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What Matters Most On Sunday, October 19, 2025

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Troops of the Gaza Division are seen operating in the Gaza Strip during a ceasefire, in a handout photo issued on October 12, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

In ‘blatant’ ceasefire violation, IDF says terror operatives attacked troops in Rafah

By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and Sam Sokol

Hamas denies responsibility as military responds with airstrikes after RPG, sniper fire; Netanyahu, Katz discuss retaliation; far-right ministers call for return to war

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears on Channel 14's 'The Patriots,' in Modi'in on October 18, 2025. (Aloni Mor/Flash90)

Netanyahu denies Trump forced truce on him, says war ends ‘for good’ when Hamas disarmed

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Members of the internal security forces loyal to Hamas are deployed in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, October 12, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

US warns of imminent Hamas ‘attack on Palestinian civilians,’ says it would violate truce

Slain hostages Ronen Engel (left) and Sonthaya Oakkharasri, whose bodies were returned to Israel by Hamas on October 18, 2025. (Courtesy)

12 hostages now freed under deal; 16 bodies still in Gaza

Ronen Engel, Thailand’s Sonthaya Oakkharasri identified as hostage bodies returned by Hamas

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Engel, 54, was photographer and ambulance volunteer who was ‘always smiling’; Mika Engel says her father is ‘finally home’; Oakkharasri, 30, dreamed of building a farm in Thailand

Police officer Master Sgt. Ran Gvili.(Courtesy)

ProfileThe only slain hostage whose body is still held in Gaza

Police escort the caskets said to contain the bodies of two hostages from the Gaza border to the Abu Kabir forensic institute in Tel Aviv, early October 19, 2025. (Israel Police)

Hamas says it returned 2 more bodies of hostages; remains taken to forensic lab for ID

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

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)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 19: Witkoff, Kushner to arrive in Israel Monday for talks on next steps of Gaza ceasefire

Hamas-run agency says 45 killed in retaliatory Israeli strikes on Sunday after deadly attack on soldiers in Rafah * Hamas delegation visits Cairo for follow-up talks on Gaza deal

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Hamas-run agency says at least 45 killed in Israeli strikes today
7:50 pm

UNICEF Yemen chief among staff held by Houthis -- UN official
7:44 pm

Turk Cypriot moderate wins election in major policy shift in conflict

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Bereaved families: 'PM choosing to cover up, to conceal'

Government said working to appoint own Oct. 7 inquiry, angering bereaved families, opposition

By Jeremy Sharon

Government commission would also examine ‘role’ of protest movement and High Court in Hamas invasion; critics, urging state commission, accuse Netanyahu’s coalition of seeking to investigate itself

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a press conference with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz in the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, Oct. 28, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir is seen at the entrance to the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City. October 8, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

Ben Gvir says he gave PM deadline to dismantle Hamas, enact death penalty for terrorists

Combination photo showing Religious Zionism MK Simcha Rothman (L) and Attorney General Gali Bahrav-Miara at a Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting, in Jerusalem, September 30, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Rothman said planning to fast-track bill that would split AG’s role into 2 jobs

Twin Israeli brothers Gali and Ziv Berman, who were set free by Hamas earlier this week after being held hostage for more than two years, arrive home in the southern Israeli kibbutz of Beit Guvrin from hospital on October 19, 2025. (FADEL SENNA / AFP)

Seven released hostages leave hospital, receive rapturous welcome in hometowns

By Diana Bletter and Jessica Steinberg

Cunio brothers speak of ‘new lives;’ Yavne streets fill for David Cunio; Berman twins swamped; Maxim Herkin urges unity, Elkana Bohbot signals heart; Yosef-Haim Ohana home at last

Chikli abstains from vote, Strock votes against

‘War of Revival’: Cabinet approves Netanyahu’s controversial renaming of Gaza war

By Lazar Berman, Sam Sokol, Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

Critics say name switch is attempt by PM to evade responsibility for failures around Hamas onslaught; Lapid: ‘It remains the Oct. 7 war. Attempts to erase what happened won’t succeed’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on October 19, 2025. (Screenshot/GPO)

Egyptian military personnel stand alert at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza Strip, in Rafah, Egypt, October 31, 2023. (AP/Mohammed Asad)

Egypt said expected to lead UN-backed Gaza stabilization force; Azerbaijan to contribute

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

US, European powers reportedly preparing UN Security Council resolution to allow force to operate under UN mandate without being considered a peacekeeping force

US Vice President JD Vance waves as he boards Air Force Two at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, on October 17, 2025. (Oliver Contreras/Pool via AP)

US weighs sending Vance to Israel in coming days to discuss next phases of Gaza deal

By Jacob Magid, Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

Hamas uses bulldozers to search for the bodies of Israeli hostages held in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 18, 2025. (Photo by Saeed Mohammed/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 19: Day 744 – As skirmishes continue in Gaza, when is the war over?

By Jessica Steinberg and Emanuel Fabian

Reporter's notebook

Tommy Robinson draws crowd of 1,000 in Tel Aviv amid controversy; protester attacked

Supporters praise free speech while critics denounce antisemitic past; heckler violently accosted by attendees after calling the controversial figure a ‘racist’

British anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson speaks in Tel Aviv, on October 18, 2025. (Screen capture via Avi Yemini on YouTube)

Anti-immigration activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known as Tommy Robinson, speaks during a public address in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 18, 2025. (REUTERS/Ammar Awad)

Tommy Robinson sees UK’s right-wing Reform party winning power, says leader won’t be ‘friend of Israel’

By Alexander Cornwell

A man claiming to be acting as a legal observer at a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protest is questioned by Metropolitan Police for allegedly violating the Public Order Act, in London, England, on August 29, 2025. (Telegraph screenshot)

UK man claims he was detained after Star of David ‘antagonized’ pro-Palestinian protesters

Einav Zangauker, mother of released hostage Matan Zangauker, speaks at a protest at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv calling for the release of captives' bodies held by Hamas, October 18, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ex-hostage’s mom at rally: Israel can only heal when all bodies return, PM faces justice

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

Government ‘will never evade responsibility’ for Oct. 7, says Einav Zangauker after her son returned in deal; Labor MK Kariv urges further anti-government struggle, full end to war

Mourners surround the coffin of slain hostage Bipin Joshi, before the repatriation of his body to Nepal, at Ben Gurion Airport, on October 19, 2025. (FADEL SENNA / AFP)

Slain hostage Bipin Joshi praised for October 7 heroism as his body flown to Nepal

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid wait at the Rafah Crossing on the Gaza-Egypt border, on October 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Mohamed Arafat)

Israel says Gaza’s border crossing with Egypt to stay closed until Hamas honors deal

By Lazar Berman, Charlie Summers and Reuters

Reporter's notebook

‘Our fight isn’t over’: Hostages Square rally shows Israel’s uncertainty and determination

Five days ago, joy swept over Israel as 20 living hostages came home; Saturday night’s rally illustrated how, in the short time since then, exuberance has ceded space to anxiety

People attend a protest at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, calling for the release of dead captives held by Hamas, October 18, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

The war is not over

We families of soldiers are holding our collective breath as our loved ones stand ready; they’ll need to ’take care of it’ if Hamas won’t disarm

Donniel Hartman

What if we began to have hope?

With the joy and healing of the hostage return, Israelis must begin a process of rehabilitation not only from trauma, but also from despair

Israeli defense tech startup Commcrete develops tactical satellite communications devices deployed by defense, security, and emergency organizations in Israel, Europe, and North America. (Courtesy)

Inside story'Necessity overrules politics - especially in defense'

When things get real, countries seeking defense tech put politics aside and go for Israel

By Sharon Wrobel

Technological superiority will decide the outcome of future wars, fueling interest for Israeli defense solutions born in the wake of the Oct. 7 onslaught, overriding boycott tensions, experts say

Crowds gather to listen to Sen. Bernie Sanders, an Independent of Vermont, during a No Kings protest, in Washington, October 18, 2025. (Allison Robbert/AP)

Thousands of ‘No Kings’ protest rallies held across US, drawing mockery from Trump

By MIKE PESOLI, Matt Brown and GARY FIELDS

Demonstrators march against what they see as US drift into authoritarianism; Trump responds with AI videos of himself wearing crown, dropping sewage on protesters

Auschwitz survivor Dita Kraus, number 73305, at her home in Netanya. (Courtesy)

Obituary

‘Librarian of Auschwitz’: Holocaust survivor Dita Kraus dies at 96

Kraus survived Terezin Ghetto, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen before moving to Israel in 1949; book published in 2012 brought story of concentration camp’s secret library to wider audience

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French police officers stand next to a basket lift used by robbers to enter the Louvre Museum, on Quai Francois Mitterrand, in Paris on October 19, 2025. (Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)

Chainsaw-wielding thieves use basket lift to steal ‘priceless’ jewelry from Louvre

US court orders Israeli spyware company NSO to cease targeting WhatsApp

People inspect the damage after a series of Israeli airstrikes in the southern Lebanese village of Ansar on October 17, 2025. (MAHMOUD ZAYYAT / AFP)

IDF says strike kills Hezbollah operative acting in breach of truce in southern Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian and AFP

Illustrative: Palestinians hurl rocks towards Israeli army vehicles in the West Bank town of Tamun, near Tubas, on May 15, 2025. (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

2 troops wounded by bomb thrown in West Bank; reports of settler attacks on Palestinians

By Emanuel Fabian

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