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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 30, 2025

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PA President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the United Nations headquarters in New York City, September 26, 2024. (Stephanie Keith / Getty Images via AFP)

Abbas decries move as 'contradiction to international law'

US says it will ban PA’s Abbas, 80 other officials from attending UN General Assembly

Rubio says PA and PLO officials to be barred from visiting UN Headquarters next month over ‘efforts to secure unilateral recognition’ of Palestine, failure to repudiate extremism

L-R: Defense Minister Israel Katz, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir at the IAF's command center, August 24, 2025. (Ma'ayan Toaf/GPO)

Living hostages could have returned last week, official says

‘A wild gamble on hostages’ lives’: Defense chiefs to urge cabinet to eschew Gaza op, take deal

By ToI Staff and Stav Levaton

Channel 12 says top brass to press ministers not to launch Gaza City offensive, seriously weigh ceasefire; ‘There is a deal on the table that Israel fought for,’ senior source says

Or Taasa, left, and Gil Taasa (Courtesy)

PM releases new Oct. 7 footage of terrorists murdering father in front of two sons

'Only the nation will return the hostages'

‘Military pressure kills hostages’: Rallies mark year since Hamas killed 6 in tunnel

Anti-government protest folding into main Hostages Square demonstrations; ex-hostage thanks troops for bringing father’s body from Gaza

Protesters for the release of hostages held in Gaza, at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, August 26, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Tel Aviv District commander Deputy Commissioner Haim Sargarof at the scene of a rocket impact in Ramat Gan on November 18, 2024. (Screenshot/Israel Police)

Ben Gvir, pushing for crackdown on protests, said to weigh firing Tel Aviv’s top cop

By Charlie Summers

Idan Shtivi, 28, killed on October 7, 2023, and his body taken captive by Hamas terrorists from the Nova desert rave. (Courtesy, the family)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 30: Netanyahu speaks with families of returned slain hostages Ilan Weiss, Idan Shtivi

IDF reservist killed in suspected friendly fire incident in southern Gaza * Strike in Gaza targets senior Hamas operative; reports say it was spokesman Abu Obeida

8:33 pm

Netanyahu speaks with families of slain hostages Ilan Weiss, Idan Shtivi
7:58 pm

IDF confirms it killed Houthi prime minister in Sanaa last week, along with other senior officials
7:34 pm

Body of slain hostage Idan Shtivi recovered from Gaza

Martin Fletcher

The reason journalists in Gaza are getting killed

Israel claims some are members of Hamas, and the rest are tools of the terrorists. So what if they are? What about Israeli journalists?

No more excuses: Leaders must not remain silent

Those in the opposition in Israel and worldwide need to start doing their job, and stop ceding the field to the radical right

An AI generated image purporting to show sextuplets starting 1st grade that was published by the Education Ministry on August 29, 2025. (Education Ministry)

Flunking reality

Education Ministry slammed for AI image of kids starting 1st grade

Facebook post on fictional sextuplets with made-up backstory panned as ’embarrassing’ and ‘chauvinistic’; ministry says post was made in jest, urges ‘critical thinking’ online

Top (L-R): IRGC chief Hossein Salami; head of the Khatam-al Anbiya Central Headquarters, Gholam Ali Rashid; Bottom (L-R): IRGC air force chief Amir Ali Hajizadeh; Iran's Armed Forces chief Mohammad Hossein Bagheri. All were killed in Israeli strikes on Iran, June 13, 2025. (IRGC; Tasnim News; Courtesy)

Israel targeted top Iranian leaders by hacking, tracing their bodyguards’ phones — report

Though Iran’s officials avoided smartphones due to known security risks, NY Times reports rules for their guards and drivers were far more lax – which proved a fatal oversight

Iranians drive next to a billboard displaying pictures of nuclear scientists, centrifuges and a sentence reading in Farsi: 'Science is the power' at the Enqelab square in Tehran, on August 29, 2025 (AFP)

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards says 8 arrested for suspected links to Mossad

By Reuters and ToI Staff

In this Aug. 21, 2010 file photo, an Iranian security officer directs media at the Bushehr nuclear power plant, with the reactor building seen in the background, just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

European powers say Iran can avoid sanctions: Snapback ‘doesn’t mark end of diplomacy’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iran accuses Europeans of bad faith, ‘blackmailing’ Tehran; Pezeshkian: Israel and US want to ‘divide, destroy Iran’; Iran’s parliament drafting plan to quit Non-Proliferation Treaty

Portraits of slain Iranians are displayed in an area of Esplanades des Invalides in Paris, France, on July 8, 2025, as part of a campaign by human rights groups focused on Iran to stop executions in in the Islamic Republic. (Delphine TOUITOU / AFP)

In ‘major increase,’ UN says Iran has executed at least 841 people this year

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian shake hands during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on January 17, 2025. (Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool/AFP)

Putin to hold nuclear talks with Iran’s president after European sanctions ‘snapback’

By AFP

Jewish woman in her 70s stabbed in suspected Ottawa hate crime

Attack took place at supermarket chain known for its kosher offerings; Facebook page that matches assailant’s reported identity contains several anti-Israel and antisemitic posts

Illustrative: A police car is seen in Ottawa, Canada on July 2, 2020. (Mohamed KADRI / AFP)

People place flowers and an Israeli flag at the site of a deadly attack outside the Boulder County Courthouse on June 2, 2025 in Boulder, Colorado. (Chet Strange / Getty Images via AFP)

After deadly firebombing, Boulder hostage march forced to relocate as threats persist

By Grace Gilson

Kaja Kallas, the European Union's high representative for foreign affairs and security policy and vice president of the European Commission talks to journalists before the EU-Southern Neighbourhood Ministerial Meeting in Brussels on July 14, 2025 (NICOLAS TUCAT / AFP)

EU foreign policy chief ‘not optimistic’ bloc will agree on sanctioning Israel

Ministers split over ‘lenient’ move to curb Israeli access to EU program funding research; officials say step, which does not require unanimous support, could be initial signal to Israel

Interview

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Yosef Blau, author of Orthodox rabbis’ letter critiquing Israel, responds to critics

Last week, the former Yeshiva University rabbi penned what he sees as a contrarian but necessary missive decrying the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Reactions have been mixed

Rabbi Yosef Blau, former spiritual adviser at Yeshiva University, addresses members of Smol Emuni, an organization of liberal observant Jews, in a video shown at their conference in March, 2025. (Courtesy Smol Muni via JTA)

A wildfire burned through the archaeological site of el-Araj in the Galilee, which some identify as the New Testament town of Bethsaida, in July 2025, exposing several Roman structures. (Courtesy El Araj Excavation Project)

'The fire helped us a lot in understanding the site'

Ruins revealed by wildfire boost Galilean site’s claim as New Testament’s Bethsaida

By Rossella Tercatin

3-day blaze clears vegetation concealing parts of el-Araj on northern shore of Sea of Galilee, adding kindling to theory that location was hometown of St. Peter visited by Jesus

Hamas calls to 'escalate punitive measures' against Israel

Israeli airlines say they’re still traversing Turkish airspace despite declared closure

By Lazar Berman and Agencies

Diplomat clarifies only overflights of planes ferrying Israeli officials or weapons to Israel are blocked from Turkey’s skies, after its FM claimed airspace closed and trade ‘totally cut’

An Israir flight takes off from Ben Gurion International Airport, outside of Tel Aviv, August 25, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

IDF graphic on Muhammad Abd al-Aziz Abu Zubaida. (IDF)

IDF says strike killed highest-ranking ISIS official in Gaza

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Hamas says 5 more people die of starvation, 48 killed over 24 hours; Netanyahu’s office criticizes WFP chief, claims her statements on hunger contradicted what she said at meeting

Illustrative: People walk past a billboard depicting the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in Tiraspol, the capital of the Russia-backed breakaway region of Transnistria, in Moldova on November 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

As war rages in neighboring Ukraine, Transnistria’s Jews feel caught in a Soviet time warp

By Larry Luxner

The Russian-aligned breakaway state in Moldova had a Jewish population of 300,000 before the Holocaust. The few remaining today battle heightened poverty amid neighboring conflict

People inspect a bombed-out car, reportedly after it was struck by the IDF in a targeted strike on a senior Hezbollah operative in south Lebanon's Sir El Gharbiyeh, August 29, 2025. (Muntasser Abdallah/L'Orient Today via X)

Southern Lebanon strike kills senior member of Hezbollah’s Radwan force — IDF

By Stav Levaton, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Army accuses Ahmad Naeem Maatouk of violating arrangements between Israel and Lebanon; also says troops operated in Syria overnight, doesn’t comment on reported Damascus raid

Left: 'Sitting on a Suitcase: Psychoanalytic Stories,' co-edited by Olya Khaleelee and Halina Brunning (Courtesy); Right: People evacuating a building next to an apartment block hit by an Iranian missile, where several people were killed, in Beersheba, June 24, 2025. (AP/Bernat Armangue)

'The title hits on an open nerve'

18 Jewish therapists co-wrote a book on the trauma of displacement. Then came Oct. 7

By Rich Tenorio

In ‘Sitting on a Suitcase: Psychoanalytic Stories,’ diverse clinicians discuss treating patients while juggling their own generational issues and the horror of ongoing war

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Marla-Svenja Liebich (Reuters)

German neo-Nazi shakes up trans debate after changing gender, being sent to women’s prison

By AFP

Activist Greta Thunberg stands near a Palestinian flag after boarding the Madleen boat and before setting sail for Gaza along with activists of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, departing from the Sicilian port of Catania, Italy on June 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)

Gaza-bound flotilla set to sail from Spain on Sunday, with Greta Thunberg again in tow

By Reuters and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting, August 26, 2025, at the White House in Washington. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)

US court finds Trump’s global tariffs illegal, but leaves them in place for now

By PAUL WISEMAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST

US comedian Sammy Obeid gestures during a performance in a video uploaded to social media on August 21, 2025. (Screen capture: Sammy Obeid via X)

Refused permit, US anti-Israel comedian accuses Singapore of censorship; regulators deny it

By AFP and ToI Staff

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