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What Matters Most On Sunday, January 21, 2024

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IDF troops operating in the Gaza Strip in pictures cleared for publication on January 21, 2024. (IDF)

Talks expected to resume in Cairo this week

US, Egypt, Qatar said pushing plan to end war, free hostages, form Palestinian state

By Lazar Berman

WSJ says plan would see gradual release of all hostages in return for Palestinian security prisoners, and full normalization for Israel and its neighbors; PMO refuses to comment

Israelis attend a rally calling for the release of hostages held in Gaza by Palestinian terrorists, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, January 20, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

'136 coffins are not an image of victory'

Multiple rallies demand deal to return all hostages, urge government to step down

By Canaan Lidor and Charlie Summers

Thousands in Tel Aviv, Caesarea and Jerusalem, including abductees’ relatives and freed captives, urge halt to fighting in exchange for freedom; separate rallies call for elections

Shira Albag speaks about her daughter Liri at a rally for the release of Israelis held kidnapped by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on January 20, 2024 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Women’s plight takes center stage at weekly demonstration for hostages’ return

By Canaan Lidor

IDF leaflets dropped in southern Gaza requesting information on hostages held by Hamas, January 20, 2024. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF drops leaflets with pictures of hostages over southern Gaza, seeking info

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 21: White House Mideast envoy heading to Egypt, Qatar for hostage deal talks

Hostages’ families camp outside PM’s residence ‘until he agrees to a deal’ * Gallant tells relatives IDF op helping war goals * Hamas says onslaught was ‘normal response’ to Israel

9:36 pm

Iranian soldier kills 5 comrades in southeastern city where ISIS attack killed dozens
9:15 pm

White House Mideast envoy heading to Egypt, Qatar for hostage deal talks
9:04 pm

Appointee to Finance Ministry post to oversee wartime civilian matters resigns position

This combination image shows drawings made by 5-year-old hostage Emilia Aloni found in a tunnel in southern Gaza's Khan Younis, on the left, and an area where hostages were held in the tunnel, in images released by the IDF on January 20, 2024. Emilia was released, with her mother, during a truce in late November. (Israel Defense Forces)

Five narrow cells; 'humidity that makes breathing difficult'

IDF finds tunnel in Khan Younis where 20 hostages were held in ‘inhumane conditions’

By Emanuel Fabian

Some hostages who were held in underground passage have already been released, others taken elsewhere; troops recover evidence, including drawings made by 5-year-old former hostage

Sgt. First Class (res.) Uriel Aviad Silberman, killed during fighting in the southern Gaza Strip, as announced by the IDF on January 21, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF reservist killed in Gaza battle, raising death toll in ongoing ground op to 195

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Screen capture from video showing a damaged cemetery in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip. (CNN/Reuters. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF said to heavily damage 16 Gaza cemeteries during military operations

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich during the weekly cabinet meeting at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, January 7, 2024. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool via AP)

Ministers approve letting Norway hold tax money earmarked for Palestinian Authority

By Sam Sokol, Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

In apparent compromise following prolonged division on matter, cabinet okays arrangement that will see Oslo transfer funds to PA only with Jerusalem’s approval; Ben Gvir slams move

Hamas tunnel network over 4 times as vast as assessments

IDF commanders said to believe quashing Hamas, returning hostages alive incompatible

Army denies such assessment, cited by NY Times; paper also says IDF behind schedule in war, Hamas already trying to reassert control in northern Gaza

Israeli forces are seen operating inside the Gaza Strip in this undated handout image published on January 19, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Palestinians inspect the remains of a car reportedly hit by an Israeli strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on January 20, 2024. (AFP)

US said to believe Israel killed just 20-30% of Hamas terrorists in Gaza fighting

Hani Bseiso amputates his niece's leg in Gaza, undated. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Gaza doctor amputates niece’s leg at home as battles put hospital out of reach

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Far-right leaders Itamar Ben Gvir (left) and Bezalel Smotrich at the Knesset on December 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)

Ministers rule out Palestinian state after Biden says Netanyahu could allow it

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Smotrich says two-state solution would cause ‘next massacre’; Ben Gvir: ‘I do rule out a Palestinian state, always’

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivers his speech during the closing session of the 19th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Kampala on January 20, 2024. (Photo by LUIS TATO / AFP)

UN chief says denial of Palestinian right to statehood ‘unacceptable’

By AFP and ToI Staff

This handout picture provided by the Iranian foreign ministry on December 20, 2023, shows Qatar-based Hamas politburo leader Ismail Haniyeh speaking to journalists as he welcomes the Iranian foreign minister (not in the picture), in Doha. (Iranian Foreign Ministry / AFP)

Hamas’s Haniyeh said to meet with Turkish FM for first time since October 7

By ToI Staff and AFP

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Jan 21: Day 107 – In first since war, anti-PM protests restart in Jerusalem

Culture editor Jessica Steinberg on marking the ‘saddest birthday in the world’ as Kfir Bibas turned 1 in captivity, and ‘Daily Postcards’ from colorful illustrator Zeev Engelmayer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) meets with US President Joe Biden in Tel Aviv, October 18, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan 20: Day 106 — Bibi-Biden chat spawns murky remarks on postwar Gaza

Illustrative: Evacuees from Kibbutz Dan in northern Israel knit hats for soldiers at the Dan Carmel Hotel in Haifa, January 16, 2024. From left: Sima Rogany, Ruti Fried, Naomi Ftecha, and Carmella Milikah. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

'It can be maddening and tiring'

As northern evacuees settle in for long haul, hotel dwellers dream of home

Residents of Kibbutz Dan, Western Galilee town of Shlomi, try to make a life in Haifa hotels, but Hezbollah threat on Lebanese border means limbo-like existence won’t be over soon

Prospero underground: The crater (part 5)

’This whole country, we’re all hurting, we’re all horrified by what happened, and all we can think about is more death.’

Victory is possible, if you name it right

Hamas will never really be eradicated, so Israel must keep fighting… until more Gazans prioritize their own well-being over Israel’s destruction

People and rescuers gather in front of a building destroyed in a reported Israeli strike in Damascus on January 20, 2024 (Louai Beshara / AFP)

Iran vows revenge on Israel after Damascus strike kills 5 Revolutionary Guard members

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Pointing finger at Jerusalem, President Raisi says Tehran ‘will not leave the Zionist regime’s crimes unanswered’; Hamas condemns ‘heinous crime’

Illustrative: Fighters loyal to Yemen's Houthi rebels, stand guard during a protest following US and British strikes in the Houthi-controlled capital Sana'a on January 12, 2024. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP)

IRGC, Hezbollah helping direct Houthi attacks on shipping — Iranian sources

By Samia Nakhoul and Parisa Hafezi

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

Israel said pressing mediators for Lebanon solution by month’s end as combat continues

A protester holds up a sign reading 'From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,' at an anti-war rally in Haifa on January 20, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/ Times of Israel)

At Haifa anti-war rally, charges of genocide and chants of ‘From the river to the sea’

By Canaan Lidor

Participants in a counterdemonstration accuse the the crowd of Arab and Jewish Israelis of supporting Hamas

Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres attends the closing session of the 19th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Kampala on January 20, 2024. (LUIS TATO / AFP)

UN chief Guterres condemns Israel for ‘unprecedented’ killings in Gaza, urges truce

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Palestinian ambassador to the United Kingdom Husam Zomlot attending the Doha Forum in Qatar, in a handout image provided by the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs, December 11, 2023. (Marwan Tahatah / MOFA QATAR / AFP)

British pro-Palestinians heckle ‘collaborator’ PA envoy, Labour MP urging ceasefire

By Jacob Magid, AP and ToI Staff

Activists disrupt separate appearances in London by Husam Zomlot, David Lammy; UK chief rabbi: ‘Genocide’ accusations aimed at ‘tearing open the still gaping wound of the Holocaust’

People gather as they protest against the AfD party and right-wing extremism in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, January 20, 2024. (Michael Probst/AP)

250,000 protest in Germany against far-right AfD over talk of mass exportation plans

By AFP

Wave of mobilization sparked by an investigative report that party members discussed expulsion of immigrants and ‘non-assimilated citizens’ at a meeting with extremists

Ron De Santis, Nikki Haley and Donald Trump. (Photos by Getty Images/Background by Samuel Branch on Unsplash/via JTA)

What the Jews advising Donald Trump, Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis have to say

With the Republican primaries underway, the advisers on Jewish issues and liaisons to the community for the three front-runners weigh in on the race for the nomination

More Headlines

Illustrative: Human remains of victims of the mass murderous attack by Hamas on southern Israeli communities on October 7, 2023 await advanced examination at the National Center of Forensic Medicine (Abu Kabir) in Jaffa, October 16, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

With need spiking, government said to okay funds for 2nd forensic medicine institute

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)

Saudis urge de-escalation of ‘dangerous’ situation amid Houthi attacks, US strikes

By Kanishka Singh

An aerial file photo taken from a helicopter shows Ain al-Asad air base in the western Anbar desert, Iraq, December 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

US troops in Iraq suffer minor injuries in attack by pro-Iran militia on air base

By Phil Stewart and Timour Azhari

James Cromitie, center, is led by police officers from a federal building in New York after being arrested on charges related to a bombing plot in the Bronx, May 21, 2009. (Robert Mecea/AP)

US court releases man convicted in 2010 over synagogue, Jewish center bomb plot

By Kanishka Singh

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