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What Matters Most On Monday, January 29, 2024

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People attend a rally calling for the release of Israelis held held hostage by Hamas in Gaza at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, January 27, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 29: Blinken says there is ‘real hope’ for a new hostage deal following Paris talks

Top US diplomat hails ‘strong’ proposal for deal on table * Qatar says ‘good progress’ made * 11 rockets from Gaza set off sirens in central Israel * War cabinet meets tonight

9:40 pm

Blinken says there is 'real hope' for a new hostage deal following Paris talks
9:28 pm

Blinken says evidence some UNRWA staffers joined Hamas onslaught is 'highly credible'
8:50 pm

Pentagon says US is not seeking a war with Iran, 'but we will take action'

Finds 50% have close relative with ties to terror groups

Israeli intel shows 10% of UNRWA workers in Gaza have ties to terror groups — report

Wall Street Journal says document alleges around 1,200 Gaza employees of UN agency for Palestinian refugees have connections to either Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad

UNRWA workers accused of kidnapping woman, taking part in kibbutz massacre – report

Austria joins countries freezing funds to UNRWA over Oct. 7 accusations

By Agencies and ToI Staff

France, Japan join UNRWA fund freeze as Jordan warns against ‘collective punishment’

By Agencies and Gianluca Pacchiani

Government ministers and coalition MKs dance during a conference promoting the revival of Jewish settlements in Gaza, at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, January 28, 2024. National Security Minister itamar Ben Gvir is at front, center. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Far-right Ben Gvir: 'We are returning home, to Gush Katif'

Cabinet members call to resettle Gaza, encourage Gazans to leave, at jubilant conference

By Jeremy Sharon

11 ministers, 15 coalition MKs present amid dancing at right-wing confab attended by thousands; Likud minister appears to endorse coercive measures to promote Palestinian emigration

War cabinet minister Gadi Eisenkot speaks to Channel 12's Uvda program in a segment that aired January 18, 2024. (Channel 12 screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Eisenkot, Gantz pan coalition colleagues for event championing Gaza resettlement

Promoted event

How is Israel’s tech economy coping with war?

Feb. 1 Online: Meet the investors and experts sustaining the Startup Nation

File - Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet security services, left, and Mossad chief David Barnea at the annual IDF Armored Corps memorial ceremony, marking the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, in Yad La-Shiryon, on September 27, 2023. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)

Israel says Paris talks on hostage deal were ‘constructive,’ will continue this week

By Lazar Berman

‘Significant gaps’ remain, says Prime Minister’s Office, after US, Israeli, Qatari and Egyptian officials meet to weigh pause in fighting in exchange for release of hostages

People attend a rally calling for the release of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas terrorists to Gaza at "Hostage Square" in Tel Aviv, January 27, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Doubling down, Hamas insists hostage deal dependent on Israel ending war

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Jordanian soldiers patrol near the eastern Jordan-Syria border, in al-Washash, Mafraq governorate, Jordan, on February 17, 2022, during a media tour organized by the Jordanian army. (AP Photo/ Raad Adayleh/ File)

US says 3 troops killed, 25 hurt in drone attack in Jordan; Biden: ‘We shall respond’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

President blames Iran-backed militias for strike on American soldiers near Syria border; Amman claims attack took place on Syrian side of frontier

US President Joe Biden steps off Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, on January 28, 2024, as he returns from South Carolina. (Kent Nishimura / AFP)

Republicans pressure Biden to strike Iran directly after deadly drone strike

By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali

An explosion seen on the outskirts of Damascus on January 29, 2024, after a strike blamed on Israel. (Screenshot/X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Syria says several Iranian advisers killed in airstrike near Damascus

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Shahar Schnorman (left) and Ayelet Cohen at the entrance to their home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, with rescue forces' graffiti on the wall behind them, on January 25, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)

Inside story'Kfar Aza must rise again'

Resilience amid ruins: Kfar Aza’s first two returnees hope to forge a path of renewal

By Canaan Lidor

While some contemplate leaving the hard-hit kibbutz forever, one hardy couple believes that moving back is showing others the way forward

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

I’m Jewish. Of course.

I know I’m afraid to wear my star of David right now, and I know that I’ll wear it anyway, because I know this too shall pass

The dangerous fantasy of independence from the US

Frustrating as it may be, Israel’s defense sector can’t fill in the supply gaps opened by months of high-intensity warfare

She put her eye to the peephole. It was the man she had shared her bed with for 48 years

Israel’s 2024 budget shows misplaced priorities

Indiscriminate cuts to social welfare sectors endanger vulnerable populations and widen existing societal fault line

Participants on a panel exploring digital media and antisemitism at the Center for Jewish History, January 28, 2024. From left to right: Jennifer Evans, Sabine von Mering, Günther Jikeli, and Mike Rothschild. (John Halpern)

'Social media has normalized these antisemitic ideas'

Are conspiracy theories about Oct. 7 a new form of Holocaust denial? Experts weigh in

By Cathryn J. Prince

At a daylong NY symposium, scholars decry rampant antisemitism and calls for violence against Jews that are propagating unchecked online

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

White House reportedly looking into holding up weapons supplies to pressure Israel

By Lazar Berman

NBC says Pentagon reviewing which munitions could be used to push Netanyahu to reduce intensity of war, allow more aid into Gaza; administration says no change in US policy

Illustrative: Israeli artillery unit firing shells towards Lebanon near the Israeli border with Lebanon, January 15, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan 29: Day 115 – Is Biden using munitions in power play against Israel?

Explainer

An MK accused Israel of ‘genocide.’ Now he may be expelled from the Knesset

Knesset House Committee set to hear arguments in ‘unprecedented’ effort to remove far-left lawmaker Ofer Cassif, who claims the move is ‘political persecution, pure and simple’

MK Ofer Cassif attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting on the planned judicial reform, at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on June 25, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

President Isaac Herzog speaks at an event at the President’s Residence honoring IDF soldiers killed in the war against Hamas in Gaza, in Jerusalem, January 28, 2024. (Screenshot: YouTube; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

‘A blood libel’: Herzog says ICJ ‘twisted my words’ to support ‘unfounded’ contention

President ‘disgusted’ by judges using ‘partial, fragmented quotes’ in genocide ruling, ignoring accompanying remarks that Israel follows international law, doesn’t target civilians

Israeli reservists in The Hague on behalf of the DiploAct program, January 2024. (DiploAct)

Accusation of war crimes said lodged against IDF reservists who went to The Hague

Reporter's notebook'It breaks your heart, so much loss in one place'

In the Cyprus mountains, bereaved Israelis find solace during wartime

By Gavriel Fiske

A group of parents whose sons were killed while fighting in the Israel-Hamas war travel to the rural Secret Forest retreat center for a weekend of healing

Sgt. First Class (res.) Cedrick Garin with his mother Imelda (right) and wife Daniela (left) in 2021. (IDF)

Parents of slain IDF soldier Cedrick Garin to be granted Israeli citizenship

Protesters hold flags and placards during a rally in Tel Aviv on January 27, 2024, demanding the government's resignation and early elections, amid the ongoing war in Gaza. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Hundreds of family members of Oct. 7 victims launch petition calling for elections

Op-ed

Ksenia Svetlova

Beyond Israel’s borders: Middle Eastern diplomatic ties under strain amid war in Gaza

While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tests Abraham Accords allies’ patience, the US considers withdrawing from Syria, and Egypt’s relations with Russia grow warmer

A Kuwaiti man holds a placard bearing the portrait of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a rally in solidarity with the people of Gaza at Iradah Square in Kuwait City on January 14, 2024. (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP)

A Yemeni boy sells models of the Galaxy Leader cargo ship, seized by Houthi rebels in November 2023, in Sanaa on January 18, 2024. (Photo by MOHAMMED HUWAIS / AFP)

‘A source of pride’: Yemen’s Houthi rebels open seized cargo ship to sightseers

By AFP

Hamas terrorists fire rockets towards Israel from Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 11, 2023. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Much of Hamas’s explosives comes from IDF fire that failed to detonate — report

By Lazar Berman

New York Times says terrorists in Gaza cut open Israeli-fired duds to create rockets; theft from IDF is also major source of weapons

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs a cabinet meeting at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv on December 24, 2023. (AP Photo/ Ohad Zwigenberg, Pool)

Netanyahu to Wall Street Journal: War against Hamas going ‘better than expected’

Illustrative image of man looking anxious and depressed. (OcusFocus/iStock)

New Israeli study uncovers molecular connection between anxiety and testosterone

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Ben-Gurion University researchers use cutting-edge genetic sequencing to connect the dots between a protein in the brain, low male hormone levels, and mental condition

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Media tycoon Lachlan Murdoch heads to Israel for secret meeting with Netanyahu

By Tal Schneider

An Egyptian truck carrying humanitarian aid undergoes security checks at the Israeli side of the Kerem Shalom border crossing before entering the southern Gaza Strip, on January 22, 2024. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

IDF announces closed military zone at Kerem Shalom as activists block aid again

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Iran's domestically built missiles and satellite carriers are displayed in a permanent exhibition at a recreational area in northern Tehran, Iran, February 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran executes four accused of plotting to blow up missile plant for Mossad

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The scene of a suspected ramming attack in Haifa on January 29, 2024. (Magen David Adom)

Soldier seriously hurt in Haifa car-ramming, axe attack; suspected terrorist killed

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

A screenshoot from video footage taken from a CCTV camera, shows two masked men holding guns inside Santa Maria Church in Istanbul, Turkey, January 28, 2024. (IHA via AP)

Islamic State claims responsibility for deadly shooting at Istanbul church

By ROBERT BADENDIECK

File: Greek Orthodox Archbishop Elpidophoros leads a celebration of St. Nicholas Day, at the St. Nicholas National Shrine at the World Trade Center in New York on December 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

High-ranking Christian prelate warns of spread of antisemitism by church officials

By COSTAS KANTOURIS and DEMETRIS NELLAS

Protesters take part in a demonstration against racism and far-right politics on January 28, 2024 in front of the city hall in Hamburg, northern Germany. (MORRIS MAC MATZEN / AFP)

Germany’s far-right AfD party suffers regional electoral defeat after mass protests

The Justice Ministry in Jerusalem, October 3, 2019. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Israel extends period to locate potential heirs for unclaimed assets

By Omer Sharvit

Mourners hold signs during a vigil at Prairie Activity and Recreation center in Plainfield, Illinois, for 6-year-old Wadea Al Fayoume who was fatally stabbed in a suspected anti-Palestinian hate crime, October 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian discrimination in the US rose 180% after Oct. 7

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A picture obtained from the Iranian Mizan News agency shows Swedish European Union diplomat Johan Floderus (C) attending the final hearing in his trial, at a revolutionary court in Tehran on January 28, 2024. (Koosha Mashid Falahi/Mizan New Agency/AFP)

Iran seeking death penalty for Swedish EU diplomat accused of spying for Israel

By AFP

Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi talks with reporters after a news conference to address sea level rise along the city's waterfront in San Francisco, January 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Nancy Pelosi calls for FBI probe into ‘Russian-funded’ protests against war in Gaza

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Mostafa Waziry standing in front of the renovation project of the Menkaure Pyramid at Giza, Egypt, January 26, 2024. (Facebook screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Pyramid schemeEgyptian pyramid undergoes renovation, drawing anger, ridicule

By AFP

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