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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 27, 2025

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US President Donald Trump, right, listens as White House special envoy Steve Witkoff, left, speaks on May 28, 2025, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

'We adamantly want... all of those hostages home'

Trump to hold White House meeting on ‘comprehensive plan’ for managing postwar Gaza

‘We’re going to settle this one way or another, certainly before the end of this year,’ Witkoff says ahead of Wednesday’s ‘large meeting,’ stresses US doesn’t want further partial hostage deals

Protesters gather with signs and Israeli flags during a demonstration in Tel Aviv on August 26, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

As cabinet meeting glosses over deal, mediators say Israel ignoring Hamas proposal

By Lazar Berman, Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

Demonstrators protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the current government and for the release of hostages outside Tel Aviv's Defense Ministry on August 23, 2025. (Photo by Erik Marmor/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug 27: Day 691 – Cabinet ignores Hamas deal as Trump plans postwar Gaza

By Jessica Steinberg, Tal Schneider and Diana Bletter

A man reacts as he holds the equipment used by Palestinian cameraman Hussam al-Masri, who was a contractor for Reuters, at the site where he was killed along with other journalists and people in alleged Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, in this still image taken from a video shot by Reuters contractor Hatem Khaled, who was wounded shortly afterwards in another strike while he was filming the site, August 25, 2025. (REUTERS/Hatem Khaled)

IDF widens Nasser Hospital probe amid questions over who approved deadly tank fire

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Military cites Hamas surveillance camera on hospital grounds as reason for attack; Hebrew media report Southern Command did not authorize tank fire that caused fatal blasts

Palestinian Christians attend a Good Friday Mass at the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza City on April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Orthodox Church in Gaza City ordered to evacuate by Israeli army

By Rossella Tercatin

Pope Leo XIV attends the weekly general audience at the Vatican, on August 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope calls for end to ‘collective punishment,’ forced displacement of Gazans

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Ring was led by a gangster styling himself as 'James Bond'

Iran-directed criminals twice targeted wrong venue before torching kosher Australian deli

By Zev Stub and Reuters

As suspect in Melbourne synagogue attack appears in court, documents show arson at Lewis’ Continental Kitchen in Bondi was organized by a refugee paid by Tehran

A police officer stands near where anti-Israel graffiti is painted on a wall in Sydney, Australia, on Dec. 11, 2024. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

Illustrative: A member of the Jewish community reads messages attached to a fence where flowers have been left at the Adass Israel Synagogue in the Melbourne suburb of Ripponlea after an arson there, December 9, 2024. (Martin KEEP / AFP)

Suspect appears in court in arson case that Australia blames on Iran

By Reuters and ToI Staff

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A massive crowd marches to Tel Aviv's Hostages Square for a rally calling for a deal to release the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza on August 26, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Organizers claim 350,000 in square and surrounding streets

Large crowds fill Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square for rally urging deal to free captives

By Charlie Summers, Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

Hostage’s father says, ‘I don’t want to receive my boy in a bag’; protesters block several major highways, hundreds march outside PMO as Netanyahu convenes security cabinet

This handout photo shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing an event celebrating the legalization of West Bank settlement outposts, on August 26, 2025. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

‘It began in Gaza and will end in Gaza,’ Netanyahu says at settlement outpost event

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

A destroyed ambulance is seen at the abandoned site of the Supernova music festival, near Kibbutz Re'im, where Hamas terrorists murdered and abducted numerous partygoers, October 12, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Comptroller said to put former top officials on notice over Nova festival probe

Op-ed: Day 691 of the war

The US has a ‘comprehensive plan’ for postwar Gaza? Let’s pray it’s a good one

There are some mighty complexities and contradictions to overcome for all hostages to be freed, Hamas disarmed, and Gaza rehabilitated. But only Trump has the leverage and clout to even try

US President Donald Trump talks to Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff on board Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, August 16, 2025. (Daniel Torok/White House/ZUMA Press Wire, via Reuters)

A handout photo partially blurred by the military shows IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, left, meeting with UN World Food Program executive director Cindy McCain in Tel Aviv on August 27, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

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Aug. 27: IDF chief meets World Food Program head over Gaza aid situation

Israel threatens to target hunger monitor’s funding if Gaza famine report not retracted * Envoy says ‘temporary deal’ for Gaza being discussed * Europeans set to reimpose sanctions on Iran

8:59 pm

Iran says sanctions snapback may end any cooperation with nuke watchdog
8:46 pm

Ashkenazi chief rabbi visits Ukraine ahead of annual Uman pilgrimage
8:42 pm

Sa'ar touts 'productive' meeting with Rubio

Yisrael Beytenu chair Avigdor Liberman and former prime minister Naftali Bennett meet on August 27, 2025. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Liberman meets with Bennett, reportedly seeking to plan next government

Yisrael Beytenu chair pens letters urging former PM, opposition chief, others to ‘show national responsibility and act together’ to form ‘united leadership’; Gantz notably not named

Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen in an interview on the Yasmin Lukatz Podcast, August 26, 2025. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen declares he should be next prime minister

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men block a road during a protest against the jailing of yeshiva students who failed to comply with an army recruitment order, in Jerusalem on August 7, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Haredi share in Likud said to triple, as thousands join party in membership drive

Micha Odenheimer

What’s important now? Remembering who we are

Israelis dream of building a better world, not just with high-tech know-how and drip irrigation, but with community and collaboration

Janét Aizenstros

American Jews’ wounds are self-inflicted

Choosing political ideology over peoplehood, they are fragmenting their own identity. In contrast, Black Americans have stayed unified

ToI podcast

Amanda Borschel-Dan

What Matters Now to legal expert Menachem Rosensaft: Israel is not committing genocide

The Columbia and Cornell law prof delves into the precise definition of genocide and its history, but warns that there may be a case that the Jewish state is guilty of war crimes

Menachem Rosensaft (courtesy) / Palestinians stand on the edge of a crater after Israeli military strikes in a tent camp for displaced people near Al-Aqsa Hospital, in Deir al-Balah, August 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

A 2,800-year-old monumental dam wall in Jerusalem's City of David has been fully excavated and radiocarbon-dated by researchers from the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Weizmann Institute of Science in a study published in PNAS on August 25, 2025. (Assaf Peri/City of David)

Archaeology'A reliable source of water was indispensable'

Huge dam shows ancient Jerusalem adapted to climate change with advanced engineering

By Rossella Tercatin

C-14 dating finds vast structure was built in 805–795  BCE; peer-reviewed study matches biblical narrative, reveals Jerusalem’s wealth, power under biblical kings 2,800 years ago

Looted painting vanishes after being seen in Nazi’s daughter’s real estate ad

By Toby Axelrod

Friedrich Kadgien’s daughter evades questions from journalist who spotted artwork, immediately removes ad and changes name on Instagram

The Dutch Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker kept a record of his holdings in a pocket notebook in the 1930s. Among the paintings he owned when he died was one that has reappeared in a real estate ad in August 2025 in Buenos Aires. (Black book by Marcel Antonisse/AFP via Getty Images via JTA; real estate photograph from Robles Casas & Campas via JTA)

The main road in the village of Nu’man, East Jerusalem, August 19, 2025. (Nurit Yohanan, The Times of Israel).

In Jerusalem but cut off, Nu’man is an island. It could soon be wiped away for good

By Nurit Yohanan

Although they live inside the capital’s municipal boundaries, those in the tiny hamlet were never recognized as residents. Now, Israel is threatening to demolish all their homes

Israeli soldiers conduct a raid in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on August 26, 2025. (Zain Jaafar / AFP)

IDF troops raid Ramallah money changer accused of funding Hamas activities

By Stav Levaton and AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L), speaks on the Patrick Bet-David podcast about the Armenian genocide, August 27, 2025 (screenshot/X)

In first, Netanyahu says he recognizes Armenian genocide

By Lazar Berman

Israel has long avoided officially recognizing Ottoman slaughter of Christians during WWI, though PM seems to signal change in stance as ties with Turkey continue to deteriorate

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi arrives for a meeting with the French president at the Elysee Palace in Paris on June 25, 2025. (JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP)

UN nuclear watchdog chief said to receive 24/7 security detail due to Iranian threat

Austrian security tipped off about an Iran-linked risk to IAEA director Grossi, WSJ reports, following public Iranian threats during June war with Israel

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)

UK, France, Germany meet with Iran to discuss nuclear deal as snapback sanctions loom

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Allison Minnerly, a new Gen Z Democratic National Committee member from Florida, speaks about a resolution she proposed seeking to block arms sales to Israel and recognize a Palestinian state, August 26, 2025. (Screenshot via JTA)

DNC blocks resolution urging halt to US military aid for Israel, Palestine recognition

By Jacob Magid and JTA

Text of hardline resolution doesn’t mention hostages; panel adopts more measured proposal before chairman withdraws it and agrees to set up task force for further talks on matter

Far-right US Congress candidate Valentina Gomez, a Republican from Texas, burns a Quran in an advertisement posted on August 26, 2025. (Screen capture via X)

‘Stop Islam’: Far-right US House candidate in Texas burns Quran in campaign ad

US ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria Tom Barrack (L) delivers a statement, as he is accompanied by US deputy Middle East envoy Morgan Ortagus, following a meeting with Lebanon's president at the Presidential Palace in Baabda on August 26, 2025. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

US envoy sparks uproar after calling Lebanese reporters ‘animalistic’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Tom Barrack tells press to ‘act civilized’ after meeting with Lebanese president; Aoun, information minister express regret; journalist groups demand apology

Illustrative: Syrian soldiers raise the Syrian national flag in front of the Syrian Defense Ministry building, which was heavily damaged by Israeli airstrikes, in Damascus, Syria, July 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

Six Syrian soldiers killed in Israeli drone strike near Damascus — state TV

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) shakes hands with French President Emmanuel Macron (L), as they hold a joint press conference in Jerusalem on October 24, 2023. (Christophe Ena/Pool/AFP)

Macron hits back at Netanyahu: Fight against antisemitism should not be ‘weaponized’

By AFP and ToI Staff

In letter, French president appeals to PM to end ‘murderous and illegal’ war in Gaza, after Netanyahu accused him of fueling antisemitism

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activists protest ahead of the opening ceremony of the 82nd Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido on August 27, 2025. (Tiziana FABI / AFP)

Protesters unfurl ‘Stop Genocide’ banner at start of Venice Film Festival

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Students shout slogans and display a banner reading "Long live the student intifada" as they take part in an anti-Israel rally at the Sorbonne University in Paris on April 29, 2024. (Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt/AFP)

Report finds drastic increase in antisemitism at European universities since Oct. 7

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Chilean synagogue vandalized with posters of Netanyahu shot in head

By Juan Melamed

A German Luftwaffe Eurofighter EF-2000 Typhoon jet fighter takes off during the NATO's Ramstein Flag 2025 exercise at Leeuwarden Air Base on April 8, 2025. (JOHN THYS / AFP)

Germany buys $451m of defense tech from Israel’s Rafael, despite Gaza tensions

By Nava Freiberg

Prof. Nathalie Q. Balaban, left, with Dr. Raya Faigenbaum-Romm in Balaban's microbiology lab at the Racah Institute of Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Courtesy/Zohar Binyamin)

Using novel method to compare subgroups, Israeli researchers unlock bacteria’s secrets

By Diana Bletter

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks at a news conference, Feb. 20, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

NY governor mandates campus civil rights supervisors to combat antisemitism

A demonstrator holds a placard during a protest in support of Palestine Action, in Parliament Square, in London, August 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

London police say 67 charged for backing banned anti-Israel group Palestine Action

By AFP and ToI Staff

Students stand among tents at a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel camp set up on the campus of Queen Mary University of London, on May 14, 2024. (BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP)

UK to help dozens of Gazan students enroll at British universities

By AFP and ToI Staff

Security guards remove barriers in front of the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna, Austria, on August 8, 2024, after the three concerts of US mega-star Taylor Swift were canceled following the arrest of an Islamic State sympathizer in connection with an terror plot. (Alex Halada/AFP)

German court convicts Syrian teen for plotting attack on Taylor Swift gigs in Vienna

By Agencies and ToI Staff

People march during the annual Pride Parade in Haifa, June 18, 2021. (Roni Ofer/Flash90)

Junior cop scolded for trying to restrict political messaging at Haifa Pride Parade

By Charlie Summers

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