Day 691 - Cabinet ignores Hamas deal as Trump plans postwar Gaza

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🗓️ 27 August 2025

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Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.

Political correspondent Tal Schneider and health editor Diana Bletter join host Jessica Steinberg for today's episode.

Schneider discusses the timing of US President Donald Trump's announcement regarding Wednesday's White House meeting about the management of the day-to-day lives of Gazans after the war. She notes the Israeli cabinet's decision Tuesday to gloss over the latest Hamas proposal and the US administration's allowing Israel to go ahead with its current military plans.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Israel will only accept comprehensive deals, notes Schneider, and he will not agree to any phased deals of the kind that Egypt and Qatar have succeeded in bringing to the negotiating table.

Bletter describes the Druze community's efforts with a platform created to help supply medical supplies and food from Israel to the devastated Sweida province in Syria where thousands of Druze are under siege by Syrian government-led forces.

Bletter also highlights groundbreaking medical research, including unlocking bacteria to create more effective antibiotics and vaccines. She also notes research on spinal cord tissue that will be transplanted into paralyzed patients, helping them walk again.

Check out The Times of Israel's ongoing liveblog for more updates.

For further reading:

Trump to hold White House meeting on ‘comprehensive plan’ for managing postwar Gaza

As cabinet meeting glosses over deal, mediators say Israel ignoring Hamas proposal

Large crowds fill Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square for rally urging deal to free captives

In a Galilee war room, Startup Nation’s Druze mobilize to help their Syrian brethren in Sweida

Using novel method to compare subgroups, Israeli researchers unlock bacteria’s secrets

In world 1st bid to cure paralysis, Israeli team gears up to implant innovative spinal cord

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IMAGE: Demonstrators protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the current government and for the release of hostages outside Tel Aviv's Defense Ministry on August 23, 2025. (Photo by Erik Marmor/Flash90)

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome to the Times of Israel's Daily Briefing. It is Wednesday, August 27th, and I'm Jessica Steinberg.
0:08.9	I'm speaking today with political correspondent Tel Schneider and health editor Diana Bledder,
0:14.3	who also does reporting from the North. Hello to you both. Hi, Jessica. Hello. Hi there.
0:19.7	It is day 691 of the war. After Tuesday's
0:24.0	nationwide protests across the country and in Tel Aviv Hostages Square for the Hostages,
0:29.5	opposition leader Yadir Lapid said this morning that top-level hostage mediators called him
0:35.5	to ask why Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not responded to the
0:39.6	latest proposal for a hostage deal. We'll talk about that, about what the hostages, families are
0:45.7	saying, and U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to chair a meeting at the White House today
0:52.0	regarding the post-war management of Gaza. We'll also talk about
0:57.0	a Drew's war room to help their brethren in Syria and groundbreaking bacterial research that could
1:03.7	help women's health. Stay with us.
1:09.9	In this episode of Jewish Crossroads, I speak with Elon Goldenberg, one of the few policymakers who has shaped U.S. policy on Israel across both the Obama and Biden administrations.
1:20.6	He reflects on the good decisions and the mistakes of the Biden administration during the war, and he argues that 2026 Israeli elections could be a
1:30.1	tipping point for the relationship between Israel and American jury. If you get a different government,
1:36.0	there is a real opportunity to turn the page. It's not going to mean American Jews and Israelis,
1:43.4	Jews completely align on everything. Like if it's like
1:46.0	a Bennett-led government, like, you know, you're still going to have challenges, obviously. But, you know,
1:51.0	when the people who are playing the role of Itamar, Ben-Gavir and like Smotrich, Belizalzumetrich are
1:57.0	Yer Lepid and Yir Golan, like, that's a different Israeli government.
2:02.5	That can start to move things to a better place.
2:09.5	Okay, so, Tal, let's get started with you.
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