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What Matters Most On Tuesday, October 14, 2025

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IDF troops salute over the caskets containing the bodies of slain hostages Guy Illouz, Bipin Joshi, Yossi Sharabi and Cpt. Daniel Perez in the Gaza Strip, late October 13, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Red Cross: Retrieval of bodies could take 'much more time'

Israel won’t reopen Rafah crossing, will limit aid, to press Hamas for remaining slain hostages

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

As IDs confirmed of 4 hostages’ remains, families of captives still in Gaza demand deal be put on hold until their loved ones returned, accuse government of shirking ‘immediate duty’

Top row (L-R) Guy Illouz, Yossi Sharabi, 2nd row (L-R) Bipin Joshi, Daniel Perez

Israel receives 4 hostages’ bodies from Red Cross; demands Hamas hand over the other 24

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan, Amy Spiro and ToI Staff

People carry flowers and Israeli flags upon the arrival of vehicles transporting the bodies of four hostages, in front of the National Center for Forensic Medicine in Tel Aviv on October 13, 2025. The Hebrew sign reads, "Sorry." (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

Slain hostage’s mother: Government betrayed families whose loved ones remain in Gaza

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Yael Adar says Israel didn’t maintain leverage or insist on deadline for return of bodies; reports: Israel threatening sanctions on Hamas, mediators do not believe deal in jeopardy

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 14: Hostage families demand meeting with IDF chief over Hamas’s failure to hand over bodies

Trump says ‘job is not done’ as hostage bodies ‘have not been returned as promised’; declares, ‘Phase two begins right NOW!!!’ * Families of freed hostages slam politicians who resisted deal, vow not to rest until all slain hostages returned

8:29 pm

Smotrich: 'There will be Jewish settlements in Gaza'
8:18 pm

IDF receives four caskets from Red Cross, apparently with the bodies of hostages
8:17 pm

Anti-Israel protesters clash with police ahead of World Cup qualifier in Italy

Newly released hostage Matan Zangauker (holding flag) arrives at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, October 13, 2025. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Guy Gilboa-Dalal was force-fed in final months, his dad says

Freed hostages tell families of torture, starvation and long periods of isolation

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Avinatan Or was held alone for all 738 days; mom of Matan Angrest says he was severely tortured in initial months because he served in IDF, was buried under rubble amid Israeli bombardment

Former hostage Tal Shoham, left, and Ilan Dalal, father of hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal, address journalists over Zoom on October 12, 2025. (Screenshot/Amplify)

Freed hostage’s dad: ‘Of course’ we wanted him back earlier but gov’t also has security concerns

By Deborah Danan

People celebrate as they watch a live broadcast of the release of Israeli hostages after more than two years of Hamas captivity, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, October 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

World leaders hail hostage release as step toward peace in the Middle East

Palestinians accused of collaboration with Israel are seen blindfolded moments before their execution by Hamas gunmen in a Gaza street, October 13, 2025 (Screenshot: X)

Trump: 'We gave them approval for a period of time'

Hamas said to kill over 30 Gazans, publicly execute 7, as it reasserts its grip on Strip

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Footage appears to show Hamas executing ‘collaborators’ in city square; armed Hamas fighters return to streets as Trump says he gave group temporary green light to police Strip

Buses carrying Gazan detainees released from Israeli prisons under a hostage and ceasefire deal arrive outside the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 13, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA/AFP)

Israel frees nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, including hundreds of terror convicts

By Charlie Summers, Nurit Yohanan and Agencies

A woman, left, wrapped with an Israeli flag with the photo of one of her best friend Itay Chen, who was killed in Hamas' attack on October 7, is embraced at the plaza known as Hostages Square, in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Oct. 14: Day 739 – Hamas withholds dead hostages, dampening joy of returned living

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz

ToI editor David Horovitz describes Israelis’ dueling jubilation and despair as US President Trump insists the Gaza war has ended — without all peace plan promises fulfilled

US President Donald Trump (C) and other world leaders pose for a group photograph at the Sharm El-Sheikh Peace Summit in the Egyptian Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh on October 13, 2025. (Evan Vucci / POOL / AFP)

Hamas looking for bodies of remaining dead captives -- Trump

At Sharm summit, Trump and world leaders sign up for peace in Gaza, with Netanyahu absent

By Jacob Magid, ToI Staff and Agencies

In speech, US president urges world leaders to join Abraham Accords; leaders sign document said to lay out groundwork for Strip’s future

Commuteres drive past a building with an anti-US mural with the slogan "Down with the USA" and skulls replacing the stars on the flag, in Tehran on October 13, 2025. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran accuses US of ‘criminal behavior,’ says Trump’s call for dialogue inconsistent

By AFP and ToI Staff

Transcript

Full text of Trump’s Knesset speech: You’ve won. You can’t beat the world. It’s time for peace

US president tells Netanyahu, regarding Gaza war and new deal: ‘It was getting bad, heated… You’re gonna be remembered for this far more than if you kept this thing going, going, going; kill, kill, kill’

US President Donald Trump addresses the Knesset, October 13, 2025. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool via AP)

US President Donald Trump addresses Israeli lawmakers at the Knesset, as Speaker Amir Ohana applauds, October 13, 2025, in Jerusalem. (Jalaa Marey/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump earns fresh comparisons to Cyrus the Great as last living hostages return home

By Andrew Lapin

József Molnár's 'Abraham's Journey from Ur to Canaan,' from 1850 (Public Domain)

ExplainerWhy the story of Abraham is being invoked in the push for Mideast peace

Letters inscribed on pottery, known as ostraca, which were unearthed in an excavation of a fort in Arad, Israel, and dated to about 600 BCE shortly before Nebuchadnezzar’s destruction of Jerusalem, are seen in Israel Museum in Jerusalem on April 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Soldiers may have used a 30-day month, divided into 5 weeks

How did biblical Judeans track time? Trove of 6th-century BCE inscriptions offers clues

By Rossella Tercatin

New analysis of 2,600-year-old Tel Arad ostraca suggests Iron Age soldiers tracked months, days, and supplies with sophisticated numerical systems

Remembering Bipin Joshi with sorrow and with hope

The world’s media may move on, but his name remains — no longer as a living student, but as a fallen soul and a vision of what the future could be

Ben Ari Grossman

This deal only confirms what we have long known

As far as we know, Hamas remains the dominant power in the Gaza Strip, and it’s not because Israel did not use enough military force

Mamdani-linked DSA condemns Gaza ceasefire, backs Palestinian ‘resistance’

Far-left party says agreement ‘will not end Israel’s assault on the Palestinian people’; NYC mayoral candidate accuses Israel of ‘genocide’

New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks at a campaign rally in New York on Oct. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

Former US vice president Kamala Harris speaks after receiving the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Phoenix Award in Washington, September 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Kamala Harris: ‘We should all step back and ask’ whether Israel committed genocide

By Grace Gilson

A synagogue in Teaneck, New Jersey, displays lanterns representing the hostages who were still alive in Gaza and the bodies of those who were also slated to be returned under a deal between Israel and Hamas, October 8, 2025. (JTA photo)

'My whole thing is, well, what do we do now?'

Too soon? Amid hostage releases, some US Jews retire solidarity rituals with gratitude and grief

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

With the freeing of the living captives and continued demands for the return of 24 bodies still held in Gaza, worshipers grapple with closure on Simhat Torah, two years into an ordeal begun on Oct. 7, 2023

Snipers patrol on the roof of the Fruili Hotel where the Israeli national team is staying, ahead of a World Cup 2026, Group I qualifying soccer match between Italy and Israel at the Friuli Stadium in Udine, Italy, Tuesday, Oct.14, 2025. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Snipers on roof as Udine braces for high-risk Italy-Israel World Cup soccer qualifier

Israel's Artem Dolgopyat competes in the artistic gymnastics men's floor exercise final during the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, on August 3, 2024. (Loic VENANCE / AFP)

Israeli gymnasts remain excluded from world championship after court rejects request

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israeli singer Yuval Raphael, representing Israel with the song, 'New Day Will Rise,' walks on the turquoise carpet next to the Basel Town Hall, with protesters' Palestinian flags behind, during the opening ceremony of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel, Switzerland, on May 11, 2025. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

Eurovision organizer calls off vote on ousting Israel after ceasefire with Hamas

This composite image shows Supreme Court President Isaac Amit (L) and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara (Yonatan Sindel and Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Supreme Court chief, AG weren’t invited to Trump speech; Trump: I’d told PM I didn’t want to bring up the pardon

No comment from speaker Ohana on decision not to invite Isaac Amit and Gali Baharav-Miara; bar association head: ‘The plan to destroy Zionist and democratic Israel hasn’t stopped’

Knesset member Ayman Odeh (C) is escorted out after holding a sign reading "Recognize Palestine" during a speech by US President Donald Trump at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on October 13, 2025. (Photo by Evan Vucci / POOL / AFP)

As lawmakers rejoice in hostages’ return, some start to settle scores over war policy

By Ariela Karmel and Sam Sokol

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Smoke billows during a reported settler attack in the Palestinian West Bank village of Yabrud, October 13, 2025. (Screen capture: X/Palestinian Information Center)

Settlers said to attack pair of West Bank Palestinian communities, wounding 5 people

Attackers in Beit Fajjar reportedly also targeted medics who came to treat Palestinians who’d been assaulted with sticks, stones and dogs; no arrests reported

Orthodox Jews accompanied by Israeli border police on the Temple Mount, during Sukkot, in Jerusalem's Old City, on October 8, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Reporter's notebook

On Sukkot, eroding Temple Mount status quo lays bare rifts in the Orthodox world

By Charlie Summers

As thousands of Jewish worshipers visit over the holiday, Haredim and religious Zionists spar over religious prohibition on touring the flashpoint holy site

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