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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 22, 2025

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The scene of a stabbing terror attack in Tel Aviv, January 21, 2025 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

US green card holder, a Moroccan national, wounds 4 in Tel Aviv terror stabbing spree

By Emanuel Fabian

Two moderately wounded, two others lightly hurt; Shin Bet confirms it’s probing why the assailant was let into Israel after being interrogated at airport

Cpt. 'Aleph' (left) wounded in a stabbing attack in Tel Aviv is seen at Ichilov Hospital alongside an IDF casualty officer, January 21, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Off-duty officer who lost hand in Gaza helped chase down terrorist in Tel Aviv attack

By Emanuel Fabian

Palestinian security forces take up positions to secure a rally by Fatah supporters in the West Bank city of Nablus, January 5, 2025. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Israel downplays PA role in postwar Gaza, denies promising Saudis a Palestinian state

PM’s office partially refutes report claiming Palestinian Authority to control Rafah Crossing; Ron Dermer says there is ‘no promise’ to Riyadh on establishing Palestinian state

Hamas gunmen secure aid trucks that arrived the Gaza Strip, in Rafah, January 21, 2025, days after a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel went into effect. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

AnalysisHamas presence in Gaza during truce is a message the terror group is still in charge

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A cameraman films as trucks carrying humanitarian aid coming in from the Kerem Shalom border crossing arrive in al-Shoka, east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on January 21, 2025. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)

More than 2,400 aid trucks enter Gaza under ceasefire with no major looting, UN says

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Mandy Damari (left) and her daughter, released hostage Emily Damari, on January 21, 2025. (Mandy Damari/X)

Freed hostage Emily Damari’s wounded hand swiftly becomes symbol of Israeli defiance

By ToI Staff and JTA

Ex-captive’s mom shares photo showing her daughter’s unbandaged hand after she lost two fingers in Oct. 7 attack; Emily and her supporters use ‘rock on’ emoji to celebrate her return

Emily Damari poses with a Spurs scarf, January 22, 2025. (Courtesy)

Freed hostage Emily Damari thanks London’s Tottenham Hotspur soccer team, fans for support

Yehuda Cohen, father of Nimrod Cohen, a soldier who was kidnapped by Hamas on October 7, speaks at a hostage families rally outside the Knesset in Jerusalem on April 7, 2024. (Paulina Patimer/Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

Hostage’s father meets with ICC prosecutor in bid to pressure Netanyahu to end war

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 22: Trump envoy stresses commitment to reaching hostage deal’s next phase

Sa’ar tells UN envoy Israel committed to upholding Lebanon ceasefire * Dozens block traffic on Route 6 after shooting of 2 settlers who allegedly attacked cop

9:50 pm

Yuval Raphael, Nova massacre survivor, to represent Israel at 2025 Eurovision
9:35 pm

UN says 808 aid trucks entered Gaza on Wednesday
9:25 pm

Reports: Israel tells Hamas it expects release of hostage Arbel Yehud on Saturday

Op-ed: Day 474 of the war

Farewell Herzi Halevi, uniformed embodiment of our national tragedy, leader of the fightback

A resilient and decent man, he knows nothing will ever obscure the catastrophic consequence of the IDF’s failure, under his command, to give even minimal credence to the evidence that Hamas was preparing to invade

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi attends a state ceremony marking the Hebrew calendar anniversary of the Hamas onslaught on October 7, 2023, at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, October 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi (left) meets with the chief of the Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman in northern Gaza, Feburary 6, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Taking responsibility for Oct. 7 failures, IDF chief and head of Southern Command resign

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attend a cadets graduation ceremony at the IDF's officers school in southern Israel, known as Bahad 1, March 7, 2024. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

After IDF chief resigns, opposition MKs suggest Netanyahu should be next

By Sam Sokol, Emanuel Fabian, Amy Spiro and ToI Staff

During the 2018 season excavation at the Huqoq synagogue in north Israel, archaeologists uncovered a hoard of medieval coins. (Tal Rogovski)

Archaeology'An incredible amount of wealth in a small rural village'

Magnificent hoard of gold and silver coins sheds unprecedented light on medieval Israel

By Rossella Tercatin

New research examines artifacts found in 2018 in two vessels next to the synagogue at Huqoq, in an excavation led by Prof. Jodi Magness; its findings could rewrite history books

'If I weren't here, that they wouldn't be back ever'

Trump considering Mideast visit but ‘not yet,’ says only his deadline got hostage deal done

‘We have a thing called “the hostages are coming back” going on right now,’ US president tells reporters, as envoy Witkoff confirms he’ll go to Gaza to oversee deal implementation

US President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on January 21, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Jim Watson/AFP)

US Representative Elise Stefanik, a Republican from New York, testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on her nomination to be ambassador to the United Nations, on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 21, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Trump nominee vows to combat ‘antisemitic rot’ at UN, slams UNRWA’s ‘terrorist ties’

By Jacob Magid and JTA

Katz condemns rampage, urges settler leaders to denounce it

IDF: Dozens of settler extremists involved in Monday night riots, troops also attacked

By Emanuel Fabian and Sam Sokol

Cop who shot two settlers amid attack on Palestinian towns reportedly tells investigators that the masked suspects maced him with pepper spray: ‘I was afraid they would lynch us’

Palestinians survey the damage caused during a rampage by extremist Israeli settlers, in the West Bank village of Jinsafut, January 21, 2025. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

IDF soldiers stand guard as Israeli Jewish settlers tour the old market in the city of Hebron in the West Bank on December 28, 2024. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 22: Day 474 – As IDF operates in West Bank, settlers step up violence

By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Emanuel Fabian and Jeremy Sharon

Analysis

Amir Bar Shalom

As terrorists go free, Israel debates keeping enemies close or sending them far away

History shows dangers and possible benefits of setting killers loose in West Bank or Gaza, but also points to risks that come with exiling terror leaders beyond Israel’s reach

An Israeli protester holds a sign with bloody hands and Hebrew writing that reads, 'prison release form,' during a demonstration against a proposed release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem, July 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Hamas terrorist Nael Barghouti waves a green Islamic flag and a Palestinian flag to the crowd after arriving in the West Bank city of Ramallah after he was released as part of an exchange for Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier held by Hamas, October 18, 2011. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Deal will see release of longest-serving Palestinian inmate, who murdered bus driver

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Anti-Israel activists protest outside Columbia University, January 21, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Columbia anti-Israel activists start semester with protest, disrupt Israeli prof’s class

Activists barge in on modern Israeli history lesson, chant for ‘intifada’ outside New York campus gates; counter-protesters hold Israeli flags and chant

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel supporters gather for a rally at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 14, 2023. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP)

Harvard settles lawsuits over antisemitism on campus

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Protesters rally near the White House demanding a permanent Gaza ceasefire and end to US funding to Israel on March 7, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Global antisemitism surged 340% in two years, report finds

Study warns trend ‘poses a real threat to the foundations of Western democracy,’ notes the term ‘Zionism’ has become a cover for anti-Jewish expressions online

Inside story

How did the ADL conclude that Elon Musk didn’t give a Nazi salute? It isn’t saying

While many Jewish groups accuse head of Tesla and X of doing a ‘Heil Hitler’ with his outstretched right arm at Trump’s inauguration, ADL says he should be given benefit of doubt

Elon Musk gestures as he speaks during the inaugural parade inside Capitol One Arena in Washington, on January 20, 2025. (Angela Weiss/AFP)

Why Israel must establish a military administration in Gaza

Who else can take charge of the Gaza Strip? The PA is too weak, international forces won’t risk their people, and Hamas rule was a terrible idea

The devil told me I won’t enter paradise

He also said non-Muslims are the enemy, but I find the real destructive force to be those who tout ignorance and divisiveness in slogans of religion

Justice Minister Yariv Levin (R) and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar attend a hearing of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, January 21, 2025. Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sa’ar: Judicial proposal designed to overcome veto on Levin’s hardline Supreme Court picks

By Jeremy Sharon

Hezbollah members raise flags of the Lebanese terror group during the funeral of a commander and another operative who were killed by an Israeli drone strike, in Chehabiyeh village, south Lebanon, April 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Hezbollah official killed in drive-by shooting outside his home in eastern Lebanon

Lebanese media identifies official as terror group’s local commander in Western Bekaa District; motive for attack not immediately certain

Indian builders work on a construction site in Tel Aviv on December 15, 2024. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

As war fears subside, real estate experts debate how high prices will soar in 2025

Demand from Israelis and foreign investors more than outmatches available homes even as prices rose nearly 8% in 2024, building costs jumped and construction labor remains scarce

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi speaks at the Annual Meeting of World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

UN nuclear watchdog warns Iran is ‘pressing the gas pedal’ on uranium enrichment

By Leela de Kretser

IAEA chief Grossi urges diplomacy between US, Iran on nuclear issue; UN chief pushes Iran to renounce nuclear weapons

Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud attends a session during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, January 21, 2025 (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

Saudi FM says Trump presidency doesn’t raise risk of Iran-Israel war

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustraive: People act as political prisoners during a protest against the regime in Iran outside United Nations headquarters during the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 19, 2023 in New York City. (Kena Betancur/Getty Images/AFP)

Iran claims Swiss man who died by suicide in prison had photographed military sites

National Security Itamar Ben Gvir arrives for a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. January 17, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Ben Gvir said seeking to retain influence over law enforcement, despite resigning

By Charlie Summers

Senior officer says police will still be dominated by ‘spirit’ of far-right national security minister, who lays out agenda in writing, urges security heads to continue his policies

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Israeli soldiers walk next to bodies of people murdered by Hamas terrorists in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, October 7, 2023. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Knesset passes law mandating five years in jail for denial of October 7 massacre

President Isaac Herzog speaks during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 21, 2025. (FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP)

Herzog sees ‘potential’ for next ceasefire stages as Qatar says talks ‘won’t be easy’

Protesters gather to demonstrate against a proposed law to permit underage female marriage in Tahrir Square in Baghdad, Iraq, August 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

Iraq passes law that could allow for child marriages

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Stella Martany

Defense Minister Israel Katz (left) shakes hands with Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Yuli Edelstein during a committee discussion on the IDF conscription law in the Knesset on January 21, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Edelstein signs declaration calling for mass draft of Haredim, sanctions for dodgers

MK Ayman Odeh speaks during a faction meeting, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on February 6, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Arab MK defends celebrating release of ‘hostages and prisoners’ after backlash

By ToI Staff and Sam Sokol

A customer selects slices at Pizza Trump in Jerusalem, January 20, 2025. (Deborah Danan, via JTA)

Big cheeseJerusalem pizzeria once hot for Clinton rebrands itself for Trump

By Deborah Danan

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