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What Matters Most On Sunday, January 19, 2025

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Romi Gonen reunites with her family at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, January 19, 2025. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 19: Gaza ceasefire enters effect as 3 Israeli hostages released, reunited with families

Romi Gonen, Emily Damari and Doron Steinbrecher arrive back in Israel after 471 days * They are the first hostages to be freed in a deal since Nov. 2023 * 94 hostages still in Gaza

8:39 pm

Hospital director says condition of released hostages allows focus to be reunion with families
8:28 pm

Hamas issues propaganda video of hostage release
8:17 pm

WATCH: Released hostages reunite with families amid tears and joy

View of destroyed buildings in the northern Gaza Strip, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, on January 19, 2025 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ceasefire takes effect after Hamas names the three women hostages to be freed Sunday

By Emanuel Fabian, Amy Spiro, ToI Staff and Agencies

Romi Gonen, Emily Damari and Doron Steinbrecher to be freed on first day of truce after Hamas delayed list of names; will be met by IDF representatives, doctors, psychologists

Body of soldier Oron Shaul, killed and captured by Hamas in 2014, recovered from Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

Covert operation to bring remains of slain troop back to Israel carried out by special forces; leaders vow to return body of Hadar Goldin, another soldier killed in 2014 war

Staff Sgt. Oron Shaul (Courtesy)

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An IDF facility in southern Israel where released hostages will receive initial treatment, in a handout photo issued by the IDF on January 18, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

With doctors and therapists: Army completes preparations to receive hostages

By Emanuel Fabian

Three complexes set up near Gaza border, where freed captives will receive initial treatment before being taken to the hospital

A woman and a little girl look at a mural showing female Israeli soldiers taken hostage during the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel, in Tel Aviv, January 18, 2025 (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

PM: Trump, Biden back return to war if talks on 2nd phase fail

Hours before Gaza ceasefire set to start, PM stresses right to resume war after ‘pause’

By Emanuel Fabian, Amy Spiro and Agencies

As of Saturday night, Israel was still awaiting list of names from Hamas of the three women hostages to be freed Sunday afternoon; Netanyahu says deal won’t move forward without it

Israeli soldiers work in a staging area on the Israel-Gaza border after returning from the Gaza Strip, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025, a day ahead of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

As it preps for start of ceasefire, IDF says ready for ‘immediate’ return to fighting

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

High Court rejects bereaved families’ petition against release of terrorists

Justices find no cause to interfere in hostage deal that will free ‘despicable’ murderers, turn back request by prison guards for terrorist who assaulted them to be deported

Ari Fuld, who was stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist outside a West Bank shopping mall on September 16, 2018. (Facebook)

This aerial view shows displaced Palestinians returning to Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on January 19, 2025 (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Gazans stream home through rubble as truce starts after 15 months of war

By AFP and ToI Staff

Carrying their personal belongings, displaced residents of the Strip celebrate deal; hundreds of aid trucks enter enclave from Egypt

Demonstrators protest for the release of the hostages held in the Gaza Strip outside the IDF military headquarters in Tel Aviv, January 18, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Rallies for, against hostage deal held across Israel hours before it takes effect

By Noam Lehmann, Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

In Tel Aviv, Bibas family relatives mark Kfir’s 2nd birthday as they hold out hope for his release; police officer lightly injured by rioters protesting against deal in Jerusalem

ToI podcast

Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

Daily Briefing Jan. 19: Day 471 – Under ceasefire, Hamas steps out of shadows as IDF looks on

Military reporter Emanuel Fabian briefs us on the preparations to receive the 3 female hostages set to return to Israel and the clandestine op that recovered the body of Oron Shaul

A woman pauses near posters of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, as Israel's security cabinet convened to decide whether to approve a deal that would release dozens of hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza and pause the 15-month-war, January 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 18: Day 470 – 3 hostages set to come home Sunday under truce with Hamas

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz

A punch in the gut to the families of terror victims

I’m glad my son’s murderers were not found or maybe I too would receive a call telling me they were letting Koby and Yosef’s killers go

Sara Yael Hirschhorn

Where will you be when the hostages come home?

Bearing witness is a Jewish moral imperative: I don’t want to tell my Creator that I was shopping at Costco at this historic Exodus moment

PM's coalition weakened but still holds majority in Knesset

Otzma Yehudit exits coalition over Gaza deal, blasting it as ‘victory for terrorism’

Chairman Ben Gvir tells Netanyahu he’s proud of party’s ‘significant achievements under your leadership’ but slams him for crossing ‘all ideological red lines’

Then-National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir arrives at a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, January 17, 2025. (Chaim GoldbergFLASH90)

Ofir Engel, center, as he was released home from Gaza captivity on November 29, 2023 with his parents Yoav, left, and Sharon Engel (Courtesy)

Interview'This will be with us for a long time'

14 months after hostage son was freed, father says family still held captive by trauma

By Jessica Steinberg

Ahead of the ceasefire and first phase of hostage deal, Yoav Engel gives a glimpse into the world of a family shaken by their child’s Oct. 7 kidnapping to Gaza

Stephen Smith in Tel Aviv, February 22, 2024. (Shoshanna Solomon)

Interview

To build empathy around Oct. 7, former USC Shoah Foundation head pushes new VR project

By Shoshanna Solomon

Holocaust expert Stephen Smith believes disseminating augmented first-person accounts from a freed hostage and Nova survivors will help combat denial on US college campuses

'It fuels real-world threats, including violence against Jews'

US Jewish groups pushed Meta to crack down on hate speech. Now, it’s reversing course

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

The company will loosen restrictions and halt automation to detect most violations as it adapts to a political era increasingly shaped by Trump and the Republican Party

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, left, and Joel Kaplan, named in January 2025 as Meta's president of global affairs, after leaving a meeting with a Republican senator in Washington, D.C., September 19, 2019. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images/AFP )

A message reading "Sorry, TikTok isn't available right now" is displayed from the TikTok app on a cell phone screen on January 18, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Andy Bao)

TikTok becomes unavailable across US as nationwide ban takes effect

By Haleluya Hadero

A handout picture from the Magen David Adom ambulance service shows emergency personel at the scene of a suspected terror stabbing in Tel Aviv on January 18, 2025. (Magen David Adom)

Man seriously hurt in Tel Aviv stabbing; Palestinian terrorist shot dead

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

The terrorist, a West Bank resident in Israel illegally, assaults people at eatery on Levontin Street before being neutralized

Security forces reporting to Syria's transitional government patrol the streets of Dummar, a suburb of the Syrian captial Damascus, on January 15, 2025. (Bakr Alkasem/AFP)

Syrian defense minister rejects Kurdish proposal for own military bloc

US-backed Kurdish force demands ‘decentralized administration,’ refuses to dissolve itself in face of interim government’s efforts to unify armed forces

People walk along a market alley in the old city of Damascus, Syria, on January 18, 2025. (OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

Nearly 200,000 Syrian refugees have returned since Assad regime fell, UN says

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Screenshot from Iranian state TV video showing a newly built underground naval base, which Iran says is built 500 meters under the Persian Gulf, January 18, 2025. (Screenshot from X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iran unveils new underground naval base in Persian Gulf amid tension with US, Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

State TV says facility ‘built at depth of 500 meters,’ contains vessels with long-range missiles capable of ‘destroying US warships’; reveal comes 2 days before Trump takes office

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Illustrative: Activists from the Palestine Action group protest at the gates of a factory owned by Ferranti, a British subsidiary of Elbit Systems, in England on February 1, 2021. (Paul Ellis/AFP)

Nine suspects plead not guilty in break-in at Elbit’s UK warehouse

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A DoubleTree by Hilton hotel in Florida. (Business Wire via AP)

Florida hotel settles in case over canceling Arab American group after October 7

By Mike Schneider

Demonstrators walk in an encampment on the UCLA campus after clashes between protesters demonstrating about the Israel-Hamas war, Wednesday, May 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, file)

Biden team resolves more Title VI antisemitism and anti-Arab cases before departure

By Andrew Lapin

Israeli actor Ze'ev Revach attends a ceremony at the Knesset honoring the torchlighters for the 70th Independence Day ceremony, April 15, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ze’ev Revach, famed Israeli actor and comedian, dies at 84

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