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What Matters Most On Wednesday, February 12, 2025

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a video statement regarding Israel's response to Hamas's suspension of hostage releases, February 11, 2025. (Screenshot/GPO)

Day after freezing releases, Hamas says it's committed to deal

Netanyahu: ‘Intense fighting’ to resume in Gaza if hostages not released by Saturday

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

While PM’s statement does not explicitly call for all captives to be returned by week’s end, as Trump has demanded, an unnamed senior official later says Israel wants ‘all of them’

An Israeli Hermes 450 drone flies above the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip on May 29, 2018. (AFP/Jack Guez)

IDF strikes 2 Palestinians in Gaza allegedly picking up a drone flown from Israel

By Emanuel Fabian

Op-edTrump’s ultimatum is directed at Hamas, but it’s also a direct rebuke of Netanyahu

By Shalom Yerushalmi

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid enter the Gaza Strip from Egypt in the southern Gaza town of Rafah, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 12: After meeting Abdullah, Trump acknowledges Jordan would prefer Gazans stay in Strip

Hamas says ‘positive signals’ that hostages will be released as scheduled * Families of hostages Yosef-Haim Ohana, Matan Angrest, Eitan Mor say they have received signs of life

9:44 pm

IDF issues 'all clear' after Gaza border alert
9:43 pm

Trump says he will have first Putin meeting in Saudi Arabia
9:22 pm

Report: Talks between Egypt and Hamas over Gaza ceasefire 'headed toward a breakthrough'

US President Donald Trump (right) speaks with Jordan's King Abdullah II in the Oval Office at the White House, in Washington, February 11, 2025. (Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump: Strip's population of 2 million 'a very small number'

Abdullah says Jordan will take in 2,000 sick Gazan kids as Trump pushes relocation plan

US president calls king’s pledge ‘music to his ears’; wants ‘parcel of land’ in Jordan and Egypt for Gazans; doesn’t believe Hamas will release all hostages by his Saturday deadline

A Palestinian family cooks on fire next to their tent, in an area largely destroyed during the war against Hamas in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip, February 11, 2025. (Jehad Alshrafi/AP)

Egypt to present ‘comprehensive’ plan for Gaza reconstruction without displacement

By AFP and ToI Staff

Women and children stand by the rubble of a collapsed building outside another building at the Shati camp for Palestinian refugees north of Gaza City on February 11, 2025 (BASHAR TALEB / AFP)

Senior Arab officials warn Trump’s Gaza plan would inflame Middle East

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Promoted Content

Wake up and enjoy the sea view of Tel Aviv, The Rav Kook Residences

History meets innovation and creativity. The project includes two unique buildings, both listed for conservation and the Rav Kook synagogue that gives the project its name.

Op-ed: Day 495 of the war

Netanyahu and Abdullah are living in Trump’s world now. Is Hamas?

As Jordan’s king was praying for the Oval Office floor to swallow him up, Israel’s PM was trying to work out how high the president wanted him to jump. What about the bullies of Hamas?

US President Donald Trump waits outside of the West Wing before welcoming King Abdullah II of Jordan to the White House in Washington, DC, on February 11, 2025. (Jim Watson / AFP)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a plenum session at the Knesset on February 10, 2025 (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 12: Day 495 – With ceasefire stalling, Israel scrambles to respond

By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid

Backing return to fighting, Rubio says Israel can’t let Hamas use ceasefire to rearm

By Jacob Magid, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

US secretary of state reiterates Trump’s warnings that Israel will go in and eliminate terror group unless all hostages are released, but expresses hope issue ‘resolves itself’

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the State Department, February 10, 2025, in Washington. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein).

Hamas gunmen stand in front of a stage before they hand over three Israeli hostages to a Red Cross team in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, on February 8, 2025. (BASHAR TALEB / AFP)

Fearing return to war, Hamas tells senior officials to stop using phones – report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Tents sheltering displaced Palestinians are erected in the yard of a secondary school in the north of Gaza City on February 10, 2025, amid the current ceasefire deal in the war between Israel and Hamas. (BASHAR TALEB / AFP)

United Nations says aid into Gaza has increased significantly since truce started

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Yosef Haim Ohana, taken captive by Hamas terrorists at the Supernova desert rave on October 7, 2023 (Courtesy)

Family of hostage Yosef-Haim Ohana says it received evidence he is alive

Aunt says relatives fear for 24-year-old after seeing deplorable state of returning captives, amid accounts of torture and starvation: ‘There are limits to a person’s strength’

Screen capture from an undated video of Israeli influencer Max Veifer (left) during a conversation with two nurses from a hospital in Sydney, Australia. (X: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Two nurses in Australia suspended for saying they would kill Israeli patients

By Agencies and Zev Stub

In social media conversation with Israeli influencer, one nurse claims to have already sent ‘Israeli dogs’ to hell, another vows she would not treat them, would kill them instead

Police arrest a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protester near the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the Met Gala takes place, May 6, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File)

Survey: A third of US Jews have experienced antisemitism, 3/4 feel less safe

People hold placards and wave flags as they attend a march against antisemitism, in London, December 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Report charts ‘enduring anti-Jewish hate’ in UK during 2024 after post-Oct. 7 spike

President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal pay their respects on October 9, 2024 at a memorial to five security team members who fell fighting Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, at Moshav Mivtachim, close to the Gaza border in southern Israel. (Maayan Toaf / GPO)

A tale of two moshavim

Just 138 yards too far from the Gaza border, towns are denied post-Oct. 7 state support

As their immediate neighbors receive rehabilitation funds from the national Tekuma Directorate, four communities are suffering the same effects from the war, without the support

At what cost? Healing from internal fissures and failure

Zionism is built on the promise of saving Jews from the atrocities they endured in the absence of their own state, even when it isn’t militarily prudent

Palestinian books matter

The Educational Bookshop has been a pilgrimage site for so many to discuss and debate, and the road to tyranny begins with arresting its owners and confiscating its books

An AI-generated version of Adam Sandler appears in a celebrity-studded AI video rejecting Kanye West's antisemitism. (X screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

In AI video, Jewish celebrities give Kanye West the middle finger

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Israeli entrepreneur creates clip with prominent American Jews, none of whom consented to participating, in rejection of rapper’s antisemitism

Shira Haas as Sabra in 'Brave New World,' in a split-screen with Harrison Ford (right), coming to theaters in February 2025 (YouTube screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Red carpet hostility‘Captain America’ premiere starring Israeli Shira Haas draws protest

By Jessica Steinberg

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, standing left, speaks to reporters while holding his son X Æ A-Xii as US President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, February 11, 2025. (Jim Watson / AFP)

Musk walks back administration’s claim about $50 million condom allotment for Gaza

‘Some of the things I say will be incorrect,’ says DOGE chief after reporting reveals that Gaza Strip was mistaken for province in Mozambique

US denies Israel’s request to further push off deadline for Lebanon withdrawal

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Washington official confirms Jerusalem asked for extension but says administration planning on keeping to February 18 date for IDF exit

Israeli soldiers seen in Meiss El Jabal, in southern Lebanon, February 10, 2025. (Oren Cohen/Flash90)

A woman pauses near posters of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, as Israel's security cabinet convened to decide whether to approve a deal that would release dozens of hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza and pause the 15-month-war, January 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

State Comptroller says 3 million Israelis suffering from trauma since October 7

By Diana Bletter

Englman faults Health Ministry for ‘collapsed’ health care system; Health Minister Uriel Buso set to double the scope of mental health services

Evacuees from Kibbutz Be'eri at a hotel in the Dead Sea, October 20, 2023. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Bureaucratic failures hamstrung social services in wake of Oct. 7, report finds

By Jeremy Sharon

Palestinian prisoners are greeted as they exit a Red Cross bus after being released from Israeli prison, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, February 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Architect of US law against PA ‘pay-to-slay’ skeptical of Ramallah effort to end it

Sander Gerber ‘cautiously optimistic,’ but says ‘ambiguous’ Abbas decree making welfare stipends contingent on economic need doesn’t address all concerns regarding terror support

Archaeologists from Bar-Ilan University, in cooperation with the staff officer of archaeology, excavated the site of Sartaba/Alexandrium in the Jordan Valley in February 2025. (Yodan Flaytman, staff officer for archaeology in Judea and Samaria)

Who was Eleazar Bar Ger?

Inscription found in Alexandrium fortress could shed new light on Jewish Revolt

By Rossella Tercatin

Israeli researchers decipher an ostracon in a grand 1st-century structure in the Jordan Valley that could prove Jewish rebels used the site in their fight against Rome

Maj. Gen. Eyal Zamir in an undated photo. (Israel Defense Forces)

Vetting panel okays Eyal Zamir as next IDF chief

By Emanuel Fabian

Cabinet still to vote on appointment; Zamir, former director of Defense Ministry, will take over for Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, who is resigning over Oct. 7 failures

Likud MK Yuli Edelstein addresses a conference on Haredi enlistment organized by members of his Likud party in Jerusalem. February 11, 2024. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)

Likud lawmakers hold conference calling for Haredi draft, sanctions on dodgers

Brigadier General Yisrael Shomer (courtesy)

The general armed with only a knife who set out to regain control of his kibbutz on Oct. 7

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A drawn portrait of Marc Fogel, who was detained in Russia in August 2021, hangs on rails outside of the White House during a demonstration organized by his family, July 15, 2023, in Washington. (Stephanie Scarbrough/AP)

Trump, envoy Witkoff secure release from Russia of detained US citizen Marc Fogel

By AP and Jacob Magid

Steve Bannon, former advisor to US President Donald Trump, arrives for a pre-trial conference hearing in his fraud case stemming from a fundraising effort to build a border wall, at New York Criminal Court in Manhattan on February 11, 2025. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP)

Ex-Trump aide Bannon pleads guilty in US border wall fraud case, avoids prison time

By Andréa Bambino

Workers walk through the rubble of a destroyed school building in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, on December 19, 2024, after the campus was hit by a Houthi missile fired from Yemen. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Yemen’s Houthis say ready to launch attacks on Israel if Gaza ceasefire collapses

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Donald Trump, left, talks with Yasir Al-Rumayyan, governor of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, on the 16th hole during the first round of the Bedminster Invitational LIV Golf tournament in Bedminster, Ne Jersey, July 29, 2022. (AP/Seth Wenig)

Trump to attend Saudi investment conference in Miami, sources say

By HADEEL AL SAYEGH, Pesha Magid and Maha El Dahan

Iranians carry an effigy of US President Donald Trump during gathering to mark the 46th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in front of the Azadi Tower in Tehran on February 10, 2025. (AFP)

Iran slams Trump for saying either ‘bombs’ or a deal will stop it from getting nuke

By AFP

ILLUSTRATIVE- Cybersecurity. (NicoElNino via iStock)

Israel’s Check Point and Wiz partner to merge cyber tech

By Sharon Wrobel

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