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What Matters Most On Monday, October 27, 2025

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Israeli troops move along the border fence between Israel and the Gaza Strip on October 21, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Move suggests IDF sees war over, but Israel has not said so

After two years of war, defense minister declares end to emergency situation in south

By Emanuel Fabian

Home Front Command set Tuesday to lift remaining restrictions on large gatherings near Gaza border as ‘special situation’ canceled

Israeli soldiers operating in Gaza in an undated handout photo issued on October 24, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Photo essayIDF marks 2 years since start of Gaza ground op by releasing previously unseen photos

The 13 deceased hostages whose bodies were still held in Gaza as of October 22, 2025: (Top row from left) Meny Godard, Ran Gvili, Sahar Baruch, Dror Or; (Second row) Joshua Mollel, Itay Chen, Asaf Hamami, Oz Daniel, Hadar Goldin; (Bottom row) Sudthisak Rinthalak, Lior Rudaeff, Amiram Cooper, Omer Neutra. (Collage by Times of Israel; Photos: Courtesy)

Hostages’ families urge pause in Trump-brokered Gaza plan over stalled return of bodies

By AFP and ToI Staff

Hostages and Missing Families Forum calls on Israel, US and mediators not to proceed to second stage of Trump agreement until remains of last 13 deceased captives are released

Palestinians watch machinery and some workers from Egypt searching for the bodies of hostages at Hamad City, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, October 26, 2025. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israel reported to know location of 9 out of 13 deceased hostages still held in Gaza

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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

Released hostage Bar Kuperstein speaks to the Kan public broadcaster in a snippet released on October 26, 2025. (Screen capture via X)

'They broke bones in my feet; I couldn’t walk for a month'

Freed hostage Bar Kuperstein: Captors beat us and ‘said it was because of Ben Gvir’

Kuperstein says he resents that far-right national security minister bragged about harsh conditions imposed on Palestinian security prisoners; Ben Gvir claims press siding with Hamas

An IDF tank operating in Gaza in an undated handout photo issued on October 24, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 27: US said open to Israel widening Gaza territory it controls to pressure Hamas

Report: US officials say no deadline for Hamas to return hostages’ remains; terror group denies Israeli claims that it’s withholding bodies despite knowing where they are

8:59 pm

IDF crosses back into Israel with apparent body of hostage
8:34 pm

IDF receives apparent body of hostage from Red Cross in Gaza
8:28 pm

Mother of slain hostage soldier Itay Chen says hard to think of her son as a corpse without proof of his death

A crowd cheers as freed hostage Evyatar David arrives at his home in Kfar Saba, October 26, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

‘So good you’re home’: Discharged from hospital, 5 ex-hostages welcomed home by masses

By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

Crowds across Israel wave flags and sing as Evyatar David, Guy Gilboa-Dalal, Eitan Mor, Segev Kalfon and Bar Kuperstein make triumphant return to their homes

Einav Zangauker, mother of released hostage Matan Zangauker, speaks at Tel Aviv's Hostages Square on October 18, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Einav Zangauker: Netanyahu’s allies waging campaign to besmirch ex-hostages’ families

Outspoken mother of released hostage Matan Zangauker says ‘poison machine’ trying to ‘rewrite history’ after Likud member baselessly hints she misused funds raised for campaign

Four activists arrested for setting fire to recycling bins near the Prime Minister’s Residence arrive at a court hearing at Jerusalem District Court, October 26, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Activists jailed for weeks over dumpster fires near PM’s home ordered freed to house arrest

By Charlie Summers

Jonatan Urich (C) seen after a court hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, October 27, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

State Attorney’s Office may bar Netanyahu’s office from allowing in Qatargate suspects

By Jeremy Sharon

Joseph Telushkin

The dangerous charisma of Zohran Mamdani

The New York mayoral frontrunner knows you can deny Israel’s right to exist and lob false genocide claims – and still come out ahead

Until Itay and the other remaining hostages come home

When Hamas returns our fallen, as they agreed, we’ll grieve, heal, and slowly resume life; for now, with no proper burial for our son, we are the walking dead

Shira Koch Epstein

To sign or not to sign: Anti-Mamdani letter is a challenge for rabbis

The leaders tasked with holding the Jewish people together are being torn apart: But every one of them is trying to serve with integrity

In Gaza, the Israeli far right may still get its way

The Trump deal’s ’constructive ambiguity’ leaves room for the settlement movement’s messianic wing to shape a post-war reality in its image

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One while traveling with President Donald Trump from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Tokyo, Japan, October 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Rubio says Saturday IDF strike targeting PIJ operative in Gaza did not violate truce

By Reuters, Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff

Top US diplomat: ‘They have the right if there’s an imminent threat’; 2 said killed in fresh Khan Younis strike, IDF says terror operatives crossed ceasefire line, threatened troops

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, October 26, 2025 (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu denies Washington dictating actions in Gaza: ‘Israel is a sovereign state’

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Members of the Hamas terrorist group search for bodies of the slain hostages in an area in Hamad City, Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, October 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 27: Day 752 – Can Hamas be forced into stage two of the Trump plan?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

Analysis

As elections near, annexation fiasco shows Netanyahu losing control of his coalition

PM tried hard to prevent the preliminary approval of two West Bank annexation bills, knowing he risked irritating the Trump administration, but simply couldn’t muster the leverage

MK Avi Maoz, left, and Likud head Benjamin Netanyahu after signing a coalition deal on November 27, 2022. (Courtesy, Likud)

Religious Zionism MK Zvi Sukkot protests against the detention of Israeli reserve soldiers accused of severely abusing a terror suspect, at the Sde Teiman military base near Beersheba, July 29, 2024. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)

Far-right MK Zvi Sukkot summoned for police questioning over 2024 IDF base break-in

By Charlie Summers

A masked Jewish extremist swings a slingshot while hurling stones at Palestinians who had gathered for the annual olive harvest season, during an attack by Israeli settlers on the Palestinian village of Beita, south of Nablus in the West Bank, on October 10, 2025. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Jewish extremists boast of attacks against Palestinians in public WhatsApp channel

By Jeremy Sharon

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men block a road during a protest against the jailing of yeshiva students who failed to comply with an army recruitment order in Jerusalem on August 7, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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

Demonstration set to unite Haredi factions in protest of arrests of draft dodgers; 2 members of ruling Likud party weigh joining the event, while another voices opposition to it

Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, during a weekly teaching at the Yazdim synagogue in Jerusalem, on June 7, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

Former chief rabbi calls father of slain soldier a ‘heretic’ for backing Haredi draft

By Rossella Tercatin and ToI Staff

L: US Vice President JD Vance at the presidential residence in Jerusalem, on October 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, Pool); R: Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic front-runner in the New York City mayoral race, speaks outside a Bronx Mosque and cultural center on October 24, 2025. (SPENCER PLATT / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

JD Vance mocks Zohran Mamdani for focusing on indignities suffered by Muslims after 9/11

By ToI Staff and Agencies

‘According to Zohran, the real victim of 9/11 was his auntie who got some (allegedly) bad looks,’ Vance says after NYC candidate said aunt was afraid to ride subway after attacks

Sami Hamdi in an interview on October 15, 2025 (Screen grab/Sky News)

US detains British commentator during speaking tour, apparently over anti-Israel comments

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Musician Thom Yorke arrives on the red carpet of the Rome Film Festival, in Rome, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

'It’s a purity test, low-level Arthur Miller witch hunt'

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke says he won’t play in Israel under Netanyahu, objects to boycott pressure

By Jessica Steinberg

Guitarist Jonny Greenwood, whose wife is Israeli, rejects boycott in joint UK interview; says he’s ashamed he’s dragged bandmates ‘into this mess,’ not ashamed of working with Arab and Jewish musicians

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett (center) waits for the arrival of freed hostage Evyatar David at David's home in Kfar Saba, October 26, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Ministerial committee advances bill aimed at hampering Bennett electoral campaign

Bennett says coalition resorting to ‘anti-democratic’ law because it fears it’ll lose to him; panel delays decision on bill allowing lawmakers to halt PM’s ongoing criminal trial

Former president of the Supreme Court Asher Grunis attends the swearing in ceremony of Justice Isaac Amit as president of the Supreme Court, at the president's residence in Jerusalem, February 13, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Head of panel for hiring and firing attorney general ends his term, creating vacuum

By Jeremy Sharon

Shady Farah, left, head of the Farah Laboratory for Advanced Functional/Medicinal Polymers & Smart Drug Delivery Technologies at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology's Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Engineering and PhD Student Qi Wu with their hydrogel inspired by mollusks. (Courtesy)

'This can pave the way for next-generation wound care'

Pulling mussels for a gel, Technion team creates bio-glue to seal internal wounds

By Diana Bletter

Imitating the way mollusks use natural adhesives to stick to rocks, researchers develop biodegradable, anti-bacterial hydrogel they say can close up bleeding tissue within seconds

Dr. David Senesh, a clinical psychologist specialized in intergenerational trauma, is a former Yom Kippur War prisoner of war and the nephew of Zionist poet Hannah Senesh. (Courtesy)

Interview'We move from one trauma to another without processing'

Raised in Hannah Senesh’s shadow, an ex-POW says Israel must finally face its demons

By Rossella Tercatin

Leaving Israel for Berlin, David Senesh, a clinical psychologist dealing with intergenerational trauma, says hostages, and country, can only process and heal once cycle of crises ends

Argentina's President Javier Milei celebrates at the ruling party's La Libertad Avanza headquarters following the results of the national midterm legislative election in Buenos Aires on October 26, 2025. (Luis ROBAYO / AFP)

Milei’s party wins big in Argentina’s midterm election; president vows more reforms

By Tomás VIOLA

Pro-Israel Trump ally says his LLA party more than tripled its power in Congress after a vote seen as public test of his far-reaching attempts to revive ailing economy

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a news conference at Belvedere Middle School, October 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

California’s Newsom mulls 2028 US presidential run; Trump’s son Eric doesn’t rule one out

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Governor Newsom, who has gained prominence among Democrats for confronting Trump, says he’ll decide after 2026 midterms; Eric Trump tells Israeli outlet he’s not saying no to the idea

Prof. Amos Frumkin of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a team of Israeli researchers documented a 15th-century tunnel system in the Beit She’an Valley built under Mamluk rule, highlighting the technological ingenuity behind it, in a study published in October 2025. (Azriel Yechezkel/Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

'They made sophisticated economic calculations'

Mamluk startup nation? 15th-century water tech boosted sugar industry in Israel’s north

By Rossella Tercatin

Israeli researchers document and date tunnel system in spring-rich region, highlighting the technological ingenuity used by empire founded by formerly enslaved Muslim soldiers

The site of an Israeli airstrike on a Hezbollah operative in the Beqaa Valley area, on October 26, 2025. (Social media: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Two Hezbollah operatives killed in Lebanon strikes — IDF

By Emanuel Fabian

Attacks on terror group in Naqoura, Beqaa Valley, come as defense minister, US envoy tour border

An armored vehicle of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) moves past destroyed buildings along a road in the village of Kfar Kila in southern Lebanon near the border with northern Israel on August 27, 2025. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

UNIFIL shoots down IDF surveillance drone over southern Lebanon, sparking public tiff

By Emanuel Fabian

Iranian Quds Force commander Sardar Ammar, in an undated photo released by Mossad (Courtesy)

Israel reveals Iran’s Guards leader behind attacks on Jewish sites in Europe, Australia

By Lazar Berman

Senior IRGC Quds Force commander Sardar Ammar directed plots in Greece, Australia and Germany, says Mossad, though the attackers’ follow-through has often been bumbling

More Headlines

Bulldozers deployed by the Hamas-controlled Gaza Municipality clear building rubble from main axes and streets in Gaza City, amid a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian terror group, on October 14, 2025. (AFP)

As world powers prepare to rebuild Gaza, IDF said to dump trash across the border

By Stav Levaton, ToI Staff and Agencies

Shireen Abu Akleh, 51, a veteran Al Jazeera journalist who was shot and killed during clashes between IDF troops and Palestinian gunmen while covering an IDF raid in Jenin on Wednesday, May 11, 2022. (Courtesy)

US officer who probed Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing says IDF sniper knew he was firing at journalists

Bob Vylan front man Pascal Robinson-Foster appears on The Louis Theroux Podcast, October 1, 2025. (Screenshot, YouTube)

British Airways ends sponsorship of Louis Theroux podcast over Bob Vylan interview

Construction in the central town of Gedera, February 24, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/ Flash90)

NIS 1.4 billion housing plan passed to boost construction, increase foreign workers

View of the border area between Israel and Jordan, near Hamat Gader, southern Golan Heights, on November 28, 2024. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Three Turkish citizens charged with arms smuggling, entering Israel illegally

By Charlie Summers

A protester holds a banner with the pictures of jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu during a rally organized by the country's main opposition party, the Republican People's Party (CHP), to protest the suspension and imprisonment of Istanbul Mayor, in Istanbul on October 26, 2025. (Yasin AKGUL / AFP)

Protests outside Istanbul courthouse, as jailed mayor accused of espionage

By AFP

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