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What Matters Most On Sunday, October 12, 2025

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Visitors at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv on October 12, 2025. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 12: As Israel prepares for hostages’ release, government point man says unclear which of the dead will be returned Monday

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

IDF expects release of all 20 living hostages to start around 8 a.m. Monday, from 3 sites in Gaza * Bodies of dead hostages expected later * Abbas to attend Trump’s Egypt confab; Israel not invited

8:38 pm

Canadian PM Carney to head to Egypt for summit on ending war in Gaza
8:21 pm

Israel warns West Bank Palestinians against celebrating prisoners' releases
8:16 pm

Iran declines invitation to attend summit in Egypt

People gather at 'Hostages Square' in Tel Aviv on October 11, 2025, to celebrate the agreement signed between Israel and Hamas for a hostage-prisoner exchange deal based on a 20-point plan proposed by US President Donald Trump. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Ben Gvir appears to back return to war once hostages freed

Hostage releases set to begin early Monday from three locations in Gaza

By Lazar Berman, Emanuel Fabian, Nava Freiberg, Charlie Summers, Sam Sokol, Nurit Yohanan and AFP

Netanyahu: We’re ready; Trump due in Israel soon after; Hamas said to demand release of high-profile terror convicts, including Barghouti

US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff (right) accompanied by IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir (left), at an Israeli military base in Gaza, October 11, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Witkoff visits Gaza base as ceasefire holds and displaced Palestinians return home

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

People attend a rally for the hostages in Gaza, at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv on October 11, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Release of hostages set for Monday; families told locating all dead bodies could be hard

By Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg and Agencies

A municipal worker hoists a US flag next to those of other countries near Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport ahead of the arrival of world leaders for a 'peace summit,' in Sharm el-Sheikh on October 11, 2025. (Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Iran reportedly invited to confab, declines to attend

Trump, Sissi to chair Gaza summit in Egypt; Abbas to attend; Israel, Hamas not invited

By Lazar Berman, Nurit Yohanan, Nava Freiberg and Jacob Magid

Egypt aims for agreement to end war; US official says Egypt, Qatar and Turkey to endorse broad principles of Trump’s Gaza plan, ‘tee up’ wider normalization with Israel; Trump says doesn’t know why Israel won’t be there

US President Donald Trump and Finland's President Alexander Stubb (not in picture) meet in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, October 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump to visit Israel on Monday for 4 hours, address Knesset, meet PM and hostage families

By Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Vehicles drive on the main road in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on October 6, 2025. (AP/Ahmed Hassan)

Three Qatari employees killed in car crash near Sharm el-Sheikh on eve of peace summit

By Agencies and Jacob Magid

Inside Story

Hamas reappears on Gaza’s streets, and two of three militias that fought it go quiet

For now, the terror group’s reappearance is relatively limited, but reports are mounting of it pursuing those who have resisted it. And many Gazans fear a return of terror rule

Hamas police forces deploy in Gaza City on October 11, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

A humanitarian aid truck enters the Nusseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on October 12, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Gaza aid deliveries appear to surge; GHF distribution sites close for hostage release

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan, Jacob Magid and AP

Hamas politburo member Moussa Abu Marzouk, front, attends the funeral of Saleh Arouri, in Beirut, Lebanon, January 4, 2024. (AP/Hussein Malla)

Senior Hamas official storms out of interview after pressed on merits of Oct. 7 attack

By Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

Tzvika Mor in an undated photo with his son Eitan, who is being held captive by Hamas in Gaza. (Courtesy)

Father of returning hostage says son will understand his opposition to earlier deals

Zvika Mor, whose son Eitan is expected to be freed on Monday, says releasing terrorists is a recipe for more violence, notes his son would have fought in Gaza had he not been taken

The 20 living hostages released on October 13, 2025: First row, from left: Elkana Bohbot, Matan Angrest, Avinatan Or, Yosef-Haim Ohana, Alon Ohel. Second row, from let: Evyatar David, Guy Gilboa-Dalal, Rom Braslavski, Gali Berman, Ziv Berman. Third row, from left: Eitan Mor, Segev Kalfon, Nimrod Cohen, Maxim Herkin, Eitan Horn. Final row, from left: Matan Zangauker, Bar Kupershtein, David Cunio, Ariel Cunio, Omri Miran.

ProfilesThe final 20 living hostages released from Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

from the blogs

Ezzideen Shehab

We were not soldiers in a war. We were the bodies buried beneath it

Hamas declares that we, the people of Gaza, have not been defeated, that we stood firm and fought a historic war. I say otherwise.

US Special Envoy for the Middle East Steve Witkoff (center) speaks at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, accompanied by Jared Kushner (L) and Ivanka Trump, on October 11, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Hostages Forum claims half a million attend event

‘Miracles can happen, the hostages are coming home,’ Witkoff tells packed Hostages Square

By Noam Lehmann, Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

US special envoy, Kushner and Ivanka Trump applauded at what organizers hope is final rally; crowd cheers US president, boos Netanyahu; families of slain hostages fear not all bodies will be returned

Thousands gather at the weekly hostages rally at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv on October 11, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Crowd boos Netanyahu’s name during Witkoff speech at Hostages Square, cheers Trump

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

A man wearing a mask resembling US President Donald Trump holds a sign designed like a Nobel Peace Prize medal during a rally in support of hostages held by Hamas, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 12: Day 737 – As Gaza ceasefire holds, did Israel agree to end the war?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Tal Schneider and Emanuel Fabian

Op-ed

At Hostages Square, Trump’s envoys gave Netanyahu a lesson in leadership

At a venue the PM has never visited, Witkoff, Kushner and Ivanka Trump delivered what Israelis have been missing for 2 years: empathy and vision, including the rehabilitation of the word ‘peace’

US President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff (C) speaks as Jared Kushner (L) and his wife Ivanka Trump look on, during a gathering at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, October 11, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

A demonstrator carries a mock Nobel Peace Prize depicting US President Donald Trump, at a rally at Tel Aviv's Hostages Square, October 11, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Nobel Peace Prize winner Machado says Trump ‘certainly deserves’ next year’s award

ExclusiveLauder proposed framing move as gesture to Riyadh — source

US Jewish community leader lobbied for prominent Palestinian prisoner Barghouti’s release

Ronald Lauder offered to travel to Sharm el-Sheikh to make case during final negotiations, but idea was nixed by Netanyahu’s office amid overwhelming opposition from cabinet ministers; Barghouti serving five life terms

President of the World Jewish Congress Ronald Lauder (L) speaks during a commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau by the Red Army, in Oswiecim, Poland on January 27, 2025. (WOJTEK RADWANSKI / AFP) Marwan Barghouti raises his handcuffed hands in the air on the opening day of his trial in Tel Aviv on August 14, 2002. (AP/Brennan Linsley)

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Israel won – but the world rewarded Hamas

In battle, the IDF achieved the impossible, but now Israel must reclaim its voice, or the terrorists will control the whole story

My one sign against the hate of the ‘Flood NYC for Gaza’ protest was not enough

My activist mother and even my father also felt they had not done enough, though they modeled taking a stand – one that must now move to the classrooms, courts, and ballots

Yossi Tzur stands at the bus stop near where his 17-year-old son, Assaf, was killed in a bus bombing in 2003 that killed 17 people in Haifa, Israel, February 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

Alongside joy, for terror victims and their families, deal evokes fear and betrayal

By AP and ToI Staff

Some try to find empathy for hostages to be released while others point to Shalit agreement as evidence releasing attackers makes terrorism more rampant

Roei Shalev (right) and Mapal Adam in an undated photo. (Courtesy)

Father of Nova man who took own life: Survivors’ mental health crisis is ‘national emergency’

Nira Sharabi, widow of murdered hostage Yossi Sharabi, holding a poster of her husband in a Kibbutz Be'eri video created for the second anniversary of the Hamas invasion and massacre. (Courtesy)

Kibbutz Be’eri posts anguished video expressing hopes, fears for remaining hostages

By Jessica Steinberg

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi addresses foreign ambassadors to Iran, in Tehran on October 5, 2025. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran dismisses possibility of joining Abraham Accords, normalizing ties with Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Refusal comes after Trump suggested Islamic Republic was ‘going to be open to’ establishing relations; FM Araghchi says Tehran will consider reentering nuclear talks with US

Iranian women wave Palestinian and Iranian flags in front of a banner showing the late commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard expeditionary Quds Force, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, left, and two late Hezbollah leaders Hassan Nasrallah, center, and Hashem Safieddine, during an anti-Israeli rally after the Friday prayers at the Enghelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) Square, in Tehran, Iran, October 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

AnalysisIran out in the cold as Mideast unites around Gaza ceasefire-hostage deal

By AP and ToI Staff

A group of former senior Hamas officials, including (seated from left) Muhammad Sinwar, Muhammad Deif, Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh, all of whom have since been killed by Israel, are seen in a propaganda video released by Hamas on August 30, 2025. (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Burn towns, slaughter, broadcast: 2022 Sinwar memo said to detail Hamas plan for Oct. 7

‘Kill everyone you encounter’: Recovered this year in an IDF raid on a tunnel used by Sinwar’s brother, the document mirrors intercepted Hamas field orders sent that day, NYT reports

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich gestures toward a map of the West Bank during a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, September 3, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich: Israel delayed sending troops south on Oct. 7 for fear of Hezbollah attack

Illustrative: A Metula resident inspects damage on her home along the Lebanon border, on December 9, 2024, shortly after the ceasefire that halted the Hezbollah rockets. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

Reporter's notebook'We’re happy to be back, but it isn’t simple'

After almost a year of calm, war-scarred Metula is rebuilding. But will tourists come?

By Diana Bletter

Only 40% of the northern border town’s displaced residents have returned since November’s ceasefire with Hezbollah, and with restaurants and businesses closed, visitors lag as well

Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protesters gather ahead of the World Cup qualifying soccer match between Norway and Israel in Oslo, October 11, 2025. (Javad Parsa/NTB Scanpix via AP)

Norway pummels Israel in World Cup qualifier marred by anti-Israel hostility in stadium, outside

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Protesters clash with police near Ullevaal Stadium in Oslo, leading police to deploy tear gas and make several arrests, as soccer fans wave signs and boo Israeli anthem

Anti-Israel protesters carry a large Palestinian flag through central London, on October 11, 2025. (Henry Nicholls/ AFP)

Thousands of anti-Israel protesters march in London, argue Gaza ceasefire isn’t enough

By ToI Staff and AFP

Israel's Artem Dolgopyat competes on the Floor during the Men's Team Finals event at the Artistic Gymnastics European Championships, in Rimini, on the Adriatic coast, northeastern Italy, on April 28, 2024. (Gabriel Bouys/AFP)

Israel Gymnastics Federation appeals Indonesia’s decision to bar its athletes

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Counter-protesters holding Israeli flags pose for the cameras as pro-Palestinian student protesters wave flags and chant slogans outside King's College London during an inter-university march for Gaza in London on October 7, 2025, the second anniversary of the deadly Hamas-led attack on Israel. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

'It's time for us to raise our voices'

As antisemitism rises on European campuses, Jewish students are pushing back

With harassment and intimidation spreading across the continent, young leaders are working to help Jewish students reclaim their own narratives

UK tells universities to crack down on antisemitism after Manchester terror attack

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Multiple concerts said canceled in Belgium, Turkey over performers’ Israel support

Argentine Patricia Kadgien (C), 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)

How a Dutch retiree helped uncover Nazi-stolen art in Argentina

By Leila Miller

Working from his father’s wartime diaries, Paul Post tracked down painting looted during the Holocaust to Argentina, in possession of daughter of high-ranking Nazi official

Exorbitant real estate prices have led to smaller congregations partnering on space usage agreements with larger Jewish community institutions. (JCC photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images; For Rent photo by Paige Taylor White/Toronto Star via Getty Images via JTA)

'You can’t go on StreetEasy and find a synagogue'

As rent soars, smaller NYC synagogues find themselves praying for a godsend

By Joseph Strauss

Congregations who gather only a few times a week have had to seek out creative solutions in a sky-high market, leading to communal partnerships that may be a hidden blessing

More Headlines

Master Sgt. (res.) Shmuel Gad Rahamim. (Israel Defense Forces)

Reservist succumbs to wounds sustained in accidental grenade blast in Gaza this week

By Emanuel Fabian

Edgar Laloum (R) and Radjaa Aboudagga founders of the restaurant "Sababa, le goût de la paix" (Sababa, the Taste of Peace) pose for a picture during the opening of the restaurant in Paris on October 11, 2025. (Antoine BOYER / AFP)

'Taste of peace'New Israeli-Palestinian eatery in Paris aims for peace via food

By Antoine Boyer

Illustrative: A peacekeeper of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) walks at a position formerly held Iran-backed Hezbollah in the Khraibeh Valley in el-Meri in south Lebanon on August 27, 2025. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

UN observer force in Lebanon says member lightly hurt by grenade from Israeli drone

By Emanuel Fabian and AFP

Former US president Joe Biden speaks at the National Bar Association's annual convention on July 31, 2025, in Chicago, Illinois. (SCOTT OLSON / Getty Images via AFP)

Biden undergoing radiation, hormone therapy to fight prostate cancer

Diane Keaton appears at the Ralph Lauren Spring 2023 Fashion Experience in Pasadena, California, on October 13, 2022. (AP/Chris Pizzello, File)

ObituaryDiane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of ‘Annie Hall’ and ‘The Godfather,’ dies at 79

By AP and ToI Staff

ANU's 'October 7' exhibit capsule opened in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, in October 2025 (Credit: Alexander Garbashkov)

Drawing on experienceANU’s ‘October 7’ capsule exhibit travels to Armenia

By Jessica Steinberg

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