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What Matters Most On Monday, January 27, 2025

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This aerial photo shows displaced Gazans walking toward Gaza City on January 27, 2025, after crossing the Netzarim corridor from the southern Gaza Strip. (AFP)

In sign of 'victory,' Hamas deploys gunmen to marshal crowds

Israel allows tens of thousands of Gazans to return to Strip’s north

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Crowds walk toward hometowns carrying their belongings as US monitors from private security firm move into Netzarim Corridor to inspect vehicles at checkpoint

Displaced Palestinians make their way back to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip on January 27, 2025. (Photo by Ali Hassan/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 27: Day 479 – Some Gazans return north as more hostages set to be freed

By Jessica Steinberg, Tal Schneider and Sue Surkes

Hostages Arbel Yehoud, left, and Agam Berger, held by terrorists in Gaza since October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)

Agreements resolve days-long crisis in truce implementation

Israel: Arbel Yehoud, Agam Berger, 3rd hostage to be freed Thursday; 3 more on Saturday

By Michael Bachner, Amy Spiro and ToI Staff

PM’s office also says Hamas has sent how many 1st-phase captives are alive, with tally matching Israeli intelligence; IDF to allow Gazans to return to Strip’s north Monday morning

Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani (right) speaks to Channel 12's Arad Nir in Paris, in an interview aired on January 26, 2025. (Screenshot, Channel 12, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Hostage deal framework was ready by December 2023, Qatari PM tells Israeli TV

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 27: Hamas delegation arrives in Cairo to discuss Gaza ceasefire deal implementation

Hamas list shows 8 of 26 hostages still to be freed in 1st phase of Gaza deal are dead * Islamic Jihad releases propaganda video with signs of life from hostage Arbel Yehoud

9:47 pm

IDF says drone fired warning shot at vehicle trying to bypass security checks in Gaza
9:36 pm

New York to light City Hall yellow for Holocaust Remembrance Day, name street after Yad Vashem
9:30 pm

US officials say planning for Netanyahu-Trump meet could be finalized during Witkoff visit

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. (Photo by AFP)

Promoted podcastJPPI Podcast

Where Israel went wrong in Gaza

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, President of Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center, joins us to discuss her efforts defending Israel’s legitimacy and combating online extremism.

Profile

Israel finally gets a permanent Supreme Court president; what does he stand for?

Amit has issued rulings striking down key legislation and upholding Palestinian rights, but has deferred to government on some national security issues despite harm to civil rights

Supreme Court Justice Isaac Amit leaves the offices of the Israel Courts Administration in Jerusalem after a meeting of the Judicial Selection Committee which appointed him new Supreme Court president, January 26, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

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)

Isaac Amit finally elected Supreme Court president; Levin pledges to boycott him

By Jeremy Sharon

The Bibas family home in Kibbutz Nir Oz, January 2025 (Tal Schneider/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Israel fiddled while Nir Oz burned, but the kibbutz will rise again

By Tal Schneider

Time has stood still since 117 people in this small community were murdered or abducted on October 7, 2023; but as the community emerges from the ashes, it can no longer be ignored

Eli Albag, father of freed hostage Liri Albag, speaks to the press a day after his daughter was released from Hamas captivity in Gaza, as the rest of the family and other families of released hostages listen, at Rabin Medical Center, January 26, 2025. (Paulina Patimer / Hostages' Families Forum)

Father of freed hostage says nation ‘will settle accounts’ with those who opposed deal

By Jessica Steinberg

‘I despise you,’ says Eli Albag, father of surveillance soldier Liri, to those who voted against hostage-ceasefire deal; families single out Trump and his envoy Witkoff for thanks

Survivors, relatives and representatives of the Memorial and Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau lay wreaths and light candles at the so-called Death Wall next to Block 11 of the former Auschwitz I main camp in Oswiecim, Poland on January 27, 2025, during commemorations on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau by the Red Army. (Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)

At Auschwitz, families of hostages call for their release

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Top (L-R) Karina Ariev, Liri Albag; bottom (L-R) Naama Levy, Daniella Gilboa, the four Israeli released hostages, at Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva, January 25, 2025 (Israel Defense Forces)

Some released hostages were held in tunnels with no human contact for months, IDF says

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Two IDF reservists arrested on suspicion of spying for Iran, Yuri Eliasfov (L) and Georgi Andreyev (R), appear on video at a court hearing to extend their remand on January 27, 2025. (Screenshot from Ynet)

2 IDF reservists, one of them in Iron Dome unit, arrested on suspicion of spying for Iran

By Charlie Summers

Police say main suspect transferred sensitive information about missile defense technology to Iranian handler for money, later recruited friend who served at IDF headquarters

The coastal city of Paphos, on the Greek side of Cyprus, September 23, 2024. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

Shin Bet suspends Israeli flights to Paphos in Cyprus, citing security concerns

By ToI Staff and Reuters

Illustrative image: A computer hacker. (iStock via Getty Images)

Iranian hackers broadcast rocket sirens, odes to terrorism in 20 Israeli kindergartens

Catherine Perez-Shakdam

Never again: A promise in peril

Apathy can birth atrocity, so take action: Fight hatred, protect kindness from being overwhelmed by cruelty, and call out silence (it’s never neutral)

Steve Witkoff, the Israeli people are with you

I’ve been under fire, including battling terrorists on October 7 to rescue my family — my advice to you is don’t fear the attacks

Beyond Auschwitz: The nameless victims in forgotten mass graves

Atrocities were not confined to the infamous camps. Hidden tragedies scattered across Eastern Europe demand our attention and care

Alexander Rosemberg

On Holocaust Remembrance Day: Distortions of the UN threaten justice and peace

The core goals of the United Nations and its agencies are increasingly manipulated by antisemitic, anti-democratic, anti-Western powers

Simcha Goldin, father of fallen and abducted Israeli soldier Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, whose body is still held by Hamas in Gaza. July 9, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)

Op-ed

Once again, Hadar Goldin may be left behind

Even after the phase 2 of the Hamas-Israel deal, 35 bodies will still be held in Gaza. Among them: Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, killed and abducted in Gaza, during a ceasefire, in 2014

Israel and Lebanon extend truce, with IDF troop withdrawal deadline moved to Feb. 18

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Hezbollah said to call on Lebanese civilians to provoke clashes with IDF; Katz warns truce violators on northern or southern borders will ‘pay the full price’

Lebanese soldiers standing on a vehicle surrounded by protesters carrying Hezbollah flags are seen from the window of an UN peacekeeper armored vehicle, in Mays al-Jabal village, southern Lebanon, Jan. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zaatari)

An armored vehicle of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) approaches a Lebanese army roadblock near a checkpoint in the village of Burj el-Meluk in Nabatiyeh in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel on January 25, 2025. (Rabih DAHER / AFP)

Report: Senior Lebanon army official leaked ceasefire control room intel to Hezbollah

Minister claims Trump's proposal likely coordinated with PM

Senior cabinet minister: Trump’s Gaza migration idea could save Netanyahu’s government

By Shalom Yerushalmi

US president’s bombshell proposal to ‘clean out’ Gaza and encourage Arab states to take in its populace could keep Smotrich’s party in the coalition, perhaps prompt Ben Gvir’s return

Displaced Palestinians return to Rafah, as a ceasefire deal between Israel and terror group Hamas went into effect, in Rafah, Gaza Strip, January 19, 2025. (Mariam Dagga/AP)

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks after his meeting with Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez at the Moncloa palace in Madrid, Spain, September 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul White)

Palestinians, Jordan, Egypt reject Trump’s idea to send Gazans out of Strip

Republican nominee Donald Trump and Arab Americans for Trump chair Bishara Bahbah at a campaign event ahead of the 2024 US presidential election. (Bisharah Bahbah/X)

Arab Americans for Trump chair blasts president’s ‘wild’ call to relocate Gazans

Chairman of Yad Vashem Dani Dayan at Auschwitz to observe the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the death camp's liberation, January 27, 2025, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. (Yad Vashem)

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to Yad Vashem head Dani Dayan: What to do when ‘friends’ disappoint

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

The chairman of the World Holocaust Remembrance Center takes a stand against rampant antisemitism and Holocaust denial and the tide change occurring in Europe

Yad Vashem director Dani Dayan on January 9, 2025, at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

Yad Vashem works on innovating Holocaust remembrance methods as survivors dwindle

Adolf Eichmann standing in his glass cage, flanked by guards, in the Jerusalem courtroom during his trial in 1961 for war crimes committed during World War II. (AP Photo/File)

Holocaust Remembrance DayIsrael national archive opens online access to 380,000 pages of Eichmann trial documents

By AFP and ToI Staff

Auschwitz survivor Michael Bornstein and his daughter Debbie Holinstat speak at a reception in Poland's Krakow marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, January 26, 2025. (Zev Stub/Times of Israel)

Holocaust Remembrance Day

In Krakow, ahead of Holocaust day, Jewish leaders honor the last generation of survivors

Only 17 survivors attend event; rising antisemitism post-Oct. 7 is also a central theme at reception marking 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz

Yad Vashem director Dani Dayan on January 9, 2025, at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

‘Insult to victims of Nazism’: Yad Vashem head condemns Musk speech to German far-right

Holocaust survivor Naftali Furst holds a family photo taken in Israel, as he poses in his home in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, on November 28, 2024. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

New data on eve of Holocaust Memorial Day: 123,000 survivors living in Israel

By AFP

Most British Jews believe they don’t have a long-term future in the UK, survey finds

Half of community has considered leaving Britain due to antisemitism, according to the Campaign Against Antisemitism, with overwhelming majority saying authorities not doing enough

Members of the Jewish community and supporters gather at the St John's Wood United Synagogue in north London, on April 7, 2024, for a 'Time is Running Out' event to raise awareness of the plight of over 100 hostages held by terror groups in Gaza since October 7. (Justin Tallis/ AFP)

Irish President Michael D. Higgins speaks at the National Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration at the Mansion House in Dublin, January 26, 2025. (President of Ireland/X)

In Holocaust Day speech, Irish president decries ‘horrific loss of life’ in Gaza, sparks protest

By Amy Spiro and ToI Staff

Established in 1933 by Alfred Wiener, a German Jew decorated with the Iron Cross in World War I, the Wiener Library in London is the world's oldest Holocaust museum. (Courtesy)

UK’s Wiener Holocaust Library releases its extensive archive online for first time

By AFP

A young man checks the numbers tattooed on the arms of Jewish Polish prisoners coming from Auschwitz, in Dachau concentration camp in late April or early May 1945, after the Dachau's camp was liberated by the US army on April 29, 1945. (ERIC SCHWAB / AFP)

Profile

Searching for his mother, photojournalist Eric Schwab exposed horrors of Nazi camps

By AFP

The Jewish former fashion photographer became a war correspondent after Paris was liberated, documenting the depravity of the Holocaust while on his deeply personal quest

Around Auschwitz, rail tracks are aging reminders of its horror

By Oded Balilty

Pope warns against ‘scourge of antisemitism,’ ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day

By AP

Hamas gunmen alongside four Israeli hostages, before the four are handed over to the Red Cross in Palestine Square, in Gaza City. 25 January 2025 (Photo by Khalil Kahlout/Flash90)

Op-ed

The real ‘moments that define us as a nation’

The four hostages standing proud and strong in Palestine Square, surrounded by Hamas gunmen, was no Israeli ‘victory picture,’ and we’d better wise up before disaster strikes again

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

One of their ownTottenham soccer fans celebrate release of hostage Emily Damari

The way we wore: Textile exhibits weave local history of fabric craft

By Jessica Steinberg

The art of textiles is examined in five related shows at the Herzliya Museum, while an exhibit of recycled materials at Hiriya looks at the waste created by the fashion industry

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This handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on January 6, 2025, shows fighters affiliated with Syria's new administration taking men into custody in Syria's west-central city of Homs. (SANA / AFP)

Syrian fighters execute 35 in 72 hours, mainly officers from former regime, monitor says

By AFP

Students at the Mount Scopus campus of Hebrew University on the first day of the academic year, October 23, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)

Jerusalem university offers full scholarships to former Gaza hostages, including kids

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) greets French President Emmanuel Macron before a meeting in Jerusalem on October 24, 2023. (Christophe Ena/Pool/AFP)

PM’s office says Macron told Netanyahu Israeli companies allowed at Paris Air Show

By AFP

In this February 7, 2019 file photo, from left, National Security Adviser John Bolton, accompanied by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and US President Donald Trump, speaks before Trump signs a National Security Presidential Memorandum to launch the "Women's Global Development and Prosperity" Initiative in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump urged to rethink nixing security for US ex-officials under threat from Iran

By Thomas Beaumont

Delegation of Israeli experts meets with California firefighters as part of week-long trip to help the US state combat its massive wildfires on January 19, 2025. (Courtesy/Shai Levy)

Israel firefighting experts help California with methods to track blazes

By Charlie Summers

Illustrative: Tourists rest on an overnight 'sleeper' bus to Laos, March 11, 2011. (Hoang Dinh Nam / AFP)

13 Israeli tourists injured, some seriously, in bus crash in Laos

By Amy Spiro and ToI Staff

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