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What Matters Most On Friday, January 17, 2025

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LIVE: Gov’t discusses Gaza deal into Shabbat — seen sure to okay it — after security cabinet approval

By Jacob Magid and Elana Kirsh

PM’s Office says first hostages to be released on Sunday as planned * Shin Bet says Katz didn’t consult before announcing decision to free settlers from administrative detention

5:23 pm

US Supreme Court upholds law banning TikTok
5:17 pm

After call with Xi, Trump says US and China to 'solve many problems'
5:12 pm

Israel publishes partial list of Palestinian prisoners slated for release in deal's 1st phase

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)

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

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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

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)

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

By Diana Bletter

Ruth Strom speaks at a commemorative event for residents of Kfar Sava in Hamas captivity, July 9, 2024. Her two captive sons are depicted on the mural behind her: Eitan Horn, left, and Iair Horn. (Screen capture: Facebook/Bring Them Home Now -- Kfar Saba, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

A mother’s anguish: One son to be freed from Gaza, another left behind

By Reuters and ToI Staff

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

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

By Amy Spiro, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

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

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Ben Gvir says his party will quit government if cabinet implements hostage-ceasefire deal

‘Reckless deal’ will lead to ‘the release of hundreds of murderous terrorists’ and ‘effectively erase the achievements of the war,’ warns far-right leader Continue Reading

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir holds a press conference together with members of his far-right Otzma Yehudit party in Jerusalem. January 16, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

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

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

By Charlie Summers

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a Religious Zionism faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on December 9, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Religious Zionism says will quit coalition if no return to war after deal’s 1st phase

People walk past an installation consisting of a clock counting the time since Hamas's October 7, 2023 massacre, set up on a square outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, now informally called the "Hostages Square", in Tel Aviv on January 16, 2025. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Trump: Deal 'better be done' before inauguration on Monday

Israel and Hamas sign Gaza hostage-ceasefire deal after mediators iron out final kinks

By Jacob Magid, Amy Spiro and ToI Staff

Full cabinet expected to approve deal on Saturday, implementation set for Sunday; Netanyahu’s coalition faces upheaval over agreement

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)

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

By Deborah Danan

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

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

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

By Sharon Aronowicz and Michael Blum

Demonstrators in support of the Iranian-backed Houthi rebel group in Yemen raise Palestinian flags and placards during a rally denouncing Israel, in the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa on January 10, 2025. (Photo by Mohammed Huwais / AFP)

Houthi leader says group will keep up attacks if Israel doesn’t abide by Gaza truce

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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

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

By ToI Staff and Reuters

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

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)

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

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jacob Magid

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)

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

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur

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

Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani announces a Gaza hostage release and ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, at a press conference on January 15, 2025. (KARIM JAAFAR / AFP)

AnalysisHow Qatar gambled on mediating a Gaza truce, and won

By Callum PATON

Israeli airstrikes pound Gaza, killing Oct. 7 terrorist as sides finalize deal

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Hamas member who participated in Nova festival massacre killed in overnight airstrike, IDF says, amid dozens of attacks across enclave that terror group claims endangered a hostage Continue Reading

People check the rubble of buildings hit in Israeli strikes the previous night in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, on January 16, 2025, following an imminent truce announcement amid the war between Israel and the Hamas terror group. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Ambulances transport wounded Palestinians from north Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, in Beit Lahia, to the Shifa hospital in Gaza City, on December 28, 2024. (Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)

WHO says at least $10 billion needed over 5-7 years to rebuild Gaza health system

By AFP and ToI Staff

Laborers sit on the back of an UNRWA truck during a visit by a senior emergency officer of the UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) to Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on December 3, 2024. (BASHAR TALEB / AFP)

US said leading efforts to replace UNRWA, as ban that would paralyze operations looms

Acrid fumes of ceasefire

The deal-makers can’t brag: They’ve legitimated hostage-taking, promised future harm, and didn’t demand humane treatment for the captives even now

Philip Rosenberg

The Beatles, Berlioz and a story of the Jewish world

When you’re a gentle musical virtuoso, your viola E-string can snap mid-performance and you’ll figure out how to play on (at least, that’s what my grandfather did)

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)

Shin Bet: He did not consult with us about the implications

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

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

‘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

Defense Minister Israel Katz and MK Yuli Edelstein discuss ultra-Orthodox conscription at a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, January 14, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Panel head Edelstein rejects Katz plan for gradual increase in Haredi conscription

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

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

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)

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

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Deborah Lipstadt walks a red carpet for 'Denial' during the 11th Rome Film Festival at Auditorium Parco Della Musica in Rome on October 17, 2016. (Elisabetta A. Villa/WireImage)

Deborah Lipstadt, exiting as US antisemitism envoy, is hoping for the best under Trump

By Lauren Markoe

Despite Jew-hatred at home and abroad rising during her tenure, the historian, who expanded and provided continuity to her office, deems her time a success

A Wizz Air jet comes in to land at Gatwick Airport, south of London on June 10, 2022. (Ben Stansall / AFP)

Wizz Air resumes Tel Aviv-London flights, Lufthansa group to return Feb. 1

By Sharon Wrobel, Agencies and ToI Staff

Lufthansa’s five airlines will fly routes to six European travel hubs; EasyJet says it will review its plans in the coming days; Turkish Airlines to return to Damascus after decade

Illustrative: The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. November 29, 2020. (Miriam Alster/ FLASH90/ File)

Gaza ceasefire should take pressure off Israel’s credit rating, Fitch agency says

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)

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

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Hezbollah weapons seized by paratroopers and commandos during operations in southern Lebanon, in a handout photo published October 6, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

10 soldiers wounded after RPG explodes at combat engineering training base

By Emanuel Fabian

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)

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

By AFP

Religious Services Minister Michael Malkieli attends a plenum session on the so-called Rabbis Bill in the Knesset, January 15, 2025. (Goldberg/Flash90)

After yearlong strife, Knesset passes Shas’s controversial ‘Rabbis Law’

High Court Justice Yael Wilner presides over a hearing on a petition requesting the court order Justice Minister Yariv Levin call a vote in the Judicial Selection Committee to appoint a new Supreme Court president, July 18, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Scolding Levin, High Court allows him 10 more days to appoint new Supreme Court head

By Jeremy Sharon

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)

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

By Andrew Lapin

Knesset subcommittee on Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Technologies discusses new restrictions by the US on exporting advanced computer chips. (Knesset website)

Israel to bring forward procurement of AI chips ahead of Biden’s new export rules

By Sharon Wrobel

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