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Tomer Arava Eliaz and his mother Dikla Arava, who were killed, likely by IDF fire, during Hamas's October 7, 2023 massacre on Kibbutz Nahal Oz. (Courtesy)

IDF probe: Dikla Arava and son Tomer were likely killed by Israeli fire on Oct. 7

By Emanuel Fabian

Investigation based on testimonies from soldiers, officers, civilians finds both were apparently shot by mistake by IDF troops in two separate incidents during Kibbutz Nahal Oz battles

Youssef Ziyadne (left) and his son Hamza Ziyadne (Courtesy)

IDF confirms death of hostage Hamza Ziyadne, day after father Youssef laid to rest

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

IDF forces operation in the Gaza Strip in a handout photo issued by the Israeli military on January 9, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 10: Day 462 – Israel’s security concept collapsed on Oct 7. What now?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

Justice Minister Yariv Levin (right) poses with his predecessor Gideon Sa'ar during a meeting on January 1, 2023 (Michael Dimenstein/GPO)

Levin, Sa’ar unveil new judicial overhaul plan; wary opposition heads hold off response

By Jeremy Sharon

Move would still remove High Court oversight of Basic Laws, restrict its review of other laws, increase political control over choosing judges; Bar Association slams ‘total politicization’

Bnei Brak mob attacks senior IDF officer overseeing Haredi draft; 3 arrested

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

A senior Israel Defense Forces officer responsible for advancing the draft of ultra-Orthodox soldiers to the military was attacked by a mob of Haredi men in Bnei Brak Thursday night. Maj. Gen. David Zini, head of the Training Command and General Staff Corps and the "project manager" for... Continue Reading

A mob of ultra-Orthodox men attack Maj. Gen. David Zini, the IDF officer tasked with overseeing the Haredi draft, in Bnei Brak, January 9, 2025. (Screenshot, X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Chairman Yuli Edelstein, right, and Defense Minister Israel Katz, second from right, during a closed meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, December 16, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)

Katz to present ultra-Orthodox enlistment proposal at key Knesset committee next week

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men block Route 4, near Bnei Brak in central Israel, during a protest against the conscription of Haredim to the IDF, January 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Haredi demonstrators block highway near Tel Aviv to protest army draft

By Charlie Summers, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Promoted EssaySources: A Journal of Jewish Ideas

Doubt, Empathy, and Hope: Leadership for the Israel of Tomorrow

Israel’s leadership crisis and the need to push for positive change. From the Jewish Leadership issue of Sources: A Journal of Jewish Ideas published by the Shalom Hartman Institute

Analysis

Overhaul redux: Levin’s ‘compromise’ proposal would again radically constrain the judiciary

Since the first week he took office two years ago, Justice Minister Yariv Levin has relentlessly sought to radically overhaul Israel’s current judicial and legal system, with an emphasis on enabling near-complete control by the governing majority of the appointment of judges, and radically constraining the judiciary's capacity to exercise oversight of the government... Continue Reading

Justice Minister Yariv Levin (right) and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar (left) discuss their new proposals for an overhaul of the judicial appointments process and other aspects of Israel’s constitutional order. (Screenshot from video courtesy of Justice Minister Yariv Levin (right) and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar)

Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer arrives for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 29, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 10: Meeting Biden and Trump aides, Dermer said to urge continuous US role in hostage talks

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Key witness in PM’s trial: Sara Netanyahu threatened to kill herself, write letter saying it was because of me * Iran TV shows missile base after paramilitary march against ‘threats’

9:46 pm

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9:32 pm

Zelensky says he spoke with Biden, thanked him for support
8:50 pm

Turkey raps France, says US only counterpart in northeast Syria

Troops of the Kfir Brigade operate in the northern Gaza Strip, in a handout photo issued by the IDF on January 7, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

No more ‘cannon fodder’: Parents of troops, slain hostages demand Gaza deal

By Lazar Berman, Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Netanyahu accused of endangering soldiers to stay in office, as official insists no progress in Doha while feting arrival of Trump aide Witkoff; Hamas claims war toll tops 46,000

US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris lead a briefing regarding the federal response to the wildfires in the Los Angeles area, in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (Ben Curtis/AP)

Biden: ‘Real progress’ being made in hostage talks, but Hamas ‘in the way’ of a deal

Footage purportedly shows a fire in the village of Khirbet Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah, which locals say was started by extremist settlers, January 10, 2025. (X screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Settlers riot in West Bank village for 3rd time in days after terror shooting

Farm building set on fire near Ramallah, ‘revenge’ scrawled in Hebrew on wall; no arrests made in nighttime revenge raids amid videos of burning cars, property

Issachar Manne is seen opening a bottle of wine in his settlement in the West Bank, in this screen capture from a YouTube video posted September 1, 2022. (Screen capture via YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

American Israeli settlers sanctioned for violence sue Biden administration

Israeli policemen stand guard as bulldozers demolish homes in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran on January 18, 2017. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Report: Ben Gvir tells police to prioritize demolition of family homes, targeting Arabs

Israel's FM Sa'ar calls for 'good neighborliness'

Lebanon army chief elected president, drawing Israeli hopes for postwar stability

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

Lebanon's lawmakers elected on Thursday army chief Joseph Aoun as president on Thursday, ending a stalemate that left the post vacant for two years, in a step toward lifting the war-battered country out of financial ruin and solidifying a ceasefire between Israel and the Hezbollah terror group. Israel was swift to congratulate Beirut... Continue Reading

Newly-elected Lebanese President Joseph Aoun reviews the honor guard upon his arrival at the Lebanese Parliament to be sworn in as a new president, in Beirut, Lebanon, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati visits the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on December 23, 2024. (AFP)

Lebanon’s PM vows to disarm country’s south after new president threatens Hezbollah

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Newly-elected Lebanese President Joseph Aoun sits at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, January 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

ProfileLebanon’s Aoun described as ‘dedicated’ army man with ‘national interest at heart’

By AFP

Hussain Abdul-Hussain

Lebanon’s Aoun could move toward peace – if Hezbollah lets him

The Iran-backed militia is bowed but not broken – and it could still find a way to hijack Saudi funds for its own rehabilitation

Israel is saving us: Vayehi and reciprocal saving

The Jewish State reminds us of our highest values. It strips away the illusions created by America’s obsession with comfort and status.

Illustrative: Josephine Mairzadeh uses a microphone to pose a question to a virtual presentation of Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss featured in a testimonial interactive installation called "New Dimensions in Testimony" at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, in New York, September 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Inside story

Resurrection or distortion? How AI can preserve – or annihilate – Holocaust history

By Matt Lebovic

As UNESCO issues warning on potential for AI to change the historical record, author Todd Presner probes ethical concerns behind ongoing merging of AI tech with humanities research

US president Donald Trump (left) welcomes visiting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House in Washington, DC, on March 25, 2019. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Netanyahu unlikely to attend Trump inauguration, hasn’t had official invite, aide says

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Premier, who has just had surgery and whose arrest is sought by the ICC, was nonetheless previously said to be planning on attending

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (left) Netanyahu at the Knesset, November 11, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); An exterior view of the International Criminal Court, or ICC, in The Hague, Netherlands, on April 30, 2024. (AP/Peter Dejong); Then-defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks during a press conference at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, on November 5, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

US House votes to sanction ICC over Israel arrest warrants

By Jacob Magid, Reuters and ToI Staff

Poland's President Andrzej Duda (left) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are seen during the conference on Peace and Security in the Middle east in Warsaw, on February 13, 2019 (Janek SKARZYNSKI / AFP)

Poland says it will not arrest Netanyahu for ICC should he attend Auschwitz memorial

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Then-US President Donald Trump (left) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, May 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

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Members of Iranian paramilitary forces (Basij) pull boxes symbolizing Israeli coffins, during an anti-Israel rally to show their solidarity with the Palestinian and Lebanese people, in Tehran, January 10, 2025. (AFP)

Thousands of fighters march through Tehran in show of force against Israel, US

By Agencies and ToI Staff

With Iran’s proxies weakened, vehicles with missiles, artillery parade streets, black-clad women carry rifles; Pezeshkian lauds Aoun’s election, says Lebanon unity will ‘defeat’ Israel

A drone launched at Israel apparently from Yemen after it was shot down by the Israeli Air Force near Gvulot in southern Israel, January 9, 2025. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Army says trio of suspected Houthi drones downed, ending short-lived lull

By Emanuel Fabian

Iranians walk past a statue of a father and daughter in Tehran, on January 7, 2025 (Atta Kenare / AFP)

Iran’s population aging fast, bucking government efforts

By MENNA ZAKI and Payam DOOST MOHAMADI

The Palisades Fire ravages a neighborhood amid high winds in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, January 7, 2025. (Ethan Swope/AP)

US anti-Israel activists blame Jewish state for Los Angeles wildfire crisis

Far-left groups Code Pink and Jewish Voice for Peace tie catastrophic fires to funding for Israel, prompting condemnation from Jewish groups

Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies stand near the destroyed Altadena Community Church, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, in the Altadena section of Pasadena, Calif. (AP/Chris Pizzello)

California firefighters make some progress, but largest fires remain out of control

By Christopher Weber, JULIE WATSON and John Seewer

The Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center smolders after burning in the Eaton Fire in Pasadena, California, January 8, 2025. (Mario Tama/Getty Images via JTA)

Deadly LA wildfires rip through Jewish communities, sparking action amid ashes

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Illustrative: Israeli entrepreneurs, investors and lawyers mingle at the Up & Coming annual tech conference by PwC Israel and Goldfarb Gross Seligman law firm in Tel Aviv on September 4, 2024. (Sharon Wrobel/Times of Israel)

With a possible end to the war in sight, will 2025 bring a startup ‘baby boom’?

By Sharon Wrobel

Fund managers and tech executives worry about a shortage of local talent and new startups, but expect a revival of Israeli tech firms going public on the US stock market

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Members of the Lev Tahor Jewish cult outside the Alida Espana de Arana special education school where rescued children are being housed in Guatemala City on December 22, 2024. (Johan ORDÓÑEZ / AFP)

Lev Tahor women and children attack police while in Guatemalan custody

Elizabeth Tsurkov in an undated photo (social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israel seeks to rally global support for release of researcher held captive in Iraq

By AP and ToI Staff

Left to right: The Democrats party leader Yair Golan leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on December 9, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Likud MK Tally Gotliv at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, January 1, 2025 (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90); Otzma Yehudit MK Almog Cohen attends a Labor and Welfare Committee meeting at the Knesset on January 8, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Democrats head threatens legal action against coalition MKs for pushing conspiracies

Antisemitic graffiti daubed on a Sydney synagogue, January 10, 2025 (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Australian synagogue graffitied with swastikas in latest antisemitic attack

By Agencies and ToI Staff

An employee holds a poster bearing portraits of (From L) North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei with a slogan which reads in French "Don't forget to sort the waste" after removing it from a city bus in Béziers, southern France on January 9, 2025. (Sylvain Thomas/AFP)

CannedFrench mayor scraps recycling ads showing Iran’s Khamenei

By AFP

IDF soldiers operate in the northern West Bank, in an image issued on January 7, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Shin Bet chief said to urge major counterterrorism operation in West Bank

A Ryanair Boeing 737 MAX takes off from Lisbon airport, January 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Ryanair plans to fly full summer schedule to Israel, predicts others will too

By ToI Staff and Agencies

The casket of former President Jimmy Carter is pictured during a state funeral at the National Cathedral, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, in Washington. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

At Washington Cathedral funeral, Jimmy Carter remembered for humility and service

By Bill Barrow and CHRIS MEGERIAN

Michal Berman, an artist who participated in 'Where You From?' an artist residency at the Olim Artists Lab at Neve Schechter in Tel Aviv, at an evening presentation on January 5, 2025. (Credit Yair Meyuchas)

Worlds collide11 artists living between Israel and US express their journey at Olim Artists Lab

By Jessica Steinberg

Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Spencer Horwitz reaches for an infield grounder during a baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays September 21, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Nesius, File)

Played for Israel in 2023Pirates welcome Jewish player Spencer Horwitz to the team

By Jonathan Mayo

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