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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 29, 2025

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Master Sgt. (res.) Yona Efraim Feldbaum (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF reservist killed in Tuesday attack in Rafah; Israel says ceasefire restored

By Emanuel Fabian

Master Sgt. (res.) Yona Efraim Feldbaum hit by sniper fire targeting excavator; retaliatory strikes said to kill over 100; military says dozens of terror operatives targeted

Ofir Tzarfati (Courtesy)

Slain hostage’s family blasts Hamas ‘manipulation’ after fake recovery of remains

By ToI Staff and Michael Horovitz

Members of the al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, stand at the site where they, along with Egyptian workers and machinery, claim to be searching for the bodies of hostages in Nuseirat, Gaza Strip, October 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

IDF strikes said to kill at least 30 in Gaza, as Israel vows Hamas will ‘pay’ for violations

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and Nurit Yohanan

Op-ed: Day 754 of the war

How to regain the upper hand over Hamas, as it withholds hostages’ bodies, attacks IDF, plots revival

What’s needed is an immediate ultimatum from Trump backed by a credible military threat and, beyond that, a realistic plan for a postwar Gaza from which Hamas is permanently excluded

Hamas operatives are seen staging the "recovery" of the remains of a hostage in Gaza City, as Red Cross representatives look on, October 27, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Illustrative image: Hamas terrorists carry a white bag believed to contain a body, after retrieving it from a tunnel during a search for the remains of hostages in Hamad City, Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, October 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 29: Day 754 – Faking ‘discovery’ of a body, depraved Hamas plays to type

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz

Israel notified Trump about Gaza strikes after order given

Trump: ‘Nothing’ will jeopardize Gaza ceasefire, Israel ‘should hit back’ if troops killed

By Jacob Magid, Nurit Yohanan and Nava Freiberg

Red Cross issues rare condemnation of Hamas for staging recovery of hostage’s remains; terror group states it managed to ‘retrieve’ 2 more bodies of hostages, doesn’t say it will return them

US President Donald Trump gestures as he boards Air Force One before traveling to South Korea, at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on October 29, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)

Exterior of the Renaissance Cairo Mirage Hotel (Courtesy)

154 deported terrorists moved from 5-star Cairo hotel to new luxury resort after exposé

Amiram Ben Uliel, convicted of the Duma arson murder in July 2015, in which three members of the Dawabsha family were killed, attends a hearing on his appeal, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on March 7, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Dozens of coalition MKs, ministers call on Herzog to free Jewish security prisoners

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Analysis

Trump remains committed to Gaza ceasefire, but restraint becomes harder for Netanyahu

White House is determined to protect its signature foreign policy win, but with Hamas killing soldiers and playing games with hostages’ bodies, PM faces growing pressure to hit back hard

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the Tel Aviv District Court for a hearing in his corruption trial, October 28, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 29: IDF strikes site in northern Gaza it says posed ‘imminent’ threat to troops

Probe into leak of video showing abuse of detainee sparks political firestorm * Bill to strip AG of authority passes preliminary vote

8:39 pm

Visiting US-Israeli ceasefire HQ, Netanyahu vows 'joint effort' to ensure Hamas disarmament
7:52 pm

Tally Gotliv set to replace Yuli Edelstein on Knesset defense committee
7:41 pm

Report: Feldstein tells cops PM's office gathers info on foes 'just like they did to Gallant'

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)

‘Boot on your neck’: Mamdani in 2023 blamed Israel for police violence in New York

Newly surfaced video shows NYC mayoral candidate telling far-left conference that NYPD boots are ‘laced by the IDF’

Tarek Bazrouk pictured during a December 2024 assault on Jewish targets. (U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York)

NY antisemitic attacker sentenced to 17 months, with hundreds on hand to support him

Nick Fuentes sits down for an interview with Tucker Carlson, October 28, 2025. (Screenshot via JTA)

Tucker Carlson discusses ‘these Zionist Jews’ with avowed antisemite Nick Fuentes

By Andrew Lapin

Former Fox News host signals broad alignment with Holocaust denier’s views against Israel, claims Christian Zionists ‘seized by brain virus’

A man wearing a Nazi uniform assaults a woman outside of a bar in downtown Athens, Georgia. (Screenshot via JTA)

Neo-Nazis raise bail for Georgia man in Nazi uniform who allegedly assaulted student

By Grace Gilson

Harvard banners hang in front of Widener Library during the 374th Harvard Commencement in Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 29, 2025. (Rick Friedman / AFP)

Harvard conservative magazine shut down after publishing article laced with Nazi rhetoric

By Grace Gilson

Ewan Horrocks as Helmuth Hubener holds a sign in a still from 'Truth and Treason.' (Courtesy Angel Studios)

'His faith teaches him that we are all equals'

New film revives little-known legacy of Mormon teen executed for opposing Hitler

By Rich Tenorio

Now in US theaters, ‘Truth and Treason’ tells story of Helmuth Hubener, a German whose religious convictions inspired him to speak truth to power even if it meant risking his life

Shira Lankin Sheps

Yom HaAliyah: The call to move to Israel

It’s not necessarily an easy move, but if you feel pulled to be here or pushed out of where you live now, I can assure you that making aliyah is coming home

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Loco Milei: Tehran’s Zionist nightmare

The Jerusalem-Buenos Aires friendship is not ’symbolic’; it is a geopolitical earthquake that could redefine Latin America’s balance of power

A court hearing on the government’s efforts to draft ultra-Orthodox Jews into the military, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, October 29, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Proceedings interrupted by ultra-Orthodox protesters

High Court prods government for ‘stronger enforcement’ against Haredi draft evaders

By Jeremy Sharon

Judges issue biting criticism of ruling coalition for failure to draft ultra-Orthodox young men since a 2024 court decision on the issue

MK Boaz Bismuth, chair of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, leads a committee meeting at the Knesset, September 17, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Revised ultra-Orthodox military draft bill said to reduce penalties for dodgers

By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff

MK Yuli Edelstein attends a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting, September 3, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud boots Edelstein from defense panel for ‘violations of faction discipline’

Kibbutz El-Rom emergency response team members Shimon Michael, right, and Gal Fitusi stand at the border fence near the Syrian village of al-Hamidiya on October 23, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'We're not worried but we're ready'

Along the Syria and Lebanon borders, skeptical residents embrace peace, while it lasts

By Diana Bletter

Although focused on rebuilding, both evacuated residents and those who stayed during the war maintain their vigilance, as terror groups daily seek to attack Israel

IDF forces operate in the Gaza Strip in this October 9, 2025, handout image. (IDF)

279 IDF soldiers attempted suicide since start of 2024, Knesset report finds

By Stav Levaton

Combat soldiers made up 78% of all suicide cases in Israel in 2024, a sharp rise from 2017-22, when the rate hovered between 42% and 45%

Illustrative: An aerial view of the solar field at Kibbutz Ketura, which provides one-third of the daytime electricity for the city of Eilat. (Courtesy)

Kibbutz Be’eri makes first major investment since October 7 – in renewable energy

The kibbutz, hit hard by the Hamas invasion, will invest NIS 20 million, joining Kibbutz Hatzerim and the firm Giza Singer Even in a NIS 115 million purchase of Arava Power shares

Reporter's notebook

World Zionist Congress leaders preach unity as delegates spar over Jewish future

Opening night of the ‘parliament of the Jewish people’ is filled with festivities even as debate flares between right and left, secular and religious, over where critical funding will go

President Isaac Herzog speaks at the opening event of the 39th Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, October 28, 2025 (courtesy)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the Tel Aviv District Court for a hearing in his corruption trial, October 28, 2025 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Judges say Netanyahu will no longer have to face the press at court hearings

By ToI Staff and Jeremy Sharon

PM tells court he’s ‘in the most difficult position in the world,’ cannot attend 3 hearings a week; his lawyers say they will be unable to adequately represent their client

Attendees at the "Future of Minorities in the Middle East" conference in Tel Aviv hold the Kurdish, Israeli and Druze flags as they speak, on October 27, 2025. (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Seeing Israel as a beacon, regional minorities gather in Tel Aviv to discuss future

Representatives of the Druze, Kurdish, Alawite communities attend conference aimed at forging ties between Israel and historically persecuted Middle Eastern groups

Screen grabs from an undated video of a group of trekkers as they became trapped by a snowstorm in Nepal (Video from Passportcard's Situation Room)

Israelis rescued from Nepal snowstorm: ‘There was panic, could have ended much worse’

By ToI Staff and Reuters

Around 150 trekkers realized they couldn’t see route as weather in Everest region deteriorated; one person medivacked to nearby town; group stuck in village at lower altitude till conditions improve

Stuart E. Eizenstat speaks during the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's Annual Days of Remembrance ceremony at the US Capitol on April 23, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

German government pledges record $1 billion in funding for Holocaust survivor home care

By Grace Gilson

The budget reflects the growing needs of an aging survivor population and will now enable all Holocaust survivors on waitlists for home care to receive it

The Instagram page of MaKss Damage, a German rapper, is displayed for a photograph on a smartphone in London on October 28, 2025 (AFP)

German neo-Nazi rappers push hate speech and antisemitism on TikTok, Instagram, Spotify

By AFP and ToI Staff

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Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen calls for the creation of an ice cream flavor in solidarity with Palestinians, October 28, 2025 (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Cold shoulderBen & Jerry’s co-founder: Unilever blocked pro-Palestinian flavor

Pope Leo XIV attends a commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Vatican 1965 declaration Nostra Aetate (In Our Time) in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, October 28, 2025. (AP/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Leo says key document revolutionizing Catholic-Jewish ties ‘highly relevant today’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The Crescent Development Project in Baku, Azerbaijan (iStock by Getty Images)

Rabbis convention in Azerbaijan canceled over security concerns

View of the entrance to the detention center in the Russian Compound, In central Jerusalem, November 28, 2024. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Autistic Arab Israeli teen arrested in West Bank, held in harsh conditions – lawyer

By Charlie Summers

RSF fighters holding weapons and celebrating in the streets of El-Fasher in Sudan's Darfur region, in a screengrab of a video published on Telegram, on October 26, 2025. (Rapid Support Forces / AFP)

Sudan’s RSF accused of ethnic cleansing, killing over 2,000 after capturing key city

By AFP

The coal-fired Orot Rabin power station in Hadera, central Israel, seen from the Hadera Stream National Park, April 25, 2025. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Residents of most-polluted city fight bid to extend life of coal-fired power station

This image taken from video provided by the US Navy shows an aircraft launching from the USS Harry S. Truman in the Red Sea before airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, March 15, 2025. (US Navy via AP)

Amnesty: US strike on Yemen prison that killed dozens may be war crime

By AP and ToI Staff

A 5.6 caliber bullet can be seen lodged in the back of the neck of Amiram Dvir, in an image circulated on social media, on October 27, 2025. (X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Pain in the neckStray bullet lodges in man’s neck, causing minor injuries

Police stand guard after the Israeli Premier League match between Hapoel Tel Aviv and Maccabi Tel Aviv was canceled at Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv, on October 19, 2025. (Flash90)

Anger as police video equates Hapoel Tel Aviv fans to Palestinian rioters

Tal Raz rescues a turtle ensnared in waste fishing tackle in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Bat Galim, northern Israel, earlier this year. (Haim Raz)

Drone fishing ‘a death trap’ for humans and marine wildlife, sea enthusiast warns

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