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What Matters Most On Friday, September 5, 2025

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L: Hamas-held hostage Alon Ohel (Courtesy); R: Guy Gilboa-Dalal, held hostage by Hamas, is seen in a propaganda video, which also showed Ohel, that the terror group released on September 5, 2025.

'We want to return to our families. Please bring us back'

Hamas publishes video of hostages Guy Gilboa-Dalal, Alon Ohel ahead of IDF’s Gaza City op

Clip is first footage of Ohel; Hostage Families Forum says IDF warned them captives’ exact locations unknown, new offensive will put them at risk; protests mark 700 days since Oct. 7 attack

White House special envoy Steve Witkoff speaks with journalists after a signing ceremony between President Donald Trump and Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani at the Amiri Diwan in Doha, Qatar, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/ Alex Brandon)

Witkoff said to hold hostage talks with Qataris in Paris, but Israel skeptical

By Lazar Berman, Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

This handout photo taken on September 4, 2025, and released by the Vatican Media shows Pope Leo XIV (right) and President Isaac Herzog exchanging gifts during a private audience in the Vatican. (Handout/Vatican Media/AFP)

Hosting Herzog, pope calls for permanent Gaza ceasefire to be reached ‘with urgency’

By Lazar Berman and Reuters

Live updates (closed)

Sept. 5: IDF said to believe Hamas may try to move hostages ahead of intensified Gaza City op

Report: Halevi proposed comprehensive hostage deal last year, Netanyahu refused * PM says Egypt imprisoning Gazans ‘against their will,’ in growing war of words

8:19 pm

NYC Mayor Adams says willing to hear about other jobs amid reports of possible Saudi envoy position
7:30 pm

Trump plans to reinterpret 1987 missile treaty so US can sell heavy attack drones abroad
6:45 pm

Report: Halevi proposed comprehensive hostage deal last year, Netanyahu refused

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio listens during a swearing-in ceremony for Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff in the Oval Office at the White House on May 6, 2025 in Washington (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images via AFP)

Rubio: We're watching closely, but won't opine on annexation

Rubio: US warned recognizing Palestine would lead to ‘reciprocal’ Israeli response

By Jacob Magid, Agencies and ToI Staff

Israeli annexation discussions ‘wholly predictable,’ says top US diplomat, suggesting Western countries walked into trap with planned announcements that won’t actually create Palestinian state

This handout picture provided by the Palestinian Authority's press office (PPO) shows PA President Mahmoud Abbas (R) meeting with Finland's President Alexander Stubb in New York City on September 24, 2024 on the sidelines of the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly. (Thaer GHANAIM / PPO / AFP)

Finland joins declaration on 2-state solution, weighs recognizing Palestinian state

By Agencies and ToI Staff

French President Emmanuel Macron attends a joint press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Toulon, southern France, August 29, 2025. (Manon Cruz/Pool via AP)

Israel: ‘No place’ for Macron visit if Paris persists with Palestinian state recognition

By Nava Freiberg and Agencies

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Abdul Rahim Muhammad Hamden (Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, via X)

Gaza aid group says boy reported killed by IDF at site is alive, safe, and living outside Gaza

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says boy nicknamed ‘Abood,’ almost 9 — whom ex-staffer Anthony Aguilar misnamed ‘Amir’ and said was shot dead — has been tracked down and is with his mother outside the Strip

This picture shows tents housing displaced Palestinians in Gaza City on September 1, 2025. (Bashar Taleb / AFP)

US slaps sanctions on Palestinian NGOs that asked for Israel war crimes probe

By Reuters and Jacob Magid

Israeli fashion brand launches campaign calling to ‘resist starvation’ in Gaza

By Grace Gilson

British rock band Radiohead performs in Tel Aviv's Hayarkon Park on July 19, 2017. (Courtesy)

BDS calls for boycott of Radiohead as band announces first tour in 7 years

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Anti-Israel movement accuses English rock group of ‘complicit silence’ over Gaza war, rails at guitarist for collaborating with Israeli artist

Pier-Andre Cote from the Israel Premier Tech team rides during the eleventh stage of the Spanish Vuelta cycling race, from Bilbao to Bilbao, Spain, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Miguel Oses)

Team owner: We're not leaving. I'm proud of our Israeli name

Israeli cycling team vows to ‘race on’ at Spanish event after disruptive protests, calls for it quit

Participants in Vuelta a España warn that anti-Israel protesters pose threat to all competitors, after demonstrators cause cyclist to crash, prevent declaration of stage winner

An exhibit in Tel Aviv's Hostages Square marks 700 days since the October 7, 2023, massacre, on September 5, 2025. (Rei Ash/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Hostage families rally to demand deal on 700th day of loved ones’ captivity

Freed hostages call on government to return to negotiating table rather than expand war, almost two years after Hamas abducted 251 people to Gaza in its Oct. 7 attack

A picture shows a view of a makeshift displacement camp at the Yarmuk Sports Stadium, once a soccer arena, with a view of Gaza City on September 4, 2025 (Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)

IDF says it already controls 40% of Gaza City ahead of main offensive

By Stav Levaton, Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

Members of GFIDF, an association assisting unmarried partners of fallen soldiers, meet for a community event in Herzliya, March 2024. (Courtesy: Yanai Alfasi)

'It's not something you recover from'

A support system grows for girlfriends of fallen troops, bereaved but overlooked

By Stav Levaton

From therapy to memorials, GFIDF helps an expanding roster of grief-stricken but unwed partners of slain soldiers navigate anguish and find connection after losing loved ones

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

There will be war

The Torah pulls no punches about battling enemies, but it also tells us how to make sure we don’t lose ourselves in the process (Ki Teitzei)

Unilateral folly, again

On this 700th day, Netanyahu’s threat of annexation condemns Israel to a pattern of delusion and inevitable disaster, just when it needs to do better

Yaakov Katz (courtesy)/ Israeli soldiers walk past houses destroyed by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Be'eri, Israel, October 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

ToI podcast

Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: Yaakov Katz on why Israel was asleep on Oct. 7

By Lazar Berman

Co-author of the recently published ‘While Israel Slept’ speaks frankly about the ignored warning signs that led up to the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust

Ali al-Dabbaseh, a resident of the West Bank village of Khallet al-Daba, is treated in a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance after he was reportedly assaulted by Israeli settlers overnight on September 5, 2025. (Screenshot/Facebook)

Armed settlers said to injure at least 14 Palestinians, including infant, elderly couple

By Charlie Summers

Extremists reportedly attack Palestinians with sticks, knives, pepper spray in nighttime raid on southern West Bank village; IDF, police confirm incident; no arrests made

Mourners chant slogans as they carry the body of Mohammad al-Madani, who was killed earlier in the day during an Israeli army raid on the Balata camp for Palestinian refugees, east of Nablus in the West Bank on September 3, 2025. (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

Shin Bet said to warn PA at risk of collapse; Netanyahu holds discussion on West Bank

By Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg and Jacob Magid

(L) Attorney General Gali Baharav Miara speaks at a conference in Tel Aviv, July 5, 2022. (R) MK Simcha Rothman, chair of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee at the Knesset February 19, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni; Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rothman said planning to fast-track bill to split AG’s office when Knesset reconvenes

Controversial bill would create new role of ‘prosecutor general’ appointed by justice minister, to be brought for its preliminary reading first week of Knesset’s winter session

Passengers at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, August 8, 2025. (Rachel Alroey/Flash90)

Inside story

Some airlines return to Israeli skies, but prices soar amid peak High Holiday demand

By Sharon Wrobel

Round-trips to NY cost almost $3,000 even with Delta resuming Tel Aviv route, as Ben Gurion Airport traffic nears prewar levels and other foreign carriers delay service

After New York, United renews flights from Chicago and Washington to Tel Aviv

By Sharon Wrobel

Ultra-Orthodox girls make their way to school in Jerusalem, November 24, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Education Ministry threatens to slash school’s budget for refusing to admit Sephardim

By Sam Sokol and Rossella Tercatin

Warning undercuts Jerusalem mayor’s claim of solving the admissions issue. Beit Shemesh denies knowledge of proposal to create ‘new educational framework’ for unplaced students

Jewish men sing and dance at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman, ahead of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, September 30, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Shas head Deri said to block levy on Uman pilgrims that would defray cost to taxpayers

Argentine Patricia Kadgien (R), daughter of SS financial guru Friedrich Kadgien, one of several high-ranking Nazis to escape to Argentina after the war, attends a hearing after being arrested in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires province, on September 4, 2025. (AFP)

Argentina charges Nazi’s daughter for concealing art looted from Jewish collectors

By AFP

Friedrich Kadgien’s daughter and her husband are charged; painting by Italian baroque artist was photographed in their home after disappearing 80 years ago, later handed over

Illustrative: Voting ballots are emptied from a ballot box (iStock by Getty Images)

WZO closes election fraud case without penalties for suspected cheaters

Reform movement receives most seats, followed by Am Yisrael Chai and Eretz Hakodesh, two of the six slates revealed to be involved in the alleged voting fraud

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US President Donald Trump speaks during in a cabinet meeting, alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio (L), Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (2R), and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick (R), at the White House in Washington on August 26, 2025. ( Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Trump to rename Department of Defense the ‘Department of War,’ official says

By Nandita Bose and Idrees Ali

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi at a committee meeting at the Knesset, June 24, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Karhi threatens to cut public broadcaster’s funding over documentary about 1948 war

By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

Northwestern University President Michael Schill testifies during a hearing of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce regarding pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protests on college campuses on Capitol Hill, May 23, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Mariam Zuhaib)

Northwestern U president to quit amid row with White House over campus antisemitism

US journalist Bari Weiss during an interview with ex-MK Einat Wilf (not in picture), at the Jaffa Hotel Chapel on January 28, 2024. (Tel Aviv International Salon)

Paramount said prepping to buy Free Press for $100m, give Bari Weiss senior role at CBS

By Luke Tress and ToI Staff

Yoav Mordechai. (Screenshot)

Army envoy to hostage negotiating team has suspension extended amid Qatargate probe

By Stav Levaton

Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah supporters take part in a ceremony during the peak of Ashura, a 10-day period commemorating the seventh century killing of Prophet Mohammed's grandson Imam Hussein, in Beirut's southern suburbs on July 6, 2025. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

Hezbollah ally warns Lebanon faces ‘ball of fire’ as cabinet set to debate disarmament

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Jewish students at El Camino Real Charter High School walk out to protesting antisemitic incidents at the Los Angeles school on February 27, 2024. (Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images via JTA)

Clock ticking on bill to make California 1st state with antisemitism watchdog in schools

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Police officers inspect the site where a tourist streetcar derailed and crashed in Lisbon, Portugal, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. (AP/Armando Franca)

Israelis among the injured in Lisbon streetcar derailment

By AP

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