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Hostage Deal

Israel to approve ceasefire deal, hostage release this weekend

October 9, 2025

Israel is set to approve a ceasefire with Hamas following an announcement by US President Donald Trump that a deal had been reached during talks in Sharm el-Sheikh. According to the agreement, the release of all Israeli hostages held by Hamas is expected to begin on Saturday and conclude by Sunday.

Hostage Deal

Trump: Israel and Hamas signed first phase of Gaza peace plan

ILH Staff

Hostage Deal

Hamas agrees to hostage deal

ILH Staff

Hostage Deal

Trump: 'We're close to a deal in the Middle East'

Or Shaked

Commentary

This deal is a capitulation to terrorism, not a total victory

Nadav Shragai

Hamas sends mixed signals as hostage deal nears completion

AFP

Hamas says all living hostages can be freed within 72 hours

Danny Zaken

AP/AFP/Reuters

Israel prepares for hostage deal – and its price

Shirit Avitan Cohen

Preparations underway in Israel for return of hostages

Lilach Shoval and Shirit Avitan Cohen

Hostage Deal

Trump: Israel and Hamas signed first phase of Gaza peace plan

by ILH Staff

October 9, 2025

Hostage Deal

Hamas agrees to hostage deal

by ILH Staff

October 9, 2025

Reuters

Hostage Deal

Trump: 'We're close to a deal in the Middle East'

by Or Shaked

October 9, 2025

Feature

Israel Hayom's photos that defined the year

Families of the hostages, IDF soldiers, Israel’s national basketball team – along with the lunar eclipse. Just after the start of the new year, Israel Hayom photographers selected their pictures of the year.

October 4, 2025

Magazine

'Forgiveness is not just correction, it's a path'

As Yom Kippur approaches, I cannot help but return to that moment – October 7. The day everything turned upside down. The day my world shattered, when everything I knew about myself, my role as a mother, as a citizen, as a human being, was shaken to its core.

October 3, 2025

Analysis

The Trump plan – and the clause that could doom Hamas

Behind the festive White House scenes, a diplomatic mystery looms large, as the potential Hamas disarming clause could trigger the terror group's greatest nightmare, echoing past Doha deals that unraveled dramatically.

September 30, 2025

Feature

Apache turns 50: From Cold War tank killer to frontline drone hunter

The helicopter that first flew in 1975, designed to stop Soviet tanks on the plains of Europe, is now shooting down Iranian Shahed drones over Israel and Lebanon – an example of the adaptability of a weapon serving in 18 armies. Until October 7, Israel had been reducing its attack helicopter fleet, but the Hamas assault reversed that trend. Today, Israel is seeking to double its fleet. Fifty years after its maiden flight, the Apache has not become obsolete – it has adapted.

September 29, 2025

Magazine

'Works like a machine': The man who led Mossad to unprecedented success

The pager operation marked a moment of closing the circle for Barnea: under his leadership, Mossad delivered a crushing blow to a threatening entity that had been feared for years, and restored to Israel the deterrence and security-intelligence prestige lost on October 7th.

October 8, 2025

Magazine

The tanks that turned the tide on October 7

On the morning of October 7, twelve tanks from Battalion 77 were on alert facing a quiet Gaza border. In a single moment, the calm shattered. For the first time, step by step, the stories emerge of the armored crews who stood for hours against thousands of terrorists, fought to the last shell and gave their lives. This is the story of the 7th Armored Brigade on the black Shabbat.

October 7, 2025

Magazine

How do you rebuild a home?

The colorful paper chains I hung in our sukkah two years ago, and promised to take down only when the hostages came home, haven’t fallen apart with time. They remind me what can be seen through a temporary roof, beneath a sky full of stars.

October 8, 2025

Magazine

Is Italy against us?

How did it happen that, specifically, the country where a distinctly right-wing government stands and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is considered a devoted Israel supporter, placed the Gaza war at the top of the public agenda?

October 6, 2025

Magazine

'Doomsday scenario': The new threat at the Egyptian border

"The border is breached, and nobody really deals with it! The authorities' disregard is a disgrace. That we haven't been hurt yet – it's a miracle. But the possibility that this will turn on us at any moment is tangible."

October 4, 2025

Magazine

Yes, division led to the massacre

When the newspaper headline, just one day before October 7, warned of expected protests at the Simchat Torah celebrations in Tel-Aviv with the title “Simchat Torah War,” a war did indeed come, only of a very different kind.

October 4, 2025

Feature