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What Matters Most On Friday, February 7, 2025

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Visitors at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, February 3, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 7: Source says Israeli negotiators ‘most likely’ headed to Doha for 2nd phase talks

By Elana Kirsh, Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

Negotiating team will be a working-level delegation * Netanyahu invites US House speaker to Israel * ICC president decries American sanctions as ‘serious attacks’ on global order

9:48 pm

Report: ICC prosecutor Karim Khan will be the first person hit with US sanctions on war crimes tribunal
9:38 pm

Netanyahu to leave Washington DC on Saturday night to return to Israel after 6-day trip
9:27 pm

US State Department signs off on $7.4 billion arms sale to Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a video statement from his hotel in Washington DC, February 6, 2025. (Screenshot/GPO)

Rubio tells critics to step up and 'find a solution'

Netanyahu says ‘worth listening carefully’ to Trump’s proposal for Gaza

PM calls US president’s plan for ‘the day after Hamas… the first original idea that has been raised in years’; IDF intel chief said to warn of fallout: ‘Get ready for Ramadan’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, is welcomed by, from left, US Sen. Susan Collins, Sen. Roger Wicker, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, as they meet at the Capitol in Washington, February 6, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 7: Day 490 – With US backing, Israel wants more hostages in first stage

By Jessica Steinberg and Lazar Berman

A large billboard posted by the Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv, in support of US President Donald Trump, February 5, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israelis respond to Trump’s Gaza proposal with jubilation, disbelief, and dark humor

By Deborah Danan

Trump says Israel would hand Gaza to US when war ends, no American troops needed there

By Jacob Magid, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Controversial plan reportedly caught Netanyahu, top White House aides off guard; Rubio says Gazans’ displacement would be only temporary, contradicting US president

US President Donald Trump attends the National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington Hilton, in Washington, DC, February 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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)

Analysts argue Trump’s Gaza plan derails progress toward Israeli-Saudi normalization

By AFP and ToI Staff

Jordan's King Abdullah II (R) is greeted by US President Donald Trump at the White House on June 25, 2018. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)

Trump’s bid to push out Gazans is an ‘existential threat’ to Jordan, say analysts

By AFP and ToI Staff

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Model illustration of a new Gaza Strip, from the X account of Dr. Kobby Barda; inset: Professor Joseph Pelzman (courtesy)

Inside story'I was asked by Trump's team to think outside the box'

The man with the plan: DC prof sent Trump study on Gaza relocation, development in July

By Tal Schneider

GWU economics professor Joseph Pelzman wrote detailed proposal for Trump’s team; says ‘you have to destroy the whole place, restart from scratch’

Displaced Palestinians walk through a muddy road amid the destruction in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on February 6, 2025. (Bashar Taleb / AFP)

Reports: Morocco, 2 disputed Somalia regions considered as destinations for Gazans

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)

Hostage's brother: Feels like 2nd phase is 'disintegrating'

Three more hostages due to be freed on Saturday amid uncertainty over deal’s future

Hamas supposed to say Friday which captives it will release; Jerusalem reportedly dispatching negotiators to Doha over weekend for talks on rest of 1st phase, but not 2nd stage

Released hostage Keith Siegel reunites with his family at Tel Aviv's Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov Hospital) on February 1, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Freed hostages tell of deprivation in Gaza, urge return of all those still captive

By Melanie Lidman

Former hostage Gadi Mozes, second from left, with his sons and daughter after being discharged from Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, February 6, 2025. (Courtesy)

Ex-hostage Gadi Mozes, 80, leaves hospital: ‘Thrilled and astounded’

Katz reprimands IDF intel chief for warning discourse on Trump’s Gaza plan could prompt violence

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Maj. Gen. Shlomi Binder clarifies to defense minister he didn’t speak out against plan, but warned of potential West Bank violence, especially during Ramadan, as his role requires

Defense Minister Israel Katz (left) attends a discussion on the army conscription law at a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset, January 22, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Incoming Military Intelligence Directorate chief, Maj. Gen. Shlomi Binder, speaks at a handover ceremony at the Glilot Base near Herzliya, August 21, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Those who stayed in Egypt

I have come to see that my ’wide tent’ cannot include those fringe alienated Jews who go so far as to betray core Jewish values (Beshalach)

Donniel Hartman

Trump’s dystopia

Even while facing a brutal enemy, we are forbidden to emulate its brutality – the idea of a mass transfer of Gazans is a moral abomination

Shawn Zelig Aster

The trucks carrying us back to October 6, 2023

Those who support ’Gazan rebuilding’ without finding a way to remove Hamas from power are making a clearly immoral choice

Alexandria Fanjoy Silver

Without UNRWA, Palestinians might be decent neighbors

Inherited refugee status impoverishes and radicalizes Gazans, leaving them in perpetual limbo. Without it, they just might settle down

US President Donald Trump speaks during the National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC, on February 6, 2025. (Ting Shen/AFP)

Trump signs order sanctioning ICC over Israel arrest warrants, probe of US soldiers

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Court officials and their families to face financial and travel restrictions, as US president decries The Hague’s ‘illegitimate and baseless actions’ against America and Israel

An Iranian military speedboat patrols the waters as a tanker prepares to dock at the oil facility on Khark Island, Iran, on March 12, 2017. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

First new US sanctions under Trump target network delivering Iranian oil to China

By AFP

A golden pager gifted to US President Donald Trump by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting at the White House on February 4, 2025. (Courtesy, PMO)

Netanyahu gifted Trump a golden pager at White House meeting, PM’s office confirms

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Referencing Israeli operation that decimated Hezbollah, PMO says gift ‘symbolizes the Prime Minister’s decision that led to a turning point in the war’

Laments that ruling Likud party 'has strayed from its path'

Gallant: ‘Israel’s greatest missed opportunity’ was not attacking Hezbollah in Oct. 2023

Fired defense minister accuses Netanyahu of being overly hesitant to use force in Gaza and Lebanon; also says Israel could have returned ‘more hostages, earlier, at a lower cost’

Former defense minister Yoav Gallant speaks with Yonit Levi and Amit Segal of Channel 12 news in an interview broadcast on February 6, 2024. (Channel 12 screen capture)

A woman lights a candle to show support outside the Israeli embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 9, 2023, after the October 7 Hamas-led terror onslaught on Israel. On the fence is affixed an Israeli flag, and on the ground is the pre-Islamic Republic flag of Iran. (Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP)

Reporter's notebook

In Sweden, Iran’s proxies recruit criminals and minors to threaten Israelis, Jews

IRGC threats in the Nordic country have skyrocketed since Oct. 7, 2023, with some nearly succeeding — including an attempted bombing outside the Israeli embassy in Stockholm

Iranian supreme leader vows to respond in kind if US ‘acts on threats’ against Iran

Australia investigating potential foreign influence amid wave of antisemitic attacks

By AP and ToI Staff

Keren Aivas (left), whose son Niv (right) was shot dead on October 8, 2023, when security forces misidentified him as a terrorist, in a report broadcast by Channel 12 news on February 6, 2025. (Screen captures: Channel 12, social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

'Don't they know he's dead?'

Shot 400 times: Mom of man killed in error on Oct. 8 says probe riddled with insensitivity

Israeli troops fired 400 rounds at Niv Aivas, mistaking him for a terrorist; after finally meeting officials, bereaved parents got letter addressed to son saying probe into ‘his’ complaint is closed

This handout picture released by the Lebanese presidency shows President Joseph Aoun (R) posing for a picture with US deputy special envoy to the Middle East Morgan Ortagus after their meeting at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut on February 7, 2025. (Lebanese Presidency / AFP)

US envoy says Hezbollah ‘defeated,’ must not be in Lebanon government

By AFP and ToI Staff

Morgan Ortagus warns this would violate ‘clear red lines’ set by Washington; says US ‘very committed’ to February 18 Israeli withdrawal date

Smoke rises from the impact of a bomb, reportedly during the Israeli airstrike that killed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Lebanon, September 27, 2024. (Screen capture: X/Quds News Network, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

New footage said to capture airstrike that killed Hezbollah chief Nasrallah in bunker

A picture taken from Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel shows an Israeli fighter jet firing a flare over southern Lebanon on May 16, 2024. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

IDF fighter jets hit Hezbollah weapons depots that Israel says violated ceasefire

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Interview

MK Elazar Stern: Imprisoning the ultra-Orthodox in yeshivas is ‘against Judaism’

‘Everyone should be a soldier,’ former IDF manpower chief tells Times of Israel, calls to provide limited number of service exemptions for top Talmudic scholars

MK Elazar Stern attends a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, June 26, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

This image released by A24 shows Adrien Brody, left, and Guy Pearce in a scene from 'The Brutalist.' (Lol Crawley/A24 via AP)

Got your nose

‘The Brutalist’s Adrien Brody says makeup artist tried to remove his nose

Star tapped for Best Actor at Oscars for role as Holocaust survivor says his schnoz was mistaken for a prosthetic; he explained that it ‘doesn’t come off’

In 2016, archaeologists discovered parts of two 4th-century-BCE amphoras unearthed off the coast of Tel Achziv. One of them carried an inscription that was first deciphered and published in 2025. (Jonathan Gotlieb)

'The first time such an inscription was found underwater'

Did a daring semiliterate sailor wreck a ship off the Israeli coast 2,400 years ago?

By Rossella Tercatin

Parts of two double-handled jugs were found in the waters near Tel Achziv in 2016. Scholars recently deciphered the etched writing on one of them

John Irving’s new novel, ‘Queen Esther,’ touches decades of Israeli history

By AP

Book to be released in November tells story of Esther Nacht, Viennese Jew born in 1905 whose life ‘is fated to intersect with Israel’s history’; story closes in Jerusalem, 1981

This cover image released by Simon & Schuster shows "Queen Esther" by John Irving. (Simon & Schuster via AP)

More Headlines

Protesters hold flares during a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstration in London, October 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Hours after Hamas invaded on Oct. 7, UK anti-Israel group began planning mass protest

A tourist approaches blue-domed Orthodox churches in the town of Oia on the earthquake-struck island of Santorini, Greece, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Amid Santorini earthquakes, National Security Council orders preparation for tsunami

For illustration: The Israeli Air Force uses Odysight's AI-based video monitoring solution in aircraft to detect potential failures and prevent accidents. (Courtesy)

Israel AI visualization startup deployed by NASA plans to list on Nasdaq

By Sharon Wrobel

Snoop Dogg (left) and Tom Brady star in a Super Bowl ad calling out hate, produced by Robert Kraft's foundation. (YouTube screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Robert Kraft’s Super Bowl ad enlists Tom Brady, Snoop Dogg to combat ‘all hate’

By jacob gurvis

Aaron 'Ari' Rosenfeld, one of the suspects in the Prime Minister's Office classified documents leak case arrives to the courtroom at the Tel Aviv District Court on January 7, 2025. (Koko/Flash90)

IDF reservist Ari Rosenfeld, charged in PM office leak, to be released to house arrest

By Jeremy Sharon

Illustrative: A Magen David Adom ambulance is seen in Jerusalem, March 28, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Man stabbed to death in Netanya brawl, second man critically hurt

By Charlie Summers

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