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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 8, 2025

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‘It is crazy’: Wildfires ravage Los Angeles area, destroying synagogue and causing chaos

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US authorities issue evacuation orders to 30,000 residents; Chabad center damaged; several said injured; senior living center evacuated as embers fall around people in wheelchairs

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 8: Families of US-Israeli hostages to attend Trump inauguration

IDF says hostage Youssef Ziyadne’s body found, findings indicate ‘grave concern’ for son Hamza * Blinken says deal ‘very close,’ plan will be handed to Trump if not finalized

9:54 pm

US officials say a decision on lifting Syrian rebel sanctions will be up to Trump
9:41 pm

Hamas claims responsibility for deadly West Bank shooting attack this week
9:26 pm

IDF names 3rd soldier killed in northern Gaza incident earlier today

President-elect Donald Trump speaks as Steve Witkoff listens, during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, January 7, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP/ Evan Vucci)

IDF chief says Israel will use force to make Hamas buckle

Trump’s Mideast envoy to visit Qatar, claiming hostage deal on verge of completion

While Witkoff says progress made in Doha, Hamas stands by demand for permanent end to war, which Israel rejects; president-elect: ‘It won’t be good for anyone’ if no deal by Jan. 20

Op-ed: Day 460 of the warConnecting a hostage deal to a ‘day after’ Gaza mechanism

By David Horovitz

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Rabbi Asher Deutsch teaches a class in Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnai Brak in an undated photo. (Givat Hayeshiva)

Inside story

Till death do them part: After top rabbi dies, power struggle blazes at elite Haredi yeshiva

The split at Ponevezh Yeshiva runs so deep that it delayed the head rabbi’s funeral last month, but when it comes to the army, the question is not ‘if’ but ‘how’ to evade the draft

Posters of Hezbollah's slain leaders Hassan Nasrallah (L) and Hashem Safieddine are placed amid destruction caused by Israeli strikes against the terror group in the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh on December 4, 2024. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

Analysis

Gianluca Pacchiani

Defanged but still dangerous, Hezbollah will try to regain its bite, experts predict

Focused for now on reconstructing Lebanon and rebuilding support, the terror group will also seek to reconstitute its arsenal in hopes of fighting Israel another day

Lebanese army soldiers sit on their parked tanks along a road in the southern Lebanese coastal town of Naqoura, on the border with Israel on January 7, 2025, after Israel's withdrawal from the area as part of the ceasefire agreement between the two countries. (AFP)

US hails Lebanese army’s implementation of truce, even as Israel views it as inadequate

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Reporter's notebook'Everything has to be built from zero'

Inside the Lebanon-border closed military zone, kibbutz members prepare to start over

By Diana Bletter

The tenuous Hezbollah ceasefire is still in place as Hanita and Rosh Hanikra residents make rare visits to their homes to salvage what few belongings are not shattered

Supreme Court Justice Noam Sohlberg arrives for a hearing on the enlistment of ultra-Orthodox men, January 8, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Only 70 enlisted out of 3,000 sent orders in July-October

State tells High Court all eligible Haredi men can be drafted into IDF from 2026

Defense Minister Katz reported to have tried to excise IDF’s position from state’s response, as coalition continued to work on legislation exempting most of community from service

Israeli soldiers and ultra-Orthodox Jews at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site in the Old City of Jerusalem, July 10, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 8: Day 460 – IDF needs Haredi soldiers, but can it accommodate them?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

Defense Minister Israel Katz alongside soldiers in Gaza on December 25, 2024. (Shlomi Amsallem/Defense Ministry)

Katz said trying to hide IDF comments that it can draft all eligible Haredim by 2026

By ToI Staff and Sam Sokol

Journalist Moshe Nussbaum attends a ceremony at the Israel Police headquarters in Jerusalem on September 5, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AI helps veteran Israeli TV reporter return to the air after disease took his voice

By Melanie Lidman

Channel 12’s Moshe Nussbaum was diagnosed with ALS two years ago, which made him unable to speak clearly and seemingly ended his decades-long career; now he is making a comeback

The Jews of Syria, seen through the looking glass

The Syrian Jewish population was successfully removed – all but 9 Jews. So why is the Western press intent on depicting a sizable, functioning community?

Can incoming Ambassador Huckabee bring the hostages home?

His reputation for decisive leadership, a personal connection to US President-elect Trump, and a willingness to confront terrorism precedes him and gives us hope

Hamas operative Anas Mohammad Faiz a-Sharif in an interrogation video released by the IDF on January 7, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Hamas member tells IDF interrogators that gunmen operated in Kamal Adwan Hospital

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Operative says terrorists saw north Gaza hospital as ‘safe shelter,’ used it as armory; unclear whether statements were made under duress, and whether other detainees agree

Staff Sgt. Ido Samiach (Courtesy)

Soldier killed fighting in Gaza as IDF withdraws brigade from northern Strip

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Troops of the Nahal Brigade operate in southern Gaza's Rafah, in a handout photo issued on August 8, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Gazan ‘human shield’ for IDF shot dead in error by officer — report

Eli Feldstein (left), a former spokesman in the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is the main suspect in an investigation launched in late October 2024 of alleged illegal access and leaking of classified intelligence material (Kan screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law); Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) at a plenum session at the Knesset, Jerusalem, November 12, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Lawyer for Netanyahu aide: PM knew of plan to leak classified document to press

By Jeremy Sharon

In newly released December court transcript, attorney says Feldstein ‘whispered in PM’s ear’ he was going to leak top secret material to press, likely worked on PM’s instructions

Aaron 'Ari' Rosenfeld, one of the suspects in the classified documents leak affair, is brought to a courtroom in the Tel Aviv District Court, January 7, 2025. (Koko/ Flash90)

Lawyer for NCO in PM’s office leak says Shin Bet doesn’t believe he is security risk

By Jeremy Sharon

Yuval Vagdani, the Israeli soldier who was forced to flee Brazil after a war crimes probe was opened against him by the Brazilian government. (Social media; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

IDF soldier who escaped war crimes investigation in Brazil arrives in Israel

Yuval Vagdani was subject of probe for allegedly filming himself destroying residential building in Gaza; says having to flee Brazil ‘felt a little like a bullet in the heart’

A demonstrator holds up a placard with Prime Minister Netanyahu behind bars and the Italian words "criminal against humanity, lets arrest him now," during an anti-Israel rally in support of Palestinians in Rome on November 30, 2024. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP)

Foreign Ministry: No foreign court has issued warrants for reservists over Gaza war

By Agencies and ToI Staff

An exterior view of the International Criminal Court, or ICC, in The Hague, Netherlands, on April 30, 2024. (AP/Peter Dejong)

Ireland files motion to intervene in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Police at an anti-Israel protest in Times Square, New York City, January 6, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

In NYC, Jews targeted in hate crimes more than all other groups combined in 2024

NYPD data says Jewish New Yorkers subjected to 345 antisemitic incidents last year, 54% of total for all minorities

Matthew Scouras; weaponry and cash located by Beverly Police during execution of a search warrant at his home. (Courtesy Beverly Police Department)

Massachusetts man arrested for antisemitic threats had Nazi flag, guns and ammo

By JTA and ToI Staff

An exterior view of Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, on February 12, 2020. (STEPHANIE KEITH / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

US Department of Education opens antisemitism probe at Sarah Lawrence College

By Andrew Lapin

Illustrative. Cybersecurity technology. (Stock Depot via iStock by Getty Images)

In year of war, investment in Israeli cyber startups more than doubles to $4 billion

By Sharon Wrobel

Fundraising in 2024 was led by Israeli cyber firms that develop technology to protect the cloud and artificial intelligence threats, according to a report by YL Ventures

Folk trio Peter, Paul, and Mary, from left, Paul Stookey, Mary Travers, and Peter Yarrow, appear at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles, January 26, 1987. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon, File)

Obituary

Jewish folk singer Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary dies at 86

Yarrow released six Billboard Top 10 singles and two No. 1 albums in the 1960s, as part of the iconic trio that sang for civil rights and against war

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Footage shows Iran beginning air defense drills, near the Natanz nuclear site in Central Iran, January 7, 2025. (IRIB/AFP)

Iran steps up air defense drills near key nuclear site amid Israeli, US threats

By AFP and ToI Staff

In this image grab taken from handout video footage released by the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on April 23, 2023, fighters ride in the back of a technical vehicle (pickup truck mounted with a turret) in the East Nile district of greater Khartoum. (AFP PHOTO / HO / SUDAN RAPID SUPPORT FORCES (RSF))

Biden administration says Sudan’s rebel forces committing genocide, sanctions leader

People talk near a Meta sign outside of the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, March 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Meta announces replacement of fact-checking program with X-style community notes

By AP

MK Nissim Vaturi (left) attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on August 11, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); The Democrats party leader Yair Golan leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on December 9, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud MK Vaturi suggests Democrats leader Golan betrayed country on Oct. 7

The Umschlagplatz Memorial, in Warsaw, Poland, on April 12, 2023. (Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP / File)

‘Warsaw 1943 = Gaza 2025’: Holocaust memorial vandalized in Polish capital

Illustrative: Players of the Czech Republic and the United States challenge for the puck during the quarterfinal match at the ice hockey world championship in Tampere, Finland, May 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

Australian federation won’t host hockey tourney featuring Israel, citing safety fears

By AP and ToI Staff

Attendees of a Morningstar investment conference walk beneath banners at the McCormick Center in Chicago, June 24, 2010. (M. Spencer Green/AP)

Top asset management firm stops rating human rights risk in Israeli-Palestinian conflict

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Illustrative: Israel Police officers on Route 90, October 11, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Northern Israeli indicted for racist assault of Arab doctor who stopped to help him

A Qatar Airways plane, the first international commercial flight since the fall of the Assad regime, lands at Damascus International Airport, January 7, 2025. (AP/ Omar Sanadiki)

First international commercial flight since Assad’s ouster lands at Damascus Airport

By ABDULRAHMAN SHAHEEN and OMAR AKOUR

The leader of Austria's Freedom Party, Herbert Kickl, addresses a news conference, in Vienna, Austria, on January 7, 2025. (AP/ Heinz-Peter Bader)

Far-right leader tasked with forming Austria government pledges to ‘govern honestly’

By Philipp Jenne and Geir Moulson

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