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What Matters Most On Friday, February 14, 2025

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Hamas hostages (L-R) Sasha Troufanov, Sagui Dekel-Chen, and Iair Horn, set to be released from Gaza on February 15, 2025. (Courtesy)

All 3 abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz, hold dual citizenships

Hostages Sagui Dekel-Chen, Sasha Troufanov and Iair Horn slated for release on Saturday

By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

Dekel-Chen to meet his daughter for first time; Horn’s brother, kidnapped while visiting for Simchat Torah, not on list for 1st phase

Relatives and supporters of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip, hold photos depicting their faces during a protest demanding their release from Hamas captivity, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. (AP/Oded Balilty)

Israel said readying for three hostages to be freed Saturday, still pushing for more

By Jacob Magid, Lazar Berman, ToI Staff, Agencies and Emanuel Fabian

US President Donald Trump (left) welcomes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House on February 4, 2025. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

CNN: Israel seeking 'broader goal' of Iran regime change

PM, Trump said to discuss US support for potential Israeli strike on Iran nuclear sites

WaPo claims Jerusalem wants to ‘seize the moment,’ seeks DC’s backing but willing to attack alone; says Israel already has US bunker busters to penetrate underground facilities

US President Donald Trump takes questions during a joint press conference with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 13, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb.14: Day 497 – Decoding Trump’s foreign policy

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi (left) meets with former hostage soldiers (from left) Naama Levy, Agam Berger, Liri Albag, and Karina Ariev, February 14, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief apologizes to freed surveillance soldiers for failing them on and before Oct. 7

By Emanuel Fabian

Agam Berger, Liri Albag, Naama Levy, Karina Ariev tell Halevi of attack on Nahal Oz post, 15 months of captivity; chief of staff: ‘It was wrong to have not taken [your warnings] seriously’

(L-R) Captivity survivors Naama Levy, Karina Ariev, Agam Berger, Liri Albag and Daniella Gilboa watch a concert in their honor at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, February 4, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Hamas made surveillance troops watch torture videos of male hostages, says mother

Chief of the IDF Ground Forces, Maj. Gen. Tamir Yadai attends an Israel Hayom security conference in Jerusalem, December 1, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Maj. Gen. Tamir Yadai tapped as next IDF deputy chief of staff under Eyal Zamir

By Emanuel Fabian

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Bulldozers with Egyptian and Qatar flags wait to enter Gaza at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, February 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Mohamed Arafat)

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Israeli official warns Trump’s Gaza plan risks harming talks by having Hamas adopt maximalist positions * 16 Palestinians reportedly injured in settler attack on West Bank village

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Recently released hostage Keith Siegel thanks US President Donald Trump for his involvement in the hostage release and ceasefire deal, and pleads with the president to ensure all are released, in a video message published on February 14, 2025. (Screenshot)

‘I was starved and tortured’: Keith Siegel urges Trump to ensure all hostages freed

By ToI Staff and Jessica Steinberg

Dual national tells US president ‘you are the reason I am home alive’; released captive Or Levy visits Hostages Square, days after release from Hamas captivity: ‘Hope dies last’

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Family says sign of life received for hostage Segev Kalfon

David Cunio, right, with his twin brother, Eitan Cunio in footage for the film 'Letter to David,' being screened at the February 2025 Berlinale and made by filmmaker Tom Shoval after David Cunio was taken hostage by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 (Courtesy)

Decade after debut, director puts hostage David Cunio back on big screen at Berlinale

By Jessica Steinberg

Ukraine: Russian drone blasts hole in radiation shield ‘protecting the world’ at Chernobyl nuclear plant

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Radiation levels at site normal after attack, despite damage to cover built over reactor that exploded in 1986; Kyiv says Moscow sent swarm of over 100 UAVs

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New Supreme Court president calls on Justice Minister Levin to end boycott of judiciary; President Herzog slams government, says ‘no place’ in a democracy for such behavior

Incoming Supreme Court President Isaac Amit accepts his appointment from President Isaac Herzog during the swearing in ceremony for the new chief justice at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, February 13, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Eli Feldstein, a spokesman in the Prime Minister's Office accused of leaking stolen IDF intelligence classified documents, arrives for a court hearing at the District Court in Tel Aviv, January 14, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Netanyahu spokesman was reportedly paid by Qatar to plant puff pieces in Israeli media

Six people with intellectual disabilities become the first ever adult cohort in Israel to receive a bachelor's degree at Bar-Ilan University's Faculty of Education. Two of them have Down syndrome. From left, Oded Naftali, Ruti Bar-On, Lior Shmualevitz, Henia Greengarten, Tomer Gad-Barak and Hofit Gilad. (Courtesy Bar-Ilan University)

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Displaced Palestinians wait at a security checkpoint in the Netzarim corridor while traveling from central Gaza to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip, February 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

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Vatican rejects Trump’s Gaza plan, says Palestinians must ‘stay on their land’

By AFP and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump speaks with the press as he meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on February 13, 2025. (Jim Watson/AFP)

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The family of released hostage Agam Berger, with Agam on the far left, February 2025 (Courtesy)

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By Jessica Steinberg

Sasha Ariev talks about Karina’s desire to commemorate her friends killed at Nahal Oz, as Shlomi Berger, father of released hostage Agam talks about the desire for normalcy

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio listens as President Donald Trump meets with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Oval Office of the White House, February 13, 2025, in Washington. (Photo/Alex Brandon)

Rubio suggests resumption of Gaza war won’t end Hamas threat to Israel

Top US diplomat says Arab allies must figure out how to remove Hamas from power or Israel will have to, ‘and then we’re back to where we’ve been, so that doesn’t solve the problem’

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By Andrew Lapin

US Vice President JD Vance enters the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site outside Munich, Germany, February 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

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

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By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Sanctions freeze Karim Khan’s US assets, ban him from the country, a week after Trump signed order to punish court for having ‘abused its power’ in Gaza, Afghanistan probes

Illustrative: The damage caused from an Israeli military operation in Kfarkela, in southern Lebanon, February 13, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF strikes Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon, citing ‘direct threat’ to Israel

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

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Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters march in Dublin, Ireland, January 13, 2024. (Screen capture: X/Fergal O'Brien, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

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Cars drive past a giant billboard bearing a portrait of Lebanon's slain fromer premier Rafik Hariri (L) and his son Saad Hariri, also a former prime minister, in central Beirut on February 13, 2025, on the eve of the 20th anniversary of Rafic Hariri's assassination. (Joseph Eid / AFP)

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