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What Matters Most On Friday, February 2, 2024

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In this photo released by the US Air Force, a US Air Force F-22 Raptor arrives at Al-Dhafra Air Base in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, February 12, 2022. (Tech Sgt. Chelsea E. FitzPatrick/U.S. Air Force via AP)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 2: US launches strikes on Iran’s IRGC in Iraq, Syria as response to deadly drone attack

IDF intercepts Houthi missile shot at Eilat * Israeli official: 50/50 on a deal * Troops fight gunmen across Gaza, raid underground Hamas bank vault * IRGC adviser dies in Syria strike

9:55 pm

Hamas leaders reportedly at odds over proposed hostage release deal
9:44 pm

US says strikes in Iraq and Syria hit over 85 targets linked to Iran's IRGC
9:28 pm

Syrian state media reports 'American agression' on sites in desert and along Iraqi border

Jaqueline Glicksman (R), 81, recounts jumping out of her safe room's window to escape Hamas terrorists on October 7, on her first visit to her ruined home since the attacks, in a report aired February 1, 2024 (Channel 12 screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

'When you're in a situation like that, you act'

The 81-year-old woman who climbed out the window to escape Hamas

Jaqueline Glicksman visits her ruined house at Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha, describes her harrowing escape from terrorists who burned down her house

Composite image showing One2One participants on an undated video call, over a map connecting the US and Israel. (courtesy)

Program sees peer-to-peer interaction as 'first aid'

‘Digital pen pals’ program connects North American and Israeli teens during wartime

By Gavriel Fiske

Now in its fourth year, the One2One initiative facilitates English conversations and cultural exchange between thousands of Jewish high schoolers on opposite sides of the world

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (center) speaks to troops of the 98th Division in southern Gaza's Khan Younis, February 1, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Army eases restrictions on Gaza border towns

Defense minister vows IDF will push south to Rafah as Khan Younis offensive wraps up

By Emanuel Fabian

Gallant tells troops operations are aiding cause of freeing hostages; IDF battles gunmen across enclave, strikes rocket launchers

An Israeli soldier stands guard during the ground offensive on the Gaza Strip in Khan Younis, January 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Sam McNeil)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb 2: Day 119 – ToI on the ground in Gaza with the IDF in Khan Younis

Israeli soldiers operate in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip in an undated photo released by the military on January 30, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF: 82% of soldiers treated for mental health since Oct. 7 are returning to duty

By Renee Ghert-Zand and ToI Staff

Demonstrators block a main road demanding an immediate deal for the release Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip by Palestinian terrorists, during a protest near the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on February 1, 2024. (Ahmad Gharabli / AFP)

Hamas says truce proposal ‘still being studied’ as Israeli war cabinet meets on deal

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Qatar ‘optimistic’ after receiving ‘initial positive confirmation’ from terror group on hostage agreement, but source close to Hamas says Qatari statement was ‘rushed and not true’

Women attend a protest in Tel Aviv for the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, February 1, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

In Cairo, senior Hamas officials discuss hostage deal with Egyptian intelligence chief

By ToI Staff, Agencies and Lazar Berman

The reunion of siblings Maya and Itay Regev, released from Gaza days apart, at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, November 30, 2023, in handout photos by the hospital. (Courtesy)

Updated protocols for freed hostages include training to address sexual abuse, torture

By Renee Ghert-Zand and ToI Staff

Netanyahu: A drastic step; most settlers are law abiding

With unprecedented executive order, US sanctions settlers behind ‘intolerable’ violence

First series of financial penalties, travel ban slapped on 4 violent Israeli extremists; move creates tool that could be used to cut off entire settler movement from US financing

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers stand by as Israeli settlers throw stones at Palestinians during clashes in the town of Huwara in the West Bank on October 13, 2022. (Oren Ziv/AFP)

Danielle Abraham

Destroying Israeli agriculture was part of Hamas’s evil plan

It didn’t quite work: Israelis are resilient and, knowing how important the crops are for the country, they went back to tend the fields under fire

An empty north will go bankrupt: Residents and businesses should return now

With their innovation and collaboration, Galilee industries will still inspire the nation, perhaps none so effectively as the pioneering ’Galiladies’

Middle East and Islam lecturer Idit Bar at her home in Jerusalem, 2019 (Ohad Ramati / courtesy)

Interview

To stand up for Israel, Mideast expert agrees to be ‘punching bag’ for Arab media

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Since Oct. 7, Idit Bar has engaged in intensive public diplomacy on BBC Arabic and social media. In the process, she has learned to hit the ‘soft belly’ of a hostile audience

Top UK diplomat Cameron: No recognition of Palestinian state until Hamas out of Gaza

By AP and ToI Staff

‘You can’t have 2-state solution with Gaza still controlled by those responsible for Oct. 7,’ foreign secretary says on trip to Lebanon; ‘need to give Palestinian people a horizon’

Britain's Foreign Secretary David Cameron, left, speaks with Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

President Joe Biden, center, speaks with patrons at They Say restaurant during a campaign stop Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024, in Harper Woods, Michigan. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Biden visits Michigan as Arab-American anger over Gaza threatens to cost him state

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Conservative MP Mike Freer in an interview to Sky News outside his constituency office in North London, December 26, 2023. (Screen capture: Sky News. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law.)

UK’s Sunak says attacks that led pro-Israel MP to step down ‘an attack on democracy’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Conservative MP for Finchley and Golders Green Mike Freer says he won’t seek reelection after threats the prime minister calls ‘deeply distressing’

Protesters hold placards and Israeli flags outside the headquarters of the BBC in London on October 16, 2023, to appeal to the corporation to call Hamas 'terrorists.' (Daniel Leal / AFP)

Senior BBC employee accused of repeated antisemitic posts, Holocaust denial

Illustrative: A Palestinian man waits for a shoe repairman to fix his children's shoes before the upcoming Eid al-Fitr holiday to mark the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, July 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Gaza cobblers work by roadsides to mend shoes of Palestinians displaced by war

By Reuters and ToI Staff

With most of Gaza’s population homeless and few new goods arriving in the coastal enclave, menders are busy repairing shoes for people unable to find or buy new footwear

This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows the Gaza Strip on January 30, 2024. Satellite photos showed new demolition along a 1-kilometer-deep path on the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, according to an analysis by The Associated Press and expert reports. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Satellite photos show new demolition within Israeli buffer zone in Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

United Nations and Red Crescent workers prepare the aid for distribution to Palestinians at UNRWA warehouse in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on Oct. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Eslaiah)

UNRWA nominated for Nobel Peace Prize, amid allegations workers took part in Oct. 7

By AFP and ToI Staff

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to author Shlomo Brody: Jewish ethics and the Israel-Hamas War

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

When the imperative of self-defense brushes up against terrorists using innocent civilians as hostages and human shields, what should the most moral army in the world do?

Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Brody in The Times of Israel's Jerusalem office, February 1, 2023. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

Honor guards carry the coffin of Razi Moussavi, a senior commander in the Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), killed on December 25 in an alleged Israeli strike in Syria, during his funeral procession at the Imam Ali shrine in Iraq's holy city of Najaf, on December 27, 2023.(Qassem al-Kaabi / AFP)

Iranian Revolutionary Guard adviser said killed in alleged Israeli strike in Syria

By Agencies and ToI Staff

State news agency SANA cites Syrian military as saying it shot down Israeli missiles launched at south Damascus from Golan Heights overnight; no immediate comment from IDF

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin US said he sees no indication that Hamas plans to attack US troops currently in Gaza. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

US defense chief Austin hints major strike on Iranian proxies imminent

By TARA COPP, Lolita C. Baldor and Jon Gambrell

File - Tens of thousands of Muslim worshipers attend the last Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan, at the Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, April 14, 2023. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

UN experts: Al-Qaeda messaging increasingly focusing on Al-Aqsa in wake of Oct. 7

By AP and ToI Staff

Turkey’s national intelligence organization MIT releases footage of its arrest of alleged Mossad spies on January 2, 2024. (Screen capture/X)

7 detained in Turkey for allegedly selling intel to Mossad via private detectives

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Turkish security official says arrests made in connection with tracking and monitoring local targets, after Erdogan warned Israel against hunting down Hamas members abroad

Turkish anti-riot police officers block the street where a plant owned by US giant Procter & Gamble is located at Gebze District in Kocaeli near Istanbul on February 1, 2024, after an assailant took an undisclosed number of people hostage. (Ozan Kose/AFP)

Turkey frees seven hostages taken by pro-Gaza gunman at factory near Istanbul

By AFP and ToI Staff

Left: MK Tali Gottlieb at the Knesset, January 29, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Right: Shikma Bressler meets social activists at Dizengoff Square, Tel Aviv, October 3, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Protest leader sues Likud MK for libel over ‘disgusting lies’ linking her to Oct. 7

Bressler demands NIS 2.6 million in damages as Gotliv, other social media influencers continue to spread unfounded claims of links between activists, security personnel and Hamas

Left: Publisher and owner of the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper Arnon 'Noni' Mozes arrives for questioning at the Lahav 433 investigation unit in Lod on January 15, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90); Right: Shaul Elovitch after a court hearing at the Tel Aviv District Court, July 20, 2022 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

State attorney closes cases against Walla, Yedioth; Netanyahu trial not affected

By Jeremy Sharon

Protesters at a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, November 19, 2023. (Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images/ via JTA)

'It is a Hamas chant with genocidal consequences'

Feds probe: Can US students be suspended for chanting ‘From the river to the sea’?

By JTA and ToI Staff

Latest Title VI investigation relating to the Israel-Hamas war weighs whether it’s Islamophobic to discipline pupils for chanting ‘From the river to the sea,’ or antisemitic not to

Video shows California imams voice hatred for Jews, praise or deny October 7

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Rachel Goldberg on day 98 since her son, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, was abducted by Hamas, in Jerusalem, January 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Parents of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin launch online educational toolkit

By Maya Zanger-Nadis

Dion Marsh, convicted of hate crimes and carjacking for an antisemitic crime spree in New Jersey, in a photo released by the Lakewood police on April 8, 2022. (Courtesy/Lakewood Township Police Department)

New Jersey man pleads guilty to badly injuring 3 in series of violent antisemitic attacks

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, answers questions on the border security talks as he meets reporters following a Democratic caucus meeting, at the Capitol in Washington, January 31, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer schedules crucial test vote on bill that includes aid for Israel

By STEPHEN GROVES, MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, speaks during the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on online child safety on Capitol Hill, Jan. 31, 2024, in Washington. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)

Lindsey Graham grills TikTok CEO on resignation of Israel representative

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Officers stand near the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, January 31, 2024. (Henrik Montgomery/TT News Agency via AP)

Sweden investigating ‘dangerous object’ found at Israeli Embassy as terrorism

By AP

A view of the MV Bahijah, loaded with 14,000 sheep and 2,000 cattle, off the coast of Western Australia, February 1, 2024 (Screenshot: Sky News Australia, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israel-bound livestock ship back in Australia after 25 days at sea due to Houthi strikes

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Brenmiller's thermal energy storage unit at the Fortlev company in Brazil. (Courtesy: Fortlev)

Israeli green thermal storage company signs 7-year deal with Wolfson Hospital

US cyber firm Proofpoint to lay off Israeli employees as part of global job cuts

By Sharon Wrobel

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