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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 26, 2025

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Director-General of ASIO Mike Burgess speak to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, August 26, 2025. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch)

'Extraordinary and dangerous acts of aggression'

Australia says Tehran behind two antisemitic arson attacks, expels Iranian ambassador

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

PM Albanese says Australian diplomats in Tehran moved to safety in third country; Canberra to designate Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as terrorist organization

Special Envoy Steve Witkoff listens as US President Donald Trump meets with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in the Oval Office of the White House on August 25, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 26: Witkoff says US talking with a number of countries about joining Abraham Accords

By Shira Silkoff, Ben Sales and ToI Staff

Organizers say 350,000 attend rally for hostage deal * Security cabinet meeting ends, reportedly without discussing temporary ceasefire * IDF: Nasser hospital strike targeted Hamas camera * Democrats vote down anti-Israel resolution calling for arms embargo

9:03 pm

Nazi-looted painting spotted in photo in Argentine real estate listing
8:53 pm

In latest flip-flop, key Shas rabbi retracts statement that Haredim who don't study can serve in IDF
8:42 pm

State Comptroller sends former officials drafts of findings from Nova massacre investigation - report

A protester blocks a main road near Lod as a fire blazes behind her, during a demonstration calling for the release of the hostages held by Hamas and a ceasefire in Gaza, August 26, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Thousands demonstrate, block roads on nationwide day of protests for hostages

By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

Family members of the captives accuse the government of abandoning their loved ones for political gain; opposition MKs call for crowds to take to the streets

Protesters block Route 1 on August 26, 2025, at Shapirim Interchange (Barak Dor/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug 26: Day 690 – Hostages’ families lead another nationwide protest

By Jessica Steinberg and David Horovitz

A screen capture from a video showing the capture of hostage Nimrod Cohen on October 7, 2023, approved for release on August 25, 2025.

Publishing a video of his capture, Nimrod Cohen’s parents urge his immediate release

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

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Taxpayers to foot bill for 50,000 to fly to Uman pilgrimage

Haredi lawmakers pressing PM to allow draft dodgers to fly abroad for High Holidays

By Rossella Tercatin and ToI Staff

Deri aims to lift travel ban on draft evaders so they can make annual Ukraine pilgrimage; Goldknopf wants them to be able to visit NY, calling trips a ‘sublime spiritual experience’

Orthodox Jews pray at the gravestone of Rabbi Nachman, the great grandson of the founder of Hasidic movement, to mark the Jewish new year in the town of Uman, Ukraine, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Palestinians flee their homes in Gaza City's Zeitoun neighborhood on August 26, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Residents flee as Palestinians report overnight IDF shelling of Gaza City outskirts

By ToI Staff, Reuters, Stav Levaton and Jacob Magid

Churches vow to stay put to care for those unable to leave ahead of planned Israeli offensive; UN says 11 more people died of hunger, citing Hamas-run ministry stats

Palestinian medics evacuate a member of the territory's civil defense agency who was wounded in Israeli strikes on Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on August 25, 2025.(AFP)

‘Horrified’ allies, critics slam deadly strike on journalists in hospital; PM: Deep regret

By Nava Freiberg, Jacob Magid, ToI Staff and Agencies

Trump ‘not happy’ about strike, says Gaza ‘nightmare’ must end; Netanyahu laments ‘tragic mishap’; Germany urges investigation; Turkey calls it ‘attack on press freedom’

US President Donald Trump speaks during a bilateral meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 25, 2025. (Mandel NGAN / AFP)

Trump claims Gaza war to reach ‘conclusive ending’ in two to three weeks

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

US president doesn’t explain rationale for timeframe, which he has used to predict wind-down of other global conflicts in the past, while Rubio says war must ‘end with no Hamas’

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

What Mohamad’s grandmother taught him about Zionism

Every night she would pray God, protect my children. But when she said ‘my children,’ she didn’t only mean her own, she also meant the Jews

Mihran Kalaydjian

Israel’s leadership vacuum risks disaster in looming UN vote on Palestinian state

If Netanyahu’s government continues to drift without a strategy, it will only accelerate the outcome Israel fears: unilateral recognition, without security or diplomatic safeguards

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahy and Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. (Collage/AFP)

Israel downgrades ties with Brazil after it refused to accept new ambassador

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Foreign Ministry says Brasilia refrained from responding to Ambassador Gali Dagan’s request for agrément, while maintaining ‘critical and hostile line’ toward Israel

Caterpillar D9 bulldozers are unloaded from a ship at Haifa Port, July 9, 2025. (Defense Ministry)

Norway wealth fund divests from Caterpillar, 5 Israeli banks over Gaza ‘rights violations’

Helen Emily Davy, left, and Katharina Mayrhofer pose with the table taken from the Wertheimer family during the Holocaust. (Courtesy)

Part of a new exhibit at London's Wiener Holocaust Library

In 1938, an Austrian Nazi family looted a Jewish home. Their heirs connect over a table

By Robert Philpot

After a woman unearthed a dark family history while cleaning her attic, she took steps to make things right – highlighting systemic problems with Austria’s Holocaust restitution policies

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

Citing October 7, Katz says Israeli troops inside Syria staying put to defend north

By ToI Staff and Reuters

Defense minister digs in amid talks aimed at reaching new security arrangement with Damascus; Syria reports one killed in Israeli strike on village near Golan border

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

‘Dangerous escalation’: Syria accuses IDF of incursion into border village

Hezbollah supporters wave Hezbollah flags and chant slogans during a gathering outside the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, on June 25, 2025, to honor the Islamic Republic of Iran for what organizers described as "breaking American and Israeli aggression." (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Lebanon to present plan by next week to ‘convince’ Hezbollah to disarm

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US envoy to Syria and Lebanon says Washington will support extending UNIFIL peacekeepers’ mandate for another year

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

UN Security Council vote on Lebanon peacekeepers delayed amid US, Israeli criticism

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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 ‘negotiating with all our might’ to prevent sanctions snapback

By AFP and ToI Staff

Tehran faces return of harsh measures by Britain, Germany, and France unless it curbs uranium enrichment, resumes cooperation with UN nuclear watchdog

The archaeological site of el-Ahwat, roughly 20 kilometers (12 miles) east of Caesarea, in September 2024. (Aaron Lipkin)

Modern residue analysis shows ancient metal-working prowess

Were King David’s Israelites the first Startup Nation? Bronze bonanza spotlights tech skills

By Rossella Tercatin

Earliest evidence of bronze production in Southern Levant from 3,000 years ago indicates use of local copper from Arava desert, possibly during United Monarchy of Judah and Israel

Analysis

E1 settlement project widely condemned, but is it fatal to two-state solution idea?

Critics of the E1 plan say it cuts the West Bank in two, and severs the territory from East Jerusalem, though some argue these obstacles can be overcome

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a press conference announcing his plans to approve more than 3,000 housing units in the E1 West Bank settlement project between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim on August 14, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US Ambassador to France Charles Kushner, in the Cabinet Room of the White House, in Washington, DC, on March 25, 2025. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

US doubles down on support for envoy to France after antisemitism row

By AFP and Nava Freiberg

Foreign Minister Sa’ar weighs in on the dispute, calling France’s decision to summon Ambassador Kushner ‘the height of hypocrisy,’ tells Paris to focus on fighting Jew-hatred

Illustrative: Men walking in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, in 2017. (Amir Levy/ Getty Images/ File)

97-year-old NY congregation fights being sold off as a real estate project

Congregation Chaim Albert sues nonprofit One Brooklyn Health to block medical center from selling off site as part of plan that threatens to shutter historical synagogue

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People observe damaged vehicles and buildings a day after Israel carried out airstrikes on the main gas station in Houthi-controlled Sanaa, Yemen, August 25, 2025. (AP)

10 dead from Israeli strikes on Yemen’s capital, Houthi-run health ministry says

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: US President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order requiring the Justice Department to investigate instances of flag burning, in the Oval Office of the White House, August 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump orders crackdown on US flag burning, raising free speech concerns

By Brendan O'Brien and Kanishka Singh

A man visits the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the Old City of Jerusalem, Wednesday, June 11, 2025. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)

Alleged Western Wall vandal accused of painting ‘holocaust in Gaza’ on Holy Sepulchre

Irish rap group Kneecap singer, Liam O'Hanna center, who performs under the stage name Mo Chara, outside Westminster Magistrates' Court in London on June 18, 2025, after being charged with supporting Hezbollah. (BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP)

Kneecap cancels sold-out US tour day after clash with Jewish protesters in Paris

By Grace Gilson

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

Magen David Adom paramedics arrive to the site of a scaffolding collapse in Tel Aviv which killed one construction worker on August 26, 2025. (Magen David Adom)

Construction worker killed as scaffolding collapses at Tel Aviv building site

By Charlie Summers

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