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What Matters Most On Saturday, January 11, 2025

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets US President-elect Donald Trump's Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff at his office in Jerusalem, January 11, 2025. (Prime Minister's Office Spokesperson)

Live updates (closed)

January 11: Trump envoy returns to Qatar for hostage talks after meeting Netanyahu in Jerusalem

By Elana Kirsh and ToI Staff

Israeli delegation also heads to Doha as hostage families urge deal that will return all the captives, end war * Witkoff reportedly told PM that Trump wants agreement before Jan. 20

9:00 pm

Fatah vows not to let Hamas 'replicate its actions' in West Bank, slams Iran
8:35 pm

Tel Aviv police scuffle with demonstrators after declaring rally outside army HQ is illegal
8:03 pm

Trump envoy returns to Qatar for hostage talks after meeting Netanyahu in Jerusalem

An electronic billboard beams an image of US President-elect Donald Trump and references his threat to unleash hell if hostages held in Gaza are not freed until his inauguration later this month, in Tel Aviv, January 8, 2025. (Oded Balilty/AP)

Trump envoy Steve Witkoff meets Qatari PM in Doha

CIA chief says hostage talks ‘quite serious’; White House: Deal possible by Jan. 20

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Washington optimistic on chances of closing agreement to release Israelis held by Hamas before end of Biden’s term; Netanyahu huddles with security chiefs to discuss negotiations

Defense Minister Israel Katz meets with IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi and other officers, January 9, 2025. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Katz orders IDF plan for ‘complete defeat of Hamas’ if no hostage deal by Jan. 20

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Amir Baram, January 6, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF deputy chief of staff requests to step down, indicates he hopes to succeed Halevi

By Emanuel Fabian

Maj. Gen. Amir Baram, who extended tenure amid war, appears to criticize the military head in a letter leaked to the media; move seen as opening salvo in race to be next IDF chief

Illustrative: Gaza-based terror groups fire rockets towards the sea in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on September 12, 2023 (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

IDF says rocket fired from Gaza at border area intercepted; no injuries or damage

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

The entrance to Holy Land USA, a defunct religious theme park in Waterbury, Connecticut, that closed in 1984. (Cathryn J. Prince)

Reporter's notebook'Welcome to Holy Land. You’re going to love it'

A long-abandoned Christian theme park sits just off a US highway. Will it rise again?

By Cathryn J. Prince

Shuttered in 1984, Connecticut’s Holy Land USA is a crumbling hodgepodge of biblical settings that was also the site of a grisly 2010 murder; a local priest works for its resurrection

Smoke seen billowing over Sanaa, during reported Israeli airstrikes on Yemen's Houthi-controlled capital, January 10, 2025. (Al Masirah / Ansarullah Media Centre/AFP)

Yemeni rebels claim attempted drone strike late on Thursday

20 Israeli jets attack two ports and a power plant used by Houthis in Yemen

By Emanuel Fabian and Lazar Berman

IAF strikes come soon after after reports of US-led raid on area north of Sanaa; PM vows more attacks if terror group’s drone, ballistic missile fire continues

Key witness in PM’s trial: Sara Netanyahu once threatened to kill herself, blame me

Hadas Klein, a key witness in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial, said in a television interview broadcast Friday that the premier's wife Sara once threatened to take her own life and leave a note saying it was because of Klein and her then-boss, billionaire Arnon Milchan, a benefactor of the Netanyahus. Klein... Continue Reading

Hadas Klein, a key witness in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial, speaks to Channel 12 in a segment aired January 10, 2025. (Screen capture: Channel 12, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Columbia law professor Katherine Franke. (Youtube Screenshot / Democracy Now)

Columbia University professor retires as probe finds she discriminated against Israelis

Katherine Franke leaves school after investigation says she violated university discrimination policy when saying Israeli students harass Palestinians on campus

Not On Our Dime volunteers stand outside the Squirrel Hill Giant Eagle attempting to gather signatures for a referendum that would force Pittsburgh to divest from Israel. (David Rullo)

Anti-Israel activists renew BDS referendum effort in Pittsburgh after first one fails

Swastikas daubed on a synagogue in Newtown on January 11, 2025 in Sydney, Australia (Screen grab via ABC News)

Sydney synagogue defaced with red swastikas, day after another synagogue vandalized

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Home in city also daubed with antisemitic graffiti, police say they’re probing offensive comments on street poster; Australian PM: Abhorrent graffiti needs to stop immediately

Shira Albag, left, and her husband Eli, the parents of captive surveillance soldier Liri Albag, speak to Channel 12, in a segment broadcast January 10, 2025. Eli Albag dons a photo of their hostage daughter. (Screen capture: Channel 12, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Parents of hostage Liri Albag say ‘she’s not the same girl’ in Hamas video

Shira and Eli Albag say their daughter’s own words peek out from Hamas’s script, say that they are dismayed members of the coalition have chosen not to watch the clip

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

A prayer for firefighters and first responders

Blessed are the ones who run toward the danger, who wade into the waters, who carve paths through the wreckage

A tale of two kaddishes

On this 10th of Tevet, designated a day of ’general mourning,’ I focus instead on my mother, my son, and how different losing each of them has been

FILE - The Palisades Fire burns vehicles and structures in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, January 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope, File)

Synagogue that survived Palisades fire becomes a ‘refuge’ for many who lost homes

By PHILISSA CRAMER

‘At least this home is standing for so many people,’ says rabbi at Kehillat Israel, hundreds of whose members’ houses were destroyed in the blazes ravaging Los Angeles

The Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center burns during the Eaton fire in Pasadena, California on January 7, 2025 (JOSH EDELSON / AFP)

LA wildfires destroy multiple houses of worship, but communities vow to persevere

By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO, LUIS ANDRES HENAO and Peter Smith

Illustrative: This frame grab taken from video footage posted on the Telegram channel @askrasul on October 29, 2023 shows rioters at the Makhachkala International Airport, in the Caucusus' Republic of Dagastan, hunting for Israeli and Jewish passengers as a plane arrives from Tel Aviv. (Screen capture: Telegram/@askrasul via AFP, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Four members of anti-Israel Dagestan airport mob sentenced to decade in penal colony

Punishment said to be harshest yet in connection to riot at Makhachkala Int’l Airport after the arrival of a plane carrying ‘unclean’ passengers from Tel Aviv, 3 weeks after Oct. 7

Illustrative: Vehicles with mounted weapons launchers which the Israeli army says belonged to the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, and were seized by yroops during the ground operation in southern Lebanon, are displayed for the media on December 23, 2024, at a northern Israeli military base. (Jack Guez/AFP)

5 said killed in Israeli strike targeting Hezbollah weapons truck in south Lebanon

By Agencies and Emanuel Fabian

Lebanese security source says the strike hit a rocket launcher, several munitions exploded; IDF says it was acting ‘in accordance with the ceasefire understandings’

Lebanon's newly elected president Joseph Aoun smiles as he walks into a meeting at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of the capital Beirut, January 10, 2025. (Anwar Amro / AFP)

AnalysisWeakening of Hezbollah enabled Lebanon to fill 2-year-old presidential vacancy

By AFP and ToI Staff

President-elect Donald Trump appears remotely for a sentencing hearing in front of New York State Judge Juan Merchan in the criminal case in which he was convicted in 2024 on charges involving hush money paid to a porn star, at New York Criminal Court in Manhattan in New York Jan. 10, 2025. (Brendan McDermid via AP, Pool)

Trump gets ‘unconditional discharge’ for hush money conviction, avoids jail or fine

By Maggy DONALDSON

NY judge hands down mildest possible criminal sanction for covering up payments to porn star; US president-elect will become first felon in White House

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)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 11: Day 463 – Israel’s wish list for US President-elect Trump

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur

Mel Gibson, right, directs Jim Caviezel on the set of Gibson's movie 'The Passion of The Christ' in 2003 (AP/Icon Productions, File)

Second coming

Mel Gibson announces ‘acid trip’ sequel to ‘Passion of the Christ’

Controversial director aims to shoot resurrection-themed movie ‘next year sometime,’ with a de-aged Jim Caviezel resuming role of Jesus; 2004 film was seen by some as antisemitic

US President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, January 10, 2025. (AP Photo/ Ben Curtis)

Biden slams ‘really shameful’ Meta plan to scrap US Facebook, Instagram fact-checking

President says move ‘completely contrary to everything America’s about’; UN rights chief: Allowing hate speech to flourish online has ‘real-world consequences’

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Illustrative: Protesters let off fireworks in Trafalgar Square after a 'March For Palestine', part of a pro-Palestinian national demonstration against Israel, in London on October 14, 2023, organized by Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Friends of Al-Aqsa, Stop the War Coalition, Muslim Association of Britain, Palestinian Forum in Britain and CND. (Justin Tallis/AFP)

London cops ask pro-Palestinian group to move anti-Israel rally away from synagogue

Illustrative: Traffic flows on a main road past electricity transmission towers in Tehran, December 16, 2024. (Atta Kenare / AFP)

Iran again closes schools, offices to conserve power amid shortages

By AFP and ToI Staff

Policemen secure the area around the venue of a congress of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as demonstrators protesting against the party put up banners reading 'Not up for Nazis' on January 11, 2025 in Riesa, eastern Germany (JENS SCHLUETER / AFP)

Far-right AfD’s party convention draws protests as Germany heads into election

By AP

An aerial view shows the shrine of Sayyida Zeinab, locally believed to hold the grave of Zeinab bint Ali, the daughter of Imam Ali and Fatima, and granddaughter of the Islamic prophet Mohammad, in the southern suburbs of Damascus, on December 11, 2024. (Dylan COLLINS / AFP)

Syrian intelligence agency says it thwarted Islamic State bomb attack on Shiite shrine

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