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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 21, 2025

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Aug. 21: IDF chief says army pushing ahead with its plans to conquer Gaza City

Hostage families march toward IDF HQ demanding loved ones’ release as PM greenlights Gaza City op * 21 countries condemn approval of E1 settlement project; UK summons Israeli envoy

6:34 pm

Saudi Arabia executes man after objections from rights defenders
6:12 pm

Report: US asks Israel to reduce 'non-urgent' military action in Lebanon
6:07 pm

Hostage families march toward IDF HQ demanding loved ones' release as PM green lights Gaza City op

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to Sky News Australia from his office in Jerusalem in an interview broadcast August 21, 2025. (Screenshot: YouTube/Sky News Australia)

PM: Israel 'on the verge of completing this war'

Netanyahu: Israel will conquer Gaza regardless of whether Hamas accepts hostage deal

By Michael Bachner

In Australian TV interview, premier accuses Canberra and others in the West of appeasing anti-Western terror backers, assails ‘weak’ Albanese, laments ‘tsunami of antisemitism’

MK Benny Gantz leads a faction meeting at the Knesset on July 14, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gantz’s party signals it may join coalition if PM’s far-right allies bolt over Gaza deal

Israeli forces operate in the Gaza Strip, in a handout image published on August 20, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

As Egypt presses Israel on truce proposal, PM pushes ahead with Gaza City operation

By Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian and Stav Levaton

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, pictured at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD IX) in Yokohama, Japan, on Wednesday, August 20, 2025. (Franck Robichon/Pool Photo via AP)

UN chief calls for immediate ceasefire, warns of casualties from Gaza City takeover

By Agencies, Nava Freiberg, Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Israel announces blitz of visiting delegations in effort to combat growing isolation, as France, Germany and Jordan also slam Jerusalem’s Gaza plans

A general view of the exterior of the International Criminal Court at The Hague, Netherlands, March 12, 2025. (AP/Omar Havana, File)

Washington sanctions 4 more ICC officials over cases against Israel and US

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Illustrative: Pro-Palestine, anti-Israel demonstrators burn a US-Israel flag during a protest as the Democratic National Convention takes place in Chicago, Illinois, on August 20, 2024. (Matthew Hatcher/AFP)

Trump administration to vet visa applicants for ‘anti-Americanism, antisemitic terrorism’

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters participate in a "March for Humanity" against the humanitarian crisis in Gaza on August 16, 2025 in New York City. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/AFP)

Poll shows most Americans back Palestine recognition, view Israel’s Gaza war as excessive

By Nava Freiberg and Reuters

Large majority believe US should play role in preventing hunger in Gaza; Witkoff says Trump wants comprehensive deal to end war, bring back all hostages

Members of the Global Movement for Palestine wave a giant Palestine flag during a rally against Israel and the ongoing food shortages in the Gaza Strip, in Mexico City on August 17, 2025. (Yuri CORTEZ / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 21: Day 685 – The surreal timing of nations’ recognition of Palestine

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz

Illustrative: State Department employees applaud as their colleagues walk through the lobby of the State Department headquarters in the Harry S Truman Building, Friday, July 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

US State Department fires press aide after reported disputes on Gaza policy

Dead Hamas gunmen are seen following an attack by the terror group's operatives on an army encampment in southern Gaza's Khan Younis, August 20, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF acknowledges ‘failure’ in Hamas attack on south Gaza army encampment

By Emanuel Fabian

Updated army probe finds 15 gunmen killed by soldiers, tanks, and air force in assault in Khan Younis; operatives emerged from tunnel 40-50 meters from outpost

Israeli forces operate in the Gaza Strip, in a handout image published on August 20, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF: More than 2,100 terror operatives killed since Gaza fighting resumed in March

By Emanuel Fabian, Stav Levaton and Reuters

José Andrés, founder of World Central Kitchen, during a visit to the organization’s central kitchen in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, August 15, 2025. (World Central Kitchen)

Interview'When you go to Gaza and Nova site in 1 day, you cry inside'

After seeing misery up close, the man feeding Gaza says there’s no doubt Strip is starving

By Nurit Yohanan

Meeting ex-hostages and visiting Deir al-Balah, WCK founder José Andrés has sympathy for both sides, maintaining good ties with COGAT as he aims for 1 million meals a day

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on April 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Former chief rabbi says man asked for his approval to kill AG; police arrest suspect

By Charlie Summers

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef informed authorities that a Jerusalem resident requested he issue a religious decree allowing him to murder Gali Baharav-Miara

David Zini meets with ultra-Orthodox conscripts during a conference at the Glilot Base near Tel Aviv, November 17, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Shin Bet said to have warned nominated chief Zini over relative’s West Bank extremism

'Our goal is to help paralyzed patients rise and walk again'

In world 1st bid to cure paralysis, Israeli team gears up to implant innovative spinal cord

By Diana Bletter

With Health Ministry okay, Tel Aviv University prof will perform surgery that will mark the first time pieces of spine are engineered from human cells and then transplanted

Weizmann Institute of Israel scientists, from left to right: Prof. Avishay Gal-Yam, Dr. Ofer Yaron, and Dr. Steve Schulze of Northwestern University. (Courtesy)

Team led by Israeli and American scientists discovers silicon and sulfur at supernova core

By Diana Bletter

Rabbi Yehoshua Fass (center), co-founder and executive director of Nefesh B’Nefesh, and Tony Gelbart (rear left), co-founder and chairman of Nefesh B’Nefesh, together with the children arriving on the Charter flight (Shahar Azran)

Aboard first aliyah flight since Oct. 7, immigrants say war strengthened their resolve

Record number of new citizens expected in August as over 200 arrive on a Nefesh B’Nefesh flight; conflict ‘pushed us to clarify our plans and make it a reality,’ one couple explains

Faraj Alexandre Rifai

From Damascus to Paris: How I found antisemitism twice

The French Republic taught me not to hate, but the nation that reconciled me with the idea of possible coexistence is changing

Violence in Judea and Samaria (aka the West Bank)

Just as we condemn Arab terror attacks against Jews, we must be fervent in our condemnation of Jews terrorizing Palestinians

This picture shows a recently unveiled billboard depicting Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with text in Persian reading "Hitanyahu" and text in Hebrew reading "Germany's Nazi of today" at Palestine Square in central Tehran on August 11, 2025. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iranian navy launches country’s first military exercise since war with Israel

By AP and ToI Staff

Drills take place in Indian Ocean and Gulf of Oman, with naval boats launching missiles at targets, as Tehran tries to project power after 12-day war and defeat of its proxies

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (R) meets with ambassadors and diplomatic representatives in Tehran, Iran, on July 12, 2025. (Hamid FOROUTAN / Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs / AFP)

Iran says it’s not ready to hold ‘effective negotiations’ on nuclear program with US

Illustrative: People take part in a protest against the execution of Iranian footballer Amir Nasr-Azadani, in front of the Iranian embassy in Mexico City on December 19, 2022. (Pedro PARDO / AFP)

Iran publicly hangs man accused of murder, in second execution in days

By AFP

As draft crisis escalates, Haredi leaders downplay danger to troops in war

Hardline rabbinic rhetoric now echoing across yeshivas, with students told those demanding they enlist are ‘stupid’ and ‘hate’ God, and that Torah study alone defends Israel

Ultra-Orthodox students studying at the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, February 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox protesters against the jailing of yeshiva students who failed to comply with an army recruitment order, outside the military prison in Beit Lid, near Kfar Yona, August 20, 2025. (Gili Yaari /Flash90)

Haredi anti-enlistment protesters block roads, clash with motorists in ‘day of rage’

By Sam Sokol, Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Israeli civilian Salah Abu Hussein (left) meets with Israel's coordinator for hostages and missing persons, Gal Hirsch, after being returned from Lebanon, on August 21, 2025. (Michael Dimenshtein/GPO)

Lebanon hands over Israeli man jailed for past year; family didn’t know where he was

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

Salah Abu Hussein disappeared in mid-2024; relatives welcome ‘big surprise’ after secret talks; Netanyahu says release ‘a sign of things to come’

French UN peacekeepers patrol the Lebanese-Israeli border in the village of Houla, southern Lebanon, August 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

IDF strikes Hezbollah targets as UNIFIL, Lebanon army find tunnel in south Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli soldiers operate on the Syrian side of Mount Hermon, August 12, 2025. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Four IDF soldiers lightly wounded by blast of old munitions in southern Syria

By Emanuel Fabian

Released hostages, from left to right, Naama Levy, Liri Albag, Agam Berger, Daniella Gilboa and Karina Ariev, complete their rehabilitation program at the Rabin Medical Center on August 20, 2025. (Rabin Medical Center Spokesperson)

5 ex-hostage lookout troops finish rehab, as captives’ relatives march to Gaza border

By Diana Bletter, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Hospital says female soldiers will now undergo long-term monitoring, community-based treatment; Adi Alexander thanks US-Palestinian mediator for securing son’s release

Filmmaker Eli Katzoff and security expert Miri Eisen on the northern border for 'Through the Land,' a new drone-shot webseries produced in cooperation with The Times of Israel. (courtesy)

Web series preview

In new docuseries, dynamic interviews meet stunning Israeli landscapes – all filmed by drone

Award-winning filmmaker Eli Katzoff’s ‘Through the Land’ brings viewers on ‘walk and talk’ conversations as top personalities navigate some of the Holy Land’s most iconic locations

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Eric Lendrum (US Department of Homeland Security via JTA)

US Homeland Security speechwriter promoted ‘Great Replacement’ theory on podcast

By Grace Gilson

Israeli defense technology company Elbit Systems' booth at the Eurosatory trade fair, in Villepinte, a northern suburb of Paris, June 13, 2022. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

Israeli defense firms barred from major Dutch arms fair amid Gaza war — report

By Nava Freiberg

Illustrative: Milk and other dairy products are on display at a Rami Levy supermarket in Jerusalem on July 17, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel to slash 40% import tariff for six months in bid to fend off milk shortage

By Sharon Wrobel

Yankee Stadium before a baseball game between the New York Yankees and the New York Mets, May 18, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

NY Yankees knowingly picked player who once drew a swastika on Jewish classmate’s door

By Grace Gilson

Illustrative photo of a police officer holding a pair of handcuffs. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Detainee found dead in his cell in central Israel

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Illustrative photo of an empty classroom at a school in Jerusalem, on September 1, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Petah Tikva teacher fired for having threesome with students

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar (left) cuts the ribbon at the opening of the Israeli Embassy in Lusaka, Zambia on August 20, 2025, alongside his Zambian counterpart, Mulambo Haimbe (right) and Israeli Ambassador Ofra Farhi. (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

Marking ‘new chapter’ in ties, Sa’ar inaugurates Israeli embassy in Zambia

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Visitors queue at the main gate of the former Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp memorial site, on April 3, 2025. (Jens Schlueter/ AFP)

German court rules Nazi camp memorial can bar visitors wearing keffiyeh

By AFP

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