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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 30, 2025

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Egyptian machinery and workers search for the bodies of hostages near a tent camp for displaced Palestinians in Hamad City, Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Oct. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 30: Mediators order Hamas to pull fighters from IDF-controlled half of Gaza or face Israeli fire

Terror group still holding remains of 11 captives in Gaza after two returned Thursday * Report says PM froze appointment of envoy to US-led ceasefire HQ for having ties with Bennett

9:25 pm

Turkey's Fenerbahce to play Israeli basketball teams abroad instead of hosting in Istanbul
8:52 pm

Hamas told by mediators to withdraw fighters from IDF-controlled Gaza by tonight or face Israeli fire
8:37 pm

Bodies returned by Hamas identified as slain hostages Amiram Cooper and Sahar Baruch

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Oct. 30: Day 755 – Law and politics in the Haredi anti-draft rally

By Jessica Steinberg, Sam Sokol and Jeremy Sharon

Political correspondent Sam Sokol and legal reporter Jeremy Sharon discuss Haredi conscription, in Knesset and at court; MK Yuli Edelstein’s ouster from committee; and Sde Teiman leak probe

Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather around an Israeli soldier playing the piano at the Yitzhak Navon train station in Jerusalem, on their way to attend the Haredi protest against IDF conscription on October 30, 2025 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

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)

Roadblocks and school closures: What to expect during Thursday’s Haredi anti-draft rally

By Shira Silkoff, Charlie Summers and Sam Sokol

MK Tally Gotliv attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, October 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud firebrand Tally Gotliv to replace Edelstein on key Knesset defense committee

Sagit Alkobi Fishman

The ‘million-man’ protest and Israel’s democratic test

When ultra-Orthodox protesters reject not only the state, but the suffering of its citizens, it’s a genuine rupture

Anat Thon-Ashkenazy

Keeping women out of the picture

Twenty-five years after a historic UN decision, Israeli women are farther than ever from the negotiating table

The opening event of the 39th World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, October 28, 2025. (Zev Stub/ Times of Israel)

World Zionist Congress devolves into chaos after Yair Netanyahu tapped for key role

Compromise agreement on appointments at key Zionist orgs derailed after parties rally against nomination of prime minister’s son for plum position; voting on resolutions also breaks down

Yair Netanyahu arrives for a court hearing in Tel Aviv, on November 29, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90/ File)

Likud taps Yair Netanyahu for senior WZO role, risking compromise deal on appointments

By ToI Staff and Zev Stub

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, April 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Coalition-backed bill that would strip AG of all authority passes preliminary reading

By Sam Sokol and Jeremy Sharon

Legislation pushed by Levin and Rothman would divide current AG job into 3 separate roles, all political appointments; government trying to ‘turn Israel into a complete dictatorship,’ says bar association chief

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

Court again rejects request to cut hearings in Netanyahu trial from 4 to 3 per week

By Jeremy Sharon

Eli Feldstein arrives for a court hearing at the Tel Aviv District Court on March 11, 2025. (Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)

In testimony, PM’s ex-spokesman said to hint at coverup attempt in leaked documents case

By Stav Levaton

Inside story

Despite dashing hopes for a visit, Indonesia cautiously eyes ties with Israel

For the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, the path to Jerusalem runs through Gaza – and Trump

Lion dancers perform on an Israeli flag during a rally in solidarity of the Palestinians in Gaza, in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 12, 2025. (AP/Tatan Syuflana)

Interview

Jessica Steinberg

Twin of soldier Hadar Goldin, killed in Gaza in 2014, has hopes for his return, even as Hamas stalls

Lawyer Tzur Goldin believes US desire to see peace deal implemented will help ensure all remaining hostages’ bodies are eventually brought home

Hadar Goldin (left), and his twin brother Tzur in an undated photo. Hadar was killed in combat on August 1, 2014, and his body abducted, when serving as a Givati officer during the war in Gaza (Courtesy)

Former hostage Yosef-Haim Ohana speaks in an interview with Channel 12 broadcast on October 28, 2025 (Screncapture)

‘I need to learn to be free’: Ex-hostage Yosef-Haim Ohana adapting to life after captivity

A demonstrator holds up a poster of Haredi draft evader Ariel Shamai which reads: "Bring him back to yeshiva now!" and in smaller print on the left: "Until the last hostage," imitating the rhetoric of the hostage families' protest movement, during an anti-draft demonstration in Jerusalem on October 22, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hostages forum demands Haredi yeshiva quit ‘cynical’ use of movement’s symbols

Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin al-Thani speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations on October 29, 2025. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Qatari PM indicates Hamas violated Gaza ceasefire with deadly attack on IDF

Speaking in New York, al-Thani also says Doha pushing terror group to acknowledge need for disarmament, criticizes Israel’s treatment of Palestinian prisoners

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the Civil-Military Coordination Center in Kiryat Gat on October 29, 2025, meeting IDF Maj. Gen. Yaki Dolf (left) and US Lt. Gen. Patrick Frank (right). (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

Visiting US-Israeli ceasefire HQ, Netanyahu vows ‘joint effort’ to ensure Hamas disarmed

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Analysis

Giving Hamas hope, Gaza’s future rests on three somewhat contradictory documents

Trump boasts that the world backs his 20-point plan, but no one even signed it. Hamas committed to the first phase of the deal, but has not said it will disarm

US President Donald Trump poses with a signed agreement at a world leaders' summit on ending the Gaza war, in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, October 13, 2025. (Suzanne Plunkett, Pool Photo via AP)

Inside story

Left out of Trump’s technocratic vision, anti-Hamas militias seek role in rebuilt Gaza

Unpopular armed groups want part in Strip’s future; a reemerged Hamas, which shows no readiness to disarm, is both threatening them and seeking a say over apolitical professionals intended to replace it

Palestinians search for firewood and plastic at a landfill in Gaza City Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)

President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, October 30, 2025, en route to Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump orders US to restart nuclear weapons testing for first time since 1992

By Trevor Hunnicutt, Ismail Shakil, Kanishka Singh and Andrea Shalal

Not clear whether US president, who makes declaration ahead of meeting China’s Xi, is referring to nuclear-explosive testing or flight testing of nuclear-capable missiles

A man rides his motorcycle past a deactivated Kheibar Shekan ballistic missile in front of a picture of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran's Bahrestan Square on September 27, 2025, as part of an exhibit to mark the 'Sacred Defense Week' commemorating the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

IAEA: Iran isn’t actively enriching uranium but there’s movement near nuclear sites

By Farnoush Amiri

A still from a leaked video broadcast by Channel 12 news on August 6, 2024, which purports to show troops abusing a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman detention facility in southern Israel on July 5, 2024. (Screenshot: Channel 12)

Criminal probe launched into leak of detainee abuse video; IDF’s top lawyer goes on leave

By Emanuel Fabian, Jeremy Sharon and Charlie Summers

Investigation ordered by AG looking into involvement of individuals at Military Advocate General’s office in distribution of leaked footage from Sde Teiman detention facility

Military Advocate General Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi attends a farewell ceremony for retiring acting Chief Justice Uzi Vogelman at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on October 1, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL)

Coalition hails probe of leaked video apparently showing abuse of Gazan prisoner

By Sam Sokol, Emanuel Fabian and Jeremy Sharon

Rabbi Menachem Ben Shachar (Courtesy HaKol HaYehudi)

Police probe far-right settler rabbi suspected of inciting attacks on Palestinians

By Charlie Summers

A Lebanese soldier sits on top of a military vehicle outside the municipality building of the southern Lebanese border village of Blida in the aftermath of an Israeli army raid on the village, October 30, 2025. (Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)

IDF troops raid southern Lebanon town before dawn, kill municipal employee

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says soldiers fired on suspect who ‘posed immediate threat’ during operation in Blida; Lebanese president tells his army to confront any Israeli incursion

Staff Sgt. Lavi Lipshitz, 20, who was killed in combat in the northern Gaza Strip on October 31, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

'His art and person were one in the same -- he was his work'

Fallen soldier who took 150,000 photos memorialized in Jerusalem exhibit for youth

By Charlie Summers

20-year-old Lavi Lipshitz captured tens of thousands of intimate moments on the Israeli street in photos now on display nearly two years after he was killed in Gaza

Weapons and body armor were confiscated from an Alabama man, Jeremy Wayne Shoemaker, who was arrested for allegedly planned attacks on synagogues, October 29, 2025. (Clarke County Sheriff's Office via JTA)

Alabama man arrested for allegedly plotting major attacks on synagogues

By Grace Gilson

Sheriffs say Jeremy Wayne Shoemaker, 33, made ‘credible threats of violence’ to local Jewish targets, found with ‘weapons, suitcase full of ammo, body armor’ during arrest

New York City Mayor Eric Adams attends an event at the NYPD's 40th precinct on February 20, 2025, in the Bronx borough of New York. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)

NYC mayor compared anti-Israel protests after Oct. 7 to KKK rallies, lawsuit says

The "Wall of the Righteous" (Mur des Justes) outside the Shoah Memorial in Paris, France, is vandalized with red-hands graffiti, May 14, 2024. (Antonin Utz / AFP)

Three Bulgarians go on trial for painting red hands at Paris Holocaust Memorial

By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY

From 'A Man Walks Down the Street,' Narrative Feature winner at Austin Film Festival on October 25, 2025 (Courtesy Yaniv Linton)

Israeli filmmakers snag prizes in US, pushing against industry boycott narrative

By Jessica Steinberg

Yuval Hadadi’s ‘A Man Walks Down the Street’ named Best Narrative Feature in Austin, Texas; movie about Arab man seeking to clear his name after October 7 wins Student Oscar silver

Employees at Nvidia Israel. (Courtesy/Nvidia)

Nvidia and Microsoft ranked as 2 best tech firms to work for in Israel in 2025 war year

By Sharon Wrobel

Ranking by Dun & Bradstreet finds preferences shifted in the wake of Gaza war as employees sought stable workplaces supporting reserve soldiers and families in crisis periods

People take a look at Nvidia''s new products during the Computex 2025 exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan, Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File)

AI chipmaking giant Nvidia becomes world’s first $5 trillion company

By Michelle Chapman

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Assailants smash Mahmoud Dramin's car in the South Hebron Hills on October 27, 2025. (Screen capture: X/masafering)

Settlers broke into Palestinian home, killed and maimed sheep, owner says

By Nurit Yohanan

Rob Jetten, leader of the center-left D66 party, speaks on stage during exit poll results an election venue during a general election in Leiden, Netherlands, October 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Dutch centrist party makes huge jump as support for far-right Wilders drops in election

By Bart H. Meijer, Toby Sterling and Anthony Deutsch

Jonathan Greenblatt speaks onstage during the 2024 ADL In Concert Against Hate, at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall in Washington, November 18, 2024. (Jemal Countess / Getty Images via AFP)

ADL enlists major law firms to launch pro bono network for US antisemitism cases

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Residents of Damascus' Jobar neighborhood protest, demanding investment to rebuild the area, in Damascus, Syria, October 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Sharaa says Syria has attracted $28 billion in investments since fall of Assad

By AFP

New York City Police Department Chaplain Rabbi Alvin Kass seen giving the invocation at the State of the City Address at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Symphony Space in New York City, January 10, 2019. (Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images via JTA)

Rabbi who was NYPD’s longest-serving chaplain, famed for 9/11 response, dies at 89

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Flowers and messages of condolence are pictured by a police cordon on the main road outside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, north Manchester, on October 3, 2025, following a deadly terror attack at the synagogue. (Paul Currie / AFP)

One victim in Manchester synagogue attack was killed by police gunfire, probe finds

By AFP

Displaced Sudanese who fled El-Fasher after the city fell to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), rest near the town of Tawila in war-torn Sudan's western Darfur region on October 28, 2025. (AFP)

Sudan’s RSF paramilitaries kill hundreds of patients at hospital in Darfur, UN says

A screen grab from an aerial video shows damaged buildings and structures in St. Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica, on October 29, 2025, after Hurricane Melissa tore through the island. (AFP VIDEOGRAPHICS / AFP)

Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba dig out of widespread destruction after deadly Hurricane Melissa

By ARIEL FERNÁNDEZ, ANDREA RODRIGUEZ and JOHN MYERS JR.

An aerial picture taken on February 13, 2022, shows the Great Ziggurat of Ur in Iraq's southern province of Dhi Qar near the city of Nasiriyah. (Asaad NIAZI / AFP)

Major archaeological sites in Iraq at risk of erosion due to climate change

By Mohammed Atti and Ahmed Saeed

Police officers at the Jerusalem address of Shimon Gutman who was charged with murdering his caregiver, Haviva Vashdi, on October 30, 2025. (Screenshot, Israel Police)

Man in his 80s charged with murdering caregiver, trying to hide her body

By Charlie Summers

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