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What Matters Most On Sunday, October 5, 2025

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Demonstrators gather with banners during a protest for a hostage-release and ceasefire deal outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem on October 4, 2025. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

Trump posts map of withdrawal line he says Israel agreed to

All parties seem eager for deal to end war as teams head to Egypt for crucial talks

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman, Agencies and ToI Staff

Hamas team to be led by man Israel just tried to kill; cautious optimism takes hold despite reported split in Hamas, potential snags; Arab countries praise terror group’s ‘readiness’ to meet key demands

IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip in this October 3, 2025, handout photo. (IDF)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 5: Day 730 – Cautious optimism for Trump plan ahead of Cairo talks

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jacob Magid

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 5: Hostage families gather to pray for a deal that will bring their loved ones home

Netanyahu officially dispatches negotiators for talks in Sharm el-Sheikh tomorrow * Houthi drone likely shot down over Eilat, no one hurt * Thousands of UK Jews gather to mark 2nd anniversary of Oct. 7 attack

9:27 pm

Report: Greta Thunberg to be deported from Israel Tuesday on Greek-funded flight
8:51 pm

Spanish flotilla detainee bit one of prison's medical staff, officials say
8:29 pm

Hamas delegation arrives in Egypt for talks on Gaza truce, hostage-prisoner exchange

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a video statement on a potential agreement to secure the release of all hostages held in Gaza, October 4, 2025. (GPO screenshot)

PM: Hopeful all hostages will be freed in days; Trump: I told Bibi, this is your victory

By Nava Freiberg, Lazar Berman, Nurit Yohanan, Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

US president says Israel accepted Gaza withdrawal line, ceasefire will come into effect once Hamas ‘confirms’; Cairo hostage talks expected Monday

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

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'It's now or never,' proclaims a banner held by crowds rallying 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. (Amir Goldstein / Hostages Families Forum)

US president posts photos of huge banner at Hostages Square

‘Now or never’: Tens of thousands rally for hostages as Trump’s Gaza plan advances

By Noam Lehmann, ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

At weekly Tel Aviv protest, one ex-hostage says that for first time since his release, he is hopeful for a deal; another notes that on Yom Kippur, abductees ‘didn’t choose to fast’

Palestinians walk on a coastal path northwest of the Nuseirat refugee camp as they are displaced southward following an Israeli announcement of closing Al-Rashid road towards the north of the besieged Gaza Strip on October 4, 2025. (Eyad Baba/AFP)

IDF strikes in Gaza City ‘significantly subside,’ but dozens said killed in past day

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and Agencies

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks during a ceremony at the National Police Academy in Beit Shemesh, September 15, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Ben Gvir threatens to bolt government if Hamas ‘continues to exist’ after hostages freed

By Jeremy Sharon

Smotrich pans Netanyahu for halting Gaza City offensive, says move ‘a sure recipe’ for Hamas stalling, but doesn’t threaten to quit; PM said to meet with both far-right ministers

Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem gives a broadcast speech during an event to commemorate the anniversary of Israeli strikes killing two of the Lebanese terror group's military commanders, October 3, 2025. (X screenshot)

Hezbollah chief: Trump’s plan ‘full of dangers,’ but up to Hamas whether to back it

By Agencies and ToI Staff

New York University students and Israel supporters demonstrate across the street from a rally of pro-Palestinian students and supporters outside the NYU Stern School of Business building, April 22, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Poll: Nearly four in 10 US Jews say Israel has committed genocide in Gaza

WaPo survey also finds 68% blame Hamas more for civilian deaths; 76% say Israel’s existence is vital for Jewish future; 31% feel unsafe in US; two-thirds have negative view of Netanyahu

This combination of images released by the Foreign Ministry shows Greta Thunberg, second from right, with other anti-Israel activists after the Israeli navy intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla that sought to break the Israeli naval blockade on Gaza, Oct. 1, 2025. (Israeli Foreign Ministry via AP)

Ben Gvir: We treat 'flotilla activists' as terror supporters

Israel denies abuse as Ben Gvir touts harsh handling of Greta Thunberg, flotilla activists

By Lazar Berman, Jeremy Sharon, Agencies and ToI Staff

French detainees begin hunger strike; US congressman calls for release of Jewish American detainee; Spain says more than 20 activists headed home

Flotilla activists, including Greta Thunberg, are seen being transported to Israel after their vessels were intercepted by the IDF on October 2, 2025. (Foreign Ministry)

Thunberg said complaining about bedbugs in Israeli prison; flotilla activists allegedly punched

By Jeremy Sharon, ToI Staff and Charlie Summers

Diaspora minister spars with main UK Jewish groups over his praise and invite for far-right activist

Groups slam Chikli for inviting Tommy Robinson to Israel, say most British Jews abhor him; minister retorts by accusing Board of Deputies, main Jewish representative group, of aligning with ‘left-wing, woke parties’

Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Amichai Chikli (L) attends a session at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 7, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); British far-right activist Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, marches with supporters through central London during a 'Free speech' march, on September 13, 2025. (CARLOS JASSO / AFP)

Protesters attend a "Lift The Ban" demonstration in support of the proscribed group Palestine Action, calling for the recently imposed ban to be lifted, in Trafalgar Square, central London, on October 4, 2025. (Justin Tallis/AFP)

London police arrest 442 at anti-Israel protest, held despite pleas from cops, gov’t

Demonstrators claim right to protest for Palestine Action, a proscribed terror group, after police warned against drawing resources away from synagogues following deadly terror attack

A protester is taken away by police officers at a "Lift The Ban" demonstration in support of the proscribed group Palestine Action, calling for the recently imposed ban to be lifted, in Trafalgar Square, central London, October 4, 2025. (Justin Tallis/AFP)

UK police to gain greater power to ban protests amid Jewish community fears

Congregants seen outside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue, in Crumpsall, Manchester, England, after a deadly terrorist attack, Oct. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Ian Hodgson)

‘Shut the doors!’: Manchester survivors describe chaos of deadly Yom Kippur terror attack

Witnesses recount six-minute long ‘rampage’ in which two worshipers were killed, inflicting deep scar on local Jewish community; ‘I’m scared to go to the synagogue,’ says congregant

What I saw as a British rabbi after the Manchester synagogue attack

Uncertainty reigned during services, followed by clarity: Things will change for Jews in the UK

Israel’s wars are putting Diaspora Jews at risk

Because anti-Zionism morphs into antisemitism, Jews outside the holy land must stand up for their own interests. Here are 3 steps they can take

Why will Hamas comply with Trump’s peace plan?

Financial strangulation would do what decades of armed confrontation have not: make the cost of resistance exceed the benefit

Rekindling the vital bond with Evangelical Christians

Funding is needed for vast numbers of influencers to come experience the profound encounter with Jerusalem to secure this vital alliance

Michael Arad, the Israeli-American designer of the 9/11 Memorial in NYC. (Rachel Neville)

Interview'We need time and distance... we are still in the middle'

Israeli designer of 9/11 memorial says too soon to construct national Oct. 7 monument

Michael Arad beat out 5,200 submissions for a highly charged NYC tribute that took 8 years to complete. He has advice for future commemoration of Israel’s victims of the Hamas onslaught

Inside Story

Spain keeps scrapping arms deals, but Israel’s defense trade with Europe may be salvageable

Madrid’s position is an outlier, likely a product of internal politics, experts say; rest of NATO unlikely to cut off a top weapons supplier just as it looks to rearm against Russia

An Elbit Systems' staff member looks at his phone at the Eurosatory international land and airland defence and security trade fair, in Villepinte, a northern suburb of Paris, June 13, 2022. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators rally during a protest in Barcelona, Spain, October 4, 2025. (AP/Emilio Morenatti)

Mass marches held in Barcelona, Rome as anti-Israel protesters rally across Europe

By AP and ToI Staff

The assembly hall of the parliament building is pictured in Damascus on October 1, 2025. (Louai Beshara / AFP)

Syria to select parliament members in process branded undemocratic

By Maher Al-Mounes

Interim leader Sharaa will directly appoint one third of legislators, also controls process for choosing the rest

Syrian electoral college members line up to cast their ballots in a parliamentary election at a polling station in Damascus, on October 5, 2025. (AP/Omar Sanadiki)

ExplainerWhat to expect as Syria goes to the polls for the first time since Assad’s ouster

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An Israeli air defense system launches interceptor missiles at a missile launched by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis, as seen from Jerusalem, July 25, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF intercepts Houthi ballistic missile; no injuries reported

By Emanuel Fabian

Border Police officers detain a suspect who allegedly carried out a car-ramming attack at the West Bank's Bidu Checkpoint, October 4, 2025. (Israel Police)

Woman lightly hurt in suspected West Bank car-ramming attack

By Emanuel Fabian

Weapons and ammunition seized by police forces in Rahat following the fatal shooting of a young man in the city on October 4, 2025. (Israel Police)

Police arrest 3 suspects in Rahat revenge killing after weekend of violence

By Charlie Summers

Visitors look at the tomb of Amenhotep III, who ruled ancient Egypt between 1390 BC and 1350 BC, in the Valley of Kings in the southern city of Luxor, Egypt, October 4, 2025, as it opened to visitors for the first time in more than two decades. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

A pharaoh returnsEgypt reopens Amenhotep III’s tomb after more than 20 years of renovations

By AHMED HATEM and Samy Magdy

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