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What Matters Most On Sunday, October 26, 2025

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President Donald Trump, center, meets with Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, left, and Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani aboard Air Force One at Al Udeid Air Base in Doha, Qatar, October 25, 2025. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)

'Let’s see what they do over the next 48 hours'

Trump says Hamas withholding bodies of hostages, warns he’s watching ‘very closely’

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

US president hosts Qatar’s leaders on Air Force One, says Gulf state could send troops to Gaza; in response to warning, Hamas leader pledges expanded search for bodies

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (R) meets with the families of slain hostages Itay Chen and Omer Neutra, during his visit to Israel, October 25, 2025. (US Secretary of State Marco Rubio/X)

Rubio meets families of slain US hostages, vows remaining captives will be returned

By ToI Staff, Agencies and Lazar Berman

Screengrab of Al-Araby TV footage reportedly showing Hamas members and Red Cross vehicles in Rafah, southern Gaza, October 25, 2025. (Screenshot/Al-Araby)

Israel permits Hamas to enter IDF-held areas of Gaza to search for dead hostages

By Nurit Yohanan, Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Government spokesperson says Israel allowed Red Cross and Egyptian teams to cross ‘Yellow Line’; PMO official says Hamas representative joined as well

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

Egyptian team enters Gaza with Israel’s approval to help locate hostages’ remains

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

This aerial picture shows destroyed buildings in Gaza City's Al-Rimal neighborhood on October 23, 2025. (AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 26: Day 751 – Egyptians enter Gaza as US drones fly above Strip

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

Left: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, October 22, 2025; right: Former prime minister Naftali Bennett, October 15, 2025. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL; Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ministers poised to advance bills that would halt Netanyahu’s trial, block Bennett’s run

Attorney general warns legislation aimed to halt PM’s trial is ‘unconstitutional,’ harms equality before the law; former PM decries ‘personal law designed to stop me from running’

Jews pray for forgiveness (Selichot) at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City, early on September 22, 2025. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

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Members of the internal security forces loyal to Hamas are deployed in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, October 12, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 26: Top Hamas official says group will disarm ‘if the occupation ends’

Freed hostages greeted by joyous crowds as they head home from hospitals * PM denies US dictating actions in Gaza, says Israel will determine which foreign forces act in Strip

9:28 pm

Bennett: Likud pursuing 'personal legislation' against me because it thinks it can't win election
9:03 pm

Chancellor of Austria, host of Eurovision 2026: Would be 'fatal mistake' to exclude Israel
8:38 pm

Ultra-Orthodox plan massive anti-draft rally at entrance to Jerusalem on Thursday

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

Anti-Hamas militias come out against Turkish, Qatari involvement in postwar Gaza

By Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

Armed clans accuse Ankara of supporting and protecting Palestinian terror group, not working for peace; say both countries are ‘war criminals’

Ofir Akunis attending a conference in Tel Aviv, January 17, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israeli envoy in NY laments ‘strategic error’ of allowing Qatari cash transfers to Gaza

Khulood Alsabbagh

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Letting Turkey and other states that support the Muslim Brotherhood police Gaza gives cover to terrorism, posing a danger to Israel and beyond

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The sanctuaries in my heart

A library’s book stamp takes on new meaning when the library itself is gone: The very imprint connects me to the inner worlds of those who held the volumes dear

Crowds in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv rally to urge the release of the bodies of the last 13 deceased hostages held in Gaza, October 25, 2025. (Gilad Furst / Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Hostage families urge ‘every possible sanction’ on Hamas to secure captives’ return

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

At rally, father of slain hostage accuses terror group of violating deal by withholding bodies; parents of soldier who was held captive demand state inquiry into Oct. 7 failures

‘Sovereignty Square’: Smotrich urges pro-annexation rallies, riffing on hostage protests

Far-right finance minister says Israel can show Trump importance of applying sovereignty, and get US nod for move, by staging protests, wearing pins, hanging signs over highways

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich gestures toward a map of the West Bank during a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, September 3, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Far-left candidate who called Israel ‘terrorist state’ elected president of Ireland

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Catherine Connolly wins in landslide; once said Hamas ‘part of the fabric of the Palestinian people,’ then ‘utterly condemned’ terror group’s actions; accused Israel of ‘genocide’

Left-wing independent presidential candidate Catherine Connolly arrives at Dublin Castle for the count in Ireland's presidential election to replace Michael Higgins, who has served the maximum two seven-year terms, on October 25, 2025. (Niall Carson/PA via AP)

People cast their ballots during early voting, October 25, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)

Early voting opens in NYC mayoral race that has put Jewish residents on edge

By AP and ToI Staff

In this April 18, 2017, file photo, a woman with Type 2 diabetes prepares to inject herself with insulin at her home in Las Vegas. (AP/John Locher)

Peer-reviewed work 'may help prevent considerable suffering'

Type 2 diabetes patients more likely to develop schizophrenia, Israeli researchers find

By Diana Bletter

In first study of its kind, scientists in Haifa and New York use health organization data to show that adult-onset diabetes sufferers have a 50% higher risk of schizophrenia late in life

Illustration of Nvidia's new R&D center in the city of Beersheba in Israel's south. (Courtesy of Moshe Tzur Architects)

US chipmaker Nvidia scouts for Israeli AI talent, in expansion of R&D hub in south

By Sharon Wrobel

Chip giant seeks to hire hundreds of employees as it plans to move its Beersheba premises to a new site nearby, triple the size of its current facility, in mid-2026

This grab from handout footage released by the Russian Defense Ministry press service on October 22, 2025, shows the launch of a missile during drills of the country's nuclear forces. (Handout / Russian Defense Ministry / AFP)

Putin claims Russia successfully tested new nuclear-powered cruise missile

Kremlin says the 9M730 Burevestnik, which can carry nuclear warheads, has a near-unlimited range, was in the air for 15 hours and traveled 14,000 km during last week’s test

A sign advertises the Yiddish Summer Weimar festival on Weimar's market square, eastern Germany, on August 17, 2025. (Jastinder KHERA / AFP)

‘Food for the soul’: Germany pushes to revive an endangered language – Yiddish

By Jastinder KHERA

Thousands from across the globe flocked to recent festival in city of Weimar, heartland of far-right activity; revival leaders wary of becoming wrapped in pre-WW II nostalgia

Yoni Kretzmer (standing) teaches the children at the Greenpoint Shul's newly incorporated Hebrew school. (Courtesy Greenpoint Shul via JTA)

'In the last 25 years, Greenpoint has had a renaissance'

A growing Hebrew school may augur a new era for Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Though it borders the Hasidic hub of Williamsburg, the north Brooklyn community was never known for its Jewish population – though that may be changing

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This undated handout picture obtained on April 21, 2021 from the Facebook page of Entisar al-Hammadi shows her posing for a 'selfie' at an unknown location. (FACEBOOK / AFP)

Houthis release Ethiopian-Yemeni model after five years in prison

By AFP

Fighters with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) descend stairs ahead of a ceremony in Sulaimaniyah, in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, on July 11, 2025. (Shwan MOHAMMED / AFP)

Kurdish PKK begins withdrawing forces from Turkey to northern Iraq

By AFP

US President Donald Trump, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, left, and Thailand's Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul pose with their documents during a signing ceremony on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump oversees Thailand-Cambodia ceasefire agreement at Malaysia summit

By CHRIS MEGERIAN, David Rising and EILEEN NG

Illustrative: A police car in Herzliya, August 15, 2025. (Tal Gal/Flash90)

Israeli celebrity reportedly arrested on suspicion of murder; identity under gag order

By Charlie Summers

American actor Kevin Spacey visited the Western Wall on December 3, 2024 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash 90)

Actor's comebackKevin Spacey heads to Israel for show with jazz band

By Jessica Steinberg

This photo provided October 23, 2025 by Interpol and taken from its website shows the jewels stolen in the Louvre museum in Paris on October 19, 2025. (Interpol via AP)

Suspects arrested over the theft of crown jewels from Paris’s Louvre museum

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