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What Matters Most On Monday, August 25, 2025

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Mourners carry the body of one of five journalists killed in an Israeli strike on Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, during their funeral on August 25, 2025. (Photo by AFP)

Reuters, AP freelancers, Al Jazeera worker among the dead

IDF strike on south Gaza hospital said to kill 20, including rescuers and journalists

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Footage from Nasser Hospital shows rescue workers at site of initial tank fire hit by second impact; IDF orders probe, says it ‘regrets any harm’ to civilians and ‘in no way’ targets journalists

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir (right) is seen with Navy chief Vice Adm. David Sa'ar Salama at the Haifa naval base, August 24, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief reportedly says there is a hostage deal ‘on the table, we need to take it’

Senior officials say phased-release framework, which Hamas said it accepted, no longer relevant; renewed talks’ location, timing, and make-up undetermined as war’s expansion looms

Troops operating in the Gaza Strip in an undated photo released August 25, 2025 (Israel Defense Forces)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 25: Day 689 – Tanks spotted inside Gaza City ahead of planned op

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

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)

‘Israel stands for hostages’: Massive day of protest planned for Tuesday

Illustrative image. (Bonciutoma/Istock by Getty Images)

Horrifying testimonies seek to lift shroud of silence around ritual sex abuse claims

By Ariela Karmel

Survivors tell Knesset lawmakers of organized assaults on children by those claiming mantle of religion, alleging longstanding phenomenon made worse by official indifference

Seven-month-old Salim Mahmoud Awad suffers significant weight loss due to the lack of baby formula and food after being displaced to Gaza City, Gaza with his family, on July 26, 2025. (Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-arini/Anadolu via Reuters Connect)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 25: Hamas health ministry says 11 more Gazans died from malnutrition in past day

While talks ongoing ‘in good faith,’ US envoy says Israel, Syria not close to security deal * Hamas health ministry says 11 more Gazans died of malnutrition in last 24 hours * Norway’s wealth fund divests from five Israeli banks on ethical grounds

8:55 pm

While talks ongoing 'in good faith,' US envoy says Israel, Syria not close to security deal
8:29 pm

Israel downgrades ties with Brazil after its refusal to approve new ambassador
8:16 pm

Norway's wealth fund divests from five Israeli banks on ethical grounds

This handout photograph taken and released by Turkish Foreign Ministry press service on May 24, 2025, shows US Ambassador to Turkey Thomas Barrack (L) shakes hands with Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa (R) during a meeting in Istanbul. (Handout / Turkish Foreign Ministry, AFP)

Lebanon also on the agenda in PM meeting with Thomas Barrack

Syria’s Sharaa confirms ‘advanced’ talks with Israel on security deal; US envoy meets Netanyahu

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Reported terms with Damascus would see Syrian Golan demilitarized, ban on weapons that would threaten Israel, while Syria would be rehabilitated by US and UAE

IDF strike kills Hezbollah operative

Netanyahu says Israel is ‘ready to support’ Lebanon in disarming Hezbollah

By Nava Freiberg, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

After Beirut orders plans to disarm Iran-backed terror group, Jerusalem pledges ‘reciprocal measures,’ including a phased withdrawal of IDF troops from posts in the country’s south

Israeli soldiers seen on the border with Lebanon, northern Israel, July 10, 2025. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Michael Rainsbury

The day Fireman Sam reminded me why I made aliyah

When Wales’ favorite fireman – and the kids – sing about Israeli unity, I’m moved, noting the sacrifices over generations that led to this moment in our land

Michael Schiffer

What Netanyahu’s Israel is costing American Jews

The legitimate response to Hamas’s October 7 attacks has devolved into something that violates every ethical principle Judaism holds sacred

'We decided to try to do something that was the last resort'

Israeli doctors perform 1st ever emergency mitral valve repair on heart transplant patient

By Diana Bletter

33 years after Simon Fischler, 47, had a heart transplant, Rabin Medical Center team conducts procedure, attempted only twice before, but never on a patient in cardiogenic shock

Simon Fischler, center, with Dr. Ben Ben Avraham, left, and Prof. Leor Perl, right, after Fischler's groundbreaking emergency heart surgery at Rabin Medical Center. (Courtesy/Rabin Medical Center)

Interview

As banks pig out on profits, top economist urges tax to keep them from hogging wealth

After seeing plans aimed at boosting competition fall short, former Bank of Israel research head Michel Strawczynski says levy on lenders’ excessive income will ease wartime burden

Illustrative: People walk by a Bank Hapoalim branch in Tel Aviv on March 25, 2025. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

An explosion and smoke are seen in Sanaa, Yemen, following an Israeli strike, August 24, 2025 (Social media: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Woman whose house was hit by missile: 'Everything exploded'

IAF strikes Yemen’s capital after Houthis fired cluster bomb missile over weekend

By Emanuel Fabian

4 said killed as air force hits presidential palace, fuel depot, power plants; probe into Friday attack finds Iran-backed group launched missile with cluster warhead for first time

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

IDF slams comptroller for ‘accelerating’ Oct. 7 probe despite High Court petition

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says Matanyahu Englman has forged ahead with investigation, ignoring its request for interim injunction; comptroller chides IDF for ‘trying to undermine’ efforts

Rabbi Moshe Maya speaks during a rally marking one year since the death of Rabbi Shimon Hirari in Tel Aviv on February 28, 2016. (Yaacov Cohen/ Flash90/ File)

Changing stance, key Shas rabbi says Haredim who don’t study full-time can serve in IDF

If the IDF enshrines protections for Haredi soldiers in General Staff orders and they can observe Sabbath, ‘why shouldn’t [they] enlist,’ asks Rabbi Moshe Maya in radio interview

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

Suspect in plot to kill AG identified as British man residing in Jerusalem

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

US Ambassador to France Charles Kushner leaves the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris, France, after a meeting with the French president on July 18, 2025. (Ludovic MARIN / AFP)

France summons US ambassador for panning Macron’s response to rising antisemitism

Paris claims it has ‘fully mobilized’ to fight surging Jew hatred since Oct. 7, accuses Charles Kushner of interfering in French affairs for decrying ‘lack of action’ on antisemitism

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel Northern Ireland hip-hop trio Kneecap perform on stage at the Rock en Seine music festival, in Saint-Cloud, near Paris, France, on August 24, 2025. (Guillaume BAPTISTE / AFP)

Irish rap group Kneecap defies objectors with ‘Free Palestine’ chants at Paris gig

By AFP and ToI Staff

Police patrol on the beach in Tel Aviv, May 1, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

After chase, several Palestinians arrested in Tel Aviv for alleged terror plot

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Arrests carried out near Tel Aviv Port after Shin Bet reportedly sent out alert about a planned attack, leading to hourslong manhunt

Illustration: Police and Civil Administration official take apart illegal constructions near the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar, September 4, 2023. (Courtesy/ File)

Five settlers arrested, accused of ‘acts of terror’ toward security forces

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Members of the British men's wheelchair basketball squad turn their backs while Israel's national anthem "Hatikva" plays before a Basketball Nations Cup game in Cologne, Germany, on August 16, 2025. (YouTube screenshot)

Israel files complaint after UK wheelchair basketball players turn backs during ‘Hativkah’

Head of Israel Paralympic Committee slams ‘shameful’ conduct of British squad before recent game, says ‘we won’t allow the world to forget October 7’

A protestor holds a Union Flag reading "Stop The Boats" during an anti-immigration protest outside the Sheraton Four Points hotel, believed to be housing asylum seekers, in Horley, south of London, on August 23, 2025. (Ben Stansall/AFP)

UK anti-migrant protests persist as government lays out asylum reforms

By Sam Tabahriti

Illustrative: Protesters hold banners and flags, including one calling for 'Intifada revolution,' during a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstration in Copenhagen, Denmark on August 24, 2025. (Ritzau Scanpix/ Emil Nicolai Helms/ via REUTERS)

Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protest draws thousands in Copenhagen

By AFP and ToI Staff

Education minister accuses mayor of 'fight against Judaism'

Tel Aviv tells synagogues to operate ‘without distinction of gender,’ sparking storm

By Rossella Tercatin

City says non-discrimination clause in new contract won’t affect Orthodox practice of men and women praying separately, but lawyers warn it could expose synagogues on municipal land to lawsuits

Jews gather on the eve of Tisha B'av at a synagogue in Tel Aviv for the annual reading of the Book of Lamentations, August 12, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

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Traffic flows past a huge billboard bearing a painting of a missile falling on a Star of David, with the slogan in Farsi: "The missile has fallen amidst the demons" on a main road in central Tehran on July 16, 2025. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran to hold nuclear talks in Geneva this week with UK, France and Germany

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A Magen David Adom ambulance is seen in Jerusalem, March 28, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

3-year-old killed after piano falls on him near Jerusalem

Actor Jerry Adler arrives for the funeral service of James Gandolfini, star of "The Sopranos," in New York's the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, June 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Obituary‘Sopranos’ star Jerry Adler, who hailed from Jewish theater family, dies at 96

Israeli singer Eden Hasson, judge in 'The Next Star' TV contest, speaks to the media after the final of the show in Neve Ilan, near Jerusalem, January 22, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Handful of settlers protest gay singer’s planned concert at music fest in Jerusalem

By Michael Horovitz

Filmmaker Tom Shoval, left with 'A Letter to David' producers Alona Refua and Roy Bareket, of Green Productions at the February 16, 2025 screening of the film about hostage David Cunio (Courtesy)

Closeup on tragedyFilm about Cunio hostage brothers to be screened on day of protest

By Jessica Steinberg

This handout picture provided by the office of Iran shows Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaking during a ceremony in Tehran on August 24, 2025. (Photo by IRANIAN SUPREME LEADER OFFICE/AFP)

Iran’s Khamenei calls relations with US ‘unsolvable’ amid nuclear standoff

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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