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What Matters Most On Friday, October 24, 2025

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US Vice President JD Vance speaks during a press conference following a military briefing at the Civilian Military Coordination Center in southern Israel on October 21, 2025. (Fadel SENNA / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 24: Western countries that recognized Palestinian state join US-led ceasefire monitoring hub

American Airlines to resume direct flights from JFK to TLV in March * Debris from Gaza war 170 times the weight of Empire State Building — UN analysis

7:30 pm

Report: Senior UAE official held call with Smotrich during layover in Dubai, warning against steps that could tank Abraham Accords
7:09 pm

Western countries that recognized Palestinian state join US-led ceasefire monitoring hub
6:00 pm

House Dems leader Jeffries endorses Mamdani, after past criticism over anti-Israel rhetoric

US President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters during a roundtable on criminal cartels in the State Dining Room of the White House, October 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Saudis, other Arab, Muslim countries denounce 'illegal' bill

Trump says ‘Israel not going to do anything with the West Bank’ as US fumes over annexation vote

By Jacob Magid, Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

‘The Israelis can’t treat us like Joe Biden,’ administration official tells ToI, day after Knesset advanced preliminary legislation to annex parts of West Bank while Vance was visiting

Analysis

Trump’s bearhug leaves Netanyahu with little room to move, and an election is coming

PM has thrown in his lot with the US president, and reaped great benefits, notably on Gaza and Iran. But he has given up control over much of what happens between now and when Israel heads to the polls

US President Donald Trump talks with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset, October 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)

Lazar Berman (courtesy)/ From left: Steve Witkoff, US Special Envoy to the Middle East, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance sit before President Donald Trump holds a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the State Dining Room of the White House, Sept. 29, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

ToI podcastFriday Focus with Lazar Berman: Does Israel rely on the US to end its wars?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a plenary session of the opening day of the winter session at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on October 20, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Poll: Netanyahu’s Likud remains largest party, as Bennett continues to lose ground

By Biranit Goren and ToI Staff

‘Everything’s getting better from here on’: Released hostage Alon Ohel cheered home

By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

‘All this love also reached 50 meters underground in Gaza, I felt it every moment,’ freed captive says after being discharged from the hospital

Released hostage Alon Ohel heads home to Lavon on October 24, 2025. (Reuven G Sz/Israeli Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Released hostage Matan Angrest on his way home, October 23, 2025. (Paulina Patimer/Hostages Forum)

Released hostage Matan Angrest returns home after week of supervised recovery

By Jessica Steinberg

Inside story

US weighs which side’s red line to cross as it seeks to implement Gaza deal’s 2nd phase

Saudi, UAE, Jordan, Egypt conditioning assistance on PA role, which Israel rejects, while Qatari help has fewer strings attached; MBS Nov. 18 DC visit seen as decision deadline

US Vice President JD Vance exits his motorcade before boarding Air Force Two at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. (Nathan Howard /The New York Times via AP, Pool)

US Vice President JD Vance (right) meets with Defense Minister Israel Katz at Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv on October 23, 2025. (Elad Malka/Defense Ministry)

Israeli officials said to tell Vance that Hamas can reach 10 of 13 remaining dead hostages

Palestinians walk through the destruction in Gaza City, October 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Clearing Gaza’s ‘minefield’ surface of ordnance could take 20-30 years — aid group

By Reuters, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Beachgoers pass time on Zikim Beach in southern Israel, the site of a massacre during Hamas's October 7, 2023, days after reopening to visitors, on October 21, 2025. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebookHamas terrorists came ashore and slaughtered 18 people here

As Zikim reopens for first time since massacre, beach vibes can’t keep traumas at bay

By Charlie Summers

Still haunted by memories of October 7, some locals return to site of seaborne attack, now reopened after two years and NIS 20 million renovation. Opening ceremony postponed at request of bereaved

IDF says terrorists who abducted Noa Argamani, Avinatan Or and Eitan Mor killed in war

By Emanuel Fabian

The super Spartans will win the peace

Of the many reasons to bet on the Jewish state emerging from the aftermath of October 7 more successful than ever, the first one may be Israelis’ love of babies

Après le déluge

Rejecting the Tower of Babel, God ensures that people won’t understand each other, challenging us to seek common ground, even as we disagree (Noah)

President Herzog asks Adar to 'forgive us'

‘Sorry, Tamiri’: Family of slain hostage Tamir Adar bids him farewell at Nir Oz funeral

By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

Adar was killed defending kibbutz on Oct. 7 and his body was taken to Gaza; following its return, funeral attended by former IDF chief Halevi and several former hostages

Family and friends attend the funeral ceremony of slain hostage Tamir Adar at Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 23, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Arie Zalmanowicz (Courtesy)

In Nir Oz, hundreds bid farewell to slain hostage and kibbutz founder Arie Zalmanowicz

Analysis

How many American Jews are anti-Zionists?

Jewish pollsters say anti-Zionism is likely marginal in the US Jewish community, although exact figure is unclear because of difficulties in polling and confusion about the term

A pro-Israel activist at an anti-Israel protest at the NYU Langone Medical Center, New York City, January 6, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

The campus of Tel Hai College (YouTube screen capture)

Anger as Tel Hai College lecturer says Israel, ‘like Third Reich,’ lost right to exist

By Stuart Winer

New York City Mayor Eric Adams, left, and former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, right, pose during an NBA basketball game between the New York Knicks and the Cleveland Cavaliers at Madison Square Garden in New York City, October 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

NYC Mayor Adams backs Cuomo, citing Mamdani’s stance on call to ‘Globalize the Intifada’

Pro-Israel centrists team up against far-left Israel critic ahead of next month’s election, as Jewish community leaders voice alarm about anti-Zionism in politics

(L-r) Maine Democratic US Senate hopeful Graham Platner alters his chest tattoo so it no longer resembles a Nazi symbol, October 22, 2025; US Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 9, 2025. (Screenshot via X; Kent Nishimura/Getty Images via JTA)

Bernie Sanders ‘absolutely’ sticking by US Senate candidate after Nazi tattoo revelation

By Andrew Lapin

Amer Ghalib appears before a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing on his pending nomination to be US ambassador to Kuwait, on Capitol Hill, October 23, 2025, in Washington, DC. (AP/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Senators grill Trump’s pick for Kuwait ambassador over anti-Israel stances

By Andrew Lapin

Amer Ghalib, a Michigan mayor who backed Trump during 2024 campaign, questioned by lawmakers over city adopting Israel boycott policy, liking of post comparing Jews to monkeys

Ben Stiller and Amy Stiller in 'Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost.' (Courtesy Apple TV+)

Film review

In ‘Stiller & Meara,’ Ben Stiller unpacks a legacy while cleaning out his famous parents’ home

By Jordan Hoffman

Out on Apple TV+ Friday, documentary sees the actor and director turn the camera inward as he and his sister sift through their parents’ real and onstage relationships

A Ukrainian medic helps local residents to leave the site of an airstrike in Kyiv on October 23, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Andrew Kravchenko/AFP)

Synagogue in Ukraine hit by missile; rabbi reportedly left moments earlier to affix mezuzah

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Chabad Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Wolff vows to ‘strengthen community and rebuild’ the Kherson shul after sanctuary ‘completely destroyed,’ cites ‘clear moment’ of divine supervision as no one hurt

Muhammad Wafiq Hejazi, a 53-year-old man shot and killed by unknown assailants who broke into his home in Tamra on October 23, 2025. (Courtesy)

Protests mount as crime wave in Arab cities claims 209th victim this year

By Charlie Summers

Northern Arab city in shock after 53-year-old shot dead in his home by assailants who also injured his wife; hundreds in Kafr Yasif protest surging crime wave, blame police

This photo, undated and and in an unknown location, provided by family member Zeyad Kadur shows teenager Mohammed Ibrahim. (Zeyad Kadur via AP)

Family presses for release of Florida teenager held for months in Israeli prison

By AP

‘It’s made our family numb,’ says uncle of 16-year-old Mohammad Ibrahim, detained for alleged stone-throwing in February after cousin killed in West Bank settler attack

Former Sephardic chief rabbi and Shas spiritual leader Yitzhak Yosef arrives at an anti-enlistment conference in Bnei Brak, July 31, 2025. (Daniel Nafusi)

Top Shas rabbis pan party leader Deri as Haredi draft exemption bill remains elusive

By Michael Horovitz

In leaked recordings, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef says Shas should leave coalition, forcing elections; voices distrust of ‘atheist’ Netanyahu, whom he says his father, Ovadia Yosef, disliked

L-R: MK Tally Gotliv attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset, on July 14, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); MK Zvi Sukkot, on January 20, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); MK Limor Son Har-Melech attends a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting, July 18, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); MK Simcha Rothman speaks at a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee hearing, September 30, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Coalition lawmakers join Haredim in protesting arrest of draft dodgers

An online store selling counterfeit merchandise identified with the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.(Courtesy)

Hostages Forum warns of online fraud schemes exploiting goodwill of supporters

By Sharon Wrobel

Group supporting hostages’ families together with BrandShield have clamped down on over 1,000 fake product listings and phishing scams stealing donations

More Headlines

Michael Smuss in his home. (Zev Stub/Times of Israel)

Michael Smuss, last surviving Warsaw Ghetto Uprising fighter, dies at 99

By CLAUDIA CIOBANU, Melanie Lidman and Kirsten Grieshaber

IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip, in an image published on September 20, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Palestinian rights group launches bid to prosecute British-Israeli IDF soldiers — report

Smoke rises following Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley on October 23, 2025. (Social media: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF targets Hezbollah sites in series of airstrikes across Lebanon; 4 said killed

By Emanuel Fabian

Image from a recent Showcase Festival, organized each year in Israel to expose Israeli artists to artistic directors and booking agents. (Courtesy)

Music Showcase Festival brings showbiz to Israel, in spite of growing cultural boycott

By Jessica Steinberg

A vendor selling clothes in front of an Iraqi parliamentary elections banner in Baghdad, Iraq, October 16, 2025. (AP/Hadi Mizban)

Iraq heads to elections marred by violence at sensitive moment for Middle East

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra

Ultra-Orthodox girls walk to school in the neighborhood of Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, on August 30, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Weeks into school year, some Haredi girls still at home due to discrimination

By Rossella Tercatin

Leader of Turkey's main opposition party, Republican People's Party (CHP), Ozgur Ozel (C) gives a press conference near Marmara Prison, known as Silivri Prison, in Istanbul, on September 26, 2025. (Ozan KOSE / AFP)

Turkish court throws out case aiming to oust opposition leader

Illustrative: Tall buildings under construction in Jerusalem, June 2021. (Vladimir1965 via iStock by Getty Images)

Comptroller: Tax Authority’s real estate records are flawed, unreliable

Weapons seized by IDF troops during an attempted smuggling from Lebanon into Syria, October 22, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says it busted attempt to smuggle firearms from Syria into Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian

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