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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 17, 2025

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Israelis block the Route 1 highway near Latrun during a protest calling for the release of the hostages, August 17, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hostage's wife: 'Today is just the start, we have no choice'

‘We want them back’: Israelis strike and protest in call for hostage deal, end of war

By Ariela Karmel, Charlie Summers and Nava Freiberg

Over 30 demonstrators arrested at multiple protests, water cannon deployed near Jerusalem as roads blocked nationwide; Herzog: ‘People of Israel want our brothers and sisters back home’

Demonstrators block a road during a protest demanding the immediate release of hostages held by Hamas and calling for the Israeli government to reverse its decision to take over Gaza City and other areas in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, August 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 17: Day 681 – Can mass strike for hostages restart release talks?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Tal Schneider

Protesters listen to a speak at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, calling for a deal with the Hamas terror group to secure the release of hostages held in Gaza, on August 16, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

‘Prayers are not enough’: Hostage families urge ceasefire deal on eve of national strike

By Ben Sales, Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

PM: 'We must complete the mission and defeat Hamas'

Netanyahu says nationwide strike is ‘distancing the release of our hostages’

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Hostages Forum slams prime minister, claims he’s been ‘deceiving the public’ and has rejected a number of deals that could have brought captives home

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the weekly cabinet meeting on August 17, 2025. (Screenshot/GPO)

Protesters block a road in Tel Aviv during a protest calling for the release of the Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza on August 17, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

‘Strengthening Hamas’: Coalition lawmakers slam protesters taking part in strike for hostages

Protesters hold banners calling for the release of the hostages on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, on August 17, 2025. (October Council)

Large protests held across Israel as national strike for hostages gets underway

A tent camp for displaced Palestinians stretches along Gaza City, August 3, 2025. (AP Photo/ Jehad Alshrafi)

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Hundreds protest outside Likud headquarters in Tel Aviv, clash with police
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People take part in an anti-Israel protest at Bryant Park, in New York, on August 16, 2025. (Leonardo Munoz / AFP)

‘They’re in Wall Street, they’re in the White House’: Thousands protest Israel in NYC

Protesters call to ‘stop starving Gaza’ at New York’s largest pro-Palestinian protest in recent months; Mahmoud Khalil tells crowd Israel ‘deliberately’ killing Gazans with US tax money

Children play at a tent camp for displaced Palestinians in Gaza City, August 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israel to resume supply of tents, shelter gear as it readies to move Gaza City residents

By Emanuel Fabian, AFP and ToI Staff

COGAT says tents to be delivered to southern Strip as part of ‘preparations to move population’ from Gaza City in expanded op; IDF chief to review plans as troops push into Zeitoun

Illustrative: Palestinian security guards stand next to a bus taking patients from al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City for treatment through the Rafah crossing on February 1, 2025. (Bashar Taleb/AFP)

US State Department halts all visitor visas for Gazans, after far-right activist’s post

By Reuters, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

The image provided by US Central Command shows American and Israeli forces placing the Trident Pier on the coast of Gaza Strip on May 16, 2024. (US Central Command via AP)

Former Biden officials say Netanyahu asked US to set up floating Gaza aid pier last year

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Israeli Navy missile boats strike Houthi power plant near Yemen capital

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Military says hits come in response to Iran-backed group’s repeated missile and drone attacks on Israel; marks 14th Israeli strike on Houthis, 2nd by Navy

The aftermath of an Israeli Navy strike on a power plant near the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, August 17, 2025. (Screenshot: X)

Participants in the Alexander Muss High School in Israel program, July 2025 (Alexander Muss High School in Israel)

60,000 Diaspora kids were expected this summer. Half made it

As yet another wartime summer affects travel to Israel, Jewish youth programs are pivoting

Visits to the Holy Land can be a formative experience for Diaspora Jews, but constant travel impediments in the turbulent region force trip leaders to innovate – or go elsewhere

Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen delivers her speech as Denmark holds the rotating presidency of the Council of Europe, July 8, 2025 at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France. (AP Photo/Pascal Bastien)

Netanyahu has become a ‘problem,’ says Danish PM, wants EU to weigh sanctions

By AFP and ToI Staff

Center left leader Mette Frederiksen affirms support for Israel, but says it has gone ‘too far’; France blasts E1 settlement plan as ‘colonization,’ ‘serious violation’

Muslim antisemitism: Dangerous but modern

Islamists only recently conjured a false history of conflict and dragged anti-Jewish Quranic verses out of the theological attic

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In the wake of the mauling death at a Jerusalem zoo, it’s worth asking why animals that should be roaming free are held in captivity

Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, during a weekly teaching at the Yazdim synagogue in Jerusalem, on June 7, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

Ex-chief rabbi pans Haredi leaders for trusting ‘atheist’ Netanyahu on conscription bill

Shas spiritual leader Yitzhak Yosef accuses military police of disproportionately targeting Sephardic draft dodgers, repeats threat that Haredi community will leave Israel en masse

A notice warning of measles is seen on a door in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, July 31, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

After 2 deaths, infectious disease doctor urges community leaders to back measles vaccines

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Measles outbreak kills 2 unvaccinated children, with 526 confirmed cases from the Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh areas; 19 children still hospitalized, all of them under age of 6

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A man waves an Israeli flag during a demonstration by Druze in the southern Syrian city of Sweida calling for self-determination, August 16, 2025. (X screenshot)

Hundreds in Syria’s Sweida demand Druze self-determination; some wave Israeli flag

Demonstrators chant ‘free free Sweida… Julani out,’ appeal for international support following last month’s deadly sectarian violence

People wait at the entrance of the Al-Masnaa eastern Lebanese border crossing with Syria on January 3, 2025, after Syria imposed new restrictions on the entry of Lebanese citizens. (Hassan JARRAH / AFP)

AnalysisDecades of distrust cloud complex and strained ties between Syria and Lebanon

By AP

A view of the new Holocaust gallery at London's Imperial War Museum, September 30, 2021. (Courtesy of the IWM)

UK museum stands by description of Nazi race laws as aimed at ‘observant’ Jews

Holocaust historians say ‘nonsense’ caption by Imperial War Museum in exhibit on Nuremberg Laws implies secular Jews were spared; retired academic: ‘Reprehensible’

Paramedics provide first aid to a person injured by a boat propeller off the coast of Jaffa on August 16, 2025. (Magen David Adom)

Man drowns, 2nd killed by police boat propeller amid rescue attempt off Jaffa beach

By Charlie Summers

Officials say four from same East Jerusalem family try to save person drowning, who died; one carried out to sea and hit by police vessel, two others hurt, fourth found alive

Rosette Jarban, 23 (left) and Ahmad Badran, 20. (Courtesy)

Woman shot and killed in Jisr az-Zarqa, man stabbed to death in East Jerusalem brawl

By Charlie Summers

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Gal Gadot embraces Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan Zangauker, at Hostages Square on August 17, 2025. (Lior Rotstein/Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

Gal Gadot visits Hostages Square amid nationwide strike urging release

By Ariela Karmel

A greenhouse of khat plant in the south of Israel, on October 20, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Greece intercepts massive drug shipment transiting from Israel

By AFP

A packed train station in Tel Aviv amid disruptions in train services, on August 17, 2025. (Ynet video screenshot)

Commuters face serious delays as damage to train lines coincides with strike for hostages

By Michael Horovitz

Yossi Shelley, then-director-general of the Prime Minister's Office, at a Finance Committee meeting at the Knesset on June 5, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel’s UAE envoy said to anger Emiratis by violating country’s security protocols

In this photo provided by Ukraine's 24th Mechanized Brigade press service, a firefighter puts out a fire after a Russian drone hit a market in the town of Druzhkivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, August 2, 2025. (Oleg Petrasiuk/Ukraine's 24th Mechanized Brigade via AP, File)

European leaders to discuss Russia-Ukraine peace plan after Alaska summit

By Shaun Tandon

ILLUSTRATIVE: Las Vegas Police parked on the strip, January 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Ty ONeil)

Senior Israeli cyber official detained in Las Vegas as part of child solicitation probe

Streamers in Utah held a #FreeSchlep protest in front of the state capitol on behalf of a banned Roblox user by that name, August 15, 2025. (Screenshot from YouTube)

‘Schlep,’ self-appointed watchdog with Yiddish name, is banned from gaming platform

By Grace Gilson

Illustrative: Iranian police in Tehran, Iran, August 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Jihadist gunmen kill Iranian police officer in shootout in volatile southeast province

By AFP

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