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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 31, 2025

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) leads a cabinet meeting at an undisclosed secure location on August 31, 2025 (Screenshot/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Aug. 31: PM convenes security cabinet as he is said to face heavy Trump pressure to defeat Hamas

By ToI Staff and Ben Sales

Houthi leader vows to escalate attacks on Israel after group’s PM killed * After killing of Abu Obeida, IDF chief threatens Hamas leaders abroad: ‘We will reach them too’

9:02 pm

Israeli-owned tanker reports nearby explosion in Red Sea, says maritime security firm
8:02 pm

Report: Past and current Shin Bet chiefs and IDF hostage point man to be questioned in Qatargate
7:39 pm

Brig. Gen. Kobi Heller takes over as commander of IDF Judea and Samaria Division

Idan Shtivi (Courtesy)

PM: Shtivi 'acted to rescue and save many' people on Oct. 7

Body of slain hostage Idan Shtivi identified days after recovery from Gaza

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

IDF and Shin Bet retrieved remains of Nova festival photographer, 28, killed by Hamas during Oct. 7 attack, alongside body of Kibbutz Be’eri security squad volunteer Ilan Weiss

Protesters lift placards during a demonstration organized by the families of hostages held in Gaza, in Tel Aviv on August 30, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

At rallies, families urge leaders to take hostage deal on table, abort Gaza City takeover

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Lt. Col. G., commander of the 77th Armored Battalion, in Zeitoun, Gaza, August 28, 2025 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 31: Day 695 – On the ground in Gaza City

By Jessica Steinberg and Lazar Berman

A group of former senior Hamas officials, including (seated from left) Muhammad Sinwar, Muhammad Deif, Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh, all of whom have since been killed by Israel, are seen in a propaganda video released by Hamas on August 30, 2025. (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Months after IDF strike, Hamas casually confirms leader Mohammed Sinwar’s death

By ToI Staff and Reuters

Terror group does not issue statement, but includes the younger Sinwar in footage published of slain leaders, listing them as ‘martyrs;’ IDF said it killed him in May

Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida exposed as Hudayfa Samir Abdallah al-Kahlout, in footage released by the IDF in October 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Infamous Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida said targeted and likely killed in IDF strike on Gaza

A man watches the news on TV, displaying footage of Ahmed al-Rahawi, the prime minister of the Houthi-controlled government, who was killed, along with others, in August 28, 2025, during Israeli strikes on the capital, in Sanaa, Yemen, August 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Houthis, IDF confirm group’s prime minister, other top officials killed in Israeli strike

By Reuters and ToI Staff

It remains unclear whether the Houthi defense minister, a key target of Thursday’s attack in Yemen, was among the casualties

Sgt. First Class (res.) Ariel Lubliner (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF reservist killed in suspected friendly fire incident in southern Gaza

Sgt. First Class (res.) Ariel Lubliner, 34, is 900th soldier killed in multi-front war since Oct. 7; seven soldiers wounded overnight in northern Strip by roadside bomb

The times they are a-changin’ – can AIPAC adapt?

The age of 90% bipartisan pro-Israel votes is over. A new strategy is needed amid waning support from Democrats and Trump’s MAGA base

Goodbye UNIFIL: Now what?

While Israel has little love for the peacekeepers, some of whom failed to stop attacks or even may have colluded in them, it may want a similar but better force on the Lebanon border

Displaced Palestinians fleeing south react as they ride in the back of a truck with belongings along the coastal road through Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on August 30, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Israel plans to slow or halt aid entry to north Gaza before offensive, official says

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Red Cross says Gaza City evacuation ‘impossible,’ as Israel said to estimate only 10,000 of 1M residents have left; Blair said to tell Trump polling shows Gazans want new leadership

Screenshot from a Facebook post by the Emirates' official news agency, WAM.

UAE opens pipeline to channel desalinated water from Egypt to southern Gaza

Jewish Agency chairman Doron Almog during a board of governors conference at the Orient Hotel in Jerusalem, July 10, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Fearing arrest on ‘war crimes’ charges, Jewish Agency head cancels South Africa trip

Agency says decision to forgo visit by Doron Almog, a former IDF general, was made in light of South Africa spearheading accusations against Israel of ‘genocide’ in Gaza

Analysis

Can the US legally ban Mahmoud Abbas and the PA from the UN General Assembly?

Accused of violating the UN Headquarters Agreement, US says it can do so to protect national security; there’s precedent for the entry ban, but no definitive ruling on its legality

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, September 26, 2024, at the UN headquarters in New York. (AP/Frank Franklin II)

An injured protester reacts during a "March for Australia" anti-immigration rally in Melbourne on August 31, 2025. (William WEST / AFP)

Australia condemns neo-Nazi-linked rally of ‘hate’ as thousands march against immigration

By Samuel McKeith and Hollie Adams

March for Australia says immigration tearing apart social fabric, causing economic distress; protesters seen clashing with police, who reportedly use pepper spray

FILE - Flags of the Finnish Air Forces, featuring swastikas, are seen during a parade in Jyvaskyla, Finland in November 2024. (Tommi Anttonen/Lehtikuva via AP, File)

Finland to finally remove swastikas from air force flags, as it deepens NATO ties

By Jamey Keaten

A Holocaust memorial in Lyon was defaced with a "Free Gaza" inscription on August 30, 2025 (CRIF)

French Holocaust memorial defaced with ‘Free Gaza’ inscription

By AFP and Lazar Berman

Garo Sandrouni in his studio, August 28, 2025. (Nava Freiberg/The Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Genocide recognized? Netanyahu’s words stir old wounds in Jerusalem’s Armenian Quarter

By Nava Freiberg

As PM breaks precedent on Ottoman-era massacre, community members question his motives, and say his off-the-cuff comments fall short of official government recognition

Orthodox Jews dance 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)

Ukraine reportedly won’t let annual Uman pilgrimage proceed due to security concerns

Reports say Kyiv to enforce ban on mass gatherings enacted after 2022 Russian invasion; Ukraine, Moldova both said asking Israel to pay millions for security if religious visits take place

Plumes of smoke rise following an Israeli strike on the Ain el-Taher hill in the southern Lebanese village of Nabatiyeh al-Faouqa on August 31, 2025. (Rabih DAHER / AFP)

Air force targets underground Hezbollah bunkers in major strikes in southern Lebanon

By AFP and ToI Staff

Lebanese state media reports Israeli jets fired a ‘large number of missiles’; residents of northern Israel report hearing the explosions from dozens of miles away

Lebanese army soldiers load boxes of weapons handed over by Palestinian groups onto trucks at the Burj al-Barajneh camp in Beirut's southern suburbs on August 29, 2025. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

Palestinian factions hand over weapons from Beirut camps

By AFP

In rare find, Israeli archaeologists discover intact 4,000-year-old lamp wicks

While commonly in use during Bronze Age, wicks usually do not survive as they either were burned or decompose in soil

Illustrative: A US ninth grader places her cellphone in to a phone holder as she enters class at Delta High School, February 23, 2024, in Delta, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Tel Aviv’s pilot ban on smartphones in high schools meets opposition from students

As city preps for six schools to take away mobiles at start of each day, some students say program is ‘unreasonable,’ don’t intend to comply

Floaters are released into the water during a demonstration of Eco Wave Power electricity generation technology using the power of ocean waves in the harbor at AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro, California, on August 26, 2025. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP)

New wave: Israeli startup turns sea power into energy at Los Angeles port and beyond

By Romain FONSEGRIVES

Eco Wave Power believes it can make a splash and prove converting the ocean’s waves into electricity isn’t the impossible task some think it is; pilot project also underway in Jaffa

A Jewish man seeks relief from a heat wave in the central West Bank settlement of Beitar Illit, August 13, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Come rain or shine

Israel Meteorological Service launches online app

Available in English, Hebrew, and Arabic, app updates temperature forecasts in user’s area every 10 minutes, weekly forecasts every hour

More Headlines

Ami Popper (photo credit: Facebook/File)

Herzog may commute sentence for Jewish extremist mass murderer if ceasefire reached

Supreme Court President Isaac Amit with Supreme Court Deputy President Noam Sohlberg during his swearing-in ceremony, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, February 13, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police must obtain judicial warrants to search suspects’ phones, High Court rules

Kash Patel, director of the FBI, left, joined by partner Alexis Wilkins, February 21, 2025, at the White House campus in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

FBI chief’s girlfriend sues podcaster for claiming she’s an Israeli ‘honeypot’ agent

Police at the scene where a car exploded as a result of a suspected assassination, in Tel Aviv, August 30, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Man in his 70s shot dead in Umm al-Fahm; Tel Aviv car bomb wounds 4

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