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Illustrative — this handout picture provided by the Iranian Army office on March 15, 2023 shows a view of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGC-N) fast attack craft Shahid Raeisi (P313-8) during joint naval military drills between Iran, Russia, and China in the Gulf of Oman. (Iranian Army office / AFP)

January 24, 2025, 5:10 pm

UK warns of Iran’s apparent attempts to force ships into its waters amid IRGC drills

Several vessels receive ‘radio challenges,’ which British military unit reports are likely linked to ongoing naval exercises that the Guards launched after Israeli strikes

By Agencies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen outside his office at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 20, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

January 24, 2025, 4:56 pm

PM asks to testify in graft trial just once next week, citing post-surgery infection

Seeking another delay, Netanyahu’s attorney asserts premier’s recovery has been hampered by ‘weight’ of his work; prosecutors reject request, say medical records don’t justify it

By ToI Staff

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

January 24, 2025, 4:22 pm

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

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

By Amy Spiro and Emanuel Fabian

Hamas authorities are seen apparently executing Palestinians in Gaza accused of collaboration with Israel, in an unverified video circulating on social media, January 23, 2025. (Screen capture via X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

January 24, 2025, 3:48 pm

Video appears to show Hamas shooting several alleged ‘collaborators’ in Gaza

Palestinian reports say Hamas executed six Gazans in Rafah accused of spying for Israel, shot 17 people in the feet for raising prices

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

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)

January 24, 2025, 3:42 pm

‘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

By Jacob Magid

A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

January 24, 2025, 3:21 pm

Taliban slams possible ICC arrest warrant, says court should go after Israel and US

Kabul accuses court of trying to ‘impose a particular interpretation of human rights’ after chief prosecutor says Taliban leaders suspected of gender-based crimes against humanity

By AFP

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk delivers a speech at the opening of the 57th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, on September 9, 2024. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

January 24, 2025, 2:27 pm

UN rights chief warns antisemitism is ‘rampant,’ says Jews face increasing threats

Volker Turk says the upcoming 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation is a wake-up call to the dangers of de-humanization, complacency and apathy

By AFP and ToI Staff

Justice Minister Yariv Levin (left) attends a plenum session in the Knesset on November 13, 2024. (Chaim Goldbergl/Flash90); Acting Supreme Court President Justice Isaac Amit at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, November 14, 2024 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

January 24, 2025, 1:15 pm

With Levin overruled, Judicial Selection Committee to vote Sunday on Supreme Court chief

Panel to convene after justices reject justice minister’s latest motion to delay vote; AG accuses him of ‘assault on separation of powers’ in bid to thwart liberal candidate

By ToI Staff and Jeremy Sharon

Aid is loaded into a UAE plane headed to Egypt's El-Arish airport on January 24, 2025 at an airport in Dubai, as part of a humanitarian mission organised by the United Arab Emirates to deliver humanitarian assistance in the Gaza Strip after a ceasefire deal in the war between Israel and Hamas. (Photo by Fadel Senna / AFP)

January 24, 2025, 1:00 pm

More funding needed to reach targets for Gaza aid shipments, UN official says

Muhannad Hadi, head of aid operations in Gaza and West Bank, says he’s ‘very happy’ with first days of shipments amid ceasefire, but only 3.6% of 2025 funding goal met so far

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Ziv hospital in Safed on October 18, 2020. (David Cohen/FLASH90)

January 24, 2025, 11:27 am

13-year-old with no underlying conditions dies of flu in Safed, as cases rise

Flu morbidity this year is worst since 2012, data shows, as health experts urge vaccinations; more than 2,000 patients have been hospitalized for flu so far this year

By ToI Staff

Palestinians celebrate the release of some 90 prisoners set free by Israel in the early hours of January 20, 2025 upon their arrival aboard a Red Cross bus in the Palestinian West Bank town of Beitunia, on the outskirts of Ramallah. (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

January 24, 2025, 10:27 am

Daily Briefing Jan. 24: Day 476 – Excruciating dilemmas as murderers set to be released

Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur on how high a cost Israel will pay for human life, and the difficult national conversation that may come on how to prevent the next Hamas kidnapping

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur

Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg prepares to speak at an Earthshot Prize Innovation Camp in London, Britain, June 27, 2024. (AP/Kin Cheung, File)

January 24, 2025, 10:08 am

Michael Bloomberg steps in again to fund UN climate body in response to Trump moves

In repeat of 2017, billionaire former mayor of New York vows support for Framework Convention on Climate Change after new US president cuts funding, pulls out of Paris accords

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

L: US President Donald Trump, January 23, 2025. (Roberto Schmidt / AFP), R: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, December 3, 2024. (Saudi Ministry of Media / AFP)

January 24, 2025, 10:08 am

Saudi crown prince promises Trump $600 billion of US investment, trade over 4 years

Bin Salman does not clarify source of funds, offered in US president’s first call with a foreign leader since returning to office; figure represents more than half of Saudi GDP

By AFP

French holocaust survivor Esther Senot poses with a photo of her family during a photo session at the Institut des Invalides in Paris, on December 11, 2024. (Joel Saget / AFP)

January 24, 2025, 9:03 am

Auschwitz survivors return to death camp site, urging young visitors to remember

Esther Senot, 96, recalls vow to dying sister that if she made it out of the camp alive, she’d tell their story; Holocaust educators prepare for a future without survivors

By Claire Gallen

Holocaust survivor Naftali Fürst pauses during an interview at home in Haifa, January 2025. (AP/Maya Alleruzzo)

January 24, 2025, 9:02 am

‘For 60 years, I didn’t talk’: How one survivor made Holocaust memory his mission

Naftali Fürst was 12 years old when he was sent to Auschwitz; now, on the 80th anniversary of its liberation, he will return to the Nazi death camp for a ceremony, his fourth visit

By Melanie Lidman