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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 23, 2025

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President-elect Donald Trump, left, and Vice President-elect JD Vance participate in a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Solider at Arlington National Cemetery, Sunday, January 19, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Annexation 'won’t happen, I gave my word to the Arabs'

Israel would lose ‘all support’ from the US if it annexes West Bank, Trump warns

By Lazar Berman

VP Vance says Knesset preliminary vote on matter was ‘very stupid political stunt’ and an insult to him, marring his visit; US president predicts Saudi normalization this year, weighs intervening for Barghouti

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio listens as President Donald Trump meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House, October 22, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Headed for Israel, Rubio says Knesset’s preliminary vote to annex threatens Trump’s Gaza plan

By Agencies and Jacob Magid

Palestinian laborers work at a construction site in Ma'ale Adumim, in the West Bank, on February 29, 2024. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

2 West Bank annexation bills get initial nod, with MKs rebelling against PM as Vance visits

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 23: Katz tells Vance that Israel is ‘committed to disarming Hamas’

If Netanyahu ‘f**ks up Gaza deal, Trump will f**k him,’ US official said to warn * ‘Israelis can’t treat us like we’re Biden,’ Trump official tells ToI * PM and Rubio give very brief, upbeat remarks in Jerusalem * Ex-IDF chief Herzi Halevi spotted at hostage rally in Netanya

8:41 pm

Man killed, wife injured in shooting in Tamra
8:40 pm

Trump on annexation: 'Israel is not going to do anything with the West Bank'
8:31 pm

Reporter asks White House press secretary if Trump plans to build Third Temple

Finance Minister Betzalel Smotrich speaking at the Knesset plenum, Jerusalem, September 29, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/ Flash90)

Lapid: Some in gov't speaking like lowest-tier Twitter users

Smotrich on Saudi normalization: ‘No thank you, keep riding camels’

By Ariela Karmel

Opposition denounces finance minister’s ignorance, as he rejects idea of Palestinian state, defying Riyadh’s precondition for diplomatic ties, ahead of Trump-Saudi talks; he later apologizes

People gather to welcome released Israeli hostage Avinatan Or, who was recently released from Hamas captivity in Gaza, as he returns from the hospital to his home at the West Bank settlement of Shilo, October 21, 2025. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Promoted PodcastUnpacking Israeli History

How it feels to be Israeli right now

So much of what we read about Israel is politics and war. But this episode explores a different angle: what does it feel like to live through this moment?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) holds a press conference with US Vice President JD Vance at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, October 22, 2025. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Netanyahu said to insist PA have no role in Gaza as US pushes Trump’s plan to end war

By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

Israeli TV says PM has recently informed US of several red lines regarding Strip’s future; Trump reportedly pleased he ‘has so far managed to keep both sides in line’ amid ceasefire

Water being distributed in Gaza using tankers marked with Turkish flags, October 21, 2025. (IHH screenshot via X)

Netanyahu’s office to ToI: There will be no Turkish troops deployed in Gaza

By Lazar Berman, Reuters and ToI Staff

New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani answers questions from the press after hosting a "Reverse Town Hall" with New York union workers on October 17, 2025, in New York City. (Angela Weiss/AFP)

850+ US rabbis sign letter opposing Mamdani and the ‘political normalization’ of anti-Zionism

By JTA and ToI Staff

Letter calling to ‘defend the Jewish future’ rejects ‘false choice’ of ‘treating Jewish self-determination as a negotiable ideal or Jewish inclusion as something to be granted’

Reporter's notebook

‘We want to have a voice’: NY Jews hit the streets for Mamdani ahead of election

Jewish supporters of far-left Israel critic candidate are motivated by his focus on affordable living, say fears of antisemitism are unwarranted despite warnings from community leaders

Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani participates in the second New York City mayoral debate with Independent candidate former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, Queens, New York, on October 22, 2025. (Hiroko Masuike/Pool/AFP)

Ela Haimi, right, and her eldest son at the October 22, 2025, funeral of her husband, Tal Haimi, whose body was returned from Gaza days earlier, in Kinnutz Nir Yitzhak. (Dana Reany/Hostages Forum)

Slain hostage Tal Haimi laid to rest, some 2 years after wife symbolically buried his helmet

By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

At funeral in Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak, where Haimi was killed battling Hamas on Oct. 7, widow Ela says she planned this day ‘so many times,’ tells about raising a child born after Tal’s death

Loved ones of Thai national Sonthaya Oakkharasri stand next to his coffin during a farewell ceremony at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, October 22, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Dozens honor slain Thai hostage at airport as his body is finally flown home

By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

Family members mourn during the funeral ceremony of Bipin Joshi, a deceased Nepali agricultural student who was slain in Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip, in Kanchanpur, Nepal, October 21, 2025. (PRAKASH CHANDRA TIMILSENA / AFP)

‘A reminder of darkness’: Mourners in Nepal bid farewell to slain Gaza hostage Bipin Joshi

MK Mickey Levy, Head of the State Control Committee leads a committee meeting at the Knesset on October 20, 2025 (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Oct. 23: Day 748 – Bereaved fume as Knesset panel says no to Oct. 7 state inquiry

By Jessica Steinberg, Ariela Karmel and Rossella Tercatin

Political reporter Ariela Karmel discusses tears at Knesset, war’s new name, and mezuzah bill; religion writer Rossella Tercatin covers post-Oct. 7 faith, and an Assyrian discovery

An artificial intelligence clip of Israelis celebrating the release of the hostages (left) alongside a clip of Hostage Square in Tel Aviv (right) in Yoni Bloch's new music video. (Screenshot via JTA)

Dreams come trueAI becomes reality in music video of returning Gaza hostages

By Grace Gilson

Immigration and Absorption Ministry Director General Avichai Kahana speaks at a summit on boosting Aliyah in Tel Aviv, October 22, 2025 (GPO)

New immigration plan seeks to match olim with jobs before they arrive in Israel

With companies needing new talent to fill some 35,000 vacant positions in industry and high-tech, government officials say the program is a ‘win-win’

How to win the Knesset elections and save Israel’s future

Opposition parties must temporarily unite to offer a platform that can rescue Israel from the existential danger of demographic changes

Izabella Tabarovsky

Want to fight today’s anti-Israel propaganda? Remember yesterday’s

Every time Israel is at war, Jews wake up blindsided, scrambling to improvise counterstrategies on the go – but we’ve seen it all before

Inside story

Gazans released by Israel in ceasefire deal allege mistreatment and abuse in prison

Civil rights groups say overwhelming majority of detainees are held incommunicado for months, denied access to evidence against them, and never charged

Palestinian men surrender to troops in northern Gaza's Jabaliya, on December 10, 2023. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Palestinian children and a journalist examine the destroyed Al Jazeera tent at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on August 11, 2025, following an overnight strike by the IDF. (Bashar Taleb/AFP)

High Court gives state 30 days to clarify policy on press entry to Gaza amid ceasefire

By Jeremy Sharon

Judges of the International Court of Justice hear arguments on the UN General Assembly's request for an advisory opinion on the "Obligations of Israel in relation to the Presence and Activities of the United Nations, Other International Organizations and Third States in and in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory," April 2025. (Courtesy International Court of Justice)

ICJ says Israel obligated to work with UNRWA; Jerusalem ‘categorically rejects’ notion

By Jeremy Sharon

Chairman Aryeh Deri attends a meeting of the Shas party Council of Torah Sages in Jerusalem, July 16, 2025. (Flash90)

Shas quits its coalition posts to protest failure to legislate Haredi draft exemption

But ultra-Orthodox party remains in the coalition, pledging to return to its government and Knesset roles ‘when the status of yeshiva students is resolved’

A demonstrator holds up a poster of Haredi draft evader Ariel Shamai which reads: "Bring him back to yeshiva now!" and in smaller print on the left: "Until the last hostage," imitating the rhetoric of the hostage families' protest movement, during an anti-draft demonstration in Jerusalem on October 22, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Haredi anti-draft protests decry dodgers’ arrests, co-opting hostage families’ rhetoric

By Charlie Summers and Sam Sokol

Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest against the conscription of yeshiva students in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood, October 19, 2025. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

‘War on Torah students’: Haredi MKs condemn ‘despicable arrests’ of draft dodgers

Mika Majzner and Elad Dubnov get married for the second time, at the synagogue of Kibbutz Be’eri in southern Israel, on August 23, 2024. (Courtesy)

'This has brought me closer to God'

What hath God wrought? After Oct. 7, many Israelis respond with turn to spirituality

By Rossella Tercatin

Data shows that as many as half of Israelis may have reexamined their bond with religion, with some finding new meaning in Jewish beliefs and others turning away

Analysis

Katz locks horns with IDF chief, again, in apparent bid to reshape military’s top brass

Defense minister has been accused of ‘politicizing’ army by taking control of appointments; Zamir concedes some nominations, is now waiting for approval of next Navy and IAF chiefs

Defense Minister Israel Katz (left) and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir are seen at the Knesset, October 13, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Zhou Yaqin of China competes on the balance beam during the 53rd Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 21, 2025. (Dita Alangkara/AP)

Indonesia defends decision to ban Israeli gymnasts after Olympic Committee pushback

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Sports minister says Jakarta understands consequences of move, says it’s necessary to maintain public and world order

Brazil's Caio Souza competes on the pommel horse during the men's all-around final at the 53rd FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia, on October 22, 2025. (BAY ISMOYO / AFP)

Olympic chiefs seek to bar Indonesia from hosting sports events over ban of Israelis

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A flyer calling for professor Michael Ben-Gad's dismissal from City University of London (Screenshot used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli professor in London says masked students threatened to behead him

A Palestinian woman harvests olives in the West Bank village of Turmus Ayya on October 20, 2025. (Hazem Bader/AFP)

Israel deports 32 foreign activists who helped West Bank Palestinians harvest olives

By AFP and ToI Staff

Egyptian ambulances line up as they wait for possible Palestinian arrivals at the Egyptian gate of the Rafah crossing with Gaza, following an agreement between Israel and Hamas on a ceasefire, October 22, 2025. (AP/Mohamed Arafat)

WHO says it led evacuation of 41 critical patients out of Gaza for medical care

By Reuters and ToI Staff

A portion of the 'Bring Them Light' video billboard at New York City's Times Square seen in October 2025. (Courtesy)

Living memory‘Bring Them Light’ billboard brings Oct. 7 victims to Times Square

By Jessica Steinberg

Italian volunteers collect olives they just harvested at the Franciscan hermitage on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, October 3, 2025. (Oded Balilty/AP)

On Mount of Olives, monks and nuns harvest olives as a form of prayer

By AP and ToI Staff

Iranians walk past a poster featuring Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei outside the venue of the 22nd Police and Security Equipment Exhibition at Imam Khomeini Mosque in Tehran on October 15, 2025. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)

AnalysisIran facing ‘permanent state of crisis’ as international sanctions, pressure mount

By Jon Gambrell

A general view of the main entrance to the Magistrate's Court in Rishon LeZion on October 28, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Police arrest woman on suspicion of killing her 48-year-old daughter

By Charlie Summers

Honor guard lines the road outside Sanaa's Saleh Grand Mosque as the funeral procession of the military chief of Yemen's Houthi rebels, Major General Mohammed al-Ghamari, on October 20, 2025. (Mohammed HUWAIS / AFP)

12 UN workers allowed to leave Yemen after detention by Houthi rebels, UN says

By AFP and ToI Staff

US Republican Jack Ciattarelli speaks during the final debate in the New Jersey governor's race, October 8, 2025, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. (AP/Heather Khalifa)

Aide to Republican candidate for NJ governor says he isn’t ‘taking money from Jews’

By Grace Gilson

View of the Arab-Israeli town of Umm al-Fahm on February 13, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)

Palestinian man illegally in Israel killed in suspected gang shooting

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