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What Matters Most On Saturday, January 20, 2024

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to speak at a press conference at the Kiriya military HQ in Tel Aviv on January 18, 2024. (Yariv Katz/POOL)

Netanyahu pushes back on report he told Biden he isn’t ruling out Palestinian state

By ToI Staff and Agencies

In rare Shabbat statement, PM’s office says Israel must keep full security control of Gaza, after US president intimates Israeli leader may accept some ‘type’ of 2-state solution

US President Joe Biden addresses a mayoral conference at the White House in Washington on January 19, 2024. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)

After phone call, Biden says two-state solution not ‘impossible’ while Netanyahu is PM

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Left: US President Joe Biden at Raleigh-Durham International Airport in Morrisville, North Carolina, March 28, 2023. (AP/Carolyn Kaster); Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on March 19, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool photo via AP)

Netanyahu, Biden discuss state of war in first call in weeks amid growing divide

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Carmit Palty Katzir holds a poster of her brother Elad as relatives and friends of hostages sit on a street outside the private residence of the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Caesarea, January 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

'They were abandoned on Oct. 7, are abandoned again now'

‘They will return home in coffins’: Hostages’ families rally at PM’s home, demand deal

Mother of Omer Shem-Tov calls on public to stand with families of those held in Gaza: ‘Get off the sofa and give Netanyahu and the cabinet the mandate to bring our loved ones home’

This handout photo shows relatives of hostages held by Hamas and activists protesting near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's home in Caesarea, January 19, 2024. (Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum Headquarters)

Dozens of hostages’ families camp outside PM’s Caesarea home overnight to demand deal

European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell attends a debate on the humanitarian situation in Gaza, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France on November 22, 2023. (Frederick Florin/AFP)

EU set to sanction 6 tied to Hamas funding; Borrell: Israel boosted the group

By Agencies and ToI Staff

People and security forces gather in front of a building destroyed in a reported Israeli strike in Damascus on January 20, 2024. (AFP)

5 IRGC officers, including Syria intel chief, killed in Damascus strike blamed on Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Revolutionary Guards’ deputy intel chief in Syria also among the dead; security source says multi-story building entirely flattened by ‘precision-targeted Israeli missiles’

Illustrative: This handout photo provided by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) official website Sepah News on November 5, 2022, shows the launch of the locally-made Ghaem-100 (Qaem-100) satellite launcher in an undisclosed location (SEPAH NEWS / AFP)

Iran says it successfully launched satellite in Revolutionary Guards’ space program

By Jon Gambrell

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian gestures during a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos on January 17, 2024. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)

Pakistan, Iran agree to ‘de-escalate’ after trading air strikes

By AFP

Smoke billowing over the Lebanese village of Odaisseh during Israeli strikes, January 20, 2024. (jalaa marey / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 20: IDF hits Hezbollah sites in south Lebanon in response to attacks on northern Israel

Thousands urge deal for hostages’ release now, as smaller rallies demand elections * IDF uncovers Gaza tunnel where some 20 hostages were held * Iran vows response to Syria strike

12:48 am

Zelensky calls Trump's claims he can quickly stop the war with Russia 'very dangerous'
10:02 pm

Freed hostage recounts time in captivity with Yossi Sharabi: 'He always tried to care for us'
9:42 pm

Pro-Palestinian students heckle Palestinian envoy at London university

Engelmayer (left) with released hostage Gali Tarshansky and her mother, Reuma Aroussi (Courtesy Tamar Engelmayer)

Artist Zeev Engelmayer’s Daily Postcards bring solace with colorful realism

By Jessica Steinberg

Since October 7, the illustrator and humorist known as Shoshke has turned to drawing a pseudo-naive version of the day’s stories

Hundreds call for intifada, hail Houthis at Columbia University anti-Israel protest

By ToI Staff and JTA

Marchers chant support for deadly uprising, Iran-backed group hitting Red Sea shipping; antisemitic sticker states: ‘Zionist donors and trustees, hands off our universities’

Pro-Palestinian students rally at Columbia University in New York on January 19, 2024. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel students at Columbia University on October 12, 2023 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Columbia University chapters of SJP, JVP remain suspended as new semester begins

Harvard creates task forces on antisemitism and Islamophobia

By AP and ToI Staff

‘We need to understand why and how that is happening — and what more we might do to prevent it,’ interim president says

People take photos near a John Harvard statue, left, on the Harvard University campus, Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Avidan Freedman

Thank goodness we didn’t act like we talked

Reckless rhetoric about there being ’no innocents in Gaza’ has highlighted Israel’s dire lack of responsible leadership

Raoul Wallenberg: Remembering a hero of humanity

The world must finally learn the fate of the Swedish diplomat who saw ’no other choice’ but to help Jews during the Holocaust

Tawfic Abdel Jabbar. (Courtesy)

Palestinians say teen with dual US citizenship killed by IDF in West Bank clash

Local officials say Tawfiq Hijazi, 17, fatally shot in head by Israeli troops near Ramallah during stone throwing incident; Washington expresses ‘serious concern’ over case

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, Democrat-California, front left, and House Judiciary Committee Chairman, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, Democrat-New York, and other House impeachment managers, walk to the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 16, 2020. (Matt Rourke/AP)

Group of Jewish Democrats in US House slam Netanyahu for rejecting Palestinian state

Fifteen lawmakers say they ‘strongly disagree’ with PM for opposing Palestinian sovereignty and that two-state solution ‘is the path forward’

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)

In Lebanon, residents say strange calls can precede Israeli attacks

By Layal Abou Rahal

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant tours the northern border on January 19, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Gallant warns crunch time with Lebanon nearing, as Hezbollah attacks persist

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Houthi fighters salute atop a missile carrier during an official military parade marking the ninth anniversary of the Iran-backed rebel group's takeover of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, on September 21, 2023. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP)

In 6th set of Yemen strikes, US hits Houthi anti-ship missile launchers ready to fire

US official says operation carried out by F/A-18 aircraft off the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier; Yemeni media says al-Jabaana neighbourhood in Hodieda targeted

Houthi fighters and tribesmen stage a rally against the US and the UK strikes on Houthi-run military sites near Sanaa, Yemen, January 14, 2024. (AP Photo)

Houthis claim they don’t seek to attack ships beyond those tied to Israel

By Samia Nakhoul

Bar Heffetz. (Dafna Talmon)

Bar HeffetzFrom Kibbutz Nirim, the father of two (12, 15) is a farmer

'Home isn't four walls, a porch, and a yard for me. I’m a farmer. Nirim's fields are where I belong'

By Tamar Mor Sela

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Illustrative: US Special Envoy to Combat and Monitor Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt speaks at a conference focused on bans on ritual slaughter that have been proposed and approved in European countries in Brussels on October 20, 2022. (US State Department)

US brands as antisemitic South Africa’s demotion of Jewish cricket player

This photo illustration created in Los Angeles, California, on September 13, 2023, shows a person looking on a computer screen at artwork by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele entitled 'Russian War Prisoner' (L), 'Portrait of a Man' (R) and 'Girl With Black Hair' (top), which were seized by investigators after the Manhattan district attorney's office issued warrants. (Chris Delmas/AFP)

NY prosecutors return 2 paintings stolen by Nazis to heirs of Holocaust victim

By AP

Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt poses for media while rabbis from across Europe attend the 32nd General Convention in Munich, Germany, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

German city awards European unity prize to leading rabbi and continent’s Jewry

By AFP and ToI Staff

In this file photo taken on June 22, 2021 US actor Alec Baldwin attends DreamWorks Animation's 'The Boss Baby: Family Business' premiere at SVA Theatre in New York City. (Angela Weiss/AFP)

Alec Baldwin indicted by grand jury in fatal shooting of cinematographer on movie set

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