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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 477

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Israeli soldiers held hostage by Hamas, who are due to be released on January 25, 2025: Top (L-R) Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa; bottom (L-R) Naama Levy, Liri Albag. (Courtesy)

Four female soldiers to be freed Saturday in second hostage release of Gaza ceasefire

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Hamas says it will release Liri Albag, Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa and Naama Levy; all four were abducted when terrorists stormed IDF’s Nahal Oz surveillance base on Oct. 7, 2023

Families of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, along with activists block the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv, during a protest calling for the captives' release, January 24, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Hamas names 4 female hostages to be freed Sat.; Israel okays list though it violates terms

By Emanuel Fabian

A child inspects the damage of his destroyed family home, in Bureij, central Gaza Strip, January 22, 2025, days after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas came into effect. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

ExplainerHow the ceasefire-hostage deal in Gaza is set to unfold, and why it’s so precarious

By AP and ToI Staff

LiveUpdated 53min ago

Israel approves 4 female hostages Hamas plans to free tomorrow, though list breaches deal

Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Families of Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy, Liri Albag informed they’ll be released * Israel decides not to halt deal over failure to free female civilians first

Israeli soldiers held hostage by Hamas, who are due to be released on January 25, 2025: Top (L-R) Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa; bottom (L-R) Naama Levy, Liri Albag. (Courtesy)

Four female soldiers to be freed Saturday in second hostage release of Gaza ceasefire

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Hamas says it will release Liri Albag, Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa and Naama Levy; all four were abducted when terrorists stormed IDF’s Nahal Oz surveillance base on Oct. 7, 2023

Families of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, along with activists block the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv, during a protest calling for the captives' release, January 24, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Hamas names 4 female hostages to be freed Sat.; Israel okays list though it violates terms

By Emanuel Fabian

A child inspects the damage of his destroyed family home, in Bureij, central Gaza Strip, January 22, 2025, days after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas came into effect. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

ExplainerHow the ceasefire-hostage deal in Gaza is set to unfold, and why it’s so precarious

By AP and ToI Staff

LiveUpdated 53min ago

Israel approves 4 female hostages Hamas plans to free tomorrow, though list breaches deal

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Families of Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy, Liri Albag informed they’ll be released * Israel decides not to halt deal over failure to free female civilians first

Troops of the 769th “Hiram” Regional Brigade operate in southern Lebanon, in a handout photo issued on January 24, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel won’t complete full withdrawal from Lebanon by Sunday deadline, PM says

By Amy Spiro, Emanuel Fabian and Jacob Magid

Netanyahu declares Lebanon ‘has not fully enforced’ terms of November deal, which calls for Lebanese army to deploy south of Litani River as Israel withdraws, Hezbollah pulls north

Troops of the 7th Armored Brigade operate in southern Lebanon, in a handout photo issued on January 23, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel said seeking 30 more days to withdraw from Lebanon, citing Hezbollah violations

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A handcuffed man in Jerusalem (Olivier Fitoussi /FLASH90)

East Jerusalem resident arrested on suspicion of collaborating with Hezbollah

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

A rocket launcher captured by IDF troops on the Lebanese side of Mount Dov, in a photo published January 22, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF seizes truce-violating weapons, including rocket launchers, in south Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Reporter's notebook'In a way, in NY you get ‘more’ than you get in Amsterdam'

NYC replica of famed Anne Frank House amplifies humanity of those murdered by Nazis

Reproduction of tiny Amsterdam annex where young diarist hid with her family opens to the public at the Center for Jewish History on Monday, International Holocaust Remembrance Day Continue Reading

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, talks with Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Barbara Leaf, onboard a C-17 aircraft as he departs Israel for Cairo, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool via AP)

Interview

‘We averted much worse’: Biden’s top Mideast diplomat looks back on tumultuous term

Barbara Leaf ends diplomatic career hopeful about developments in Syria and Lebanon, regrets she could not convince Netanyahu to advance alternative to Hamas rule in post-war Gaza

Those we have lost

Stories of the civilians and soldiers who have fallen in the Israel-Hamas war

Those We Have Lost
Dudi Turgeman, 26: Partygoer ‘didn’t waste a minute of life’

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Joseph ‘Sefi’ Genis, 30: Hi-tech success charged at terrorist unarmed

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Stav Geta, 30: Slain partygoer was single mom to 2 young kids

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Irit Konderov, 27: ‘Warrior mother’ who inspired her friends

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Sgt. Bar Yankilov, 19: Lifelong dream was ‘to defend this country’

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Bechor Swid, 32: Landscape gardener and father of 3 girls

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Wolderaphael ‘Tiger’ Hagos, 40: Musical Eritrean asylum seeker

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Cpt. Rom Shlomi, 23: Shaldag officer known for being ‘a good friend’

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Padam Thapa, 20s: Nepali intern who was ‘enterprising and cheerful’

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Staff Sgt. Daniel Bezgodov, 21: Had ‘muscles as big as his heart’

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Sgt. Maj. Aharon Farash, 36: Haredi soldier and father of five

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Lidor Levi and Nitzan Rahoum, 28: Slain couple were expecting first baby

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Eden Naftali, 23: Student with a ‘light-filled smile’ slain at rave

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Shiraz and Adir Tamam, 38 & 40: Left behind two orphaned girls

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Shiraz Brodash, 23, Avshalom Peretz, 27: ‘Two angels, you are together’

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Samar Talalka, 24: Motorcycle lover who was slated to get married

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Evgeny Galsky, 34: Firefighter was training for a mountain bike race

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Sgt. 1st Class Jawad Amer, 23: Druze commander had ‘a sense of mission’

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Staff Sgt. Itay Ron, 20: Golani soldier ‘sacrificed himself for others’

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Gilad Kfir, 48: Photographer who never got to meet his baby girl

By ToI Staff

Those we are missing

The hostages and victims whose fate is still unknown

Those we are missing
Taken captive: Omer Wenkert, suffers from autoimmune condition

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Amazon employee Sasha Trufanov

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Nimrod Cohen, twin working to bring him home

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Ofer Calderon, initially escaped through window

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Gadi Moshe Mozes, expert potato farmer, ‘saba’ to all

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Liri Albag, seen in Hamas video being abducted

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Guy Gilboa-Dalal, took a selfie with his brother for mom

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Bar Kupershtein, last seen tied up by Hamas

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Daniella Gilboa, identified by the shirt she wore

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Karina Ariev, told parents ‘continue your lives’

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Eliya Cohen, dragged from a pile of dead bodies

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Or Levy arrived at festival minutes before onslaught

By AP
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Omer Shem-Tov’s car was driven into Gaza

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Omri Miran, driven in his own car to Gaza

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Thai worker Pongsak Tanna, father of 14-year-old girl

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Yarden Bibas, injured on his head at abduction

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Rom Braslavski, rave guard who saved others

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Maxim Herkin, was attending his first trance rave

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Ariel Cunio told brother ‘We are in a horror film’

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Oded Lifshitz, drove Gazans to hospitals

By ToI Staff

Tales of the Times

The quirky, improbable, infuriating and uplifting

Flocking home
‘The 16th Sheep’ a hit at first of sold-out reunion shows

By Jessica Steinberg
Big cheese
Jerusalem pizzeria once hot for Clinton rebrands itself for Trump

By Deborah Danan
Our hearts are captive
Israelis choose ‘hostages’ as Academy of the Hebrew Language’s word of 2024

By ToI Staff
Bright side bulletin
Novel ‘newspaper’ offers hopeful post-Oct. 7 visions

By Sue Surkes
What a card
Sotheby’s auctions world’s biggest Jewish baseball card collection

By jacob gurvis
If you will it
AI music clip imagines all hostages released, a new MidEast

By Jessica Steinberg
Cashing out
Thieves steal ATM from mall in central Israel, can’t open it

By Charlie Summers
City space
Tel Aviv-Jaffa offers urban tours during January

By Jessica Steinberg
Second coming
Mel Gibson announces ‘acid trip’ sequel to ‘Passion of the Christ’

By ToI Staff
Canned
French mayor scraps recycling ads showing Iran’s Khamenei

By AFP
Worlds collide
11 artists living between Israel and US express their journey at Olim Artists Lab

By Jessica Steinberg
Played for Israel in 2023
Pirates welcome Jewish player Spencer Horwitz to the team

By Jonathan Mayo
Pinning blame
Gal Gadot denies she was forbidden to wear hostage pin at Golden Globes

By ToI Staff
Sworn to Reform
Elissa Slotkin sworn into US Senate on Reform women’s Torah commentary

By PHILISSA CRAMER
We'll eat where they're eating
Katz’s Deli will become accessible to the disabled after federal lawsuit

By Luke Tress
Greece light-ning
Israeli and Greek music mesh in Cyprus concerts on Hanukkah

By Jessica Steinberg
Superman
Singer Idan Amedi, injured in Gaza, performs for bereaved kids

By Jessica Steinberg
Crowning achievements
Stephen Fry knighted, other British Jews honored by king

By ToI Staff and Agencies
Handle with care
Mohammad, Avigail most popular baby names for 2024

By ToI Staff
A 'Hannukah' shanda
NYT game misspells Hanukkah in Festival of Lights-themed puzzle

By PHILISSA CRAMER

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