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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 23, 2024

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Soldiers killed in the central Gaza Strip on January 22, 2024: Top (L-R): Sgt. Maj. (res.) Mark Kononovich, Sgt. First Class (res.) Israel Socol, Sgt. Maj. (res.) Adam Bismut, Sgt. Maj. (res.) Shay Biton Hayun, Sgt. Maj. (res.) Itamar Tal, Sgt. Maj. (res.) Daniel Kasau Zegeye, Sgt. First Class (res.) Cedrick Garin; middle: Sgt. First Class (res.) Hadar Kapeluk, Sgt. Maj. (res.) Matan Lazar, Cpt. (res.) Ariel Mordechay Wollfstal, Master Sgt. (res.), Elkana Vizel, Cpt. (res.) Nir Binyamin, Sgt. First Class (res.) Sagi Idan, Sgt. First Class (res.) Ahmad Abu Latif; bottom: Sgt. Maj. (res.) Rafael Elias Mosheyoff, Sgt. First Class (res.) Nicholas Berger, Master Sgt. (res.) Yoav Levi, Sgt. First Class (res.) Yuval Lopez, Sgt. First Class (res.) Elkana Yehuda Sfez, Sgt. Maj. (res.) Sergey Gontmaher, Sgt. Maj. (res.) Barak Haim Ben Valid. (Israel Defense Forces, courtesy; combo image: Times of Israel)

Netanyahu: We bow our heads and continue to complete victory

In deadliest incident of Gaza combat, 21 soldiers killed as buildings collapse in blast

By Emanuel Fabian

Explosion possibly caused by Palestinian RPG attack as IDF prepared structures for demolition using explosives, with nearby tank hit by a missile; death toll in ground op reaches 219

A picture taken from Rafah shows smoke billowing over Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip during Israeli bombardment on January 22, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and Hamas. (AFP)

‘The best of our sons’: Israeli officials mourn deaths of 21 IDF reservists in Gaza

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Jan. 23: Day 109 – Chain of events that caused deaths of 21 soldiers

Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian on the deadliest IDF troop event in Gaza; diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman on puppet master Iran and what a lengthy truce deal would mean

A picture taken from Rafah on January 23, 2024 shows smoke over Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip during Israeli strikes (AFP)

IDF says troops encircled Khan Younis, are pushing deeper into Hamas stronghold

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Palestinian families fleeing Khan Younis on the coastal road leading to Rafah, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, January 22, 2024. (AFP)

Fierce battles in Gaza as troops push deeper into Khan Younis; 3 IDF officers killed

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Israeli troops operate inside a Hamas tunnel in the Khan Younis area, in an image released by the IDF on January 23, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 23: PM to hostages’ families: Qatar as mediator ‘problematic,’ US could apply more pressure

By Ricky Ben-David and ToI Staff

IDF says over 100 Hamas operatives killed in Khan Younis area today, troops find largest underground weapons production site to date * Hezbollah, Iranian ‘asset’ hit in Lebanon

9:54 pm

One-month Gaza pause focus of intensive talks, sources say
9:44 pm

Drone attack targets US-led coalition base in Iraq
9:31 pm

New poll of US voters finds overwhelming support for Israel over Hamas in ongoing war

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Sheba Medical Center during Iron Swords War 2023-2024

On the 100th day of the war, we held a moving ceremony, featuring those who returned to us from captivity and the families of those still held hostage.

Aviva Siegel (L) and her daughter Shir testify at the Knesset caucus on victims of sexual and gender violence in the war, January 23, 2024 (Screen grab used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Aviva Siegel: 'I can’t breathe, I can’t deal with it'

‘Right now someone is being raped in a tunnel’: Knesset hears of Hamas sex crimes

Captors treating hostages like sex dolls, former hostage says; another survivor notes some female hostages no longer getting periods, prays they won’t become pregnant

Israel said to offer two-month pause in Gaza fighting for staged release of hostages

Report says proposal does not heed demand by Hamas to end war but appears to go further than past Israeli offers, including significant reduction in IDF ops once fighting resumes

Demonstrators hold up portraits of hostages held by the Hamas terror group during a rally to demand their release, near the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on January 22, 2024. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a meeting with relatives of hostages held in Gaza, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 22, 2024. (Prime Minister's Office)

PM tells families no true Hamas proposal for hostage release, says Israel made offer

Footage of a tunnel in Gaza uncovered by the IDF on January 16, 2024. (Screen capture/X)

IDF blasts Israeli radio into Gaza tunnels in bid to soothe hostages

The pro-Nazi German American Bund holds a parade on East 86th Street in New York City on October 30, 1937. (Library of Congress)

Premieres on Tuesday'What was going on in America that allowed this to happen?'

New PBS documentary ‘Nazi Town, USA’ looks at 1930s heyday of Hitler’s US admirers

By Linda Buchwald

A packed Madison Square Garden giving the Nazi salute and a fascist summer camp show the German American Bund at its peak, with 100,000 members

French Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld, right, his wife Beate, second from right, and French Holocaust survivors Edith Senot, third from left, and Ginette Kolinka, fifth from left, attend a gathering in the Paris Holocaust Memorial war of resurgent antisemitism linked to the 2023 Israel-Hamas war, in Paris, November 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Global study finds number of Holocaust survivors shrank by half since 2000

By Canaan Lidor

Major demographic survey by Claims Conference determines world has at most 272,000 survivors left, nearly all of whom were children during Nazi genocide

At Auschwitz, Musk says social media, free speech would have prevented extermination

By Canaan Lidor and Agencies

After German court defunds neo-Nazi party, far-right AfD could be next on the block

By Sebastien ASH

German protesters say reported far-right plans to expel foreigners echo Wannsee

By Toby Axelrod

Kayla Schneider-Smith

A slap in the face from my favorite queer Jewish poet

It’s exhausting to have to keep defending Israel’s right to exist to those who won’t even acknowledge the October 7th atrocities

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib

As a Gazan, I still believe Israelis and Palestinians must talk

My relatives were killed, my childhood homes destroyed, yet I know dialogue is the only way to start building a different future

Troops carry the coffin of fellow soldier Elkana Vizel during his funeral in the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem on January 23, 2024 (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

Op-ed

Till death do us unite

Have we become a nation whose sons can no longer live together — so that all we have left is to die together?

Soldiers drive by anemones at a forest near the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, on January 21, 2024 (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)

Tu Bishvat 2024Oblivious to war, Israel’s iconic red anemone blooms again along the Gaza border

A shepherd leads a flock of sheep in Rafah near the border with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip on January 16, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian terror group Hamas. (AFP)

Egypt warns Israel that attempt to take over ‘Philadelphi Route’ will damage ties

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Head of Egyptian state info service denounces accusations of arms smuggling via Gaza border as ‘lies,’ accuses Israel of trying to escape from ‘its successive failures’ in the war

Smoke billows over the southern Lebanese village of Shihine on the border with Israel during an Israeli airstrike on January 22, 2024. (Kawnat Haju/AFP)

Hezbollah fires rocket barrage at Israel, causes slight damage to key IDF base

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Terror group says strike on air traffic control base is in response to ‘recent assassinations and repeated attacks on civilians’ in Lebanon and Syria; no injuries

Reporter's notebook

In largely conquered northern Gaza, troops comb rubble in hunt for rocket launchers

Military begins ‘methodical’ process of locating, destroying terror group’s remaining capabilities, amid sporadic clashes with small cells of operatives

Author Yossi Klein Halevi. (Shalom Hartman Institute)

Behind the Headlines

Join the ToI Community for Yossi Klein Halevi on the big questions of this war

On January 25, the noted author will weigh in on what Israelis fear the world doesn’t understand, and what Israelis don’t understand about the world. Exclusively for Community members

Inside Story

As reservists leave war zones, some take up battle for intensified Gaza offensive

Grassroots initiative of disillusioned veterans and soldiers camping outside the Knesset joins growing frustration, on both right and left, with Netanyahu’s war strategy

Reserve soldiers at a protest tent they set up demanding the continuation of fighting in the Gaza Strip, outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, January 2, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Tawfic Abdel Jabbar. (Courtesy)

US seeks probe into death of Palestinian-American teen in West Bank clash

State Department ‘devastated’ by death of Tawfic Abdel Jabbar, who his uncle says was killed in confrontations with security forces that included stone-throwing

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell speaks as he arrives for a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, January. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Top EU diplomat says Israel has no right to block creation of Palestinian state

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers stand by as masked Israeli settlers throw stones at Palestinian protesters (unseen) gathering during a demonstration against construction on an Israeli outpost near the Palestinian village of Turmusaya and the settlement of Shilo, north of Ramallah in the West Bank, on October 17, 2019. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/ AFP/ File)

NGO says only 6% of police probes of settler violence it was party to ended in charges

By Jeremy Sharon

In veiled jab at Trump, pro-Israel evangelical leader slams racism, antisemitism in GOP

John Hagee publishes op-ed taking implied shots at former US president, denounces Texas state party for rejecting ban on associating with Nazi sympathizers and Holocaust deniers

Pastor John Hagee, Christians United For Israel (CUFI) founder and chairman, speaks during a CUFI event on July 17, 2023, in Arlington, Virginia. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

This combination of pictures created on January 21, 2024 shows former US President Donald Trump (L) arriving at the New York State Supreme Court during the civil fraud trial against the Trump Organization, in New York City on December 7, 2023; and Republican presidential hopeful and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaking during a campaign event at the Olympic Theatre in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on January 11, 2024. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez and Christian Monterrosa/AFP)

Trump, Haley campaign across New Hampshire day before pivotal vote

Sabra hummus stickered with anti-Israel message in the US, January 2024 (L) and packages of Sabra hummus on display in Los Angeles, April 2021 (Facebook screen capture / The Image Party/Shutterstock.com)

Inside storyAnti-Israel activists began targeting company 14 years ago

Sabra hummus’s US market share has dipped. Why large-scale BDS isn’t to blame

By Matt Lebovic

More than Mideast politics or an uptick in a long-term boycott sticker campaign, a 2021 salmonella scare made the company unpalatable to consumers

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File - Oded Forer, chair of Knesset Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs, attends a committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on January 19, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Government failure to arrange circumcisions delays conversion to Judaism for 98 men

By Canaan Lidor

This image provided by the US Navy shows an aircraft launching from USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) during flight operations in the Red Sea, Jan. 22, 2024. (Kaitlin Watt/US Navy via AP)

US, British militaries launch new strikes targeting Houthi underground arms stores

By Lolita C. Baldor and TARA COPP

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

No-confidence motion against Netanyahu fails in Knesset, with only 18 votes in favor

US Navy Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, who heads the Navy's Bahrain-based 5th Fleet, speaks at an event in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, February 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File)

US Navy’s Mideast chief says Iran ‘very directly involved’ in Houthi attacks on ships

By Jon Gambrell

Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy, November 2023. (Avner Hofstein / Times of Israel)

After furor over alleged removal plans, Israeli spokesman Eylon Levy to stay in role

John Ondrasik aka Five for Fighting performs during the NHL All-Star Weekend at the Microsoft Theater on January 27, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images/AFP)

Music standFive for Fighting pens October 7 ballad: ‘We are not OK’

Undated photo of Iranian Mohammad Ghobadlou, who was executed on January 23, 2024 after being convicted of killing a policeman during anti-regime riots. (X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iran executes man, 23, for killing Tehran policeman during 2022 protests

By AFP and AP

Director Norman Jewison, right, and star Topol as Tevye on the set of the film version of "Fiddler on the Roof." (Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber via JTA)

Obituary‘Fiddler on the Roof’ director Norman Jewison dies at 97

By Andrew Lapin

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