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What Matters Most On Sunday, January 26, 2025

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US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One as he travels from Las Vegas to Miami on January 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Is idea temporary or long-term? 'Could be either'

Trump proposes Jordan, Egypt take in Gazans and ‘we just clean out’ decimated Strip

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Testing regional taboo, US president suggests Arab nations help ‘build housing where they can live in peace for a change,’ says he raised issue with Abdullah, plans to do so with Sissi

Lebanese with Hezbollah flags gather near Israeli troops in Burj al-Muluk, near the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila, where Israeli forces remained on the ground after a deadline for their withdrawal passed as residents sought to return to homes in the border area, Lebanon January 26, 2025 (REUTERS/Karamallah Daher)

IDF: Hezbollah operatives among those trying to reach area

22 killed in south Lebanon as IDF fires on suspects trying to break through to villages

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Over 120 said wounded as Hezbollah supporters attempt to breach roadblocks on 60th day of ceasefire, ignoring Israeli warnings; IDF says withdrawal delayed due to Lebanese army

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

IDF warns Lebanese against return to border villages as it prepares to extend stay

By Reuters and ToI Staff

This aerial photo shows displaced Gazans gathering in an area in Nuseirat on January 26, 2025, to return to their homes in the northern part of the Gaza Strip (AFP)

Thousands of Gazans gather on coastal road as IDF blocks access to Strip’s north

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Israel preventing movement north under ceasefire, saying Hamas violated agreement twice by failing to free civilian Arbel Yehoud and to provide a list of living hostages to be freed

Lebanese women hold portraits of of slain Hezbollah leader Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, as they check the destruction in their village Aita al-Shaab, a Lebanese border village with Israel, south Lebanon, January 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 26: Day 478 – Hamas violates Gaza ceasefire; Lebanon truce expires

By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Emanuel Fabian and Amy Spiro

Promoted ArticleInternational March of the Living

“We have to march this year. It might be our last chance.”

This year’s March of the Living may be the last chance for young participants to walk with survivors and bear witness to their stories. They need your help.

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. 26: Israel says Hamas has sent how many 1st-phase hostages are alive; list matches intel

By Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

PM’s office also says Arbel Yehoud, Agam Berger and a third hostage will be freed Thursday, 3 others will be released Saturday * Gazans can return to Strip’s north from 7 a.m. Monday

10:37 pm

Hamas said to only send overall number of live 1st-phase hostages; list doesn't contain 'surprises'
10:02 pm

White House: Deadline for IDF withdrawal from Lebanon extended until February 18
9:52 pm

Qatar says Arbel Yehoud, two other hostages will be released before Friday this week

PM's office pans Hamas 'obstacles,' 'psychological warfare'

In deal breach, Hamas fails to give Israel info on status of hostages still to be freed

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Terror group has also failed to free civilian hostage Arbel Yehoud ahead of soldiers, as Jerusalem says deal stipulated; Israel puts off allowing Palestinians’ passage to north Gaza

Hamas gunmen are deployed in central Gaza City ahead of the release of four Israeli female hostages in Gaza City on January 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Abed Hajjar)

Released hostages reunite with their parents after being freed from Hamas captivity; Top (L-R) Karina Ariev, Liri Albag; bottom (L-R) Naama Levy, Daniella Gilboa, January 25, 2025 (Israel Defense Forces)

Freed hostages embrace their families, wave and gesture to rapturous crowds

By ToI Staff and AFP

Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy, and Liri Albag met with cheers upon arrival at Petah Tikva hospital

Operatives of the Hamas terror group's Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades hand over Israeli hostages Liri Albag, Naama Levy, Karina Ariev and Daniella Gilboa to the Red Cross in Palestine Square, in Gaza City. (Ayman Alhesi/Flash90)

Israeli leaders welcome release of hostage soldiers as some call to resume fighting

By Jeremy Sharon

Israeli female soldier hostages Naama Levy, Daniella Gilboa, Karina Ariev and Liri Albag seen on a stage set up by Hamas in front of a Palestinian crowd before being handed over to the Red Cross in Gaza City, Jan. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Abed Hajjar)

‘Unfazed’: Freed hostages say they knew they had to project strength at Hamas handover

Female soldiers tell family and friends about periods with no food, cleaning toilets for terrorists, months without showers, seeing TV news of protests on their behalf

Released hostages (L-R) Doron Steinbrecher, Emily Damari and Romi Gonen reunite with their mothers shortly after returning to Israel after 471 days in Hamas captivity in Gaza, January 19, 2025. (IDF)

Freed hostages Emily, Romi, and Doron leave hospital a week after return from Gaza

Three women released on first day of hostage-ceasefire deal discharged from Sheba Medical Center after initial tests, one day after four more hostages freed from Gaza

President Donald Trump gestures as he boards Air Force One en route to Florida at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, January 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump ends hold on delivery of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel

By Jacob Magid and Amy Spiro

Shipment was withheld by Biden administration due to its concerns over potential use in densely populated areas of Gaza

Jonathan A. Greenblatt

Double standards undermine our fight against rampant antisemitism

This Holocaust Remembrance Day, with hatred rising from many directions, the Jewish community needs all the allies we can get

Micah Streiffer

The bishop’s sermon to Trump: Rabbis like me should have such courage

In her inauguration sermon, Mariann Budde did what all clergy should do: challenge, ruffle and advocate for basic humanity

PA President Abbas calls to congratulate Palestinian terrorist released in Gaza deal

Israeli legislators rage at call between Abbas and Fatah prisoner Yasser Abu-Bakr, who was serving multiple life terms, warn that PA cannot be given role in managing postwar Gaza

Left: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (Stephanie Keith / Getty Images via AFP); right: Released Fatah terrorist Yasser Abu-Bakr takes a call from Abbas on January 25, 2025. (X; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

People cheer as buses carrying Palestinian prisoners released by Israel arrive in Ramallah in the West Bank on January 25, 2025 (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

70 of those released are exiled to Egypt

Parades in West Bank, chants in Gaza, Hamas flags in East Jerusalem as terrorists freed

Palestinian crowds hail terror group as Israel frees 200 inmates, including 121 serving life for attacks that killed dozens; one prisoner refuses to leave jail for Gaza, is swapped

PA says toddler killed by Israeli fire in West Bank; IDF: investigating incident

By Emanuel Fabian

Troops said to have opened fire on building near Jenin after intel said gunmen were sheltering there; three soldiers wounded in separate incident, one seriously

An Israeli military vehicle drives during a raid inside the Jenin camp for Palestinian refugees in the West Bank, on January 25, 2025. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Demonstrators raise placards bearing the names of hostages held captive in Gaza since Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack, during an anti-government protest calling for action to secure their release, Tel Aviv on January 25, 2025. (Jack Guez/AFP)

‘Don’t stop the deal’: First rallies since truce began demand return of all hostages

By Noam Lehmann and Charlie Summers

In Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, relatives of captives urge Trump to pressure Netanyahu to maintain ceasefire after current 6-week first stage, bash Smotrich for opposing accord

Vertigo dancer Etai Peri leads Romi Gonen's friends in a dance piece at Hostages Square during 2024 (Screengrab: YouTube)

Moving mountainsChoreographer looks back on a year of dances for freed captive

By Jessica Steinberg

Volunteers with the Jewish Voters Action Network in the campaign office on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, January 16, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

NYC campaign urges Jews to vote in city elections: ‘Antisemitism is on the ballot’

Volunteers with the Jewish Voters Action Network tap into their social circle to get friends and family to register as Democrats and get to the ballot box

Left: A Roman-era boundary stone found at the site of Abel Beth Maacah in Northern Israel. (Tal Rogovsky); right: Likely head of Emperor Diocletian, Istanbul Museum of Archaeology (Wikipedia)

'Diocletian oppressed the inhabitants of Paneas'

Roman-era boundary stone hints at a political tiff described in the Jerusalem Talmud

By Rossella Tercatin

Unearthed in Upper Galilee, 3rd century CE artifact might prove rumored tensions between Emperor Diocletian and local population; also mentions two hitherto unknown Golan villages

Miriam Bolle, one of the oldest Holocaust survivors at 107 years-old, poses at her home in Jerusalem on December 23, 2024. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

Holocaust survivors who began again in Israel tell their stories in the shadow of Oct. 7

By Michael Blum

The harrowing tales of survival and loss are all the more poignant when heard alongside experiences of the more recent Hamas atrocities ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27

Manfred Goldberg, a Holocaust survivor, is interviewed in London, January 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation

Manfred Goldberg remembers the ‘angel who was sent to save me’ in a Nazi labor camp

By DANICA KIRKA

‘I never saw him again,’ says the 94-year-old, German-born Holocaust survivor of the man who advised him to lie about his age, sparing him the fate of his younger brother Herman

A still from 'No Other Land.' (Antipode Films)

'Whether or not they agree, companies don't want the risk'

Lacking distributors, Oscar-nominated film about West Bank village still hits US cinemas

By Andrew Lapin

Directed by a team of Israelis and Palestinians, ‘No Other Land,’ about IDF demolitions and settler attacks in Masafer Yatta, snags Academy Award nod, will screen in NYC next week

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands in the witness box in the Tel Aviv District Court to give testimony in the trial against him, December 18, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Court rejects PM’s request to testify just once this week in criminal trial

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

A Houthi soldier escorts released prisoners loyal to the Yemeni government after their release, in Sanaa, Yemen, January 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Yemen’s Houthis unilaterally release 153 war detainees, Red Cross says

By Jon Gambrell

Weapons destined for Hezbollah which were captured by Syrian authorities, January 26, 2025. (SANA)

Syria’s new regime says it stopped weapons shipment heading to Hezbollah in Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

People hold up their cellphones as they protest the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD party, and right-wing extremism in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, January 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Thousands in Germany protest far right; Musk at AfD rally laments ‘focus on past guilt’

By AP and ToI Staff

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