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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 8, 2025

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Feb. 8: Families plead with PM to urgently seal 2nd phase of deal after hostages return emaciated

By Elana Kirsh and ToI Staff

Or Levy reunites with 3-year-old son Almog, whose mother was killed on Oct. 7 * Eli Sharabi, Ohad Ben Ami reunite with families * Netanyahu vows to destroy Hamas ‘monsters’

9:46 pm

Starmer sacks British junior minister over insulting and antisemitic WhatsApp messages
9:40 pm

Israel's UN envoy calls on Guterres to 'condemn Hamas's cruel and inhuman treatment of hostages'
9:33 pm

Former CAIR employee charged after wild antisemitic rant in New York went viral

Top row, left to right: Released hostages Eli Sharabi, Or Levy and Ohad Ben Ami seen on a stage set up by Hamas in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, before the terror group handed them over to the Red Cross, February 8, 2025. Bottom row, the three Israelis as pictured before they were abducted. (Eyad Baba / AFP; courtesy)

Ohad Ben Ami's mother: 'He looks terrible...like a skeleton'

Gaunt and frail, hostages Eli Sharabi, Or Levy and Ohad Ben Ami freed after 16 months

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Sharabi did not know his wife, daughters were murdered on Oct. 7; Levy’s wife was also murdered; Hostages forum: ‘Horrifying images’ of the 3 at Hamas handover show urgent need for all captives to come home

Hamas hostages (L-R) Ohad Ben Ami, Or Levi, Eli Sharabi, set to be released from in Gaza on February 8, 2025 after 491 days in Hamas captivity. (Courtesy)

Hostages Eli Sharabi, Or Levy and Ohad Ben Ami slated for release from Gaza Saturday

Eli Sharabi's father-in-law: 'As though he’s been to Belsen'

Health Ministry: Hostages suffering severe malnutrition; Herzog: Crime against humanity

Group of October 7 victims’ families says emaciated condition of Eli Sharabi, Or Levy, Ohad Ben Ami evokes Holocaust images * Ben Ami’s mom: ‘He looks like a skeleton’

Left to right: Eli Sharabi, Or Levy and Ohad Ben Ami seen on a stage set up by Hamas in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, before the terror group handed them over to the Red Cross, February 8, 2025 (Eyad Baba / AFP)

‘Shocked’ PM vows ‘action’ over emaciated hostages; critics ask, ‘What did he expect?’

Security offical: It should have come as no surprise to Netanyahu; hostage’s father blasts him for staying in DC as ‘Israeli citizens are released looking like Holocaust survivors’

Israeli hostage Eli Sharabi, who had been held hostage by Hamas in Gaza since October 7, 2023, is paraded by Hamas gunmen before being handed over to the Red Cross in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, February 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R) speak to the press at the US Capitol following their closed-door meeting in Washington, DC, on February 7, 2025. (Oliver Contreras/AFP)

Netanyahu will head back to Israel on Saturday night after 6 days in Washington

By Lazar Berman and Agencies

Eli Sharabi was taken captive on October 7, 2023 by Hamas terrorists while his wife Lianne and their two daughters, Noiya and Yahel, were killed. (Courtesy)

Freed hostage Eli Sharabi was reportedly unaware his wife, daughters were killed on Oct. 7

Wife Lianne, teenage daughters Noiya and Yahel were murdered in safe room at Kibbutz Be’eri home; brother Yossi was killed in Gaza captivity, which Hamas announced as Eli was released

A former Palestinian prisoner released by Israel is cheered by a crowd after stepping out of a bus in the West Bank city of Ramallah on February 8, 2025.(Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Israel frees 183 Palestinian prisoners, including 18 terrorists serving life terms

Crowds in Ramallah greet those freed to West Bank; among those released is key planner of 2004 suicide bombing in Beersheba in which 16 Israelis were killed

A Palestinian walks past destroyed residential buildings damaged by the Israeli air and ground offensive in Bureij, central Gaza Strip, January 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israel to show prisoners clip of Gaza destruction prior to release under truce deal

From left: Eli Sharabi, Or Levy and Ohad Ben Ami are seen on a stage in Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, at a Hamas propaganda ceremony on their release from captivity, Feb. 8, 2025 (Screen grab/YouTube)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Feb. 8: Day 491 – Emaciated, 3 released hostages to now learn families’ fates

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

Military reporter Emanuel Fabian updates us on the three Israeli civilian men’s release this morning, ongoing IDF operations in the Gaza Strip, West Bank and Lebanon

With Trump, many Arab Americans are getting what they deserve

Voters who should have cared about the suffering in Gaza placed their hatred of Israel ahead of the interests of the Palestinians

Marissa Nuckels

Napoleon, Trump, and the mirage of Jewish salvation

With Donald Trump, nothing is ever free. History shows there’s a price for such offers and it is almost always your own soul.

US President Donald Trump speaks during a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 7, 2025. (Mandel NGAN / AFP)

'We will be an investor... We just want to see stability'

Trump says he’s in ‘no rush’ to implement plan to take over, redevelop Gaza

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US president tells reporters: ‘Basically, the United States would view it as a real estate transaction. We’re not talking about boots on the ground or anything’

FILE -- US President Donald Trump speaks as he signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump orders cut to funding for South Africa over land policy, ICJ case against Israel

By Reuters and ToI Staff

US-supplied military equipment arriving in Israel, December 2023. (Ministry of Defense Spokesperson's Office)

US State Department informs Congress of $7.4 billion arms sale to Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Package includes billions in munitions, related equipment that will start being delivered this year; senior Democrat says administration defied his request for sale to be paused

International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan attends a United Nations Security Council meeting at the United Nations headquarters on January 27, 2025 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images via AFP)

ICC prosecutor is first court official to be targeted after Trump restores sanctions

Sources tell Reuters that Karim Khan’s name has been added to nonpublic annex, exposing him to US asset freeze and travel ban

Exterior of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, June 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Countries vow ‘unwavering’ support for ICC as Trump hits it with sanctions

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Thai citizens, who were released from Hamas captivity in Gaza as part of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal, leave Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh) in Be'er Ya'akov, Israel, February 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

5 Thai hostages released from hospital, 10 days after they were freed by Hamas

Pongsak Thenna, Sathian Suwannakham, Watchara Sriaoun, Bannawat Seathao and Surasak Lamnau spent 482 days in Hamas captivity, are now set to fly back to Thailand

Yarden Bibas to PM: ‘Bring my family back. Bring my friends back. Bring everyone home’

In first statement since release, Bibas thanks Israelis who fought for him and his family, says: ‘My light is still there, and as long as they’re there, everything here is dark’

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)

Families of Israeli hostages and activists attend a protest calling for the release of captives held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, in Tel Aviv on February 4, 2025. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Poll: 70% of Israelis support second phase of hostage-ceasefire deal

Over 50% of coalition voters in Channel 12 survey back second stage of agreement, which would see Hamas free remaining living captives in exchange for full IDF withdrawal from Gaza

Kanye West and Bianca Censori attend the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards on February 2, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for The Recording Academy/AFP)

Kanye West praises Hitler, calls himself a Nazi in fresh antisemitic X rant

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Rapper claims antisemitism is ‘just some bulls–t Jewish people made up’ and says he’s ‘going to normalize talking about’ the Nazi leader, in remarks resembling his 2022 tirades

Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie dressed in drag, as his alter-ego, the Rebbetzin Hadassah Gross, as seen in 'Sabbath Queen,' a film by Sandi DuBowski. (Courtesy)

Interview'I imagine myself looking in the eyes of my grandfather'

From radical drag queen to rabbi, film depicts journey of a Jewish law breaker

By Renee Ghert-Zand

‘Sabbath Queen’ follows gay scion of rabbinic dynasty Amichai Lau-Lavie for two decades as he challenges traditional Judaism’s norms and becomes a respected communal leader

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Elon Musk arrives before the 60th presidential inauguration in the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, January 20, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/ Pool Photo via AP)

Musk vows to rehire deputy who apparently joked about annihilation of Israel and Gaza

By AFP

Hamas operatives carry the coffin of Marwan Issa, a top Hamas commander killed in March 2024, during his funeral procession in the war-devastated Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip on February 7, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Slain Hamas deputy chief Marwan Issa given Gaza burial

By AFP and ToI Staff

The sign above the door to the Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging inside the main administration building on the main University of Kansas campus is seen on April 12, 2024, in Lawrence, Kansas. (AP Photo/John Hanna, File)

Over 30 US liberal Jewish groups sign letter defending DEI as an ‘invaluable tool’

'It's a big place, nobody uses it,' says character Renee Corliss, played by Rita Moreno, of her suggestion to move the Palestinians to Greenland, in the second-season finale of NBC's 'The Golden Girls,' aired May 16, 1987. (Screen capture: NBC, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Shining example4 decades before Trump, ‘Golden Girls’ mulled Greenland for Palestinians

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Tony Roberts attends the screening for 'It Takes a Lunatic' during the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center, May 3, 2019, in New York. (Brent N. Clarke/Invision/AP, File)

ObituaryJewish actor Tony Roberts, who often starred in Woody Allen movies, dies at 85

By Mark Kennedy

President Donald Trump speaks at a dinner with Senate Republicans at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, February 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Trump revokes Biden’s security clearance in apparent payback move

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE

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