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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 24, 2024

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Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich holds a press conference in Jerusalem, December 26, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 24: Minister fires back at Qatar: ‘Terror-backing state’ won’t be involved in Gaza post-war

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Smotrich reacts to Doha’s assertion Netanyahu impeding hostage deal talks for political gain * Interim ICJ ‘genocide’ ruling set for Friday

11:28 pm

Nearly all US Senate Democrats back two-state solution for Israel and Palestinians
11:07 pm

Italy to treat 100 wounded Palestinian children
9:57 pm

Smotrich fires back at Qatar: 'Terror-backing state' that won't be involved in Gaza post-war

Women block a road as they protest calling for the release of hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, in Jerusalem, January 24, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel denies hostage talks advancing as lawmakers balk at talk of military respite

By ToI Staff and Reuters

Smotrich says reported outline of agreement has ‘big and dangerous question marks,’ after several foreign outlets report on proposal to free captives for extended pause in fighting

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

Israel, Hamas said moving toward deal to free hostages for monthlong pause in fighting

By Reuters and ToI Staff

US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby speaks during the daily press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, January 23, 2024. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP)

White House says efforts ongoing for deal to free hostages, reach long pause in war

By Agencies, Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Op-ed: Day 110 of the war

Disaster just inside Gaza shows a war far from won, and shines light on a buffer zone

The death of 21 reservists just a few hundred yards away from a kibbutz murderously invaded by Hamas on October 7 brings a fresh test of Israel’s unity and determination

This image released by the IDF on January 20, 2024, shows the inside of a Hamas tunnel in southern Gaza's Khan Younis where hostages were held. (Israel Defense Forces)

Troops of the Givati Brigade operate in southern Gaza's Khan Younis, in a handout image published January 24, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Fierce battles rage in Khan Younis as IDF says it’s ‘increasing pressure’ on Hamas

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and Jacob Magid

Promoted Video

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.

Flags displaying a message of American-Israeli solidarity are displayed at a rally and vigil marking 30 days since the Hamas-led terror onslaught, in New York, November 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Peter K. Afriyie)

Three-quarters call Hamas’s attack genocidal, unjustifiable

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

67% of survey respondents say there should only be a ceasefire if all hostages are freed and the Gaza-ruling terror group is removed from power — Israel’s key aims in the war

A protester against Israel interrupts US President Joe Biden during an event on the campus of George Mason University in Manassas, Virginia, January 23, 2024, to campaign for abortion rights. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Protesters against Israeli op in Gaza repeatedly interrupt Biden at campaign event

By AFP

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump greets supporters as he arrives at a campaign stop in Londonderry, New Hampshire, January 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Trump wins New Hampshire primary, setting up increasingly likely rematch with Biden

By HOLLY RAMER, Jill Colvin and Will Weissert

Hamas bigwig rejects 2-state solution, says Oct. 7 ‘revived dream to free Palestine’

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Qatar-based billionaire Khaled Mashaal remains indifferent to Gaza’s destruction, insists terror group will not relinquish its goals, says recognition of Israel is a red line

Khaled Mashal, member of Hamas's political bureau, speaks to Kuwaiti podcaster Ammar Taqi on January 16, 2024 (Video screenshot)

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East at UN headquarters in New York on January 23, 2024. (Charly Triballeau/AFP)

UN chief blasts Israel’s ‘unacceptable’ rejection of two-state solution

By AFP and ToI Staff

In this picture taken during a media tour organized by the Israeli military on December 15, 2023, soldiers visit a tunnel that Hamas reportedly used to attack Israel through the Erez border crossing on October 7. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Hamas leaders reportedly communicating using handwritten notes carried by runners

By Gianluca Pacchiani

The war cabinet meets at the IDF's Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv on January 18, 2024. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Poll: Over half of Israelis feel let down by war cabinet’s handling of Hamas conflict

Israel Democracy Institute survey finds 53.8% are unsatisfied with three-member forum overseeing the fight, 50.4% back immediate probe of failures that enabled Oct. 7 attack

Tourism minister Haim Katz arrives for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on December 10, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud ministers promote conference on reestablishing Israeli settlements in Gaza

Tally Gotliv (center in white blouse) and other MKs attend a plenum session marking the Knesset's 75th birthday, on January 24, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shin Bet chief accuses Likud MK of harming national security by pushing conspiracy

Family and friends of Israeli soldier Master Sgt. Elkana Vizel attend his funeral at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on January 23, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Cedrick, Elkana, Ahmad, Rafael, Matan

Wide swath of society: The stories of some of the 21 troops killed in Gaza blast

By Michael Bachner

Cedrick Garin went from criminal teen to exemplary soldier; Ahmad Abu Latif was ‘proud to be Bedouin Israeli’; Elkana Vizel left letter asking loved ones not to be sad if he dies

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, and other officers tour the scene of a deadly blast in the central Gaza Strip, January 23, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief vows ‘in-depth’ probe of deadly blast caused by Hamas operatives’ RPG fire

By Emanuel Fabian

Family members of hostages held in Gaza react during a plenum session of the Knesset on January 22, 2024. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 24: Day 110 – Hostage families burst into Knesset, demand action

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

The fruit of Kfar Aza

Overripe pomegranates highlight the loss of those who would have harvested them, but also point to the resilience of those who first planted the tree (Tu Bishvat)

Jeremy M Staiman

‘Your son gave his life for my son,’ I said

He said: If the reverse had happened, the pain would have been the same; they are all my children

70 years of planting trees for the next generation

How do you explain that Jewish nationalism is not the ’settler colonialist paradigm’ that today’s progressives claim it is? Start with the trees

Actors’ readings of South Africa’s case at the Hague miss the real drama

If only Susan Sarandon, among many others, had given stage time to Israel’s efforts to protect civilians and Hamas’s role in killing both peoples

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

Interview

Saudi peace is possible without Palestinian state, says senior minister

Eli Cohen, who left the Foreign Ministry for Energy Ministry, says war emphasizes joint Iranian threat; argues against return to warm ties with Turkey as long as Erdogan rules

Then-Foreign Minister Eli Cohen addresses the press at United Nations Headquarters, accompanied by family members of individuals kidnapped by Hamas, on October 24, 2023 in New York City. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images/AFP)

Illustrative photo of alcohol bottles (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Diplomatic immunitySaudi Arabia set to open 1st liquor store, for non-Muslim envoys

By Aziz El Yaakoubi

File: Protesters hold placards during a demonstration to protest against antisemitism, in central London on November 26, 2023. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

Poll finds ‘frightening’ rates of antisemitism among young British public

Over half of 18- to 24-year-olds believe Israel treating Palestinians the way Nazis treated Jews and 1 in 10 believe Jewish people less loyal to nation than other Britons

The war cabinet meets with heads of Israeli northern municipalities in Korazim, January 23, 2024 (Haim Zach / GPO)

Netanyahu promises billions in government aid to battered north

‘This is the opportunity to prove to us that the country has not lost the north,’ chief of Forum of Front-Line Communities tells PM during cabinet meeting

KKL-JNF chair Ifat Ovadia-Luski with Doron and Meirav Madar, the parents of Shahak Yosef Madar, who was killed on October 7, plant eucalyptus trees in honor of the victims of the Re'im massacre, January 21, 2024. (Yossi Ifergan/KKL-JNF Archive via JTA)

Ahead of Tu Bishvat, Israelis and Jews worldwide plant trees to honor Oct. 7 victims

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Relatives of those murdered by Hamas-led terrorists at Supernova music festival hold tree-planing ceremony at site of rave: ‘We will rise from the dust and grow new lives’

Israel’s UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan speaks while holding a photo of weapons sent by Iran to Houthi rebels in Yemen that were intercepted by US forces, during a UN Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, on January 23, 2024. (Peter K. Afriyie/AP)

Israel’s UN envoy swats back at Russia, pointing to Iranian drones in Ukraine

By ToI Staff and Agencies

From left to right, high school seniors Yuval Meller, Inbar Carmi and Maayan Shalom, at Tichon Hamoshava high school in Zichron Yaakov, on January 16, 2024. (Gavriel Fiske/Times of Israel)

Students say the war has educated them, for better and worse

‘Ready to do whatever it takes’: 12th-graders find a protective bubble popped by war

By Gavriel Fiske

Four teenagers set to graduate from a Zichron Yaakov high school join a roundtable discussion with ToI to discuss Gaza, the IDF, antisemitism and what comes next for them

Illustrative: Houthi supporters attend a protest against US-led airstrikes on the Iran-backed rebel group, January 12, 2024, in Sanaa, Yemen. (AP Photo)

Houthis order American and British nationals out of Yemen

By Mohammed Alghobari and Riyam Mukhashaf

Iran-backed Yemeni rebels demand US, UK citizens leave within a month, following both countries’ airstrikes on Red Sea obstructers

An armed Yemeni supporter of the Houthi movement sits on the back of an armored vehicle during an anti-Israel and anti-US rally in the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa on January 22, 2024. (MOHAMMED HUWAIS / AFP)

Fresh US strikes target Iranian proxy in Iraq, anti-ship missiles in Yemen

By TARA COPP and Lolita C. Baldor

Illustrative: A Yemeni youth holds a mockup rocket during a protest following US and British strikes, in the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa on January 12, 2024. Behind him, people hold up signs with the Iran-backed rebel group's slogan, 'God is great, death to America, death to Israel, curse on the Jews, victory for Islam.' (Mohammed Huwais/AFP)

Washington pressing China for help curbing Houthi Red Sea attacks — report

Many scholars say their schools’ DEI offices ignore Jewish concerns — either not recognizing Jews as a minority or seeing them as white and privileged and therefore not subject to marginalization. (Getty Images; JTA illustration by Mollie Suss)

'It's the leading cause of antisemtism at our school'

Jewish critics of DEI debate the future of US campus diversity programs

By JTA and ToI Staff

Scholars say university diversity, equity and inclusion offices don’t consider Jews a minority, leading to disagreement on whether they should be nixed or fixed

Singer Valerie Hamaty will perform with the Andalusian Orchestra Ashdod in its first concert series since October 7, 2023 (Courtesy)

Despite the times, Ashdod orchestra goes ahead with concerts to mark 30 years

By Jessica Steinberg

Andalusian Orchestra Ashdod musicians have played at hospitals and army bases, and are ready to return to the stage

More Headlines

Cillian Murphy plays J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan's film 'Oppenheimer.' (Universal Pictures)

‘Barbenheimer’ duo dominates Oscar nominations; Israeli animated short included

By AP and ToI Staff

Judges and parties sit during a hearing at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, January 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

The Hague-based ICJ to deliver interim ruling in Israel genocide case on Friday

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Italian author Primo Levi on December 10, 1984 (AP Photo)

Primo Levi quote on anti-Israel rally poster draws protest from Italian Jewish leader

By AP and AFP

Meta failing to catch Holocaust denial memes and innuendo, oversight panel concludes

By JTA and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Google for Startups campus in Tel Aviv. (Courtesy)

Google creates $4 million fund to provide lifeline to Israeli AI startups during war

By Sharon Wrobel

An undated photo of part of the Nahum Collection of Yemenite Manuscripts, which comprises 60,000 Yemenite-Jewish manuscripts and fragments, and which the National Library of Israel said in January 2024 was set to become available to researchers and scholars. (NLI via JTA)

Major Judaica trove amassed by Yemenite Jewish butcher donated to National Library

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

The scene of a house fire in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al-Amoud, January 23, 2024. (Magen David Adom)

2 young kids killed in East Jerusalem fire; mother, third child seriously hurt

Still image from a video purporting to show the crash of an Ilyushin-76, a Russian military transport jet, which was said to carry 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war, on January 24, 2024. (Screen capture: X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law).

Russia says plane carrying Ukrainian POWs crashes, killing all aboard

By AP

Palestinian forward Zaid Qunbar celebrates scoring his team's second goal during the Qatar 2023 AFC Asian Cup Group C soccer match against Hong Kong at the Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium in Doha on January 23, 2024. (Giuseppe Cacade/AFP)

Palestinian national soccer team reaches Asian Cup last 16

By AFP and ToI Staff

Samantha Woll, president of the board at the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, in Detroit, was found dead outside her near-downtown home on October 21. (David Guralnick/Detroit News via AP)

Man accused of killing Detroit synagogue leader charged with premeditated murder

By Corey Williams

Billionaire William Ackman, left, and wife Neri Oxman, an Israeli-American designer and professor. (Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan, via Getty Images/JTA)

Billionaire investor Ackman, wife buy 5% stake in Tel Aviv Stock Exchange

By Sharon Wrobel

IDF troops prepare to demolish the home of a Hamas terrorist in the West Bank village of Urif, early January 24, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF razes home of Palestinian accused of supplying guns in deadly June attack

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and AFP

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