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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 1, 2025

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Protesters from the Bonot Alternativa (Building an Alternative) women's organization call for the release of all the hostages now, in Tel Aviv, February 1, 2025. (Dana Reany/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 1: PM said waiting to meet with Trump before dispatching team to Qatar hostage deal talks

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Keith Siegel, Ofer Calderon also said mistreated * In 1st message, ex-hostage Steinbrecher recalls being forced to be in ‘terrible’ Hamas clip * Eyal Zamir tapped as next IDF chief

10:02 pm

Netanyahu said to decide not to send team to Qatar until his Trump meeting, putting truce at risk
9:31 pm

IDF drone strike in West Bank said to kill Palestinian prisoner freed in 2023 deal
9:18 pm

In 1st online post, ex-hostage Karina Ariev vows to memorialize comrades who died on Oct. 7

Oped: Day 484 of the war

As Yarden Bibas is released, relief, dread, and evidence that Hamas is reviving

As the deal progresses, and Netanyahu readies for crucial talks with Trump, Israel’s twin war goals — bringing home all the hostages and removing Hamas from power in Gaza — remain as hard to reconcile as ever

Yarden Bibas embraces his father Eli and his sister Ofri at an IDF facility near Re'im after his release from 484 days in Hamas captivity, February 1, 2025. (Screencapture/Israel Defense Forces)

Left to right: Yarden Bibas, Keith Siegel and Ofer Calderon are freed by Hamas in the Gaza Strip on February 1, 2025 (Abdel Kareem/Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP)

Hostages Yarden Bibas, Keith Siegel, Ofer Calderon freed after 484 days in Hamas captivity

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

3 civilian men forced to parade on stage as they’re freed in Khan Younis, Gaza City port; cousin of Yarden Bibas says the deal must continue ‘until we see Shiri and the boys at home’

Palestinian prisoners are greeted as they exit a Red Cross bus after being released from Israeli prison amid a hostage release and ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, February 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Fatah man serving 17 life terms over suicide bombing freed

183 Palestinian security prisoners released after Hamas sets free 3 civilian hostages

By ToI Staff, Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

150 sent to Gaza, 32 released to West Bank and one sent to Egypt; among those freed is a Gaza aid worker jailed for funding Hamas

Ofer Calderon: 'I promised I'd come back. I didn't give up'

Tears, cheers and tight embraces as 3 released hostages reunited with relatives

Yarden Bibas met by dad, sister amid grave concerns for his wife, kids; Ofer Calderon reunited with 4 kids: ‘It’s over, daddy. Everyone’s ok’; Keith Siegel’s wife: ‘Here he is! He looks good!’

Top left: Released hostage Ofer Calderon reunites with his children Rotem, Gaya, Erez and Sahar on February 1, 2025. (Ma'ayan Toaf / GPO); Top right: Keith Siegel with his wife Aviva and family. (Ronen Harish/GPO); Bottom: Yarden Bibas embraces his father Eli and his sister Ofri. (IDF)

Palestinian Authority reps said in charge, with EU monitors

After 9 months, Rafah Border Crossing reopens for patients to leave Gaza for Egypt

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Hamas-run authorities say sick, wounded children and carers evacuated through gateway; reports say injured Hamas fighters also set to cross under terms of hostage-ceasefire deal

Wounded Palestinians and caregivers sit on a bus as they prepare to cross through the Rafah crossing into Egypt, Feb. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

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)

Gaza’s Rafah crossing set to reopen Saturday, to be run by PA with EU monitors

Demonstrators gather outside the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on January 31, 2025, to protest against a plan floated by US President Donald Trump to move Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Egypt and Jordan. (Kerolos Salah/AFP)

Responding to Trump, Arab nations reject transferring Gazans ‘under any circumstances’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Palestinian Authority and Arab League say such plans would pose a threat to regional stability, risk expanding conflict

To bring every hostage home, we need bipartisan cooperation

US reps from both sides of the aisle should, together, endorse the current deal and keep telling the hostages’ stories until every last one is free

Should we celebrate deportations of pro-Palestinian activists?

Trump’s order to expel ‘pro-jihadist’ protesters is troubling – and it’s not because I love them so much

Visitors enjoy anemone season in southern Israel, February 2024 (Courtesy)

In battle-weary Gaza envelope, annual anemone event seeks to make region bloom again

By Jessica Steinberg

A muted version of the flower pilgrimage in February will memorialize those killed and kidnapped on Oct. 7, and host the small businesses again cropping up after the tragedy

Troops of the Israeli Air Force's elite Shaldag unit are seen atop the Syrian side of Mount Hermon, in a photo published December 12, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF troops operating in Syria buffer zone come under fire in 1st such incident

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

No Israeli injuries; group apparently affiliated with Assad regime claims responsibility, says it has begun operations against both the IDF and the new Syrian leadership

Members of Iranian paramilitary forces (Basij) march next to a Iranian long range Sejil missile, during an anti-Israel rally in Tehran, January 10, 2025. (AFP)

Iran warns of ‘all-out war in region’ if Israel and US strike nuclear sites

Top Iranian diplomat says attack would be ‘one of the biggest historical mistakes the US could make,’ urges unfreezing of sanctioned funds

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)

Two IDF reservists, one of them serving in Iron Dome unit, charged with spying for Iran

By ToI Staff and Charlie Summers

A military helicopter with released hostage Gadi Mozes arrives at the Ichilov Medical center in Tel Aviv, January 30, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Thai hostages recall struggling to breath in Gaza tunnels

Hostages’ stories: Gadi Mozes paced 7km a day in tiny cell, soldiers rationed grains of rice

Report says captives exposed to media heard their families talking about them, knew they ‘hadn’t been forgotten’; Mozes did not learn his daughter was alive until he was freed

Arbel Yehoud, third from left, with her parents and siblings on an IDF helicopter after being freed from captivity on January 30, 2025. (Courtesy)

Arbel Yehoud’s father to PM: Go through with the deal, free the hostages, end the war

Emily Damari’s mom: My daughter was held in UNRWA facilities, denied medical treatment

‘It’s a miracle she survived,’ Mandy Damari says after speaking with British PM Keir Starmer; UN agency, which Israel just banned, calls for ‘very serious claim’ to be investigated

Emily (right) and Mandy Damari on the phone to UK PM Keir Starmer, January 31, 2025. (Courtesy)

File: Trucks carrying UNRWA humanitarian aid line up to cross the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

UNRWA says it is carrying on aid work despite Israeli ban on agency

By Reuters and ToI Staff

An illustrative image of a person looking at Wikipedia on their phone. (iStock/pressureUA)

'This is the one area where our reputation is in the toilet'

Edit wars over Israel spur rare ban of 8 Wikipedia editors — from both sides

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Case emerged amid allegations of widespread anti-Israel bias that have cast doubt on the open-source encyclopedia’s credibility and dovetailed with claims it has a liberal skew

UFC head ‘beyond disgusted’ by fighter’s praise of Hitler

By jacob gurvis

More Headlines

An American Airlines plane passes in the foreground as a member of a dive team and a US Coast Guard vessel with a crane work near the wreckage of a Black Hawk helicopter in the Potomac River, on January 31, 2025, in Arlington, Virginia. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Flight attendant killed in DC plane crash was alumnus of Jewish youth group

A WhatsApp icon is displayed on an iPhone. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

WhatsApp says Israeli spyware company Paragon targeted scores of users

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