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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)
July 7, 2025, 10:15 am
Netanyahu said to receive report on medical conditions of all living hostages
With 10 of 20 living captives set to go free under potential deal, TV report provides excerpts from medical files shown to PM
By ToI Staff
Ofer Kalderon reunites with his children Rotem, Gaya, Erez and Sahar on Feb. 1, 2025. Erez and Sahar, who were also abducted on Oct. 7, 2023, were released in November 2023. (Photo by Maayan Toaf/GPO)
July 6, 2025, 9:25 am
Former hostage Ofer Kalderon recounts ghastly captivity
In his first interview since his release, the former Nir Oz resident talks about being separated from his children and his meeting with Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza.
By JNS Staff
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a model of Air Force One between them, during a meeting at White House, April 7, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
July 1, 2025, 10:25 am
Netanyahu set to visit White House next week
Netanyahu also appeared to prioritize the release of the remaining 50 Israeli hostages in Gaza following the ceasefire with Iran.
By Grace Gilson
Israeli army tanks and military vehicles move in the areas near the border line of the Gaza Strip on June 23, 2025 in Israel. (Tsafrir Abayov/Anadolu via Getty Images)
June 25, 2025, 9:00 am
7 Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza
The seven men killed were all combat soldiers between 19 and 21.
By Philissa Cramer
An air raid shelter in Holon, Israel (Photo by Drork, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
June 24, 2025, 12:41 pm
I didn’t vote for Netanyahu. I don’t Like Trump. But I’m grateful for the missiles that missed us
A message to our family and friends in Pittsburgh
By Kally Rubin Kislowicz
Israeli hostage Jonathan Samerano's mother marks his birthday at "Hostage Square" in Tel Aviv on June 05, 2025. (Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90 via JNS)
June 22, 2025, 10:49 am
IDF recovers bodies of three hostages from Gaza
Israeli forces recovered the remains of Ofra Keidar, Yonatan Samerano and Staff Sgt. Shay Levinson, all of whom were killed on Oct. 7, 2023.
By JNS Staff
Yair Yaakov (Credit: Courtesy of Hostage and Missing Families Forum)
June 12, 2025, 8:29 am
Two slain hostages returned from Gaza
"The body of Yair Yaakov, as well as the body of another hostage, who were held hostage for 613 days in Gaza, have been recovered," stated the IDF.
By JNS Staff
Local Palestinian staffers of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in blue vests form a human chain to protect female aid recipients at one of GHF's distribution sites on June 9, 2025. (GHF)
June 12, 2025, 7:50 am
Gaza aid group says Hamas killed at least 8 local staffers, possibly abducted others
GHF says terror group attacked bus ferrying workers to distribution site, while Hamas-linked accounts say its gunmen targeted members of Israel-backed Abu Shabab clan, which the clan denies
By Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman
An Israeli soldier offers food and water to activist Greta Thunberg aboard the intercepted Gaza-bound yacht. (Credit: Israel Foreign Ministry)
June 9, 2025, 8:08 am
Israeli Navy intercepts boat carrying Greta Thunberg to Gaza
The 12 activists aboard were escorted to Ashdod Port, where they were shown a 43-minute video of Hamas' Oct. 7 atrocities.
By Joshua Marks
Nattapong Pinta, seen in an undated photograph with his wife and son, was murdered in Gaza. (Handout photograph)
June 8, 2025, 9:43 pm
Israel recovers remains of Thai farmworker abducted on Oct. 7 from Gaza
Nattapong Pinta had not previously been declared dead.
By Philissa Cramer
An undated photo of Judih Weinstein and Gadi Haggai (Courtesy photo via The Times of Israel)
June 5, 2025, 8:30 am
IDF recovers bodies of slain hostages Gadi Haggai, Judih Weinstein in Gaza operation
Dual US citizens were held in Khan Younis by Hamas-allied terror group that also kidnapped, murdered Bibas family; official says Shin Bet grilling of Gazan detainee led IDF to bodies
By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Lazar Berman
Friedrich Merz, chancellor candidate of Germany’s Christian Democrats, speaks to supporters at CDU headquarters in Berlin following preliminary results showing him leading in federal elections, Feb. 23, 2025. (Maja Hitij/Getty Images)
May 27, 2025, 11:22 am
German chancellor issues rare public criticism of Israel
“What the Israeli army is doing in the Gaza Strip, I no longer understand,” said Friedrich Merz.
By Philissa Cramer
A man, standing behind police tape, talks on his cell phone outside the Capital Jewish Museum following a shooting that left two Israeli embassy staff members dead, in Washington, DC, on May 21, 2025. (Photo by Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images)
May 22, 2025, 7:20 am
Two Israeli embassy staffers shot dead outside Jewish museum in DC
The victims had planned to get engaged in Jerusalem next week. The shooter yelled "Free, free Palestine" as he was taken into custody.
By Charles Bybelezer
Cecilia Culver, a recent graduate of George Washington University, uses her commencement speech to urge her fellow graduates not to donate to the university unless it divests from Israel, May 17, 2025, Washington, D.C. The school banned her from campus as a result of her speech. (Screenshot via X)
May 21, 2025, 4:19 pm
George Washington U bans commencement speaker from campus after calling to divest from Israel
It is the second elite school in as many weeks to discipline a graduating student over a speech about Israel.
By Andrew Lapin
Former hostage Emily Damari lights the torch during the main rehearsal of the 77th anniversary Independence Day ceremony, held at Mount Herzl, Jerusalem, on April 28, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 8, 2025, 9:33 pm
Freed hostage Emily Damari to Pulitzer board: Mosab Abu Toha is ‘the modern-day equivalent of a Holocaust denier’
Abu Toha’s social media posts disparaged freed and murdered hostages, which were included in an expose by a pro-Israel media watchdog.
By Philissa Cramer
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