Although there has been some movement in the indirect talks between Israel and Hamas, insiders familiar with the discussions say major obstacles still remain that could prevent an agreement.
Roughly 80% of the points under negotiation have been settled in principle, according to those involved. However, the remaining disputes involve the most sensitive and potentially deal-breaking issues. Chief among them are disagreements over how humanitarian aid will be distributed during the ceasefire, and where the IDF will be positioned throughout the planned 60-day halt in combat.

In a highly unusual and disturbing incident, a two-week-old Israeli infant was abducted from the neonatal unit of Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital in Yerushalayim and later found abandoned in a hotel in Yericho, within Palestinian Authority territory.
According to details released by authorities, the baby’s mother, an Israeli Jewish woman, removed her child from the hospital’s neonatal ward and traveled with him to Yericho. Upon arrival, she checked into a local hotel, where she left the infant alone in one of the rooms before fleeing.

In a piercing address following the end of the conflict with Iran, Slabodka rosh yeshiva Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch offered powerful reflections on the events of recent weeks. While expressing profound gratitude for the miraculous salvation experienced by Klal Yisroel, Rav Hirsch warned that we must not overlook the underlying message: that we were struck with a punishment—a makah b’alma—and that our responsibility now is to correct the sin that led to it.

A man in his twenties was critically injured on Thursday afternoon in a stabbing attack at the Rami Levy complex at the Gush Etzion junction. His death was determined shortly later, at the scene. The two terrorists who carried out the attack were neutralized at the scene by security forces. An initial investigation reveals that the two terrorists arrived at the shopping area armed with knives and attacked an Israeli security guard. They stabbed him severely and managed to take his gun. MDA teams tried to save his life without success. Large forces from the Yehuda and Shomron district, together with IDF forces and emergency forces, are at the scene and are working to treat the wounded and search for additional suspects. This is a developing story. (YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)

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Dozens of terrorists were killed and over 130 “terror infrastructures,” both above and below ground were demolished by troops of the Golani Brigade during operations in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis in the past week.

Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli launched a scathing rebuke of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Thursday, labeling him a “self-hating Jew” and branding him a “Palestinian” in light of Schumer’s support for Zohran Mamdani, a progressive Democrat who recently won a key primary in New York City.
Posting on X, Chikli said, “The phenomenon of Jews who hate their own people is a well-documented and recurring pattern throughout history. It’s called a self-hating Jew. The new form of antisemitism that’s no longer based on race, but rather on the denial of the Jewish people’s right to self-determination, has enabled some Jews to participate in the campaign of incitement and hatred against their nation.”

Hamas has rejected Israel’s most recent proposal laying out the scope of the Israeli military’s partial retreat from Gaza during the proposed 60-day ceasefire, according to a Palestinian source who spoke with The Times of Israel.
Under diplomatic pressure from the United States, Israel revised its original maps and presented a new version earlier this week. The updates focused on scaling back the IDF’s deployment, particularly around the Morag Corridor, a zone near the location where Israel plans to construct a disputed “humanitarian city.”

TikTok is facing a fresh European Union privacy investigation into user data sent to China, regulators said Thursday. The Data Protection Commission opened the inquiry as a follow up to a previous investigation that ended earlier this year with a 530 million euro ($620 million) fine after it found the video sharing app put users at risk of spying by allowing remote access their data from China. The Irish national watchdog serves as TikTok’s lead data privacy regulator in the 27-nation EU because the company’s European headquarters is based in Dublin. During an earlier investigation, TikTok initially told the regulator it didn’t store European user data in China, and that data was only accessed remotely by staff in China.

From Washington, DC, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday addressed the Israeli public at the conclusion of what he called a “historic visit” to the United States following what he described as “a historic victory in the war against Iran.” In a statement delivered in Hebrew and later translated into English, Netanyahu made several major announcements and reaffirmed his government’s commitment to achieving the war’s objectives, including the release of hostages and the dismantling of Hamas. Gaza and Hostage Deal “I met yesterday with the families of the hostages whom I invited, including families of both living hostages and deceased hostages,” Netanyahu said. “We are determined to bring back everyone, I told them that.

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