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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 25, 2024

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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)

'Qatar has a clear interest in preserving Hamas'

Amid widening spat, Smotrich accuses Qatar of impeding hostage talks to serve Hamas

By Jeremy Sharon and Michael Bachner

Finance minister calls Doha ‘biggest obstacle to returning hostages’; former IDF general Avivi says Israel needs to establish military control, settlements in Gaza to ensure security

Qatar Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed Al-Ansari. (video screenshot)

Qatar fumes at Netanyahu’s criticism, says he undermines talks for political reasons

Protesters block the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv during a protest march calling for an immediate deal to free the hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, in Tel Aviv, January 24, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Protesters block Tel Aviv highway as women’s groups demand immediate hostage deal

By ToI Staff and AP

This image released by the IDF on January 25, 2024, shows troops of the Commando Brigade operating in southern Gaza's Khan Younis. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 25: After Netanyahu criticism, US touts Qatar’s ‘irreplaceable’ role in hostage negotiations

By Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

Smotrich, Hamas spar over Qatari role in hostage talks * Death toll in Gaza shelter blast up to 12, UN reports * Report says ministry for combating antisemitism a needless waste

11:18 pm

After Netanyahu criticism, US touts Qatar's 'irreplaceable' role in hostage talks
11:01 pm

Minneapolis adopts nonbinding measure urging ceasefire in Israel-Hamas war
9:46 pm

US sets up channel with Israel to receive answers on 'constant' reports of civilian casualties — officials

Israeli singer-songwriter, actor and reserve soldier Idan Amedi who was seriously injured while fighting in the Gaza Strip speaks at a press conference upon his discharge from Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, January 25, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

'Shrapnel pierced my neck, spine; none hit main blood vessels'

‘I was so burned, no one recognized me,’ says ‘Fauda’ actor Amedi of his Gaza injuries

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Discharged from hospital after seriously hurt in blast, reservist has broken bones in fingers, but promises to get back to playing guitar; hopes to be in ‘Fauda’ season 5; urges unity

Freed hostage Adina Moshe speaks of her time in captivity, in an interview aired January 24, 2024 (Channel 12 screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Freed hostage says she met Hamas leader in a tunnel, was kept in dire conditions

By AP and ToI Staff

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Smoke rises after apparent Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis as seen from Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, January 24, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

As battles rage in Khan Younis, first rocket alert from Gaza in 4 days sounds in Israel

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

No reports of injuries or damage after siren sounds in border town; IDF says dozens of Hamas terrorists killed in past day, with most intense fighting concentrated in Khan Younis

Palestinians carry a a body of a person killed in the strike of an UNRWA vocational training center, which displaced people use as a shelter in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramez Habboub)

IDF probing deadly strike on Gaza UN shelter, says it may have been caused by Hamas

By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid and Agencies

Buildings razed in Gaza City's Shejaiya neighborhood, as part of the army's efforts to establish a buffer zone on the border with the Gaza Strip, in an image provided by the IDF on January 10, 2024. The Israel-Gaza border runs across the bottom of the picture. (Israel Defense Forces)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 25: Day 111 – IDF creating kilometer-wide buffer zone inside Gaza

Inside story

Shalom Yerushalmi

Thousands of right-wing activists are getting ready to resettle Gaza after war

‘Gaza City will be Jewish’ says one leader; core groups of potential residents being assembled; MKs from all parties in Netanyahu-led bloc support the burgeoning movement

File: View of structures in a former Jewish settlement, part of the former Gush Katif settlement bloc in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 27, 2020. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)

A picture taken from southern Israel shows destroyed buildings in the Gaza Strip on January 17, 2024. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

World Bank report finds 45% of residential buildings in Gaza ruined beyond repair

By Tani Goldstein and ToI Staff

Protesters block the Kerem Shalom border crossing to prevent humanitarian aid trucks from entering the Gaza Strip. At center is Tsufit Libman, whose brother-in-law Elyakim Libman is a hostage, and at right is Danny Elgarat, whose brother Itzik Elgarat is a hostage. (Screen capture/ X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

For second day in a row, protesters block aid reaching Gaza from Israel

Families of hostages among those at Kerem Shalom border crossing, urging government to not allow any supplies in until captives held by terrorists are freed

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a cabinet meeting at Chorazim in the north, January 23, 2024. (Haim Zach/GPO)

PM denies not informing ministers of transfer of 6-months’ worth of flour to Gaza

Israelis demonstrate at a protest action at Kerem Shalom border crossing on January 24, 2024. (Courtesy: Reut Ben Haim)

Protesters hold up aid to Gaza, as government faces rising domestic pressure

By Canaan Lidor

ExclusiveArab officials: Displacing Palestinians en masse deal-breaker

Senior UAE official: Warm peace with Israel ‘could turn cold’ if Gaza war drags on

Remarks to ToI further indicate Abraham Accords countries aren’t weighing severing ties, but suggest relations may become similar to the chilly ones Israel has with Egypt, Jordan

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, applauds as Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, right, and UAE Ambassador to Israel Mohamed al-Khaja, left, exchange signed copies of the customs agreement between the countries, March 26, 2023. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Aidan Bloomstine with Maccabee Task Force guide Reut Ben Shlomo in Israel, January 2024. (Courtesy/Nir Rotman)

'There's a shocking moral ambivalence on campus'

Allies of Jewish US students visit Israel after Oct. 7 – and come back armed with info

By Cathryn J. Prince

The Maccabee Task Force brings pupils together to combat antisemitism and disinformation on American college campuses – a place where Israel supporters have fewer friends

A restaurant named 'October 7,' apparently celebrating Hamas's massacre in southern Israel, in the Southern Mazar district, south of the city of Kerak, Jordan, in a clip posted on January 24, 2024. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Restaurant called October 7 opens in Jordan, appearing to fete Hamas’s massacre

Offensive naming of shawarma joint follows recall of Amman’s envoy to Israel in wake of war in Gaza; owner says name unrelated to politics, but eatery’s social media suggests it is

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

When our hearts turned orange

The image of Shiri Bibas being taken hostage with her redheaded babies haunts Israelis like no other image. Here’s why

Shlomit Ravitsky Tur-Paz

What South Africa gets wrong about the Jewish take on ‘Amalek’

If you want to build a case in The Hague that Israel is calling for genocide, then you should have better evidence than thousands of years of metaphor

The global hug of a united Jewish community

I went to Israel to support the troops, and discovered a gap between the US and Israeli Jewish experience like none I have felt before

An open query to all people of good will

Please define for us and our fellow Israeli citizens what you consider a “proportionate” response

Members of the Jewish community larrive at the synagogue, October 9, 2023 in Strasbourg, eastern France, two days after Hamas fighters launched an unprecedented, multi-front attack on Israel which killed more than 1,000 people. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

Antisemitic acts quadrupled in France last year — Jewish council

By AFP

CRIF counts 1,676 hate incidents last year, with 13% of those at schools; ‘We are witnessing a rejuvenation of the perpetrators of antisemitic acts,’ reports says

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a news conference at the COP28 UN Climate Summit, Monday, December 11, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

UN chief to sit out Park East Synagogue Holocaust event for first time in 10 years

A demonstrator holds a placard with a barred AfD sign referring to Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party during a demonstration against racism and far right politics in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany on January 20, 2024. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)

ExplainerEverything to know about Germany’s persistent mass protests against far-right AfD

Rabbi and actor Hagay Lober is staging a one-man play in memory of his son, Elisha Yehonatan Lober, a reserve duty soldier killed December 25, 2023, while fighting in Gaza (Courtesy)

A month after his son fell in battle, a father stages a one-man play about October 7

By Jessica Steinberg

Hagay Lober, a rabbi and an actor, hopes to bring solace with show about the mourning process, by his Jerusalem’s Aspaklaria theater company

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi issues a video statement, January 23, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief said to halt outside team’s probe of Oct. 7 failures after political rebuke

Report says Herzi Halevi has frozen formation of team of former military generals, which was slammed by right-wingers over timing and staffing of the investigation

Left: IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi gives a statement to the media at an army base in southern Israel, December 26, 2023; Right: State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman at the Knesset, on December 28, 2022. (Flash90)

Halevi tells comptroller his planned Oct. 7 probe will divert IDF’s attention from war

By Emanuel Fabian and Jeremy Sharon

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

Mossad also slams Tally Gotliv for ‘spreading baseless lies’ as she continues to allege David Barnea held sit-down with Shikma Bressler

Minister Benny Gantz attends a press conference at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, on October 28, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Swiping at Netanyahu, Gantz says ‘leaders bear responsibility, not the TV studios’

By Alexander Fulbright

Opposition Leader MK Yair Lapid speaks during a plenum session for the Israeli Knesset's 75th anniversary, January 24, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

What’s to celebrate? Lapid assails government at Knesset 75th anniversary celebration

US President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign rally to Restore Roe at Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas, Virginia, on January 23, 2024. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Analysis

AFP and ToI Staff

Biden’s reelection bid hobbled by US involvement in multiple war fronts around world

Likely rival Trump is using the wear and tear from Ukraine and Gaza war fallout to cast US president as weak, alongside migrant issues

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators at a rally near Bryant Park, November 9, 2023. (Luke Tress/NY Jewish Week via JTA)

Poll shows NY state voters split on aid to Israel, in shift from November

Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks during a campaign event at The North Charleston Coliseum, North Charleston, South Carolina, on January 24, 2024. (Sean Rayford/AP)

Despite 2 losses, Nikki Haley claims victory so far in Republican presidential race

Angelika Sher's photographic work, part of the Fifth Mediterranean Biennale and 'Anybody Home?' exhibit at Wizo Haifa through March 2024 (Courtesy)

Reconfigured after October 7, Haifa Biennale uses art to work through trauma and loss

By Jessica Steinberg

Video art installations are focus of Mediterranean art show at Wizo Haifa; beeswax soldiers are lined up at Artists’ House

National Jewish Book Awards for the best books of 2023 were presented to works by, from left, Sabrina Orah Mark, Ruth Madievsky, Jeremy Eichler and James McBride. (Random House, Catapult, Knopf, Riverhead via JTA)

Jewish literature

Critic’s account of classical music after the Holocaust named Jewish book of the year

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Jeremy Eichler’s ‘Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance’ is joined by many other notable titles at the 73rd annual Jewish Book Awards

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Young Israeli men line up as they arrive at the IDF recruitment center at Tel Hashomer on July 26, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

IDF to recruit soldiers early from pre-military academy and service tracks

By Gavriel Fiske

Israelis at a Red Sea beach close to the Europe Asia Pipeline Company's oil terminal in Eilat, southern Israel, February 10, 2021. (Menaham Kahana/AFP)

Over 380 objections filed against bid to extend secrecy for state oil group by 4 years

This undated file photo shows a Qatari liquid natural gas (LNG) tanker ship being loaded up with LNG at Ras Laffan Sea Port, northern Qatar. (AP Photo)

Qatar warns gas exports impacted by Houthi assaults as US-flagged vessels attacked

By AP and ToI Staff

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) shakes hands with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi (L) during a welcoming ceremony in Ankara, on January 24, 2024. (Adem Altan/AFP)

Erdogan and Iranian counterpart warn against ‘steps’ that threaten Mideast stability

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman (top right) confronted by activist Yarden Mann in Rehovot, January 24, 2024. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Woman detained for allegedly assaulting Minister Silman at Rehovot shopping center

By Michael Horovitz

Donors and alumni of Passages tour Netiv Ha'asara on January 21, 2024. (Cade Chudy)

Visiting Christian group donates $500,000 to Oct. 7 survivors’ post-trauma therapy

By Canaan Lidor

Illustrative view of a swimming pool in Jerusalem on July 7, 2020.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court upholds decision to compel Jerusalem public pool to open on Shabbat

File: Jon Stewart attends The Albies hosted by the Clooney Foundation for Justice at the New York Public Library in New York on Sept. 28, 2023 (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Called up for serviceJon Stewart to return as part-time host of ‘The Daily Show’

By jacob gurvis

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