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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 25, 2025

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US President Donald Trump gestures backdropped by an MQ-9 Reaper drone at the Al Udeid Air Base, Thursday, May 15, 2025, in Doha, Qatar. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

US said flying drones over Gaza as more nations join ceasefire-monitoring HQ

By ToI Staff, Jacob Magid and Emanuel Fabian

Australia, France, Spain, UAE send personnel to new center in southern Israel overseeing fragile truce; US drones look for ceasefire violations amid reports that 60% of Hamas tunnels still intact

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to the media at the Civil-Military Coordination Center for Gaza in southern Israel, October 24, 2025. (Fadel Senna/Pool Photo via AP)

Rubio at Gaza coordination HQ: Israel has met its ceasefire commitments, Hamas must disarm

By Nava Freiberg, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

This aerial picture shows people and traffic moving along Al-Rashid road next to destroyed buildings in Gaza City on October 23, 2025 (AFP)

Hamas, Fatah hold talks in Cairo on next steps for Gaza truce

By Jacob Magid, AFP and ToI Staff

Palestinians search for goods at a landfill in Gaza City, October 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 25: Israel said to know Hamas could release more hostages’ bodies, expects return of two Sunday

Trump notes that the terror group is still holding on to bodies of two Americans * Qatar willing to contribute to Gaza peacekeeping force, Trump says after meeting with emir

8:52 pm

Lebanese media reports Israeli strike targeting car in southern Lebanon
8:34 pm

Suspect arrested in connection with earlier arson attack against Palestinian Bedouins
8:19 pm

Trump says Hamas holding bodies of hostages it could return immediately, he's 'watching closely' to make sure it does

Report finds 154 terrorists deported under Gaza truce living it up at 5-star Cairo hotel

Daily Mail says worst offenders released under deal enjoying the pool and buffet alongside unsuspecting tourists at Marriott’s Renaissance Cairo Mirage; unclear on whose dime

Exterior of the Renaissance Cairo Mirage Hotel (Courtesy)

This handout photograph taken and released by Turkish Presidency Press Office on October 21, 2025, shows Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a welcoming ceremony in Kuwait City (Handout / Turkish Presidency Press Office / AFP)

Erdogan says US, others must press Israel to abide by Gaza ceasefire

By Reuters and ToI Staff

People attend a rally at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, October 18, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Families urge public to rally in support of ‘promise to bring home’ final 13 slain hostages

Sister of fallen soldier held in Gaza since 2014 says Hamas ‘playing with us,’ knows where bodies are; anti-government protesters slam prolonged detention of ‘dumpster detainees’

Hungarian-American chess grandmaster Susan Polgar. (Renata Goreczki)

Interview'If you work hard and persevere, nothing is impossible'

Skewering antisemites and sexists, a chess queen recounts her journey to the top

By Rich Tenorio

In new memoir, ‘Rebel Queen,’ Hungarian Jewish grandmaster Susan Polgar details attacking the forces that tried, and failed, to put her in check on the way to becoming a world champion

Intelligence may not be the only 1973 failure we are repeating

After the Yom Kippur war, Israeli voters avoided tough decisions about the country’s direction; we can’t afford to do that again

Richard Diamond

Partnering with Trump means the whole package — not just the parts you like

If Israel wants more tactical freedom, it should expect less diplomatic cover

Several injured, homes and cars set ablaze in several settler attacks in West Bank

By Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

Amid repeated assaults on harvesters and farmland, 3 Palestinians, 2 Israeli activists accompanying them, and 2 settlers hurt in stone-throwing clash near Mukhmas; suspect arrested

Irish presidential candidate Catherine Connolly, who is running as an independent in the October 2025 election, attends the Irish National Ploughing Championships in Screggan, Ireland, September 16, 2025. (Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters/File Photo)

Left-wing, anti-Israel Connolly set to win Irish presidency as opponents concede

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Veteran lawmaker’s expected victory comes despite backlash over her apparent support for Hamas, anti-EU stance

At Amit Amital School in Netanya, Isabella Vinci taught English as part of a Masa program, November 2022. (Courtesy via JTA)

'I'm Jewish to everyone except this government agency'

Highlighting Diaspora rift, Israel rejects US immigration applicant over Zoom-era conversion

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Critics say the rebuffing of Isabella Vinci, who spent Shabbats with an Orthodox host family and taught English in an Israeli public school, defies a 2005 High Court ruling

ANU Museum to honor immigrants on Aliyah Day with fair, tours, music

By Jessica Steinberg

Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani participates in the second New York City mayoral debate at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, Queens, New York, on October 22, 2025. (Hiroko Masuike/Pool/AFP)

Rabbi who sermonized against vote for Mamdani hasn't signed

As number of rabbis to sign anti-Mamdani letter tops 1,000, others decry ‘red lines’

By Joseph Strauss

Rabbis who didn’t back statement against anti-Israel candidate say it’s not their place to tell congregants how to vote in NYC mayoral race, express concern about divides among US Jews

House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries speaks at his weekly press conference on Capitol Hill, July 11, 2024 in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)

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

New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks at the Islamic Cultural Center of the Bronx mosque in New York on Friday, October 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

Mamdani defends Muslim identity against ‘baseless’ attacks by Cuomo and others

By Jake Offenhartz

An Iranian woman walks past a branch of the state-owned Melli Bank, which absorbed the assets of the now-defunct Ayandeh Bank, with signage on its facade reading in Farsi "This former Ayandeh Bank branch is now part of Melli Bank," in the capital Tehran on October 25, 2025. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran declares bankruptcy of major bank as country grapples with restored sanctions

By AFP

Ayandeh Bank’s assets to be absorbed by state-owned Melli Bank after racking up $2.9 billion in debts; Iranian economy minister insists customers ‘have nothing to worry about’

People inspect the wreckage of a vehicle targeted by an alleged Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese village of Harouf on October 25, 2025. (MAHMOUD ZAYYAT / AFP)

IDF: 2 Hezbollah commanders killed in drone strikes in south Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Abbas Hassan Karaki, who the IDF identified as Hezbollah's logistics chief in southern Lebanon, is seen in an undated photo released by the military on October 25, 2025, after it said it assassinated him. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Hezbollah’s south Lebanon logistics chief killed in airstrike, IDF says

By Emanuel Fabian

Saul Rubinek plays a version of himself in 'Playing Shylock,' about an actor whose dream to play Shakespeare's controversial Jewish character is thwarted by timid producers. (Dahlia Katz via JTA)

Interview'Has there been a time when antisemitism wasn't rising?'

Saul Rubinek’s new one-man show asks, ‘Is there ever a right time to play Shylock?’

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

On now at Brooklyn’s Polonsky Shakespeare Center, ‘Playing Shylock’ voices a fictional Jewish thespian’s complaints over a canceled production of the ‘Merchant of Venice’

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva listens to a speech by Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, unseen, during a meeting in Putrajaya, Malaysia, October 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, Pool)

Brazil’s Lula says UN ‘stopped working,’ failed to halt Gaza war

By AFP and ToI Staff

South American leader again accuses Israel of committing genocide ahead of meeting with Trump, as he looks to mend strained ties with US

General view of the Sidenor steel company in the Spanish Basque city of Basauri on October 25, 2021. (ANDER GILLENEA / AFP)

Spain mulls charges against steelmaker that allegedly supplied Israeli arms firm

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Rabbi Moshe Tauber and wife Chaya Tauber drive up the West Side Highway while checking the Manhattan eruv, a boundary that permits observant Jews to carry items on Shabbat and Jewish festivals. (Jackie Hajdenberg/ JTA)

'It’s a complex eruv where the deployed environment changes'

NYC Sabbath boundary goes high-tech, aiding the rabbi who’s checked it weekly since 1999

By Jackie Hajdenberg

A wire enclosure around Manhattan circumvents a biblical prohibition against carrying on the day of rest. New magnetic sensors help Moshe Tauber verify it hasn’t been compromised

Shawnee Park in Skokie, Illinois, where five Jewish children were shot with pellet guns on October 7, 2025(Google Maps screenshot)

‘Pogrom on the playground’ decried after Jewish kids attacked in Chicago on Oct. 7

By Grace Gilson

Young children were targeted with pellet guns by larger group that allegedly shouted ‘f—k Israel’ and ‘you’re baby killers so we’re going to kill you’ after asking if they were Jewish

Jay Sures, Vice Chairman, United Talent Agency speaks onstage during the 27th Annual UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation's Taste for a Cure Event at the Beverly Wilshire, a Four Seasons Hotel on May 10, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California. (Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for UCLA/AFP)

Jewish top Hollywood agent honored after home vandalized by anti-Israel protesters

Sen. Ted Cruz speaks at Cornerstone Church in San Antonio as John Hagee looks on during the 'Night to Honor Israel,' October 21, 2025. (Screenshot)

'Antisemitism is rising like I've never seen in my life'

‘The church is asleep right now’: Ted Cruz urges US Christians to fight Jew-hatred on right

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

The Texas senator’s warning comes as antisemitic and anti-Israel conspiracy theories surge, led by voices like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson, and young people question Hitler’s evil

Obituary

Illustrator of ‘Sammy Spider’ Jewish children’s books dies at 83

‘My Judaism and my books are tied together so integrally that I don’t think I could ever untie them,’ said Katherine Janus Kahn, who studied at Bezalel after volunteering in Israel during Six-Day War

Katherine Janus Kahn, the illustrator of the Sammy Spider Jewish children's books, speaks about her work in a 2013 video. (Screenshot via JTA)

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Illustrative photo of a clock. (Shutterstock)

Israel turns back clocks overnight as daylight saving time ends

Illustrative -- An American Airlines aircraft approaches Philadelphia International Airport, Oct. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

American Airlines to resume direct flights from JFK to Tel Aviv in March 2026

By Sharon Wrobel

Israeli land developer Shimon Aykut speaks to Turkish Cypriot outlet Kibris Postasi in December 2023.

Israeli land developer gets 5 years in Cyprus jail for projects in Turkish-held north

Pope Leo XIV delivers his blessing, next to Cardinal Mario Grech (L) and Bishop Luis Marin de San Martin (R) after participating in the Synod Teams and Participatory Bodies in Paul VI Hall at the Vatican on October 24, 2025. (Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP)

Pope beatifies 11 ‘martyr’ priests killed by Nazi Germany, Communist Czechoslovakia

By AFP

Construction workers atop the US Treasury, bottom left, watch as work continues on a largely demolished part of the East Wing of the White House, October 23, 2025, in Washington, before construction of a new ballroom. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

White House East Wing razed to make way for Trump’s $300-million ballroom

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and Jacquelyn Martin

'Last Night I Dreamed About the Jump,' one of the acts at the Surround Festival, October 31 to November 1, 2025. (Tal Gaon)

Garage theaterPerformance art finds joy in concrete at Surround Festival

By Jessica Steinberg

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