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What Matters Most On Friday, January 5, 2024

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FILE: Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF chief Herzi Halevi, October 23, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

'A shameful embarrassment. They went for Halevi relentlessly'

Meeting on next phases in Gaza ends in fracas as ministers snipe at IDF chief over probe

Right-wing politicians question timing of internal IDF Oct. 7 investigation while fighting ongoing, as Gallant, Gantz come to Halevi’s defense and tell lawmakers to butt out

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi gives a statement to the media at an army base in southern Israel, December 26, 2023. (Flash90)

IDF to probe operational failures in lead-up to Oct. 7, drawing rage from ministers

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi gives a statement to the media at an army base in southern Israel, December 26, 2023. (Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 5: Day 91 – Why is the IDF investigating Oct. 7 failures now?

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant receives a situational assessment at the IDF's Northern Command base on January 5, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 5: Gallant warns time running out for diplomatic solution to Hezbollah tensions

By Jacob Magid, Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

Nasrallah claims talks to end border fighting could lead to Lebanon gaining territory * Defense minister pans those using IDF for political gain after ministers bash army chief

9:54 pm

UNICEF says nutrition needs of children and pregnant woman are unmet in Gaza
9:44 pm

German foreign minister presses for better protection of Gaza civilians
9:22 pm

Biden accuses Trump of echoing Nazis, kickstarting re-election campaign with speech warning of threat to democracy

Gallant tells US envoy Hochstein there’s a ‘short window’ for a deal with Hezbollah

By Emanuel Fabian and AFP

Defense minister calls for ‘a new reality in the northern arena’ so that displaced Israelis can return to their homes: ‘We will not tolerate the threats posed by the Iranian proxy’

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (right) meets US special envoy to the region Amos Hochstein at the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, January 4, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) meets with US special envoy Amos Hochstein in Tel Aviv, January 4, 2024. (Prime Minister's Office via X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Netanyahu to US envoy: Israel committed to fundamental change on Lebanon border

Illustrative: A Maersk container ship at Aqaba, Jordan, on the Red Sea on October 3, 2019. (eugenesergeev/iStock by Getty Images)

Houthis claim hit on cargo ship in Red Sea but US official says drone ship missed

Israel's President Isaac Herzog (3rd right) shakes hands with Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani on the sidelines of the COP28 summit in Dubai, December 1, 2023 (Courtesy)

Promoted Article

Israel at COP28: Climate crisis won’t wait

Despite the Oct 7 Hamas attack in Israel, dedicated startups and thought leaders showed up to the UN Climate Change Conference with promising solutions for many climate challenges.

Hailing Hamas, Iranian president says October 7 massacres will destroy Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Speaking to mourners at funerals for 89 victims of ISIS suicide bombings, Raisi threatens perpetrators: ‘Our enemies can see Iran’s power and the whole world knows its strength’

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi greets mourners after speaking during the funeral of victims killed in twin blasts on January 3, 2024, as they took part in a commemoration marking the anniversary of the killing of Revolutionary Guards general Qassem Soleimani in the southern city of Kerman. (Iranian Presidency / AFP)

People gather at the site of an explosion in the city of Kerman, about 510 miles (820 kilometers) southeast of Tehran, Iran, January 3, 2024. (Sare Tajalli/ISNA via AP)

Islamic State claims responsibility for Iran suicide bombings killing 84 people

Hamas members carry the coffin of Saleh al-Arouri, one of the top Hamas terror group commanders, who was killed in an apparent Israeli strike Tuesday, during his funeral in Beirut, Lebanon, Jan. 4, 2024. (AP/Hussein Malla)

‘Bomb Tel Aviv’: Mourners call for revenge at funeral for top Hamas terrorist Arouri

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A group of observant Jewish men, mostly from New York and Brooklyn, visit Kibbutz Kfar Aza, close to the Israeli border with Gaza, January 3, 2024. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Reporter's Notebook

Kibbutz Kfar Aza, devastated on October 7, becomes a grim place of pilgrimage

Groups of Americans seen alongside soldiers, researchers, friends of the dead, parents of serving soldiers, and curious onlookers who want to ‘feel close’ to what happened

Cabinet discusses vision for day after Hamas is defeated

Gallant’s post-war Gaza plan: Palestinians to run civil affairs with global task force

By Tal Schneider, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Defense minister’s 4-part proposal calls for ongoing Israeli military control; no Jewish settlement; US, Egypt, moderate Arab countries to lead rehabilitation; Smotrich slams it

Defense Yoav Galant holds a joint press conference with minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich (not seen) in Jerusalem, on December 26, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in Zumpango, Mexico, on December 27, 2023. (Rodrigo Oropeza/AFP)

Blinken heads to Mideast for talks with Israel, Arab allies on war’s ‘next phase’

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Ellen Ginsberg Simon

Claudine Gay’s moral failings as a leader

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The secret weapon of Jewish survival

When you’re overloaded by the world and you still try to fix it, without worrying about yourself, because some things are just that important (Shemot)

'The feeling is that there's a spotlight everywhere we go'

UPenn faculty solidarity mission receives rock-star reception in Israel

By Gavriel Fiske

A whirlwind tour of less than three days represents the first organized visit by faculty from a US university after October 7, and Israeli academia shows its appreciation

(From L-R) Idan Shtivi, Hanan Yablonka, and Ilan Weiss, who the IDF announced were among those being held in Gaza on January 4, 2024. (Courtesy)

Ilan Weiss, was killed Oct. 7; his body is held in Gaza

IDF says 3 Israelis missing since October 7 are among Gaza hostages; 1 of them is dead

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Number of hostages believed held in Gaza rises to 136; IDF troops kill Hamas gunmen in tunnels, detain operatives of elite Nukhba force; Gaza death toll said to pass 22,000

Tamir Adar, 38, was killed and abducted by Hamas terrorists while he was defending his kibbutz, Nir Oz, on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)

Kibbutz Nir Oz announces death of Tamir Adar, 38, presumed kidnapped on October 7

Nili Margalit speaks to Channel 12's Uvda on January 4, 2024. (Screen capture/Channel 12)

Ex-hostage watched Hamas captors tell Yarden Bibas of family’s ‘fate’ while filming

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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: How the court just redefined its own powers

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

ToI’s senior analyst weighs in on an unprecedented Supreme Court decision and whether it will reignite the existential debate over judicial overhaul

Times of Israel senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur (Courtesy)

Inside Story

Gianluca Pacchiani

Arouri’s rapprochement: How Hamas found shelter and military support in Lebanon

After opening a Lebanon operational base in 2018, Hamas recruited new members among local Palestinian refugees and availed itself of Hezbollah’s aid with Iran’s blessing

Hamas’s deputy political chief Saleh al-Arouri (left) holds a rare meeting with head of the Lebanese terror group leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Lebanon October 31, 2017. (Screenshot from PalInfo website)

A cartoon in the Shvi'i magazine depicting Supreme Court of Justice President Esther Haut standing with a flag with the justice symbol impaled in an IDF soldier, on January 4, 2024. (Shvi'i: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Cartoon of ex-chief justice Hayut stabbing IDF soldier in the back sparks outrage

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid condemns ‘sickening and dangerous incitement;’ Bar Association head calls on attorney general to investigate ‘fascist’ political cartoon

Professor Malcolm Shaw KC (Essex Court Chambers)

British lawyer to defend Israel from Gaza genocide claims in The Hague

By ToI Staff and Jeremy Sharon

Territorial disputes expert Professor Malcolm Shaw will present Israel’s defense against South African war crimes accusations at International Court of Justice on January 12

Members of the Abu Jarad family, who were displaced by the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, bake bread at a makeshift tent camp in the Muwasi area, southern Gaza, January 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

$100 for 25 kg of flour: Gaza families scramble to find food, water and medicine

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A woman suffering from the flu (monstArrr_ via iStock by Getty Images)

Winter arrived late this year, so Israel only now seeing surge in COVID and flu

By Renee Ghert-Zand

With hospital beds filled with the war wounded, the healthcare system urges people to get vaccinated while there is still time to keep themselves and others healthy

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Illustrative: New York City police officers work the scene of a shooting outside the 41st precinct, February 9, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

NYPD reports 31 antisemitic crimes in December, as Gaza war surge begins to subside

By New York Jewish Week via JTA

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Sex offender pleads guilty in NY to new charges after interview with Hasidic comedian

Illustrative - A protester adds a portrait of a hostage to a wall of such posters during a rally for supporters and relatives of Israeli hostages held by Hamas and other terror groups in Gaza since October 7, in Tel Aviv on December 23, 2023 (Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP)

3 nabbed for allegedly posing as relatives of hostages, taking NIS 100,000 in donations

Illustrative image of two dozen neo-Nazis demonstrating in London on July 4, 2015 against the 'Jewification' of Golders Green in London. They were outnumbered by some 200 counter-demonstrators. (Screen capture/TheBlaze/YouTube. Used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

UK podcast pair jailed for neo-Nazi series, incitement to terrorism

By AFP

Former Israel Postal Company chairman Mishael Vaknin arrives for a hearing at the High Court in Jerusalem, in a petition against his dismissal, January 4, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court warns Likud ministers to reverse firing of Israel Post chairman

By Jeremy Sharon

Illustrative: Medics at the scene of a suspected murder in Lod, February 23, 2023. (Magen David Adom)

Woman found dead in north, man shot in Baqa al-Gharbiya

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich shouts from the podium in the Knesset in Jerusalem, December 3, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich said to nix coalition statement criticizing High Court recusal ruling

Railway tracks lead to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland (photo credit: Serge Attal/Flash90)

Poland probes TV commentators’ call to send migrants to Auschwitz, tattoo their arms

By Vanessa Gera

Israeli startup Imagindairy uses precision fermentation technology to teach microorganisms such as yeast or fungi to produce animal-free milk proteins. (Tal Shahar/Imagindairy)

Israeli foodtech startup secures US regulatory nod for cow-free dairy protein

By Sharon Wrobel

Screen capture from video showing two Israeli security guards struggling for control of a rifle seized by a terrorist during a stabbing attack, January 1, Mishor Adumim. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

New footage shows West Bank stabber grabbed rifle left behind by guard during attack

South Africa's Oscar Pistorius starts in the men's semi-finals of the 400-meter in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics, London on August 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)

South Africa: Ex-Olympic runner Pistorius released 11 years after killing girlfriend

By AFP

Left: The cover of 'When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary,' written by best-selling author Alice Hoffman. (Scholastic Inc. via AP); Right: Anne Frank in her school in Amsterdam. (Public domain)

New book by Alice Hoffman imagines Anne Frank’s life in Amsterdam before her diary

By Hillel Italie

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