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What Matters Most On Tuesday, September 2, 2025

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Military shoes are handed out amid a massive IDF reservist call-up on September 2, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

WSJ: Officers posting in WhatsApp groups to recruit soldiers

Tens of thousands of reservists drafted ahead of Gaza City takeover, but turnout down

By ToI Staff, Stav Levaton and Charlie Summers

Many say they’ll show up but lament strain on families and collapsing businesses, call on Haredi men to share burden; over 300 sign letter vowing they won’t take part in ‘illegal war’

A serviceman belonging to the ultra-Orthodox Hasmonean Brigade prayers at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, August 6, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Bismuth’s proposal for Haredi enlistment said to freeze arrests of draft evaders

Belgium's Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot speaks with the media as he arrives for a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, February 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Belgium to recognize Palestinian state at UN General Assembly, impose sanctions on Israel

By Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Agencies

Move to be formalized when hostages freed, Hamas out of power; far-right ministers, violent settlers, Hamas leaders to be banned; Brussels will back moves to suspend EU-Israel cooperation

US President Donald Trump walks at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, August 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

British FM accuses Israel of 'man-made famine' in Gaza

Trump says ongoing war in Gaza is ‘hurting Israel’ in the court of public opinion

By Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman

US president claims Israel once had ‘total control over Congress’ but its reputation has been ‘especially hurt’ among American lawmakers: ‘People, they forgot about October 7th’

Interview

After US cools on phased Gaza deal, senior Qatari official laments ‘moving goalposts’

Qatari PM’s aide says the offer that Arab mediators convinced Hamas to accept is 98% of what Witkoff proposed, before Israel began demanding new concessions that make deal impossible

File: Qatar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Majed Al Ansari, speaking to Reuters after Qatar helped mediate a ceasefire agreement in Gaza, in Doha, Qatar, January 20, 2025. (Reuters/Imad Creidi)

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg (R) is seen on board of a vessel of a civilian flotilla, carrying pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel activists, and humanitarian aid and aiming to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip, moored at Barcelona port on September 1, 2025 (Lluis GENE / AFP)

Gaza flotilla carrying Greta Thunberg sets sail for 2nd time after storm delay

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee visits at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City, at the end of Tisha B’Av, August 3, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Sept. 2: Huckabee said to tell Smotrich that US fears Palestinian Authority may collapse

Rubio tells French counterpart US strongly opposes unilateral recognition of Palestinian state * Using allure of potential Nobel Peace Prize, hostages’ families urge Trump to end the Gaza war

7:26 pm

Katz says Houthi leadership only look out for themselves, neglecting citizens, after reports of them fleeing Sanaa
7:19 pm

Using allure of potential Nobel Peace Prize, hostages' families urge Trump to end the Gaza war
6:33 pm

Netanyahu said considering forming a hand-picked panel to lead commission of inquiry into Oct. 7 disaster

Ruby Chen (center), the father of hostage Itay Chen, leading a protest calling for the release of hostages near the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, August 23, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

'There’s no coming full circle, no healing'

Suspended in hellish limbo, families of hostages declared dead fight to not be forsaken

By Ariela Karmel

Stuck between seeking closure and clinging to scant hope, relatives describe being overlooked or shunted aside, leaving their kin to rot in Gaza and them unable to properly mourn

From the Blogs

A charade in academic garb

Genocide scholars lent their reputation to an indictment of Israel that is more of a lynching than a serious inquiry

Smoke rises to the sky following an Israeli military strike in the northern Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, August 30, 2025. (AP/Leo Correa)

Hamas lauds resolution as a 'prestigious scholarly stance'

Genocide scholars say IDF committing genocide in Gaza; Israel: ‘Based on Hamas lies’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Group of 500 international scholars passes resolution with 86% of voters in favor; Foreign Ministry rejects declaration as ‘an embarrassment to the legal profession’

Smoke billows after an Israeli strike in Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip, on August 29, 2025(Eyad Baba/AFP)

Genocide scholar says group pushed through Israel condemnation without debate

Left: Justice Minister Yariv Levin speaks during a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 11, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90); Right: Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a conference at the University of Haifa, December 15, 2022. (Shir Torem/ Flash90)

High Court unanimously urges government to revoke attorney general’s dismissal

By Jeremy Sharon

Justices cancel Wednesday hearing on petitions against Baharav-Miara’s ouster; justice minister threatens not to abide by a court ruling annulling decision to fire her

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center), Defense Minister Israel Katz (left) and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir oversee airstrikes in Yemen, at the Defense Ministry headquarters, Tel Aviv, May 5, 2025. (Ariel Hermoni/ Defense Ministry)

'Now you remember to talk about defeating Hamas?'

‘Where were you on Oct. 7?’: Zamir said to upbraid Netanyahu, ministers at heated meeting

By Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Report says IDF chief warned government that planned op to conquer Gaza City will lead to ‘a military government’ in the Strip, as army starts calling up 60,000 reserve soldiers

Funerals held for murdered hostages, reserve soldier killed in Gaza fighting

Infant son of Sgt. First Class (res.) Ariel Lubliner crawls onto his grave; mother of hostage Idan Shtivi says her son was ‘taken from the world at his peak’; Ilan Weiss buried in private ceremony

Family and friends of Israeli soldier Sergeant First Class (Res.) Ariel Lubliner attend his funeral as his infant son crawls atop his grave at the Tzur Shalom Cemetery in Kiryat Bialik on September 1, 2025. (Itay Cohen/Flash90)

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid speaks at a Yesh Atid conference in Tel Aviv on September 1, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Lapid: If Netanyahu wins the next election, ‘it will be the end of Zionism’

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

PM’s associate said urging restoration of direct elections for premiership amid polls showing Likud and allies failing to secure a Knesset majority

Yesh Atid chairman MK Yair Lapid attends a Yesh Atid party conference in Tel Aviv, September 1, 2025 (Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Sept. 2: Day 697 – Lapid dips into election rhetoric, appeals for unity

By Jessica Steinberg, Sam Sokol and Sharon Wrobel

Kally Rubin Kislowicz

Back-to-school boba

Like my kids who ignore my good advice and make their own mistakes, I wanted to be courageous and daring. They totally could have told me so

Sergio Restelli

China’s road to dominance runs through Haifa

By tolerating Chinese ownership of its largest port, Israel risks becoming a tool in China’s war against the West

Despite import waiver, milk shortage expected to worsen ahead of Jewish holidays

By Sharon Wrobel

Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot will fall in the middle of the week, shutting milk production at dairies for a total of nine workdays

A sign limiting customers to one carton of milk at an unnamed supermarket, aired on August 26, 2025 on Channel 12. (Screenshot)

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin speaks to two women, who turn out to be Israeli, onstage at a concert in London, on August 31, 2025. (Screenshot/ TikTok)

Coldplay singer unwittingly calls Israelis onstage, also welcomes ‘people from Palestine’

Two Israeli women greeted with jeers and applause from crowd after they disclose where they’re from; ‘we couldn’t and didn’t want to lie,’ says one of them afterward

Booking.com headquarters in Amsterdam, Netherlands. (tupungato/iStock)

Booking.com drops two guesthouses that refused to accept Israeli visitors

By ToI Staff and Reuters

The Raisch family on new home ground in Kibbutz Kerem Shalom, close to the Gaza and Egyptian borders, September 1, 2025. (Courtesy)

New families are heading to Gaza border, boosting returning communities

‘The answer to Hamas is to hold on harder to the land,’ says Uriel Raisch, who moved with his family to secular-religious Kibbutz Kerem Shalom. ‘We are one people’

Samaria Regional Council chairman Yossi Dagan (center) celebrates the opening of a new kindergarten in the West Bank outpost of Homesh, September 1, 2025. (Roi Hadi)

New kindergarten established at West Bank outpost evacuated under 2005 disengagement

By Jeremy Sharon

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish boys, pupils at the Poalei Menahem Talmud Torah school, in the Beitar Illit settlement on September 4, 2016. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Majority of religious Jewish Israelis averse to their kids mixing with Arabs — survey

Many Jewish parents don’t want their children to learn Arabic, take part in mixed summer camps, or be taught by Arab teachers, while most Arab Israelis do not share their qualms

A group from a delegation organized by Hebro and Birthright Israel pose after clearing out an apartment damaged by an Iranian ballistic missile in Ramat Aviv, Israel, in August 2025. (Photo by Gali Gordon via JTA)

'You can show up and be queer, but can't be Jewish'

After facing antisemitism in the Diaspora, pro-Israel LGBTQ Jews find refuge in Tel Aviv

By Deborah Danan

Backlash over the Gaza war in queer spaces is forcing some ‘back into the closet,’ says the leader of a US delegation whose members were buoyed by the Israeli counterparts they came to support

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The Syrian nuclear reactor site before it was destroyed by the IDF in 2007, as seen by satellite (Photo: Google Earth)

IAEA finds uranium traces linked to target of Israel’s 2007 Syrian nuclear strike

By Reuters and ToI Staff

A Yemeni youth carries a mock missile during an anti-Israel rally in solidarity with Palestinians and the Gaza Strip, in the Houthi-run capital Sanaa, May 16, 2025. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP)

Houthis fire 2 missiles at Israel that fall apart over Saudi Arabia; drone intercepted

US Representative Jerry Nadler, a New York Democrat, speaks to members of media outside Greater New York Federal Building in New York, on May 28, 2025. (Yuki Iwamura/AP)

Longtime US Democratic congressman Jerry Nadler won’t seek reelection

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Prof. Ayal Hendel, Bar Ilan University. Goodman Faculty of LIfe(Courtesy/Avishag Shaar-Yashuv)

Israeli researcher joins EU cell therapy initiative for blood cancers and tumors

By Diana Bletter

Supporters of Irish band Kneecap hold Irish and Palestinian flags and pro-Palestinian placards as they gather outside Westminster Magistrates' Courts in London on June 18, 2025. (BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP)

Israel moves bond approval process out of Ireland as Dublin pushes to reject ties

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shake hands during their meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin, China, September 1, 2025. (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

China and Russia back Iranian rejection of European sanctions snapback

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Suspected narcotics found in the possession of two suspected drug dealers, August 2025. (Israel Police)

Breaking badKindergarten teacher arrested with half a kilo of cocaine

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the opening ceremony of the new Knesset museum, in Jerusalem on August 11, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu to be questioned again in connection with Qatargate probe – report

Danish Ahmed Samsam poses at a court in Madrid on June 12, 2018 during his trial on charges of having fought in the ranks of the Islamic State for more than three years. (Luca Piergiovanni / POOL / AFP)

Spy or jihadist? Court to rule in case of Danish ‘agent’ in Islamic State

By AFP

This handout image made available by the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM), on September 2, 2025, shows people inspecting the debris after a landslide devastated the village of Tarasin in Sudan's Jebel Marra area (SUDAN LIBERATION MOVEMENT/ARMY / AFP)

Over 1,000 killed in landslide on village in Sudan’s Darfur: ‘Only one person survived’

Illustrative: People protest outside a Defense Ministry Rehabilitation Department in Petah Tikva on February 15, 2021. (Flash90/File)

Man shot while causing scene at IDF rehab center, attacking guards

A protester is carried away by police officers at a 'Lift The Ban' demonstration in support of the proscribed group Palestine Action at Parliament Square, central London, on August 9, 2025. (HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)

Another 47 people charged with backing banned Palestine Action group, say UK police

By AFP and ToI Staff

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