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What Matters Most On Friday, January 19, 2024

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War cabinet minister Gadi Eisenkot speaks to Channel 12's Uvda program in a segment that aired January 18, 2024. (Channel 12 screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

'We prevented Israel from grave strategic mistake' in north

In critique of PM, Eisenkot says talk of ‘absolute defeat’ of Hamas is a tall tale

In TV interview, war cabinet minister who lost soldier son says new elections needed soon to restore public trust; warns only way to save hostages in near term is through deal

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich during a cabinet meeting convened to approve the 2024 amended state budget, January 15, 2024. (Haim Zach, GPO)

Cabinet said to discuss Smotrich plan to transfer funds to PA through third party

People walk by photographs of civilians held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, in Tel Aviv. January 17, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Inside StoryAs trauma of October 7 massacres endures, Israeli support for Gaza war remains high

IDF 646th Brigade commander Col. Elad Shushan speaks to The Times of Israel in the central Gaza Strip, January 14, 2024 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'It won't end soon. We're going to be here another year'

In central Gaza, where gunmen lurk underground, a commander sees a long slog ahead

By Lazar Berman

Col. Elad Shushan, head of the 646th Brigade, takes The Times of Israel into the heart of the battlefield, to a Hamas tunnel about to be destroyed by the IDF

IDF says it finished razing Hamas’s main weapons manufacturing zone in central Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press conference on January 18, 2024. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu vows no Palestinian state, attacks Israeli media, denies blindsiding Gallant

By Lazar Berman

In rebuke of the US, PM declares Israel must maintain security control over West Bank and Gaza; says Israel will know soon if medicines sent into Gaza have reached hostages

High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell attends a press conference with Portugal's Foreign Minister Joao Gomes Cravinho after the Diplomatic Seminar at Oriente Museum in Lisbon on January 3, 2024. (Patricia De Melo Moreira/AFP)

EU’s top diplomat: Palestinian state may need to be imposed on Israel from outside

By Agencies and Jacob Magid

An Israeli security guard signals to trucks carrying humanitarian aid bound for the Gaza Strip arriving to a holding area at Kerem Shalom Crossing on the intersection of two borders: between Egypt and southern Israel and the Gaza Strip and southern Israel, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

PM says Red Cross not involved in delivering drugs to hostages, Qatar is guarantor

By Lazar Berman

Promoted Video

Sheba Medical Center bids farewell to 2023

Throughout the years, in times of peace and in moments of turmoil, Sheba has been there through it all, a symbol of resilience and dedication to the people of Israel.

Ariel and Ellay Golan with their daughter Yael. The family was severely burned when Hamas terrorists set fire to their home in Kfar Aza on October 7, 2023. The use of NexoBrid on their burns improved and hastened their recovery. (Courtesy of Evyatar Hogeg)

Warning: Graphic images

Innovative treatment helps family severely burned when Hamas set their home on fire

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Ariel and Ellay Golan and baby Yael were in life-threatening danger after surviving in their safe room on Oct 7. Pioneering enzyme-based treatments put them on path to recovery

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: What Israelis think about the suffering in Gaza

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

ToI’s senior analyst joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan in the Jerusalem office for a difficult conversation about Israelis’ awareness of the humanitarian crisis spawned by Hamas’s war

Times of Israel senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur (Courtesy)

A terrorist injured my son and the US said nothing

The US ignored last week’s terror attack that injured my son – so much for all the ’advantages and blessings’ accruing to American citizens

How quickly they remember

And so we rediscover what it means to be a Jew, with innate knowledge of an antisemitism that took so little time to reawaken

Their sons are not getting killed

I feel alienated from my Haredi co-religionists, whose young men are not on the front lines with my son and his peers

David Seidenberg

What about Moses’ heart?

How could the former Egyptian prince announce the last plague in good conscience, without protesting God’s plan to kill so many?

Hezbollah has rejected moving its forces away from border — US, Lebanese officials

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Amid ongoing attacks on northern Israel and threat of larger war, US envoy Hochstein meets top officials in Beirut, says Washington ‘would like to see a diplomatic solution’

Senior US envoy Amos Hochstein, left, gestures as he meets with Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, in Beirut, Lebanon, January 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Smoke billows from a house hit in Israeli airstrikes as flares fall on the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila near the border with Israel on January 19, 2024. (Hasan Fneich/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 19: IDF says rare sirens in Haifa triggered by interceptor launched at ‘suspicious target’

By ToI Staff and Shira Silkoff

US president welcomes Israeli decision to permit entry of large flour shipment into Gaza * IDF wraps up Tulkarem operation after 45 hours, 37 Palestinians arrested

9:39 pm

Hundreds call for intifada, hail Houthis at Columbia University anti-Israel protest
9:18 pm

US carries out fresh strikes against Yemen's Houthis
9:16 pm

'He makes things worse at every opportunity': Jewish Democrats blast Netanyahu

President Isaac Herzog speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 18, 2024, alongside a photo of Hamas-held Israeli hostage Kfir Bibas. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Swiss prosecutors say criminal complaint filed against visiting President Herzog

By AFP and ToI Staff

After he attends Davos summit, federal prosecutors say charges against Israeli head of state to be ‘examined in accordance with the usual procedure,’ including question of immunity

Chile's President Gabriel Boric, right, gestures next to Mexico's President Manuel Lopez Obrador during joint declaration at La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, Sunday, September 10, 2023. (AP/Esteban Felix)

Mexico, Chile refer Israel and Hamas to ICC over possible war crimes

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Knesset lights up in orange in honor of youngest hostage

Hundreds in Tel Aviv mark first birthday of redheaded hostage Kfir Bibas

By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

Cousin of mother Shiri says baby ‘should be learning about colors, not languishing in a dark tunnel’; Shiri’s sister thanks people all over the world for ‘amazing gestures’

Israelis mark the first birthday of Kfir Bibas, who is held hostage by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, January 18, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Merav Svirsky, wearing a shirt picturing her hostage brother, Itay Svirsky, who was murdered by Hamas in captivity. (KAN11)

Sister of slain hostage Svirsky says he would have been better off killed on October 7

Analysis

Gianluca Pacchiani

For most Palestinians, October 7’s savagery is literally unbelievable. Blame the TV news?

Al Jazeera and others largely ignored Hamas atrocities, bolstering distrust of Israeli accounts; one poll found 97% in West Bank deny the monstrous acts committed against civilians

A collage of screen captures from videos recorded on October 7, 2023 showing Hamas attacks across southern Israel.

Standing Together activists protest against the Israel-Hamas war, calling for a ceasefire, in Tel Aviv, on December 28, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Cops allow anti-war demo after High Court says the right to protest is ‘fundamental’

By Jeremy Sharon

Anti-war groups accuse the police of ‘systematically’ suppressing their right to protest due to political agenda, ahead of planned rally in Haifa on Saturday

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi arrives at a Likud faction meeting in the Knesset, January 8, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Communications minister tells High Court he won’t reverse firing of post office chief

By Jeremy Sharon

An anti-government rally outside the Knesset in Jerusalem on January 15, 2024 (Photo by Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 19: Day 105 – Court allows Haifa anti-war rally; Karhi goes postal

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir visits a Border Police base in the West Bank, posing with troops in undercover garb on January 18, 2024. (National Security Ministry)

Ben Gvir tells officers to shoot ‘terrorists’ who don’t pose threat, then backtracks

National security minister’s office says original statement was misquote, and he meant to say only ‘armed terrorists,’ amid attempts to ease open fire rules during wartime

MK Moshe Tur-Paz speaks during a Finance committee meeting at the Knesset, February 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Yesh Atid lawmaker: Party could sit in a coalition with Smotrich, but not Ben Gvir

Interview

Outgoing Labor head Michaeli: ‘I don’t have political answer’ on how to rebuild party

Exiting party chief tells ToI that Yesh Atid, National Unity cannot serve same role as old Labor party in countering Likud, blasts Netanyahu as being ‘consumed’ by self-interest

Labor party leader MK Merav Michaeli leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on January 15, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

An illustrative photo of students at a Jewish day school. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images via JTA)

'It's not just a flight from antisemitism'

North American Jewish schools see dramatic enrollment upturn after Oct. 7 — study

By Jordana Horn

Prizmah Center for Jewish Day Schools says concerns about antisemitism and desire for Jewish environment have boosted interest in schools of all denominations

Inside Story

US Education Department opens new antisemitism probes into universities, schools

Investigations also launched into two largest public school districts in the San Francisco Bay Area, Jewish anti-Zionist professor who praised Hamas

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel supporters gather for a rally at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 14, 2023. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP)

Indiana state Rep. Chris Jeter asks lawmakers to support House Bill 1002, which defines antisemitism and bans its teaching at Indiana schools, January 18, 2024. (AP/Isabella Volmert)

Indiana House unanimously advances bill defining, banning antisemitism in schools

US Rep. Dean Phillips, a Minnesota Democrat, attends a news conference on Iran negotiations on Capitol Hill, April 06, 2022. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images via JTA)

US presidential hopeful Dean Phillips drops diversity label seen as excluding Jews

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International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi (C) stands at the Congress Center, during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 16, 2024. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)

Iran holding UN atomic agency ‘hostage,’ refusing to cooperate, director says

By Sophie Estienne

President Joe Biden walks to speak to the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Thursday, January 18, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Yuri Gripas)

Biden says US to keep striking Houthis as they continue attacking ships in Red Sea

Oracle CEO Safra Catz (right) during a visit to Kibbutz Kfar Aza with Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, January 2024. (Courtesy)

During war visit, Oracle CEO affirms commitment to open second data center in Israel

By Sharon Wrobel

Foreign laborers work on a farm near the border with Gaza amid the war there, in southern Israel, December 25, 2023. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Undeterred by risks of war, Indian men seek employment in Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Google said set to start laying off employees in Israel in coming days

By Sharon Wrobel

Police seen outside Jerusalem's Central Bus Station, after shooting a murder suspect who lunged at officers with a knife, January 18, 2024. (Israel Police)

Police shoot murder suspect as he tries to stab them at Jerusalem Central Bus Station

Noah Schnapp addressing his pro-Israel views, in a TikTok video posted January 16, 2024. (TikTok screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Schnapp backActor Noah Schnapp says views on Israel-Hamas war were ‘misconstrued’

By Michael Horovitz

File: Election placards for the far-right Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) party are tied to lamp posts in Berlin ahead of elections, January 2, 2024. (John MacDougall/AFP)

Tens of thousands of Germans protest against resurgence of far-right AfD party

By Isabelle Le Page

Players of Maccabi Haifa observe a minute of silence for the victims of Hamas attack, before the Europa League group F soccer match between Maccabi Haifa and Villarreal, at AEK arena stadium in Larnaca, Cyprus, on Nov. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Maccabi Haifa-KAA Gent match in Belgium to be played without fans over riot fears

By AP

Professor Amnon Rubinsten during a press conference, February 10, 2013. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Amnon Rubinstein, ‘the father of Israel’s constitutional law,’ dies at 92

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