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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 13, 2025

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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)

Hamas doesn't specify how many hostages it will free on Sat.

Hamas says it’ll free hostages as planned; PM’s office implies gaps remain on deal

By Charlie Summers, Lazar Berman and Agencies

Terror group, Egyptian media claim ‘obstacles’ threatening to unravel Gaza agreement have been overcome, though Israel denies reports of mobile homes, heavy equipment entering Strip

Families of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip and supporters attend a silent protest calling for their release outside the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, February 12, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel said to tell Hamas ceasefire can continue if three hostages freed on Saturday

By Lazar Berman

This handout picture released by the Egyptian Presidency on November 10, 2023, shows Egypt's President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi (R) receiving Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani in the Presidential Hall at Cairo International Airport. (Photo by Handout / Egyptian Presidency / AFP)

Hamas claims ‘positive signs’ as Qatar, Egypt scramble to resolve Gaza truce crisis

By Agencies, Jacob Magid and Emanuel Fabian

L-R from top row: Hostages Matan Angrest; Yosef Chaim Ohana; Gali Berman; middle row: Ziv Berman; Omri Miran; Alon Ohel; bottom row: Nimrod Cohen; Eliya Cohen; Elkana Bohbot; Eitan Mor. (Courtesy)

Signs of life received in recent days for at least 10 hostages held in Gaza

Families mostly get info from recently freed hostages; report says signs of life have come in for total of 12 captives, with remaining 2 families not going public

Left to right: Aaron Ciechanover at the Technion, February 2018. (Wikipedia); Avram Hershko at the Hebrew University, June 7, 2009. (Rebecca Zeffert/Flash90); Ada Yonath, April 21 2010 (Moshe Shai/Flash90); David Harel at the Knesset, December 10, 2024 (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90).

Nobel winners offer to nominate Trump for Peace Prize if he gets all hostages freed

Gilboa was released on January 25, 2025

Hamas forced Daniella Gilboa to stage her own death during captivity, her mother says

Orly Gilboa says daughter ‘pleaded for her life’ not to do it, but was forced to be covered in powder and debris to make it look like she was hit in IDF strike in propaganda video

Released hostage Daniella Gilboa is seen with her parents after being freed from Hamas captivity on January 25, 2025 (Israel Defense Forces)

Gadi Mozes, 80, surrounded by gunmen during his release from captivity in Khan Younis, Gaza, January 30, 2025. (Via social media)

Regards from a dead partner: Relative relays ‘psychological terror’ faced by hostage

US intel assesses Israel mulling strikes on Iran nuclear sites this year — reports

Two dossiers prepared for Biden and Trump administrations both found Israel sees opportunity to hit a weakened Iran

Israeli Air Force fighter jets prepare to head out for strikes in Iran, early October 26, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Illustrative: Lebanese airport workers unload medical aid boxes on August 5, 2024, at Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

IDF says Iran smuggling cash to Hezbollah on civilian planes through Beirut airport

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli soldiers seen on the border fence with Lebanon, northern Israel, on February 2, 2025. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

US said to accept IDF request to remain in 5 south Lebanon posts after Feb. 18 deadline

By ToI Staff and Reuters

A rocket launched from central Gaza is about to land inside the Strip's Bureij camp, February 13, 2025. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 13: Palestinians say Gaza rocket landed in center of Strip, killing 14-year-old boy

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

IDF strikes launcher * US signals backing for Israeli forces staying in 5 southern Lebanon posts after Feb. 18 * Hamas set to free 3 hostages Saturday

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9:32 pm

IDF says it hit Hezbollah sites that posed 'direct threat' to Israel, violating ceasefire
9:23 pm

Israeli airstrikes reported in southern Lebanon

ToI investigates

Hotline linked to cabinet minister is advising Haredi callers to ignore draft orders

‘You don’t have to do anything, just ignore them,’ assistance center established by Meir Porush tells father of yeshiva student who was instructed to report to IDF

United Torah Judaism MK Meir Porush attends the Jerusalem Masters 2024 chess event, at Safra Square in Jerusalem, September 26, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Haredi men protest and clash with police against the ultra-Orthodox draft on January 28, 2025. (Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 13: Day 496 – Likud lawmakers push toward Haredi draft

By Jessica Steinberg, Sue Surkes and Sam Sokol

Leader of The Democrats party Yair Golan holds a press conference in Tel Aviv, on February 13, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ehud Barak, other ex-generals said to join push for inquest

Opposition’s Golan: Probe Netanyahu and staff for possible treason over aide’s Qatar ties

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Democrats party chief says suspicions must be investigated and those who had unofficial contacts with Qatar suspended; PM’s Likud calls remarks ‘incitement’ that crosses ‘red line’

Jennifer Airley

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Western teens should meet their Israeli peers who have shown that patriotism is about committing to something larger than oneself

Viki, Yehuda and Yotam Cohen at home in Rehovot, on February 6, 2025 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Interview'We're passing time, because every day lasts forever'

Hostage Nimrod Cohen’s family tries pressure, protest and petition to get their son home

By Jessica Steinberg

Family of soldier who was dragged from his tank on Oct. 7 accuses the gov’t of continued abandonment of the hostages; a newly freed captive has said Cohen was alive 8 months ago

Protesters block the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv, calling for the release of all hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, 13 February 2025. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Hebrew media watch

Anxiety ahead of Saturday, and the Saturdays to come

As the weekend approaches, tensions are rising, and real life is now imitating reality TV

Emergency services attend the scene where a driver hit a group of people in Munich, Germany, February 13, 2025. (Matthias Balk/dpa via AP)

28 injured as car drives into Munich crowd; Bavaria governor says attack suspected

Reut Nechushtan holds one of the imported sheet sold in her home textiles business, in the Tel Aviv storage unit she's renting after being evacuated from Kibbutz Re'im on October 8, 2023 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Interview

A Gaza-border kibbutznik casts an eye homeward as temporary Tel Aviv relocation drags on

By Jessica Steinberg

Textile artist Reut Nechushtan speaks about the challenges of city life for an agricultural collective forced to flee after the horrors of Oct. 7

US President Donald Trump, left, and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas pose for a photograph during a joint press conference at the presidential palace in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on May 23, 2017. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)

‘Big win for Trump’: US welcomes PA prisoner payment reform, which Israel dismissed

State Department spokesperson tells ToI decree signed by Abbas ‘appears to be positive step,’ Washington will monitor its implementation; EU envoy voices similar cautious optimism

File: Interior Minister Moshe Arbel attends a Knesset committee in Jerusalem on April 1, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Interior minister orders 3 Palestinians to be deported for alleged terror support

A view of the Samaria Regional Brigade base, south of the city of Nablus in the West Bank, February 13, 2025. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Troops neutralize bomb-laden car, Palestinian shot dead near IDF base, in West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says troops have killed over 60 Palestinian terror operatives, detained over 210, amid ongoing counter-terrorism operation expected to last several more weeks

Mourners attend the funeral of Gazans killed in an Israeli strike, at the al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, on December 26, 2024. Israel denied claims that the five were journalists, saying they 'posed' as reporters but were Islamic Jihad fighters. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Watchdog: Israel behind most reporter deaths in 2024; IDF: Many were terror operatives

By Agencies and Emanuel Fabian

Kamal Adwan Hospital director Hussam Abu Safiya, in an undated screenshot taken from a Democracy Now video posted to YouTube on January 14, 2025 (Democracy Now screenshot/Youtube)

Lawyers for detained Gaza hospital chief claim he was abused in Israeli custody

By Charlie Summers

Shira Haas attends the 'Captain America: Brave New World World' premiere at TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California, on February 11, 2025. (Jesse Grant / Getty Images via AFP)

Warning: Spoilers

Shira Haas as Sabra can’t shield us from disappointment in new ‘Captain America’ flick

By Jordan Hoffman

Now in US theaters, Marvel’s 35th movie may just be its worst, while featuring — after no small amount of controversy — the franchise’s first Israeli hero

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends his trial on corruption charges at the Tel Aviv District Court, on February 12, 2025. (Yair Sagi / POOL / AFP)

PM cites news chief’s offer to help rival in bid to refute favorable coverage charge

By Jeremy Sharon

On ninth day of testimony, Netanyahu also accuses prosecutors of ‘political persecution’ for charging his senior aides with intimidating a witness in the ongoing corruption trial

Social Equality Minister May Golan at the (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police get go-ahead to investigate Likud minister for nepotism, illegal fundraising

The Corruption Perceptions Index global map 2024, released February 2025. The color coded scale moves from "highly corrupt" (dark red) to "very clean" (yellow). (Transparency International)

Israel improves slightly in corruption survey as many nations get worst scores in years

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Students explore local sustainable agriculture as part of a long-running semester academic program at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies. (Marcos Schoenholz)

'A Jewish response to climate is an amazing idea'

Budding climate fund seeks to guide Jewish response to era’s greatest threat

As Trump retreats on environment in US and Israeli commitment wavers, Jewish Climate Trust looks to engage more civic and religious leaders; raises nearly $18m in initial pledges

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US President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, July 7, 2017. (AP/Evan Vucci, File)

Upending US policy on Ukraine, Trump says he and Putin agreed to start talks to end war

By Matthew Lee, Eric Tucker and Zeke Miller

A portrait of Arab and Jewish doctors is part of 'Hamsa Aleinu,' a new exhibit at Ben Gurion Airport (Courtesy Eldad Refaeli)

With physician shortage ‘urgent,’ 2 new medical schools to open in Israel

By Diana Bletter

FILE - United States Vice President JD Vance carries his daughter Mirabel as he arrives at Paris Orly Airport, ahead of an Artificial Intelligence Action Summit taking place in Paris, February 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla, file)

JD Vance to visit Dachau concentration camp on Thursday

“The Eternity of Israel Exhibition” was inaugurated at Ben Gurion Airport on February 12, 2025. Items on display include a Western Wall stone. (Emil Aladjem, Israel Antiquities Authority)

Airport archaeologyBen Gurion Airport exhibit traces Jewish life through Israel’s history

By Rossella Tercatin

Macklemore performs during the opening ceremony of the 2023 Invictus Games at the Merkur Spielarena in Dusseldorf, western Germany on September 9, 2023. (Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)

Macklemore’s latest anti-Israel music video puts West Bank and Holocaust side by side

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, questions the witnesses during a Senate Judiciary committee hearing on fentanyl, and the need for permanent class scheduling, on Capitol Hill, Februart 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Ted Cruz believes a grant to study Hebrew is ‘woke DEI’

By Andrew Lapin

Italian Cabinet Minister Luca Ciriani, left back, speaks during Question Time in the Chamber of Deputies, in Rome, February 12, 2025. (Roberto Monaldo/LaPresse via AP)

Italy denies spying on journalists, migrant activists using Israeli spyware

By Nicole Winfield and Paolo Santalucia

Israeli startup Carrar develops battery modules with an internal thermal management system for electric vehicles. (Courtesy)

Israel’s Carrar to raise $18m for EV battery production line around Sderot frontline

By Sharon Wrobel

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