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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 23, 2025

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US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, August 22, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump suggests fewer than 20 hostages remain alive; families demand new information

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

‘The 20 is actually probably not 20 because a couple of them are not around any longer,’ US president says; Israeli hostage envoy insists ‘no change’ in figures

Protesters block highways, demonstrate at Netanyahu’s home calling for hostage deal

Families stage rally outside PM’s Jerusalem residence, tell him to ‘leave the Shabbat table and move to the negotiating table’; mass protests scheduled for Tuesday

Hostages' families stage a protest outside the Jerusalem residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, urging a deal for their release from Hamas captivity in Gaza, August 22, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Families of hostages held in the Gaza Strip and supporters attend a rally calling for the release of hostages held in Gaza, at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, August 17, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Protesters to hit streets Saturday night with call to release hostages, end war

By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

Jewish Social Community (JSC) founder Arkadiy Kantor (center) with volunteers Hindy (R) and Samantha, at a JSC picnic in Central Park, August 17, 2025. (Zev Stub/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebookSome pro-Israel New Yorkers lost all their friends post-Oct. 7

At a picnic in the park, increasingly isolated young NY Jews let their identities show

Rising antisemitism and fears of an anti-Israel mayor are leading unaffiliated Jewish professionals to circle their wagons and seek intrareligious connection

Activists demonstrate against the war in Gaza and the humanitarian crisis that it has created, in Tel Aviv, on August 23, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 23: One arrested at Tel Aviv anti-war protest for leading ‘inflammatory’ chant

Gantz urges Netanyahu, Lapid, Liberman to form temporary ‘hostage-redemption government’ * Infantry officer killed in Gaza by IDF explosive that detonated in apparent accident

2:18 am

Fire breaks out at nuclear plant after Russia downs Ukrainian drone
7:26 pm

Anti-war protester arrested in Tel Aviv for chanting 'with our soul and blood, we will redeem Gaza'
7:01 pm

Thousands rally in Tel Aviv for release of captives: 'May be the last chance to save lives'

A youth walks with a sack on his shoulder with other people carrying bags of humanitarian aid they received at a distribution center run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), in the central Gaza Strip, on August 22, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Netanyahu’s office calls Gaza famine declaration a ‘modern blood libel’

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

US State Department largely dismisses UN assessment, says it’s ‘looking into credible reports that the IPC recently changed its definition for what constitutes a famine’

FILE - Netherlands' Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp lays flowers during a wreath laying ceremony on the 30th anniversary of Srebrenica massacre at the Memorial Center in Potocari, Bosnia, July 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File)

Dutch FM resigns after failing to secure cabinet support for new sanctions on Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Defense Minister Israel Katz visits an IDF post in the Gaza Strip buffer zone, August 5, 2025. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Katz vows to destroy Gaza City unless Hamas frees hostages, lays down arms

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Tourists visit the archaeological site of Tel Shiloh in the West Bank, March 12, 2019. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

ToI investigates'This is the place where the Jewish nation was born'

Archaeologists dig in against antiquities bill aiming to deepen Israel’s hold on West Bank

By Rossella Tercatin

A push to shift oversight of excavations in the territory to a civilian authority sparks worries of creeping annexation, with researchers fearing they’ll bear brunt of any backlash

Illustrative -- People speed down a zipline in a fun park in Germany, July 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Israeli children refused entry to zip line park in southern France; manager detained

By AP

Kids aged 8-16 had reservation; manager says they can’t enter over ‘personal beliefs,’ then offers other justification; mayor says incident caused ‘utter astonishment’ in community

ILLUSTRATIVE: Police officers stand outside Amsterdam City Council on November 12, 2024, days after the Dutch capital was rocked by attacks on Israeli soccer fans in several locations across the city. (Photo by Nick Gammon/AFP)

Israeli family attacked at Dutch resort; police claim nationality not cause of incident

Illustrative: Sacha Stawski, a member of the Jewish community who was attacked with red paint, along with other activists, as they hung hostage posters in a park on August 23, 2025 in Frankfurt, Germany. (Image from X)

Activists shoved, attacked with red paint while hanging hostage posters in Frankfurt park

The damage of false reporting can never be undone

My experiences of being falsely accused pale in comparison to stories that malign an entire country, but they gave me a taste of how devastating such errors can be

Bring back the Jewish family tax

In a fractured world, Jewish life cannot be sustained by schools or synagogues alone – here’s how parents can transform their children’s lives

Yemen’s Houthis fire missile, drone at Israel; missile breaks up mid-air; no injuries

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF downs Houthi drone over southern Israel after several failed attempts; missile fired at center apparently disintegrates en route, fragment causes minor damage

A fragment of a Houthi missile that broke apart and fell in Ginaton, August 22, 2025. (Ynet screenshot)

Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, director of the US Defense Intelligence Agency, speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Hegseth fires general whose agency’s damage assessment on Iran strikes angered Trump

By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN, MARY CLARE JALONICK and Michelle L. Price

No reason given for dismissal of Defense Intelligence Agency chief Jeffrey Kruse, other senior officers, in Trump administration’s latest shakeup of military and intel communities

US President Donald Trump, left, meets with then-South Korean President Moon Jae-In in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, as then-US National Security Adviser John Bolton, right, watches, May 22, 2018. (Evan Vucci/AP)

FBI searches home and office of ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton

By AP

Explainer

False claims about burning Israeli flags, based on ToI report, reach Congress

US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green repeats falsity that it’s illegal to burn Israel’s flag in the US, highlighting how online disinformation can reach the halls of power

US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, speaks during a town-hall style meeting in Acworth, Georgia, April 15, 2025. (AP/Mike Stewart)

Sgt. Rose Lubin, who was killed in a stabbing attack on November 6, 2023, speaking at an FIDF dinner in April 2023, in her hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. (Courtesy)

Atlanta man fired for joining wife’s antisemitic tirade at father of fallen officer

By Grace Gilson

Girls on a HaShomer HaHadash pre-army service year help with livestock in the Negev hills, 2024. (Tair Malka)

'They'll help agriculture, education & defending kibbutzim'

From Sept. 1, the storied Nahal military group will return to its agricultural roots

18-year-olds will volunteer for a pre-army service year and mixed combat-community work on Gaza border and the north to strengthen and protect communities affected by Oct. 7

Noam (left) and Yuval Rabia. (Courtesy)

Stolen phone returned to man whose sons were killed on Oct. 7; photos can be recovered

Jojo Rabia’s sons Yuval and Noam were killed at Psyduck rave; phone data erased, but cops believe it can be restored; grateful dad: ‘Whole country rallied to look for this phone’

Detroit Archbishop Edward Weisenburger tours the Zekelman Holocaust Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan, August 18, 2025. Weisenburger has vocally advocated for citizens in Gaza amid Israel’s ongoing war in the region. (Andrew Lapin/JTA)

'I’m deeply, deeply troubled by what’s happening in Gaza'

Amid Gaza war, Detroit archbishop’s Holocaust center tour yields mixed messages

By Andrew Lapin

Next to display on rabid WWII-era antisemite Father Charles Coughlin, newly appointed Edward Weisenburger speaks out on humanitarian crisis in Palestinian enclave during interfaith visit

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New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks at a rally with Hotel and Gaming Trades Council workers, in New York, August 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Amid NYC mayoral race, Jewish school requires parents to show proof of voter registration

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Orthodox Brooklyn school catering to Syrian community frames requirement as a way to safeguard communal interests in move apparently against Mamdani

An Intel sign is shown at the chipmaker's global headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. on Aug. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Terry Chea

Trump says US government now owns 10% of Intel in $11 billion deal

By Michelle L. Price and Michael Liedtke

As company cuts 20,000 jobs, agreement makes US one of Intel’s largest shareholders; critics view arrangement as troubling blurring of lines between public and private sectors

Texas state Sen. Pete Flores looks over a redrawn US congressional map during debate over a bill in the Senate Chamber at the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas, Aug. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Texas adopts new Trump-approved electoral map aimed at keeping GOP grip on Congress

By JIM VERTUNO, JOEY CAPPELLETTI and Hallie Golden

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Audrey Strauss, acting US attorney for the Southern District of New York, points to a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, during a news conference in New York, on July 2, 2020. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

US Justice Department releases transcript of interview with Jeffrey Epstein accomplice

By AFP

Ronn Torossian attends Tony Robbins' birthday celebration and book launch on February 27, 2017, in New York City. (Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for DuJour/AFP)

World Zionist Congress lifts ban on Betar USA chief, letting him serve as a delegate

By Andrew Lapin

Rabbi Tanya Segal at 12 Jozefa Street in Krakow, Poland, as she is evicted from her apartment, July 31, 2025. (Courtesy of Marta Kalamar via JTA)

Rabbi evicted from Krakow home once owned by Jews murdered in Holocaust

By Toby Axelrod

Young Kurdish men line up to sign up to join Syrian government's General Security forces at a police station in Afrin, Syria, an area in the country's north from which Kurds were forcibly displaced years ago, Aug. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)

Syria security forces’ push to recruit Kurds, religious minorities brings hope, skepticism

By OMAR ALBAM and ABBY SEWELL

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