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What Matters Most On Sunday, February 16, 2025

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Feb. 16: Sasha Troufanov: End game of ‘Russian roulette’ and bring all the hostages home

Netanyahu to US Jewish leaders: Trump’s Gaza plan is the only one that can work * Asked about his expired Gaza ultimatum, Trump says he told PM to ‘do whatever you want’

12:19 am

Seinfeld to 'ambushing' activist: 'I don't care about Palestine'
12:13 am

Trump says could meet Putin 'very soon' as Saudi talks loom
9:54 pm

Trump: I told Netanyahu to 'do whatever you want' on hostage release-ceasefire deal

Trucks carrying a shipment of 2,000-lb bombs are seen driving at Ashdod Port, early February 16, 2025. (Defense Ministry)

US shipment of 2,000-lb bombs held up by Biden administration arrives in Israel

By Emanuel Fabian

1,800 of the heavy bombs unloaded at Ashdod Port, taken by trucks to Israeli airbases, weeks after Trump lifted hold on delivery

Left to right: freed hostage Sasha Troufanov, center, embraces his mother Yelena, left, and his girlfriend Sapir Cohen in an Israeli Air Force helicopter on the way from the Gaza border area to Sheba-Tel Hashomer Medical Center near Tel Aviv, February 15, 2025. (IDF); Newly-released hostage Iair Horn (center) reunites with relatives at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center. (Ma'ayon Toaf / GPO); Freed hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen seen with his wife Avital aboard an IDF helicopter. (IDF)

Hours after release, freed hostages talk of Hamas torture, psychological torment

Iair Horn was held with brother Eitan at start of captivity, but hasn’t seen him since; Sagui Dekel-Chen scarred by torture; Troufanov was held alone, learned to speak and read Arabic

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)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Feb. 16: Day 499 – Freed Nir Oz hostages describe torture, torment in Gaza

By Jessica Steinberg and David Horovitz

Russian-Israeli citizen Alexander Troufanov (L), just released from 498 days of captivity in the Gaza Strip, meets with Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov (R), February 15, 2025. (Russian Embassy to Israel via X)

Russian ambassador meets with freed hostage Sasha Troufanov, gives him new passport

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US President Donald Trump (right) meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on February 4, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

Netanyahu cagey on Israel’s next steps as Trump deadline to free all hostages passes

By Lazar Berman

PM wants to get remaining 6 living hostages in first phase of deal out in coming days; Rubio lands in Israel after US president said he’ll back whatever Israeli government decides

Bulldozers and trucks carrying mobile homes wait to enter Gaza at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, February 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Mohamed Arafat)

PM refused to approve entry of mobile homes, earthmoving equipment to Gaza – report

Op-Ed

Hostages first, Hamas collapse later

Israel must give Phase II of the ceasefire deal a chance, not just to save hostages, but to heal the open wound in Israeli society

Released hostage Ohad Ben Ami speaks in a pre-recorded video played during a protest at Tel Aviv's Hostages Square, February 15, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

In video address to hostage rallies, freed captive pleads for protests to continue

By Noam Lehmann, Jessica Steinberg, Charlie Summers and ToI Staff

Ohad Ben Ami speaks of ‘psychological terrorism,’ tells protesters their support kept him going; mother of hostage Matan Zangauker says Netanyahu ‘stands between us and all the hostages’

Illustrative: An IDF soldier takes up position on the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel, Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)

Cabinet ministers welcome freed hostages, urge ‘fight to the bitter end’ against Hamas

HIAS has one job: Leave no Jew behind

Most of the aid organization’s resources go to non-Jews, but with antisemitism rising worldwide, it’s time to get back to its original mission

Michael Brenner

Elon Musk and JD Vance want to make Germany great

Their support for the far right AfD party should sound alarm bells for Israel and the Jewish community worldwide

Protesters hold placards and wave Palestinian flags as they take part in a march in central London, on February 15, 2025, organized by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. (BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP)

Thousands in London protest Trump’s Gaza proposal, demand arms embargo on Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

March to US Embassy, organized by Palestine Solidarity Campaign, sees antisemitic chants and slogans; draws small band of pro-Israel counterprotesters

Colombian President Gustavo Petro holds a picture showing a Palestinian state on Israel's territory, during a visit to the Thumama Medical Center in Doha, Qatar, February 14, 2025. (Screen capture: X/Gustavo Petro, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Colombia’s president poses with map of Israel replaced by Palestinian state

IDF drone strike hits gunmen in southern Gaza; three Hamas cops reportedly killed

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Military says it fired on men approaching troops east of Rafah, again warns Gazans to stay away from soldiers still deployed as per truce deal; 2nd strike was warning to car near soldiers

A view of destruction in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, February 7, 2025. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Brig. Gen. (res.) Oren Setter, former deputy to the IDF’s point man in the negotiations for a hostage-ceasefire deal, speaks to Channel 12 about his time on the negotiating team, in an interview aired on February 15, 2025. (Screenshot, Channel 12)

Former Israeli hostage negotiator says Israel missed two windows for deal

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Prime Minister’s Office charges that Oren Setter is ‘lying’ after he says that opportunities were missed in March and July 2024, and that government knew captives were in bad shape

Demonstrators protest for the release of hostages in Gaza and against the government, with a sign referencing suspicions that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's advisers worked for Qatar, outside the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, February 15, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Shin Bet launches inquiry into Netanyahu aides’ ties with Qatar

Premier’s office calls allegations that his advisers did PR work for Doha ‘fake news’ after one of them was revealed to have fed pro-Qatar stories to Israeli journalists

Illustrative: Police officers block a road in Athens, Greece, February 12, 2024. (Angelos Tzortzinis / AFP)

Israeli tourists attacked in Athens for speaking Hebrew, wearing Star of David

Man in 40s reportedly stabbed in the forehead; Foreign Ministry says one assailant fled while the other, ‘Gazan known to have participated in pro-Palestinian protests,’ detained

A protester hoists a framed portrait of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in front of Lebanese troops during a riot organized by the terror group outside the airport in Beirut, Lebanon, February 15, 2025. (Ibrahim Amro / AFP)

Hezbollah condemns attack on UNIFIL at Beirut riot, demands Iranian planes be let in

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Peacekeeping force’s deputy chief said wounded in pro-Hezbollah riot after Lebanon’s refusal to let planes land, which official says followed US warning that Israel would down them

A protester holds a framed portrait of Hassan Nasrallah, the slain leader of the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, before Lebanese army soldiers during a Hezbollah-organized rally to block the road to Beirut International Airport over a decision to bar two Iranian flights from landing there, in Beirut on February 15, 2025. (Ibrahim Amro/AFP)

2 said killed as IDF strike targets prominent Hezbollah operative in south Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian

Firefighters extinguish a burning UNIFIL vehicle, set ablaze by pro-Hezbollah demonstrators, on the road leading to Beirut's international airport on February 14, 2025. (Ibrahim Amro/AFP)

Lebanon claims over 25 arrested for attack on UNIFIL convoy that wounded peacekeepers

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Alycia Debnam-Carey as Milla (left), and Aisha Dee as Chanelle in Netflix's 'Apple Cider Vinegar.' (Courtesy of Netflix via JTA)

Warning: Spoilers

Netflix’s ‘Apple Cider Vinegar’ features a Jewish-run ‘cancer clinic.’ What is it?

By Andrew Lapin

The show is based on the true story of two less-than-honest wellness influencers – and an institute in Mexico founded by the daughter of a German Jew who fled the Holocaust

People look into a cordoned-off area where a man stabbed several people in the southern Austria city of Villach, February 15, 2025. (Wiesflecker/Kleine Zeitung via AP)

Austrian authorities say Villach stabber was Islamist, pledged allegiance to ISIS

Austrian minister says 23-year-old Syrian asylum seeker was radicalized online before killing 14-year-old boy, wounding five others

Syrian national Ahmad G, who allegedly stabbed six passersby in southern Austria on Saturday, killing a 14-year-old and injuring five others. (X, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Syrian asylum seeker stabs passersby in Austria, killing teen, injuring 5

By STEPHANIE LICHTENSTEIN

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

2-year-old girl and mother die of wounds from Munich car-ramming attack

By AFP

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US tech billionaire and businessman Elon Musk (L) is seen on a large screen as Alice Weidel, co-leader of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, addresses an election campaign rally in Halle, eastern Germany on January 25, 2025. (AFP)

Germany’s far-right AfD party, shunned by Berlin, basks in Elon Musk’s spotlight

By Frank Zeller and Femke COLBORNE

Muhsin Hendricks, 'the world's first openly gay imam,' speaks in a 2023 interview. (Screen capture via YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

‘First openly gay imam’ shot dead in South Africa, cops say motive unknown

By AFP

Police stationed outside a Manhattan synagogue, November 4, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Suspect arrested upon entering New York after threatening synagogue

A undated handout picture released by the family of Craig and Lindsay Foreman through Britain's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) in London on February 15, 2025, shows Craig and Lindsay Foreman posing for a selfie photograph at an unknown location. (Photo by Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office/AFP)

Family of UK couple detained in Iran express ‘serious concern’ for their welfare

By AP

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