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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 4, 2025

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Palestinians walk through a makeshift tent camp for displaced people near the Gaza City port, Monday, Sept. 1, 2025. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi)

Despite looming Israeli offensive, many in Gaza City insist they won’t flee again

By Nurit Yohanan, Agencies and ToI Staff

Residents — some displaced from elsewhere and many who only returned home in January — say evacuating to overcrowded south will make life harder while leaving them in harm’s way

A Palestinian flag flies from a truck carrying people and children with their belongings as people evacuate southbound from Gaza City on September 2, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Israel says Hamas preventing Gaza City evacuation, but 70,000 have left anyway

By Stav Levaton, Agencies and ToI Staff

An Israeli tank rolls along the security fence on the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel, on September 3, 2025. (Jack Guez/AFP)

IDF chief set to warn Israel sliding into Gaza military rule

Israel tells Hamas to surrender or see Gaza City leveled, as group says it’s open to deal

By Lazar Berman and Stav Levaton

Netanyahu dismisses terror organization’s stated willingness to free all hostages in exchange for ending war as ‘more spin,’ reiterates Israel’s demands for permanent ceasefire

US President Donald Trump speaks a he meets with Polish President Karol Nawrocki in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC on September 3, 2025. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Trump tells Hamas to give back ‘all 20 hostages’ and ‘it will end’

By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

Families of hostages held in the Gaza Strip and supporters attend a rally calling for the release of hostages held in Gaza, in Jerusalem, September 3, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Mediator says final US proposal calls for release of all hostages and end to Gaza war

By Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

Protest signs accuse Israel of genocide, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, August 28, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Pro-Israel activists join genocide scholars group, highlighting open entry for non-experts

After International Association of Genocide Scholars made world headlines accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza, critics using names of ‘Adolf Hitler’ and Star Wars characters join ‘world’s leading experts’

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US bureau chief Jacob Magid, in Israel after intensive reporting in UAE and Qatar, updates us on hostage release negotiations and the curious Biden tie to Trump strategy against the PA

A video shared by Hamas-affiliated social media accounts purports to show the terror group's members beating merchants in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, for not accepting cash payments. (Screen capture/X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF reportedly says 800,000 civilians remain in Gaza City

Hamas members seen beating Gaza merchants who refuse to accept cash

By Nurit Yohanan, Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Gazan school principal accuses terror group of killing his son at an aid site; IDF said to warn lawmakers it’s ‘not certain at all’ that capturing Gaza City will make Hamas budge

A man makes tea at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah, on the southern Gaza Strip on February 28, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and terror group Hamas. (AFP)

Coffee and cash: How Hamas pays its civil servants amid the war

By AFP and ToI Staff

Film review

Documentary lays bare Nazi propagandist celebrated for her cinema, unpunished for crimes

In his film ‘Riefenstahl’ out in the US Sept. 4, director Andres Veiel mines hidden archives to cut through a gifted auteur revered by Hitler as the epitome of Aryan womanhood

Leni Riefenstahl checks her appearance for the recording of the three-part 1999 documentary 'Speer und Er' by director Heinrich Breloer. (Bavaria Media)

A picture shows a view of a makeshift displacement camp at the Yarmuk Sports Stadium, once a football arena, as smoke billows during Israeli strikes on Gaza City on September 4, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

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Sept. 4: IDF says it already controls 40% of Gaza City ahead of main offensive

Witkoff said meeting Qataris on Gaza ceasefire deal in Paris * Palestinians say at least 53 killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza * IDF says two drones from Yemen downed *

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Eight IDF soldiers said briefly detained after accidently crossing into Jordan
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Argentina charges Nazi's daughter for concealing looted art, discovers 22 stolen Matisse works
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Three people shot and killed in suspected organized crime attacks within hours

Our wish, said the children, is that all the hostages come home soon

Last Shabbat became a time of epiphany, as I saw our community’s new first-graders and led prayers for the first time since Hersh was taken

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Tech giants hold the keys to Israel’s sovereignty

If Microsoft, Google, and Amazon end their contracts with Israel over Gaza, the country’s essential security data will be in jeopardy

Families of hostages and supporters march from the Knesset to the Prime Minister’s residence in Jerusalem (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Mother tells PM to take off hostage pin, as 'you don't care'

Hostages’ families, supporters rally outside Netanyahu’s residence after march from Knesset

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Murdered hostage’s daughter says if PM ‘doesn’t bring them home, we will’; protesters briefly block roads at entrance to Jerusalem, as academics hold demonstration outside Supreme Court

Left to right: A recycling bin and a car are heavily damaged after the bin was set alight in Jerusalem, September 3, 2025. (Israel Police); Anti-government activist Amos Doron, suspected of setting fire to trash bins in Jerusalem, is escorted out of his hearing in the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court after he is ordered to remain in police custody on September 4, 2025. (Screenshot/X)

Suspect to remain in custody over fires started near PM’s home during hostage protest

By Charlie Summers

PM says De Wever 'seeks to appease Islamic terrorism'

Netanyahu brands Belgian PM ‘weak’ for plans to recognize Palestinian state

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Foreign Minister Sa’ar tells Belgian newspaper that Palestinian statehood is ‘not happening now’ as ‘this process can only be realistic when they change their attitude’

Left: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the opening ceremony of the new Knesset museum, in Jerusalem on August 11, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Right: Belgium's Prime Minister Bart de Wever attends a joint press conference with the German Chancellor (unseen) after bilateral talks at the Chancellery in Berlin on August 26, 2025. (Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)

French far-right National Rally party's President Jordan Bardella (L) and president of its parliamentary group Marine Le Pen arrive ahead of a meeting with France's prime minister as part of political consultations at the Hotel de Matignon in Paris, September 2, 2025. (Bertrand GUAY / AFP)

Hoping Macron calls snap election, far-right National Rally boosts recruitment efforts

By Elizabeth Pineau

Defense Minister Israel Katz speaks to press at the site of a missile impact in Holon on June 19, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

Houthi missile, 3rd in 24 hours, falls short of Israel; Katz threatens ‘all 10 plagues’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iran-backed Yemeni terror group keeps up attacks after Israel killed its PM and other senior officials last week; unknown projectile falls near ship in Red Sea, but no one hurt

Screenshot from a video released by the IDF on September 3, 2025, showing a strike on a Hezbollah target in Lebanon. (Israel Defense Forces/X)

IDF says it killed two Hezbollah-linked operatives in strikes on southern Lebanon

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Then-war cabinet ministers Gadi Eisenkot (right) and Benny Gantz hold a press conference at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, February 26, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Eisenkot urges Gantz to resign, as polls show his party failing to enter Knesset

Blasting Blue and White leader’s attempt to join Netanyahu’s coalition, his former partner says PM to blame for lack of hostage deal, not far-right parties

MK Boaz Bismuth chairs a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, September 3, 2025. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)

Scrapping a year’s work, Knesset panel reboots talks on bill regulating Haredi conscription

Around 150 people gather in Jerusalem under the slogan, 'Different opinions, one heart,' to stand in solidarity with the hostages on September 3, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)

'All the hostages needed to be back on October 8'

‘Many opinions, one heart’ rally seeks to chart different way to stand with the hostages

By Rossella Tercatin

Some 150 participants gather in Jerusalem to connect over what unites Israelis rather than the divisions among them: ‘Bringing the hostages home is vital for everyone’

Left to right: National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir seen after a visit at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on August 3, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); Drones seized by Shin Bet agents thwarting an attempted assassination plot against Ben Gvir, in an operation announced by the agency on September 3, 2025. (Shin Bet)

Shin Bet says it busted Hamas plot to assassinate Ben Gvir

By Charlie Summers and Sam Sokol

Would-be assassins planned to kill far-right minister with explosive-laden drones, security agency says; Ben Gvir: ‘Hamas has already tried to eliminate me five times’

Harvard banners hang in front of Widener Library during the 374th Harvard Commencement in Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 29, 2025. (Rick Friedman / AFP)

Ruling against Trump, judge says ‘antisemitism used as smokescreen’ to cut Harvard’s funding

By Collin Binkley and Michael Casey

White House slams ruling, saying ‘it’s clear Harvard failed to protect students’ and that the Ivy League university ‘doesn’t have a constitutional right to taxpayer dollars’

In an aerial view, Caterpillar equipment sits parked in a lot at Peterson Cat on August 5, 2025 in San Leandro, California. (JUSTIN SULLIVAN / Getty Images via AFP)

US ‘very troubled’ by Norway’s divestment from Caterpillar for selling to Israel

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Demonstrators gather on the UCLA campus, June 12, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Judge orders University of Pittsburgh to reinstate Students for Justice in Palestine

By Grace Gilson

US-based Syrian rabbi Youssef Hamra tours the Ifrange Synagogue in the Jewish quarter of Damascus's Bab Sharqi district, on February 19, 2025. (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)

'There hasn’t been prayer here in at least 10 years'

In Damascus’ abandoned Jewish Quarter, final 5 Jews want to flee as expats yearn to return

By Theia Chatelle

A tour of the former hub of Syrian Jewry reveals a dim domestic view in stark contrast to that of the community’s diaspora, who see glimmers of hope in the new post-war government

A painting identified by Dutch newspaper AD as believed to be "Portrait of a Lady" by Italian baroque portraitist Giuseppe Ghislandi (16551743), stolen by the Nazis from a Dutch Jewish art collector, is displayed at the Public Prosecutor's Office in Mar del Plata, Argentina, on September 3, 2025. (AFP)

Argentina recovers Nazi-looted painting that went missing after being spotted in property ad

By AFP

Argentine prosecutors say ‘Portrait of a Lady’ was returned by lawyer of senior SS officer’s daughter; art expert assesses that the piece is ‘in good condition for its age’

A national flag of Iran waves in front of the building of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, in Vienna, Austria, December 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Gruber, File)

UN watchdog: Iran expanded stockpile of near weapons-grade uranium before Israeli attack

By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN

Confidential report says IAEA hasn’t been able to verify Tehran’s stash of highly-enriched uranium for over 2.5 months, as inspectors remain unable to access targeted nuclear sites

The Iranian national flag flies over the Iranian embassy in Canberra on August 26, 2025. (Hilary Wardhaugh / AFP)

Iran downgrades ties with Australia after Canberra expelled its ambassador

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Left to right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the opening ceremony of the new Knesset museum, in Jerusalem on August 11, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); The Democrats party leader Yair Golan attends a rally outside the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on August 4, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Yair Golan tells court Netanyahu suing him to silence talk of alleged ties to Qatar

The scene where a woman was found shot dead outside the Bedouin town of Rahat, September 4, 2025. (Magen David Adom)

Woman shot dead near Rahat; police suspect family member

By Charlie Summers

French singer and songwriter Enrico Macias addresses the audience during a gathering organized by the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF) calling for the release of the hostages held in Gaza since the Hamas-led October 7 attacks on Israel, at the Trocadeo esplanade in Paris, on April 7, 2024 (Thomas SAMSON / AFP)

Turkey bans veteran Jewish-French singer’s concert in anticipation of protests

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. (Stock photo via JTA)

Jewish Studies faculty at U of Oregon rally to protect their jobs from feared budget cuts

By Andrew Lapin

From left : (From L) Tunisian producer Nadim Cheikhrouha, Israeli actor Amer Hlehel, Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania, actress Saja Kilani, actor Motaz Malhees, actress Clara Khoury, producer Odessa Rae, Jim Wilson, US actress Rooney Mara and US actor Joaquin Phoenix pose with a portrait of late Palestinian girl Hind Rajab, during the red carpet for the movie 'The Voice of Hind Rajab,' presented in competition at the 82nd International Venice Film Festival, at Venice Lido on September 3, 2025. (Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP)

Gaza drama gets 23-minute ovation at Venice premiere

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Roman Zadorov arrives at his home in Katzrin after being acquitted in a retrial of the murder of Tair Rada at the court in Nazareth, March 30, 2023. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

NIS 17m compensation to go to man acquitted of grisly murder after 15 years in jail

The team at Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity unicorn Cato Networks. (Courtesy)

Israeli cyber unicorn Cato snaps up Tel Aviv AI security startup

By Sharon Wrobel

Illustrative: A smart phone with a warning of a hacking attack. (iStock from Getty Images/ CarmenMurillo)

Trump administration reinstates contract with Israeli-founded spyware maker Paragon

By Sharon Wrobel

Sebastian Koch, left, Hagai Levi and Julia Windischbauer at the premiere of 'Etty' at the Venice Film Festival on September 2, 2025 (Sipur)

Enduring voiceHagai Levi’s new series is modern take on Holocaust-era diarist

By Jessica Steinberg

Right to left: Tomer Goren and Tal Chotiner, of M&H and Haim Jelin, from Kibbutz Be'eri, at Whisky Live 2024 (Ziv Barak)

Raising spiritsIsrael’s Whisky Live 2025 to feature local malt honoring Kibbutz Be’eri

By Jessica Steinberg

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