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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 24, 2025

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L-R: Defense Minister Israel Katz, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir at the IAF's command center, August 24, 2025. (Ma'ayan Toaf/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 24: Netanyahu says Houthis learning cost of attacking Israel ‘the hard way’

Katz says Israel destroyed presidential palace in Yemen’s rebel-held capital * PM said to tell coalition partners he does not intend to break up bloc for Gantz

8:45 pm

Man killed as car collides with truck on Route 6
8:26 pm

Death toll in Israeli strikes in Yemen's capital Sanaa rises to four
8:06 pm

Eisenkot: No political change is required; one man must make a tough decision

Smoke billows after an Israeli strike in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on August 24, 2025. (BASHAR TALEB / AFP)

IDF pushes into Gaza City outskirts ahead of offensive, bolsters troops in Jabalia

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Palestinians report nonstop bombings in northern Gaza, say 4 killed near aid sites south of Gaza City; IDF says 401st Armored Brigade sent to Jabalia to join infantry soldiers

Palestinians carry sacks of flour unloaded from a humanitarian aid convoy on the outskirts of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, August 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

At least 34 said killed by IDF in Gaza; hospital preps for Gaza City evacuation orders

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

A Palestinian boy extends an empty pot in front of a charity kitchen to receive cooked rice, in Gaza City on August 23, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Palestinians fear it’s ‘too late’ after UN declares famine in northern Gaza

By AFP, Reuters and ToI Staff

Israel said to assess that ‘one or two’ hostages are in life-threatening condition

Officials unsure why Trump suggested some hostages ‘not around any longer’; Smotrich said to tell IDF chief anyone in Gaza City who doesn’t evacuate ‘can die of hunger, or surrender’

Yehuda Cohen protests outside the home of Defense Minister Israel Katz on August 24, 2025. (Tanya Zion-Waldoks/Hostages Forum)

‘Sacrificed on the altar of eternal war’: Hostage kin protest outside ministers’ homes

Hostages and Missing Families Forum tells government there will be ‘no absolution’ if it torpedoes efforts to reach an agreement to bring home the captives

Demonstrators call for a deal with the Hamas terror group to free the hostages it's holding in the Gaza Strip in exchange for an end to the war there, outside the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, on August 23, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

‘May be the last chance to save lives’: Rallies across Israel demand hostage deal

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Lt. Ori Gerlic (IDF spokesperson)

Infantry officer killed in Gaza in apparent accidental detonation of IDF explosive

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF says Lt. Ori Gerlic, 20, a platoon commander in the Kfir Brigade, was killed after Israeli explosive detonated for an unknown reason; incident under investigation

Krishna Paksha Thapa

Nepal awaits Bipin Joshi: Bring him home now

While his family begs for his return from Gaza, many Nepalis wonder if greater diplomatic pressure could have freed him

Eliezer Simcha Weiss

Rabbi Blau’s stance on Gaza is morally reckless

The rabbi makes some good points, but he misses the mark when it comes to ethics, facts, and even methodology. As a leader and spiritual guide, he must do better

Blue and White-National Unity head MK Benny Gantz speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv on August 23, 2025. (Tal Gal/Flash90)

Gantz urges Netanyahu, Lapid, Liberman to form temporary ‘hostage-redemption government’

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Blue and White chairman calls on PM to put together six-month coalition committed to freeing captives, resolving Haredi enlistment; Yisrael Beytenu says it ‘won’t take part in any spin’

A composite image shows Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman (L), Opposition Leader Yair Lapid (C), and Blue and White - National Unity chairman Benny Gantz (R), at their respective faction meetings at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on July 14, 2025. (All photos Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lapid, Liberman deride Gantz’s plan to join ‘hostage redemption’ government with PM

By ToI Staff and Ariela Karmel

IDF uproots thousands of West Bank olive trees after Palestinian shooting attack

By Nurit Yohanan and Emanuel Fabian

Military denies move is collective punishment, after commander vowed al-Mughayyir will ‘pay heavy price’ for resident shooting at Israelis last week

Palestinian men check olive trees reportedly uprooted by Israeli soldiers using a bulldozer in the West Bank village of Al-Mughayyir, north of Ramallah, on August 24, 2025. (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

View of the area of the planned E1 project between Jerusalem and the Ma’ale Adumim West Bank city, August 21, 2025. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Aug. 24: Day 688 – Why both sides call E1 the end of the two-state solution

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jeremy Sharon

Legal and settlements reporter Jeremy Sharon delves into the controversy surrounding the newly approved West Bank project and breaks down a new UN agency declaration of famine in Gaza

Tens of thousands march in Australia, demand end to Gaza war, sanctions on Israel

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Palestine Action reports hundreds of thousands of protesters, including politicians and journalists, in dozens of locations; police dispute reported numbers

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (C) and members of the local Jewish community visiting the torched Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne on December 10, 2024. (DEPARTMENT OF PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET / AFP)

Australian police arrest second suspect in Melbourne synagogue arson attack

Naoise O Caireallain, left, and Liam Og of the hip hop trio Kneecap perform during the Glastonbury Festival, June 28, 2025. (Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)

Anti-Israel group Kneecap to perform in France, in defiance of objections

By AFP

Yoav Mordechai. (Screenshot)

Official suspended from hostage negotiating team amid Qatargate probe

By Stav Levaton

Police said to bar Yoav Mordechai from role in talks for 14 days, after finding his testimony ‘problematic’ during interrogation last week

Illustrative: The visitors' room at Evin Prison in Tehran, damaged on June 23, 2025, by Israeli airstrikes, seen on July 1, 2025. (AFP)

Iran said to return some 600 inmates to notorious prison damaged in Israeli attack

New York Times says prisoners taken back to newly built wards at Evin Prison; inmate describes a ‘dark dungeon’

The Andean (spectacled) bear, photographed here in Peru, roams the Putumayo Amazon in Colombia, part of which TiME is trying to purchase this year. (BluesyPete, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)

'Anyone who cares for nature won't find a better investment'

Israeli crowdfunding NGO’s unique model gives donors a say in saving global biodiversity

Over past 10 years, This is My Earth has bought 13 square kilometers of land in biodiversity hotspots under threat, saying every dollar donated yields 200-fold returns

Asher Goldstein, who confessed to murdering his 5-year-old son in 1974, arrives for a court hearing in Eilat on August 24, 2025. (Yehuda Ben Itach/Flash90)

Man admits to drowning 5-year-old son in 1974, two years before murdering his wife

By Charlie Summers

Asher Goldstein, 88, confesses to killing son, a cerebral palsy sufferer, tells police it was mercy killing; he later served 11 years for battering wife to death with iron bar

More Headlines

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney shakes hands with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a ceremony on Ukraine's Independence Day in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sunday, August 24, 2025. (Sean Kilpatrick//The Canadian Press via AP)

Russia says Ukraine struck nuclear power plant as Kyiv marks its Independence Day

By AP and ToI Staff

File: Stacks of Syrian pound banknotes are piled on top of each other at a currency trader's stall at a market in the city of Manbij in Syria's northern Aleppo province on January 4, 2025. (Aaref WATAD / AFP)

Syria to revalue currency, dropping two zeros in bid for stability

By Feras Dalatey

Israel Railways workers perform repairs. August 21, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)

Tel Aviv train service to resume Sunday, after being suspended last week for repairs

Firefighters work to extinguish burning vehicle in Horshim Forest near Kfar Qasim on August 23, 2025 (Israel Fire and Rescue Services)

Two bodies found inside a burnt car near Kafr Qasim, police investigating

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