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What Matters Most On Friday, August 29, 2025

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Weekly anti-government protest folds into main hostage rally

IDF recovers body of slain hostage Ilan Weiss, remains of another captive, from Gaza

By ToI Staff and Stav Levaton

Army and Shin Bet bring back body of Kibbutz Be’eri emergency squad member, who terrorists killed on Oct. 7 as he defended community; second hostage’s remains undergoing identification

Yemen's Houthi Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi visits the offices of Hamas in Sanaa, to offer his condolences over the killing of the terror group's leader Yahya Sinwar, on October 20, 2024. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP)

IDF said to believe entire Houthi cabinet likely killed in Thursday strikes

By Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

Reports in Yemen say attack killed Houthi prime minister and other top officials; IDF confirms Iran-backed group’s defense minister, chief of staff targeted

Illustrative: Fire and smoke can be seen at the site of an IDF strike outside of Houthi-controlled Sanaa, in Yemen, on August 24, 2025. (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli strikes in Yemen said to target gathering of Houthi leaders near Sanaa

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Reporter's notebook

For IDF’s 7th Brigade, return to Gaza City is personal: Six of its crew are held hostage

As IDF attacks Zeitoun for 7th time, officers in the tank unit say focus on destroying buildings and tunnels on edge of Hamas stronghold aims to leave enemy with nowhere to hide

IDF troops from the 7th Armored Brigade operate in Gaza City's Zeitoun neighborhood, August 28, 2025. (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas listens to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their talks in the Grand Palace at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, on Saturday, May 10, 2025, as part of celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany during the World War II. (Sergei Bobylev/Photo host agency RIA Novosti via AP)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 29: US says it will ban PA’s Abbas from attending UN General Assembly next month

Security official: Hostages could’ve been home already had Israel accepted offer on table * IDF says its strike killed highest-ranking ISIS official in Gaza

9:43 pm

US says it will ban PA's Abbas from attending UN General Assembly next month
8:11 pm

Trump still working for bilateral Putin-Zelensky meeting — White House
7:43 pm

Human rights lawyers call for Netanyahu's arrest on Argentine soil

A Palestinian woman walks past a heavily damaged building in Gaza City on August 29, 2025. (BASHAR TALEB / AFP)

‘Dangerous combat zone’: IDF nixes daily humanitarian pauses in Gaza City, as takeover looms

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Military says it will continue supporting aid efforts in rest of Gaza apart from northern city, where about half the population of the Strip is currently gathered

People wait for rice from a charity kitchen providing free food in the west of Gaza City, August 28, 2025. (Bashar Taleb / AFP)

Netanyahu tells UN food chief that Israel will ‘redouble efforts’ to boost Gaza aid

By Lazar Berman and Agencies

Displaced Palestinians flee Gaza City toward the southern areas of the Gaza Strip, in Nuseirat, on August 28, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Gaza at ‘breaking point,’ UN food chief says after visit to hunger-stricken Strip

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Stav Levaton

Interview

On UAE airdrop, anti-Hamas Gazan expat gains new perspective on his ruined former home

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, outspoken Hamas opponent who is also critical of Israel, describes seeing desolation from the air, says parachuting aid inefficient but can be effective

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib stands next to an aircraft readying to airdrop aid into Gaza on August 25, 2025, in a selfie posted to his X account from Amman, Jordan. (Courtesy)

Smotrich urges annexing parts of Gaza if Hamas won't disarm

Cabinet to reportedly discuss partial West Bank annexation at upcoming meeting

By Nava Freiberg, ToI Staff and AFP

Some ministers said to be pushing for annexation process to start before UN General Assembly next month, when France and other nations have pledged to recognize a Palestinian state

A picture taken from the E1 corridor, a sensitive area of the West Bank, looking eastward towards the Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumim with the Jordan Valley in the background, June 30, 2020. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Yossi Klein Halevi (courtesy)/ Former prime minister Ariel Sharon speaking to students on the first day of classes in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Maaleh Adumim, Sept. 1, 2004. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

ToI podcastFriday Focus with Yossi Klein Halevi: Worse than Disengagement is a one-state ‘dissolution’

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Yossi Klein Halevi

Orthodox Jews pray near the lake at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman, the great grandson of the founder of Hasidic movement, in the town of Uman, Ukraine, October 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

AG’s office: Any plan to let Haredi draft dodgers make pilgrimage to Uman is illegal

Letter comes as ultra-Orthodox MKs reportedly press PM for exemption to allow travel to Ukraine for Rosh Hashanah; military police said preparing to arrest offenders at airport

Podcast host Adam Friedland, right, interviews Rep. Ritchie Torres on 'The Adam Friedland Show,' on August 28, 2025. (Screenshot via JTA)

'This feels like a stain on our history,' says Friedland

Sparks fly as Jewish comedian Adam Friedland challenges Ritchie Torres over Israel support

By PHILISSA CRAMER and Grace Gilson

Thursday’s confrontational interview with the pro-Israel Democratic congressman stirs controversy as the comic blames Israeli ‘brutality’ for the explosion in US antisemitism

Reversing course, Philadelphia Jewish museum to rehang vandalized Israeli flag

By Grace Gilson

Microsoft fires 4 workers for on-site protests over company’s ties to Israel

By Reuters and ToI Staff

New York City Jewish educators say they’re leaving teacher union due to antisemitism

Interview

Israel’s UN envoy: Western leaders recognizing Palestinian state to ‘blow off steam’

Danny Danon says ‘disconnected’ countries want to ‘show they’re doing something’ at next month’s UN General Assembly, though move won’t have any impact beyond ‘hindering’ hostage talks

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon speaks at a Security Council session on August 27, 2025. (Perry Bindelglass/Israeli Mission to the UN)

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan speaks during a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on January 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images/AFP)

Former top Biden aide says he now backs withholding weapons from Israel

Menachem Creditor

Reading Torah bravely

What do we do when the scripture that inspires us to pursue justice also breaks our hearts – can we ignore the less savory bits? (Shoftim)

Let our children have public spaces free from sexualization

From New York to Tel Aviv, families deserve streets that belong to them too — safe, wholesome, and free of debauchery

The Zionist case for Palestinian statehood

Such a state, living alongside Israel in peace and security, would not ’reward’ Hamas, it would repudiate everything Hamas stands for

Daphne Lazar Price

The ‘body in the field,’ and the silence around suicide

The Torah insists we see the death of someone who is abandoned not simply as a personal tragedy, but as a communal failure (Shofetim)

Visitors look at rifles during the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) fair at the ExCeL centre, in London, on September 12, 2023. (Daniel Leal/AFP)

Israel fumes as UK bars its officials from London arms fair, won’t set up pavilion

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Jerusalem slams ‘discrimination,’ says move ‘serves extremists, grants legitimacy to terror,’ amid tensions with Britain over Gaza City takeover plan; Israeli defence firms can exhibit

An unmanned D9 bulldozer digs up a field during a demonstration to the press at the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) quarters near Tel Aviv on March 26, 2025. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Norway seeks to fend off US scrutiny after divesting from Caterpillar to protest Israel

Anti-war demonstrators protest outside the home of IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir near Hod Hasharon on August 28, 2025. (Standing Together)

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

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Standing Together activists urge Zamir to refuse orders to occupy Gaza; left-wing group says 8 arrested over vandalism, which is condemned across the aisle but backed by MK Odeh

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir leads an Otzma Yehudit faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on July 21, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir plans new policy barring protests on major roads or at synagogues

By Charlie Summers

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

UN Security Council renews UNIFIL mission for one final year before shutdown

By Agencies, Jacob Magid and Nava Freiberg

Israel welcomes decision to end Lebanon peacekeeping force’s mission after 48 years, saying it reflects recent ‘positive developments’ as Beirut moves to disarm Hezbollah

Illustrative :A plume of smoke rises following an Israeli strike on the Khardali area in southern Lebanon on August 28, 2025. (Rabih Daher/AFP)

Lebanon says 2 troops killed by Israeli drone that exploded after crashing; IDF voices regret

By AFP

Lebanese army soldiers escort trucks carrying weapons handed over by Palestinian factions from Rashidiyeh refugee camp to the Lebanese army, as they pass in Tyre city, south Lebanon, August 28, 2025. (AP/Mohammed Zaatari)

Lebanon may boost Palestinians’ rights in country, though citizenship not on the table

By AP and ToI Staff

An Iranian flag flutters in front of the Iranian Consulate, where Iranian diplomats meet counterparts from Germany, Britain and France for renewed nuclear talks, in Istanbul, Turkey, on July 25, 2025. (Yasin AKGUL / AFP)

UK, France, Germany launch process to impose snapback sanctions on Iran

By Lazar Berman, Reuters and AFP

US, Israel praise move as FM Sa’ar calls measures an ‘important step’ in countering Iranian nuclear ambitions; Tehran to continue talks with E3 before they take effect

Beersheba's so-called DNA bridge at the Gav Yam high-tech park, August 7, 2025 (Zev Stub/Times of Israel)

'Something really special is happening here right now'

With growing tech and IDF campus on its way, Beersheba readies for a ‘golden age’

Low housing prices, new infrastructure, and an influx of soldiers promise change — but deep social and planning challenges remain

An illustrative photo of new residential towers in Beit Shemesh, April 2022. (Elijah Lovkoff via iStock by Getty Images)

Real Estate Israel

Housing snapshot: Home sales and rentals across Israel in August 2025

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International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan speaks during a press conference at the San Carlos Palace in Bogota, Colombia, April 25, 2024. (Luis Acosta / AFP)

Second woman alleges sexual misconduct by ICC prosecutor Karim Khan

Israeli flags honoring the victims of last year's Hamas attack wave in the wind at October 7th Memorial Square in Beverly Hills, California, Oct. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Beverly Hills school board votes to fly Israeli flags in effort to fight antisemitism

By Grace Gilson

Taiwanese dancer, choreographer, and teacher Ming-Shen Ku will perform at Jerusalem International Solo Dance Festival 2025, September 1-6, 2025 (Credit: Wei Shen Chen)

Dance the night awayTwo Jerusalem cultural festivals bring back global performers

By Jessica Steinberg

A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Liberal Democrat Party leader and MP Ed Davey speaking in the House of Commons, in central London, on May 7, 2025. (House of Commons / AFP)

UK party leader to boycott state dinner for Trump over Gaza war

By AFP and ToI Staff

Actor Rami Heuberger in 2020 (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

ObituaryProminent actor and director Rami Heuberger dies at 61 after battle with cancer

Israeli journalist Dan Margalit in Tel Aviv, March 14, 2017 (Gideon Markowicz/POOL)

ObituaryDan Margalit, veteran political reporter and TV news host, dies at 87

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