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Einav Zangauker (blue shirt), the mother of hostage Matan Zangauker, celebrates the Gaza peace deal on October 09, 2025, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Chris McGrath via Getty Images)
A few great looks at the Gaza peace deal and how it happened. Woody Allen remembers Diane Keaton. A forgotten American innovator. And more.
By Bari Weiss
10.17.25 — Bari’s Picks of the Week
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There was one huge story driving the news this week: the deal between Israel and Hamas. It’s no doubt a fragile peace, and Hamas has already not kept up its end of the bargain, sending home only some of the remains of murdered Israeli hostages. Hamas has also resumed its terror campaign against Palestinians in Gaza, carrying out mass, public executions …

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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