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What Matters Most On Friday, October 17, 2025

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Omri Miran pictured at the beach, with his wife Lishay and two daughters out of shot, on October 17, 2025, soon after his discharge from the hospital, and four days after he was released from more than two years in Hamas captivity in Gaza. (Via X; Eli Teichman and Shir Katz)

Miran heads to the beach with his wife, young daughters

‘Time to return to life’: Three freed hostages released from hospital after 4 days

By Diana Bletter and ToI Staff

Hundreds line up to greet Omri Miran, who is discharged along with Matan Zangauker and Matan Angrest; body of slain hostage Bipin Joshi said set for repatriation to Nepal next week

Released hostages Eitan Horn (L) and Nimrod Cohen seen upon their release from the hospital and return to their homes in Kfar Saba and Rehovot, on October 16, 2025. (Screenshots/Reuters)

‘Because of the people’: Two ex-hostages return home from hospital to cheering crowds

By ToI Staff and Diana Bletter

Anti-Israel protesters in New York City, September 23, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

US Rep. denounces 'blatant support for terrorism'

NY anti-Israel activists hold vigil for Oct. 7 Hamas chief Sinwar on anniversary of his killing

Bronx group sets up exhibit showing terror chief who orchestrated mass slaughter in Israel, Hezbollah’s Nasrallah and other terrorists

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

More than 11,000 sign letter supporting NY anti-Israel activist who attacked Jews

Bulldozers deployed by the Hamas-controlled Gaza Municipality clear building rubble from main axes and streets in Gaza City, amid a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian terror group, on October 14, 2025. (AFP)

Al Jazeera clips show heavy equipment used to search rubble

Team enters Gaza to search for hostages’ bodies, as Israel vows to ramp up pressure

By Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid, Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

Hamas claims it can’t access any more remains without additional equipment, but Jerusalem says that’s a lie; PM talks to Trump amid impasse, with 19 hostage bodies still in Strip

File: Hamas terrorists are seen near the Gama Junction in southern Israel, close to Re'im and Kissufim, amid the October 7, 2023, onslaught. (South First Responders)

Levin pushing for tribunal empowered to impose death sentence on Oct. 7 perpetrators

By Jeremy Sharon

An aerial view shows the Al-Maqussi Towers district, heavily damaged by Israeli bombardment over the past two years, in northwestern Gaza City on October 15, 2025. (Photo by AFP)

As dust settles in Gaza City amid truce, residents return to razed homes

By AFP

An Israeli soldier stands in front of a house hit by Hezbollah rockets in the deserted northern Israeli town of Metula on November 4, 2024. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

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When Israel’s north emptied after October 8, Nissan Zeevi of Kfar Giladi stayed. Now he wants to bring families back. A story of fear, resilience, and the fight to rebuild the Galilee.

People and members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) watch as Palestinians use an excavator to dig deep into the ground, reportedly searching for bodies of hostages, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 17, 2025 (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 17: IDF reportedly expects Hamas to return the bodies of more hostages next week

By ToI Staff and Shira Silkoff

Witkoff to travel to Israel, Egypt next week to advance implementation of Gaza deal * Freed captive says Ben Gvir’s remarks led to terrorists beating hostages unconscious with whips

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IDF: Red Cross received casket from Hamas, is en route to Israeli troops in Gaza
8:51 pm

Minister: UK government 'doing everything in our power' to ensure Israeli fans can attend soccer game
8:23 pm

IDF: Red Cross heading to Gaza handover site to collect body of hostage from Hamas

US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, October 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Militia chief urges world to help: 'Hamas killing hundreds'

Trump: If Hamas doesn’t stop killing Gazans, ‘we will have no choice but to go in and kill them’

By Jacob Magid and Nurit Yohanan

US president later clarifies ‘somebody will go in’ to Strip but ‘it’s not going to be us,’ two days after he seemed to condone the public executions carried out by terror group

The bodies of four apparent slain hostages being escorted by Israel Police to the Abu Kabir forensic institute in Tel Aviv, early October 15, 2025. (Israel Police)

Israel shared intel on location of hostages’ bodies with mediators, official says

By Lazar Berman and AFP

Hossam al-Astal (center) is seen surrounded by armed members of his group, 'Strike Force Against Terror,' in an undated picture from the Gaza Strip posted on Facebook. (Courtesy: Hossam al-Astal via Facebook)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 17: Day 742 – Trump raises alarm about public executions in Gaza

By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid

New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks during a mayoral debate, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis, Pool)

Mamdani repeatedly accuses Israel of genocide in NYC mayoral debate

Far-left Israel critic condemns Hamas, highlights talks with Jewish New Yorkers that helped him understand concerns about the phrase ‘Globalize the intifada,’ which he now says he will ‘discourage’

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks during an election campaign event in New York, October 13, 2025. (AP/Olga Fedorova)

Mamdani says ‘I don’t really have opinions’ on whether Hamas should lay down arms

Justice Min. Levin heckled at funeral by anti-gov't activist

Hundreds pay tribute to ‘pink angel’ Inbar Haiman as slain hostage is laid to rest

By Jessica Steinberg, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Yifat Haiman says her daughter, the last female hostage, waited for all Nova abductees to return, a testament to her ‘endless giving’; president eulogizes ‘brave and sensitive’ artist

Mourners walk near the van carrying the coffin of slain hostage Inbar Haiman, know as 'Pink' in the local graffiti community, during her funeral procession in Rishon Lezion, October 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Shahar Levy, the son of Eitan Levy, speaks at his father's funeral in Bat Yam on October 16, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

‘Always with a hole in my heart’: Slain hostage Eitan Levy buried 2 years after murder

By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

A masked member of the Hamas military wing stands guard next to children in the south of Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on October 13, 2025. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)

Inside story

Slowed establishment of postwar Gaza government fuels Hamas revival, diplomats warn

Assembling technocratic committee proving difficult task as each stakeholder has own agenda, but absence of alternative is enabling Hamas to fill vacuum left by IDF troops

US President Donald Trump, right, greets Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud during a summit on Gaza in Sharm el-Sheikh on October 13, 2025. (Photo by Evan Vucci / POOL / AFP)

'When Saudi Arabia goes in, everybody goes in'

Trump claims Saudis told him ‘yesterday’ they’re willing to join Abraham Accords

By Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman

While Riyadh has insisted that it needs pathway to Palestinian state, US president reiterates that normalization deals will soon pile up now that Gaza war over, Iran threat neutered

US President Donald Trump (left) arrives with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the group photo with Gulf Cooperation Council leaders during the GCC Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 14, 2025. (Alex Brandon/AP)

Saudi Arabia, US reportedly discussing defense deal similar to Qatar defense pact

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Piers Morgan, left, interviews released hostage Eli Sharabi on his Uncensored show on October 16, 2025. (Screenshot: Uncensored)

Eli Sharabi to Piers Morgan: Believing wife, kids survived Oct. 7 kept me going in captivity

Sharabi recounts abduction and release, talks about getting brother’s body back from Hamas, as prominent UK broadcaster heaps praise on the first ex-hostage he has interviewed

The community of Kibbutz Kfar Aza commemorates the two year anniversary of the October 7, 2025, deadly Hamas attack. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

‘I have no home anymore’: Two years later, Kfar Aza is forever changed by Oct. 7 attack

By AFP

If you hate all Gazans, Hamas has won the war

When Israel refuses every attempt at a Palestinian state, even when Abbas says he wants peace, it plays into the terrorists’ bloody hands – for what will ever stop them?

Six-seven: The sacred rhythm of a meaningless meme

My kids torment me with their fun, but the joke’s on them, as I make order of their 6 days of chaos, and observe the world-changing idea of a 7th day of rest

Warner Bros. Discovery rejects calls to boycott Israeli film industry

WBD becomes second major Hollywood studio after Paramount to come out against pledge to boycott Israeli film institutions, saying ‘our policies prohibit discrimination of any kind’

This screenshot from the trailer for 'Gaza: How to Survive A War Zone' shows narrator Abdullah Al-Yazouri, whose father is a Hamas deputy minister. (YouTube screenshot used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law)

BBC sanctioned for failing to disclose Gaza documentary star was son of Hamas official

By AP and ToI Staff

A demonstrator holds a placard showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a Hitler-style mustache and text that reads "child killer," during a rally in Sydney on October 12, 2025. (David Gray/ AFP)

AnalysisIsrael hopes Gaza ceasefire will bring end to wartime international isolation

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Maccabi Tel Aviv's fans clap hands after the end of the Europa League soccer match between PAOK and Maccabi Tel Aviv at Toumpa stadium, in Thessaloniki, Greece, September 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

Israel, UK leaders slam decision to bar Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from Aston Villa match

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Anti-Israel local MP celebrates; Starmer: ‘This is the wrong decision’; British police cite 2024 Maccabi game in Amsterdam, where Israelis were attacked by antisemitic mobs

Singer Liraz Charhi had a Paris show canceled by the venue in early October (Courtesy Liraz Charhi)

Hostile receptionIsraeli singer’s Paris show moved to new venue after political pressure

By Jessica Steinberg

US House Speaker Mike Johnson, joined at left by US Rep. Andrew Garbarino, gestures as he answers questions during a press conference on the sixteenth day of a government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, October 16, 2025. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

US House speaker denounces racist Young Republicans texts, but denies larger issue

By JTA

VP Vance dismisses ‘to the gas chambers,’ ‘fat, stinky Jew’ leaked messages — sent by party activists in their 20s and 30s — as ‘young boys’ telling ‘edgy, offensive jokes’

Peter Giunta, former leader of the New York State Young Republicans, gives a TV interview in September 2025. (Screenshot)

‘To the gas chamber’: Young Republicans members exposed for antisemitic, racist chat

By Luke Tress and ToI Staff

11-year-old Palestinian boy said shot dead by IDF in southern West Bank; army probing

By Nurit Yohanan and Emanuel Fabian

Military says stones were thrown at troops, who returned fire and ‘hits were identified’; in territory’s north, army says it killed a man who hurled explosives at forces

Mohammad Bahjat Al-Hallaq, allegedly shot dead by IDF troops in the southern West Bank on October 16, 2025. (Wafa)

Jewish families celebrate the Sukkot holiday at the Jewish settlement of Efrat, October 16, 2019. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Knesset winter session to open with annexation push, but PM unlikely to back effort

A protester against Airbnb's listing of West Bank settlement rentals during an interview with Ashton Kutcher at Airbnb Open in Los Angeles. November 19, 2016 (Screen capture: YouTube)

French rights group files complaint against Airbnb, Booking.com for settlement listings

By AFP

Jalil Dabit, right, wears a shirt that translates to 'I am a hummussexual.' He and Oz Ben David opened Kanaan in 2015. (Elisabeth Patrikiou via JTA)

Patrons wonder 'if you are pro-Israel or pro-Palestine'

After wartime dip, hope is back on the menu for Israeli-Palestinian hummus bar in Berlin

By Shira Li Bartov

Jalil Dabit and Oz Ben David have run Kanaan, a hub of coexistence, for 10 years, but slowing sales and acts of vandalism since Oct. 7 nearly saw them hang up their aprons

Beit Shemesh mayoral candidate Shmuel Greenberg casts his ballot in the second round of municipal elections, March 10, 2024. (Sam Sokol)

Haredi mob breaks into Beit Shemesh mayor’s home in second attack this year

Rioters break down gates, destroy electrical box seven months after overturning mayor’s car; we ‘will not give in to violence,’ vows Shmuel Greenberg

Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee legal adviser Miri Frenkel Shor (right) and chairman Boaz Bismuth during a discussion on ultra-Orthodox conscription, September 8, 2025. (Dani Shem-Tov/ Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)

Knesset defense panel chair submits principles for potential Haredi draft bill

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Houthi chief of staff Muhammad al-Ghamari, in an undated photo. (Social media)

Houthi military chief dies, group says, and Israel claims responsibility

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan, Lazar Berman and Agencies

John Bolton speaks at Harvard Kennedy School's John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, September 29, 2025, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (AP/Michael Dwyer)

John Bolton charged with sharing classified info in emails hacked by Iran-linked actor

By Sarah N. Lynch and Jack Queen

A hacked flight information screen displaying anti-Israel messages at Kelowna International Airport, October 14, 2025 (Screenshot used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Hackers breach four North American airports, broadcast anti-Israel messages

Saint Catherine's Monastery in southern Sinai, in Egypt. (CC, BY-SA, Berthold Werner/Wikimedia)

Greece, Egypt agree on future of monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai, Greek PM says

This photograph shows portrait placards of Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris, two French citizens detained in Iran, set up on a fence of the French National Assembly, in Paris on October 6, 2025. (Photo by Martin LELIEVRE / AFP)

French couple held as prisoners in Iran ‘at the end of their tether,’ relative says

Rabbi Moshe Hauer, Executive Vice President of the Orthodox Union. (Courtesy)

ObituaryRabbi Moshe Hauer, Orthodox Union leader admired across Jewish world, dies at 60

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