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What Matters Most On Friday, August 22, 2025

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A Palestinian woman carries a child as she flees with others the Abu Iskandar neighborhood of northern Gaza City on August 22, 2025. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)

Foreign Ministry: Entire report 'based on Hamas lies'

Global hunger monitor declares famine in Gaza for 1st time; Israel rejects ‘biased’ report

By Agencies and ToI Staff

UN rights chief warns Israel could be guilty of war crimes, after IPC says famine has arrived in north Gaza; Israel says report ignored and ‘fabricated’ crucial data

Smoke rises following an Israeli strike in the Abu Iskandar neighborhood of northern Gaza City on August 22, 2025. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 22: Report says Gaza City op to start in mid-September, hostage talks to resume next week

By Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

Houthi missile triggers sirens in central Israel, likely fell apart in mid-air, IDF says * Dutch FM says he’s resigning over failure to get cabinet to agree to sanctions on Israel

7:24 pm

Trump suggests fewer than 20 hostages still alive in Gaza, bucking official Israeli tally
7:08 pm

White House appears to dismiss UN declaration of famine in Gaza
6:42 pm

IDF confirms Houthi missile likely fell apart mid-air, says it's investigating reported fragment impacts

In IDF-controlled Rafah, an armed clan’s school plants seeds of a Hamas-free future

By Nurit Yohanan

The Abu Shabab gang claims to have carved out an area where it is providing electricity, medical care and education for thousands of displaced Gazans under IDF protection

The school in eastern Rafah, run by the forces of Yasser Abu Shabab, August 10, 2025. (Screenshot: Facebook, clause 27a of the copyright law)

Israelis hold a protest march in Tel Aviv calling for an end to the war in Gaza and a safe return of hostages held by Hamas, August 21, 2025. The banner reads: The people will return the hostages. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

PM says he’s ordered talks on freeing all hostages, ending war, alongside Gaza assault

By Nava Freiberg, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Netanyahu avoids addressing partial deal backed by Hamas as he reviews IDF plans for offensive; hostages’ families rally in Tel Aviv: ‘Insisting on full deal brings back none’

Palestinians check the destruction after Israeli military strikes in a tent camp for displaced people near Al-Aqsa Hospital, in Deir al-Balah, Thursday, August 21, 2025. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israel tells Gaza City hospitals to ready for mass evacuations as war plans advance

By Emanuel Fabian, Nava Freiberg and Agencies

ToI podcast

Friday Focus with Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: Disengagement through the eyes of a Gazan

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Staunch anti-Hamas critic laments missed opportunity for a thriving independent Palestinian land that was usurped by the nihilistic mission of the terrorist entity that rules it

Israeli reserve soldiers take part in a military drill in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona, June 18, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/ Flash90)

'We still have something to give'

Reporting back for duty: Older reservists step up in Israel’s time of need

By Stav Levaton

In the wake of October 7, hundreds of civilians over 50 return to IDF service, providing both manpower and mentorship in the nation’s longest war

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)

Israeli envoy: We wouldn’t tell UK where to build in London

Britain, France lead 21 countries in joint condemnation of new settlement project

By AFP and Jacob Magid

UK summons ambassador to denounce Jerusalem’s approval of West Bank’s E1, which US Ambassador Huckabee says was a response to Western nations’ plans to recognize Palestinian state

Now-mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni speaks at the headquarters of the Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSC) in Barcelona on May 28, 2023 after the local and regional elections held in Spain. (Lluis Gene/AFP)

After cutting ties with Israel, Barcelona mayor barred from entering country

Palestinian children and a journalist examine the destroyed Al Jazeera tent at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on August 11, 2025, following an overnight strike by the IDF. (Bashar Taleb/AFP)

28 countries, including UK and Canada, call on Israel to let journalists into Gaza

Israeli Ambassador to France Joshua Zarka. (Courtesy)

Interview'Instead of leading to peace, they create chaos'

‘A terrible mistake’: Israeli envoy warns France over Palestinian state recognition

By Nava Freiberg

Ambassador Joshua Zarka says Macron’s ‘very dangerous’ decision is influenced by concerns over domestic Arab population, hurts peace process and risks sidelining Paris in Middle East

‘Politically unpalatable’: Shifting sentiments in Australia fueled row with Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference at his office in Jerusalem, August 10, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

'We were really close to a deal but PM added new conditions'

Biden official: Netanyahu sabotaged deals but calling him out would have helped Hamas

Matthew Miller tells Israeli TV show US wanted to declare publicly that Netanyahu was ‘completely intransigent,’ but saw Sinwar pull back from talks when detecting US-Israel strain

Explainer

Israel is planning to conquer Gaza City – what legal obligations will that incur?

Displacing the estimated one million residents of Gaza City will heighten Israel’s responsibility to ensure a humanitarian catastrophe is avoided, say legal experts

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir speaks with officers in the southern Gazan city of Khan Younis, August 21, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Lishay Miran Lavi speaks at a press conference in Tel Aviv on August 21, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Relatives say PM condemning hostages by pushing offensive, ignoring deal on table

Bazy Swirsky Rubin

Tips for a successful aliyah, from an old olah to new olim

Moving to Israel can be really challenging, but I’m living proof that the kids can turn out all right

In Sweden, hatred disguised as justice

In Umeå, Jews are once again hung in effigy, as if to say: Look what you’ve become. Look what you deserve

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

Jerusalem man indicted for allegedly asking rabbi’s permission to kill attorney general

By Charlie Summers

Unnamed 36-year-old to remain in custody until Sunday, is charged with making threats against government official

Filmmaker Eli Katzoff and released hostages Keith and Aviva Siegel on the northern border for 'Through the Land,' a new drone-shot webseries produced in cooperation with The Times of Israel. (courtesy)

ToI original video

484 days in Gaza: Released hostages Keith & Aviva Siegel recount the horror

In a two-part episode of the new web series ‘Through the Land,’ we walk and talk with the tireless Siegels outside their current home in the north to hear how their fight continues

Reporter's notebook

‘Studying Torah is what protects us’: Haredi leaders conduct prayers against IDF draft

Rabbi Dov Lando celebrates with draft evader in Bnei Brak; Tzohar’s Rabbi David Stav counters that prayer and fasting against conscription is a ‘despicable disgrace of God’s name’

Yeshiva students participate in a prayer service against IDF conscription at Bnei Brak’s Slobodka Yeshiva, August 21, 2025. (Sam Sokol/The Times of Israel)

An AI-generated video shows a Jew claiming ownership of the moon (Screenshot used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

New antisemitic meme has Jews claiming items ‘promised 3,000 years ago’

A wave of AI-generated videos show Jewish people asserting ownership over cities, cars, and dogs, trivializing historical attachment to the Land of Israel

A silver hoard of pieces used for currency prior to coin minting. (Clara Amit/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Silver was key currency in Israel long before invention of coins, study finds

The Instagram account of 'Slam Frank' has stoked people's confusion. (Poster at center, courtesy; screenshots via Instagram via JTA)

Writers ask: Can you be so inclusive it becomes offensive?

Musical with Anne Frank as pansexual Latinx has audiences wondering, ‘Is this for real?’

By Joseph Strauss

Social media users can’t tell if Off-Broadway show ‘Slam Frank’ is just an elaborate prank designed to pillory the left and rage-bait the right – and its creators are stoking the confusion

Record producer David Foster, left, and entertainment executive Haim Saban speak onstage at the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces Western Region Gala at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, November 1, 2018. (Shahar Azran/Getty Images via JTA)

'It’s marketing — they are misstating the situation'

After leadership shakeup, FIDF sticks to its guns on claim it is IDF’s sole US fundraiser

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

The group says it’s the only US charity authorized to raise money for Israeli soldiers – but the military won’t confirm it, and other groups have their own official endorsements

US President Donald Trump, center, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, right, and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, at a trilateral signing ceremony in White House, August 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)

'Friendship between neighbors can only bring good things'

After decades of conflict, Armenia-Azerbaijan peace plan gives Caucasus Jews new hope

By Larry Luxner

Jewish communities in the two former Soviet countries have had no communication, while Armenian ties to Israel have been strained over arms sales to its foe. All that may change

More Headlines

Army soldiers stand next to a pickup carrying weapons handed over by Palestinian factions at the Burj al-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon on August 21, 2025. (AP/Hussein Malla)

Fatah surrenders some weapons to Lebanon; US said to ask Israel to limit Hezbollah strikes

FILE - The seal of the US State Department is photographed at the Washington Passport Agency, July 12, 2016, in Washington. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Trump administration reviewing all 55M foreigners with US visas for any violations

By AP

Divers watch as a crane pulls an artifact from the waters at Abu Qir Bay in Alexandria on August 21, 2025, during recovery of sunken antiquities. (Khaled Desouki / AFP)

Egypt unveils 2,000-year old ruins carefully extracted from waters off Alexandria

By AFP

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

Police arrest two US yeshiva students who photographed sensitive security site

By Charlie Summers

Left: Yaron Lischinsky and his partner Sarah Milgrim, employees of the Israeli Embassy in the US, killed in a shooting in Washington, DC, on May 21, 2025, in an undated photo. (Israeli Embassy, Washington); Right: The suspect in the shooting, Elias Rodriguez, shouts 'Free Palestine' as he is arrested. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Reform movement opposes death penalty for accused killer of Israeli embassy staffers

By Grace Gilson

A picture taken on March 12, 2017, shows an oil facility in the Khark Island, Iran, on the shore of the Gulf. (Atta Kenare/ AFP)

US and UK each impose fresh sanctions on Iran, with focus on Iranian oil exports

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