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What Matters Most On Friday, January 24, 2025

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Jan. 24: Israel approves 4 female hostages Hamas plans to free tomorrow, though list breaches deal

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Families of Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy, Liri Albag informed they’ll be released * Israel decides not to halt deal over failure to free female civilians first

9:45 pm

State Department memo ordering halt on all US foreign aid makes exceptions for Israel and Egypt
9:21 pm

US stops work on foreign aid after Trump orders review
9:11 pm

Hamas has added up to 15,000 fighters since start of war, US figures show

‘Done a lot of praying’: Family of hostage Agam Berger finds strength, hope in faith

By Jessica Steinberg

As relatives anxiously await Agam’s possible return home, her cousin, YouTuber Ashley Waxman Bakshi, says Jewish rituals have been a source of succor since she was taken captive

Hamas authorities are seen apparently executing Palestinians in Gaza accused of collaboration with Israel, in an unverified video circulating on social media, January 23, 2025. (Screen capture via X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Video appears to show Hamas shooting several alleged ‘collaborators’ in Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Palestinian reports say Hamas executed six Gazans in Rafah accused of spying for Israel, shot 17 people in the feet for raising prices

Aid is loaded into a UAE plane headed to Egypt's El-Arish airport on January 24, 2025 at an airport in Dubai, as part of a humanitarian mission organised by the United Arab Emirates to deliver humanitarian assistance in the Gaza Strip after a ceasefire deal in the war between Israel and Hamas. (Photo by Fadel Senna / AFP)

More funding needed to reach targets for Gaza aid shipments, UN official says

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A child inspects the damage of his destroyed family home, in Bureij, central Gaza Strip, January 22, 2025, days after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas came into effect. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

ExplainerHow the ceasefire-hostage deal in Gaza is set to unfold, and why it’s so precarious

By AP 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

Hamas set to provide number of living hostages in 1st phase

Hamas says it will give Israel on Friday names of the 4 hostages to be freed Saturday

By ToI Staff and Amy Spiro

Netanyahu speaks with mothers of the 3 hostages released Sunday, vows not to give up on other captives; Israeli envoy says Moscow working to free 3 non-Russian hostages

A demonstrator takes part in a protest calling for the release of Israeli hostages, in Tel Aviv on January 23, 2025. (Jack Gוקז / AFP)

Palestinians celebrate the release of some 90 prisoners set free by Israel in the early hours of January 20, 2025, upon their arrival aboard a Red Cross bus in the Palestinian West Bank town of Beitunia, on the outskirts of Ramallah. (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 24: Day 476 – Excruciating dilemmas as murderers set to be released

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur

Then-Defense Minister Yoav Gallant conducts a daily security situation assessment with senior security officials, including IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi (R), October 26, 2023. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

IDF didn’t act on alerts of Hamas aerial activity hours before Oct. 7 attack — report

Troops of the 769th “Hiram” Regional Brigade operate in southern Lebanon, in a handout photo issued on January 24, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

US urges 'short, temporary extension' of pullout deadline

Israel won’t complete full withdrawal from Lebanon by Sunday deadline, PM says

By Amy Spiro, Emanuel Fabian and Jacob Magid

Netanyahu declares Lebanon ‘has not fully enforced’ terms of November deal, which calls for Lebanese army to deploy south of Litani River as Israel withdraws, Hezbollah pulls north

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media after signing executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, January 23, 2025. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP)

Security detail ended for ex-officials despite Iranian threats

Trump says ‘would be nice’ to solve Iranian nuclear crisis without Israeli strikes

By Jacob Magid, ToI Staff and AP

US president reportedly set to tap Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff as Iran point man, signaling turn away from ‘maximum pressure’ policy of 1st term: ‘Certainly somebody I would use’

Special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff speaks during the inaugural parade inside Capital One Arena, in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (Jim Watson/AFP)

Trump’s Mideast envoy to reportedly stop in Israel after visiting Saudi Arabia

L: US President Donald Trump, January 23, 2025. (Roberto Schmidt / AFP), R: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, December 3, 2024. (Saudi Ministry of Media / AFP)

Saudi crown prince promises Trump $600 billion of US investment, trade over 4 years

By AFP

Holocaust survivor Naftali Fürst pauses during an interview at home in Haifa, January 2025. (AP/Maya Alleruzzo)

‘For 60 years, I didn’t talk’: How one survivor made Holocaust memory his mission

By Melanie Lidman

Naftali Fürst was 12 years old when he was sent to Auschwitz; now, on the 80th anniversary of its liberation, he will return to the Nazi death camp for a ceremony, his fourth visit

Auschwitz survivors return to death camp site, urging young visitors to remember

By Claire Gallen

Holocaust Remembrance Day

UN rights chief warns antisemitism is ‘rampant,’ says Jews face increasing threats

By AFP and ToI Staff

Volker Turk says the upcoming 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation is a wake-up call to the dangers of de-humanization, complacency and apathy

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk delivers a speech at the opening of the 57th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, on September 9, 2024. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

Interview

‘We averted much worse’: Biden’s top Mideast diplomat looks back on tumultuous term

Barbara Leaf ends diplomatic career hopeful about developments in Syria and Lebanon, regrets she could not convince Netanyahu to advance alternative to Hamas rule in post-war Gaza

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, talks with Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Barbara Leaf, onboard a C-17 aircraft as he departs Israel for Cairo, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool via AP)

from the blogs

Rachel Goldberg-Polin

The beginning of the end, and not the end

The relief at the return of Romi, Emily and Doron does not relieve us from working to get each and every one of the remaining 94 hostages home

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

Elon Musk jokes about Nazis after Netanyahu defends him as ‘great friend of Israel’

By Andrew Lapin

ADL chief blasts tech billionaire over puns on his X account, after taking flak for saying gesture at Trump inauguration event wasn’t a Nazi salute: ‘The Holocaust is not a joke’

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to Adir Miller and mom Marianne: Getting the last laugh after the Holocaust

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Israel’s premier comedian and his child survivor mother speak in a free-flowing conversation about their family’s triumph over evil and his film, ‘The Ring,’ that tells their tale

Child Holocaust survivor Marianne Miller (left) and her son, Israeli comedian and filmmaker Adir Miller, speak with The Times of Israel's What Matters Now podcast, January 16, 2025. (Raoul Wootliff)

Pharaoh fell. Hamas will too

Pharaoh’s dehumanizing, unchecked power had to be crushed for God to be known. So too, radical Islam fuels hatred, contravenes morality, and will eventually fall (Vaera)

Who was Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook?

Did Rav Kook promote an inclusive, moderate religious Zionism or was he the conservative Haredi nationalist father of the extreme right? The answer is far from simple

Social media influencer and motivational speaker Chris Caresnone, also known as the Babka King. (Courtesy)

Interview'The Jewish people have been gatekeeping again!'

The ‘Babka King’ is bridging cultural gaps on Instagram — one blintz at a time

By Cathryn J. Prince

Chris Caresnone has grown a social media following of over half a million posting about foods from different cultures — and has been welcomed into the Jewish community

Justice Minister Yariv Levin (left) attends a plenum session in the Knesset on November 13, 2024. (Chaim Goldbergl/Flash90); Acting Supreme Court President Justice Isaac Amit at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, November 14, 2024 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

With Levin overruled, Judicial Selection Committee to vote Sunday on Supreme Court chief

By ToI Staff and Jeremy Sharon

Panel to convene after justices reject justice minister’s latest motion to delay vote; AG accuses him of ‘assault on separation of powers’ in bid to thwart liberal candidate

Justice Minister Yariv Levin attends a hearing of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, January 21, 2025. Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Levin requests fresh extension to pick Supreme Court chief, citing claims against Amit

By Jeremy Sharon

This July 19, 2001 file photo shows OxyContin tablets at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vermont. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

Purdue Pharma and owners to pay $7.4bn in settlement over the toll of OxyContin

By GEOFF MULVIHILL

Sackler family to pay $6.5 billion and lose company, Purdue itself to pay $900 million, in settlement announced by NY Attorney General Letitia James after years of litigation

Guy Pearce (front), Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones in a scene from "The Brutalist." (Lol Crowley/A24 via JTA)

Holocaust survivor epic, Bob Dylan biopic among films leading Oscar nominations

By Andrew Lapin

Documentaries about West Bank, 1972 Munich massacre also get nods; ‘Emilia Pérez’ features Tel Aviv gender clinic; ‘Bibi Files’ doc was shortlisted, but doesn’t make the cut

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Likud MK Haim Katz speaks at a Knesset plenary session regarding his request for parliamentary immunity from prosecution, February 17, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Tourism Minister Haim Katz tapped to run all 3 of Otzma Yehudit’s former ministries

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen outside his office at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 20, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

PM asks to testify in graft trial just once next week, citing post-surgery infection

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

Iraqi FM says Israeli researcher held hostage is alive, efforts ongoing to free her

Illustrative: A Delta Air Lines plane lands at Logan International Airport, Jan. 26, 2023, in Boston (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Delta on April 1 to become first US carrier to resume flight services to Tel Aviv

By Sharon Wrobel

Journalists film in front of destroyed buildings in Jabaliya, in the northern Gaza Strip, on October 9, 2024. (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP)

Foreign Press Association urges Israel to lift ban on Gaza access for journalists

A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Taliban slams possible ICC arrest warrant, says court should go after Israel and US

By AFP

Pete Hegseth, US President-elect Donald Trump's choice to be defense secretary, poses for a photo with cabinet picks, other nominees and appointments, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, January 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

US Senate advances Pete Hegseth’s nomination as Pentagon chief, despite allegations

By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK

Jordan Hebert leaves flowers at a memorial for victims of a shooting at Antioch High School, January 23, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Alleged Nashville school shooter praised Hitler and shared neo-Nazi content

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Energean's floating production system (FPSO) at the Karish gas field in the Mediterranean Sea. (Energean)

Energean seals $2 billion natural gas sale deal to supply Israel’s Dalia power plants

By Sharon Wrobel

Ziv hospital in Safed on October 18, 2020. (David Cohen/FLASH90)

13-year-old with no underlying conditions dies of flu in Safed, as cases rise

Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg prepares to speak at an Earthshot Prize Innovation Camp in London, Britain, June 27, 2024. (AP/Kin Cheung)

Michael Bloomberg steps in again to fund UN climate body in response to Trump moves

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

US President Donald Trump holds a signed an executive order regarding the declassification and release of records relating to the assassinations of former president John F. Kennedy, senator Robert F. Kennedy and reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., in the Oval Office of the White House, January 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Trump orders release of classified documents on assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK

By AP

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