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What Matters Most On Saturday, January 25, 2025

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Hostages Liri Albag (2nd left), Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy wave on a stage before Hamas operatives hand them over to a team from the Red Cross in Gaza City on January 25, 2025. (AFP)

200 Palestinian prisoners freed, 70 deported

4 female soldiers return to Israel after being freed by Hamas, paraded on Gaza stage

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy, Liri Albag reunite with parents; Israel cancels planned return of Gazans to north, demands civilian Arbel Yehoud’s release be arranged

The 33 hostages who were returned in phase one of the Gaza ceasefire deal: Row 1 (L-R): Romi Gonen, Emily Damari, Arbel Yehoud, Doron Steinbrecher, Ariel Bibas, Kfir Bibas, Shiri Bibas; Row 2: Liri Albag, Karina Ariev, Agam Berger, Danielle Gilboa, Naama Levy, Ohad Ben Ami, Gadi Moshe Mozes; Row 3: Keith Siegel, Ofer Calderon, Eli Sharabi, Itzik Elgarat, Shlomo Mantzur, Ohad Yahalomi, Oded Lifshitz; Row 4: Tsahi Idan, Hisham al-Sayed, Yarden Bibas, Sagui Dekel-Chen, Iair Horn, Omer Wenkert, Sasha Troufanov; Row 5: Eliya Cohen, Or Levy, Avera Mengistu, Tal Shoham, Omer Shem Tov (all photos courtesy)

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 25: Hamas yet to say which hostages still set to be freed in first phase of Gaza deal are alive

By Elana Kirsh and ToI Staff

Information was meant to be received by Saturday * Released hostages Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy, and Liri Albag in stable medical condition after 477 days in captivity

11:28 pm

Trump holds phone call with Jordan's King Abdullah
11:19 pm

Trump confirms lifting hold on delivery of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel
10:22 pm

Macron calls on all parties to honor Lebanon truce commitments as soon as possible

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Jan. 25: Day 477 – Amid Hamas pomp, 4 female soldier hostages released

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

Military reporter Emanuel Fabian on the terror group’s ceasefire violation and cynical ceremony before the return home of Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy and Liri Albag

A Palestinian woman throws confetti as Hamas gunmen prepare to hand over four Israeli hostages to a Red Cross team from a stage at a square in Gaza City on January 25, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

The Bibas family, father Yarden (left), Ariel (second from left), Shiri and baby Kfir (Courtesy)

IDF says 'grave concern' for their fate, expects info soon

Bibas family: ‘World came crashing down’ when Shiri, kids weren’t slated for release

Relatives of only family still held hostage decry media’s failure to convey ‘our pain, our struggle’ after Hamas violated deal by releasing captive female soldiers before civilian women

Hamas claims Israel 'delaying' implementation of truce

Israel bars Palestinians from returning to north Gaza in row over hostage Arbel Yehoud

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Jerusalem says Hamas broke truce terms by failing to free civilian woman before soldiers; Hamas official says she is alive, will be released next week

Arbel Yehoud, who was taken hostage with her boyfriend, Ariel Cunio, from their Kibbutz Nir Oz home on October 7. (Courtesy)

Members of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the Hamas terror group's military wing, attend the funeral of two fighters in Gaza City on January 24, 2025. (Omar al-Qattaa/AFP)

US intel figures show Hamas has recruited up to 15,000 new fighters during Gaza war

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Sources acknowledge Palestinian terror group’s success in enlisting new members but say many of the recruits are young and untrained; Israel estimates some 20,000 terrorists killed

Footage of since slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar during the war with Israel aired on January 24, 2025. (Screen capture/X)

Al Jazeera airs footage of slain Hamas chief Sinwar at several moments of Gaza war

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Captivity survivor Emily Damari, left, and hostage Kieth Siegel. (Courtesy)

Emily Damari said to have asked Hamas captors to release Keith Siegel, 65, before her

Siegel, slated for release later in first phase, is believed in worse shape; his daughter Shir extols Damari, who was shot in hand when abducted, as ‘once-in-a-generation friend’

Young adults visit 'Anne Frank: The Exhibition,' at the Center for Jewish History in New York City, January 2025. (John Halpern)

Reporter's notebook'In a way, in NY you get ‘more’ than you get in Amsterdam'

NYC replica of famed Anne Frank House amplifies humanity of those murdered by Nazis

By Jordan Hoffman

Reproduction of tiny Amsterdam annex where young diarist hid with her family opens to the public at the Center for Jewish History on Monday, International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Anti-Israel propaganda disguised as medical research

The authors of a Lancet Journal article manipulated data to present a political polemic disguised as objective science

As Turkey threatens Israel, Azerbaijan can be a peace broker

Erdogan could order Islamist militias to deploy along the Israeli border with Syria, creating a highly combustible reality

Then-nominee for US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth flashes a thumbs-up as he leaves a Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing at the Capitol in Washington, January 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

US Senate confirms Trump’s defense secretary nominee Hegseth after tie-breaking vote

By LISA MASCARO, MARY CLARE JALONICK and Farnoush Amiri

Vance casts deciding vote after three Republicans oppose the US Army veteran and former Fox News host accused of heavy drinking and abusing his ex-wife

Swedish Christian MEP Alice Teodorescu Måwe. (Courtesy of EPP Group)

Interview'When people thank me I get sad; this should be the norm'

How Swedish MEP Alice Teodorescu Mawe became Israel’s most outspoken European ally

By Batya Levinthal

At home and in the European Parliament, the staunch advocate for Jews and Israel is leading the fight against overt antisemitism, as well as Jew-hatred masquerading as anti-Zionism

Outside view of the Great Synagogue of Tunis, Tunisia, Tuesday, May 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi, File)

Tunisian police kill man who set himself on fire outside synagogue

By AP

No motive given for incident that occurred as congregation was holding Shabbat eve prayers; officer and bystander wounded

Israelis protest against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) outside the organization's offices in Jerusalem, March 13, 2024. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Israel reminds UNRWA it must end operations in Jerusalem and leave premises by Jan. 30

By Agencies and ToI Staff

UN envoy Danny Danon officially updates Guterres after Knesset passed legislation last year; UNRWA chief Lazzarini has said agency will ‘stay and deliver’ services where possible

Sen. Marco Rubio attends the 60th US Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, Jan. 20, 2025. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo via AP)

US freezes new funding for most foreign aid programs, Israel military aid unaffected

By Ellen Knickmeyer and Farnoush Amiri

State Department to conduct review to ensure funding aligns with Trump’s ‘foreign policy agenda’; humanitarian food programs and military assistance to Egypt also won’t be impacted

The Czech-Jewish composer Victor Ullman, left, was murdered during the Holocaust; Pavel Kling, right, survived and later became the concertmaster of the Louisville Orchestra. (Courtesy Louisville Orchestra via JTA)

'It felt like we owed it to his memory to present this'

Louisville Orchestra remembers concertmaster with opera he learned in Theresienstadt

By Shira Li Bartov

After escaping a death march from Auschwitz, Paul Kling moved to Kentucky and became the orchestra’s first chair. A Saturday performance of ‘Der Kaiser von Atlantis’ will honor him

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

Anti-masking bill backed by leading Jewish groups introduced to New York legislature

Exterior of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, June 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

ICC bracing for possible US sanctions over arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant

By Reuters and ToI Staff

A Monarch butterfly lands on a flower outside the Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream shop, in Burlington, Vermont, July 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Ben & Jerry’s accuses parent company Unilever of muzzling it because of Trump

By Jessica DiNapoli and Jonathan Stempel

Illustrative: Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGC-N) fast attack craft Shahid Raeisi (P313-8) during joint naval military drills between Iran, Russia, and China in the Gulf of Oman, March 15, 2023. (Iranian Army office / AFP)

UK warns of Iran’s apparent attempts to force ships into its waters amid IRGC drills

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