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What Matters Most On Sunday, February 2, 2025

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Protesters urge US President Donald Trump to see to completion the Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal, Tel Aviv, February 1, 2025. (Gilad Furst/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

Premier to meet with Witkoff on Monday, Trump on Tuesday

Fate of ceasefire-hostage deal’s second phase in balance as Netanyahu heads to DC

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

PM reportedly holding off on sending negotiating team to Qatar until he returns from US, could appoint Ron Dermer to head delegation instead of Mossad chief Barnea

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in a video statement from his office, February 1, 2025. (Screenshot/PMO)

Welcoming hostages’ return, PM pledges to ‘achieve all war goals’

By Sam Sokol and Lazar Berman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boards the Wing of Zion plane at Ben Gurion Airport ahead of a trip to the United States, February 2, 2025. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Will be first foreign leader hosted by returned president

Netanyahu heads to Washington to meet Trump, hoping to ‘redraw’ Middle East

By Lazar Berman, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Immediate issue is future of hostage-release ceasefire deal in Gaza war; PM says working closely with US president, ‘we can strengthen security, broaden the circle of peace’

Left: US President Donald Trump at Trump National Doral Miami, January 27, 2025. (Mandel Ngan/AFP); Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Arab League joint extraordinary leaders summit in Riyadh, November 11, 2024. (SPA / AFP)

Trump speaks with Egypt’s Sissi after repeatedly floating idea to relocate Gazans

By AP, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Ahlam Tamimi is welcomed at Queen Alia international airport in Amman, late October 18, 2011. (LOUAI BESHARA/AFP/Getty Images)

Live updates (closed)

February 2: Jordan said to tell Hamas it will deport Sbarro pizzeria bomber, may extradite her to US

By Michael Bachner, Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

Reported effort to deport Ahlam Tamimi comes on heels of White House invitation for King Abdullah II * Abbas calls for UN Security Council meeting on IDF West Bank operation

8:45 pm

Yarden Bibas's family says he 'lost significant weight' in captivity but is in stable condition
8:25 pm

Jordan said to tell Hamas it will extradite Sbarro bomber Tamimi to US if no alternative by day's end
8:06 pm

PA's Abbas calls for emergency UN Security Council meeting on IDF West Bank op

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Yarden Bibas, flanked by his sister Ofri and father Eli, is seen on an IDF helicopter on his way to a hospital in central Israel on February 1, 2025, after his release from Hamas captivity. In his message on the whiteboard, he thanked all of Israel for its support. (Israel Defense Forces)

Hamas captors said to have tormented Yarden Bibas with incessant talk of wife, kids

Reports say Bibas, Ofer Calderon were beaten, held in cages during early days of captivity; Keith Siegel says food was scarce, had to eat meat to survive despite being vegetarian

Freed hostage Ofer Calderon in an IDF helicopter en route to Sheba Medical Center after his release from Hamas captivity in Gaza, February 1, 2025. (IDF)

Cages, starvation and fasting on Yom Kippur: More testimonies from freed hostages emerge

Vehicles line up along the Salah a-Din road in Nuseirat near the Netzarim Corridor while waiting to cross to the northern part of the Gaza Strip on January 27, 2025. (Eyad Baba / AFP)

IDF says drone strike hit vehicle heading to north Gaza that violated ceasefire terms

By Emanuel Fabian

Military stresses it took measures to mitigate civilian injures; vehicle was moving along coastal road designated for pedestrian traffic only, bypassing security checks

Outgoing IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi (left) and incoming chief Maj. Gen. (res.) Eyal Zamir, in an undated photo. (Israel Defense Forces)

Eyal Zamir named next IDF chief, set to take over from Herzi Halevi in March

By Emanuel Fabian

Halevi ending term early over Oct. 7 failures; former general to leave post as Defense Ministry director general to become 24th chief of staff, first from Armored Corps

Demonstrators raise placards during a protest calling for the release of hostages held captive in Gaza, in front of the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on February 1, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Hostage rallies press Trump, Netanyahu to not let deal fall apart before all go free

By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

Glee for those coming home tempered by concern for scores of remaining hostages, with many expressing concerns that political interests will win out over ceasefire

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during a press briefing at the White House, January 31, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

American officials welcome release of US citizen Keith Siegel from Hamas captivity

By Jacob Magid, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

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Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

Daily Briefing Feb. 2: Day 485 – Pulling out of Gaza, IDF trains its sights on West Bank

Military reporter Emanuel Fabian on counter-terrorism operation in Jenin, IDF troops under fire in Syrian buffer zone, newly named IDF head Eyal Zamir, and ‘quiet’ Egyptian border

Yarden Bibas is seen on an IDF helicopter on his way to a hospital in central Israel on February 1, 2025, after his release from Hamas captivity. (Israel Defense Force)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 1: Day 484 – 2 freed men were hugged by their kids; Yarden Bibas was not

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz

FILE: A Palestinian paramedic opens the back of an ambulance, as ordered by Israeli troops at a roadblock, during a military raid in Jenin, West Bank, on January 29, 2025. (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

IDF carries out 3 drone strikes in Jenin area; Palestinians say 4 dead, including teen

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says strikes targeted armed terror operatives, including cell en route to carry out attack, amid ongoing offensive in northern West Bank

View of the Israel Railways train at the train station in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, March 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Sderot-Ashkelon train line resumes operations for first time since October 7 attack

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Gaza border city was one of the hardest hit by Hamas-led terrorists, with at least 50 civilians and 20 police killed; vital train line reopens after IDF constructs defensive wall

Freed Palestinian prisoner Mohammed al-Tous gives an interview to Saudi-owned al-Arabiya news outlet on January 31, 2025. (Screenshot from Youtube)

Following release, elderly Palestinian security prisoner bashes Hamas, price of Oct. 7

By Charlie Summers

Citing Gaza war’s heavy Palestinian death toll, 69-year-old Mohammed al-Tous tells Arab outlets that he is warning his grandchildren against armed resistance

Left: Freed terror chief Zakaria Zubeidi is welcomed in the West Bank city of Ramallah after being released from Israeli prison as part of a hostage-ceasefire deal, January 30, 2025. (Flash90); Right: Defense Minister Israel Katz attends a meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 22, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Defense minister warns freed terrorist Zubeidi: ‘One mistake and you’ll meet old friends’

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

People gather around a vehicle of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Saraya Square in western Gaza City for the handover of three Israeli hostages on January 19, 2025. (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP)

Facing flak, Red Cross defends its role in Israel-Hamas war

By ToI Staff and AFP

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian (C) visits a defense and space achievements exhibition in Tehran, February 2, 2025. (Iranian Presidency / AFP)

Iran unveils new ballistic missile that can reach Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

President Pezeshkian attends unveiling of ‘Etemad,’ which has a maximum range of 1,700 kilometers, says it ‘aims to ensure that no country dares to attack Iranian territory’

This handout photo provided by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) official website Sepah News on February 1, 2025, shows IRGC commander-in-chief Major General Hossein Salami (C) alongside navy commander Admiral Alireza Tangsiri (R) talking to a reporter during the unveiling of the Ghadr-380 naval cruise missile in an undisclosed location in Iran. (SEPAH NEWS / AFP)

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards unveil underground missile facility for naval warfare

By AFP

Polish students learn the history of Oświęcim's Jewish community at the Oshpitzin Jewish Museum on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2025 (Zev Stub/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

In the shadow of Auschwitz, a museum commemorates an ancient Polish Jewish community

Before the Nazis chose Oswiciem as the site of the infamous death camp, Jews thrived in the city for half a millennium. Now, the last Jewish resident keeps their memory alive

At my Holocaust Day school visits this year, I started with Jewish joy

These Italian kids don’t know much about being Jewish, but I introduce them to both religious ritual and antisemitic graffiti, and they get it. They really do

Joshua Schultheis

Take it from a German Jew: The AfD isn’t making us safer

’Never again’ sounds like a mockery when it comes from those like Elon Musk who claim there’s too much focus on past guilt in Germany

Lightning illuminates the sky near Rehovot, December 30, 2024.(Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Water Authority says Israel experiencing driest winter in a century

Just 55 percent of the annual average for this time of year has fallen so far, but authority says desalination and management ensure there will be no near-term supply shortage

An antisemitic slur is seen graffitied on a wall in King Lane, Randwick, Sydney, Sunday, February 2, 2025. (AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi)

Two major Australian cities hit with antisemitic vandalism overnight

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Police in both Sydney and Perth report swastikas, anti-Jewish messages graffitied on cars, homes; latest in a growing trend of targeting Jews in Australia

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Illustrative: Arabs and Jews protest the escalating violence and riots between the Arab and Jewish population at the time, in Jaffa, on May 14, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Poll: Overwhelming majority of Jewish Israelis don’t trust Arab compatriots

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)

Syria’s interim president heads to Saudi Arabia on first diplomatic trip

By Jon Gambrell

This image released by Netflix shows Karla Sofía Gascón as Emilia Pérez in a scene from "Emilia Pérez." (Shanna Besson/Netflix via AP)

Oscar-nominated actress apologizes for tweets praising Hitler, denigrating Muslims

By AP and ToI Staff

Artist Zeev Engelmayer, right, with novelist David Grossman, before the release of their collaboration, 'A Sudden Cry' on January 29, 2025 (Courtesy)

Words of woeDavid Grossman, artist Shoshke and rapper Streett voice nation’s pain

By Jessica Steinberg

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, January 31, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump launches trade war with tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China

By David Lawder, Jarrett Renshaw and Andrea Shalal

Anti-Israel students protest at an encampment on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan on April 28, 2024. (Jeff Kowalsky/AFP)

University of Michigan suspends pro-Palestinian group for 2 years

By AP and ToI Staff

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