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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 2, 2025

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The FBI investigates the area on Orleans St and Bourbon Street by St. Louis Cathedral in the French Quarter where a suspicious package was detonated after a person drove a truck into a crowd earlier on Bourbon Street on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton)

Investigators said to find multiple bombs hidden at scene

Officials probe terror links, possible accomplices in ISIS-inspired New Orleans attack

By Eric Tucker, Jim Mustian, Kevin McGill and Jack Brook

US Army veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, posted clips online praising Islamic State hours before driving truck into New Year’s Eve crowd, killing 15

New Orleans ramming: What we know so far about ISIS-inspired attack that killed 15

Two Israelis among injured in New Orleans attack; Islamic State flag found on site

By AP

Tesla Cybertruck stuffed with fireworks explodes outside Trump Las Vegas hotel

By AP

Former defense minister MK Yoav Gallant announces his resignation from the Knesset on January 1, 2025. (Screencapture/ X)

Some reports say Gallant quit to preempt Likud ousting him

Gallant resigns from Knesset, denounces imminent bill to exempt Haredim from IDF

Former defense minister vows to remain in Likud party, indicates he could attempt a leadership run in the future, saying his ‘journey is not yet complete’

MK Yoav Gallant in the corridors of the Knesset on December 23, 2024. (Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 2: Day 454 – Gallant leaves the Knesset, but will he return?

By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid

Liat Ben-Ari arrives for a court hearing at the Magistrate's Court in Tel Aviv on December 18, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Lead prosecutor in indictment of Netanyahu retires from State Attorney’s Office

By Jeremy Sharon

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks to police officials ahead of a protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul, outside the Knesset, February 20, 2023. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

High Court annuls legislation that gave Ben Gvir strong influence over police probes

By Jeremy Sharon

At the same time, judges unanimously uphold other aspects of law that increased minister’s powers over the force

Screenshots of the footage of the alleged altercation between an employee and IDF soldiers at the Ramat Gan McDonald's, December 31, 2024. (Screenshots from X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Ben Gvir orders arrest of Arab Israeli McDonald’s employee who accosted soldiers

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Young Israelis arrive at the IDF Military Induction Center in Tel Hashomer, April 18, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/ Flash90)

AG says Haredi draft bill can’t ignore fundamentally changed reality after October 7

Gali Baharav-Miara tells defense minister legislation must include sanctions against draft dodgers, and must be submitted to her office for legal review

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 2: PM hails Syria commando raid, one of the most important strikes against Iranian axis

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Top Hamas official says ‘good chance talks will succeed’ as delegations head to Qatar * Netanyahu released from hospital after surgery * Security Council to meet on Gaza hospital raid

8:34 pm

IDF soldiers said diverted from missions to thwart Israeli extremists trying to infiltrate Gaza
8:01 pm

Report: Biden recently presented with plans for potential US attack on Iranian nuclear facilities
7:44 pm

Culture minister booed at opening of Haifa Film Festival

An IDF soldier is seen working on the border fence with Syria, October 18, 2024. (Oren Cohen/Flash90)

IDF suicide rate rises amid ongoing war and mass reservist call-ups

By Emanuel Fabian

28 soldiers have taken their lives since Oct. 7, 2023, compared to some 25 in all of 2021-2022; overall deaths are the highest in decades, with hundreds killed in Gaza and Lebanon

Singer and actor Idan Amedi, who was injured as a reservist in Gaza, performs for the One Family Hanukkah camp of bereaved children on December 30, 2024. (Courtesy)

SupermanSinger Idan Amedi, injured in Gaza, performs for bereaved kids

By Jessica Steinberg

Katz threatens harsh steps in Gaza if captives not freed

After weeks of hope, hostage talks hit impasse with no clear path forward

By Lazar Berman

After weeks of optimism around chances for a deal that would see Hamas release hostages from captivity in the Gaza Strip, talks have ground to a halt, according to multiple Israeli officials. There are currently no Israeli working groups in either Qatar or Egypt, an Israeli defense official... Continue Reading

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits on one side of a desk, as his chief of staff Tzachi Braverman takes notes at the head of the desk, in a meeting with top security officials: (L-R) Maj. Gen. Ronen Gofman, the premier's military aide; IDF Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi; then-defense minister Yoav Gallant; Mossad chief David Barnea; and Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, at the IDF's Kirya headquarters in Tel Aviv, October 2, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

Hailed in Israel as 'greatest Jewish athlete of all time'

Agnes Keleti, Holocaust survivor and oldest living Olympic medalist, dies at 103

By AP and ToI Staff

Agnes Keleti, a Holocaust survivor who coached Israel's Olympic gymnastics teams for decades, has died. She was 103. Keleti, who had been the oldest living Olympic medal winner, died Thursday morning in Budapest, the Hungarian state news agency reported. She was hospitalized in critical condition with pneumonia on December 25. She won a total... Continue Reading

Hungarian-Israeli retired Olympic artistic gymnast and coach Agnes Keleti in her apartment in Budapest, Hungary, on January 8, 2023. (Attila KISBENEDEK / AFP)

Anti-Israel protesters in Times Square, New York City, January 1, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Hundreds chant for ‘intifada’ at New Year’s Day protest in NYC’s Times Square

Demonstrators hold signs saying ‘Zionism is cancer,’ argue with pro-Israel counter-protesters; sides separated by police on high alert following New Orleans terror attack

The seal of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is seen on the Headquarters in Washington, Saturday, December 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

FBI seizes over 150 homemade pipe bombs in Virginia man’s home

By AP

Illustrative photo of a police car in Florida's Broward County. (Elvert Barnes/Flikr CC BY-SA 2.0)

Armed man arrested for plotting attack on Florida AIPAC office

Analysis

Despite failed revolt against Netanyahu, Ben Gvir seen as unlikely to get the boot

On Tuesday evening, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched a scathing attack on Itamar Ben Gvir, after the national security minister and all but one of the MKs from his Otzma Yehudit party voted against an important budget-related bill in the Knesset. To make sure the legislation passed and quash the internal revolt led by Ben Gvir and ultra-Orthodox MKs, the... Continue Reading

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir arrives at a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, September 11, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Head of the Judea and Samaria Police District's investigations and intelligence department Commander Avishai Muallem arrives at the Department for Internal Police Investigations in Jerusalem, December 23, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Senior cop accused of papering over settler attacks arrested again for alleged tampering

By Jeremy Sharon

Names and nomenclature: The choices we make

My daughter bears the name that was most popular for Israeli girls in 2024 – soon, a new generation of post-Oct. 7 names will comfort us

Sala’s Persian wonderland: Reality bites in Tehran

Iran’s arrest of the Italian journalist has all the hallmarks of a cautionary tale for the useful idiots of the West

Children walk amid scattered debris of tents on January 2, 2025, following an overnight Israeli strike on a tent camp near Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. (BASHAR TALEB / AFP)

Hamas says police chief, deputy killed in airstrike on Gaza humanitarian zone

By ToI Staff and Agencies

IDF confirms strike on aide Hussam Shahwan, accusing him of terrorizing Gazans and planning attacks on Israel; rocket fired at Israeli border town after Katz vows to step up strikes

Rockets are found by IDF troops in southern Gaza's Rafah, in a handout photo issued on January 1, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Gaza rockets target Israel as airstrikes on Strip said to kill 20

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

This picture shows tents at a makeshift camp for displaced Palestinians, during a storm in Gaza City on December 31, 2024, . (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Gaza population down by 6% since war began, says PA bureau, citing Hamas figures

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Rujm el-Hiri (CC-BY SA Asaf Z/Wikipedia Commons)

Archaeology

Mystery unsolved: Ancient Golan stone circle not an astronomical observatory after all

By Gavriel Fiske

Geomagnetic analysis and tectonic reconstruction refute widespread theory about ‘Stonehenge of the East’; dozens of unknown structures also found near intriguing Rujm el-Hiri site

Sgt. Gur Kehati. (Israel Defense Forces)

Family says IDF not upfront about son’s death alongside researcher in Lebanon

Army chief orders probe expedited into circumstances surrounding the killing of Sgt. Gur Kehati and civilian septuagenarian Zeev Erlich in November

A picture shows a view of the Al Jazeera television network offices in Ramallah in the West Bank on May 5, 2024. (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

PA halts Al Jazeera West Bank broadcasts amid criticism of its terror crackdown

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Ramallah says Qatari-backed network, which lionized armed groups in northern West Bank, is inciting and misinforming public; move described as temporary, but no end-date given

The vehicle used by a Palestinian in a suspected ramming attack near the central West Bank town of Dayr Qadis on January 1, 2025. (Courtesy)

IDF says soldier lightly injured in West Bank ramming; assailant in serious condition

By Emanuel Fabian

A Palestinian Authority security officer clutches his gun amid a major raid against members of terror groups in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, December 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

AnalysisPalestinian Authority pursuing West Bank terrorists to impress Trump, analysts say

By AFP and ToI Staff

Syrians inspect the damage at the site of overnight Israeli strikes on the outskirts of Masyaf in Syria's central Hama province on September 9, 2024. (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)

Israel confirms commandos raided Iran missile factory deep in Syria 4 months ago

By Emanuel Fabian

In ‘Operation Deep Layer,’ IAF special forces rappeled from helicopters, killed guards at entrance to scientific center in Masyaf, raided underground site, set explosives, took documents

What dreams may come: Surrealistic exhibits mark start of Israel Museum’s 60th year

By Jessica Steinberg

After international institutions shunned them amid war, the curators of ‘Lucid Dreams’ and ‘Alma Mater’ turned inward, assembling over 180 local works

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Relatives take part in a protest demanding the whereabouts of four activists who disappeared during the war between opposition groups and former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces, in Douma, Syria, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Syrians protest to demand justice and accountability for disappeared activists

By OMAR ALBAM and Sally Abou Aljoud

Mizrahi singer Amir Benayoun performs with the Ashdod Andalusian Orchestra in Larnaca, Cyprus, on December 29, 2024 (Credit Mike Edry)

Greece light-ningIsraeli and Greek music mesh in Cyprus concerts on Hanukkah

By Jessica Steinberg

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