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What Matters Most On Monday, October 6, 2025

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People attend a rally calling for the release of all hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip and a ceasefire, in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Hostage families pray, sing together at Hostages Square

As negotiators head to Egypt, Trump aims for ‘first phase’ of Gaza deal this week

By Jacob Magid, Nurit Yohanan, Jessica Steinberg and Nava Freiberg

US president pushes all sides to ‘MOVE FAST’ toward an agreement, as Hamas reportedly prepares to make additional demands, Netanyahu said trying to placate his right-wing allies

Hamas said to demand release of terror chiefs, Oct. 7 terrorists in deal for hostages

US President Donald Trump talks to the media before heading to Marine One on the south lawn of the White House on October 5, 2025 in Washington, DC. (TASOS KATOPODIS / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Hamas faces ‘complete obliteration’ if it clings to power in Gaza, warns Trump

By Lazar Berman, Nurit Yohanan and Jacob Magid

Families of hostages and their supporters hold a Sukkot meal in front of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem, October 6, 2025. (Idit Avishay/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 6: Hostage families host Sukkot meal and prayers in front of Netanyahu’s home

Putin and Netanyahu discuss Trump’s Gaza Plan, Iran’s nuclear program in phone call * IDF says it foiled an attempt to smuggle weapons into Israel from Syria

7:58 pm

Cardinal Pizzaballa calls on Christians to help build bridges amid cautious hope for end to war in Gaza
7:02 pm

Initial Syrian election results show low success rate for women, minorities
6:37 pm

Hostage families host Sukkot meal and prayers in front of Netanyahu's home

Mohammed Razeem, father of Suhaib Razeem, who was murdered on October 7, 2023, next to a photo of his son at his home in Beit Hanina, East Jerusalem, October 1, 2025. (Nurit Yohanan/ The Times of Israel)

Interview'We haven’t spoken to anyone about what happened'

Father of Arab East Jerusalemite murdered on Oct. 7 still can’t believe it happened

By Nurit Yohanan

Shuttle driver Suhaib Razeem was abducted by Hamas terrorists from the Nova festival and killed in Kibbutz Be’eri. His father Mohammed shares his family’s grief for the first time

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg (c) at Ramon International Airport on October 6, 2025, before being deported along with other Gaza flotilla activists. (Foreign Ministry)

Spanish activist who bit guard to remain in custody

Greta Thunberg, 170 other activists from Gaza-bound flotilla deported from Israel

By Lazar Berman and Agencies

Spanish activists allege abuse, say they were blindfolded, dragged on ground, put in cages, insulted and made to sign papers they didn’t understand; Israel calls accusations lies

A man walks past a mural depicting Palestinian convict Marwan Barghouti, with a message that reads in Arabic, 'See you soon,' on Israel's security fence in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, August 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 6: Day 731 – Could Hamas demands tank the Trump peace plan?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

Palestinians transport the body of a member of the Doctors Without Borders (MSF)who was killed in an Israeli strike in Deir al-Balah, into Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central Gaza Strip on October 2, 2025. (Bashar Taleb/AFP)

Doctors Without Borders ‘outraged’ after 15th staffer killed in Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Congregation Bonai Shalom Rabbi Marc Soloway comforts attendees during a community gathering at the site of an antisemitic firebombing attack against a group people holding a vigil for kidnapped Israeli citizens in Gaza in Boulder, Colorado, on June 4, 2025. (Photo by Chet Strange / AFP)

Antisemitism now a ‘normal’ part of life in the US, new survey finds

Rabbi Avraham Wein of Teaneck, New Jersey is seen in a video uploaded September 17, 2021. (Screen capture via YouTube)

New Jersey rabbi assaulted outside his home, helped by bystander; both lightly hurt

By ToI Staff and Luke Tress

Video shared by Russian media on October 6, 2025, shows materials purportedly seized by the FSB security service from suspected conspirators in a plot to bomb a synagogue. (Screen capture, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Russia says it busted plots to attack Jewish sites, linked to unnamed terror group

Sarah Atara Leon

Simchat Torah began happy, but events soon reverberated across my soul: from the early sirens to Netanyahu’s declaration of war and soldiers heading for the front

The sukkah is not a safe space

Sukkot reminds us that human control is an illusion, but connection is real, and focuses us on the joy that is only possible when it is shared

Shira Lankin Sheps

It’s Sukkot again and another year of war

As the sukkah is vulnerable, so am I: Shaky from the headlines, jumpy since a recent siren, fragile in the face of the elements – and seeking God’s protection and peace

Place for everyone inside a giant sukkah in Tel Aviv

The ’Israeli Sukkah’ reflects a century-old vision of a thriving Judaism open to different voices, perspectives and ways of doing things

'We are not Jews with trembling knees'

Anger, defiance in the UK as October 7 anniversary colored by Manchester attack

After a terror attack at the Heaton Park Synagogue on Yom Kippur left two dead and four seriously injured, memorial events blame government inaction as they remember the fallen

Stills from surveillance footage show the suspects in a potential arson attack on a mosque in southern England. (Sussex Police)

UK police probe fire at mosque as possible hate crime

By AFP and ToI Staff

Attendees take part an anti-Israel rally in solidarity with Palestinians and to protest against the interception by the Israeli navy of the Global Sumud Flotilla, in Istanbul, on October 5, 2025. (Yasin AKGUL / AFP)

Hundreds of thousands march in rallies across Europe against Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Police guard the scene of a terror attack carried out a day earlier at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue, in Crumpsall, Manchester, England, October 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Ian Hodgson)

Opinion, from our partner

UK Jewish News editor: The evil of antisemitism infects every aspect of public life

It has led to the web developer who won’t work with a Jewish paper, surveillance of a kosher food aisle, and the only antisemitic deadly attack in Britain since the 1600s

A crowd gathers at the Nova Tribe Community Association’s memorial ceremony in Tel Aviv, commemorating two years since Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre at the Nova music festival, October 5, 2025. (Eclipse Media)

Reporter's notebook'We’re a community of light'

Two years on, Nova festival survivors gather to honor the dead — and the living

By Stav Levaton

At a Tel Aviv memorial, bereaved families and survivors of Hamas’s October 7 massacre vow to remember, rebuild, and bring home the hostages still in Gaza

Eli Sharabi’s memoir, the first by a freed Hamas hostage, is coming out in English

By Melanie Lidman

Released hostage says he no longer has faith in peace as he reflects on Hamas torment

By Michal Itzhaki Yaakov

UTJ MK Yitzchak Goldknopf seen during a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, December 5, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Haredi MK panned for seeming to liken detained draft dodgers to Gaza hostages

In letter to PM, Goldknopf hails Trump proposal, urges freeing yeshiva students; Lapid slams ‘spoiled brats who think they have the right to dodge the draft while the IDF fights’

TV review

Jessica Steinberg

Oct. 7 series ‘Red Alert’ a harrowing global reminder of what unfolded in Hamas massacre

The 4-part scripted series, out on Paramount+ Tuesday and showing on Israel’s Channel 12 through Oct. 15, is a stark, riveting reenactment of key, terrifying realities that black day

The remains of a Kibbutz Be'eri home destroyed by Hamas attackers on October 7, photographed on October 20, 2023 (Carrie Keller-Lynn/The Times of Israel)

Government launches October 7 documentation website to expose ‘organized evil’ of Hamas

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)

Bari Weiss appointed editor-in chief of CBS News, will continue to lead The Free Press

Jewish journalist’s outlet was acquired by leading US news organization for reported $150 million; move gives her control of storied programs like ’60 Minutes’ and ‘Sunday Morning’

A ceremony marking rebuilding in kibbutz Nir Oz, southern Israel, following the October 7 massacre; August 7, 2025. (Tsafrir Abayov/FLASH90)

‘You have to be a real Zionist’: Two years after Oct. 7, new dreamers rebuild kibbutzim

By Deborah Danan

90% of displaced Gaza border residents have returned, joined by more than 2,500 newcomers. Some say it’s idealism, others just want to ‘get the wheels turning again’

Robbie Williams performs in Tel Aviv on June 1, 2023. (Koko/Flash90)

‘Zionist Robbie Williams’ has Istanbul concert canceled over safety concerns

By ToI Staff and Agencies

UK pop star says move ‘beyond our control’ as local authorities nix performance, scheduled for Oct. 7, after pro-Palestinian activists protest, call for him to be kicked out of Turkey

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, meets Germany's then-opposition leader, now Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, February 12, 2024. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Germany’s leader says he supports boycotting Eurovision if Israel is ousted

Fearing for talks, PM asks High Court to delay a hearing on Palestinian prisoner visits

Netanyahu’s office cites potential harm to efforts to secure return of hostages from Gaza; civil rights attorney rejects implication that renewing Red Cross visits would be impediment

Tayma Asous, 26, holds the favorite toy of her 2-year-old daughter, Layla Al-Khatib, who was killed after being shot in the head by alleged Israeli gunfire, at their home in the village of Muthallath ash-Shuhada, near the West Bank city of Jenin, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

West Bank Palestinian families struggle to understand kids’ deaths by alleged IDF fire

By AP and ToI Staff

Abbie Rosenbaum Braha, area supervisor at the archaeological excavation in the Yehudiya Nature Reserve in the Golan, stands next to an ancient ‘tabula ansata,’ (large stone table with dovetail handles) found in an approximately 1,500-year-old synagogue whose discovery was announced on October 5, 2025. (Dr. Mechael Osband - University of Haifa/Kinneret Academic College)

'I'll be honest, I didn't think we would find anything'

Archaeologists unearth 1,500-year-old synagogue below abandoned Syrian village in Golan

By Rossella Tercatin

A team from the University of Haifa and Kinneret College identifies an ancient wall facing Jerusalem and 150 synagogue items, including a stone engraved with a menorah

Anti-Israel protesters in New York City, August 16, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Anti-Israel activists to ‘flood’ New York City on Oct. 7

Protesters to hold citywide rally to ‘resist for Palestine’ on anniversary of Hamas massacre

Illustrative: Professional wrestling fans during a WWE Monday Night RAW event, in Boston, Massachusetts, March 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

WWE wrestling changes name of Oct. 7 ‘Invasion’ event after backlash

Illustrative: A woman wears a Star of David and a necklace remembering the Israeli hostages during a rally at George Washington University, May 2, 2024. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images via JTA)

'What we are facing today is a spiritual catastrophe'

Two years in, some are asking if the war in Gaza is changing Judaism

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Rabbis and pundits say the war’s death toll and humanitarian crisis — alongside simultaneous settler violence in the West Bank — are causing engaged Jews to question their faith

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A mobile bomb shelter is installed on a beach in the southern city of Eilat, October 5, 2025. (Eilat municipality via Facebook)

Eilat puts public bomb shelters on the beach as Houthi drone shot down over resort city

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

A screen showing the photos of Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi who were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology, at the Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institutet, in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 6, 2025. (Claudio Bresciani/TT News Agency via AP)

Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to 3 scientists for work on immune system

By KOSTYA MANENKOV, STEFANIE DAZIO and LAURAN NEERGAARD

Arraba Mayor Ahmad Nassar (C) speaks at an event memorializing Arab Israelis killed by police in the October 2000 riots, on October 4, 2025. (Screen capture via X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Interior Ministry seeks to pull funds from Arab city after mayor called Israel ‘enemy’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds his first meeting with new Shin Bet chief David Zini on October 5, 2025. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Zini takes reins of Shin Bet as predecessors challenge ‘unreasonable’ appointment

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Outgoing French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu, who submitted his government's resignation to the French President this morning, delivers a statement at the Hotel Matignon in Paris, on October 6, 2025. (Stephane Mahe / POOL / AFP)

French PM resigns after record-breaking mere 27 days, deepening political crisis

By Antoine Maignan, Stuart Williams and Alice Hackman

Illustrative: Iranians drive next to a billboard displaying pictures of nuclear scientists, centrifuges and a sentence reading 'Science is power' in Farsi, in Tehran, Iran, August 29, 2025. (AFP)

Sanctioned, Iran says it won’t resume nuclear talks with Europeans ‘at this stage’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Members of Syria's local committees vote in the country's selection process to designate an interim parliament, in Damascus on October 5, 2025. (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)

Syria selects members of first post-Assad parliament in vote panned as undemocratic

By Maher Al-Mounes

Lennart Monterlos, then 18, speaks in a video he uploaded to Instagram from Iran, later shared by users on X. (Screen capture via X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iranian court acquits French-German teen charged with ‘espionage’ during 12-day war

By AFP

(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on October 02, 2025 shows the two candidates to become the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO): Congolese diplomat, development economist, and specialist international relations specialist, Firmin Edouard Matoko (L) posing during a photo session in Paris, on September 26, 2025 and Khaled El-Enany, former Minister of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt and candidate to become the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) poses during a photo session in Paris on October 1, 2025. An Egyptian ex-minister is the favourite to become head of the UN's culture agency, but his Congolese rival says bets are still off before a key decision next week. (Joël SAGET and Julien DE ROSA / AFP)

UNESCO to choose new leader amid controversies over anti-Israel bias claims

By AP

Rabbi Eliot Cosgrove (L) and Catholic Archbishop Timothy Dolan speak at Park Avenue Synagogue in New York City on October 3, 2025. (Park Avenue Synagogue on YouTube)

NYC synagogue hosts archbishop, Sandy Koufax jersey to mark 60-year milestones for US Jews

By PHILISSA CRAMER

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