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What Matters Most On Monday, July 7, 2025

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks as reporters raise their hands to ask questions during a press briefing at the White House, Monday, July 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Live updates (closed)

LIVE: No public appearances planned as Netanyahu scheduled for high-stakes dinner with Trump

Leaders set to discuss ‘positive developments’ in Mideast * Source: US president pressuring Israel, Hamas to clinch deal by end of week * Witkoff to head to Qatar Tuesday to take part in talks

10:00 pm

Three reservists said summoned for questioning over abuse of Hamas detainees
9:40 pm

IDF says Nir Am siren minutes ago was second false alarm in an hour
9:34 pm

Lebanon health ministry says 2 killed in Israeli strikes

US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, New Jersey, July 6, 2025. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

Trump: ‘Good chance’ of deal this week that would see ‘quite a few hostages’ released

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Palestinians claim Israeli delegation lacks mandate; Hamas official says group’s control of Gaza has ‘completely collapsed’; document says Trump will personally guarantee first 60 days of ceasefire

US President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as he leaves the West Wing of the White House, April 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Mark Schiefelbein)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 7: Day 640 – PM lands in DC with issues to resolve before Trump meeting

By Jessica Steinberg, Tal Schneider and Sue Surkes

Hamas gunmen at the expected handover of the bodies of four dead hostages, including Shiri Bibas and her two young children, in Khan Younis, south Gaza on February 20, 2025 (Saeed Mohammed/Flash90)

Senior Hamas commander says group’s control over Gaza has ‘completely collapsed’

By ToI Staff, Emanuel Fabian and AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the press before boarding his flight to Washington DC, at Ben Gurion International Airport, July 6, 2025. (Lazar Berman/ The Times of Israel)

Heading to DC, Netanyahu seeks Gaza deal ‘on our terms,’ vows Hamas will be destroyed

By Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff

At meeting Monday, Trump reportedly wants to finalize framework for ending the war; PM insists that when that happens, ‘Hamas will not be there’; also said to still reject PA role

People walking next to pictures of hostages held by terrorists in Gaza, in Jerusalem, July 2, 2025 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu said to receive report on medical conditions of all living hostages

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Analysis

Despite Iran successes, Gaza differences may complicate Netanyahu’s White House visit

Coming off unprecedented cooperation in Iran, PM and Trump could freeze Tehran out and lock achievements in. Yet their interests don’t overlap entirely, not least on the war against Hamas Continue Reading

US President Donald Trump (right) meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

A man checks the debris at a room of Evin Prison's hospital, after Israeli air strikes the previous month, in Tehran, Iran, on July 1, 2025. (AFP)

Iran invites Western journalists to tour notorious Evin Prison after Israeli strikes

Destruction caused by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Nirim on October 7, 2023, near the Israeli-Gaza border, southern Israel, seen on January 21, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Just as residents return, Gazan projectile hits Kibbutz Nirim, causing no injuries

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

Government last week greenlit residents’ return to border community, among the hardest-hit in Oct. 7 onslaught; IDF says human error resulted in lack of interception

Israel carries out strikes on Houthi-controlled power station, ports across Yemen

By Stav Levaton, Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

IDF confirms targets include ‘Galaxy Leader’ ship, hijacked by Houthis in November 2023; two missiles fired by Iran-backed group at Israel after airstrikes

ILLUSTRATIVE: Antigua-flagged bulk carrier vessel Vega Granat sailing off the coast of Larnaca on June 3, 2024. (Amir MAKAR / AFP)

Crew of ship targeted in Houthi-suspected attack safe, but vessel at risk of sinking

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Yemenis carry a portrait of Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi during a rally in the Houthi-run capital Sanaa, Yemen, on July 4, 2025. (Mohammed HUWAIS / AFP)

Red Sea ship attacked by gunfire and RPGs from small boats, UK maritime agency says

By AP and ToI Staff

Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators clash with police during a protest against the drafting of Haredi youth near Bnei Brak, June 5, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Haredim shown watered-down conscription bill, as IDF set to get tough on draft-dodgers

Opposition fumes as Edelstein presents softened text to Shas rep; IDF to send out 54,000 draft orders to Haredi men this month, said planning to set up checkpoints to catch evaders

‘Just not Bibi’ is not an action plan for a national pivot

There is a fleeting opportunity to address the root problems threatening Israel’s future, but it will take out-of-the-box thinking and action

8 diplomatic ways to bring peace in the Middle East

Right now, unconventional diplomacy just might accomplish what decades of a traditional approach did not – if President Trump follows through

A handout photo released by the Lebanese Presidency press office on July 7, 2025, shows US envoy Thomas Barrack speaking to the press after his meeting with Lebanon's president at the presidential palace of Baabda east of Beirut. (Lebanese Presidency / AFP)

US envoy ‘unbelievably’ satisfied with Lebanese response on disarming Hezbollah

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Thomas Barrack calls plan to dismantle Iran-backed terror group’s military infrastructure ‘spectacular,’ says ‘Hezbollah needs to see that there’s a future for them’

IDF troops operate in southern Syria, in a handout photo issued on July 7, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

For 2nd time in days, IDF says troops arrested terror cell in Syria working for Iran

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and AFP

Volunteers pack kits to distribute to young families in Jerusalem, during the war between Iran and Israel, June 15, 2025. (Rachel Alroey/Flash90)

Inside story

‘We are an emergency response empire’: 40,000 volunteers mobilized for Israel-Iran war

A Hebrew University expert says Israel leads the world in organized and prolonged grassroots efforts during times of crisis, but asks: Why has the government left such a gap?

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi at a committee meeting at the Knesset, June 24, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Karhi rejects High Court order to extend term of public broadcaster council member

By Jeremy Sharon

Communications minister says ‘unlawful’ order ‘will not be honored,’ says he will fill Kan broadcaster’s vacant council seats; council cannot operate until empty spots filled

MK Simcha Rothman leads a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset on June 9, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Far-right MKs push bill allowing police to probe incitement without state attorney’s go-ahead

By Charlie Summers

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

Government panel backs bill stripping AG of authority over ministry legal advisers

Iranian poet Payam Feili, who was granted political asylum by Israel, at the entrance of his building in Haifa on July 1, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)

Interview'They wounded the snake but did not kill him'

Iranian dissident poet in Israel prays recent war marks beginning of regime’s end

By Rossella Tercatin

From Tehran’s prisons to Haifa’s shelters, Payam Feili, who fled his native country as a gay writer, expresses his concern for Iranians who oppose the ayatollahs

Stranded Israelis wait in a standby queue at Heathrow Airport in London to try and get seats on an El Al flight departing for Tel Aviv, on June 25, 2025. (Courtesy)

Government agrees it must help pay costs borne by travelers, airlines due to Iran war

By Sharon Wrobel

Economic Affairs Committee head demands plan within 10 days for compensating passengers stranded when Israeli airspace closed, without putting the whole burden on airlines

The view from a guard post at an IDF forward operating base in the Netzarim Corridor in the central Gaza Strip, December 26, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

IDF soldier tells Sky News troops killing Gaza civilians with aggressive fire rules

Reservist from 252nd Division describes deadly fire directed at anyone who enters no-go zones, even when they do not appear to be a threat, callous attitude among troops

Screen capture from undated video of Sidra Al Bordeeni, 12, who was injured in the Gaza Strip, being fitted with a prosthetic arm in Amman, Jordan. (X: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Pakistani startup ships prosthetics to Gaza war child survivors

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Undated photo of Daniel Edri. (Courtesy: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Family demands PTSD sufferer who took his life be recognized as fallen soldier

Daniel Edri served as reservist in both the Gaza Strip and Lebanon; mother describes his descent into self-harm and suicidal thoughts, pans authorities for not saving him

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, left, and Prime Minister Keir Starmer lay a wreath at the 7/7 Memorial, in Hyde Park to mark the anniversary of the terrorist attacks in London on July 7, 2005, that killed 52 people, in London, July 7, 2025. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)

UK marks 20 years since the deadly al-Qaeda 7/7 London bombings

By Jill Lawless

King Charles III, Prime Minister Starmer lead remembrance of victims of suicide attacks that killed 52; at subway stations near sites, staff, commuters hold minute of silence

More Headlines

Police at the scene where a 3-year-old girl was stabbed to death and her father arrested as the main suspect, in Sur Baher, July 7, 2025 (Israel Police)

East Jerusalem father arrested on suspicion of stabbing to death daughter, aged 3

A camera crew film the burnt front entrance of the East Melbourne Synagogue in Melbourne on July 6, 2025. (William WEST / AFP)

Australia’s Victoria to launch anti-hate task force after Melbourne synagogue arson

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Protesters wave Palestinian flags and claim a genocide is unfolding in Gaza outside the Auschwitz extermination camp in Poland on May 6, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)

Pro-Palestinian activists assail Polish film fest over sponsor’s Israel investments

Lennart Monterlos, 18, speaks in a video he uploaded to Instagram from Iran, later shared by users on X. (Screen capture via X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

French teenager disappears on bike trip in Iran, sparking fears he’s been detained

By AFP and ToI Staff

(L to R) Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, China's Premier Li Qiang, Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Egypt's Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, and Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi pose for a family photo during the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 6, 2025. (Pablo PORCIUNCULA / AFP)

BRICS forum, in Brazil, condemns US, Israeli airstrikes on Iran

By AFP and ToI Staff

People climb over debris on a bridge atop the Guadalupe River after a flash flood swept through the area, July 5, 2025, in Ingram, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Death toll in Texas flash floods rises to 82, sheriff says 10 campers still missing

By JIM VERTUNO and John Seewer

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