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What Matters Most On Monday, January 1, 2024

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IDF soldiers walk near the border with the Gaza Strip in Israel on their return from the Gaza Strip, on December 31, 2023, amid continuing battles between Israel and the terror group Hamas. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

Thousands of ground force soldiers coming out of the Strip

As 2024 begins, IDF withdraws 5 brigades from Gaza, but says fighting likely all year

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says rocket launches down to average of 14 per day; ‘We are adjusting the fighting methods,’ spokesman says

Israeli soldiers seen at a staging area near the Israeli-Gaza border, southern Israel, December 31, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF: Deaths of 29 of 170 soldiers in Gaza op were so-called friendly fire, accidents

By Emanuel Fabian

At stroke of midnight, Hamas attacks Israel with heavy New Year rocket barrage

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Over 20 projectiles target south and center of country as Israelis mark the start of the new year amid sorrow: ‘The minute I start to dance, I feel guilty’

Screen capture from video of a rocket barrage from the Gaza Strip being intercepted over Israel, January 1, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Fireworks explode over the ancient Parthenon temple at the Acropolis hill during New Year's celebrations in Athens, Greece, Monday, Jan. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

As wars loom large, world welcomes 2024 with celebration, hope and prayer

Thousands demonstrate against Israel amid the ongoing war in Gaza, in Istanbul, Turkey, January 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Amid New Years celebrations, pro-Palestinian protesters rally across globe

By Agencies and ToI Staff

This picture taken from the Israeli border with the northern Gaza Strip shows Israeli soldiers watching Gaza City from a position on January 1, 2024 (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 1: Gaza fighting will continue in varying forms, top IDF general says

By ToI Staff and Shira Silkoff

Army says it carried out series of strikes against Hezbollah sites * High Court strikes down reasonableness law, in first-ever annulment of Basic Law

9:51 pm

Ukraine's Zelensky says Russia is suffering major losses
9:28 pm

5 rockets fired at Israel from Syria; Israel shells launch sites, strikes Hezbollah
9:14 pm

Military Police investigating soldier's killing of Palestinian detainee in Gaza

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Says one new-old recruit: ‘If there’s anyone I’d want to go to battle with, it’s these guys’; Phoenix unit initially replaced tanks on border but has since seen action inside Gaza

A refurbished tank on the move. (Channel 12 screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Nir Barkat again denounces handling of war in north and south

Outrage as far-right minister suggests some pilots refusing air support for Gaza troops

Settlements Minister Orit Strock widely reported to ask at cabinet if some in Air Force are failing to carry out their duties for ideological reasons

Settlements Minister Orit Strock arrives to a government conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on December 10, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Israelis celebrating New Year's Eve in Tel Aviv, December 31, 2023. (Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 1: Day 87 – New Year’s Eve rockets; outrage as minister insults pilots

Likud MK Galit Distel-Atbaryan speaks to Channel 13 news in an interview aired on December 31, 2023. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Ex-Likud minister says she ‘sinned’ in tearing country apart ahead of Oct. 7 attack

By ToI Staff and AP

Galit Distel Atbaryan, who resigned her post early in war, admits ‘I created division, and I created tension, and this tension caused a weakness’ in the nation exploited by Hamas

Ilan Weiss, last seen early in the morning of October 7, 2023, presumed taken captive in Gaza from his home in Kibbutz Be'eri (Courtesy)

Kibbutz Be’eri resident Ilan Weiss, missing since Oct. 7, is confirmed killed

Community asks that ‘devoted father to his daughters’ be recognized as a fallen soldier as he was part of kibbutz security team that tried to ward off terrorists during assault

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Yuval Haran, whose father was killed and seven of whose family members were taken hostage to Gaza on October 7 from Kibbutz Be'eri, stands in the rubble of his parents' home. (Jessica Steinberg/ Times of Israel)

In rubble of parents’ home, scion of Be’eri founders not sure he can bear to move back

By Jessica Steinberg

Yuval Haran’s father was killed as seven family members were taken hostage; with six now freed, he battles to bring his brother-in-law home too

Screen capture from video of an assailant, bottom right, stabbing a pregnant woman in Lod, November 30, 2023. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Of 22 women killed in 2023, 19 knew their killer, monitor finds

Israel Observatory on Femicide’s report doesn’t include hundreds of women murdered in October 7 Hamas massacre

Police at the scene of a shooting in the northern town of Kafr Kanna, August 26, 2023. (Flash90)

244 Arabs said killed in 2023 violence, more than double 2022 toll

Screen capture from video of former Houthi spokesperson Ali Al Bukhaiti talking to Channel 12, December 30, 2023. (Channel 12. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Ex-senior Houthi official warns that Iran-backed group will eventually hit Tel Aviv

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Former spokesperson Ali Al Bukhaiti cautions that Yemen-based terror movement should not be treated as a joke, is gaining popularity around world for its attacks on Israel

In this photo obtained from the US Department of Defense, the aircraft carriers Gerald R. Ford (L, front) and Dwight D. Eisenhower (R, front) and ships in their Strike Groups sail in formation in the Mediterranean Sea, on November 3, 2023. (Jacob Mattingly/US Department of Defense/AFP)

US said set to pull one of its aircraft carriers away from the Middle East

By ToI Staff and Agencies

File: An Israeli fighter jet releases flares as it flies over the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, December 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

IDF downs two apparent drones launched at Israel by Iran-backed Iraqi militia

By Emanuel Fabian

The reunion of siblings Maya and Itay Regev, released from Gaza days apart, with a third sibling at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, November 30, 2023, in handout photos by the hospital. (Courtesy)

Painful surgeries and passing notes: The Regev siblings on surviving Hamas captivity

Maya and Itay Regev, abducted from Supernova party, speak about communicating with each other, being dressed as Muslim women to avoid detection, and medical treatment in captivity

Illustrative: The scene of a stabbing attack near the West Bank's Mishor Adumim industrial zone, December 31, 2023. (Magen David Adom)

2 security guards hurt in West Bank stabbing; terrorist shot, condition unclear

By Emanuel Fabian

MDA says victims both in their 20s, lightly injured, evacuated from Ma’ale Adumim industrial area to Jerusalem hospital; police say stabber ‘neutralized’

An elderly woman looks on as she sits with children at a makeshift camp in an area of the European Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on December 31, 2023. (AFP)

Vaccines for children’s diseases begin flowing into Gaza as infection rates soar

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Inoculations against rubella, polio, measles and mumps trucked in via Rafah amid concerns of health emergency within beleaguered enclave and worries outbreaks could reach Israel

File - Former Palestinian Authority minister Youssef Salama, in undated footage screened by Al Jazeera on December 31, 2023 (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Former PA minister reportedly killed in central Gaza strike; no comment from IDF

By AFP and ToI Staff

Philippe Pétain sits at his trial in July 1945 in Paris. (Photo by PIGISTE / AFP)

Interview'It's become an unlikely topic in the run-up to elections'

History has confirmed guilt of Vichy leader Petain – so why do some question it?

By Robert Philpot

Regime helped deport 75,000 Jews to Nazi death camps, but as ‘France on Trial’ – a best book of the year by UK media – details, this got barely a mention when its leader went on trial

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A worker milking cows at a cowshed in the Golan Heights, on October 26, 2023. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Government to mull plan to replace Palestinian laborers with 80,000 foreign workers

Policemen stand in front of the Cologne Cathedral on December 24, 2023. (INA FASSBENDER/AFP)

German police thwart suspected Islamist attack on Cologne Cathedral on New Year’s Eve

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: An Israel Police car in Tel Aviv on April 12, 2020. (joseh51camera/iStock by Getty Images)

Palestinian doctor probed by police for allegedly blocking colleagues on social media

By Jeremy Sharon

IDF troops seen operating in the Gaza Strip in this handout photo released December 23, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Man allegedly impersonated soldier, entered Gaza, stole weapons, posed with Netanyahu

Team at Israeli AI digital accessibility startup UserWay. (Courtesy)

Israel digital accessibility startup to be bought by US firm in deal valued at $99m

By Sharon Wrobel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a vote on the reasonableness bill at the Knesset on July 24, 2023 after being fitted with a pacemaker. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM’s annual medical report says he is in a ‘completely normal state of health’

The Masuah compost site and Tovlan landfill site in the Jordan Valley. (Environmental Protection Ministry)

Police, Environment Ministry raid recycling company suspected of fraud

Protesters hold a banner reading 'Your family asks to be released soon' during a rally asking for the freedom of Santiago Sanchez Cogedor, near the Iranian embassy in Madrid, on December 18, 2022. (THOMAS COEX / AFP)

Iran releases Spanish national who was imprisoned for more than a year

By AFP

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