FILE - Former US secretary of transportation Pete Buttigieg speaks during a VoteVets Town Hall, May 13, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Cliff Jette, File)

Pete Buttigieg sharpens tone on Israel after facing backlash for supportive stance

By Grace Gilson

Underscoring Democratic party’s changing attitude on Israel, ex-transportation secretary says he’d back US recognition of Palestinian state, halt to arms exports to Jewish state

'The Very Narrow Bridge' is a prayer book designed for people who are incarcerated on Rikers Island, New York City's jail that's accessible only by bridge. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images via JTA)

'Their spiritual dignity was not being honored'

New on Rikers Island: A Jewish prayerbook designed for incarcerated congregants

By Marla Brown Fogelman

Possibly the first of its kind, ‘The Very Narrow Bridge: A Rikers Island Siddur’ seeks to meet the needs of a readership as diverse as the jail population itself

A picture taken from the southern Lebanese village of Marjayoun, shows smoke rising from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the outskirts of the village of Kfartibnit in the district of Nabatieh on August 15, 2025. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP)

Israel strikes Hezbollah, warns Lebanon it’s responsible for reining in terror group

By Emanuel Fabian and AFP

Airstrikes come as Hezbollah threatens civil war if Lebanon tries to disarm it; Lebanese PM says threats unacceptable, Beirut will do whatever is necessary for peace and stability

Illustrative: A police car in Herzliya, August 15, 2025. (Tal Gal/Flash90)

Man killed, three others badly injured in violent crime overnight

Victims of violence reported in south and north as crime wave continues to sweep Arab community

'Awakening,' a Hungarian show without words at the upcoming International Puppet Festival, August 17-21, 2025 (Credit Aliz Gyori)

Give them a hand

Jerusalem’s annual puppet festival aims to lighten the mood

By Jessica Steinberg

International Puppet Festival celebrates its 34th year at the Train Theater in Liberty Bell Park

Local residents look at a car trapped in the mud after flash flooding on the outskirts of Pir Baba, Buner district, in Pakistan's northwest, August 16, 2025. (AP/Muhammad Sajjad)

220 killed in Pakistan floods as rescuers pull more bodies from landslides

By AP

Higher-than-normal monsoon rains devastate country’s northwest Buner district, sweeping away homes as rescuers race to find survivors

Monte Pfeiffer is No. 12, second from left on the bottom row in a photograph of the Wilkes-Barre (Pennsylvania) Coal Barons. The Jewish shortstop had a breakthrough year for the minor league team in 1913. (Courtesy Zak Kranc via JTA)

'The odds of this are lower than making a triple play'

Baseball fans can now add little-known Monte Pfeiffer to roster of Jewish players

By Scott Barancik

A sharp-eyed enthusiast adds new discovery rooted in dusty box scores, old news articles and genealogical detective work – a chosen athlete who played one game for Philadelphia in 1913

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