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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 19, 2025

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(L) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press conference in Jerusalem on August 10, 2025 (ABIR SULTAN / POOL / AFP) and (R) Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks during a press conference in Canberra on August 11, 2025. (Hilary Wardhaugh / AFP)

Lapid slams PM, 'most politically toxic leader' in the West

Netanyahu: Australia PM a ‘weak politician who betrayed Israel, abandoned Australian Jews’

By ToI Staff and AFP

Unprecedented personal attack on Albanese comes amid spiraling diplomatic crisis; Canberra’s FM: Israeli government pushing nation toward international isolation

FILE: People wearing flags of Israel and Australia listen to speeches at a rally in Melbourne on July 6, 2025, after the front door of a synagogue was set ablaze. (WILLIAM WEST / AFP)

Israel boots Australian diplomats, orders close look at visa requests as ties sour

By Nava Freiberg

The Juniper Salon in Melbourne in an undated video on social media, captured on Ausgust 19, 2025 (Screenshot/X)

Israeli man says Melbourne salon owner called him ‘baby killer’ and kicked him out

Palestinians walk past the destroyed Abu Khudra mosque in Gaza City on August 18, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

10 living hostages for 150 Palestinian security prisoners

Hamas says it agrees to latest ceasefire proposal; Netanyahu sounds dismissive

By Jacob Magid, Nurit Yohanan, Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Jerusalem confirms receipt of Hamas response, as mediators scramble for deal; PM says ‘Hamas is under immense pressure’ due to IDF plan to conquer Gaza City

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir leads an Otzma Yehudit faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on June 30, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Far-right ministers warn against Gaza deal as hostages’ families demand accord

Illustrative: A man holds a placard up as he takes part in the March for Hostages in London, August 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 19: Day 683 – Hamas says it accepts partial deal. How will Israel respond?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jacob Magid

People walk next to a mural of slain Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg Polin in central Jerusalem, August 18, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 19: White House says US ‘continuing to discuss’ truce proposal accepted by Hamas

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Hostage forum changes format of upcoming protest in effort to push for comprehensive deal * Guard who Likud MK likened to ‘Judenrat’ is grandson of Holocaust survivor, has served 400 days in reserve duty since Oct. 7

8:26 pm

Hostage forum says it's changing format of next week's protest in effort to push for comprehensive deal
8:19 pm

Israeli munition from 12-day war explodes in Iran, reportedly killing one
7:30 pm

France calls Netanyahu antisemitism claim 'abject'

Promoted ArticleSources: A Journal of Jewish Ideas

It’s time to take the Palestinian narrative more seriously

Zionists must engage with the Palestinian experience and incorporate it into their understanding of the State of Israel.

Huge crowds gather in and around Tel Aviv's Hostages Square calling for a deal for the release of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, August 17, 2025. (Efrat Safran / Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Hostage families call for another nationwide day of protests on Sunday

After 1 million took part in day of civil disobedience, families urge ‘intensification of the struggle’ for captives’ release and end of war in face of imminent IDF offensive

State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman attends a meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 12, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

State comptroller looks to question Netanyahu and ex-defense chiefs on Oct. 7 failures

By Stav Levaton

MK Boaz Bismuth, chair of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, leads a committee meeting at the Knesset, Jerusalem, on August 12, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Meeting during recess, Knesset panel votes narrowly to extend emergency reservist call-up

By ToI Staff and Ariela Karmel

This combination of six undated photos shows hostages, from top left, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Ori Danino, Eden Yerushalmi; from bottom left, Almog Sarusi, Alexander Lobanov, and Carmel Gat. They were murdered by their Hamas captors in Gaza in August 2024. (The Hostages Families Forum via AP)

Interview'It feels like a horrible flashback'

A year to murders of hostages by captors, family warns expanded war may kill others

By Ariela Karmel

Marking first anniversary since killings of ‘Beautiful Six’ in Rafah tunnel by Hamas, Carmel Gat’s cousin says best way to honor slain captives is to return those who are still there

Cologne, coexistence and the audacity of disrespect

Britain’s crude gesture during Hatikva said more about them than about an Israeli team that embodies coexistence and dignity

Our last chance to stop the madness

Business and industry leaders must shut down the economy, not in order to replace the government, but to demand proper governance

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Not gonna lie: Here’s who I trust

It’s not the speeches, the photo ops, or the promises, it’s the tailor and the coffee grinders and the one who does my hair

The ultra-Orthodox are firing blanks in their war on the draft

Haredi threats over draft evasion expose a sector that contributes little to Israel’s economy, security, or core institutions

Israeli activists briefly cross Syria border in bid to establish settlement

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF brings families with children back, pans their ‘grave’ actions after they try to set up new community ‘Nave Habashan’; activists called in for police questioning

Israeli activists attempt to establish a settlement in Syria, August 18, 2025 (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Likud MK Boaz Bismuth (right) and Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan on August 19, 2025, in the northern West Bank. (Courtesy of Dagan's office)

Member of Netanyahu’s party says West Bank ‘sovereignty’ trumps Saudi normalization

By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

Despite Riyadh long conditioning establishment of Israel ties on progress toward Palestinian state, MK Boaz Bismuth says annexation step necessary to achieve ‘victory’ in war

Two mobile structures established on a plot of land in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood of Hebron. (Courtesy, Peace Now)

Settlers establish new mobile homes in Palestinian neighborhood in Hebron

By Jeremy Sharon

Norway's Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg departs after participating in a meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House, April 24, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Alex Brandon)

Norway’s wealth fund excludes 6 more Israeli companies linked to West Bank, Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

At a recent FeelBeit event in August 2025 (Credit Zaki Qutteineh)

On shifting ground, Jerusalem’s FeelBeit center offers home for Israeli-Palestinian art

By Jessica Steinberg

Co-directors of Jerusalem arts hub located on seam between East and West Jerusalem talk about new program ‘Shift’ and the complexity of the last two years

The French consulate in Jerusalem, pictured on June 18, 2024. (Menahem Kahana/ AFP)

France threatens ‘strong response’ if Israel closes its Jerusalem consulate

By Nava Freiberg

French Foreign Ministry says it hasn’t gotten any official notification of the reported move, floated in response to Paris’s plans to recognize Palestinian state

A Fogbow aid plane is loaded at an airport in Juba, South Sudan, on June 9, 2025, before conducting airdrops of food in the Upper Nile region. (AP Photo/ Florence Miettaux)

Israel to send humanitarian aid to South Sudan as it battles deadly cholera outbreak

By Nava Freiberg and Agencies

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar meets with Zambian Foreign Minister Mulambo Haimbe at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, on June 6, 2025. (GPO/Oren Hakun)

Foreign minister departs for Zambia to inaugurate new embassy

By Nava Freiberg

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, pictured outside the Knesset in Jerusalem on August 18, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Government set to add billions to state budget, including for Gaza aid

Increase faces opposition from within and without government as further funds set to be diverted from ministries and from an educational program for Haredi schools

Palestinians stand next to bodies of their relatives, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike, outside the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, August 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Palestinians say 25 killed in Gaza strikes overnight as aid efforts stepped up

By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid and Agencies

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

Thousands of Palestinians flee Gaza City, fearing planned Israeli invasion

By Reuters and ToI Staff

UNIFIL forces inspect damage in the village of Kfarshuba in southern Lebanon on February 17, 2025. (Rabih DAHER / AFP)

UN Security Council begins debates to extend UNIFIL mission in Lebanon

By Agencies and ToI Staff

As peacekeeping force’s mandate expires on August 31, French draft proposes renewing it for one year to give Lebanon a chance to disarm Hezbollah before winding it down

Anti-Israel NY group seeks ‘justice’ for 1991 accident that sparked antisemitic riot

Crown Heights activists blame ‘Zionist White supremacists’ for car collision in which Black boy, aged 7, was killed 34 years ago, raising fears of renewed racial turmoil in neighborhood

Orthodox Jews talk to police about more police presence to prevent further violence during anti-Jewish riots in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York, August 21, 1991. (AP Photo/ Andrew Savulich/ File)

A view of the campus at Ohio State University (Robert Chriss, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA)

Ohio man admits to federal hate crime for antisemitic attack on students at Ohio State

By Grace Gilson

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., speaks to reporters before the Democratic National Convention August 19, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/ Brynn Anderson/ File)

Jewish Democrat Jamie Raskin joins lawmakers backing bill to restrict arms to Israel

By Grace Gilson

House Minority Whip Katherine Clark becomes highest ranking member of Congress to call war in Gaza ‘genocide,’ amid notable decline in party of support for Israel

Illustrative: Anti-Zionist protesters in New York City, August 16, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

NYC issues vacate order to community garden that required members to oppose Zionism

Illustrative: Members of the Palestinian Youth Movement pull effigies out of a shipping container during a protest against the shipping and logistics giant Maersk for doing business with Israel on August 28, 2024, at the Port of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/ Damian Dovarganes)

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In Europe, longshoremen organize to keep weapons parts from shipping to Israel

By MILAN CZERNY and Shomrim

Joining the Houthis and some governments, dock workers are trying to disrupt Israel’s supply chain to protest the Gaza war, though Jerusalem claims the effort has yet to make waves

Illustrative: A man holds a smartphone showing the app for ride-sharing service Uber in London, on March 17, 2021. (Tolga Akmen / AFP)

Jewish family assaulted and called ‘child killers’ by Vienna Uber driver

Driver said to have been immediately suspended; community leader demands ‘decisive action,’ warning that otherwise ‘soon there will be no place left for Jews in Europe’

Sally Rooney takes part in a panel during the Winter 2020 Television Critics Association Press Tour on January 17, 2020, in Pasadena, California. (Richard Shotwell/ Invision/ AP)

Irish literary star Sally Rooney pledges UK TV fees to banned anti-Israel group

By AFP and ToI Staff

Muslims perform an Eid al-Fitr prayer, marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, in Karachi, Pakistan, April, 10, 2024. (Fareed Khan/AP)

Schools in Pakistan promote hostility toward Jews and Israel, report finds

Jews are frequently accused of treachery and Israel is demonized in textbooks, education watchdog IMPACT-se says

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Workers repair railway tracks after a shutdown caused by heavy damage to electric cable infrastructure, in Tel Aviv, August 16, 2025.(Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Tel Aviv train service to stop for a week amid more maintenance work

American-Israeli teenager Michael Kadar (R), accused of making dozens of antisemitic bomb threats in the United States and elsewhere, is escorted by guards as he leaves a Rishon Lezion courtroom on March 23, 2017. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)

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Palestinian beauty queen Nadeen Ayoub (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

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A demonstrator holds up a sign reading 'Stop Executions in Iran' as Iranian opposition protesters carry their national flags in Paris during a rally to protest against the visit of the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, in France, January 28, 2016. (AP Photo/Zacharie Scheurer)

Iran carries out public execution of convicted murderer

By AFP

Sabon skincare and homestyle shop in Israel. (Courtesy)

Golf cuts deal for Sabon stores amid plans to close soapmaker’s Israel operations

By Sharon Wrobel

(L-R) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, French President Emmanuel Macron, US President Donald Trump, Finnish President Alexander Stubb and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz listen as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a meeting in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 18, 2025 (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

Putin and Zelensky set for peace summit after Trump talks

By AFP and Reuters

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