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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 4, 2025

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US President Donald Trump delivers a video statement regarding Hamas's response to his plan for ending the Gaza war on October 3, 2025. (Karoline Leavitt/X)

Trump: 'Very close to achieving... peace in Middle East'

Trump: Hamas ‘ready for peace,’ Israel must halt Gaza strikes; PM: We’re ready for release of all hostages

US president welcomes terror group’s declaration that it accepts some parts of his proposal to end the war; Netanyahu says Israel prepared for immediate implementation of first stage of plan

The 48 hostages held in Gaza: First row, from left: Rom Braslavski, Gali Berman, Ziv Berman, Elkana Bohbot, Matan Angrest, Avinatan Or, Yosef-Haim Ohana, Alon Ohel. Second row, from left: Eitan Mor, Segev Kalfon, Nimrod Cohen, Maxim Herkin, Eitan Horn, Evyatar David, Guy Gilboa-Dalal, Bipin Joshi. Third row, from left: Dror Or, Tamir Adar, Matan Zangauker, Bar Kupershtein, David Cunio, Ariel Cunio, Tamir Nimrodi, Omri Miran. Fourth row, from left: Meny Godard, Sgt. First Class Ran Gvili, Sahar Baruch, Uriel Baruch, Sonthaya Oakkharasri, Ronen Engel, Muhammad Alatrash, Guy Illouz. Fifth row, from left: Joshua Mollel, Sgt. Itay Chen, Col. Asaf Hamami, Tal Chaimi, Aryeh Zalmanovich, Inbar Heiman, Sgt. Oz Daniel, Lt. Hadar Goldin. Bottom row, from left: Yossi Sharabi, Sudthisak Rinthalak, Maj. Lior Rudaeff, Amiram Cooper, Cpt. Daniel Perez, Cpt. Omer Neutra, Eliyahu Margalit, Eitan Levy. (Combo photo by Times of Israel; pictures: Courtesy)

PM, Trump spoke Friday before president hailed Hamas stance

Israeli official: Hostages could be free ‘in a few days,’ but Hamas could torpedo deal

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Source close to Netanyahu says Hamas was never previously prepared to free all hostages without full IDF pullout from Gaza; earlier reports had said PM was taken aback when Trump welcomed Hamas’s response

Hamas terrorists stand in formation ahead of a ceremony to hand over Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, February 22, 2025. (AP Photo/ Abdel Kareem Hana, File)

Hamas replies to TrumpFull text: Hamas’s response to Trump plan for ending Gaza war, returning hostages

Palestinians walk on a coastal path northwest of Nuseirat refugee camp on October 4, 2025. Israel said that its troops were still operating in Gaza City and warned residents not to return, despite halting an offensive to capture the city (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)

IDF halts Gaza City offensive as Trump pushes to end war; Egypt to host talks on hostage releases

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

US envoy Witkoff said heading to region to oversee diplomacy; Dermer to head Israeli team; negotiators said preparing withdrawal maps, lists of Palestinian prisoners to be freed

Smoke rises following Israeli shelling in central Gaza Strip, October 4, 2025.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Gazans hail Trump for demanding ceasefire: ‘Only one who can force Israel to comply’

By AFP and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump walks to speak with reporters before departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, on September 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 4: Trump: Israel agreed to Gaza withdrawal line, ceasefire in effect once Hamas ‘confirms’

Netanyahu: I’m hopeful we’ll see return of all hostages in next few days, even during Sukkot * Legal aid group says flotilla activists mistreated in Israeli prison

8:17 pm

Trump: Israel agreed to withdrawal line; once Hamas 'confirms,' ceasefire in effect
8:00 pm

Legal aid group says flotilla activists were roughed up, filmed in front of Israeli flags
7:39 pm

Chief rabbi: Coming days are fateful, pray that leaders make the right decisions

Crowds rally in Tel Aviv's Hostages Square, urging the implementation of US President Donald Trump's deal to free all hostages from Gaza and end the war, October 4, 2025. (Tal A.M / Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Families urge entire public to join Hostages Square rally as Trump peace plan advances

Elizabeth Tsurkov prior to her captivity in Iraq. (Courtesy)

‘Finally, blessedly, free’: Elizabeth Tsurkov in 1st statement after release from Iraq

Jihad al-Shamie,who carried out a deadly terrorist attack at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation in Manchester, UK, on Yom Kippur, October 2, 2025. (Image circulated on social media)

Lammy jeered at vigil: 'You have blood on your hands'

UK synagogue attacker was under investigation for rape; his dad praised Hamas for Oct. 7

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Jihad al-Shamie reportedly had other convictions but wasn’t on police anti-terrorism radar. Witness: He shouted, ‘This is what they get for killing our children,’ as he attacked

A woman wears an Israeli flag wrapped over her back as she attends a vigil for the victims of the Yom Kippur terrorist attack on the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, Manchester, England, October 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Ian Hodgson)

Manchester Jews say they feel let down by UK after Yom Kippur terror attack at synagogue

By AP and ToI Staff

Sarah Mullally, the new Archbishop of Canterbury, spiritual leader of the world's 85 million Anglicans, speaks inside Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, England, October 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Church of England must oppose antisemitism, says 1st female head after synagogue attack

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Adrian Daulby, who was killed October 2, 2025, during a terror attack on a synagogue in Manchester, England, in an undated photo (Greater Manchester Police)

'He will forever be remembered for his heroic act'

Family of man killed barricading UK synagogue door: ‘Final act was one of profound courage’

Police praise bravery of Adrian Daulby, accidentally shot by officers as he helped block entrance to Manchester synagogue to prevent terrorist entering during Yom Kippur attack

(L) Melvin Cravitz and (R) Adrian Daulby, killed October 2, 2025, during a terror attack on a synagogue in Manchester, England, in undated photos. (Greater Manchester Police)

UK synagogue terror attack victims known for their kindness, praised for their bravery

By AFP and ToI Staff

An Iranian in Italy, watching the mess

If my classmates knew what it was like to grow up under a radical Islamic regime, they would understand why I can’t join them in a pro-Hamas demonstration

What the heck is going on at UC Davis?

Two years after a professor made violent threats against Jews, the university has done nothing

This handout photo from police shows anti-Israel activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla being processed after they were detained while trying to break Israel's maritime blockade on Hamas-ruled Gaza, October 2, 2025. (Israel Police)

Report: PM approved drone attacks on flotilla in Tunisia

Over 130 Gaza flotilla ‘provocateurs’ deported to Turkey, says Israel

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Activists from 14 nations, including 36 Turks and 24 Italians, flown to Istanbul; Foreign Ministry says several countries ‘have shown reluctance’ to accept deportation flights

Demonstrators gather for an anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protest in Bologna, Italy, Oct. 3, 2025. (Guido Calamosca/LaPresse via AP)

Italian union says 2 million joined general strike over Gaza, as masses march nationwide

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Protesters clash with police amid rallies over Israel’s interception of flotilla, Meloni’s stance on war; demonstrators hold anti-Israel banners: ‘Let’s stop Zionism with the resistance’

Participants on a Green Horizons hike in Israel, in an undated photo. (Courtesy of Green Horizons)

'Telling the story of 1948 feels like telling today's story'

With Israeli youth at a crossroads after Oct. 7, some turn to hiking to help find their path

By Tania Shalom Michaelian

As Israel reels from unprecedented trauma, young people are finding strength and meaning on the country’s trails where recent horrors are put in perspective within the history of the Land

Henry Hamra (left) looks at the Torah scroll at the Ifrange Synagogue in the Jewish Quarter in Old Damascus on April 29, 2025. (Bakr ALKASEM / AFP)

Henry Hamra, a Syrian Jew living in US, running in elections for new Syrian parliament

By Nurit Yohanan, AFP and ToI Staff

If victorious in Sunday vote, the nephew of Syria’s last chief rabbi who fled to US with his father in 1992, pledges to work with US Syrians to abolish law levying sanctions on Damascus

MK Avigdor Liberman gestures as he speaks at the Muni Expo 2025 conference in Tel Aviv, on July 15, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Liberman warns Iran preparing surprise attack; IDF says no change to guidelines

Senior officials reportedly slam hawkish opposition lawmaker’s ‘bizarre’ warning to spend upcoming Sukkot holiday near a shelter

Illustrative. Handcuffs, in a Jerusalem court on November 21, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

IDF reservist, associate latest to be charged for Iran espionage; 3rd man arrested

By Charlie Summers

People take part in a march against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 26, 2025. (Kena Betancur/AFP)

US public increasingly critical of Israel, with 59% opposed to government — poll

Pew Research Center says favorable view of Israelis has fallen by 11% since 2022; 84% of Americans say they are opposed to Hamas

Israel supporters, including Christian evangelicals, participate in the United for Israel march outside of Columbia University in New York City on April 25, 2024. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images via JTA)

Israel to spend up to $4.1M in bid to bolster support among Christians in western US

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Attendees at a Gaza a vigil organized by the Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Maryland campus on October 7, 2024 in College Park, Maryland (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images via JTA)

University of Maryland student government passes BDS resolution on Yom Kippur

By Grace Gilson

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Israeli Air Force F-35I fighter jets depart for strikes in Iran, June 13, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Netherlands maintains ban on export of F-35 parts to Israel despite court ruling

By AFP

Dutch government announces it will continue embargo just hours after country’s top court gave it 6 weeks to review the policy, ruling it had previously overstepped its brief

This picture shows a building in Kuwait City which used to be of French multinational Carrefour and how houses the HyperMax supermarket chain, on October 2, 2025. (Yasser Al Zayyat/AFP)

Israel boycott proponents claim victory after Carrefour rebrands in some Arab states

By AFP

Jane Yolen and her most famous book, 'The Devil's Arithmetic' (Courtesy of Jason Stemple and Penguin Random House via JTA)

Texas school district yanks Holocaust book ‘The Devil’s Arithmetic’ over ‘DEI content’

By Andrew Lapin

Israeli singer Noga Erez performs in Katzrin on October 4, 2023 (Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Upstaged by war, Israeli film and music artists battle global boycott calls

By Jessica Steinberg

Sderot film fest targeted by 4,000-strong Hollywood pledge to isolate Israel says movies are dropping out as movement gains momentum; local performers are trying to ignore the noise

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US President Donald Trump walks to speak with reporters before departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, on September 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Comedian and actor Dave Chappelle looks on during Netflix's Canelo v Crawford Fight Night at Allegiant Stadium on September 13, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Steve Marcus/Getty Images/AFP)

In Riyadh, Dave Chappelle jokes ‘I stand with Israel’ would signal he is being muzzled

By Grace Gilson

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