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What Matters Most On Sunday, January 7, 2024

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IDF troops seen operating inside the Gaza Strip in this handout photo released for publication on January 5, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

New photo of Hamas military chief Deif recovered from Gaza

3 months into war, IDF says it’s dismantled Hamas ‘military framework’ in north Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Army says it killed commanders of Hamas battalion that carried out Be’eri massacre; soldier killed in northern Gaza, taking military toll in ground operation to 176

An undated photo released by the Israel Defense Forces on January 6, 2024, shows Muhammad Deif (R), the commander of the Hamas terror group's military wing. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF reveals new undated photo of shadowy Hamas commander Mohammed Deif

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid line up at the Rafah Border Crossing, Egypt, on the way to Gaza, November 19, 2023. (AP/Amr Nabil, File)

In Rafah, progressive US senators charge Israeli inspections slowing aid to Gaza

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, leads a cabinet meeting at the Kirya IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, January 7, 2024. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

As cracks widen in coalition, National Unity members skip cabinet meeting

Ministers’ absence from meeting linked to recent ‘clashes in the cabinet,’ says Chili Tropper, whose party leader, Benny Gantz, slammed Netanyahu for attacks on military

Protesters demanding elections rally at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, January 6, 2024 (Gilad Furst)

Protesters in Tel Aviv, outside Netanyahu’s Caesarea home call for elections now

Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani (R) and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken shake hands during a press conference following a meeting in Doha on January 7, 2024. (Karim JAAFAR / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Jan 7: In Qatar, Blinken warns expansion of Gaza war threatens security across Mideast

By ToI Staff and Michael Bachner

IDF says Al Jazeera journalists killed in Rafah were in car with drone-operating terrorist * Palestinian girl accidentally shot dead at scene of car-ramming attack

9:48 pm

Visiting Israel, German FM calls for 'less intensive' IDF combat in Gaza
9:31 pm

IDF says two Al Jazeera journalists were killed in car with drone-operating terror operative
9:11 pm

New election poll shows Gantz soaring while Netanyahu, Lapid sink

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.

Border Police officer Sgt. Shay Germay, killed in a counterterror operation in Jenin, West Bank on January 7, 2024. (Israel Police)

Policewoman killed, 3 injured by bomb in Jenin; 7 Palestinians killed in airstrike

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF helicopter strikes cell of Palestinian gunmen hurling explosives at troops during attempt to evacuate wounded Border Police officers

The scene of a terror shooting attack on the West Bank's Route 465 on January 7, 2024 (Magen David Adom); Inset: An image of Amar Mansour, 33, killed in the attack (Courtesy)

East Jerusalem man killed in West Bank terror shooting

Nirit Shalev-Khalifa places a flag on a stick next to the items she wants removed, in this case from the situation room of the security team at Kibbutz Kfar Aza close to the Gaza border, on January 2, 2024. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Under expert eyes, objects retrieved from rubble help document October 7’s horrors

Thousands of items, from deckchairs to a donkey’s skull, are being salvaged, cataloged and stored near the Gaza border by visual history researchers

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Jan 7: Day 93 – Three months into war with Hamas, all eyes on the north

Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman on US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s whirlwind tour of the region; reporter Canaan Lidor on resettlement of evacuees and a memorial rave

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives on the island of Crete, Greece, January 6, 2024 during his week-long trip aimed at calming tensions across the Middle East. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan 6: Day 92 – Can Blinken douse the flames of war on Israel’s north?

US worried Netanyahu could wage war on Hezbollah for political gain – report

By Lazar Berman

With Blinken due in Israel this week to try to stave off expansion of conflict, Washington Post quotes anonymous officials who think PM might escalate in north to save his career

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a government meeting at the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv on December 31, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, meets with Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi in Amman, Jordan January 7, 2024. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)

Blinken visits aid warehouse, meets Jordan’s king in push to keep Gaza war contained

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, speaks at a joint press conference with Lebanon's foreign minister following their meeting in Beirut on January 6, 2024. (Anwar Amro/AFP)

EU’s Borrell meets with head of Hezbollah parliamentary bloc while in Beirut

By Agencies and Emanuel Fabian

Lessons from our soldiers’ last letters

As our fallen heroes reflected on the possibility of death, their words teach us about purpose and meaning in life

Sticky kids: The crater (part 3)

I want to tell Gidi I can’t take it anymore. It’s not fair I’m the one who has to try to explain to the children what’s going on

Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani in Doha, Qatar, October 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

Qatar 'painfully aware of suffering of remaining hostages'

Qatari PM meets with Israeli hostages’ families in Doha — report

Al Thani speaks with relatives of abductees held by Hamas, claims negotiations on release more difficult after killing of Arouri in Beirut last week

As Hamas torched their home, mom told her daughter: ‘I am sorry, we are about to die’

Danielle Aloni, abducted by Hamas on Oct. 7, speaks about capture and how she strived to take care of herself and five-year-old Emilia during 49 days of captivity

Screen capture from video of Daniella Aloni, who was abducted by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 and held for 49 days in the Gaza Strip. (Channel 12. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

A rally at Hostages Square on January 6, 2024, is addressed by Imad Habaka (right), father of IDF Lieutenant Colonel Salman Habaka, who fell in Gaza last month. (Courtesy Yael Gadot)

As hostages near 100 days in captivity, urgent pleas on their behalf at weekly rally

By Jessica Steinberg

Speakers at protest include injured military reservists, who emphasize sense of mission among soldiers fighting in Gaza

The remains of the home of Pessi Cohen, where Hamas held 15 hostage on October 7, 2023, in Kibbutz Be'eri, seen on November 19, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Families of 13 people killed in October 7 Kibbutz Be’eri firefight demand probe

The first Birthright Israel group to visit the country since the massacres of October 7, touring with guide Duby Langberg of Tailor Made on top of Mount Tabor, January 2024. (Photo: Cat Korren)

'My parents said it was my job and purpose to go to Israel'

First post-Oct. 7 Birthright Israel trip brings 17 participants; 100s more expected

By Matt Lebovic

In change to well-worn 10-day itinerary, participants harvest grapefruit and deliver groceries, hear testimony from survivors of Hamas’s murderous assault

Archaeologist in reserve duty near Gaza finds ancient mortar for grinding grain

By Gavriel Fiske

Find is second item in recent weeks discovered by soldiers in border area and turned over to the Israel Antiquities Authority

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Illustrative: The net in the first half of an NBA basketball game on in Denver, on November 29, 2023. (David Zalubowski/AP)

High school girls’ basketball game aborted in New York amid antisemitic slurs

Neri Oxman, Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT, speaks at The 2017 Concordia Annual Summit at Grand Hyatt New York on September 18, 2017 in New York City. (Riccardo Savi/Getty Images North America/Getty Images via AFP)

Israeli wife of billionaire who pushed to oust Harvard president accused of plagiarism

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters chant slogans with loudspeakers in front of Big Ben at the Palace of Westminster, home to the Houses of Parliament, in central London on January 6, 2024, during a demonstration calling for a ceasefire in the war in Gaza (HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)

Pro-Palestinian protesters block Westminster Bridge outside UK parliament

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Pedestrians walk past Dubai's courts building in 2010 in the United Arab Emirates. (AFP)

UAE says it is putting 84 people on trial for ‘terror’ charges, sparking criticism

By AFP

A Russian Orthodox Church priest makes the sign of the cross during an Orthodox Christmas service at the Church of the Holy Martyr Tatiana near the Kremlin Wall in Moscow, Russia, late Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024. (AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Orthodox Christians mark Christmas, but celebrations for many overshadowed by war

By AP

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Laboon approaches the oiler USNS Kanawha (background) for replenishment-at-sea operation in the Red Sea on December 25, 2023, in this handout photo. (Elexia Morelos / US Department of Defense / AFP)

US military says it shot down another Houthi-launched drone over Red Sea

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