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What Matters Most On Saturday, January 27, 2024

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Palestinians return to Gaza City driving an Israeli Humvee that was seized after terrorists entered Israel by land on October 7, 2023. (MAJDI FATHI / AFP)

UN chief Guterres 'horrified' by accusations

UNRWA sacks staffers who allegedly participated in Oct. 7 attack; US halts funding

By Jacob Magid and AFP

Israel provided intel incriminating 12 employees of UN agency for Palestinians, allegedly also revealed use of organization’s vehicles and facilities during assault; Canada also pauses funding

Hamas slams Israeli 'threats' against UN agency

Israel wants UNRWA out of Gaza after staffers fired for involvement in Oct. 7 onslaught

By ToI Staff, Jacob Magid and Agencies

FM Katz demands UN ‘take immediate personal actions’ against UNRWA leadership; after US halts funding, Canada and Australia also announce pause

Palestinian terrorists walk and drive away from a kibbutz near the border fence with the Gaza Strip, while carrying out a devastating cross-border attack in southern Israel on October 7, 2023. (AP Photo)

Gazans celebrate by a destroyed Israeli tank at the broken Israel-Gaza border fence, east of Khan Younis, October 7, 2023. (AP/Yousef Masoud)

UK, Finland, Italy join US in halt to UNRWA funds; Israel wants it replaced post-war

By Agencies and Jacob Magid

Relatives and supporters hold placards bearing portraits of Israeli hostages held in Gaza since the October 7 attacks by Hamas in southern Israel, during a rally calling for their release, in Tel Aviv on January 27, 2024. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 27: Germany, Scotland freeze UNRWA funds as agency head slams ‘collective punishment’

Netanyahu says hostage protests prompt Hamas to raise its demands * Thousands rally for hostages and against government in Tel Aviv, six arrested as group attempts to block road

9:32 pm

With a fake beard and a wig: Ben Gvir goes undercover at a Jaffa police station
9:04 pm

Germany becomes latest EU member state to pull funding from UNRWA
8:56 pm

Scotland announces suspension of funding to UNRWA, calls allegations 'concerning'

Illustrative: A photo taken from a position in northern Israel along the border with Lebanon on January 21, 2024. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Hezbollah says 4 fighters killed in IDF strikes on south Lebanon targets

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Two sites hit by fighter jets in village of Beit Lif manned by operatives, says military; Iran-backed terror group names slain members, bringing death toll to 171

Britain's Foreign Secretary David Cameron leaves from 10 Downing Street in central London on January 23, 2024, after attending a weekly Cabinet meeting. (Daniel Leal/AFP)

UK says it has ‘considerable concerns’ about ICJ ruling, rejects genocide accusation

By AFP and ToI Staff

London says legal action ‘not helpful in goal of achieving a sustainable ceasefire,’ joining Washington, which rejected allegations as ‘unfounded’

Residents react as they gather to watch the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling of the case against Israel brought by South Africa in The Hague at the Dullah Omar Centre in Cape Town, South Africa, on January 26, 2024, during an event organized by the South African ruling African National Congress party. (GIANLUIGI GUERCIA / AFP)

EU urges implementation of ICJ ruling; S. Africa, Hamas, Qatar, Turkey hail decision

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

US President Joe Biden speaks at Earth Rider Brewery in Superior, Wisconsin, on January 25, 2024. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Biden warns against downplaying Oct. 7

By Reuters and Jacob Magid

Ex-Supreme Court head: Genocide more than just a word for me

Justice Barak: ICJ ruling based on scant evidence; Ugandan judge: Legal case a ‘desperate bid’

Two justices issue dissenting opinions to court’s finding ‘plausible’ South African concerns of genocidal acts; Barak: Pretoria wrongly sought to impute the crime of Cain to Abel

Retired Supreme Court President Aharon Barak sworn in as Israel’s appointee to the bench at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, January 11, 2024 (ICJ)

Presiding judge Joan Donoghue, right, opens the session at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

ICJ tells Israel to ‘prevent genocide’ in Gaza, rejects ordering immediate ceasefire

By Jeremy Sharon

One of two young Israeli children who managed to slip under the Gaza border fence, heading toward the Strip while carrying an Israeli flag on January 25, 2024. (Screen grab used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Two children carrying Israeli flag slip under Gaza border fence amid settler activity

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Incident occurred as activists planted trees in closed military zone; adult heard telling kid to ‘plant the flag well’; IDF says children didn’t cross into Strip

My life as a slave laborer during the Holocaust

Few are left alive who survived slave labor in the German Skarżysko-Kamienna and Czestochowa HASAG camps. I’m one of them

Can an artist of Moroccan descent depict the Holocaust?

In my exhibit at Yad Vashem, my paintings portray a wrestling match with faith, but also a sense of meaning

Relatives and supporters of the Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas attend a protest calling for their release outside the Knesset, in Jerusalem, Jan. 22, 2024. Hebrew on the hands with fake blood reads, 'Time is running out.' (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Hostage families mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day: ‘Never again is now’

By Maya Zanger-Nadis

Descendants of Holocaust survivors whose family members were kidnapped to Gaza gather virtually to discuss the similarities they see between Nazi and Hamas atrocities

L-R: Hostages Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, and Doron Steinbrecher are seen in a Hamas propaganda clip published January 26, 2024. (Screenshot: Telegram)

Hamas publishes new propaganda clip showing 3 young female hostages in Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Gad Partok, 93, a Tunisian-born Holocaust survivor, poses for a portrait in his home in Ashkelon, Jan. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Inside Story‘Is it true? Is it so?’: Holocaust survivor says Oct. 7 revived childhood trauma

By AP

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

Biden said to tell Netanyahu he can’t support year-long war in Gaza as elections near

In first call last week in almost a month, US president pressed premier on plans after war, Axios reports

Gabrielle Reich protested anti-Jewish measures and was arrested as an 'impudent Jew.' (Courtesy)

'We fought back in a hundred different manners'

Then and now, ‘impudent Jews’ fought perpetrators ‘in a hundred different manners’

By Matt Lebovic

As the Jewish state defends itself against Hamas, German historian publishes book on largely forgotten ‘impudent Jews’ who resisted Nazis despite harsh consequences

Roger Peltzman in 'Dedication' (Courtesy)

Interview'Every time I do a performance, it brings my family to life'

Piano prodigy Norbert Stern was slain at Auschwitz; nephew’s play revives his genius

By Matt Lebovic

After high-profile gigs in the US and Europe, playwright Roger Peltzman will stage ‘Dedication’ at United Nations for International Holocaust Remembrance Day in January 2025

Tourists visit the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, Germany, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jan. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

‘Never again is every day’: Scholz’s antisemitism warning on Holocaust Remembrance Day

By Kirsten Grieshaber

Chancellor calls on citizens to remain vigilant against threats to democracy, says Germany will continue to carry the responsibility for Holocaust’s ‘crime against humanity’

A rabbi says prayers on the eve of the 79th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau at the Monument to the Heroes of the Ghetto, in Warsaw, Poland, Jan. 26, 2024 (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, survivors mark 79th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation

By AP

Artifacts from the Kraus family, who survived the Holocaust, on display at the Queensland Holocaust Museum in Brisbane, Australia, June 2023. (Queensland Holocaust Museum and Education Center)

'We can educate many who aren't focused on intolerance'

In Australia, a new Holocaust museum doubles down on its mission after Oct. 7

By Nomi Kaltmann

Because many of the Queensland Holocaust Museum’s visitors have never met a Jew, its strategy of outreach takes on added importance in its quest to educate on racial tolerance

‘Horrified’: Australian PM condemns neo-Nazis after arrest of ‘disguised’ group

Elon Musk, carrying his son X Æ A-Xii on his shoulders, speaks with Rabbi Menachem Margolin at the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum in Poland on January 22, 2024. (Yoav Dudkevitch)

'Jews had information, they just didn't have options'

Could social media have stopped the Holocaust? Scholars doubt Elon Musk’s theory

By Shira Li Bartov

Visiting the Auschwitz death camp, the billionaire said the genocide could have been mitigated if only his platform X had been around 80 years ago. Academics beg to differ

Hadas Lahav. (Dafna Talmon)

Hadas LahavFrom Shtula, mother of 2, grad student and dog trainer

'Doubt creeps in: Should we go back? Who would want to go back to a place where, at any moment, you could be murdered?'

By Tamar Mor Sela

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Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet security agency, speaks at the annual Cyber Week event at Tel Aviv University, on June 27, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Shin Bet chief said to urge state commission be formed ‘now’ to probe Oct. 7 failures

Houthi supporters attend a rally in support of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and against the US-led airstrikes on Yemen, in Sanaa, Yemen, January 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Houthis fire missile at US warship, strike UK vessel in major maritime escalation

By Jon Gambrell and TARA COPP

Portrait of Fräulein Lieser by Gustav Klimt, 1917 (Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=144566137)

Miss Lieser returnsGustav Klimt painting resurfaces in Austria after almost 100 years

By AFP

E. Jean Carroll leaves Federal court, Jan 26, 2024, in New York. A jury has awarded an additional $83.3 million to Carroll, who says former US President Donald Trump damaged her reputation by calling her a liar after she accused him of sexual assault. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Trump ordered to pay E. Jean Carroll an additional $83.3m in defamation trial

By Jake Offenhartz, Larry Neumeister and Jennifer Peltz

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