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What Matters Most On Wednesday, February 5, 2025

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US President Donald Trump (R) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu take questions during a press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 4, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

Netanyahu-Trump meetingNetanyahu: After the jaws drop, you realize he's right

Trump: US will ‘take over’ Gaza, level it and create ‘the Riviera of the Middle East’

By Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman

In press conference with PM, president proposes US replace Hamas in Gaza, doesn’t rule out possibility of sending troops; says he’ll soon announce policy on Israel annexing West Bank

US President Donald Trump, right, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, February 4, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP)

Hosting PM, Trump urges permanent relocation of all Gazans: ‘That place has been hell’

By Jacob Magid, Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Agencies

A Palestinian man uses a ladder to leave his damaged home in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on February 4, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

US officials defend Trump’s call to relocate Gazans from ‘uninhabitable plot of land’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with US Vice President JD Vance and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz in Washington's Blair House, February 5, 2025 (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 5: Netanyahu meets US Vice President Vance, National Security Adviser Waltz

After uproar, White House says Trump only seeking to remove Gazans ‘temporarily’ * Aide to PM: Trump’s proposal will help get hostages out of Gaza

10:12 pm

PM arrives back at hotel after Pentagon meeting
9:31 pm

Hegseth lauds Israel's killing of Hezbollah heads; Netanyahu: Our victory is your victory
8:44 pm

Netanyahu meets Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon

Analysis

Trump’s Gaza plan won’t happen, but it could certainly shake up the region

Moving Gazans to Arab countries won’t work, but neither will ending the war with Hamas the strongest force in Gaza. New ideas are needed, and this might spark more viable solutions

US President Donald Trump, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrive for a news conference in the East Room of the White House, February 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holding a joint press conference at the White House in Washington D.C., February 4, 2025. (Photo by Liri Agami/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 5: Day 488 – Trump thrills Netanyahu, calls Gaza a hellhole

By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid

Palestinian children sit and wait next to water cans at a school turned shelter in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on February 4, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Gazans’ future in limbo as ‘day-after’ plan remains out of reach

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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People walk past an electronic billboard that shows US President Donald Trump, left, shaking hands with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with the pro-normalization message 'We are ready,' in Tel Aviv, February 3, 2025. (AP Photo/ Ariel Schalit)

Countering Trump, Saudi Arabia says no Israel normalization without Palestinian state

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

In 4 a.m. statement, Riyadh says its ‘unwavering’ stance had been relayed to admin; PA envoy rejects Trump’s call to permanent relocate Gazans: ‘Our homeland is our homeland’

Op-ed: Day 488 of the war

Trump’s ‘Extreme Makeover: Gaza Edition’ has many flaws. One of the worst is its absent morality

Hamas brought war down upon Gaza with its mass slaughter in Israel on October 7. That doesn’t mean the US has the right to ship out all its residents and develop it as real estate for others

US President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference with unseen Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 4, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP)

US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, February 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump kept Gaza takeover idea secret, only discussed it with inner circle – report

US President Donald Trump signs an executive order "reimposing maximum pressure on Iran" in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, DC, February 4, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Trump signs order reimposing ‘maximum pressure’ on Iran

By ToI Staff, Jacob Magid and Agencies

Directive instructs US Treasury to apply and enforce sanctions against Tehran, including an effort to ‘drive Iran’s oil exports to zero’

Illustrative — Russian S-300 missile systems drives during a general rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in central Moscow on May 5, 2024. Russia will celebrate the 79th anniversary of the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany on May 9. (Alexander Avilov / Moskva News Agency / AFP)

Iran displays Russian-made long-range air defense systems in military exercises

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A cleric walks in front of a shopping center in northern Tehran, Iran on January 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran welcomes Trump’s foreign aid cuts as both sides hint at nuclear negotiations

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Left to Right: US House Speaker Mike Johnson, at Trump National Doral Miami in Doral, Florida, January 27, 2025 (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein); Dutch politician Geert Wilders,at the high security court at Schiphol, near Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 2, 2024 (AP Photo/Peter Dejong); US Senator Chris Coons speaks during the Democratic National Convention, August 19, 2024 in Chicago. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

‘He’s lost it’: Trump call to take over Gaza blasted by Democrats, boosted by loyalists

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US president’s domestic opposition condemns plan as ‘ethnic cleansing by another name’; Dutch far-right leader Wilders praises idea, says Gazans can ‘move to Jordan’

US President Donald Trump holds an executive order regarding withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council in the Oval Office of the White House, February 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump withdraws US from UN Human Rights Council, permanently ends funding to UNRWA

By Agencies, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

The UN ‘has to get its act together,’ US president says, as he signs executive order calling for review of UNESCO, and UN institutions generally, that cites ‘anti-Israel bias’

Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben Gvir chairs a faction meeting at the Knesset, February 3, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir says he’ll return to government if PM implements Trump’s Gaza transfer plan

‘The ball is now in the hands of the prime minister,’ Otzma Yehudit leader says. ‘Impossible to carry out a transfer without committing war crimes,’ warns Ra’am chief Mansour Abbas

InterviewFormer US ambassador: Trump will want Netanyahu to push next stage of hostage deal

By Sharon Wrobel

Widowed by war, trapped by law

Jewish law rarely requires the ’halitzah’ ritual of a widow, but when it does, she’s at risk, and the numbers have tripled since Oct. 7. It doesn’t need to be like this

The China (Shopping) Syndrome

I rashly placed my online order, disregarding all the warnings about my loss of privacy, dangerous malware, and worse. Here’s what happened

Shay Herz stands on the porch of his house in Mattat, northern Israel, with a view of Lebanon in the background on January 28, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'I don't feel this is the end of the war'

‘Fear is now in our DNA’: With pause in Hezbollah attacks, two border towns regroup

By Diana Bletter

The 15-month war took its toll ‘not only physically but also emotionally’ on residents evacuated from Mattat, and those who stayed put in the Druze town of Hurfeish

Iran’s Khamenei names Hezbollah leader as his ‘representative’ in Lebanon

Qatar vows to help Lebanon rebuild, but only after government is formed

By AFP and ToI Staff

A song for home

Freed IDF soldiers celebrate release from hospital with singer Elai Botner

By Jessica Steinberg

Naama Levy, Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Liri Albag and Agam Berger sing and dance onstage before four of them head home for first time since returning from Hamas captivity

The five surveillance soldiers freed from Gaza on stage with singer Elai Botner on February 4, 2025, at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva. (YouTube screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Released hostage soldier Agam Berger, right, meets Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy, and Liri Albag, fellow soldiers also freed from Hamas captivity, at Rabin Medical Center, January 30, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF soldiers released from captivity were held by senior Hamas terrorist – report

MK Yoav Gallant in the corridors of the Knesset on December 23, 2024. (Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Gallant says government ‘didn’t do everything it could to bring back the hostages’

A bronze hoard, composed of civic coins of ‘Akko-Ptolemais, was recently found in the excavations at the Hellenistic site Khirbet el-Eika. The find was published in January 2025. (Tal Rogovski)

Battle described in Book of Maccabes was near site, in Qedesh

Hoard of coins illuminates triumphant Maccabee campaign in 2nd-century-BCE Israel

By Rossella Tercatin

A rare intact Hellenistic estate at Khirbet el-Eika in Eastern Galilee was likely abandoned by its inhabitant as Yonatan Maccabee and his army drew nearer, new research shows

An Israeli, allegedly from the illegal settlement outpost of Meitarim Farm, peers into the home of Palestinians in the West Bank village of Khirbet Zanuta, August 31, 2024. (Courtesy Haqel)

High Court orders police and IDF to again let Palestinians return to West Bank hamlet

By Jeremy Sharon

Ruling comes after security forces were instructed last year to allow residents of Khirbet Zanuta to go back, before renewed settler violence forced villagers to flee a second time

View of the Israeli outpost of Shvut Rachel, in the West Bank, January 30, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/ Flash90)

High Court orders police to investigate assistance to illegal settlement outposts

By Jeremy Sharon

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A test of anti-drone defense systems in southern Israel, February 4, 2025. (Defense Ministry)

Defense Ministry carries out tests on new anti-drone systems in development

By Emanuel Fabian

Head of the Judea and Samaria Police District's investigations and intelligence department Commander Avishai Muallem arrives at the Department for Internal Police Investigations in Jerusalem, February 4, 2025 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Senior cops, Ben Gvir aide questioned in alleged mishandling of Jewish W. Bank attacks

Police special forces are seen leaving the scene of the Risbergska School in Orebro, Sweden, on February 4, 2025, following a deadly shooting (Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP)

Some 10 people killed in attack at Swedish school for adults, gunman believed dead

By Johan Ahlander and Simon Johnson

Darren Beattie speaks at the National Conservatism conference in Miami on September 12, 2022. (YouTube screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Speechwriter fired over white nationalist ties tapped for senior State Department post

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, left, with Moldova Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mihai Popsoi, inaugurates Israel's first ever embassy in Moldova, February 4, 2025. (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

After over 30 years of ties, Israel opens its first embassy in Moldova

By Stuart Winer

Lilly Filler (center), chair of the South Carolina Council on the Holocaust, accepts a state proclamation from Governor Henry McMaster recognizing the Holocaust during an event commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, January 27, 2025, in Columbia, South Carolina. Filler would later cut a speech by a rabbi from the broadcast. (Screenshot via YouTube/ via JTA)

South Carolina Holocaust council roils after chair truncates rabbi’s ‘political’ remarks

By Andrew Lapin

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shakes hands with Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa during their meeting at the presidential palace, in Ankara, Turkey, February 4, 2025. (Turkish Presidency via AP)

Syria’s interim leader holds talks with key ally Turkey on second trip abroad

By Suzan Fraser

FILE - A menorah stands outside the entrance to Temple Israel, December 7, 2023, in Albany, New York. (AP Photo/Maysoon Khan)

Man pleads guilty to firing gun outside NY synagogue while yelling ‘free Palestine’

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