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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 8, 2025

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An October 7 memorial ceremony at Hayarkon Park in Tel Aviv, marking two years since the massacre, October 7, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Erdogan says Trump asked him to 'persuade' Hamas

Top officials head to peace talks as Hamas submits list of prisoners it wants freed

By Nurit Yohanan, Agencies and ToI Staff

Sides project optimism on talks’ third day; Kushner, Witkoff, Dermer, Qatari PM and Hamas brass to meet in Egypt; Hamas said to want bodies of Yahya and Muhammad Sinwar

L: Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer at the Jewish News Syndicate conference in Jerusalem, on April 28, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); R: US envoy Steve Witkoff speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on May 28, 2025. (AP/Evan Vucci)

PM’s office reports progress in talks on Gaza deal as top negotiators set to join

By Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid, Nurit Yohanan and Agencies

(Clockwise from top left): The Democrats chief Yair Golan, Yesh Atid chief and Opposition Leader Yair Lapid, Blue and White chief Benny Gantz and Yisrael Beytenu chief Avigdor Liberman hold a joint press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 6, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opposition heads pledge safety net for Trump plan, while vowing to topple government

Defense Minister Israel Katz (center) speaks with officers, including Southern Command chief Maj, Gen. Yaniv Asor (right) and 36th Division commander Brig. Gen. Moran Omer, in Gaza City, October 8, 2025. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 8: Katz visited troops in Gaza City shortly before Hamas attacked nearby army post

Hamas has provided info on ‘roughly 20 living hostages,’ Israeli officials say * Family of Nepali hostage Bipin Joshi publish video from shortly after Oct. 7

7:50 pm

Trump says planning to visit Middle East this weekend if Gaza deal is reached
7:34 pm

Houthi drone shot down over Israel-Egypt border
7:29 pm

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October 7 anniversary'Never again will mean never again'

‘We will rise’: Grief, defiance and hope as 30,000 gather in Tel Aviv two years after Oct. 7

By Stav Levaton and Jessica Steinberg

At the nation’s largest memorial since Hamas’s attack, bereaved families and survivors honor those lost in the war and call for the release of the 48 hostages still held in Gaza

Bereaved mother Galit Dan speaks at the Bereaved Families Memorial Ceremony marking two years since the October 7, 2023, massacre, in Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park, on October 7, 2025. (Benny Rutloy/Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

As October 7 and Sukkot coincide, Israelis struggle to reconcile grief and joy

By Deborah Danan

Op-ed: Day 733 of the war

No, Hamas is not ready for ‘lasting peace,’ but can Trump persuade it to free all the hostages?

The US president has evidently concluded he knows better than the prime minister about Israel’s essential needs; now he’s bidding to somehow convince Hamas to relinquish its most powerful leverage

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)

Israeli Navy forces board one of the Freedom Flotilla's boats in the Mediterranean Sea, early October 8, 2025. (Screenshot: X)

Latest Gaza flotilla intercepted by Navy, 150 activists set to be deported

By Emanuel Fabian

Naval commandos rappel onto large passenger ship, board 8 other sail boats in Mediterranean; Israel says ‘futile attempt’ to breach blockade on Strip ‘ended in nothing’

A still of hostage Evyatar David taken from a Hamas propaganda video (left) released on August 1, 2025. (Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

Thunberg shares image of emaciated Israeli hostage in post protesting treatment of Palestinian prisoners

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators bearing placards with pictures of Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni reading in Italian "Complicit in genocide," gather in Rome's San Giovanni Square, October 4, 2025. (AP/Alessandra Tarantino)

Italy’s PM says ICC case filed against her for alleged complicity in Gaza ‘genocide’

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Surviving Nova: My fight to rebuild my life

Mood swings, intrusive thoughts, and anxiety that keeps me awake interfere with managing my business, but I trust that treatment, hope, and time are helping me heal

October 7 and the death of assumptions

Hamas’s onslaught was unambiguously evil, yet thousands protested Israel’s aggression instead – before even one retaliatory strike. How will the world find moral clarity?

An El Al plane parked at Ben Gurion Airport, May 7, 2025. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Boy, 13, evades Ben Gurion Airport security to stow away on El Al flight to New York

Crew catches teen before takeoff, discovering he made his way onto the flight despite having no ticket or passport

Students march and wave Palestinian flags during an anti-Israel inter-university march in London on the second anniversary of the Hamas onslaught that sparked the war in Gaza, October 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Anti-Israel protests held worldwide on second anniversary of Hamas massacre

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Demonstrators in London chant ‘Israel is a terrorist state,’ reflecting shift of global sentiment as the Gaza war continues; pro-Hamas graffiti in Melbourne calls to ‘do it again’

A man with a placard which reads "I stand with Israel" on his back is pictured during a vigil for the Israeli hostages, at Berlin's Bebelplatz on October 7, 2025. (Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)

Global leaders mark ‘nightmare’ of Oct. 7 as antisemitism surges in their countries

By Agencies, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir visits the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, October 8, 2025. (Temple Mount Administration)

Ben Gvir boasts Israel is the ‘victorious… landlord’ of Temple Mount, leads prayers there

By Charlie Summers and Nurit Yohanan

Analysis

Two years after October 7, Israel rediscovers the scale, and limits, of its power

Jerusalem has chalked up impressive military achievements since the horrific Hamas invasion, but it needs sober strategy to take advantage of potential opportunities in this fast-changing region

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi (right) follow Israel's strike in Yemen from the IAF operations room at the Kirya Headquarters in Tel Aviv, July 20, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

FILE: Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF chief Herzi Halevi, October 23, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

‘Ignore them’: Quotes from 1st cabinet meet after Oct. 7 show hostages were not priority

Dan Brotman, left, and Ilan Grapel, in Toronto, September 2025. (Courtesy)

'I just got out and I really need to talk to someone'

Band of brothers: Israeli-Americans held as spies in Egypt and Lebanon forge unique bond

Dan Brotman, recently released from Lebanese custody, connects with Ilan Grapel, who was accused by Egypt of espionage in 2011, to create a unique support group of two

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Israel’s next front is its own fractures

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur

ToI’s senior analyst addresses a sobering new study by Agam Labs and Hebrew University that reveals a pessimistic shift in Israeli public sentiment two years into the Gaza war

At the end of the Kumu October 7 ceremony in Tel Aviv, on October 7, 2025. (Courtesy Eclipse Media)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 8: Day 733 – Critical moment as major players arrive for talks in Egypt

By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid

US President Donald Trump, sitting, hosts the family of slain Israeli-American hostage Omer Neutra on the second anniversary of his kidnapping by Hamas, at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, October 7, 2025. (White House)

Trump hosts US-Israeli ex-hostage Edan Alexander, family of slain captive Omer Neutra

Neutra’s parents say they gave US president gift with ‘Am Yisrael Chai’ writing, thanked him for efforts to free living and dead abductees and end the war

Avigail Idan is reunited with her aunt Liron and uncle Zuli at the Schneider children's hospital on November 27, 2023. (Schneider hospital)

Bittersweet excitement as youngest ex-hostage starts school 2 years after attack

By Michal Yaakov Itzhaki and Eli Berlzon

IDF troops seen operating in the Gaza Strip in an image published October 6, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Three IDF reservists wounded, two seriously, in apparent grenade accident in Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

Device explodes inside Israeli post near Khan Younis amid pause in offensive operations, as talks are held on ending the war against Hamas

Illustrative -- Police tape in Independence Park on July 30, 2015 (Garrett Mills/Flash90)

IDF soldier on leave killed after police officer apparently accidentally fires gun

By Emanuel Fabian

New technologies are offering an important contribution to underwater archaeology, according to Prof. Thomas Levy from UC San Diego, an author of a paper announcing the discovery of three shipwrecks from biblical times (11th to 7th centuries BCE) off the coast of northern Israel, published in Antiquity in August 2025. In the picture, a three-camera photogrammetry rig. (Amir Yurman/ University of Haifa)

'We have a pretty rigorous understanding of the dating'

In first, three shipwrecks from biblical times uncovered off the coast of Israel

By Rossella Tercatin

Only 11 ships from the Iron Age previously found in the Mediterranean; discovery provides evidence of maritime trade under the Kingdom of Israel

Festive fun

Jessica Steinberg

This Sukkot, take a moment for birdwatching, singing in the desert or a motorcycle festival

Activities abound over the eight-day holiday, with events for lovers of nature, art, music and Jewish culture to be found throughout the country

The 700-square-meter Beit Tefilah Israeli Sukkah at the Tel Aviv port, pictured here in 2016 (Courtesy Beit Tefilah Israeli)

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People walk past tents sheltering displaced Gazans near the Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani mosque at the Qatari-built Hamad City residential complex in northwestern Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 6, 2025. (Omar Al-Qattaa/ AFP)

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California Governor Gavin Newsom at a press conference to discuss the measures approved by the legislature to redraw the US state's Congressional districts and put new maps before voters in a special election, in Sacramento, California, August 21, 2025. (AP/Rich Pedroncelli)

California governor signs law aimed at fighting antisemitism in schools

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

Liberman sparks criticism after doubling down on warning of impending Iran attack

(L to R) Heiner Linke, Chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, Hans Ellegren, Secretary General of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and Olof Ramstroem, Member of the Nobel Committe for Chemistry, pose with a model during a press conference to announce Japan's Susumu Kitagawa, UK-born Richard Robson and American-Jordanian Omar M. Yaghi as the winners of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 8, 2025. (Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP)

US scientist of Palestinian descent among three winners of Nobel prize for chemistry

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Syrian security forces stand guard as residents leave the Sheikh Maqsoud and Achrafieh neighborhoods of Aleppo, Syria, October 7, 2025, following overnight clashes between Syrian government troops and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)

Syrian government declares ‘comprehensive ceasefire’ with Kurds after Aleppo clashes

By AFP

Photos of (L-R) British physicist John Clarke at the University of California, USA, French physicist Michel Devoret (University of California and Yale) and US physicist John Martinis (University of California) are seen on a screen during a press conference on the awarding of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 7, 2025. (Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP)

Trio win Nobel prize for revealing quantum physics in action

By Niklas Pollard and Johan Ahlander

Kneecap band member Liam O'Hanna, who performs under the stage name Mo Chara, leaves Woolwich Crown Court in southeast London on September 26, 2025. (CARLOS JASSO / AFP)

UK prosecutors appeal ruling to drop charges against rapper for displaying Hezbollah flag

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Elizabeth Tsurkov in an undated photo (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Elizabeth Tsurkov recalls her Iraqi captors were ‘overjoyed’ by news of Oct. 7

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Saul Zabar celebrating his 82nd birthday at his eponymous grocery store in 2010. (Screenshot from YouTube)

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