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What Matters Most On Monday, October 20, 2025

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A gunman wearing the uniform of the al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, stands guard as Red Cross vehicles enter a warehouse allegedly to collect coffins containing the bodies of four deceased hostages, in Gaza City, October 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Yousef Al Zanoun)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 20: Israel receives casket from Gaza with apparent remains of hostage

By Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

Netanyahu claims Israelis would have died ‘in nuclear smoke’ if he had given in to demands to end war * Trump: Hamas violating ceasefire, will be ‘taken care of’ if it doesn’t stop

7:25 pm

Vance to depart for Israel shortly, together with his wife
6:30 pm

Casket containing apparent remains of hostage is in en route to forensic institute for identification
6:29 pm

IDF says 2 terror operatives killed in Gaza City after crossing Yellow Line, firing on troops

US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff (left) and President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner speak with CBS in an excerpt from an interview released on October 17, 2025. (CBS screenshot)

Witkoff says he connected with Hamas leader over losing son

Kushner: Israel must improve Palestinians’ lives if it wants ‘integration’ into region

Envoy says US believes Hamas acting in good faith, searching for remaining hostage bodies; Witkoff: Netanyahu’s phone call with Qatari PM was ‘pivotal’ step in reaching Gaza deal

US special envoy Steve Witkoff, left, and top White House adviser Jared Kushner attend a rally at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, October 11, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

PM meets with Witkoff, Kushner as Vance set to join US efforts to bolster Gaza truce

By Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg and Agencies

Trump says ‘rebels’ staged deadly attack on IDF troops in Gaza, echoing Hamas claim

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US president claims terror group’s leadership may not be involved in ‘rambunctious’ shooting; doesn’t know if Israeli response strikes were justified, but truce still in effect

US President Donald Trump speaks with the media aboard Air Force One prior to landing at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, October 19, 2025, as he returns from West Palm Beach, Florida, after spending the weekend at Mar-a-Lago. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

A billboard shows images of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, US President Donald Trump, US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, in Tel Aviv on October 12, 2025. (REUTERS/Hannah McKay)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 20: Day 745 – Witkoff, Kushner in Israel to keep ceasefire going

By Jessica Steinberg, Lazar Berman and Nava Freiberg

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Smoke billows following an Israeli strike that targeted a building in the Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on October 19, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Israel says resuming Gaza ceasefire after deadly attack on troops led to massive strikes

By Emanuel Fabian, Nava Freiberg and Jacob Magid

Washington said leaning on Jerusalem to keep truce going, prevented it from halting aid deliveries, as Witkoff and Kushner set to visit Monday to discuss second phase of deal

2 soldiers killed, 3 wounded in attack on troops in Gaza; IDF launches wave of strikes on Hamas

By Emanuel Fabian and Nurit Yohanan

21 said killed in retaliatory strikes; major Hamas tunnel previously used to hold hostages struck, elite Hamas Nukhba commander said killed; terror group says it found body of hostage

Maj. Yaniv Kula (left) and Staff Sgt. Itay Yavetz, who were killed in an attack in the southern Gaza Strip on October 19, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Slain hostages whose bodies were still held in Gaza as of October 19, 2025: (Top row from left) Arie Zalmanowicz, Lior Rudaeff, Oz Daniel, Dror Or. (Second row) Sudthisak Rinthalak, Omer Neutra, Joshua Mollel, Asaf Hamami. (Third row) Tal Haimi (whose body was returned on October 20), Ran Gvili, Hadar Goldin, Meny Godard. (Bottom row) Amiram Cooper, Itay Chen, Sahar Baruch, and Tamir Adar. (Collage by Times of Israel, Photos: Courtesy)

Military gearing up for Hamas to hand over body of hostage Monday evening

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF says troops fired at gunmen who approached them in Gaza City, Palestinians report 2 dead; Katz demands Hamas operatives leave Israeli-held areas of Strip or be targeted

Family and friends mourn at the funeral of Uriel Baruch, in Jerusalem on October 19, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

‘You didn’t go in vain’: Uriel Baruch, killed on Oct. 7, laid to rest after Hamas returns body

By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

Analysis

Hamas isn’t acting like a defeated force, which puts the entire Gaza ceasefire at risk

Trump says Israel won, but Hamas hasn’t returned most hostages’ bodies, refuses to disarm, and attacks IDF troops; the only hope of Hamas compliance is the threat of renewed war

A masked Hamas gunman in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, ahead of handing over Israeli hostages to the Red Cross, October 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

A member of the Nepalese army pays his respects to Bipin Joshi, a Nepali man who was taken hostage by Hamas, during a memorial procession at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, October 20, 2025. (AP/Niranjan Shrestha)

‘A son of Nepal’: Body of Bipin Joshi, slain in Gaza captivity, finally arrives home

By Agencies and ToI Staff

‘Bipin’s courage and bravery are a matter of pride for every Nepali,’ prime minister says on airport tarmac, two years after agricultural student was kidnapped from border kibbutz

Illustrative: People standing in line to go through passport control at Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Hidden cost of war: 125,000 Israelis emigrated between 2022 and 2024

Knesset report shows a ‘tsunami’ of Israelis leaving the country with no plans to return, possibly linked to Gaza war

Yael Eckstein holding hands of an elderly woman, Netta, in Israel. (Credit: Olivier Fitoussi)

'The infant mortality rate is lower than the OECD average'

Israelis’ life expectancy rises to 83.8, making it 4th among OECD countries

By Diana Bletter

Report shows dramatic rise in life expectancy of both men and women from 2022 to 2023, despite Israel investing only 7.6% of its GDP in health

Miriam Miedzinski-Ballin, founder of the Psychotrauma and Crisis Unit of United Hatzalah. (Courtesy)

ObituaryMiriam Miedzinski-Ballin, trailblazer who made mental health part of first aid, dies at 38

By Diana Bletter

Who’s laughing now?

Norway walked away, but Bet Shemesh soared – a story of resilience, renewal, and Israel’s quiet triumph

Startup sovereignty: A new model for Palestinian statehood

If Palestinians would take on a startup mindset, they could maximize their strengths to turn long-held grievances into innovative governance, opportunity and success

Centrifuges line a hall at the Uranium Enrichment Facility in Natanz, Iran, in a still image from a video aired by the Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting company on April 17, 2021, six days after the hall had been damaged in a mysterious attack. (IRIB via AP)

UN nuclear watchdog believes most of Iran’s enriched uranium unharmed by war with Israel

IAEA director says roughly 400 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium being stored at damaged nuclear facilities, no way to access it without Tehran’s full cooperation

Illustrative: A woman holds her cellphone with an Israeli flag cover at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem, February 23, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israeli diplomats said added to WhatsApp groups run from Iran, other hostile nations

An illustrative photo of an execution in Iran. (AFP/Arash Khamooshi/ISNA)

Iran executes man accused of espionage for Israel after pardon rejected

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Inside story

Why draft-dodger detentions are doing little to keep ultra-Orthodox from evading the IDF

Those caught ignoring enlistment orders can only be jailed for a short time; critics claim many exploit mental health exemptions, reducing enforcement to a ‘revolving door’

Haredi men attend a rally against the jailing of Jewish seminary students who failed to comply with an army recruitment order, outside the military prison in Beit Lid, near Netanya, August 14, 2025. (Tal Gal/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox men attend a protest against the effort to draft their Israeli counterparts to the IDF, outside the Israeli consulate in New York, October 19, 2025. (Screen capture: X/Jewish Voice)

Thousands of Haredim attend ‘Cry of the Exile’ rally in New York against IDF draft

By AP and ToI Staff

The building of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel in Jerusalem. (Flash90)

Coalition advances bill mandating mezuzahs, allowing Orthodox rituals in public spaces

By Ariela Karmel and Rossella Tercatin

Bill sparks outrage at idea of foisting Jewish Orthodox practices on public; proposed clause requiring religious tests for judges, giving new powers to rabbinic courts dropped

Likud MK Avichai Boaron speaks during a meeting of the Knesset Education, Culture, and Sports Committee, February 19, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ministerial panel advances bills increasing government control over senior appointments

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks to Mishal Husain on Bloomberg Podcasts in interview published October 17, 2025. (Screenshot, Bloomberg Podcasts)

Carney says Canada will arrest Netanyahu if he visits, in keeping with ICC warrant

Canada’s PM says his country’s recognition of Palestinian statehood stems from Israeli government’s ‘designs’ to ‘end any possibility of Palestinian state’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in the Knesset, February 7, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

Coalition said mulling lowering electoral threshold to save Smotrich in next elections

With far-right Religious Zionism polling too low to enter parliament, Netanyahu is said to be concerned his bloc could see vital votes wasted

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) arrives at the Tel Aviv District Court to testify in the ongoing criminal trial against him, on October 15, 2025. (Reuven Kastro/ POOL)

Court agrees to nix Netanyahu testimony this week over ‘urgent diplomatic meetings’

By Jeremy Sharon

Abe Kugielsky poses in front of his installation Humans of New York’s 'Dear New York' exhibition in Grand Central’s Vanderbilt Hall, running from October 6 to October 19, 2025. (Courtesy Abe Kugielsky via JTA)

Interview

How Abe Kugielsky’s photos of Hasidic Brooklyn ended up on display in Grand Central Terminal

By Grace Gilson

The Modern Orthodox photographer is part of the ‘Dear New York’ exhibit curated by Humans of New York’s Brandon Stanton, on display at Grand Central Station from Oct. 6-19

More Headlines

Police seen searching for the body of a Holocaust survivor who was allegedly buried in the backyard of her daughter's home on a picture released on October 20, 2025 (Israel Police)

Woman buried Holocaust survivor mom in yard to keep receiving her benefits – police

Illustrative. Handcuffs, in a Jerusalem court on November 21, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

Government greenlights bill to label certain crime organizations as terror groups

By Charlie Summers

Police stand guard after the Israeli Premier League match between Hapoel Tel Aviv and Maccabi Tel Aviv was canceled at Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv, on October 19, 2025. (Flash90)

Police cancel Tel Aviv soccer derby after fans riot; 13 arrested, 3 cops injured

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows an airstrip built on Zuqar Island, Yemen, in the Red Sea on October 19, 2025. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Mysterious runway built on Yemeni island, likely by anti-Houthi forces

By Jon Gambrell

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