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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 28, 2025

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US President Donald Trump speaks during in a cabinet meeting, alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio (L), Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (2R), and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick (R), at the White House in Washington on August 26, 2025. ( Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Blair and Kushner join Trump’s Gaza meet; official calls it ‘a simple policy’ session

White House official downplays significance of sit-down that Witkoff had billed as a ‘large meeting’ to discuss administration’s ‘comprehensive’ plan for day after Israel-Hamas war

A truck transporting humanitarian aid drives down a road in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on August 21, 2025. (Eyad Baba/AFP)

Most Americans see famine in Gaza, blame Hamas; 18-24-year-olds back Hamas over Israel in war

White House special envoy Steve Witkoff, right, and Jared Kushner wait for the arrival of US President Donald Trump at Teterboro Airport in Teterboro, New Jersey on July 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 28: Day 692 – White House meeting on Gaza hosts heavy hitters

By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid

A parent hugs her son during an active shooter situation at the Annunciation Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on August 27, 2025. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via AP)

Two children killed, 17 others wounded at Catholic school

Videos linked to Minneapolis shooting suspect show antisemitic, anti-Israel messages

Alleged shooter posted videos showing weapons with the slogans ‘burn Israel,’ ‘6 million wasn’t enough’ and references to 2018 Tree of Life shooter, ADL says

Parents await news of their children after a mass shooting at Annunciation Church on August 27, 2025, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via AP)

Two children killed in shooting at US Catholic school; shooter takes his own life

IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip, in a photo cleared for publication, on August 28, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 28: IDF says troops uncovered and destroyed kilometer-long tunnel in south Gaza

By ToI Staff and Ben Sales

Israeli strikes in Yemen reportedly targeted Houthi leadership gathering * UN Security Council votes to end UNIFIL mandate after next year * Smotrich calls to annex parts of Gaza

7:57 pm

Netanyahu, Katz condemn 'heinous' vandalism outside IDF chief's home
7:27 pm

Second woman alleges sexual misconduct by ICC prosecutor Karim Khan
6:55 pm

Anti-war protesters arrested for pouring red paint outside IDF chief's house

Portraits of Iranian military generals and nuclear scientists, killed in Israel's June 13 attack, are displayed above a road, as a plume of heavy smoke rises from an oil refinery in southern Tehran, after it was hit in an overnight Israeli strike, on June 15, 2025. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iranian cleanup of nuclear site likely to erase proof of atomic work — report

Institute for Science and International Security says Tehran appears to be ‘sanitizing any incriminating nuclear weapons research’ at Mojdeh, which Israel bombed twice this June

This handout photo taken and released by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet on December 10, 2024, shows Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (2nd R) and Rabbi Shlomo Kohn (R) visiting the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne on December 10, 2024, after it was set ablaze on December 6 (Handout / DEPARTMENT OF PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET / AFP)

Israeli intel helped Australia uncover Iran’s role in antisemitic attacks – report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi attends the 17th annual BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, July 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Europeans likely to apply UN snapback sanctions on Iran on Thursday

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US lobbyist Jay Footlik. (Middle East Investment Initiative)

Police issue warrant for American lobbyist Jay Footlik over Qatargate scandal

By Charlie Summers

Israeli law enforcement requests arrest of the pro-Qatar lobbyist, who is suspected of funneling money to Netanyahu’s aides, after reported appeal to INTERPOL

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on August 4, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lapid testifies to police in Qatargate, calls Doha payments to PM’s aides ‘dangerous’

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Ten million for Uman, but what about the rest of us?

This is not about religion, it’s about priorities, integrity, and the principles that underpin national solidarity

Eliyahu Berkovits

The Wizard of Oz wears a shtreimel

If effective leadership is measured by how it confronts crisis, those who represent the ultra-Orthodox are failing miserably

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

IDF said to raid Syrian army site near Damascus with helicopters, ground troops

By ToI Staff, Agencies and Nava Freiberg

Syrian state media says Israeli troops carried out airborne landing and operated for 2 hours; PM’s office denies Israel considered ceding Mount Dov area in potential deal with Syria

Interview

Fired State Dept. press officer claims Huckabee, aide usurping Trump’s ‘America First’ policy

Shahed Ghoreishi says embassy leadership, backed by Rubio aides, had him axed for trying to issue talking points that were in line with administration policy on Gaza

People walk next to a sign with portraits of US President Donald Trump (L) and US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee in central Jerusalem on May 7, 2025. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Ilana Gritzewsky shows the UN Security Council a picture of her and her hostage partner Matan Zangauker on August 27, 2025. (Perry Bindelglass / Israeli Mission to the UN)

Ex-hostage tells UN Security Council of sexual assault, starvation in struck Gaza hospital

By ToI Staff and Reuters

Also on Wednesday, all UN Security Council members except the US decry ‘manmade crisis’ of famine in Gaza, warn against the use of starvation

People walk up the stairs to the site of an Israeli strike, minutes before a second strike hit the same spot, killing at least 22 people in total, including five journalists, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, August 25, 2025. This was one of the last photos taken by journalist Mariam Dagga, who freelanced for The Associated Press and other outlets, before she walked to the site and was killed in the second strike. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga)

AP journalist’s final pics show spot where she was killed by IDF at Nasser Hospital

By Agencies and ToI Staff

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir meets with top officers on August 13, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief ignoring report into implementation of reforms stemming from Oct. 7 probes

By Stav Levaton

Sweden's Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard speaks with the media as she arrives for a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, December 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Sweden and Netherlands call for EU sanctions on Israel, Hamas

By AFP

Countries demand suspension of Israel free trade agreement on industry and agriculture, targeted sanctions against ‘extremist’ Israeli ministers and violent settlers

Displaced Palestinians fleeing Jabalia move with their belongings on a street in Gaza City, Aug. 26, 2025. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi)

IDF says mass evacuation from Gaza City ‘inevitable’ as troops push further into city

By Stav Levaton, Lazar Berman and Agencies

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

Illustrative: Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal prepares Torah scrolls at the synagogue of the Chabad community in Berlin, Germany, Friday, October 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

'It’s a communal event that should have a communal response'

Two congregations, two opinions as Torahs hit the floor at separate NYC synagogues

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Accidental dropping of the cherished scrolls can impact local communities – and the Jewish news cycle – while how it’s dealt with can teach us much about contemporary Jewish values

UN Security Council to vote on resolution to wind down UNIFIL at end of 2026

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US, which had demanded peacekeeping mission be terminated within a year, said not to object to French compromise, but unclear if will vote in favor or abstain

A French peacekeeper of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) stands by munitions formerly used by Iran-backed Hezbollah at a position that was held by the group in the Khraibeh Valley in el-Meri in south Lebanon on August 27, 2025. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

Protesters hold up Hezbollah flags behind graffiti reading 'Barak is animal,' as they demonstrate against the planned visit of US envoy Tom Barrack to south Lebanon, on August 27, 2025, in Khiam. (Rabih DAHER / AFP)

US envoy cuts short visit to south Lebanon after being met with pro-Hezbollah protests

By AFP and ToI Staff

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a military parade commemorating Turkey's 1974 invasion of Cyprus, in the northern part of the island's capital Nicosia on July 20, 2025. (Birol BEBEK / AFP)

Turkey rejects Netanyahu’s recognition of Armenian genocide as politically motivated

By Nava Freiberg, AFP and ToI Staff

Ankara, which has repeatedly compared Israel to Nazi Germany, calls the statement ‘an attempt to exploit past tragedies for political motives’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends a ceremony marking the Steel Dome system delivery at the ASELSAN Golbasi Campus in Ankara, Turkey on August 27, 2025. (TUR Presidency / Murat Kula / Anadolu)

Erdogan hails delivery to his troops of Turkey’s own ‘Steel Dome’ air defense system

By AFP

IDF chief Eyal Zamir, center, during a tour of Gaza on August 27, 2025. (IDF spokesperson)

Touring Gaza, IDF chief hints ultra-Orthodox cannot continue to evade service

By Stav Levaton

Zamir reportedly slammed by Netanyahu ahead of cabinet meeting for undermining government positions; IDF chief meets WFP’s Cindy McCain to discuss humanitarian aid efforts

Red graffiti spray-painted over the Israeli flag on the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia's Old City neighborhood on August 26, 2025 (YouTube screengrab)

Philadelphia’s Jewish museum grapples with its identity in the wake of October 7

By Jessica Steinberg

The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History contends with a resurgence of antisemitism amid a shifting cultural landscape, with an Israeli CEO at its helm

Illustrative: Members of the New York Police Department patrol in front of a synagogue on October 13, 2023, in the Williamsburg neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images via AFP)

'I don't see how we can possibly accept this money'

Some US Jewish groups prefer risk of violence to security grants requiring ICE cooperation

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Dozens of mostly progressive organizations sign open letter decrying how $274 million in federal funding is conditioned on supporting immigration policies contrary to their values

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Hazy weather over Tel Aviv amid high levels of air pollution, April 18, 2024 (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)

Israel’s greenhouse gas emissions have barely shifted since 2015 — report

Protesters occupy Microsoft’s office, demand it cut ties with Israel; 7 arrested

By AP

This photograph shows the trunk of the olive tree, presumably cut down with a chainsaw, which was planted in 2011 in front of a memorial to Ilan Halimi, in Epinay-sur-Seine, on the outskirst of Paris on August 15, 2025. (Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)

Brothers arrested for felling tree at Paris memorial to murdered French Jewish man

By AFP

Ukrainian rescuers carry the body of a victim recovered during a search and rescue operation at the site of a residential building, heavily damaged following a Russian missile strike in Kyiv on August 28, 2025. (Genya SAVILOV / AFP)

Russia kills at least 14 in Kyiv in second-largest barrage of war, Ukraine says

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Team Israel-Premier Tech's riders compete during the fifth stage of the Vuelta a Espana cycling tour on August 27, 2025. (Josep LAGO / AFP)

Anti-Israel protesters block Israeli cycling team in major Vuelta a España race

By AFP and ToI Staff

Bahrain’s Foreign Minister, Abdul Lateef Rashid Al Zayani, speaks to journalists in Manama on December 4, 2022. (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

Bahrain receives credentials of Israel’s new ambassador to the Gulf kingdom

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Pulitzer Prize winning author Geraldine Brooks is awarded the 2025 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. (Library of Congress via JTA)

Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks awarded Library of Congress American fiction award

By Grace Gilson

Hungarian-born US investor and philanthropist George Soros answers questions after delivering a speech on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on May 24, 2022. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)

Trump demands Soros be charged with corruption for backing ‘violent protests’

By Jarrett Renshaw

Illustrative: The famous Al-Uzair Mosque in the town of Abu Ghosh, near Jerusalem, November 11, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israeli suspected of filming himself urinating on mosque near Jerusalem

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

An Arkia plane takes off from Ben Gurion Airport, outside Tel Aviv, August 14, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Flight to Tel Aviv diverted to Cyprus after passenger attacks flight attendant

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