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What Matters Most On Monday, September 1, 2025

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Left to right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference at his office in Jerusalem, May 21, 2025. (Nava Freiberg/Times of Israel); IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir in Jerusalem on March 5, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM: Trump wants us to go in with full force and finish this

At stormy cabinet meet, IDF chief said to warn Gaza op will lead to full-fledged occupation

By ToI Staff and Nava Freiberg

Netanyahu rejects Zamir’s push for hostage-truce agreement; far-right ministers reportedly accuse army chief of cowardice for backing a deal over expanded war

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

Security cabinet meets, reportedly discusses West Bank annexation but not hostage deal

By Nava Freiberg, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Teenage protesters demanding a hostage-ceasefire deal set fire to desks while blocking Tel Aviv's Ayalon Highway on August 31, 2025. (Alon Banki/Israeli Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

High schoolers block traffic, burn desks on Ayalon in protest for hostage deal

By Charlie Summers

Israeli students on the first day of school at Sdot Eshkol elementary school in southern Israel, September 01, 2025. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Visiting southern school, US envoy says 'evil didn't win'

2.5 million kids return to school, including in Gaza border and northern communities

By Nava Freiberg, Diana Bletter, Sue Surkes and ToI Staff

High school students strike in protest of the continuation of war in Gaza, call for hostage deal; leaders hail bittersweet return to war-devastated schools, resilience of returnees

Illustrative: Keshet high school students take their mathematics matriculation examination in Tel Aviv, June 29, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Education Ministry said to excise principles of democracy from matriculation exams

Volunteers for Latet fill backpacks with basic educational supplies for the new school year. (Yakir Amos)

As children go back to school, two reports detail vast socio-economic gaps

US refusing visas to Palestinian passport holders, in unannounced policy

State Department instructed diplomatic missions to refuse ‘all otherwise eligible’ applicants who seek visas on PA passport, via statute typically applied to individual cases

A Palestinian man at the Rafah border crossing holds his Palestinian Authority-issued passport on June 12, 2015. (Aaed Tayeh/Flash90)

Pope Francis makes his first visit to a synagogue as pope, greeting Rome's Jewish community in their house of worship as his two predecessors did in a show interfaith friendship at a time of religiously-inspired violence around the globe, on January 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

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Inside story

‘There is never a vacuum’: How Hamas keeps functioning even as Israel kills its leaders

The terror group has adapted amid targeted assassinations and a prolonged war, enabling it to keep making strategic decisions; crucially, no viable alternative has emerged

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)

Abu Obeida (R), spokesman for the armed wing of Hamas, the Izz-ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, delivers a statement in Gaza City late on July 8, 2015. (Mohammed ABED / AFP)

‘The face of Hamas’: Israel confirms terror group’s spokesman Abu Obeida killed

By Lazar Berman

Former hostage Emily Damari lights a torch during the dress rehearsal of Israel's 77th Independence Day ceremony at Mount Herzl, Jerusalem, April 28, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hamas terrorist who held Emily Damari hostage said killed in IDF strike

By Lazar Berman

Boats of the flotilla aimed at breaking the blockade of the Gaza Strip, moored at the port of Barcelona, on August 31, 2025 (Lluis GENE / AFP)

Storm forces Thunberg’s blockade-busting Gaza flotilla back to port in Barcelona

By AP and ToI Staff

Global Sumud Flotilla, led in part by Swedish climate and anti-Israel activist, says it chose to ‘prioritize safety,’ after facing 35 mph winds near Spain

FILE: Israeli singer David D'Or sings during a rally calling for the release of hostages held in Gaza, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, June 25, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Pro-Palestinian activist throws red paint on Israeli singer at concert in Warsaw

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

IDF report said to find Israel made ‘every possible mistake’ in recent Gaza offensive

By Nava Freiberg

Leaked document says bungled aid distribution helped Hamas mount PR campaign during Operation ‘Gideon’s Chariots’ from May to August; IDF feared unprepared for Gaza City takeover

Demonstrators gather in solidarity with journalists killed by Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip, during a protest organised by the Gaza Journalists Syndicate, in Gaza City, on August 26, 2025. (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP)

250 international media outlets protest Gaza journalist deaths, Israel slams ‘bias’

By Agencies and Nava Freiberg

People walk with bags of humanitarian aid they received at a distribution center run by the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), as they cross the Netzarim corridor in the central Gaza Strip, on August 22, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

IDF: Allegations of ‘enforced disappearances’ of Gazans at aid sites are ‘baseless’

By Nava Freiberg and Agencies

Justice Minister Yariv Levin speaks at the Second Right-Wing Conference in Tel Aviv, July 31, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Sept. 1: After High Court ruling, justice minister says ‘only the gov’t’ will decide who AG is

Gradual call-up of 60,000 IDF reservists to begin Tuesday, ahead of planned Gaza City op * IDF chief said to blast Netanyahu, ministers: ‘Where were you on October 7?’ * Slain hostages Idan Shtivi, Ilan Weiss laid to rest

7:35 pm

Netanyahu thanks US for denying visas to 'those who glorify terror'
7:11 pm

Lebanon and Syria to form committees on prisoners, missing persons and border issues
6:45 pm

UK foreign secretary slams Israel for 'man-made famine' in Gaza, says Israel's reputation diminishing among world's young people

Israel’s teachers need support now more than ever

Their emotional reserves are running dry after nearly two years of war. For their sake and ours, we can’t let that happen

Every day is Labor Day in Israel

Growing employment of women boosts the Israeli job market, but equality in the workforce – and in society – is still far off

United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni attends a meeting of the Knesset Finance Committee, August 12, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Haredi MK complains Sephardic students are ‘crowding’ into Ashkenazi girls’ schools

UTJ party’s Moshe Gafni laments there is ‘no room’ in high schools in Beit Shemesh, demands Shas party open more institutions for Sephardim

Inside story

Rossella Tercatin

For the 1st time, religious 1st-graders in Israel outnumber secular ones by thousands

Education Ministry data also shows 5,000 fewer children are enrolled in secular schools in the upcoming year compared to 2023; experts warn of implications for broader society

Israeli children who will begin school and kindergarten on September 1 pose for a picture in Moshav Yashresh on August 27, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Houthis say they shot at Israeli ship in Red Sea; maritime agency says missile missed

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iran-backed group fires at Liberian-flagged, Israeli-owned vessel; thousands attend funeral for rebel prime minister killed in Israeli strike, vowing revenge

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

Security said boosted around Netanyahu, other leaders amid Houthi revenge threats

By ToI Staff, Lazar Berman and Agencies

Houthi fighters take part in a weekly anti-Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen, August 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Yemen’s Houthi rebels raid UN premises, detain at least 11 staff, envoy says

By AFP and ToI Staff

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

Trump said weighing plan to pay Gazans to leave, put Strip under US-run trusteeship

By Nava Freiberg

Proposal seeks to turn enclave into tech hub and offer Gazans $5,000 each to exit temporarily or permanently; US president reportedly pressing Netanyahu to hasten Hamas’s defeat

Palestinians carry food parcels and supplies from a GHF aid distribution point in central Gaza, August 5, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sept. 1: Day 696 – Would Trump seriously consider Gaza relocation plan?

By Jessica Steinberg, Tal Schneider and Sue Surkes

A bulldozer tears down the first house due for reconstruction at Kibbutz Nir Oz, near the Gaza border, where one in four residents were either murdered or kidnapped on October 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists stormed the area, August 31, 2025. (Nir Oz spokespersons' unit.)

Oct. 7-ravaged Nir Oz begins demolishing damaged homes ahead of reconstruction

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks in his study in an undated photo (Koren Publishers)

Current market leader is seen by some as too insular

Posthumous Bible commentary by ex-UK chief rabbi seeks to unseat a synagogue staple

‘Ethical insights that apply to people’s everyday lives’: Five years after Jonathan Sacks died suddenly from cancer, Koren Publishers releases commentary culled from his works that it believes sets a new standard

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a Knesset committee meeting on November 18, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG tells High Court that government’s move to fire her was ‘totally invalid’

Justice Minister Levin said to tell weekly cabinet meeting there is no need to follow Bahrav-Miara’s legal opinions, in contradiction of High Court ruling

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Interview

Rejecting return to Likud, New Hope’s Haskel sees herself as ‘politically homeless’

Deputy foreign minister bemoans the ‘personal’ and ‘sectoral’ turn in politics, indicates she could join another party in order to advance her agenda

New Hope MK Sharren Haskel in the plenum hall of the Knesset, June 9, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)

New York Jewish man files $1 million libel suit against Al Jazeera

Abraham Hamra says Qatar-based media network falsely reported that he had been paid by the Israeli government to visit aid sites in Gaza

Illustrative: A Wizz Air flight takes off from Ben Gurion International Airport, July 22, 2019. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Low-cost Wizz Air’s plan to open Israel hub faces fierce opposition from local rivals

By Sharon Wrobel

If the plan led by Transportation Minister Miri Regev goes ahead, the Hungarian carrier will operate over 200 weekly flights and drive down exorbitant fares

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Injured Afghan people receive treatment at a hospital after an earthquake in Afghanistan's Jalalabad on September 1, 2025. (Aimal ZAHIR / AFP)

Magnitude 6 earthquake hits Afghanistan, at least 250 said killed, 500 injured

By AP

Rabbi Chaim Yosef David Abergel. (YouTube screenshot)

Police arrest revered Haredi rabbi suspected of preying on underage girls

Students go back to school in Tel Aviv after a strike, May 6, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Cabinet approves across-the-board budget cuts to fund security at schools

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

US film director Jim Jarmusch attends the photocall of the movie "Father Mother Sister Brother" presented in competition at the 82nd International Venice Film Festival, at Venice Lido on August 31, 2025. (Tiziana Fabi/AFP)

Director Jarmusch ‘disconcerted’ by streaming site Mubi’s links to Israeli defense firm

By AFP

President of European Commission Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a joint press conference with Lithuania's President Gitanas Nauseda at the Border Guard School near Lithuanian-Belarusian border, near the village Medininkai, east of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, Sept. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

EU chief’s plane hit by suspected Russian GPS jamming over Bulgaria, lands safely

By AFP

Rudy Giuliani speaks to the media outside Manhattan federal court in New York, January 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, file)

Rudy Giuliani injured in highway car crash, his spokesperson says

By AP

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