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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 6, 2025

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for meetings at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on February 6, 2025. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 6: PM reportedly gave US officials plan to end Gaza war, exile top Hamas officials

By Michael Bachner and Shira Silkoff

Katz, defense officials discuss plans for Palestinians to ‘voluntarily’ leave Gaza * Israel might not dispatch delegation to Doha hostage deal talks tomorrow, report suggests

8:51 pm

Lebanese media report Israeli strikes in Nabatieh, Beqaa Valley; No immediate comment from IDF
8:21 pm

In meeting with Sa'ar, top Italian diplomat says Rome will no longer work with UNRWA
8:10 pm

Rubio says Gaza currently 'not habitable,' declines to say if Palestinians will be able to return if they leave

US President Donald Trump (left) welcomes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House on February 4, 2025. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Katz tells Spain, Ireland, Norway and other critics to step up

PM calls Trump’s Gaza plan ‘remarkable’; Katz tells IDF to prep for voluntary emigration

By Lazar Berman, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Netanyahu says Palestinians ‘can relocate and come back,’ stresses he does not expect US to supply troops on the ground or funds to carry out effort

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (R) places his hand on his heart as he welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on February 5, 2025. (Jim WATSON / AFP)

Meeting Netanyahu, US defense secretary says Trump seeking ‘new ways to solve problems’

By Lazar Berman

A man sells bread under the remains of his bakery destroyed during the Israel-Hamas war in Jabalia, Gaza Strip, February 5, 2025. (Abdel Kareem Hana/AP)

Egypt said privately warning Trump’s Gaza plan endangers peace treaty with Israel

By AP and ToI Staff

Jared Kushner reportedly behind Trump's Gaza proposal

Amid uproar, top US officials say Trump only seeking to ‘temporarily’ remove Gazans

By Agencies, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

White House, secretary of state insist president not backing permanent evacuation as he declares ‘everybody loves’ his plan; national security adviser says US open to alternatives

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during a briefing at the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, questions Postmaster General Louis DeJoy during a hearing on understanding proposed service changes, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, December 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

‘I thought we voted for America first’: Trump’s Gaza plan divides fellow Republicans

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

‘Horrific’ or ‘major step’ to peace? US Jewish groups react to Trump’s Gaza proposal

By PHILISSA CRAMER

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Inset: Staff Sgt. Nachman Refael Ben Ami, left, and Sgt. First Class (res.) Nadav Cohen, killed in an accidental crane collapse in Gaza on February 6, 2025 (Courtesy); Background: Illustrative photo of destroyed buildings in northern Gaza on December 5, 2024 (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

2 soldiers killed, 8 wounded in Gaza as winds bring surveillance platform down on troops

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Initial probe finds machinery used by army to provide troops with mobile observation was blown over, crashed down onto tent with soldiers inside; military opens investigation

People walking in the rain on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem, on February 5, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Woman dies of hypothermia in Eilat as winter storm blasts country with winds, rain

By Stuart Winer

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Daily Briefing Feb. 6: Day 489 – Trump’s Gaza plan pleases some MKs, alarms others

By Jessica Steinberg, Diana Bletter and Sam Sokol

Political correspondent Sam Sokol on a range of reactions in the political echelon to the US president’s idea to relocate Gazans; Diana Bletter reports from three northern villages

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)

TranscriptFull text: Trump, at press conference with Netanyahu, says US ‘will take over’ Gaza

US President Donald Trump, right, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House, February 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

TranscriptFull text: With Netanyahu in Oval Office, Trump talks of ‘permanently’ resettling Gazans

US President Donald Trump (center) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu look to Vice President JD Vance in the Oval Office of the White House, February 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Report: Trump held no meetings on Gaza takeover plan before announcement

New York Times says president did not explore ‘feasibility’ or outline any details; George Washington University prof says he presented Trump’s campaign with similar plan last year

Paul Manni, from left, Sam Alasri, Wasel Yousaf, Waseem Makani and Abrahim Tamimi, cheer as Republican presidential nominee and former US president Donald Trump's speech is broadcast during an Arab Americans for Trump watch party at the Lava Java Cafe, a hookah lounge, in the early hours of November 6, 2024, in Dearborn, Michigan. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Pro-Trump Arab American group changes name to protest Gaza ‘takeover’ proposal

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI

US President Donald Trump gestures during a joint press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, February 4, 2025. (Alex Brandon/AP)

Trump’s plan to relocate Gazans stuns the region, faces serious obstacles

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Analysis

Trump’s Gaza takeover pitch is aimed at reeling in Riyadh, but will Saudis bite?

Arab diplomat says US shouldn’t bank on Saudi bailout after president went ‘too far’ with relocation idea: Riyadh won’t offer normalization in order to quash it, the way UAE did with annexation

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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

Trump’s proposals for Gaza keep sounding ‘better and better’ to Israel’s far right

By PHILISSA CRAMER

A couch sits at a heavily damaged building along Saftawi street in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on February 5, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Trump’s call for US ‘ownership’ of Gaza draws attention to Strip’s tumultuous history

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Trump doesn’t want Gaza

The US president is sending signals to Hamas, Israeli right-wingers and Republicans as he tees up a grand deal with Saudi Arabia

Trump’s fantasy plan for Gaza: The damage is already done

Why should Hamas release hostages when they won’t get control of Gaza back or any hope of a Palestinian sovereign state?

Members of an alleged terror cell said by the Shin Bet on February 6, 2025, to have been arrested for a plot to bomb a Jerusalem bus in late 2024: (Top row left to right): Ahmad Jassar Ali, Mundhir Sheikh Qassem; (bottom row left to right), Bashir Awad, Omar Subah, and Ali Shweiki (Shin Bet)

Shin Bet says it foiled Jerusalem bus bombing late last year

By Emanuel Fabian and Charlie Summers

Five-person cell composed of Fatah and Hamas members arrested before they could put plan into action; security officials seize bomb and submachine gun

Illustrative: Palestinian farmers clash with IDF soldiers near olive fields in Qusra village, south of Nablus in the West Bank on October 29, 2024. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Settler charged with terror offenses over shooting attack on Palestinians in October

By Charlie Summers and Jeremy Sharon

Blindfolded Palestinians captured in the Gaza Strip in a detention facility on the Sde Teiman military base in southern Israel, winter 2023. (Breaking The Silence via AP)

IDF reservist gets 7 months behind bars for abuse of Palestinian detainees

By Emanuel Fabian

Four surveillance soldiers freed from Gaza head home after week at hospital

Liri Albag, Naama Levy, Daniella Gilboa and Karina Ariev return to their families, while Agam Berger, who was released later, to remain at medical center a few more days

Meirav Leshem Gonen, mother of released hostage Romi Gonen, speaks to The Times of Israel on February 5, 2025 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Interview'Won't be able to heal' if there are still hostages in Gaza

Despite suffering, Romi Gonen returned from captivity with a smile, says mother

By Jessica Steinberg

Meirav Leshem Gonen tells ToI about the terrible conditions her daughter endured, hails all the hostages who’ve come home as ‘true survivors… they decided to live’

Following US, Israel says it will halt participation in UN Human Rights Council

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

FM Gideon Sa’ar accuses UNHRC of ‘protecting human rights abusers’ while ‘demonizing’ Israel and ‘propagating antisemitism’

A diplomat observes the room at the opening of the 57th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, on September 9, 2024. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators rally on the Columbia University campus in New York City to mark a year since the Hamas terror group's onslaught on southern Israel that sparked the ongoing war in Gaza, October 7, 2024 (Alex Kent/Getty Images/AFP)

At Trump’s direction, US medical schools to be investigated for antisemitism

By Andrew Lapin

OU Israel Executive Director Avi Berman speaks at the organization's new office in Har Hotzvim, February 2, 2025 (Shmuel Ungar)

As religious immigration rises, OU expands presence in Israel, investing in integration

After 47 years in Israel, one of North America’s largest Orthodox institutions switches strategy to operate in neighborhood hubs, reflecting changing community trends

Denying US and Israel are planning a strike, Trump says he wants a deal with Iran

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US president urges that work on new nuclear pact start ‘immediately’; Iranian FM insists administration’s restoration of ‘maximum pressure’ policy ‘will turn into another failure’

US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 4, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/AFP)

Iran's first drone-carrier warship in the Persian Gulf, February 6, 2025. (Sepahnews via AP)

Iran’s first drone carrier joins Revolutionary Guards fleet

By Agencies and ToI Staff

At left: Denver defenseman Shai Buium (8) during an NCAA hockey game on October 7, 2022, in Denver. (AP Photo/Bart Young); At right: Zeev Buium at the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship at Canadian Tire Centre on January 5, 2025, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. (Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images/AFP)

Interview'We just fell in love with hockey'

US-Israeli brother athletes have warm rivalry on the ice as they race toward the NHL

Zeev and Shai Buium have both been tapped by big-league hockey teams and are putting in their time in the minors. Whoever moves up first will make Israeli sports history

The son of Jewish parents who fled the Nazis for safe harbor in the United States, Sen. Ron Wyden shares lessons from 40-plus career in politics in a new memoir. (Grand Central Publishing via JTA)

Interview

Sen. Ron Wyden says the Democrats need ‘chutzpah’ to return to power

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

The senior Oregon legislator’s new memoir, ‘It Takes Chutzpah,’ draws on his Jewish background to explain his approach to life and governing

Paintings by Kibbutz Be'eri artist Ziva Jelin in the exhibit 'Cypress Shadows on the Road,' at the Ramat Gan Museum on January 30, 2025 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Now in blue: Museum exhibits first works by Be’eri artist Ziva Jelin since October 7

By Jessica Steinberg

Gaza-border kibbutz painter known for large red landscapes, which took bullets during Hamas invasion; ‘What the Heart Wants, Art as a Gateway to Healing’ opens in Ramat Gan

More Headlines

Police stand near houses vandalized with anti-Israel slogans in the Sydney suburb of Woollahra, Australia, December 11, 2024. (AP/Mark Baker)

Australian man arrested for hurling bacon while scrawling antisemitic graffiti

By JTA and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Police officers at an anti-Israel protest at the NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City, January 6, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Protester who demanded ‘Zionists’ exit NYC subway gets 4 hours of community service

Swastikas daubed on a synagogue in Newtown on January 11, 2025, in Sydney, Australia. (Screen grab via ABC News)

Australia passes tough hate crime laws in bid to stem wave of antisemitism

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Elizabeth Tsurkov, an Israeli-Russian academic who was kidnapped in Iraq in March 2023, speaks in a clip aired November 13, 2023, by Iraq's Al Rabiaa satellite TV network. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Trump’s hostage envoy warns Iraq of consequences if Elizabeth Tsurkov not freed

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian students and others gather outside of Cooper Union in Manhattan to protest the school's stance on Israel on May 9, 2024 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Private NYC college told it must face antisemitism lawsuit from Jewish students

Palestinians and left wing activists protest against the expulsion of Palestinian families from their homes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, December, 24 2021. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

New Jewish development planned for flashpoint Jerusalem neighborhood

By Jeremy Sharon

AppsFlyer founders Reshef Mann, left, and Oren Kaniel. (Courtesy/Appsflyer PR)

Israeli adtech unicorn AppsFlyer to cut 100 roles as it eyes US public listing

By Sharon Wrobel

Screen capture from video of an 'Eretz Nehederet' skit lampooning the International Committee of the Red Cross, broadcast February 5, 2025. (X: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Ride-share ridiculeIsraeli comedy show mocks Red Cross as a taxi service

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