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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 22, 2025

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US Vice President JD Vance, second right, listens as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, Israel, on Oct. 22, 2025. (Nathan Howard/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Rubio to head to Israel Thursday, meet PM on Friday

Netanyahu, Vance reject idea Israel is US ‘client state,’ vow partnership on ‘tough’ Gaza plan

By Lazar Berman and Nava Freiberg

After Jerusalem meet, leaders hail bond of ‘common goals’; Vance says deal could ‘unlock’ wider peace, warns of challenges ahead; Herzog urges him to work for return of all hostages

US Vice President JD Vance speaks to the media as US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner stand next to him, in Kiryat Gat, October 21, 2025. (AP/Francisco Seco)

Vance, opening Gaza coordination center in Israel, predicts ‘peace’ will last, says Hamas must disarm

By Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg and Jacob Magid

US Vice President JD Vance speaks to the media as US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and White House adviser Jared Kushner stand next to him, at the Civil-Military Coordination Center in Kiryat Gat, Israel, October 21, 2025. (AP/Francisco Seco)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 22: Day 747 – US officials ‘Bibi-sitting’ the PM to keep ceasefire

By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid

(L-R) US Vice President JD Vance, Sara Netanyahu, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Second Lady Usha Vance brunch in Jerusalem on October 22, 2025 (Screen grab/GPO)

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Oct. 22: PM’s wife reportedly pressed Likud ministers to sign letter calling for presidential pardon

TV network says Witkoff and Kushner visit Riyadh and Abu Dhabi to shore up regional support * Haredi anti-draft demonstrations held throughout country after arrest of yeshiva students

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7:58 pm

Iran welcomes conditional release of Iranian student in France
7:57 pm

UAE says national security adviser discusses Gaza with Witkoff, Kushner

Op-ed: Day 747 of the war

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Hamas is already restoring a rule of terror in parts of Gaza and vowing not to lay down its arms. Netanyahu opposes a PA role and has proposed no alternative. And no other country is yet putting boots on the ground. Yet the US president and his team are exuding confidence

US Vice President JD Vance, and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) meet at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, Israel, Oct. 22, 2025. (Nathan Howard/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Members of the internal security forces loyal to the Palestinian terror group Hamas, man a checkpoint in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, on October 12, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Hamas claims to deal ‘severe blow’ to Gazan militia with ties to Israel

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Tamir Adar (L) Arie Zalmanowicz (Courtesy)

Bodies of slain hostages Tamir Adar and Arie Zalmanowicz brought back to Israel

By Emanuel Fabian and Nurit Yohanan

Kibbutz Nir Oz residents identified after Hamas returns their remains from Gaza, reducing number of deceased captives still held in Strip to 13; Adar was killed fighting Oct. 7 invasion; IDF says Zalmanowicz was murdered in captivity

Freed hostage Avinatan Or is welcomed as he heads from the hospital to his home in the West Bank settlement of Shilo, October 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

‘Our strength is in our unity’: Freed hostage Avinatan Or embraced by crowds as he heads home from hospital

By Diana Bletter and Rossella Tercatin

Jared Kushner (R) meets freed hostage Nimrod Cohen, who is holding a handwritten note from Kushner's daughter, Arabella Kushner, in Tel Aviv on October 21, 2025 (David Azagury/US Embassy Jerusalem)

Trump’s granddaughter Arabella Kushner sends handwritten notes to freed hostages

By ToI Staff and AP

Dr. Ayala Zilberstein, excavation director at the Davidson Archaeological Park in Jerusalem on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, holds a 2,700-year-old pottery fragment bearing the first-ever Assyrian inscription found in the city. The discovery was announced on October 22, 2025. (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Archaeology'It connects the history of the Land of Israel to the Bible'

Biblical tax notice: 1st-ever Assyrian inscription found near Jerusalem’s Temple Mount

By Rossella Tercatin

2,700-year-old fragment of pottery suggests Judeans delayed paying their tributes to the empire, echoing the events described in the book of II Kings

Gil Reich appointed acting national security adviser

Netanyahu fires national security adviser Hanegbi, who acknowledges disagreements

By Lazar Berman

Outgoing official, who reportedly opposed strike on Hamas leaders in Qatar and Gaza city op, says ‘terrible failure of October 7 must be thoroughly investigated’

National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi arrives for a court hearing in the trial against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (not in picture), at the District Court in Jerusalem on March 5, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits at the Tel Aviv District Court ahead of his testimony in the corruption trial against him, October 15, 2025. (Reuven Kastro/POOL)

Likud cabinet members call on president to pardon Netanyahu amid corruption trial

By Jeremy Sharon, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Knesset panel rejects proposal to establish October 7 state commission of inquiry

By Ariela Karmel

Bereaved families accuse government of ‘burying the truth,’ breaking promise to establish commission after war, as coalition members of State Control Committee oppose bill

Committee chair Yesh Atid MK Mickey Levy embraces a bereaved family member at a State Control Committee meeting at the Knesset on October 22, 2025 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Lawmakers in the Knesset plenum, September 10, 2025. (Dani Shem-Tov/ Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)

Lacking majority, coalition pulls bills from Knesset agenda, freezing legislation

By Ariela Karmel

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Ronen and Orna Neutra, parents of Omer Neutra, killed on October 7, 2023, his body still held in Gaza, at the October 18, 2025 rally at Tel Aviv's Hostages Square. (Tzachi Dovrat/Israeli Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

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What Matters Now to Orna and Ronen Neutra: Their son is still in Gaza

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The parents of tank platoon commander Omer Neutra, killed on October 7, his body held hostage in Gaza, talk about the endless wait to bury their son

US special envoy Steve Witkof (2nd-L) reacts while Jared Kushner (C) and CENTCOM Commander Adm. Brad Cooper (L) look on as US Vice President JD Vance speaks during a press conference, following a military briefing at the Civil-Military Coordination Center in southern Israel on October 21, 2025. (Nathan Howard/Pool/AFP)

US military says ceasefire HQ will be able ‘to assess real-time developments in Gaza’

By Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian and Nava Freiberg

CENTCOM expects various ‘stakeholders’ to join new southern Israel-based Civil-Military Coordination Center in the coming weeks; Kushner: ‘No reconstruction funds going to areas Hamas still controls’

Illustrative: A British soldier of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), makes a round on a watchtower in Menaka, Mali, on October 22, 2021. (Florent Vergnes/AFP)

UK deploys small number of military officers to Israel following US request

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Trump pick to lead federal agency withdraws after ‘Nazi streak’ text message revealed

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Paul Ingrassia was about to have a confirmation hearing on his nomination to lead the Office of Special Counsel; NY’s Schumer calls for him to be fired from White House

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Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman MK Boaz Bismuth on Channel 14. (Screenshot)

Bismuth says law regulating ultra-Orthodox conscription will be passed in December

‘I admire those who wear the uniform, but just as much — and I say this out loud — I admire those who study the Torah,’ Knesset defense panel chair tells pro-government Channel 14

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese village of Ej Jarmaq on October 20, 2025. (Rabih DAHER / AFP)

IDF strike in south Lebanon kills commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says Issa Ahmad Karbala involved in moving weapons, advancing attacks against Israel in violation of ceasefire; army carries out major drill in north

Syria's interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, (R) welcomes then-British Foreign Secretary David Lammy in Damascus, Syria on July 5, 2025. (SANA/AFP)

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A squadron US Air Force F-35 Lightning II aircraft flyover at the White House, September 3, 2025. (AP/ Alex Brandon)

Turkey seeks Western fighter jets to catch up with regional rival Israel

By Reuters and ToI Staff

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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian takes questions from the media at a press briefing in New York, September 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)

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Mourners march with the bodies of the Al Jazeera journalists who were killed in an overnight Israeli strike on their tent in Gaza City, from Al-Shifa hospital to their burial at the Sheikh Radwan cemetery in Gaza City on August 11, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

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Wounded IDF soldiers arrive for the funeral of a comrade at Mt. Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, July 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

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Some of the orchestras and singers participating in the 11 concerts for Hatikvah Project, commemorating October 7 through music, October 21-28, 2025 (Courtesy)

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Aston Villa warns fans against showing political messages during Maccabi match

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