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What Matters Most On Monday, February 10, 2025

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US President Donald Trump speaks to the press after signing an executive order, alongside US Secretary of Commerce nominee Howard Lutnick, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 10, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

February 10: Trump says ceasefire should end if all hostages not released by Saturday at noon

By Elana Kirsh, Ethan Rubinson and ToI Staff

Demonstrators rally in Tel Aviv to demand deal be maintained, mark birthday of hostage * Ex-captive Yarden Bibas ‘clinging to hope’ for his wife and young sons, sister says

9:43 pm

Report: Netanyahu recently asked US for waiver on recent AI chip export restrictions
9:36 pm

Kanye West's account on X goes dark after antisemitic rant, while his bizarre Super Bowl ad promotes swastika tshirt
9:25 pm

Israel dismisses PA 'pay to slay' reform as 'fraudulent exercise,' says terrorists will be paid in other ways

Idit Ohel, mother of hostage Alon Ohel, interviewed on Channel 12 news, February 9, 2025 (Channel 12 screenshot)

Everyone must 'do everything. This is impossible any longer'

Pleading for his release, mother says hostage Alon Ohel is wounded, chained in Hamas tunnels

Family of Ohel — who turns 24 on Monday — reports first sign of life since he was taken captive, after testimony from newly freed hostages who were held with him in dire conditions

Arbel Yehoud, third from left, with her parents and siblings on an IDF helicopter after being freed from captivity on January 30, 2025. (Courtesy)

Released hostage Arbel Yehoud condemns politicization of captives’ plight

A pro-hostage deal protester opposed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hoists a sign reading: 'They're suffering a Holocaust and you're vacationing in America,' in Tel Aviv, February 8, 2025. (Lior Segev/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)

'They treated us like animals,' says one of those freed Sat.

Bound, gagged and starved: Released hostages report severe mistreatment by captors

Or Levy, Ohad Ben Ami, Eli Sharabi, who returned emaciated, were reportedly hung by their feet and burned; still in Gaza, Eliya Cohen and Alon Ohel said untreated for Oct. 7 wounds

Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan Zangauker, speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv on January 25, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Families of captives Matan Zangauker, Nimrod Cohen sue for full text of hostage deal

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US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One as he travels from West Palm Beach, Florida, to New Orleans, February 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Trump: Patience with Hamas running out, freed hostages ‘looked like Holocaust survivors’

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

US president says emaciated captives freed on Saturday ‘look like they’ve aged 25 years’ and ‘have been treated brutally,’ adding: ‘I don’t know how much longer we can take that’

View of the northern Gaza Strip as it seen from the Israeli side of the border, on February 9, 2025. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

IDF fires at Palestinians who approached northern Gaza border, three said killed

By Emanuel Fabian

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on February 9, 2025. (GPO/Screenshot)

At rowdy meeting, cabinet delays for 3 months decision on state inquiry into Gaza war

Netanyahu, ministers clash with attorney general, who supports setting up probe of Oct. 7 Hamas invasion; PM said to call Shin Bet chief ‘a bureaucrat,’ insist war not over yet

L: Isaac Amit at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, February 6. 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); R: Alex Stein at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, December 5, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court rejects petition to revoke Isaac Amit’s appointment as court president

Op-ed

Netanyahu believes he’s Israel’s man of destiny. Now is his moment of truth

The PM argues only he can destroy Hamas, stop Iran, make peace with the Saudis, and ensure Israel’s survival. He will either prove that claim — or show it was just a ruse to cling to power

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

Palestinians walk past destroyed vehicles as they cross the Netzarim Corridor, making their way to the northern parts of the Gaza Strip on February 9, 2025. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Trump: US will own Gaza, Mideast states can help rebuild; US may let some Gazans in

By Reuters and ToI Staff

President reiterates plan to relocate all of Strip’s population, says US may admit refugees on case-by-case basis; vows to ensure Palestinians are ‘not murdered’

US President Donald Trump arrives on the South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, February 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Moscow doesn’t reject Trump’s Gaza plan outright; Turkey, Hamas say it’s doomed

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a joint press conference with Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, following their meeting at the presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, February 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Erdogan: Trump’s plan to oust Gazans from ‘eternal homeland’ unworthy of discussion

By Agencies and ToI Staff

‘Our arm hurts’: Grieving for Eli Sharabi

If you’re a Jew and you’re in pain, then so am I

Micha Odenheimer

Dismantling USAID is a moral and strategic tragedy

The foreign aid agency has its flaws, but it saves countless lives and projects the soft power of a compassionate America

US President Donald Trump, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a joint press conference at the White House in Washington, DC, February 4, 2025. (Liri Agami/Flash90)

Back from DC, Netanyahu says Trump’s Gaza plan ‘much better’ for Israel than alternatives

Chairing cabinet meeting, PM says Israel expects ‘Hamas to fulfill all its obligations’ in current truce; Shin Bet chief said barred from discussion on state commission of inquiry

In Kfar Saba in February 2025, a protestor holding images of hostages, Tsahi Idan, left, included in the first stage of the exchange, while hostage Alon Ohel, right, is not (Credit: Danor Aharon)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 10: Day 493 – Netanyahu has Trump’s support but what’s his game plan?

By Jessica Steinberg and David Horovitz

Then-Republican US presidential nominee Donald Trump (R) and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee during a roundtable at the Drexelbrook Catering & Event Center, October 29, 2024, in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Incoming US envoy Huckabee says Trump to bring Mideast change of ‘biblical proportions’

By Lazar Berman and Agencies

Palestinian bookseller Ahmad Muna is escorted by Israeli police into court in Jerusalem on February 10, 2025. (John Wessels/AFP)

Police raid leading bookstore in East Jerusalem, arrest owner, seize books

By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Raid alarms foreign diplomats as court keeps booksellers in custody for another day on charge of disrupting public order by selling texts of ‘incitement and support for terrorism’

The New York Times building in New York City, May 13, 2019. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel, File)

NY Times downplays Israeli post-Oct. 7 losses, Hamas role in war, data study says

Research by Yale professor says newspaper minimizes Palestinian violence following Hamas attack on Israel, leaving readers with ‘distorted’ view of the conflict

A humpback whale near New Caledonia. (Operation Cetaces)

Groaning and moaning underwater, humpback whales talk much like humans, Israelis find

Peer-reviewed research by Hebrew University and Edinburgh University experts suggests such patterns might also shape sounds made by other animals, including songbirds and bats

Left: The intentionally engraved core found at the Manot Cave in a high-resolution photograph and 3D model (Photo by E. Ostrovsky and drawing by M. Smelansky, 3-D models by E. Paixao and L. Schunk). Right: The blade found at the Amud Cave, whose marks were created by casual abrasion. (Erella Hovers)

Archaeology

Prehistoric artifacts from Israel prove our ancestors made art 100,000 years ago

By Rossella Tercatin

New study shows Middle Paleolithic people intentionally decorated stone tools, offering evidence that abstract thinking began earlier than 50,000 years ago as previously believed

Reunited siblings Lee Siegel, left, David Siegel, Lucy Siegel and released hostage Keith Siegel, right, on February 9, 2025 (Courtesy)

'His strategy was to stay within himself as much as possible'

Released hostage Keith Siegel’s siblings say their brother tracked calendar to stay sane

By Jessica Steinberg

Siegel’s family have spent past week together, reminiscing and listening to his harrowing details of the last 15 months

Iranian demonstrators burn a representation of the US flag during a rally commemorating anniversary of 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the late pro-US Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and brought Islamic clerics to power, in Tehran, Iran, February 10, 2025. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Iranians mark anniversary of 1979 Islamic Revolution as they face new Trump term

By AP and ToI Staff

Ten of thousands rally in Tehran with banners of ‘Death to America’ and ‘Death to Israel’; one display depicts US president and Netanyahu behind bars

Baritone Ionut Pasco performing 'Otello' at The Israeli Opera, through February 13, 2025 (Credit Yossi Zwecker)

This Romanian baritone sings arias in Israel, even after Oct. 7

By Jessica Steinberg

Jews For Racial and Economic Justice rallies with coalition partners at New York's City Hall to demand New York remain a 'sanctuary city' in light of US President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, January 16, 2025. (Courtesy JFREJ via JTA)

US Jews have long advocated on behalf of immigrants. Is that changing under Trump 2.0?

By Andrew Lapin

As Jewish immigrant-rights groups dust off their playbooks from 2016, they face a communal reorientation spurred by Oct. 7 and, some say, a general sense of liberal exhaustion

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Illustrative: Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike in the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek on November 3, 2024. (Sam SKAINEH / AFP)

IDF hits Hezbollah sites in Lebanon, including smuggling tunnel on Syrian border

By Emanuel Fabian

State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman, right, pays a condolence visit to Zameret Weinblum Ovadia, whose daughter Adva Weinblum took her own life following years of ostracization by classmates, in Akko, February 9, 2025. (State Comptroller's Office)

Comptroller urges action against classroom ostracizations after girl takes own life

Magen David Adom ambulances evacuating wounded people to Soroka Hospital in Beersheba after a brawl in the Bedouin community of Kuseife, July 31, 2016. (YouTube/Times of Israel)

Woman shot dead in southern Bedouin town

Petah Tikva Mayor Rami Greenberg (Youtube screenshot)

Petah Tikva mayor summoned for questioning on suspicion of bribery, breach of trust

BioCatch employees volunteer with Israeli nonprofit Heroes for Life. (Courtesy)

Israeli tech donates stock options amid war to aid national recovery

By Sharon Wrobel

Adam Brody, left, poses with fellow US actor Adrien Brody at the 30th Annual Critics Choice Awards in Santa Monica, California, February 7, 2025. (Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Critics Choice Association via JTA)

Double whammyAdam Brody, Adrien Brody nab best actor Critics Choice awards for Jewish roles

By PHILISSA CRAMER

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