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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 28, 2025

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Danny Elgarat, whose brother Itzik is held hostage in Gaza, speaks during a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on January 28, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

'It was possible to save him,' says Danny Elgarat of brother

Bracing for the worst: Some hostages’ families say IDF told them loved ones may be dead

After Hamas conveys ‘list’ saying 8 of 26 hostages set to be released in coming weeks are dead, relatives say the military gave them grim assessment of their loved ones’ fate

Netanyahu to visit Washington 'in not so distant future'

Trump doubles down on proposal to move Gazans; insists Egypt and Jordan will agree

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

US president brushes aside staunch Arab opposition to idea that Strip’s residents leave territory, saying violence is endemic to Gaza; Albanian leader denies his country is in the mix

Two boys watch a crowd of Palestinians returning to northern Gaza, amid destroyed buildings, on January 27, 2025. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)

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

Smotrich and Ben Gvir rally behind Trump’s Gaza emigration idea

By Sam Sokol, Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump, right, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, September 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Netanyahu aiming to meet Trump at White House next week in first visit by foreign leader

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

A man places a photo of Arbel Yehoud, next to a banner in Hebrew demanding the return of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza Strip, at the entrance of a tent set up in Jerusalem, January 27, 2025. (AP Photo/ Mahmoud Illean)

Health-permitting, PM may head to US on Sunday to meet Trump

Islamic Jihad releases propaganda video with sign of life from hostage Arbel Yehoud

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Israel says Hamas list shows 18 of remaining first-phase hostages are alive, 8 are dead; delegation from terror group arrives in Cairo to discuss Gaza ceasefire deal implementation

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US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff speaks at an indoor Presidential Inauguration parade event in Washington, January 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 28: Trump envoy said to meet top adviser to PA’s Abbas during Saudi Arabia visit

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Deri threatens to topple government if Haredi draft law not passed * Israeli contractor mistakenly killed by IDF troops in Gaza * IDF strikes Hezbollah vehicles in Lebanon

8:46 pm

Palestinian Authority PM meets Syrian leader, in first in over 15 years
8:42 pm

UN says over 376,000 Gazans have returned to Strip's north since Monday
8:23 pm

Democrats block GOP effort to push US sanctions on ICC through Senate

Analysis

Why the law banning UNRWA might wind up benefiting Hamas

90 days after legislation was passed to outlaw an agency complicit in terror, and 2 days before it takes effect, Israel has not taken steps to insure it plays out as MKs intended

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)

President Isaac Herzog speaks during a ceremony at the UN marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, at UN headquarters in New York City on January 27, 2025. (Kobi Gideon/ GPO)

Herzog at UN slams its ‘moral bankruptcy,’ says terrorists have weaponized it

The entrance to an UNRWA boys' school in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Wadi al-Joz, November 7, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

UNRWA prepares to shutter operations in East Jerusalem as Israeli ban set to take effect

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Reporter's notebook

Descendants retrace Holocaust survivors’ treacherous, covert journey to pre-state Israel

Children of Jews who secretly traveled to the Jewish homeland with the ‘Bricha’ movement, some of whom were born along the way, revisit the long route and uncover buried histories

Members of the Bricha descendants group pose at the Bad Reichenhall army base, which was turned into a Jewish DP camp called Camp Tikwah. (Courtesy)

Palestinians travel by foot and car toward Gaza City as they cross the Netzarim Corridor from the southern Gaza Strip on January 27, 2025. (Eyad Baba/AFP)

US, Egyptian security contractors check for weaponry in cars returning to northern Gaza

By Agencies and Emanuel Fabian

IDF says it carried out drone strike as warning to vehicle trying to bypass checkpoint; armed Hamas operatives seen among crowds of Palestinians traveling by foot to north of Strip

The flag of Egypt sways in the wind on the Egyptian side of the Rafah Border Crossing with the Gaza Strip on September 9, 2024. (AFP)

EU to redeploy monitors at Rafah Border Crossing in bid to bolster Gaza ceasefire

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A Palestinian pupil walks past United Nations Relief and Works Agency, (UNRWA) and USAID humanitarian aid, on June 6, 2010 in the Shatie refugee camp in Gaza City. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

US has assured multiple Mideast countries that aid will resume after review

from the blogs

An IDF Reservist

I’m done serving in Gaza. Will my son have to?

Was the physical and psychological toll we endured worth the strategic gains? Does the Israeli public truly understand our sacrifice?

ExclusiveAustralia has been operating similar policy

New Zealand requires Israelis to disclose IDF service details as condition for entry

By Tani Goldstein

Israelis applying for a visitors visa are being asked about the dates of their service, the locations of their bases, and whether they have ‘been involved in war crimes’

Troops of the Kfir Brigade operate in the northern Gaza Strip, in a handout photo issued by the IDF on January 7, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends his trial on corruption charges at the District Court in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. At left is his lawyer Amit Hadad. Center is his personal physician, Dr. Zvika Berkowitz. (Yariv Katz/Pool Photo via AP)

Prime minister on trial

Netanyahu accuses police of extorting ‘false testimony’ from state witnesses

By Jeremy Sharon

Back on stand after break due to surgery, PM, with his doctor present, tells judges he was ‘very disappointed’ they ignored his postoperative needs in refusing to cancel some hearings

Justice Minister Yariv Levin speaks at a Knesset session, December 4, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 28: Day 480 – Quagmire in judicial branch as justice minister flexes

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jeremy Sharon

In this photo provided by Thailand's Foreign Ministry, two newly freed Thai hostages talk to a Thai officer, left center, and medical staff, at Shamir Medical Center in Israel on Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023. (Thailand's Foreign Ministry via AP )

'We will be privileged to treat them again'

For second time, Shamir hospital readies to treat Thai hostages ‘like family’

By Diana Bletter

Armed with hard-won experience from first release, central Israel medical center preps rooms and staff amid speculation that 10 foreign nationals could be released in side deal

International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Executive Secretary Kathrin Meyer appears at a press conference to sign a declaration formally adopting the IHRA working definition of antisemitism at Chelsea Training Ground in Cobham, England, January 17, 2020. (Darren Walsh/Chelsea FC via Getty Images via JTA)

'It’s an insult to victims; it's also a threat to democracy'

Holocaust distortion more dangerous than outright denial, warns departing IHRA chief

By Larry Luxner

‘It’s always those who attack freedom, liberal views, diversity and pluralism’ who twist the facts, says Kathrin Meyer. ‘They use Holocaust distortion for their political gain’

Oheb Shalom Congregation, pictured in 2021. (Screenshot via JTA)

New Jersey synagogue defaced with ‘terrorists’ graffiti for hosting IDF soldier

Igor Abramovich surveys heavy damage to a house from the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel in Kibbutz Manara, on the border with Lebanon, northern Israel, January 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

'We're trying to understand how to prepare for the next round'

Kibbutz Manara, destroyed by Hezbollah’s rockets, starts to pick up the pieces

By Melanie Lidman

Members of the community begin appraisal process to see what can be salvaged after vast majority of homes were destroyed or damaged in Hezbollah attacks

Lebanon says 2 killed as protests against Israeli presence erupt for a second day

By Agencies, Gianluca Pacchiani and ToI Staff

Believe your lying eyes!

If it looks like a Nazi salute and comes from the same Elon Musk who has dabbled in antisemitism and supports far-right causes, what is it?

Jonathan Muskat

5 insights on Agam Berger and Sabbath violation

Reflections on a rabbinic ruling that Agam’s mother should not drive to see her daughter if the hostage soldier is released on a Saturday

This overview shows the main gate of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, the so-called Death Gate, during the commemorations on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration and extermination camps by the Red Army, in Oswiecim, Poland, January 27, 2025. (Ludovic Marin / Pool / AFP)

Holocaust survivors: 80 years after Auschwitz liberation, it’s ‘the same antisemitism’

While the number of survivors in Israel dropped to 123,715 last year, a rising trend of Holocaust memorials in the Muslim world provide ‘a small amount of light’

The grounds of the Auschwitz Research Center on Hate, Extremism, and Radicalization, on the grounds of the one-time home of Nazi commandant Rudolf Höss, on January 27, 2025. (Zev Stub)

New Auschwitz research center to bring music to notorious Nazi’s reclaimed home

Illustrative: Holocaust survivor Toby Levy next to an interactive artificial intelligence display of herself, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City, January 27, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage is using AI for Holocaust education

Travelers at Ben Gurion International Airport on September 2, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Inside story

Foreign carriers are set to return to Israel; sky-high airfares are unlikely to drop

With high demand and limited capacity, travel experts don’t forecast a fall in prices during the Passover holiday or summer season

A still from 'Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Spy, Assassin'. (Courtesy)

'It's undeniably a conservative Christian media company'

Film about hero executed by Nazis faces accusations of abetting Christian nationalism

By Rich Tenorio

‘Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin’ portrays a real-life minister martyred for standing up for his beliefs, but critics including his descendants say it hides a political message

The only Jew in Oświęcim, Poland, can see Auschwitz from her bedroom window

By PHILISSA CRAMER

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Rockets fired by Hezbollah from southern Lebanon are intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel on August 23, 2024. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Trump signs executive order to develop American-made ‘Iron Dome’ missile shield

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A lionfish hides behind a rock as researchers monitor the Mediterranean Sea. (Guy Ra'anan and Mikey Bar-Adon)

The Eastern Mediterranean is heating twice as fast as the global average – report

Britain's King Charles III looks at discarded personal belongings next to a showcase with shoes of victims during a tour at the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, at the site of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, on January 27, 2025, following commemorations on the 80th anniversary of the camp's liberation by the Red Army. (Aaron Chown / POOL / AFP)

From our partnerTearful King Charles becomes first UK monarch to visit Auschwitz

A construction site for new housing in the settlement of Shiloh, in the West Bank, on June 21, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ministers back bill to let Israeli citizens directly purchase West Bank land

Ireland's President Michael D. Higgins speaking at the state Holocaust memorial ceremony in Dublin, Ireland, January 26, 2025. (Screenshot from X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Irish president’s Holocaust memorial speech sparks anger from country’s Jews

By AFP

Palestinians walk near a car that was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in the Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarem in West Bank on January 27, 2025. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Two Hamas operatives killed in IDF drone strike in West Bank’s Tulkarem

By Emanuel Fabian

Ashraf Zughayer (L), a 46-year-old convicted Palestinian terrorist who spent 23 years in prison serving six life sentences and was released by Israel, is greeted by a well-wisher at his family home in Kafr Aqab in East Jerusalem on January 26, 2025. (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

New York Times says reporter assaulted by troops in raid on party for freed Hamas prisoner

Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs attends a debate on ultra-Orthodox enlistment in the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, January 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Arresting yeshiva students for draft dodging will backfire, cabinet secretary warns

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi addresses the Knesset Economic Affairs Committee, January 15, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)

Ministers advance bill to take control of public broadcaster’s oversight council

US medical device maker BD's manufacturing plant in Caesarea, Israel. (Courtesy)

US medical device maker to shut Israel manufacturing plant, cutting 200 jobs

By Sharon Wrobel

Daniel Keidar, charged with the murder of real estate developer Eldad Peri, arrives for a court hearing at the Lod District Court, January 27, 2025. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)

Man convicted of killing real estate entrepreneur in 2021 sentenced to life in jail

Winners of the annual Sydney Taylor Book Award were announced Jan. 27, 2025 by the Association of JewishLibraries. (Roaring BrookPress, Harper, Kar-Ben Publishing)

Mythical creaturesWomen vampires, time travel win at Jewish children’s book awards

By Penny Schwartz

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