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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 15, 2025

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Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, left, greets US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at Ben Gurion Airport, February 15, 2025. (Rafi Ben Hakun/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 15: Rubio arrives in Israel for first visit to the Middle East as US secretary of state

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

‘Hamas cannot be allowed to survive’: US national security adviser hails release of US-Israeli hostage * At protest for hostages, Lapid demands Gaza truce go to second stage

9:52 pm

Biden hails release of US-Israeli hostage, says he's 'proud the deal we negotiated has held'
9:41 pm

Milei welcomes release of Israeli-Argentine hostage Iair Horn, wishes for 'absolute defeat' of Hamas
9:15 pm

Gantz welcomes Shin Bet probe of PMO staffers' ties to Qatar, slams Netanyahu's response

Freed hostages Dekel-Chen, Troufanov and Horn back in Israel after 498 days in captivity

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Three men paraded on stage by gunmen in southern Gaza before being handed over to Red Cross; Dekel-Chen ecstatic to hear about 3rd daughter, born two months after his abduction; Troufanov told father murdered Oct. 7

A woman holds pictures of three released Israeli hostages in Tel Aviv on February 15, 2025 in the city's Hostages Square. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb.15: Day 498 – 3 freed hostages find new baby, murdered dad, captive brother

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

Freed hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen is reunited with his wife Avital on his return to Israel after 498 days in captivity in Gaza, February 15, 2025. (IDF)

A new daughter, a murdered father, a brother captive: Joy and anguish as hostages released

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Emotional reunions as Sagui Dekel-Chen, Sasha Troufanov and Iair Horn freed after 498 days in captivity in Gaza, reunited with families and airlifted to hospital in Israel

Released hostage Iair Horn (left) flies above Turner Stadium in Beersheba in an IAF helicopter, February 15, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Freed hostage Iair Horn asks his chopper to pass over field of favorite soccer team

Friends of Sasha Troufanov gathered in Ramat Gan cheer as he is released from Hamas captivity, February 15, 2025 (Paulina Patimer / Hostages Families Forum)

‘I can breathe again’: Families react with joy, relief as loved ones freed from Gaza

By ToI Staff and AFP

Israel releasing 369 Palestinian prisoners, including 36 serving life terms for terror

Freed detainees dressed in shirts with blue Star of David, writing in Arabic saying we ‘won’t forgive or forget,’ which Gazans then burn; 25, including Ahmed Barghouti, to be deported

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, is greeted by Israel's Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter on his arrival in Washington DC, February 3, 2025. (Yechiel Leiter/X)

ExclusiveSettlement growth reflects 'success of Israeli governments'

Israel’s US envoy: Egypt’s Sissi is breaking peace deal, ‘playing both sides’ with Hamas

Ambassador Yechiel Leiter tells US Jewish leaders Israel will start sharing ‘truth’ about Qatar after having to ‘suck it up’ for captives’ sake, says Turkey stoking tensions on Temple Mount

TV: US envoy working to free rest of living hostages next week

Trump: I’d take a hard stance on Gaza Saturday, but can’t say what Israel will do

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

US president appears to credit his noon deadline for leading Hamas to release three captives as scheduled, says he thinks the terror group ‘should release all the hostages’

US President Donald Trump speaks after signing an executive order, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on February 14, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Arab countries scramble to offer Trump an alternate proposal for post-war Gaza

By Pesha Magid, Samia Nakhoul, Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Ahmed Mohamed Hassan

Egyptian plan would see terror group Hamas sidelined in governance of coastal enclave; issue to be discussed at end of month in Riyadh

Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan, hosting a meeting of top diplomats from the Middle East and Europe to discuss Syria, poses for a picture with the participants in Riyadh on January 12, 2025. (Fayez Nureldine/AFP)

The 14 remaining hostages slated to be returned in phase one of the Gaza ceasefire deal as of February 18, 2025 after the first six rounds saw 19 Israeli hostages freed. Row 1 (L-R): Ohad Yahalomi, Oded Lifshitz, Tsahi Idan, Hisham al-Sayed, Itzik Elgarat; Row 2: Omer Wenkert, Eliya Cohen, Avera Mengistu, Tal Shoham, Omer Shem Tov; Row 3: Ariel Bibas, Kfir Bibas, Shiri Bibas, Shlomo Mantzur. (All photos courtesy)

These are the 14 hostages yet to be released in phase one of the Gaza ceasefire

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Hamas has said 8 abductees to be freed in first phase are dead, but has not specified who; still held captive are Shiri Bibas and her two small sons, and 11 men aged over 50 or unwell

Rebecca Bardach

The IDF Chief’s apology to the lookouts is only a first step

Sorry’s not enough for the army’s sexist disregard of surveillance soldiers’ warnings, and for the government’s blindness to their suffering

Egyptian military escalation: A wake-up call

Signs of a looming threat include Egypt’s large deployment of military forces in Sinai and its refusal to accept evacuees from Gaza

Released hostage Ofer Calderon, top left, reunites with his children Rotem, Gaya, Erez and Sahar on February 1, 2025. Erez and Sahar were also abducted on October 7, 2023 and were freed in November 2023. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

Two weeks after his release, former hostage Ofer Calderon hospitalized with pneumonia

Calderon returns to Sheba a week after discharge, following flu complications, family says, adding he’s in good condition and had Shabbat dinner with brother and sister-in-law

German actors and actresses hold photos of Israeli hostage David Cunio upon arrival at the opening of the International Film Festival, Berlinale, in Berlin, February 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Berlin film festival screens documentary on Israeli hostage after 2024 controversy

By AFP and ToI Staff

A man walks past graffiti representing the reconstruction of Gaza, on a section of Israel's West Bank security barrier, in Bethlehem on February 12, 2025. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)

16 Palestinians said wounded east of Bethlehem in attack by armed settlers

Some 40 settlers said to beat, spray tear gas and sic dogs on victims, including pregnant woman; IDF says it sent forces to break up violence; no reports of arrests

A policeman (R) guards a Palestinian suspect who allegedly attacked an Israeli man in the community of Gan Ner, February 15, 2025. (Israel Police)

Police: 25-year-old from Jenin detained for allegedly attacking Israeli with a hoe

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Smoke billows from the burnt remains of a UNIFIL vehicle, set ablaze by pro-Hezbollah demonstrators, on the road leading to Beirut's international airport on February 14, 2025. (Ibrahim Amro/AFP)

UNIFIL’s outgoing deputy chief wounded as convoy attacked by pro-Hezbollah rioters

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Peacekeeping force demands perpetrators be brought to justice after terror group’s backers torch vehicle headed to Beirut airport, where 2 Iranian planes were blocked from landing

Illustrative: An airplane lands at Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport, February 4, 2021. (Saeed Kaari/IKAC via AP)

Iran bars Lebanese planes from bringing back stranded citizens after Israeli ‘threat’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian welcoming International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi (L) during a meeting in Tehran on November 14, 2024.(Iranian Presidency / AFP)

IAEA chief sees time running out to revive Iran nuclear deal

Sgt. Gur Kehati. (Israel Defense Forces)

Family of soldier killed in dubious Lebanon incident says Halevi took responsibility

Relatives of Sgt. Gur Kehati, killed with civilian researcher Ze’ev Erlich, say IDF chief met them and vowed to monitor probe even after his term ends in March

Co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany party Alice Weidel gestures as she talks with citizens during a TV program hosted by the public broadcaster ZDF in Berlin on February 13, 2025. (Michael Kappeler/Pool/AFP)

Vance meets far-right German leader as Berlin accuses him of election interference

Germany’s defense minister says US veep calling into question ‘not just German democracy but that of Europe as a whole,’ after Vance slams EU policies on free speech, migration

Jacqueline van Maarsen, left, and Albert Gomes de Mesquita, school friends of Anne Frank, talk to students during an event to mark what would have been Anne Frank's 90th birthday, in Amsterdam, June 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael C. Corder, File)

Anne Frank’s best friend, to whom she wrote farewell letter in hiding, dies at 96

Top left to right: Released hostage Or Levy is embraced by relatives at Sheba Medical Center on February 8, 2025, soon after his release from Hamas captivity; Ohad Ben Ami reunites with his daughters Ella, Natalie and Yuli, and his wife Raz, at Ichilov hospital; bottom: Eli Sharabi (with his back to camera) is embraced by his brother Sharon (left) at Sheba Medical Center. (IDF/Haim Tsach/GPO)

'It's a planned and concerted effort to break the individuals'

Traumatized and tortured: Freed hostages face arduous road to recovery

By Diana Bletter

While many trauma experts say humans have a remarkable capacity for resilience, studies show that the psychological damage of captivity endures a lifetime

Anti-Israel activists protest outside Columbia University, January 21, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

US House panel demands Columbia provide disciplinary records for anti-Israel activists

Republican-led oversight committee denounces university’s handling of protesters; Columbia says it’s taking new measures to address antisemitism and will cooperate

Israeli firefighters try to extinguish a fire that started from a fragments of an interception missile at the Biriya Forest in northern Israel, June 4, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)

'It's devastating to see 80-year-old trees go up in flames'

Burned trees, traumatized animals: Nature reveals the unseen effects of Israel’s wars

By Deborah Danan

Missile fire and other factors have disturbed entire ecosystems, affected wildlife habitats and undone years of work by foresters, compounding existing problems from climate change

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