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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 30, 2025

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Israeli hostages released on January 30, 2025 (from left): Arbel Yehoud, Agam Berger, Gadi Mozes (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, AP Photo/Mohammed Hajjar, AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Report: Yehoud was held alone in Gaza for entire period

Arbel Yehoud, Gadi Mozes, 5 Thais, freed amid mayhem in Khan Younis; Agam Berger released

By Emanuel Fabian, Amy Spiro and Elana Kirsh

Yehoud, 29, and Mozes, 80, forced to walk through mob with gunmen in lengthy, chaotic handover at which the 5 Thais also freed; Netanyahu denounces ‘unimaginable cruelty’

Gadi Moses, 80, center right, who has been held hostage by Hamas in Gaza since October 7, 2023, is escorted by Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters as he is handed over to the Red Cross in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, January 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 30: Day 482 – Hamas theatrics and utter bedlam as 8 hostages freed

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

Left to right: Arbel Yehoud, 29, Agam Berger, 19, and Gadi Moshe Mozes, 80, are the hostages set for release on January 30, 2025 (Courtesy)

Hostages Arbel Yehoud, Agam Berger, Gadi Mozes to go free Thursday, along with 5 Thais

By Emanuel Fabian and Amy Spiro

Israelis celebrate the release of three hostages from Hamas captivity at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, January 30, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

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Jan. 30: As hostages return, reports shed light on noxious conditions, solidarity among captives

Israelis Agam Berger, Arbel Yehoud and Gadi Mozes freed alongside 5 Thai nationals * Palestinians throng released prisoners in Ramallah * Trump envoy says decade needed to rebuild Gaza

9:01 pm

Former hostage Albag refused freedom without fellow captive Berger, was tricked into leaving -- report
8:20 pm

'Nothing left' in Gaza, rebuilding could take 15 years, Trump envoy Witkoff says
7:55 pm

Freed terror chief Zubeidi treated to hero's welcome in Ramallah

Shiri Bibas (center) and her sons Ariel, 4, (left) and baby Kfir, who were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)

Israel said to demand Hamas clarify status of hostages Shiri Bibas and her two kids

Despite family being slated for release in first stage of ceasefire, mother and two young boys, Ariel and Kfir, remain in captivity in Gaza, with grave concern for their lives

Armed terrorists in Sderot, southern Israel, having infiltrated from Gaza, on the morning of October 7, 2023 (X screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Report: Probe of Oct. 7 massacre in Sderot finds city security squad had no rifles

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Zakaria Zubeidi, Mahmoud Atallah among notorious terrorists set for release Thursday

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Israel has yet to name the 110 prisoners who will be freed in return for 3 hostages, though public broadcaster says 33 of them are serving life terms for deadly attacks

Zakaria Zubeidi, after being recaptured in northern Israel on September 11, 2021, following his escape from Gilboa Prison. (Courtesy)

Inside StoryIsrael is about to free another 110 prisoners; nobody knows where they are going

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Screen capture from video of Hamas terrorist Muhammad Abu Aseed celebrates as he abducts IDF soldier Naama Levy on October 7, 2023. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF reveals it killed Hamas terrorist seen dragging Naama Levy to captivity on Oct. 7

By Emanuel Fabian

Another terrorist who participated in attack on Nahal Oz post killed last month; developments kept secret until last of seven female soldier hostages returned to Israel

Korawit Kaeokoed, a cowshed worker at Kibbutz Alumim who is known as Kuay, pointing toward Gaza in December 2024, outside the shelter where many of his fellow Thai farm workers were killed in the Hamas terror onslaught of October 7, 2023 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

'The massacre is always on my mind. It won't go away'

Working through the trauma, Thai farmhands who survived Oct. 7 return to the fields

By Jessica Steinberg

While many lost colleagues and friends in the Hamas terror onslaught, foreign agricultural workers still need to support families back home. But not all is business as usual

Israel cuts ties with UNRWA over links with terror groups, as ban comes into effect

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Foreign Ministry spokesman calls UN’s Palestine refugee agency ‘an organization infested with Hamas terror activity’; Supreme Court rejects petition contesting ban

A right-wing activist hangs a national flag at the shuttered gate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency UNRWA's West Bank Field Office in Jerusalem on January 30, 2025. (John Wessels/AFP)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) meets with US President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff in his office in Jerusalem on January 29, 2025. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

Meeting Netanyahu after Gaza visit, Witkoff said to push for full implementation of truce

By Amy Spiro, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Reports say PM and Trump envoy discussed US president’s proposal to move Gazans to neighboring states; Israeli officials ‘got impression Americans are serious about this idea’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives testimony in his trial on corruption charges in a courtroom of the Tel Aviv District Court, December 18, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu asks court to cancel next week’s trial hearings due to meeting with Trump

By Jeremy Sharon

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, right, greets Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, center, and King Abdullah II of Jordan, during a conference at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, February 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Leaders of Egypt and Jordan explicitly rule out Trump’s plan to displace Gazans

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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

Trump order promises to cancel visas of foreign students who protest against Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US president vows to expel ‘pro-jihadist’ protesters to combat ‘the explosion of antisemitism’; legal expert: Deporting non-citizens for political speech is ‘unconstitutional’

IDF veteran Maya Desiatnik speaks to students at Ohio State University, January 27, 2025. (Courtesy)

US student protesters target Israeli veterans wounded on October 7

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators from CUNY at a rally near Bryant Park, New York City, November 9, 2023. (Luke Tress)

ExclusiveNY governor condemns NYC university system’s faculty union for Israel boycott vote

Screen capture from video of antisemitic graffiti found in Sydney, Australia, January 30, 2025. (9News. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Sydney Jewish school, home and mall daubed with antisemitic graffiti

Discovery of sprayed slogans including ‘Jew dogs’ comes day after announcement of apparent bomb plot against Jewish targets amid escalation in antisemitic incidents in Australia

Palestinians who have returned inspect their houses, which were destroyed during the war between Israel and Hamas, in Jebaliya, northern Gaza Strip, January 29, 2025. (Jehad Alshrafi/AP)

Elation turns to despair as Gazans return to uninhabitable homes in Strip’s north

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Hamas claims hundreds of thousands have gone back to northern Gaza, as many residents complain about lack of food, water, power and shelter

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi gives a press conference in Tehran on December 30, 2024. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran says foreign minister in Qatar to meet Hamas leaders

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: People view wreckage of a vehicle destroyed in an Israeli strike in the refugee camp of Nur Shams, near Tulkarem in the northern Wet Bank, January 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

IDF says 10 terror operatives killed in Wednesday drone strike in northern West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Hamas denounces attack in town of Tamun, confirms at least five were its members; army says two were behind deadly bombing

The battle for Washington

We propose a Mideast Trump strategy for regional peace that the President won’t hear from the extremists currently speaking for Israel

Israel can not afford to fall behind in the AI arms race

The release of the Chinese AI model DeepSeek and the US ban on chip exports should be Israel’s wake-up call: we need a strategy now

A 1,900-year-old papyrus written in Greek has been deciphered for the first time by a group of Israeli and Austrian scholars. The artifact, renamed Papyrus Cotton, features the notes of a trial in the period leading up to the Bar Kochba revolt. (Shai Halevi, Courtesy of the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library, Israel Antiquities Authority)

‘The best-documented court case in Judaea after Jesus’

Fraud, forgery and sedition: 1,900-year-old papyrus records Roman trial against Jews

By Rossella Tercatin

New research on the longest Greek papyrus from the Judean Desert ever discovered offers unprecedented insights into life in the Land of Israel in Bar Kochba era

Shas chairman Aryeh Deri attends a vote at the assembly hall of Knesset in Jerusalem, on December 31, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

‘A slip of the tongue’: Shas retracts threat to blow up coalition over Haredi draft bill

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Walking back Deri’s apparent warning, Shas spokesman says ‘there’s no threat and no ultimatum’; ultra-Orthodox lawmaker reportedly meant other issues could bring down government

A temporary IDF post on the Syrian side of Mount Hermon, in a handout photo issued on January 28, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Syria urges IDF withdrawal from buffer zone in talks with UN observers

By AFP and ToI Staff

New Damascus leadership says it’s ready to cooperate with UN force, deploy troops to Golan to adhere to 1974 agreement that created a demilitarized zone Israel has now seized

Tulsi Gabbard, then-US President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be director of National Intelligence, at the Capitol in Washington, December 9, 2024. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Mysterious meeting with Syria’s Assad at center of US spy chief’s nomination fight

Syria's then-de facto leader, now interim president Ahmad al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammed al-Julani, walks in the presidential palace in Damascus, December 28, 2024. Mosa'ab Elshamy/ AP)

Rebel chief Sharaa, who toppled Assad, named Syria’s interim president

By AP and ToI Staff

The smartphone apps DeepSeek page is seen on a smartphone screen in Beijing, January 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Sensitive data from DeepSeek exposed to web, warns Israeli-founded cyber firm

By Raphael Satter

Wiz CTO says the Chinese AI startup quickly secured the breach ‘but this was so simple to find we believe we’re not the only ones who found it’

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Boats work the scene on the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Jan. 29, 2025, in Arlington, Va. after a deadly midair collision (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Plane with 64 aboard crashes into Washington DC river after army helicopter collision

Far-right Polish lawmaker Grzegorz Braun speaks to parliament in Warsaw, Poland, on December 11, 2023. (AP Photo/ Czarek Sokolowski)

Far-right MEP disrupts EU Holocaust ceremony to decry ‘Jewish genocide in Gaza’

By Zev Stub and JTA

Mikhael Sammarah, 27, who passed away on August 9, 2024 from injuries caused by a malfunctioning Iron Dome interceptor missile during a Hezbollah drone attack. (Courtesy)

IDF confirms interceptor that killed man in August was from auxiliary defense system

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Rep. Randy Fine, R-Palm Bay, at an Appropriations Committee meeting, February 6, 2023, in the Knott Building at the Capitol in Tallahassee, Florida. (AP Photo/ Phil Sears)

US Jewish lawmaker Randy Fine, a Trump favorite, wins Florida GOP House primary

By Andrew Lapin

Illustrative: A woman works out at a gym in Jerusalem (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

City of Yavne rocked by online clips of multiple women having sex with trainer at gym

By Stuart Winer

Ethan Felson, then-executive director of A Wider Bridge, delivers a speech in 2022. (Screenshot via JTA)

Director of pro-Israel American LGBTQ group faces sexual misconduct charge

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