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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 16, 2024

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The scene of a rocket impact in the southern city of Netivot, following a barrage fired from the Gaza Strip, January 16, 2024. (Fire and Rescue Services)

Aid organizations call for greater access

50 rockets fired at south Israel, largest barrage in weeks; 2 more soldiers killed

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF ground offensive toll rises to 190; military carries out targeted operations in northern Gaza, locates more than 100 rocket launchers, battles Hamas gunmen

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant gives a press statement on January 15, 2024. (Screen capture/GPO)

Gallant: Intense fighting is over in northern Gaza, will soon end in Khan Younis too

By Emanuel Fabian

A convoy of Israeli tanks return from the Gaza Strip on January 15, 2024. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Anticipating long war, IDF pulls one of four divisions out of Gaza for R&R, training

By Emanuel Fabian

UN commissioners Chris Sidoti, left, Navi Pillay, center, and Miloon Kothari, right, discuss their probe into Israel and the Palestinians at the United Nations in New York, October 27, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Israel forbids doctors from speaking to UN group investigating Oct. 7 atrocities

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Officials say commission of inquiry formed by UN Human Rights Council in 2021 is led by three people with antisemitic and anti-Israel views

Israel says it fears for lives of two hostages after latest Hamas propaganda video

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

IDF rejects terror group’s claim Itay Svirsky and Yossi Sharabi were killed when the military targeted a building where they were being held; Noa Argamani believed to be alive

From left: Noa Argamani, Yossi Sharabi and Itay Svirsky, seen in an undated Hamas propaganda film released on January 14, 2024. (Screenshot combo)

Gilad Shalit at a memorial ceremony for Yoni Netanyahu at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery, in Jerusalem on July 12, 2016. (Kobi Gideon / GPO /File)

Gilad Shalit met hostages’ families, shared how he endured Hamas captivity — report

The 'Voice from the Tunnels' installation in east London aims to bring to life the experience of hostages held by Hamas terrorists for more than 100 days. This exhibition highlights the Bibas family, who remains in captivity in Gaza. (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

‘Voice from the tunnels’: London exhibit aims to recreate reality of Hamas hostages

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 16: US says IDF scale-back of Gaza op will allow for more aid, residents’ return home

Biden admin set to relist Houthis as terrorists * US welcomes Qatar deal to get medicines to Israeli hostages in Gaza * Ground op toll reaches 190

9:56 pm

Pakistan says Iran violated airspace, killing two children
9:53 pm

Iraq files complaint against Iran at UN Security Council over Iranian 'aggression'
9:49 pm

US envoy said to hold frustrating meet with PM who rejected request to expand aid for Gaza

Iraqi officials deny building was linked to Mossad

Iraq recalls envoy to Iran after IRGC claims to fire missiles at Mossad site in Erbil

Tehran’s chargé d’affaires in Baghdad summoned in protest after Revolutionary Guard fires projectiles at what it claimed was Israeli ‘spy headquarters,’ killing several civilians

This image taken from video provided by Rudaw TV shows authorities and others near the site where missiles hit in an area near the US consulate in Erbil, Iraq, January 15, 2024. (Rudaw TV via AP)

Map showing Gulf of Aden and Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)

Houthi missile hits US-owned vessel off Yemen in the Gulf of Aden

By AP and ToI Staff

Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, prime minister and minister of foreign affairs of the state of Qatar, attends the Annual Meeting of World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. (AP/Markus Schreiber)

Accusing Israel of carpet-bombing Gaza, Qatar PM calls for ‘time-bound’ peace process

By Lazar Berman and Agencies

Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani warns regional woes will escalate without end to war in Gaza and two-state solution, criticizes strikes on Houthis as ineffective

Yahya Sinwar, Hamas's Gaza Strip chief, waves to supporters in Gaza City, on April 14, 2023. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

EU adds Hamas chief in Gaza Yahya Sinwar to terror blacklist

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud attends a session during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, January 16, 2024. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)

Saudi FM urges ceasefire, says Riyadh interested in Israel normalization

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Elchanan Poupko

The Amalek blood libel

The biblical story of the slaughter of innocents always has always stood as a mandate to remember and not a call for revenge

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

‘Heart and soul’ and why I ghosted my dad

I could never read music, but I could play, and oh, the memories I made at the piano with my mom

Antisemitism at Harvard started long before Claudine Gay

Offensive slurs, blindness to Jews’ history of oppression and anti-Israel bias aren’t new, but one thing is different today

Fight for the living buried alive

We fight not because we want to, but because we must, because the forces that rise up in every generation have risen up in ours

Israeli soldiers take positions near the Gaza Strip border in southern Israel, December 11, 2023. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Report: IDF chief worried Gaza battle gains will erode without a ‘day after’ strategy

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Halevi said to tell Netanyahu and Gallant army may need to return to previously conquered areas, with no plans in place as fighting winds down

A US C-17 sits with crates of American munitions for Israel at the Nevatim Air Base, October 13, 2023. (AP Photos/Lolita Baldor)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 16: Day 102 – PM seeks to cut dependence on imported munitions

The South African legal team sits during hearings in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the request for provisional measures submitted by South Africa in the case South Africa v. Israel on January 11-12, 2024, at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the seat of the Court. (Courtesy International Court of Justice)

Op-ed

The dizzying malevolence of two days in The Hague

Israel is charged with the gravest crime a country can commit, in cynical misrepresentation of reality designed to deny it the right to self-defense against a truly genocidal enemy

A banner in a permanent exhibit at Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust museum, urging visitors to 'remember what Amalek did to you,' in an undated photo distributed by the Prime Minister's Office (Courtesy)

PM’s office says it’s ‘preposterous’ to say his invoking Amalek was a genocide call

By Jeremy Sharon

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina signs documents after being sworn in for a fifth term at the Presidential Palace in Dhaka on January 11, 2024. (Munir Uz Zaman/AFP)

Bangladesh backs South Africa’s genocide claims against Israel

Cabinet approves 2024 budget, making cuts to offset massive wartime defense boost

One Likud and five National Unity ministers vote against wartime budget to protest across-the-board reductions and failure to curb extraneous ministries

Members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet during a meeting to approve the amended 2024 budget, January 15, 2024. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Head of opposition and head of the Yesh Atid party MK Yair Lapid leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on January 15, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Lapid accuses PM of playing politics with budget while ‘businesses are collapsing’

Illustrative. High-tech office buildings in Herzliya Pituach, in central Israel, December 12, 2015. (Nati Shohat/ Flash 90/ File)

Government approves stimulus package to assist vital hi-tech industry during wartime

By Sharon Wrobel

IRGC also says it launched attack in Syria on Islamic State

Iran’s IRGC claims to target Mossad spy center in missile attack on Iraqi Kurdistan

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iraqi officials report 4 civilians killed in strikes that the Revolutionary Guards describe as a response to Israel recently ‘martyring IRGC and resistance commanders’

This image taken from video provided by Rudaw TV shows smoke rising from a building hit by a strike in Erbil, Iraq, January 16, 2024. (Rudaw TV via AP)

Israeli flags flank the DJ stage at the Dragonfly trance music festival near Modiin on January 6, 2024. (Dragonfly)

Reporter's notebook'It felt like angels were dancing with us'

Commemorating Supernova victims, electronic music scene attempts a low-key comeback

By Canaan Lidor

One of the country’s first major rave parties after the October 7 massacre features no commercial activity and plenty of symbolism

Former US president and Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump, with sons Eric (2nd L) and Donald (R), speaks at a watch party during the 2024 Iowa Republican presidential caucuses in Des Moines, Iowa, on January 15, 2024. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)

Calls Biden 'worst president we've had in history'

Bagging Iowa, Trump vows to solve Israel and Ukraine wars ‘very fast’ if reelected

By ToI Staff and AFP

Former US president claims Russia and Hamas would not have attacked if he were still in office; doesn’t provide details on plans to resolve crises

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a caucus night party in Des Moines, Iowa, January 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump notches commanding win in Iowa caucuses; DeSantis edges out Haley for 2nd place

By Steve Peoples, Thomas Beaumont and HANNAH FINGERHUT

Inside story

Amid swarm of stakeholders, planners begin brainstorming how to rebuild south

Officials, architects, environmentalists, academics and others start looking at ways to bring back devastated region, with some asking whether array of groups can work together

Illustrative: Destruction caused by Hamas terrorists on October 7 in Kibbutz Be'eri, near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, seen on October 19, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Israeli soccer player Sagiv Jehezkel is greeted at Ben Gurion Airport on January 15, 2024 on his return from Turkey. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

Second club probes player Eden Kartsev over Instagram story

Israeli soccer star returns home after Turkey detained him for gesture to hostages

By Michael Bachner and Lazar Berman

Sagiv Jehezkel lands in Israel, with FM Katz blasting Ankara as ‘dark dictatorship’; Gallant: Ungrateful Turks acting as ‘executive arm’ of Hamas

Screen capture from video of Israel soccer player Eden Kartsev. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Second Israeli soccer player runs foul of Turkish feelings with support for hostages

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A teacher suspected of online posts in support of terrorism and justifying Hamas's October 7 massacre. (Israel Police)

Teacher reinstated after dismissal for posts appearing to justify Oct. 7 atrocities

View of the fence along Israel's border with Egypt, June 2, 2014 (Flash90/Yossi Zeliger)

Soldier lightly hurt after firefight with suspected drug smugglers along Egypt border

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Saeed Mousa, an Arab Israeli who was assaulted by a Jewish Israeli mob, at a court hearing at the District Court in Tel Aviv, October 24, 2022 (Flash90/File)

Bat Yam man sentenced to 12.5 years for 2021 mob assault on Arab driver

Amitai Aboudi outside the police station in Jaffa, August 1, 2023, after his release from a third round of questioning. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Prosecutors close case against anti-overhaul protester allegedly beaten by cops

Justice Isaac Amit at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, January 4, 2024. (Flash90/Yonatan Sindel)

Rabbinate delays divorce of a woman it helped wed but now says may not be Jewish

By Canaan Lidor

Supporters of Hizb ut-Tahrir demonstrate in Ramallah, July 7, 2012 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

UK to ban Sunni Islamist Hizb ut-Tahrir for antisemitism and promoting terror

By AFP and ToI Staff

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