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US President Joe Biden (right) is greeted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion International Airport, October 18, 2023. (Evan Vucci/AP)

January 17, 2025, 4:28 pm

Biden recalls telling Netanyahu in October 2023: ‘You can’t be carpet bombing’ Gaza

Outgoing US president says he doesn’t believe ‘my friend’ Netanyahu held up hostage talks for political reasons, says PM must accommodate ‘legitimate concerns’ of Palestinians

By ToI Staff and Reuters

Ugandan Judge Julia Sebutinde makes her solemn declaration as a new member of the ICJ in the Great Hall of Justice of the Peace Palace in The Hague, March 12, 2012. (ICJ)

January 17, 2025, 4:14 pm

Ugandan judge who backed Israel in genocide case said set to become ICJ chief

Julia Sebutinde, court’s current vice president, is expected to succeed Nawaf Salam after he is appointed Lebanon’s PM; Sebutinde was sole dissenting vote on every ICJ measure

By ToI Staff

The security cabinet meets in Jerusalem on January 17, 2025 to discuss the ceasefire-hostage release deal. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

January 17, 2025, 3:34 pm

Security cabinet approves hostage-ceasefire deal; full cabinet meets to review, vote on it

First hostages to be freed Sunday afternoon; Smotrich said to agree to stay in coalition; relatives of hostages not set for release in 1st phase urge public support for next stage

By Amy Spiro, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

US President Joe Biden, right, hugs Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after arriving at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, October 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

January 17, 2025, 2:18 pm

Daily Briefing Jan. 17: Day 469 – A look back at Biden on Israel: Patron or patronizer?

US bureau chief Jacob Magid takes stock of the fraught relationship between the outgoing US president and the Jewish state, from unprecedented aid packages to sanctions on settlers

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jacob Magid

Defense Minister Israel Katz (C) attends a discussion on the army conscription law at a Foreign Affairs and Defense committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on January 14, 2025.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

January 17, 2025, 1:03 pm

Katz releases all settlers in administrative detention, ties it to Palestinians’ release

‘It is better for the families of Jewish settlers to be happy than the families of freed terrorists,’ defense minister says ahead of Gaza deal

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

A group of Israelis watch as a helicopter carrying hostages released from the Gaza Strip lands at the helipad of the Schneider Children's Medical Center in Petah Tikva November 26, 2023.(AP/Leo Correa)

January 17, 2025, 12:56 pm

Guidelines for hospitals set to receive hostages include STD checks, pregnancy tests

Ministry official says new protocols differ ‘significantly’ from November 2023 hostage release, as captives to return from over 15 months in captivity

By Diana Bletter

Freed Palestinian security prisoner Ateya Abu Moussa, held by Israel for 20 years, is greeted by his relatives and friends upon arrival at his family's house in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Aug. 14, 2013. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

January 17, 2025, 12:16 pm

For many Israelis, prospect of hostage release is tempered by concerns about freeing terrorists

Supporters of the Gaza accord often acknowledge it is a ‘bad deal,’ yet one they vehemently believe Israel must accept in order to be true to its values

By Deborah Danan

The 33 houstages set to be returned in phase one of the Gaza ceasefire deal. Row 1 (L-R): Romi Gonen, Emily Damari, Arbel Yehud, Doron Steinbrecher, Ariel Bibas, Kfir Bibas, Shiri Bibas; Row 2: Liri Albag, Karina Ariev, Agam Berger, Danielle Gilboa, Naama Levy, Ohad Ben-Ami, Gadi Moshe Moses; Row 3: Keith Siegel, Ofer Calderon, Eli Sharabi, Itzik Elgarat, Shlomo Mansour, Ohad Yahalomi, Oded Lifshitz; Row 4: Tsahi Idan, Hisham al-Sayed, Yarden Bibas, Sagui Dekel-Chen, Yair Horn, Omer Wenkert, Sasha Trufanov; Row 5: Eliya Cohen, Or Levy, Avera Mengistu, Tal Shoham, Omer Shem-Tov (all photos courtesy)

January 17, 2025, 11:12 am

These are the 33 hostages set to be returned in phase one of the Gaza ceasefire

Families of the captives have been notified, though it is not yet known who among the 33 is alive and who is not

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A car is daubed with the slur 'Fuck the Jews' in Sydney's Dover Heights in Australia, January 17, 2025 (Sky News screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

January 17, 2025, 9:03 am

In latest antisemitic attack in Australia, cars and home vandalized in Sydney

Vehicles painted with anti-Jewish slurs, as former house of Jewish community leader is defaced; police minister vows to ‘hunt’ down perpetrators

By AFP

People celebrate along a street in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on January 15, 2025, as news spread that a ceasefire and hostage release deal had been reached between Israel and Hamas, aimed at ending more than 15 months of war in the Palestinian territory. (BASHAR TALEB / AFP)

January 17, 2025, 9:03 am

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Hamas’s survival is Gaza’s tragedy

ToI’s senior analyst delves into reasons why Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is now suddenly willing to strike a ‘bad’ deal even as his coalition partners threaten to leave him

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur

A portrait of baby hostage Kfir Bibas created by graffiti artist Benzi Brofman (Courtesy)

January 17, 2025, 8:53 am

Fate of Bibas kids, Gaza’s youngest hostages, grips Israel as deal set to return them

Two small children who have become a symbol of Oct. 7 are to be brought back under the agreement, but it is unclear they are alive

By Sharon Aronowicz and Michael Blum

A journalist is dragged out of the State Department press briefing room after repeatedly interrupting Secretary of State Antony Blinken on January 16, 2025. (Screen capture/X)

January 17, 2025, 6:39 am

Far-left journalists shout at Blinken about Gaza during his last press conference

‘Are you compromised by Israel?’ anti-Zionist Jewish activist yells at secretary of state, claims Israel committing ‘the Holocaust of our time’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US actor and filmmaker Mel Gibson attends a special screening of "Monster Summer" at the DGA Theater Complex in Los Angeles on September 24, 2024. (Valerie Macon/AFP)

January 17, 2025, 5:39 am

Trump taps Mel Gibson, Jon Voight, Sylvester Stallone as ‘Hollywood ambassadors’

US president-elect provides few details of what the role will entail

By Andrew Lapin

Anti-Israel protesters in New York City's Times Square, January 16, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

January 17, 2025, 4:26 am

Anti-Israel protesters hail ‘resistance’ at New York ceasefire rally

Hundreds at Times Square demonstration chant for ‘intifada,’ vow to keep protesting even after hostage agreement

By Luke Tress

Protesters clash with police during an anti-hostage deal protest in Jerusalem, January 16, 2025. (Flash90)

January 17, 2025, 3:12 am

Right-wingers rally in Jerusalem against ‘Trump deal,’ urge government to oppose it

Israel not just ‘another star on the American flag,’ says organizer of protest; police arrest three demonstrators for damaging vehicles, setting fires on the road

By Charlie Summers